SURF 2016 Projects & Papers
Student | Project Title | Mentor(s) |
Niuska Alvarez Fuenmayor | Evaluating Human Cell Survival and DNA Damage after Exposure to Various Amounts of Chlorine Dioxide | Ali Senejani |
Emily Barkley | The Effects of Extracellular Exosomes on the Growth of HPV Negative Cervical Cancer Cells | Christina Zito |
Cameron Brouillard | A Mechanical Platform Designed to Study Sports-Related Head Injury | Kagya Amoako |
Shakoyah Brown | Breathing with No Air: Black Orality and the Music Industry during Protest Movements | Patrick Rivers |
Louis G Cavaliere | Endocrine Disruptors in Sediment at the Quinnipiac River | Jean-Paul Simjouw |
William Ciccone | Music and the Toddler: A Study on how Toddlers use Music at night through Crib Songs | Meryl Sole |
Glen Craig | Analysis of Material Properties with Recycled Concrete and Masonry | Byungik Chang |
Edwin David | Amanda Simson | |
Nicole Deck | Study of Salt Marsh Restoration Success in Dodge Paddock and Beal Preserve, Stonington, CT | Gail Harnett |
Tatiana Dominiguez | Synthesis and Characterization of Mesoporous Molybdenum Oxide | Nancy Savage |
Timothy Earley | Genetic Variablity of Melampuus Bidentatus Populations in Connecticut | Roman Zajac |
Samantha Eldredge | Women in the Apocalypse: Power and Gender in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake | Margaret Savilonis |
Cassidy Haigh | Assessing Police Perceptions of Mental Illness | Anne Kringen |
Gabrielle A Hartley | A Comparative Analysis of Protein and Peroxidase Stains for Blood Detection on Laundred Clothing | Claire Glynn |
Owen Johnson | A Sustainability Assessment of Rare Earth and Precious Metals in the CT Region | Amanda Simson |
Phylicia M Kidd | The Distribution of Benthic Marcotauna in the Quinnipiac River | Melanie Eldridge |
Nicole Langlois
| Intramolecular Oxidative Cyclizations toward the Synthesis of Cadiolides | Pier Cirillo |
Marianna Liang
| Substitution Group Effect on the Inhabitation of Ubiquitin C-Terminal Hydrolases for Parkinson’s Disease: Synthesis and Computational Analysis | Dequan Xiao |
Vincent M Madar
| A Historical Investigation into the Purpose and uses of Fort Terry on Plum Island, New York, in the Spanish-American War, 1898-1902 | Paulette Pepin |
Anna M Mercaldi
| Nitric Oxide Reactor for Conjugating Nitric Oxide to Polymeric Materials | Kagya Amoako |
Nicholaus Miller
| The Fluidity of Crime Borders: Social Disorganization in New Haven’s Neighborhoods | Jonathan Kringen |
Victor N Miller
| Developing and Integrating a Control Program for a Remotely Operated Vehicle | Cheryl Li |
Lillian C Mitsakos | Assessment of Nitrogen Dynamics in a Connecticut Salt Marsh | Roman Zajac |
Kelli Mosca | Osmoregulation and smolt physiology of sea-run brown trout | John Kelly |
Erin Murdoch | Computation Models of the Transmission of Chirality: The Chemical Evolution of Homochirality, a Biosignature of Life | Pauline Schwartz |
Damani Piper | Technology vs Live Instrumentation; An Analysis of the Creative Process Behind Hip Hop Music | Patrick Rivers |
Zachary T Polston | Determining the Potential Application of Graflex Extraction Buffer for Forensic Science Involving Salivary DNA Extraction | Heather Coyle |
Nicholas Rodo | Economic Impacts of Rare Earth Metals Located in Connecticut | Amanda Simson |
Victoria V Ruderman | Development of Printed Ion-Selective Electrodes for the Measurement of Calcium in Bovine Blood | Virginia Maxwell |
Robert G Ruiz | Responses of Nekton to Climate and Anthropogenic Related Changes in Long Island | Roman Zajac |
Tyler J Schlagetter | The Analysis of Blood Stains and their Enhancing Reagents using Ramen Spectroscopy | Claire Glynn |
Robert Schmicker | Android Malware Feature Extraction and Representation | Ibrahim Baggili |
Sean E Smith | Assessing Photographic Techniques for Quantifying Fouling Community Development and Biodiversity | Robert Rattner |
Michelle M Stephens | Optimum Stocking Density of the Eastern Oyster in Upwellers at the Sound School Regional Aquaculture Center | John Roy |
Eric Sychampanakhone | Feminarum: Investigations of the Consciousness of Gender in Sculptural Ecorche | Randy Melick |
Arielle Telesmanic | Redesign, Construction and Validation of a Sensor Testing Apparatus | Nancy Savage |
Austin Thomas | Using Tribology to Optimize a Commercial Polishing Process | Joseph Levert |
Kayla V Waites | Regulation of Detoxitication Genes as a way to measure toxitity of heavy metals in other compounds | Melanie Eldridge |
Victoria R White | Framing the 2016 Election: The Consequences of Donald Trump’s Abnormal Rhetoric | Chris Haynes |
Tong Zhou | Distributed Management Platform based Charging Station for Plug-In Electric Vehicles in Distribution Networks | Junhui Zhao |