James E. Miller, A Closed-loop Isolated Muscle Preparation for Studying the Interaction of Internal and External Mechanics in Fish Swimming, Advisor: Cristian Staii
Jonathan Minoff, Dielectric Properties of Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride) Electrospun Fibers, Advisor: Peggy Cebe
Mario Delgado, Characterization of Mechanical and Electromechanical Properties of Single Tape High Temperature Superconductors for Applications in High Field Fusion Magnets, Advisor: Hugh Gallagher and Luisa Chiesa
Justin Hudson, Is Winter Weather Worse? A Frequency Analysis of Extreme Snowfall in the Northeastern United States, Advisor: Andrew Kemp
Eduardo Barrera, Coaxial Electrospinning of PEG-PCL Core-Sheath Morphology Nanofibers: Applications in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering, Advisor: Peggy Cebe
2018
Adina Feinstein, Exploring the low and high mass extremes in the distant universe, Advisor: Danilo Marchesini
Sydney Holway, Clogging in Low Reynolds Number Channel Flow, Advisor: Timothy Atherton
Thomas Keller, An Investigation into Methods for Electrospinning Poly(ether ether ketone), Advisor: Peggy Cebe
Jordan Kemp, Producing Macroscopic Behaviors of the Free Electron Model using N-Body Random Walks, Advisor: Roger Tobin
2017
Anastasia Korolov, An Investigation of Negative Energy Densities in Quantum Field Theory: Diagonalization Method and Worked Examples, Advisor: Larry Ford
Andrew Mascioli, Defect Structure and Percolation in Bidispersed Sphere Packings, Advisor: Tim Atherton
Jed McKinney, Evidence for SED Uniformity in 1.1 mm Selected Dusty, Star-Forming Galaxies, Advisor: Anna Sajina
Zachary Pagel, Experimentally Controlling Director Fields in Nematic Liquid Crystals, Advisor: Peggy Cebe
2016
Avram Ellner, A Study of Neuron Growth on Micropatterened PDMS Surfaces, Advisor: Tim Atherton
Julia Fowler, High Frequency Radio Type 2 AGN and How They May Relate to Outflows, Advisor: Anna Sajina
Mukesh Ghimire, The Mathematical Correspondence Between Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Advisor: Krzysztof Sliwa
Ian Hunter, Towards Active Matter on Deformable Surfaces, Advisor: Tim Atherton
Daniel Norman, Phenomenological Study of Baryon-Resonance Production in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering, Advisor: Tony Mann
Matthew Peterson, Dielectric and Ellipsometric Studies of Carbon Nanotube Doped Nematic Liquid Crystals, Advisor: Peggy Cebe
2015
Alek Razdan, Investigating Predicted Effects of Quantum Gravity on the Spreading of Spectral Emission Lines, Advisors: Danilo Marchesini and Larry Ford
George Wojcik, Monte Carlo study of sensitivities of data-driven correction factors used to model invisible Z+jets events, Advisor: Hugo Beauchemin
Isabel Yannatos, Mechanical Properties of Healthy and Osteoarthritic Rabbit Meniscus, Advisor: Peggy Cebe
2014
Samuel Hansen, Functionalizing Silk Photonic Crystals, Advisor: Fiorenzo Omenetto
Noah Kurinsky, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Constraints on the Evolution of the Far-infrared Galaxy Luminosity Function, Advisor: Anna Sajina
Robert Rockmore, Photoluminescence Based Semiconductor Defect Detection, Advisors: Hugh Gallagher and Tom Vandervelde
Krishna Soni, A Discussion of Techniques to Mitigate Non-Linearity in Scale Factor within a Linear Accelerometer under Capacitive Drive, Advisor: Bill Oliver
Matthew Weins, A Stochastic Study of Temporally Resolved Neuronal Growth, Advisor: Cristian Staii
2013
Christopher Kehayias, Investigating Charge Transport and Doping Effects of Reduced Graphene Oxide Using Scanning Probe Microscopy Techniques, Advisor: Cristian Staii
Kevin Li, X-ray Scattering and Thermal Properties of Blended Electrospun Polyethylene Terephthalate and Polylactic Acid Fibers, Advisor: Peggy Cebe
Joseph Rahamim, Electric Force Microscopy of Electrospun Polymer Nanofibers with Embedded Carbon Nanotubes, Advisor: Cristian Staii
2012
Daniel Rizzo, Using Novel AFM Lithography Techniques to Create Flexible Platforms for Biomechanical Measurements, Advisor: Cristian Staii
2011
Adam Cohn, Electrical Property Measurement in Films for Fuel Cell Technology, Advisor: Peggy Cebe
Lauren Wielgus, A Search for Multi-Nucleon Production in the MINERvA Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab, Advisor: Hugh Gallagher
Benjamin Yu, Measurement Techniques for the Complex Permittivity of Thin Film Materials, Advisor: Jose Blanco-Pillado
2010
Michael Hancock, Surface Quality Dependence on Deposition Temperature and Adsorption Properties of Thin Metal Films, Advisor: Roger Tobin
Robert Judith, Crystal Ordering of Isotactic Polypropylene and Carbon Nanotube Composites Under Shear Stress, Advisor: Peggy Cebe
Eric Takasugi, Post-Processing of Optical Fibres through Tapering and Nanostructuring, Advisor: Fiorenzo Omenetto
2009
Yaniel Cabrera, Crystallization of Isotactic Polypropylene in the Presence of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes, Advisor: Peggy Cebe
Bret Stenger, X-ray Diffraction and Dielectric Spectroscopy of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) and PET/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites, Advisor: Peggy Cebe
2008
Gabriel Dunn, A Direct Search for First Generation Leptoquarks in \(p \bar p\) Collisions, Advisor: Simona Rolli
Pauli Kehayias, Simulations and Analyses of Expected Nucleon Transversity Measurements in the MINERvA Neutrino Experiment, Advisor: Hugh Gallagher
Krish Kotru, Optical Reflectivity as a Probe of Atomic and Molecular Film Growth, Advisor: Roger Tobin
Natalie Wolchover, The Supercontinuum Light Source: Improved Methods of Generation and Spectroscopic Use, Advisor: Fiorenzo Omenetto