Summer 2008 Projects
| Student Researcher | High School | Mentor | Faculty Advisor | Department | Project |
| Luke Seale | Dos Pueblos | Barry Zhong |
Shuji Nakamura |
Materials | Improving Efficiency of LEDs Operated under High Currents |
| Brittany Bailey | San Marcos | Brian Ruttenberg | Ambuj Singh | Computer Science | Analysis of Retinal Ganglion Cell Morphology |
| Robert Williams | Dos Pueblos | Eduardo Falcao | Tony Cheetham | Materials |
Novel hybrid frameworks for hydrogen storage |
| Aaron Eidelson | Santa Barbara | James Rondinelli | Nicola Spaldin | Materials | Exploring multiferroism in BaMnO3 with ab initio calculations |
| Susan Schiferl | Dos Pueblos | Jeungah Kim | George Legrady | Media Arts and Technology | Aesthetic Techniques for the Visual Display of Information: Data
Visualization |
| Gabe Castanon | Oak Grove | John O'Donovan | B.S. Manjunath | Electrical and Computer Engineering | BISQUE: A Social Web Environment for Bioinformatics |
| Gordon Ackerman | Dos Pueblos | Karen Stalheber | Carla D'Antonio | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | California’s “islands of fertility” – Patterns
in soil characteristics associated with savanna oak trees |
| Erik Holliday | San Marcos | Lindsay Gary | Steve McLean | Marine Science/Mechanical Engineering | Measuring sediment transport |
| Hunter Ploch | Santa Barbara | Lindsay Gary | Steve McLean | Marine Science/Mechanical Engineering | The turbulent boundary layer in changing flows and its effect on
flooding |
| Arturo Huerta | Santa Barbara | Nate Dudley | Joel Rothman | Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology/Neuroscience Research Institute (MCDB/NRI) | Understanding the molecular mechanisms of totipotency |
| Karen Villegas | Santa Barbara | Nate Dudley | Joel Rothman | Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology/Neuroscience Research Institute (MCDB/NRI) | Anterior-Posterior Polarity Factors and their Roles in Stem Cell
Biology |
| Hannah Kistner | San Marcos | Nicole Molinari | Carla D'Antonio | Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) | Invertebrate Diversity in Native & Invaded Grasslands |
| Tyler Vestal | Santa Barbara | Payam Bozorgi | Noel MacDonald | Mechanical Engineering | Thermo compression bonding of Titanium wafer by using gold micro film interface layer. |
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San Marcos | Pratim Ghosh | B.S. Manjunath | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Analyzing 3D retinal images |
| Jenny Diep | San Marcos | Serena Corr | Ram Sheshadri | Materials | Preparation and characterization of vanadium oxide nanowires |
| Alex Huang | Santa Barbara | Srabanti Chowdury | Umesh Mishra | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Study of implanted ion insulators used as current blockers in CAVET |
| Julia Callender | San Marcos | Thomas Kuo | B.S. Manjunath | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Evaluating Camera-based Tracking with a Motion Capture System |
