Meet the Hamilton Scholars

Malik Alshaya

Mentor: Dr. Nicolay Tsarevsky

Project Title: "Recyclable and Degradable Polymers Derived from Lipoic Acid"

Joshua Ange

Mentor: Dr. Joel Meyers

Project Title: "Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background for the High-Precision Era"

Elaine Aredo

Mentor: Dr. Annika Wylie

Project Title: "p53 Transrepression of the Meiotic Gene Program"

Grace Astolfi

Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros

Project Title: "Couples' Positive Communication Behavior and their Mental Health"

Ellen Aughenbaugh

Mentor: Dr. Edward Glasscock

Project Title: "Assessing Cardiorespiratory Deficits Due to Epilepsy-Associated Kcna1 Gene Mutations"

Krithi Bolledula

Mentor: Dr. Holly Bowen

Project Title: "Examining Heart-Brain Connections Supporting Emotion Regulation in Older Adults"

Ritney Coleman

Mentor: Dr. Beth Wheaton-Paramo

Project Title: "Modeling and Disrupting the North Texas Human Trafficking Market"

Chris Cook

Mentor: Dr. Robert Kehoe

Summer Project Title: "Constraining Dark Neutron Decay with Primordial Nucleosynthesis"

Academic Year Project Title: "Implications of Cosmological Neutrino Mass Measurements for Dark Matter Physics"

Jordan Davis

Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski

Project Title: "TANGO2: Developing Small Molecules to Treat Rare Heart Disorders"

Kitty Eid

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Project Title: "How the Rise of Populism Makes Climate Policy Not Work"

Daisy Fields

Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers

Project Title: "Supporting Mental Health Equity Locally and Globally"

Logan Hight

Mentor: Dr. Andrea Barreiro

Project Title: "Exploring Voter List Management and Voter Purges in Texas"

Gloria Hu

Mentor: Dr. Chul Moon

Project Title: "Topology-Based Tumor Shape and Growth Pattern Analysis"

David Jiang

Mentor: Dr. Devin Matthews

Project Title: "Leveraging FPGAs for Hartree—Fock and DFT Calculations"

Alison Kellom

Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel

Project Title: "Reversing Chemotherapy Resistance in Aggressive Forms of Cancers"

Sahar Khan

Mentor: Dr. Amy Brewster

Project Title: "A Role for Complement C3 in Modulating Neuroimmune Interactions in Epilepsy"

Shivani Kosuri

Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Wilson

Summer Project Title: "Posttraumatic Stress and Health: The Role of Socioeconomic Factors"

Academic Year Project Title: "Examining the Heart-Brain Connections Supporting Emotional Memory in Older Adults"

Hasun Krisht

Mentor: Dr. Zhihao Wu

Project Title: "Identification of Ribosome-Associated Quality Control Genes Associated with Human Diseases Via In-Silico Data Analysis and Biological Validation"

Daniel Kulti

Mentor: Dr. Alexander Lippert

Project Title: "Developing a Molecular Photoswitching Module as an Optical Interface for Molecular Circuitry"

Jane Liu

Mentor: Dr. Alex Lippert

Project Title: "Measuring Monoamine Oxidase Activity Using Chemiluminescene Probes"

Geetan Madala

Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin

Project Title: "An Analysis of Self-Reported Physical Activity Data in a Randomized Intervention"

Caroline Madrid

Mentor: Dr. Matthew Boulanger

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

Andree Molina

Mentor: Dr. Nia Parson

Project Title: "Chronic Pain and Health Care Among Latin/Hispanic Male Construction Workers in Texas"

Regina Moreno Vera

Mentor: Dr. Edward Glasscock

Project Title: "Assessing Autism-like Behaviors in Mouse Models of Epilepsy"

Nise Olawale

Mentor: Dr. Anindita Das

Project Title: "Investigating the Active Sites of Heterogeneous Catalysts with Atomic Precision"

Sana Omar

Mentor: Dr. Peng Tao

Project Title: "Electronic Structures of Cobalt Ion Adsorption"

Bela Pathak

Mentor: Dr. Annika Wylie

Project Title: "Forward Genetic Screens to Discover Mechanism of p53 Transrepression"

Tessa Peterson

Mentor: Dr. James Hollifield

Project Title: "Handbook on Human Rights and International Migration"

Jordan Rivers

Mentor: Dr. Matthew Boulanger

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

Alondra Rosas

Mentor: Dr. Brian Franklin

Project Title: "A Global History of PEPFAR" 

Paul Rowe

Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin

Project Title: "Evaluating Listening Adherence to Audio-Recorded Intervention Technique for Physical Activity"

Adyn Schachtel

Mentor: Dr. Michael Adler

Project Title: "Analysis of Ancestral Picuris Pueblo Ceramics from the Dog Water Site"

Morgan Schield

Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin

Project Title: "Assessing Accelerometer Wear-Time in a Physical Activity Intervention"

Taylor Shimizu

Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers

Project Title: "Supporting Mental Health Equity Locally and Globally"

Mehreen Syed

Mentor: Dr. Brian Zoltowski

Project Title: "TANGO2: Developing Small Molecules to Treat Rare Heart Disorders" 

Natalya Talih

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Project Title: "Comparative Authoritarianism: Elections and Institutions in Authoritarianism"

Alejandra Torres

Mentor: Dr. Neil Tabor

Project Title: "Late Pleistocene Paleoclimate Reconstruction from Mineralogical and Geochemical Analysis of Fossil Land Snails"

Hansana Vivekanandan

Mentor: Dr. Devin Matthews

Project Title: "X-Ray Spectroscopy of Ionic Liquids for Carbon Sequestration"

Simran Waraich

Mentor: Dr. Peng Tao

Project Title: "Modeling Dynamical Properties of Cobal Ion Adsoprtion"

Jessica Wray

Mentor: Dr. Andrea Laurent-Simpson

Project Title: "90 Days to Negotiate: Fiancé Visas, Gender, and Power Dynamics in Intercultural Relationships" 

Anna Kelley Zielke

Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi

Project Title: "Global Value Chains and Trade Politics in the Asia-Pacific"