Cory Rupp, a Keck Undergraduate Research Fellow at the CBE, is among about
1,000 students nationwide who received a National Science Foundation Graduate
Fellowship, worth $121,500 over three years.
See a picture of Cory and read the full story at:
http://www.erc.montana.edu/Res-Lib99-SW/newsarchives/HTML/2004/Rupp_MSUNews.htm
Woodrow Star wins
award at Conference for Hispanic & Native American Students
Woodrow Star, CBE Undergraduate Researcher, received an award for his poster
that he presented at a Conference for Hispanic and Native American Students in
Albuquerque (SACNAS). Out of 425 posters, 20 awards were given and 3 were given
to MSU students! Woody also received a cash award of $250.00. His poster
was entitled "Nontuberculous mycobacterial adherence to host molecules".
For more information about this award and to read about the other two MSU
recipients, please see the newspaper article at:
http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1306
Congratulations Woody!
Woody works for Dr. Luanne Hall-Stoodley and is a senior in Microbiology.
Woody plans to attend medical school.
Cory Rupp receives Scholarships and Internships
Cory Rupp has been a Keck Undergraduate Research Fellow at the CBE since May
2001. His work on Biofilm Viscoelasticity has
been a successful and important contribution to biofilm research. Among
the many scholarships and recognition he has received over his undergraduate
career, below are his most recent:
2003 Boeing Scholarship - $3,000
2003 Internship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory - Dynamics Summer
School Program
2003 William Parkins Engineering-Physics Award - $1,100
2003 Goldwater Scholarship Nominee
2002 Internship at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Good job Cory!
Cory works for Dr. Paul Stoodley and is majoring in Mechanical Engineering
and Physics.
CBE Undergraduate Scholars Program Awardees
The
Undergraduate Scholars Program (USP) is designed to encourage, facilitate,
and support undergraduate research in collaboration with faculty. USP
supports undergraduate research by awarding grants and/or providing academic
credit to students who undertake an investigative or creative project in
collaboration with a faculty mentor.
USP applicants are required to submit a mini-proposal
detailing methods and techniques that will be involved in the proposed research
project. At the completion of the project, students must submit a
final report. In some cases, awardees may be asked to present their work.
USP awards are worth $1,500 each and covers a fee waiver for USP credits
and/or a stipend. Participating departments may also match the award in
the form of a student appointment in the department where the research is being
conducted.
Fall 2003 CBE USP Awardees:
Conrad Donovan
Major: Electrical Engineering
USP Project: "Microbial Fuel Cells"
Sarah Golden
Major: Biological Science
USP Project: "Quantifying Factors Affecting Toxic Shock tsst-1 in
Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms"
Jarred Myers
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project: "Electron Transfer Mechanisms in Mediator-less Microbial Fuel
Cells"
Travis Nelson
Major: Chemistry-Teaching Option
USP Project: "Biofilm and Zero-Valent Iron Mediated Transformation of
Explosives"
Elizabeth Sandvik
Major: Chemical and Biological Engineering
USP Project: "Optimization of a Model Hot Tub System for Mycobacterium
Fortuitum"
Ellen Swogger
Major: Chemical Engineering
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Alison Ziegler
Major: Biomedical Science
USP Project: "Control of Biofilm by Natural Product"
Summer 2003 CBE USP Awardees:
Krista Cooperstein
Major: Microbiology
USP Project: "Proteomic Comparison of Biofilm vs. Detached Methicillin
Resistant Staphylococcus aureus"
Conrad Donovan
Major: Electrical Engineering
USP Project: "3 Dimensional Biofilm Image Analysis"
Jarred Myers
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project: "Reproducibility of P. aeruginosa Biofilms"
Ellen Swogger
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project: "Bacterial Biofilms in Sinusitus"
2002-2003 CBE USP Awardees:
Wesley Bauman
Major: Civil Engineering (Bio Resources Option)
USP Project: "Effectiveness of Chloramines Used as the Recharge Biocide on
Rechargeable Biocidal Surfaces"
Sarah Golden
Major: Biological Sciences
USP Project: "Effects of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide on Production of
TSST-1 Toxin by Cells of Staphyloccous Aureus Growing in Biofilms"
Amber Harrer
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project: "Spatial Patterns of Killing in P. aerugionosa
Biofilms"
Jeremy Mitchell
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project: "Proteomic Evaluation of Staphylococcus epidermidis
Biofilms"
Deanne Stookey
Major: Biological Sciences
USP Project: "Reproduceable P. aerugionosa Biofilms"
Erin Werner
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project: "Spatial Patterns of Killing in P. aerugionosa
Biofilms"
2001-2002 CBE USP Awardees:
Jarod Bock
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project:
Timothy Esser
Major: Biomedical Science
USP Project: "Control of Biofilms by Natural Products"
Amber Harrer
