Antoine McLean
Junior
South Carolina State University
Beatrice Siercke
Junior
Cerritos Community College/
UCLA
Meagan Fessak
Post Graduate
Delaware State University
Miranda Spina
Sophomore
Delaware State University
Tariq Sanda
Junior
Vassar College
Jessica McDaniel
Junior
University of Pittsburg
Project: Identification of Metals inside
Landfill Leachate by Laser Induced
Breakdown Spectroscopy
Mentors: Dr. Mukti Rana, Dr. Poopalasingam
Sivakumar, Dr. Yuri Markushin, and Dr.
Noureddine Melikechi
Project: Dispersive optical solitons by semiinverse variational principle
Mentor: Dr. Anjan Biswas
Project: Optical soliton perturbation in nonKerr law media: Traveling wave solution
Mentor: Dr. Anjan Biswas
Project: Laser Induced Breakdown
Spectroscopy for Micro-Particle Assay
Development
Mentor: Dr. Yuri Markushin and Dr.
Noureddine Melikechi
Project: Grain size effect in Laser Induced
Breakdown Spectroscopy
Mentor: Dr. Poopalasingam Sivakumar, and
Dr. Noureddine Melikechi
Project: Database for spectroscopic data
Mentor: Dr. Dragoljub Pokrajac
Dorian Foster
Senior
Delaware State University
China Genwright
Sophomore
Delaware State University
Chen Ling
Junior
University of Rochester
David Breese
Junior
Pomona College
Project: Stable FDTD simulations of
electromagnetic cloaking structures
Mentor: Dr. Jinjie Liu
Project: Analysis of Movements of beads in
Contraceptive Gels
Mentor: Dr. Hacene Boukari
Project: Principal Component Analysis and
Classification on Spectral Data
Mentor: Dr. Poopalasingam Sivakumar, Dr.
Yuri Markushin, and Dr. Noureddine
Melikechi
Project: Creating Optical Vertices using a
Spatial Light Modulator
Mentor: Dr. Renu Tripathi
Danielle Ferguson
Junior
Delaware State University
Project: Analysis of Dynamic Light Scattering
of Concentrated Ficoll Solutions
Samantha McDaniel
Senior
Delaware State University
Project: Database for spectroscopic data
Mentor: Dr. Hacene Boukari
Mentor: Dr. Dragoljub Pokrajac
Christopher Collins
Sophomore
Delaware State University
Bryan Greenly
Senior
Delaware State University
Whitlee Haymore
Senior
Grambling University
Project: Detection of Water in Soil with LIBS
Mentors: Alissa Mezzacappa, Leon Taleh and
Dr. Noureddine Melikechi
Project: Measurement of Resonant MagnetoOptical Rotation in Rubidium Vapor for
Atomic Magnetometry
Mentor: Dr. Gour S. Pati
Project: Wavefront Distortions of a Beam of
Light Due to Thermal Lensing
Mentor: Aristides Marcano