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BALANCE: Bettering Aged Living through Alternative Neural Corrective Exercises
Section: 0203 Mentor: Dr. Jae Kum Shim, 5-8492, jkshim@umd.edu Librarian: Ms. Svetla Baykoucheva , 5-9080 , sbaykouc@umd.edu Members: Marla Benedek, Emily Green, Jared Lindenberg, Yu Lun, Christine Muscolo, Adina Schwartz, Mengge Shan, Tiancheng Wang, Kobena Waters. |
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Biofuels Section: 0103 Mentor: Dr. Gary Felton, 5-8039, gfelton@umd.edu Librarians: Ms. Nevenka Zdravkovska, 5-9144, nevenka@umd.edu and Ms. Maureen Cech, 5-9153, mcech@umd.edu Members: Vishney Ambalavanar, Michael Kang, Felicia Kulp, Theodore Michaels, Alexander Muroyama, Saad Rehman, Olufemi Sokoya, Aalap Trivedi, Kaiyi Xie. |
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BLAZE: Bettering the Lives of Animals in Zoo Environments Section: 0102 Mentor: Dr. Kaci Thompson, 5-2160, kaci@umd.edu Librarian: Mr. Timothy Hackman, 4-8521, thackman@umd.edu Members: Logan Anbinder, Amelia Cordell, Gretchen Downey, Kelly Freudenberger, Shabaab Kamal, Thao Khuc, Joshua Lacey, Caitlin Moore, Emmarie Myers, Samantha Roman, Andrea Schmidt. |
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FACE: Facial Analysis for Communicating Expression Section: 0205 Mentor: Dr. Rama Chellappa, 5-3656, rama@cfar.umd.edu Librarian: Mr. Jim Miller, 5-9152, jmiller2@umd.edu Members: Douglas Astler, Harrison Chau, Kailin Hsu, Alvin Hua, Andrew Kannan, Lydia Lei, Melissa Nathanson, Esmaeel Paryavi, Kelly Ripple, Michelle Rosen, Hayato Unno, Carol Wang, Syeda Zaidi, Xuemin Zhang. |
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FRESH: Fixing Refrigeration Efficiency to Sustain Health Section: 0202 Mentor: Dr. Sameer Shah, 5-9958, sameer@umd.edu Librarian: Ms. Joscelyn Langholt, 5-9120, jlangholt@umd.edu Members: Matthew Conway, Kelly Daniluk, Jason Felder, Andrew Foo, Amina Goheer, Veena Katikineni, Anthony Mazzella, Young Park, George Peabody, Amanda Pereira, Divya Raghavachari, Sahil Shah, Ravi Vaswani. |
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GREEN JUSTICE: Geared Reassessment of Ecological and Environmental Needs to Justly Utilize Sustainable Techniques in Communities Everywhere Section: 0104 Mentor: Dr. Alex Chen, 5-6798, achen@umd.edu Librarian: Dr. Alan Mattlage, 5-9065, mattlage@umd.edu, Ms. Lara Otis, 5-9260, lotis@umd.edu Members: Jessica Albrecht, Blair Broser, Omar Dughly, Ellen Eichenbaum, Dane Galloway, Brendan George, Caleb Hii, Vy Nguyen, Rachana Patel, Mary Schulte, Lucas Serven, Najeff Waseem. |
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HIV/HCV Co-infection Section: 0105 Mentor: Dr. Andrea Ottesen, 5-4351, aottesen@umd.edu Librarian: Mr. Tom Harrod, 5-7253, tharrod@umd.edu Members: Noha Eshera, Song Fu, Angela Hou, Liv Johannessen, Rahel Kifle, Nathan King, Eunsol Lee, Ke Ma, Gowri Nadmichettu, Alex Peters, Gregory Polley, Steven Ramiro, Crystal Wang, Mengda Zhang. |
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LEAF: Light Energy in the Agriculture of the Future |
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LEGS: Ligament Elasticity post Graft Surgery |
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MAVERIC: Mapping Autism Via Early Response in Children Section: 0106 Mentor: John Aloimonos, jvaloimo@umd.edu Librarian: Mr. Glenn Moreton, 5-9290, moreton@umd.edu Members: Eileen Chai, Jillian Chavis, Kevin Chodnicki, Timothy Crisci, Nathan Destler, John Graham, Kesshi Jordan, Richard Landa, Conrad Merkle, Soh Park, Christopher Paxton, Rachita Sood, James Tanner, Brendan Wray. |
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FLIP:
File Lending in Proximity
Section: 0201 Mentor: Dr. Jim Purtilo, 5-2706, purtilo@cs.umd.edu Librarians: Mr. Stephen Henry, 5-9256, shenry@umd.edu, Mr. Jim Miller, 5-9152, jmiller2@umd.edu Members: Adam Alabrash, Bobak Azarbayejani, Andy Chang, William Franklin, Hugo Hall, James Polivka, Zhuang Shao, Xinyu Weng. |
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