Stetson Undergraduate Research Experience

SURE Scholars since the inception of the program:

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."

Frueauff 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"

Frueauff 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"

Frueauff 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

Frueauff 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 Award Winners

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 Award Winners

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 Award Winners:

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 Award Winners

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 Award Winners

• 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 Award Winners:

• 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 Award Winners:

• 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.