FY2018 Graduate Research and Creative Scholarship Grant
Fall Award Winners
Atia Amin
Title: Functional characterization of a crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) specific Kalanchoe laxiflora MYB transcription factor putatively involved in regulation of water-use- efficiency (WUE)
Program: Biological Sciences
Advisor: Bernard W.M. Wone
Adrian Aylor
Title: The Effect of Participation in Football on Auditory Evoked Electrophysiologic Potentials in Middle and High School Students
Program: Audiology
Advisor: Dr. Teri Bellis
Brenna Bray
Title: Differential effects of ventral hippocampal corticosterone and its receptors on accumbal dopamine output in drug-naïve and amphetamine withdrawn rats
Program: Basic Biomedical Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Gina Forster
Levenae Buggs
Title: Aspects of Self-Construal as Predictors of Help-seeking Attitudes in Rural Communities
Program: Clinical Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Randy Quevillon
Drew Davis
Title: Understanding the effects of the herbicide glyphosate on the microbiome of the False Map Turtle
Program: Biological Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Jacob L. Kerby
Patricia Dombrowski
Title: Evaluating the predator-prey relationship between the Hine’s emerald dragonfly, Somatochlora hineana, and the devil crayfish, Cambarus diogenes.
Program: Biology
Advisor: Dr. Dan Soluk
Lavin Entwisle
Title: Considerations for cochlear implant programming in persons with sustained neurologic impairment: ESRT and loudness perception
Program: Audiology
Advisor: Dr. Jessica Messersmith
Sandarage Pasan Fernando
Title: Taxonomy-based propagation: an algorithm to extend the data content in trait data matrices focusing on large-scale data integration.
Program: Biological Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Erliang Zeng
Kacie Fodness
Title: Melville’s Beginnings from “the watery part of the world”:
A survey of 19th-century maritime history in the collections of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Program: English
Advisor: Dr. Prentiss Clark
Brandon Gray
Title: The Role of Emotional Granularity in Attentional Biases
Program: Clinical Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Sara Lowmaster
Logan Hale
Title: Real-Time Task Difficulty Adaptation to User Speech
Program: Human Factors Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Jan Berkhout
Amanda Hegg
Title: Impacts of Invasive Trees on Nesting Success of Breeding Birds in Missouri River Riparian Forests
Program: Biology
Advisor: Dr. David Swanson & Dr. Mark Dixon
Abraham Kanz
Title: Examining the influence of Asian carp on resource availability for Least Tern and Piping Plover in backwaters of the Missouri River
Program: Biology
Advisor: Dr. Jeff Wesner
Denis Kozhokar
Title: Formulating Predictions on Future Errors Using Classification Analysis of EEG In a Multi-Component Environment.
Program: Human Factors Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Douglas Peterson
Joseph Madison
Title: Evaluating Bacterial Community Dynamics as a Response to Microbiome Engineering in an Amphibian Disease System
Program: Biological Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Jacob Kerby
Siyu Mao
Title: Perfluoroalkylated conductive organic polymers for high performance lithium-ion battery
Program: Materials Chemistry
Advisor: Dr. Haoran Sun
Cheyenne Marco
Title: The Architecture of Water: Examining Water Quality Issues in the Northern Plains
Program: English
Advisor: Dr. Paul Formisano
Hannah Sanyour
Title: “Mimicking Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Biomechanics during Atherosclerosis”
Program: Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Zhongkui Hong
Eric Sazama
Title: Determining the Viability of Wolbachia After Horizontal Transfer Through Cannibalism
Program: Biological Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Jeff Wesner
Emily Short
Title: Visual explorations into the societal spaces occupied by children and pets
Program: Fine Arts
Advisor: Cory Knedler
Carol Voss-Ward
Title: Access Granted, Success Interrupted: Institutional Barriers for Pell Grant Recipients
Program: Adult and Higher Education
Advisor: Dr. Karen Card