Mishael Saah.Minimizing Heat Exposure on Ultracold Atoms via a Voltage Driven Laser Shutter System. Faculty advisor: Colin Parker. Graduate mentor: Kaiyue Wang.
Andie Manning. Hydrodynamic coupling of passive flagella. Faculty advisor: Daniel Goldman. Graduate mentor: Kelimar Cruz (and an REU 2016 alum!).
Christian ‘CJ’ Faulhaber. Dynamics Of Black Hole Binaries in the Active Galactic Nuclei Disk. Faculty advisor: Gongjie Li.
Caleb Hatch.A Novel Approach to the Fabrication of Environmentally Protected Epigraphene Heterostructures. Faculty advisor: Claire Berger. Graduate mentor: Grant Nunn.
Amethyst Massaquoi. The Effects of Extracellular Polymeric Substances on Biofilm Removal. Faculty advisor: Peter Yunker. Graduate mentor: Pablo Bravo.
Daniel Fairfax.Measuring Warm Corona Properties in a Sample of Active Galactic Nuclei. Faculty advisor: David Ballantyne.
Grant Mayberry.Understanding Current Distribution in Layered Graphene Structures. Faculty advisor: Zhigang Jiang. Graduate mentor: Kaiyue Wang.
Joshua ‘Jay’ Graves.Testing the Reconstruction of White-Noise Bursts and Gravitational Wave Emission from Binary Black Hole Hyperbolic Encounters with the BayesWave Algorithm. Faculty mentor: Laura Cadonati. Graduate mentor: Peter Lott (and an REU 2016 alum!).
Katlyn Grimes. The Exploration of Thulium Halides and Oxyhalides as Strongly Fluctuating Quantum Magnets. Faculty mentor: Martin Mourigal. Graduate mentor: Olivia Vilella.
Paul Alex Baynard. Reducing Template Bank Size for Time Optimization of a Joint Neutrino-Gravitational Wave Search. Faculty mentor: Laura Cadonati. Graduate mentor: Hannah Griggs.
REU 2021
Julianne Tijani.Mechanical Changes within Intact Biofilms Due to Varying Amounts of EPS. Faculty Advisor: Peter Yunker.
Viviana Caceres-Barbosa. PyNu: A Search for Gravitational-Wave and Neutrino Coincident Events in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics. Faculty Advisor: Laura Cadonati. Graduate Mentor: Hannah Griggs.
Alexander Alston.Testing the Accuracy of Bose-Einstein Condensate Simulations. Faculty Mentor: Chandra Raman. Graduate Mentor: Sara Sloman (former REU 2019!)
REU 2019
Brian Bozymski. Impact of Hyaluronan Glycocalyx on Single-Cell Migration. Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Curtis
Megan Sousa.The Spatial Distribution of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Matrix and its Interactions with Bacteriophages. Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Curtis.
Malcolm Brown.The Analysis of Scolopendra Polymorpha Centipede’s Methods of Locomotion. Faculty Mentor: Daniel Goldman.
Abdul Kaba. Sidewinder Locomotion. Faculty Mentor: Daniel Goldman
Daniel Germain.Cardiac Chaos. Faculty Mentor: Flavio Fenton
Pryor Gibson. Janssen’s Experiment with Solenopsis invictae (Fire Ants). Faculty Mentor: Alberto Fernandez- Nieves. Graduate Mentor: Caleb Anderson
Camila Dominguez. Relativistic Interpretation of Multi-Body Interaction Mediated by Elastic Substrate. Faculty Mentor: Daniel Goldman.
Tremond Thomas.Evolution of Multicellularity – up to here. Faculty Mentor: Peter Yunker.
Matthew Dittrich.Construction of Magnetic Coils for MOT. Faculty Mentor: Colin Parker.
Sara Sloman.Energy Radiated per Mode Versus Varying Initial Parameters from Binary Black Hole Mergers. Deirdre Shoemaker
Larine Mbabit. Characterization of high efficiency and blue sensitive silicon photomultipliers for Cherenkov telescopes. Faculty Mentor: Nepomuk Otte.
Mikai Hulse.Laser Stabilization for Atomic Trapping via Electro-Optic Modulation. Faculty Mentor: Michael Chapman.
