Frances Velay Fellows - Summer 2024
Meet the students who participated in the Velay Fellowship Program - Summer 2024!
The Frances Velay Women and Science Research Fellowship program at Stony Brook is administered by URECA in collaboration with Dr. Maria Nagan (Department of Chemistry) and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Rachel Anderson
Physics major
Mentor
Dr. Mengkun Liu (Physics)
Project
Developing a Tunable Dye Laser for Visible Range Scattering Near-field Optical Microscopy
Ophelia Burden
Earth & Space Sciences major
Mentor
Dr. Marine Frouin (Geosciences)
Project
A Multi-Method Luminescence Dating Approach to the late Pleistocene to early Holocene
in the southwestern Kalahari Desert, Botswana
Alo Chakravarty
Physics major
Mentor
Dr. John Hobbs (Physics & Astronomy)
Project
Investigating the Exotic Higgs Boson Decay pp → H → Za → bbμμ with the Large Hadron
Collider
Bishaka Dahal
Chemistry major
Mentor
Dr. Stanislaus Wong (Chemistry)
Project
Exploring Novel Techniques for Nine Element High Entropy Oxide Synthesis
Katie Hsu
Biology, Psychology majors
Mentor
Dr. Berhane Ghebrehiwet (Medicine)
Project
C1q and C1q receptors (gC1qR and cC1qR) as potential targets against cervical cancer
Isabella Janowicz
Biology major
Mentor
Dr. Bernadette Holdener (Biochemistry & Cell Biology)
Project
Blocking O-Glucosylation of Epidermal Growth Factors Causes Soft Tissue Syndactyly
Manahil Kashif
Biochemistry major
Mentor
Dr. Maya Shelly (Neurobiology & Behavior)
Project
The Scaffold Scribble Interacts with Rac1 GEFs to Regulate LTD
Katherine Otavalo-Barros
Biology major
Mentor
Dr. Howard Sirotkin (Neurobiology & Behavior)
Project
Modeling seizure sensitivity and kindling using zebrafish larvae
Sheina Peralta
Astronomy, Physics majors
Mentor
Dr. Eric Jones (Laser Teaching Center, Physics)
Project
Optical Holography
Juliet Slota
Geology major
Mentor
Dr. Troy Rasbury (Geosciences)
Project
Improving the Chronology of the Chama Basin in New Mexico