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Summer Internship 2001
This year's MPC/CMSE Summer Research Internship Program in Materials participants arrived in early June and immediately took a whirlwind tour of the laboratories of participating MPC-afilliated faculty. After hearing introductory talks, the students met with and chose faculty members whose research projects they wished to pursue over the remaining nine weeks of the program.
Peter Anderson, a mechanical engineering major junior from the University of Iowa, worked with Professor Anne Mayes on "The Regenerative Properties of Self-Organizing Membranes." Christopher Bristow, a chemical enginnering major junior of Colorado State, worked with Prof. Paul Laibinis studying "Electrochemical Detection of Chloride, Iodide, and Thiocyanate by Underpotentially Deposited Silver Films on Au(111)." Colleen Colson, a polymer science major junior of the University of S. Mississippi, worked with Prof. Michael Rubner on "Manipulating Polyelectrolyte Multilayers for Cell Growth and Patterning." Carl Dohrman, a materials science student junior of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, worked with Dr. Robert O'Handley on a project entitled "Analysis of Magnetic Anisotropy in Cu-NixFe(1-x)-Cu Thin Film Stacks." Jack (Chao-Yu) Perng, an engineering/physics/math major junior also from UIUC, worked with Prof. Lionel Kimerling on an "SiON Optical Waveguide Amplifier." Jonathan Hodges, a physics major junior from Columbia University, worked with Prof. David Cory on "Noise Protection in Quantum Systems." Nicole LeBoeuf, who is a junior majoring in biochemistry at Middlebury, worked with Prof. Linda Griffith on "Fibroblast Intracellular Signaling Response to Tethered Epidermal Growth Factor." Andrew Lim, chemical engineer sophomore from the University of Connecticut, also worked with Griffith. His project was entitled "Morphological Characterization of Fibroblasts on Tethered Epidermal Growth Factor Substrates." Prof. Vladimir Bulovic also had two students, both chemistry majors. One, Nathan Lovell, a senior from the University of Utah, worked on "Enhanced Light Extraction from Organic Light Emitting Diodes." The other, Sharon Voshell, attends Rochester Institute of Technology as a junior and worked on "Photoconductivity in Organic Materials." From the Colorado School of Mines came Que Nguyen, an engineering and physics major sophomore who worked with Prof. Caroline Ross on "Investigation of the Morphology of Oxide Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition." Prof. Gerbrand Ceder worked with Matthew Pilat, a physics/math major junior from Providence College, on "Lithium Battery Cathode Materials: Reviewing the Synthesis of LiMnO2 and the Electrochemical Study of LiCoO2." Two students worked with Prof. Alexander van Oudenaarden: Oliver Putzeys, (mechanical engineering, Bucknell, junior) worked on "Adaptable Contractile Mechanism of Vorticella, the World�s Fastest Biological Spring," and Melody Rattanapote (chemical engineering, New Mexico Tech., junior) worked on "Vesicle Formation for Application in Actin Studies." David Quinn, a mechanical engineer junior from Villanova, spent his summer working on "Mechanical Behavior of Polycarbonate: Effects of Rubber Filler and Notch Triaxiality " with Prof. Mary Boyce. Kris Wood worked with Profs. Paula Hammond and Robert Cohen. A chemical engineering major junior from the University of Kentucky, he focused on "Preparation and Characterization of Biocompatable Chitosan-Based Layer-by-Layer Thin Films." Rachel Zimet (chemical engineering, Worcester Polytech. Inst., junior) worked in Prof. Ian Hunter's group on "Synthesis and Characterization of Conducting Polymer Composites." |
