Recipient Name

Proposal Title

Faculty Sponsor

Mr. John Belanger

SEE: Inside Out Project New Haven

Dr. Matthew Porterfield

Mr. Daniel Borota

Caffeine and Long-term Memory Storage: An Investigation of Post-Training Caffeine Administration and its Neuromodulatory Effects on Hippocampal Pattern Separation

Dr. Michael A. Yassa

Mr. Manuel Brockman

Spatial Navigation Capacities in Requisite Dual Solution Trials in Humans

Dr. Amy Shelton

Mr. Dillon Brout

Investigating Type Ia Supernovae Classification & Redshift Determination Methods, An Effort to Constrain the Equation of State of Dark Energy

Dr. Adam Riess

Ms. Sarah Brown

Automated Image Analysis Programming

Dr. Douglas Robinson

Mr. Lawrence Chow

Ethanol Exposure and Histone Modifcation in Intronic Regulatory Regions of FKBP5

Dr. Richard Lee

Mr. James Chuang

Constructing a Neochromosome for the Modular Assembly of Exogenous Pathways in S. Cerevisiae

Dr. Jef Boeke

Ms. Jena Daya

Understanding Premature Aging in Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome

Dr. Denis Wirtz

Ms. Naika Gabriel

An Analysis of Key Features of Violence Against Women in Haiti Before and After the 2010 Earthquake and Perceptions of Violence Against Women in Haiti

Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell

Ms. Lucy Gao

Role of Cofilin in Regulated Brush Border Trafficking of NHE3

Dr. Mark Donowitz

Mr. Jeffrey Granat

A Systematic Approach to Understanding Nucleosome Stability

Dr. Gregory Bowman

Ms. Catherine Guenther

Privatizing The Prison System: A Continuation of Racial Discrimination?

Dr. Nathan Connolly

Mr. Jonathan Z. Guo

A Swingin’ Affair: A Study of the Music of Dexter Gordon

Dr. Gary Thomas

Mr. Roger Henry

The Sweet Side of Cell Survival: A Model for O-GlcNAc-Mediated Apoptosis Inhibition

Dr. Natasha Zachara

Mr. Matthew Hill

Molecular Hydrogen Emissions in Luminous Infrared Galaxies

Dr. Nadia Zakamska

Ms. Alice Hung

Tissue-specific Activation of Estrogen Signaling in Development

Dr. Marnie Halpern

Mr. Joshua Kassner

The Effects of Quorum Sensing Inhibitors on the Phagocytosis of Neutrophils

Dr. Jocelyne DiRuggiero

Ms. Hyunju Kim

Exploring the Lives of Korean American Storeowners in Baltimore

Dr. Joel Gittelsohn

Ms. Kathryn Ledwell

Musical Development for Children with Cochlear Implants

Dr. Charles Limb

Mr. Daniel Lewis

Sickle Cell Vaso-Occlusion in a Microfluidic Device Containing Three-Dimensional Constructs

Dr. Sharon Gerecht

Ms. Diana Liao

Characterizing the Effects of Hand Movements on Working Memory

Dr. Cherie Marvel

Ms. Mary Elizabeth Maldarelli

A Guide to Early Strings and Thai Folk Instruments at the Library of Congress

Dr. Susan F. Weiss

Mr. Alexander Mullen

Engineering Cell-Based Nerve Regeneration: The Effect of Nanofiber Alignment on Nanoparticle-Mediated Transfection in Schwann Cells

Dr. Hai-Quan Mao

Mr. Akshay Sanghi

Can Acetic Acid be Used to Improve Therapy for Yeast Infections?

Dr. Richard Cone

Ms. Rose Schneider

Attentional Allocation in Multiple Object Tracking: The Case of Hoppy

Dr. Jonathan Flombaum

Mr. Niccolo Seligman

Exploring the Vielle: Lost Repertoire for a Mysterious Instrument

Mr. Mark Cudek

Ms. Pooja Shah

Food Insecurity and HIV: Examining the Clinical and Behavioral Implications of Inadequate Food Access in Baltimore

Dr. Shruti Mehta

Mr. Andi Shahu

Dissecting the Role of c-Abl in Parkinson's Disease

Dr. Ted Dawson

Mr. Jay Shi

Neurotrophin-Mediated Regulation of Lin28a:  Mechanism of Translational Regulation Underlying Synaptic Plasticity

