Moses Davis, a participant in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security HS-STEM Summer Internship Program, is developing skills in simulation models at ORNL to contribute to transportation security improvement projects. More...

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 (ORNL). More . . .

Christopher Copeland assisted in the analysis of materials subjected to high levels of radiation in tests at Brookhaven National Laboratory. More . . .

Luke Roberts helped calculate the properties of x-ray bursts from exploding stars at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. More . . .

Chelsea DeCapua, a participant in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Scholarship and Fellowship Program, uses geographic information systems to identify new ways to improve emergency response. More...
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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. More . . .

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.

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For the second summer in a row, Christina Doerter, a senior disaster management major at Jacksonville State University, returned to ORNL to study ways communities may enhance their “resilience”—the ability to quickly recover key services after a hurricane or other disaster strikes. More . . .

Jamaur Bronner, using computers to examine previous research into aspects of the human decision-making, sought to identify elements of that process omitted from current computer models that experts use to ascertain how human emotion affects foreign leaders' decisions. More . . .

2008 Marvin L. Wesely Distinguished Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship Award winner Sarah O’Brien is exploring how tallgrass prairie land formerly used for farming rebuilds organic matter, or humus, that was lost through cultivation. More...

Kristen Lancaster writes 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. More...

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As a winner of the 2006 Marvin L. Wesely Distinguished Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship award, Cynthia Randles studies how carbonaceous particles, like soot and smoke, affect global climate change. More...

Paul Emanovsky, a participant in the Research Participation Program at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command / Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii, played a key role in the identification of the missing 1942 airman found in the Sierra Nevada. More...

Major Ricardo Reyes—a health physicist and nuclear medicine science officer— transitioned from a research participant in a U.S. Army program to a fully commissioned officer following his appointment. More...

While at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Angela Reevely studied the bacterium S. oneidensis, which can possibly be used to clean polluted soil, sediment, and groundwater. More...

Tennessee doctoral student and Wesely award winner Colleen Iversen is pursuing research that considers how excess carbon dioxide affects plants. More...

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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. More...

Amber Stoesser, a participant in the DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Program, creates interesting and innovative curricula for teaching the next generation of terrorism researchers.

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Anna Bruton spent the summer of 2009 at Howard University researching the responsiveness of law-enforcement officers during the Hurricane Katrina crisis. More...

Matt Jaramillo participated in research at the Computational Human Behavior Center (CHBC) under auspices of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Scholarship and Fellowship program, administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. More...

As a summer intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratry, Aaron Fleckenstein worked on a sophisticated software program used in nuclear physics applications. Fleckenstein graduated from Western Michigan University with a degree in computer engineering. More...

Meeckral Williams studied phase inversion, which helps understand and improve the performance of centrifugal contactors used nuclear applications, as part of the DOE Faculty and Student Teams (FaST) Program. More...

Courtney Crummett’s research at the National Institutes of Health included identifying library services for the bioinformatics research community, scholarly communication issues and the benefits of social software in libraries. More...

Daniel Carson studied the adverse immunological effects of various chemicals that military personnel and their families are exposed to. More...

A participant in the ORNL Postdoctoral Research Associates Program, Sylva Nintcheu Fata is helping to develop improved mathematical tools used in large-scale computer models that will reduce computational input and uploading time. More...

Fayna Diaz-San Segundo brings a love of melody and rhythm to her research at Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) off Long Island, New York, as she seeks new ways to curtail the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease in livestock.More...

Melia Pisano gained invaluable experience while contributing to crucial research efforts hoping to curtail foot-and-mouth disease virus during her four-year fellowship at Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York (PIADC). More...

Sabena Uddowla is helping to develop a “marker” vaccine to control the foot-and-mouth disease virus in her role as a visiting scientist at Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) off the coast of Long Island, New York. More...

Dr. Patricia Hatch and Shawnta Lloyd focused their research on ricin, a natural toxin that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designated as a possible agent of biological warfare. More...

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Dr. Shahzad Akbar used an electronic beam evaporator to help generate materials used to convert heat to electricity in a clean, environmentally friendly way. More...

Dr. Santosh Mandal studied the incorporation of rhenium into glass and in the process, discovered that perrhenate complexes make excellent anti-cancer drugs. More...

Dr. Dave Sree, a professor at Tuskegee University, studied ways to build machines that collect fog while saving energy during a research appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. More ...

Dr. Edu B. Suarez-Martinez hopes to lessen the probability of a pandemic flu occurring through her research of the distribution of avian influenza virus receptors in Puerto Rican wild, migratory and non-migratory birds. More ...

Dr. Yaohang Li crunched data with ORNL supercomputers to understand the biology behind ethanol production. More...

Dr. Terri Adams-Fuller and her undergraduate research team from Howard University studied the responsiveness of public safety officers during the Hurricane Katrina crisis. More...

Cecilia Serrano spent the summer with two of her National Hispanic University students studying how certain bacteria can be used by terrorists to contaminate our nation's food supply. More ...

Dr. Lisa Webb and her student research team studied genetic traits in mice in order to gain a better understanding of energy balance in mice and the role of dietary fat in energy-balance control. More...

Dr. Tasneem Siddiquee spent the summer of 2009 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory researching ways to optimize the yield and control the size and shape of nanoparticles. More...

Dr. Nelly Mateeva researched toxin-detection systems to help protect the food supply during an adventurous summer at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, and the University of Minnesota. More...

Dr. Chin Chang advanced counterterrorism efforts at the Ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach, Ca., by participating in the 2009 DHS Summer Research Team Program for Minority Serving Institutions at the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events. More...

High school junior Lucas Laudermilk knew that the Tennessee Governor’s Academy for Mathematics and Science (TGA) represented for him the chance of a lifetime. More...

Tennessee Governor’s Academy for Mathematics and Science students Ethan Sanders and Aaron Smith took part in the ORNL SensorPedia project. More...

Biomedical scientist Brynn Voy of ORNL mentored Tennessee Governor’s Academy students Suji Jeong and Gina Lebkuecher during the inaugural year of the Tennessee Governor’s Academy at ORNL. More...

Few high school students in their first job get to assist scientists in research directed at solving a national problem such as developing an alternative fuel source, but Oak Ridge High School senior Nadya Ally did. More ...

Destiny Evans used her summer research experiences to implement an inquiry-based physics curriculum. More...

S. Hakan Armagan, a physics/nuclear science and energy teacher at Burke High School in Omaha, Neb., recently completed his third year with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Academies Creating Teacher Scientists (ACTS) program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

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Joe Lake, a full-time software engineer for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computational Science and Engineering Division, is doing his part to help foster the next generation of scientists. More...

Nuclear Astrophysicist Michael Smith has mentored more than 25 undergraduate students at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. More...

Mark Croce of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a physics undergraduate. Mark spent a summer at Los Alamos National Laboratory working in the Nuclear Science and Safeguards Technology Division.

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Jennifer Murray, 2006 DHS Fellow, 2004 DHS Scholar, from Birmingham, Ala. Pursuing a Master's in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., with a concentration in strategic studies and international economics.

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Brian Taylor, third-year graduate student at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, majoring in Aerospace Engineering.

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Vijay Jain, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, majoring in Biochemistry.

Jinju Yi, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, majoring in Biochemistry.

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