excellence in undergraduate research award recipients 2007
Excellence in Undergraduate Research Awards sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research
Arts and Humanities
Lydia Crowe, Spanish
The nature of suffering in the performances of Peter Lorre
Mentor: Astrid Oesmann
Engineering and Mathematics
Michael Schaefer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Oxidation of Fe(II) by Mn-oxides: Characterization of Fe(III) reaction products and Fe(II) sorption on nancoscale goethite
Mentor: Michelle Scherer
Natural Sciences
Adam Althaus, Biological Sciences
Microglia response to NMDA-induced cell death in rodent hippocampi
Mentor: Michael Dailey
Social Sciences
Benjamin Solow, Economics, Political Science
Moving on up: The Rooney Rule and hiring of minority coaches in the NFL
Mentor: John Solow