Undergraduate/Graduate Awards
- 2018-2019
Fall 2018 Recipient
Major
Project Title Award Undergraduate Eric Dearden Environmental Science Evaluation of Pollutant Removal and Runoff of a Stormwater Biofiltration System $843 Alexandra Lewis Psychology
Parental Smoking History and Decision Making $850 Brandon Nusser
Chemistry Synthesis of Linked Chalcones Nematocides
$850
Alisa Colby
Psychology Investigating the Effects of Diversity Education in White College Students
$600 Graduate
Karen Friese Social Work Cuffed Together: A Study on how Police Work Impacts the Officer's Spouse
$1700 Kirstie Steiner Biology Mutation Mapping to Demystify Sheath Production in Leptothrix cholodnii $1694 Chia Cho Nutrition & Food Science Development and Pilot Testing of a Student Success Survey related to Food Insecurity and Other Basic Need Variables $1700 Hannah Weinberger Geological and Environmental Sciences Plant Recovery Trajectory and Effects of Fire Retardant in the Southwestern Cascades
$1700 - 2017-2018
Summer 2018 Recipient
Major
Project Title Award Undergraduate Dahlia Chavez Biology Potential Hemoglobin Active-Site Binder $2500 Karsten McDonell Biology
An Investigation of Defective Neural Plate Development Genes in Medaku, Oryzias latipes,with the Idiopathic Scoliosis Phenotype $2500 Christina Quigley
Anthropology Anthropology and Music of the Congolese Diaspora in Tanzania
$2500
Andrew King
Electrical Engineering Solar Power Inverter with Variable Frequency and Amplitude for "Upon the Rocks Clinics" in Ozi Abam, Nigeria
$2500
Gavin Monges
Biology Light Variation in the Marine Environment and its Effect on Sea Anemones and their Agal Symbionts
$2500
Graduate
Kevin Click Psychology #news: Truth Detection in News Stories
$4666 Payton Laurie Biology Characterization of Chemokine (C-C motif) Ligand 44 in Hematopoiesis $5000 Richard Vitamanti Geosciences Effects of Additives and Saturation Depth on Nutrient Retention in Urban Stormwater Biofilters $2881 Elizabeth Bianchini Biology Assessing the Potential Risk to Human Health Posed by H7N3 Avian Influenza Viruses
$5000 Spring 2018 Recipient
Major
Project Title Award Undergraduate Bryn Copson Environmental Science Fate of Heavy Metals in Urban Stormwater Biofiltration Systems $832 Ashley Dearden Microbiology
Development of Axenic Sea Anemones: A Vital Tool for Coral-bacteria Symbiosis Research $850 Graduate
Caitlin Bishop Anthropology Finding Closure: Locating the Death Records from Tule Lake Segregation Center
$1700 Rebecca Belmonte Biology The Role of SON in Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia
$1700 Fall 2017 Recipient
Major
Project Title Award Undergraduate Kanako Otani Communication Studies Spread the Anthology of Hiroshima around the U.S $850 Sung Won Yoon Chemistry
Sponges for Decontaminating Water with Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals and Carcinogens $850 Amy Rhoades
Social Work Barriers: Connecting Rural At-risk Students to a Pro-college Culture
$850
Jason Mickel
Physics & Mechanical Engineering Guiding High-energy Pulsed-laser Light Through Hollow Fibers
$850
Graduate
Noel Jones Anthropology Cultural Transmission: Production Centers Cisible in Shell Bead Artifacts
$1700 Tina Hanson Biology Analysis if Novel Inhibitors of the GRB2 SH2 Domain that Decrease Proliferation in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia $1700 Ashlyn Weaver Anthropology The Forgotten Hawaiians of Chico, CA: Anthropological Research About Intercultural Encounters between Native Hawaiians and California Native Americans $1700 Cody Rice Biology Understanding the Genetic Diversity of Darlington californica Population Clusters
$1700 - 2016-2017
Summer 2017 Recipient
Major
Project Title Award Undergraduate Drew Nielsen Biological Sciences Effects of Temperature on Digestion Rates and Gastric Evacuation Time in Striped Bass $2500 Audrey Armstrong Anthropology
Maintaining Community Identity with the Decline of Endogamy of Mashhadi Jews in Israel $2500 Daniel Theobald
English/Spanish Long Forgottem Heroes: Historical Research About the Abraham Lincoln Brigades in New York City
$2500
Graduate
Hannah Metzger Biological Sciences Differential Effects of Bcl-2 Overexpression in Various B-Cell Populations
