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2010 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Research Showcase

2010 DDF Poster Information

2010 Presenters:

Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics

Qi Gao
Evolution of Eddies and Packets in Turbulent Boundary Layers

Joseph B. Mueller
Design and Analysis of Optimal Trajectories for Stratospheric Airships

Paolo Valentini
Atomistic Studies of Heterogeneous Catalysis for Gas-Surface Interactions in Hypersonic Flows

American Studies

SooJin Pate
Yellow Desire, Militarization, and the Paradox of Korean Adoption

Anthropology

Heather M. Flowers
Shifting Shapes and Shaping Self:
Social Identity, Animal Art, and Mortuary Ritual in Early Medieval Northwest Europe

Applied Economics

Irma Angela Arteaga
Non-Instrumental Variables Approaches for Modeling Attrition:
The Case of the Long-term Effects of Early Education

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics

Kuan-Ming Chen
Structural Studies on HIV Antiviral Factor: APOBEC3G

Michael Davies
Glucose-stimulated ChREbP Activation: New Insights Into the Molecular Mechanism

Janice Frias
Microbial Hydrocarbon Synthesis in the Pursuit of Potential Biofuels

Biomedical Engineering

Qiang Xiong
Stem Cell Therapy in Ischemic Heart Disease and Novel in Vivo NMR Technique for Fast Noninvasive Assessment of Myocardial Energetics

Han Yuan
Functional Imaging of Rhythmic Brain Activity During Movement and Imagination

Biostatistics

Xiaoxiao Kong
Statistical Methods in Genome Sequence Analysis

Chemical Engineering

Christine Cardinal
Coating Microstructure Design During Drying

Kartik Subramanian
Engineering Pluripotent Stem Cells for Fabrication of Biomimetic Liver-like Tissue

Will Tisdale
Electron Dynamics at Nanocrystal/bulk Interfaces

Chemistry

Shencheng Ge
Probing the "Secrete" Life of Blood Platelets by Using Carbon-fiber Microelectrochemistry Method

Chun Liu
Multicompartment Micelles from Block Terpolymers in Selective Solvent

Katie Maerzke
Influence of an Applied Electric Field on Vapor-liquid Phase Equilibria

Lei Shi
Application of Computational Techniques to Study the Structural and Dynamics of Membrane Proteins

Child Psychology

Julie Markant
The Role of Selective Attention and Individual Differences in Infant Learning

Civil Engineering

Leonardo P. Chamorro
Surface Heterogeneity Effects on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer:
Parameterizations and Applications to Wind Energy

Computer Science

Jie Chen
Numerical Linear Algebra Techniques for Effective Data Analysis

Gaurav Pandey
Data Mining Techniques for Enhancing Protein Function Prediction

Conservation Biology

Rachel F. Brummel
Burning Boundaries:
Collaborative Governance and Wildland Fire Planning in Australia and the U.S.

Ecology, Evolution & Behavior

William Ratcliff
Cooperation and Conflict in the Legume-rhizobium Symbiosis

Education, Curriculum & Instruction

Siddika Selcen Guzey
Science, Technology, and Pedagogy:
Exploring Secondary Science Teachers’ Effective Uses of Technology

Education, Curriculum & Instruction

Phebe Veronica Jatau
Complications and Complexities in the Schooling Experiences of Young Northern Nigerian Women Living in Zaria

Educational Psychology

Stacy Danov
Using Functional Analysis Methodology to Evaluate Neuroleptic Medication Effects on Positively and Negatively Reinforced Severe Problem Behavior

Electrical Engineering

Nathan C. Lindquist
Applications of Metallic Nano-structures and Surface Plasmon Resonances

English

Molly K. Gage
Sorting Scraps: The Archive and the Future of Democracy

Environmental Health Sciences

Tim Boyer
Quantitative Measurement of Antimicrobial Gene Load in Agricultural Samples

Epidemiology

Katherine W. Bauer
The Family Environment and Adolescent Girls’ Weight and Weight-related Behaviors:
 Implications for Obesity Prevention Programs

