Recipients of the Student Awards for Research and Creativity
Undergraduate/Graduate Awards
| Recipient | Major | Project | Application available for viewing |
| Graduate | |||
| Katie McIlhennymiller | Anthropology | Boiled vs. Bottled: Analyzing Oxygen Isotope Signatures from Taiwanese Water to Aid Anthropological Investigations | Yes (PDF) |
| Recipient | Major | Project | Application available for viewing |
| Graduate | |||
| Christopher Robinson | Social Work | Child Welfare Social Worker Retention: The Relationship of Secondary Trauma and Pandemic Stressors | Yes (PDF) |
| Undergraduate | |||
| Jordan Rosenthal | Painting BFA | A Keystone Species: Investigating the Impact of the Reintroduction of Wolves in Yellowstone | Yes (PDF) |
| Gretchen Cassing | Excersice Physiology | Effect of Novel Exercise Program on Hamstring Muscle Function | Yes (PDF) |
- 2021-2022
Summer 2022 Recipient Department Project Application available for viewing Undergraduate Allison Bernardi HFA Identity in Flux: Exploring Cultural and Culinary Identity through Street Food Traditions in Mexico City and Los Angeles Yes (PDF) Preston Lawson CHEM Nanomaterials for Greener Solar Energy Yes (PDF) Graduate Alina Tichinin ANTH A Multi-Technique Approach to Seasonal Big Game Reliance and Central Camp Locality in the Great Basin of Northweatern Nevada Yes (PDF) Molly Tuttle BIOL Evaluating the Predictive Power of a COVID-19 Wastewater Surveillance Program Spring 2022 Recipient Department Project Undergraduate Adam Chism BIOL Effects of Temperature on Competition amoungst Juvenile Trout Stephanie Gaito SWRK Exploring the Experiences of California State University Chico Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lauren Goldberg PSYC Facing the Future: Does Viewing Age-Progressed Selfies Improve Self-Control? Alex Kulp ANTH Thermal Effects on Fresh Bone: Cultural and Taphonomic Paige Munson BIOL Spatial capture-recapture for population estimates of mammalian predators in the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve with fecal genetic analysis Graduate Shelby Bruce SWRK Gender Diverse Youth experience accessing culturally responsive health Yulisa Ubias SWRK 2022 DREAMers conference Fall 2021 Recipient Major Project Award Undergraduate Faith Fatchen Economics Price to Pay? The Effectiveness of Community Health Clinics in Resource-Poor Settings $850 Nicholas Barnett Physics Nanosponges for Next-Generation Solar Energy Conversion Technologies $850 Brady Brandt Business Making Cents of the Need for Financial Education Classes in High School Curriculum $850 Undergraduate Kanvarbir Gill Psychology Effects of Emoji Skin Tone in Peer to Peer Online Learning $1700 Christina Hammans Social Science Social Factors Impacting Academic Success to Adolescent Parents in Butte, Glenn, Tehama County $1700 Emilio Siaz Nutrition & Food Science Traditional Food Consumption & Accessibility among the Pit River Tribe of Northern California $1700 Jordan Stifle Phychology Life Trauma & Temporal Horizon $1680 Cheyenne Collins Anthropology Scanvenging Patterns within the Willamette Valley of Oregon $1700 - 2020-2021
Summer 2021 Recipient Major Project Award Undergraduate Aleeza Namit Biological Sciences Examining the Negative Effects of Camp Fire Toxins on the Immune System
$2500 Avery Roscoe and Elsa Topete Kinesiology Maximal Aerobic Power and Running Economy of Young and Older Trained Female Runners
$2500 Elena Macias Biological Sciences Seroprevalence of Antibodies to Avian Influenza Virus in Northern Sho
$2500 Graduate Aji Fatou Bah Nutrition Food Sciences Evaluating the Epidemic of Obesity in Urban Gambia: An Exploratory Approach
$5000 Elizabeth Hannigan Anthropology Using Stable Isotope Analysis to Identify Individuals Buried in a Mass Grave at Phaleron, Greece
$5000 Kelli Thorup Biological Sciences Alleviation of thermal stress in Pinus ponderosa by plant-growth promoting rhizobacteria isolated from mixed-conifer forests
$5000 Natalie Lawlor Psychology OnlyFans Use and Associations with Sexual, Relational, and Mental Health Outcomes
$5000 Taylor Lambrigger Anthropology The Significance of Sociocultural Factors in Isotopic Interpretations for Forensic Identification: A Case Study from Oaxaca, Mexico
$5000 Spring 2021 Recipient Major Project Award Undergraduate Berenice Arguello Biological Sciences Expression of Candidate Idiopathic Scoliosis Genes in Embryonic Stages of Medaka Fish
$850 Celia Fernanda Todd Chemistry and Biochemistry Programmable Nanosponges for Water Decontamination
$850 Maxwell Claret Environmental Science Fire Suppression and its Effects on the Big Chico Creek Watershed
$850 Wade W. Corley Microbiology Novel Acidithiobacillus spp. From Sulphur Cave, Romania are Nitrogen fixing Chemolithoautotropsm
$848 Graduate Cody Mathew Mocko Biological Sciences Identification of Scoliosis Genes using the Medaka Fish Model
$1700 Kristen Rueb Biological Sciences ccI44 is essential for normal embryonic hematopoiesis
$1700 Thomas Delgado Anthropology Identification and Repatriation of Remains from the US-Mexico Border: a Stable Isotope and Artificial Intelligence Approach
$ 1700
- 2019-2020
