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UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2018    
Pulse tectonics in the radial artery  Quinn Mathew L'heureux Tom Furness
A Linguistic inquiry into the status of Patagonian Welsh  Josh Benjamin Warnick Alicia Wassink
A measurement of the E2/M1 mixing ratio for the 21+ -> 31 + transition in 22Na  Minjung Sung  Alejandro Garcia (Physics)
Magnetic field stability analysis using ESR in project 8 phase II experiement  Shirley Chen Mathieu Guigue and Gray Rybka (Physics)
Ground truthing statistical modeling in a field lab on the damage characteristics of ice targets by projectile hypervelocity impact  Austin Seely Mariah Danner and Robert Winglee 
HuskySat-1: a 3U CubeSat  Aaron Adler Robert Winglee, Paige Northway and Paul Sturmer 
An Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostic: Fabrication of a Graphene Field-Effect Transitor Utilizing a Modular Chimeric Probe Assembly for Biomaker Detection Rebeka Khajenpour (Phys), Jessica Tran , Zane Smith  Richar Lee, Mehmet Sarikaya and David Starkebaum 
Direct Observation of RNAP Transcription Using SPRNT  Jesse Huang Jens Gundlach (Physics) and Ian Nova 
LIGO Remote Control Room Brandon Iritani Joey Key (Physical Sciences) 
Inhibition of Aurora B Kinase Suppresses Segregation of Chromosomes in Insect Sperm Cells Bill Lee (Biophysics) and Connor James  Charles Asbury 
Photometric Redshifts with the LSST: The Impact of Near-Infrared Photometry Winnie Wang Andrew Conolly and Melissa Graham
Analysing Star Formation Histories to find High Mass X-Ray Binary Candidates  Jacob Gross Benjamin Williams 
Orbital Solutions for a Variety of Eclipsing Binaries  Aleezah Ali Diana Windemuth, Meredith Rawls and Eric Agol
Sympathetic Cooling of Ytterbium Ions by Motional Coupling to Barium Ions for Trapped Ion Quantum Computing Justin Burau Boris Blinov (Physics)
Developing an Expansion Microscopy Method to Study Bacterial Replication Complexes  Yotam Ofek  Paul Wiggins (Physics) and Sarah Mangiameli
Star Formation in Low Metallicity Environments  Daven Cocroft Nia Imara and Theron Carmichael
Orientation Changes of Diamond Nitrogen Vacancy Centers by High Temperature Annealing  Christopher Moore  Kai-Mei Fu (Physics)
Counting Densities of Discrete Sets  Kimberly Bautista, Madeline Brown (Physics) and Pihyun Lim Jayadev Athreya and Samantha Fairchild 
Faster, Cheaper, Better X-Ray Optics for High-Resolution Benchtop X-Ray Spectroscopy  Scott Kihara  Gerald Seidler, William Holden and Evan Jahrman (Physics) 
The Mass Transfer Geometry of V367 Cyg  Aislynn Wallach  Jamie Lomax 
Axiom Haloscope: Electric Tiger  Yujin Park Gray Rybka 
Searching for Exoplanets with Sputtering Space Telescopes  Nicholas Saunders  Rodrigo Luger and Rory Barnes 
Werk SQuAD: The Quest to better understand Galaxies and their surrounding Medium Christina Lindberg and Courtney Klein  Jessica Werk 
A Visual Demonstration of Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance  Nicholas Brunelle  Kai-Mei Fu (Physics)
Mapping the Supernovae-Rich Fireworks Galaxy NGC 6946 Locke Patton Emily Levesque
Calibration of Zeff Diagnostic on the HIT-SI Kuan Wei Lee Aaron Hossack
Mapping Cosmic Baryon Cycles with Quasar Spectroscopy  Olivia Petry and Travis Mandeville Jessica Werk, Hannah Bish and Grace Telford
Cross-Correlations between Lyman Alpha and Lyman Beta from the XQ-100 Legacy survey Bayu Wilson Matthew McQuinn and Vid Irsic
A Search for Changing-look Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey  Sierra Dodd and Daniel Hoover (Physics)  Scott Anderson 
Solar Telescope  Jimmy Ragan, Ellis Avallone, Alexander Lee and Andrea Begerson Olive Fraser 
Synthesis of Lead-Free Double-Perovskite (Elpasolite) Colloidal Nanocrystal Semiconductors  Evan Crites  Daniel Gamelin and Sid Creutz
     
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2017     
Spatially  Resolving the Condensing Effect of Cholesterol on Phospolipids Felix Leeb Lutz Maibaum
Using Optogenetics to induce grooming Behaviors in Drosphilia Melanogaster Ley Gaskill John Tuhill (Biophysics) and Anthony Azevedo (Biophysics)
Further Investigation into the Influence of UGT144*3 Genotype on the Glucuronidation of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3  Huabin Huang  Kenneth Thummel and Tim Wong 
