Summer Research Projects    2001-2007              

 These projects were done following students' first year in the SRF program

2007

Biology

Project: The Longer the Better? Axial Elongation and Tail Development in the Two-lined Salamder

Faculty sponsor: Janet Vaglia

Student(s): Alison Case

Project: Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful: the Role of Hox Genes in Rotifer and Salamander Development and Evolution

Faculty Sponsor: Chester Fornari; Janet Vaglia

Student(s): Tia Malcom, Amanda Meyer

Project: Identification of 5-HT2C Receptor Expressing Neurons in Zebrafish

Faculty Sponsor: Henning Schneider

Student(s): Kate Mittendorf, Michael Forde

Project: Songs of Love: Field Research on Frogs and Crickets

Faculty Sponsor: James Benedix

Student(s): Amy Coleman, Steven Cudney

Chemistry/Biochemistry

Project: Stereoselective Aldol/Epoxidation

Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey Hansen

Student(s): Ian Boyd, Bradley Riley

Project: Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy to Study the Reactions of Surface-Bound Succinimide Esters

Faculty Sponsor: Richard Martoglio

Student(s): Elizabeth Heiser

Project: Evaluation of the BCR Sequential Extraction Procedure for Calcareious Sediments

Faculty Sponsor: David Harvey

Student(s): Megan Carmony

Project: Investigating Protein-protein Interactions in Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type I

Faculty Sponsor: Daniel Gurnon

Student(s): Cody Roldan, Michael Lutz

Physics/Astronomy

Project: Two Photon Absorption in alkali Metals

Faculty Sponsor: John Caraher

Student(s): Kyle Foster, Brian Spector (mentor in spring semester)

Project: Balloon Assisted Stratospheric Experiments

Faculty Sponsor: Howard Brooks

Student(s): Jessica Kendziorski, Allyson McLoed

Project: Measuring the Electron-Antineutrino Correlation Coefficient of Neutron Decay

Faculty Sponsor: Alexander Komives

Student(s): Elizabeth Newell

Geosciences

Project: Geology Beneath the Great Wall of China: What happened? When did it happen? and How old is the Yanshan fold-thrust belt anyway?

Faculty Sponsor: Tim Cope

Student(s): Benjamin Golden

Computer Science

Project: Enhancing a Virtual Reality Simulator of the ENIAC

Faculty Sponsor: Doug Harms

Student(s): Cody Glover

Project: Computer Simulations of the Effects of Status Dependent Selection

Faculty Sponsor: Gloria Townsend (C.S.); Wade Hazel (Biology)

Student(s): Jyotishman Nag, Andrew Porter

Psychology

Project: Strain Differences in the Development of Polydipsia

Faculty Sponsor: Carrie Van Brunt

Student(s): Darrin Hinkel, Christopher Mahnken

2006

Biology

• Title: Ecology of Forest communities of the DePauw Nature Park
  • Faculty Sponsor: Vanessa Artman
  • Students: Chad Byers, Summer Drake
    
• Title: Genetic analysis of Histone H4 Temperature Sensitive Mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Bedard
  • Students: Haley Grace, Inna Kulheyko
• Title: Life on the Rocks: Plant Ecology and Biochemistry in an Abandoned Limestone Quarry
  • Faculty sponsor: Dana Dudle
  • Students: Allison Barnes, Nikki Stone, Erica Ross
• Title: Life History Strategies in Swallowtail Butterflies
  • Faculty sponsor: Wade Hazel
  • Students: Lyndsay Schroeder
• Title: Expression and Characterization of a Zebrafish Serotonin Receptor
  • Faculty sponsor: Henning Schneider
  • Students: David Moore, Jac Cooper
• Title: Addition of Asian Soybean Rust Fungicides to our Water: What are the consequences?
  • Faculty Sponsor: Bruce Serlin
  • Students: Megan Morgeson, Linnea Zielinski

Chemistry

• Title: 1. Synthesis of Mixed-Metal Polymers in Ionic Liquids and Hydrotermal-Ionic Liquid Systems and 2. Development of a remote Facility for X-ray Cystallography
  • Faculty sponsor: Hillary Eppley
  • Students: Staci Hollar, Kate Ziegelgruber, Michael Gentry
• Title: Spectroscopic Studies of Reverse Micelles: Model systems for the behavior of small amounts of water in confined spaces
  • Faculty sponsor: Bridget Gourley
  • Student: Caragh Cooper
• Title: Design of a Model System to evaluate Determinants of Protein Structure
  • Faculty Sponsor: Daniel Gurnon
  • Students:Tram Nugyen, Zac Keller
• Title: Stereoselective Sulfur Ylid Epoxidations: Developing New Techniques for Making Drugs
  • Faculty sponsor: Jeffrey Hansen
  • Students: Andy Kehr, Emily Rigsbee, Sarah Tomasic

