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Research Internships in Science and Engineering

Research Interns in Science and Engineering (RISE)
Summer 2003 - Student Projects

Student
Major/School
Mentor Faculty Sponsor Department Student Project
Andrea Burbank
Physics Stanford
Jennifer Ross Deborah Kuchnir Fygensen Physics Diffusion in microtubules
Juan Chavez
Mechanical Engineering
UC Irvine
Garrett Cole Noel MacDonald Materials and
Mechanical Engineering
Micro-mechanical voltage controlled tunable filters formed in GAAS
Paul-Henri Coulard
Materials Engineering UCSB
Frederic Diana Pierre Petroff Materials Large-area nano-patterned templates fabrication and transfer using nano-imprint lithography
Eric Fraser
Physics & Economics Pomona College
Edward Letts Shuji Nakamura Materials Characterization of Nitride-based crystal for optical devices
Ryan Haggerty
Chemical Engineering UCSB
Eric Toberer Ram Seshadri Materials The effect of nonstoichiometry on the crystal structure of La0.5Sr0.5CoO3-x
Micah Hall
Electrical Engineering University of Memphis
Camelia Owens Francis Doyle Chemical
Engineering
Run-to-run control of blood glucose cancentrations for Type 1 diabetic patients
Kevin Herlihy
Chemistry and Environmental Studies UCSB
Vojislav Srdanov ---- Chemistry and
Biochemsitry
Organic light emitting diode (OLED) synthesis
Jonathan Hollander
Materials and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Benjamin Haskell Shuji Nakamura
Jim Speck
Materials Growth of (1100) m-plane Gallium Nitride on Aluminum Oxide via hydride vapor-phase epitaxy
Amardeep Kaur
Chemical Engineering UCSB
Christian Steinbeck Bradley Chmelka Chemical
Engineering
Investigating a new chromonic liquid crystal
James Lau
Materials Science Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Mark Elsesser David Pine Chemical
Engineering and Materials
Small clusters of encapsulated polymer microspheres
Chris Lightcap
Kimball Hall Eric Matthys Mechanical and
Enivronmental Engineering
Drag reduction of turbulent flows by microalgae
Blythe Miron
Chemical Engineering UCSB
Dimitris Stroumpoulis Matt Tirrell Chemical
Engineering
Grid patterns and vesicle fusion of amphiphilic bilayers
Brietta Oakley
Materials Science and Engineering University of Kentucky
Dmitri Klenov Susanne Stemmer Materials Ultraviolet ozone oxidation of ultrathin titania dielectric films
Miyoko Ohashi
Chemical Engineering UCSB
Ryan Hayward Bradley Chmelka Chemical
Engineering
Nanostructural control of surfactant-silica thin films
Ryan Palmer
Physics and Mathematics California Lutheran University
Howard Rathburn Frank Zok Materials Optimization of sandwich panels for blast mitigation
Sheena Ramdeen
Biology and Chemistry Brandeis University
Jason Sagert Herbert Waite Molecular,
Cellular and
Developmental Biology
The effects of oxidative stress on the mechanical PROPERTIES OF MUSSEL BYSSAL THREAD
John Ring
Mechanical Engineering Dartmouth College
Ira Leifer ---- Chemical
Engineering
Oil slick fate and transport modelling
Lynsey Turgeon
Chemical Engineering UCSB
Norma Alcantar Jacob Isaelachvili Chemical
Engineering
Optical and mechanical properties of CDSE
John Welsh
Chemical Engineering Dartmouth College
Michael Suchchikh Eric McFarland Chemical
Engineering
An atomic hydrogen source for use in an ultrahigh vacuum
Arthur Wojcicki
Chemical Engineering University of South Carolina
Pankaj Karande Samir Mitragotri Chemical
Engineering
Binary formulations in the enhancement of transdermal drug delivery

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