REU Participants Summer 2007

Mr. Nima Alidoust (Middlebury College)worked onVoltage Tunable Quantum Cascade Laser and The Behavior of Dipole Matrix Element in the Active Region of Different Structures
Ms. Monica Allen (Harvard University) worked on A study of Andreev Reflection in Nb/Ge/Al junctions
Mr. Nyan Aung (Bates College) worked on Drops, Slugs, and Flooding in PEM Fuel Cells A Study of Two-Phase Flow and Water Transport
Mr. Ryan Bailey (MIRTHE Student)
Ms. Neringa Banyte (The Bioscience Institute of Paris) worked on DTBBP Nanoparticles for Oral Care Applications
Mr. Mauricio Caceres (University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus) worked on Hyperthermia and Drug Effect on Cancer Cells
Ms. Kimberly Carroll left (Rutgers University) worked on Student Questioning in Educational Outreach
Ms. Devin Cooper (Middle Georgia College) worked on Cancer: Detect and Destroy
Ms. Alexandra Corona (The University of Texas at Austin) worked on Statistical Copolymerization with “Living” Ring-Opening Metathesis Catalysts
Ms. Joanna Dalland (Siena College) worked on The Effect of Nanoparticles and Microstructures on the Behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans
Ms. Caroline DeHart (MIRTHE Student)
Mr. Ethan Deyle (Swarthmore College) worked on Laser Direct Writing Organic Small Molecule Luminophores
Ms. Alexandra Dreyzin (Brown University) worked on Geometrically frustrated magnets: Mn3V2O8
Mr. Sean Eddington (MIRTHE Student)
Mr. Pedro  Escalona Cruz (University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus) worked on Reliable strain measurements at cryogenic temperatures
Ms. Sarah Fegan (University of Waterloo) worked on DFT Study of (TiO2)n Clusters n = 1-3
Mr. Jacob Gayles (California State University Northridge) worked on Building a DC/DC Converter and Testing Current Density in a Fuel Cell
Ms. Susan Gentry (Northwestern University) worked on Applications of Nanotubes  for Thrombolysis
Mr. Paul Giuliano (University of Southern California) worked on “Onset” Phenomenon of Magnetoplasmadynamic Thrusters (MPDTs): The Explosive Formation of Anode Spots
Mr. Oliver Gothe (University of South Carolina Honors College) worked on Analysis of the Oxygen-evolving Mechanism of Photosytem II in Arthrospira (Spirulina) maxima and Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 using biosynthetic Ca2+/Sr2+ Exchange
Mr. Patrick  Herring (California Institute of Technology) worked on Nanowire Growth and Charactierization: Steps Toward Quantum Computation
Daniel Howard (MIRTHE Student)
Ms. Laura Huntley (Franklin & Marshall College) worked on Shock Waves & Potentials In Nonlinear Optics
Mr. Quentin Kennedy (Carleton College) worked on Z-contrast Characterization of NaYF4: Yb, Er Double Shell-Core Nanoparticles
Ms. Shannon Klaus (University of Missouri-Columbia) worked onNafion Mechanical and Surface Properties
Ms. Amanda Laska (University of California at Berkeley) worked on Nanoparticles: Medicinal Transporters of the Future?
Mr. Matthew Menyo (The Pennsylvania State University) worked on Polymer Hydrogels as Ocular Bandages
Ms. Thao Nguyen (Wittenberg University) worked on Investigation of micellization using Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations
Mr. Jaime David Osorio (California State University Northridge) worked on A Study of Micelle Kinetics by Means of Simplified Reaction-Diffusion Equations
Ms. Jane O'Sullivan (Carnegie Mellon University) worked on Kinetics of Swelling in Clay-Bearing Stones
Mr. Eric Sanchez front (California State University Northridge) worked on Building a DC/DC Converter and Testing Current Density in a Fuel Cell
Mr. Matthew Severson (University of South Alabama) worked on Electronic Band Structure of Bismuth
Mr. Ron Shmueli (Columbia University) worked on Protein-Protein Interactions involved in Chemotaxis
Mr. Chris Stocking (University of Utah) worked on Novel Applications of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
Mr. Karl Suabedissen (Rutgers University School of Engineering) worked on Response of Lithium Polymer Batteries to Mechanical Loading
Mr. Rajiv Uttamchandani (California State University Northridge) worked on Magnesium Local Pseudopotential for Use in OF-DFT
Mr. Michael Vargas (California State University Northridge) worked on Improving Transferability of Ultrasoft Pseudo-potentials for Core Excitations in Ice

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