Journal of Undergraduate Research

 

Office of Science

US Department of Energy

Volume IV, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Front Section (pdf)

v     Cover

v     About the cover

v     Credits and Acknowledgements

v     A Note from the Editor: Where will Your Education and Imagination Take You?
(Peter Faletra, Ph.D.)

v     Table of Contents

v     Students as scientists: The Benefits of Mentored Research Experiences at DOE National Labs
(Jan Tyler, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

v     Participating National Laboratories:

·     Argonne National Laboratory

·     Brookhaven National Laboratory

·     Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

·     Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

·     Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

·     National Renewable Energy Laboratory

·     Oak Ridge National Laboratory

·     Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

·     Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

·     Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

·     Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory

 

 

Student Papers

 

Changes in the Vegetation Cover in a Constructed Wetland at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois (pdf)

Courtney Lynn Bergman, Kirk LaGory

 

Effects And Correction Of Closed Orbit Magnet Errors In The Sns Ring (pdf)

Steven C. Bunch, Jeff Holmes

 

The In Vivo Quantitation of Diazinon, Chlorpyrifos, and their Major Metabolites in Rat Blood for the Refinement of a Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Models (pdf)

Andrea Busby, Ahmed Kousba, And Charles Timchalk

 

Reducing Benzene and Cresol Levels in National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Pilot-scale Biorefinery Scrubber Water (pdf)

Michele L. Buzek, Steven Phillips

 

Development Of A Geographic Information System Based Dust Dispersion Modeling System For Use In The Planning And Implementation of Military Training Exercises (pdf)

Duard Crandall, Frederick Rutz

 

Improving Modeling of Iodine-129 Groundwater Contamination Plumes Using the System Assessment Capability  (pdf)

Jacque Dirks, William E. Nichols, Signe K. Wurstner

 

Laser-Induced Damage of Calcium Fluoride  (pdf)

Aubrey España, Alan G. Joly, Wayne P. Hess and J. Thomas Dickinson

 

Carbon Single-Wall Nanotube Growth in a Volumetrically Confined Arc Discharge System   (pdf)

Kale J. Franz, Jeff L. Alleman, Kim M. Jones, Anne C. Dillon, Mike J. Heben

 

Conducting and Optical Properties of Transparent Conducting Indium-Doped Zinc Oxide Thin Films by Sol-Gel Processing (pdf)

Susan Huang, Tatiana Kaydanova, Alex Miedaner, David S. Ginley

 

Purification and Crystallization of ZitB, a Zinc Transporter from Escherichia coli (pdf)

Katherine Kao, DaXiong Fu

 

The Role of Endogenous D2 Receptor Levels in Morphine Addiction: A Correlative Study of Morphine Place Conditioning and in vivo [3H]-Raclopride Binding  (pdf)

Naqi Khan, Samuel Gatley

 

Synthesis and Characterization of Pure and Doped Ceria Films by Sol-gel and Sputtering (pdf)

Kurt T. Koch, Laxmikant Saraf

 

Separation & Fixation of Toxic Components in Salt Brines Using a Water-Based Process  (pdf)

Carrie Franks, Anh Quach, Dunbar Birnie, III, Wendell Ela, A. Eduardo Saez, Brian Zelinski, Harry Smith, and Gary Smith

 

Hyperthermal energy collisions of CF₃+ ions with modified surfaces: surface-induced dissociation (pdf)

Talayeh Rezayat, Anil Shukla

Evaluation of Factors Affecting Cesium Extraction Performance by Calix[4]arene Derivatives (pdf)

Jennifer L. Rumppe, Lætitia Delmau

 

Parametric Studies for 233 U Gamma Spectrometry (pdf)

Candice C. Scheffing and Alan Krichinsky

 

Dust monitoring on the Hanford Site: An investigation into the relationship between TSP, PM-10, and PM-2.5  (pdf)

Tara Schwartz, Brad G. Fitz

 

Low Cost Autothermal Diesel Reforming Catalyst Development  (pdf)

Jameel Shihadeh, Di-Jia Liu

 

On-Line Analysis of Organic Compounds in Diesel Exhaust Using Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry (pdf)

M. Vivian White, B. Tom Jobson

 

 

Student Abstracts (pdf)

BIOLOGY p133

CHEMISTRY p146

COMPUTER SCIENCE p157

ENGINEERING p167

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE p182

GENERAL SCIENCES p192

MATERIALS SCIENCES p195

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES p203

NUCLEAR SCIENCE p204

PHYSICS p207

SCIENCE POLICY p219

WASTE MANAGEMENT p220

 

Back of the Book (pdf)

            Index of Schools

            Index of Names

            Education Programs offered by DOE Office of Science

 

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