Scholars and Topics
SRI 2012
Arturo Adame - Power Loss Effects in PV Modules Due to Angle of Incidence; Mentor: Dr. Alexander Cronin,
Michelle Aguilera - Using the Community Cultural Wealth Theory to Investigate Middle School Student Aspirational Capital and Social Capital; Mentor: Dr. Andrea Romero, Family Studies and Human Development
Ashley Anhalt - Modeling Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment;
Henry Ayoola - Bioaccessibility of Arsenic and Lead in Iron King Mine Tailings and Dependence on Mineralogy and Speciation; Mentor Dr. Avelino E. Saez, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Edelio Bazan - Microbial Diversity Affiliated with Fruits of Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea), the Iconic Sonoran Desert Cactus;
Alyssa Begay - A Ten-Year picture: Changes in Mother and Child Health in the La Paz/Mohave Region;
Michael Bryant - Social Spending and Economic Growth issues in
Peter Cerda - Diversity and Heavy Metal Tolerance of Endolichenic Fungi in the Lichen Xanthoparmelia in Southeastern Arizona;
Oscar Galvan - Evaluation of Reducing Energy Costs using Precooling in Desert Climates; Mentor: Dr. Roman Lysecky, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Armando Garcia - Exploring the Effects of Electron-Electron Interactions on the Absorption Spectra of Increasingly Larger Fragments of Graphene;
Gabriel Garcia - A Survey of 87Sr/86Sr Values from Worldwide Hydrothermal and Igneous-related Ore Deposits;
Colleen Hale - Water Strategies and Knowledge Sharing in the Arid Southwest;
Edlin Herdnandez - Architecture Design Interventions for Human Thermal Comfort in Outdoor Spaces; Mentor: Dr. Kevin E. Lansey, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Marisela Lozano - The Role of the Catechol O-methyltransferase (COMT) Genotype in the Executive Functioning of Older Adults;
Lauren Malanga -
Amber Medina - Low Signal to Noise Galaxy Spectra and Photometric Redshift Estimation;
Kessley Medina - Latent Period of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ in the Potato (Tomato) Psyllid Bactericera Cockerelli (s.o. Homoptera: Psyllidae) Following Different Acquisition-Access Periods;
May Mgbolu -
Robert Quiroz - Alternative Combination Methods for the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence;
Jessica Salazar - Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Measurements to Determine the Band Gap of Molybdenum Disulfide; Mentor: Dr. Brian LeRoy, Physics
Alisha Schmidt - Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Those with Worry, Anxiety, Obsessions, and Compulsions;
Johnathan Siquieros - Medicinal Applications of Larrea tridentata, the Creosote Bush, according to the Tohono O’odham;
Brian Suarez - Modeling of Few-Mode Fibers and Compensation for Mode Cross-Talk; Mentor: Dr. Ivan B. Djordjevic, College of Optical Sciences
Elizabeth Uriarte - Silent Voices: Undocumented Migrants Lost Between Federal and State Bureaucracies; Mentor: Dr. Celeste Gonzalez De Bustamante,
Brian Valenzuela - Arbitrary Precision Computation of the Riemann-Siegel Approximation of the Riemann Zeta Function off the Critical Line; Mentor: Dr. Moysey Brio, Department of Mathematics
Erick Vega - Series Expansion of the Riemann Zeta Function Inside the Critical Strip; Mentor: Dr. Dr. Moysey Brio, Department of Mathematics
Wesley Wilkins - Preliminary Investigations of the Rotunda Throne Room Fault Complex at
SRI 2011
Rebecca Archer - The Impact of Proficiency and Working Memory on Second Language Processing: A Study Using ERP; Mentor: Dr. Gayle Dede, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Shannon Archuleta - Why We Remember: Emotion's Role in Autobiographical Memory; Mentor: Dr. Lee Ryan, Psychology
Angelia Castorena - Informant Reports Following Marital Separation: More than Self-Report Alone?; Mentor: Dr. David Sbarra, Psychology
Samantha De La Fuente - Crouching Tiger: The Effect of China's Rise on U.S.-Mexico Trade; Mentor: Dr. Kathleen Schwartzman, Sociology
