Emerging technologies
Undergraduate research grants

Technology Services (AT) and Administrative Information Technology (AIT) have worked together to provide undergraduate students with Emerging Technology Research Grants of $500. All full-time (at least 12 credit hours) undergraduate students were eligible to apply.

Grants were awarded to fund student research projects, using innovative or emerging technologies, in any academic subject relevant to the student's major. Applications were judged by relevance to the student's course of study, innovative uses of technology and feasibility of completion within the timeline. All projects will be displayed as a poster at the spring 2005 Emerging Technologies Day on April 8, 2005, and the top 3 projects, as judged by innovation and interest to the general University community, will present their projects at the Emerging Technologies Day presentations.

The following students were awarded grant in the fall of 2004 and will present their research projects at Emerging Technologies Day on April 8, 2005:

Lindsey Borgsmiller
Quantifying Grasps

Andrew Bywater
Urbanization

Lindsay Deneault
Electrospun Fibrinogen/Hemoglobin and Possible Uses in Wound Dressings

Lindsay Fuoco
The Effects of Cyclodextrin on the Thermal Cis to Trans Isomerization of Azobenzenes

Amy George
Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Community Development Programs

Ashley Gill
Wartime Innocence

Jean Gingras
Development of Low Cost Medical Devices

Gregory Graf
PVDF: Creation of a Smart Material Speaker

Katherine Grossman
Characterization of WT1 Mutant in Glioblastoma

Richard Keithley
Characterization of Potential Drug Interactions Between Dextromethorphan, Fluoxetine, and PMMA

Jean Lin
Investigations of STAT-1 Regulatio of PAFAH

Sabrina Mellette
Permeation Test for Cartilage and its Tissues Engineered Scaffolds

Katherine Neser
Electrospinning Nozzle Design for Trilaminar Dressing and Fabrication

LaVone Smith
Biodegradable Vascular Grafts

Angela Weingarten
Development of a Device for Objective Measurement of Finger-Tapping in Parkinson’s Disease