2006 Student Summer Scholar Projects

Miroslav Batka (Economics, Dr. Darryl Lowry)
The Political Economy of the Reforms in Slovakia, 2002 - 2006

Ashley Lauren Gilliam (English, Dr. Paul Hanstedt)
Jane Austen and Emma: The Significance of Socially Marginal Heroines

Lauren R. Harrison (English, Dr. Virginia Stewart)
Going Back to Get It: Sankofa and Black Cultural Identity in Fiction and Life

Gregory William Hess (Education, Health and Human Performance, Dr. Matt Rearick)
Shoulder Fatigue in Adolescent Baseball Pitchers: An Examination of Time to Recovery

Lien-Thanh Kratzke (Biology, Dr. Christopher Lassiter)
Normal and Hormonally Induced Expression of Androgen Receptors in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

David Myer (Mathematics, Dr. Roland Minton)
Mathematical Ranking Systems

Megan N. Poore (Psychology, Dr. Mary Camac)
The Relationship Between Social Value Orientation and Cognition as Measured by an Implicit Association Test

Adriana Quiros (International Relations, Dr. Howard Warshawsky)
The Role of International Humanitarian Organizations in Global Human Rights: United Nations and Amnesty International

Hampton Smith (Computer Science, Dr. Adrienne Bloss)
Portability of Natural Language Database Interfaces

Amanda M. Strutner (Chemistry, Dr. Adele Addington)
Apoptosis

Kathryn Kelly Vernon (Art History, Dr. Jane Long)
The Spread of Caravaggio's Influence in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century

Richard Allen Warren Jr. (History, Dr. John Selby)
Honoring the Forgotten: The History and Future of East Hill Cemetery, North

Jessica Young (Computer Science, Dr. Stephen Hughes)
Visual Queries for Fuzzy Data Sets

Laura Cassels (Physics, Dr. Richard Grant)
Characterizing the Iron Oxides Found in the Corrosion Products of the USS Monitor using Low Temperature MössBauer Spectroscopy