Cosmos Scholars Awards Recipients—2008
Name |
School |
Topic |
| Jennifer Adams | Corcoran College of Art and Design | An Aesthete in America: The Cross-Cultural Influence of Oscar Wilde's 1882 Lecture Tour on the Aesthetic Movement |
| Rahul Ballal * | Georgetown University | Closing the Gap between Cancer and Aging: Telomerase and Tumor Supressor BRCA1 |
| Kathleen Barker | University of Maryland | Bottom, Antichrist, and the Anxiety of Representation in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| Sameer Bhattarai | George Mason University | Microtopography effects on vegetative and biogeochemical patterns in created wetlands: a comparative study to provide guidance for wetland creation/restoration |
| Sarah Cantor | University of Maryland | The Landscapes of Gaspard Dughet: Artistic Identity and Intellectual Formation in Seventeenth-Century Rome |
| Judy Che-Castaldo** | University of Maryland, College Park | Competition between Thlaspi caerulescens and Thlaspi montanum: can phytoremediation threaten native plant populations? |
| Ashley Choiniere | University of Maryland College Park | Loss of Genetic Variability in a Demographic Bottleneck Event |
| James Clune | George Washington University School of Medicine | Cranial Particulate Bone as a New Material for Onlay Cranioplasty |
| Megan Faller-Brandow | Georgetown University | Adam and the New Eve: Gender, Art, and Creative Life Within the Vienna Moderns, 1890-1920 |
| Jilian Fazio | George Mason University | Behavioral Assessment of the clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa); a comparative analysis of reproductive success. |
| Elizabeth Forte | University of Maryland College Park | Shakespeare's Stage in America: the Early History of the Folger Theatre |
| Isabel Garcia-Ramos | Howard University | Muscle Regeneration in Diabetic Mice |
| Felicia Gomez | The George Washginton University | African Genetic Diversity and Natural Selection at Malaria Resistance Candidate Genes |
| Adam Greenhalgh | University of Maryland, College Park | Risky Business: Chance and Contingency in American Art, 1876-1907 |
| Natalie Hanson | American University | Quantifying Metabolic Adaptation to the Cave Environment |
| Catherine Haradon | The George Washington University | Environmental context of the Acheulean to MSA transition in Africa |
| Stephen Hintze | Corcoran College of Art + Design | Cultivating the Crafts: Aileen Osborn Webb and the Instituting of American Craft, 1934-1964 |
| Douglas Howard | George Mason University | Earth Analogues to Catastrophic Outflow Channels on Mars: A Quantitative Geomorphic Approach |
| Alicia Kopfstein-Penk | Catholic University of America | Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts: Inception, Development, Reception |
| Shervin Malekzadeh | Georgetown University | Ambiguous Spaces: Classrooms and the Politics of Schooling and Identity Formation in Postrevolutionary Iran |
| Saugandhika Minnikanti | George Mason University | Dielectrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes for implantable electrodes |
| Kimberly Moloney | American University | World Bank’s Public Sector Reforms: Focused on Economic Growth or Poverty Reduction? (1983-2007) |
| Kelly O'Quin | University of Maryland, College Park | Vision and Adaptive Radiation in the Cichlid Fishes of Lake Tanganyika |
| Mary Savig | The George Washington University | Making the Old New Again: Elizabeth Farnese and the Neoclassical Origins of Spain |
| Kelly Wisecup | University of Maryland, College Park | Print and the Politics of Medical Knowledge in the 1721 Boston Inoculation Controversy |
| Kristin Wolf | George Mason University | The Effects of Hydrologic Connectivity, Soil Properties, and Functional Design Elements on Nitrogen Dynamics in Created and Natural Wetlands in the Piedmont Region of the Southeastern U.S. |
| Mirna Zakic | University of Maryland, College Park | The Furthest Watch of the Reich: Nazism among the Ethnic Germans in the Serbian Banat, 1941-1944 |
* Henry H. Work Science Award
** Max and Vera Britton Environmental Science Award