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Project Title	Faculty	Students
Accumulation and effectiveness of natural sunscreens in purple sea urchins	Nikki Adams	Malicoat
BalloonSAT II	John Saghri	Need 3 students (EE, AERO, CPE, CSC, MATH, IME, ME, PHYS, ENGR)
Designing a Modular Sit-Ski for the US Paralympic Ski Team	Brian P. Self	Nelson
Development and regeneration in colonial ascidians	Elena Keeling	Januszewicz & Swangler
Development of an Ion Thruster for Space Propulsion	Dianne J. DeTurris	Fernandes & Stratton
Drugs from the Sea	Jennifer Carroll	Arruda
Early Networks of Human Trafficking in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1945	Christina Firpo	Grossman & Shu
Evaluation of Degradation Processes in Orthopaedic Medical Implants	Trevor Harding	Ramm, Roth & Paz
Evaluation of tissue and signal-specific regulation of lipogenic genes	Dan Peterson	Edman
Experimental bifurcations	John Sharpe	Cugini + need 1 more student (PHYS, MATH, ME, EE)
Habitat Use, Thermal Biology, and Reproduction in Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes	Emily Taylor	Kwittken + need 1 more student (BIO, ASCI, FNR)
Hormonal and seasonal effects on reproductive behaviors and neuroplasticity	Christy Strand	Berger & Brandon
Host-parasite interactions between sand crabs and acanthocephalan parasites: do parasites make crabs easier for birds to eat?	Gita Kolluru & Larisa Vredevoe	Scheuer, Johnston & Enrique
Hybrid Rocket Motor Development for Increased Thrust	William R. Murray	Grieb
Investigation of Audio-Visual Speech Recognition	Jane Zhang	Need 3 students (COMS, CPE, EE, MATH)
Investigation of Polarization	Katharina Gillen	Copsey
Isolation of Stem Cells from a Novel Source in a Horse	Matthew A. Burd	Woodward
Learning and Forgetting of Spanish-English Cognates	José A. Montelongo	Roehrick + need 2 more students (PSY, EDUC, MLL, SPAN)
Modeling, analysis and design of structural components subjected to severe loading conditions	Nilanjan Mitra	Go & Wancewicz
Nutritional regulation of immunity	Brooke Humphrey	Harrison & Camfield
Probing the surface of lactic acid bacteria with atomic force microscopy	Derek Gragson	Olson + need 1 more student (CHEM, BIO, DSCI, FSN, MATE, MCRO, PHYS)
Rapid detection of pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus by real-time PCR	Marie Yeung	Markegard
Research Opportunities on Environmentally Benign Microelectronics Packaging	John Pan	Need 3 students (CPE, EE, MATE, ME, IME)
Salt Leaching, Nutrient Movement and Crop Absorption	Thomas A Ruehr	Quintana + need 2 more students (ERSC, BOT, CRSC, FRSC, ENVE, CHEM, SS, VGSC)
Simulated Effects of Reflective Mulch on Energy and Water Consumption in Open and Closed Greenhouse Systems in Semi-Arid Regions	Ilhami Yildiz	Hardin + need 1 more student (BRAE, CE, ENVE, HCS, ME)
Soil and Fungal Relationships of Perennial Veldt Grass (Ehrharta calycina)	Lynn E. Moody	Quintana & Stamm
Solar Powered Lighting System	Peter Schwartz	Clemmons & Spak + need 3 more students (ENGR, BUS, SCM, ARCH, LS EE, IME)
Structure Climbing Monkey Robot	Saeed Niku	Bessent
Studies on Evolutionary Computation	Xiao-Hua (Helen) Yu	Tepe + need 1 more student (EE, CPE, CSC, BMED, MATH, ENGR, ME, CE)
Synthesis and Characterization of 1D piezoelectric nanostructures for resonating applications	William L. Hughes	Vega & Takabayashi + need 2 more students (MATE, CHEM, EE)
Ternary Computing Testbed	Phillip Nico	Connelly, Chavez & Patel
Transportation Needs and Safe Mobility of Elderly	Sudeshna Mitra	Tabajonda & Hananouchi
Undergraduate Research Symposium and Journal	Sema Alptekin	Need 2 students (JOUR, GRC, ART)
Visualization of Decision-Theoretic plans	Alex Dekhtyar	Oppenheim & Hecht + need 1 more students (CSC, MATH, STAT, PSY, EDUC)