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Kenyon College Summer
Science Scholars, 2011 INDEX OF ALL ON-LINE SUMMER SCIENCE PROJECTS |
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Undergraduates at Kenyon conduct research projects
in the summer, in collaboration with a faculty mentor. Each student
presents a poster on their work at a public exhibition. For further
information on research with undergraduates at Kenyon, contact the
faculty mentors below. |
**Each image links to a poster PDF.
![Development of a Novel Synthesis of Natural Products Containing the Cyclopenta[c]pyridine Substructure](adlers_sample.png) Development of a Novel Synthesis of Natural Products Containing the Cyclopenta[c]pyridine Substructure Snow Adler '13 Mentor: John Hofferberth, Chemistry |
 Probing the Second-Harmonic in ZnCdSe Thin Films Ian Bakk '12 Mentor: James Keller, Chemistry |
 Fabricating Faraday Rotators Using Mesoporous Films Andrew Chevalier, '14 Mentor: Frank C. Peiris, Physics |
 Modeling Cosmic Bubble Collisions Hillary L. Child, '13 Mentor: John T. Giblin, Jr., Physics |
 Mental Toughness and Anxiety in Varsity Collegiate Athletes and Non-Athletes Julia Cohen '12 Mentor: Michael P. Levine, Psychology |
 Changes in midgut morphology during the growth of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta Katheryn Connell '13 Mentor: H. Itagaki, Biology |
 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Lattice Simulations Jennings T. Deskins '13 Mentor: John T. Giblin, Jr., Physics |
 Visual Attention and Sequential Patterns: Mental Processing Speed, Implicit, and Explicit Learning Clifford Eberhardt '13 Mentor: Tabitha Payne, Psychology |
 Application of Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Calculations to Determine Reaction Pathway Andrew Ebner, '13 Mentor: John Hofferberth and Sheryl Hemkin, Chemistry |
 Quantum Entanglement at Kenyon College: Constructing an Entanglement Apparatus for the Undergraduate Laboratory Robert Fine, '12 Mentor: James Keller, Chemistry |
 Exploring the Utility of Ionic Hydrogenation in the Synthesis of Iridoid Natural Products Clara Fischman '13, Snow Adler, "13 Mentor: John Hofferberth, Chemistry |
 The Tol-Pal trans-envelope complex is important for acid survival of Escherichia coli Gian M. Garduque, '12 Mentor: Joan L. Slonczewski, Biology |
 "Sexualized" Clothing in Girls' Magazines Across Time Kaitlin A. Graff '12 Mentor: Sarah K. Murnen, Psychology |
 The Effect of Diet on Ontogenetic Scaling of Metabolic Rate in Manduca sexta Kate Haller '13 Mentor: Andrew Kerkhoff, Biology |
 Dynamics of a 2-hectare temperate forest plot over a five-year period Nina Hamilton '12 Mentor: Andrew Kerkhoff, Biology |
 Is sperm motility correlated with red spawning coloration in Redside Dace? Kelly Heilman '12, August Steigmeyer '12 Mentors: Trevor Pitcher, University of Windsor, Biology; E. Raymond Heithaus, Biology |
 Characterizing the Transcriptomic Response of a Xenopus laevis Cell line Initiated by Two Structurally Distinct Ligands of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Nathan Huey '13 Mentor: Wade Powell, Biology |
 Big Game or Small Plants? Assessing The Role of Plants in the Neanderthal Diet via Microscopic Residue Analysis of Flint Tools Nick Lehn '13 Mentor: Bruce Hardy, Anthropology |
 4-OH-Tamoxifen is not an agonist of the frog aryl hydrocarbon receptor Amanda Maxfield '12 Mentor: Wade Powell, Biology |
 Investigation of Single-Cell pH Homeostasis Using Fluorescence Ratio Imaging Microscopy J. Patrick Mershon '14 Mentor: Joan L. Slonczewski, Biology |
 Minimal Length Scale and Its Effect on Hawking Radiation Patrick Meyers '12 Mentor: Demian Cho, Physics |
 A Geometric Representation of the Abundancy Index Kate Moore '12 Mentor: Judy Holdener, Mathematics |
 Modeling Manduca sexta Gut Digestion and Absorption as a Plug Flow Reactor Stephen Raithel '13 Mentor: Andrew Kerkhoff, Departments of Mathematics and Biology |
 The Role of Methylmalonate Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase in Valine and Propionyl-CoA Metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Ian Richardson '14 Mentor: Kerry Rouhier, Chemistry |
 Anaerobic Regulators Affect Anoxic Extreme-Acid Survival of E. coli Daniel P. Riggins '12 Mentor: Joan L. Slonczewski, Biology |
 Expression and Characterization of the CYP1 subfamily from Xenopus laevis Andy Schwartz '12 Mentor: Wade Powell, Biology |
 Dynamic Light Scattering from Colloidal Spheres and Proteins in Femtoliter Volumes David A.T. Somers '12, M. Hunter Gervelis "13 Mentor: Jan Kmetko, Physics |
 Getting the house in order: Burrow establishment and incubation activity in a long-lived seabird Graham H. Sorenson '12 Mentor: Robert A. Mauck, Biology |
 The effects of potential climate change-related river water temperature shifts on the reproductive success of the redside dace (Clinostomus elongatus) August J. Steigmeyer, Kelly A. Heilman '12 Mentors: Trevor Pitcher, University of Windsor, Biology; E. Raymond Heithaus, Biology |
 Crying Wolf or Sobbing Swine: Examining Post-H1N1 Perceptions of Risk and Threat of a Future Influenza Epidemic Julian Tancredi '12 Mentor: Kimmarie Murphy, Anthropology |
 Gender, Stress, Coping, and Health Behaviors Alyssa N. Van Denburg, '12 Mentor: Sarah K. Murnen, Psychology |
 Effect of strain and diet on Manduca sexta midgut mass Allison V. Vela-Mendoza '12 Mentor: Christopher M. Gillen, Biology |
 Relative expression of basic metabolic genes in the anterior midgut of Manduca sexta Kelly N. Wahl '12 Mentors: Christopher M. Gillen and Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Biology |
 Quantifying
soil carbon sequestration rates, a critical ecosystem service, from
measures of wetland condition in freshwater wetlands of Ohio Sally Wilson '12 Mentor: Siobhan Fennessy, Biology |