SURE Scholars

SURE Grants 2010-2011

Anders Brent, Justice and Morality in Homer and Hesiod
Rachel Chappell, Excavation of the Roman Fort at Binchester, Roman England
Katarina Ellich, Parental Perceptions of Navigating the System: Getting a Diagnosis and Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorders
Maria Harper, Footstrike Hemolysis and Athletic Anemia in Barefoot Versus Shod Runners
Lacey Lux, A Fluorescence Spectroscopic Investigation of Bisphenol A Binding to Yeast Alcohol Dehydrogenase
Jillian Masucci, The "Oracle of Omaha"
Dane Moran, The Effect of Voluntary Exercise on CB1 Receptor Expression and Activity in the Adolescent Mouse Brain
Rebecca Panayiotou,European Culture and Its Influence on Classical Music: A Focused Study on the Works of Mozart, Bach and Laio
Suzanne Reffel, Playing the Fool: An Analysis of the Fool Figure in the Works of Shakespeare and Lope de Vega
Timothy Roberts, Development of DNA Primers for the Florida Endemic Freshwater Snail Genus Floridobia

SURE Grants 2009-2010

Jacqueline Faulk, Society, Nature and Liberation in Mrs. Dalloway
Courtney Gardner, Determination of Seed Paternity to Evaluate Reproductive Fitness in Passiflora incarnata Using DNA Microsatellites
Jacob Geri, Copper I Thiophene Complexes: An Exploration of Possible Binding Modes and the Effect of Auxiliary Ligand Basicity on Copper-Thiophene Bond Strength
Christine Jacobson, The impact of media policies and practices under former President Vladimir Putin and President Dmitri Medvedev on the dissemination of news in Russia
Cailin Kellman, The effect of diet and survivorship of the springsnail Floridobia floridana in the laboratory
Abigail LeMay, The American Way: Depictions of Masculinity and Heavy Drinking in Film
Caitlin Peterson, Ecotypic variation in stomatal characteristics of Eriophorum vaginatum
Christopher Riley, The Effect of Stimulation of the Central Amygdala on Taste Reactivity in Rats
Natalie Sante, Dixie Lodge: Mental Illness in Self and Society
Jenna Siladie, Living Lieder: A Classical Singer's Journey into the Development and Performance of German Lieder
G. Nathan Stang, Missa brevis
Jon Van Hoff, Concatenative Synthesis
Kristen Warren, Inclusion and Exclusion among State Prison Correctional Officers: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Gendered Workplaces
Matthew Wozniak, Using fuzzy logic systems to improve Internet connections over wireless networks

2009 SURE Scholars

Tyce Herman - The Role of Isolated HSP 70 in Protein Disaggregation
Ashli Simone - Investigating the Binding of Ethylene to Copper Centers of Ethylene Receptor Proteins
Ryan Napier - Strawberry Fields Forever - Plant City Stories
Sarah Witosky - The Effects of Personality Characteristics on Decision Time and Confidence During a Discrimination Task
Laura Loveday - The Rhetoric of the Beecher Family as Exigence Towards the Women'sSuffrage Movement in the 19^th Century
Mark Lowry - A Study of Language in Russian Preschoolers in Order to Evaluate the Acquisition of Grammar
Michael Quackenbush - Anuran Distress Calls - Testing the Predator Attraction Hypothesis
Rebecca Levine - Understanding the Beneficial Aspects of Dietary Curcumin in Reducing the Incidence and SeverityofAlzheimer's Disease
Jason Rickner - "Our Russia" - Tracking the Evolution of Political Attitudes Among Russian Youth
Jessica Pauszek - Women's Rhetoric in Political Speece - The First ladies of America Speak Out
Marina Buryak - In Search of a Greater Understanding of Atomic Theory and Molecular Orbits
Katherine Smith - Nursing Home Administrative Techniques in the Context of National Health Systems
Sarah Holland - Chasing Perfection - American Ideals of Beauty as Communicated in Young Women's Magazines

