Meet the Hamilton Scholars
Ryland Adzich
Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi
Project Title: "Inequality and Meritocracy in Capitalism and Democracy"
Ruhani Ahluwalia
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Klein
Project Title: "Development of a Novel AI Algorithm to Suppress Pile-Up at the Large Hadron Collider"
Diana Amaya Canales
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Roos
Project Title: "Charcoal Reflectance as a Proxy for Fire Intensity to Study Contemporary Fire Regime Changes"
Ananya Anupindi
Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros
Project Title: "Understanding Family Interactions Using Observational Methods: couples and Kids with Autism Project"
Elaine Aredo
Mentor: Dr. Annika Wylie
Project Title: "p53 Transrepression of the Meiotic Gene Program"
Ellen Aughenbaugh
Mentor: Dr. Edward Glasscock
Project Title: "Assessing Cardiorespiratory Deficits Due to Epilepsy-Associated Kcna1 Gene Mutations"
Krithi Bolledula
Mentor: Dr. Holly Bowen
Project Title: "Heart-Brain Connections Underlying Emotional Memory in Older Adults"
Aubrey Brown
Mentor: Dr. Monnie McGee
Project Title: "Applying Text Analytics to Social Media to Elicit Concerns of Military Veterans"
Zaheen Chowdhury
Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers
Summer Project Title: "Supporting Mental Health Innovation Locally and Globally"
Academic Year Project Title: "Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health Innovation"
Christopher Cook
Mentor: Dr. Joel Meyers
Project Title: "Dark Sector Insights from Combined Cosmological Analysis"
Ashiyana Dahiya
Mentor: Dr. Amy Brewster
Project Title: "Determining the Role of Decreased Trem2 Levels in Epilepsy"
Thu Dang
Mentor: Dr. Zhihao Wu
Project Title: "Study of the Role of Clbn in Drosophila Aging Process"
Kitty Eid
Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi
Summer Project Title: "Taming Uninformed Democracy"
Academic Year Project Title: "How the Rise of Populism Makes Climate Policy Not Work"
Daisy Fields
Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers
Project Title: "Artificial Intelligence, Creative Arts, and Mental Health Innovation"
Pareeya Ghanaatpishe Sanani
Mentor: Dr. Holly Bowen
Project Title: "Heart-Brain Connections Underlying Emotional Memory in Older Adults"
Kyla Gijan
Mentor: Dr. Nia Parson
Project Title: Intergenerational Resilience and Climate Change in Rural Communities Along the Rio Grande"
Gloria Hu
Mentor: Dr. Chul Moon
Project Title: "Cellular Interactions and Shapes in Tumor Microenvironments"
Journee Jones
Mentor: Dr. Sarah Kucker
Project Title: "The Contexts of Conversation: How Variability in People, Place, and Task Alter Children's Language and Learning"
Nomvuyo Makhathini
Mentor: Dr. Susan Penman
Project Title: "A Global Oral History of PEPFAR"
Gurleen Mann
Mentor: Dr. Anindita Das
Project Title: "New Strategies for Creating Metal Nanoparticle-Based Artificial Enzymes"
Gabriella Manrique
Mentor: Dr. Neely Myers
Project Title: "Mental Health Innovations for Latinos"
Charli Matinfar
Mentor: Dr. Kacy Hollenback
Project Title: "Charcoal Reflectance as a Proxy for Fire Intensity to Study Contemporary Fire Regime Changes"
Julia Millen
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Boulanger
Project Title: "Curation and Analysis of Archaeological Artifacts from Lake Bob Sandlin"
Tai Nguyen
Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel
Project Title: "Evaluating Inhibitors of Multi-drug Resistance Proteins"
Paulina Olvera Meouchi
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Boulanger
Project Title: "Curation and Analysis of Archaeological Artifacts from Lake Bob Sandlin"
Burak Ozsoy
Mentor: Dr. Saptaparna Bhattacharya
Project Title: "Using Machine Learning to Look for ultra-Rare Processes at the Large Hadron Collider"
Krish Pudu
Mentor: Dr. Pokhraj Ghosh
Project Title: "Biological Implications of Metal Dintrosyl Complexes"
Sofia Ramon
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Abel
Project Title: "the Ethnoecology of Colonial Bioprospecting Under the North American Fur and Amazonian Drogas do Sertao Trades (1600-1850)"
Mythili Redibathini
Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros
Project Title: "Exploring Relationship Processes in Families and Couples on the Autism Spectrum"
Alondra Rosas
Mentor: Dr. Susan Penman
Project Title: "A Global Oral History of PEPFAR"
Paul Rowe
Mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin
Summer Project Title: "Adherence Data for Intervention to Promote Physical Activity"
Academic Year Project Title: "Examining the Effect of Intervention Dose on Physical Activity in a Randomized Intervention"
Shriya Siddhartha
Mentor: Dr. Peng Tao
Project Title: "Simulating the Invisible Compass: Advanced Computational Insights into Magnetoreception Proteins"
Surabhi Soni
Mentor: Dr. Amy Brewster
Project Title: "Identifying Differentially Expressed Proteins in Human and Experimental Epilepsy"
Natalya Talih
Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi
Project Title: "Comparative Authoritarianism: When Authoritarianism and Democracy Interact"
Svetlana Thoppay
Mentor: Dr. Pia Vogel
Project Title: "Reversing Chemotherapy Resistances in Cancer"
Cecilia Tipping
Mentor: Dr. Patrick Breysse
Project Title: "Gaussian Process Emulation of Galaxy Simulations"
Alejandra Torres
Mentor: Dr. Neil Tabor
Project Title: "Late Pleistocene Climate of the American Southwest: Analysis of Snail Shell and Lacustrine Sediment Geochemistry"
Katelyn Tran
Mentor: Dr. Edward Glasscock
Project Title: "Assessing Respiratory Dysregulation in Mice Carrying a Human Kcna1 Gene Mutation"
Raissa Umwali
Mentor: Dr. Jill Kelly
Project Title: "A Global Oral History of PEPFAR"
Victoria Valderrey
Mentor: Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi
Project Title: "Comparative One-Party Rule: Japan and Mexico Compared"
Hansana Vivekanandan
Mentor: Dr. Devin Matthews
Project Title: "Benchmarking Rank-Reducing Coupled Cluster Methods for Thermochemistry of Radicals"
Luke Voinov
Mentor: Dr. Andrea Barreiro
Project Title: "Attractor Network Models for Spatial Navigation"
Sierra Woolsey
Mentor: Dr. Chrystyna Kouros
Project Title: "Understanding Family Interactions Using Observational Methods: Couples and Kids with Autism Project"
Shuhan Wu
Mentor: Dr. Sy Han Chiou
Project Title: "Test of Quasi-Independence Among Discrete Variables Under Left-Truncation"
William Zhao
Mentor: Dr. Peng Tao
Project Title: "Generative AI and Green Computing: Revolutionizing Protein Dynamics Simulations"