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Sophomore Success TRACs participants often work closely with our other NHSEMP summer programs.
Research highlights from our recent summer cohorts below include all summer program interns.
2025 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
2025 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Hossain Ultrasound Lab - Electrical Engineering
Title: "Improving Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Image Quality with Adaptive Blind Source Separation Methods"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Murad Hossain
Research Mentor: Junheng Chen (graduate student)
Drew Research Lab - __ Engineering
Title: "Hawaiʻi Intelligent Vehicles for Education"
Dr. Daniel Drew
Research Mentor: Mrinmoy Modak (PhD candidate)
Geotechnical Engineering Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Landslide Early Warning System"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Melia Talagi
Research Mentor: Sayed Majed Noorbakhsh Saleh (PhD candidate)
Soft Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory - __ Engineering
Title: "Magnetically Actuated Soft Milli Robotic Device for Vascular Intervention"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tianlu Wang
Research Mentor: Robert Weimer (graduate student)
Bingham Lab - __
Title: "Investigating Novel Conopeptides: E2377 & C3.1"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jon-Paul Bingham
Research Mentor: Chelsea Miller (PhD student)
Torri Lab - __
Title: "Exploring Trends in Extreme Weather Events in Hawaiʻi"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Giuseppe Torri
Research Mentor: Emma Layton (graduate student)
Environmental Biotechnology Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Capturing Laughing Gas (N2O) from Wastewater Treatment: A Strategy for Decarbonization"
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Zhiyue Wang
Research Mentors: Dr. Sayanti Ghosh, Junxi Dai (PhD student)
2024 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
2024 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Du Lab - Molecular Biosciences & Bioengineering
Title: "Culturing of Alien and Native Macroalgae for Characterization of Bioproducts"
Coastal Hydraulics Engineering Resilience (CHER) Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Energy Dissapation Capabilities of Various Wave Breaker Shapes for Coastal Protection"
Boisvert Lab - John A. Burns School of Medicine
Title: "Identification of S100A9 in Atherosclerotic Plaque"
Pavement Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Hamburg Wheel Testing of Asphalt Concrete Layer"
Hossain Ultrasound Lab - Electrical Engineering
Title: "Breast Tumor Imaging Using Ultrasound Elastography Imaging"
Geotechnical Engineering Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Study of Deformation Characteristics of Subgrade Soil"
Environmental Biotechnology Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Innovative Onsite Wastewater Treatment System for Hawaiʻi"
Advanced Materials and Medical Instruments (AMMI) Lab - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Design and Development of a Prostate Model: Evaluating the Robotic Systsems unde Ultrasound and MRI Guidance"
Robotic Space Exploration (RoSE) Lab - Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory
Title: "RoSE Lab Rover Design & Fabrication"
Self Organization and Active Matter Lab - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Propelling Janus Particles Using Electrophoresis"
Energy Transport and Conversion Lab - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Applications of Phase Change Material Nanocomposites in Thermal Energy Storage"
2023 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
2023 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Robotic Space Exploration Lab (RoSE) - Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory
Title: "Collecting Terramechanics Data with Teleoperated Rover"
Hynson Lab - Pacific Biosciences Research Center
Title: "Characterizing the Core Fungal Microbiome of Waimea Valley, Oahu"
Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory
Title: "Artemis CubeSat"
Fluid Structure Interactions and Nonlinear Dynamics Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Fluid Structure Interaction & Floating Photovoltaic Applications"
Energy Transport and Conversion Lab - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Preparation and Characterization of Photothermal Materials for Potential Solar Harvesting Applications"
Barton Lab - School of Life Sciences
Title: "Intraspecific Variation in Functional Traits and Drought Tolerance of Dodonaea viscosa to Inform Restoration Under Climate Change"
Instructional Design and Educational Assessment (IDEA) Research Lab - Information & Computer Science
Title: "Optimizing Computer Science Education in the Presence of ChatGPT"
2022 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
2022 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Boisvert Lab - John A. Burns School of Medicine
Title: "Atherosclerosis"
Du Lab - Molecular Biosciences & Bioengineering
Title: "Design of a Cost-Efficient Photobioreactor"
Title: "Optimizing Maize Protoplast Transformation"
UH Drone Tech Lab - Electrical Engineering
Title: "Image Processing"
Title: "Drone Technologies Lab"
Nerurkar Lab - John A. Burns School of Medicine
Title: "Phylogenetic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Circulating in Hawaiʻi"
