Undergraduate Research Scholars

Sheyranna Cajigas
Project Title: Calibrating and Developing a Low Cost Thermal Radiometer
Mentor: Dr. Rehman Eon

Nicholas Kazakos Duggan
Project Title: PerForM Lab Research
Mentor: Dr. Gabriel Diaz

Daniel Klosinski
Project Title: Longwave thermal infrared atmospheric correction using in situ scene elements - The multiple altitude technique revisited for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS)
Mentor: Dr. Carl Salvaggio

Robert Mancini
Project Title: Longwave thermal infrared atmospheric correction using in situ scene elements - The multiple altitude technique revisited for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS)
Mentor: Dr. Carl Salvaggio

Ryan McDonald
Project Title: Longwave thermal infrared atmospheric correction using in situ scene elements - The multiple altitude technique revisited for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS)
Mentors: Dr. Carl Salvaggio and Dr. Robert Kremens

Parker Mei
Project Title: Enabling the Next Generation of Displays through Power-Efficient Display Algorithms
Mentor: Michael Murdoch

Luke Spinosa
Project Title: Feasibility of using synthetic videos to train a YOLOv8 model for UAS detection and classification
Mentor: Dr. Carl Salvaggio

Karla van Aardt
Project Title: Longwave thermal infrared atmospheric correction using in situ scene elements - The multiple altitude technique revisited for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS)
Mentor: Dr. Carl Salvaggio

Mason Wahlers
Project Title: Robust Bayesian Vision Transformer for Image Classification
Mentor: Dr. Dimah Dera

Liam Almekinder
Project Title: Preparations of complex organic dyes;
Mentor: Dr. Jeremy Cody

Christina Ciko
Project Title: Effect of clinically relevant antibiotics on bacterial extracellular vesicle release from Escherichia coli” and “Enhancing the Immunogenicity of Extracellular Vesicle-based Vaccines Against Pathogenic NTHi Bacteria
Mentor: Dr. Lea Michel

Guerline Guerrier
Project Title: Using Bovine γB Crystallin to Better Understand the Role of Crystallins in Congenital Cataracts
Mentor: Dr. Lea Michel

Olivia Gustafson
Project Title: Development of a unique solid-state design photocatalyst using an earth-abundant non-toxic semiconductor (TiO2)/dye-sensitizer planar heterojunction (PHJ)
Mentor: Michael Heagy

Mia Kushner
Project Title: Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles as a Diagnostic Tool for Sepsis
Mentor: Dr. Lea Michel

Sebastien Lach
Project Title: Creating Uniform Magnesium Aluminum Spinel Deposition on Graphite Nozzles Used in Additive Metal Jetting 3D Printing
Mentor: Dr. Scott Williams

Delila MacLeod
Project Title: Investigating the Histidine Phosphatase Superfamily Domain of Rv2985 from M. tuberculosis
Mentor: Dr. Suzanne O'Handley

Logan McCurry
Project Title: Surface Modification of Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and Poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) with Nitrogen Atoms
Mentor: Dr. Gerald A Takacs

Kristen McDonough
Project Title: Purification of Biochar for Industrial Use
Mentor: Dr. Scott Williams

Aidan Miller
Project Title: Investigating the Effects of Mutations on the Intermolecular Interactions of Bovine γB-Crystallin
Mentor: Dr. Lea Michel

Grace Perna
Project Title: Probing the Therapeutic Potential of Grape-Derived Nanoparticles
Mentor: Dr. Lea Michel

Griffin Pileski
Project Title: Self-Assembling Peptide-Based High-Relaxivity Targeted MRI Contrast Agents
Mentor: Dr. Hans Schmitthenner

Anna Rooney
Project Title: Targeted Dual Dye FRET Compound for Photoacoustic Imaging of Prostate Cancer
Mentor: Dr. Hans Schmitthenner

Mya Soto
Project Title: A CTPase Nudix Hydrolase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a Potential Novel Antibiotic Target; A HAD Superfamily PGPase from Staphylococcus aureus as a Potential Virulence Factor
Mentor: Dr. Suzanne O'Handley

Mary Emily Visingard
Project Title: Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Clickable Probes to Identify the Protein Targets and Mechanisms of Action of Bacterial Conjugation Inhibitors
Mentor: Dr. Renata Rezende Miranda and Dr. André Hudson

Abigail Broscius
Project Title: Deep Learning for Transmission Constrained Unit Committment
Mentor: Dr Bing Yan and Ph.D. student Farhan Hyder

Adrian Heldt
Project Title: First-order and Second-order Stochastic Approximation for Inverse Problems;
Mentor: Dr. Akthar Khan

Joshua Iosevich
Project Title: Time Series, Additive Energy, Uncertainty Principles, and Signal Recovery in Finite Settings
Mentor: Dr. Azita Mayeli

Kiera Kelly
Project Title: Analysis of a Coevolving Networks-Based Opioid Epidemic Model
Mentor: Dr. Nishant Malik

Madeline Mariano
Project Title: Modeling Fatality Data using Integer Valued Time Series
Mentor: Dr. Mary Lynn Reed

Dorothy Suzuki-Burke
Project Title: Closeness Centrality of Asymmetric Graphs
Mentor: Dr. Darren Narayan