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project: "Spatial Patterns of Killing in P. aerugionosa
Biofilms"
Andrew Lucas
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project: "Leukocyte Interactions with Microbial Biofilms"
Jeremy Mitchell
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project: "Leukocyte Response to Biofilms"
Chayne Piscitelli
Major: Biochemistry
USP Project: "Crystallization of LasR and Rhlr Regulatory Proteins
in P. aerugionosa"
Erin Werner
Major: Chemical Engineering
USP Project: "Spatial Patterns of Killing in P. aerugionosa
Biofilms"
Award for Excellence
CBE undergrad researcher and chemical engineering major, Katie Dawson,
was one of forty MSU students tapped for the Award for Excellence and will be
recognized at the 19th annual Awards for Excellence Banquet on Tuesday, Feb. 19
sponsored by the Bozeman Area Chamber of Commerce. Dedicated to excellence, the
evening is designed to recognize seniors who have outstanding records of
achievement in academic, and extracurricular activities and service to MSU and
the local community. The Awards for Excellence program also recognizes the
outstanding students and campus mentors. The Awards for Excellence Program is
made possible through campus and community sponsorships. Campus sponsorships are
$75, which includes two seats/dinners at the banquet, as well as name
recognition in the annual program. The sponsorships also help pay for the cost
of the student and faculty honorees of the evening.
Katie works for Mark Pasmore.
Don G. Willems Scholarship
Graduate students, Kristin Van Andel and Elsa Meiser, were both winners of
the Don G. Willems Scholarship. The Donald G. Willems Scholarship was presented
to the two MSU students at a state meeting of the American Water Works
Association and the Water Environment Association. Elsa and Kristin were awarded
$500 in memory of Don Willems, a Montana wastewater professional. As the
scholarship certificate indicates "... Don recognized worth and ability in
other people, and did not so much rule over people as to work with them. He gave
people chances to prove themselves and was responsible for giving many young
people in Montana the career opportunities they desired." Ms. Meiser
recently began her graduate studies with Drs. Joel Cahoon and Al Cunningham
while Ms. Van Andel is finishing her M.S. degree with Dr. Anne Camper.
Marine Biological Laboratory Scholarship
Robin Gerlach was the recipient of a Marine Biological Laboratory scholarship to
attend a seven week Microbial Diversity course at the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in the summer of 2001. The MBL is one of
the leading training facilities for aspiring young scientists.
Barry Goldwater Scholarship
Laura Jennings was one of the 2001 winners of a Barry Goldwater Scholarship, one
of the top undergraduate scholarships in the nation for students studying
engineering, math or science.
The scholarships cover the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board
up to a maximum of $7,500 per year of undergraduate schooling. MSU numbers among
the top institutions in the country for the number of students who have received
the scholarship, according to Goldwater Foundation officials. MSU's 2001
Goldwater recipients were among 302 winners selected from 1,164 applicants.
Congress established the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship program in 1986 to
support outstanding students in mathematics, the natural sciences and
engineering.
Jennings, 21, completed a semester-long internship at 3M in St. Paul,
Minnesota and has set a goal of earning a Ph.D. in environmental engineering and
a career researching bioremediation and also possibly teaching. In summer 2000,
she received an internship to University of California, Berkeley. She has been
involved in a Center for Biofilm Engineering research project investigating ways
to clean up solvent from groundwater.
A native of Mantua, Ohio, Jennings moved with her family to Utah for her last
two years of high school, ran track and worked for a veterinarian in addition to
maintaining exemplary grades. Her family moved to Helena and Jennings received a
Presidential Scholarship to MSU, where she also enrolled in the University
Honors Program.
Thomas
Charles Haggerty Memorial Scholarship
Melanie Nowlin was the 2000-2001 recipient of the Thomas
Charles Haggerty Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is worth $2,300 and is
given to a Civil Engineering undergraduate whose focus is on an education in
water resources.
During Melanie’s time as a student, she has been working at the Center for
Biofilm Engineering with Chris Wend (Ph.D. candidate in Environmental
Engineering) assisting him in studies of the biological treatment of water, with
Judel Buls (M.S. candidate in Civil Engineering) studying oxidation techniques
for increasing bioavailability fractions of natural organic matter in a water
source, along with an internship in the Biofilm Systems Training Laboratory (BSTL)
developing a standard method for quantifying biofilm.
Currently, she is writing a report incorporating the research of Chris Wend
and Judel Buls on optimizing biological treatment using oxidation.
Melanie is majoring in Civil Engineering with a minor in
English.