2008 SURE Scholars

Isa Adney - Wearing the Scarlet Letter on the Red Carpet - The Influence of Media Portrayals of Celebrity Women on American Standards for Womanhood
Peter Dzuba - Using Data Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms to Locate Arbitrage Opportunities in Security Markets
Sarah Edwards - The Millennial Generation -Emerging Trends in Student Civic Engagement and the Effects on Consumer Trends
Jana Fisher - Music as an Enhancement for Film
Jacqueline Matias - Factors Influencing the Artistic Portrayal of the Nude - The Correlation Between Political Identification, Sexual Identification, Ethnicity, Religiosity, and the Appreciation of Art
Ryan Napier - The Counterforce - Pynchon and Gravity's Rainbow as Outsider
Brittany Pugh - Pulse of a Village - The Social and Economic effects of Malaria on the Manic Village, Tanzania
Rachel Pusateri - Considering Contemporary Art from Africa in the United States - A Critical look at U.S. Media Coverage of Exhibitions of Contemporary Art from Africa
Michael Simpson - On Mathematical Explanation - Mathematics and the Theory of Why-Questions
Carolyn Themel - The Oakdale Cemetery Project
Henry Toland - Illustrating the History of My Grandfather and Those Like Him - An Oral History of a Russian Soldier in World War Two
Megan Woodall - Africana Music in Tanzania - Its Influence on Black Music in the Community
Jessica Tokarz - Use of Mitochondrial DNA to Estimate Divergence Times for Populations of the Springsnail Floridobia floridana from Central Florida
Ishabel Vicaria - Hemispheric Differences in Identifying Emotionally Expressive Body Movement"

2007 SURE Scholars

Palm Beach Community Trust Scholars

Jessica Auer - "Gender and Transitional Authority - Women in Senior Administrative Positions in the Russian Bureaucracy"
R. Clint Bentley - "Boulders Fall to Each - A Study of the Border Conflict Between the United States of America and Mexico"
Monica Brewer - "The Saint Anthony Panels of the Isenheim Altarpiece - A Tour de Force in Comic Relief"
William Collum - "Mouthpiece for the Constituency - Testing the Assertion fo a 'Rubber-Stamp' 109th Congress"
Megan England - "The Online Graphical Community as a Potential Interface for Interactive Music Performance"
Michael Hodges - "Anne Bradstreet and Pre-Transcendentalism"
Ryan Lynch - "September 11th - Myth Reality, and the Unknown"
Shauna Maragh - "Impact of Western Portrayal of Japanese Geishas in Arthur Golden's Historical Novel, Memoirs of a Geisha"
Rebekah Schlottman - "Shakespeare's Depiction of Moral and Political Power in his Second Tetralogy"
Mindi Seeman - "Understanding the Burial Practices of the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age on the Greek Mainland"

Frueauff Science Scholars

Jackie Booth - "Geneflow and dispersal of Hesperoperla pacifica among mountain ranges of the Great Basin, Nevada, USA"
Audra Leedy - "Gender variation in an andromonecious plant, passiforla incarnata"
Ashley Morris - "Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Hydrogel Co-Polymers with Potential Applications as Drug Release Vehicles"
Sam Romano - "A Quantative Study of Web Cache Replacement Strategies"

Stetson Scholars

Heather Martyn - "'Not in Our Town -' Public Controversies Over the Presence of Wal-Mart in Florida Communities"
Kevin Ward - "Bringing the Ideas and Compositions of the Northern Renaissance Altarpiece Into the Age of Digital Contemporary Art"

Summer 2006 Grant Recipients -

Palm Beach Community Trust Scholars

Josiah Armes - "The influence of Gregorian plainchant and French Impressionism on the organ music of Maurice Durufle."
Rachel Pusateri - "Inhabiting the Landscape - Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Landscape Paintings."
Joshua Smith - "The Effect of Water Content on Carrion Larval Development."
Erin Helgeson - "Exploring the Study of Flute Performance and Pedagogy - The European Perspective."
Jhaysonn Pathak - "Generative and Interactive Bio-Acoustic Performance using Electroencephalograph and Classical Guitar."
Caroline Peterson - "Analysis of popularity and general attitudes of college-age students toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)."
Cynthia Buenger - "A Study of Students' Perceptions of Politics Within the Classroom and its Political Repercussions."

Frueuaff Science Scholars

Gail Ferek - "Gender Swapping - Examination of the selective advantage of Andromonoecy in Passiflora incarnata under induced herbivory."
Kristyn Talmadge - "The Association of invasive catfish species hoplosternum littorale with various species of vebetabin in Lake Woodruff, FL and nest building."
Derek Alexander - "Exploiting Parallelism in the Cell Broadband Engine."

