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