2004 SUMMER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Sean Ward

Jesse Bethel High School
Vallejo, CA

Research Experience for Teachers
(RET)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
2004 PARTICIPANTS
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Justin Allman
Georgia Institute of  Tech
Project Title: Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of bulk and thin film
TM-doped II-VI materials

Second Place (Tie) Winner in 2004 Poster Presentation

Shatoya Brown
Tuskegee University
Project Title: A Hybrid Laser/Aerosol Mehtod for the Synthesis of Porous Nanostructured Calcium Phosphate Materials for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications

Presented at Meeting of the Materials Research Society, Boston, MA,
Nov. 29-Dec 3, 2004.

Vernon Chaplin
Swarthmore College
Project Title: Properties of Interstellar Dust in the MBM 18-19 Cloud Complex

Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (January, 2005)

Erin Darnell
Columbia University
Project Title: Two Dimensional Brownian Motors: Application to Myosin Motor Proteins

Presented at "Physics 2005 a Century After Einstein" Conference
10-14 April 2005
University of Warwick, UK

Stephen Evans
Xavier University
Project Title:Nanostructured Diamond Coating of Nitinol Stents

Kristin Ferguson
Mississippi State University
Project Title: Wear Testing of UHMWPE on Nanocrystalline Diamond Coated Ti-6AL-4V Alloy Deposited by MPCVD

Melissa Glaser
Sewanee
Project Title: High Pressure-High Temperature Studies on Boron Nitride in a Diamond Anvil Cell

Terrence McGee
Hampton University
Project Title: The Superconducting Transition Temperature of Boron Doped Diamond Lattices

Daniel Mills
Samford University
Project Title: Building an Electron Accelerator for Use in a Free Electron Laser

Jorge Nunez
UAB
Project Title: Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Attachment and Spreading on 3-D Porous Hydroxyapatite Bone Graft Substitute

First Place Winner in 2004 Poster Presentation

Mpumelelo Richards
Morehouse College
Project Title: The Future of High Powered Electrical Devices

Second Place (Tie) Winner in 2004 Poster Presentation

Artesia Rose
Spelman College
Project Title: Sol-gel synthesis of Zn-added CaTiO3 bioceramics:
microstructure and surface topography

Tejdev Singh Sandhu
Mary Washington College
Project Title: Visual Imaging of DNA-Artificial Nucleosome Aggregate Forming Interaction

Lorenzo Smith
Heidelberg College
Project Title: Gas-Phase Nanoparticle Dynamics during Laser/Aerosol Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanocrystals

Presented at Meeting of the Materials Research Society, Boston, MA,
Nov. 29-Dec 3, 2004.