Hamilton Scholars 2020-2021

Rasikh Amirali

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Sekula

Project Title: "Study of Non-Signal Jets in the Search for gg bb at the Large Hadron Collider"

Hillary Barron

Mentor: Dr. B. Sunday Eiselt

Project Title: "Geochemical Indices of West Mexican Trade: Integrating Obsidian Production Technologies into the Analysis of Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Source Data"

Sara Beth Becker

Mentor: Dr. Devin Matthews

Project Title: "Computational Chemistry"

Keola Ching

Mentor: Dr. John G. Wise

Project Title: "Targeting an RND Transporter that Causes Multidrug Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens"

Justin Chung

Mentor: Dr. John G. Wise

Project Title: "Targeting an RND Transporter that Causes Multidrug Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens"

Quynh-Chi Dang

Mentor: Dr. Steven Vik

Project Title: "Analysis of Human Mutations Modeled in nuoJ of Complex I"

Saavni Desai

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Project Title: "Comparative Authoritarianism: How Dictatorships Work and Collapse"

Margaret Ebinger

Mentor: Dr. Maryann Cairns

Project Title: "MERA Water Investigation"

Ryan Guess

Mentor: Dr. Jingbo Ye

Project Title: "Research on ASIC Chip Coding, a Special Problem in Particle Physics Instrumentation"

Matthew Heaney

Mentor: Dr. Tomče Runčevski

Project Title: "Gazing at Patinints with X-ray Vision: Crystal Structures of Organic Pigments and Insights into their Degradation Processes"

Matthew Hutnyan

Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers and Dr. Benjamin Tabak

Summer Project Title: "Homelessness Innovations in Texas"

Academic Year Project Title: "Examining the Association Between Alexithymia and Self-Referential Processing"

Abby Johnson

Mentor: Dr. Steven Vik

Project Title: "Assembly of the nuoE-F-G subunits of Complex I"

Nia Kamau

Mentor: Dr. Rick Halperin

Project Title: "Drivers of Change: The Relationship Between Women Policymakers and Child Marriage"

Maria Katsulos

Mentor: Dr. Emma Annette Wilson

Project Title: "The Idea of the Internet: Pierre de la Ramee, Claude Chappe, and the Pre-Modern Invention of Networked Information"

Erin Kerwin

Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros

Project Title: "Couples and Kids with Autism"

Anni Kum

Mentor: Dr. Rick Jones

Project Title: "Roles of Individual Proteins in Polycomb-group Recruitment"

Rachel Manak

Mentor: Dr. Jill Kelly

Project Title: "The Burden is Heavy, We Need the Men"

Sarah Mertz

Mentor: Dr. John G. Wise

Project Title: "Computational Studies of the Multidrug Resistance Pump from Pathogenic Gram Negative Bacteria and the Sars-CoV-2 Spike Protein"

Savannah Ostner

Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Tabak

Summer Project Title: "Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Combined Stories Task: Do Traits Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders Predict Task Performance?"

Academic Year Project Title: "Distinguishing Hypo- vs. Hyper- Mentalizing in Social Anxiety and Traits Related to Autism Spectrum Disorders"

Kish Parikh

Mentor: Dr. Priscilla Lui

Project Title: "Short-term Changes in Stress and Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Services During Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic"

Chanyang Park

Mentor: Dr. John G. Wise

Project Title: "Toxicity and Efficacy of Inhibitors of Multidrug Resistance in Cancer Chemotherapies and Pathogenic Gram Negative Bacteria"

Noah Pearson

Mentor: Dr. Joel Meyers

Project Title: "Gravitational Waves"

Lisa Phan

Mentor: Dr. Steven Vik

Project Title: "Analysis of Human Mutations Modeled in nuoH of Complex I"

Andrew Reis

Mentor: Dr. Allison Deiana

Project Title: "Fast Machine Learning at the ATLAS Detector"

Brock Rigsby

Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros

Project Title: "Couples and Kids with Autism"

Kristen Romano

Mentor: Dr. Alicia R. Zuese

Project Title: "Transmission of Knowledge and Networks of Mentoring Women in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Spain"

Reynolds Sands

Mentor: Dr. Sabri Ates

Project Title: "Religious Freedom in the Islamic Republic of Iran"

Bheshta Shahim

Mentor: Dr. Carolyn Smith-Morris

Project Title: "COVID-19 Tracking in Indigenous Communities"

Kenzie Stonebarger

Mentor: Dr. Priscilla Lui

Summer Project Title: "Impact of Discrimination on Cynicism Toward the Police and Law Enforcement"

Academic Year Project Title: "Racial Discrimination and Rumination: Pathways to Psychopathology Symptoms"

Marifer Tovar

Mentor: Dr. Maryann Cairns

Project Title: "MERA Wastewater and Pollution Study"

Thomas Truong

Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski

Project Title: "Analyzing Envoy and Vivid Constructs"

Taylor Wallace

Mentor: Dr. Jodi Cooley

Project Title: "Examining the Effect of Airflow on Radon Plateout onto Plastic Samples"

Justin Wilkey

Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers

Project Title: "Medical Anthropology"

Yongjia Xu

Mentor: Dr. Weihua Geng

Project Title: "Mathematical Modeling of COVID-19"