2013 Awards of Excellence
Winner/Class | Major | Faculty Adviser | Title of Presentation |
Parents Association Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 26, 2013 | |||
Maria Aiello, Senior | Sociology and Justice Studies Justice Studies Psychology | Victoria Banyard | Survivors' Voices on Prevention View Poster |
| Lauren Banker, Senior | Anthropology and Women's Studies | Svetlana Peshkova | Mi Método, Mi Elección: A Comparative Look at Birth Control Access in Chile and the United States of America View Presentation |
| Neil Baroody, Senior | Kinesiology | Tim Quinn | The Effect of a Barefoot Running Training Program on Running Economy and Performance |
| Casey Benner, Sophomore Nadine Maliakkal, Sophomore Shannon Zimmerman, Sophomore | Psychology and Justice Studies Psychology Psychology | Ellen Cohn | When Does Rule Violating Behavior Affect Peer Delinquency? Differences Between Middle School and High School Boys and Girls View Poster |
| Hilary Bird, Senior | Senior | Lawrence Prelli | A Dramatistic Approach to Understanding the Rhetorical Influence of Taxi Driver |
Andrew Blake, Senior | Neuroscience and Behavior | Robert Mair | Memory-Coding Properties of Prefrontal Cortical Neurons in the Rat |
Catherine Bousquet, Senior | Psychology | Ellen Cohn | All Stressed Out; The Effects of Stress, Depression and Self-Control on Adolescent Delinquency View Presentation |
| Christopher Brown, Senior | English Literature | Sandhya Shetty | Signifying Slowly: Defamiliarization and Interrupting Tempo in Amit Chadhuri's, A Strange and Sublime Address View Paper |
| Allison Casey, Senior | Economics and International Affairs | Karen Conway | The Effect of Affluence on Low-Income Student Test Scores |
| Joseph Cenney, Senior | Political Science | Lawrence Reardon | Macau: The New World Leader in Gambling View Poster |
| Jonathan Constable, Junior | English Teaching | Monica Chiu | Family Matters: History and Heritage in Graphic Form View Presentation |
| Melissa Copeland, Junior | Psychology and Women's Studies | Victoria Banyard | The Impact of Sexual Violence on Women's Transition to College View Presentation |
| Sarah Dobush, Senior | Psychology | Edward Lemay | Anger Proneness, Hostility, and Commitment in Intimate Relationships |
| Kayla Doyle, Senior | Communication | Kevin Healy | Religion, Spirituality, and So You Think You Can Dance |
| Evelyn French, Junior | Anthropology | Eleanor Harrison-Buck | Maya Calendar and the End of the World View Presentation |
| Elizabeth Griffith, Senior | Communication and Women's Studies | Joelle Ryan | Interning at the President’s Commission on the Status of Women |
| Casey Hagelin, Senior | International Affairs and Spanish | Mary Wallace | Costa Rica: An Emigration Anomaly |
| Casey Hagelin, Senior | International Affairs and Spanish | John Chaston | To Be or Not To Be: An Analysis of the Spanish Verb ‘to be’ with Adjectives |
| Daniel Hagenbuch, Senior | Spanish and Biology | John Chaston | The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice: Mastering Spanish Grammar for Confident.... or Maybe Just Okay Communication View Presentation |
Nathaniel Hathorn, Senior | Political Science | Lawrence Reardon | The Raging Dragon: Exports, FDI, and China's Electronic Sector View Presentation |
| Curtis Hines, Junior | English | Monica Chiu | Form and Function in Layman and Guillory's Chew |
| Katherine Juster, Junior | English and Theatre | Monica Chiu | Comedy in War Film View Presentation |
| Alexander Lamothe, Senior | Family Studies and International Affairs | Erin Sharp | Renewing promise: An Analysis of the Effects of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports in New Hampshire High Schools View Presentation |
| Anna Lornitzo, Senior | Anthropology | Svetlana Peshkova | The Tyranny of American Capitalism and a Western Tradition of Justice |
Patrick Marvin, Senior | Political Science and Justice Studies | Lionel Ingram | Possible Outcomes of the Current Situation in Egypt |
Christie Mastriano, Senior | Nutrition | Jesse Morrell | Multivitamin/Mineral Usage, Body Mass Index, and Exercise Among College Students |