Summer 2020 Recipient Major Project Title Awards Undergraduate Rose Merry Blanco College of Behavioral and Social Sciences An Ethno-Graphic Novel on the Sapphire Trade in Sri Lanka
$2498 Carlos Melchor College of Natural Sciences Nanosponges for Decontaminating Water with Carcinogens and Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
$2,498 Madeline Olwert College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Strength, Resilience, Hope, Beauty: A Mosaic for Butte County
$449 Kiran Rao College of Natural Sciences Comparative Study of Candidate Idiopathic Scoliosis Genes during Embryonic Stages of Medaka Fish Development
$2498 Graduate Meagan Fischer College of Behavioral and Social Sciences The Curiosity to Listen: Using Community Radio to Promote Nuanced Political Dialogue
$4998 Cody Frazer College of Natural Sciences Investigating the Role of the Duck Microbiome in Susceptibility to Avian Influenza Virus Infection
$4998 Jamie Lopez College of Natural Sciences Effect of Symbiosis on Nitrogen Fixation in Exaiptasia pallida
$4998 John Machado College of Natural Sciences Assessing the Fate of Heavy Metals Following the Camp Fire
$3551 Jessica Shippen College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Construction Management; and Undergraduate Education Novel Biophysical Treatment of Rice Seeds for Sustainably Enhancing Early Plant Growth
$4998 Matthew Mayer College of Natural Sciences Analysis of Dozer Lines in the Carr Fire Footprint
$2500 Spring 2020 Recipient Major Project Title Awards Undergraduate Lucía Abril Psychology Influence of Perceived Authority on Wait Times in a Monetary Delay of Gratification Task
$848 Kendall Block Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry Development of Potent Isoflavone Carbamate Derivatives to Target Alzheimer's Disease Chemistry
$848 Austin DuBose Chemistry Library Synthesis of Nematocides: The Fluorescent Chalcone
$848 Kallie Griffin Biology Creating a Sustainable Future: Cellular Agriculture Cellular and Molecular
$848 Fall 2019 Recipient Major Project Title Awards Undergraduate Kristen Rueb Biological Sciences CRISPR/Cas9 Technology Indicates that ccl44 is Essential for Normal Embryonic Hematopoiesis
$850 Mattew Larson Geology Hydrothermal Gas Collection and CO2 Analysis at Lassen Volcanic Center, California, Over a Ten-Year Period
$847.58 Avery Beaudette Psychology
A Quantitative Experimental Analysis of Flow State Model Accuracy $837.50 Gabrielle Wyatt Geological Environmental Science
Phytoremediation at the Butte College bioswale: Seasonal variation in heavy metal bioaccumation $838.72 Graduate Kaitlyn Romo Biological Sciences
Coloization characteristics of key bacterial species related to coral reefs $1700 Kyle Palazzolo Anthropology
When Martars Speak Volumes: Assessing the Influence of Mortar Cavity Size on Processing Effciency
$1695 Maya Trajkovski Kinesiology
An Investigating on the Effects of a Mindfulness-Imagery Intervention on an NCAA Women's Soccer Team's Performance
$1690 Jory Harms Art
Boys will be... $1700 - 2018-2019
Summer 2019 Recipient Major Project Title Award Undergraduate Kelli Thorup Biological Sciences
Development of Axenic Anemones: A Fundamental Technique in Cnidarian Symbiosis Research $2500 Marie Isabel Fox Art
International Summer Art Education Project: Art & Science in English in Japan $2500 Kristen Rueb Biological Sciences
kal1h: Investigating its Role in Blood Development $2500 Scott Stokes Geology
Tritium & Oxygen Isotope Concentration of Sulphur Workings and Boiling Strings Lake $2500 Sara Carmody Anthropology
An Enthnographic Investigation of Indigenous Bee Keeping in Cambodia $2500 Casey Becker Chemistry
Hemmoglobin Drug Synthesis and Assessment: Expirement Redesign and Assessment $2500 Graduate Alexia Lopez Geoscienes
Paragenesis of the Moonlight (IOCG) Deposit, Plumas County Copper Belt, CA $5000 Harpreet Batther Geoscienes
A Hydrocarbon Seep Model of Larde Bedded $5000 Kathrine Jorgensen Biological Sciences
Descendant Prespectives: Oral Histories of a Konkow Maidu Village Site $2096 Spring 2019 Recipient Major Project Title Award Undergraduate
Kallie Griffin Biological Sciences Blood Development & Diseases: CRISPR-CAs9, cc144 and zebrafish $850 Cora Pipes Biological Sciences Asexual Reproduction of Exaiptasia pallida Under Varying Light Coniditions $850 Graduate
Jamison Snydor Biological Sciences The Bacteria Community Associated with the Model Sea Anemome Expaiptasia pallida $1700 Ashlyn Ku'uleialoha Weaver Anthropology KaHuaka'i: The Ten Hawaiinas $1700 Stephanie Aguiar Biological Sciences Treating Chronic Myeloid Leukemia with Novel Drug Compounds $1700
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
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 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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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
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 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 Fall 2009 Recipient Major Project Title Award Joel Breck Psychology $200 Alena Chin-Curtis Psychology $500 Nathan Giordano Biological Sciences & Art $300 Daniel Molaschi Art $500 Lola Ryland Art $261 Danielle Schneider Psychology $489 Nathaniel Williams Psychology $250