Meet the 2025 SURF Cohort Cami Lyman Mentors: Kevin Cash Project Title: Size Control of Oxygen Sensitive Nanosensors CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Ryan Brown Mentors: Ramya Kumar Project Title: Fabrication of Continuous Flow Polymerization Reactor CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Claire Lewis Mentors: Tom Williams Project Title: Listening to the Hand: How Puppetry can Help Inform Robot Design CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Alexa Toomey Mentors: Adrienne Marshall and Arielle Koshkin Project Title: Assessing snow drought extent in the Western US CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Madison Tate Mentor: Rajasavanth Rajasegar Project Title: Compact Gas Turbine Testing at High Altitude Conditions CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Sang Bui Mentor: Nathan Lenssen Project Title: Metrics of Global Drought in a Changing Climate CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Isaak Sanders Mentor: Patrice Genevet Project Title: Nanoimprinting lithography of metasurfaces CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER Whitney Luckett Mentor: Megan Holtz Project Title: Growth and Characterization of Hexagonal Oxide Ferroelectric Materials CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER Rhea Alexander Mentor: Carolyn Koh Project Title: Interfacial Properties of Clathrate Hydrates for Carbon Capture Applications CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER Andrew Plute Mentor: Chuan Yue Project Title: A Cryptographic System and a Lab Exercise for Identity Management CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER Eliot Beaver Mentor: Leslie Lamberson Project Title: Development of a Miniaturized Kolsky Bar for High-Rate Testing of Protective Materials CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER Isabella Campos Mentors: Paulo Tabares Project Title: New Heat Exchanger with Phase Change Material for Water Heating Applications CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER Quinn Harrand Mentor: Anuj Chauhan Project Title: Triggered drug delivery by gold nanoparticle loaded contact lenses Gigi Albers Mentor: Matthew Siegfried Project Title: Mapping Tropical Beaches and Icy Coastlines Using a Novel Remote Sensing Tool CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER David Karibian Mentor: Estelle Smith Project Title: Understanding Parental Needs and Concerns for Online Age Verification Technology for Children CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER Thomas Perkins Mentor: Kamil Ciesielski Project Title: Discovery of Compounds containing Frustrated Vanadium Nets with Emergent Electronic Phenomena CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Nicole Foss Mentor: Shubham Vyas Project Title: Probing the atmospheric transformation of PFASs Fatima Alfayadh Mentor: Matthew Crane Project Title: Optical printing of nanomaterials for quantum networks CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER Kate Harvey Mentor: Scott Strong Project Title: Numerical Approximation of Singular Integrals Arising from Topological Defects in Ambient Real Space CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Arael Anaya Mentor: Georgios Kontoudis Project Title: Decentralized Rendezvous using Multiple Drones for Environmental Monitoring CLICK HERE FOR FULL POSTER Isabella Hensley Mentors: Dr. Kevin Cash and John Branning Project Title: Small Animal Imager Box CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Marguerite Pyne Mentor: Johan Vanneste Project Title: Pilot-scale turbidity-based membrane scaling mitigation on gypsum-impacted groundwaters in Colorado CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Grey Garner Mentor: Wouter Van De Pontseele Project Title: TRIGGERING AND CALIBRATION FOR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENTS IN A DILUTION REFRIGERATOR CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Emily Hansen Mentor: Dr. David Halat Project Title: Investigating Ion-transport and the Chemical Environment of Lithium-ion Batteries CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Anna Williams Mentor: Bia Villas Boas Project Title: SASCWATCH (Study on Air Sea Coupling with Waves Turbulence and Clouds at High winds) CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Alex Stevens Mentor: Joy Gockel Project Title: Measurement Methods for Defects in Metal Additive Manufacturing CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Graham Walter Mentor: Leslie Lamberson Project Title: DEVELOPMENT OF A MINIATURIZED KOLSKY BAR FOR HIGH-RATE TESTING OF PROTECTIVE MATERIALS CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Ava