2010-2011 EPSCOR Recipients
Rhea Conlu, UNLV
Department: Biological Sciences
Mentor: Jeff Shen
Project Title: Exploring Potential Biofuel Possibilities for a Drought Climate Using Sugar Analysis of Agave tequilana Upon Exposure to Waste Water
Patrick Freeze, UNR
Department: Natural Resources and Environmental Science
Mentor: Glenn Miller
Project Title: Sustainable Alternative to Non-Biological Nitrogen Fixation to Nitrate for Fertilizers
Michelle Fulbright, UNLV
Department: Biological Sciences
Mentor: Andrew Andres
Project Title: The Effects of Climate Change on Basic Animal Cell Functions
Frank Greenhalgh, UNR
Department: Physics
Mentor: Andrei Derevianko
Project Title: Entangling the Lattice Clock with Rydbeg Gates
Mitchell Gritts, UNR
Department: Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Mentor: Marjorie Matocq
Project Title: Has a recent Climate Change Influenced Range Contraction in a Sierra Nevada Population at the Bushy-tailed Woodrate Caused a Genetic Bottleneck?
Steve Komarov, UNR
Department: Computer Science, Journalism
Mentors: Sergiu Dascalu, Donica Mensing
Project Title: Adaptation of the Nevada Climate Change Data Portal Web Interface to Small-Screen Mobile Devices
Norris Lam, UNLV
Department: Biological Sciences
Mentor: Jeff Shen
Project Title: The Rule of a Desert Plant Gene in Enhancing the Drought Tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana
Natiera Magnuson, UNLV
Department: Chemistry
Mentor: Ernesto Abel-Santos
Project Title: The Release of Calcium in Bacillus Anthracis pathogenicity
Muir Morrison, UNR
Department: Physics
Mentor: Andrei Derevianko
Project Title: Rydberg Thermometer for Atomic Clocks
Keri Noack, UNR
Department: Environmental Sciences
Mentor: S. Kent Hoekman
Project Title: Energy Densification via Hydrothermal Pretreatment of Cellulosic Biomass
Heidi Pak, UNR
Department: Biochemistry
Mentor: Claus Tittiger
Project Title: Characterization of lps pini lpsdienol Dehydrogenase
Brett Perry, UNLV
Department: Geoscience
Mentor: Adam Simon
Project Title: Volatile Growth in the Aztec Wash Pluton
Padtaya Pukpayat, UNLV
Department: Chemistry
Mentor: Kathleen Robins
Project Title: Predicting Molecular Band Gaps for Organic Solar Cell Application: A Theoretical Study
Elisha Rhodes, UNLV
Department: School of Life Sciences
Mentor: Lloyd Stark
Project Title: Thermal Heat Stress on the Moss Bryum Argenteum
Maile Sweigart, UNLV
Department: Geoscience
Mentor: Dave Kreamer
Project Title: Drought Characterization of the Las Vegas Valley Using GRACE Satellite Observations of Terrestrial Ground Water Storage of Local Area Aquifers Near Lake Mead