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Research Interns in Science and Engineering (RISE)
Summer 2000 - Student Projects

Student
Major/School
Mentor Faculty Sponsor Department Student Project
Meghan Brown
Chemical Engineering
UCSB
---- Joseph Zasadzinski Chemical Engineeirng Morphology of lipids found in natual lunch surfactants
Helen Chang
Biochemistry
Cell biology
UC Riverside
Heather Evans Cyrus Safinya Materials Using fluorescence microscopy to understand behavior of cationic lipid/DNA complexes for gene delivery
Scott Crosier
Geography
UCSB
----- Mike Goodchild Geography Metadata for computer models
Andrew Fisher
Chemistry
Dartmouth College
Jan Sumerel Dan Morse Biology Structural control of polysiloxanes synthesized by silicatien
Alexander Gagnon
Chemisry
Berkley
Jennifer Martinez Alison Butler Chemistry Amphiphilic properties of a physiological mixture of marine sederophores
Will Gans
Mechanical Engineering
Berkley
Vladimir Tolpygo David Clarke Materials Development of a method for producing defined surface roughness of an Fe-Cr-Al-Y substrate
Matthew Garten
Mechanical Engineering
UCSB
----- Kimberly Turner Mechanical Engineering MEMS SCREAM processing
George Deepak
Microbiology
UCSB
----- Leslie Wilson Microbiology Structural study of tubulin using the Saccharomyces cerevisiae system model
George Roshni
Biochemistry
UC San Diego
Ayesha Ahmad Cyrus Safinya Materials Effect of various concentrations of helper lipids in DNA transfection efficiency
Sara Graves
Chemistry
UCSB
Matt Robinson Guillermo Bazan Chemistry Organic polymer LED's
Sherri Gwizdala
Chemistry
Alma College
----- Galen Stucky Chemistry Characterization of Si:BaGaGe as a thermoelectric material
Alan Harvey
Biochemistry
UCSB
Tim Bullock John Perona Chemistry Mechanism of RNA-dependent kinase PKR
Robert Klein
Chemical Engineering
UCSB
Maarten Biesheuvel
Ben Yu
Fred Lange Materials Synthesizing the lotus effect using ceramic materials
Edward Letts
Physics
UCSB
Yewhee Chye Pierre Petroff Materials Characterization of Fe thin films on GaAs
Michael Mackel
Chemical Engineering
UCSB
Bret Coldren Joseph Zasadzinski Chemical Engineering Phase behavior and mechanical properties of catanionic surfactants
Jody Major
Biochemistry
UCSB
Chol Steven Yun Geoff Strouse Chemistry Using nanocrystals for spectroscopy of protein folding
Abraham Mara
Physics
UCSB
----- Deborah Fygenson Physics Structural characterization of tubulin
Arnaldo Marrero
Chemistry
Universidad Metropolitana, P.R.
----- Nicola Hill & Roy Smith Materials & Electrical & Computer Engineering Computer modeling of PbSe/PbTe nanocrystals structure
Juan Martinez-Alvez
Mechanical Engineering
University of P.R.
----- Nicola Hill & Roy Smith Materials & Electrical & Computer Engineering Shape and size dependance of optical properties in PbSe system
Aric Monts-Homkey
Archaeology
UCSB
Anabel Ford Mike Goodchild Geography GIS applications in Archaeology
Malini Ranganathan
Chemistry
Bard College
Jianjun Cheng Timothy Deming Materials Characterization and synthesis of beta-polypeptides
Jovan Rivera Montes
Computer Science
Universidad Metropolitana, P.R.
----- Ming Li Mechanical Engineering Web-based interface for porgram plagerism detection
Marc Soares
Materials
MIT
----- Samir Mitragotri Chemistry Characterization of chemical enhancers for transdermal drug delivery
Aundrea Tavakkoly
Physics
UCSB
Brian Gergen Eric McFarland Chemical Engineering Growth and characterization of thin film Schottky diode sensors
Jeannie Wisch
Chemistry
UCSB
Christof Brandli
Tom Jaramillo
Eric McFarland Chemical Engineering Combinatorial approach to photosynthetic hydrogent fuel production

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