CSR Scholars 2013-2014

Scholars by Major

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  • Name:  Nguyen, Khanh
    Research Mentor: Dr. Monika Sommerhalter
    Project Tile: Phenolic Compounds in Poplar Leaves from Trees Grown Under High Salt and Boron Conditions 

  • Name:  Darevsky, David
    Research Mentor: Dr. Kimberley Kim
    Project Tile: Patient-centered care and bedside nursing safety

    Name:  Fernandez, Mathew
    Research Mentor: Dr. Ken Curr
    Project Tile: Quantification of GBVC Viral Production in Mammalian Cells

    Name:  Gonzalez, Jesus
    Research Mentor: Dr. Carol Lauzon
    Project Tile: Microbial Gut Characterization of Lean and Obese Canines

    Name:  Kolora, Lakshmi
    Research Mentor: Dr. Carol Lauzon
    Project Tile: A Bacteriological Survey of Asian Citrus and Potato Psyllids

    Name:  Palmer, Jasmine
    Research Mentor: Dr. Erica Wildy
    Project Tile: Common Yellowthroat Phenology Changes with Climate Change

    Name:  Patrick, Maya
    Research Mentor: Dr. Caron Inouye 
    Project Tile: Sex Ratio Variations in the Lady Beetle After Exposure to DBP

    Name:  Roth, Caroline
    Research Mentor: Dr. Ken Curr
    Project Tile: Determining the 3-D structure of the RNA polymerase from GBV-C

    Name:  Sharifi, Osman
    Research Mentor: Dr. Ken Curr
    Project Tile: A partial genome sequence for the Sea Slug,Tritonia diomedea using Next-Generation Sequencing

    Name:  Tillakarathna, Kaushalya
    Research Mentor: Dr. Carol Lauzon
    Project Tile: Gaining insight into the origin of Programmed Cell Death

    Name:  Trinh, Hao
    Research Mentor: Dr. Chris Baysdorfer
    Project Tile: The Role of RNAi in Regulating Transposable Elements

    Name:  Wallace, Kelsey
    Research Mentor: Dr. James Murray
    Project Tile: The Role of Indoleamines in the Cyclical Behavior of Tritonia

    Name:  Zacarias, Samantha
    Research Mentor: Dr. James Murray
    Project Tile: Elucidating the neural circuit involved in chemotaxis in Tritonia tetraquetra

  • Name:  Chiu, James
    Research Mentor: Dr. Ken Chung
    Project Tile: How are Executives Getting Paid for CSR?

  • Name:  Keehan, Mary
    Research Mentor: Dr. Ann Kotchevar
    Project Tile: Synthesis and enzymatic degradation of griseoxanthone

    Name:  Wang, Brian
    Research Mentor: Dr. Michael Groziak
    Project Tile: Synthesis of a Boron Heterocycle Analog of Diazoxide

    Name:  Xia, Brandon
    Research Mentor: Dr. Chul Kim
    Project Tile: Identification of Binding Domains of Amelogenin to Its Proteinases

  • Name:  Ellis, Tenesa
    Research Mentor: Azure Stewart
    Project Tile: The PEIL Program Study, The Long-Term Thinking Project

  • Name:  Magana-Zook, Steven
    Research Mentor: Dr. Lynne Grewe
    Project Tile: Senior Collapse Detection and Prevention using Microsoft Kinect Sensor

  • Name:  Uken, Christopher
    Research Mentor: Dr. Roger Doering
    Project Tile: MIPSym Port Enhancement

  • Name:  AlJarallah, Ahmed
    Research Mentor: Dr. Cristian Gaedicke  
    Project Tile: A Sustainable Model for Urban Water Distribution Risk Mitigation

    Name:  Alvarado, Roberto
    Research Mentor: Dr. Cristian Gaedicke  
    Project Tile: A Sustainable Disaster Shelter Construction and Delivery System

    Name:  Miankodila, Farel
    Research Mentor: Dr. Cristian Gaedicke  
    Project Tile: Development and Implementation of a Risk-Based Sustainable Demolition Model for Warren Hall Building

    Name:  Rios, Daniel
    Research Mentor: Dr. Cristian Gaedicke
    Project Tile:  Design of an eco-friendly study area, a truly green building

  • Name:  Torres, Athena
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jeff Seitz
    Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science Project

