Velay Fellowship Videos 2025

Jillian Daneshwar
Physics major

Mentor
Dr. Will Farr (Physics)

Project
An Analysis of the Detectability of Ringdown Modes in Black Hole Mergers

Rebeca Diaz
Chemistry major

Mentor
Dr. Maria Nagan (Chemistry)

Project
NMR Structural Refinement for RNA in Amber

Abbie Gao
Chemistry major

Mentor
Dr. Dale Drueckhammer (Chemistry)

Project
Understanding Transport Across Dense Cytoskeletal Networks: Diffusion Within the Anaphase Spindle

Loy Hashimoto
Biology major

Mentor
Dr. Eugene Serebryany (Physiology & Biophysics)

Project
The Mechanism of Human γD-Crystallin Aggregation Suppression by Myo-Inositol

 

Alexandria Lewkowski
Biochemistry & Applied Math-Statistics majors

Mentor
Dr. Lina Carlini (Biochemistry & Cell Biology)

Project
Understanding Transport Across Dense Cytoskeletal Networks: Diffusion Within the Anaphase Spindle

 

Faria Lorin
Environmental Studies major

Mentor
Dr.  Marine Frouin (Geosciences)

Project
Unravelling the Depositional History of Marilaleng Pan using Luminescence Dating Techniques

 

Elaine Mei
Biochemistry & psychology majors

Mentor
Dr. Galadriel Hovel-Miner (Microbiology & Immunology)

Project
 Identification of Putative Drug Resistance Genes in the African Trypanosome

 

Mariya Shalashova
Physics major

Mentor
Dr. Tom Allison (Chemistry, Physics)

Project
Preparation and Characterization of Monolayers for Exciton Dynamics Studies

 

Amber Wilson
Biology majors

Mentor
Dr. Prerana Shrestha (Neurobiology & Behavior)

Project
Investigation of Prefrontal Cortex Protein Synthesis in Differential Signal Active Avoidance

 

Sirou (Serena) Zhang
Chemistry majors

Mentor
Dr. Peter Tonge (Chemistry)

Project
Design and Synthesis of BTK PROTACs to Study the Role of Kinetics in Targeted Protein Degradation

 

Roheyatou "Roro" Ceesay
Graduate Student

Mentor
Dr. Marine Frouin (Geosciences)

Project
Mineralogical Analysis of East Turkana (Kenya) Sediments for Luminescence Dating and Provenance Study