Hamilton Scholars 2021-2022


Azeez Abdul

Mentor: Dr. Devin Matthews

Project Title: "Benchmarking Tensor Hypercontration Errors and Error Cancellation on Real Chemical Systems"

Zuhair Almahayni

Mentor: Dr. John Wise

Project Title: "Targeting an RND Transporter that Causes Multidrug Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens"

Sara Beth Becker

Mentor: Dr. Devin Matthews

Project Title: "Investigation of Tensor Hypercontraction Applied to Both the Wavefunction and the Hamiltonian"

Elizabeth Bell

Mentor: Dr. Michael Chmielewski

Project Title: "The HiTOP Model and Potential Cognitive/Neurophyschological Mechanisms Underlying Psychopathology"

Will Bonderer

Mentor: "Dr. Zhihao Wu

Project Title: "Role of Hydrogen in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Models"

Jonathan Boothe

Mentor: Dr. Peng Tao

Project Title: "Computational Study of Hydrolysis Mechanisms of Critical I-Lactam Drugs

Justin Chung

Mentor: Dr. John Wise

Project Title: "Targeting an RND Transporter that Causes Multidrug Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens"

Kati Davis

Mentor: Dr. B. Sunday Eiselt

Project Title: Curation and Preservation of the Richland Creek Arhaeology Project Sites

Saavni Desai

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Project Title: "Comparative Authoritarianism: How Dictatorships Work and Collapse"

Tyler Diehl

Mentor: Dr. Monnie McGee

Project Title: "Gender Bias in Academic Publications and Changes Due to the Pandemic"

Thatcher Dunlap

Mentor: Dr. Ben Tabak

Summer Project Title: "Examining the Association of Theory of Mind and Interpersonal Functioning"

Academic Year Project Title: "Examining the Association of Social Anxiety and Theory of Mind in the Combined Stories Task"

Faith Fang

Mentor: Dr. Jodi Cooley

Project Title: "Examining the Effect of Electric Charge on Radon Plateout"

Alex Fassnacht

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Project Title: "Japanese Investment in Mexicon and Its Implications for Trade Politics

Gabrielle Gard

Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel

Summer Project Title: "Assessing Ways to Overcome Multidrug Resistance in Human Cancer"

Academic Year Project Title: "Evaluating Correlation of Chemotherapy Resistance in Cancer Cells with Overexpression of P-glycoprotein"

Stephanie Gilchrist

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Sekula

Project Title: "Development of a Kaon-Based Jet Tagger for the ATHENA Proto-Experiment"

Nathan Greenhaw

Mentor: Dr. Macabe Keliher

Project Title: "Ritual in the Early Modern World"

Ryan Guess

Mentor: Dr. Pavel Nadolsky

Project Title: "Advanced Parametrizations of the Proton Structure"

Taariq Hassan

Mentor: Dr. John Buynak

Project Title: "Atypical Antibiotics Optimized for Antimycobacterial potency and Selectivity"

Charles Hollis

Mentor: Dr. Kacy Hollenback

Project Title: "Studying the Ceramic technology of Poverty Point Objects"

Kylie James

Mentor: Dr. Robert Harrod

Project Title: "Cytoskeletal Regulation of the Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type-1 (HTLV-1) via an Actin-Binding Cellular Cofactor"

Shefali Katedia

Mentor: Dr. Priscilla Lui

Project Title: "Virtual Reality Social Interactions Study"

Bretton Laboret

Mentor: Dr. Zhihao Wu

Project Title: "Role of USP10 in Mitochondrial Quality Control"

Sayumi Mahawanniarachchi

Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin

Project Title: "Optimizing Recruitment Strategies for Underrepresented Groups in Physical Activity Research"

Rachel Manak

Mentor: Dr. Jill Kelly

Project Title: "The Burden is Heavy, We Need the Men: Gendered Knowledge in Rural South Africa, 1959"

Anna Martinko

Mentor: Dr. Maryann Cairns

Project Title: "Sustainable Fashion Research Assistantship"

Keely McNeme

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Project Title: "Japan's New Geo-economics Strategy in the Evolving Asia-Pacific Order"

Becky Morris

Mentor: Dr. Nia Parson

Project Title: "Resilience and Coping During Global Pandemic"

Ben Perry

Mentor: Dr. Maryann Cairns

Project Title: "Sustainable Fashion Research Assistant"

Lisa (Duong H.) Phan

Mentor: Dr. Steven Vik

Project Title: Analysis of Human Mutations Modeled in nuoH of Complex I"

Lindsey Philips

Mentor: Dr. Adam Norris

Project Title: "Identifying the Cells and Tissues in which the SMN Gene is Required for Organismal Survival"

Caroline Presson

Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Wilson

Project Title: "Couples' Interactions and Inflammatory Responses"

Andrea Reyes

Mentor: Dr. Krista Lynne Smith

Project Title: "Star Formation and Feedback in Active Galaxies"

Kyra Rosanitis

Mentor: Dr. John Wise

Project Title: "Exploring Potential Inhibitors or an RND Transporter that Causes Multidrug Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens"

Cit'clatli Santos

Mentor: Dr. Nia Parsons

Project Title: "Resilience and Coping Among Latinx Populations During Global Pandemic"

Katherine Scalise

Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski

Project Title: "Development of New Optogenetic Tools and Gene Circuits"

Hannah Sheard

Mentor: Dr. Ben Tabak

Project Title: "Examining the Association of Social Anxiety and Biases in the Identification of Emotional Facial Expressions: A Replication Study"

Chancellor Smith

Mentor: Dr. Alexander R. Lippert

Project Title: "Synthesis and Mechanisms of Spiroadamantane 1,2-Dioxetane Chemiluminescence Probes"

Emily Stein

Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers

Summer Project Title: "Innovations in Early Psychosis Care"

Academic Year Project Title: "Promoting Mental Health Equity in Early Psychosis Care"

John Ridge

Mentor: Dr. Robert Kehoe

Project Title: "Measurement of 9 Delta Scuti Stars Period-Luminosity Relation and Internal Structure"

Tate Reeves

Mentor: Dr. Alexander R. Lippert

Project Title: "Single-Molecule Signal Transduction for Molecular Circuitry"

Andrea Reyes

Mentor: Dr. Krista Lynne Smith

Project Title: "Observing Feedback and Star Formation Suppression in Active Galaxies"

Kyra Rosanitis

Mentor: Dr. John G. Wise

Project Title: Exploring Potential Inhibitors of an RND Transporter that Causes Multidrug Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens

Dylan Tietje-Mckinney

Mentor: Dr. Anindita Das

Project Title: "Understanding Catalytic Mechanisms of Metal Nanoclusters with Atomic Precision"

Hazel Vi Marie Eroy

Mentor: Dr. Ömer Özak

Project Title: "The Literary Origins of the Wealth of Nations"

Laura Wildman

Mentor: Dr. Michael Adler

Project Title: "A Prehistory of Embargoes? Ancestral Pueblo Obsidian Exchange, 1000-1500 CE"

Olivia Woodson

Mentor: Dr. Alicia E. Meuret

Project Title: "Resilience in College Students and Student-Athletes: Stigmas, Attitudes, and Mood"

Melanie Wright

Mentor: Dr. Michael Adler

Project Title: "Quantifying the Container Technology of the Earliest Villagers at Picuris Pueblo"

Yongjia Xu

Mentor: Dr. Weihua Geng

Project Title: "From Structure to Function: A Machine-Learning Assisted Molecular Simulation"