CSR Scholars 2014-2015
Scholars by Major
Name:  Diaz, Hugo
 Research Mentor: Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
 Project Tile: The Friend Zone Project
Name:  Amadi, Michael
 Research Mentor: Dr. Claudia Uhde-Stone
 Project Tile: Functional Genomics of White Lupin
Name:  Avina, Monika
Research Mentor: Dr. Maria Gallegos
Project Tile:Exploring mechanosensory circuit development in C. elegans
Name:  Ceja, Alma
Research Mentor: Dr. Tyler Evans
Project Tile:Exploring the effects of climate change using zebrafish embryos
Name:  Fathi-Torbaghan, Nadija
Research Mentor:  Dr. Kenneth Curr
Project Tile:Determining the method of viral entry of GBV-C into human WBCs
Name:  Fernandez, Matthew
Research Mentor:  Dr. Kenneth Curr
Project Tile:The effect of GBVC infection on human white blood cell apoptosis
Name:  Hackney, Margaret
Research Mentor:  Dr. Kenneth Curr
Project Tile:Manipulation of PBMC gene expression by human pegivirus
Name:  Henderson, Chelsea
Research Mentor:  Dr. James Murray
Project Tile:Study of Navigation in Tritonia diomedea
Name:  Maynard, Ashley
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Tyler Evans
 Project Tile: Enhancing the restoration of California’s estuaries by exploring the genetic basis of environmental tolerance in Olympia oyster (Ostrea lurida)
Name:  Mayol, Katrina-Mari
Research Mentor:  Dr. James Murray
Project Tile:Magnetic Navigational Senses in Tritonia Diomeda
Name:  Nguyen, Daniel
Research Mentor:  Dr. Tyler Evans
Project Tile: Common and stressor-specific response to temperature hypoxia and salinity in the estuarine fish Gillicthys mirabillis
Name:  Patel, Archana
Research Mentor:  Dr. Matthew Atencio
Project Tile: Critical Media Analysis
Name:  Penaflor, Alexander
Research Mentor:  Dr. Jennie Guzman
Project Tile: Strontium Magneto-Optical Trap
Name:  Perez-Murillo, Martha
Research Mentor:  Dr. Maria Gallegos
Project Tile: Growth and development of PLM in C. elegans
Name:  Roth, Caroline
Research Mentor:  Dr. Kenneth Curr
Project Tile: Determining the 3-D structure of GBV-C’s RNA polymerase NS5B
Name:  Schaefferkoetter, Devin
Research Mentor:  Dr. Tyler Evans
Project Tile: Exploring the relationship between habitat temperature and enzymatic hydrogen bonds in endothermic marine organisms
Name:  Sharifi, Osman
Research Mentor:  Dr. Kenneth Curr
Project Tile: An Evolutionary Look Inside the Order Nudibranchia
Name:  Sood, Riddhi
Research Mentor:  Dr. Christoph Baysdorfer
Project Tile: Phylogenetic analysis of genus Prosartes
Name:  Sultana, Arshia
Research Mentor:  Dr. Maria Gallegos
Project Tile: The Role of Rab GTPases in Olfactory Adaptation in C. elegans
Name:  Trinh, Hao
Research Mentor:  Dr. Christoph Baysdorfer
Project Tile: The role of RNAi in regulating transposable elements (TE)
Name:  Vardakis, Crystal
Research Mentor:  Dr. James Murray
Project Tile: Structure and Composition of the Eyes in Tritonia tetraquetra
Name:  Zacarias, Samantha
Research Mentor:  Dr. James Murray
Project Tile: Elucidating the neural circuit involved in chemotaxis in Tritonia tetraquetra
Name:  Baginski, Robin
Research Mentor: Dr. Monika Sommerhalter
Project Tile:Characterization of PPO from bacteria Thermomicrobium roseum
Name:  Becker, Anthony
Research Mentor: Dr. Ehsan Kamalinejad
Project Tile:Machine learning and analysis of narrative structures
Name:  Chaitesipaseut, Lena
Research Mentor: Dr. Chul Kim
Project Tile:Structural Studies on an RNA pseudoknot
Name:  Edogun, Osanfanmwen
Research Mentor: Dr. Marlin Halim
Project Tile:Analytical Study of Gadolinium-Aptamer Binding
Name:  Galvan, Stephan
Research Mentor:  Dr. Marlin Halim
Project Tile:Aptamer Ligand for Increased stability Gd (III) MRI Contrast Agent
Name:  Kaur, Karishma
Research Mentor:  Dr. Monika Sommerhalter
Project Tile:Survey of polyphenol oxidase enzymes in the mustard plant family
Name:  Rodas, Melina
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Monika Sommerhalter
 Project Tile: Characterization of a polyphenol oxidase enzyme from popular trees
Name:  Li, Qing
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Yi He
 Project Tile: Advertising Strategic Research for International Fast Food Industry
Name:  Sundar, Karthika
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Ken Chung
 Project Tile: Cultural determinants of pacing in innovation work
Name:  Chan, Tracy
 Research Mentor: Dr. Marlin Halim
 Project Tile: Galactosemia
Name:  Hand, Christopher
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jeffery Seitz
 Project Tile: Molecular Astrobiology
Name:  Le, Tuan Anh
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Monika Sommerhalter
 Project Tile: Sol-gel Technology and Silica/Protein Hybrid Materials
Name:  Lo, Carl
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Patrick Huang
 Project Tile: Characterization of Plutonium in Aqueous Environments
Name:  Tso, Jonathan, Lee
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Kim Chul
 Project Tile: The RNA Pseudoknot: natural unfolding and folding of the simplest shape of RNA
Name:  Kishor, Krishneel
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Howard Lei
 Project Tile: Animal Voice Recognition Project
