SUMMER 2003 FELLOWS

Summer 2003 was the second year for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows at Berkeley. Click on the links to learn more about these projects

Anne-Laure Allary, Molecular & Cell Biology, Characterization of three Arabidopsis dual-specificity protein tyrosine phosphatases involved in cell signaling
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Sheng Luan, Plant & Microbial Biology

Tiffany Bartz, Interdisciplinary Studies (ISF), Merging sexual moralities: A study of sexual conflict in Norway
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Kristin Luker, Sociology/Jurisprudence & Social Policy

Sylvia Benson, Anthropology, Constructing Nature for tourists: A case study in rural Nicaragua
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Nelson Graburn, Anthropology

Victoria Bertics, Integrative Biology & Earth and Planetary Science, Distribution of Foraminifera in The Monterey Canyon Northern California
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Jere Lipps, Integrative Biology

Emela Buljko, Political Science, Fragile Democracies: Democratic Prospects in East Central Europe
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Edward Walker, Political Science

Sheryl Cahill, Anthropology, School Days: Kid Culture and New Meanings for the “Power Lunch”
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Barrie Thorne, Sociology/Women's Studies

Shannon Dejong, Linguistics& Mass Communications, Social Perception and Corresponding Linguistic Features of Mexican-Spanish Speakers
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Ian Maddison, Linguistics

Jashdeep Dhoot, Molecular & Cell Biology, Evaluation of Intersubunit Interactions Involved in the Dimeric Stability of E. Coli Asportate Aminotransferase
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Jack Kirsch, Molecular & Cell Biology

Laura Germine, Cognitive Science, Anchoring in Numerically-driven Inferencing as a Function of Response Range
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Michael Ranney, School of Education

Nisha Gurbuxani, Sociology, How organized sports organize femininity
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Ula Taylor, African American Studies

Christina Heatherton, Interdisciplinary Studies (ISF), San Francisco SRO Fires Analysis
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Ananya Roy, City & Regional Planning

Matthew Johnson, Economics & Statistics, Negative Real Interest Rates in the 1940s
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Charles Jones, Economics

Jeana Jorgensen, Interdisciplinary Studies (ISF), The Quest for Meaning: Fairy Tales in Fantasy Literature
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Alan Dundes, Anthropology

Josef Kannegaard, Political Science & English, The Effect of Extremist Parties on the European Welfare State
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Jonah Levy, Political Science

Chun Hi Kim, Political Science & History, Koreans Under Japanese Colonial Rule: the case of the comfort women
Faculty Sponsor: Professor David Cohen, Rhetoric

Joseph Kim, Molecular & Cell Biology, Studying AO a fragment of a possible novel protein of the tight junction complex
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Gary Firestone, Molecular & Cell Biology

Lia Kraemer, Psychology, The Positive Role of Self-Conscious Emotions
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Dacher Keltner, Psychology

Matthew Lockshin, Philosophy, Nietzsche's Prophesy: the Idea of Eternal Recurrence as a Consequence of Nihilism
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Hans Sluga, Philosophy

Tresa McGranahan, Molecular & Cell Biology, The Search for Novel Mitogenc Factors for Adult Hippocampal Neural Progenitors
Faculty Sponsor: Professor David Schaffer, Chemical Engineering

Siddharth Nag, History & Human Ecology, Constructed Social Systems as Facets of the Human Ecology of Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuilla, Mexico
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Michael Watts, Geography/ International studies

Diana Negrin, Spanish & Latin American Studies, Strategies for Autonomy in the Face of Globalization: A Case Study of Huichol Indian Resistance
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Percy Hintzen, African American Studies

Cindy Paladines, Political Economy of Industrial Societies, Rising to the Top-Latin America’s Indigenous leaders and the changing face of Latin American Politics
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Jose Rabasa, Spanish & Portuguese

Anokhi Parikh, Economics & Political Economy of Industrial Societies, The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Child Labor in Brazil
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Elisabeth Sadoulet, Agriculture and Resource Economics

Maricela Piña, Psychology, Exploring Anxious Expectations of Status-Based Rejection Among Minority College Students
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Roldolfo Mendoza-Denton, Psychology

Amy Pradell, Comparative Literature, Dead Ends and Haunted Houses: A Comparative Study of Genealogy in Faulkner's South and Sebald's Post-Holocaust Europe
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Hinrich Seeba, German

Yenie Ra, English, The Poetry of Derek Walcott in the Post-modernist Context
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Charles Altieri, English

Keyvan Rahmatian, Cognitive Science, Visual processing and the elimination of extinction: an ERP study
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Lynn Robertson, Psychology

Alexandra Roedder, Music,The Violoncello and the Romantic Era: 1820-1920
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Richard Taruskin, Music

Sarah Rutherford, Rhetoric, Bodily Writings: Presidential Gestures
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Fred Dolan, Rhetoric

Rebecca Saltzman, Sociology, California’s Medical Marijuana Dispensaries: Community formation and health service provision in a legally precarious environment
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Kim Voss, Sociology

Susannah Sandow, Music, The Music of war: analyzing and comparing the music of wartime America
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Christy Dana, Music

Jon Schultz-Akerson, English & Spanish, Gender and Power in José Donoso’s El lugar sin limites (Honorable mention: 2004 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research)
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Gwen Kirkpatrick, Spanish & Portuguese

Debra Shefi, History of Art, The Shore Temple at Mamallapuram: a discourse on Shiva and Vishnu
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Joanna Williams, History of Art

Joshua Sperling, Physics, An Improved retinotopic map of area V1 in human visual cortex
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Jack Gallant, Psychology

Tatiana Vacova, Development Studies, Roma Home Destruction in east Slovakia: discourse, practices and socio-spatial consequences
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Ananya Roy, City & Regional Planning

Trina Walker, African American Studies, “Is a woman what you expect?” Gender, development and issues of relevancy in a caribbean society. A case study in Barbados
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Percy Hintzen, African American Studies

Kirsten Wallerstedt, Political Science & Business Administration, Law in Kosovo
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Robert Kagan, Political Science/Center for the Study of Law & Society

Radha Webley, Peace & Conflict Studies, Gacaca and Reconciliation in Post-genocide Rwanda (Winner, 2004 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research)
Faculty Sponsor: Professor David Cohen, Rhetoric

Casey Williams, Psychology, Children’s Sensitivity to a Speaker’s Intent
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Lori Markson, Psychology

Evelyn Yao, Molecular & Cell Biology, The Regulation of MAPK Signaling during Mammary Gland Branching Morphogenesis
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Mina Bissell, LBNL-Cell & Molecular Biology

Parastou Youssefi-Behnam, Development Studies, Islamic Feminism: An Alternative Path of Gender Development in Iran?
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Ananya Roy, City & Regional Planning

Shiaulou Yuan, Molecular & Cell Biology, The Discovery and Implementation of Auxin Signaling Inhibitors in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Athanasios Theologis, Plant & Microbial Biology-Plant Gene Expression Center

10/30/03 research@learning.berkeley.edu Office of Undergraduate Research University of California, Berkeley