Physics

• Title: Quantum-entangled Photon Pairs
  • Faculty sponsor: John Caraher
  • Students: Dan Bennett, Eric Wudtke

Computer Science

• Title: Educational Support for Functional Media Computation
  • Faculty sponsor: Brian Howard
  • Student: Sean Teska Psychology
• Title: Emotional Labor in Academia
  • Faculty sponsor: Sharmin Spencer
  • Student: Meg Bowker

Geosciences

• Title: Uplift History of the Southeastern Tibtan Plateau
  • Faculty Sponsor: Tim Cope
  • Student: Alex Breitinger

2005

Biology

• Title: Effects of Two Different Types of Denervation on Primary and Secondary Antigen-specific Antibody Response in Mice
  • Faculty sponsor: Kevin Kinney
  • Students: Marisa Yochum
• Title: Life on the Rocks: Evolutionary Ecology of an Abandoned Limestone Quarry
  • Faculty sponsor: Dana Dudle
  • Students: Lauren Guggina, Betsy Feighner, Beth Drewes
• Title: Songbirds and Forest Communities of the DePauw Nature Park
  • Faculty sponsor: Vanessa Artman
  • Students: Libby Allard, Karl Koehler
• Title: Growth Rate and Apoptosis in Human Fibroblasts as Affected by Fungicides
  • Faculty sponsor: Bruce Serlin
  • Student:: Suzanne Donoval
• Title: Expression and Characterization of a Zebrafish Serotonin Receptor
  • Faculty sponsor: Henning Schneider
  • Students: Taron Davis, Lizzy Garland, Erin Andrade, Jesse Williams

Geoscience

• Title: Petrogenesis of Pegmatitic Calcite Veins, Ontario, Canada
  • Faculty sponsor: James Mills
  • Student:: Sam Rund

Chemistry/Biochemistry

• Title: Plant Secondary Metabolites as Predictors of Phenotypic Plasticity in Swallowtails
  • Faculty sponsor: Brian Hanson
  • Student:: Jessica Boyer
• Title: Stereoselective Epoxidation Reactions
  • Faculty sponsor: Jeffrey Hansen
  • Students: Erin Swisshelm, Jesse Bright, Femi Akeredolu
• Title: Inorganic Reactions in Ionic Liquids: A Route to new Polymers and Large Metal Complexes
  • Faculty sponsor: Hilary Eppley
  • Student: Gregg Wagner

Mathematics

• Title: Mathematics of Finance: Price Fluctuations, Drift and Volatility
  • Faculty sponsor: Andrew Ellett
  • Student: Benjamin Jones

Psychology

• Title: Infant Emotional Regulation via Adult Emotional Signal on Television
  • Faculty sponsor: Matt Hertenstein
  • Student : Lauren Auld

Physics/Astronomy

• Title: Investigating the Range of Flight of a Kicked Football
  • Faculty sponsor: Howard Brooks
  • Students: Jeremy Alland, Evan Dickerson, Nich Vetz, Jeff Tienes
• Title: Measuring the Electron-Antineutrino Correlation Coefficient of Neutron Decay
  • Faculty sponsor: Alexander Komives
  • Students: Andrew Bever, Kyle Kimberlin, Sara Carlson, Josh Wyant

Computer Science

• Title: Development Environment for Teaching a Functional Programming Language
  • Faculty sponsor: Brian Howard
  • Student: David Cheeseman

2004

Biology

• Title: Life in the Woods: Biodiversity and Ecology of the DePauw Nature Park
  • Faculty Sponsor: Dana Dudle, Vanessa Artman
  • Students: David Pope, Aaron Randolph, Bryan Helm
• Title: Hormonal Control of Pupal Color in Swallowtail Butterflies
  • Faculty Sponsor: Wade Hazel
  • Students: Lauren Rakes (et.al.)
• Title: Study of H2 production by green alga, Chlamydomanas reinhardtii, on a level of gene expression
  • Faculty Sponsor: Sergei Markov
  • Student: Brittany Durr
• Title: Mapping of the Expression of a Serotonin (5-HT) Receptor in the Zebrafish Central Nervous System
  • Faculty Sponsor: Henning Schneider
  • Student: Christine Heumann

Computer Science

• Title: PARE: A Pruner and Redundancy Eliminator for Mulit-Document Text Summarization
  • Faculty sponsor: Scott Thede
  • Students: Morgan Bates, Sandy Mtandwa
• Title: Development Environment for Teaching a Functional Programming Language
  • Faculty Sponsor: Brian Howard
  • Student: Ryan Smith

