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Summer Internship 2002

pic: Summer Scholars 2002 Pictured: (top row, from left) Paul Albertus, Nick Slater, Andrew Magyar, Travis Crites, Rebecca Macdonald, Forrest Bradbury; (middle row, from left) Jeremiah Zartman, Ken Weaver, Danielle Jensen, Lidaris SanMiguel, Sadie Michael, Reed Oshel, Chris Puleo, Avi Robinson; (bottom row, from left) Bill Winters, Todd Crisp, Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman, Katherine Edmonds, Jamie Yang, Eric Tkaczyk

Paul Albertus:(University of Michigan) Silver Nanoparticle Formation in Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: Evaluating Loading and Reduction Kinetics and Methods. Advisors: Robert Cohen/Vladmir Bulovic

Forrest Bradbury: (Ohio University) Vorticella: the World's Fastest Biological Spring. Advisor: Anne Mayes/Alexander VanOudenaarden

Matthew Todd Crisp: (Oklahoma State Univ.) Memory Devices from Doped Molecular Light Emitting Diodes. Advisor: BulovicVladmir Bulovic

Travis Crites: (Univ. of West Virginia) Nano-Stamping of PDAC onto Silicon. Advisor: Paula Hammond

Katherine Edmonds and Jamie Yang: (Univ. of Chicago, UC Berkeley, respectively) Experimental Implementation of Entanglement Swapping in Quantum Information Processing. Advisor: David Cory

Danielle Jensen: (Syracuse Univ.) Patterning Bioinert Polymer Multilayers. Advisor: Michael Rubner

Rebecca MacDonald: (Worcester Polytechnic) Mechanical Signaling in Cartilage. Advisor: Alexander Grodzinsky

Andrew Magyar: (Hamilton Coll.) Stability of Tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) Light Emitting Devices. Advisor: Michael Rubner

Jerome Mettetal: (Virginia Tech.) Exploring the Role of Photoconductivity in Photoinduced Index Changes of Amorphous As2Se3 Thin Films: Theory, Characterization, and Application. Advisor: Yoel Fink

Sadie Michael: (Univ. Maryland-College Park)Stress-Induced Twin Boundary Motion in FSMA-Polyurethane Samples. Advisor: Robert O'Handley

Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman: (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison) Structure and Thermo-Magnetic Properties of Polycrystalline Ni-Mn-Ga Thin Films and Foils. Advisor: Caroline Ross

Reed Oshel: (Pittsburg State Univ.) (1) Polypyrrole: Polymerization in Liquid Salts: Supercapacitor in Liquid Salts and (2) Electrochemical Cell Design. Advisor: Ian Hunter

Christopher Puleo: (Rensselaer Polytechnic) Activation of Gold Electrodes by Electrodeposition: Improving Gold Membrane Anodes on Controlled-Release MEMS Device for Drug Delivery. Advisor: Michael Cima

Avi Robinson: (Yeshiva University) Effect of Concentraton and Chain Length on Adsorption-Mediated Liquid Movement. Advisor: Paul Laibinis

Lidaris SanMiguel: (Univ. of Puerto Rico) Synthesis and Characterization of Silk-like Polyurethanes. Advisor: Paula Hammond

Nicholas Slater: (Univ. of Rochester) The Investigation of WDM Optical Components. Advisor: Elizabeth Bruce

Eric Tkaczyk: (Purdue Univ.) Multivariate Curve Resolution on Two-Photon Fluorescence Images of Human Skin. Advisor: Peter So

Kenneth Weaver: (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) Simulating 'Spot Model' Effects on Granular Flow using C and MATLAB. Advisor: Martin Bazant

William Winters: (Manhattan Coll.) Design and Construction of A Scanning Tunneling Microscope. Advisor: Eric Hudson

Jeremiah Zartman: (Univ. Colorado-Boulder) Solvent-Vapor-Induced Growth of Oriented Organic Structures on Nano-Patterned SiO2 Gratings. Advisor: Robert Cohen/Vladmir Bulovic

Students held a poster session, open to the entire university, at which they presented their summer's work. Papers describing several of the students work will be submitted for journal publication over the next few months.