Meet the Hamilton Scholars
Malik Alshaya
Mentor: Dr. Nicolay Tsarevsky
Project Title: "Recyclable and Degradable Polymers Derived from Lipoic Acid"
Joshua Ange
Mentor: Dr. Joel Meyers
Project Title: "Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background for the High-Precision Era"
Elaine Aredo
Mentor: Dr. Annika Wylie
Project Title: "p53 Transrepression of the Meiotic Gene Program"
Grace Astolfi
Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros
Project Title: "Couples' Positive Communication Behavior and their Mental Health"
Ellen Aughenbaugh
Mentor: Dr. Edward Glasscock
Project Title: "Assessing Cardiorespiratory Deficits Due to Epilepsy-Associated Kcna1 Gene Mutations"
Krithi Bolledula
Mentor: Dr. Holly Bowen
Project Title: "Examining Heart-Brain Connections Supporting Emotion Regulation in Older Adults"
Ritney Coleman
Mentor: Dr. Beth Wheaton-Paramo
Project Title: "Modeling and Disrupting the North Texas Human Trafficking Market"
Chris Cook
Mentor: Dr. Joel Meyers
Summer Project Title: "Constraining Dark Neutron Decay with Primordial Nucleosynthesis"
Academic Year Project Title: "Implications of Cosmological Neutrino Mass Measurements for Dark Matter Physics"
Jordan Davis
Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski
Project Title: "TANGO2: Developing Small Molecules to Treat Rare Heart Disorders"
Kitty Eid
Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi
Project Title: "How the Rise of Populism Makes Climate Policy Not Work"
Daisy Fields
Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers
Project Title: "Supporting Mental Health Equity Locally and Globally"
Logan Hight
Mentor: Dr. Andrea Barreiro
Project Title: "Exploring Voter List Management and Voter Purges in Texas"
Gloria Hu
Mentor: Dr. Chul Moon
Project Title: "Topology-Based Tumor Shape and Growth Pattern Analysis"
David Jiang
Mentor: Dr. Devin Matthews
Project Title: "Leveraging FPGAs for Hartree—Fock and DFT Calculations"
Alison Kellom
Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel
Project Title: "Reversing Chemotherapy Resistance in Aggressive Forms of Cancers"
Sahar Khan
Mentor: Dr. Amy Brewster
Project Title: "A Role for Complement C3 in Modulating Neuroimmune Interactions in Epilepsy"
Shivani Kosuri
Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Wilson
Summer Project Title: "Posttraumatic Stress and Health: The Role of Socioeconomic Factors"
Academic Year Project Title: "Examining the Heart-Brain Connections Supporting Emotional Memory in Older Adults"
Hasun Krisht
Mentor: Dr. Zhihao Wu
Project Title: "Identification of Ribosome-Associated Quality Control Genes Associated with Human Diseases Via In-Silico Data Analysis and Biological Validation"
Daniel Kulti
Mentor: Dr. Alexander Lippert
Project Title: "Developing a Molecular Photoswitching Module as an Optical Interface for Molecular Circuitry"
Jane Liu
Mentor: Dr. Alex Lippert
Project Title: "Measuring Monoamine Oxidase Activity Using Chemiluminescene Probes"
Geetan Madala
Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin
Project Title: "An Analysis of Self-Reported Physical Activity Data in a Randomized Intervention"
Caroline Madrid
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Boulanger
Project Title: "Continued Curation and Analysis of Archaeological Artifacts from the Dallas County Administration Building"
Andree Molina
Mentor: Dr. Nia Parson
Project Title: "Chronic Pain and Health Care Among Latin/Hispanic Male Construction Workers in Texas"
Regina Moreno Vera
Mentor: Dr. Edward Glasscock
Project Title: "Assessing Autism-like Behaviors in Mouse Models of Epilepsy"
Nise Olawale
Mentor: Dr. Anindita Das
Project Title: "Investigating the Active Sites of Heterogeneous Catalysts with Atomic Precision"
Sana Omar
Mentor: Dr. Peng Tao
Project Title: "Electronic Structures of Cobalt Ion Adsorption"
Bela Pathak
Mentor: Dr. Annika Wylie
Project Title: "Forward Genetic Screens to Discover Mechanism of p53 Transrepression"
Tessa Peterson
Mentor: Dr. James Hollifield
Project Title: "Handbook on Human Rights and International Migration"
Jordan Rivers
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Boulanger
Project Title: "Continued Curation and Analysis of Archaeological Artifacts from the Dallas County Administration Building"
Alondra Rosas
Mentor: Dr. Brian Franklin
Project Title: "A Global History of PEPFAR"
Paul Rowe
Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin
Project Title: "Evaluating Listening Adherence to Audio-Recorded Intervention Technique for Physical Activity"
Adyn Schachtel
Mentor: Dr. Michael Adler
Project Title: "Analysis of Ancestral Picuris Pueblo Ceramics from the Dog Water Site"
Morgan Schield
Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin
Project Title: "Assessing Accelerometer Wear-Time in a Physical Activity Intervention"
Taylor Shimizu
Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers
Project Title: "Supporting Mental Health Equity Locally and Globally"
Mehreen Syed
Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski
Project Title: "TANGO2: Developing Small Molecules to Treat Rare Heart Disorders"
Natalya Talih
Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi
Project Title: "Comparative Authoritarianism: Elections and Institutions in Authoritarianism"
Alejandra Torres
Mentor: Dr. Neil Tabor
Project Title: "Late Pleistocene Paleoclimate Reconstruction from Mineralogical and Geochemical Analysis of Fossil Land Snails"
Hansana Vivekanandan
Mentor: Dr. Devin Matthews
Project Title: "X-Ray Spectroscopy of Ionic Liquids for Carbon Sequestration"
Simran Waraich
Mentor: Dr. Peng Tao
Project Title: "Modeling Dynamical Properties of Cobal Ion Adsoprtion"
Jessica Wray
Mentor: Dr. Andrea Laurent-Simpson
Project Title: "90 Days to Negotiate: Fiancé Visas, Gender, and Power Dynamics in Intercultural Relationships"
Anna Kelley Zielke
Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi
Project Title: "Global Value Chains and Trade Politics in the Asia-Pacific"