The 2008-2009 Haas Scholars
Sina Akhavan (Integrative Biology)
“Curses, Invocations? An Investigation into the Medical Ethnobotany of the Kosovo Roma”
Sponsor: Professor Thomas Carlson, Integrative Biology
Geoffrey Brookshire (Psychology)
“Handedness and Happiness: The Interaction between Hand Dominance and Emotion Processing”
Sponsor: Professor Richard Ivry, Psychology
Jaimee Comstock-Skipp (Near Eastern Studies and History of Art)
“Reading Colonial Overtones in British Orientalist Art of Cairo via Arabic Text and Islamic Design”
Sponsor: Professor Margaret Larkin, Near Eastern Studies
Kyle Dunbar (Chemical Biology)
“Engineering Escherichia coli for Production of Alternative Fuels”
Sponsor: Professor Michelle Chang, Chemistry
Sonia Fleury (History of Art and History)
“Painting the Present as History: Gustave Courbet's 'Burial at Ornan' and the Revolution of 1848”
Sponsor: Professor Darcy Grigsby, History of Art
Say Tar Goh (Molecular and Cell Biology)
“Characterization of DNA Damage Repair in Myogenic Precursors”
Sponsor: Professor Irina Conboy, Bioengineering
Evarosa Holt-Rusmore (Interdisciplinary Field Studies major, Global Poverty and Practice minor)
“Youth Reintegration in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone”
Sponsor: Professor Mariane Ferme, Anthropology
Allen Kwong (Molecular and Cell Biology)
“Steric Constraints on Anthrax Toxin Translation”
Sponsor: Professor Bryan Krantz, Molecular and Cell Biology
James Jung Lee (Engineering Physics)
“Development of Time-Resolving Magnetometers with Single-Spin Sensitivy"
Sponsor: Professor Irfan Siddiqi, Physics
Samantha Liang (Bioengineering)
“Development of a Memory Selection Device for Engineering Bacteria”
Sponsor: Professor J. Christopher Anderson, Bioengineering
Joseph J. Lim (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics)
“Object Recognition by Contour Extraction”
Sponsor: Professor Jitendra Malik, EECS
Mingen (Jason) Liu (Plant and Microbial Biology)
“Development of New Genetic Techniques for Studying Photosynthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”
Sponsor: Professor Krishna Niyogi, Plant and Microbial Biology
Jason Martin (Cognitive Science and Statistics)
“Using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo with People to Classify Facial Affect”
Sponsor: Professor Tom Griffiths, Psychology
Jessica Merizan (Anthropology)
“Familes and Frontier Boys: An Archaelogy of Consumerism and Identity Construction in a Mid-20th Century California Community”
Sponsor: Professor Laurie Wilkie, Anthropology
Kyle Rentschler (Film Studies)
“8-Bit Teardrops: A History of Melodrama in Video Games”
Sponsor: Professor Linda Williams, Rhetoric
A. Nicholas Santascoy (Psychology)
“Rejection Sensitivity and Gratitude”
Sponsor: Professor Ozlem Ayduk, Psychology
Mehmet Seflek (Economics and Arabic)
“The Scarves of Choice: How Headscarf Discrimination in Turkey Affects Labor Market Decisions”
Sponsor: Adjunct Professor David Roland-Holst, Agriculture and Resource Economics
Seryna Thai (Film Studies)
“The MeKong River (Song Me Kong)”
Sponsor: Professor Kristen Whissel, Film Studies
Lijia Xie (Interdisciplinary Studies Field)
“Beyond Holding Up the Sky: Beijing Women in the Era of the Olympic Games”
Sponsor: Professor Geoffrey O’Brien, English
Pei (Tony) Zhao (Philosophy)
“Moral Responsibility and Determinism”
Sponsor: Professor R. Jay Wallace, Philosophy
