Research In Science and Engineering (RISE) Program
RISE is a 10-week summer research program designed for rising sophomores, juniors, incoming transfers, and seniors which takes place between June 24 - August 30, 2024.
Participants work under the supervision of a faculty mentor on a cutting-edge research project. The program features faculty mentoring, professional development opportunities, immersive experience in the UCR science community, and an undergraduate symposium. Students will complete any relevant laboratory safety training at the beginning of the program.
Through support from generous donors and institutional financial commitments to undergraduate research, the College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences pays CNAS undergraduate students in the Learning Communities CNAS Scholars program (continuing students, CNAS Scholars) and the Summer Bridge to Research program (incoming transfer students) a $5,000 stipend for the 10-week program. The linked application is for these programs.
This paid summer undergraduate research opportunity is hosted by CNAS and collaborates with different on-campus partners. These other programs include: Dynamic Genome Summer Scholars, California Alliance for Minority Participation, Six Legs Entomology Program, USDA NIFA Antimicrobial Resistance in Agriculture Program, RCC Bridges to the Baccalaureate [B2B] Program, Digital Agriculture Fellowship, and UCR Faculty NSF Career Grant partnerships. These other programs have their own application processes.
Below are the faculty participating in the Summer 2024 program. Please browse their research and consider applying below. Applications are due April 16, 2024, at 11:59 PM and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Note that faculty may be selecting students for their labs prior to the deadline. For questions, please email them to noelgras@ucr.edu.
Faculty Name: Ana Bahamonde
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student).
Coursework Requirements: CHEM 8C
Description: Use of Ni catalysts to promote C-CN couplings
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Andrey Bekker
Maximum Number of Students: Up to 3
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: Introductory courses in Earth Sciences
Description: Students will prepare samples for geochemical analyses of Precambrian sediments to constrain the evolution of early Earth atmosphere and oceans.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Chia-en Chang
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Students will work on new deep learning methods developed in the group to reveal physics of molecular motion and sample molecular conformations. Various applications will be examined.
Projects: http://chemcha-gpu0.ucr.edu/
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Steve Choi
Maximum Number of Students: 3
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student): 2 students
Coursework Requirements: N/A
Description: The primary focus of our research is on understanding the formation and evolution of the universe through developing sensitive instruments for new telescopes to enable more precise measurements. The summer research projects will include the development of new tools and infrastructure for testing superconducting detectors for astronomical observations. Other possible projects include developing new codes to forecast different scientific capabilities with our upcoming telescope.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: experimentalcosmology.ucr.edu
Faculty Name: Margarita Curras-Collazo
Maximum Number of Students: 3
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Incoming Transfer Student: 1 student, Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student): 2 students
Coursework Requirements: Completion of Biology series.
Description: Persistent organic pollutants in the indoor and outdoor environment contaminate breast milk and produce adverse effects on offspring’s cognitive ability, social behaviors and metabolic health that persist into adulthood. Using an in vivo mouse model we aim to characterize the reprogrammed phenotypes, at the molecular, neurochemical, circuit and behavioral level, produced by early developmental exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) that are relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.
Projects: Other studies are focused on gut-brain interactions that underlie chronic fatigue and cognitive impairments in a mouse model of Gulf War Illness (GWI). Using gut sensory deafferentation using intra-ganglionic injections with CCK-SAP we aim to clarify the pathophysiology/etiology underlying GWI.
Website for Project: mcurlab.ucr.edu
Faculty Name: Katie Dehesh
Maximum Number of Students: 3
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: How metabolites control organogenesis in plants.
Projects: Roles of conserved metabolites in prokaryotes and eukaryotes .
Website for Project: kdehesh-lab.ucr.edu
Faculty Name: Emma Gachomo
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Transfer or Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student)
Coursework Requirements: Completed Biol 5C
Description: Different types of chemicals of emerging concern (CECs) such as pharmaceuticals enter the wastewater system through disposal of unused prescription drugs or waste from animal bodies. Our lab investigates the effects of found in recycled wastewater on plant-microbe interactions with the goal of reducing pollution. The project involves molecular biology lab work, microbiology, and bioinformatics.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Pingyun Feng
Maximum Number of Students: 1
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student)
Coursework Requirements: Completed Chem 1ABC
Description: Students will work with graduate students on the synthesis and characterization of metal organic framework materials.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Ted Garland
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student)
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Behavior, physiology, and morphology of mice from our unique, selectively bred High Runner lines of mice.
