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Summer 2009 Projects
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Click on project title to view description. Click on faculty advisor name to visit lab website.
Chemistry Faculty Advisor
Theory of electronic energy transfer, with potential applications to photosynthetic light harvesting Jeff Cina
Metals and the RNA world: Probing metal-RNA interactions by chemistry and spectroscopy Vickie DeRose
Synthesis of heterocyclic compounds via unusual cyclization reactions Mike Haley
Synthesis of inorganic cluster compounds for use as precursors (inks) for thin films Darren Johnson
Synthesis of ligands and materials for the selective binding of toxic contaminants Darren Johnson
Synthesis and analysis of thermoelectric materials David Johnson
Student choose one: Shih-Yuan Liu
  1. Rearrangement-based synthesis of axially chiral biaryls
  2. Development of novel BN heterocycles for biomedical research and materials applications
Low signal studies of molecular diffusion in polymer and membrane films Andy Marcus
Geological Sciences Faculty Advisor
Geochemical and isotopic investigation of genesis of magma Ilya Bindeman
Physical modeling of bubble dynamics in geologic systems Kathy Cashman,
Alan Rempel
Paleoenvironmental change in the forests of the Pacific Northwest
(Note: This project is in the department of Geography.)		 Dan Gavin
Groundwater Arsenic contamination in the Willamette Basin Qusheng Jin
Fault mechanics during spine extrusion at Mount St. Helens (2004-2006) Alan Rempel
Soils and the variability of erosion in steepland catchments Josh Roering
Volatiles in submarine basaltic glasses from the Juan de Fuca Ridge Paul Wallace
Water level measurement to constrain Cascadia locked convergence zone geometry Ray Weldon,
Dean Livelybrooks
Physics Faculty Advisor
Optical studies of metal nanostructures Miriam Deutsch
Magnetohydrodynamic corrugation instability Jim Imamura
Biomembrane microrheology Raghu Parthasarathy
Projects for two students, each student choose one: Dan Steck
  1. Chaotically bouncing light in an optical cavity
  2. Interferometry for laser wavelength metrology
  3. Interfacing microcontrollers for controlling experiments with ultracold atoms
Regional Solar Radiation Monitoring Project Frank Vignola
Radiation pressure cooling of a silica optical microresonator Hailin Wang