$3865 Valerie Sgheiza Anthropology Skeletal Assemblages $4360 Allen LaGrange Environmental Science Hydrological and Ecological Indicators for Wet Meadow Restoration: Papoose Meadows, CA $2092 Vanessa Reeves Anthropology An Applied Project in Zooarchaelogy and Field Ecology
$5000 Kristen Broel Anthropology Osteometirc Sorting of Metacarpals and Metatarsals in Comingled Human Skeletal Assemblages
$2980 Payton Laurie Biological Sciences Characterization of Hemopoietic Genes $5000 Spring 2017 Recipient
Major
Project Title Award Undergraduate Chelsea Meddings Environmental Science Efficacy of California Native Drought-tolerant Plants at Heavy Metal Removal from Urban Stormwater in Biofiltration Systems $850 Graduate Hannah Metzger Biology Differential Effects of Bcl-2 Overexpression in Various B Cell Populations
$1696 Fall 2016 Recipient
Major
Project Title Award Undergraduate Joshua Gladfelder Biochemistry Synthesis of GRB2 SH2 Domain Inhibitors: Analogues of Sclerotionin $850 Baylee Russell Microbiology
Inspiring Future Scientists: Developing a Children's Novel for Publication $730 Omar Pulido
Biology Charaterizon of Rapunzel 5 in Blood Formation
$850
David Linville
Anthropology Sacramento Valley Strong
$835
Graduate Renee Margolin Biology Investigating Damage to the Tight Junctions of Intestinal Epithelial Cells by Influenza Virus
$1501 Claire McMahon Anthropology Determining Seasonality and Dates of Occupation at Payne's Cave $1170 Silena Barton Nutrition and Food Science Defining Novel Bookmarkers for Prevention and Early Detectionof Zinc Deficiency $1700 Tamara Maxey Anthropology The Incorporation of World Trade Center Artifacts in Community Memorials: Their Symbolism and Significance
$1678 Sommer Casady Geology Exploration of the Golden Dome Au-Ag-Cu Deposit in Antelope Valley Sierra County, California $1700 - 2015-2016
Summer 2016 Recipient Major Project Title Award Undergraduate Shane Price Psychology Olfactory Modulationof Cortisol in Students $1700 Catherine Benjamin Art Studio
THE DRONE: Opening Up New Spaces $2429 Clara Bergamini
Anthropology & Humanities Stuck in Limbo: Coping with Displacement Among Fukushima's Refugees
$2500 Graduate $5000 Mathew Ryan Bond Anthropology The Rwandan Genocide: Collective Historical Memory and the Skeletal
Analysis of Trauma and Violence
Gina C. Tigri Communication Studies Bystander Intervention as a Community Health Initiative:
Communicating Culture Change for a Safer CSU
$4940 Hannah Metzger Biology Generation of a Model for Lukemia $4865 Candice Sawyer Biology Brood Paratism in Mallards: Are You My Mother?
$5000 Edward Slattery MS Nutritional Sceine Cytokine expression in macrophages and tripple negative breast cancer cells
following sulforaphane exposure in 3-D coculture
$5000 Tonantzin Esquivel Art Breaking Comfort to See Clearly
$4445 Jacques Zenope Peltier Anthropology The Stratigraphy of Crime: Archacological Law
$1082 Fall 2015 Recipient Major Project Title Award Undergraduate Julian Aggio Biology The Effect of B-Estradiol on Blood Development $850 Lindsay Hannan Social Work Hospice Care Among the Hispanic Community: Social and Cultural
Factors Impacting Underutilization
$300 Mai Kue Her Health Education From the Hmong Perspective: Making Healthcare Better $850 Ellen Sampson Biology Utilization of Dimeric Binders to Treat Leukemia $850 Graduate Afshan Ahmad Nutrition Validation of a Visual Analog Scale for Food Addiction $1,700 Anna Bartel Psychological Science Influence of Appearance-Based Trait Inferences on Voting
Behavior and Cued Recall
$995 Emma Clancy Social Work Feasibility Study on a Low-Barries Shelter in Chico
$598 - 2014-2015
Spring 2015 Recipient Major Project Title Award Undergraduate Tucker Hartland Applied Mathematics Tsunami Wave Propogation Over Underwater Obstacles $850 Ravi Shankar Mathematics Derivation of New Conservation Laws for the Euler Equations $850 Graduate Gin Lawson Biology Are Invasive Turtles Eating Native Fish in Hawaii? $1,700 Courtney Silver Biology Vocalization Behaviors of Rana Boylii, the Foothill Yellow-Legged Frog:
a Comparison of Isolated Populations
$1,700 Summer 2015 Recipient Major Project Title Award Undergraduate Julian Aggio Cellular & Molecular Biology/
Biochemistry
Characterization of a Blood-Supportive Stromal Cell Line $2,250 Valery Bessmertnyy/
Keith Taylor
