University of Rochester

Elizabeth Martens
Faculty Mentor: Professor Renato Perucchio
Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Great Hall of Trajan's Market Over the Centuries
Part 1: Static Analysis

Frank Wolfs
Faculty Mentor: Professor Sheryl Gracewski
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Modeling the Cochlea

Miguel Garcia
Faculty Mentor: Professor James C.M. Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dealloyed PtCo2 Nanotube Fabrication

Jesse Cramer
Faculty Mentor: Professor Renato Perucchio
Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Great Hall of Trajan's Market Over the Centuries
Part 2: Dynamic Analysis

Syed Habib
Faculty Mentor: Professor James C.M. Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Fabrication of 1-D Nanostructure of Transition
Metal Oxide and Following Reduction

Mike (Shyue-Li) Horng
Faculty Mentor: Professor Hong Yang
Department of Chemical Engineering

Size-Controlled Synthesis and Hydrogenation of 
Anatase TiO2 Nanoparticles for Photocatalysis

Carrie Trant
Faculty Mentor: Professor Jacob Jorne
Department of Chemical Engineering

Solubility of Sodium Ferrocyanide and Potassium Ferrocyanide
in Solutions of NaOH and KOH Mixtures at 25˚C

Peter Vercillo
Faculty Mentor: Professor Jacob Jorne
Department of Chemical Engineering

Solubility of Sodium Ferrocyanide in Sodium Hydroxide
and Potassium Ferrocyanide in Potassium Hydroxide

Jeffrey Shapanka
Faculty Mentor: Professor Alexander Shestopalov
Department of Chemical Engineering

Colloidal Lithography of Polystyrene Particles in Preparation
for Nanolithography of Polymer-Based Solar Cells

David Alvarado
Faculty Mentor: Professor Hong Yang
Department of Chemical Engineering

Performance Optimization of Pt3Ni Electrocatalyst Carbon
Supports for PEM Fuel Cell Applications

Michael Beckley
Faculty Mentor: Professor Philippe Fauchet
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Optimization of ITO Layer on Plasmonic
Thin Film a-Si Solar Cells

Jinnan Hussain
Faculty Mentor: Professor Gaurav Sharma
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Insertion Lengths in ncRNA Families: Testing
the Exponential Hyopthesis

David Heid
Faculty Mentor: Professor Mark Bocko
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Beat-Detection: Keeping Tabs on
Tempo Using Auto-Correlation

Colin Funai
Faculty Mentor: Professor Wendi Heinzelman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cloud Service Partitioning Using Mobile Devices

Andrea Morrell
Faculty Mentor: Professor Amy Lerner
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Do Age and Gender-Related Variations in Material Properties
Predict Prevalence of Knee Osteoarthritis?

Susana Acosta
Faculty Mentor: Professor Anne E. Luebke
Department of Biomedical Engineering

A Point Mutation in the Hair Cell Nicotinic Cholinergic
Receptor Enhances Olivocochlear Efferent Feedback Strength

Ruth Davis
Faculty Mentor: Professor Ann E. Luebke
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Development of a Sound-Based Assay of
Olivocochlear Efferent Strength

Christopher Schmitt
Faculty Mentor: Professor Danielle Benoit
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Development of a Polymer Therapeutic Targeted
to Sites of Bone Resorption

Douglas Clift
Faculty Mentor: Professor Richard Waugh
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Molecular Dynamics of L-selectin, CXCR-1 and LFA-1
During Neutrophil Activation by Immobilized IL-8

Daniel Reynolds
Faculty Mentor: Professor Danielle Benoit
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Patterning of siRNA Cues Within Hydrogels to Spatially
Control Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation

Donato Borrello
Faculty Mentor: Professor Jeffrey Bigham
Department of Computer Science

Real Time Speech Recognition Through Crowd Sourcing

Kyle Murray
Faculty Mentor: Professor Jeffrey Bigham
Department of Computer Science

Systems for Crowd Control of Existing Interfaces

Xiaowei (Stephanie) Cai
Faculty Mentor: Professor Robert Boyd
The Institute of Optics

Ruby Slow Light in a Two-Beam Geometry

Michael Her
Faculty Mentor: Professor Lukas Novotny
The Institute of Optics

Graph-ene: Not Your Ordinary 2-D Figure