Science Honors Research Program : Undergradaute Research Opportunities

Steve Hackenberger

Anthropology Department
Office: Dean 349, Phone: x3224
hackenbe@cwu.edu

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Joseph Lorenz

Anthropology Department
Office: Dean 344 Phone: x3474
lorenzj@cwu.edu

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Joseph G. Lorenz, Ph.D. is a molecular anthropologist in the Molecular Biology Group at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Lorenz is interested in the geographic and ethnic distribution of genetic variation among human populations, both modern and ancient. Understanding the pattern of genetic variation is a necessary first step to unraveling the interaction of genes and environments that produce the variety of phenotypes characteristic of our species. These phenotypes include the susceptibility and resistance to many of the diseases that afflict us.

In addition, Dr. Lorenz is interested in the comparative genetics of the Order Primates. A true understanding of the nature of human genetic variation can only be gained by looking at our species within an evolutionary framework. He also oversees the operation of the collection of cell lines and DNA representing the chimpanzees from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

Dr. Lorenz received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis in 1995 where he studied mitochondrial DNA variation among American Indians. He then spent two years in a forensic/paternity testing laboratory in Denver, Colorado. In the fall of 1997, Dr. Lorenz began a postdoctoral research fellowship at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health in Rockville, Maryland where he studied the quantitative genetics of alcohol consumption in rhesus macaques. From October 2000 until August 2008 Dr. Lorenz was on the scientific staff at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, a biorepository that supplies DNA and cell lines to scientists around the world.

Dr. Lorenz oversees the operation of the Integrated Primate Biomaterials and Information Resource, an NSF funded resource for cell lines and DNA from over forty species of nonhuman primates representing the major taxonomic groups of the Order Primates.

Patrick Lubinski

Anthropology Department
Office: Dean 338 Phone: x3601
lubinski@cwu.edu

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Patrick McCutcheon

Anthropology Department
Office: Dean 340 Phone: 2075
McCutchP@cwu.edu

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Lori Sheeran

Anthropology Department
Office: Dean 335 Phone: 1434
SheeranL@cwu.edu

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Daniel Beck

Biology Department
Office: Science-236G Phone: x2886
BeckD@cwu.edu

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Lucinda Carnell

Biology Department
Office: Science-338G Phone: x3431
CarnellL@cwu.edu

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Tom Cottrell

Biology Department
Office: Science-338C Phone: 3011
cottrelt@cwu.edu

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David Darda

Biology Department
Office: Dean Hall 130 Phone: x3207
DardaD@cwu.edu

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Kris Ernest

Biology Department
Office: Science-236J Phone: x2805
ErnestK@cwu.edu

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Jason Irwin

Biology Department
Office: Scinece-338D Phone: x2884
IrwinJ@cwu.edu

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Paul James

Biology Department
Office: Science-338A Phone: x1895
JamesP@cwu.edu

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Jim Johnson

Biology Department
Office: Science-338J Phone: x2876
JJohnson@cwu.edu

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Holly Pinkart

Biology Department
Office: Science-236D Phone: x2710
PinkartH@cwu.edu

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Mary Poulson

Biology Department
Office: Science-338E Phone: x2808
PoulsonM@cwu.edu

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Linda Raubeson

Biology Department
Office: SCience-338L Phone: x2734
Raubeson@cwu.edu

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Daniel Selski

Biology Department
Office: Science-338F Phone: x2881
SelskiD@cwu.edu

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Gabrielle Stryker

Biology Department
Office: Science-236C Phone: x2721
StrykerG@cwu.edu

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Lixing Sun

Biology Department
Office: Science-236H Phone: x2780
Lixing@cwu.edu

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Steve Wagner

Biology Department
Office: Science-236K Phone: x3105
WagnerS@cwu.edu

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Gil Belofsky

Department of Chemistry
Office: Science-302J Phone:
belofskyg@cwu.edu

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Stephen Chamberland

Department of Chemistry
Office: Science-302H Phone: x1126
chambers@cwu.edu

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Anthony Diaz

Department Of Chemistry
Office: Science-302C Phone: x2818
diaza@cwu.edu

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My research group studies solid state luminescent materials, called phosphors, such as are found in lighting, display, and imaging technologies. We seek to understand the basic processes at work in these materials when they absorb energy and convert it to useful visible light. To conduct this research we must synthesize phosphors in high-temperature furnaces and study their properties using various spectroscopic techniques. Undergraduates have always been an essential part of this work – over the years, seven different undergraduates from my laboratory have appeared as authors on journal publications.

