Thesis Topics
September 1999
| Student | Topic | Readers | |
| 1. | Chakravarthy, Arthi
arthic@leland |
Anthrax | Dean Wilkening
Robert Siegel |
| 2. | Dayal, Manisha
dayalma@leland |
Ischemic Protection by an ATPase Deficient Mutant of Heat Shock Protein GroEL | Rona Giffard
Russ Fernald |
| 3. | Fries, Brook
bfries@leland |
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence | Janice Ross |
| 4. | Han, Win Thu
winthan@leland |
Psychological Predictors of Patient-Physician Relations Amongst Breast Cancer Patients | Cheryl Koopman
Russ Fernald |
| 5. | Hou, Shelley
hou@leland |
Formula feeding among the Zulus | Paulla Ebron |
| 6. | Hsiang, Michelle
mhsiang@leland |
Using the Genbank Sequence Database to Isolate Novel Factors Regulating the Ovarian Follicle Function | Aaron Hsueh |
| 7. | Lehman, Jessica
jlehman@leland |
The "Disabled Community" | Susan Okin |
| 8. | Lorenz, Katie
klorenz@leland |
Comparison of German versus US Environmental Policy | Armin Rosencrantz |
| 9. | Padilla, Veronica
vpadilla@leland | The Effect of an Adolescent Woman's Representation of "Abuse" on Her Attitudes and Tolerance Abusive Relationships | Shirley Feldman |
| 10. | Shadman, Ramin
shadman@leland | Consequences of Web Based Medical Information | Robert Siegel |
| 11. | Walton, Gregory
gwalton@leland | Mediational Processes of Stereotype Threat Phenomena | Claude Steele |
| Student | Topic | Readers | |
| 1. | Karrie Cesario
swim@leland |
Pike's Peak - Female Metablism at Altitude. | Gail Butterfield |
| 2. | Nina Chinosornvatana
nchinos@leland |
Traditional Responses to Gastrointestinal Disease in Rural Paraguay |
Bill Durham (Cliff Barnett) (Dionisio Gonzalez Torres) |
| 3. | Angel Fabian
angelito@leland |
HIV Risk Behavior in Young Latino Men: The Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Internalized Homophobia on Drug/Alcohol Use and Abuse and Perceptions of Promiscuity |
Raphael Diaz Robert Siegel |
| 4. | Lindsay Heberling
lyndzee@leland |
Medical Pluralism and Health Seeking Behavior: Factor's Influencing Choice in a Chamacoco Village |
Cliff Barnett Bill Durham Karen Smith |
| 5. | Karen Huen
khuen@leland |
Dynamics of Karyopherin and Nucleoporin Interaction in Nuclear Transport | Michael Rexach |
| 6. |
Neeta Jain
njain@leland |
Why don't people use Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)? | Kenneth Pelletier
Don Barr |
| 7. | Shaun Kunnavatana
skunn@leland |
Multi-phenotype characterization of the Leu-1 B-cell subset in the human peripheral blood and tonsil | Lee Herzenberg |
| 8. | Steve Park Lee
stevely@leland |
The effects of heart rate monitoring on baroreflex sensitivity. | William Haskell Leslie Pruitt |
| 9. | L. LaShawndra Pace
llp@leland |
Mental Health, Vitality, and Emotional Role Functioning in
College
Students: A Comparison of Bay-area Schools |
Don Barr |
| 10. | Lindsay Mazotti mazotti@leland | The Prevalence of Disordered Eating and the Female Performance Athlete: Does the risk increase at the collegiate competition level? |
Shirley Feldman Stewart Agras |
| 11. | Tracey McLean
traceym@leland |
Healthy Families: California's attempt to make health insurance possible for all children. |
Don Barr |
| 12. | Carmen Morales morales@leland | Low enrollment of Latino children in Medicaid. | |
| 13. | Kelly Price
kelp@leland |
Motives and objectives of Japanese families who send their children to international schools while residing in Japan. | |
| 14. | Yanin Senachai
purple@leland |
The effect of intervention teams on police attitudes towards women | Dr. Ami Laws |
| 15. | Sheryl Stapley
stapley@leland |
Cross-informant agreement in early childhood psychopathology: Clinical status and perceptions of symptomatology |
Helana Kraemer Shirley Feldman |
| 16. | Samuel Williams samw@leland | The Phenomena of Tissue-Specific Lipid Peroxidation (LP) and its Response to the Bile Pigments Bilirubin and Biliverdin in a Wistar Rat Model |
| Student | Topic | Readers | |
| 1. | Sulggi Angela Lee | The Effects of Particulate Air Contamination (PM2.5) on Lower Acute Respiratory Illnesses in Santiago, Chile |
Donald Kennedy (Ware Kuschner) |
| 2. | Rachel Beth Pelc | The Role of Human Impact and Habitat on Zonation of Native Fishes in the San Francisco Bay Drainage Area | Carol Boggs (Alan Launer) |
| 3. | Jing-Chyi Chao | Problem-solving strategies to counter academic stigmatization for women in math |
Claude Steele (Robert Zajonc) |
| 4. | Katherine (Kate) Louise Stinger | Spatial Analysis of Artifacts and Faunal Remains at Duinefontein 2, South Africa: Determining the Source of the Accumulation |
Richard Klein (John Rick) |
| 5. | Nami Raj Jhaveri | Assessing the sexual health risks of adolescent girls in rural and tribal communities of Gujarat, India |
Herant Katchadourian Mark Mancall Nadinne Cruz |
| 6. | Janet Lynn Maldonado | PKA ANTAGONIZES CALCINEURIN-INDUCED NF-ATp NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATION |
Phyllis Gardner Robert Siegel Colleen Sheridan David Woodhouse |
| 7. | Stephanie Renee Lloyd | The Effect that the Knowledge that One Possesses an "Advantageous" Genetic Predisposition Has on the Lifestyle, Emotional State, and Attitude of the Carrier: The Pomaroli Family of Limone, Italy - A Case Study |
William Durham (Donald Barr) |
| 8. | Valerie Sue Hsieh | How highly stratified school systems or classrooms influence institutionalized concepts of abilty in German and American schoolchildren | |
| 9. | Christina Bich-Chau Pham | Comparison of cost-control mechanisms for high-cost medical technologies in the US and the UK and their effects on health outcome |
Donald Barr Philip Davies |
| 10. | Marie Valentine Soller | Mammography Screening for Women 40-49: An analysis of the interplay between Science, government, and the public | Robyn Birdwell (Donald Barr) |
| 11. | Susan Elisabeth Bradford |
Donald Barr June Flora |
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| 12. | Kristine Renee Penner | The Impact of the Immigrant Provisions of the Welfare Reform of 1996 on Mayfield Community Clinic: Is Patient Care Suffering? |
Donald Barr
(Irene Corso) |
| 13. | Stephanie Kris Surbida | Donald Barr Raymundo Espinoza Luis Fraga |
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| 14. | Sreyashi Jhumki Basu | Targeting Children in Crisis: The Health of Street Children in Urban, Post-Communist Russia |
Bill Durham Kathleen Morrison Donald Barr |
| 15. | Margaret Lynne Isaac | Changes in catecholaminergic responses to stress across the rat estrous cycle | Dona Lee Wong |
Readers in parenthesis are
tentative or have not yet been asked.