| Molly McCahan, Senior | Ecogastronomy and Music Theory | Burt Feintuch | Permaculture: Principles, Beliefs, and Values View Presentation |
| Jenna McCarthy, Senior | Nursing | Gene Harkless | The Relationship Between Psychosocial Challenges and Pediatric Voiding Dysfunction View Poster |
| Caitlin McCarthy, Junior | Biomedical Science | David Townson | Characterization of Cellular FLICE Inhibitory Protein (c-FLIP) in Cells of Human Cervical Cancer View Poster |
Patrick McManus, Senior | Political Science | Stacy VanDeveer | Implementation of Renewable Energy in Developing Countries |
| Brian McConnell, Senior Brendan Nichols, Junior | Chemical Engineering | Ihab Farag | Kinetics of the Lipid Extraction From Microalgae View Poster |
| Amanda Mead, Senior Rebeka Walker, Sophomore | Psychology | Katie Edwards | The Thin Ideal: Media and How it Relates to Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Behaviors in College Women View Poster |
| Hilary Miller, Senior | Chemistry and Spanish | John Chaston | Spanish Mood Selection: Probablemente Subjunctive, Posiblemente Indicative View Presentation |
| Brian O'Connor, Senior | Political Science | Lawrence Reardon | Chinese Economic and Political Control of Tibet |
| Olivia O'Hara, Senior | Health Management and Policy | Robert McGrath | Assessing the Value of Program Relationships with Alumni View Presentation |
| Danielle Olean, Senior | International Affairs and Communication | Sheila McNamee | Because I Said So: Constructing Identities in Argentina's Dirty War |
| Tegan O'Neill, Junior | Political Science | Lawrence Reardon | ASEAN and the East Asian Countries View Presentation |
| Alexander Parkes, Senior | Political Science | Susan Siggelakis | Ethnicity and Hungary View Presentation |
| Jillian Price, Senior | Anthropology and History | Meghan Howey | Archaeology of Preparedness: Excavating UNH's World War I Training Camp |
| Alli Puchlopek, Senior | Sociology | Rebecca Glauber | Rape Myth Acceptance and Bystander Attitudes on Campus: Understanding Students' Perceptions of Sexual Assault View Presentation |
| Elizabeth Resnick, Senior | Political Science | Mary Malone | The Washington Consensus: Neoliberalism in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil |
| Dana Roach, Junior | English | Siobhan Senier | Occupy Wikipedia, Part I: Increasing Female Authorship and Representation |
| Alexander Rocke | Biomedical Science | Thomas Pistole | Investigation of Hospital Mortality Through Data Mining |
| Andrew Schafer, Junior | Political Science and International Affairs | Lawrence Reardon | The Failure of Economic Sanctions on Preventing the Continuation of North Korea’s Nuclear Program View Presentation |
| Trisha Schuman, Senior | International Affairs and Linguistics | Molly Wallace | Indigenismo: Lexical Borrowings into Peruvian Spanish |
| Ashley Silva, Senior | Nursing | Gene Harkless | Caregiving for Childhood Illness in Dominican Republic Bateys |
| Charlotte Slate, Junior | Kinesiology | Dain LaRoche | High Body Weight Influences Functional Mobility in Older Adults View Presentation |
| Sawyer Theriault, Senior | English | Reginald Wilburn | Reality and Misperception of Self-Value: August Wilson's Use of Dramatic Plot Structure View Paper |
| Sawyer Theriault, Senior | English | Brigitte Bailey | From Thoreau to Muir: The Birth and Progress of American Environmental Thought View Presentation |
| Zachary Towle, Senior | Political Science and Justice Studies | Lionel Ingram | The United States of Empire? |
| Leah Tully, Junior Christie Mastriano, Senior | Nutrition | Gene Harkless | Multivitamin/Mineral Usage, MyPlate Adherence and Diet Quality Among College Students |
| Zachary Turgeon, Junior | English, Philosophy and Political Science | Sandhya Shetty | MEND and MOSOP: Civil Conflict in the Niger Delta |
| Emily Varnese, Junior | Communication | Jessica Robles | Sex and Morality, and Its Implications for College View Presentation |
| Stephanie Weiner, Senior | Political Science and International Affairs | Molly Wallace | Nonviolence and Democratic Process: Transition in Post-Junta Argentina |