Summer 2005 Grant Recipients

Palm Beach Community Trust Scholars

Tracy Blake - "Discovering the Ties that Bind - A Historical Analysis of African-American Sororities"
Kelsey Elizabeth Donegan - "Encaustic Painting - A Hybrid of Revival and Experimentation"
Krystal Bedard - "Determining Mutagenicity Caused by the Venom of Dusky Pigmy Rattlesnakes Using the Kado Microsuspension Version of the Ames Salmonella/Microsome Assay"
Ryan Nikolaidis - "An Analysis of Elliott Carter's Double Concerto with regards to Musical time"
Victoria Forth - "A Qualitative Study of Professors' Emotional Labor"
Jana Tripp
Adriene S. Zedick - "The Baha'i Faith and Religious Freedom in the United States - A Case Study of the Greater Orlando Baha'i Center"
Katy C. Lopez - " Analysis of species-specific PCR-based method for identification of the cyanobacterium clyindrospermopsis raciborski"
Stephanie Brown - "A Numbers Game - Analyzing the Influences of Lewis Carroll in the 'Nonsense' of Wonderland"
Lariza Garzon - "Economic Development of Latin American Regions Affected by the Boom Economies of the Colonial Period"

Frueuaff Science Scholars

Lauren Leffler - "The Role of Music Therapy in Alleviating Stress in Hip Surgery Patients"
Ashley Palmer - "Determining the effect of litter on seed-germination and regeneration following a burn in the Florida scrub ecosystem"
Monique Rashid - "The Effects of Familiarity Between Demonstrator and Observer Mice on a Socially Learned Task"

Summer 2004 Grant Recipients

Palm Beach Community Trust Scholars

Jeremy Robins - "An Analysis of Guy Lacour's Quatuor pour Saxophones"
Demaris Del Valle - "Hannah Arendt - A Report on the Banality of Evil"
Jennifer Wilson - "The Emergence of Punk Music as a Necessary and Positive Expression of Social Deviance in Youth Culture"
Dana Schumacher - "Appealing to the Past - Classical Authorities in Titus Andronicus"
Anneliese Winchester - "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Clergy Affected by September 11th"
Maya Arth - "A Qualitative Study of Breastfeeding in Bulgaria - Changes in Women's Perceptions, Attitudes, and Practices Across Three Generations"
Chester Udell - "Interactive Electro-acoustic Performance with Max/ Msp & Electric Trombone"

Frueuaff Science Scholars

Andrew Moedinger - "An Evaluation and Improvement of the Internet Friendly Transport Protocol"
Serena Cox - "An Analysis of Antipredator Behaviors in Small Fish Inhabiting a Florida Spring"

SURE Scholars

Catherine Lahey - "Narrative Theory and the Branding of Colorado Springs Sports Corporation"
Amy Sasscer - "A Case Study of Law School Desegregation and the Power of the Courts - Political Forces and the Theory of Interposition in Florida's Hawkins v. Board of Control"
James Welsch - "The Function of Music in Grecian Religious Ceremony as a Basis for its Incorporation in My Opera 'Helen Retires' an Opera in Two Acts"
Tessa Payne - "The Effect of Paired Visual and Olfactory Stimuli on Spatial Learning and Memory in Rats"

Summer 2003 Grant Recipients

Palm Beach Community Trust Scholars

Martha Garzon - "Woman is of the house and Man is of the Street" - A video explanation of Machismo, religion and gender roles in Latin America
Jonathan Gosnell - Using Magnetic Force Microscopy to Analyze the Magnetic Structure of Fe/Ga As Thin Films
Richard Plavnieks - Latvians and the German Occupation, 1941-45 - Coercion versus Consent in the Reichskommissariat Ostland
Daniel Puchalla - Growth of Dispensationalism in America - World War II to Left Behind
Maya Yankelevich - The study of the correlation between academic motivations, locus of control, level of moral development and cheating

Frueuaff Science Scholars

Alyssa Moody - The Interspecific Social Components of and Effects of Visual and Auditory Stimuli on Passerine Mobbing of Eastern Screech Owls, Ottus asio
Hamish Wilman - Modeling the respons of a Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)population to a fluctuating resource environment - an individual-based simulation approach

SURE Scholars

Colleen Downing - The Vitruvian Home - The Architecture of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
Julianne Farricker - The Citadel - A Farewell to the All-Male Corps of Cadets
John Mills - Political Theology - Experience and Research

Summer 2002 Grant Recipients

Palm Beach Community Trust Scholars

Melissa Shaddix - "A Bakhtinian approach to Mark Z. Danielski's House of Leaves"
Kristen Williams - "The consequence of security - the international ripple effect of the interpretation and implementation of the Geneva Convention, as applied by the United States, in the treatment of Taliban and Al0-Qaida detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba"
Michael Crooks - "Determination of mutagenicity of venom from the dusky pygmy rattlesnake, Sisistrurus milarius barbouri, using the Ames Salmonella microsome assay"
Skylar Tharp - "Empathy, Altruism, and Moral Development in Home-Schooled Children."

