Dr. Patrick Steffen, Department of Psychology Review of Research Study and Academic Objectives of the Proposal Research conducted by Michael Lambert et al. has found that a substantial minority of psychotherapy clients (about 10%) get worse over the course of therapy. They call these clients ‘red responders’ because they are of particular concern for the […]
The Study of Inflexibility in Autism: Training Students for Translational Neuroscience
Mikle South, Department of Psychology Overview. This grant was intended to train undergraduate students from psychology and life sciences in preparation for advanced study related to translational neuroscience, i.e. the application of basic research to clinically-‐useful objectives. Specifically we conducted studies of anxiety in autism including studies of emotion influences on learning and decision making. […]
Marital Quality in Remarriage
Dr. Kevin Shafer Project Goals There were four goals of this MEG project. Unlike most MEG projects, I employed graduate students because the School of Social Work lacks undergraduate students. Below I outline the four goals of the project and discuss how each goal was met. Notably, we found some interesting effects related to relationship […]
Glacier Sensitivity in the Bhutanese Himalaya: Present and Future
Summer Rupper The primary scientific goal of this 2011 MEG grant was to determine the current melt-rates for glaciers in the monsoonal Himalayas and how these rates will affect the size of glaciated areas and water resources in the next few decades. The target region was the Kingdom of Bhutan. The primary mentoring purpose of […]
Student Mentoring in Research: Laser-Activated Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells
William G. Pitt, Chemical Engineering Department Summary of Scope of Proposal This proposal was submitted in October of 2011 to organize and fund a mentoring group in the Pitt lab in Chemical Engineering. Marjan Javadi, then a PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering, and 5 uldergraduate students participated in this research group. The purpose was 2-‐fold, […]
Public Health in Southeast Asia: Focus on Adolescent Health Research
Randy M. Page, Department of Health Sciences 1. Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met Outcome 1: Students will develop research and presentation skills and gain confidence in their abilities. This project directed students to work on research conducted in Thailand focusing on adolescent body image and smoking. Students participated […]
Attracting Female Students to Science: An Interdisciplinary Stress-Psychobiology Mentored Experience
Michael Larson Women have made considerable progress in education and the workplace; however, progress in science and technology fields continues to lag behind. Females remain underrepresented in science majors at the university level and, subsequently, represent less than a quarter of full professors in scientific fields. Increasing female representation in science is considered a national […]
ROLE OF PRIMARY CILIA IN OSTEOARTHRITIS
David Kooyman Mentoring in my lab in 2012 has led to both tangible and intangible results. The tangible results for this year include two posters presented at an international meeting by undergraduate students, ORCA grants received by two students, international recognition by a team of undergraduate students, two papers published, three papers in preparation to […]
Project Title: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Long-Term Memory
C. Brock Kirwan Memory is an essential cognitive ability. It allows us to use past events to guide future actions. Research in my laboratory focuses on determining the mechanics of how the brain remembers what it does. We are interested in determining what will be remembered and what will be forgotten. Specifically, my research focuses […]
Effect of Epigenetic Modification of DNA on Nucleosome Formation
Steven M. Johnson The following two specific Aims are from my 2011 MEG. We made great progress and completed Aim 1 and modified our Aim 2. Below I will give a status report for each Aim. Aim 1: Perform in vitro nucleosome (invitrosome) reconstitution on naked C. elegans genomic DNA using unmodified recombinant histone octamer […]