Awardees and Mentors Summer 2009
Toni Aiduk, Social Work (Mentor: Dr. Arnaa Alcon) A Look at Local Geriatric Competencies
Kira Archibald, Psychology (Mentor: Dr. Teresa King) The Role of Body Image and Social Anxiety in Problematic Drinking Behavior
Christie Bowles, Criminal Justice (Mentor: Dr. Dina Perrone) Salvia Divinorum: Patterns of Use
Melissa Brulotte, Chemistry (Mentor: Dr. Samer Lone) Archaeal Polymerase Dpo4 Complexed with N-Acetyl-2-Aminofluorene
Liza-Anne Cabral, Communication Studies (Mentor: Dr. Jason Edwards) Managing Economic Crises: Bill Clinton and the Mexican Peso Crisis
Scott Campbell, Philosophy (Mentor: Dr. Laura McAlinden) External World Skepticism in Descartes
Mary Canha, Social Work (Mentor: Dr. Lucinda King-Frode) Siblings of Children with Autism: An exploratory Study of Sibling Concerns and Coping Strategies
Michaela Clark, Undecided (Mentor: Dr. Richard Wright) The Torture of Alleged Terrorists: Necessary for Public Safety or a Criminal Act?
Marlyn Colon, Psychology (Mentor: Dr. Sandra Neargarder) Finding the Pill on the Floor: How Contrast Sensitivity Affects Daily Living Skills in Alzheimer's Disease Patients
Angel Cooper, English (Mentor: Dr. William Devlin) Domination, Individuality, and Moral Chaos: Nietzsche's Will to Power
Michelle Cubellis, History (Mentor: Dr. Richard Wright) Guantanamo Bay: Just Preventive Detention of Terrorists or a Fundamental Violation of Due Process?
Allison Cullen, Social Work (Mentor: Dr. David O'Malley) Social Work and the Inception of Religiously and Spiritually Competent Practice within Institutions: The Role of Social Workers with Elderly in Hospice Care
Yvonne Estabrooks, Psychology (Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Spievak) The Effect of Cognitive Processes on the Premenstrual Experience
Derek Ferris, Geography (Mentor: Dr. Robert Hellstrom) Regional vs. Local Impact of Wind on Glaciers in the Andes Mountains
Gary Forrester, Physics (Mentor: Dr. Martina Arndt) Solar Observations During Solar Minimum Using a Small Radio Telescope
Britta Gingras, English (Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Carson) "Double Consciousness' and the Racial Self in Danzy Senna's Caucasia, John Okada's No-No Boy, Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Lizandra Gomes, Theatre Arts (Mentor: Dr. Suzanne Ramczyk) The Visions of Women Created by Three Major Female African American Playwrights of the Twentieth Century: Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Suzan-Lori Parks
Brandon Green, Physics (Mentor: Dr. Edward Deveney) The Relativistic Quantum Field Calculator for Fundamental Particle Interactions
Renee Holt, Earth Science (Mentor: Dr. Michael Krol) Sedimentary Petrology of the Teddy Creek Group, Blacktail Mountains, Montana: Implications for Provenance and Landscape Evolution
Chelsea Horrocks, Criminal Justice (Mentor: Dr. Richard Wright) The Myth of the Female Sex Offender?
Paraskevi Liousas, Elementary Education (Mentor: Dr. Uma Shama) Impact of Pathway to College-Level Mathematics on Student Success
Brianne McDonough, Earth Science (Dr. Robert Cicerone) A Two-Dimensional, Linear-Elastic Model to Explain Radial Extensional Fractures, Pantheon Fossae, Caloris Basin, Mercury
Michelle Mercure, English (Mentor: Dr. Matt Bell) The "Bad Girl" in Film Noir Turned Feminist: (Psychoanalytic) Feminist Theorizations of the Female Fatale
Samantha Morse, Chemistry (Dr. Samer Lone) Structural Determination of Dpo4-Thymine Glycol Complex
Rachel Mullins, Psychology (Mentor: Dr. Sandra Neargarder) Do You See What I See?: An Archival Study to Develop a Complete Visual Profile for Individuals with Mental Retardation and Down Syndrome.
