The Edison STEM-NET Student Research Fellowship program provided funds for 33 CSU STEM undergraduate students to work collaboratively with a faculty mentor on a research project during the spring 2021 semester. On May 7th they showcased their results of their amazing work. Congratulations to all of them.
Symposium Message from Southern California Edison
Qiana Charles, Government Relations Principal Manager, Southern California Edison
Student Presenters
Abbas Abdulhasan
California State University, Long Beach
BioChemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Vasanthy Narayanaswami
Presentation Title: Structural and Functional Consequences of Apolipoprotein (apo) E3 and apoE4 Modification by 4-Hydroxynonenal, A Product of Environmental Pollution and Cellular Lipid Peroxidation
Ana C. Jurado
Cal Poly Pomona
Electro. Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Farbod Khoshoud
Presentation Title: Title: Solar-fuel Cell Design and Testing for Aerial Vehicles and Robotics Applications
I Gusti Ngurah Raka Bhaskara
California State University, San Bernardino
Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeremy Mallari
Presentation Title: Developing Photo-Cross-Linking Click Chemistry Probes against Falcilysin, an Essential Malarial Protease
Apolo Ibanez Rincon
California State University, San Bernardino
Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Angela Horner
Presentation Title: The Effects of Exercise and Aging on Tendon Morphology and Mechanics
Ashley Ertzman
Cal Poly Pomona
Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paul Beardsley
Presentation Title: Interactive Outdoor Learning –In What Ways Does an Outdoor, Place-based Learning Exercise Affect Curiosity, Interest, and Student Learning about Biodiversity in Introductory Biology?
Evelyn Pohle
California State University, Fullerton
Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alison Marzocchi
Presentation Title: Racial, Gender, and STEM Career Representation in Mathematics Textbooks
Michelle Mohr
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Geography
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Parveen Chhetri
Presentation Title: Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on the Tree Line Ecotone of California using Geospatial Technology
Justin Demoss
California State University, Long Beach
Kinesiology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kevin Valenzuela
Presentation Title: Longitudinal Effects of an Achilles Speed Bridge Repair on Lower Extremity Mechanics
Joel Cortez
California State University, San Bernardino
Physics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matteo Crismani
Presentation Title: A New View on Martian Clouds
Janelle Meghan Sy
Cal Poly Pomona
Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Breanna Binder
Presentation Title: Simulating the Evolution of the most Massive Binary Stars
Carly Soos
Cal Poly Pomona
Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Povich
Presentation Title: The Star Formation Rate of the SPICY Milky Way
Justice Mena
California State University, Northridge
Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tae Oh
Presentation Title: Investigation of Atrope Isomerism to Focus the Bioactivity of Biologically Active Benzimidazole Derivatives
Benjamin Dao
California State University, Long Beach
Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Fangyuan Tian
Presentation Title: Exploring the Versatility of Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 Beyond Gas Adsorption
Natallia Urieva
Cal Poly Pomona
Aerospace Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Subodh Bhandari
Presentation Title: Collision Detection and Avoidance System for UAVs using Optical Flow
Yeny Gomez
California State University, Los Angeles
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Vellanoweth
Presentation Title: Transcription Factor Analysis of Senescence Appearing Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana using Bioinformatics Tools
Marino Di Franco Quionez
California State University, Los Angeles
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Chris Bachman
Presentation Title: Identification of High-Entropy Oxides for Oxygen Evolution Catalysis
Whitney Jones
Cal Poly Pomona
Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jeremy Claisse
Presentation Title: Analysis of Fish Life Stages (Body Size) on Oil and Gas Platform Depths
Veng Hout Ty
California State University, Fullerton
BioChemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stevan Pecic
Presentation Title: In vitro Selection of DNA Aptamers for the Detection of the Agricultural Insecticide Imidacloprid
Carina Coles
California State University, Fullerton
Civil Environmental Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Pratanu Ghosh
Presentation Title: Influence of High-Performance Concrete (HPC) Mixtures on Sulfate Attack on Concrete
Nicole Luna
Cal Poly Pomona
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brian Ramirez
Presentation Title: Elastic Mechanical Metamaterials for Energy Absorption
Cameron Fraser
California State University, San Bernardino
Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laura Newcomb
Presentation Title: Generation of Feline Macrophage Cell Lines to Study Feline Coronavirus
Deanna Tuong
California State University, Fullerton
Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Parvin Shahrestani
Presentation Title: Establishing Drosophila melanogasteras a model system to study Acinetobacter baumanniiinfection
Elizabeth Solis
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sonal Singhal
Presentation Title: Delimiting Species in the Australian Lizard Ctenotus
Sal Gutierrez
California State University, Long Beach
Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christine Whitcraft
Presentation Title: Effects of Oyster Restoration Substrate on Epifauna Invertebrates in Southern California
Logan Luevano
California State University, Long Beach
Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Raisa Hernandez-Pacheco
Presentation Title: Effects of Early-Life Ecological Adversity on Late-Life Reproduction in a Nonhuman Primate
Joyce Quon
California State University, Los Angeles
Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daphne Liu
Presentation Title: Density and Kappa Value of Sequences with Forbidden Separations
Sierra Breyer
California State University, Long Beach
Physics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alexander Klotz
Presentation Title: Nanopore spectroscopy of complex DNA structures
Levi Randall
California State University, Fullerton
Computer Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ankita Mohapatra
Presentation Title: Electricity Load Forecasting using Long Short-Term Neural Networks with Hyperparameter Optimization
Daniel Echeverria Palencia
California State University, Los Angeles
Civil Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sonya R. Lopez
Presentation Title: Urban Water Sustainability in the Los Angeles River Basin
Maria De La Torre
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Philip Vieira
Presentation Title: Drug addiction and the Brain: A Combined Research and Educational Program to Engage the Next Generation STEM Workforce
Mayra Silva Barcenas
California State University, San Bernardino
BioChemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joyce Pham
Presentation Title: Electronic Structures and Atomic Site Preference of γ-Brass Type Pseudo-Binary Mn2Zn11-Ni2Zn11
Mario Figueroa
Cal Poly Pomona
Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ertan Salik
Presentation Title: Numerical Study of Sensors Based on Hyperbolicmeta Material Susing Comsol Multiphysics
Nicholas Balderas
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Physics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Horace Crogman
Presentation Title: Analysis of Highly Excited Vibrational-Rotational States of Tetrahedral Molecules CO2 in Terms of Classical Relative Equilibria
Congratulations to our IPAD Winners
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From left to right Sal Gutierrez, Justice Mena, Evelyn Pohle, Ashley Ertzman)