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Studying functional conservation of the IAB8 enhancer in the Drosophila bithorax complex
Student: Margaret Ho
Faculty: Robert A. Drewell
Investigating pairwise insulator interactions in the bithorax complex of Drosophila melanogaster
Student: Matthew Borok
Faculty: Robert Drewell
Identification of double and triple mutants of sac9-1 and phospholipase D
Student: Jane Pan
Faculty: Mary Williams
Characterization of Conserved Regulatory Elements in the Telomerase Promoter in Primates
Student: Diana Tran
Faculty: Robert Drewell
Evolution of Fab-7 insulator across different Drosophila species
Student: Ginna Kim
Faculty: Robert Drewell
Evolution of IAB5 enhancer sequence and functionality in Drosophila
Student: Holly Johnsen
Faculty: Robert Drewell
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH)
Student: Jason Chan
Faculty: Robert Drewell
Statistical Estimation of Maxima: Racing Sceloporus Occidentalis
Student: Steven Pankratz
Faculty: Stephen Adolph
Investigating the use of Brainfingers for children with cerebral palsy for spatial-motor education
Student: Kathleen Eliseo
Faculty: Maria Klawe, Darryl Yong
RNAi in Tetrahymena Thermophila Determination of Gene Functionality
Student: Andrea Sand, David Wilkes, Vidya Rajagopalan
Faculty: David Asai
Bias Correction in the Correlation of Sample Quantiles
Student: Austen Head
Faculty: Johanna Hardin, Stephen Adolph
Dynein 2 Light Intermediate Chain Phenotype
Student: Liz Corpuz
Faculty: David Asai
Testing for trade-offs in temperature tolerance: individual variation in cold vs. heat tolerance in a lizard
Student: Marc Badger
Faculty: Steve Adolph
Effect of Keratocyte-Endothelial Co-culture on Fibroblast Expression of α-SMA, TKT, and ALDH
Student: Stacy Sun, Rebecca Walmsley
Faculty: Elizabeth Orwin, Marta Bechtel
Crosslinking Histones and DNA to Prevent Transient Site Exposure
Student: Jennifer Fukuto
Faculty: Karl Haushalter
Rate of Excision for Human 8-oxoguanine DNA Glycosylase
Student: Matt Hoss
Faculty: Karl Haushalter
Examining the superstructure of collagen fibers
Student: Marc Davidson
Faculty: Liz Orwin
Inducing Metallomesogenic Phases in Water-n-Octyl-β-D-glucopyranoside Mixtures
Student: Judy P. Hines
Faculty: Gerald R. Van Hecke
Inhibition of the Shiga toxin: Synthesizing a Gb3 Receptor Analogue
Student: Sam Sobelman
Faculty: Shenda Baker
Using the Equal Gibbs method to generate re-entrant phase diagrams
Student: Trevor McQueen
Faculty: Gerald R. Van Hecke
Synthesis of a Third Generation Tethered Ligand
Student: Andrew Stewart
Faculty: Adam Johnson
Synthesizing Ruthenium Porphyrin Dimers
Student: Hufsa Ahmad
Faculty: Robert J. Cave, Hal Van Ryswyk
Synthesis of Osmium Porphyrin Dimers for Experimental Studies of Metal Coupling
Student: Glennis Rayermann
Faculty: Robert J. Cave, Hal Van Ryswyk
Electrostatic Interactions of Azo Dyes and Micelles
Student: Jonathan P. Litz, Matthew B. Garber
Faculty: Kerry K. Karukstis
Determination of the Binary Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Phases Formed by n-Decyl-β-D-Glucoside in Water
Student: Alison Lee, Christina Snyder
Faculty: Kerry K. Karukstis, Gerald R. Van Hecke
Determination of Phase Diagrams of Biologically Relevant Liquid Crystals
Student: Kristen Chellis
Faculty: Gerald R. Van Hecke, Kerry K. Karukstis
Comparison of Theoretical and Experimental Studies of the Claisen Rearrangement
Student: Seanna Vine
Faculty: G. William Daub, Robert Cave
Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions in the Convergent Biomimetic Synthesis of the Endiandric Acids
Student: Terence Wong
Faculty: David Vosburg
Generating Polymer Nanoparticles
Student: Dustin McCarren, Ian Wright
Faculty: Shenda Baker
Progress Towards a Biomimetic, Concise Synthesis of (+)-Davanone
Student: Karen C. Brown
Faculty: David A. Vosburg
