2018
| Student | Institution | Mentor(s) | Project |
| Marcelo Almora Rios | Harvey Mudd College | Sevil Salur | Jet shape analyses in Au+Au collisions at RHIC |
| Maine Christos | Rutgers University | Sunil Somalwar | The search for the Type III Seesaw Mechanism with multivariate analysis |
| Marcell Howard | Case Western Reserve University | Andrew Baker | Probing the evolution of galaxies by stacking stellar mass selected samples |
| Zach Huber | University of Notre Dame | Weida Wu |
Surface preparation of Weyl semimetal Mn |
| Sean MacBride | Wheaton College | Carlton Pryor | A search for tidal tails in the satellite galaxy Carina |
| Emma McLaughlin | Providence College | Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler | Shear viscosity to entropy density ratio of the Quark Gluon Plasma at finite baryon densities |
| Leonardo Ruales | Essex County College | Chuck Keeton | Focusing cosmic telescopes on the distant universe |
| Ellis Thompson | Vassar College | Jak Chakhalian | Growth and characterization of pyrochlore thin films |
| Owen Tower | University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth | Amit Lath | Quark-gluon discrimination at the Large Hadron Collider |
2017
| Student | Institution | Mentor(s) | Project |
| Grace Cai | Mount Holyoke College | Weida Wu | 3D piezoresponse force microscopy using contact resonances |
| Steven Clark | Colorado School of Mines | Ron Gilman | Track reconstruction and the proton radius puzzle |
| Hannah Glaser | Virginia Tech | Yuri Gershtein, Eva Halkiadakis, & Amit Lath | Search for low mass three-jet resonances at the Compact Muon Solenoid |
| Umran Haji | University of California - Berkeley | Carlton Pryor | The eccentric satellites problem: comparing Milky Way satellite orbital properties to simulation results |
| Nick James | Harvard University | Chuck Keeton | Exploring gravitational lensing model variations in the Frontier Fields galaxy clusters |
| Gabrielle Koknat | University of Cincinnati | Jak Chakhalian | Strain-tunable metal-insulator transition in ultra-thin rare-earth nickelate films |
| Maggie Rivers | Wellesley College | Torgny Gustafsson | Characterizing ion beam induced sample damage in the Helium Ion Microscope |
| Sandy Spicer | Siena College | Rachel Somerville | Tracing the origin of black hole accretion through numerical hydrodynamic simulations |
| Abby Warden | University of Missouri | Matt Buckley | Dark mediators in four top search at the Large Hadron Collider |
2016
| Student | Institution | Mentor(s) | Project |
| Travis Court | Allegheny College | Saurabh Jha | SALT spectroscopy of ASASSN-15lh: the most luminous supernova, or something else? |
| Grace Haza | Indiana University | Sunil Somalwar | Search for type-III seesaw with multilepton final states by CMS |
| Audrey Houghton | University of Montana | Alyson Brooks | Interpreting the evolution of bulge growth in progenitors of Milky Way-type galaxies |
| Hannah Ihlenfeldt | University of Wisconsin - Platteville | Torgny Gustafsson | Helium Ion Microscopy characterization and analysis of biological structures |
| Peter Kim | Vassar College | Robert Bartynski | Self-assembly of rubrene thin films on noble metal surfaces |
| David Last | Carnegie Mellon University | Eva Halkiadakis & Amit Lath | Finding bottom quarks with the CMS detector at the LHC |
| Manuel Perez III | University of Redlands | Andrew Baker | Characterizing and cataloguing star-forming galaxies in preparation for the LADUMA survey |
| Michael Quinonez | Central Connecticut State University | Larry Zamick | Selected topics on isospin in nuclei |
| Jaclyn Schillinger | University of Alabama | Girsh Blumberg | Imaging of doped iron pnictides across a structural phase transition |
2015
| Student | Institution | Mentor(s) | Project |
| Maya Amouzegar | University of Maryland | Eva Halkiadakis & Amit Lath | A study on multi-jets final states at the LHC |
| Sabrina Appel† | Reed College | Andrew Baker | Spatially resolved star-formation in nearby analogues of Lyman break galaxies |
| Alex Bixel | University of Virginia | Jerry Sellwood | Measuring the dark matter content of galaxies with SALT |
| Holly Christenson | Western Washington University | Eric Gawiser | Analysis of narrow-band optical imaging to discover Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies at z ~ 3.1 |
| Ricardo Garcia | University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras | Larry Zamick | Gamow-Teller transitions and magnetic moments in the f 7/2 nuclear shell |
| Shaun Hogan | University of Alabama | Yuri Gershtein & Eva Halkiadakis | Preparations for upgrades to the level 1 track trigger at the Compact Muon Solenoid for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider |
| Jay Horwath | Alfred University | Robert Bartynski | Understanding electron energy loss mechanisms in EUV resists using photoemission and electron energy loss spectrocopies |
| Ian Hunt-Isaak | Oberlin College | Sevil Salur | Monte Carlo investigation of the quark-gluon plasma |
| Jyothis Johnson | Hunter College | Chuck Keeton | Characterizing the zone of influence of dark matter clumps on image positions and flux ratios in gravitational lensing systems |
2014
| Student | Institution | Mentor | Project |
| Humna Awan | Cornell University | Eric Gawiser | Optimizing the LSST observational strategy for survey uniformity |
| Katelyn Ciccozzi | Kutztown University | Alyson Brooks | Comparison of dark halos' merging histories |
| Fernando Garcia | University of Texas at Austin | Weida Wu | Local conduction in multiferroic lutetium ferrite superlattice films |
| Adrian Meyers† | Columbia University | Andrew Baker | Pixel-based source reconstruction of the gravitationally lensed 8 o'clock arc |
| August Miller | Bowdoin College | Jack Hughes | A search for counterparts to unconfirmed Planck cluster candidates in ROSAT, Chandra, and XMM-Newton data |
| Jackson Olsen | The College of William and Mary | Yuri Gershtein | A stop decay search using jet substructure |
| Cayla Stifler | Providence College | Amit Lath | Jet finding efficiencies for single and multiple matched partons |
| Mariel Tader | Case Western Reserve University | Sunil Somalwar | Lower limit for the Minimal Type III Seesaw Mechanism fermionic triplet mass with CMS multi-lepton analysis |
| Rojae Wright | Alabama A&M University | Sang-Wook Cheong | Growth of crystals with exotic physical properties |
2013
| Student | Institution | Mentor | Project |
| Ryan Blackman | Northern Arizona University | Jack Hughes | Optical follow-up observations of lensing candidates for millimeter sources |
| Yssavo Camacho | Lehigh University | Saurabh Jha | Spectroscopy of type Ia supernovae with the Southern African Large Telescope |
| Kirsten Hall† | University of North Carolina | Andrew Baker | Star formation in local analogs of Lyman Break Galaxies |
| Emily Kraus | Syracuse University | Ron Gilman | On the nucleon charge distributions |
| Leah Langer | Chatham University | Seongshik Oh | Thin film topological insulators in a field effect transistor |
| Stephen Randall | University of Maryland | Sunil Somalwar | High-energy searches for supersymmetry at CMS |
| Ryan Whitcomb | Colorado State University | Robert Bartynski | Angle-resolved X-ray photoemission spectroscopy of epitaxial iron (II) fluoride thin films upon exposure to atomic lithium |
| Marc Wonders | Washington and Lee University | Amit Lath | Search for light stops with pair-produced dijet resonances |
† Supported by NSF grant AST-0955810.
Last edited January 26, 2024.