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Zenith Acosta
Zenith Acosta Torres was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia and moved to the USA five years ago. She is a biomedical engineering major and is planning to do a Ph.D. in the same field. She attends Florida International University and will be starting her senior year in the fall. She likes to dance, travel, read, and spend time with her family.
Project: Analysis of human tumors to decipher developmental and regenerative cues for tissue engineering
Mentors: David Mooney, Praveen Arany
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Suhare Adam
Suhare Adam is a senior double majoring in Physics and Chemistry. She is originally from Ethiopia but currently living in Houston, Texas. She loves talking to people, exploring new places, good music, and good food.
Project: Building chiral colloidal clusters
Mentors: David Weitz, James Wilking
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
David Barton
David Barton grew up in Idaho Falls, Idaho and is the second of four children. He is currently attending the University of Utah pursuing a degree in biomedical engineering and has completed his sophomore year.
Project: Guidance of cell growth on microposts with variable stiffness
Mentors: Joanna Aizenberg, Mike Bucaro
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center - Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-0646094
Rebecca Belisle
Rebecca Belisle is a rising senior at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering concentrating in materials science. She is a passionate traveler and researcher with interests in biomimicry, sustainability, and design. When not in the lab she enjoys backpacking, biking, and beekeeping.
Project: Mechanical design of deformable robots
Mentors: Radhika Nagpal, Chih-Han Yu
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Yakov Berenshteyn
Yakov Berenshteyn is a rising senior at Harvard University concentrating in mechanical and materials engineering. He is particularly interested in an interdisciplinary approach to engineering and hopes to investigate and develop biomimetic materials. In his free time, he enjoys running, hiking, and listening to music.
Project: Nanostructured surfaces
Mentors: Joanna Aizenberg, Mike Bucaro
Funding: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Anjali Bhatt
Anjali Bhatt is a rising sophomore at Harvard College.
Project: Modeling an amorphous-crystal interface using colloids
Mentors: Frans Spaepen, Kate Jensen, Maria Persson Gulda
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-082048; Harvard College Research Program
Ingrid Bonde Akerlind
Ingrid Bonde Akerlind is a rising senior at Harvard University concentrating in Chemistry. She is from Stockholm, Sweden where she also spent the past fall studying abroad. She loves playing Ultimate Frisbee, planning social events, and exploring new places.
Project: Templated growth of TIO2 nanocrystals
Mentors: Cynthia Friend, Anne Co
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-082048; Harvard Faculty Aide Program
Benjamin Burns
Benjamin Burns is a rising senior concentrating in physics at Harvard University.
Project: Failure analysis for high-performance piezoelectric materials in microrobotics applications
Mentors: Rob Wood, Leia Stirling, Chih-Han Yu
Funding: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Tyler Cain
Tyler Cain is a rising senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His major is materials science and engineering with a minor in physics. He is interested in researching and implementing energy technologies. Tyler's hobbies include playing intramural sports, making biodiesel, and watching football.
Project: Materials studies on (La, Sr)(Co, Fe)O3 for solid oxide fuel cells
Mentors: Shriram Ramanathan, Bo-Kuai Lai
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Daniel Cheng
Daniel Cheng is a rising senior at Brown University majoring in biomedical engineering. In his free time, he enjoys surfing and snowboarding, as well as various other activities.
Project: High precision sorting of microspheres for single-molecule studies
Mentor: Wesley Wong
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Kyle Crichton
Kyle Crichton is a rising sophomore at Harvard.
Project: Vesicles composed of charged polymers
Mentors: David Weitz, Anderson Ho-Chung Shum
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-082048
Arolyn Conwill
Arolyn Conwill is a rising senior at Pomona College where she is studying physics. She will be working with the Lončar group this summer. Outside the lab, she also enjoys running, hiking, and traveling.
Project: Fabrication and characterization of nanobeam resonators with waveguides
Mentors: Marko Lončar, Ian Frank
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Rohit Dasgupta
Rohit Dasgupta is majoring in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. In his spare time, he works at the Digital Media Center, serves as secretary of the Hopkins Bengali Organization, and rows on the Men’s Crew Team. He is looking forward to working with Dr. Meital Reches at the Whitesides Lab this summer.
