Science and Engineering Day 2009

Award Winners

• College of Engineering Dean’s Award-$500: Ari Friedland Abstract: A Synthetic Gene Network that Counts

• Goldman School of Dental Medicine Dean’s Award-$500:Lucas Patrick Abstract: Comparison of flexural strength of resin-infused Y-TZP and glass-infused Y-TZP with fully dense Y-TZP

• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award-$500:Katherine Stryjewski Abstract: Divergent, Host-Specific Female Lineages in the Brood Parasitic Greater Honeyguide

• Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Dean’s Award-$500:Mary Khetani Abstract: Environmental Influences on the Social Participation of Children with Developmental Disabilities: Parent and Child Perspectives Informing Measurement Development

• School of Medicine Dean’s Award-$500:Christine Yu Abstract: Flow Dynamics of Schlemm’s canal endothelial cells using a three-dimensional cell culture device with real-time imaging

• School of Public Health Dean’s Award-$500:Nadia Timofeev Abstract: Clustering based on Genetic Ancestry

• Center for Information and Systems Engineering Award (CISE)-$500:Erhan Ermis Abstract: Multicamera Fusion for Uncalibrated Cameras

• Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnolgy Award (CNN)-$500:Bradley Kaanta Abstract: Fabrication and Testing of an Improved Thermal Conductivity Detector for Ambient and High Temperature Operation

• CELEST Award for Computational Modeling of Brain and Behavior-$500:Jasmin Leveille Abstract: Spiking dynamics of perceptual grouping in the laminar circuits of visual cortex

• CELEST Award for Experiential Neuroscience of Brain and Behavior-$500:Gennay Livitz Abstract: Perceiving non-Hering mixtures in neon color spreading configurations

• Office of Technology Development Award-$500:Hidefumi Tomita Abstract: A Time Projection Chamber with optical readout for directional detection of Dark Matter

• Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems Award (CenSSIS)-$500: Zach Waters Abstract: Resonance isolation in the presence of noise and clutter by single-channel time reversal

• Photonics Center Berman Future of Light Prize-$500:Andrew Strikwerda Abstract: Comparison of birefringent electric split-ring resonator and meanderline structures as quarter-wave plates at terahertz frequencies

• ECE Award-$500: TBD

• Award for Applied Science-$500: Patrick Rourke Abstract: Empirical Evaluation of the Performance Characteristics of Factoring Algorithms as Implemented in Python

• Founder’s Award-$500: Yasmin Mashhoon Abstract: Wired for relapse: brain mechanisms of cocaine-seeking behavior

• Provost’s Award-$1,000: Joshua Doloff Abstract: A novel dual E1A cassette oncolytic adenovirus regulated by two cancer-specific promoter elements, DF3/MUC1 and hTERT, with E1B-19 kDa and E1B-55 kDa gene deletions

• President’s Award-$1,000: Beth Hovey Abstract: siRNA, a Potential Therapeutic for AL Amyloidosis