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Accomplishments

  • All participants in the 2022 cohort made poster presentations at the Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE), held in East Lansing, MI on July 27, 2022. View student info and posters here.
  • All participants in the 2019 cohort made poster presentations at the Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE), held in East Lansing, MI on July 24, 2019. View posters and abstracts.

Presentations:

  • All students in the 2018 cohort made Poster Presentations at the Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE), held in East Lansing, MI on July 24, 2018.
  • “Equation of state dependence of observable properties of turbulence-aided neutrino-driven core-collapse supernovae,” Brandon Barker*, Poster, American Physical Society April Meeting, April 13, 2019. (Received an award for “Outstanding Presentation” from the Society of Physics Students.)
  • "Fitting turbulent and convective parameters in one-dimensional core-collapse supernova simulations," Theo Cooper*,  Poster, 5th Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan, October 26, 2018. http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2018.HAW.HA.47
  • Wang, H., Nnaluwezi, C*, Ke, H., Wang, J. "Statistical modeling of genomics and epigenomics big-data reveals human disease mechanisms," Conference Presentation by Jianrong Wang, International Chinese Statistical Association Annual Symposium, June 11, 2019. Raleigh, NC.
  • Wang, H., Binbin, H., Xue, A.*, Olsen, N., Wang, J. "Epigenetics data analysis," Conference Presentation by Jianrong Wang, International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine, June 9, 2019. Columbus, OH.
  • Pei, J., Zheng, Z., Kim, H., Song, L., Walworth, S., Merz, M., & Jr., K. M. (2019). Random Forest Refinement of Pairwise Potentials for Protein-ligand Decoy Detection. Journal of Chemical Information & Modeling. doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.8047820

 

Products:

  • Supernova simulation data emulator, software, primarily developed by Theo Cooper*. Still being used by the Couch Lab.
  • Equation of state in supernovae sensitivity study, data set, primarily produced by Brandon Barker*. 

Other:

  • Brandon Barker was awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. April 2019.
  • Congratulations to Brandon, Theo, Liz, Ken, Jesus, Chinaza and Hyunji on completion of their undergraduate degrees! Four of these students have gone on to pursue PhD/Master's programs and three are working in industry/research labs. May 2019.
  • Congratulations to Muawiz on receiving the Jarvis Memorial Scholarship to pursue research on Tensor Deep Stacking Networks this Summer at WWU! June 2019.

Products:

  • Finley, A., Datta, A., Banerjee, S., & McKim, A.* (2017, July 21). SpNNGP: Spatial Regression Models for Large Datasets using Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Processes (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 2017, from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/spNNGP/index.html
  •  Sorensen JW, TK Dunivin, TC Tobin, and A Shade. 2019. Ecological selection for small microbial genomes along a temperate-to-thermal soil gradient. Nature Microbiology. 4:55-61. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0276-6

  •  Dunivin TK, SY Yeh* and A Shade. 2019 A global survey of arsenic related genes in soil microbiomes. BMC Biology. 17:45. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-019-0661-5

Presentations:

  • Dunivin TK, SY Yeh*, A Shade (2018). Targeting microbial arsenic resistance genes: a metaanalysis across cells (Poster).ASM Microbe 2018. Atlanta.
  • 2017_Student Poster Presentations at the Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE) held in East Lansing, MI on July 26, 2017.

Other:

  • Congratulations to David, Austin, Joey, Jamell, Songhao and Alex on completion of their undergraduate degrees! All six students have gone on to pursue PhD/Master's programs. May 2019
  • Four students from this cohort are now graduate students at MSU and won prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships such as Engineering Distinguished Fellowship (EDF), NSCL and University Fellowships. June 2018
  • Ben Slimmer was awarded the Goldwater Scholarship, a nationally prestigious award for undergraduates pursuing graduate study in STEM. One of my recommendation letter writers was my ACRES mentor.
  • Two students have been awarded internships at national labs: LBNL via the SULI program and LANL Graduate Internship. June 2019.
  • Congratulations to Susannah on her recent publication with the Shade Lab and acceptance to Dental School! June 2019.
  • Congratulations to Jane and Jay on completion of their undergraduate and Master's degrees respectively! Aug 2019.

Acknowledgment of support: These materials are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1560168.

ICER ACRES is an REU Site funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1949912.