Name:  Anumala Vijayakumar, Lakshminarasimhan
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Beth Yeager
 Project Tile: Implementation of technology-in-use in one school district
Name:  Taluja, Richa
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Beth Yeager
 Project Tile: Ethnographic Approach
Name:  Banks, Kirsten Bitter
 Research Mentor: Dr. Greg Jennings
 Project Tile: Identifying Practical and Meaningful Student Strengths
Name:  Inocencio, Dionisia
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Greg Jennings
 Project Tile: The Effectiveness of Using Mind-Up Curriculum with K-12 Element
Name:  Jimenez, Elvia
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Oanh Tran
 Project Tile: Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in a Three Tiered Model
Name:  Kondonijakos, Adi
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Oanh Tran
 Project Tile: Effectiveness of Mindfulness as a Social-Emotional Intervention
Name:  Shaw, Natalie
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Greg Jennings
 Project Tile: Identifying Practical and Meaningful Student Strengths
Name:  Tiu, Stephanie
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Greg Jennings
 Project Tile: Identifying Practical and Meaningful Student Strengths
Name:  Nguyen, Nguyen
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Ryan Lampe
 Project Tile: The competition between chain and independent stores
Name:  Kumar, Jayachandran Pradeep
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Farnaz Ganjeizadeh
 Project Tile: Forecasting on medication demands in epidemics
Name:  Bahramian, Jennifer
 Research Mentor: Dr. Jeffery Sietz
 Project Tile: Molecular Astrobiology
Name: Blackwell, Rebecca 
 Research Mentor: Dr. Jeffery Seitz
 Project Tile: Molecular Astrobiology
Name:  York, Drew
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jeffery Seitz
 Project Tile: Molecular Astrobiology
Name:  Bracamontes, Amanda
 Research Mentor: Dr. Duke Austin
 Project Tile: RSF Project
Name:  Minkler Green, Mischa
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jeffery Seitz
 Project Tile: Environmental Restoration & Learning: Identifying Best Practices
Name:  Salazar, Christina
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jeffery Seitz
 Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science (IMSS) Partnership
Name:  Skiff, Candice
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Beth Yeager
 Project Tile: STEM: Game Jam
Name:  Brar, Evranjeet
 Research Mentor: Dr. Jenny O
 Project Tile: Physical and Sedentary Activity in a College Population: The influence of undergraduate major and gender
Name:  Brizendine, Evan
 Research Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Sherwood
 Project Tile: Student Outcomes from an Experiential Course
Name:  Farnik, Havalind Elizabeth
 Research Mentor: Dr. Matthew Atencio
 Project Tile: The Influence of Music on Sports and Physical Activity Performance
Name:  Ferrari-Church, Benjamin
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Vanessa Yingling
 Project Tile: CSUEB Student Athletes
Name:  Frost, Nathan
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jenny O
 Project Tile: Performances changes following instant video feedback in fencing
Name:  Hall, Brett
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jenny O
 Project Tile: Baseball Imagery Dartfish Analysis
Name:  Hamor, Nastassia Ariana
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jenny O
 Project Tile: Examining AGO and the BPNS of NCAA Division II Collegiate Athletes
Name:  Lee, Ji hyeon
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Matthew Atencio
 Project Tile: How Youth Value Skateboarding and the Involvement of their Parents
Name:  Strickland, Ariana
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Vanessa Yingling
 Project Tile: Comparing Bone Loading Between Two Different Groups of Collegiate Athletes
Name:  Yang, Derek
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Vanessa Yingling
 Project Tile: Dartfish Overground vs. Treadmill
Name:  Singh, Abhishek
 Academic Program:  Marketing
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Ken Chung
 Project Tile: Learning Styles and Time Pacing
Name:  Beall, Samuel
 Research Mentor: Dr. Derek Kimball
 Project Tile: Frequency Comb
Name:  Anaya, Jason
 Research Mentor: Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
 Project Tile: Live Cube
Name:  Emono, Michael
 Research Mentor: Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
 Project Tile: Live Cube
Name:  Foster, Robert
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
 Project Tile: Project Daffodil
Name:  Geraghty, Sian
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
 Project Tile: Project Daffodil
Name:  Ho, Christine
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
 Project Tile: Project Daffodil
Name:  Rivas, Miguel
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
 Project Tile: The Friend Zone
Name:  Rizzo, Richard
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
 Project Tile: The Friend Zone
Name:  Browne, Nathaniel
 Research Mentor: Dr. Gwyan Rhabyt
