2007
Chukwunomso Agunwamba
Undergraduate institution: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Project: Stains in clothing: capture of colloidal particles in a porous media
Mentor: Shriram Ramanathan
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Musa Al Haj Ahmad
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Project: C. elegans response to stimuli
Mentor: Aravi Samuel
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Brandon Bailey
Undergraduate institution: Duke University
Project: Position and velocity dependence of early motor learning
Mentor: Maurice Smith
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Phillip Barton
Undergraduate institution: Northwestern University
Project: Electromigration in single crystal copper whiskers
Mentor: Michael Burns
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Jennifer Boice
Undergraduate institution: Simmons College
Project: Particles with tailored electromagnetic properties
Mentor: Peer Fischer
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Sarah Brittman
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Project: Electronic properties of nano wires of antimony telluride, a phase change material
Mentor: Hongkun Park
Funding: NSEC
Ayodele Buraimoh
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Project:
Mentor: David Mooney
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Justin Caram
Amalachi Castillo-Rodriquez
Undergraduate institution: University of Puerto Rico
Project: Protein concentration using an integrated circuit/microfluidic chip for programmable manipulation with dielectrophoresis
Mentor: Robert Westervelt
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Max Chalfin
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Project: Building a magnetic force microscope (MFM)
Mentor: Jenny Hoffman
Funding: NSEC
Meaghan Colling
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Project: Water and styrene coadsorption studies on TIO2 (110)
Mentor: Cynthia Friend
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Joseph D'Silva
Undergraduate institution: Cornell University
Project: Fabrication of ultra-flat micron-diameter gold surfaces for mechanical characterization of DNA molecules
Mentor: Ozgur Sahin
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Pablo De La Iglesia
Undergraduate institution: University of New Mexico
Project: Elasticity of collagen fibers
Mentor: David Weitz
Funding: PREM | NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Laura De Lorenzo
Undergraduate institution: Dartmouth College
Project: Particle motion on an oil/water interface
Mentor: Vinothan Manoharan
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Thao Do
Undergraduate institution: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Project: Surface modification of PDMS channels
Mentor: David Weitz
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Chimdimnma (Chi-Chi) Esimai
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Project: Blowing on a bottle
Mentor: L. Mahadevan
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Stevan Fatur
Undergraduate institution: Tufts University
Project:
Mentor: Michael Aziz
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Ian Frank
Undergraduate institution: Pomona College
Project: Maskless nanolithography using an atomic force microscope
Mentor: Marko Lončar
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Danielle Garcia
Undergraduate institution: University of New Mexico
Project: Response of embryonic stem cells to constrained growth area
Mentor: Debra Auguste
Funding: PREM | NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Mary Grace Gloria
Undergraduate institution: University of Texas- Austin
Project: Magnetic self-assembly of poly(dimethyl siloxane) sheets utilizing concepts from protein folding
Mentor: George Whitesides
Funding: NSEC
Joshua Grolman
Undergraduate institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Project: Image analysis with MATLAB: exploring effects of volume on ice nucleation
Mentor: David Weitz
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Marion Andrew Humphrey
Undergraduate institution: Davidson College
Project: Estimating the gradient of CO concentrations between inland and coastal Amazonian sites
Mentor: Steve Wofsy
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT) | NSF AGS-0304213
Elizabeth Jerison
Undergraduate institution: Yale University
Project: Investigating cell mechanics with digital holographic microscopy
Mentor: Vinothan Manoharan
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Angela Jimenez
Undergraduate institution: The City College of New York
Project: Behavior of a droplet with a reactive interface
Mentor: Howard Stone
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Matthew Kauffman
Undergraduate institution: Eastern Nazarene College
Project: USB interfacing the fabutron chip
Mentor: Robert M. Westervelt
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Sean Kermes
Undergraduate institution: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Project: Scientific computing with Doom 3
Mentor: Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Funding: Harvard
