Past Symposia

• 2002 Abstracts
• 2001 Abstracts

Please note that the abstracts from 2001 and 2002 do not follow the new abstract format guidelines.  To access new guidelines and to see sample abstracts please visit the submit page.

2007 URS Winners

_ Physical Sciences _________________________

1st place:

Annie Velarde

Comparison of Different Genes Expressed Using Human and Chicken Cell Lines

2nd place:

Arthur Hong, Mariana Gomez, Vladimir Dmitriyev, Azhar Kothawala

Brain circuitry activated by conditioned turning in the rat

3rd place :

Christine Toh

Progress towards the total synthesis of the Penarolid sulfate A1

_ Social Science/Humanities/Business Practices _________

1st place:

Kristina Davis

Empowering Health Workers: Impact of becoming a peer group leader for HIV prevention in Malawi

2nd place:

Dariusz Barwacz

No Title

3rd place:

Brendan Green

The Role of Groups and Individuals in Error Detection : Are Two Heads Really Better Than One

_ Life & Health Sciences _____________________
 

1st place (Tie):

Auratip Paramadilok

The Effects of Neonatal Oxytocin Treatment on Estrogen Receptor alpha and Estrogen Sensitivity in Adult Female Rats

1st place (Tie):

Ravi Garg

The alpha2delta Protein Complex

2nd place:

Tiffany Yau

Understanding gluatamate racemase from B. anthracis: a site-directed mutagenesis study.
 

3rd place:

Joseph Sennello

Transplantation of Wild-Type White Adipose Tissue Normalized Metabolic, Immune and Inflammatory Alterations in Leptin-Deficient Ob/Ob Mice

2006 URS Winners

_ Physical Sciences _________________________

1st place:

Jerome Crocco

Automated Wafer Polishing of GaSb and CdZnTe for Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Thin Films

2nd place:

Neelima Vidula, Nadia Halim, Jessy Moinnes

Ultrasound Accelerated Tissue Engineering Process for Bone Restoration, Monitored by Microscopic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

3rd place (Tie):

Christine Toh

Are Four Nitrogen Atoms Better than Two? A New Approach to the Formation of Alkylidenecarbenes

3rd place (Tie):

Hwan Keun Kim

Comparison of Nitrate and Nitrite Levels in Perfusates of Different Regions in Rat Brain using in Vivo Low Flow Push-Pull Perfusion Sampling to Determine Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS) Activity in Cerebral Tissues

_ Humanities & Social Sciences_______________

1st place:

Heidi Beebe

Groups Outperform Individuals When Systems Malfunction

2nd place:

Debra Ng

Native Language Use when Learning English: Beneficial or Detrimental to English Acquisition?

3rd place:

Barbara Oudekerk

Jurors' Perceptions of Infanticide: Mother vs. Father Perpetrators

_ Life & Health Sciences _____________________
 

1st place (Tie):

Julia Adamiak

Transcription Factor NF-Y-A5-B9-C9 are components of light and hormone signaling machinery in Arabidopsis

1st place (Tie):

William Chiang

Correlating Effects of Cerebrospinal Fluid Stroke Volume on Brain Ventricle Size

2nd place:

William Billich

The Effects of Urokinase Plasminogen Activator on the Maturation of Bone Marrow Macrophages.
 

3rd place:

Nguwah Tun

Studying a Podospora Prion in Yeast

2005 URS Winners

_ Physical Sciences _________________________

1st place:

Daniel Murauski, Matthew Musielak, Hacer Cesur

The Development of a 3-D Bilayer Flow System.

2nd place (Tie):

Christine Toh.

Development of an Undergraduate Organic Laboratory Module:

Solid Phase synthesis of Zingerone: Rheosmin.

2nd place (Tie):

Martina Fialova, Betsy Thevalakara, David Weed, Lukasz Zientara

Special Designs for Independence.

3rd place:

Brian Appavu

The Crystal Structure of Trypariosoma brucei Phosphoglucose Isomerase at 1.2 angstroms Resolution.

_ Humanities & Social Sciences_______________

1st place:

Justin Oesterreich.

Redundant Instrument Failure in a simulated Human-Machine Interferance.

2nd place:

Joanna Paul, Gonzalo Escobar.

Monetary Policy in Context: Trends and Implications.

3rd place:

Michelle Dorich.

The Design Fluency Task: A Non-verbal Fluency Measure of Frontal Lobe Dysfunction.

_ Life & Health Sciences _____________________
 

1st place:

Linda Butts

Voluntary limits of stability do not define the limits of COP displacement in quiet standing.

2nd place:

S. Upadhyay, J. Yeh.

CCAAT-Box Binding Proteins: Components of the BLF-System.
 

3rd place:

Nan Sethakorn.

Pole of Microphthalmia associated transcription in melanoma differentiation.

2004 URS Winners

_ Physical Sciences ___________________________________________

1st place: Matthew Conley.

Lewis Acid and Bronsted Base Acceleration of the Pd-catalyzed [4+2] cross enzannulation reaction.

2nd place: Janet Cruz, Nick Gierut, & Derek Schulze.

Design and Fabrication of a multichannel neurotrophic electrode.

3rd place (Tie):

Brian Appavu.

Crystallization of S. cerevisiae phosphomannose isomerase.

Michael Johnson.

Seasonal variability of atmospheric deposition in the Chciagoland area: causes and consequences.

_ Humanities ________________________________________________

1st place: Lesley Skousen-Chio.

Elizabeth I of England and Capital Punishment.

2nd place: Joseph Cherry.

Queen Elizabeth I and the origins of the Plymouth Colony.

3rd place: Tiosha Goss & Anna Baccellieri.

The significance of the Women's Movement reflected today by feminist ideologies.

_ Life & Health Sciences _______________________________________
 

1st place: Sonia Krishman.

Regulation of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH)-mediated pituitary cell hyperplasia and tumor formation.

2nd place: Sushma Surapaneni.

The effect of Posture on Cerebral Venous Drainage in Healthy Subjects.
 

3rd place: Betty Yang.

Polyglycolic Acid Coatings to improve cortical electrode impantability.

2001 URS Winners

Life Sciences
1st Adina Stoia
2nd John Allen
3rd Abraham Groner

Physical Sciences and Engineering
1st Ananya Gangopadhyaya
2nd Rishi Garg
3rd Yasha Kadkhodayan

Social Sciences
1st Reema Kapur
2nd Kerry Dohm, Julie Kim (tie)

Social Sciences and Humanities
1st Ananda Fine
2nd Jennifer Calderon, Suzanna Hernandez (tie)