Pavement Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Evaluation of the Environmental Effects and Recycled Materials on Cracking Resistance of Asphalt Materials"
Robotic Space Exploration Lab (RoSE) - Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory
Title: "Variable Sandbox"
Title: "Astrobotic Cuberover"
Microbial Ecology and Disease Ecology Lab - Pacific Biosciences Research Center
Title: "Exploring the Inhabitants of Poi"
Self Organization and Active Matter Lab - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Particle Motion by using Induced Charged Electro Osmosis (ICEO)"
Water Resources Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Predicting Bridge Scour"
Microwave/Millimeter-Wave Lab - Electrical Engineering
Title: "Improving Data Transmissions with Reflective Surfaces"
Ray Research Group - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "One-Pot Synthesis of High Entropy Oxides with Highly Catalytic Efficiency as Peroxidase Mimics"
2021 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
2021 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Energy Transport and Conversion Lab - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Optimizing Thermal Water Heater Systems"
Title: "Atomic Force Microscope Enclosure"
Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Instantaneous Screw Motion in Controlled UAV Motion"
Limu Lab - School of Life Sciences
Title: "Investigating Marine Community Diversity at Keahuolū, Kona"
Computational Environmental Engineering - Civil Engineering
Title: "Eia ka Waʻa"
LAVA Lab - Information & Computer Science
Title: "Design, Development & Evaluation of Encouragement Today: An Online Motivational Application"
Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute
Title: "Biochar with Closed Volume Carbonization and its Applications"
Microfluidics & Microdevices Lab - Electrical Engineering
Title: "Two-Dimensional Actuation of a Liquid Metal Droplet"
Hawaiʻi Advanced Wireless Technologies Institute - College of Engineering
Title: "Analyzing Business Performance with Machine Learning"
Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology & Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "GPS for Autonomous Action"
Title: "Determining Resolution to Achieve Precise Position Estimations for a Star Tracker System on the Moon"
Title: "Artemis CubeSat"
2020 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
2020 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Development and Analysis of an Experimental Design and Trajectory Simulation for a Sample Return Mission"
Title: "Simulating Drone Stabilization on the Moon"
Native Hawaiian Science & Engineering Mentorship Program
Title: "Water Turbine Project Proposal Presentation"
Computational Environmental Engineering - Civil Engineering
Title: "Using Hyperbolic Tangent to Further Analyze COVID-19 Confirmed Cases and Deaths by County in Hawaiʻi"
Self Organization and Active Matter Lab - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Small Scale kinetics for Janus Particles: Microswimmers"
Biosensing Lab - Electrical Engineering
Title: "Drone Biosensing"
Microfluidics & Microdevices Lab - Electrical Engineering
Title: "Image Analysis Using Deep Learning"
LAVA Lab - Information & Computer Science
Title: "UH West Oʻahu Wao Kiʻi"
Thorne Lab - College of Tropical Agricultural and Human Resources
Title: "Grass Management for Tropical Grass-Finished Beef Production"
Energy Transport and Conversion Lab - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) Enclosure"
BIOL 403 - Marine Biology
Title: "The Impact of Coastal Mangrove Removal on Nearshore Coral Reefs at Heʻeia, Hawaiʻi"
Crop Evolution Lab - Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
Title: "The Genetic History of Cannabis"
2019 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
2019 UH LABS and RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Pavement Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Testing for Fatigue Cracking of Asphalt Concrete in a Lab Setting"
LAVA Lab - Information & Computer Science
Title: "Digitizing Detours: Mapping Hawaiian Place Knowledge in Virtual Reality"
Title: "Computer Science and Mental Health"
Self Organization and Active Matter Lab - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Simulation of a Brownian Particle"
Native Hawaiian Science & Engineering Mentorship Program with Nā Pua Noʻeau
Title: "Hana Lawaiʻa: Fishing as a Methodology to Incorporate an ʻĀina-Based Learning Experience"
Amend Lab - Pacific Biosciences Research Center
Title: "Phylogenetic Analysis: Malassezia Yeast"
Medical Device Design Lab - Mechanical Engineering
Title: "Mini Electric Car Modifications for Musculoskeletal Disorders"
Owens Lab - College of Tropical Agricultural and Human Resources
Title: "Total phenolic content (TPC) of native plants in Hawaiʻi"
Water Quality & Environmental Microbiology Lab - Civil Engineering
Title: "Antibiotic Susceptibility of Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria isolated from the Ala Wai Canal"
Environmental Microbiology Lab - Water Resources Reearch Center
Title: "Survival of Current and Alternative Microbial Indicators"
NHSEMP Sophomore Success TRACs is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Hawaiʻi Pacific Foundation, and National Science Foundation-IOA LSAMP grants.
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