Catherine and Robert Fenton Endowed Chair Scholars: An exclusive opportunity for students majoring in biology, the Fenton Scholars program supports basic research projects by students working with the Fenton Endowed Chair Professor, Dr. Lance Evans.
Linda and Dennis Fenton '73 Endowment Scholars: An exclusive opportunity for students majoring in biology, the Fenton Research Scholars program supports basic research projects by students working with faculty on research projects in biology.
Michael '58 and Aimee Rushinko Kakos Endowment Scholars: An opportunity for science majors, the Kakos Scholars program supports basic research projects by students working with the faculty supported by the Endowment.
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Undergraduate Scholars: An opportunity for science majors, the Dreyfus award supports chemistry research projects and provides stipends to students working with Professor Richard Kirchner and other chemistry faculty.
Last year’s student research topics include:
Biochemistry
- Investigating Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation stimulated by plants
- Building a library of mutant H2AZ histones to observe variances in H2A vs. H2AZ interactomes
- Establishing a chromatin immunoprecipitation protocol (ChIP) to use with unnatural amino acid cross-linking
- Characterization of the role of bacterial tyrosine kinases in Bacillus subtilis biofilms
- Investigating the role of the Med protein in biofilm formation
- Purification and isolation of glucose oxidase for use in a bio-battery
Biology
- Xylem conductivity of primary, secondary, and tertiary veins of plant leaves
- Geographic variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism of North American ratsnakes
- Bark formation for Neobuxbaumia tetetzo and Pachycereus hollianus
- Predicting mortality rates for saguaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea)
- Predicting rates of bark coverage on saguaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea)
- Scaling relationships between leaf areas and leaf veins for percurrent leaves
- Machine learning algorithms to determine bark coverage on saguaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea)
- Predicting bark coverage on saguaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea)
- Growth dynamics of Artemisia tridentata
- Xylem conductivity in stems of Artemisia tridentata
- Determination of the temporal and spatial variation of Giardia lamblia in ribbed mussels from Bronx, NY
- Determination of the prevalence and genotype of Giardia lamblia
- Bark and spine analyses of Neobuxbaumia mezcalaensis and Pachycereus hollianus
Chemistry
- Theoretical and experimental design of efficient polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon adsorbents
- Carcinogenic nature of polyaromatic hydrocarbon binding to DNA
- Removing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by adsorption onto silica gels treated with lipophilic carboxylic acids
- An insoluble chemical reducing agent: Application to Cr(VI) removal
- Surface functionalized ion exchange resins by chemical reducing agents: applications for Cr(VI) removal
- Core-shell nanoparticles as photocatalysts to purify water
- Enhancing enzymatic fuel cells with nanotechnology
- Solar cells using nanowire technology
- Creating lead-free perovskite materials for a cleaner, greener future
Computer Science
- Parallel GPU based simulations of multilayer neural networks with multi-valued neurons
- Speed up of big data encryption on GPU using CUDA
- Implementation and evaluation of LPN-based authentications
- Intelligent edge detection using an MLMVN
Environmental Science
- Reconstruction of atmospheric CO and the stable isotopes δ13C and δ18O over the last 8,000 years
- Analyzing the concentration of atmospheric CO derived from biomass burning during 1700-1800 AD
Physics
- Observable relics of a simple harmonic universe
- Comparison of Monte Carlo generators for Higgs decay processes