| Brittany Zorn, Senior | Women's Studies and Psychology | Reginald Wilburn | Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Spirit of Discovery: An Examination of the Development of Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing Skills in University Students |
| Ethnic Studies Awards for "Scholarly Innovations and Risk Taking" | |||
| Thomas Lusted, Junior | English/Journalism | Siobhan Senier | Bringing Native Musicians Online View Presentation |
| Amanda Weissgerber, Senior | English | Siobhan Senier | Trace DeMeyer: Indigenous Online Journalist/Publisher/Memoirist View Presentation |
| Phi Betta Kappa Research URC Award | |||
| Tegan O'Neill, Junior | Political Science | Alynna Lyon | Regional Political Integration in Southeast Asia and Natural Disasters |
| Center for International Education URC Awards | |||
| Michelle Chase, Senior | International Affairs and Biology | Molly Wallace | All for a Bowl of Soup: A Study of the Illegal Shark Fin Trade in Costa Rica View Presentation |
| Robyn Keriazes, Senior | Internation Affairs and English/Journalism | Molly Wallace | Serious Leisure: The Impact of Tourism on Indigenous Communities of Peru |
| Nolan Russell, Senior | International Affairs and German | Molly Wallace | Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite: French Identity and the Construction of National History |
| UNH-Manchester URC Oral Presentation Award Winner | |||
| Olivia Marchioni, Freshman | Business | John Resch | Teenagers: 1950's View Presentation |
| UNH-Manchester URC Humanities and Social Science Posters Award Winner | |||
| Thomas Rhoades, Freshman | History | John Cerullo | The Irish Troubles |
| UNH-Manchester URC Engineering Technology Senior Project Award Winner | |||
| Steve Vautour, Senior | Mechanical Engineering Technology | Paul Ricketts | Velcro USA Napping System |
| UNH-Manchester URC Communication Arts Award Winner | |||
| Matthew Gillespie, Senior | Communication Arts | Anthony Tenczar | Little Red Heart |
| UNH-Manchester URC Science and Technology Posters Award Winner | |||
| Ryan Gardner, Senior | Biological Sciences | Stephen Pugh | Analysis of Bear Pond |
| UNH-Manchester URC Biological Sciences Award Winner | |||
| Stephen Gibson, Senior Scott Webster, Junior | Biological Sciences | Patricia Halpin | The Killer That Doesn't Kill: HIV on the Immune System |
| Thompson School of Applied Sciences - Community Leadership Program | |||
| Nicholas Lanzer, Freshman | Forest Technology | Michael Simmons | The Effect of Crown Thinning on Residual Stand Growth: a Dendroecological Approach |
| Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Symposium | |||
| Nathan Alix, Senior | Electrical Engineering | Michael Carter | RFID Fish View Poster |
| Zachary Angelini, Junior Alyson Packher, Junior | Environmental Engineering | James Malley | Oxidation and Biofiltration to Remove Low Levels of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products From Water Supplies |
Brittany Artale, Junior | Chemical Engineering | Adam St. Jean | Adhesion of Rolling Cancer Cells to E-Selectin Along the Interior of a Microchanne |
| Joshua Chabot, Senior Michael Johnson, Senior Joseph Kelley, Senior | Mechanical Engineering | May-Win Thein | NASA Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) Mission TableSat 1C |
| Giorgio Chikhradze, Senior Ian Dorsey, Senior Joseph Miller, Senior | Information Technology | Scott Kitterman | Pv6 to IPv4 Translation |
| Stephen Eustis, Senior Americo Santamaria, Senior Benjamin Sawyer, Senior Michael Spencer, Senior | Civil Engineering | Raymond Cook | UNH A-Lot Parking Garage View Poster |
| Kelsey Packard, Senior | Geology | Joel Johnson | Reconstructing the History of Natural and Anthropogenic Sediment Inputs Behind the Former Head-of-tide Dam in the Bellamy River, Dover, NH |
| Samantha Sinclair, Senior | Computer Science Mechanical Engineering | May-Win Thein | UNH Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle |
| Jeremiah van Baren | Physics | Karsten Pohl | Investigation of Pentacene Derivatives on Au(788) by Auger Electron Spectroscopy |
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