Project: Developing new platforms for biomedical assays
Mentors: George Whitesides, Meital Reches
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Gidley Dorlus
Gidley Dorlus is a rising sophomore at Northeastern University where he is majoring in mechanical engineering. He was born in the Boston area and lived in Milton, a town just outside of Boston, a good portion of his life. He loves sports of all kinds, being with family and friends, writing poetry, and listening to music.
Project: The fabrication of devices that create double emulsion droplets
Mentors: David Weitz, Adam Abate, Simone Bachtler
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Jennifer Ehrich
Jennifer Ehrich is from Fair Lawn, NJ, and is a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania. She is majoring in materials science and engineering and minoring in mathematics and economics. She also enjoys sports, movies, shopping, and hanging out with her friends.
Project: Pattern formation during convective assembly of colloidal suspensions
Mentors: Joanna Aizenberg, Ning Wu
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-082048
Vanessa Eriacho
Vanessa Eriacho currently attends the University of New Mexico where she is a chemical engineering major. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music, watching concerts, going to museums, and spending time with family and friends.
Project: Mono dispersion library by using a parallel emulsion technique
Mentors: David Weitz, Adam Abate, Tony Hung
Funding: NSF University of New Mexico/Harvard PREM: Leadership in Biomaterials | NSF DMR-0611616
Erin Fenton
Erin Fenton is a rising senior majoring in biology at the University of New Mexico. She loves dancing, especially African and swing. She also enjoys hiking, camping, and playing tennis and volleyball.
Project: CuS deposition on nanograss
Mentors: Joanna Aizenberg, Yolanda Vasquez
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center - Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-0646094
Pauline Gassman
Pauline Gassman is a rising senior majoring in biomedical engineering at the University of Iowa. Upon graduation, she hopes to attend medical school in pursuit of a degree in ophthalmology. She enjoys all outdoor activities and looks forward to a great summer in Boston!
Project: Measuring saccadic eye movements in rats via a self-calibrating eye tracker
Mentor: David Cox
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Dominik Gothe
Dominik Gothe was born in Mainz, Germany. His father was offered a position at the University of South Carolina, to teach physics. The family moved to the United States in 2002. In 2006 he went to the Honors College at the University of South Carolina to major in physics, math, and German literature. For summers 2006 and 2007, he worked on a detector upgrade for Jefferson Laboratory in Virginia. In summer 2008 he worked on superconducting radiofrequency cavities at the Jefferson Laboratory in Virginia.
Project: Making tasks embarrassingly parallel
Mentors: Lincoln Greenhill, Richard Edgar
Funding: NSF CDI Type II: Scientific Computation for Astronomy, Neurobiology and Chemistry using Graphics Processing Units and Solid-State Storage| NSF PHY-0835713
Jacqueline Gressett
Jacqueline Gressett is an electrical engineering student at Eastern Nazarene College with an interest in electronics and robotics. She enjoys traveling, photography, and playing the piano.
Project: Thermal model of a transistor
Mentor: Winfield Hill
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Sarah Griesse-Nascimento
Sarah Griesse-Nascimento is a rising sophomore in electrical engineering at Boston University. A Brazilian American, she was raised in Brazil and Germany, but now lives in Washington State. She is interested in nanotechnology and programming and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in electrical engineering after graduating. In her spare time, she enjoys singing and playing the piano, dancing, reading and going to the movies.
Project: Developing a simulation-based curriculum for teaching nuclear magnetic resonance to a general sudience
Mentors: Robert M. Westervelt, Keith Brown, Joshua Bridger
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center - Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-0646094
Lloyd Han
Lloyd Han is a rising sophomore at Harvard. He enjoys sailing, golf, basketball, and tennis.
Project: Measuring the Young’s modulus of gel particles
Mentors: David Weitz, Adam Abate
Funding: SEAS
Tumay Kanar
Tumay Kanar is a rising senior at Cornell University, School of Electrical Engineering. He is going to be working with Dr. Ozgur Sahin over this summer.
