Omomah Abebe, American Studies,
Morality, Law and African Americans: Making the Connection
Faculty sponsor: Professor Robert J. MacCoun Public Policy and Law

Punam Bhullar, Molecular and Cell Biology/Public Health
Analysis of the FHA Domain of EspA, a Protein that Controls Developmental Timing in Myxococcus xanthus
Faculty sponsor: Professor David Zusman, Molecular and Cell Biology

Daniel Chan, Music/Cognitive Science, Pelleas et Melisande’s Last Act: A piece for solo cello and chamber ensemble
Faculty sponsor: Professor Katherine Bergeron, Music

Andy Chang, Political Science/Economics
The Tangwai Opposition Movement of 1977-1979 in Taiwan’s Democratization
Faculty sponsor: Professor Steven Fish, Political Science

Elizabeth Chapman, Interdisciplinary Studies; Spanish
Contentious Holocaust Imagery in Contemporary Art
Faculty sponsor: Professor Anne Wagner, History of Art

Ann Chen, History, Documenting Shanghai’s “Black” Families: Memory and experience during the Cultural Revolution
Faculty sponsor: Professor Richard Candida Smith, History

Huiyi Chen, Molecular and Cell Biology/Economics
Investigation of the 6 cysteines in APS reductase
Faculty sponsor: Professor Carolyn Bertozzi, Chemistry

Adam Cramer, Art: History of Art, Pyramids in Egypt, Pyramids on Paper: The Cultural Mathematics of the Description of Egypt
Faculty sponsor: Professor Darcy Grigsby, Art: History of Art

Daniel Dengrove, Molecular and Cell Biology/Philosophy
Quantifying stress defense in long-lived c. elegans
Faculty sponsor: Professor Caroline Kane

Jason Euren, Anthropology, Emotions in a Gay Sex Club
Faculty sponsor: Professor Dawne Moon Sociology

Francesca Hopkins, Environmental Sciences; Spanish
Human influence on the carbon cycle of tropical forest
Faculty sponsor: Professor Whendee Silver, ESPM

Vicky Hsu, English, Hiro Protagonist & Company: On the Representation of Minority Characters in Cyberpunk Science Fiction
Faculty sponsor: Professor Julia Bader, English

Nandini Iyer, Philosophy; Education, The Concept of Virtue in Aristotle’s, Kant’s, and Dewey’s Philosophy of Education
Faculty sponsor: Professor Alan Code, Philosophy

Yulia Khouri, Peace & Conflict Studies/Psychology, The Privilege of Right: African domestic workers and feminist consciousness in Lebanon
Faculty sponsor: Professor Kiren Chaudhry, Political Science

Linda Kay Lee, Molecular and Cell Biology
The potential role of ERK5 in cell quiescence
Faculty sponsor: Professor Astar Winoto, MCB

Linda May Lee, Molecular and Cell Biology (Immunology)
Kinetics of the MHC class I antigen processing pathway
Faculty sponsor: Professor Nilabh Shastri, MCB

Lisa Overholtzer, Anthropology/Spanish, The Kneeling Aztec Woman: Evidence for Male Domination or Gender Complementarity?
Faculty sponsor: Professor Rosemary Joyce, Anthropology

Kate Pielemeier, Development Studies, The Transnational Role of Bay Area African Immigrants in Homeland Issues and Conflict
Faculty sponsor: Professor Victoria Robinson, Ethnic Studies

Pin Pin Jacquelin Poon, Molecular and Cell Biology/Psychology
Role of epithelial cell polarity in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa-induced cytotoxicity and innate immune response in the lung airways
Faculty sponsor: Professor Terry Machen, MCB

Stephanie Ritoper, Interdisciplinary Studies
Barriers to Collective Bargaining in Chile and in California
Faculty sponsor: Professor Norma Alarcon, Ethnic Studies

Valentina Rizzo, PEIS; Demography
Fertility Decline in the "Vineyard of the Lord"
Faculty sponsor: Professor Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Demography

Mahsa Sadre-Bazzaz, Physics
Measuring the Branching Ratio for the Decay B -> Ds(*)+ pi-
Faculty sponsor: Professor Yury G Kolomensky, Physics

Suemyra Shah, Interdisciplinary Studies
An Examination of Brazilian Hip Hop as a Catalyst for Social Change
Faculty sponsor: Dr. Gary Wren, ISF

Shahin Shamsabadi, Middle Eastern Studies
The Gulf Wars: The Real Players
Faculty sponsor: Professor Nezar Al Sayyad, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Rachel Stewart, Psychology
Quality of Life and Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Faculty sponsor: Rudy Mendoza-Denton, Psychology

Susan Tche, Economics; City Planning
Nha Que: The Culture of Rural-Urban Migration in Hanoi
Faculty sponsor: Professor Alain deJanvry, Agricultural Economics

Nitin Ubhayakar, Psychology, The Search for Electrophysical Correlates of Object Representation in Unilateral Neglect
Faculty sponsor: Professor Lynn Robertson, Psychology

Satyugjit Virk, Cognitive Science; MCB
Coding order effects on abstract definitions and concrete examples
Faculty sponsor: Professor Art Shimamura, Psychology

Neil Walker, Linguistics, Proto-pomo Revisited
Faculty sponsor: Professor Leanne Hinton, Linguistics

Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell, French, A Lingering Aftertaste: Belated Travel and the Itineraries of MFK Fisher and Elizabeth David
Faculty sponsor: Professor, Suzanne Guerlac, French

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