2013 Summer Projects

You can browse the 2013 individual project descriptions from this page, or go directly to either of the description pages to browse by disciplinary area. There is a link to the student application form at the top of each page.

Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies

  • Scott Anderson – Musician Health and Wellness
  • Laurel Carrington – Martin Bucer’s Debate with Erasmus
  • Laurel Carrington – A Latin Translation of Martin Bucer’s Epistola Apologetica
  • Todd Edwards – Digital Media Servers, Media Creation, and Playback for Live Performance
  • Jim Farrell – Sustaining St. Olaf: Research and Design for Co-Curricular Sustainability Education
  • Dana Gross – Community-Based Research to Support and Engage Families with Young Children
  • Ashley Hodgson – The Impact of California’s Minimum Nursing Law on Mental Health Diagnosis
  • Tim Howe – Digital Archaeology
  • Abdulai Iddrisu – Muslim Women and Herbal Medicine in West Africa
  • Rika Ito – Diachronic change of “hopefully” in the Collection of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Project Gutenberg
  • Paul Jackson – Environmental assessments of an impaired trout stream
  • Paul Niemisto – Vintage Band Festival: Collaborative Research and Practicum in Arts Management
  • Mary Trull – Lucretius in Early Modern England

Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science

  • Diane Angell – Bumblebee Biodiversity
  • Doug Beussman - Human Scent Differentiation
  • Doug Beussman - Isotope Ratio Fiber Analysis
  • Doug Beussman - Tetrahymena Proteomics
  • Doug Beussman – Teaching Lab Development
  • Doug Beussman – Drug Analysis in Commercial Products
  • Brian Borovsky - Investigating high-speed sliding friction at the microscale
  • Lisa Bowers – Regulation of development in Caulobacter crescentus
  • Richard Brown - CSinParallel: Parallel and distributed computing for CS students across the nation
  • Richard Brown - HiPerCiC: Making parallel computing available in all disciplines
  • Kevin Crisp – Development of Wireless Implantable Devices for Sensing and Stimulating Nerves
  • Jay Demas – Visual input into non-visual photoreceptors
  • Jason Engbrecht - Robotic Control
  • Keir Fogarty – Development of a Non-Infectious in vitro Assay to Interrogate the Interactions of Viral Structural Proteins with Phospholipid Membranes
  • Bob Jacobel and Knut Christianson - Ice and Climate Geophysics Group (CEGSIC)
  • Dipannita Kalyani - Transition Metal Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation
  • Laura Listenberger - Cellular mechanisims of lipid storage
  • Elodie Marlier - Development of low-valent first-row transition metal complexes
  • Greg Muth - Selection and characterization of algal communities toward the development of stable cultures for the production of renewable fuels
  • Greg Muth - Science Education and Outreach: A Revolution in the Classroom
  • Paul Jackson – Environmental assessments of an impaired trout stream
  • Amy Kolan – Marginality
  • Kevin Sanft – Exploring Discrete Stochastic Simulation
  • Kevin Sanft and Becky Vandiver – Exploring Computational Biology
  • John Schade – The Polaris Project: Assessing the impacts of climate change in Minnesota and Siberia
  • Jeff Schwinefus - DNA and RNA Destabilization in Aqueous Cosolute Solutions
  • Kathleen Shea - Ecology of the St. Olaf Natural and Agricultural Lands
  • Michael Swift - Environmental Contaminants in Mussels from the Cannon River
  • Cassidy Terrell – Probing the structure and function of the 4OT isozymes of Methylibium petroleiphilum
  • Charles Umbanhowar Jr – Reconstucting Changes in Lake Levels Using Historical Aerial Photos
  • Anne Walter and Becky Vandiver – Putting the math into biology and the biology into math