VSGC URECA PROGRAM
                     Undergraduate Research Endeavors Competitive Awards

URECA is a program designed to stimulate undergraduate research with faculty mentoring. This student-facility research program is designed, under the guidance of faculty mentors, to stimulate student research; to incorporate research experience more fully into undergraduate education; and to provide incentives for students and faculty who engage in meaningful research collaboration the proposals below were funded through NASA-VT Space Grant Consortium.

2008 URECA! Student Researchers:

NASA-Vermont Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) is supporting 3 2008
Undergraduate Research Endeavors Competitive Awards (URECA! Program)
student researchers.
Each will be receive $3000 from VSGC and $1000 from UVM.

The students are:

Christopher R. Farmer
Electrical Engineering (Senior)
Faculty Mentor: Paul Hines
School of Engineering
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Title of Project: High Power, Light Weight, High Efficiency Energy
Storage for Hybrid Vehicles

Kameron Decker Harris
Physics & Math (Junior)
Faculty Mentor: Chris M. Danforth
Mathematics
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Title of Project: Complex Systems Modeling of Climate Regime Change in
Chaotic Convection

Maggie Sager
Biology (Junior)
Faculty Mentor: Joseph D. Schmoker, MD
Cardiovascular Research
College of Medicine/Biology

Title of Project: The Effect of Pressure on Induction of the MAP Kinase
Pathway on the Human Thoracic Aortic Wall
 

CRITERIA TO QUALIFY:
   ●  Research topic must be NASA related
   ●  U.S. Citizen
          * Funding cannot be used to: 1. buy general purpose equipment (ie: computer)
                                                            2. foreign travel (including Canada)

Past Recipient Archive

 University of Vermont URECA Program

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