  • Name:  Miller, Vaughn
    Research Mentor: Dr. Michael Massey
    Project Tile: The Effects of Post Precipitation Runoff on Freshwater Ecology

  • Name:  MacDougall, John
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jean Moran
    Project Tile: Post-Fire Effects on the Marsh Creek Watershed

  • Name:  Bernstein, Jessica
    Research Mentor: Dr. Chandrakala Ganesh  
    Project Tile: A Profile of Dual Eligibiles in California

    Name:  Minkler-Green, Misha
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jeff Seitz
    Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science Project

  • Name:  Levin, Andrew
    Research Mentor: Dr. Linda Ivey 
    Project Tile: California’s Ecological Transformation (1700 - 1849)

  • Name:  Hall, Brett
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jenny O
    Project Tile: Baseball Imagery Manipulation Project

    Name:  Hamor, Nastassia
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jenny O
    Project Tile: An Examination of Transferability of Psychological Skills

    Name:  Larson, Tobias
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jeff Simons 
    Project Tile: The effects of Mindfulness on movement control

    Name:  Lee, Ji hyeon
    Research Mentor: Dr. Matthew Atencio
    Project Tile: How Youth Value Skateboarding and the Involvement of their Parents

    Name:  Smith, Sabrina
    Research Mentor: Dr. Matthew Atencio 
    Project Tile: A Critical Perspective on the Social Inclusion Practices of Modern American Yoga

    Name:  Strickland, Ariana
    Research Mentor: Dr. Vanessa Yingling
    Project Tile: Bone Functionality and Collegiate Athletes

    Name: Villalobos, David
    Research Mentor: Dr. Matthew Atencio
    Project Tile: Investigating Small Group Dynamics: How Age, Race, and Socioeconomic Status Affects Perceived Inclusion and Exclusion on a Youth Soccer Team

  • Name:  Morshed, Farzana
    Research Mentor: Dr. Ken Chung
    Project Tile: How are Executives Getting Paid for CSR?

  • Name:  Haley, David
    Research Mentor: Dr. Ehsan Kamalinejad
    Project Tile: L-1 Clustering/Classification

    Name:  Thulasi, Swecha
    Research Mentor: Dr. Derek Kimball
    Project Tile: Dark Matter

  • Name:  Divinagracia, David
    Research Mentor: Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
    Project Tile: Project Zephyr: An Interactive 3D Web Experience

    Name:  Nassalska, Marta
    Research Mentor: Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
    Project Tile: The Mission Statement

    Name:  Patruno, Ryan
    Research Mentor: Dr. Rafael Hernandez
    Project Tile: Project Zephyr

    Name:  Roads, Matt
    Research Mentor: Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
    Project Tile:  The Sand Noise Device

    Name:  Saxon, James
    Research Mentor: Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
    Project Tile: Sand Noise Device

    Name:  Dyke, Jay Van
    Research Mentor: Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
    Project Tile:  The Sand Noise Device

  • Name:  Zavala, Delia
    Research Mentor: Dr. Buddy James 
    Project Tile: California Mission Music

  • Name:  Costales, Nina
    Academic Program: Nursing
    Research Mentor: Dr. Michelle Tellez
    Project Tile: PROCenf Evaluation: Does CDSS improve nurse ability to select diagnoses

    Name: Weber, Deborah
    Academic Program: Nursing
    Research Mentor: Dr. Michelle Tellez
    Project Tile: PROCenf Evaluation: Does CDSS improve nurse ability to select diagnoses

  • Name:  DeCamp, Garrett
    Research Mentor: Dr. Erik Helgren 
    Project Tile: Conductivity of Organic Polymers 

    Name:  Diefenbach, Matthew
    Research Mentor: Dr. Erik Helgren 
    Project Tile: Conductivity of Organic Polymers 

    Name:  Dudley, Jordan
    Research Mentor: Dr. Derek Kimball
    Project Tile: Search for Spin Gravity Coupling

    Name:  Faison, Siara
    Research Mentor: Dr. Azure Stewart
    Project Tile: PEIL Program Study

    Name:  Fuentes, Dominic       
    Research Mentor: Dr. Derek Kimball 
    Project Tile: Development of Frequency Lock for Diode Lasers using Optical Frequency Comb

    Name:  Longnickel, Maryna
    Research Mentor: Dr. Derek Kimball  
    Project Tile: Dark Matter 