Projects: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/garlandlab/home
Website for Project: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/hrmice/home
Faculty Name: Joseph Genereux
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: Completion of BIOL 5A or equivalent
Description: Environmental toxins (e.g. heavy metals, herbicides, etc.) can damage proteins, causing them to unfold with consequent cellular toxicity. We have developed a mass spectrometry-based approach to identify misfolded proteins in the cell. Using this approach, we identify which proteins are targeted by individual toxins, towards better understanding the threat that these toxins present. We are particularly interested in evaluating environmental threats that are poorly characterized or that disproportionately impact systemically marginalized communities.
Projects: genereuxlab.ucr.edu
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Jia Gou
Maximum Number of Students: 1
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: Basic physics and biology knowledge. Have some experience with python or C++ or Matlab
Description: We are looking for a student to work on developing a computational model of cell migration. This project aims to understand the interactions between cells and substrates under different conditions.
Projects: https://jiagou105.github.io/
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Weifeng Gu
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Small RNA mediated gene regulation and antivirus.
Projects: Investigate the roles of proteins involved in several RNA modifications using C. elegans as the model system. The proteins involved are PIR-2, CMTR1, CMTR2, etc.
Website for Project: profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/weifeng
Faculty Name: Allison Hansen
Maximum Number of Students: 1
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student)
Coursework Requirements: Biol 5C
Description: Evolution of gene regulation in bacterial symbionts of insects
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: https://allisonhansenlab.weebly.com/
Faculty Name: Andrew Joe
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student), Incoming UCR transfer student, open to students currently at Community Colleges who are considering UCR
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a class of materials that can be reduced down to a thickness of a single atomic layer while maintaining exciting electronic and optical properties. Individual layers of different types of materials can be isolated and stacked to create new material heterostructures that can have drastically new properties. The Joe Lab focuses on studying these 2D material heterostructures using electronic transport and optical spectroscopy techniques to discover new physical phenomena. Undergraduates in the lab will have a chance to exfoliate bulk 2D materials (graphite, hBN, TMDs) and learn to assemble these heterostructures. They can also be involved with new lab setup projects - designing measurement equipment and parts using using solidworks for home designed measurements.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: https://joelab.ucr.edu/
Faculty Name: Howard Judelson
Maximum Number of Students: 1
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student)
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: The project centers on Phytophthora infestans, a plant pathogen responsible for late blight disease in potato and tomato. This pathogen belongs to the relatively understudied group of organisms known as oomycetes, which are fungal-like filamentous microorganisms. Several key aspects of P. infestans biology, including the effects of ploidy number (the count of chromosome sets), remain inadequately understood. Preliminary experiments indicate potential differences in development and biology among strains with different ploidy numbers.
Projects: The summer project aims to characterize these strains to uncover ploidy-related variations in biology. This will involve quantification of DNA, RNA, and metabolite concentrations, assessment of growth under normal and stress conditions, and the evaluation of spore production. Under the guidance of postdoctoral researcher Milan Milenovic and Professor Howard Judelson, the student will gain experience in growing and maintaining fungal/oomycete cultures, molecular biology, microscopy, and experimental design.
Website for Project: https://oomyceteworld.net
Faculty Name: Fatemeh Khodadadi
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student)
Coursework Requirements: No coursework is required.
Description: The summer research project will be focused on fungal plant disease diagnosis and detection as well as disease management and control for citrus and avocado.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Ying-Hsuan Lin
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Our research is mainly focused on understanding the sources, composition, and formation mechanisms of atmospheric aerosols, and how they influence air quality, human health, and the climate system. We utilize advanced analytical instruments and theoretical calculations to characterize chemical processes controlling the composition of atmospheric aerosols, and research human health effects using -omics approaches to identify biological perturbations associated with pollutant exposure. Our lab aims to establish a mechanistic understanding of air pollution-induced human health effects and climate impacts.
Projects:
Potential research project 1: Formation and evolution of atmospheric brown carbon
Potential research project 2: Chemical and toxicological characterizations of vaping emissions
Potential research project 3:Thermal degradation and off-gassing products of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Website for Project: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/yinghsuanlin
Faculty Name: Wei Liu
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: Research will be conducted primarily via online connections
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: Basic physics and mathematics.
