This is a list of year-long student research projects from the last few years (faculty
advisor in parentheses). Winners of the physics department research award are
listed in bold.

2007:

Dynamical Analysis of a Sheared Granular Layer near the Jamming Transition, Edward Bannigan (Egolf)

Developing Nanoparticles as MRI Contrast Agents, William Bonner (Van Keuren)

Thermally-Defined Optical Waveguides in Nonuniform Refractive Index Profile, Jonathan Lind (Van Keuren)

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Shaken and Sheared Granular Flow, Nicholas Malaya (Egolf and Urbach)

Using Fluorescence Correlation to Measure Molecular Self Assembly, Aaron Szechtman (Van Keuren)

2006:

Sheared Granular Flows, Pramukta Kumar (Egolf and Urbach)

Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticle formulations of the chemotherapy drug 5-Fluorouracil, Michael Lavoie (Van Keuren)

Applications of Particle Image Velocimetry to Neurite Growth, Kevin Rieffel (Urbach)

A Multimode Thermooptic Beam Steering Switch, Jonathan Rogers (Van Keuren)

Fabricating multilevel SU-8 structures in a single
photolithographic step using colored masking patterns, Jessica Taff (Paranjape)

Fabrication of Polymeric Micro-Cantilevers, Matthew Wideroff (Paranjape)

Quantifying of the Force of Attachment and Investigating the Mechanism of Attachment in Giardia Lamblia, Aliza Apple (Urbach)

Diffusion Coefficient Measurements Using a Monte Carlo Simulation of Fluorescent Speckle Patterns, Richard Arevalo (Urbach)

Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Sheared Granular Media, Cameron Booth (Egolf and Urbach)

Geometric Phase and the 1-D Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation, Matt Fishman (Egolf)

Self-Assembled Nano-particle Chains, David Littlejohn (Van Keuren)

Producing and Comparing the Nonlinear Second Harmonic Coefficient of Crystals Grown on Different Mediums, Angela Maly (Van Keuren)

Analytic Structure of Self-Consistent Perturbation Theory, Christopher McKinney (Serene)

Nanoparticle Analysis Using Raman Correlation Spectroscopy, Maki Nashida (Van Keuren)

Monitoring Bilirubin Levels in Neonates Using a Painless Transdermal Patch, Sarah Rahal (Paranjape)