Laurel Klein (Wixson)
Undergraduate institution: University of California
Project: Oxidation reactions on Au(111)
Mentor: Cynthia Friend
Funding: NSEC
Hasan Korre
Undergraduate inistitution: Harvard University
Project: Constant vigliance! Being provenance aware
Mentor: Hoffman Jenny
Funding: NSEC
Amorette Maestas
Undergraduate institution: University of New Mexico
Project: Synthesis of metallic nanaoproparticles in a microfluidic device
Mentor: George Whitesides
Funding: PREM | NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Alexei Matyushov
Undergraduate institution: Arizona State University
Project: Simulating a glacier in the lab
Mentors: Peter Huybers, Howard Stone
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT) | NSF AGS-0304213
Kyle McElhoney
Undergraduate institution: Siena College
Project: Nitrogen isotopes in cretaceous oceanic anoxic event sediments
Mentor: Ann Pearson
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT) | NSF AGS-0304213
Rebecca Murphy
Undergraduate institution: University of Rochester
Project: Design and synthesis of an improved red fluoroscope for biological use
Mentor: Jim Foley
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Sarah Nam
Undergraduate institution: Duke University, Harvard University
Project: Synthesis and characterization of crystalline Ag nano wires for nano-plasmonics
Mentor: Marko Lončar
Funding: NSEC
Chiagozie Ononiwu
Undergraduate institution: Howard University
Research group: Aravi Samuel
Project: Behavior of C. elegans upon exposure to blue light
Funding: SEAS
Kasey Phillips
Undergraduate institution: North Carolina State University
Project: Silca nanowires: manipulting light at the nano scale
Mentor: Eric Mazur
Funding: NSEC
Christopher Quinn
Undergraduate institution: Cornell University
Project: A fish out of water: The development of a micro-scale robotic fish
Mentor: Rob Wood
Funding: SEAS
David Rodriquez
Undergraduate institution: Quinnipiac College
Project: Scanning electron microscopy on cardiomycoytes with fibronectin microbeads adhered to the surface
Mentor: Kevin Kit Parker
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Nicole Romano
Undergraduate institution: Johns Hopkins University
Project: Encapsulating single cells in monodisperse gel particles for high throughput genomic profiling
Mentor: David Weitz
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Ohad Rozenberg
Undergraduate institution: Technion
Project: Thermal and electrical properties of very thin films
Mentor: Joost Vlassak
Funding: SEAS
Roanna Ruiz
Haley Ruther
Undergraduate institution: Pittsburgh State University
Project: Effects of applied catechins on host performance and herbivory
Mentor: Kristin Lewis
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Amrita Saigal
Undergraduate institution: MIT
Project: Fabrication of thin-film solid-oxide fuel cells
Mentor: Shriram Ramanathan
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Jennifer Sanders
Undergraduate institution: Westminster College
Project: Stains in clothing: capture of colloidal particles in a porous media
Mentor: Howard Stone
Funding: NSEC
Derek Smith
Undergraduate institution: University of Rochester
Project: Functionalization of silicon nanoparticles for hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging
Mentor: Charles Marcus
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Tobias Sontheimer
Undergraduate institution: RWTH-Aachen
Project: Crystallization kinetics and optical properties of tellurium compounds used for phase change recording
Mentor: Frans Spaepen
Funding: Harvard University
Carolyn Stwertka
Julia Sygiel
Undergraduate institution: Brown University
Project: Analysis of surface ozone concentrations
Mentors: Daniel Jacob, Loretta Mickley
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT) | NSF AGS-0304213
Evan Thatcher
Undergraduate institution: Haverford College
Project: Energy transfer in nanostructures
Mentor: Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team - Nanoscale Processes in the Environment: Atmospheric Nanoparticles (NIRT) | NSF AGS-0304213
Shaun Tiwari
Undergraduate institution: Boston University
Project:
Mentor: David Mooney
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Derek Vigil-Fowler
Undergraduate institution: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Project: Functionalzation of silcon nanoparticles for hyperpolarized magnetic resonanace imaging
Mentor: Debra Auguste
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-0213805
Stefan Wernil
Undergraduate institution: Harvard University
Project: Control and analysis programs for scanning tunneling microscopy
Mentor: Jenny Hoffman
Funding: NSEC
Michael Wierzbicki
Undergraduate institution: Furman University
Project: Single molecule force study using optical tweezers
Mentor: Wesley Wong
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Insun Yoon
Undergraduate institution: Mount Holyoke College
Project: Fabrication of giant phospholipid vesicles from double emulsions in microfluidics
Mentor: David Weitz
Funding: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences