2005
Tolulope Adesiyun
Undergraduate institution: Howard University
Research group: Aravi Samuel
Project: Electrotaxis of C. elegans in time varying fields
Funding: Harvard
Jonathan Aguilar
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Research group: Bob Westervelt
Project: Dielectrophoretic manipulation of particles with a modified atomic forces microscope tip
Funding: NSF Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-011779
Michael Alberter
Undergraduate institution: North Carolina A&T State University
Research group: Joost Viassak
Project: The effect if TINIZr alloy composition on martensitic transformation
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Krystal Barker Buissereth
Undergraduate institution: Bowdoin College
Research group: Eric Mazur
Project: Waveguides fabrication by two-photon absorption polymerization
Funding: NSF Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-011779
Anastasia Batrachenko
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Research group: George Whitesides
Project: Visualization of DNA-Carbon nanotube hybrids using fluorescent staining
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
David Berdy
Undergraduate institution: Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
Research group: David Weitz
Project: Bifurcations in electrospining: splitting a polymer jet
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Benjamin Blonder
Undergraduate institution: Swarthmore College
Research group: Peer Fischer
Project: Sensing applications of surface plasmon resonances
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Andrea Brock
Undergraduate institution: St. Louis University
Research group: David Mooney
Project: Engineering angiogenesis to treat ischemic diseases
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Vicki Cheng
Undergraduate institution: Arizona State University
Research group: Peer Fischer
Project: Nano scale pattern generation for use in surface plasmon resonances
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Karen Chow
Undergraduate institution: Arizona State University
Research group: Ann Pearson
Project: Carbon isotopic fractionation in chloroflexus aurantiacus: exploring the ramifications of mixotrophy in the 3-hydroxypropionate
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT)| NSF AGS-0304213
Allan Chu
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Research group: Donhee Ham
Project: Nanowire manipulation via CMOS- controlled dielectrophoresis
Funding: NSF Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-011779
Ely Xavier Colón Jimenez
Undergraduate institution: University of Puerto Rico
Research group: Cynthia Friend
Project: Designing an air scanning tunneling microscope to study two-dimensional materials
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Alin Cosmanescu
Undergraduate institution: The Cooper Union
Research group: Michael Stopa
Project: Quantum computation and artificial atoms: calculation and experiment
Funding: Harvard University
Michael Deceglie
Undergraduate institution: Dickinson College
Research group: Ken Crozier
Project: Optical antennas for observation of fields excited in photonic crystals
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Mali Eichler Taylor
Undergraduate institution: Clark University
Research group: Linda Stern
Project: Two-color imaging of the flagellar filament in Escherichia coli
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Shelby Ellery
Undergraduate institution: Cedar Crest College
Research group: Scot Martin
Project: Photo corrosion of iron-doped Zinc Sulfide particles
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT) | NSF AGS-0304213
Josué Goss
Undergraduate institution: Harding University
Research group: Kevin Kit Parker
Project: Structure/function of engineered two-dimensional cardiac tissue
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Clarmyra (Clare) Hayes
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Research group: Bob Westervelt
Project: Dielectrophoretic manipulation of micron and nano scale objects with a modified atomic force microscope tip
Funding: NSF Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-011779
Rachel Hillmer
Undergraduate institution: University of Illinois
Research group: Federico Capasso
Project: Exploring the Casimir force using AFM techniques
Funding: NSF Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-011779
Madelyn Ho
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Research group: Donald Ingber
Project: Stamping out rejection: controlling cell organization with micro-contact printing
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Renita Horton
Undergraduate institution: Mississippi State University
Research group: Howard Stone
Project: The effects of fatty acid ethyl esters on the mechanical properties of red blood cell membranes
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Alexis Johnson
Undergraduate institution: Augsburg College
Research group: Jim Foley
Project: Developing improved fluorescent rhodamine dyes
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Tyler Jorgenson
Undergraduate institution: Arizona State University
Research group: Ann Pearson
Project: Development of squalene hopene cyclase primers for environmental samples
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT) | NSF AGS-0304213
Dominic Lencer
Undergraduate institution: RWTH Aachen University
Research group: Frans Spaepen
Project: Kinetics of crystals nucleation in under-cooled droplets of phase change alloys
Funding: Harvard University