Nursing Depression Among New Graduate Nurses Working on Medical-Surgical
and Intensive Care Units
$1,558 Malory Brown
MicrobiologyStrategies to Assimilate CO2 Beyond the Light by
Metal-Oxidizing Bacteria
$2,400 Danielle Casey Geography & Planning Reimaging the Detroit Landscape $2,250 Stephanie Elliot Cellular & Molecular Biology Assessing the Relatedness of Snow Leopards Using Haplotype Analysis
$1,913 Elizabeth Jachens Civil Engineering Integrated Wastewater Management Within the Lake Titicaca Basin
$2,250 Rachel Moore Studio Art/Art Education Womb and the Wild Self
$2,250 Adrienne Springsteen Anthropology The Daily Lives of African Slaves at Betty's Hope Plantation
$1,800 Veronica Van Cleave Nutrition & Dietetics The ASD Food Activity Lab
$1,850 Graduate Althea Asaro Anthropology Creation of a 3D Database of the Great Blades Archeological Cache $1,180 Holland Larsen MFA Build This Environment $1,628 Ann Medic Environmental Science Solid Waste Management and Wastewater Treatment in Peru $4,755 Katherine Moore Agriculture Education Survey of Current Brewer's Grain Storage Methods and Nutrient
Levels of Northern California Beef and Dairy Producers
$4,000 Jesse Smith Biology Growth Receptor Bound Protein-2 Dysregulation Induces Acute
Myeloid Leukemia
$4,000 Rodney Thomson History Unrest in Rural America: Activists and Activism at Chico State
$3,217 Fall 2014 Recipient Major Project Title Award Philomena Block Musical Theater & Psychology What is Bae: An Exploration of Sexuality and Intimacy in
Today's Collegiate World
$500 Juan Diaz Mechanical Engineering Heat Transfer Rate Optimization for Multi-Stage Compression System $500 Sarah Eggert Cellular & Molecular Biology miR-191 and miR-425 as Regulators of B-Cell Stress Response $500 Jemmae Reddish Nutrition Medical and Nutritional Survey of the Underserved in a Rural Area $500 Ravi Shankar Mathematics Derivation of New Conservation Laws for the Euler Equations $500 - 2013-2014
Spring 2014 Recipient Major Project Title Award Hugh Hammond Music Composition & Recording Arts Musical Torus Sculptures $500 Aithne Loeblich Biological Sciences An Education-based Approach to the Monitoring and Conservation of Bats in Northern California $500 Shane Price Psychology The Hormonal Effect of Emotionally-Relevant Chemosignals $500 Ravi Shankar Chemistry Mathematical Modeling of Tsunami Propagation over Complex Topographies $500 Summer 2014 Recipient Major Project Title Award Gage Alvernaz Cell and Molecular Biology Role of Autophagy during Influenza Virus Infection of Macrophages $2000 Clara Bergamini Anthropology Artistic Expression, Amami Children and Their Non-Human Neighbors $2000 Kelly Gundert Spanish Finding a Voice in Chapala, Mexico $2000 Gregory Hinds Civil Engineering Integrated Wastewater Management in the Lake Atitlan Basin: An Ecological Engineering Challenge $666.67 Elizabeth Jachens Civil Engineering Integrated Wastewater Management in the Lake Atitlan Basin: An Ecological Engineering Challenge $666.66 Eoin Mackall Mathematics Determining the Minor-minimal not Completely Apex Graphs $2000 Kyle Rocha-Brownell Physics and Computer Science Computer Simulation of the Earth's Rotation with Interior Fluid Degrees of Freedom $2000 Juniper Rose Journalism The Effect of Marijuana on Rural Northern California Economies $2000 Ravi Shankar Chemistry Mathematical Modeling of Tsunami Propagation over Complex Topographies $2000 Nicole Smith Biochemistry Antibiotic Discovery From Boiling Springs Lake $2000 Quintin Troester Agriculture Researching Soil Carbon Sequestration, and International Partners in Sustainability $2000 Kelly Vannoy Civil Engineering Integrated Wastewater Management in the Lake Atitlan Basin: An Ecological Engineering Challenge $666.67 Fall 2013 Recipient Major Project Title Award Amie French Agricultural Business Consumer Preference for Locally Grown Pecans $500 Megan Miller Criminal Justice Rehabilitation and Reintegration Through Alternative Custody Supervision $500 Megan Bacchini Criminal Justice Rehabilitation and Reintegration Through Alternative Custody Supervision $500 Shane Price Psychology The Hormonal Effects of Emotionally-relevant Chemosignals in Human Axillary Secretions $500 Amber Rutter Geology Analyzing CO2 Changes in Ancient Fossils $500 - 2012-2013
