Summer Research Grants
Past Proposals - 2014 Summer
Metaphysics of Moral Responsibility and Moral Justification for Legal Punishment
Student: Monica Perone
Mentor: Dr. Arash Naraghi
Classroom Working Memory Assessment and Reading Outcomes in Young Children
Student: Kayla Poole
Mentor: Dr. Jean DesJardin
Kittatinny Ridge Ecological Monitoring
Student: Kerry Reider
Mentor: Dr. Diane Husic
DNA Unwinding by Cytotoxic Rhodium Compounds
Student: Kathleen Sicinski
Mentors: Dr. Shari Dunham and Dr. Stephen Dunham
Characterization of a navel bang-sensitive gene in Drosophila melanogaster
Student: Ghazal Stity
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Jones
The use of neuromarketing and consumerspace to create customer experiences at Walt Disney World: An Exploratory Study
Student: Alexis Silvoy
Mentor: Dr. Gary Kaskowitz
Citizenship and the Public sphere; The Absence of public space in a globalized age
Student: Colton Krial, Leah Triber
Mentor: Dr. Khristina Haddad
Development and Teaching of a Multi-Sensory Sign Language Guide for Teachers
Student: Rachel McSorely
Mentor: Dr. Jean DesJardin
Moravian Music: Creating Performance Editions from the Archives
Student: Tim McGorrey
Mentor: Dr. Hilde Binford
Creation of an annotated bibliography of Kittatinny Ridge as a tool for developing
conservation and research priorities
Student: Laura McBride
Mentor: Dr. Diane Husic
Creation of a Complete Performing Edition for Hasse's "La Spartana generosa"
Student: Michael McAndrew
Mentor: Dr. Hilde Binford
Health, Disease and Gender in Medieval England: The Osteological Evidence
Student: Paige Malewski
Mentor: Dr. Sandy Bardsley
Kinematics of prey capture and swallowing in sand boas: balancing conflicting functional demands
Student: Elizabeth Mack
Mentor: Dr. Frances Irish
Development of Astrological Thought in the Ancient World
Student: Daniel Macarro
Mentor: Dr. Jason Radine
Estimating Willingness to Pay for Water Quality in Low Income Areas of Bangladesh
Student: Emily Lambright
Mentor: Dr. Sonia Aziz
The Impact of Land Preservation on Water Quality in the Lehigh River Watershed
Students: Shannon Bensetler and Alejandra Kaplan
Mentor: Dr. Frank Kuserk
Creating a Model for the neurological disease PCCA in Drosophila melanogaster
Student: Caitlin Hyland
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Jones
The Economic Development of Vietnam from International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Perspectives.
Student: Huy Quoc Huynh
Mentor: Dr. James West
Intranasal Administration of DNSP-11 in a Chronic 6-Hydroxydopamine Model of Parkinson's disease
Student: Adam Ghoweri
Mentor: Dr. Cecilia Fox
Memoir as a Cornerstone for Peace and Justice Education
Student: Dylan Grubb
Mentors: Dr. Daniel Jasper and Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug
Honor and Masculinity, The Experiences of a Soldier in World War One and the Rise of Right-Wing Radicalism in Germany, 1914 - 1923
Student: William Christman
Mentor: Dr. Heikki Lempa
Characterization of Two Orientational Isomers of a DNA-binding Dirhodium Compound
Student: Caroline Bartulovich
Mentors: Dr. Stephen Dunham and Dr. Shari Dunham
Teams, Tones and Tensions
Student: Victoria Alupke
Mentors: Dean Christopher Hunt and Dr. Debra Wetcher-Hendricks
Constructing Curriculum Materials from Primary Source Archival Materials
Student: Mary Nehme
Mentors: Dr. Robert Mayer and Janet Ohles
Summer Art Camp, Scultping Peace in Our Community: Working Three-Dimensionally with Elementary Students
Studenst: Colleen Hait and Abby Jeffries
Mentors: Dr. Kristin Baxter
The Lehigh Valley and the American Civil War
Student: David Gaspar
Mentors: Dr. Jamie Paxton
The Role of Action Research in Reclaiming Teachers' Professional Lives in an Era of International Accountability"
Students: Christopher Ossont and Brianne Schoolcraft
Mentor: Dr. Joseph Shosh
Shyness, Loneliness, and Locus of Control as Predictors of Gaming Use and The Effects of
Gaming on Social Relations On and Off-Line
Student: Elisabath Nielsen and Anwar Hadeed
Mentor: Dr. Stacy Zaremba