Project: A method for auto-calibration of atomic force microscope
Mentor: Ozgur Sahin
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Teresa Kao
Teresa Kao is a rising sophomore at Columbia University where she will be majoring in applied physics.
Project: Cell biology in 1-D potential wells
Mentors: David Weitz, Tommy Angelini
Funding: SEAS
Sarah Kostinski
Sarah Kostinski is a rising senior at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor majoring in physics and music. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the violin and organ, reading, and being outdoors.
Project: Forces from coupled surface plasmon polaritons
Mentors: Federico Capasso, David Woolf
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center - Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-0646094
Laticia Lee
Laticia Lee is a rising junior majoring in biomedical engineering at Columbia University.
Project: Microfluidic isolation of diverse soil and water bacteria toward novel antibiotic and biofuel discovery
Mentors: David Weitz, Mira Guo
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Matthias Lee
Matthias Lee is a student at Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Project: Utilizing massively multithreaded graphics processors to analyze highly dimensional databases
Mentors: Lincoln Greenhill, Pavlos Protopapas
Funding: NSF CDI Type II: Scientific Computation for Astronomy, Neurobiology and Chemistry using Graphics Processing Units and Solid-State Storage| NSF PHY-0835713
Beth Ann Lopez
Beth Ann Lopez just finished her freshman year in biochemistry at the University of New Mexico. She would like to pursue an MD/PhD after graduating. She likes to run, bike, skateboard, and play piano in her free time.
Project: The effect of synthetic extracellular matrices on dendritic cell behavior
Mentors: David Mooney, Gail Chan
Funding: NSF University of New Mexico/Harvard PREM: Leadership in Biomaterials | NSF DMR-0611616
Danielle Lussier
Danielle Lussier will be entering her senior year at Rowan University. She is majoring in chemical engineering, and plays club tennis, soccer, and also plays the drums.
Project: Assembly of bacteria at oil-water interfaces
Mentors: David Weitz, Connie Wilking, Anderson Ho-Chung Shum
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-082048
Kristopher Eric Martin
Kristopher Eric Martin is a rising senior at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Project: Holographic microscopy to characterize and trace self-assembled colloidal clusters
Mentors: Vinothan Manoharan, Jerome Fung
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Jason Miller
Jason Miller is a recent graduate of Harvard with a degree in mechanical engineering. He enjoys sports and robotics research and plans to pursue a career in engineering design.
Project: Active soft orthotics
Mentors: Radhika Nagpal, Rob Wood, Leia Stirling, Chih-Han Yu
Funding: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Peyton Nesmith
Peyton Nesmith is a rising senior at Auburn University in chemical engineering. He intends to attend medical school after he completes his undergraduate degree.
Project: The role of cell geometry and multi-cellular organization in contractility output
Mentors: Kevin Kevin Kit Parker, Mark Brigham
Funding: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Athena Pan
Athena Pan is a rising senior at Brandeis University, where she pursues a B.S. in physics. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in physics or electrical engineering eventually. She is currently interested in alternative fuel research. Meanwhile, she is also a big fan of fantasy literature.
Project: Enhanced optical absorption of ion-implanted silicon stands a chance on advancing solar energy
Mentors: Michael Aziz, Daniel Recht
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Daphne Paparis
Daphne Paparis is a rising junior at Haverford College majoring in mathematics. She is from Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles. After college, she plans to move back and teach math at her old high school, and also have a side job as an auto-mechanic.
Project: A continuous spatial model for a quantum NAND tree
Mentors: Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Mike Stopa
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center - Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-0646094
Beatrice Perez
Beatrice Perez is a rising Junior in the Engineering department at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus. She loves to watch movies, go hiking and visit new places.
Project: GPUs in science
Mentors: Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Mark Watson
Funding: NSF CDI Type II: Scientific Computation for Astronomy, Neurobiology and Chemistry using Graphics Processing Units and Solid-State Storage| NSF PHY-0835713
Brennan Pursley
Brennan Pursley is currently attending the University of California, San Diego and will graduate in June 2010 with a B.A. in applied mathematics and a B.S. in physics. He recently completed an automation program to run reflection spectroscopy experiments and plans on attending graduate school to pursue a Ph.D. in applied/experimental condensed matter physics. He enjoys camping with his wife, coffee, the Colbert Report, and air-conditioned labs in the summertime.
