Partnerships for Innovation
Graduate Student Research Experiences
Anna Bruton
Anna Bruton spent the summer of 2009 at Howard University researching the responsiveness of law-enforcement officers during the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
Emily Fischer
2009 Marvin L. Wesely Distinguished Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship Award winner Emily Fischer participated in the Global Change Education Program (GCEP), which promotes undergraduate and graduate training in support of DOE’s global change research activities.
Matt Jaramillo
As part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Fellowship program, Psychology student Matt Jaramillo studied the use of spoken words to assess personalities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computational Human Behavior Center during the summer of 2009.
Kristen Lancaster
Kristen Lancaster wrote code for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for specialized software that will gather safety information, including details about radioactive materials carried by trucks, at interstate weigh stations.
Yashema Mack
Florida A&M student Yashema Mack analyzed data from the world’s fastest supercomputer, putting her computer skills to use for nuclear technology advancement at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Amber Stoesser
Amber Stoesser, a participant in the DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Program, creates interesting and innovative curricula for teaching the next generation of terrorism researchers.
Augusto Tentori
Augusto Tentori, a participant in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Scholarship and Fellowship Program, used his expertise in microfluidics to help develop a prototype device for human radiation exposure detection.
Mary Wilson
Mary Wilson spent the summer of 2008 researching the characterization of RNA dependent RNA polymerase of New World hantaviruses at the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense.