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Undergraduate Honors Research Topics

Year

Name

Title of Thesis

2008

R. Andrew Wall

Absorption and Emission of Light by Electrons and Holes in ZnO

2008

Sarah Klyap

Numerical Computation of the Stress-Energy Tensor in the Neighborhood of a Wormhole due to Fermionic Fields

2007

Ernest N. Chisena

Speckled Microtubules Improve Tracking in Motor-Protein Gliding Assays

2007

Nicholas Dellaripa

Wormhole Solutions to the Semiclassical Einstein Field Equations

2007

Eric Andrew Sparks

The Viscoelastic Properties of Individual Fibrin Fibers

2007

Michael Roman

Creation of Branched Porous Anodic Alumina Templates for the Fabrication of Silver Nanorods

2007

Elizabeth Gordon

The Effects of Nitric Oxide on the Deformability of RBCs

2006

J. Baxter McGuirt

Inkjet Printing of Biological Materials

2005

Bryan James Stephens

Construction and Application of a Combined AFM/FM (with TIRF)

2005

Matthew S. Caudill

Testing the Black Hole’s Spin in Black-Hole Binary Initial Data

2005

Tyler Zimmerman

Effects of Au and Ag Nanoparticles on the Optical Absorption of PEDOT:PSS Electrochromic Devices

2005

G. Ben Martin

Warping the Wave Function: Intermediate Steps in Quantum Computation

2004

Briana Keeling

Warping the Wave Function: Better estimations of the electronic wavefunction using a rubbersheeting technique

2004

Jack Clayton

Enhancing the Conductivity at PEDOT-PSS

2004

Andrew Shelton

Nonlinear Motion by Linearly Driven Optical Torques

2003

Maritza Hobson

Optical Tracking of Vesicles at Various Temperatures

2002

Jessica Wolfing

Random and Directed Motion of Microbeads

2002

Brian Mischuck

Pulsed Laser Photoelectron Spectroscopy of ZnO

2002

Alan Poole

Near Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy of Blood and Hemoglobin

2001

Jacob Morris Kline

Graviton Energy and Momentum in a K=0 de Sitter Universe

1999

Kerry Grow

Thermally Stimulated Depolarization Measurements of Insulating Materials

1998

Andrew Taska

Three-Photon Photoluminescence Microscopy of Gallium Nitride Epitaxial Think Films

1998

Andrew Frey

Nucleosynthesis Limits on Long-Range Forces

1998

Kyle Bergquist

A Study of the Spatial Distribution of Radicals in Cleaved and X-Irradiated Hard Keratin

1990

Kevin Platt

Simulation of a Model with Three-Fold Symmetry in the On-Site Potential Energy

1987

Chad Bennett McKee

Transient Orientation of Linear DNA Molecules during Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis

1987

Salman Azhar

Singular Factor Method for Electronic Structure Calculations

1986

Mark Windsor Roberson

Ionic Thermo Current Studies of CaF2 Doped with Ce3+ and Gd3+

1986

Mark Allen Durham

ITC: A Computer Model – Defect-Defect Interactions in Gadolinium Doped Calcium Fluoride

1983

Alexander S. Crowell

ESR Studies of Radiation and Mechanical Damage to Keratin Proteins

1982

Terry de Lyon

X-Irradiation Damage in Hydroxamic Acid2: A Powder ESR Study of the RCON+HO- Radical

1981

David Mark Riffe

The Inverse Scattering Method for Solving the Korteweg-de Vries Equation

1972

Randall Ledford

The Quantum Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator and Minimum Uncertainty Wave Packets

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