Watson Mentor: Anne Silverman Project Title: Biomechanics and Muscle Control of a Step Down Task CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Raina Majumder Mentor: Scott Strong Project Title: Discovery of Interpretable and Generalizable Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations Given Weakly Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Sazel Pokharel Mentor: Michael Wakin Project Title: STEM Kits CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Daniel Diaz Reyes Mentor: Xiaoli Zhang Project Title: Design and development of a snow plowing robotic system Zachary Shallenberger Mentor: Yvette Kuiper Project Title: Bedrock and surficial deposit mapping in the Loveland Pass 7.5’ quadrangle, central Colorado Front Range CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Thya GalindoCLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POSTER Mentor: Ramya Kumar Project Title: RATIONAL DESIGN OF PROTEIN CORONA THROUGH ANIONIC MONOMER INCORPORATION IN POLYMERIC NANCOARRIERS Thomas Walker Mentor: Jihye Kim Project Title: UNVEILING THE ROLE OF ELECTROLYTE CHEMISTRY ON CO AND NI SEPARATION CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Ashlynne Bogema Mentor: Richard Holz Project Title: Structure Function Studies on Nitrile Hydratases Robert Laurie Mentor: Kamil Ciesielski Project Title: Unknown Title Bryce Robichaud` Mentor: Megan Holtz Project Title: New methods for mapping nanoscale crystal structure using scanning transmission electron microscopy CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Kailey Dougherty Mentor: Ge Jin Project Title: Python Package Development for 4D Visualization of Geophysical Data CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Owen Farkas Mentor: Alan Sellinger Project Title: Synthesis of Organic and Polymer Materials for Radiation Detection CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL SLIDES Sam Orgeldinger Mentor: Rajavasanth Rajasegar Project Title: Compact Gas Turbine Testing for High-Altitude Conditions CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Katie Gonzalez Mentors: Colin Beyers and Bia Villas Boas Project Title: Making Waves in Ocean Science: Statistical Validation of a CLLC Global Circulation Model CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Evan Christie Mentors: Kamil Ciesielski Project Title: Discovery of Compounds containing Frustrated Vanadium Nets with Emergent Electronic Phenomena CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Maddox Chastain Mentors: Brandon Dugan Project Title: Role of fine-grained materials in the pore pressure evolution and slip behavior of the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Ryan Kennett Mentors: Melissa Krebs and Elise Collins Project Title: Enhancing Growth Plate Cartilage Repair by Blocking Angiogenesis through Biomaterial Peptide Presentation CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Christian Haakmeester Mentors: Samantha Webster Project Title: DESIGN OF TEST FIXTURE AND MEASUREMENT OF POWDER FLOW DISTRIBUTION IN LASER, POWDER BLOWN DIRECTED ENERGY DEPOSITION CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Emma Bateman Mentors: Melissa Krebs Project Title: Designing Localized Drug-Delivery Solution for Women’s Health Matthew Cahill Mentors: Parisa Bazazi Project Title: Hydrogen Storage for Aviation and Aerospace Applications CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Amanda Castillo-Lopez Mentors: Piret Plink-Bjorklund Project Title: Raging rivers or stable streams: Rethinking river floods CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Camille Anderson Mentor: Dr. Samantha Johnson Project Title: Modeling Carbon Capture Solvents in Complex Environments CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Ryan Roccanova Mentors: Shilai Hao Project Title: A New Method to Recycle Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries: Simultaneously Recover Transition Metals and Destroy Emerging Contaminants CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL POSTER Sam Brown Mentors: Zachary Katz Project Title: Discovering how an Antarctic ice stream moves using machine learning CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Chandler Wilburn Mentors: Meenakshi Singh Project Title: Development of SrTiO3 based Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers for Quantum Information Applications Pethuel Ofori Mentors: Ramya Kumar Project Title: Unknown Title CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER Cameron Hinkle Mentors: Frances Zhu Project Title: Rover Mobility Experiments in a Lunar Surface Testbed CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL POSTER
