William A. Lee Awardees
Masiel Belsusari
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Investigation of Organic Films and Aerosols on Indoor-Relevant Surfaces
Faculty Advisor: Vicki Grassian
Nadia Biglari
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Aerosols and the Climate Change
Faculty Advisor: Mark Thiemens
Leah Grayson
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: RNA Functional Group Modification
Faculty Advisor: Navtej Toor
Baban Hamesalh
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Investigating the functional domains of leucine rich repeat kinase 2 through hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry
Faculty Advisor: Susan Serota Taylor
Alina Luk
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: MALAT1 and CstF Protein Interaction
Faculty Advisor: Colleen McHugh
Mari Marshall
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Development of imine hydrosilylation reactions using low-valent Ni catalysts
Faculty Advisor: Joshua S. Figueroa
Niana Mohammed
Physics
Research: Measuring the Properties of Stars that Could Host Young Planetary Systems
Faculty Advisor: Quinn Konapacky
Fanzhi Ni
Physics
Faculty Advisor: Thomas W. Murphy, Jr
Enid Partika
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Method Development for the Detection of Succinic and Fumaric Acids Derived from Genetically Modified Cyanobacteria
Faculty Advisor: Robert Pomeroy
Margaret Quaid
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Palladium Phthalocyanine and Zeaxanthin Dimer Synthesis
Faculty Advisor: Michael Tauber
Ananya Rai
Physics
Research: Ultrafast optical spectroscopy of quantum materials, including the measurement of magnetization dynamics and quasiparticle dynamics
Faculty Advisor: Richard D. Averitt
Robert Ramirez
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Spectroscopic Insight Into the Proton and Electron Transfer of Amino Acids in Azurin
Faculty Advisor: Judy Kim
Chu-Hsein Tsai
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Controlling protein localization with light
Faculty Advisor: Neal Devaraj
Lily Vu
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Effects of Phosphorylation on Structural Dynamics of Protein Kinase A
Faculty Advisor: Susan Serota Taylor
Garret Weisehan
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Exploring Synchronization in a Complex Coupled System - Analysis of RhuA Crystal Dynamics
Faculty Advisor: Joel Yuen-Zhou
Megan Young
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Elucidation of LipB interactions with acyl-carrier protein
Faculty Advisor: Michael Burkart
Robin Yu
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: A.v. Heterologous Expression of Nitrogenase
Faculty Advisor: Akif Tezcan
Chuxian Xiao
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Advisor: Joshua Figueroa
Dean Boggs Awardees
Christian Boothby
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Use of Sulfur-35 as a Tracer to Determine Radioactivity from Nuclear Waste Containers Stored in San Onofre
Faculty Advisor: Mark Thiemens
Gabriel Cabra
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Optical Perturbations on Molecular Junctions
Faculty Advisor: Michael Galperin
Alexandre Duclos
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Therapeutic Effects of Nucleotide Substrates on the Cardiac Sarco/Endoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) pump
Faculty Advisor: Rommie Amaro
David Glukhov
Mathematics
Research: Young Diagrams and the Wigner Semicircle
Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Novak
Francis Le
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Constructing 2D Protein Arrays from a Building Block with Configurable Symmetry
Faculty Advisor: Akif Tezcan
Don Eigler Awardees
Ian Hammock
Physics
Research: Exciting the Higgs Mode with metamaterials in superconducting cuprates
Faculty Advisor: Richard D. Averitt
Zehong Zhao
Physics
Research: Bilayer Graphene
Faculty Advisor: Yi-zhuang You
Jeffrey Marks Awardees
Eugene Alforque
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: RNA-DNA Nano-construct Design
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Hermann
Heidi Busse
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Immersion freezing and heterogeneous reactions of atmospherically-relevant single particles using micro-Raman spectroscopy
Faculty Advisor: Vicki Grassian
Erhard Schoenbrunner
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: Initial Structure Determination of a Possible Scaffold for the Determination of RNA-only Structures
Faculty Advisor: Navtej Toor
Kenneth Abeloe Awardees
Jianyang Qi
Physics
Research: Effects of the Neutrino Background on WIMP Sensitivity
Faculty Advisor: Kaixuan Ni
IIan Scheinkman
Physics
Research: Open Science Grid Overhead Tests
Faculty Advisor: Frank Wuerthwein
Matt Fust Awardee
Kristine Luong
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research: A Radical Mediated Smiles Rearrangement with Hydroxamic Acids
Faculty Advisor: Valerie Schmidt
Richard Libby Awardee
Junyi Cao
Physics
Research: Reconstructing Correlation Matrix via Local Hamiltonian
Faculty Advisor: Joshua Figueroa