2016-17 WYOMING RESEARCH SCHOLARS

Sarah Brannon

Hometown: Westminster, MA

Major: Wildlife & Fisheries Biology & Management

Faculty Mentor: Corey Tarwater

Project: The Causes of Variation in Tropical Bird Parental Care

Jordan Brophy

Hometown: Wray, CO

Major: Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: John Hoberg

Project: Synthesis of Nitrogenated Holey Two-Dimensional Structures

Isabella Buongiorno

Hometown: Cheyenne, WY

Major: Agroecology

Faculty Mentor: Christine Porter

Delta Burchi

Hometown: Laramie, WY

Major: Zoology & Physiology

Faculty Mentor: Travis Brown

Ella DeWolf

Hometown: Laramie, WY

Major: Molecular Biology

Faculty Mentor: Cynthia Weinig

Logan Eicholzer

Hometown: Liverpool, NY

Major: Earth Systems Science and ENR

Faculty Mentor: Ramesh Sivanpillai

Logan Fairbourn

Hometown: Cheyenne, WY

Major: Microbiology

Faculty Mentors: Rachel Watson, John Willford & Jennifer Harmon

Project: Bacterial cellulose: determining fiber properties and surmising application potentials as they relate to the textile industry

Olivia Glassock

Hometown: Buffalo, WY

Major: Physiology

Samantha Haller

Hometown: Cheyenne, WY

Major: Physiology

Faculty Mentor: Guanglong He

Project: Activation of CARD9: the role of adipocyte lipolysis

Logan Jensen

Hometown: Greybull, WY

Major: Astronomy & Astrophysics

Faculty Mentor: Michael Pierce

Project: Citizen CATE Experiment

Lukas Lindquist

Hometown: Fort Collins, CO

Major: Geology

Faculty Mentor: Kyle Palmquist

Project: Sagebrush, Climate Change, and Groundwater Recharge in Wyoming

Ken Madsen

Hometown: Cheyenne, WY

Major: Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: Brian Leonard

Project: Synthesis and Properties of Carbide Buckypaper

Brittany Nordberg

Hometown: Cody, WY

Major: Zoology & Physiology

Faculty Mentor: Catherine Wagner

Project: The Evolutionary History of Lake Tanganyika’s Nile Perch Species

Kianna Olson

Hometown: Laramie, WY

Major: Astrophysics

Faculty Mentor: Michael Brotherton

Ryan Parziale

Hometown: Littleton, CO

Major: Astrophysics

Faculty Mentor: Daniel Dale

Project: Classifying Star Clusters in Nearby Galaxies

Ashleigh Rhea

Hometown: Dillon, MT

Major: Wildlife & Fisheries Biology & Management

Faculty Mentor: Matthew Carling

Project: Testing for correlations between immune function and carotenoid levels

Darbi Schlenker

Hometown: Meeteetse, WY

Major: Chemistry

Veronica Spaulding

Hometown: North Folk, CA

Major: Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: John Hoberg

Project: Synthesis of Nitrogenated Holey 2D Structures

Aaron Strom

Hometown: Rock Springs, WY

Major: Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: David Anderson

Project: Acetylene Reactions in Solid Molecular Hydrogen and Helium Recovery

Heather Townsend

Hometown: Douglas, WY

Major: Biology

Narisse Trippel

Hometown: Worland, WY

Major: Mechanical Engineering 

Faculty Mentor: Erica Belmont

Kasey Trotter

Hometown: Fort Collins, CO

Major: Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: Elliott Hulley

Project: Synthesis and Characterization of Ruthenium (II) Complexes for Perchlorate Remediation

Elizabeth Wirsching

Hometown: Laramie, WY

Major: Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management

Faculty Mentor: Greg Brown

Project: Quantification of distortion affects in UAV aerial photography

Rex Yeigh

Hometown: Buffalo, WY

Major: Physics/Astronomy

Faculty Mentor: Hannah Jang-Condell

Project: Transit Photometry of Exoplanets using a Robotized Telescope