Harrison Award Winners 2003-2004

Name School Title Advisor
Name School Title Advisor
Haitham Ahmed Arts & Sciences/Chemistry "The Effect of 2-Methoxyestradiol on Acute Leukemia Cells" Carthene Bazemore-Walker
Kathleen Baireuther Arts & Sciences/Politics "Generating Local Support for Human Rights Initiative through Non-Governmental Organizations" James Sofka
Colin Bateson Engineering & Applied Science/Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering "How Small Cracks Can Cause Big Catastrophes" Ioannis Chasiotis
Abigail Bellows Arts & sciences/Religions Studies "Approaches to Renewal in American and British Jewish Communities" Vanessa Ochs
Jon Bernt Arts & Sciences/History "Public Education as a Means of Assimilating the Berbers under the French Protectorate in Morocco" Elizabeth Thomson
Thomas Bliss Engineering & Applied Science/Mechanical Engineering "Morphing Structures Technology and its Application to Flight Control" Hilary Bart-Smith
Sarah Bond Arts & Sciences/History "Symbolic Space: The Spatial Significance of Roman Statues from 753 BCE to 337 CE" Elizabeth Meyer
Philip Boone Arts & Sciences/Biology "Constructing a Phase Response Curve for Nocturnin Mutant Mice" Carla Green
Beth Brenner Arts & Sciences/Biology "Regulation of the Maternal to Zygotic Transition During Vertebrate Development" Michael Wormington
Jennifer Buenzle School of Medicine/Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics "The Role of Estrogen in the Pathology and Treatment of Depression" Emilie Rissman
James Casey Arts & Sciences/Biology "Glutamine-rich Plants as an Effective Treatment for Intestinal Diseases" Michael Timko
Name" Christina Chen School of Medicine/Pediatric Nephrology "Effect of early angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition in the developing kidney of neonatal rats with partial or complete unilateral ureteral obstruction" Robert Chevalier
Emily Cubbon Arts & Sciences/Anthropology "Architecture and Social, Political, and Ritual Organization in the Regional System: Chaco Canyon and its Outliers" Advisors: Stephen Plog & Rachel Most
Laine D'Augustine School of Engineering & Applied Science/Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering "Analysis of Cardiac Wave Images to Characterize Human Atrial Fibrillation" Donald Jordan
Elizabeth Ellis-Marino Arts & Sciences/History "Piety and Violence in Reformation Lubeck" Erik Midelfort
Brenda Goguen Arts & Sciences/Chemistry "Synthesis of Biocompatible Polymeric Metal Complexes for Use as a Research Tool and Therapeutic Treatment" Cassandra Fraser
Paige Gottheim Arts & Sciences/Religious Studies "An analysis of Recent Australian Sperm Laws: Viability, Implementation and Motives" James Childress
Andrew Gray Arts & Sciences/History "Nationalism and Recent Political Turmoil in Bolivia" Tico Braun
Zeina Hamad Arts & Sciences/Anthropology "Arab-Israeli Identity" Daniel Lefkowitz
John Hardcastle School of Engineering & Applied Science/Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering "A Numerical Method to Optimize Infrared-Mediated Thermocycling of the Polymerase Chain Reaction" Joseph Humphrey
Reema Hijazi and Sam Brody Arts & Sciences/Politics "Changing Strategies and Emerging Movements- The Transition in Palestinian and Israeli Approaches to Peace Following the Second Intifada" David Waldner
Cassandra Hill Arts & Sciences/Physics "Relaxation of Polarized Nuclei for Use with MRI" Donald Crabb
Zane Johnson Arts & Sciences/Music "Vocal Music in Kathakali Performance" Natalie Sarrazin
Katherine Koen Arts & Sciences/Chemistry "Improving Upon Rape Kit Processing Using Lab-on-a-Chip Technology" Jerome Ferrance
Anne Krome-Lukens Arts & Sciences/Anthropology "Who Are These People? The Use of Anthropological Experts in Planning US Occupations" Ira Bashkow
Qiao Ma Arts & Sciences/Economics "Credit Cards and Credit Culture: Creating Institutions in the US, Korea and China" Bruce Reynolds
Andrew Matz Arts & Sciences/History "The Redl Affair: Identity and Sexuality in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna" Erik Midelfort
Katharine Morrow Arts & Sciences/Sociology "Latino Immigrant Reactions to President Bush's Proposal for a Temporary Worker Program" Milton Vickerman
Ali Naini Arts & Sciences/Anthropology "Grameen Banking in the Third World City" Ira Bashkow
Sara Page Arts & Sciences/Politics "Discovering a Democracy in CCP China" Brantly Womack
Amanda Pallais Arts & Sciences/Economics "Effect of Group Size on Rationality" Maxim Engers
Zachary Rowinski Arts & Sciences/Religious Studies "Buddhism and Science Web Portal" David Germano
Maho Shibata Arts & Sciences/Biology "Drosophila as a Model System to Study Epigenetic Regulation" Claire Cronmiller
Jennifer Silvers Arts & Sciences/Psychology "The Physiology of Elevation: Can Oxytocin Make You a Better Person?" Jon Haidt
Michael Simmers School of Engineering & Applied Science/Biomedical Engineering "Tracking the Dynamic Remodeling and Stabilization of the Endothelium in Response to Hemodynamic Shear Stress Wave Forms" Brett Blackman
Annis Steiner and Larissa Kravanja Arts & Sciences/Anthropology "Gender Equality: A Case Study of Ghana" Susan McKinnon
Anne Stephens Arts & Sciences/Politics "Exploring the United States' Involvement in the Creation of the International Criminal Court" James Sofka
Meghan Sullivan Arts & Sciences/Philosophy "Armstrong's Mouse: Combinatorialism and the Metaphysics of Possibility" Trenton Merricks
Yogesh Surendranath Arts & Sciences/Chemistry "Tungsten-Mediated Dearomatization of Nitrogen Heterocycles" Dean Harman
Arsalan Tavakoli Arts & Sciences/Middle Eastern Studies "Battling Censorship: US Foreign Policy and its Effects in Iran" Zjaleh Hajibashi
Katherine Timpano School of Engineering & Applies Science/Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering "MEMS Fatigues Reliability: Miniaturizing Our World" Joannis Chasiotis
Sarah Tuke Arts & Sciences/History "The Influence of US Assessment of Soviet and Chinese Intentions and Capabilities on the Perceived Threat of Communism in Vietnam Under JFK and LBJ, 1962-1965" Melvyn Leffler
Amber Turner School of Engineering & Applied Science/Biomedical Engineering "Explorations in Angiogenesis: Inducing capillary network formation via mechanical stimulation of vascular endothelial cells" Brett Blackman