Firestone and Golden
Medal recipients honored for academic achievement
Class of 1998 recipients
of the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate
Research and the Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in
Humanities and Creative Arts have been announced by John
Shoven, dean of humanities and sciences, and Laura
Selznick, director of the Undergraduate Research
Opportunities office.
Related
Information:
The Firestone award
recognizes students undertaking honors projects in the
social, physical and natural sciences, nominated by their
academic programs or departments. The Golden award
similarly distinguishes students completing honors
projects in the humanities or creative projects in the
fine arts.
The medalists each
received an engraved bronze medal, citation and check at
an awards ceremony June 13 in Campbell Recital Hall.
The awardees, their
hometowns, departments or programs, projects and faculty
sponsors follow:
Robert M. Golden Medals
for Excellence in Humanites and Creative Arts
Prithika L.
Balakrishnan; San Jose; history; "Perez v.
Lippold The Historical Origin of Color-Blindness
in Anti-Miscegenation Law"; George Fredrickson,
history.
Cecilia Balli;
Brownsville, Texas; American studies; "Staging
Culture in Tejano Texas: The Public Performance of
Identity in the South Texas Rio Grande Valley";
Ramón Saldívar, English and comparative literature.
Eric A. Beerbohm;
Belmont; ethics in society; "Welfare Justice: A
Rawlsian Response to the Personal Responsibility Act of
1996"; Mark Tunick, political science.
Chad J. Bennett;
Huxley, Iowa; English; "Green/Hitchcock: Statements
of Faith"; Jocelyn Lutz Marsh, English.
Sarah Emily Cathcart;
Glenview, Ill.; drama; "Artistic Creation in
Drama."
Catherine M. Chang;
Los Angeles; English; "Oscar Wilde's Moral Presence
in His Major Plays: A Study in Revisions"; Ronald
Rebholz and John L'Heureux, English.
Anne Lewis Cunha;
Loomis, Calif.; drama; "The Extraordinary and
Subversive Power of the Dramatic Dream, from Shakespeare
to the Contemporary Theatre: A Study of the Dream as a
Dramatic Device"; Harry Elam, drama.
Tiffany M. Kuo;
Claremont, Calif.; music; "Artistic Creation in
Music."
Colin N. Milburn;
Wrightwood, Calif.; comparative literature;
"Bleeding Texts and Monstrous Authors: Theorizing
Horror"; John Bender, English and comparative
literature.
Connie E. North;
Englewood, Colo.; humanities special programs;
"Perceptions of Womanhood in Late 19th-Century
Montana: A Comparative Exploration of a Crow and Pioneer
Woman's Texts"; Estelle Freedman, history.
Aly Remtulla;
Calgary, Alberta; anthropology; "(Dis)Placing
Khojahs: Forging Identities, Revitalizing Islam and
Crafting Global Ismailism"; Sylvia Yanagisako,
anthropology.
Shawn C. Salmon;
Atherton; history; "Destalinization and the
Historian's Word: The Case of Aleksandr Nekrich";
Amir Weiner, history.
Gabriel S. Trop;
Santa Monica, Calif; humanities special programs;
"Tarrying with Translation: Language, Aesthetics and
Human Emancipation in Walter Benjamin's The Task of
the Translator"; Karen Kenkel, German studies.
Sierra Li'en Washington;
Palo Alto; art; "Artistic Creation in Art."
Jake Otto Wobbrock;
Lake Oswego, Ore.; symbolic systems; "The Law and
Policy of Autonomous Software Agents"; Carey
Heckman, law, and Thomas Wasow, philosophy and
linguistics.
Jennifer C. Yu;
Stanford,; linguistics; "He Re'o O Ta'a Poki Nei
E Rangi Atu Ena: Language Shift on Rapanui";
Penelope Eckert, linguistics.
Firestone Medals for
Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Ajai A. Dandekar;
Marion, Iowa; human biology; "Signaling Abilities of
the Cytoplasmic Domain of the Insulin Receptor-Related
Receptor"; Richard Roth, molecular pharmacology.
Sara Millie Ellis;
Rapid City, S.D.; sociology; "The Grameen Bank: How
Microcredit Empowers Women in Rural Bangladesh";
Cecilia Ridgeway, sociology.
Emily D. Gestrin;
Glenview, Ill.; human biology; "A Second Form of
Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone in Mouse"; Russell
Fernald, psychology.
Allison H. Hall;
Denver; biological sciences; "Effects of Blocking
Action Potential Activity on Axonal Pattern Formation in
Slice Cultures of Ferret Cerebral Cortex"; Susan K.