Experimental & Clinical Pharmacology

Vijay Deep Ivaturi
Comparison of Model Based Approaches to Assess QTc Liability During First Time in Human Studies (FTIH)

Family Social Science

Seohee Son
Korean Divorced Mothers' Experiences of Parenting After Divorce

Food Science

Catherine Lee
The Role of Salivary Proteins and Diminished Lubricity in the Mechanism of Astringency

Germanic Studies

Anne B. Wallen
The Philosophic Game: Masquerade in 18th Century Danish and German Culture

History

Philip Grace
Providers and Educators:
The Theory and Practice of Fatherhood in Late Medieval Basel (1475-1529)

Ireen Mudeka
The Birth of Umodzi: 
A Gendered Social History of Nyasa Women and Foreign Migration to Southern Rhodesia; 1940-1980

Tsung-Yi Pan
Constructing Tiananmen Square as a Realm of Memory:
National Salvation, Revolutionary Tradition and Political Modernity in Twentieth-century China

Linguistics

Sara Schmelzer Loss
Iron Range English Reflexives

Materials Science & Engineering

Brad Jones
Nanoporous Materials and Nanostructured Composites from Polymeric Bicontinuous Microemulsions

Mathematics

Walter Rusin
On Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations in Critical Spaces

Mechanical Engineering

Adam Boies
Study of Photoinduced Chemical Vapor Deposition Coating of Nanoparticles

Vishard Ragoonanan
Mechanisms and Modeling of Dehydration-induced Damage to the Cell Membrane

Nicholas Stanley
The Fate of Airborne Nanoparticles Released From a Leak in a Nanoparticle Production Process Into a Simulated Workplace Environment

Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology

Frank Cichocki
Mechanisms of Epigenetic Regulation of Killer Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor Expression in Developing Human Natural Killer Cells

Michael Weinreich
PLZF+ Cells Regulate the Development of Memory-like CD8 T Cells

Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology & Genetics

Yu-Yun Chang
Regulation of Atg1/Atg13 Function by TOR and PKA Signaling in Drosophila

Saravanapriah Nadarajan
On the Control of Oocyte Growth

Kristyn E. VanderWaal
The I1 Dynein Intermediate Chain IC138 Is Required for a Normal Flagellar Beat Pattern and Photoresponse in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii

Natural Resources Science & Management

Jonathan Slaght
Blakiston’s Fish Owls in Russia: Conservation of the World’s Largest Owl

Neuroscience

Aaron Overland
Mechanism and Utility of Spinal Adrenergic-opioid Analgesic Synergy

Marc Parent
Glutamatergic Neurotransmission in the Prefrontal Cortex Is Altered Differentially Following Acute and Prolonged Stress

Physics

Xi Chen
Spin Transport Theory and Applications

Burak Himmetoglu
Vector Fields During Cosmic Inflation:
Stability Analysis and Phenomenological Signatures

Ji Li
Laser Spectroscopy of Protein Interactions in Cardiac Calcium Regulation

Shun Wang
Investigating the Orientational Order in Liquid Crystals

Plant Pathology

John C. Bienapfl
Fusarium and Phytophthora Species Associated With Root Rot of Soybean (Glycine Max)

Political Science

Logan Dancey
Restoring Congressional Integrity:
Legislative Responsiveness to Citizens' Process Concerns

Mark Hoffman
Rethinking the Politics of Immigration:
Colonial Governance in the New World Order

Psychology

Grace Deason
The Psychological and Socio-Political Consequences of Maternal Appeals in Politics

Rehabilitation Science

Michael Borich
Enhancement of Learning: Does Sleep Benefit Motor Skill Memory Consolidation?

Sociology

Jin Woong Kang
Understanding the Dynamics of State Power in North Korea: Post-War Militant Nationalism and People's Everyday Lives

Rachael B. Kulick
Giving Birth at Home in the United States and the Netherlands

Water Resources Science

Beth Holbrook
Spatial Variability of Zooplankton-fish Interactions in Freshwater Lake Ecosystems

 

 

 

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