Bryan Demapan - Low Metallicity Quasars at Redshift Larger than 3 (2<z<4); Mentor: Dr. Xiaohui Fan, Steward Observatory
Thomas Eubanks - Genetic Characterization of Putative Arsenite-Oxidizing Bacteria Isolated from the Lower Laguna Madre of Texas; Mentor: Dr. Megan McEvoy, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Abraham Garcia - Migrant Farmworker Injury and Crop Associations in Yuma, Arizona; Mentor: Dr. Scott Carvajal, Public Health - Health Promotions Sciences
Armando Garcia - The Hartree-Fock Molecular Orbital Method as Applied to the Coronene Molecule; Mentor: Dr. Sumit Mazumdar, Physics
Steven Garcia - Reward Seeking and Anxiety: Influence of Novel Food Reward on Behavior in a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Rat Model; Mentor: Dr. Jean-Marc Fellous
Kristen Godfrey - Where to Now? NAFTA's effect on Indigenous Women and Migration in Chiapas; Mentor: Dr. Kevin Gosner, History
Alondra Hernandez - Ag-TiO2: Antimicrobial Nanoparticles in Textile Applications; Mentor: Dr. Charles P. Gerba, Soil, Water, and Environmental Science
Michael (Micheal) Hoffman - Pack Your Things and Get Out: Athenian Ostrcism as a Mechanism of Accountability in the American Democracy; Mentor: Dr. Susan Dovi, Government & Public Policy
Shivanna S. Johnson - Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiles of C. Jejuni isolated from Beef Cattle; Mentor: Dr. Lynn A. Joens, Veterinary Science and Microbiology
Casey Mackin - Integration of Hardware/Sofware Communication Middleware and Framework for Seamless Dataflow in Data Adaptable Embedded Systems; Mentor: Dr. Roman Lysecky, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Brittany R. Pena - The Effects of a Fungai Endophyte Symbosis on Arsenic Uptake by Corn; Mentor: Dr. A. Elizabeth Arnold, Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Lisa M. Sullivan - Does Stereotype Threat Affect High-School Student Standardized Test Performance?; Mentor: Dr. Laura G. Lunsford, Psychology
Sofia Tirado - Politicized Notions of Blackness: A Comparison Study of the Mulatta in A Escrava Isaura and Lola Leroy; Mentor: Dr. Geta LeSeur-Brown, English
Mario A. Valdez - Effect of Oxy-Acetylene Torch Test Flame Conditions on the Ablation Resistance of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Composites at Elevated Temperatures; Mentor: Dr. Erica L. Corral, Dr. William R. Pinc, Materials Science and Engineering Department
Bryant G. Valencia - Campus Racial Climate and the Latina/o Experience: Racial Microagressions and Responses; Mentor: Dr. Nolan L. Cabrera, Center for the Study of Higher Education
Manuel J. Villegas - Advanced Oxidation of Trace Organics in Water by Hydrogen Peroxide Solar Photolysis; Mentor: Dr. Eduardo Sáez, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Tatiana Walker - Parent-Mediated Early Intervention in Young Children with Autism: Synchrony, Verbal Praise and Directiveness; Mentor: Dr. Ann M. Mastergeorge, Family and Consumer Sciences - Family Studies and Human Development
Sarah Wang - To Use or Not to Use? Theorizing how Felt Stigma Related to Coupon Usage Influences Subsequent Coupon Use; Mentor: Dr. Anita Bhappu, Family and Consumer Sciences
SRI 2010
Ruben Alberto Bravo Castano - The Role of Traffic Heuristic and Affect Depreciation in Timing Callbacks; Mentor: Dr. Narayan Janakiraman, Marketing
Alexandra Chavez - The Implications of Tourism Development on Mexico's Community Development and Heritage Conservation; Mentor: Dr. R. Brooks Jeffrey, School of Architecture
Kimberly Danny - The Role of Trans-membrane Temperature Difference in Sweeping Gas Membrane Distillation; Mentor: Dr. Wendell Ella, Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Natasha Kyte - A Different Prospective on Phonology: The ASL-phabet; Mentor: Dr. Samuel Supalla, Disability & Psychoeducational Studies
