December 1, 2006 Vol. 77, no. 15F

Students present their research at fall poster session
And the winners are…

Undergraduate researchers got out of the lab and into the spotlight during the fall 2006 Undergraduate Poster Session, “Unlocking the Mysteries of Tomorrow through the Research of Today.” Presenters explained their projects to a steady stream of visitors in the Betty and Gordon Moore Lobby at Hearst Memorial Mining Building.

Judges bestowed the session’s top honors on three women engineers (below), who each took home a gift card to Zachary’s Pizza. Read about all the poster session participants and their research projects at www.coe.berkeley.edu/current_students/uro/index.html.

“BEST CONTENT”

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NAME: Ipsheeta Furtado, Eng. Physics junior
PROJECT TITLE: “Implementation of Pulsed Laser Deposition at ARPES Beamline 7.0”
JOINED RESEARCH: Spring 2005
IN ONE SENTENCE: Furtado designed a pulsed-laser deposition chamber system for the ARPES (Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy) branch of Beamline 7.0 at the ALS (Advanced Light Source) for in-situ experiments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
IN HER OWN WORDS: “Most of my research has been in pure science, but this was about improving instrumentation, and a product came out of it that others would use. I enjoyed it.”

“BEST ORAL PRESENTATION”

RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO

NAME: Joanna Lee, Plant and Microbial Biology senior
PROJECT TITLE: “Pitch Angle Affects Efficiency in Spiroplasma Swimming”
JOINED RESEARCH: Fall 2005
IN ONE SENTENCE: Lee analyzed propulsion techniques of spiroplasma, concluding that the more tightly coiled they are, the more efficient swimmers they are.
IN HER OWN WORDS: “The hardest part is discovering more questions than answers. But it teaches you to think outside the box.”

“BEST VISUAL ORGANIZATION”

RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO

NAME: Tracy Wang, EECS senior
PROJECT TITLE: “Single Multiscale Representation of Stereo Reconstruction”
JOINED RESEARCH: Fall 2005
IN ONE SENTENCE: Wang explored visual imaging techniques with the goal of producing 3-D, real-time images of people in different places interacting with each other in the same virtual space.
IN HER OWN WORDS: “There were a lot of humanities [concepts] involved in this project, and I learned to be really creative and apply different areas of knowledge to this research.”

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