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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The Honors College is now accepting applications for our summer 2014 Undergraduate Research Grant program. <b>These grants are available to both Honors and non-Honors students.</b> We’re planning to provide grants of up to $1,500 to over 30 students this summer, in order to support them in their individualized research endeavors. Students in any major are eligible to apply, but they must be graduating in May 2015 or later in order to qualify.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you know of any students who may be interesting in engaging in summer research, please let them know about this grant. The application is available at <a href="http://www.honors.arizona.edu/students/undergraduate-research-grants">http://www.honors.arizona.edu/students/undergraduate-research-grants</a> , and will be due January 29th.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for sharing this information with your students. I’ve included a list of last year’s Undergraduate Research Projects at the bottom of this message so you can see the variety of projects students have undertaken. Feel free to refer students to me if they have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Rebecca Mitchell Field<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>2012-2013 Undergraduate Research Grant Projects:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Development of Micro Air Vehicle Platform for Autonomous Flight and Infrared Detection</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Sam Blake<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“We Talk” In the Daily Conversations of Couples Coping with Breast Cancer</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Victoria Anne Bryant<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Effect of Exercise on Cognition During Non-Optimal Times of Day in Younger Adults</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Timothy Paul Buckley<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Hold in Animal Control: Closing the Gap in Animal Control Policy</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Leah Edwards<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Optimizing Initial Mead Environment</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – James Fowler<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A Genetic Approach to Identify Factors that Regulate the Neurotoxicity of TDP-43 in a Drosophila Model of ALS</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Siddesh Gopalakrishnan<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A Chance Meeting: John Cage, Indeterminacy and the Need for a Review and Application of the Compositional Techniques of Chance Music to the Body of Harp Literature</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Lauren Elizabeth Hayes<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Local Adaptation in Desert Mistletoe, Phoadendron Californicum</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Lauren Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Simulation and Optimization of a Solar Updraft Tower in Urban Environments</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Oybek Kholiqov<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The War Over Landscape: Ansel Adams and the Politics of the American Wilderness</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Emma Kleiner<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Researching the Effects of Musical Culture and Influences on Sergio Assad’s Compositions through Musical Interpretation, Analysis, and Direct Study with the Composer</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Steven Jay Lerman<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Molecular Signaling Between Sorting Zone Glia and Ingrowing Axons in the Olfactory System of Manduca Sexta</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Amanda Levy<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Acoustic Classification of Numismatic Materials via Machine Learning Techniques </span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>– John Patrick McKearney III<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Change in Time of Flight of Longitudinal (Axial Symmetric) Modes Due to Lamination in Steel Pipes</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Chi Hanh Nguyen<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Resting State Cortical Activity in Individuals with Down Syndrome</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Cassandra Nyhuis<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Geographies of Change: Political and Social Mobility in Post-Dictatorship Argentina</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Christian Leland Pettersen<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Clovis/Folsom Use-Breakage Study</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Andrew Richard<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Deflection of Light by an Electric Field –</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Alan Robert Sebastian<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A Comparative Study of the Pedagogical Approaches of Classical, Steel String, and Electrical Guitar</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Leo Fodor Simons<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Effect of Informal Educational Experiences on English Language Acquisition and Household Roles in Bhutanese Refugee Women in Tucson –</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Kellan Smith<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Attachment Style is “Touching On” Positive and Negative Affect</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Katherine Stavoe<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A Comparative Analysis of Host Cell Interactions by Pathogenic Escherichia Coli Strains</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Gresa Sylejmani<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Chemical Exposure in Laboratory Spaces</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Brendan Tobin<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Renaissance Artistic Apprenticeship: Vasari’s The Lives of Painters, Sculptors & Architects</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Olivia Marie Valencia<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Role of Pennisetum Ciliare’s Secondary Metabolites as Chemical Inhibitors and Facilitators</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Duyen T. Vo<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Impact of International Students at the University of Arizona on Tucson’s Economy</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Wesley Warshawer<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Faith and Reason in Tibetan Buddhism</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Louise Ann Williams<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Malicious Javascript in Cybersecurity</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> – Nathan Yee<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif";color:#1F497D'>Rebecca Mitchell Field, M.Ed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif";color:#1F497D'>*****************************************<br>Assistant Director of Academic Services and Curriculum Management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif";color:#1F497D'>The Honors College at The University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:rmitch@email.arizona.edu">rmitch@email.arizona.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif";color:#1F497D'>(520) 621-4262<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"OCR A Extended";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=240 height=75 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CEF655.132332D0" alt="Honors_SideCar_Tag_BlueText for email sig"></span><span style='font-family:"OCR A Extended";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"OCR A Extended";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"OCR A Extended";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>