Research Examples
The College of Integrative Sciences supports research that is both interdisciplinary and integrative. Students are welcome to contact potential mentors who may or may not be presently listed as CIS faculty.
Fellow |
Research |
Mentor(s) |
College of Integrative Sciences |
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Adin Dowling |
Broadband Transmission Enabled by High Order Exceptional Point Degeneracy Reflectionless Modes | Kottos (Physics, Math, CIS, SISP) |
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Pete Hwang |
Probing Wobble Base Pairing and Ribosome Function | Thayer (CIS, Biophysics) and Weir (Biology, Biophysics, CIS, Informatics and Modeling) |
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Jessica Luu |
Probing the Electronic Properties of Plasmonic Nanoparticles Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy | Sher (Physics, CIS, COE) and Personick (Chemistry) |
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Chi Phan |
MD-Based Energetic Networks of P53 Isoforms’ Sector Residues | Thayer (CIS, Biophysics) |
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Sofia Rinaldi |
Shaken or stirred? The kinematics and morphology of early massive galaxies | Wellons (Astronomy, CIS) |
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Mingyu Wang |
Expression and purification of Vibrio cholerae Bap1 insoluble loop from Escherichia coli | Olson (MB&B, Biophysics, CIS) |
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Patton Yin |
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Drug Design | Thayer (CIS, Biophysics) |
Astronomy |
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| Aliya Nurmohamed | Planetary Shadows: Resolving Debris Disk Substructures | Hughes (Astronomy, CIS) |
| Chris Tian | Monitoring Stellar Activities of Exoplanet Hosts with Small Robotic Telescope | Redfield (Astronomy, Planetary Science, CIS) |
Biology |
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| Maya Alicki, Ben McMahon | Caterpillars in Context: Exploring Tri-Trophic Interactions on White Oak | Singer (Biology, Environmental Studies) |
| Fiona Carroll | Using Immunohistochemistry to Correlate DARPP-32 and CaMKlla Expression in the Zebra Finch Song System | Aaron (Biology, NS&B, CIS) |
| Katherine Fhu | Investigating the Roles of Ecdysone Signaling in Adult Drosophila | Coolon (Biology, Biophysics, CIS) |
| Derek Jann | Muscle homeostasis in 13-lined ground squirrels | Feng (Biology, NS&B) |
| Hannah Kwa, Leo Mercado | Sex, Hormone Status, and Isolation Impacts Development of Rapid Tolerance to Alcohol's Anxiety Reducing Effects | Melón (Biology, NS&B, CIS, FGSS) |
| Savannah Ryan | Dual-purpose nanoplastic bioremediators: paving the way for sustainable agriculture | Cohan (Biology, COE, Environmantal Studies, CIS) |
| Brianna Taylor | Characterizing depression-like symptoms in the thirteen-lined ground squirrel | Feng (Biology, NS&B) |
Chemistry |
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| Oliver Clarke | Polymerization Kinetics of Sulfur Functional Group Containing Norbornene Derivitives | Elling (Chemistry, CIS) |
| Maya Goldgisser | Synthesis of Rocaglamide Analogs |
Smith (Chemistry, Biophysics, MB&B, CIS) |
| Leonard Majaducon | Probing Prototropic Exchange with Chromium(III) Complexes | Westmoreland (Chemistry, CIS) |
| Beatrice Oey, Ugochukwu Osondu, Avi Sriram | Characterization of Protein Extraction and Metal Ion Quantification in tRNA/rRNA Modifying Enzymes in PCAD-MEMO Superfamily | Taylor (Chemistry, Biophysics, Environmental Studies) |
| Mia Pakola | Enantioselective Synthesis of IFB-like product C70 via Asymmetric Catalysis | Calter (Chemistry) |
| Carolyn Sam | Investigating Aminoglycosides as Inhibitors of Heptosyltransferase I | Taylor (Chemistry, Biophysics, Environmental Studies, CIS) |
| Phyllis Schram | Effects of the N53D Mutation on the Structural Properties and Folding Characteristics of Superoxide Dismutase | O'Neil (Chemistry, NS&B, Biophysics, CIS, Biology) |
Computer Science |
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| Nishant Aggarwal | The Invisible Threat: Exploring Mobile Privacy Concerns | Zimmeck (Computer Science, QAC) |
| Miles Henle | Chat Bots to Circumvent Internet Censorship | Manfredi (Computer Science, CIS) |
| Judeley Jean-Charles | Privacy Pioneer | Zimmeck (Computer Science, QAC) |
Earth and Environmental Science |
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| Melissa Arenas | Investigating Pliocene Iceberg flux and related environmental changes using Antarctic deep-sea sediments | O'Connell (E&ES, CIS) |
| Grace Goodman | Constraining Water Mass Change in the Canadian Western Interior Seaway during OAE1d | Bryant (E&ES) |
| Lilly Hochhauser | Pseudotachylyte Formation at Dip Slip Faults | Resor (E&ES, Education Studies) |
| Iris Jiang | Water in Lunar Glass | Greenwood (E&ES) |
| Carlos Ordonez | Hydrogen in Almahata Sitta | Greenwood (E&ES) |
| Aidan Trendell | Comparing morphological change in planktonic foraminifera during global carbon cycle change. | Bryant (E&ES) |
Mathematics |
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| Michael Horsepa | Representation Theory of SU(2) | Adeboye (Math) |
| Tomás Pérez | Second Derivative Test for n-Real Valued Functions | Adeboye (Math) |
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry |
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| Omar Gonzalez, David Jusino | MvaI flipping does not require a pseudo-bound state | Etson (MB&B, Biophysics, Chemistry, Physics, CIS) |
| Gwyneth MacDonough | Investigating Roles of Histones H1 and H2A.Z in Chromosome Stability of S. cerevisiae | Holmes (MB&B, CIS) |
Physics |
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| Mathis Blanc, Othmane El-Houssi | Exit Properties of Planar Three Body Problem for Stars and Molecules | Stewart (Physics, Environmental Studies, CIS) |
| Nich Drake | Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy near an Aqueous/Gaseous Solution | Hüwel (Physics) |
| Owen Dunton | Indirect Training of a Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential to Model Ge2Sb2Te5 | Starr (Physics, Biophysics, CODES, MB&B, CIS) |
| Teddy Manning | Asynchronous Time Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy | Sher (Physics, CIS, Environmental Studies) |
| Elias Matthews | Chirality and Sedimentation | Voth (Physics, CODES, CIS) |
Psychology |
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| Eliana Bloomfield | The Self in Attention & Memory ~ Any Connection? |
Kim (Psychology, CIS) |
| Danielle Garten | Exploring Faroese Adolescents' Mobility: A Pilot Study | Shusterman (Psychology, Education Studies) |
| Andy Lisheng | The Onto-Genesis and Symbolic Logic of Boundary Making | Morawski (Psychology, FGSS, SISP) |
| Cole Zetterquist | Moral Self-Image and Black History Knowledge | Perez (Psychology, CIS) |