The recipients of the Fall 2007 Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) Competition have been announced by the Vice President for Research.
The recipients of the Fall 2007 Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) Competition have been announced by the Vice President for Research. Twenty two of the thirty three recipients from the Cockrell School of Engineering are Biomedical Engineering students! This award of up to $1000 may be used to further the students' research or attend a conference. Congratulations to our 22 winners and to their Professors and labs.Student:
Dariela Almeda - Supervisor: Dr. Krishnendu Roy
Project Title: DLL4 and HLA Class I Tetramer-Functionalized Microbeads for Differentiation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells into T Cells
Student: Zachary J. Bevis - Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
Project Title: Spinal Cord Nerve Regeneration
Student: Ian A. Buchanan - Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
Project Title: Synthesis of Novel Biodegradable Electrically Conductive Polymer
Student: Farha A. Butt - Supervisor: Dr. Nicholas Peppas
Project Title: Molecularly Imprinted Biosensor Polymer
Student: Patrick C. Cheng - Supervisor: Dr. Miguel Jose Yacaman
Project Title: Silver Nanoparticle Research for the Antibiotic Applications
Student: Spencer W. Crowder - Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Brannon-Peppas
Project Title: Comparison of Properties and Cellular Interaction for PLGA and PLA-PEG Nanoparticles Containing Rhodamine, Indocyanine Green and Doxorubicin
Student: Stephen R. Dietz - Supervisor: Dr. Nicholas Peppas
Project Title: pH-sensitive Polycationic Nanogels for Intracellular Drug Delivery
Student: George Aaron Dominguez - Supervisor: Dr. Muhammad Zaman
Project Title: Quantative Analysis of Tumor Cell Adhesion
Student: Blake M. Fechtel - Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
Project Title: Assessment of Spinal Cord Regeneration as Encouraged by an Optimized Accellular Nerve Graft
Student: Heidi M. Gensler - Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Brannon-Peppas
Project Title: Silver Nanocage System for Combined Imaging and therapeutics in Cancer
Student: Harrison J. Hocker - Supervisor: Dr. Mia Markey
Project Title: Travel to Present to the 2007 American Medical Informatics Association Symposium in Chicago, Illinois
Student: Sylvia Huynh - Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
Project Title: Encapsulation of Neural Progenitor Cells in Collagen-Hyaluronic Acid Impenetrating Networks for Nerve Regeneration
Student: Patrick N. Ingram - Supervisor: Dr. John Zhang
Project Title: Efficient Screening of Neurotropic Influenced Neuron Differentiation Controlled by Microfluidic Devices
Student: Yann-Fuu Kou - Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
Project Title: Charachterization of Polypyrrole Surface Properties
Student: Yungah Lee - Supervisor: Dr. Zhiwen Zhang
Project Title: Mapping Dimerization Domain of Staphylococcus aureus Sortase A using Serial Site-directed Mutagenesis and Specific Chemical Cross-linking
Student: Candis C. Massingill - Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
Project Title: Rheologic Properties of Methacrylated Hyaluronic Acid
Student: Jared Mendeloff - Supervisor: Dr. Stanislav Emelianov
Project Title: Non-invasive Temperature Monitoring using Photoacoustic Imaging in Ex-vivo Tissue
Student: Shanique A. Roberson - Supervisor: Muhammad Zaman
Project Title: Correlations of Persistence and Cell-Matrix Interactions in Tumor-Cell Migration
Student: William N. Rodney - Supervisor: Dr. Mia Markey
Project Title: Travel to Present to the 2007 American Medical Informatics Association Symposium in Chicago, Illinois
Student: David N. Shau - Supervisor: Dr. Jothanan Dingwell
Project Title: Stability of Gait Kinetics near the Preferred Walk-Run Transition Speed
Student: Jeja B. Syeda-Nawaz - Supervisor: Dr. Christine Schmidt
Project Title: De-doping Polypyrrole to Determine Dopant Stability after Electropolymerization
Student: Tiffany N. Vo - Supervisor: Dr. Konstantin Sokolov
Project Title: Using Organotypic "Raft" Cultures to help Detect Cancer
