Christal Badour

“Life Stress and Salivary Cortisol in Children: The Moderating Role of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.”

Psychology

Meredith Beers

“Recovering from Hurricane Katrina: How a Major Research University Reopens”

English

Brittany Marie Bernik

“Hurricane Impacts on Multi-trophic Interactions in Louisiana Ecosystems”

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Psychology

Julie N. Burgess

Julie has been studying healthy sex differences in auditory processing as a candidate explanation for sex differences in pathological speech fluency.

Psychology

Shayla Lynn Burks

“Battle of the Sexes: The Fight for Representation in Catholic Churches”

Sociology

Claire Griffith Cahan

“Identity on the Line: Public Transit in New Orleans, LA”

Architecture

Hannah March CampbellStudio Art

Katie Noreen Carmichael

“The Substitution of /h/ for /ž/  in Louisiana French, and its Relation to Register”

Linguistics and French & Italian

Emmanuelle Chammah

“Living Architecture and Sensual Space: An Interactive Microalgae Wall”

Architecture

Amy Collins

“Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus”

Public Health

Karen A. Cox

Karen is an accomplished performer who has appeared in musicals on and off campus and has given generously of her time tutoring music and dance.

English and Vocal Performance

Aimee E. Custis

Aimee was Tulane’s delegate to the 2007 Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference, where select students from across the nation met to discuss “Asia at the Crossroads.”

Political Science

Amelia K. Decker

“Steroid actions in the brain: the study of corticosteroid, estrogen and progesterone effects on synaptic circuits in the hypothalamus using a patch clamp electrophysiology approach”

Cell & Molecular Biology

Emily Alice Eaton

Emily’s honors project in stochastic processes involved theoretical modeling of financial markets.

Mathematics and Economics

Marissa Suzanne Elgrissy

“Text And Context: The Vicissitudes of Sir Gawain in Medieval Arthuriana.”

English and Medieval Studies

Kathryn Elizabeth Fernandez

“If this won’t cool him, arsenic will”: The Baronne Street Murder and The State of Louisiana v. Joseph Bradley

History and English

Emily Florine

“Development of Dynamic Applanation Tonography to Measure Aqueous Humor Outflow Resistance in vivo.” The device will offer a new approach for diagnosis of primary open-angle glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness in 60 million people worldwide.

Biomedical Engineering

Lisa Michelle Frankel

“Small Business Financing Alternatives to the SBA Following a Catastrophic Event: A Post-Katrina New Orleans Case Study”

Political Economy

Rita Sudhir Golikeri

“Tuberculosis in Urban Areas: Focus on Latin America”

Public Health, Environmental Health Science

Natalie Rae Guthrey

“Design and Characterization of a Novel Glaucoma Drainage Device”

Biomedical Engineering—BSE and MSE Degrees

Megan Miquele Haissig

“Sorbian CPR: The Revitalization of Sorbian, aka Wendish, a West Slavic language isolated within Germany.”

Linguistics

Jillian K. Landeck

“Interpretations of Social Suffering and the Growth of Christianity in Modern Africa”

Anthropology

Laura E. Linhardt

“Surface Science Studies of Metal Oxide Thin Films and Single Crystals”

Physics

Lauren Patricia Magnuson

“Prenatal ‘Harms’ and State Intervention”

Women’s Studies and Philosophy

Victoria Leslie Martin

“Detecting Selection in Neisseria gonorrhoeae”

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Emily Rose McRae

“Modeling Migration: Motivations for Hispanic Migration to New Orleans and the United States”

Political Economy

Kristin Meyertholen

Kristin is working on the characterization of adult stem cells and progenitors from human bone marrow stroma.

Chemical Engineering and Cell & Molecular Biology

Amanda Joy Mollo

“The Moment in Time: Carpe Diem in Three Selected Literary Works”

English and Italian

Margrit Morrow

Designer for URBANbuild

Architecture

Marianna Murguia

“Quality and Access of Prenatal Care in New Orleans”

Public Health, Global & Community

Becky M. Nixon

“Graphs and the Marriage Game”

Mathematics and Psychology

Tara C. Prakash

“Aegeans Visiting Egypt: Interconnections between Aegean and Egypt from 1700-1400 B.C.E.”

Art History and African & African Diaspora Studies

Donnia Lily Rebello

“Cell Migration Models”-- Mathematically Predicting the Movement of Cells Based on Laboratory Observations

Cell & Molecular Biology and Mathematics

Hilaria M. Salinas

Hilaria’s project proposes the idea that the lakefront area of Managua, Nicaragua that was destroyed in the 1972 earthquake is the key to the capital’s revitalization.

Architecture

Amy Lauren Sherman

Amy played the second female lead in “Fuente Ovejuna” and the lead in “My Uncle Sam”.

Theatre

Tierney M. St. John

Tierney’s research integrated sociology and dance by analyzing the creative processes of selected choreographers. She appeared in “Katrina, Katrina: Love Letters to New Orleans,” with its premier performance in New Orleans and later by invitation at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Dance and Sociology

Dora N. Swanson

A comparison of the parallel colonization of Australia and the U. S. and the effects on their criminal justice systems, particularly Aboriginal and African American populations.

African & African Diaspora Studies and Psychology

Nadja Tilstra

“What Does It Mean

to Be Back in New Orleans?”

English