Mentor: Dr.

Sriparna Bhattacharya Department: Clemson Nanomaterials Institute, Physics

and Astronomy
Project Title: The role of ZnO defects in perovskite solar cell performance
Project URL: http://www.raonanolab.net/
Project Description:
Perovskite based photovoltaics have recently gained considerable attention due to their facile preparation and potential for high power
conversion efficiency. Compared to the efficiencies of the state-of-the-art photovoltaic materials such as silicon (~25%) and gallium
arsenide (~28%), the perovskite solar cells exhibit a comparatively high efficiency (~22%), with lower costs of production. Contrary to
the existing crystalline materials used for photovoltaics (i.e. Si, Ga, As, etc.), the precursor materials used to fabricate perovskite solar
cells are solution processable and do not require very high temperatures or high vacuum for fabrication. The layers that comprise a
perovskite solar cell may be applied through spin coating of the precursor solutions, creating the interfaces necessary for charge
separation. The solar cell performance is also affected by materials that interface with the perovskite, such as zinc oxide (ZnO) and
titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles. The morphology of the perovskite/nanoparticle interface depends on the presence of chemical
impurities or defects within the nanoparticles and the shape of the nanoparticles themselves. The overall effects of these factors on solar
cell performance are not yet well understood.

In this program, we will synthesize perovskite solar cells and investigate the role of defects in ZnO on overall performance. The
perovskite solar cells will be synthesized using a solution based spin coating method. The solar cells will be characterized using our solar
simulator and a Keithley 2400 source meter for measuring current and voltage characteristics, which will ultimately yield the power
conversion efficiency.
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Mentor: Dr. Mark Blenner Department: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Project Title: Making Renewable Chemicals and Biofuels using Yeast - Synthetic Biology
Project URL: http://www.clemson.edu/ces/proteinengineering
Project Description:
Our society uses chemicals in the production of essential products such as fuels, materials, food, and medicine. Producing these chemicals
in a more sustainable manner will be important for preserving the environment and our natural resources. Our lab is pioneering the
effort to establish a new yeast platform for production of lipids for sustainable fuels and specialty chemicals. We are investigating the
fundamental genetics and metabolism of these microorganisms, and developing novel tools that allow us to manipulate its genetics and
metabolism. This project is ideal for chemical engineers, bioengineers, biochemists, or microbiologists.
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Mentor: Dr. Mark Blenner Department: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Project Title: Precision Genome Editing for Improving Renewable Chemical Production in Microbes
Project URL: http://proteinengineering.sites.clemson.edu/blenner.html
Project Description:
Our society uses chemicals in the production of essential products such as fuels, materials, food, and medicine. Producing these chemicals
in a more sustainable manner will be important for preserving the environment and our natural resources. Our lab is pioneering the
effort to establish a new yeast platform for production of lipids for sustainable fuels and specialty chemicals. We are investigating the
fundamental genetics and metabolism of these microorganisms, and developing novel tools that allow us to manipulate its genetics and
metabolism. This project is ideal for chemical engineers, bioengineers, biochemists, or microbiologists.
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Mentor: Dr. Joshua Bostwick Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project Title: Splashing on soft substrates for forensic analysis
Project URL: http://bostwicklab.sites.clemson.edu/
Project Description:
Forensic analysis relies critically upon the interpretation of blood splat patterns to recreate crime scenes. Drop impact is greatly affected
by the rigidity and surface chemistry of the impacting substrate. This project will involve the construction of an apparatus to perform
drop splash experiments on soft substrates. Splash patterns will be visualized with a high-speed camera and analyzed using software
protocols.
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Mentor: Dr. Janice Comfort Department: R.M. Cooper Library

Project Title: Preliminary Patent Searching
Project URL:
Project Description:
R.M. Cooper Library is a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC), participating in a program administered by the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USTPO). As such, the library is committed to assisting students, faculty, and community members with their intellectual property
information needs. Services are free to users, but require a great deal of time and effort on the part of the Library. In addition, we also teach LIB3010
- a one-hour credit-bearing course on patent searching.

