Justin Falls
M.S. Completed 2008
Hampton University; College of William and Mary
Current Research: My work is investigating the importance of the benthic macroalgae Gracialaria as habitat for juvenile blue crabs with special interests on the effectiveness of the algae in reducing predation on the juvenile crabs.

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Christopher Farah
Spatial Information Science & Engineering
University of Maine
I am interested in point set and algebraic topology. At present, I am investigating the embedding of homology theory onto sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network as a means of identifying topological properties of the monitored region. This is one of ma... » Read More

Jessika Feliciano
Integrated Sensing Architechtures IGERT
University of Kentucky
Jessika Feliciano was born in Ponce, the second largest city of the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. She received her B. S. degree in Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude, 1997) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, where she worked with Professor... » Read More

Lucky Felix
Student
Georgia State University
Past Research: Salt tectonic: Nuclear waste disposal in sedimentary rocks; Land subsidence in Nevada and California due to ground water mining

Current Research: Application of Geology and Geophysics in Sedimentary Basin analysis; Solid mineral explo... » Read More

Jeremy Felton
Midwest Crossroads AGEP
Indiana University, Bloomington
Jeremy Felton grew up “always wondering what stuff was made of” and is now a first-year graduate student in Chemistry at Indiana University. He studies analytical chemistry (chemistry at the atomic level) under the supervision of Professor Gary Hieftje, ... » Read More

Eduardo Fernandez
Midwest Crossroads AGEP
Indiana University, Bloomington
Imagine getting a shot every morning that gave you all the nutrients you need for the day – you no longer need to eat. Do you think you’d still want to chew on something at certain points during the day? Would gum become an appealing habit or would your p... » Read More

Jose Fernandez
Integratively Engineered Biointerfaces
Rutgers University
Graduate Program: Molecular Biosciences: Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology; Research Focus: Structure-function relationships of neuroproteins (e.g. cypin); microtubule formation and dendrite branching; Seeks to Integrate: In-silico, in-vitro, and in-viv... » Read More

Christy Field
Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences IGERT
Columbia University
Christy Field is a graduate student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies. Her research focuses on assessing the usefulness of the cosmogenic isotope beryllium-10 as a proxy for solar irradiance changes. By using the Goddard Institute for ... » Read More

Stephen Fisher
Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
University of Colorado, Denver
Mr. Fisher holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Irvine and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University. He has worked on an Infrastructure Master Plan baseline study in Kigali, Rwanda, was a member of the City... » Read More

John Flach
Technology-Baased Learning with Disability IGERT
Wright State University
In spite of my best judgment and due to some serendipitous events I ended up in graduate school at The Ohio State University working with Rich Jagacinski in 1978. Six years and two kids later, with strong urging from my wife, I finally completed the Ph.D.... » Read More

Charles Florek
Integratively Engineered Biointerfaces
Rutgers University
Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering; Research Focus: Biomaterials and implants for spinal cord regeneration: prevention of post-operative scar-tissue; Seeks to Integrate: Biomaterials design; drug delivery via implantable biomaterials; molecular biol... » Read More

Eddy Flores
PhD Student
University of South Florida
Past Research: I have worked with marine vertebrates and invertebrates... » Read More

Susana Flores
B.S. Marine Biology 2008, Now a Teacher in Galveston
Texas A&M University, Galveston
Past Research: I have done some research, by my own means, on Odobenus rosmarus, and will more than likely continue that research.

Current Research: General knowledge of the Walrus is something that I hope to gain in the future, and will cont... » Read More

Juan Flores-Escribano
Central New York – Puerto Rico AGEP
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
My work focuses on one of the up-and-coming water quality concerns, which is the release of small amounts of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) into the environment. The denominated PPCPs include a wide range of prescription and non-prescri... » Read More

Frances Forrest
The New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center
Frances Forrest is a student of Anthropology at CUNY. She received her BA in 2006 from CUNY Queens College. Her research interests include paleoanthropology; Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution; evolution of the genus Homo; paleoecology; taphonomy; Afric... » Read More

Michael Fortner
Inequality & Social Policy IGERT
Harvard University
Michael Javen Fortner received his BA in Political Science and African-American studies from Emory University in 2001. Currently, Michael is a PhD Student in the Government Department at Harvard University and a doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Pr... » Read More

Cybelle Fox
Inequality & Social Policy IGERT
Harvard University
Cybelle received her BA in History and Economics from UC San Diego in 1997. She worked as a research associate for the Institute for Children and Poverty and for the Urban Justice Center-Human Rights Project, both in New York City, before beginning the Ph... » Read More

Wesley Francillon
SUNY AGEP
State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook
Wesley Francillon graduated from the department of Materials Science and Engineering with advisor Sanjay Sampath. His undergraduate institution was Stony Brook University.... » Read More

Oceana Francis
Graduate Student
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Past Research: Coastal erosion, wind/wave climatology, wave dynamics, storm surges, wave modeling, geomorphology, civil site design, water/wastewater facility design, quasars, supernovae, and photoionization

Current Research: Extreme wind ana... » Read More

John Franke
Math Alliance Mentor
North Carolina State University
I do research in discrete dynamical systems applied to population dynamics, ecology, epidemiology and genetics. My first Ph.D. student is now the chairman of Howard University.... » Read More

Ashalla Freeman
SPIRE Fellow, Microbiology and Immunology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hello, I am Ashalla Magee Freeman, a proud native of Jackson, Mississippi. In 1996, I graduated magna cum laude from Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS, with a B.S. in Chemistry. Under the mentorship of Dr. Janet Yother at the University of Alabama at Birming... » Read More

Stephanie Freeman
PhD Student
Alabama A&M University
Stephanie is a participant in cohort six.... » Read More

Esther Friedman
Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program
University of California, Los Angeles
My current research examines the causes, consequences, and mediators of family structure effects on children. I am particularly interested in the underlying psychological and social mechanisms through which family structure affects child wellbeing, and wh... » Read More

Eric Yaw Frimpong
SUNY AGEP
State University of New York (SUNY), Albany
Eric Yaw Frimpong is a research assistant at the Office of Mental Health, Bureau of Youth Evaluation and a lecturer for the Mathematics department at the University at Albany. A Ph.D. candidate in the Biometry and Statistics department of the School of Pu... » Read More

Kaiem Frink
Graduate Student/ Research Assistant
Elizabeth City State University
One of my short term goals, is to obtain a fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in a scientific field and continue to develop applications using Geographic Information Systems. This will grant me the opportunity to identify additional mentoring at a research inst... » Read More

Valerie Fuchs
Sustainable Futures
Michigan Technological University
Valerie J. Fuchs, EIT, is a doctoral student in environmental engineering at Michigan Technological University. She is a National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate and Education Research (IGERT) Trainee, as well as a Graduate Scholar in the Sustaina... » Read More

Marangelly Fuentes
PhD
Howard University; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center
Past Research: Research in the capability of the NASA finite-volume General Circulation Model (GEOS) in reproducing instantaneous tropical cyclogenesis without the aids of bogusing techniques.

Current Research: As a Support Scientist, at NASA Godda... » Read More

Ted Fuller
Non-equilibrium Dynamics Across Space and Time IGERT
University of Minnesota
Broadly speaking, I am interested in bedrock river systems and their response to changes in steady state conditions. Strath terraces are of particular interest to me because they suggest that on some time scale, lateral erosion was more dominant than vert... » Read More

Mel Futrell
Learning with Disability Program
Wright State University
Mel received her B.A. in Music and English/American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 1993, and her M.A. in Communication Management from the University of Southern California in 1996. She worked for over a decade in the recording and ... » Read More