Undergraduate Research at the University of California
For the past four years, the University of California Office of Research has held an undergraduate research contest, in which faculty deans from UC campuses select their top undergraduate researchers across a diverse range of disciplines including the arts, the humanities and the sciences.
Students selected have been honored alongside their faculty advisors at UC Day in Sacramento. The research posters displayed in various legislators’ offices in the Capitol were the work of those students from campuses across the state selected as the year's winners.
UC undergraduate students selected to show their research posters at UC Day are:
Berkeley
Jason Malinsky, "Poisoned Clouds: Dealing with Pesticide Drift
in California's Agricultural Communities"
Inga Wilder, "The Role of Cell-Cell Signaling in Host Plant Symptom
Development by Xylella Fastidiosa"
Davis
Christopher Fagundes, "Stability of Relationship Satisfaction – A
Longitudinal Design"
Colette Christine Chambers, "Overexpression of Lefty A Gene Reduces
Extracellular Matrix Production in Hepatic Stellate Cells"
Irvine
Anshuman Chadha, "A 40 bps Lexeme-based Speech Coding Scheme"
Ted Yanagihara, "Molecular Mechanisms of Ampakines, a Novel Cognitive
Enhancing Drug"
Los Angeles
Yihong Sui, "Mapping of Hippocampal Deficits in Childhood-Onset
Schizophrenia"
Stephen Anthony Johnson, "Purification of Helper Virus from Helper-Dependent
Adenovirus Vectors for Gene Therapy"
Riverside
Christopher Crew, "A High-Dimensional Computational Model
of Racial Bias in the News Media"
Diana Allen, "Towards an Efficient Mosquito Genetic Drive System: Germ
Line Transposase Localization an Herves, and Anopheles gambiae hAT Element"
San Diego
Ben Maggos, "Cal-IT 2 Building Visualization"
Nick Statom, "Analysis of Sea Breeze Effects Using QuikSCAT and SeaWinds
Scatterometry"
Santa Barbara
Maria Cordero, "Legislative Subordination of California
Indians from Statehood to Civil Rights Movement (1850 1960)"
Faith Reyes, "Estrogen Increases Synaptic Protein in the Prefrontal
Cortex of the Female Rat"
Santa Cruz
Tenai E. Eguen, "How Plants See Light"
Million Negassi, "Cryogenic Electrical Characterization of HIT Micro-Coolers"
Learn more about the students who were selected for UC Day 2004. Check out photographs of this year's posters.
Supporting UC undergraduate research helps the state by:
- Preparing students
for careers in science and technology,
the cornerstones of California's new economy;
- Providing opportunities for
students to study firsthand
the complex social issues facing California;
- Inspiring a new generation
of qualified students to engage
in the kind of high level graduate work that ensures
continued innovation in California's leading industries;
- Preparing better-informed
and prepared teachers who
are committed to solving real-life problems in California's
classrooms
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/research/undergrad.html offers more information on undergraduate research opportunities around the UC system.
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