Christina Lu
Undergraduate institution: Brandeis University
Research group: George Whitesides
Project: Fabrication and characterization of metallic nano disks
Funding: NSF Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-011779
Edwin Macomber
Undergraduate institution: Bristol Community College
Research group: Kevin Kit Parker
Project: Micro engineering design of two-dimensional cardiac tissue
Funding: NSF Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-011779
Wassem Malik
Undergraduate institution: University of Maryland, College Park
Research group: Jiangdong Deng
Project: Building metal bridges with nanometer-scale air gaps by nano-fabrication
Funding: Harvard
Peter McCalla
Undergraduate institution: Morgan State University
Research group: Howard Stone
Project: Coalescence of sessile drops
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Matthew McGrath
Undergraduate institution: Vanderbilt University
Research group: Michael Aziz
Project: Silicon slope evolution under focused ion beam irradiation
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Jamie Metcalfe
Undergraduate institution: Smith College
Research group: Sunney Xie
Project: Enzymatic signal amplification of molecular beacons for sensitive DNA/RNA detection
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Kathy Miu
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Research group: Garret Stanley
Project: Cortical adaptation to aperiodic tactile stimuli
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Emilio Nanni
Undergraduate institution: University of Missouri
Research group: Eric Mazur
Project: Surface enhanced raman scattering using laser nano structured silicon
Funding: NSF Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-011779
Uduak Ntuen
Undergraduate institution: North Carolina A&T State University
Research group: David Weitz
Project: X marks the drop: A study of the surface properties of micofluidic devices
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Paula Popescu
Undergraduate institution: Wellesley College
Research group: Zvonimir Dogic
Project: Dynamics of semi-flexible polymers
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Benjamin Ragan-Kelley
Undergraduate institution: Santa Clara University
Research group: Cynthia Friend
Project: Building a metallic graphene translator
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Melvin Rivera
Undergraduate institution: University of Puerto Rico
Research group: Ann Pearson
Project: The search for malabaricatriene by GC-MS
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT) | NSF AGS-0304213
Maryann Sargent (Racine)
Undergraduate institution: MIT
Research group: Scot Martin
Project: The effects of temperature on the deliquescence of atmospheric aerosols
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT) | NSF AGS-0304213
Ruth Schlitz
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Research group: Michael Aziz
Project: Developing a soft-edged coronographic stop with FIB milling
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Ofer Shopen
Undergraduate institution: Technion
Research group: Joost Vlassak
Project: Time- dependent adhesion in organosilcates glass coatings
Funding: Harvard University
Matthew Smith
Undergraduate institution: Johns Hopkins University
Research group: Erli Chen
Project: Nanometer-thick dielectric films deposited by electron cyclotron resonance(ECR) plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Hillary Smith
Undergraduate institution: Bryn Mawr College
Research group: Michael Burns
Project: Electromigration in single-crystal Copper whiskers
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Eugene (formerly Jennifer) Talbot
Undergraduate institution: Cedar Crest College
Research group: David Weitz
Project: Macroscopic models for micro tubule buckling
Funding: NSF REU Site for Materials Research and Engineering | NSF DMR-0353937
Darry Thomas (Saunders)
Undergraduate institution: Elizabeth City State University
Research group: Bob Westervelt
Project: Superconducting Zinc Nano wires
Funding: NSF Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-011779
Abbie Tippie Watnik
Undergraduate institution: Colorado State University
Research group: Erli Chen
Project: Whispering- gallery-mode micro disk optical biosensor: fabrication and characterization
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Winnie Tsang
Undergraduate institution: Johns Hopkins University
Research group: Jeff Lichtman
Project: Synaptic ultra structural reconstruction using serial electron microscopy
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Anita Unnithan
Undergraduate institution: East Carolina University
Research group: David Weitz
Project: Mechanical properties of fluidic aggregated, and gelated emulsions
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Rosa Veguilla Rosado
Undergraduate institution: University of Puerto Rico
Research group: Scot Martin
Project: Temperature dependence of the deliquescent relative humidity of inorganic aerosol particles
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT) | NSF AGS-0304213
Molly Ward
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Research group: Cynthia Friend
Project: DNA structural analysis through FRET
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Sara Warzecka
Undergraduate institution: University of Arizona
Research group: Donald Ingber
Project: Control of G protein signalling and Rap 1 activation by mechanical forces applied to integrin receptors
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805