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2006 Meeting of the Minds Competition Award Winners
Award for Artistic Excellence
Nikolai Antonie, Jimmy Sakai and Kohta Asakura, “Untitled Time Based Project”
Fifth Annual Bose Competition
First Place:
Kyle Anderson, “A Model for DFT Computation on the Cell Processor”
Second Place:
Joseph Trapasso, “Multiplierless hardware implementation for digital signal processing”
CIT Honors Poster Competition
First Place:
Ramamurthy Bhagavatula, “Application of Kalman Filtering to Active Face Tracking”
Second Place:
Anita Shukla, “Investigation of 3-D Bio-Inkjet Printing Surfaces and Strategies”
Third Place:
Daniel Weller, “GrooveSim Vehicular Network Simulator”
Ford Motor Company Undergraduate Research Awards
First Place:
Matt Wasserman and Theodore Trebaol, “Design of a Power Limiter system and Vehicle-to-Driver Information Relay system for a Formula SAE vehicle”
Second Place:
Jennifer Verbeke, “A Toolbox for Environmental Design”
Third Place:
William Burkey, Nicholas Selman, Laura Rose Semo Scharfma and David Kang, “Rapid High-Quality 3D Surface Generation for Formula SAE Application”
Great Global Sustainability Challenge
First Place:
Fionena Conti, Xiaodi Yang, Ying Hua, Anny Huang, “One World One Dream: A Sustainable Globe from Beijing”
Second Place:
Joan Glickstein, Guiping Hu, Alix Bowman, Jimi Okelana, “Beijing - Fueling the Future”
Third Place:
Marty Brigham, Olof Berner, Maria Montero, Jesus Alvaro, “Milan: Riding with the Sun”
Intel IFYRE Competition
First Place:
Luke Xie, “Manufacturing of Micro-Barb for Medical Applications”
Runners-up:
Daniel Dewey, “Approximation of 3D Models for Dynamic Physical Rendering”
Andy Hsieh, “Effects of the Ras Oncogene on Protein Subcellular Location Patterns in NIH 3T3 Cells”
Elizabeth Jones Award in Humanities and the Arts
Darbi Roberts, “Language, Community, and Growth: Assessing governmental development plans in the Gaeltachts of Ireland”
Aleata Hubbard, “L'amour des Femmes Entre la France et le Maghreb (Women and Love Between France and North Africa)”
Julia Stein, “Narrative Art Book: The Tale of Lady Merrel; A Modern Account of the lurid tale of Pinocchio”
Alexandra Alessi, “5620 Woodmont Street: Familiar Space”
Sarika Goulatia, “Contrasting Metaphors”
Stephanie Armbruster, “Insect Series”
Sarah Koljonen, “Packaged Skin”
Lillian Bertram, “Everyday Zulu”
Allison Pottern, “Love, Symbiotic: A Collection of Short Fiction”
Sixth Annual Lockheed Martin, Eta Kappa Nu, ECE Project Awards
First Place:
Daniel Weller and Rahul Mangharam, “GrooveSim Vehicular Network Simulator”
Second Place:
Kermin Fleming, “SPIRAL: Hardware Transform Extension”
Third Place:
Bowei Gai, Arti Thumar, Samir Shah, Jay Patel, Liyana Mohd Sharipp, “EAST - Hardware Speech Recognition”
Judges’ Choice:
Naju Mancheril, “Multi-processor Query Dispatching in QPIPE”
Joseph Trapasso, “Multiplierless hardware implementation for digital signal processing”
Ehud Halberstam, “A Low-Cost Victim Detection Sensor Module for Urban Search and Rescue Robots”
Richard Schoenwald Phi Beta Kappa Undergraduate Research Prize
Valerie Roth, “The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: An International, Domestic, and Individual Analysis of a Cold War Crisis”
Andreas Pfenning, ” A Comparative Genomics Approach to Identifying the Plasticity Transcriptome”
Phi Kappa Phi Competition
First Place:
Jennifer Jocz, Jared Wenger, Jason Sims and Joseph Kwok, “Clustered Charged-to-Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis and Mutational Analysis of the PBN1 Gene”
Second Place:
Elizabeth Osius, “The Transition to Democracy in Latin America: A Case Study of Chile and Guatemala”
Third Place:
Monisha Mandalaywala, “Activator Generated Electron Transfer (AGET) ATRP of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAM) for Regenerative Bone Tissue Applications”
Psychology Department Competition
First Place:
Stephanie Manchin, “Face and object recognition abilities in patients with pure alexia.”
Second Place:
Rachel Wu, “Do infants associate identical labels with parts more than shapes of objects?”
Honorable Mention:
Haley Vlach, “The Effects of Observation Coaching on Children's Graphic Representations”
Ximeng Liu, “Deception and Its Effect on Subsequent Research Participation Effort”
Sigma Xi Poster Competition
First Place:
Andrew Chen (Chemistry)
Advisor: Phil Campbell
“Controlling Fibrin Degradation through Molecular Engineering”
Second Place:
Daniel Smith (Biological Sciences)
Advisor: Justin Crowley (Biology) and William F Eddy (Statistics)
“Optimizing in Vivo Two-Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy by Motion Artifact Correction”
Third Place:
Lindsay Costantino (Biology)
Advisor: John Woolford
“Multi-copy Suppression of the rrs1 Mutant Phenotype”
Honorable Mention (5):
Rahul Mangharam and Daniel Weller (both ECE)
Advisor: Daniel Stancil
“GrooveSim Vehicular Network Simulator”
Victor Polshin (Chemistry)
Advisor: Colin Horwitz
“General Acid Catalysis of Iron(III) TAMLs”
Elena Averbakin (Biological Sciences)
Advisor: Arlene Kray (BTEC)
“Use of Photo-specific Antibodies to Study the Insulin/IGF Signaling Pathway in Osteoblasts”
Krista Pasfield (Psychology)
Advisor: Kenneth Kotovsky
“Analysis of the efficiency and effectiveness of strategies in solving Remote Associate Test problems”
Ehud Halberstam (ECE)
Advisor: John Dolan
“A Low-Cost Victim Detection Sensor Module for Urban Search and Rescue Robots”
Statistics Department Competition
First Place:
Olga Beschastnykh, Wilson Chai, John Havran, Stephanie Kuga, “Share Prices and the Oil Industry: Modeling Financial Times Series”
Second Place:
Nick Segalla, Jessica McGillen, Margaret Cartaya and James Kerchenfaut, “Detecting Sources in Astronomical X-Ray Images”
Third Place:
David Hurley, Tran-Chau Nguyen, Eric Kwok, “Using Assistments to
Assess Student Performance”
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Award
Lee Byron and David Hartunian, “Designing Immersive Adaptive Space”
Jonathan Minard, “Collaborative Systems for Visual Sound Manipulation”
Deniz Secilmis, Jon Scelsa, Rebecca Rahmlow and Seth Hunter, “Architecture and Publication: Creating a New Methodology for the Display of Architectural Ideas and Design”
Undergraduate Environmental Research Award
Patricia Stallings, “Undergraduate Environmental Education”
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