Frueuaff Science Scholars

Katarzyna Walosik - "The biochemical properties of rattlesnake venom"
Natalie Hooton - "Analysis of the relationship between plant reproductive success and floral gender using allozymic diversity in Passiflora incarnata"

SURE Scholars

Kevin Hale - "Using passive sound source localization to develop and acoustic canvas"
Robert Adam Pridemore - "The construction of a laser Doppler velocimeter, for the purpose of examining the onset of turbulence in fluids"
Betty Palios - "Oakland Terrance Summer Camp - an evaluation of a federally-funded program for underprivileged students"
Patrick Pritchard - "Implementation and analysis of a species-specific PCR for Cylindrospermosis raciborskii"
Valerie Futch - "Facing the future - understanding the direction of feminist and multi-cultural pedagogies"

Summer 2001 Grant Recipients

Palm Beach Community Trust Scholars

Louis Barbieri (Political Science/History) - "A Comparative Study of Gubernatorial Power in Florida"
Matthew Ketchum (Political Science/History) - "Implementing the Dayton Accouds - A Case Study of NATO Peacekeeping"
Jennifer Korody (Biochemistry) - "Characterization of Enzymes in Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnakes Venom, sistrurus miliarius barbouri"
Michael McCombs (American Studies) - "From Girls to Men - Gender Modeling, Deviance, and Military Rehabilitation in a Boot Camp Program for Adolescent Girls"
Erin Elisabeth Toelcke (Music - Piano Performance) - "Prokofiev as a Neoclassicist - A Schenkerian Approach and Analysis"
Jenny Lynne Wills (Communication Studies/Marketing) - "Theories of Rhetoric and the Benefits for Social Marketing - Case Studies at Institutes of Higher Education"

Frueauff Science Scholars

Kelly E. Coller (Biochemistry/Russian Studies) - "A Plate Assay for the Future"
Justin T. Mhoon (Biochemistry/Biology) - "Comparison of Denaturation Techniques on Alkaline Phosphatase and their effects on the Formation of Molten Globules"

SURE Scholars

Michael Chronister (Sociology/American Studies, History) - "Evaluation of the Emergent Norms Regarding the Use of New Technology to Reproduce Copyrighted Materials"
Dana Kellogg Bielinski (Environmental Science) - "An Analysis of Human Disturbance of Vegetation and Water Quality, Lake Disston, Florida"
Jamil Turner(Biology/Business Administration) - "The Role of African American Churches in HIV/AIDS Prevention"
Paul Vogel (Philosophy/History) - "Wittgenstein and Political Discourse"
Jason Croxton (International Business) - "Marketing Diversity - Examining Visual Representations as a Reflection of Actual Population in Popular Print Media"

Summer 2000 Grant Recipients

Palm Beach Community Trust Scholars

Susan Dale (Sociology) - "The Importance of Palaeoethnobotany at Halasmenos"
Luis Maldonado (English) - "The Loss of Language and the Sense of Self - Understanding the Works of Carribean Writer Derek Walcott"
Peyton McCloud (Geography/Sociology and History) - "The I-4 Corridor as an Emerging Megalopolis"
Belkys Torres (English/Spanish) - "Hispanic Women's Perspectives on Immigration - A Comparative Study of 20th Century Cross-Cultural Literature"
James Powell (Biochemistry) - "Alternative Curing Procedures for Dental Restoratives"
Hope Wymer (Physics) - "Using Fast Fourier Transforms in the Analysis of Electron Diffraction Data"

Frueauff Science Scholars

Amy Brenner (Biology/Health Professions Issues) - "Post-Thaw Viability and Colony Forming Potential of Peripheral Blood Stem Cells That Have Been Frozen in 10% DMSO Without Pentastarch, Using a 1 deg. C Freezing Container and -85 deg. storage for Up to Five Years."
Todd Du Bosq (Physics) - "Analyzing Vibrating Objects Using T.V. Holography"

