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Research Interns in Science and Engineering (RISE)
Summer 2004 - Student Projects

Student
Major/School
Mentor Faculty Sponsor Department Student Project
Ashwini Ashokkumar
Chemical Engineering UCSB
Sumit Paliwal Samir Mitragotri Chemical
Engineering
Ultrasound assisted chemotherapy
Ryan Birringer
Materials Science University of Wisconsin Madison
Andrei Kolmakov Martin Moskovits Chemistry Reactor cell for in situ spectroscopy of metal oxide FET configured nanostructures
Lia Bregante
Mechanical Engineering UCSB
Sean Keane Susanne Stemmer Materials The effect of microstructure on electrical properties of Strontium Titanate thin films
Ariel Brumbaugh
Biochemistry University of Washington
Jason Sagert Herbert Waite Molecular Cell Developmental Biology Secondary structure analysis of a prominent protein in mussel byssal threads
Nicholas Burgan-Illig
Computer Systems Engineering UMass-Amherst
Ramesh Rajaduray Daniel Blumenthal Electrical
and Computer
Engineering
Opticalburst switching networks with forward resource reservation
Solome Girma
Mechanical Engineering SUNY at Stony Brook
Tobias Schaedler Carlos Levi Materials Metastable phase evolution in
YO1.5-TIO2-ZRO2
Micah Hall
Electrical Engineering University of Tennessee Knoxville
K. Ramesha Ram Seshadri Materials Computational investigation into determining the electronic structure characteristics of the Perovskite material RMNO3 (R=La AND Y)
Gretchen Keller
Chemistry UCSB
Janice Hong Guillermo Bazan Chemistry Multicolor biosensors based on conjugated copolymers
Jacob Koskimaki
Biomedical Engineering Economics University of Utah
Emin Oroudjev Helen Hansma Physics Comparative force spectroscopy of gluten: How nonpolar amino acid side chains contribute to the protein's visoelastic nature
Courtney Krause
Chemistry University of Washington
Dwight Seferos Guillermo Bazan Chemistry Self-Assembling monolayers featuring quantum dots
Grace Lee
Electrical Engineering UCSB
Hisashi Masui Steven DenBaars Materials ECE Package Techniques on ultraviolet light emitting diodes
Zhi Liang
Electrical Engineering UCSC
M. Sushchikh E. McFarland Chemical
Engineering
Infrared spectroscopy setup for studying heterogeneous catalytic reaction under controlled temperature and pressure
Scott Montgomery
Biochemistry UCSB
Martin Sagermann Martin Sagermann Chemistry and Biochemistry Purification of a truncated H-subunit of VMA13P, a V-type atpase
Rose Nguyen
Chemical Engineering
UCSB
Alex Chu-Kung Matthew Tirrell Chemical
Engineering
Effects of self-assembly on peptide antimacrobial activity
Matthew Pearlson
Chemical Engineering UMass-Amherst
Thomas Jaramillo Eric McFarland Chemical
Engineering
Cu2O-ZnO thin-film heterojunction for photoelectrochemical water splitting
Christopher Picardo
Computer Engineering University of Notre Dame
Ryan Kastner, Tim Sherwood Ryan Kastner, Tim Sherwood Electrical and
Computer
Engineering
Computer
Science
Quantifying reconfigurable computing systems
Lauren Snedeker
Materials Science and Engineering Michigan Technological University
Aditi Risbud Ram Seshadri Materials Synthesis of CoZnO as a potential transparent dilute magnetic semiconductor material
Matthew Stabile
Electrical Engineering UCSB
Benjamin Haskell Shuji Nakamura Materials Growth of low-defect density nonpolar Gallium Nitride by hydride vipor phase epitaxy
Xuan-An Troung
Biochemical and Molecular Biology
Contra Costa College
Tuan Dinh Samir Mitragotri Chemical
Engineering
Intercellular transport processes
Siyan Zhang
Chemical Engineering UCSB
Ju Chou Rric McFarland Chemical
Engineering
Coupling reaction of propylene catalyzed by pure Pd nanoclusters

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