Scott Schlef, Physics (Mentor: Dr. Thomas Kling) Dealing with Multiple Lens Planes in Gravitational Lensing
David Spalding, Biology (Mentor: Dr. Boriana D. Marintcheva) Probing Viral Genomes fro Translation Factor Homologues Involved in Protein Synthesis using Bioinformatics
Marguerite Vantangoli, Biology (Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Roling) Evaluating the Health of the Aquatic Ecosystem: Quantifying the Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds on Pimephales promelas
Bethany Verrilli, Chemistry (Dr. Samer Lone) The Relationship Between DNA Lesion Bypass and the Chemotherapy Drug Cisplatin
Danielle Williams, Psychology (Dr. Elizabeth Spievak) Hurting to Cope: Self-Injurious Behavior as an Escape from Self-Focus
Michelle Bayly, Earth Science, (Mentor: Dr. Richard Enright) An Evaluation of the Environmental Impact of Conjunctive use of Ground Water and Surface Water in the Furnace Brook Well-Field in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Louis Bianchini, Mathematics, (Mentor: Dr. Thomas Kling) Is a Truncated Navarro-Frenk-White Dark Matter Halo Model Sufficient for Current Applications in Weak and Strong Navigational Lensing?
Amanda Bragan, Physics, (Mentor: Dr. Edward Brush) Cost-benefit Analysis for Producing Biodiesel on-site from Waste Vegetable Pil for use in all BSC Diesel Vehicles.
Melanie Byam, History, (Mentor: Dr. Erin O'Connor) Nationalism and a Woman's Place: Modern Latin American Women in Text
Maely Cabral, Biology, (Mentor: Dr. Edward Brush) Battling Disease with a Trojan Horse Attack on the Model Cysteine Protease Papain
Jeffrey Carboni, Biology, (Mentor: Dr. Donald Padgett) The Dietary Composition of the Eastern Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta picta) with Special Interests in Seed Composition.
Christopher Cepero, Physics, (Mentor: Dr. Thomas Kling) Accuracy of Weak Gravitational Lensing
Laurie Delaney, Political Science, (Mentor: Dr. Jordon Barkalow) Moral Lessons for Muggles: Aristotelian Virtue and Friendship in J.K Rowling's Harry Potter Series.
Deborah M. deRaadt, Social Work, (Mentor: Dr. Lucinda King-Frode) The Challenges of Task and Time Management for the Families of Children with ADHD: Strategies and Successes.
Margaret Fiedler, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Steven Haefner) Singing the Moly Blues: The Direct Use of Molybdenum Clusters as a Precursor in the Development of Molybdenum Blue Ceramic Glazes.
Bonnie J. Fletcher, Physical Education, (Mentor: Dr. Teresa King) A Bridge Between the Mind and Body: Effects of Massage Therapy on Body Image
Christopher Hallenbrook, History, (Mentor: Dr. Jordon Barkalow) Exploring the Nature of Anti-Federalist Thought: Republicanism and Liberalism in the Political Thought of Cato.
Aimee Higgins, Geography, (Mentor: Dr. Robert Hellstrom) The Effects of Land Cover Variability on Evapotranspiration in the Llangunuco Valley.
Bruce Hunt, Political Science, (Mentor: Dr. Jordon Barkalow) What Happened to God?: An Empirical Assessment of the Continuity Thesis in American Political Thought
Stephanie Lawrence, Art, (Mentor: Professor Mercedes Nuñez) Painting the Words: Combining Language and Literature in the Visual Arts
Emily Legassie, Communication Arts & Science, (Mentor: Dr. Jason Edwards) Examining the Strategies Used by Celebrities When Promoting International Causes
Julianne Martell, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Edward Brush )Development of the Analytical Methods to Evaluate the Purity of Biodiesel Produced from BSC Waste Vegetable Oils.
Kelly Medeiros, Social Work, (Mentor: Dr. Lucinda King-Frode) Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Implementation and Modification of the Treatment Protocol for Use with Youth Clientele.
Ashley Reidy, Political Science, (Mentor: Dr. Deniz Leuenberger) Modernization and the Effects on Cultural Identity
Daniel Schepis, Biology, (Mentor: Dr. Donald Padgett) The Role of Eastern Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta picta) in Influencing the Distribution of Pond-Lily (Nuphar variegata) by Seed Ingestion in Southeastern Massachusetts.
Christopher St. Andre, Biology, (Mentor: Dr. Darcy Boellstorff) Courtship and Oviposition Habitat Preferences of Breeding Adult Damselflies: Calopteryx aequabilis and Calopteryx maculata.
