The 1999/2000 Haas Scholars
We are pleased to introduce the 1999/2000 Haas Scholars.
Click on their names and learn more about these talented students and their projects!
Melissa M. Adams (Cognitive Science Major)
"Can Kangaroo Rats Reason? An Inquiry into the Ecology of Logical Inference"
Sponsor: Professor Lucy Jacobs, Psychology
Peter B. Brownell (ISF Major)
"Double Crossing: The Impact of Immigration and Welfare Reform on Migration Between Mexico and the United States"
Sponsor: Professor Alex Saragoza, Ethnic Studies
Simmie L. Foster (MCB Major)
"Genetic Analysis of PEST Sequences in the L. monocytogenes Protein Listeriolysin O"
Sponsor: Professor Daniel Portnoy, MCB
Charles W. Houston (Native American Studies & Ethnic Studies Major)
"Ethical Museum Storage Practices: Native Californian Artifacts in Museum Repositories"
Sponsor: Professor Patricia Hilden, Ethnic Studies
Kevin Kuanyun Huang (History Major)
"History and Representations in Early Chinese Literature"
Sponsor: Professor Jeffrey Riegel, East Asian Languages
Kate Hunter-McPeake (Near Eastern Studies Major)
"From Tribe to Empire: An Examination of Political and Cultural Processes in the Nascent Persian State"
Sponsor: Professor David Stronach, Near Eastern Studies
Marisa M. Jahn (Art Practice & ISF Major)
"Reveries in Lots: An Interpretive History of Social and Topographical Change in San Francisco's China Basin/Mission Rock District"
Sponsor: Professor Shawn Brixey, Art Practice
Loren Yukio Kajikawa (Ethnic Studies Major)
"Asian Improv: Defining Identity and Social Reality Through Music"
Sponsor: Professor Jose Saldivar, Ethnic Studies
Brian Sun Kim (MCB & Psychology Major)
"Role of Sgk in Apoptotic Signaling"
Sponsor: Professor Gary Firestone, MCB
Anita Lee (Environmental Science Major)
"Elucidating the Major Environmental Factors for the Enhancement of Selenium Volatilization from the Soil-Salicornia System"
Sponsor: Professor Norman Terry, Plant and Microbial Biology
Matthew Lewsadder (English Major)
"Incitement to Discourse: The Lord Chamberlain’s Censorship of Plays in Late Victorian England, 1890-1910"
Sponsor: Professor Sharon Marcus, English
Marisa S. Olson (Rhetoric Major)
"The Semiotics of Digital Storytelling"
Sponsor: Professor Michael Mascuch, Rhetoric
Stephanie Neda Sadre-Orafai (Anthropology Major)
"Vectors of Cultural Development in Trinidad and Tobago: Commodification and Self-Identification in the Rapso Movement"
Sponsor: Professor Michel Laguerre, African American Studies
Lena A. Salaymeh (Comp Lit & Near Eastern Studies Major)
"Contemporary Lebanese Women's Novels"
Sponsor: Professor Muhammad Siddiq, Near Eastern Studies
Amber Rose Smock (Art Practice and English Major)
"Searching for Cultural Identity in the Worlds of Sounds and Signs: A Story of One Deaf Artist"
Sponsor: Mr. Kevin Radley, Art Practice
Anny Song (Spanish & Business Administration Major)
"Asian-Latin Writers in Modern Day Argentina"
Sponsor: Professor Francine Masiello, Spanish & Portuguese
Miruna Andrea Stanica (English Major)
"Portable Culture: Representations of Gypsy Identity and 19th Century Narratives of Nationalism"
Sponsor: Professor Celeste Langan, English
Scott Leon Washington (Sociology Major)
"The Mulatto and the State: An Analytic History, 1890-1936"
Sponsor: Professor Gil Eyal, Sociology
Elizabeth Nicole Wilcut (Physics Major)
"Heavy Fermion Refrigerator"
Sponsor: Professor Seamus Davis, Physics
Ki Won Yoon (Physics and Astrophysics Major)
"Earth-based detection of CMBR Polarization: Data Analysis and Control Software Development"
Sponsor: Professor George Smoot, Physics
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