Research Profiles 2015-2016

Jackie Airhart
URA Scholar
“Delighting Inventiveness: Tracing the Poetic Process of Seamus Heaney”

Matthew Bleakney
NIST Scholar
“Effect of gaps in backing support on ballistic performance of body armor”

Devyn Catterton
URA Scholar
“Synthesis of CdSe and Au Nanoparticles Assemblies to Study the Optical Properties of New Hybrid Nanomaterials”

Joelle Cusic
URA Scholar
“Study of Binding Affinity of Crotamine-Au-Nanoparticles with DNA”

Daniel Goodrich
INDS Researcher
“Arts Center Stage: Spotlight America’s Nonprofits”

Vicki Goutzoulis
Summer Researcher
“Transcultural Studies in Televisual Language”

Amelia Hallworth
URA Scholar
“Investigating the role of PRR5, PRR7, and PRR9 in regulating plant immunity”

Danielle Haskin
McNair Scholar
“Community Paramedicine
and the Potential Benefits to Chronic Diabetic Patients”

Jarod Horn
NIST Scholar
“Evaluate CO2 Sorption Properties of Molecular Sieves with Distinct Pore Sizes and Extra-Framework Cations”

Su Hyoung Kim
URA Scholar
“The Influence of the Gwangju Art Biennale on the Cultural Life of the City”

Matthew Kovarek
NIST Scholar

Margaret LaCourse
URA Scholar
“Development of an Enhanced Method for Ions in Seawater”

Jessica Lee
Summer Researcher

Theodora Martin
NIST Scholar
“Process Development of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Films for Microfluidic Device Fabrication”

Sean Najmi
UNM Researcher
“Synthesis and Characterization of Palladium Nanoparticle Doped 3D Graphene Nanosheets for use as Electrocatalyst Supports in Fuel Cells”

Max Poole
NIST Scholar

Markus Proctor
Summer Researcher
“Technology Entrepreneurship and Organization Management”

Jesse Roberts
McNair Scholar
“Perceptions of Quality Care in Latinos with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) when accessing interpretation services”

James Rogers
NIST Scholar
“Practical Proof Potential: Examining the Algorithm Verification Ability of the Software Assurance Workbench”

Jamshaid Shahir
MARC U*STAR Scholar
“Quantifying differences between image feature extraction tools”

Natalie Steenrod
URA Scholar
“A Flexible Approach to Treating the Ebola Virus”

Paul Tschirgi
Summer Researcher
“Interactive Performance Mapping”

Joel Tyson
JHU Researcher
“Parkinson’s Disease: Mapping the Receptor JHA1’s Functional Domain In the Endocytosis of
α-Synuclein PFF”

Nerissa Vasconcells
Linehan Artist Scholar
“Limitless”

Michael Wolfe
URA Scholar
“Entanglement Dynamics of Inductively Coupled Singlet-Triplet Qubit”

Rachel Wolven
URA Scholar
“Light Inhibits Light”

Aviva Zapinsky
URA Scholar
“Ribosomal Biosynthesis after Repression of Specific Ribosomal Protein Genes”