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Ruhani Ahluwalia

Mentor: Dr. Alexander Chase

Project Title: "Microbiomes as a Source for Heavy Metal Bioremediation in Texas Watershed"

Ben Allbright

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Summer Project Title: "Domestic Political Discourse on Mexico and American Trade Policy"

Academic Year Project Title: "Domestic Politics of Chinese Foreign Policy"

Joshua Ange

Mentor: Dr. Joel Meyers

Summer Project Title: "Probing Cosmological Tensions with Cosmic Microwave Background Delensing"

Academic Year Project Title: "Maximizing the Reach of Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Measurements"

Faith Bellamy

Mentor: Dr. Alicia Meuret

Project Title: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: Understanding how Consummatory and Anticipatory Pleasure Affects Episodic Memory in Depression"

Sam Brown

Mentor: Dr. Jill Kelly

Project Title: "A Global Oral History of PEPFAR"

Nina Castaneda

Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros

Project Title: "Relationships and Couples Well-being"

Chris Cook

Mentor: Dr. Robert Kehoe

Project Title: "Accurate Photometry, Internal Structure and Period vs. Luminosity from the ROTSE-I δ Scuti Sample"

Jonathan Cox

Mentor: Dr. John Buynak

Project Title: "Redesigned Carbapenem Antibiotics to Target Mycobacteria"

 Lily Derr

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Project Title: "Formal Modeling in Trade Politics"

Lily Fee

Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski

Project Title: "Isoform Selective Regulators of Cryptochrome"

Sophie Folts

Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin

Project Title: "Evaluating the Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Intervention Components in a Physical Activity Intervention"

Brandon Garcia

Mentor: Dr. Brandilyn Stigler

Project Title: "A Mathematical Model of the Effect of Heart Rate on Plaque Formation in the Carotid Artery"

Rose Hill

Mentor: Dr. Matthew Boulanger

Project Title: "Curation and Analysis of Archaeological Artifacts from the Dallas County Administration Building"

Charles Hollis

Mentor: Dr. Matthew Boulanger

Project Title: "Catalog and Analysis of the Adolph H. Witte Collection at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â: A Digital Humanities Effort"

Emma Hunter

Mentor: Dr. Holly Bowen

Project Title: "Heart-Brain Connections Supporting Emotional Memory in Older Adults"

Reece Iriye

Mentor: Dr. Weihua Geng

Project Title: "Computing Electrostatics of COVID-19 Proteins with Parallelized Boundary Integral Poisson-Boltzmann Solvers"

David Jiang

Mentor: Dr. Devin Matthews

Summer Project Title: "Implementing Atomic Integrals on Graphics Processing Units"

Academic Year Project Title: "Exploring SYCL for Accelerated Quantum Chemistry on CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs"

Ainsley Johnson

Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros

Project Title: "Relationships and Couples' Well-being"

Simran Khoja

Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel

Project Title: "Effects of Novel Metal Nanoclusters on Cancerous and Non-Cancerous Cells"

Kaitlyn Kotake

Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin

Summer Project Title: "Recruitment Strategies for Underrepresented Populations in Physical Activity Research"

Academic Year Project Title: "Evaluating Accessibility and Availability of an Audio-Recorded Intervention to Promote Physical Activity"

Caroline Madrid

Mentor: Dr. Matthew Boulanger

Project Title: "Curation and Analysis of Archaeological Artifacts from the Dallas County Administration Building"

Tochi Mbagwu

Mentor: Dr. Anindita Das

Project Title: "Heterogeneous Catalysis with Lewis-Acidic Covalent Organic Frameworks"

Gabriel Mongaras

Mentor: Dr. Devin Matthews

Project Title: "Neural Networks and Large Language Models for Quantum Chemistry"

Aline Nguyen

Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Wheaton-Paramo

Project Title: "Human Trafficking State Law and Legislation Database and Research"

Lauren O'Donnell-Griffin

Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski

Project Title: "Engineering Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Algae"

Maxine Parkinson

Mentor: Dr. Edward Glasscock

Project Title: "Cardiorespiratory Deficits Due to Brain Region-Specific Deletion of the Kcna1 Gene"

Ria Parpelli

Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel

Summer Project Title: "Novel Heavy Metal Nanoclusters on Mammalian Cancerous and Concancerous Cells"

Academic Year Project Title: "Effects of Specific Metal Nanoclusters on Cancerous and Non-Cancerous Cells"

Neel Patel

Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski

Project Title: "Characterization of Fungal Circadian Clock Photoreceptors"

Brynn Price

Mentor: Dr. Emma Wilson

Project Title: "Reinventing Academic Dialogue: The Ramus Symposium of 2023-2024"

Nicole Rafidi

Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Wilson

Project Title: "Posttraumatic Symptoms and Emotional Processing of Partners' Upsetting Personal Memories"

Selena Raheemani

Mentor: Dr. Holly Bowen

Project Title: "Reconsolidation of Negative Memories"

Brynne Richardson

Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Wilson

Project Title: "Childhood Adversity, Attachment Styles, and Couples' Empathic Accuracy"

Daniel Ryan

Mentor: Dr. Alejandro Aceves

Project Title: "Applied Mathematics Meets Quantum Mechanics"

Angelica Sanchez

Mentor: Dr. Nia Parson

Project Title: "Integrative Medicine Approaches to Chronic Pain Among Historically Underserved Populations"

Taylor Shimizu

Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers

Project Title: "Supporting Interdisciplinary Mental Health Research"

Shriya Siddhartha

Mentor: Dr. Alexander Lippert

Project Title: "Studying Nitric Oxide (NO) Using Photolytic NO Donors and Fluorescent Probes"

Boden Svang

Mentor: Dr. Neil Tabor

Project Title: "Geochemical Analysis of Inorganic Carbonate-Rich Hydroxy Apatite"

Natalya Talih

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Project Title: "Comparative Authoritarianism: Authoritarianization of Democracy"

Vivian Thai

Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski

Project Title: "CRY-based Tools for Drug Discovery and Magnetoreception"

Simran Waraich

Mentor: Dr. Peng Tao

Summer Project Title: "Developing Machine Learning Based Computation Models for Accurate Prediction of the Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity"

Academic Year Project Title: "Computational Studies of Light-Oxygne-Voltage (LOV) Domains Protein Dynamics and Allostery"

Kaiyan Zhao

Mentor: Dr. Vladimir Ajaev

Project Title: "Mathematical Modeling of Formation and Growth of Lipid Droplets"

Anna Kelley Zielke

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Project Title: "Political Economy of Public Opinion on Trade"