PhD Projects Academic Year 2014-15

Bartel, Christopher (Chris)

  • Advisor(s): Weimer/Musgrave
  • Project Title: Particle ALD 3D Printing

Blum, Nicholas (Nick)

  • Advisor(s): Goodwin
  • Project Title: Site-Directed Initiation of Bubble Nucleation for Overcoming Diffusion Barriers to Tumor Drug Delivery

Boston, Andrew

  • Advisor(s): Chatterjee/Nagpal
  • Project Title: Quantum Sequencing in antibiotic resistant bacteria

Cai, Yu

  • Advisor(s): Schwartz
  • Project Title: Suface Transport and Reactivity using Single-Molecule Probes

Caldwell, Alexander (Alex)

  • Advisor(s): Anseth
  • Project Title: Bio-Orthogonal Click Gels for Delivery of Osteoinductive Proteins

Chado, Garrett

  • Advisor(s): Stoykovich/Kaar
  • Project Title: Transportation and mechanics in block copolymer networks

Choudhury, Alaksh

  • Advisor(s): Gill/Kaar
  • Project Title: Rational Engineering of Extremophile Enzymes for Synthetic Biology

Clary, Jacob

  • Advisor(s): Weimer
  • Project Title: NanoCatalyst GTL

Coan, Patrick

  • Advisor(s): Medlin
  • Project Title: Design of Catalysts for multi-site cascades

Faulon Marruecos, David

  • Advisor(s): Kaar
  • Project Title: Single Module characterization of protein structure, function, and dynamics on material surfaces

Hockstad, Ryan

  • Advisor(s): Gill
  • Project Title: Genome Engineering

Hoskins (Doucett), Amanda

  • Advisor(s): Weimer/Musgrave
  • Project Title: Solarthermal Containment Materials

Lattanzi, Aaron

  • Advisor(s): Hrenya
  • Project Title: Using Granular Flows as Heat Transfer Fluid in Concentrating Solar Power Plants

Lehman, Philip (Phil)

  • Advisor(s): Cha/Musgrave
  • Project Title: Synthesis and Optimization of New Photocatalysts for Water Splitting

Love, Dillon

  • Advisor(s): Bowman/Stoykovich
  • Project Title: Self-Assembly of CNA block copolymers

Ma, Hao

  • Advisor(s): Anseth
  • Project Title: Mechanical Dosing Effects of MSCs

McConnell, Chelsea

  • Advisor(s): Bowman/Stoykovich
  • Project Title: Self-Assembly of CNA block copolymers

McNeary IV, William (Wilson)

  • Advisor(s): Weimer
  • Project Title: Particle ALD for Alkaline Fuel Cells

Miller, Samantha

  • Advisor(s): Musgrave
  • Project Title: Computational Discovery and Prototyping of Solar Thermal Water Splitting Materials

Roman, Alex

  • Advisor(s): Medlin
  • Project Title: Design of Catalysts for multi-site cascades

Schneider, Margaret

  • Advisor(s): Bryant
  • Project Title: Personalizing Matrix Assisted Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation for Cartilage Regeneration: Experimental Componet

Schroeder, Megan

  • Advisor(s): Anseth
  • Project Title: Heart Valve/VIC Project

Shin, Della

  • Advisor(s): Anseth
  • Project Title: Protease Activity in 3D Matrices

Snell, Jared

  • Advisor(s): Randolph
  • Project Title: Mechanisms for Damage to IPV during Freeze-drying

Summers, Samantha (Sam)

  • Advisor(s): Kaar
  • Project Title: Engineering ionic liquid tolerant enzymes for biocatalysis

Traeger, Jeremiah

  • Advisor(s): Schwartz
  • Project Title: Single-Molecule Biomaterials and Nanomaterials Research

Trottier, Ryan

  • Advisor(s): Musgrave
  • Project Title: Computational Discovery and Prototyping of Solar Thermal Water Splitting Materials

Wu, Hao

  • Advisor(s): Randolph
  • Project Title: Protein Particle Formation During Filler Pump Operations