Students often remark that they wish they had known about our services earlier in their Clemson careers. In addition, many students express an
interest in a career in the field of intellectual property. The Research Intern will be tasked with creating a marketing plan to help promote PTRC
Services, and to help enrich the services to students preparing for graduate study or careers in engineering or patent law. There are several
opportunities for interns to present their results, including the South Carolina Library Association (SCLA) Annual Meeting held in Columbia in
November. SCLA also publishes a quarterly journal, which would be an excellent addition. I will help the Intern identify other appropriate
publishing/presenting venues.
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Mentor: Dr. John DesJardins Department: Bioengineering
Project Title: Material Analysis of a Novel Surface Modification for Implants
Project URL:
http://www.clemson.edu/ces/implant/Orthopaedic_Research_and_Design_Laboratory_Group/DesJardinsHome.html
Project Description:
ENBIO, a company based out of Dublin, Ireland, has developed a novel surface modification technique that has potential to be used on
orthopaedic implants in an effort to minimize wear and biofilm formation--and therefore infection in patients. As part of a larger study
to determine the efficacy of this surface modification, this project is aimed to examine the modification layer more closely and determine
how its characteristics from a cross-sectional analysis make it more or less wear resistant than traditional implants.
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Mentor: Dr. Mine Dogan Department: Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Project Title: Column studies to determine the structural features causing anomalous transport
Project URL: https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/eees/
Project Description:
This project was designed as a part of a larger scale project investigating radiactive transport in porous media. The goal of the project is
determining the effects of different features on transport behavior. There will be several experiments conducted using lab scale columns
packed with soils and similar materials such as glass beads and silica gel.These experiments will include an imaging step using a high
resolution preclinical computed tomography (CT) system and a transport experiment step using several different tracers. The results
obtained from these experiments will be analyzed in comparison with 3D models created in Comsol.
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Mentor: Dr. Rachel Getman Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Project Title: Integrating Experiments and Simulations to Explore Catalytic Chemistry at the Molecular-Level
Project URL: http://computationalcatalysis.sites.clemson.edu
Project Description:
The ultimate objective of this project is to elucidate the catalytic mechanisms involved in either H2 production from sugar alcohol molecules or NH3
production from air and water. These reactions are related to the fields of sustainable energy and food production. Specifically, sugar alcohol
molecules are useful models of chemicals that have been derived from cellulosic biomass, such as cellulose and glucose, and they can be converted
into fuels (including hydrogen and liquid alkanes) and also specialty chemicals. When these products can be produced from sustainable biomass, it
lessens demands for petroleum. Ammonia is an important ingredient in fertilizer and imperative to meeting the world's food demands. Our
motivation to produce it from air and water (through the process of electrocatalysis) is to decrease the cost of production, which would expand
access to food to the regions of the world that need it the most. Interns will be able to select which project they want to work on. The aim of both
projects is to understand the catalytic chemistry, so that we may design catalysts for these processes. Catalysts presently exist for these applications,
but they are comprised of Pt and other expensive materials. Our goal is to design Pt-free catalysts for these and other industrial processes. To do this,
we are simulating chemical reactions occurring over catalyst surfaces, and we are using experiments to validate and improve our models.
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Mentor: Dr. Chris Kitchens Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project Title: Gold Nanoparticles for Catalysis Applications
Project URL: https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/chbe/people/kitchens_c.html
Project Description:
More than 60% of all chemical products (including fuels, commodity and fine chemicals) and 90% of chemical processes rely on catalysis.
It is also estimated that more than 35% of the global GDP is tied to catalysis. The field of nanoscience is defined by the fact that when
materials are reduced to the nanoscale, the nanomaterials possess properties that are different than their bulk material. Case in point,
metals like gold that are thought of as inert become catalytically active in the nano-regime. The past 30+ years has seen an explosion in
the number of nanomaterials that have been synthesized with different sizes, shapes, crystallinity, and atomic composition; all with
unique properties. A majority of these methods rely on solution based methods and colloidal chemistry to obtain the desired materials,
and thus, surface bound ligands are required. Herein is the dilemma: surface bound ligands are required to synthesize and preserve
unique nanomaterials that are potential catalytic materials but the binding of these ligands to the surface can block the reactive surface
sites and eliminate catalytic activity. To circumvent this dilemma, the nanomaterials can be deposited onto a support and treated to
remove the bound ligand, but this results in potential changes in the surface properties, significant decrease in the available surface area,
and influence of the support material on the activity, which can be advantageous or detrimental. The focus of this research is to
compare the catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles in solution and deposited on a support for relevant chemical reactions.
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Mentor: Dr. Chris Kitchens Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Project Title: Sustainable Building Materials for Energy Efficient Housing
Project URL: https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/chbe/people/kitchens_c.html
Project Description:
Sustainable Building Materials for Energy Efficient Housing
This project is focused on the development of greener alternatives to current residential housing building materials. Structural Insulated
Panel Systems (SIPS) are emerging as an alternative form of residential construction that can significantly increase energy efficiency and
decrease build time. Currently the SIPS materials consist of oriented strand board (OSB) as the structural component. OSB is composed
of wood chips and often a phenyl formaldehyde resin which have health concerns and are very flammable. We are working with a
company, Jet Products, to develop new magnesium oxide based cement wallboards for structural applications. The focus of this research
will be to make these cement boards and test their properties for building applications, including strength, chemical composition, and
fire retardant properties.
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Mentor: Dr. Ethan Kung Department: Mechanical Engineering & Bioengineering
Project Title: Design and Testing of Cardiovascular Medical Devices
Project URL: www.cmerl.com
Project Description:
In this project students will design, construct, and test novel medical device concepts for the cardiovascular system. These can include
methods for pumping blood, removing diseased heart valves, measuring blood pressure, etc. The setup of a suitable testing environment
for medical devices may also involve creating 3D computer models of patient anatomy.
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Mentor: Dr. Eric Lapin Department: Performing Arts