Amanda Adelina Lopez - Apraxia of Speech: A Look into Vowel Errors and Their Treatment; Mentor: Dr. Edwin Maas; Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences
Laura Sofia Montes Sujo - Finding the Chilling Tolerance of Three Cucurbit Rootstock and Scion Varieties for Future Study of Grafted Plants; Mentor: Dr. Chieri Kubota, Plant Sciences
Karen Quintana - Immigration & Arizona: The Use of Frame Theory within News Media; Mentor: Dr. Kate Kenski, Communication
Jeannette Sanchez - Federal vs. State Anti-Immigration Fervor: Calling Attention to Discriminatory Immigration Legislation in the United States and Arizona; Mentor: Dr. Celestino Fernandez, Sociology
Antoinette Tafoya - The Words of Fourth Grade Students: Interests, Prior Knowledge and Comprehension in Terms of Reading and Student Success; Mentor: Dr. Patricia Anders, Education
Melissa Valdez - Complementation of Outer Membrane Factor of Copper Resistance System, CusCFBA, in Escherichia Coli; Mentor: Dr. Chris Rensing, Microbiology
Chase Andrew Velasquez - Re-Building American Indian Nations: Overcoming the Consequences of Colonization through Effective Tribal Courts; Mentor: Dr. Manley Begay; American Indian Studies
R'nld Ruth Wheeler - Sex Differences in the Use of Landmark Cues to Solve the Traveling Salesperson Problem; Mentor: Dr. Jean-Marc Fellous, Applied Mathematics
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
Amy McCleney - Buoyancy Convection due to Temperature and Concentration Non-Uniformity through Linear Stability Analysis; Mentor: Dr. Cholik Chan
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
Adela Garza - Mentor: Dr. Aleksander Ellis
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; Mentor: Dr. Elena Plante
Fabiola Bien-Aime - Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Arizona-Sonora Region; Mentor: Dr. Cecilia Rosales
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; Mentor: Dr. Nancy Odegaard
Israel Favela - Paleolithic Pigment Processing of Kostienki l-1; Mentor: Dr. Pam Vandiver
Derek Hembree - The Literary Architect: The Reconstruction Poetry of Frances E.W. Harper; Mentor: Dr. Wendy Theodore
Armando Xavier Membrila - Propulsion Solutions for NASAs Dynamically Scaled Personal Aviation Vehicle; Mentor: Dr. Herman Fasel
Julia Ornelas - La Mujer Abnegada, Mexican Women and the Bracero Program: 1942-1963; Mentor: Dr. Karen Anderson
Natasha Raming - Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Repetition Priming: An fMRI Study; Mentor: Dr. Lee Ryan
Reyniak Richards - A Novel Approach to the Multimerization of Peptide Ligands for Cancer Cell Imaging; Mentor: Dr. Gene Mash
Elizabeth Soltero - Making Chicana/o Education A Public Issue in Tucson, 1965-1972; Mentor: Dr. Lydia Otero
Jose Soto - US-Mexico Tomato Suspension Agreement: Analysis of Acres Planted in Sinaloa, Mexico; Mentor: Dr. Satheesh Aradhyula
Yer Xiong - Cancer Trends Along the United States-Mexico Border: 2001-2003; Mentor: Dr. Howard Eng
SRI 2005
Jenny Billy - The Role of Climate Variability in the Sahel and Kalahari Deserts; Mentor: Dr. Chuck Hutchinson
Gail Bradford - Mentor, Dr. Lisa Staten
Shaun Brown - Leaks in Education Systems; Mentor: Dr. Barbara Becker
Christopher Chable - Face: Expanding the Chicano Canon; Mentor: Dr. Carlos Gallego
Benny Cocio - A Comprehensive Look at Diabetic Retinopathy in Mexican Americans; Mentor: Dr. Scott Carvahal
Rick Cruz - Methlyphenidate adn Parent-Identified Target Symptons: Developing a Patient-Based Approach; Mentor: Dr. Jaswinder Ghuman
Kimberly Cubit - Melanoma Patients' Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Genetic Testing; Mentor: Dr. Lois Loescher
Martha Dailey - The Effects of the English Only Movement on the Dine; Mentor: Dr. Roseann Gonzalez
Thuy Dao - Protein Synthesis and Heat Stress Phenotypes Suggest the Importance of Arabidopsis UVH6 for Plant Growth; Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Vierling
Suzana Diaz - The Color of Sexual Intercourse on TV; Mentor: Dr. Dale Kunkel