    Name:  McConnell, Christopher
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jenny Guzman 
    Project Tile: Magneto Optical Trap

    Name:  Penaflor, Alexander
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jenny Guzman
    Project Tile: Cold Atom Trap

    Name:  Sanchez, Claudio
    Research Mentor: Dr. Derek Kimball 
    Project Tile: Spin Gravity

    Name:  Swiatlowski, Jerlyn
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jennie Guzman 
    Project Tile: Constructing a Frequency Stabilized Diode Laser

    Name:  Viegas, Isaac
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jason Singley
    Project Title: Time-Domain Terahertz Spectroscopy

  • Name:  Igboegwu, Chidimma
    Research Mentor: Dr. Gretchen Reevy
    Project Tile: Attachment, Achievement, and Adjustment in International Students

    Name:  Martinez, Eileen
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jeff Seitz
    Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science Project

    Name:  Martinez, Michael
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jason Smith
    Project Tile: Epidemics and the Development of Public Health Law

    Name:  Miranda, Erik
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jeff Seitz
    Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science Partnership

    Name:  Mony, Leesha
    Research Mentor: Dr. Mary Kay Stevenson
    Project Tile: Temporal Discounting as a Function of Context and Response

    Name:  Nicoals, Jonathan
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jeff Seitz
    Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science Project

    Name:  Silva, Robert
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jeff Seitz 
    Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science Partnership

    Name:  Villanueva, Marian
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jeff Seitz
    Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science Partnership

    Name: Yu, Allebasi
    Research Mentor: Dr. Jeff Seitz
    Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science Project

  • Name:  Chen, Stephanie
    Academic Program: School Psychology
    Research Mentor: Dr. Oahn Tran  
    Project Tile: Project Happiness

    Name:  Hazard, Kathleen
    Academic Program: School Psychology
    Research Mentor: Dr. Oahn Tran
    Project Tile: Project Happiness

  • Name:  Moore, Lee Porscha M.
    Research Mentor: Dr. Sukari Ivester
    Project Tile: Gentrification in the Bay Area: Theory and Praxis

  • Name:  Krumins, Brenda
    Research Mentor: Dr. Sukari Ivester
    Project Tile: Mega-events and Resistance in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Name:  Lopes, Filip
    Research Mentor: Dr. Duke Austin 
    Project Tile: Does Race Matter? Recent Students’ Perceptions of Education Inequality

    Name: Reinhart, Kendal
    Research Mentor: Dr. Duke Austin
    Project Tile:  Does Race Matter? Recent Immigrant Students’ Perceptions 

    Name:  Zapico, Arturo
    Research Mentor: Dr. Sukari Ivester
    Project Tile: Urban Spectacles and Forced Evictions in Rio de Janeiro

  • Name:  Dixon, Hannah
    Research Mentor: Dr. Kai Greene
    Project Tile: Intervention outcomes of bilingual preschoolers’ use of story grammar components in Spanish and English

    Name:  Finley, Elise Nishiki
    Research Mentor: Dr. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis
    Project Tile: Perspectives and Needs of Adolescents Children with a Family Member with Aphasia 

    Name: Lawrence, Katharina
    Research Mentor: Dr. Elena Dukhovny
    Project Tile: Patient elicited responses to children using AAC

    Name:  Moon, Tammy
    Research Mentor: Dr. Nidhi Mahendra
    Project Tile: Infusing a health disparities model in a class on neurological disorders: Assessing impact on student perceptions and learning outcomes

    Name:  Murphy, Kate
    Research Mentor: Dr. Nidhi Mahendra
    Project Tile: Designing multimodal aphasia education materials in English and Spanish

     Name:  Nguyen, April
    Research Mentor: Dr. Nidhi Mahendra
    Project Tile: Brain Fitness Software: Efficacy in aphasia and dementia therapy

    Name:  Pearman, Aubrey
    Research Mentor: Dr. Shubha Kashinath 
    Project Tile: Utility of authentic assessment with bilingual pre-school children 

    Name:  Prinze, Brandee
    Research Mentor: Dr. Elena Dukhovny
    Project Tile: Patient elicited responses to children using AAC

    Name:  Riley, Melissa Corey
    Research Mentor: Dr. Ellen Bernstein-Ellis
    Project Tile: Perspectives and Needs of Adolescents Children with a Family Member with Aphasia