Synthesis of fluorescent chitosan using a water soluble rhodamine B derivative
Student: Rachel Nishimura
Faculty: Shenda M. Baker
A Solid Support for the Modular Synthesis of Molecular Wires
Student: Megan Pennington-Boggio
Faculty: Robert J. Cave, Hal Van Ryswyk
The Influence of Hydrophobic Dyes on the Two-Dimensional Structures of Diblock Copolymers
Student: Taylor Neiman
Faculty: Shenda M. Baker
A Biomimetic and Convergent Approach to the Endiandric Acids Cascade
Student: Ken Loh
Faculty: David Vosburg
Nanoporous Whiffleballs, Golf Balls and the Future of Microscopic Sports Equipment
Student: Sarah Moore
Faculty: Shenda Baker
Phase Diagrams of Binary Mixtures of the Homologous Series of 4’-n-alkyl-4-cyanobiphenyls
Student: Joshua Cobb
Faculty: Gerald R. Van Hecke
Enantioselective Hydroamination with Chiral Ligands
Student: Diana McAnnally-Linz
Faculty: Adam Johnson
Asymmetric Catalytic Hydroamination of Ligands Derived from Phenols and Primary Amines
Student: Minh Nguyen
Faculty: Adam Johnson
A Systematic Study of the Physical and Structural Properties of Smectogenic 2,7-Fluorenes
Student: Colleen Small
Faculty: Gerald R. Van Hecke
Excess Gibbs Potentials of Hexanol or Cyclohexanol + Alkane Mixtures Using Rayleigh Light Scattering
Student: Minseok Jang
Faculty: Gerald R. Van Hecke
Titanium Ligand Catalyzed Reactions
Student: Lauren Hughs
Faculty: Adam Johnson
Trapping the hOGG1:nucleosomal DNA complex
Student: Ethan Sokol, Ken Loh, Fang-Yuan Chang
Faculty: Karl Haushalter
Comparison of Diblock Copolymer Films Prepared by Langmuir-Blodgett and Drop Deposition on a Single Wafer
Student: Timmy Wu
Faculty: Shenda Baker
Evolving efficient picobot programs using genetic programming
Student: Benyue Liu, Kaylin Spitz
Faculty: Ran Libeskind-Hadas
Symbol Recognition using Average Images
Student: Devin Smith
Faculty: Christine Alvarado, Sarah Harris
Sketch-Based Tool for Digital Circuit Recognition:Circuit Parsing
Student: Matthew Weiner
Faculty: Christine Alvarado, Sarah Harris
Classification of digital logical circuits using Conditional Random Fields and Support Vector Machines
Student: Anton Bakalov
Faculty: Christine Alvarado, Sarah Harris
Examining Digital Logic Gates Drawn in Various Situations
Student: Sam Gordon, Raquel Robinson, Warren Liang
Faculty: Christine Alvarado, Sarah Harris, Tom Stahovich
A Sketch-Based Interface for PowerPoint
Student: Ellen Kephart, Alice Zhu
Faculty: Christine Alvarado, Sarah Harris
Electrical Engineering Pedagogical Software: A Circuit Simulator Graphical User Interface and Xilinx Bridge
Student: Andrew Danowitz, Paul Wais
Faculty: Christine Alvarado, Sarah Harris
Impro-Visor: Style Editor & Extractor
Student: Sayuri Soejima, Brandy McMenamy, Jim Herold
Faculty: Bob Keller
Improving the SNIA Trace Repository
Students: Andrew Glass, Tyler Wolf, Megan Campbell
Faculty: Geoff Kuenning
Bernard Field Station Network
Student: Peter Mawhorter, Ben Jencks, Trystan Koch
Faculty: Mike Erlinger
Tealia Cluster
Student: Steven Berler
Faculty: Mike Erlinger
On-line Dynamic Traffic Grooming
Student: Jordan Crouser, Brian Rice, Adrian Sampson
Faculty: Ran Libeskind-Hadas
Small Molecule Diffusion Through Nanoscale Systems
Student: Lupita Bermudez, Donna Phu, Heather Schalliol, Christina Tang
Faculty: Nancy Lape
The Effects of Hydration on Permeability in Human Stratum Corneum
Student: Nina Bordeaux, Lucia Cheung, Abbygail Palmer, Kathleen Wang, Eric Young
Faculty: Nancy Lape
Modal Analysis of San Vicente Dam
Student: Zack Rubin, Zach Lupei, Casey Schilling, Leah Anderson, Ben Taborsky, Vatche Attarian
Faculty: Ziyad Duron
Monitoring Irreversible Changes in Burning Structures
Student: Leah Anderson, Vatche Attarian, Zach Lupei, Zack Rubin, Casey Schilling, Ben Taborsky
Faculty: Professor Ziyad Durón
Modal Properties of Photonic Crystal Fibers
Student: John Parker
Faculty: Qimin Yang
MIPS and SPICE in India!