Levente Fabry

Department Of Chemistry
Office: Science-302F Phone: x2887
FabryL@cwu.edu

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Yingbin Ge

Department of Chemistry
Office: Science-207A Phone: x2817
yingbin@cwu.edu

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Anne Johansen

Department Of Chemistry
Office: Science-207D Phone: x2164
JohansenA@cwu.edu

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JoAnn Peters

Department Of Chemistry
Office: Science-207F Phone: x2022
PetersJ@cwu.edu

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Dion Rivera

Department Of Chemistry
Office: Science-207E Phone: x2883
RiveraD@cwu.edu

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Carin Thomas

Department Of Chemistry
Office: Science-302G Phone: x2815
ThomasC@cwu.edu

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Razvan Andonie

Computer Science Department
Office: Hebeler-219 Phone: x1430
Andonie@cwu.edu

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Tony Gabriel

Geography Department
Office: Dean 320 Phone: x1166
GabrielA@cwu.edu

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Bob Hickey

Geography Department
Office: Dean-316 Phone: x2178
rhickey@cwu.edu
www.OnLineGeographer.com

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My specialty is GIS and remote sensing applications for environmental modelling. As such, I have worked with geographers, geologists, biologists, and anthropologists on their projects. Considerably more information about my research, and my student's, can be found on my website:
www.onlinegeographer.com

Karl Lillquist

Geography Department
Office: Dean-319 Phone: x1184
Lillquis@cwu.edu

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Morris Uebelacker

Geography Department
Office: Dean-313 Phone: x2184
Morris@cwu.edu

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Wendy Bohrson

Department of Geological Sciences
Office: Lind-101 Phone: x2835
Bohrson@geology.cwu.edu

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Lisa L. Ely

Department of Geological Sciences
Office: Lind-220 Phone: x2177
ely@cwu.edu

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My research focuses on the geomorphology of river systems, Quaternary geology, paleoclimate records, and catastrophic events of all sorts, particularly the occurrence of large floods in the modern and geologic records.

I am on sabbatical for the 2008-09 academic year, but will consider taking on a Science Honors student for summer, 2009.

My current research projects include:

• Investigating the links between climate change and the frequency of large floods over the last several thousand years in the western U.S. by studying paleoflood deposits on rivers. I am looking for a student who is interested in compiling existing paleoflood records from rivers throughout eastern Oregon and Washington to determine whether they show regional temporal or spatial patterns.
• Effects of large, catastrophic events on the evolution of bedrock channels in the uplifted volcanic plateau of eastern Oregon. This is an NSF research project funded through 2010 that involves field work on the Owyhee River in eastern Oregon. Research includes the evidence for and impacts of outburst floods from glacial lakes, lava dams and landslide dams.
• Processes and timing of arroyo incision in semi-arid central Washington, and possible links to regional changes in climate or frequency of large floods.
• Sediment transport processes related to aquatic habitats in gravel-bed rivers of the Cascade Mountains, WA
• Paleo-tsunami deposits in southern India and Chile. These projects involve examing the preservation and erosion of recent tusnami deposits to determine the best sites for long-term preservation of paleo-tsunami deposits. The research funding in India is pending for 2009-2012. Fieldwork in Chile in winter, 2009 to examine deposits described by Darwin (yes, that’s Charles himself) from the 1835 tsunami in Chile. This project may be expanded.

