Partnerships for Innovation
Undergraduate Success Stories
Buki Fatima Baruwa
Buki Fatima Baruwa studied how to prioritize wide-area restoration of a large urban area following a terrorist attack involving aerial release of aerosolized anthrax as a participant in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security HS-STEM Summer Internship Program.
Christopher Copeland
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Scholarship and Fellowship Program participant Christopher Copeland conducted research at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he assisted in the analysis of materials subjected to high levels of radiation.
Moses Davis
Moses Davis, a participant in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security HS-STEM Summer Internship Program, developed skills in simulation modeling to contribute to transportation security improvement projects.
Chelsea DeCapua
Chelsea DeCapua, a participant in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Scholarship and Fellowship Program, used geographic information systems to identify new ways to improve emergency response.
Christina Doerter
Christina Doerter, a senior disaster management major at Jacksonville State University, returned to a second time to Oak Ridge National Laboratories as a participant in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security HS-STEM Summer Internship Program, where she studied how communities recover so quickly following a hurricane or other disaster.
Jimmy Landmesser
Jimmy Landmesser, a senior majoring in fire protection engineering at the University of Maryland, spent the summer continuing research on the development, implementation and operation of the fire protection program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Luke Roberts
Luke Roberts helped calculate the properties of x-ray bursts from exploding stars at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a participant in U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program.
Ashley Anderson
Ashley Anderson, a participant in the DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Program, uses organizational behavior to examine why some ethnic minorities resort to terrorism, and why others do not.
Jamaur Bronner
Jamaur Bronner, an undergraduate psychology student from Duke University, spent the summer of 2009 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computational Human Behavior Center studying under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Scholarship program.