Scholars and Topics
SRI 2009
Camille Bigelow - The Usefulness of Three Technical Indicators in Forecasting Stock Index Futures Prices in an Economic Downturn; Mentor: Dr. Roger Dahlgran
Carlos Figueroa - Demand/Withdraw Interaction Differences Between Latino and Anglo-American Adolescents: A Cultural Perspective; Mentor: Dr. Varda Shoham and Dr. Michael Rohrbaugh
Denise Garcia - Assessment of Longer Term Environmental Change in the San Simon Watershed Following Significant Structural Intervention to Control Desertification; Mentor: Dr. Barron Orr
Daniel Lopez - Activity Patterns in Youth with Diabetes in Response to a 16-Week Exercise Intervention; Mentor: Dr. Melissa Faulkner
Joel Ramirez - Trying to Learn the History of a Community: The Case of Tamichopa, Sonora, Mexico; Mentor: Dr. Kevin Gosner
Nik Sharp - Morpheme-Based Segmentation with Voting Experts; Mentor: Dr. Paul Cohen
Octavio Ulloa - Water Sustainability Through Water Harvesting; Mentor: Dr. Chris Scott
Monique Vasquez - Attachment, Language, and Divorce: The Role of Linquistic Immediacy in Coping; Mentor: Dr. David Sbarra
Cordell Yazzie - Seismic-Resistant Design of Concentrically Braced Frames; Mentor: Dr. Robert Fleischman
SRI 2008
Julia Barajas - One Land, One People (?): The Production and Consumption of Zapatista Iconography by Mexican Chicagoans; Mentor: Dr. Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez and Dr. Liz Kennedy
Courtnee Benford - An Evaluation of Knowledge Gain in Vidal: A Bilingual Breast Cancer Education Series Delivered Via Telemedicine to Rural Sites in Arizona; Mentor: Dr. Ana Maria Lopez
Liza Castillo - Factors That Influence English Word Learning in Bilingual Children; Mentor: Dr. Mary Alt
Constance Falleaf - Indigenous Languages: An Overview of the Status of Endangered Languages with a Focus on Efforts Towards Revitalization; Mentor: Dr. Ofelia Zepeda
Carl Green - Leadership Opportunities for African-American versus Whites inthe NFL; Mentor: Dr. Lisa Ordonez
Danielle Jackman - Did They Learn Anything Important?: Evaluating the Psychology Methods Course at the University of Arizona; Mentor: Dr. Jake Jacobs
Tiffany Parms - The Correlation between Demography and Participation in a Longitudinal Study of Airway Obstructive Disease; Mentor: Dr. Stefano Guerra
Lindsay Schroeder - Oreos and Twinkies: Forming a Racial Identity in Transracial Adoption; Mentor: Dr. Jim Shockey and Dr. Henry A. Walker
Tamela Smith - Comparison of Foreign National Hispanics Dental Health Conditions to U.S. Hispanics; Mentor: Dr. Bruce Anderson
Jennifer Stanley - Curriculum Development on Open Source Software; Mentor: Dr. Jack Elliot, assisted by Heather Jepsen, M.A.
