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The following is a list of current projects with HNS professors in Natural Sciences.
Dr. Rosalie Anderson
Project: The Role of Fgf8 and HoxD132 on Anterior-Posterior Patterning of the Limb
- Number of students involved: 1, Nicolas Parchim
- Duration of Project: 1 year
- Project: Can Digit Identity Be Predicted by Neuronal Innervation?
- Number of students involved: 1, Emily Stefanov
- Duration of Project: 1 year
Project: The Shh Signaling Pathway and Anterior-Posterior Patterning of the Limb
- Number of students involved: 1, Kristen Thomas
- Duration of Project: 2 years
- Project: Regenerating Joints
- Number of students involved: 1, Sahar Talebloo
- Duration of Project: 2 years
Project: Techniques in a Developmental Biology Laboratory
- Number of students involved: 1, Chelsea Elwick
- Duration of Project: 2 years
Dr. Kurt Birdwhistell
Project: Greener Approaches to the Acylation of Ferrocene
- Number of students Involved: 2
- Duration of Project: 1 year
- Project: Use of Biphasic Conditions in the Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Group 6 Carbonyl Compounds
- Number of students Involved: 2
- Duration of Project: 1 year
Dr. Patricia Dorn
Project: Chagas Parasite Infection in Kissing Bug Vectors in the Southwestern U.S.
- Number of Students involved: 1, Jonathan Kurtz
- Duration of Project: 2.5 years
Project: Animal Reservoirs for the Chagas Parasite in Louisiana
- Number of students involved: 3, Graduate students
- Duration of Project: 3 years
Project: Population Genetics of Chagas Vectors in Mexico, Central America and the Southeastern U.S.
- Number of students involved: 1, Nick de la Rua
- Duration of Project: 3 years
Project: Public Health Research Scholars for Research Commercialization and Educational Enhancement
- Number of students involved: 6, Gabriela Estrada (Mosquito Blood Meals), Laura Duncan (Chagas Serosurvey), Jaren Kennedy (Neuroscience), Amanda Merlino (Chagas Control), Jonathan Kurtz and Nick de la Rua
- Duration of Project: 3 years
Dr. Kim Ernst
Project: Body Image and Exercise Behavior
- Number of students involved: 1, Lauren Robinson
- Duration of Project: 1 year
- Project: Beauty vs. Brains: Effects of Body Image and Academic Achievement on Undergraduate Females' Self-Esteem
- Number of students involved: 1, Caitlin Curran
- Duration of Project: 1 year
Project: Queries on Curves: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Problems in Perception of Females' Bodies
- Number of students involved: 1, Caitlin Curran
- Duration of Project: 1 year
Project: A Retrospective Study of High School Sport Participation and Sexual Behavior
- Number of students involved: 1, Adrian J. Sepulveda
- Duration of Project: 2008 Spring semester
Dr. Frank Jordan
Project: Response of Endangered Okaloosa Darters to Removal of Beaver Dams and Associated Impoundments
- Number of Students Involved: 1
- Duration of Project: 2 years
- Project: Monitoring of Endangered Okaloosa Darters on Eglin Air Force Base
- Number of Students involved: 2
- Duration of Project: Since 1995
Project: Aquatic Ecology and Conservation Research and outreach
- Number of Students involved: 10 from the Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem
- Duration of Project: Since 2004
- Project: Use of Abandoned Swimming Pools My Mosquito Larvae and Their Predators Following Hurricane Katrina
- Number of Students involved: 1, Kevin Caillouet
- Duration of Project: 2 years
- Number of Students involved: 60 HS students, 30 Loyola undergraduates, 15 HS teachers
- Duration of Project: 5 years
Dr. Armin Kargol
Project: Test of Kinetic Focusing of Shaker Ion Channels Using Dichotomous Noise Protocols
- Number of Students involved: 1, Stella Von Meer
- Duration of Project: 2 years
- Project: Wavelet-Based Protocols for Ion Channel Electrophysiology
- Number of Students involved: 1, Meagan Relle
- Duration of Project: 2 years
Dr. Andy Knight
Project: Bimetallic Cyclen Complexes as Artificial Proteases
- Number of students involved: 1, Chris Adams
- Duration of Project: 1 year
- Project: Molecular Engineering of Lamellar Organometallic Nanostructures using Phosphonate Building Blocks
- Number of students involved: 1, Michelle Chatelain
- Duration of Project: 3 years
Project: Carbonylation of Phosphites
- Number of students involved: 1, Alexander Girau
- Duration of Project: 3 years
- Project: Phosphonic Acid Ligand Decorated Metal Oxide and Metallic Nanoparticles for Application in Partial Oxidation Catalysis
- Number of students involved: 1, Luis Loor
- Duration of Project: 3 years
Project: Cyclen Complexes as Artificial Proteases
- Number of students involved: 1, Jessica McClintock
- Duration of Project: 1 year
- Project: Anti-bacterial Properties of Cobalt (III) Complexes
- Number of students involved: 1, Christa Simmers
- Duration of Project: 1 year
Project: Bimetallic Cyclen Complexes as Artificial Proteases
- Number of students involved: 1, Omar Syed
- Duration of Project: 3 years
- Project: Ionic Liquids for the Michaelis-Becker Reaction
- Number of students involved: 1, Anh Vu
- Duration of Project: 1 year
Dr. Lynn Koplitz
Project: A Computational Study of Exotic Hydrogen Bonding in the 3-cyano-N-methylpyridinium Crystal System
- Number of Students involved: 2, Mary Spulak & Andy Scott
- Duration of Project: Ongoing
Dr. Xuefeng Li
Project: Cluster Construction
- Number of Students involved: 1, Stephen Ware
- Duration of Project: Fall 2007 semester
Dr. Joelle Underwood
Project: Generation and Characterization of Ultrafine Aerosol Particles for Water
- Number of Students involved: 2, Hunter Fontenot & Brian Hays
- Duration of Project: 1 year; Funded with ROBERT FRANK GRANT
Dr. Jim Wee
Project: Diatom Survival Response to Salinity Changes in Oligohaline Estuaries
- Number of Students involved: 1, Gabriela Estrada
- Duration of Project: 4 years
Dr. David White
Project: Evaluation of the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Last Remnant Bottomland Hardwood Forests Near New Orleans
- Number of Students involved: 1, Jordan C. Schneider
- Duration of Project: 1 year
Dr. Evan Zucker
Project: Use of Animals in Physiological Psychology Research: 1960-2006
- Number of Students involved: 4, David Miller
- Duration of Project: Ongoing
- Project: Senior Thesis - Social Identity and Collective Self-Esteem within the Greek System
- Number of students involved: 1, Jessica Chambliss
- Duration of Project: 1 year
Project: Senior Thesis - Art as a way of Reducing Anxiety
- Number of students involved: 1, Emily Hardy
- Duration of Project: 1.5 years
- Project: Senior Thesis - Mood Alterations in College Students Following Acute Art Therapy
- Number of students involved: 1, Elizabeth Bucolo
- Duration of Project: 1 year
Project: Senior Thesis - Prescription for Trouble: Psychological Motivations Behind Pharmaceutical Drug Misuse in College Students
- Number of students involved: 1, Josie Feldman
- Duration of Project: 1 year
