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
