WILLIAM A. LEE (MS '79, PHD '82) AWARDEES
Alyssa Walker
Biochemistry
Research: De Novo Design of Autocatalytic Isopeptide Bond Proteins
Faculty Advisor: Akif Tezcan
Daniel Chan
Molecular Synthesis
Research: Synthesis of n ring size Cyclic Alkyl Amino Carbenes
Faculty Advisor: Guy Bertrand
Juliette Hamid
Chemistry Major, Mathematics Minor
Research: Calcium and ATP: Modeling the power duo behind force generation in skeletal muscle cells
Faculty Advisor: Padmini Rangamani
Linghao Zhang
Applied Mathematics
Research: A Characterization for Tightness of the Sparse Moment-SOS Hierarchy
Faculty Advisor: Jiawang Nie
Maeve O'Connor
Biochemistry
Research: Utilizing Protein Language Models to Predict Sequence to Substrate Mappings of the Azoreductase Enzyme Family
Faculty Advisor: Adrian Jinich
Malaya Sicat
Human Biology
Research: Effects of Ubiquitin Chain Length and Linkage Type on of Alpha Synuclein Fibrillization
Faculty Advisor: Lalit Deshmukh
Miranda Zhou
General Chemistry
Research: Enhancing Photodynamic Therapy with Lipid-Coated Porous Silicon Nanoparticles
Faculty Advisor: Michael Sailor
Narek Azizyan
Pharmacological Chemistry
Research: Targeting the Plasmodium proteasome by Optimized linear peptide epoxyketones to improve metabolic stability, water solubility, and oral bioavailability
Faculty Advisor: William Gerwick
Qianyi Wang
Applied Math
Research: A Closer Study of Regression Discontinuity Design
Faculty Advisor: Jelena Bradic
Shannon Cole
Biochemistry
Research: In vitro studies of mitochondrial co-transcriptional processing
Faculty Advisor: Tatiana Mishanina
Sophia Yermolenko
Mathematics-Computer Science
Research: Matching in Groups and Other Mathematical Structures
Faculty Advisor: Mohsen Aliabadi
Thomas Frisch
Biochemistry
Research: Variance in Aliphatic Diisocyanate Chain Length for Renewable and Biodegradable Polyurethane Foams
Faculty Advisor: Michael Burkart
GENERAL ATOMICS AWARDEES
Cecilia Sommerfield
Physics
Research: Modeling In-Operando Ion Dynamics of the Solid Electrolyte Na₃PS₄
Faculty Advisor: Oleg Shpyrko
Connor Stratman
Physics
Research: Daily modulation of low-energy nuclear recoils from sub-GeV dark matter
Faculty Advisor: Tongyan Lin
Dmitri Demler
Computational Physics
Research: Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search Pipeline
Faculty Advisor: Javier Duarte
Helin Henstridge
Biophysics
Research: Exciton Transport in Van Der Waals Heterostructures
Faculty Advisor: Leonid Butov
Joel Whaling
Applied Mathematics
Research: Analyzing Stability and Fragmentation in Mitochondrial Fission and Fusion Dynamics: Implications for Alzheimer's Disease
Faculty Advisor: Natalia Komarova
Julia Vazquez
Biochemistry
Research: Designing a Protease-Specific Breast Cancer Antibody-Drug Conjugate
Faculty Advisor: Anthony O'Donoghue
Molan Li
Physics and Mathematics—Computer Science
Research: Machine Learning Symmetry Discovery for Classical Mechanics
Faculty Advisor: Yi-zhuang You
Yaya Zou
Biochemistry
Research: Purification of NF-kB Pathway Proteins via Sf9 Expression System
Faculty Advisor: Gourisankar Ghosh
Yuan Ji
Applied Math
Research: Clustering and Community Detection: Theory and Algorithms
Faculty Advisor: Ioana Dumitriu
Yufei Zhang
Applied Math and Human Biology
Research: Effect of Viral Infection on Tissue Cell Homeostasis
Faculty Advisor: Dominik Wodarz
KENNETH ABELOE (BS '91) AWARDEES
Ashley Thorshov
Physics with specialization in Material Physics
Research: Mapping the Time Development of Network and Density Inhomogeneities in Expanding Hydrogels Using Laser Interference and Small Angle X Ray Scattering
Faculty Advisor: Alex Frañó
Ethan Lavine
Joint Mathematics and Economics
Research: Quantitative Analysis and Modeling of Option Greeks: An Empirical Approach
Faculty Advisor: Justin Hsu
Leo Megliola
Physics, with a specialization in computational physics
Research: MadStats; Software Integration Tools for HEP
Faculty Advisor: Benjamin Grinstein
Leonardo Laboy
Physics w/ Spec. in Astrophysics
Research: Uncovering Discrepancies Between Spectrographic Images of Keck and Apogee telescopes
Faculty Advisor: Quinn Konopacky
Momei Fang
Physics and Cognitive Science
Research: Dark Matter Detection with Correlations in the Transition Regime
Faculty Advisor: Tongyan Lin
Saloni Agrawal
Physics with specialization in Astrophysics
Research: Supermassive Black Hole-Driven outflows in Nearby Galaxies
Faculty Advisor: Alison Coil
JEFFREY MARKS (PHD '80) AWARDEES
Deidre Gorian
Biochemistry
Research: Structural Characterization of the Novel Obelisk-Oblin RNP in the Human Microbiome
Faculty Advisor: Navtej Toor
Dominika Sandel
Human Biology
Research: Functional Characterization of the SDHB Mutant Enabled Through Base Editing Technology
Faculty Advisor: Alexis Komor
Erin Chang
Molecular Synthesis
Research: To develop potent heterobifunctional degraders targeting PKCα
Faculty Advisor: Fleur Ferguson
Haohan Zou
Mathematics - Computer Science
Research: Analytical Certification Function Recovery through Symbolic Regression in Control Theory
Faculty Advisor: Yuanyuan Shi
MICHAEL MEGLIOLA AWARDEES
Natasha Popenoe
Astrophysics
Research: Impact of Far-Field Atmospheric Thermal Background on Telescope Imaging
Faculty Advisor: Quinn Konopacky