Project Title: Brooks Center for the Performing Arts Audience Development Research Project
Project URL: https://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/brooks/
Project Description:
This project seeks to identify the artistic interests and past experiences of incoming Clemson University freshmen. The researchers will
target incoming students at their summer freshmen orientation to develop a more accurate portrait of student artistic interests at
Clemson University. As part of the research process, this project will teach and develop qualitative research methods and techniques.
Specifically, the project will focus on interviews, surveys, participant sampling, data coding, data analysis, thematic development, and
data presentation.
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Mentor: Dr. Hong Luo Department: Genetics and Biochemistry

Project Title: Cloning and functional characterization of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) genes involved in plant stress
response
Project URL: http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/faculty_staff/profiles/hluo
Project Description:
Environmental stress is one of the most important factors impacting agriculture production. Understanding molecular underpinnings for
plant response to environmental stress will provide information for development of novel strategies for crop improvement using
biotechnology approaches. This project focus on identification, cloning and characterization of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) genes
involved in plant response to abiotic stress, particular drought and salt stress. Our previous study has identified candidate lncRNA genes
induced by salt and drought stresses from an extremely salt-tolerant grass species, seashore paspalum. In this proposed project, we plan
to clone and functionally characterize two candidate lncRNA genes and investigate their roles in determining plant stress response, and
manipulate their expression in transgenic plants to develop novel molecular strategies to improve food and economically important crop
species, rice and turfgrass using biotechnology approaches.
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Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Mason Department: Genetics and Biochemistry
Project Title: How mis-regulation of the Double strand break repair protein, RAD51, prevents genome instability
Project URL: https://www.clemson.edu/science/departments/genetics-biochemistry/
Project Description:
The ability of cells to repair DNA is critical for preventing genome instability. Expression or function of DNA repair genes are often
altered in human cancers. RAD51, a protein essential for repair of DNA breaks, is up-regulated in a wide variety of cancer. Research in
the Mason lab focuses on understanding how RAD51 mis-regulation contributes to tumor-associated phenotypes and to identify
methods to target RAD51 regulation as a potential chemotherapeutic strategy. For this project, human cancer cell lines will be used to
determine if depletion of different DNA repair proteins is toxic to cancer cells with up-regulation of RAD51.
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Mentor: Dr. Olin Mefford Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Project Title: Synthesis of materials for Magnetically Modulated Energy Delivery
Project URL: meffordreserach.com
Project Description:
We are currently developing a therapeutic technique for the treatment of cancer and bacterial infections. This technique is based upon
the introduction of magnetic nanoparticles to the disease. These particles are then irradiated with an alternating magnetic field causing
the particles to convert this energy, resulting in cell death. Students working on this project will be synthesizing ferrite nanoparticles that
are efficient in converting this energy and have the necessary polymer coating for biocompatibility.
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Mentor: Dr. James Morris Department: Genetics and Biochemistry

Project Title: Hexokinase inhibitors as anti-parasitics
Project URL: http://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/epic/
Project Description:
Interns will clone variants of the a hexokinase from an emerging/zoonotic human Plasmodium species in order to understand enzyme
mechanism and inhibitor interactions. The work will involve gene cloning, mutagenesis, recombinant protein expression, and enzyme
assays.
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Mentor: Dr. Stephen Moysey Department: Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Project Title: Predicting future effects of CO2 and climate change to calcifying benthic communities: A case study in Dominica
Project URL: https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/eees/
Project Description:
Heavy CO2 seepage due to volcanic activity is documented in very shallow water in Dominica, a small volcanic island in the southern
Caribbean. In one such location, CO2 bubbles up so readily from the seafloor that divers have given it the name Champagne Beach. This is
a prime location to examine the effects of increased CO2 on calcifying marine organisms, especially foraminifera. Foraminifera are single-
celled marine organisms that secrete a calcium carbonate shell, and are easily impacted by dissolved CO2 in seawater. Increased
absorption of CO2 by the oceans has already begun in response to climate change, and Champagne Beach provides a unique location to
measure localized pH and dissolved CO2, document the adaptations benthic organisms have made to survive in such an extreme
environment, and predict changes in marine environments that may occur in response to climate change.
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Mentor: Dr. Bill Pennington Department: Chemistry

