Summer Research Grants
Eleven undergraduate students have been awarded University Scholars Summer Funding Grants to pursue research in a variety of academic fields, and five Benjamin Franklin Scholars have received BFS Summer Research Funding for their independent research projects.
University Scholars
- Lucy MacGillis '00, Italian Inquiry II: studies in painting in Montecasatello, Italy.
- Andrew March '00, directed readings in the history of political thought.
- Beatrice Jauregui '00 and Tara McGuinness '00, Multiculturalism and conflict in South Asia: an examination of spanning group boundaries and negotiation personal identities.
- Tania Treis '01, Evolution of mutation rates: a proposal to study changing mutation rates in experimental populations of Escherichia coli.
- Eric Yecies '00, Prion genes in drosophila and the chaperones that modulate them.
- Arey Weinstein '01, Toward a theory of language without formal predicates.
- Alex Marin-Spiotta '01, Social interactions and the significance of play among cebus capuchin in the wild.
- Andrew Avarbock '01, Characterization of the Rel protein in Mtb.
- Sofya Malamud '01, Building a corpus of spoken Russian.
- Neil Chatterjee '01, "Wired Awake" digital film.
Benjamin Franklin Scholars
- Asgeir Sigfusson '01, Role of smaller nations in international politics.
- Lincoln Ellis '03, Volunteer dig staff at Chichen Itza.
- Nicholas McDermott '02, Growth economics: the effects of government policies on the hidden economy--and the hidden economy's effects on the growth of the economy as a whole.
- Corey Brooks '03, researching with Beth Wenger for her new book on the invention of American Jewish heritage.
- Jasmine Park '01, Ariadne and Dorothea, a study of the debate in 19th century British literature between narrative and representation.
Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 1, July 18, 2000