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Characterization of Variants of Human 8-oxoguanine DNA Glycosylase 1 (hOGG1) Identified in Cancer Patients
Student: Katie Mouzakis
Faculty: Karl Haushalter

Chitosan Aerosolizing
Student: Joshua Kao
Faculty: Tom Donnelly, Shenda Baker

Crosslinking Chitosan
Student: Sarah Moore
Faculty: Shenda Baker

Cross-linking histones and DNA to prevent transient site exposure
Student: Janina Moretti
Faculty: Karl Haushalter

Determination of the Phase Diagram of Biologically Relevant Liquid Crystals
Student: Kristen Chellis
Faculty: Gerald Van Hecke, Kerry Karukstis

Electron Transfer and Electronic Coupling
Student: Westin Kurlancheek
Faculty: Robert J. Cave

Electron Transfer in Metalloporphyrin Dimer Systems
Student: John Andrew Kouzelos
Faculty: Robert J. Cave

Electronic Coupling in Metalloporphyrin Oligomers
Studnet: Amanda Hickman
Faculty: Hal Van Ryswyk

Excess thermodynamic functions of alcohols+ alkane mixtures
Student: Minseok Jang
Faculty: G.R. Van Hecke

Fiber-Based Mode Locking Laser
Student: Eric Burkhart, Steven Ning, Stephen Yu
Faculty: Qimin Yang

Functionalization of Chitosan
Student: Katie Douglas (Eureka)
Faculty: Shenda Baker

Guanidinylating Chitosan Using Pyrazole
Student: Katherine Peterson (Williams College)
Faculty: Shenda Baker

Immunogold Labeling of Human Cornea Fibroblasts for Use with Optical Coherence Microscopy
Student: Emily Hogan, Gordon Whyburn (Pomona)
Faculty: Richard Haskell,Barbara Hoeling, Elizabeth Orwin

Laser-Driven Fusion with Heavy Water Droplets
Student: Clarence Chan, Andrew Higginbotham, Michael Maindi, Joshua Kao, OctaviSemonin
Faculty: Tom Donnelly

Measuring the Femtosecond Dynamics of Surface States in Gold
Student: Sandi Bruce

Microwave Detection
Student: Nicholas Evans
Faculty: Shenda Baker

Modification of Plastics with Chitosan
Student: Kyle Zarazana
Faculty: Shenda Baker

Monitoring Irreversible Changes in Burning Structures
Student: A. Hutchings, J. Hwung, R. Kelcher, Z. Lupei, S. Markwardt, G. Nielsen, C. Schilling
Faculty: Z. Durón

Polymer Heat Exchangers for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Power Plants
Student: Todd Taniguchi

Quantitative Models for the Deterrence of Terrorists
Student: MinalShankar, Daniel Walton
Faculty: Susan Martonosi

Revolutionary Neurally-Controlled Prosthetic Arm
Student: A. Hutchings, J. Hwung, R. Kelcher, Z. Lupei, S. Markwardt, G. Nielsen, C. Schilling
Faculty: Z. Durón

Solid Phase Organic Synthesis of Ruthenium Porphyrin Oligomers
Student: Scott Rodriguez
Faculty: Hal Van Ryswyk

Southern California Fault Mechanics: Observations and Models
Student: David Mar, Hyung-Joo Park
Faculty: G.A. Lyzenga

Spectrophotometric method to measure degree of functionalization of arginine-functionalized chitosan
Student: Margaret Ho
Faculty: Professor Shenda Baker

A systematic study of structure and physical properties of the smectogenic2,7-diacyl fluorenes
Student: Aurora Pribram-Jones
Faculty: Gerald R. Van Hecke

Traffic "Packing" Algorithms for Optical Networks
Student: Kevin Corcoran (University of Missouri), Seth Flaxman (Harvard University), Mark Neyer (Xavier University), Peter Scherpelz (HMC) Craig Weidert (HMC)
Faculty: Ran Libeskind-Hadas

Trapping of the Hnth-Nucleosomal DNA Schiff Base intermediate
Student: Ken Loh
Faculty: Karl Haushalter

Ultrasonic Atomization Micro-Droplet Project
Student: Clarence Chan, Michael Maindi, Andrew Higginbotham, Octavi Semonin, Joshua Kao
Faculty: Tom Donnelly

Work Towards a Biomimetic Synthesis of Endiandric Acids A-H
Student: Sam Sobelman
Faculty: David A. Vosburg

Work toward a Biomimetic Synthesis of Davanone
Student: Kathryn Poindexter (Pomona College)
Faculty: David A. Vosburg