April 6, 2006

Fourth Annual Gamow Symposium

The George Washington University’s 2005–06 Gamow Fellowship recipients will present their findings as part of the Fourth Annual Gamow Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 7, from 2–4 pm at the new University Honors Program townhouse at 714 21st St. The event is free and open to the public.

The program, established in 2002 as part of the University’s strategic plan to provide meaningful, guided research experiences for undergraduates, is named for George Gamow, a distinguished theoretical nuclear physicist who served on GW’s faculty from 1934 to 1956. It is primarily open to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.

The Gamow Fellowship provides either academic year, or summer funding for undergraduates to conduct research under the guidance of a faculty mentor. The joint research projects are presented at conferences or published in journals.
The fellowship marks a concerted investment by the University to expand research opportunities for GW undergraduates, and forms a centerpiece for a slate of opportunities ranging from the inquiry based Dean’s Seminars for freshmen in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, to independent study courses, to departmental or Honors Program senior theses, to Luther Rice Collaborative
Fellowships.

2005–06 Fellows

- Taylor Asen (CCAS, English), “Robert Louis Stevenson and the Children’s Literary Market in Victorian England”
- Liza Blake (CCAS, English), “The Pauses of Sleep: Sleep as a Narrative Strategy in Victorian Literature”
- Jill Michelle Furst (CCAS, geology), “Medical Geology in the Navajo Nation: A Project to Assess the Health Effects of Burning Coal (in an underserved population)”
- Malak Hamwi (ESIA, international affairs) “No Laughing Matter: The Syrian Tabloid Ad-Domari (The Lamplighter) as a Form of Everyday Resistance”
- Joseph Krepp (CCAS, biology), “Hookworm Infection: Role of Heat Shock Factor in the Transition of Parasitism”
- Jonathan Mendelson (CCAS, biology), “Do Immune Cells in the Purple Sea Urchin Proliferate in Response to Immune Challenge?”
- John Patrick Miller (ESIA, international affairs), “British Combat Tactics within the Mesopotamian Front: Engagement to Surrender at Kut-Al Amara (1914–16)”
- Elizabeth Perlmutter (CCAS, music), “The South Africa Project”
- Emily Robertson (CCAS, music), “Johannes Starton’s Missa Jouyassance Vous Donneray from the National Library of Medicine’s ‘Bathtub Collection:’ A Modern Edition and Study”
- Allison Seitchik (CCAS, psychology), “Developing a Questionnaire to Predict the Use of Performance Enhancing Substances.”

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