The 2009-2010 Haas Scholars
Chang Cai (History and Business Administration major)
"World War II War Crimes Trials Against Japanese War Criminals Conducted by the Chinese Nationalists from 1946 to 1949"
Sponsor: David Cohen, Rhetoric
Thomas Carey (History major)
"'Nor Meekly Serve My Time': Irish Political Prisoners and the Struggle for Legitimacy within the Penal Systems of the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1916-1946"
Sponsor: James Vernon, History
Cheng Chen (Molecular and Cell Biology major)
"Kinetic Constant Determination of Multidrug Efflux Pump"
Sponsor: Hiroshi Nikaido, Molecular and Cell Biology
Lauren Crow (Dance and Performance Studies major)
"(De)Formation of Body Protocols: Dance's Changing Ontology in the Choreography of Meg Stuart and Sasha Waltz"
Sponsor: Shannon Steen, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Benjamin Golder (Architecture major)
"Building an Urban Wilderness"
Sponsor: Nicholas de Monchaux, Architecture
Michael Goldrich (Molecular and Cell Biology and Public Health major)
"Targeted Genome Modification Using Zinc Finger Nucleases"
Sponsor: Sharon Amacher, Molecular and Cell Biology: Genetics, Genomics and Development
Shawna Gubera (English major)
"Lyric in Public: Exploring Lyric Subjectivity and the Outdoor Advertisement Through Ekphrastic Poetry"
Sponsor: Cecil Giscombe, English
Ashwak Hauter (Anthropology and Development Studies major)
"'Glocal' Biomedicine: Reformulating Expertise and Epistemology in a Yemen Hospital"
Sponsor: Stefania Pandolfo, Anthropology
Marissa Herrman (Molecular and Cell Biology major)
"The role of cellular microRNAs in CMV infection: identification of microRNA targets and downstream effects using SILAC and mass sepctrometry"
Sponsor: Fenyong Liu, Public Health
Hillary Langberg (History of Art and South and Southeast Asian Studies major)
"A 'Supreme Goddess' in the Making: The Evolution of Tara in Indian Buddhist Sculpture, ca. 5-8th centuries CE"
Sponsor: Joanna Williams, History of Art
Annie Lin (Sociology major and Public Policy minor)
"Care to Smile? Relationships and Voluntary Friendliness in Electronics Retail"
Sponsor: Michael Burawoy, Sociology
Nathen Menard (Sociology major)
"Hidden but Not Forgotten: The Potential of Raising the Life-Chances of Environmental Refugee Women through Grassroots Non-Governmental Organizations"
Sponsor: Thomas Gold, Sociology
Hakeem Naim (Middle Eastern Studies major)
"The Ottoman Empire's Religious and Political Relationship with Afghanistan during the Early 20th Century"
Sponsor: Hamid Algar, Near Eastern Studies
Valerie Nguyen (Philosophy and Rhetoric major)
"Courting Rhetoric: the poetics of erotic logos at the Platonic origins of philosophy"
Sponsor: Daniel Boyarin, Rhetoric and Near Eastern Studies
Ali Rathore (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences major)
"Nanowire Solar Cells"
Sponsor: Ali Javey, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Gregg Sparkman (Psychology and Anthropology major)
"Fostering Pro-social Behavior: Emotional, Non-verbal, Vocal Cues and the Vagus Nerve."
Sponsor: Dacher Keltner, Psychology
James Suchy (Public Health major)
"Dispersal Behavior of the Bed Bug Cimex lectularus to Control-Related Exposures"
Sponsor: Vernard Lewis, Environmental Science, Policy,and Management
Marie Thuillier (Linguistics major)
"Social Perceptions and Attitudes about the Revitalization of Cauchois, a Dialect Spoken in Seine-Maritime (Haute-Normandie, France)"
Sponsor: Gary Holland, Linguistics
Anthony Vasquez (Anthropology major)
"Finding the Lost Generation: Material Culture, Women, and UC Berkeley in the 1920s"
Sponsor: Laurie Wilkie, Anthropology
Vanessa Voss (Integrative Biology major)
"Does Social Status Impact Mental Health?"
Sponsor: Darlene Francis, Psychology