The Impact of Molecule Inhibitors on Chromosome Segregation in Cricket Spermatocytes  Connor James and Bill Lee  Charles Asbury (Biophysics) and Luke Johnson (Biophysics)
Manastash Ridge Observatory Auto-Guider Control System  Magdalyn Paige, Courtney Johnson (Physics)  Sara Tuttle and Jason Lozo
Analyzing the Pressure Dynamics of a Single Stage Supersonic Rocket  Karine Junior, Alec Gordon (Physics), Kushagra Agarwal (Physics)  Robert Winglee
Swarm Robotics  Jesse Hernandez (Physics) and Nini Hong  Santosh Devasia 
Interactive Electric Vehicle Queueing Simulation  Haley Cho Don Mackenzie 
Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Circumgalactic Gas Flows that Drive Galaxy Formation and Evolution  Dustin Burnham  Jessica Werk 
PanOptes: Low Budget Survey Astronomy  Courtney Johnson  Jason Lozo
The Optical Depth of Tropical Clouds at Varying Altitudes  Greg Bertolacci Dennis Hartman 
APOGEE / Kepler Overlap Yields Orbital Solutions for a Variety of Eclipsing Binaries  Aleezah Ali Diana Windemuth, Eric Agol and Meredith Rawis 
Design and Development of the "3U Cubesat" Satellite Chassis"  Jiasheng Xie (Physics), Daniel Hsu, Erin Graves, and James O'neil.  Robert Winglee
Next Generation Manastash Ridge Observatory Control Systems: Bifrost and Evora  Douglas Branton (Physics) and Tristan Hillis  Sarah Tuttle and Jason Lozo 
Improvements to an Ion Doppler Spectrometer on the HIT-SI Plasma Confinement Experiments  Rian Chandra  Aaron Hossack
Scalable Growth and Characterization of Monolayer WSe2 Frank McKay  David Cobden (Physics) 
A Spatially-Resolved Study of the GRB 020903 Host Complex  Mallory Thorp  Emily Levesque
The Geophysics of Habitable Exoplanets  Benjamin Guyer  Rory Barnes 
Spatially  Resolved Metallicity ad Star Formation Rates of the Supernovae-Rich Fireworks Galacy  Locke Linden  Emily Levesque
Nontransitive Dice and Social Choice  Jacob Watkins (Physics) Robert Gunn (Physics) and Jason Grills  Jonah Ostroff and Lucas Metter 
High- Resolution Single-Molecule Analysis of UvrD Helicase Using Nanopore Tweezers  Hugh Higinbotham Jens Gundlach (Physics) and Ian Nova 
Effects of Target Surface Tilt on the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry  Elizabeth Farrell W. T. Elam (Applied Physics Laboratory) 
Towards Quantum Information with NV Centers in Diamond Ian Robert (Physics)  Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) 
OCMAP: Milky Way Open Cluster Stellar Membership Assignment in SDSS u, g, r, I, z and Stromgren v, b, y.  Locke Linden Patton (Physics) and Ellis Avallone (Physics)  Ana Larson 
MRO Spectrograph Calibration System  Jane McNicoll (Physics) and Jimmy Ragan (Physics)  Jason Lozo and Sara Tuttle 
A Spectroscopic Study of Quasar PG1407 + 265 and Galaxies Along the Sightline  Camellia Magness  Jessica Werk 
The Effects of High Temperature Annealing on NV Centers in Diamond  Kelsey Bates  Kai- Mei Fu (Physics) and Emma Schmidgall (Physics) 
Mapping the Cosmic Byron Cycle using Quasar Absorption Line Spectroscopy  Brittany Platt Jessica Werk  and Hannah Bisch
Design a Pulsed Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Microscope  Maya Dunn Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) 
Two-Photon Exchange in Electron-Nucleon Scattering  Jesse Ashworth  Wally Melnitchouk and Peter Bluden 
The RelationshiP Between Supermassive Black Hole Mergers and their host Galaxy  Daniel Simmons (Physics and Daven Cocroft (Physics)  Thomas Quinn and Michael Tremmel 
Super Massive Black Hole Effects on Galaxy Properties  Zoe Deford  Thomas Quinn and Michael Tremmel 
Testing our Models for the Intergalactic Medium  Bayu Wilson  Matthew McQuinn and Phoebe Sanderbeck
High- Resolution Multi-Wavelength Examination of a Supernova Remnant in Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 300 Jacob Gross Benjamin Williams
Evolution Outliers: Characterizing Emission Line Stars  Aislynn Wallach  Benjamin Williams
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2016    
Manastash Ridge Observatory Offset Guider  Adrian Davila (Physics), Jakob Balkenhohl and Andrew Lozo Joseph Huehnerhoff
Analysis of Apache Point Observatory 3.5 m Enclosure Air Flow Efficiency  Courtney Johnson  Joseph Huehnerhoff
Structure Design and Analysis for Cube Satellite  Jiasheng Xie (Physics), Daniel Hsu, and Nicolas Mavriplis  Robert Winglee
Observatory Cloud Monitoring System  Matt Armstrong (Physics) and Andrew Wilkins (Physics)  Joseph Huehnerhoff