Project Title: Biochromatic Sensors for Food Safety
Project URL: http://www.clemson.edu/science/departments/chemistry/
Project Description:
Our research is focused on the development of chemical, biological and environmental sensors based on polydiacetylene (PDA), a unique
polymer that undergoes rapid color transformations in response to external physical, chemical, or biological stimuli. Our goal is to create
simple, easily deployed sensor systems that are capable of detecting varied contaminants such as bacterial and chemical toxins in food
products, packaging, and wound dressings. In this project, participants will prepare cotton swabs and filter papers coated with PDA
modified to change color in the presence of bacteria, and will test these for sensitivity, response time, and selectivity of particular
bacteria or pathogens.
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Mentor: Dr. Srikanth Pilla Department: Automotive Engineering

Project Title: Evolution and Revolution in Passenger Car Designs
Project URL: www.cuicar.com
Project Description:
The project focusses on understanding the evolution and revolution in passenger car designs since 1900. How did the car design process
evolved. What are the different steps in a passenger car product development. How do the external factors enable the design process, etc.
This project is located in Greenville, SC.
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Mentor: Dr. Michael Porter Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Bio-inspired Cellular Architectures
Project URL: https://www.naturalengineering.org/
Project Description:
The project will focus on the design, construction and mechanics of 2D cellular architectures with different internal joints and cell
geometries. The intern will design comparative structures with specified unit-cell geometries using a CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks).
After CAD modeling, the intern will 3D-print the unit-cell structures using an in-house 3D-printer, then assemble the structures into 2D
articulated scaffolds for mechanical testing (with the assistance of a graduate student supervisor). Mechanical tests will include tension
and compression tests, as well as bending and twisting tests if time permits. Finally, the intern will compare force-displacement curves of
the comparative scaffolds and provide mechanical explanations for the different force-displacement trends.
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Mentor: Dr. Andrew Pyle Department: Communication

Project Title: Constituencies and Constraints: Institutional Responses to Political Events
Project URL: http://www.clemson.edu/cbshs/departments/communication/
Project Description:
This project is a collaboration between Dr. Andrew Pyle and Dr. Darren Linvill in the Clemson Communication Department. Our aim is to
better understand how colleges and universities function in a political world in which they must respond to a variety of constituencies
and constraints. On January 28, 2017 President Trump issued an executive order restricting entry into the United States for 90 days from
individuals from seven countries. This order generated concern across academia. Organizations such as the Association of American
Universities and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities specifically called on the President to reconsider the order.
Responses from specific universities, however, varied in tone a great deal. This project aims to identify specific factors that may have
influenced institutional responses to the January 28 executive order. It will employ an inductive method of content analyses to code
responses into categories and then employ quantitative research methods to look at variables that may influence those responses (i.e.
political makeup of the region, size of endowment, public/private status, size of graduate program, etc.).
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Mentor: Dr. Michael Sehorn Department: Genetics and BIochemistry

Project Title: Investigation of the impact of cancer mutations found in DNA repair genes
Project URL: http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/faculty_staff/profiles/msehorn
Project Description:
We are investigating two DNA repair genes that contribute to error free repair of damaged DNA. In cancer, these two genes (one is a
BRCA2 interacting protein and the other is a chromatin remodeling enzyme) often have mutations. We will investigate whether the
mutations that occur in these genes in cancer have a detrimental effect on on the activity of the DNA repair genes.
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Mentor: Dr. Kelly Smith Department: Philosophy & Religion
Project Title: Social and Ethical Issues in Astrobiology
Project URL: http://www.clemson.edu/caah/departments/philosophy-religion/
Project Description:
Astrobiology is the search for life on other planets and NASA predicts we will likely have evidence that life on Earth is not alone within
the next 20 years. If they are right, there are many complex conceptual challenges we will have to work through. Some common
questions include:
Q: Just exactly what is life and how will we know it when we see it?
Q: How should we handle ownership of space resources?
Q: How have fictional portrayals of first contact impacted the popular imagination?
Q: If we find life on another planet, what sorts of obligations will we have towards it? Q: How will such a discovery affect humanity's
sense of self, our planet, our future?
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Mentor: Dr. Vidya Suseela Department: Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences
Project Title: Investigating the effect of invasive plant species on soil carbon and nutrient cycling
Project URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=t2-VTLsAAAAJ&hl=en
Project Description:
As plant tissues for the major substrate for all soil microbial activity, plant species that input large quantities of chemically distinct litter
can successfully engage in creating persistent changes in soil carbon cycling. Invasive plant species that input chemically distinct litter
have the potential to alter the quantity and quality of soil carbon through changes in the microbial decomposition process. This project
will examine the role of litter chemistry of important invasive plant species in altering soil microbial community, enzyme activities,
nutrient cycling and in turn the quantity and quality of soil organic carbon.
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Mentor: Dr. Liangjiang Wang Department: Genetics and Biochemistry
Project Title: Identification and Prioritization of Candidate Genes Associated with Autism
Project URL: http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/faculty_staff/profiles/liangjw
Project Description:
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are clinically and genetically heterogeneous, probably with 1,000 or more genes contributed to the
susceptibility of ASD. Although many ASD risk genes have been identified, the molecular etiology of ASD is still poorly understood.
Growing evidence suggests that transcriptional regulation of many genes during early cortical development is critical for ASD
manifestation. However, previous studies on ASD are biased toward protein-coding genes. Since non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are more
abundant than protein-coding RNAs in the human brain, it is possible that some regulatory ncRNAs affected may cause the aberrant
expression of many other genes in ASD.