Dr. Mollie Meffert

Ms. Sanjoli Sur

J-point Elevation Prior to Ventricular Arrhythmia Risk Evaluation

Dr. Larisa Tereshchenko

Mr. Jules Szanton

The Kill List: A Constitutional Analysis of the Targeted Killing of American Citizens during the Global War on Terror

Dr. Joel Grossman

Mr. Joshua Temple

Immunosuppressive Properties of Enhanced Bone Marrow Aspirate

Dr. Warren Grayson

Mr. Nicholaus Trenton

The Role of Chemotaxis in Three-Dimensional Cancer Cell Migration

Dr. Denis Wirtz

Ms. Julia Zhang

Uncovering the Molecular Basis of Sleep: Interactions of WIDE AWAKE and RDL in Drosophila melanogaster

Dr. Mark Wu

Ms. Kessie Alexandre

Preference and Local Perceptions of Cholera Prevention and Treatment Education in Rural Haiti

Dr. Henry Perry

Mr. Ahmed Aly

Sustained Release of Methotrexate from PLGA based Microspheres loaded with Micelle-like Methotrexate Conjugate PEO-b-PHAA-MTX

Dr. Jennifer Elisseeff

Mr. Craig Bohrson

Parameterizing the Rosetta Score Function for Prediction
of Protein-Surface Interactions

Dr. Jeffrey J. Gray

Mr. Allen Chang

Examination of the Role of Culture and Ethnic Background
in Facial Recognition

Dr. Michael Yassa

Mr. Ryan Cotterell

Phonological Opacity and Diachronic Variation

Dr. Colin Wilson

Ms. Sarah Niroshi De Silva

A View into Medical Students' Minds:  Understanding
Affective Responses to Substance Abuse and Lying in
Patients and Effects on Clinical Decision-Making

Dr. Luis F. Buenaver

Ms. Maya Harary

The Role of Vitamin D in  Multiple Sclerosis

Dr. Peter Calabresi

Ms. Karen Ho

Use of Chunking to Increase Spatial Working Memory
in Preschool-Aged Children

Dr. Lisa Feigenson

Mr. Kevin Huang

The Effect of Morphological Change on Transfection
Efficiency of Polymer/DNA Nanoparticles

Dr. Hai-Quan Mao

Mr. Samuel Ji

Hippocampal Memory Function and Traumatic Brain Injury

Dr. Michael Yassa

Mr. Po Wei 'Billy' Kang

Optimizing Activation of ClC-2 to Bypass the Cystic
Fibrosis Ion Transport Defect

Dr. Pamela Zeitlin

Mr. Jong Heun Kim

Development of a Novel Microfluidic Platform for Multiple
Sclerosis Study

Dr. Nitish Thakor

Ms. Thuy-My Le

Non-toxic Dielectrophoresis Purification of Induced
Dopaminergic Neurons

Dr. Michael J. Betenbaugh

Mr. Stephen Lee

Thermoelectric Devices from Organic and Inorganic
Composite Materials: Developing Materials with Large
Seebeck Coefficients and Electrical Conductivities

Dr. Howard Katz

Mr. Inzer Ni

Cigarette Smoke Induced Bacterial Infection in
Macrophages: Mechanisms & Therapeutic Strategy

Dr. Neeraj Vij

Mr. Justin Nichols

The reliability and factor structure of the Severity of
Violence Against Women Scale with women of African descent

Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell

Ms. Shu Pan

Formulating and optimizing carbohydrate-decorated
mucus-penetrating nanoparticles for lung epithelial cells-targeted
gene delivery

Dr. Justin Hanes

Mr. Jeong Hoon Park

Polyp Angiogenesis: Developing Standard Curve 
For Detection Of Colorectal Cancer

Dr. Subroto Chatterjee

Mr. Varun Patel

Hindu Samskaras with Translation and Transliteration

Dr. Uma Saini

Ms. Sarina Raman

The Role of Herpes Simplex Virus in Graft Versus Host
Disease of the Skin in Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Patients

Dr. David Loeb

Ms. Carolyn Tsai

Investigating the Role of Runx1 in Establishing Hairy Skin
Innervation Patterns of Nonpeptidergic Nociceptors

Dr. David Ginty