The 1996 Research Internship Program


Amanda Brooks

Developed an apparatus for photoresist thickness measurement.

Amanda can be reached at Brooks@telis.org and at her Home Page


Cindy Chan

Investigated chemical alarm signals in Oreochromis esculentus: The reaction of juvenile fish to the skin extracts of conspecifics.




Mark Chan

Cloned a portion of a protein code that may be active in collagen transcription using ligation of plasmids and transformation of bacteria.

Mark can be reached at 103637.733@compuserve.com

Sarina Chau

Predicted the sensivity threshold of a new PET scanner.

Sarina can be reached at chaus@mordar.stuy.edu




Jinhuck Chun

Developed a LED-based optical profilometer.

Jin can be reached at joebloggs@aol.com



Geraldine Daumerie

Tested the effect of progesterone, estrogen, ethynlestradoil(synthetic estrogen) and norethindrone(synthetic progesterone) alone or in combination in endothelial cell function.

Geraldine can be reached at GDaumerie@aol.com


Brandy Evans

Studied Generalized Simulated Annealing using Tsallis Statistics: Application to the Traveling Salesman Problem.

Brandy can be reached at Jem34@gnn.com and at her Home Page

Gregory Frank

Investigated the effects of applied magnetic fields on the superconducting properties of two high-temperature superconductors; YBCO and BSCCO.

Greg can be reached at k12pwfzg@hofstra.edu


Jennifer Fredericks

Compared cell signaling and differentiation proteins(cognin, jun, fos, PDI) found in chick embryo retinas at 7, 10, and 12 day stages of development.

Jennifer can be reached at Jatel@msn.com

Michael Freedman

Grew and characterized ferromagnetic (FM) compound MnBi thin films, studying their coercivity and anisotropy, aimed at using MnBi as FM electrodes in FM-Insulator-FM trilayer tunnel junctions.

Michael can be reached at freedmmj@wilkes.edu and at his Home Page


David Grunwald

Absorbed Positive Ions while developing a graphical design interface for fuzzy logic control systems.

David can be reached at David_Grunwald@mail.fa.org and at his Home Page

Christine Heske

Performed phenotyping of CD8 cells using fluorescence aided cell sorting (FACS) to compare the costimulatory molecules on the cells of multiple sclerosis patientss vs. normal controls.

Christine can be reached at cmheske@aol.com


Raymond Hsu

Investigated the possible protection from lymphocyt cell death by interleukin 16.

Ray can be reached at Raymon80s@aol.com



Terry Hwang

Investigated whether sub-optimal restimulation in culture generates T lymphocytes with a superagonist response.






Philip Lam

Investigated the characteristics and applications of the streptvidin-biotin system on chips.

Phil can be reached at Lam@uis.edu


Anne Lee

Investigated magnetic properties of thin films of CoFe and Coferromagnet: coercivity as a function of thickness and temperature; magnetoresistance as a function of current orientation.

Anne can be reached at AnneLee123@aol.com

Emily Liao

Studied the effect of specific DNA sequence changes on the binding of nuclear factors to a cis regulator region of the a2a adrenergic receptor gene.

Emily can be reached at emilyLiao@aol.com


Brian Lin

Performed reflectivity x-ray studies of GaN thin films to determine their thickness, electron density and interface profile.




Eugen Sarbu

Investigated shielding of superconductors from magnetic fields.

Eugen can be reached at Eugen@panix.com



Ashwani Sastry

Determined the extinction coefficient of bacteriorhodopsin and a number of its mutants.

Ashwani can be reached at ashsas@bergen.gov



Benjamin Shaby

Determined the size and properties of a sub-wavelength aperture through analysis of the intensity distribution and polarization of propagated light.

Ben can be reached at SirLennon@aol.com


Daniel Sharfman

Studied Generalized Simulated Annealing using Tsallis Statistics: Application to the Traveling Salesman Problem.

Dan can be reached at iguana@upx.net and at his Home Page

Stephen Southard

Investigated metal crystallization in gels.

Steve can be reached at jughead43@aol.com




Vivian Tsai

Studied platelet adhesion to von Willebrand factor on a collagen matrix.

Vivian can be reached at vivs95@aol.com



Michael Yoon

Investigated the mechanism resposible for antigen tolerance caused by injection by using staining to detect for apoptosis.

Mike can be reached at ronkyboy@aol.com


Josh Yukich

Developed an improved method of non-destructive evaluation for composite materials using ultrasound inspection and angle beam techniques.






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