Calit2’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program - The Blog
The deadline to apply for this summer’s undergrad research scholar program has passed. Applications are no longer being accepted.
Thank you for to all those who have applied–the selection committee will be reviewing applications during finals week. We will be notifying all students of their status by Friday, March 19.
Good luck!
If you missed the poster session last week, or if you made it and want to know more, copies of the Calit2 Summer Scholars’ Posters are now available on the Summer Scholars website.
Poster session winner for best poster, Robert Turner, is in photo above. Turner is just beginning his sophomore year as a computer science and engineering (CSE) major this month. He worked with faculty advisor Beth Simon of CSE on his project entitled, “Integrating the Ubiquitous Presenter to receive information from the web, iPhones and iClickers.”
The posters are the culmination of 10-weeks of intensive research by 24 undergraduates majoring in 15 different fields who worked with faculty advisors from across campus as full-time researchers this summer. This is the ninth year of the highly successful program; more than 225 UC San Diego undergraduates have been Calit2 summer scholars.
Student project titles, with a link to their poster are available on the 2009 student list.
Please join us in celebrating the hard work of the 2009 Calit2 Undergraduate Summer Scholars. Their end-of-summer Poster Session will be held next Tuesday.
This event is the culmination of 10-weeks of intensive research by 24 undergraduates majoring in 15 different fields who worked with faculty advisors from across campus as full-time researchers this summer. This is the ninth year of the highly successful program; more than 225 UC San Diego undergraduates have been Calit2 summer scholars.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Atkinson Hall foyer (aka the prefunction area, PFA)
Students and their project titles:
Eric Abhold ~~ EGFR activation regulates stemness in HNSCC - A possible route for the targeting of cancer stem cells
Sowmya Arja ~~ Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Amyloid Beta on Hippocampal Neurons
Aereas Aung ~~ Effect of Hydrophobicity on Cell Adhesion, Motility, and Cytoskeletal Organization
Peter Benesch ~~ Police Homocide Rates in America’s Largest Cities: Accounting for Racial Varation through Statistical Analysis
Nichol Bernardo ~~ hiperGEO
Katherine Blair ~~ Erythropoietin Promotes Invasion and Modulates the Response of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma to Hypoxia and Cisplatin-Induced Death
Tobias Flach ~~ Neural Networks as Simulators for Stimulus Categorization in the Brain of Humans and Monkeys
Jamie Harker ~~ Analyzing Copies of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Battle of Anghiari”
Afshin Nourmohammadi ~~ Synthesis and Formulation of a p53 Inhibitor to Control Side Effects of Cancer Radiotherapy
Alan Kiang ~~ Sustained Exposure to Nicotine Promotes Stem Cell-like Properties in Cancer Cells
Joy Elizabeth Lin ~~ SHP-2 Phosphatase Regulates ERK Phosphorylation Induced by Shear Stress
Meng Hsien Lin ~~ Gap Filling of Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655
Poonam Manwani ~~ Accessible Databases: Standardizing Patient Data in Adolescent Depression fMRI Studies
Justin Nguyen ~~ Google for Music
Reid Oda ~~ Automatic Recommendation-Based Playlist Generation System
Junyoung Park ~~ Facilitated Diffusion of Transcription Factors in Search of Target Sites
Shahab Parsa ~~ A Combined Double-Tweezers and Wavelength-Tunable Laser Nanosurgery Microscope
Sorena Rahmaniyan ~~ Customized Visualization of Metabolic Maps in the Cobra Toolbox
Dustin Raphael ~~ agavi [arduino guitar audio visual interface]
Kedar Reddy ~~ Mapping the Song-Dance Sequences of Telugu Cinema
Robert Turner ~~ Integration i<Clickers into Ubiquitous Presenter
Michael Andrew Yu ~~ Identification of a Subpopulation of Cells with Cancer Stem Cell Properties and Enhanced Invasive Properties in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Colin Wheelock ~~ Developing the Video Game Database through Analyzing Game Playing Sessions
Kevin Wu ~~ Visualization of Molecular Dynamics Trajectories on the CAVE and Tiled Display Wall
Hello scholars!
Our Senior Writer Tiffany Fox wrote this great news article about the program highlighting some of the projects — check it out here: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/08-09SummerScholars.asp
The program is nearing an end and we’re planning a celebratory event — hopefully more details later today!
And good luck with the posters! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
I saw this today - some interesting work out of MIT and UCSC. The gameplay doesn’t look all that exciting yet, but their practical application of “scripts”, a concept that has been around for a while in Cognitive Science, is fascinating.
Hello everyone! Just a quick reminder - we have a session TODAY! August 18 at 2pm. Barry Demchak and Maureen Curran will be providing some tips on making a good research poster, and we will be going over the requirements for the poster session. The poster session will take place on Tuesday, September 22 at 1:30pm in the Atkinson Hall Prefunction Area. Invite your advisors, research groups, family and friends!
Hello students! I apologize for not being able to attend July 21’s Job Search Strategies and Networking Skills seminar. I was on jury duty in Orange County and I just got back to work today! I’ve heard some feedback from Amy about the session, and since I wasn’t able to hand out the survey, here is your chance to let me know what you thought about the seminar. Please blog your comments; your opinions help shape next year’s program!
Just a reminder, our next session is Tuesday, July 28 at NOON! This session will be led by Profs. Bill Hodgkiss and Gert Lanckriet. Feel free to bring your lunches!
Thanks, everyone for coming out for this seminar by Martha Stacklin. I hope you found her tips and examples to be useful.
We heard some great feedback from the students after the seminar, and wanted to give people a forum to express their thoughts, reactions, comments and questions on today’s talk. Let us know what you think!
Week 1 of the Calit2 Summer Undergrad Program is just about coming to an end…hope things have been running smoothly!
Thanks for coming out to the Orientation Session, Building Tour and the Scavenger Hunt. Erik has posted some pictures of this week’s events on Flickr–check them out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/calit2/sets/72157620566179276/. Here is a little taste:
Week 2 will be mellow…we’re having the Food Bank Social Activity on Thursday, July 2. Check your email and let me know if you are interested in participating.
Other than that, keep the research going and post your comments, ideas and feedback! The blog is lonely….
A story on this year’s Calit2 Summer Scholars is posted on the Calit2 website. Permalink:
Announcing the 2009 Calit2 UC San Diego Undergraduate Summer Research Scholars
The story is also posted on the UC San Diego news site.
The kickoff to the program will be in late June. After that, more about the students and their projects will start being posted!