Description: The student(s) will have the opportunity to work on the research project(s) to explore the role of the ocean in climate change and climate variability such as Southern Ocean heat uptake and climate impacts of wind-driven and thermohaline circulation changes.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Morris Maduro
Maximum Number of Students: 3
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student).
Coursework Requirements: Biol 020
Description: The Maduro lab studies how genes expressed in early embryos direct the specification of the gut in the nematode Pristionchus.
Projects: Students will do PCR and gel electrophoresis, microscopy, and imaging.
Website for Project: faculty.ucr.edu/~mmaduro/evol.htm
Faculty Name: Kerry Mauck
Maximum Number of Students: up to 8 students under the Six Legs Programs
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: New UCR transfer student only, Open to students currently at Community Colleges who are considering UCR
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: We have multiple opportunities through the Six Legs, Endless Possibilities USDA HSI educational grant. The goal of our program is to introduce students to the many opportunities for research in the area of agricultural sciences. Agricultural science encompasses a wide range of research areas, from work on plants and insects to studies on animals and even how humans interact with and benefit from ecosystem services. We also explore conservation issues, environmental issues, and the ways climate change is impacting our ability to support ourselves while preserving life on the planet. Students who select our program for their research experience will have access to opportunities with UCR labs and USDA partner labs covering many aspects of research in the areas stated above.
Projects: Projects under the Six Legs, Endless Possibilities training program will include opportunities to work on:
1. Biological control of invasive pests
2. Plant-insect interactions
3. Pollinator health and novel ways to combat threats to bees
4. Pollinator behavior and ecology
5. Food webs and predator-prey interactions
6. Circular economy and food waste recycling to usable products
7. Novel, sustainable methods for controlling pests of livestock
Within these projects, there will be opportunities to learn new laboratory techniques, such as nucleic acid extraction, PCR, gel electrophoresis, methods for measuring enzyme activity and kinetics. Students will also learn how to study animal behavior and how to conduct research in a field environment. All students will learn how to read and interpret scientific literature, write about their projects for other scientists, and communicate their results effectively.
Website for Project: https://six-legs.ucr.edu/program-information
Faculty Name: Quinn McFrederick
Maximum Number of Students: 1
Where: In-person with some off-campus fieldwork
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Research in the McFrederick lab focuses on understanding how symbionts (beneficial microbes and pathogens) affect bee health, so that we can best protect these important pollinators. These projects include fieldwork, molecular laboratory work, microbiology, and bioinformatics.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: melittology.ucr.edu
Faculty Name: Allen Mills
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student)
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Projects in sample preparation and electronic and vacuum devices for various measurements of the properties of positrons (anti-electrons) under the supervision of a post doc.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Dawn Nagel
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: New UCR transfer student only, Open to students currently at Community Colleges who are considering UCR
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Students will perform molecular biology techniques to understand gene expression dynamics in response to abiotic stress in plants.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: https://dawnnagel.wixsite.com/nagelucr
Faculty Name: Olakunle Olawole
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student), open to students currently at Community Colleges who are considering UCR
Coursework Requirements: BIO 20
Description: The summer research projects in my lab is Comparative pathogenicity and virulence of multiple bacteria on tobacco seedlings. In this project, students will gain experience of working with plant pathogenic bacteria, and evaluate their ability to cause disease and extent of damage to the model plant, tobacco. Symptoms of diseased plants will be collected, statistically analyzed and interpreted within the context of host-specificity.
Projects: The other project will include the isolation and characterization of bacteriophages from environmental sources and infected plant tissues. Students will have the opportunity of sourcing for bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) from environmental sources and bacterial-infected plant tissues. Isolated phages will be characterized based on their morphological, microscopic and genomic traits, and compared to known phages that are already present in public repository. Genome sequences will be published and deposited public genome databases.
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Kate Ostevik
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: General research areas: evolutionary biology, speciation, hybridization, genome evolution, pollination biology, plant mating systems.
Possible research topic 1: The effect of transposable elements, aka "jumping genes," on plant fertility. My lab has access to different varieties of rice that have different numbers of actively "jumping" transposable elements. We want to know whether more active transposable elements are more likely to "jump" into other genes and, therefore, affect plant fertility.
