University of Rochester

Ian Marozas
Faculty Mentor: Professor Danielle Benoit
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Novel Targeted Drug Delivery System for the Treatment of Osteoporosis

E. Michael Bux
Faculty Mentor: Professor Danielle Benoit
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Optimization of the Storage Stability of Drug-Loaded Polymeric Micelles

Peter Carlile
Faculty Mentor: Professor Regine Choe
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Characterization of In Vivo Blood Flow in Human Breast Tumors with Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy

Caressa Chen
Faculty Mentor: Professor Danielle Benoit
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Inhibition of Notch Signaling Reduces 6-bromoindirubin-3'-oxime (BIO) Mediated Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation

Michael David
Faculty Mentor: Professor Hani Awad
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Effects of Fluid Flow on Chondrocytes' Gene Expression in Tissue Engineered Cartilage

Laura Hobbs
Faculty Mentor: Professor Diane Dalecki
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Effects of Ultrasound on the Microstructure of Collagen Gels of Different Concentrations

Willie Long
Faculty Mentor: Professor Laurel Carney
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Physiology Setup for Chronic Neural Recording in the Budgerigar Midbrain

Natalie Mitchell
Faculty Mentor: Professor Regine Choe
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Pharmacokinetics of Near-Infrared Fluorescent Contrast Agent for In Vivo Breast Cancer Detection

Mohammad Musleh
Faculty Mentor: Professor Jim McGrath
Department of Biomedical Engineering

The Structural Role of Step-Rings and Brick Arches

John Nicosia
Faculty Mentor: Professor Diane Dalecki
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Fibronectin Mimetic Proteins Direct Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation and Lineage Specification

KaLai Tsang
Faculty Mentor: Professor Sheryl Gracewski
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Determination of Effective Masses and Parametric Study of the Organ of Corti

Claire Winchester
Faculty Mentor: Professor Danielle Benoit
Department of Biomedical Engineering

Developing Antibody-Responsive Nanoparticles for Triggered Drug Delivery

Dongmo Bian
Faculty Mentor: Professor David Wu
Department of Chemical Engineering

Generate C.thermocellum RNA Polymerase Subunits via Sequence and Ligation Independent Cloning (SLIC) Method

Mikhail Gillespie
Faculty Mentor: Professor Matthew Yates
Department of Chemical Engineering

Drug Delivery of Gentamicin Using Novel Polarized Yttrium-Fluorine Co-doped Hydroxyapatite Coatings

Mononita Nur
Faculty Mentor: Professor Kenneth Marshall
Department of Chemical Engineering

Photoswitchable Liquid Crystal Gas Permeation Membranes

Ellen Sadri
Faculty Mentor: Professor Hitomi Mukaibo
Department of Chemical Engineering

Developing Micro-Needle Arrays Setup for Piercing C. reinhardtii Algae Cells

Stephen Cool
Faculty Mentor: Professor Wendi Heinzelman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Enhancing Wireless Sensor Nodes with Passive Wakeup Radios

Ka Fung
Faculty Mentor: Professor Thomas B. Jones
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wireless Building Power Monitor

JoHanna Kohl
Faculty Mentor: Professor Wendi Heinzelman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prosody-Based Emotion Classification

Pak Lam (Jack)Yung
Faculty Mentor: Professor Thomas B. Jones
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wireless Building Power Monitoring

Rachel Wesley
Faculty Mentor: Professor Jeffrey Bigham
Department of Computer Science

Crowd-Powered Conversational Interfaces

Ani Nguyen
Faculty Mentor: Professor David Quesnel
Department of Mechanical Engineering

A Sealed System for Experimental Anerobic Electrochemistry

Diego de la Cruz
Faculty Mentor: Professor Paul Funkenbush
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Using Design of Experiments Methods to Understand Variability in Biological Systems

Shola Fokorode
Faculty Mentor: Professor Sheryl Gracewski
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Fluid-Structure Interaction of Hair Bundles within the Cochlea

Nathan Mittleman
Faculty Mentor: Professor Renato Perucchio
Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Concrete Dome of the Pantheon in Rome: The Structural Role of Step-Rings and Brick Arches

Michael Zarella
Faculty Mentor: Professor Andrew Berger
The Institute of Optics

Teaching Diffraction Using the Guts of a Projector