Faith Wong
Project Title: Modeling Early SARS-CoV-2 Dynamics in New York State
Mentor: Dr. Nonhle Channon Mdziniso and Dr. Nourridine Siewe

Ethan Adkins
Project Title: Study of Beta Crystallin Proteins in the Mammalian Eye Lens
Mentor: Dr. George Thurston

Karina Bryant
Project Title: Emission Line Signatures of Runaway Supermassive Black Holes
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Robinson

Leo Coons
Project Title: Development of Milky Way Type Galaxies to z~5
Mentor: Dr. Jeyhan Kartaltepe

Hasanat Hasan
Project Title: Variational Space Learning in the Ghost-Gutzwiller Approximation
Mentor: Dr. Nicola Lanata

Jack Kinser
Project Title: Spectrophotometric analysis of eye lens crystallins
Mentor: Dr. George Thurston

Steve (Zehua) Liang
Project Title: Oriented External Electric Field (OEEF) Catalysis of a Fluorogenic Click Reaction” & “The Influence of Temperature and Metals on The Chemical Structure in Crystalline Glazes
Mentor: Dr. Michael Pierce and Dr. Ke Xu

Joey Root
Project Title: Using COSMOS-Web to Understand the Evolutionary Path of Starburst Galaxies
Mentor: Dr. Jeyhan Kartaltepe

Sam Silliman
Project Title: Modeling Cytoplasmic Mixing Inside Large Amoeba Cells” & “(Avoided) Crossings in the Spectra of Matrices with Globally Degenerate Eigenvalues
Mentor: Dr. Moumita Das and Dr. Mishkat Bhattacharya

Myrra Small
Project Title: Viability of Observing Kozai Effect Induced Transit Timing Variations in Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Mentor: Dr. Michael Richmond

Nicolas Sovare
Project Title: Polarized Neutron Scattering from a Prototype Spin-Manipulated Molecule Dissolved in Solution
Mentor: Dr. Michael Kotlarchyk​​​​​​​

Rivka Stasavage
Project Title: Spectroscopy Characterization of Novel Photovoltaic Materia
Mentor: Dr. Seth Hubbard​​​​​​​

Ella Watts
Project Title: Formation of students’ interests in quantum technology across STEM majors
Mentor: Dr. Ben Zwickl​​​​​​​

Gabriel Wilber
Project Title: Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Analysis of Low Concentration Gamma Crystallin Solutions
Mentors: Dr. Michael Pierce and Dr. George Thurston​​​​​​​

Mikolaj Wilkosz
Project Title: Studying migration energy barriers for oxygen vacancy transitions in BaTiO3/NiO heterostructures
Mentor: Dr. Pratik Dholabhai​​​​​​​

Thomas "TJ" Bedore
Project Title: Isolation, identification, and characterization of antibiotic lead compounds
Mentor: Dr. André Hudson

Lily DePalma
Project Title: Analysis of ATP on Maize Wounding Response
Mentor: Dr. Eli Borrego

Lute Douglas
Project Title: The use of VSV as an oncolytic agent
Mentor: Dr. Maureen Ferran

Francesca Molee
Project Title: Green microbial communities, physiology, and stress response in retention ponds in the Lake Ontario watershed
Mentor: Dr. Elena Lopez Peredo

Meredith Michetti
Project Title: Students Struggle to Connect Genetics Concepts: Punnett Squares are Deceptively Simple
Mentor: Dr. Dina Newman and Dr. Kate Wright 

Tori Russell
Project Title: Development of VSV as an Oncolytic Agent
Mentor: Dr. Maureen Ferran and Dr. Karin Wuertz-Kozak

April Soule
Project Title: Exploring the Physiology of Migrating Thrushes and Breeding Songbirds in the Lake Ontario Region
Mentor: Dr. Susan Pagano

Ren Staggs
Project Title: Modeling the fate of microplastics in the littoral zone of an experimental lake
Mentors: Dr. Christy Tyler and Dr. Matt Hoffman

Makenna Swartz
Project Title: Interspecific sources of resistance for Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Investigating horizontally transferred antimicrobial resistance markers
Mentor: Dr. Crista Wadsworth and D. Stefan Schulze

Shreya Sujith
Project Title: Showing the Bonds of ATP-- A Subtle but Important Difference in Figure Design that May Alleviate Student Confusion about ATP Hydrolysis
Mentor: Dr. Dina Newman, Dr. Kate Wright, Dr. Crystal Uminski

Emma Thompson
Project Title: Salamander Microbiota, Environmental Change, and Resistance to Bd.
Mentor: Dr. Elle Barnes

Serena Tuytschaevers
Project Title: (1) Characterization of Novel Conjugation Inhibitor Probes: Activity and Target Identification, (2) Isolation, Whole-Genome Sequencing, Annotation of Two Antibiotic-Resistant and Antibiotic-Producing Bacteria, Pantoea endophytica RIT 836, and Pseudomonas soli RIT 838 Collected from the Environment
Mentor: Dr. André Hudson

McKenzie Watts
Project Title: Biological characterization of novel tanzawaic acid conjugation inhibitors
Mentor: Dr. André Hudson