Onofre Escobar - They Sang at the Foot of the Black Hill: A brief History of Los Elegantes in Tucson; Mentor: Dr. Maribel Alvarez
Tiffany Forde - Identifying Interventions to Treat Obesity by Gender in Adolescents Ages 11-18; Mentor: Dr. Anabel Hill
Elyse Fune - The Effects of Acute Stress on Various Forms of Memory; Mentor: Dr. Jake Jacobs
Nicole Garrett - Writing a Marvelous Voice in the United States: Lo Real Maravilloso in Ana Castillo, Ron Arias, and Alejandro Morales; Mentor: Dr. Laura Gutierrez-Escarpita
Arlenn Mendez - The Diffusing Effects of Emotional Expression on Anxiety-Avoidance for Women Under Sterotype Threat; Mentor: Dr. Toni Schmader
Francisco Mendoza - The DREAM Act: Reconciling State and Federal Laws that Currently Empower and Discourage High Achieving Undocumented Students Seeking Postsecondary Education; Mentor: Dr. Lydia Otero
Leah Noriega - The Effect of Acculturation and Familism on the Use of HCS; Mentor: Dr. Janice Crist
Kristy Phillips - Correlation of Glucose Levels and Diabetes in Populations with High and Low Arsenic; Mentor: Dr. Mary Kay O'Rourke
Marcos Teran - Determining the Progression of Renal Disease in Diabetic Mice During Perimenopause; Mentor: Dr. Heddwen Brooks
Roy Vanegas - Linging Music Students and Music Instructors Via the Internet; Mentor: Dr. John Hartman
Maribel Vega - Mexico's Maquila Effect: Public Opinion and Attitudes on the 2006 Presidential Elections; Nogales Case Study; Mentor: Dr. Bill Beezley
Takis Weekes - Late 13th Century Abandonment at the Mogollan Rim Settlement of Bryant Ranch Pueblo; Mentor: Dr. Barbara Mills
Maria Williams - Volatiles of Developing Honey Bees as Detected By SPME; Mentor: Dr. Judith Hooper
Francine Women Dress - Mentor: Dr. Jennie Joe
SRI 2004
Consuelo Aguilar - Undocumented Persons Within the Criminal Justice System in Southern Arizona; Mentor: Dr. Rubio-Goldsmith
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; Mentor: Dr. Howard Eng
Carmen Batista - A Whole Hearted People: Qualitative Analysis of Alcohol, Violence, and Culture from Northwestern American Indian Tribe Focus Group; Mentor: Dr. Mary Koss
Sandra Chavez - Child's Play: An Analysis of Southwestern Pottery; Mentor: Dr. Nancy Odegaard
Katrina Claw - Dying of Shame: Pascua Yaqui Beliefs and Perceptions of Cancer; Mentor: Dr. Merrill Eisenberg
Anna Cordova - Heritage for Sale: The Looting of Arizona's Archaeological Sites; Mentor: Dr. John Madsen
Inez Duarte - Immigration Enforcement and Undocumented Migrants' Rights in the Arizona-Sonora Border (2004); Mentor: Dr. Rubio-Goldsmith
Shannon Franklin - African-American Website as an Extension of Black Media; Mentor: Dr. Beretta Smith-Shomade
Vanessa Garcia - Biohydrogenation Protection, Efficiencies of Rumen Inert Dietary Fats; Mentor: Dr. Lance Baumgard
Adrian Garcia-Sega - Extraction of Photographic Emulsion for Radiocarbon Dating; Mentors: Dr. Jull & Dr. Hodgins
Estehla Gonzales - Preliminary Evaluation of a Real-Time PCR Assay for the Early Diagnosis of Johne's Disease in Dairy Cattle; Mentor: Dr. Carlos Reggiardo
Jimmy Kirby, Jr. - Edutainment: An Examination of the Sacred Role of Rap Music; Mentor: Dr. Alex Nava
Connie Meza - Correlates of Sleep Related Variables and Academic Performance; Mentor: Dr. Richard Bootzin
German Murcia - Correlates of Metamemory in High vs. Low Frontal Lobe Performance in Older Adults; Dr. Al Kaszniak
Josh Romero - Testing the Cosmic Concordance Model: Are There Too Many Solutions to the Giant Arc Statistic Problem?; Mentor: Dr. Dennis Zaritsky
LeResse Shipp - For the Love of Black History: African American Women in Theater 1920-1965; Mentor: Dr. Wendy Theodore
Giorgio Sotiriou - NGO's, Neo-Liberalism, and Accountability Shelters; Dr. Suzanne Dovi
Aphrodyi Walker - Valley Fever and the Response of the Immune System in Smokers and Asthmatics; Mentor: Dr. Mary Kay O'Rourke
Stephanie Wong - Comparing Impact Melt Volumes on the Moon, Earth, and Mars; Mentor: Dr. David King