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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.