 Project Tile: The Friend Zone Project
Name:  Cobos, Aracely Susan
 Research Mentor: Dr. Jennie Guzman
 Project Tile: Testing the Spin Statistics Theorem with Ultracold Sr Atoms
Name:  DeCamp, Garrett
 Research Mentor: Dr. Derek Kimball
 Project Tile: Sensor development for a global network of optical magnetometers
Name:  Diefenbach, Matthew
 Research Mentor: Dr. Erik Helgren
 Project Tile: Renewable Energy Laboratory
Name:  Erhahon, Hendrix
 Research Mentor: Dr. Erik Helgren
 Project Tile: Conductivity of Polyaniline pellets
Name: Fuentes, Dominic 
 Research Mentor: Dr. Derek Kimball 
 Project Tile: Sensor development for global network of optical magnetometers
Name:  Geronimo, Darwin
 Research Mentor:  Dr. William Pezzaglia
 Project Tile: Analysis of Center of Mass Shift of a Moving Spinning Body
Name:  Inaki, Taichi
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jennie Guzman
 Project Tile: Strontium Magneto-Optical Trap Group
Name:  Li, Yan
 Research Mentor: Dr. Derek Kimball 
 Project Tile: Spin-Gravity
Name:  McConnell, Christopher
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jason Singley
 Project Tile: PANI powder analysis; varied protanation levels
Name:  Mendez, Anthony
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Erik Helgren
 Project Tile: Polyaniline Metal Insulator Transition
Name:  Phung, Michael
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Derek Kimball
 Project Tile: Frequency Comb Spectroscopy
Name:  Walker, Eldridge
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Erik Helgren
 Project Tile: Doping of Polyaniline for use as a possible conducting Polymer
Name:  Burger, Natalie
 Research Mentor: Dr. Oanh Tran
 Project Tile: Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in a Three-Tiered Model
Name:  Diaz, Rachael
 Research Mentor: Dr. Oanh Tran
 Project Tile: Promoting Social and Emotional Learning 
Name:  Echeandia, Rachael
 Research Mentor: Dr. Jeffery Seitz
 Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science (IMSS) Partnership
Name:  Faulkner, Julia
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Oanh Tran
 Project Tile: Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in a Three Tiered Model
Name:  Hazard, Kathleen
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Greg Jennings
 Project Tile: Identifying Practical and Meaningful Student Strengths
Name:  Herrera, Katherine
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jeffery Seitz
 Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science (IMSS) Partnership
Name:  Jen, Gianni
 Research Mentor: Dr. Gretchen Reevy 
 Project Tile: Cognitive and Social Benefits of Online Video Gaming
Name:  Menjivar Quijano, Stephanie
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Cynthia Barkley
 Project Tile: Perspectives
Name:  Miranda, Erik
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jeffery Seitz
 Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science (IMSS) Partnership
Name:  Ponte, Nicole
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Oanh Tran
 Project Tile: Social Emotional Learning: A Three-tiered Model
Name:  Ramirez, Melissa
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Beth Yeager
 Project Tile: Long-term Thinking and Futures
Name:  Ramirez, Miguel
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Shubha Kashinath
 Project Tile: Facilitating emergent literacy skills for low income preschool children
Name:  Ryczek, Cameron
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Murray Horne
 Project Tile: Spatial Learning in Rodents
Name:  Silva, Robert
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Jeffery Seitz
 Project Tile: Integrated Middle School Science (IMSS) Partnership
Name:  Moore, Lee Porscha
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Sukari Ivester
 Project Tile: Different Bondage: Urban Slavery in Richmond & Rio de Janerio
Name:  Cole, Rachael
 Research Mentor: Dr. Sukari Ivester
 Project Tile: History and Impact of Planning in West Oakland
Name:  Lopes, Filip
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Duke Austin
 Project Tile: The Effects of Race on Recent Immigrants in Secondary School
Name:  Edwards, Jeffery
 Research Mentor: Dr. Elena Dukhovny
 Project Tile: Evaluating how SLP Students use Educational Technology
Name:   Ifah, Monika
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Nidhi Mahendra
 Project Tile: Effects of mild cognitive impairment on language and cognition
Name:  Kundu, Paramita
 Academic Program: Speech Language and Pathology 
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Shubha Kashinath
 Project Tile: Language Environments of Preschool Children with Autism
Name:  Lavallis, Hiroe
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Nidhi Mahendra
 Project Tile: International students in speech-language pathology: Documenting
Name:  Murphy, Kate
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Nidhi Mahendra
 Project Tile: Designing multimodal aphasia education materials in English and Spanish
Name:  Saucedo, Gabriella
 Research Mentor:  Dr. Kai Greene
 Project Tile: Using NAP to Evaluate Narrative Skills of Bilingual Preschoolers