Jennifer Swanson, Psychology, (Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Spievak) Running on Empty: How College Students Cope with Attentional Difficulties
Bryan Campbell, Physics, (Mentor: Dr. Thomas Kling) "Integrating the Bianchi Identities for Weak Gravitational Lensing"
Catie Carson, Criminal Justice, (Mentor: Dr. Richard Wright) "A Comparative Analysis of Sexual Assault in the United States, Canada, and England"
Elizabeth Davenport, Art, (Mentor: Dr. Collin Asmus) "Forging my Relationship with the Figure: A Personal Exploration of Art Employing the Human Form"
Michael DeGagne, Business Management, (Mentor: Professor. Robert Wolk) "Unwired: Student Use of Technology in the Ubiquitous Computing World"
Derek Drake, Psychology, (Mentor: Dr. Anne Murtagh) "Emotional Intelligence as a Comparator in the Conceptualized Self-Regulation Hierarchical Control System"
Carolyn Gorman, Psychology, (Mentor: Dr. Teresa King) "Transmission of Body Image in School Aged Girls"
James Norman, English, (Mentor: Dr. Gregory Chaplin) "In His Image: Satan's Re-creation of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost"
Taryn Palluccio, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Steven Waratuke) "Hydroamination of Alkynes, Enynes, and Dienes Using Titanium Catalysts"
Jared Pearl, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Steven Waratuke) "Synthesis and Spectroscopy Studies of Tripodal Amine Ligands on Titanium and Zirconium"
Casey Rekowski, History, (Mentor: Dr. Margaret Lowe) "Horace Mann's Vision in Action: Bridgewater Normal School's Female Teachers"
Christina Sarkisian, Art, (Mentor: Dr. Beatrice St. Laurent) "Fertility Figures and Goddesses: Depiction of Female Strength"
Lauren Scagnoli, Political Science, (Mentor: Dr. Jordan Barkalow) "The Fine Line between Poverty and Destitution: The Role of Compassion in Dostoevsky's Moral and Political Philosophy"
Emily Snow, Psychology, (Mentor: Dr. Michael Murtagh) "Attitudes About Summer Classes"
Jason Tower, Physics, (Mentor: Dr. Thomas Kling) "Light Cones for Kerr Black Holes"
Bradford Vezina, Art, (Mentor: Dr. Roger Dunn) "The Authenticity of our Past: Forgery and Art"
Amanda Viana, English, (Mentors: Dr. Lee Torda and Sheau-Hwang Chang) "Picture This: An Undergraduate Foray into Digital Media Preservation"
Emily Walsh, Earth Science, (Mentor: Dr. Peter Saccocia) "Origin of Hot Spring Water in Back Arc Basins"
Nicole Williams, English, (Mentor: Dr. Lee Torda) "Reading the Gardner: Viewership, Readership, and Public Art"
Brett Zografos, Biology, (Mentor: Dr. Patricia Mancini) "Effects of Methyleneoxindole (MOI) and its Derivatives on Viability of Procyclic Forms of Trypanosoma brucei: Possible Mechanisms of Drug Toxicity"
Mary Cleary, History, (Mentor: Dr. Margaret Lowe) "Clearing the Hurdles: How Nineteen Women Made a Difference"
Emily Clement, Earth Science, (Mentor: Dr. Michael Krol) "Origin of Gabbroic Xenoliths within the Lone Mountain Dacite Intrusion, Big Sky, Montana: A Field and Petrographic Analysis"
Bethany Collins, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Steven Haefner) "Cocurbituril as a Molecular Platform for the Association and Isolation of Monosaccharides"
Elizabeth Connell, Earth Science, (Mentor: Dr, Michael Krol) "Microstructural Analysis of a Drill Core from the Narragansett Basin, Somerset, MA"
James Crivellaro, English, (Mentor: Dr. Lee Torda) "Travel Writing and the Short Story"
Ian Delahanty, History, (Mentor: Dr. Thomas Turner) "Charles Francis Adams, Great Britain, and the 'American Question' in 1861"
Alison Erbeck, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Edward Brush) "Synthesis and Evaluation of Indole and Oxindole Derivatives as Potential Inhibitors of Glyoxalase II"
Marino Fernandes, Philosophy, (Mentor: Dr. Catharine Womack) "Na Esperanca de Reconciliacao: An Application of Second Language Acquisition Theories to Mentalese".
