Journal of Undergraduate Research Office of Science US Department of Energy Volume VII, 2007

Front Section (pdf)

A Message from the Under Secretary for Science

Journal Editors

Technical Review Board

A Note from the Editor:
Science: Change, Growth, or Progress?
Jeffery Dilks

National Laboratories: Agents of Change
Ken White

About the Cover

Suitability of a New Calorimeter for Exotic Meson Searches
Craig Bookwalter, Alexander Ostrovidov, and Paul Eugenio

The Effects of Surface Chemistry on the Properties of Proteins Confined in Nano-porous Materials
Latasha M. Garrett and Hugh O’Neill

Comparison of the Populations of Common Wood-Nymph Butterflies in Burned Prairie, Unburned Prairie and Old Field Grasses
Marlene Hahn and Rod Walton

Analysis of the Water-Splitting Capabilities of Gallium Indium Phosphide Nitride (GaInPN)
Jeff Head and John Turner

Study of Beam Spin Asymmetry in Exclusive p° Production
Ian Howley and Harut Avagyan

Thermophoresis and its Thermal Parameters for Aerosol Collection
Zhuo Huang, Michael Apte, and Lara Gundel

Solvent Purification and Fluor Selection for Gadolinium-loaded Liquid Scintillators
Tigisti Kesete, Amanda Storm, Richard L. Hahn, Minfang Yeh, and Suzanne Seleem

Adaptively Improving Long Distance Network Transfers with Logistics
David LaBissoniere and Kenneth Roche

Examination of Dislocations in Lattice-Mismatched GaInAs/Buffer Layer/GaAs for III-V Photovoltaics
Alejandro Levander and John Geisz

Characterizing the Role of the Nell1 Gene in Cardiovascular Development
Leah Y. Liu and Cymbeline Culiat

A New GUI for Global Orbit Correction at the ALS Using MATLAB
Jacob Pachikara and Gregory Portmann

Development of Emittance Analysis Software for Ion Beam Characterization
Mariano J. Padilla and Yuan Liu

Novel Coarsening of Pb Nanostructures on Si(111) 7 X 7
Charles J. Pye, Michael Yakes, Myron Hupalo, and Michael Tringides

Power Grid Dynamics: Enhancing Power System Operation through Prony Analysis
Cody Ray and Zhenyu Huang

Synthesis of Novel Crown Ethers Bearing the exo-cis-2,3-Norbornyl Group as Potential Na+ and K+ Extractants
Rachel M. Robeson and Peter Bonnesen

Host Galaxies of X-shaped Radio Sources
Alessondra Springmann and Chi Cheung

Calculation of Particle Bounce and Transit Times on General Geometry Flux Surfaces
Douglas Swanson and Jonathan Menard

Climate Change Effects on Species Composition Mediates Decomposition in an Old-field Ecosystem
Marlene L. Tyner and Aimée T. Classen

Lipid Production by Dunaliella Salina in Batch Culture: Effects of Nitrogen Limitation and Light Intensity
Chad Share Weldy and Michael Huesemann

GEANT Simulations of Preshower Calorimeter for CLAS12 Upgrade of the Forward Electromagnetic Calorimeter
Kristin Whitlow and Stepan Stepanyan

A Comparison of DNA Damage Probes in Two HMEC Lines with X-Irradiation
Christy L. Wisnewski, Kathleen A. Bjornstad, Christopher J. Rosen, Polly Y. Chang, and Eleanor A. Blakely

Student Abstracts (pdf)

Biology p136
Chemistry p148
Computer Science p158
Engineering p166
Environmental Science p183
General Sciences p197
Material Sciences p199
Medical and Health Sciences p206
Nuclear Sciences p209
Physics p212
Science Policy p227

Participating National Laboratories

Ames Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Fermi Accelerator Laboratory
Idaho National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos 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 Accelerator Facility

Index of Authors
Index of Schools

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