Undergraduate research at Lewis & Clark College, part 2: The CAUSE Program for undergraduates and high school students

The following teams participated in Lewis & Clark's CAUSE Program, which is funded by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Undergraduate Science Education Program.

Lewis & Clark Research Teams

Greta Binford, associate professor of biology, undergraduate intern Laura Bogar’11, and high school intern Juana Gaspar, a junior from Rosemary Anderson High School – “How did the brown recluse and their kin diversify in North America?”

Greg Hermann, associate professor of biology; undergraduate intern Travis Walton ’10, and high school intern Aaron Romero, a senior from Clackamas High School – “Investigating the biogenesis of lysosomes in a multi-cellular animal.”

Erik Nilsen, associate professor of psychology, undergraduate intern Richard LeDonne ’11, and high school intern Jessica Willis, a senior from Centennial Learning Center – “Cognitive Construal and Somatic Markers in Two Games of Risk.”

Stephen Tufte, associate professor of physics, undergraduate intern Dylan Stadler ’10, and high school intern Ines Llosa, a senior from Clackamas High School – “Observational Investigations of short-Period Eclipsing Binary Stars.”

Yueping Zhang, associate professor of psychology; undergraduate intern Hillary Galloway-Long ’09, and high school intern Sarah Ramos, a senior from Rosemary Anderson High School – “Understanding College Students’ Drinking Behavior: Prefrontal Lobe Functions, Physiological Arousal, and Personality Traits.”

Oregon Health & Science University / Lewis & Clark Research Teams

Principal Investigator Dr. Kevin Grove; collaborator Dr. Elinor Sullivan; undergraduate intern Martin Meyer; and high school intern: Mitchell Conti, sophomore from Beaverton Health and Sciences High School – “The Effects of Maternal Obesity on Offspring Behavior and Physiology.”

Principal Investigator Dr. Kathy Grant; collaborator Dr. Christa Helms; undergraduate intern Hilary Gray ’10; and high school intern Marrie Getman-Pierce, a sophomore from Beaverton Health and Sciences High School – “Ovarian hormones and ethanol-like discriminative stimulus effects in rats.”

Principal Investigator Dr. Ilhmen Messauodi; undergraduate intern Audrey Fulwiler ’09; high school intern Frances Palomar, a sophomore from Beaverton Health and Sciences High School – “Constructing recombinant Vaccinia virus vectors to measure T cell response to Simian Varicella Virus.”