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Dean's Fellowship Summer Internship 2005
 
 
 

Joana Aquino (jaqui005@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Undeclared (working towards Biology)
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Guy Bertrand, Chemistry
Proposed Research: An Improved Synthesis of PBPB Diradicals

     
 

Nicha Chartuprayoon (nchar001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Francisco Zaera, Chemistry
Proposed Research: Characterization of the Cinchona Structure by Computational Methods

     
  Erik Haw (ehaw001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Mike Coffey, Plant Pathology
Proposed Research: To create a functional database of Phytophthora species which will allow researchers, governments, and agriculturalists to access important data.
     
 

Justin Komine (jkomi001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Physics/Applied Math
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Gabriela Canalizo, Earth Science
Proposed Research: To calculate the mass of the black hole in Cygnus A based on higher resolution data.

     
  William Le (wle001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: undeclared
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Bradley Mullens, Entomology
Proposed Research: To test specific antibody classes' reactions to mite infestation
     
  Chris Letko (cletk001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Keith Hollis, Chemistry
Proposed Research: To synthesize an iridium pincer complex and apply it to dehyrogenation experiments to test its catalytic activity.
     
  Analee Miranda (amira003@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Pure Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Prof. John Baez, Mathematics
Proposed Research: To utilize Monte Carlo methods to approximate 6j Symbols.
     
  Alex Myerchin (amyer001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Science
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Mike Marsella
Proposed Research:
     
  Robert Niemeyer (niemer02@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Pure Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Michel Lapidus
Proposed Research: to extend rational billiards to fractal billiards.
     
  Greg Quiroz (gquir001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Physics
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Leonid Pryadko
Proposed Research: to study the compatibility of pulse-based methods of Quantum Coherent Control and long-distance quantum information transfer via an oscillator bus.
     
 

Ken Sedgwick (kenneth.sedgwick@email.ucr.edu)
Major: Physics
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Richard Seto
Proposed Reseach: to design and develop a prototype for a nose cone calorimeter to study high-energy proton-nucleus collisions.

     
  Chetan Shenoy (cshen001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Alan McHughen, Botany
Proposed Research: to understand the role of dehydroascorbate reductase in certain stress environments in the tomato plant.
     
 

Andy Villegas (avill016@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biological Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Hailing Jin, Plant Pathology
Proposed Research: to learn if MAPK is responsible for RB gene resistance.

     
  Sithara Wijeratne (swije001@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Physics
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Allen Zych, Physics
Proposed Research: to use NaI(T1) scintillators to measure the energy and position of positrons and electrons produced by high energy gamma-rays.
     
  Susan Won (wons01@student.ucr.edu)
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Kathy Borkovich, Plant Pathology
Proposed Research: to understand chemical genetics and the use of chemical library screening techniques.
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