Teresa Tejeda - Video-Based Motion Tracking and External Feedback as a Rehabilitative Tool for People with Parkinson's Disease; Mentor: Dr. Ann Baldwin and Dr. Becky Farley
Naomi Tom - Growing Up Tohono O'odham: An Oral Historical Discourse; Mentor: Dr. Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez
Nicole Torrence - The Relationship between White Matter Hyperintensities, Cognitive Functioning, and Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease in Elderly Adults with Hypertension; Mentor: Dr. Lee Ryan
Gabrielle Wahnetah - Community Health Worker Models along the U.S. and Mexico Border; Mentor: Dr. Cecilia Rosales
SRI 2007
Dilyara Agisheva - Expanding the Space of Oppositional Politics: The Operations of Palestinian Hip Hop Group DAM; Mentor: Dr. Janet Sturman
Idalie Beyer - The Effects of Habitual Uses and Voluntary Manipulation of Emotiona Regulation on Memory for Emotional Stimuli; Mentor: Dr. Al Kasniak
Tahlia Bragg - The Presence of Test Differences in Neuropsychological Assessments of African American and Hispanic Young Adults; Mentor: Dr. Lee Ryan
Marina Cervantes - Evaluation of Internet-based Diabetes Management and Coping Skills Programs for Teens with Type 1 Diabetes; Mentor: Dr. Kurt Griffin with assistance from Melissa Faulkner
Meheret Debebe - The Effect of Sterotype Threat on Self-association to Math and Working Memory Capacity ; Mentor: Dr. Toni Schmader
Daisy Gonzales - The Femicides in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua: A Needs Assessment Evaluating the 40-point Program; Mentor: Dr. Stephen Cornell and Dr. Ian Record
Leoule Goshu - Advocate People before Corporations: Recommendations for the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index; Mentor: Dr. Laura Briggs
Mariana Lever - Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis; Mentor: Dr. Larry Head, Dr. Guzin Bayraksan, Dr. Simge Kucukyavuz, and Dr. Young-Ju Son
Gianina Logan - Methods of Recruitment of Arizona Households for an Arsenic Cancer Correlation Study; Mentor: Dr. Robin Harris
Fernando Marenco - The Relationship Among Hypertension, Genetic Risk Factor for Alzeimer's Disease, and White Matter Lesions in the Brains of Older Adults; Mentor: Dr. Lee Ryan
Rabiah Muhammad - The Role of Racial-Ethnicity and Cultural Identity on the Academic Achievement of Native American Students; Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Fryberg
Gema Ornelas - Memorials in Perquin, El Salvador: Redefining Memorial Murals through Collective Memory and Community History; Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Widdifield
Deleana Otherbull - The Effect of Identity Safe Contexts on Academic Engagement for American Indian Students; Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Fryberg
Jorge Ramallo - "De Puerta a Puerta" Comprehensive Study of Promotoras From the U.S.-Mexico Border; Mentor: Dr. Lisa Stern
Romare Truely - Congestion-Based Toll Pricing: Increasing Viability, Increasing Acceptability; Mentor: Dr. Yi-Chang Chiu
Bee Vang - Effects of Family Composition: A Sister Sibling Study; Mentor: Dr. Bruce Ellis with assistance from Elizabeth Tilley
Kathryn Weik - Isotope Ratios: What They Imply about the Martian Climate; Mentor: Dr. William Boynton with assistance from Heather Enos
Kyana Young - Degradation of Endocrine Disruptors via Photolysis; Mentor: Dr. Wendell Ela and Dr. Avelino Saez
SRI 2006
Jessica Aguilar - Receptive Language in Adults: an fMRI Study
Fabiola Bien-Aime - Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Arizona-Sonora Region
Martina Dawley - A Tohono O'odham Miniature Pottery Cache from Kitt Peak: A Case Study from the Arizona State Museum from the Southwest Pottery Project
Israel Favela - Paleolithic Pigment Processing of Kostienki l-1
Derek Hembree - The Literary Architect: The Reconstruction Poetry of Frances E.W. Harper
Armando Xavier Membrila - Propulsion Solutions for NASAs Dynamically Scaled Personal Aviation Vehicle
Julia Ornelas - La Mujer Abnegada, Mexican Women and the Bracero Program: 1942-1963
Natasha Raming - Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Repetition Priming: An fMRI Study
Reyniak Richards - A Novel Approach to the Multimerization of Peptide Ligands for Cancer Cell Imaging