Chemistry

• Title: Inorganic Reactions in Ionic Liquids: A Route to new polymers and Large metal Complexes
  • Faculty Sponsor: Hilary Eppley
  • Students: Nicholas Bruick, Bryce Lynn
• Title: Modified Metal Colloids and Metal Surfaces for the Selective Detection of Analytes using SERS
  • Faculty Sponsor: Richard Martoglio
  • Student: Nathan O'Neill

Geoscience

• Title:Hydrogeology of the Big Walnut Creek Aquifer, Greencastle, Indiana
  • Faculty Sponsor: Jim Mills
  • Student: Steven Brett McArthur
• Title:Historical Trends of Heavy Metals in lake Erie Sediments
  • Faculty Sponsor: Fred Soster
  • Students: Erin Yoder, Philip Mooney
• Title:Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage
  • Faculty Sponsor: Jeanne Jerz
  • Students: Laura Stevens, Kelly Fransted
• Title:3-D Analysis of Fault-Related Folds: Application to the Grass Creek Anticline,WY
  • Faculty Sponsor: Scott Wilkerson
  • Student: Sara Smaltz

Physics/Astronomy

• Title: Measuring the Electron-Antineutrino Correlation Coefficient of Neutron Decay
  • Faculty Sponsor: Alexander Komives
  • Student: Travis Clark

Mathematics

• Title: Mathematically Deconstructing a Gambling Scheme

• Faculty Sponsor: Richard Smock
• Student: Alexander Iliev

• 2003

Computer Science

• Title: Design and Evaluation of Multi-Machine Interfaces
  • Faculty Sponsor: Dave Berque
  • Student: Tod Karpinski
• Title: A Virtual Reality Simulator of the ENIAC
  • Faculty Sponsor: Doug Harms
  • Students: Kristin Briney, Paul Raskin
• Title: PARE: A Pruner and Redundancy Eliminator for Multi-Document Text Summarization
  • Faculty Sponsor: Scott Thede
  • Student: Atanas Vlahov

Chemistry

• Title: Inorganic Reactions in Ionic Liquids: A Route to New Polymers and Large Metal Complexes
  • Faculty Sponsor: Hilary Eppley
  • Students: Dave Burgan, Aliese Sarkissian
• Title: Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage
  • Faculty Sponsors: Bridget Gourley and Jeanette Jerz (Geosciences)
  • Students: Christina Houston, Andrew Turner
• Title: Stereoselective Epoxidation of Ketones
  • Faculty Sponsor: Jeff Hansen
  • Student: Steven Shepard
• Title: Investigating the Methods used for Synthesizing Silver and Gold...
  • Faculty sponsor: Richard Martoglio
  • Student: Sudeep Prajapati

Biology

• Title: Theoretical and Empirical Studies of a Conditional Strategy: Environmentally Cued Pupal Color in Swallowtail Butterflies
  • Faculty sponsor: Wade Hazel
  • Student: Qiming Deng
• Title: Stress, Amphibian Immunity and Metamorphosis
  • Faculty Sponsor: Kevin Kinney
  • Students: Alicia Dudley, Jeremy Powlen
• Title: From Head to Tail: Axial Development in Salamanders
  • Faculty sponsor: Janet Vaglia
  • Students: Emily Thornton, Ashley Maire

Psychology

• Title: Emotional Communication in Infancy
  • Faculty Sponsor: Matt Hertenstein
  • Students: Julie Verkamp
• Title: Examining Primary and Secondary Psychopathy in an Offender Sample
  • Faculty sponsor: Scott Ross
  • Student: Zack Adams

Physics

• Title: Potential Energy Function of Silicon Monoxide
  • Faculty sponsor: Fumika Kiriyama
  • Student: Alaska Subedi
• Title: Follow-up Observations of Suspected Variable Stars Using a Celestron Telescope and CCD Camera at McKim Observatory
  • Faculty sponsor: Mary Kertzman
  • Student: Leslie Moore
• Title: A y-ray Polarimeter for Determining the p Isoscalar Weak Meson Coupling Constant
  • Faculty sponsor: Alexander Komives
  • Student: Matt Bowers

Geosciences

• Title: Petrogenesis of Pegmatitic Calcite Veins, Ontario, Canada
  • Faculty Sponsor: Jim Mills
  • Student: Chris Myrvold

2002

Biology

• Title: Cline, Schmine! Local Mosaicism in a Cricket Hybrid Zone
  • Faculty Sponsor: Jim Benedix
  • Student: Sonia Miller (SRF) and Amanda Tolle (non-SRF)
• Title: Cloning and Sequencing Ribosomal RNA Genes from Caenorhabditis Elegans and Brachionus Plicatilis
  • Faculty Sponsor: Chet Fornari
  • Students: Hillary Enyart and Patrick Murphy
• Title: Nest Site Story: Nest Attributes of the Polymorphic White-throated Sparrow
  • Faculty Sponsor: Rusty Gosner
  • Student: Kathryn Adank
• Title: Effects of Environmental Conditions on In Vitro Propagation of Phalaenopsis
  • Faculty Sponsor: Bruce Serlin
  • Students: Allison Collet and Alexandra Wyatt
• Title: Assessment of the Fish Communities of Walnut Fork and Little Sugar Creeks
  • Faculty Sponsor: James Gammon
  • Student: Ben Steffen

