Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) Participants 2010
| Title of SURF Project | Faculty/Student Name | Major (Student) | |
| 1 | Marine Biofilms in the Long Island Sound |
Faculty: Shannon Ciston Student: Nicole Reardon |
Chemical Engineering |
| 2 | Tungsten Trioxide-Polypyrrole Sensing Films |
Faculty: Nancy Savage Student: Stephanie Lechen |
Chemistry and Forensic Science |
| 3 | Accumulation of Engineered Nanoparticles to Agricultural Crops |
Faculty: Saion Sinha-Jason White Student: Joseph Hawthorne |
Forensic Science |
| 4 | Use of Tannin to Characterize Wood and Soil Debris |
Faculty: Howard Harris Student: Stephan Braye |
Forensic Science |
| 5 |
Using Monte Carlo Simulation to Improve the Accuracy of Nanotechnology-Based Detection of Lyme Disease-Causing Bacteria |
Faculty: Saion Sinha |
Applied Math |
| 6 | Efficient and Environmentally Benign Synthesis of Complex Aromatic Heterocycles |
Faculty: Pier Cirillo |
Forensic Science |
| 7 | Thermal Tolerance of the Larvae of the Invasive Tunicate Styela clava |
Faculty: Carmela Cuomo |
Marine Biology |
| 8 | Electrospinning of Molybdenum Oxide-Polypyrrole Composites |
Faculty: Nancy Savage Student: Danielle Gorka |
Forensic Science and Chemistry |
| 9 | Investigation of allicin as an effective treatment for Lyme Disease |
Faculty: Eva Sapi |
Forensic Science and Biology |
| 10 | Models of Non-enzymatic, Autocatalytic eplication of dsRNA under Pre-biotic Conditions using Thermal Cycling |
Faculty: Pauline Schwartz-Carl Barratt Student: Dante Lepore |
Biochemistry and Forensic Science |
| 11 | Nanomaterials: Synthesizing and Characterizing Superconductive Nanotubes |
Faculty: W. David Harding Student: Amanda Scalza |
Chemical Engineering and Chemistry |
| 12 | Mutations In the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes |
Faculty: Charles Vigue Student: Kristin Savoie |
Forensic Science and Biology |
| 13 | Finalization and Public Delivery of the UNH Carbon Emissions Footprint/Inventory |
Faculty: Amy Thompson Student: Matthew Altonji |
Civil Engineering |
| 14 | Investigating the Relationship Between Sulfide Release from Marine Sediments and the Formation of Hypoxia in Smithtown Bay, New York |
Faculty: Carmela Cuomo Student: Kathleen Sandin |
Marine Biology and Environmental Sciences |
| 15 | Investigating the Influence of Hypoxia on the Sub-Lethal Stress Response of Marine Invertebrates in Smithtown Bay, NY |
Faculty: John Kelly Student: Michael Camardella |
Marine Biology |
| 16 | The Music Industry Circa 2010/The State of the Music Industry: An Analysis |
Faculty: Murray Krugman Student: Jason Beauregard |
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| 17 | Response of fiddler crabs Uca spp. In salt marshes to changing habitat structure on salt marshes and relationships to seal-level rise. |
Faculty: Roman Zajac Student: Stephen Klepner |
Marine Biology |
