Hamilton Scholars 2018-2019
John Berry
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Roos
Project Title: "The History of Megafires and Forest Shrub Conversion"
Sarah Bivens
Mentor: Dr. William Orr
Project Title: "Creating a dPrx 2540 Null to Test the Effects of dPrx 2540 on Alzheimer's Disease"
Ian Cohen
Mentors: Dr. James Thomas, Dr. Andy Lui, Dr. Jingbo Ye
Project Title: "A Teaching Lab to Illustrate the Concept of Electric Field and A Quality Control Measurement for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Upgrade"
Kristin Connors
Mentor: Dr. Santosh D'Mello
Project Title: "Analysis of HSFI Modulation of SLC34a2 Expression"
Elijah Cruda
Mentors: Dr. James Thomas, Dr. Andy Lui, Dr. Jingbo Ye
Project Title: "A Teaching Lab to Illustrate the Concept of Electric Field and A Quality Control Measurement for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Upgrade"
Kathryn Curtis
Mentor: Dr. Priscilla Lui
Project: "Development and Validation of the Revised Meta-Emotions Scale"
Polina DeClue
Mentor: Dr. Stephen Wegren
Project Title: "Barriers and Opportunities to Expand Russian Food Exports"
Stejara Dinulescu
Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Tabak
Project Title: "Self-Referential Memory and Social Cognition Study"
Jennifer Edgar
Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel
Project Title: "Purification of the Human Multidrug Resistance Protein and Reconstruction into Nanodiscs"
Roxana Farokhnia
Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel
Project Title: "Purification of the Human Multidrug Resistance Protein and Reconstruction into Nanodiscs"
Stephen Frantz
Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi
Project Title: "Global Value Chains, Free Trade Agreements, and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific"
Kasi Holcomb-Webb
Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel
Project Title: "Assessing the Expression Levels of Multidrug Resistance Proteins in Noncancerous Cells"
Page Hurley
Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros
Project Title: "Couples and Kids with Autism Study"
Yasmin Jackson
Mentor: Dr. Rita Economos
Project Title: "Dinosaurs and Diamonds: Dating a Caldera Lake Sediment that Contains Mammalian, Crocodylian, and Dinosaur Fossil Footprints"
Becky Jenkins
Mentor: Dr. Alexander Lippert
Project Title: "A Cell-Trappable Chemiluminesent Probe for Peroxynitrite"
Madeline Jensen
Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel
Project Title: "Purification and Biochemical Evaluation of the Human Breast Cancer Resistance Protein"
Zenia Jones
Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros
Project Title: "Couples and Kids with Autism Study"
Jean Kim
Mentor: Dr. John Buynak
Project Title: "Design and Synthesis of Carbapenem Antibiotics to Treat Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacterbaumannii"
Alec Mason
Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski
Project Title: "Characterization of VVD Blue-Light Photoreceptor Proteins in Fusarium Oxyporum"
Hannah Massman
Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin
Project Title: "Testing the Strength of Associative Networks for Up-Regulation and Down-Regulation of Positive and Negative Affective Expectations for Exercise"
Olivia Marx
Mentor: Dr. Adam Norris
Project Title: "Regulatory Interactions Between Transcription Factors and RNA Binding Proteins"
Byron Meshram
Mentor: Dr. John Buynak
Project Title: "Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Carbapenemase-stable Carbapenem Antibiotics"
Rebecca Moore
Mentor: Dr. Stephen Sekula
Project Title: "Study of the Feasability of Identifying the Process H0 gg via v bb using the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider"
Rama Mouhaffel
Mentor: Dr. Steven Vik
Project Title: "The Role of nuoCD in Assembly of Complex I"
Ahmed Muhammad
Mentors: Dr. James Thomas, Dr. Andy Lui, Dr. Jingbo Ye
Project Title: "A Teaching Lab to Illustrate the Concept of Electric Field and A Quality Control Measurement for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Upgrade"
Destiny Rose Murphy
Mentor: Dr. Sheri Kunovich
Project Title: "Constructed Political Identities: Candidate Webpages during the 2018 Election"
Njeshi Nformi
Mentor: Dr. John Buynak
Project Title: "Siderophore-Derived Antibiotics to Treat Resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa"
Nicole Ng
Mentor: Dr. Lynne Stokes
Project Title: "The Application of Meta-Analysis in Pediatric Cochlea Implants"
Dakota Okwuone
Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel
Project Title: "Assessing the Biochemical Activity of the Human P-Glycoprotein in the Presence of Predicted Inhibitors"
Aarthi Pavathaneni
Mentor: Dr. Bradley Klein
Project Title: "Embry Human Rights Study in Barriers to Education for Homeless Youth"
Victoria Peters
Mentor: Dr. Santosh D'Mello
Project Title: "Analysis of HSFI Modulation of SLC34a2 Expression"
Ellie Pietsch
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Roos
Project Title: "The History of Megafires and Forest Shrub Conversion"
Anika Reddy
Mentor: Dr. William Orr
Project Title: "Determining the Effects of Under- or- Overexpression of Peroxiredoxin 6 on the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease"
Brendon Reems
Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros
Project Title: "Couples and Kids with Autism Study"
Samantha Sabour
Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel
Project Title: "Purification of Enhanced Clone of the Multidrug Resistance P-Glycoprotein and Reconstitution into Nanodiscs"
Trina Sriram
Mentor: Dr. Alicia Zuese
Project Title: "Spanish Women in the Fields of Art, Literature, Religion, and Science in the 16th and 17th Centuries"
Josh Sylvester
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Hornback
Project Title: "Result on the Water Table from Earthquakes"
Marianne Astrid Thrailkill
Mentor: Dr. Santosh D'Mello
Project Title: "Analysis of HSFI Modulation of SLC34a2 Expression"
Katie Tinch
Mentor: Dr. Maryann Cairns
Project Title: "Green Burial: The Final Disposition of Human Remains Through Alkaline Hydrolysis"
Taylor Wallace
Mentor: Dr. Jodi Cooley
Project Title: "Exploring the Effects of Environmental Factors on Radon Plate-Out"
Zhengguang Wang
Mentor: Dr. James Thomas, Dr. Andy Lui, Dr. Jingbo Ye
Project Title: "A Teaching Lab to Illustrate the Concept of Electric Field and A Quality Control Measurement for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Upgrade"
Brie Vandenburg
Mentor: Dr. William Orr
Project Title: "Effect of Overexpression of dPrx6 on Alzheimer's Disease"
Xin Yang
Mentor: Dr. Weihua Geng
Project Title: "Predicting Biomolecular Binding Energy using Machine Learning"