2005 - 2006 University Undergraduate Research Fellows
| Fellow | Fellows Advisor | Major | College | Proposed Thesis Title |
| Christina Ashie | Dr. Pamela Matthews | English | LBAR | Foreign Children: Unexpected Repercussions of Mother-Daughter Relationships |
| Adora Asonye | Dr. Derrick Darby | Sociology | LBAR | Misogyny or Myth? Hip-hop's Influence on Notions of Romantic Love |
| Teresia Coleman Avila | Dr. Charles Brooks | History/English | LBAR | Founders' Attitudes Toward the United States Supreme Court |
| Kimberlyn Maravet Baig | Dr. Linda Guarino | Molecular & Cell Biology | AGLF | Site Directed Mutagensis of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus Nsp 15 Endoribonuclease |
| John David Blakley | Dr. Sara Alpern | Political Science | LBAR | Feminism and the Fight for Gender Equality: An Historical Journey |
| John C. Bosshard | Dr. Steven Wright, | Electrical Engineering | ENGR | Applications of MRI in Fluidics |
| Emily Caulfield | Dr. James Aune | Speech Communications | LBAR | Literacy in Somalia: The Dividends of Orality |
| Megan Chandler | Dr. Robert W. Heffer | Psychology | LBAR | The Influence of Parenting Styles and Ethnicity on Students' Academic Self Efficacy and Performance |
| Elizabeth Chapman | Dr. Joyce Juntune | Political Science | LBAR | Futurism and Gifted Adolescents |
| Marilyn A. Connor | Dr. Mary Meagher | Biomedical Science | VTMD | The effect of social stress on the neuropathogenesis of Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus infection |
| Michaella Dietrich | Dr. Roy B. Flemming | English | LBAR | The Paradox of U.S. Policies Regarding the International Criminal Court |
| Nishat Fatima | Dr. Sarah N. Gatson | Sociology | LBAR | A cross-cultural examination of views toward the pratice of accepting & giving dowry by children of Indian & immigrants in the U.S. and the U.K. |
| Robert Scott Garbacz | Dr. Stephen Miller | English | LBAR | The Visual Impulse in the Writing of J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Shuo Han | Dr. Thomas Ficht | Biochemistry | AGLF | Expression of Brucella Genes Involved in LPS production Using araC and virB Promoters |
| Elizabeth Ashley Hardin | Dr. Mary Meagher | Biology | SCEN | The role of pro-inflammatory cytokine TNF-a in the mechanism mediating the adverse effects of stress on Theiler's virus infection |
| Luke Hunter | Dr. Nancy Amato | Physics | SCEN | Genetic Algorithms Acting on Heritable Path Data for Motion Planning & Protein Folding Applications |
| Brian Janak | Dr. James Morgan | Civil Engineering | ENGR | Combined Energy Dissipation Systems Using Base Isolation Technology |
| Brandon Krueger | Dr. Finnie Coleman | English | LBAR | Solving Slavery in Sudan |
| Katarzyna Leyk | Dr. Nancy Amato | Computer Science | ENGR | Finding a More Effective Distance Measure to Model Protein Folding |
| Nathaniel Loo | Dr. Jane Welsh | Biomedical Science | VTMD | Utilizing RNA interference (RNAi) to inhibit Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) in murine cerebrovascular endothelial (CVE) cells |
| Jessica Mackey | Dr. Louise C. Abbott | Biomedical Science | VTMD | The Effect of Prenatal Methylmercury Exposure on Motor Corrdination and Activity of Mice |
| Stephen Malutich | Dr. James C. Hu | Biochemistry | AGLF | Assembly Specificities of Basic Leucine Zipper Proteins in Drosophila melanogaster |
| Josh McKay | Dr. Gerard Cote' | Biomedical Engineering | ENGR | Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Platforms for Bet-Amyloid Detection in Alzheimer's Disease |
| Sarah McKenna | Dr. Isabel Carabajal | Biomedical Science | VTMD | Cultural Interaction in the Medical Field |
| Sherry Myers | Dr. Troy Bickham | Journalism/History | LBAR | Museum Culture in the Anglo-American Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820 |
| John Russell Nelson | Dr. Michelle Taylor-Robinson | Spanish | LBAR | Fourth Wave Indications for Cuba, Economic reform in delaying democratization |
| Chris O'Brien | Dr. Olga Kocharovskaya | Physics/Math | SCEN | Studying of the Kinetics of Super-Radiant Graser Systems |
| Christine E. Petrich | Dr. James W. Grau | Pyschology | LBAR | Effect of the NMDA receptor anatgonist MK-801 on recovery from spinal cord injury in rats given uncontrollable stimulation |
| Brian E Sedio | Dr. Alan Pepper | Biochemistry | AGLF | Population Genetic Structure of the Endangered Lesquerella thamnophila (Zapata bladderpod) and Implications for Conservation |
| Christina M. Shafer | Dr. Alvin Yeh | Biomedical Engineering | ENGR | Optical Biopsy: Finding a Method to Obtain Spectral Information About Live Tissue on a Microscopic Level |
| Shelley Spacek | Dr. James Aune | Management | BUAD | Taking a Stand Against the Odds: A Search for the Most Effective Rhetorical Strategies of Criminal Defense Attornies in Capital Murder Trials |
| Wil V. Srubar, III | Dr. Ray James | Civil Engineering | ENGR | Architecture and Engineering: Assessing the Importance of Aesthetic Design in Structural Engineering Curricula |
| Chad Wellington | Dr. John Keyser | Computer Science | ENGR | Evaluating the Efficiency of Graphics Processor Units for Large Scale Search/Sort Algorithms |
| Jodi Whitaker | Dr. Valerie Balester | Psychology | LBAR | The Effects of Gender on Student Writers' Evaluations of Peer Tutor Competency |
| Jennifer Williams | Dr. Steve Smith | Psychology | LBAR | Memory in Context: Can Mental Reinstatement be Used to Recover Blocked Memories? |
| Mary J. Wilson | Dr. James E. Samuel | Biochemistry | AGLF | The Role of Fur Protein in Iron Regulation in Coxiella burnetti |
| Christopher A. Woodruff | Dr. Terry Anderson | International Studies/Spanish | LBAR | Wartime Presidential Decisions to Intern Presumably Innocent Persons |
| Xujia Zhang | Dr. Karen L. Butler-Purry | Electrical Engineering | ENGR | Pattern Recognition Technique in Power System Protection Applications |