Chemistry

• Title: Synthesis of Multinuclear Copper and Copper-Gladolinium Complexes in Ionic Liquids
  • Faculty Sponsor: Hilary Eppley
  • Student: Andrea Dawson
• Title: Impact of Pulse Width on HCN Molecules Coupled to a Picosecond Pulse Laser
  • Faculty Sponsor: Bridget Gourley
  • Student: Erin Goss
• Title: Theoretical Modeling of HCN Vibrations Coupled to a Pulsed IR Laser: A Study of Laser Frequency Optimization and Post-Excitation Energy Distribution
  • Faculty Sponsor: Bridget Gourley
  • Student: Olivia Hatton

Computer Science

• Title: Reliable Distributed Database Transactions that Require Time Sensitive Synchronization
  • Faculty Sponsor: Carl Singer
  • Students: Jeremy Engle, Tiffany Graves, and Jing Tun (All non-SRF students)
• Title: The Design and Evaluation of Software that uses Auditory Cues to help Low Vision Students View Electronic Blackboard Notes
  • Faculty Sponsor: Dave Berque
  • Students: Seth Kinnett (SRF) Nathan Nichols (SRF), and Adam Peters(non-SRF)
• Title: A Computer Simulation of the Evolution of a Predator-induced Trait in the Acorn Barnacle (Chthalamus Anisopoma)
  • Faculty Sponsor: Gloria Townsend
  • Students: David James (SRF) and Matt Kappel (non-SRF)

Geology and Geography

• Title: 2-D & 3-D Modeling of Detachment Fold Terminations
  • Faculty Sponsor: Scott Wilkerson
  • Student: Josh Wilson

Mathematics

• Title: Organized Chaos: Studies in optimization of algorithms for fractal musical synthesis
  • Faculty Sponsor: Mark Kannowski
  • Student: Chris Colvard

Physics and Astronomy

• Title: CCD Photometry of Variable Stars
  • Faculty Sponsor: Mary Kertzman
  • Student: Sara Baughman
• Title: Astronomical Observations with a Manual Camera at McKim Observatory
  • Faculty Sponsor: Mary Kertzman
  • Student: Abigail Huffer (non-SRF)

Psychology

• Title: Utility of the MMPI-2 in the Assessment of Pain and Sleep Disturbance in Head Injury
• Faculty Sponsor: Scott Ross
• Student: Brittany Bulleit
• Title: Sleep Disturbance and Pain as Potential Interference Factors in Neuropsychological Assessment
  • Faculty Sponsor: Scott Ross
  • Student: Jonathan Hart
• Title: The PAI in the Assessment of Pain and Sleep Disturbance in Head Injury
  • Faculty Sponsor: Scott Ross
  • Student: Jill Mecklenborg

2001

(unfortunately, we lost track of which students worked on these projects.)

Biology

• Title: A Study of Mate Choice for Good Genes Using Gray Treefrogs
  • Faculty Sponsors: Jim Benedix and Becky Talyn
• Title: Effects of Maternal Environment on Biomass Allocation to the Seeds and Burrs of Xanthium strumarium
  • Faculty Sponsor: Dana Dudle
• Title: Effects of biomass allocation and maternal environment on germination and early growth in Xanthium strumarium
  • Faculty Sponsor: Dana Dudle
• Title: Experimental tests of hypotheses for seasonally varying caterpillar color
  • Faculty Sponsor: Wade Hazel
• Title: Physiological measures of the Stress and Relaxation Responses: Preliminary explorations
  • Faculty Sponsor: Kevin Kinney
• Title: Generation of Mutants
  • Faculty Sponsor: Bruce Serlin

Chemistry

• Title: Inorganic Reactions in Ionic Liquids: A Route to New Multinuclear Metal Complexes?
  • Faculty Sponsor: Hilary Eppley
• Title: Structure Function Analysis of Key -oxidation Enzymes
  • Faculty Sponsors: David Roberts and Jacqueline Roberts

Computer Science

• Title: Prototyping an Electronic Classroom
  • Faculty Sponsor: Dave Berque

Physics and Astronomy

• Title: Investigating the flight of Boomerangs
  • Faculty Sponsors: Howard Brooks and Andy Smith

Psychology

• Title: Sonification of Graphed Data Sets
  • Faculty Sponsor: Terri Bonebright
• Title: An Investigation of the Effectiveness of EEG Biofeedback
  • Faculty Sponsor: Yueping Zhang