This project investigates the potential involvement of two new classes of ncRNAs in ASD. First, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), each
with >200 nucleotides in length, constitute a large portion of the human ncRNA repertoire. Recent studies indicate that lncRNAs play key
roles in gene regulation, development and disease. Although multiple lines of evidence suggest that lncRNAs are involved in
neurodevelopmental disorders, their role in ASD is still unclear. Second, circular RNAs (circRNAs), formed by head-to-tail splicing of
exons, are a large new class of ncRNAs expressed by the human genome. Recent studies suggest that circRNAs can regulate gene
expression, and appear to be enriched in the brain. However, it is still unknown whether circRNAs are involved in ASD.

We have generated a large RNA-seq dataset to investigate the expression changes of lncRNAs and circRNAs in ASD patients.
Lymphoblastoid cell lines from representative ASD patients and normal individuals with matched age and ethnic background were used
to prepare the RNA samples. The RNA-seq data will be analyzed in this project to identify candidate lncRNAs and circRNAs that show
differential expression between the ASD and control samples. We will also utilize the available genetic and genomic data to further
evaluate and prioritize the candidates. For instance, the publicly available BrainSpan dataset can be used to examine the developmental
brain expression patterns of these candidates, and the use of genetic data may identify high-priority candidates that are located within
ASD-associated loci or contain rare sequence variants in the autistic genome. Such high-priority candidates can not only provide new
insight into the role of ncRNAs in ASD pathogenesis, but may also be further developed as ASD biomarkers.
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Mentor: Dr. Yongqiang Wang Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Robot networks
Project URL: https://cecas.clemson.edu/ndcl/
Project Description:
The technological development of the last decade in robots, computing and communications has led to envisage the design of robotic and
automation systems consisting of networked vehicles, sensors, actuators and communication devices. These developments enable
researchers and engineers to design new robotic systems that can interact with human beings and other robots in a cooperative way.
Applications span surveillance/monitoring, manufacturing, intelligent vehicles, exploration, and many others. In this project, we will
explore some basics of robot networks and build robotic cooperation using several intelligent ground robots available in the lab. No
knowledge of distributed dynamical systems or robotics is needed.
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Mentor: Dr. Yanzhang Wei Department: Biological Sciences

Project Title: Anti-cancer and Anti-inflammation activity of natural products
Project URL: https://www.clemson.edu/health-research/faculty/wei.html
Project Description:
Samples isolated from many natural products have anti-cancer and/or anti-inflammatory activities through the activation of the immune
system, such as natural killer (NK) cells, macrophages, etc. We are in a process of identifying these potential anti-cancer or anti-
inflammatory compounds from various natural products. The EUREKA project is a part of this effort and responsible for the biological
screening and characterization of these samples. The students will use in vitro screening systems to exam cell proliferation, cytotoxicity,
inflammatory mediator production, etc. to identify potential anti-cancer/inflammatory drugs.
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Mentor: Dr. Xiangchun Xuan Department: Mechanical Engineering

Project Title: Microfluidic mixing for lab-on-a-chip applications
Project URL: https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/me/people/faculty/xuan.html
Project Description:
Develop an electric field-driven method to enhance mass transfer between co-flowing fluids in microchannels for sample mixing. The
interns will study how the electric field and fluid properties affect the interfacial behavior between the two fluids.
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