Project: Optimizing generation of unipolar Terahertz using an interdigitated array
Mentors: Andrew Speck
Funding: The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Paden Roder
Paden Roder is a rising senior at Grinnell College majoring in physics and concentrating in technological studies. At Grinnell, he plays varsity baseball and plays guitar in a rock band. In his spare time, he enjoys working out, making friends and, most importantly, having fun.
Project: Fabrication of a stable tunable quantum Hall interferometer in the fractional quantum Hall regime
Mentors: Charles Marcus, Douglas McClure, Angela Kou
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz is a chemistry major at the University of Iowa. He has worked in several labs on a wide range of projects involving materials science, organometallic catalysis, and biochemistry. When he's not in the lab, he also enjoys fencing and playing the organ.
Project: Chemical methods of minimizing defects in molecular electronic devices
Mentors: George Whitesides, Martin Mwangi
Funding: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Arthur Spector
Arthur Spector was born in Latvia and moved when he was a year old, but he still speaks Russian. He loves playing guitar, tennis, skiing, going to concerts. He is really easy going and always up for having a good time.
Project: Coupling light between nanowires & nanophotonic particles
Mentors: Federico Capasso, Kristen Sunter
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center - Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-0646094
Jose Umanzor Alvarez
Jose Umanzor Alvarez is a rising senior majoring in physics at Virginia Tech.
Project: How bisphosphonates and stretch are linked to osteonecrosis of the jaw
Mentors: David Mooney, Praveen Arany
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Voranaddha Vacharathit
Voranaddha Vacharathit is a biology major at Harvard University.
Project: Optimizing biodegradable alginate platforms for angiogenesis
Mentors: David Mooney, Eduardo Silva
Funding: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Bo Wang
Bo Wang is a rising senior studying biomedical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He was born in China and spent most of his childhood in Belgium. In his spare time, Bo enjoys soccer, ultimate frisbee, reading, and video games.
Project: Segmenting the axons of the human brain
Mentors: Hanspeter Pfister, Won-Ki Jeong
Funding: NSF CDI Type II: Scientific Computation for Astronomy, Neurobiology and Chemistry using Graphics Processing Units and Solid-State Storage| NSF PHY-0835713
Takia Wheat
Takia Wheat will be a graduating senior at Jackson State University majoring in chemistry. She has dreams of becoming a chemist and with the right training and effort, it is possible. She is from the Mississippi delta (Belzoni)...CATFISH CAPITAL OF THE WORLD!
Project: Fabrication of silicon nitride waveguides
Mentors: Marko Lončar, Parag Deotare
Funding: NSF National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) | NSF ECCS-0335765
William (Will) Whitney
William (Will) Whitney is a rising senior at Cornell University and majors in physics and math. Aside from school, he enjoys traveling, biking, skateboarding, skiing, and pretty much anything else done outside.
Project: Flat black silicon
Mentors: Eric Mazur, Meng-Ju Renee Sher
Funding: NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center - Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications (NSEC) | NSF PHY-0646094
Morgan Wilson
Morgan Wilson is a rising sophomore majoring in biological engineering at Philander Smith College in Arkansas.
Project: Polymersomes from organic solvents based double emulsions in PDMS microfluidics
Mentors: David Weitz, Adam Abate, Julian Thiele
Funding: NSF REU Site - Biomaterials Research Initiative Dedicated to Gateway Experiences | NSF DMR-0649199
Bethany Zablotsky
Bethany Zablotsky is a rising junior at Georgetown University currently majoring in biochemistry. She enjoys reading, playing basketball, and listening to country music in her free time.
Project: modeling atomic interactions for astrained vs. unstrained boundary
Mentor: Frans Spaepen, Maria Persson Gulda, Kate Jensen
Funding: NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center at Harvard (MRSEC) | NSF DMR-082048
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