Kenny Hoo Chow, Molecular and Cell Biology
Molecular Mechanism of Neuronal Spine Formation
Faculty Sponsor: Lu Chen, Molecular and Cell Biology

Elliot Miles Asher Cohen, Cognitive Science and Computer Science
Non-Invasive Brain Computer Interfaces
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Ivry, Psychology

Jose Antonio de Loera, History
The Hacienda System during the Porfiriato
Faculty Sponsor: Margaret Chowning, History

Caitlin Rose Fox-Hodess, Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major
Christian Conservatives, American News Media and the 2004 Presidential Election
Faculty Sponsor: Luis Leon, Religious Studies

Assaf Harel, Anthropology
Land, body and the Jewish Settler in Times of Crisis
Faculty Sponsor: Lawrence Cohen, Anthropology

Justine Suzanne Jones, Film
Transexuality and Intertextuality: Experimental Melodramas of the 1960s
Faculty Sponsor: Marilyn Fabe, Film Studies

Geza Theodore Kisch, Environmental Sciences (L&S)
Community Mine Continuation Agreements in the Fly River region of Papua New Guinea
Faculty Sponsor: Claudia Carr, ESPM

Michael Edward Komorowski, English
Writing the Garden: Renaissance Imitation, Innovation, and the Poet's Art
Faculty Sponsor: Kevis Goodman, English

Leslie Lang Rhetoric, Business Administration
The Special Court for Sierra Leone: A Revitalization of the Rule of Law?
Faculty Sponsor: David Cohen, Rhetoric

Roman T Leal, Economics and Legal Studies
Uncovering A Microfinance Institution Amidst the Most Advanced Financial System In the World
Faculty Sponsor: DeJanvry Alain, Agricultural Economics

Hao Li, Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major and Legal Studies
Economic Regionalism Under China's Dynamic Growth
Faculty Sponsor: David Roland-Holst, Economics

Hoo Yin (Horace) Lit, Political Science
The parties’ relations and strategies in the People’s Political Council (PPC), 1937-1948
Faculty Sponsor: Lowell Dittmer, Political Science

Paolo Solano Manzanillo, Molecular and Cell Biology and Integrative Biology
Engineering E.coli for the Production of Artificial Protein Polymers
Faculty Sponsor: Jay Keasling, Chemical Engineering

Anna R Melyantsev, History
The use of the Russian Orthodox Church in construction of national identity in Post-Soviet Russia
Faculty Sponsor: Edward Walker, Political Science

Lyman Frost Mower, Religious Studies
The Foundations of Ethics: Readings of Kierkegaard
Faculty Sponsor: Luca D'Isanto, Italian Studies

Michael Anthony Nicholson, English
William Wordsworth’s Imaginative [King]dom
Faculty Sponsor: Celeste Langan, English

Steven Jeffrey Pynes Jr., Linguistics
Documentation of the Tol Language
Faculty Sponsor: Leanne Hinton, Linguistics

Camilo F Salazar, Philosophy and Film
Towards a Phenomenological Sketch of the Body Schema
Faculty Sponsor: Alva Noe, Philosophy

Carrie Su-Hwa Shiau, Molecular and Cell Biology
Trapping Intermediates During the Catalytic Cycle of M. tuberculosis APS Reductase
Faculty Sponsor: Carolyn Bertozzi, Chemistry

Tatyana Andrey Shmygol, Psychology and Economics
Hate Crimes and Immigration in the Russian Federation
Faculty Sponsor: David Lee, Economics

Anjileen Kaur Singh, Psychology and English
Children's assumptions about what others know: The case of words and function
Faculty Sponsor: Lori Markson, Psychology

Miriam Vargas Solis, Ethnic Studies and Geography
Living at the Margins of the Margins: Racial Neighborhood Segregation and Annexation in Modesto, California
Faculty Sponsor: David Montejano, Chicano Studies

Nicole Christiane Swann, Molecular and Cell Biology and Psychology
Examining How the Human Brain Produces Time and Rhythm
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Knight, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

Josef Araya Tayag, Rhetoric
The Ancient Body and Ideological Conquest: Identifying the Human Body in the Ancient Hellenic, Chinese and Nahua Sciences
Faculty Sponsor: Charis Thompson, Rhetoric

Trisha Joy Tiamzon, Sociology and Political Science
More than a Show? Identity Formation and Pilipino Cultural Night
Faculty Sponsor: Catherine Choy, Asian American Studies

Matthew Milton Phillip Werner, English
What is the influence of Argentinean folklore on the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges?
Faculty Sponsor: Julia Bader, English

Jennifer Mun-Ting Wong, Integrative Biology
Epigenetic Regulation of Stress Hormones and Neurobiology: Mother Nature Meets Mother Nurture
Faculty Sponsor: Darlene Francis, Psychology

Xiao Xu, Molecular and Cell Biology
Characterization of paladin and its expression in no tail mutants during zebrafish development
Faculty Sponsor: Sharon Amacher, MCB

Saba Zariv, Development Studies
Rethinking Gender and Politics: Liberal-Secular Thought in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Faculty Sponsor: Saba Mahmood, Anthropology

5/31/05 research@learning.berkeley.edu Office of Undergraduate Research University of California, Berkeley