URL Profiles
2018-2019
Erika Arias
Major: International Studies; Law, Societies, & Justice
Mentor: Walter Andrews, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
Contact: ariase@uw.edu
Current research project: The Newbook Digital Texts: Joseph Mathia Svoboda Diaries; Communism in Latin America: The US’ Fight Against Terror
Katherine Brower
Major: Microbiology, Japanese (Linguistics)
Mentor: Brian Wasko, Pathology
Contact: kbrower@uw.edu
Current research project: Effects of Iron Dyshomeostasis on the Vascular ATPase
Yong-Han Hank Cheng
Major: Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor: Dan Doherty, Pediatrics
Contact: yhhc@uw.edu
Current research project: Using Next-Generation Sequencing to Evaluate the Segregation Pattern of Candidate Causal Variants for Joubert Syndrome
Daven Cocroft
Majors: Physics; Astronomy; Psychology
Minors: Mathematics; Applied Mathematics
Mentor: Michael Tremmel, Astronomy
Contact: cocrod@uw.edu
Current research project: Star Formation in Low Metallicity Environments
Benedicte Diakubama
Majors: Chemical Engineering
Mentor: Grant Williamson, Molecular Engineering
Contact: bmd23@uw.edu
Current research project: Data Science Tools to Formulate Personalized Fragrance
Casey Grosso
Major: Art History
Mentor: Rebecca Cummins, Photomedia
Contact: : grossc2@uw.edu
Current research project: CSE Animation Capstone
Rohan Hiatt
Major: Mathematics; English
Mentor: Amos Turchet, Mathematics
Contact: rohankh@uw.edu
Current research project: Uniformity of Solutions to Diophantine Equations; Intersectional Marxism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Hannah Jolibois
Major: International Studies; Public Health
Mentor: Walter Andrews, Ottoman and Turkish Literature
Contact: hjolib@uw.edu
Current research project: Svoboda Diaries Project
Dianne Laboy Cintrón
Major: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Minor: Quantitative Sciences
Mentor: Heather Mefford, Pediatrics
Contact: laboyd@uw.edu
Current research project: Functional Analysis of an ARPC4 Variant Associated with Microcephaly
Annamarie Lahti
Major:Neurobiology; Biochemistry
Minor: Bioethics
Mentor: Chet Moritz, Rehabilitation Medicine: Physical Therapy
Contact: acl97@uw.edu
Current research project: Optogenetic Stimulation for Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
Nelson Liu
Major: Computer Science; Linguistics
Mentor: Noah Smith, Computer Science and Engineering
Contact: nfliu@uw.edu
Current research project: Examining the Ability of Recurrent Neural Networks to Handle Long Range Dependencies
Andrew Luo
Major: Computer Science; Bioengineering
Mentor: Shwetak Patel, Computer Science and Engineering
Contact: luoa@uw.edu
Current research project: Automatic Characterization of User Errors in Spirometry
Nihar Mahajan
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology; Biochemistry
Mentor:Thomas Hawn, Medicine: Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Contact: niharm@uw.edu
Current research project: Investigating the Role of NLRP3 in Inflammasome Activation of Human Macrophages
Meena Meyyappan
Major: Neurobiology
Mentor: Jennifer Rabbitts, Pain Medicine
Contact: alagumee@uw.edu
Current research project: Assessment of Pain Extent in a Pediatric Population with Pain
Noushyar Panahpour Eslami
Major: Chemistry (ACS-certified)
Mentor: Brandi Cossairt, Chemistry
Contact: npe7@uw.edu
Current research project: Cyclic Voltammetry as a Method to Evaluate Charge Transfer Between Quantum Dot Donors and Small Molecule Acceptors
Jion Yi
Major: International Studies; Informatics
Mentor: Walter Andrews, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
Contact: jiony432@uw.edu
Current research project:The Newbook Digital Texts
Joey Zemke
Major: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Mentor: Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology
Contact: jzemke@uw.edu
Current research project: Phytochrome B’s Impact on Resource Allocation in Brassica rapa