SERC-URGP RECIPIENTS SPRING 2006

BIOLOGY

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
David Clifton	Dr. Hartman	How the availability of healthcare and the socioeconomic status of a region influences public opnion concerning healthcare and healtcare professionals
Alejandro D'Brot	Dr. Akkaraju	Identifying potential inhibitors of NS5A, a Hepatitis C virus (HCV) protein that inhibits the antiviral response in cells
Dani McRaney	Dr. Akkaraju	Engineering a cell line to express NS5A in response to an inducing agent

CHEMISTRY

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Timothy Graham	Dr. Coffer	Doped nanofibrous materials for bone growth
Joseph Holland	Dr. Hanna	Synthesis and activity of Oxo and Dioxo Aryloxides
Linh Tran	Dr. Coffer	New silicon-bipolymer composites for smart wound repair

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Jonathan Clark	Dr. Hannon	Acquiring natural language from a leveled corpus using integrated micro-patterns
Michael Denkowski	Dr. Hannon	Integrating speech recognition in an adaptive intelligent environment
Ryan Gibbons	Dr. Hannon	Using artificial vision for robot control and navigation

ENGINEERING

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Cameron Ghassemi	Dr. Tayag	Optical characterization of human tissue equivalents
Marcus Johnson	Dr. Tayag	Florescent imaging in real time
Nathan Smith	Dr. Diong	Characterization of 4-element resonant power converters

GEOLOGY

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
James Stevens	Dr. Muttiah	The West Fork Trinity River changes: a response to urban growth

NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Robin Colley & Lindsey Willis	Dr. Dart	BISD Kids in Action

PHYSICS

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Roland Omene	Dr. Zerda	Manufacturing and characterization of silicon carbide nanowires
Michelle Prewitt	Dr. Quarles	A study of the efficiency of solid state X-ray detectors

PSYCHOLOGY

Student	Faculty Mentor	Project Title
Jace Waguspack	Dr. Boehm	Attenuation of Endotoxin-induced cognitive deficits via inhibited central Cytokine production