Search for the Hidden Valley Particles  Andrew Arbogast (Physics), Tom lee Jr. (Pysics) and Jiasheng Xie )Physics)  Gordon Watts
Modeling Fluid and Thermal Properties of Melting Sea Ice  Samuel Farley  Bonnie Light 
Contractillity Measurements in Cardiomyocytes from Danon Disease Patients  Jessica Trinh  Nathan Sniadecki and Andrea Leonard 
Effects of Supermassive Black Hole on Host Galaxy Properties  Zoe Deford ( Physics) and Joshua Smith  Thomas Quinn and Michael Tremmel 
The Meridian Line of the Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e Martiri Mallory Thorp (Physics), Guadalupe Tovar, and Jennifer Look Woodruff Sullivan 
Laboratory Testing of the Controlled Flux Technique for Measuring Oceanic Turbulence  Eric Bochsler  William Asher and Kyla Drushka 
Modeling Kepler Eclipsing Binaries  Aleezah Ali (Physics) and Ananya Garg  Diana Windemuth and Eric Agol 
Examing the X-ray Luminosity Function of NGC 300 WITH THE Chandra X-ray observatory  Jacob Gross Benjamin Williams and Brenna Binder 
Manastash Ridge Observatory Software Architecture Upgrade  Tristan Hillis and Douglas Branton  Joseph Huehnerhoff
In-vivo Screen for Drugs that can Target Cancer Stem Cells Utilizing Drosophila Germline Stem Cell Model  Zachary Gottschalk (Physics), Debra Del Castillo, Jefinner Merril, Deepkiran Singh, Lavinia Turian, Samuel Mairbaixa & Dana R.  Hannele Ruohola-Baker and Yalan Xing 
Instrumentation  upgrades at Manastash Ridge Observatory Kyle Olinger and Joshua Oppor  Joseph Huehnerhoff
Orbital Mechanics of CubeSat Propelled via Pulsed Plasma Thruster in and Beyond Low-Earth Orbit  David Olson and Tyler Valentine  Robert Winglee
A Feasibility Study of Implementing a Collisional-Radiative Helium-1 Model for Electron Density and temperature Diagnostics on the HIT-SI3 Experiment Rian Chandra  Aaron Hossack
Surface Exposure Dating of Missoula Flood Boulders and Glacial Erratics with Cosmogenic Isotopes Christopher Bowan  John Stone 
Measuring Tritium Levels with a Gas Flow Proportional Counter  Matthew Kallander  R. G. Hamish Robertson (Physics) and Diana Parno (Physics) 
Dust as a Fuel for In-Space Electric Propulsion  Brittney Dodson  Robert Winglee
Preventing Errors in Unsigned Computations  Christopher Mackie  Michael Ernst 
New Methods in Hand Tracking  Vladimir Korukov Dieter Fox 
Testing our Models for the Stuff between Galaxies  Bayu Wilson (Physics) and Adriana Buckley (Physics)  Phoebe Sanderbeck and Matthew McQuinn
Feasibility of Exomoon and Spectral Recovery in the Presence of Exozodiacal Dust  Tiffany Jansen Eric Agol
Finding the Rotation-Activity Relation in a Spectroscopic Survey of Kepler M Dwarfs  Tessa Wilkinson  Suzanne Hawley 
The Radioactive Habitable Zone Benjamin Guyer  Roy Barnes 
Cataclysmic Pulses: Investigating Temperature Instability of Accreting White Dwarfs Pulsators  Donald Grey  Paula Szkody 
Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Resolution of Coherent Temporal-Spatial Plasma Structures  Roy Taylor  Brian Nelson and Nathan Kutz
Design of a Microwave Resonator for Use with Diamond Magnetometry  Kelsey Bates  Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) 
Mitigating Spectral Insatability in Solid-State Defects for Quantum Information Processing  Ian Robert  Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) 
Zebra Finch Song Analysis as a Precursor to Understanding Modulation of Variability in Trial-and-Error Learning  Elliot Abe  Adrienne Fairhall
Measuring T1 of Electrons Bound to Donor Impurities in ZnO Nanowires  Cameron Johnson  Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) 
Measuring NV Center Lifetimes with a Pulsed Laser  Seth Hyra  Kai-Mei Fu (Physics) and Michael Gold 
Developing an Interactive Quantum Chemistry E-textbook  Jesse Ashworth (Physics), Mengjia Zhu and Alisa Vangrunsven  Stefan Stoll
Novel Coaxial Electron Spin Resonance Probe for Precision Magnetic Field Measurements  Megan Wachtendonk Gray Rybka (Physics) and Martin Fertl (Physics) 
Confining Barium-Ytterbium / Barium-Barium Ion Chain in a Quartic Anharmonic Oscillator for Quantum Computing  Wen Tan Boris Blinov (Physics) 
Understanding the Host of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers  Daniel Simmons (Physics and Daven Cocroft (Physics)  Fabio Governato and Michael Tremmel 
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