Association for Women in Science Educational Foundation
Predoctoral Program, 2001 Competition
2001 Predoctoral Awards ($1,000) Name, Department, University, Project title
Mary Allison Bachman, Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Relationship between child health and subsequent morbidity and mortality
Wei Fang, Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Assessing the impact of an invasive tree species on the natural forest communities and ecosystems-Amy Lutz Award
Bonnie Taminga Fleming, physics, Columbia University, MiniBooNE: a search for neutrino oscillations-Luise Meyer-Schutzmeister Award
J. Rebecca Jacobs, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California-Santa Cruz, Testing the adaptive bleaching hypothesis: the mechanism and consequences of zooxanthella exchange-Gail Naughton Award
Christina Lea Thomas, Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, A role for inositol 1,2,5-triphosphate receptor during the process of ventral enclosure in Caenorhabditis elegans-Diane H. Russell Award
Kathryn Janelle Moller Wright, Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, The development of structure-property relationships for thermoplastic elastomers
Predoctoral Citations of Merit ($300)
Maxine Downs, Anthropology, University of Florida, Why don't women dye for credit? A study of the social networks of urban women cloth dyers of Bamako, Mali
Kimberly R. McDonough, Linguistics, Georgetown University, Exploring the relationship between modified output and L2 learning
Carolyn Jane Snider Pommier, Chemistry, University of Arizona, Spectroscopic analysis of bonding in pyroxenes: implications in the study of deep focus earthquakes
Helena Evan Young, Clinical Psychology, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Selective processing of trauma cues in Vietnam combat veterans: approach versus avoidant styles
Predoctoral Recognition Awards ($100)
Anamaria Acosta, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Musculoskeletal modeling of the shoulder and elbow in cervical spinal injury
Ching-Yi Chung, Economics, University of California-Irvine, The positives, negatives, and the influence regulations: a historical study on the United States banking system
Mariana Cifuentes, Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Hormonal regulation of calcium metabolism: the influence of body weight
Predoctoral Honorable Mentions
Deanna Schmidt Asakawa, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Lori Driscoll, Psychology, Cornell University
Elaine Carol Schulte, Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sharon L. Sessions, Physics, University of Oregon
Katherine Strickler, Fish and Wildlife, University of Idaho
2001 undergraduate awardees |