Geoffrey Guimaraes, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Frank Gorga) "Tyrosinase-catalytic Behavior in the Presence of Various Aromatic Alcohols"
Derek Hambly, Art, (Mentors: Prof. Preston Saunders and Dr. Rob Lorenson) "Soda Firing and Glaze Experimentation"
Megan Kenealy, Art, (Mentor: Dr. Rob Lorenson) "Still Haven't Bound What I'm Looking For"
Ashlee Kirkwood, Earth Science, (Mentor: Dr. Michael Krol) "Petrographic Analysis of a Drill Core from the Narragansett Basin, Somerset, MA"
Sarah Lane, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Steven Haefner) "Monosaccharide Interactions with Rh(III) Cis-bipyridine Complexes"
Bethany Masten, Chemistry, (Mentor: Steven Haefner) "Development of Dirhodium Sugar-Substituted Carboxylate and Acetamide Complexes and Evaluation of their Potential as Lectin Inhibitors"
Lindsay McDonald, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Steven Haefner) "Interactions of Cis-Bis-Ruthenium Complexes with Monosaccharides"
David Mofford, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Edward Brush) "Design, Synthesis, and Testing of Indole and Oxindole Aspartic Acid Derivatives as Potential Caspase Inhibitors"
Taryn Palluccio, Chemistry, (Mentor: Dr. Steven Waratuke) "Enyne Hydroamination Reactions"
Brad Rubin, Philosophy, (Mentor: Dr. Francine Quaglio) "He that Increaseth Knowledge: Does Cistercian Monosticism Contain Strategies for Addressing the Crisis of Meaning in Contemporary Western Life?"
Kristina Stafford, Art, (Mentors: Prof. Preston Saunders and Dr. Rob Lorenson) "Catenary Tales: A Study of Soda/Salt-Fire Kiln Construction and Glaze Formulation"
Adam Stilgoe, History, (Mentor: Dr. Gregory Chaplin) "The Initial Formation of Independent Cultural Consciousness in British Colonials in the Caribbean during the Eighteenth Century through Poetry Written by Colonials"
Rosa Aleman, Communication Studies (Mentor: Dr. Arthur Lizie), "Inner City Stories from Upward Bound: American Poverty and its Effects on the Pursuit of Higher Education for Disadvantaged Teens."
Evan Broderick, Chemistry (Mentor: Dr. Ed Brush), "Design and Synthesis of an Ionic Liquid and its Application as a Reusable Solvent."
Daniel Callahan, Earth Science (Mentor: Dr. Michael Krol), "Sedimentary Petrology of the Teddy Creek Group, Blacktail Mountains, Montana."
Robert J. Cannata, English (Mentor: Dr. Garland Kimmer), "The Snickering Echoes of Oppression: 100 Years of Irish Humor Through the Formation of the Irish Free State."
Karen L. DeBalsi, Biology (Mentor: Dr. Jeff Bowen), "Synthesis, Purification, Characterization, and Biological Evaluation of Dialkylester Glutathione Conjugates with 3-Methyleneoxindole as Potential Therapeutic Agents."
Kathleen Rachel Gonsalves, Earth Science (Mentor: Dr. Robert Cicerone), "Magnetic Field Precursors to the 1989 M7.1 Loma Prieta Earthquake."
Derek Thomas Hambly, Art (Mentor: Prof. Rob Lorenson), "Hybrid Clay: A Research of Creation and Design."
Teresa Hunter, English (Mentor: Dr. Garland Kimmer), "Voices in Violence: Cultural and Political Violence's Effect on Artistic Production in Northern Ireland's Belfast Poets, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Cieran Carson from 1970 to the Present."
Brian Keith, Physics (Mentor: Dr. Thomas P. Kling), "Reunion of Weak Gravitational Lensing and General Relativity."
Megan Lakhal, Biology (Mentor: Dr. Patricia Mancini), "Selected Microorganisms From Soil and Water in the Bridgewater State College Vicinity."
Jesse Miller, Chemistry (Mentor: Dr. Ed Brush), "Two Novel Approaches to Generate Elemental Bromine for its Use in a Green Chemistry Synthesis of 3-Bromooxindole-3-acetic acid."
Shannon Moriarty, Political Science (Mentor: Dr. Brendan Burke), "A Case Study of the political Conflicts Surrounding the Closing and Reuse of the South Weymouth Naval Air Station."
Paul A. Muller, Jr., Biology (Mentor: Dr. Donald Padgett), "A Comparative Seed Germination Analysis Between Common and Endangered Nuphar Species of New England."
Erin Nevens, Earth Science (Mentor: Dr. Michael Krol), "Geologic Mapping and Petrographic Analysis of Metamorphic Rocks from Black Rock Beach, Cohasset, Massachusetts."