Spring 2013 Recipient Major Project Title Award Samantha Bailey Psychology The Relationship between Self-esteem and Sexuality $55 Jamie Blankenship Art Studio Past and Present: Digital Techniques and Historic Photographic Processes $500 Tyron Chang Biological Sciences The Timing of Oak Gall Development and Its Significance to the Ecology of the California Gall Wasp $465 Cameron Estes-Clifford Psychology Testing the Hypothesis that Lactobacillus G.G. will Increase Vagal Tone in Humans $500 Andrew Reuther Anthropology Modoc War Documentary $240 Matthew Ritenour Anthropology Modoc War Documentary $240 Kelsea Rossow Anthropology Modoc War Documentary $500 Summer 2013 Recipient Major Project Title Award Joanna Bloese Agriculture Investing Novel Collaborative Glass Blow in Techniques $2000 Madison Garshasebi Psychology The Spontaneous Suppression and Amplification of Emotional Facial Expressions in Different Attachment Styles $2000 Nathan Giordano Cellular & Molecular Biology Infecting Neurons Using Attenuated Lentiviruses $2000 Kris Magri Mechatronic Engineering Development of a Highly Articulated Humanoid Bipedal Robot: A Platform for Robotics Competition and Research $2000 Gregory Panero Art San Pedro, Guatemala: Help Paint My Future $2000 Dillon Rapp Art Attending Frogman's Print Workshop $2000 Mallory Russell Art Haystack Mountain School of Crafts With Sonja Clark $2000 Jonathan Alexander
Fine Art In Search of Cycles in Chiang Mai $2000 Crystal Vasquez Nutrition & Food Science Teaching Health at Every Size® in a Fat Phobic World $2000 Abigail Whittaker Environmental Science Accounting for Agricultural Yield Gaps Through Analysis of Ecosystem Service Provision in a Human-Altered Landscape $2000 Fall 2012 Recipient Major Project Title Award Tony Amato Criminal Justice/Sociology Images and Perceptions of Restorative Justice $500 Alan Braithwaite Computer Engineering FPGA OpenFlow Switch $500 Scott Kirkpatrick Computer Science Improving Models of Protein Interaction Network Evolution $500 Tony Silva Sociology Constructing Sexual Identities in a Shifting Context $500 Crystal Vasquez Nutrition & Food Science Effects of Parental Food Attitudes and Restrictions During Childhood on Young Adult College Students' Eating Behaviors $500 - 2011-2012
Spring 2012 Recipient Major Project Title Award Tyler Ash Journalism Chico Rephotography $456.15 Michael Fitzpatrick Philosophy and English The Critique of Pure Realism $500 Elizabeth Jachens Civil Engineering Find-Scale Atmospheric Gravity Waves $500 Heidi Rogers Environmental Science Moths in a Changing Climate $500 Shannon Primer and Amber Smith
Nursing Breastfeeding Support Groups and Resources for Women in our Community $468 Summer 2012 Recipient Major Project Title Award Hannah Bearden Art Haystack Mountain School of Craft Summer Workshop with Mark Hartung $2000 John Challinger Computer Science Extending the ArduPilot Mega Firmware to Improve Precision Flight for Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) $2000 Michael Fitzpatrick Philosophy Rescuing the Scientific Worldview: Whitehead and the Place of Science in Human Life $2000 Elizabeth Jachens Civil Engineering Professional Presentation of Fine Scale Atmospheric Gravity Waves at the 26th International Laser Rader Conference in Porto Heli, Greece in June 2012 $2000 Michelle Johnson
Psychology Student Athletes Depression Scares in Relation to Self-Esteem, Perfectionism and Attachment in Global and Sport-Specific Contexts: Varsity vs. Club Athletes $2000 Andrew Rena-Dozier Psychology Central Nervous System Characterization in p75 Knockout Mice $2000 Sharla Stockton Geology Geology of Richardson Springs $2000 Dee Thao Communication Design A Fading Culture: the Hmong People $2000 Swan Toma Political Science Obama-Bush: A Competing Understanding of American Exceptionalism $2000 Eliseo Vega-Darson Music The Analysis and Application of Composing and Arranging for Orchestras $2000 Fall 2011 Recipient Major Project Title Award Serena Cervantes Journalism Collected Memories $500 Sheri Gitelson English Translucent Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" $500 Natasha Holland and
