SUMMER 2019 NEVADA UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM (UROP) SCHOLARS

Maya Zawlodski, Nevada State College
–Photo by Kurt Regner
Nevada State College
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Morgan Arias, Variation in leaf vein architecture across elevation within the hyper-variable woody genus Metrosideros on O’ ahu, Mentor: Elizabeth Stacy
Si Chen, Synthesis and Characterization of Room Temperature Liquid-Crystalline and Light Emitting Properties of Banana-Shaped Azomethine Compound, Mentors: Pradip Bhowmik and Haesook Han
Jonathan Covington, Probing the role of “Planoflexus” in plant matter degradation in geothermal springs, Mentor: Brian Hedlund
Dylan Durkee, Investigating semiconductor-to-metallic transition and superconductivity in Manganese Disulfide, Mentor: Ashkan Salamat
Sandy Haneefzai, Gene Involved in Rice Drought Tolerance, Mentor: Jeffrey Shen
Karlena Tyburski, Investigation of Perchlorate and Co-contaminant Reduction Using Zero Valent Iron, Mentor: Jacimaria Batista
University of Nevada, Reno
Crissey Cameron, Rational Design of Enterococcus faecalis GBAP Analogs for Further Enhancement of Quorum Sensing Inhibition and Activation , and Protease Stability, Mentor: Yftah Tal-Gan
Harold Murga, Understanding the role of bHLH transcription factors in the regulation of suberin biosynthesis and deposition in Arabidopsis thaliana, Mentor: Dylan Kosma
Alexandrea Kilgore-Gomez, Predictive factors of poor working memory performance in mild TBI and the role of working memory encoding, Mentor: Marian Berryhill