Nineteen top students
have been accepted into the University Scholars
Program, the University's most prestigious and demanding academic
program for undergraduates. Once selected, the University Scholar
candidate is allowed to pursue an academic program tailored to
his or her unique intellectual interests and abilities. Upon
successful completion of the student's plan of study, he or she
will be declared a University Scholar at Commencement.
"Students
who have been accepted into the University Scholar program have
agreed to be individualists in the best sense," says Ernie Zirakzadeh,
director of the Honors Program. "They have chosen to spend three
semesters studying a personally important topic in depth, from
multiple perspectives and with an unusually open mind. I am inspired
by their self-directedness and by their passion to learn," he
says.
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Betsy A. Alspaugh |
Major: Elementary
Education |
Project: "Equality in Education:
Mainstreaming Strategies and
Hearing-Impaired Children" |
Advisor: Timothy Reagan,
Curriculum and Instruction |
|
Nirav Chawhan |
Major: Accounting |
Project: "Creating Competition: A
Comparative Study of Valuation and
Privatization " |
Advisor: Katherine
Campbell, Accounting |
|
Robb D'Ambruoso |
Major: Political
Science |
Project: "Protecting Our
Environment: The Question of Legal
Enforcement" |
Advisor: Martha Gibson,
Political Science |
|
Lisbeth Dizney |
Major: Elementary
Education and
American Studies
(Individualized
Major) |
Project: "What's the Solution:
Policies and Programs in
Connecticut to Encourage Girls in
Math in Grades K-8" |
Advisor: Sally Reis,
Educational Psychology |
|
Karen Erickson |
Major: Nursing |
Project: "Family Traditions and
Child Rearing: The Lived
Experience of Latina Adolescents
Successful with Breast-Feeding" |
Advisor: Cheryl Tatano
Beck, Nursing |
|
Amy Lynne Fleischer |
Major: English and
Sociology |
Project: "Censorship of Literature:
An Examination of School Policies
on 'Objectionable Literature'" |
Advisor: Jonathan
Hufstader, English |
|
Lindsey Anne Hescock |
Major: Art as
Non-Verbal
Communication
(Individualized
Major) |
Project: "Art as Non-Verbal
Communication: Puppetry,
Linguistics, and Studio Art" |
Advisor: Bartolo P.
Roccoberton, Jr., Dramatic
Arts |
|
Lisa LeBlanc |
Major: Chemistry |
Project: "A Study of a Possible New
Set of Antibiotics: The Biological
Activity of Beta-Lactams" |
Advisor: Amy Howell,
Chemistry |
|
Jeremy Ledger |
Major: Biological
Sciences |
Project: "Threats to Marine Food
Chains: The Effect of Toxic
Dinoflagellates on Two Copepods" |
Advisor: Hans G.
Dam-Guerrero, Marine
Sciences |
|
Alyssa LePine |
Major: Latin
American Studies |
Project: "Educating Citizens: Form
and Function of Civic Education in
Argentina and Mexico" |
Advisor: Elizabeth Mahan,
Latin American and
Caribbean Studies |
|
Lai Ting Loule |
Major: Pharmacy |
Project: "A Scientific Perspective on
Herbal Medicine: Chemical Bases
for the Putative Antimicrobial
Activity of Gotu-kola" |
Advisor: James Henkel,
Pharmacy |
|
Rebecca L. Martello |
Major: Diagnostic
Genetic Sciences |
Project: "Decoding Delinquent
DNA: Identification and Analysis of
Novel Gene Mutations in Patients
with Cystic Fibrosis" |
Advisor: Martha Keagle,
Allied Health |
|
Brendan R. McMullen |
Major: Pathobiology |
Project: "Unknown Organisms:
Identification and Characterization
of a Spirochele Found in the Skin of
Cattle" |
Advisor: Sandra L.
Bushmich, Pathobiology |
|
Julissa Nixon |
Major: Psychology
and African Diaspora
Studies
(Individualized
Major) |
Project: "Distorted Mirrors? Mass
Media's Effect on the Personal
Development of African-American
and Puerto Rican Children" |
Advisor: Michelle
Williams,
African-American Studies |
|
Pavel Okunev |
Major: Mathematics |
Project: "Making Enormous
Equations Manageable: The Puzzle
of LU Factorization and Other
Computational Methods in Linear
Algebra" |
Advisor: Michael
Neumann, Mathematics |
|
Maria Jeannette
Sanabria |
Major: Chemistry
and Chemical
Engineering |
Project: "Sweet Food Industry:
Improvement of the Conversion of
Glucose to Fructose Through the
Use of Supported Enzyme Catalysis" |
Advisor: Steven Suib,
Chemistry |
|
Dishant Shah |
Major: Biological
Sciences |
Project: "The Brain's Response to
Acupressure-like Somatosensory
Signals in the Barn Owl" |
Advisor: Andrew Moiseff,
Physiology and
Neurobiology |
|
Brent Vander Wyk |
Major: Cognitive
Science
(Individualized
Major) |
Project: "Modelling the Brain: A
Dynamical Systems Approach to
Neural Networks" |
Advisor: Jay Rueckl,
Psychology |
|
Amy Watkins |
Major: Human
Development and
Family Relations |
Project: "The Politics of Domestic
Violence: A Critical Examination of
Thurman v. Torrington" |
Advisor: Preston A.
Britner, Family Studies
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