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Past Symposia Winners
2007 URS Winners
2007 URS Winners 
Physical Sciences
1st place:
Annie Velarde
Comparison of Different Genes Expressed Using Human and Chicken Cell Lines.
2nd place:
Arthur Hong, Mariana Gomez, Vladimir Dmitriyev, Azhar Kothawala
Brain circuitry activated by conditioned turning in the rat.
3rd place :
Christine Toh
Progress towards the total synthesis of the Penarolid sulfate A1.
Social Science/Humanities/Business Practices
1st place:
Kristina Davis
Empowering Health Workers: Impact of becoming a peer group leader for HIV prevention in Malawi.
2nd place:
Dariusz Barwacz
No Title.
3rd place:
Brendan Green
The Role of Groups and Individuals in Error Detection : Are Two Heads Really Better Than One.
Life & Health Sciences
1st place (Tie):
Auratip Paramadilok
The Effects of Neonatal Oxytocin Treatment on Estrogen Receptor alpha and Estrogen Sensitivity in Adult Female Rats.
Ravi Garg
The alpha2delta Protein Complex.
2nd place:
Tiffany Yau
Understanding gluatamate racemase from B. anthracis: a site-directed mutagenesis study.
3rd place:
Joseph Sennello
Transplantation of Wild-Type White Adipose Tissue Normalized Metabolic, Immune and Inflammatory Alterations in Leptin-Deficient Ob/Ob Mice.
2006 URS Winners
Physical Sciences
1st place:
Jerome Crocco
Automated Wafer Polishing of GaSb and CdZnTe for Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Thin Films.
2nd place:
Neelima Vidula, Nadia Halim, Jessy Moinnes
Ultrasound Accelerated Tissue Engineering Process for Bone Restoration, Monitored by Microscopic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
3rd place (Tie):
Christine Toh
Are Four Nitrogen Atoms Better than Two? A New Approach to the Formation of Alkylidenecarbenes.
Hwan Keun Kim
Comparison of Nitrate and Nitrite Levels in Perfusates of Different Regions in Rat Brain using in Vivo Low Flow Push-Pull Perfusion Sampling to Determine Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS) Activity in Cerebral Tissues.
Humanities & Social Sciences
1st place:
Heidi Beebe
Groups Outperform Individuals When Systems Malfunction.
2nd place:
Debra Ng
Native Language Use when Learning English: Beneficial or Detrimental to English Acquisition?.
3rd place:
Barbara Oudekerk
Jurors' Perceptions of Infanticide: Mother vs. Father Perpetrators.
Life & Health Sciences
1st place (Tie):
Julia Adamiak
Transcription Factor NF-Y-A5-B9-C9 are components of light and hormone signaling machinery in Arabidopsis.
William Chiang
Correlating Effects of Cerebrospinal Fluid Stroke Volume on Brain Ventricle Size.
2nd place:
William Billich
The Effects of Urokinase Plasminogen Activator on the Maturation of Bone Marrow Macrophages.
3rd place:
Nguwah Tun
Studying a Podospora Prion in Yeast.
2005 URS Winners
Physical Sciences
1st place:
Daniel Murauski, Matthew Musielak, Hacer Cesur
The Development of a 3-D Bilayer Flow System.
2nd place (Tie):
Christine Toh
Development of an Undergraduate Organic Laboratory Module:
Solid Phase synthesis of Zingerone: Rheosmin.
Martina Fialova, Betsy Thevalakara, David Weed, Lukasz Zientara
Special Designs for Independence.
3rd place:
Brian Appavu
The Crystal Structure of Trypariosoma brucei Phosphoglucose Isomerase at 1.2 angstroms Resolution.
Humanities & Social Sciences
1st place:
Justin Oesterreich
Redundant Instrument Failure in a simulated Human-Machine Interferance.
2nd place:
Joanna Paul, Gonzalo Escobar
Monetary Policy in Context: Trends and Implications.
3rd place:
Michelle Dorich
The Design Fluency Task: A Non-verbal Fluency Measure of Frontal Lobe Dysfunction.
Life & Health Sciences
1st place:
Linda Butts
Voluntary limits of stability do not define the limits of COP displacement in quiet standing.
2nd place:
S. Upadhyay, J. Yeh
CCAAT-Box Binding Proteins: Components of the BLF-System.
3rd place:
Nan Sethakorn
Pole of Microphthalmia associated transcription in melanoma differentiation.
2004 URS Winners
Physical Sciences
1st place:
Matthew Conley
Lewis Acid and Bronsted Base Acceleration of the Pd-catalyzed [4+2] cross enzannulation reaction.
2nd place:
Janet Cruz, Nick Gierut, & Derek Schulze
Design and Fabrication of a multichannel neurotrophic electrode.
3rd place (Tie):
Brian Appavu
Crystallization of S. cerevisiae phosphomannose isomerase.
Michael Johnson
Seasonal variability of atmospheric deposition in the Chciagoland area: causes and consequences.
Humanities
1st place:
Lesley Skousen-Chio
Elizabeth I of England and Capital Punishment.
2nd place:
Joseph Cherry
Queen Elizabeth I and the origins of the Plymouth Colony.
3rd place:
Tiosha Goss & Anna Baccellieri
The significance of the Women's Movement reflected today by feminist ideologies.
Life & Health Sciences
1st place:
Sonia Krishman
Regulation of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH)-mediated pituitary cell hyperplasia and tumor formation.
2nd place:
Sushma Surapaneni
The effect of Posture on Cerebral Venous Drainage in Healthy Subjects.
3rd place:
Betty Yang
Polyglycolic Acid Coatings to improve cortical electrode impantability.
2001 URS Winners
Life Sciences
1st place:
Adina Stoia
2nd place:
John Allen
3rd place:
Abraham Groner
Physical Sciences and Engineering
1st place:
Ananya Gangopadhyaya
2nd place:
Rishi Garg
3rd place:
Yasha Kadkhodayan
Social Sciences
1st place:
Reema Kapur
2nd place (Tie):
Kerry Dohm
Julie Kim
Social Sciences and Humanities
1st place:
Ananda Fine
2nd place (Tie):
Jennifer Calderon
Suzanna Hernandez
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