Applied Science

In its Honors Program the Department of Applied Science awards one level of Honorsto student research projects. The project listed below has been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2024-2025

• Jonah Loiacono Oxman, "Application and Characterization of a Novel Biocomposite Derived from Invasive Didymosphenia geminata" (Honors) 
  Hannes Schniepp + Mark Forsyth, Margaret Saha

2023-2024

No Honors students this year

2022-2023

No Honors students this year

2021-2022

• Ann Vonasek, "Induction and Quantification of shRNA-Induced Cacna1g Knockdown in the Mesencephalic Locomotor Region of Mice" (Honors)
  Christopher Del Negro + Randy Coleman, Jennifer Bestman, Bob Barnet
• Caroline David, "Nucleotide sequences and transcriptomes of inspiratory neurons of the preBotzinger compex in neonatal mice" (Honors)
  Christopher Del Negro + Margaret Saha, Greg Conradi Smith, M. Drew LaMar
• Jindayi Liang, "The Basics of Diatom Frustules as 3D Printable Biomaterial: From Optimal Growth Media to Genetic Manipulation" (Honors)
  Hannes Schniepp + Margaret Saha, Mark Forsyth
  

2020-2021

• Langston Forbes-Jackson, "The Role of Spider Silk in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration" (Honors)
  Hannes Schniepp + Lizabeth Allison, Mark Forsyth
  
• Linxuan Li, "Bottom-Up and Top-Down Pathways for Formation and Preparation of Natural Spider Silk Nanofibrils" (Honors)
  Hannes Schniepp + Daine Shakes, Lizabeth Allison

2019-2020

• Heather Baier, "Learning about Learning with Deep Learning: Satellite Estimates of School Test Scores" (Honors)
  Daniel Runfola + Anthony Stefanidis, Eric Walter
• Angelica Lin, "Sizes of Self-Assembled Spider Silk Nanofibrils" (Honors)
  Hannes C. Schniepp + Christopher Del Negro, Margaret Saha

2018-19

• Benjamin Lazarus, "Controlled Hierarchical Biomaterial Utilizing Diatom Nanostructure"
  Hannes Schniepp + Jonathan Frey, Walker Smith
  

2017-18

• Chloe Walsh, "Self-Assembly of Native Spider Silk Protein Shows Nanofibril Formation" (Honors) 
  Hannes Schniepp + Elizabeth Harbron, Myriam Cotten

2016-17

• No Honors students this year

2015-16

• No Honors students this year

2014-15

• Pei Pang, "Investigation of the Interaction Between Graphene Oxide and a Biopolymer Surface" (Honors) 
  Hannes Schniepp + David Kranbuehl and John Poutsma
• Jeffrey Yen-Ting Liu, "Modeling the Effect of Cooperative Binding on Ligand-driven Fluctuations in Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors" (Honors)
  Gregory Smith + Leah Shaw and Drew LaMar
  

2007-2014

• No Honors students this year

2006-07

• Chris Tignanelli
  Greg Smith + Mark Hinders and Sebastian Schrieber