High School Summer Honors 
Research Internship Program

Summer 1997 Student Projects

 
Project
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Student Name
Mentor(s)
Department
Control and Data Acqisition for Angle Incident Ultrasonic Testing of Bond Layers in Composite Materials
Mr. Jahred Adelman
Staten Island, NY 
Professor Julie Chen
Aerospace Engineering
Behavior of Zootermopsis Angusticollis Under Different Social Conditions
Mr. James Atkins
Orlando, FL
Professor James Traniello
Biology Department
X-Ray Reflectivity Studies in Gallium Nitride Films
Mr. Paul Bercovitch
Sharon, MA
Professor Karl Ludwig
Physics Department
Growth of NiMnSb Thin Films and Their In Situ Composition Study By Auger Spectroscopy
Ms. Kristina Berglund
Wellesley, MA
Dr. Jagadeesh Moodera
Dr. Ronnie Jansen
Dr.  Janusz Nowak
Francis Bitter National Magnet Lab
Design of a Novel Device to Improve the Accuracy of Medical Injections
 
Matthew A. Burden
Port Washington, NY
1998 Semifinalist Westinghouse Science Talent Search 
 
 
Professor Michael Ruane
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
A Study of Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics and Fluidpacket Dynamics Through Computer Simulation
Jonathan Chu
Wilbraham, MA
Professor John Straub
Chemistry Department
 Auto-Pathogenic Th1 and Protective Th2 Clones Differ in their Recognition of PLP 139-151 
 Dair Chevalier
Spring, TX
 Dr. Pat Gonnella
 Brigham & Women's Hospital; Center for Neurological Diseases
Finding the Ground State of Asymmetrical Quartic Double-Well Potentials Through the Use of Gaussian Wave Packets and Feyman Path Integrals
Meagan Clement
Lafayette, NJ
Professor John Straub
Chemistry Department
Influence of Seed Layer on the Coercivity of Cobalt Thin Films
Isaac Dinner
Port Washington, NY
Dr. Jagadeesh Moodera
Francis Bitter National Magnet Lab
Compaction in Antisotropic Granular Materials
Nikhil Jaikumar
Newton, MA
Professor Peter Garik
Physics Department
Optical Correlation
 
Edward Kotlyar
Brooklyn, NY
1998 Semifinalist Westinghouse Science Talent Search 
 
 
Professor Tom Bifano
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Creating Closed-Loop Control of the CVD Process
Soloman Kutnicki
Professor Michael Gevelbar
Manufacturing Engineering
Oral Tolerance and Cytokine Production in the Liver
Christine A. Lee
Troy, MI
Dr. Vijay Kuchroo
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Transmitted Light Through Subwave-Length Apertures of Fiber Tips
Debbie Lui
Great Neck, NY
Professor Bennet Goldberg
Physics Department
Effects of Ethanolamine on RNA Stabilization
Anju Mathew
Brick, NJ
Professor Cassandra Smith
Center for Biotechnology
The Development and Manufacture of the Student-Run Program for Exoatmospheric Collecting Technologies and Rocket Experiment
Meredith McCarthy
Huntsville, AL
Professor Supriya Chakrabarti
Center for Space Physics
Bcl-2 Expression in Stimulated T-cells
Neil Mehta
Las Vegas, NV
Dr. David Hafler
Brigham & Women's Hospital; Center for Neurological Diseases
 Retinal Cell Aggregation in Chick Embryos
Shilpa Noronha
Norridge, IL
Professor Robert Hausman
Biology Department
 A Fast and Sensitive Comparison of Protein Structural Models
Edward Park
Syosset, NY
Professor Chao Zhang
Biomedical Engineering
 Gamma Ray Attenuation in PET Scanning
Swathi Reddy
N. Woodmere, NY
Professor William Worstell
Physics Department
 Behavior of Vibrated Anisotropic Granular Systems
Ben Rubin
Belmont, NC
Professor Peter Garik
Professor Bennet Goldberg
Physics Department
 Compact Disc Master Quality Assessment Using Interference Pattern Analysis
 
Derek M. Shannon
Minot, ND
1998 Semifinalist Westinghouse Science Talent Search 
 
 
Professor Michael Ruane
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
 Investigation of Tunneling in Ferromagnetic Junctions and their Magnetoresistance
 
Steven Tobias
 Plainview,NY
1998 Finalist 
Westinghouse Science Talent Search 
 
 
Dr. Jagadeesh Moodera
Francis Bitter National Magnet Lab
 Ultraviolet Light-Induced Apoptosis and 
Myosin Translocation in Retinal Pericytes
Shirli Zelcer
Great Neck, NY
Professor Wayne Patton
Biology Department