2010 Funding:
Funding for the SEECoS 2009 program was provided by the Eberly College
of Science, the Penn State Office of the Vice Provost for Educational
Equity, the John and Elizabeth Holmes Teas Scholarship Fund, the
Department of Chemistry, the Penn State Materials Research Science
& Engineering Center (a Center for Nanoscale
Science), the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, and the
National Science Foundation.
2010 Projects:
1. Astronomy Project:
Exoplanets Rising: Understanding Doppler Shift, Spectroscopy
and Optics in the Context of Discovering Planets Around Other Stars
Faculty: Dr. Suvrath Mahadevan with Arpita Roy, research assistant (4
students)
2. Biology Project:
Genetic Control of Organ Size in Fruit Flies
Faculty: Dr. Zhi-Chun Lai with Xin Ye, graduate student (3 students)
3. Biology Project:
Floral Resources: Appealing to Your Pollinators
Faculty: Dr. Katriona Shea with Laura Russo, graduate student (3
students)
4. Chemistry Project:
A Glucose Sensor Made out of Paper
Faculty: Dr. Scott Phillips and Dr. Jackie Bortiatynski with Chris
Daly,
undergraduate student (3 students)
5. Chemistry Project:
Exploring the Energy in Light
Faculty: Dr. John Asbury with Kyle Banyas,
graduate student (3 students)
6. Chemistry Project:
Fragrance and Flavor Chemistry
Faculty: Dr. Jackie Bortiatynski with Kaitlyn Sanders,
graduate student (5 students)
7. Chemistry Project:
Liquid Conductivity
Faculty: Dr. Dan Sykes with Cole MacDonald, undergraduate
student
(3 students)
8. Chemistry Project:
Synthetic and Biological Studies of PAD4 Inhibitors for
Cancer Research
Faculty: Dr. Gong Chen and Dr. Jackie Bortiatynski with
Yan Mei Chan, graduate student (3 students)
9. Physics Project:
Making a Simple Light Transmission Sensor and Using it for
Monitoring Light Transmission Through Biological Tissues.
Faculty: Dr. Alexay Kozhevnikov with David McLaughlin,
undergraduate student (3 students)
2010 Research Mentors:
Kyle Banyas, Graduate student, Chemistry
Yan Mei Chan, Graduate student, Chemistry
Chris Daly, Chemistry major
Cole McDonald, Chemistry major
David McLaughlin, Electrical Engineering major
Arpita Roy, Research Assistant, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Laura Russo, Graduate student, Biology
Kaitlyn Sanders, Graduate student, College of Education Curriculum and
Instruction
Xin Ye, Graduate student, Biology
2010 Judges for Research Presentations:
Ms. Heidi Albrecht (Shell Oil Company Representative)
Ms. Diana P. Barrantes Gomez (Immunology and Toxicology, recent ECoS graduate)
Dr. Randi Congleton (Director of Multicultural Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences)
Ms. Keisha N. Johnson (Assistant Director, Science Diversity Initiatives, Eberly College of Science)
Dr. Melissa Rolls (Asst. Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Eberly College of Science)
Ms. Sara Roser-Jones (Biology, recent ECoS graduate)