Amanda E. Allen, Sociology (Mentor: Dr. Patricia Fanning), "The Truth About Radical Feminism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"
Rebekah Beaudoin, Communication Studies (Mentor: Dr. Arthur Lizie), "The New Black Face: The Over Dramatization of Black Culture in Rap Videos"
Aaron Botelho, History (Mentor: Dr. Andrew Harris), "The Scourge of God: Radical Protestant Intellectual History Prior to the Reign of Elizabeth I"
Allyson M. Carbone, History (Mentor: Dr. Luci Fortunato De Lisle), "The Hidden Famine: Understanding Nutrition and Disease in Early Modern Europe"
Erin M. Collupy, Biology (Mentor: Dr. Kevin Curry), "Tessellated Darter, Etheostoma olmstedi, as a Stress Indicator In Southeastern Massachusetts Streams"
Glen de Pontbriand, English (Mentor: Dr. Ann Brunjes), "Evolution of the "Self" in American Literature"
Amanda E. Gross, Earth Science (Mentor: Dr. Richard Enright), "Field Validation of Grain Size Determination of Massachusetts Beaches Using Brightness Measurements from Landsat Thematic Mapper Data"
Tiffini Hamilton, Chemistry (Mentor: Dr. Cielito DeRamos-King), "An Investigation of Anthropogenic Impact on the Quality of the Town River in Bridgewater, Massachusetts"
Christopher B. Haslam, Biology (Mentor: Dr. Kevin Curry), "Chronological Patterns of Emergence of Dragonflies in Carver Pond, Bridgewater, MA"
Edward L. Kelliher, Biology (Mentor: Dr. Kevin Curry), "Larval Dragonfly Asymmetry as an Indicator For Environmental Stress"
Jesse Miller, Chemistry (Mentor: Dr. Edward Brush), "Green Chemistry Synthesis of 3-Bromooxindole-3-acetic acid: A Potential Anti-Cancer Agent"
Johannah Price, Foreign Languages (Mentor: Dr. Leora Lev), "First, Be Sexy! Cinema, Femininity, and the Young American Woman"
Nicholas Q. Rofe, Earth Science (Mentor: Dr. Michael Krol), "Geological Mapping of Volcanic Rocks in the Blacktail Mountains, Montana"
Andrea Abbott, English (Mentor: Dr. Lee Torda), "The Phenomenon of Public Self-Disclosure: Shout it from the Rooftops? A Multi-Genre Essay"
Matthew Brennan, Earth Science (Mentor: Dr. Michael Krol), "The Geologic History of the Easton-Sharon Border, Southeastern Massachusetts"
Scott Dallmeyer, Physics (Mentor: Dr. Edward Deveney), "Doppler Free Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy"
Kelly Famolare, Earth Science (Mentor: Dr. Robert Cicerone), "Using Bloom's Taxonomy in the Creation of Geophysical Laboratory Exercises"
Philip Graham, History (Mentor: Dr. Michael Ierardi), "KV55 and the Amarna Dynasty"
James Hebda, Chemistry (Mentor: Dr. Cielito De Ramos-King), "Determination of Levels of Heavy Metals in Storm Water Runoff"
Craig Murphey, Communication Studies (Mentor: Dr. Arthur Lizie), "Whose Voice is Heard?: A Comparative Analysis of the Coverage of Local Issues in Four Newspapers"
Matthew Noiseux, Art (Mentor: Prof. Rob Lorenson), "Steel Sculpture"
Therese Winger, Management (Mentor: Dr. Helene Fine), "Evaluation of the Supply-Chain Management Process in the Radiology Department at Brigham and Women's Hospital"
Danielle Charest, Anthropology and Music (Mentors: Drs. Curtiss Hoffman and Salil Sachdev), "The Role of Sacred Festivals and Music in Indian Culture"
Asako Enomoto, Chemistry (Mentor: Dr. Ed Brush), "Designing a Novel Pro-Drug (Trojan Horse) Inhibitor of Cysteine Proteases"
Chris Farnkoff, History (Mentor: Dr. Wing-kai To), "A Comparitive Analysis of Meiji Japan and Bismackian Germany"
Laura Horky, Biology (Mentor: Dr. Don Padgett), "Analyzing the Reproductive Biology of the Endangered Long's Bittercress, Cardamine longii"
Brendan Kidwell, Mathematics and Computer Science (Mentor: Dr. Uma Shama), "A Mathematical Algorithm for Predicting Arrival Times of Public Transit Vehicles"
Eric Molleur, Anthropology (Mentor: Dr. Diana Fox), "The State of Economic Development in Frankfield, Jamaica Through the Use of Visual Anthropology"
Tara-Joan Palopoli, Psychology (Mentor: Dr. Ruth Hannon), "Conflict Resolution in Adolescence: Issues and Resolution Strategist"
Cassandra Ristaino, Theater Arts (Mentor: Professor James Quinn), "How do we Incorporate Theatre into Education Through all of the Education Reform Standards?
Jackie Van Etten, Earth Science (Mentor: Dr. Peter Saccocia), "Microscopic Coral Morphology and Paleoclimate Reconstruction"
Perla Vidal, Communication Studies (Mentor: Dr. Arthur Lizie), "America's Music: The Evolution of Country Music Into Rock and Roll"
Last Modified: July 22, 2009