Elizabeth Soltero - Making Chicana/o Education A Public Issue in Tucson, 1965-1972
Jose Soto - US-Mexico Tomato Suspension Agreement: Analysis of Acres Planted in Sinaloa, Mexico
Yer Xiong - Cancer Trends Along the United States-Mexico Border: 2001-2003
SRI 2005
Jenny Billy - The Role of Climate Variability in the Sahel and Kalahari Deserts
Gail Bradford -
Shaun Brown - Leaks in Education Systems
Christopher Chable - Face: Expanding the Chicano Canon
Benny Cocio - A Comprehensive Look at Diabetic Retinopathy in Mexican Americans
Rick Cruz - Methlyphenidate adn Parent-Identified Target Symptons: Developing a Patient-Based Approach
Kimberly Cubit - Melanoma Patients' Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Genetic Testing
Martha Dailey - The Effects of the English Only Movement on the Dine
Thuy Dao - Protein Synthesis and Heat Stress Phenotypes Suggest the Importance of Arabidopsis UVH6 for Plant Growth
Suzana Diaz - The Color of Sexual Intercourse on TV
Onofre Escobar - They Sang at the Foot of the Black Hill: A brief History of Los Elegantes in Tucson
Tiffany Forde - Identifying Interventions to Treat Obesity by Gender in Adolescents Ages 11-18
Elyse Fune - The Effects of Acute Stress on Various Forms of Memory
Nicole Garrett - Writing a Marvelous Voice in the United States: Lo Real Maravilloso in Ana Castillo, Ron Arias, and Alejandro Morales
Arlenn Mendez - The Diffusing Effects of Emotional Expression on Anxiety-Avoidance for Women Under Sterotype Threat
Francisco Mendoza - The DREAM Act: Reconciling State and Federal Laws that Currently Empower and Discourage High Achieving Undocumented Students Seeking Postsecondary Education
Leah Noriega - The Effect of Acculturation and Familism on the Use of HCS
Kristy Phillips - Correlation of Glucose Levels and Diabetes in Populations with High and Low Arsenic
Marcos Teran - Determining the Progression of Renal Disease in Diabetic Mice During Perimenopause
Roy Vanegas - Linging Music Students and Music Instructors Via the Internet
Maribel Vega - Mexico's Maquila Effect: Public Opinion and Attitudes on the 2006 Presidential Elections; Nogales Case Study
Takis Weekes - Late 13th Century Abandonment at the Mogollan Rim Settlement of Bryant Ranch Pueblo
Maria Williams - Volatiles of Developing Honey Bees as Detected By SPME
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SRI 2004
Consuelo Aguilar - Undocumented Persons Within the Criminal Justice System in Southern Arizona
Lourdes Barrera - What is the Health Care Access Issue Along the U.S.-Mexico Border Region? A Retrospective Comparative Study of U.S.-Mexico Border States and Counties
Carmen Batista - A Whole Hearted People: Qualitative Analysis of Alcohol, Violence, and Culture from Northwestern American Indian Tribe Focus Group
Sandra Chavez - Child's Play: An Analysis of Southwestern Pottery
Katrina Claw - Dying of Shame: Pascua Yaqui Beliefs and Perceptions of Cancer
Anna Cordova - Heritage for Sale: The Looting of Arizona's Archaeological Sites
Inez Duarte - Immigration Enforcement and Undocumented Migrants' Rights in the Arizona-Sonora Border (2004)
Shannon Franklin - African-American Website as an Extension of Black Media
Vanessa Garcia - Biohydrogenation Protection, Efficiencies of Rumen Inert Dietary Fats
Adrian Garcia-Sega - Extraction of Photographic Emulsion for Radiocarbon Dating
Estehla Gonzales - Preliminary Evaluation of a Real-Time PCR Assay for the Early Diagnosis of Johne's Disease in Dairy Cattle
Jimmy Kirby, Jr. - Edutainment: An Examination of the Sacred Role of Rap Music
Connie Meza - Correlates of Sleep Related Variables and Academic Performance
German Murcia - Correlates of Metamemory in High vs. Low Frontal Lobe Performance in Older Adults
Josh Romero - Testing the Cosmic Concordance Model: Are There Too Many Solutions to the Giant Arc Statistic Problem?
LeResse Shipp - For the Love of Black History: African American Women in Theater 1920-1965
Giorgio Sotiriou - NGO's, Neo-Liberalism, and Accountability Shelters
Aphrodyi Walker - Valley Fever and the Response of the Immune System in Smokers and Asthmatics
Stephanie Wong - Comparing Impact Melt Volumes on the Moon, Earth, and Mars