Undergraduate Fellows
Kaurian Butler-Edwards
Prairie View A&M (Texas), Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Charles Mullins
Current Project: Surface Area Increases In Transitional Amorphous/Crystalline
Nanoscale Water Films
Elizabeth Copeland
Haverford (PA), Geology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jay Banner
Current Project: Trace Element Partitioning in Speleothems:
Implications for Groundwater Quality and Paleoclimatology
Gabe Escalante
Texas Lutheran, Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Carlton Willson
Current Project: Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorinated
Norbornenes for Photolithography
Katie Golder
The University of Texas at Austin, Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Craig Linder
Current Project: Cave Microbial Diversity: A Preliminary
Look at Prokaryotic Biodiversity in Central Texas Caves
Kelly McCarthy
Grinnell (Iowa), Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marcy Litvak
Current Project: Alteration in Plant Functional Group Composition
by Prescribed Burning in Texas Grassland and Savanna: Effects on
Soil Respiration
Sarah Mickley
Wooster (Ohio), Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. John McDevitt
Current Project: Detection of Interleukin-6 Using an Automated
Taste Chip-Based Immunoassay
Jorge Ramos
The University of Texas at El Paso, Biology
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dick Richardson
Current Project: Diversity of soil invertebrates at The University
of Texas at Austin campus: comparison between different types of
human disturbance and vegetation.
Suncerae Smith
Southwestern (Texas), Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Brodbelt
Current Project: Preparation for analysis of fire ant trail
pheromones using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
Program Director
Dr. Jennifer Brodbelt - Principal Investigator of REU Program
Professor at UT-Austin's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Current Project: Program director. Research-mass spectrometry.
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