Nine undergraduates completed their theses in April and will graduate with honors this spring. 

Shoham Benmelech (Advisor: Ian Wong)
Towards Unsupervised Classification of Cell Shape Transitions in 2D and 3D Geometries

Evan Dastin-van Rijn (Advisor: David Borton)
Enabling neural biomarker detection for adaptive neurostimulation therapies

Gaia-Marie Gerbaka (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Optimization of Ex-Vivogold Nanorod-Enhanced near-Infrared Stimulation Using Mouse Retina

Carli Langevin (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Microscopy imaging of gold nanorod attachment to retinal ganglion cells to enable remote activation to restore vision

Braxton Morrison (Advisor: Michelle Dawson)
Radiation-Induced Senescence of Stromal Cells Causes Development of SASP, Increasing Production of SA-exosomes that Transfer ECM Phenotype to Bystander Cells and Cause Pathological Tissue Stiffening

Lisa Okazaki (Advisor: Diane Hoffman-Kim)
Modeling Membrane Injury in 3D Neuronal Spheroids After Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Paul Secchia (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee)
Motion Compensation in Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography of Human Glioblastoma 

Joseph Urban (Advisor: Eric Darling)
Material characterization of hyper-compliant, polyethylene glycol diacrylate microparticle vehicles for sustained intravenous delivery of dexamethasone

Hao (Harry) Yu (Advisor: Anubhav Tripathi)
Streamlined Cancer Diagnostics with Improved Tissue Dissociation into Single Cell Sequencing Workflows