2014

Stanley Barbel

Research Project: Electric Power Generation Using Vibration of Poexoelectric Thin Film

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Ward, Department of Aerospace Engineering

 

 Celize Christy

Research Project: Small scale farmer’s livelihood in Uganda: Egg production for rural development

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Helen Jensen, Department of Economics

 

David Enciso

Research Project: Fatigue crack specimens for physics based model of crack heating mechanisms in vibrothermography 

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephen Holland, Department of Aerospace Engineering

 

Markus Flynn

Research Project: Implications of Stress on Cardiovascular Disease in Members of Iowa's Department of Safety 

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Warren Franke, Department of Kinesiology

 

Cierra Hagans

Research Project: Sibling effects on delinquency in African American adolescents

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carolyn Cutrona, Department of Psychology

 

Dhynasah James

Research Project: Sex Allocation in Idarnes Species

Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Nason, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology- LAS

 

Crystal Jones-Sotomayor

Research Project: Investigation of Synergistic Interactions between the tp53-R248W and pRb Tumor Suppressors in Gliomagenesis

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Maura McGrail, Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology

 

Christian Miller

Research Project: Oxygen demand of Red Flour Beetles in Sorghum

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tom Brumm, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

 

David Montealegre

Research Project: Extending Sloss to Heavy Flavor Electrons

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Craig Ogilvie, Department of Physics

 

Giselle Narvaez

Research Project: The Effects of Nutritional Stress and Viruses on Honey Bee Survival and Foraging Behavior

Faculty Mentor: Drs. Amy Toth and Adam Dolezal, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology

 

Angel Raymundo

Research Project: Liar, liar, pants on fire! Honor-related concerns in relation to goal-directed behaviors

among  members of honor and dignity cultures

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Susan Cross,  Department of Psychology

 

Ronnie Shelly

Research Project: Public transit and accessibility: Who is being left behind?

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carlton Basmajian, Department of Community and Regional Planning

 

Rubén Garcia-Vazquez (not pictured)

Research Project: Phylogeny and reproduction of Raffaelea Tritirachium, a fungus this symbiotic with Ambrosia beetles

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Harrington, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology