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.
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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.