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Newcomb Grants Awarded to Students
Spring 2015
Independent Research Grants
Marissa Beam
Majors: Chemical Engineering; Music
Research project: Effects of Molecular Architecture on the Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers in Thin
Films.
Lilas Armstrong Davies
Major: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research project: The Cultural Diffusion of Zulu: A journey from Southern Africa to New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Radhika Josi
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Research project: Macrophage-mast cell interactions in early artherosclerosis.
Alicia Meyer
Major: Cell & Molecular Biology
Research project: Mechanisms of Alternative Splicing of the HER2 Breast Oncogene in Aggressive Breast
Cancer.
Nicole Moody
Majors: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Neuroscience
Research project: Relative Influence of Individual and Environmental Factors on Condition in Two
Species of Fairywren.
Marie Jeannine Piccione
Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research project: Effects of Parental Care on Chick Mortality in Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis)
Jamie Rosenberg
Major: Environmental Biology
Research project: Species Tree for Anolis cryptolimifrons Using Sanger and Next-Generation Sequencing.
Anne Russell
Majors: Environmental Biology; English
Research project: Phenology and Gene Flow: Does the Spatial Distribution of Flowering Trees Influence
Pollen Dispersal Distance?
Mikayla Stern-Ellis
Majors: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Anthropology
Research project: Implementing a Primate Conservation Education Program for Costa Rican Students at
Santa Rosa National Park.
Hannah Wilson
Major: Environmental Biology
Research project: Does the Northern and Wattles Jacana Hybrid Zone Occur within an Ecotone?
Abigail Yesso
Major: Public Health
Research project: Cyto- and Geno-toxicity of Selected E-cigarette Flavorings.
Gina Grace Zwicky
Major: Environmental Biology
Research project: Investigating Character Displacement of Vocalizations in a Hybrid Zone between
Jacana spinosa and Jacana jacana.
Conference Attendance and Presentation Grants
Alexandra Carmen
Major: Chemistry
Funding to attend 41st Annual National Convention for National Society of Black Engineers
Samia Lalani
Major: Psychology
Funding to present poster “Sex Differences in the Role of Criminal Behavior in Predicting Violent Injury”
at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies conference.
Sarah Lohmeier
Majors: Computer Science; Cell & Molecular Biology
Funding to attend Write/Speak/Code 2015 International Conference for Women Software Developers.
M’Bilia Meekers
Major: English
Funding to present work at the Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, annual
convention.
Michele Naideck
Major: Dance
Funding to attend Franklin Method workshop.
Supriya Nair
Department of English
Support for programming associated with the Caribbean Studies Association Conference.
Lauren Wethers
Major: English
Funding to present work at the Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, annual
convention.
Lily Wood
Majors: Dance; Cell & Molecular Biology
Funding to attend Franklin Method workshop.
Micaela Woskie
Majors: Dance
Funding to attend Franklin Method workshop.
Newcomb Grants awarded to Faculty
Spring 2015
Nicole Gasparini
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Exploring post-fire surface processes in a central Colorado watershed.
Megan Holt
Department of English
Funding to attend the Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, annual convention with
two undergraduate students.
Jane Mathieu
Department of Music
Gender, Liberty, Citizenship, and Song, 1905-1920.
Elisabeth McMahon
Department of History
“It Takes a Village”: Controlling and Developing African Societies through Western Conceptions of the
Village.
Jose Emmanuel Raymundo
Department of Communication
Brodber’s Celestial Ethnography and Kincaid’s Realist Autobiography.
Beretta Smith-Shomade
Department of Communication
Jesus and Hennessey Go Good Together: the Black Mediated Sacred.
Caroline Taylor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The Effects of Oil on Blue Crab (Callinectes Sapidus) Embryos.
Jacqueline Taylor
School of Architecture
Support for campus visit from historian Richard Guy Wilson.
Teresa Villa-Ignacio
Department of English
Poethical Import: Translationships in Contemporary French-American Poetic Exchange, 1961-2010, and
Sounding Translation podcast series.