Class of 2017
CATTAILS
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Joe Sullivan
Librarians: Kelley O'Neal
Members: Shlomit Chelst, Belton DeLaine-Facey, Sophia Hull, Delaney Jordan, Victoria Monsaint-Queeney, Mitul Patel, Aayush Thapa, Jennifer Wall, Michael Xu, Debra Yee
Keywords: oil, marine life, coastal habitats, ecosystems
DIRE
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Jon Hoffman
Librarians: Eric Cartier
Members: Jeremy Foust, Chariah Ghee, Matthew Hartung, Kathleen Hynes, Chong Li, Patricia Mandrich, Kymberlee McMaster, Jared Reibel, Kamilah Tadlock
Keywords: Dark Internet, bitcoin
DREAM
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Ricardo Araneda
Librarians: Svetla Baykoucheva
Members: Laurel Gordon, Yanhong Lu, Melinda Matos, Seyeon Seo, Yiyeon Seo
LaunchUMD Project
Keywords: Alzheimer’s, omega 3, fatty acids, neurons, injection
INJECT
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr Jose Helim Aranda-Espinoza
Librarians: Eileen Harrington
Members: Sriramya Ayyagari, Haris Dar, Vivian Morton, Kevin Moy, Chadni Patel, Lalithasri Ramasubramanian, Nivetita Ravi, Samantha Wood, Andrew Zhao, Melanie Zheng, Kiet Zhou
Keywords: curcumin, turmeric, age, macular degeneration
MagNET
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Frank Coale
Librarians: Nevenka Zdravkovska
Members: Samer Abousaleh, Nikhil Badami, James Foote, Adam Hurwitz, Alexander Johnson, David Kessler, Jose Lamas, Jesse Lynch, Robin McFaul, Thomas Ogden, Shawn Rosofsky, Noah Wichrowski, Chungho Woo
LaunchUMD Project
Keywords: magnetics levitation, circuit, computer simulations, microcontrollers
MORALS
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Susan Dwyer
Librarians: Eric Lindquist and Judy Markowitz
Members:Diana Curtis, Natalie Dagher, Sudipta Das, Brian Frey, Lara Fu, Pablo Goldschtein, Katrina Haas, Elfadil Osman, Shai Weener
LaunchUMD Project
Keywords: Congress, political polarization, political spectrum
MTB
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Volker Briken
Librarians: Svetla Baykoucheva
Members: Paige Chan, He Chun, Elizabeth Corley, Hee Jeong, Christopher Kim, Carolyn Lane, Ari Mandler, Nathaniel Nenortas, Michelle Nguyen, Pradip Ramamurti, James Tuo, Jimmy Zhang
LaunchUMD Project
Keywords: tuberculosis, airborne, virus, lungs, drug
NATURE
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Bing Hu
Librarians: Nevenka Zdravkovska
Members: Karenna Buco, Eddie Chang, Parisa Davoodi, Julia Downing, Delena Ganey, Brandon Green, Jonathan Kagan, Sachi Khemka, Erik Larmore, Hannah Russell, Thomas Schmitt, Luke Travisano, Jeannette Van Sickle, Jenshinn Wang
LaunchUMD Project
Keywords: cellulose, nanopaper, renewable, plastic
PIEZO
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Bao Yang
Librarians: Jim Miller
Members: Jacob Bremerman, Steven Bronocco, Brenden Caffey, Teresa Kent, Eric Lee, Rounak Mukhopadhyay, Anand Patel, Emily Reed, Christopher Rother, Adam Stambouli, Erin Verni, Torrance Wang
Keywords: piezoelectric, energy, electronic device, battery
VESSEL
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Adam Hsieh
Librarians: Eileen Harrington
Members: Mina Al-Salihi, Adam Berger, Megan Dang, Irene Jones, Moli Karsalia, Casey Lim, Sherin Menachery, Glory Mgboji, Xuefei Nou, Marquise Singleterry, Devayani Srinivasan, Phillip Tran, Amy Zhou
LaunchUMD Project
Keywords: cardiovascular, vascular tissue, blood clot
SCOPE
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Anil Deane
Librarians: Elizabeth Soergel
Members: John Bachkosky, Alexandra Boukhvalova, Kevin Chou, William Gunnarsson, James Ledwell, Brendan McTaggart, Xiaoqing Qian, Nicholas Rodgers, John Shi, Jason Yon
Keywords: Mobile plaform, natural language, interface, medical data
STRIDE
Team Thesis
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Roesch
Librarians: Nedelina Tchangalova
Members: Bharadwaja Chappa, Henok Girma, Elizabeth Green, Shir Kantor, Anuj Lagowala, Matthew Myers, Meredith Pecukonis, Danielle Potemri, Robel Tesfay, Michael Walters
LaunchUMD Project
Keywords: mental disorder, dopamine, behavior, empathy