Nevada State College

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Ho Young Ahn, Improved Flexible Thin Film Thermoelectric Generator with Optimized Design, Mentor: Jaeyun Moon

Anayeli Flores-Garibay, Measurement of Dust Particle Charge for Water-free Cleaning of Solar Panels, Mentor: Biswajit Das

Harry Larson, Development of Doped Stable Halide Perovskite Materials for Photo-catalytic CO2 Reduction, Mentor: Shubhra Bansal

Samrawit Misiker, Saving the bees, one gene at a time: the effects of gene silencing on Paenibacillus larvae endospores, Mentor: Ernesto Abel-Santos

Arielle Palanca, Bioremediation of Contaminated Ground water to Remove Nitrate, Chlorate, and Perchlorate, Mentor: Jacimaria Batista

Richard Panduro-Allanson, Water Rock Interactions on Mars: Production of H2 and other Valuable Resources, Mentor: Elisabeth Hausrath

David Rouhani, Using Spray Aeration Techniques to Maximize Trihalomethane Removal, Mentor: Erica Marti

Kristen Tagaytayan, Quantum Cutting Materials for High Performance and Improved Reliability Thin-Film and c-SiPV Modules, Mentor: Shubhra Bansal

University of Nevada, Reno

Duncan Boren, Testing the Role of Cyclic Nucleotides in Regulating Ion Channels Essential to Plant Fertility and Heat Stress Tolerance, Mentor: Jeffrey Harper

Randeep Chana, Determining Efficacy of essential oils as environmentally safe insecticides, Mentor: Monika Gulia-Nuss

Isaac Chiu, Atomistic Machine Learning for Enhanced Solar-termoelectric Power Generation, Mentor: Yan Wang

Ryan Coulter, Design Development of an Underwater Soft Robot Gripper, Mentor: Jun Zhang

Connor Filbin, Mechano-Activated Shape Reconfigurable Polymetric Materials, Mentor: Ying Yang

Benjamin Ingle, Assessment of the variation in tree ring mercury concentrations between co-located tree species, Mentor: Mae Gustin

Aidan Johnson, Towards the Selection of Materials for Next Generation Concentrated Solar Power Plants, Mentor: Dev Chidambaram

Brianna Jones, Conversion of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide to Useful Chemical Fuels by Utilizing Electrical Energy, Mentor: Christopher Barile

Sage Kruleski, Are Newts Telling the Truth? Aposematic Signaling and its Honesty in Toxic Pacific Newts, Mentor: Chris Feldman

Bryan Lee, Nitrogen and Zinc Co-Doped Carbon Dots as Nanozymes, Mentor: Xiaoshan Zhu

Valeria Nava, Enhancement of Photosynthesis by Modified Carbon Nanotubes, Mentor: Yu Yang

Guglielmo Panelli, Utilization of a Network of atomic clocks to search for dark matter, Mentor: Andrei Derevianko

Dillon Stetler, Computational Study of the role of charge-balancing ions on methane-to-methanol conversion by copper-exchanged zeolites, Mentor: Samuel Odoh

Jacquelynn Tran, Food Availability influencing songbird fitness in urbanized landscapes, Mentor: Jenny Ouyang

Sydnie Walters, Regulation of Circular RNA Biogenesis by Pasilla n D. Melanogaster, Mentor: Pedro Miura

Hunter Wyett, Variation in milkweed chemistry and nutrients: determining monarch butterfly responses to parasite virulence, Mentor: Elizabeth Pringle