Possible research topic 2: Pollen competition between dune and non-dune sunflowers. My lab has shown that some sunflowers are choosey about the pollen they allow to fertilize seeds, where pollen from more similar plants is more likely to be successful. We would like to extend this finding to other groups of sunflowers.
Possible research topic 3: The evolution of drought tolerance in wild sunflower populations. Possible projects include measuring sunflower seedlings for drought tolerance or returning to historical populations of sunflowers and collecting their seeds.
Possible research topic 4: Reproductive isolation between a hybrid species and its parental species. Penstemon clevelandii is thought to be a hybrid species between P. centranthifolous and P. spectabilis. We are interested in determining whether the three species are reproductively compatible with one another and with natural hybrid between P. centranthifolous and P. spectabilis..
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: osteviklab.com/home
Faculty Name: Alex Putman
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Our lab studies pathogens of vegetable and some fruit crops. One disease we are working on is Fusarium wilt, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum. This pathogen lives in the soil, infects the roots, and clogs the water-conducting tissue of the plant. There are many strains of F. oxysporum, each of which causes disease on only one host. We are mainly working with the strains infecting lettuce, celery, or cilantro. Fusarium wilt can be mitigated using cultivars (different types) of plants with some immunity to the pathogen. However, we recently found outbreaks of Fusarium wilt on immune types of lettuce, suggesting that a new strain of the pathogen has emerged. The main objective of our current research is to characterize this new strain, determine where it has spread, and if other types of lettuce are effective against it. This work involves diagnosing diseased plants and culturing the fungus from infected plants onto artificial media. Then we infect different lettuce cultivars in the greenhouse to confirm pathogenicity, and perform molecular identification using PCR and qPCR. The desired impact of this work is to provide knowledge to farmers on which strain of Fusarium wilt is present in their fields so they can choose an appropriate immune cultivar of lettuce that suppresses disease. The overall goal of our lab is to improve the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of crop production in California.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: David Reznick
Maximum Number of Students: 3
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student)
Coursework Requirements: Biology 5ABC
Description: Project 1: We have ongoing experiments that characterize the inheritance of male coloration in natural populations of guppies and the genetic mechanisms that underlie the patterns of evolution that we see in natural populations. Most of a male's color pattern is y-linked and faithfully transmitted from father to son. But, this mechanism alone cannot account for how we see color evolve in nature. There must be some x-linked or autosomal variation that is segregating and present in females, even though no wild-type females express any color. Our experiment involves crossing individual males to virgin females from different populations so that we can evaluate the male contribution to coloration against different genetic backgrounds. The work will involve rearing the offspring of experimental crosses, photographing the males, applying a computer program to analyze male coloration, then performing analyses that address the significance of and characterize the female contribution to male coloration.
Projects: Project 2 - Sperm storage in fish in the family Poeciliidae: This fish family includes many species that are popular in the pet trade, including guppies, mollies, platys and swordtails. All species bear live young. The females of most species fully provision eggs before they are fertilized but retain them until development is complete. Some species have the functional equivalent of a mammalian placenta, which means that the egg received little provisioning before fertilization, then continues to be provisioned throughout development. We have established that this equivalent of a placenta has evolved at least nine times in the family and have identified three clusters of closely related species that either do or do not have a placenta. These clusters are ideal for addressing questions about how and why the placental evolved. One feature of the family is that females are able to store sperm, but we actually only know this for a small subset of the species in the family. There is a body of theory that predicts how different aspects of the biology of reproduction should change in response to the evolution of the placenta, one of which includes the frequency of mating and the relative importance of a females capacity to select mates either before or after mating. These differences can be attained via the evolution of an enhanced capacity to store sperm in association with the evolution of the placenta. We have multiple ongoing studies that are designed to address this and other hypotheses associated with the evolution of placentation.
Website for Project: https://theguppyproject.weebly.com/ & http://davidreznick.weebly.com
Faculty Name: Kieran Samuk
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person with some off-campus fieldwork.
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Natural environments are constantly changing. The organisms that live in these environments must thus constantly evolve to adapt to new environmental challenges. In my lab group, we are interested in the role that special genetic variants called "supergenes" play in adaptation to a changing climate.