Alexa JanickiExercise Physiology Effects of Load Carriage on Gait Kinematics, Muscle Activity, and Postural Sway $500 Kristen Magri Mechatronic Engineering Development of an Autonomous Humanoid Bipedal Robot to Perform Challenging Tasks in Complex Environments $500 Austin Walter Electrical Engineering Development of Three-Dimensional Printer $238 Nathan Zifko Psychology The Role of Testosterone in Behavioral Activation $406 - 2010-2011
Spring 2011 Recipient Major Project Title Award Samuel Fries Applied Computer Graphics Measure Twice, Cut Once: Iterative Design and Development for Multiple Platforms $500 Andrew Munson Anthropology and Communication Design Recycling for a Living: Documenting Chico's Professional Can Collectors $500 Julie Najar Psychology Potential Role of p75 in Axonal Sprouting in Elderly Mice $500 Lingfei Ni Economics and Communication Design The Non-Walvastan Equilibrium Model for the People's Republic of China $450 Grant Stoker Psychology A survey of Alcohol and Drug Use Patterns in Undergraduate Students at California State University, Chico $468 Summer 2011 Recipient Major Project Title Award David Armstrong Economics Empirical Analysis of Water Markets in the Western United States $2000 Jamison Barsotti Mathematics Minor Minimal Intrinsically Knotted Graphs with 21 Edges $2000 Meaghan Gates Art Assistantship at Guldagergaard $2000 Nathan Giordano Biological Sciences and Art Developing a Microwave Protocol for the Transfection of Neurons $2000 Michael Kirmiz Biological Sciences Gene Regulation in Pancreatic Cells $2000 Mackenzie Morris Psychology Moving From Peer Mentoring Model to a Civic Mentoring Model $2000 Julie Najar Psychology Detailed Photomicroscopy and Quantification of Axon Ultrastructure in Elderly Mice $2000 Noah Strong Biological Sciences Monitoring Western Pond Turtle Movements for Possible Correlation of Feeding Habit and Fecundity on the University Reserve $2000 Eliseo Vega-Darson Music The Practical Application of Augmented Theory in Jazz Compositions $2000 Nicholas Vierra Biological Sciences Creating Fluorescent Reporter for miR-375 $2000 Fall 2010 Recipient Major Award Kelly Boyle Geological & Environmental Sciences $380 Tiffany Fisher Anthropology $500 Shannon Holt Environmental Science $420 Sam Mish Mechatronic Engineering $256 Emily Ramsey Nutrition & Food Science $238 Abigail Roche Nutrition & Food Science $406 Rachel Wutke Nursing $300 - 2009-2010
Spring 2010 Recipient Major Project Title Award Anastasia Aguilar Psychology White Man's Burden? Motivation to Suppress Prejudice is Correlated to Greater Skin
Conductance$500 Adelaide Kreamer Psychology The Empirical Reality of Learning Styles $210.73 Scott Lancaster History The Lost Sons of Democracy: Examining the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the
Spanish Civil Wars as Forums for the Recovery of Historical Memory$500 Susan Schultz Nursing Information Literacy for Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Survey $295 Kaci Smith Psychology Don't Be Deceived! The Relationship Among Men's Salivary Testosterone,
Self-Deception, and...Femininity?$500 Nur Diyana Zainal Arifin Nutrition & Food Science The Use of Photovoice in Assessing Perceived "Tasty" and "Healthy" Foods $429.30 Summer 2010 Recipient Major Project Title Award Avery Beck Anthropology Mechoopda Trail of Tears: Nome Cult Documentary Project $2000 Joanna Bloese Agriculture Evaluating a Sustainable Tactic for Navel Orangeworm Management in California Almonds $2000 Alena Chin-Curtis Biological Sciences Potassium Chloride Induced Excitotoxicity in Mice: Cyclosporine, A is Neuroprotective $2000 Emily Grelle English Rasputin: A History in Translation $2000 Sydney Kerkhove Anthropology Mechoopda Trail of Tears: Nome Cult Documentary Project $2000 Kimberly Ornellas Anthropology Nome Cult Walk: Mechoopda Trail of Tears Documentary Project $2000 Jillian Ruddell Multicultural & Gender Studies Gender and Sexuality Equity Center $2000 Danielle Schneider Psychology Modeling Chronic Human Alcohol Use During Pregnancy and Nursing: The Effect on Brain Development in Mice $2000 Kaci Smith Psychology Don't Be Deceived! The Relationship Among Men's Salivary Testosterone, Deception, and... Femininity? $2000 Katherine Sumarowsk International Relations Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an Anti-Human Trafficking Initiative. Sponsored by the United States Department of State in the Country of Latvia in 2001 $2000