Meet the 2023 SURF Cohort

Katelyn Aasman

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Christine Morrison

Project Title:

Investigating the SUF-like Pathway in S. Aureus

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Sean Brooks

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Timothy Strathmann, Shilai Hao

Project Title:

Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions in Hydrothermal Degradation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances

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Catherine Carmosino 

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Amadeu Sum

Project Title:

Quantifying Flow Regimes in Pipelines

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Audrey Faricy

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Meenakshi Singh

Project Title:

Silicon Clathrates for Quantum Information Applications

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Aiden Graeber

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Nanette Boyle, Sami Siska

Project Title:

Metabolic Flux Changes in Estrogen Treated Platelets

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Andrew Jones

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Joy Gockel

Project Title:

Mechanical Properties of Additively Manufactured Metals

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Caleb McGrath

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Ramya Kumar, Ram Prasad Sekar, Jessica Lawson

Project Title:

Particle Size Effects on Cationic Polyplex Transfection Efficiency

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Zoe Oshman

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Andrew Petruska

Project Title:

Design of a Gantry System for Robotic Tethered Power

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Sasha Robinson

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John Spear

Project Title:

Microbes and Sulfur in a Cave and Karst Ecosystem

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Wayne Snodgraas

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Parisa Bazazi

Project Title:

Effect of Microbial Activities on Underground Gas Storage

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Lucas Baker

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Annalise Maughan, Philip Yox

Project Title:

Synthesis, Structure, and Conductivity of Alloyed thio-LISICONS

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Colton Brown

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Megan Holtz

Project Title:

Three-Dimensional Mapping of Strain

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 Jack Dorsey

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Megan Holtz

Project Title:

Thermodynamics of Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Substrate Preparation

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Erik Fiantaca

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Christine Morrison, Alan Sellinger

Project Title:

Designing New Carbon Recycling Materials from Iron-Sulfur Clusters

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Mukund Gurumurthi

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Alex Pak

Project Title:

Data Driven Approach to Nanobody Therapeutics

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Kylie Knutson

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Callie Miller, Richard Holz

Project Title:

Mutagenesis of Second Sphere Residues in Nitrile Hydratase

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Stephanie Morall

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Suzannah Beeler, Kevin Cash

Project Title:

Impacts of Static Magnetic Fields on E. coli Growth

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Armand Ovenassians

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Susanta Sarkar

Project Title:

The Human Protein Structure Targetome

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Marco Saldago

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Andrew Herring, Chul-Oong Kim

Project Title:

Effects of Transition Metal Oxides Catalysts on Water Electrolysis utilizing a Triblock Copolymer Anion Exchange Membrane

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Sabrina Wood

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Neal Sullivan

Project Title:

The Effect of Humidity on the Cathode Adherence in Fuel Cells

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Grant Bell

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Alan Sellinger

Project Title:

Organic Synthesis of Plastics and Glasses used in Nuclear Materials Detection

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Ryan Carbajal

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Parisa Bazazi

Project Title:

Effect of Microbial Activities on Underground Gas Storage

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Carla Ellefsen

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Alex Pak

Project Title:

Coiled Coil Classification Using Neural Networks

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Kyra Frank

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Suzannah Beeler, Kevin Cash

Project Title:

Impacts of Static Magnetic Fields on E. coli Growth

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Bryce Irving

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Bia Villas Boas, Guilherme Castelão

Project Title:

Ray Tracing with Rust

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Jude Lowe

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Brandon Dugan

Project Title:

The Tuaheni Landslide, offshore New Zealand: Constraining Overpressure and Studying Slope Failure

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Jesutomisin “Praise” Olusoji

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Melissa Krebs, Bikram Adhikari

Project Title:

Alginate/Chitosan hydrogels with Sustained Release of MAPK14-Targeting siRNA Knock Down Osteogenesis of hMSCs In Vitro

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Isaac Pope

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Danica Roth

Project Title:

Reconstructing the Proglacial Geomorphological Context of Mima Mounds in the Puget Lowland, Washington

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Elsa Scherzinger

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Brian Trewyn

Project Title:

Synthesis of Alloy PdAu on MSN For Light-induced Hydrogen Gas Production

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