Student: Nathaniel Pinckney
Faculty: David Money Harris
Hydrogel Diffusion Kinetics
Student: Nina Bordeaux, Kacy McKibben, Abbygail Palmer
Faculty: Nancy Lape, Elizabeth Orwin
E80 – The Next Generation
Student: Jason Choi, Noel Godinez, Alex Lynch, Graham Orr
Faculty: Mary Cardenas, Erik Spjut
Rabbit Corneal Fibroblast Behavior on Aligned Electrospun Scaffolds
Student: Lindsay Wray
Faculty: Elizabeth Orwin
Creating Collagen-Chitosan Composite Matrices
Student: Arjun Kalyanpur, Clark Zhang
Faculty: Elizabeth Orwin
Symbol Recognition using Average Images
Student: Devin Smith
Faculty: Christine Alvarado, Sarah Harris
Curing Cancer with Mathematics
Student: C. Collins, D.Gross, J. Moore, B.Preskill
Faculty: L.G. de Pillis, K.R. Fister, W. Gu
A Combinatorial LSB Theorem on the d-Cube
Student: Aaron Mazel-Gee, Kyle E. Kinneberg, Mutiara Sondjaja
Faculty: Francis E. Su
Chaotic Elastica and Taylor-Couette Flow
Student: Hendrik Orem, Hyung Joo Park
Faculty: Jon Jacobsen
Optimal Defensive Investments for Deterring Terrorists
Student: Timothy Sweda, Daniel Walton, Eugene Quan
Faculty: Susan Martonosi
Inertial Confinement Fusion Using Deuterium Oxide Aerosol Generated via Ultrasonic Atomization
Student: Sandi Bruce, Clarence Chan, Andrew Higginbotham
Faculty: Tom Donnelly
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Building Performance at Harvey Mudd and the Claremont Colleges
Student: Lauryn Baranowski, Claire O’Hanlon, Eric Peterson
Faculty: Richard Haskell
Experimental Single Qubit Quantum Secret Sharing and Practical Attacks on Secret Sharing
Student: Peter Scherpelz, Rudy Resch
Faculty: Theresa Lynn
Properties of Type-I Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion and Entangled States
Student: Rudy Resch, Peter Scherpelz
Faculty: Theresa Lynn
Numerical MOKE Simulations of Spin Valve Multilayers
Student: Tahir Yusufaly
Faculty: Peter N. Saeta
Non-locality from string theory: quantum entanglement at small length scales
Student: Gregory Minton
Faculty: Vatche Sahakian
Thickness Dependence of Magnetic Domain Formation in Spin Valves
Student: Dariya Draganova, Helen Fitzmaurice, Caitlin Furjanic, Junbo Park, David Stachnik
Faculty: James Eckert, Patricia Sparks, and Chih-Yung Chen
Suppressing noise in magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements
Student: Matthew Lawson, Rishad Manekia
Faculty: Peter N. Saeta
Physics Portal
Student: Michael Gilik
Faculty: Vatche Sahakian
A Theoretical Model for Nonlinear Mie Scattering
Student: Nate Jones, Seán Meenehan
Faculty: Tom Donnelly
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