SOURCE announces travel funding award recipients for 2014-2015

Awards
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Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) is pleased to announce the travel funding award recipients for 2014-2015.

The following students presented a poster or paper about their research or creative endeavors at a conference:

  • Diana Acosta (biomedical engineering) presented a poster, “Study of the Second Virial Coefficient of Cowpea Mosaic Virus Under Varying pH and Ionic Strength Using Composition-Gradient Multi-Angle Light Scattering,” at the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Acosta’s mentors are Roger French, professor of materials science, and Nicole Steinmetz, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
  • Precious Amoako (nursing) presented a poster, “Perceptions of Impact on Quality of Life and Body Mass in Overweight and Obese Adolescents,” at the Midwestern Nursing Research Conference, Indianapolis, Ind. Amoako’s mentor is Shirley Moore, The Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing and associate dean for research in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing.
  • Varsha Aravindabose (biology) presented a poster, “Transciptome profile of the fathead minnow (pimephales promelas),” at Approaches to Grand Challenges in Physiology Conference, San Diego, Calif. Aravindabose’s mentor is Jeffrey Garvin, professor of physiology and biophysics.
  • Britanny Bishop (chemical engineering) presented a paper, “A Continuous Plasma-Liquid Interface formed by a Laminar Flow Liquid Water Jet and Atmospheric-pressure Microplasma,” at American Vacuum Society’s International Symposium & Exhibition in Baltimore, Md. Bishop’s mentor is Mohan Sankaran, professor of chemical engineering.
  • Gilad Doron (biomedical engineering) presented a poster, “Evaluation of the Targeting Ability of Chain-Like Nanoparticles Towards Micrometastasis,” at the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Doron’s mentor is Efstathios Karathanasis, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
  • Olga Eliseeva (materials science and engineering) presented a poster, “Mechanisms of Accelerated Degradation of Photovoltaic Wire,” at Materials Science & Technology 2014 Conference, Pittsburgh, Pa. Eliseeva’s mentor is Roger French, professor of materials science and engineering.
  • Samuel Esterman (political science and philosophy) presented a paper, “Agatha Hodgins and the Great War: How a Nurse Anesthetist Advanced Her Profession, Her Peers and Western Civilization,” at the 31st Annual Nursing and Healthcare History Conference, Hartford, Conn. Esterman’s mentor is Amy Absher, lecturer of history.
  • Amy Goldberg (biomedical engineering) presented a poster, “Evaluation of the Targeting Ability of Chain-Like Nanoparticles Towards Micrometastasis,” at the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Goldberg’s mentor is Efstathios Karathanasis, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
  • Gregory Hsu (chemistry) presented a poster, “TMV Formulation for Imaging and Targeted Treatment of Thrombosis” at Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Hsu’s mentor is Nicole Steinmetz, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
  • John Kim (biology) presented a poster, “Detecting Pesticides with Antibody Conjugated Nanoparticles,” at Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Kim’s mentor is Nicole Steinmetz, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
  • Pavan Kota (biomedical engineering) presented a poster, “Formulation and In Vitro Characterization of Targeted Lipid-Pluronic Nanobubbles,” at Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Kota’s mentor is Agata Exner, associate professor of radiology.
  • Kathy Lin (psychology) presented a poster, “The Relationship between Parent Anxiety, Parental Behaviors, and Child Play,” at Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia. Lin’s mentor is Amy Przeworski, assistant professor of psychological sciences.
  • Emilie Lothet (biology and cognitive science) presented a paper, “Optical Inhibition for Rapid and Reversible Block of Axonal Sub-Populations,” at SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco. Lothet’s mentor is Michael Jenkins, research assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
  • Stephanie Merlino (nutrition) presented a poster, “Validity of Different Human Milk Analyzers for Clinical Use,” at 19th Annual International Meeting of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, Cleveland. Merlino’s mentor is Sharon Groh-Wargo, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at the School of Medicine.
  • Jay Patel (biomedical engineering) presented a poster, “Quantitative MRI Features to Distinguish Short-Term from Long-Term Survival Characteristics in Glioblastoma Multiforme Patients” at Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Patel’s mentor is Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering.
  • Nicholas Schindler (biomedical engineering) presented a poster, “Synthesizing PLA-PEG Nanoparticles With A Fluidic Nanoprecipitation System For Industrial Scale Up,” at Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Schindler’s mentor is Erin Lavik, the Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering.
  • Alison Smith (biology and cognitive science) presented a paper, “Bilateral sensory inputs are not created equal: bilaterality in mechanosensory inputs is more important than olfactory for plume tracking hawkmoths, Manduca sexta,” at Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, West Palm Beach, Fla. Smith’s mentor is Mark Willis, professor of biology.
  • Shriya Srinivasan (biomedical engineering) presented a poster, “Targeting Human Epidermal Hyperplasia Suppressing Human HRAS through Spherical Nucleic Acid (SNA) Nanoconjugates,” at Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Srinivasan’s mentor is Amy Paller, professor in the Department of Dermatology.
  • Katrina Thede (biology and music) presented a poster, “Transcriptome profile of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas),” at Comparative Approaches to Grand Challenges in Physiology, San Diego, Calif. Thede’s mentor is Jeffrey Garvin, professor of physiology and biophysics.
  • Aaron Thompson (materials science) presented a poster, “Meso-scale Deformation Mechanisms in Nickel-based Superalloys as Studied by Micro-Laue Diffraction,” at Materials Science & Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. Thompson’s mentor is Jennifer Carter, assistant professor of material science.