Marie Ferland

Department of Geological Sciences
Office: Lind-300J Phone: x2829
FerlandM@cwu.edu

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Carey Gazis

Department of Geological Sciences
Office: Lind-219 Phone: x2820
CGazis@cwu.edu

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Audrey Huerta

Department of Geological Sciences
Office: Hebeler-110A Phone: x2718
huerta@geology.cwu.edu

Audrey's website

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• My research focuses on the processes that drive mountain building- from the dynamics of the deep mantle to the dramatic effects of erosion. I combine field work with numerical models to constrain the fundamental Earth processes responsible for the spectacular landscape we see today.
  Currently, most of my research is based in Antarctica. I am using thermochronology and modeling to studying the history of the Transantarctic Mountains that rise from sea level to over 4000m. I am also using seismic data to determine the forces that uplift the Marie Byrd Land Dome in Antarctica.
  
  I am looking for students (undergraduate and graduate) on the following projects:
  --Transantarctic Mountains: structural and erosional evolution.
  
  --Structure of the West Antarctic Lithospere.
  
  --Uplift and erosion of the Sevier and Laramide Orogenies.
  

Jeff Lee

Department of Geological Sciences
Office: Lind-218A Phone: x2801
jeff@geology.cwu.edu

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Chris Mattinson

Department of Geological Sciences
Office: Lind-108D Phone: x1628
Mattinson@geology.cwu.edu

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Tim Melbourne

Department of Geological Sciences
Office: Hebeler-110A Phone:x2799
tim@geology.cwu.edu

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Charlie Rubin

Department of Geological Sciences
Office: Hebeler-109 Phone: x2827
Charlie@geology.cwu.edu

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Ethan Bergman

Health, Human Performance, and Nutrition
Office: Black - 228-4 Phone: x1975
BergmanE@cwu.edu

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Tim Burnham

Health, Human Performance, and Nutrition
Office: PE-202F Phone: x1764
Burnhati@cwu.edu

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Leo D'Acquisto

Health, Human Performance, and Nutrition
Office: PE-104 Phone: x1909
acquisto@cwu.edu

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David Gee

Health, Human Performance, and Nutrition
Office: PE-109 Phone: x2772
GeeD@cwu.edu

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Susan Hawk-Woody

Health, Human Performance, and Nutrition
Office: PE - 136 Phone: x1041
woodys@cwu.edu

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Vince Nethery

Health, Human Performance, and Nutrition
Office: PE-103 Phone: x1940
NetheryV@cwu.edu

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Harry Papadopolous

Health, Human Performance, and Nutrition
Office: PE-118 Phone: x7572
Papadoph@cwu.edu

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Kelley Kerr-Pritchett

Health, Human Performance, and Nutrition
Office: PE-202A Phone: x1338
kkerr@cwu.edu

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Robert Pritchett

Health, Human Performance, and Nutrition
Office: PE-202A Phone: x1338
Pritcher@cwu.edu

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Michael Braunstein

Physics Department
Office: Lind-203D Phone: x2761
Braunst@cwu.edu

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Mike Jackson

Physics Department
Office: Lind-201 Phone: x2914
jacksonm@cwu.edu

Mike Jackson's website

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My primary area of interest and expertise is experimental optics. In particular my research includes the investigation of molecules as sources of far-infrared laser radiation, the measurement of far-infrared laser frequencies, and the use of these lasers for the investigation of stable and unstable molecules. These studies include laser Stark and laser magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Past undergraduate students working in my research lab have been physics, engineering and chemistry majors.

Andy Piacsek

Physics Department
Office: Lind-300D Phone: x2723
Piacsek@cwu.edu

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Kara Gabriel

Psychology Department
Office: Psychology-424 Phone: x2387
GabrielK@cwu.edu

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Megan Matheson

Psychology Department
Office: Psychology-479 Phone: x3668
MathesoM@cwu.edu

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Ryan Zayac

Department
Office: Psychology-428 Phone: x2362
ZayacR@cwu.edu

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