SURE Scholars

Bryan Batchelder (Computer Information Systems) - "Emerging Internet Business Models - The Application Service Provider (ASP)"
Matthew Cazessus (Psychology/Sociology) - "Training with the Rangeers - A Participant Observation Study of an Annual Police Force Training"
Martin Johnson (Computer Information Systems) - "Entrepeneurship in the New New Economy"
Kathryn Koepnick (Biology/Business Administration) - "Dose-Response Analysis of the Effects of Glutamote Microinjection into the Central Medial (CM) Subnucleus of the Parabrochial Nucleus (PBN)"

Summer 1999 Grant Recipients

Frueauff Science Scholars

Joy Bang (Biology) - "Evaluation of Hematologic Recovery and Increased CD34 Cell Dosage in Patients Undergoing Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cell Transplantation"
Stephen Deyrup (Biology/Biochemistry) - "Venom Ontogeny in the Dusky Pigmy Rattlesnake"
Elizabeth Fogleman (Chemistry/Biochemistry) - "An Interferometric Study of Polymerization Shrinkage in Photocurable Dental Resins"
Heather Garten (Mathematics) - "Creating New Ideas in Mathematics Through the Study of Significant Mathematical Theorems"
Heather Wheeler (Biology) - "Environmental Influence on Cyanogenic Glycosides in Passiflora Incarnata and Resulting Herbivore Performance"
Siu Wah Wong (Chemistry/Biochemistry) - "Measuring Chlorophyll Quenching Kinetics Using a Home-Built Fluorescence Apparatus"

SURE Scholars

Dana Bodner (Psychology) - "Reliability and Validity of a Metacognitive Skills Inventory"
Kevin Boyd (Religious Studies/English) - "The Call for Social Justice in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Response of 20th Century Theology"
Diane Holmes Curtice (Philosophy/English) - "Veiled Threats - An Analysis of the Latent Social Trends which Universally Threaten the Human Rights of Modern Women"
Jeff Hamrick (Finace/History) - "Testing the Liquidity Hypothesis" Evidence from the Ownership Structure of Firms and Economic Conditions"
Brian Mistler (Computer Science/Philosophy/French) - "A Unified Definition and Repository for Case Studies in Object Oriented Design"
Kevin Snipes (English/Women and Gender Studies) - "Straight out of Hollywood - Constructing Gay Identity from 1990's Cinema"

Summer 1998 Grant Recipients

Ogerta Dudi (Chemistry) - An Interferometric Study of Curing Kinetics in Epoxy and Photocurable Systems.
Sara Cotner (American Studies) - Learning About the Birds and the Bees - The Construction of a Curriculum in Response to the Controversy Surrounding Sex Education in the United States.
Rebecca Mills (Psychology and Sociology) - Immigration Woes of Mexican Farmworkers - How La Asociacion Campesina Navigates the Legal and Cultural Systems.
James Stock (Physics and Chemistry) - Computational Processing of Kikuchi Electron Diffraction Data.
Russell Triplett (Political Science and Economics) - Legacies of the IMF and World Bank - Historical Critique and Contemporary Analysis.
Amanda York (Physics) - Development of a TV Holography System for Modal Analysis of Musical Instruments.

Summer 1997 Grant Recipients

Suzanne Hartley (American Studies) - Aftermath of the Long Hot Summer - An analysis of how race relations have evolved in St. Augustine, Florida since the pivotal events of 1963-1964.
Amanda Marder (Biology) - Encapsulation and protection of bioactive lysozyme by unilamellar phospholipid vesicles.
Brande Martin (Sociology) - The social organization of market P - The effects of gender, race and ethnicity on work.
Ryan Munden (Physics) - Auger Electron Spectroscopy.
Melissa Page (Chemistry) - Thermal lensing colorimetry of glass-forming liquids.
Julie Siefkas (Biology) - Home range and its relationship to supplementary feeding and sex in the Florida box turtle, Terrapene carolina bauri.

Summer 1996 Grant Recipients

Alex Aycrigg (Biology) - The Function and Adaptive Significance of Frog "Escape" Calls.
Michael Bruning (Psychology) - Gender Differences in Way Finding - Spatial Reasoning vs. Landmark Cues.
Angela Hamel (History) - As Seen from Behind the Veil - The Feminist Literature of Egypt.
Orenda Lyons (Psychology) - Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Glial Cell Formation within the Central Gustatory System of Rats During Development.
Elisabeth Simmons (English) - The Female Police Officer in Detective Fiction.