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Frances Velay Fellows  - Summer 2024

 

Meet the students who participated in the Frances Velay Women in Science Fellowship Program - Summer 2024!

The Frances Velay Women and Science Research Fellowship program at Stony Brook is administered by URECA in collaboration with Dr. Maria Nagan (Department of Chemistry; Associate Dean for Curriculum, College of Arts and Sciences).

Rachel Anderson

Physics major

Mentor: Dr. Mengkun Liu (Physics)

Project: Developing a Tunable Dye Laser for Visible Range Scattering Near-field Optical Microscopy

Ophelia Burden

Earth & Space Sciences major

Mentor: Dr. Marine Frouin (Geosciences)

Project: A Multi-Method Luminescence Dating Approach to the late Pleistocene to early Holocene in the southwestern Kalahari Desert, Botswana

Alo Chakravarty

Physics major, recipient of Physics & Astronomy Barish-URECA award

Mentor: Dr. John Hobbs (Physics)

Project: Investigating the Exotic Higgs Boson Decay pp → H → Za → bbμμ with the Large Hadron Collider

Bishaka Dahal

Chemistry major

Mentor: Dr. Stanislaus Wong (Chemistry)

Project: Exploring Novel Techniques for Nine Element High Entropy Oxide Synthesis

Katie Hsu

Biology & Psychology majors

Mentor: Dr. Berhane Ghebrehiwet (Medicine)

Project: C1q and C1q receptors (gC1qR and cC1qR) as potential targets against cervical cancer 

Isabella Janowicz

Biology major

Mentor: Dr.  Bernadette Holdener (Biochemistry)

Project: Blocking O-Glucosylation of Epidermal Growth Factors Causes Soft Tissue Syndactyly

Manahil Kashif

Biochemistry major

Mentor: Dr. Maya Shelly (Neurobiology)

Project: The Scaffold Scribble Interacts with Rac1 GEFs to Regulate LTD

Katherine Otavalo-Barros

Biology major

Mentor: Dr. Howard Sirotkin (Neurobiology)

Project: Modeling seizure sensitivity and kindling using zebrafish larvae

Sheina Peralta

Astronomy & Physics majors,

recipient of Physics & Astronomy Barish-URECA award

Mentor: Dr. Eric Jones (Laser Teaching Center, Physics)

Project: Optical Holography

Juliet Slota

Geology major

Mentor: Dr. Troy Rasbury (Geosciences)

Project: Improving the Chronology of the Chama Basin in New Mexico