McConnell, biological sciences.
Allison S. Hileman;
La Grange, Ill.; international relations; "Politics
of Performances and Performances of Politics: South
African Theater for Development and Its Effect on the
Dismantling of Apartheid"; Harry Elam, drama.
Allison M. Himmel;
Darien, Conn.; biological sciences; "An
Electrophysiological Investigation of Anesthetic Effects
at Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapses in the Mammalian
Brain"; M. Bruce MacIver, anesthesia.
Pieter T. Johnson;
Claremont, Calif.; biological sciences; "An
Investigation of Abnormalities in Amphibian Communities:
Evidence for Parasite Invection as a Cause of
Supernumerary Limbs and other Limb Deformities in Hyla
regilla"; Paul R. Ehrlich, biological sciences.
Jennifer A. Jolley;
Princeton, N.J.; human biology; "Development of a
Broad-Range Fungal 18S rDNA PCR Assay for Use in
Determining the Phylogeny of Rhinosporidium seeberi,
a Human Pathogen"; David Fredricks, medicine.
Daniel Jay Kao; San
Marino, Calif.; public policy; "Does Hospital
Ownership Structure Influence Staffing Levels?";
Daniel Kessler, business, and Mark McClellan, economics.
Sulggi A. Lee;
Lafayette; human biology; "The Effects of Fine
Particulate Matter Air Contamination (PM 2.5) on Lower
Acute Respiratory Infections in Santiago, Chile";
Ware G. Kuschner, medicine.
Solomon S. Lefler;
Turlock; political science; "The Politics of
Cultural Values in Singapore: Explaining the PAP's
East/West Dichotomy"; Larry Diamond, Hoover
Institution.
Jessa M. Lewis; La
Jolla, Calif.; Institute for International Studies
Goldman Honors Program; "Alternatives to Intensified
Coffee Production in Costa Rica: An Analysis of Three
More Sustainable Production Systems"; Roz Naylor,
Institute for International Studies.
Shahla F. Maghzi;
San Francisco; international relations; "Approaching
the Middle Way: The Relative Decline of Mediation and
Rise of Litigation in Contemporary China"; Michel
Oksenberg, political science.
Janet Lynn Maldonado;
Menlo Park; human biology; "A Small Battle Won in
the War Against Autoimmunity; PKA Antagonizes Calcineurin
Induced Nuclear Translocation of NF-ATp"; Phyllis
Gardner, molecular pharmacology and medicine.
Margaret W. Mann;
Huntington Beach, Calif.; biological sciences; "The
Nature of Signaling through the T Cell Receptor Affects
the Regulation of T Helper 1 (Th1)/ Th2 Cytokine Profile
by CYTRF"; Patricia Jones, biological sciences.
Rachel K. Marshak;
St. Louis Park, Minn.; political science;
"Restraining the Sovereign: An Integration of the
Democracy and the Democratization Literature";
Michael McFaul, political science.
Amori Yee Mikami;
Rolling Hills, Calif.; psychology; "The Effect of
Dieting on the Persistence of Dysphoria Among Early
Adolescent Females"; Ian Gotlib, psychology.
Biren P. Modi;
Rocky Face, Ga.; biological sciences; "Chemical
Analyses of Biological Nanoenvironments"; Richard N.
Zare, chemistry.
Leif D. Nelson;
Santa Cruz; psychology; "The Reversal of Defensive
Processing Through Self-Affirmation"; Claude M.
Steele, psychology.
Beau Robert Peelle;
Locust Valley, N.Y.; biological sciences;
"Development of Systems for Studying Molecular
Interactions Between Short Peptide Sequences and
Screening of Retrovirus Expressed Peptide Libraries for
Novel Dimerizing Peptides in Mammalian Cells"; Garry
P. Nolan, molecular pharmacology.
Daniel Podolsky;
Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico; physics; "Dalitz Plot
Analysis of the Decay D+ 'K- p+p+"; Patricia
Burchat, physics.
Brian R. Potts;
Moraga,; biological sciences; "The Mechanisms for
Vascular Wound Repair In Vitro Using Human Dermal
Microvascular Endothelial Cells"; Marvin A. Karasek,
dermatology.
Beth Ann Ripley;
Beaverton, Ore.; biological sciences; "The Effects
of Temperature on the Jet-Escape Response of the Squid Loligo
opalescens"; William Gilly, biological sciences.
Dana Lyn Silverstein;
Phoenix, Ariz.; economics; "The Paradox of
Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments";
Michael Horvath, economics. SR
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