Undergraduate Research Projects and Mentors

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Dr. Assaf Abdelghani, The Environmental Health Laboratories
TITLE: Assessment of the Impact of Toxic Chemicals on Humans and the Environment

Dr. Henry L. Bart, Jr., Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology  
TITLE: Shape Evolution in Fishes of the Subfamily Ictiobinae

Dr. Nancy Hopkins,  Department of Cell and Molecular Biology 
TITLE: Natural Product Analogs as Inhibitors of Prostate Cancer Cell Proliferation

Dr. Nancy Hopkins,  Department of Cell and Molecular Biology 
TITLE: Inhibition of Cytochrome P450 by Naphthyl and Adamantyl Acetylenes

Dr. Dale Joachim,  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
TITLE: Acoustic Direction Finding Sensor Assessment

Dr. Dale Joachim,  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
TITLE: Cellular Telephone Broadcasting and Recording Station

Dr. Dale Joachim,  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
TITLE: Dynamic Biological Database Web Interface and Performance Analysis

Dr. Vijay John, Department of Chemical Engineering
TITLE: A Novel Method of Desalination of Sea Water

Dr. Lev Kaplan,  Department of Physics
TITLE: Structure of Standing Waves in Chaotic Dynamical Systems

Dr. Anthony Lamanna, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
TITLE: Repair of Timber Bridge Stringers

Dr. Yunfeng Lu, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
TITLE: Nanotechnology:  A New World Built from Small Things

Dr. Brian Mitchell,  Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
TITLE: Formation and Characterization of Metal-Ceramic Nanocomposites

Dr. S. Raj Pandian,  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
TITLE: Computer Control of a Prototype Underwater Robot for Environmental Monitoring

Dr. Mark Schmehl, Department of Chemistry
TITLE: Synthesis of Materials for Electroluminescence Applications

Dr. Bradley Taylor, Department of Pharmacology
TITLE: New Medicines for the Treatment of Chronic Pain

Dr. Paul Ziehl, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
TITLE: Non-Destructive Evaluation of FRP Materials at Elevated Temperature

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