Projects: The prospective RISE student will carry our molecular lab work and field work to characterize and track the frequency of supergenes in a species of fly native to southern California. They will then compare these frequencies to historical samples, and correlate them with changes in climate.
Website for Project: samuklab.ucr.edu
Faculty Name: Marko Spasojevic
Maximum Number of Students: 3
Where: In person with mostly off campus field work
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Forests play key roles in biodiversity maintenance and climate regulation. Globally, forests support over half of all described species and provide many valuable ecosystem functions and services such as timber, clear air, clean water, and carbon storage. However, forests worldwide are being threatened by habitat loss, drought, and changing fire regimes, which have all resulted in losses to biodiversity and alterations to key ecosystem functions and services. Understanding and predicting how forests will respond to ongoing and pervasive changes to the environment is critical for biodiversity conservation and for the management and maintenance of ecosystem services. To address this, the Spasojevic Ecology lab at UC-Riverside has established a 4ha Forest Dynamics Plot (FDP) adjacent to the James Reserve. Briefly, within the FDP every free-standing woody stem (live or dead) greater than 1cm in diameter has been identified to species, mapped, measured, and tagged for long term monitoring. In establishing this plot, we have observed that many of the Conifers are dead or dying and that there are few Conifers recruiting into this forest. On the other hand, very few Oaks have died and there are many Oaks recruiting into the forest. These patterns suggest a potential shift in the composition of the forest from a mixed Oak-Conifer Forest to a more Oak dominated system. This change in the composition of the forest can have important ramifications for carbon storage, as Oaks are slower growing than Pines, as well as implications for the rest of the plants and animals that depend on these species. We are seeking undergrads that interested in plant ecology and climate change who are seeking to gain field experience (spending most of their research time in the field).
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: N/A
Faculty Name: Yiwei Wang
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Physics-informed and data-driven variational modeling for biological systems.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: https://sites.google.com/view/yiweiwang-math/home
Faculty Name: Shawn Westerdale
Maximum Number of Students: 3
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference, open to students currently at Community Colleges who are considering UCR
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Dark matter makes up 85% of the mass of all matter in the universe, but the Standard Model of particle physics describes no particles that might account for it -- so far, we only know it exists through its effects on gravity. The group with Shawn Westerdale seeks to understand the nature of dark matter through the method of direct detection: building large detectors deep underground, and looking for very rare events where a dark matter particle might interact with the detector. Undergraduates on this group have the chance to work on a number of experiments that use liquid argon-based detectors to study dark matter. Work will involve some combination of developing detector technology for looking for dark matter signals, calculating the sensitivity of future experiments, and developing new techniques for searching for rare events with very low background rates.
For more information, see dark-matter.ucr.edu
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: dark-matter.ucr.edu
Faculty Name: Hollis Woodard
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In person with some off campus field work
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: The Woodard lab studies and works to conserve bumble bees, including lab experimental and field research. The lab is examining how factors such as wildfire and competition with honey bees influence the health and status of bumble bees, in areas including the San Bernardino and Sierra Nevada Mountains. Work for this project includes hiking; handling, photographing, and releasing bees; collecting tissue samples; wet lab work; and analysis of field-collected data.
Projects: The lab is also exploring how social interactions in the nest impact the growth of brood (developing larvae) in the nest. This work involves rearing bee colonies in the lab, feeding and caring for bees, handling and collecting bees, and analysis of behavioral and other types of data.
Website for Project: woodardlab.com
Faculty Name: Haofei Zhang
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: Rising sophmore or junior (2nd or 3rd year continuing student)
Coursework Requirements: CHEM 1ABC
Description: The first research project will focus on understanding the formation of secondary organic carbon from atmospheric volatile organic compound oxidation through laboratory simulation experiments and chemical composition analysis.
Projects: N/A
Website for Project: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/hzhang/home
Faculty Name: Jingsong Zhang
Maximum Number of Students: 2
Where: In-person on campus
Student Level: No preference
Coursework Requirements: No
Description: Chemical kinetics and reaction mechanisms of atmospheric chemical reactions; chemical vapor deposition; atmospheric chemistry; environmental chemistry;
Projects: Combustion chemistry and high-temperature reaction kinetics using laser spectrometry.
Website for Project: N/A