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Recent Eloranta Recipients

2012 Recipients:

• Mark Kalinich '13, Knocking Down Paralysis: Using siRNA Therapeutics to Transiently Downregulate PTEN and SOCS3 for Neural Regrowth


• Michele Pratusevich '13, DJDancer: Bringing Gestures to Live Music Composition and Performance


• John Romanishin '12, Dynamically Reconfigurable Flywheel Acuated Magnetic Cube Robotics


• Graham Van Schaik '12, Science Captivates Minds: Science for South Carolina's Students


• Sheila Xu '14, An Interpretivistic Approach to the Deaf Economy

2011 Recipients:

• Archit Bhise '13, AidSource: Establishing a Basic Architecture for Disaster Triage


• Alorah Harman '11, Science and the Soul of Siberia: Characterizing International Collaboration through a Metagenomic Analysis Project at Lake Baikal


• Ian McKay '12, Oscillation-Based Balloon Anemometer for Wind Prospecting


• John J. Wang '14, CEO Value & Compensation: Are Executives Overpaid?


• Sajith Wickramasekara '13, A Plug and Play Architecture for Highly Distributed Scientific Computation

2010 Recipients:

• Matthew Lord '10, Walt Whitman in Nineteenth-Century Cultural History
  


• M. Paul Medlock-Walton '10, Clutter: Connecting Scratch Projects to Teach Software Engineering


• Hiroshi Mendoza '10, Flexible Plastic Luminescent Solar Concentrator


• Peter Reinhardt '12, Online, Collaborative Latex Environment: Modernizing Technical Documentation


• Yang Yang '11, Dancing to Your Own Music

2009 Recipients:

• Dhaval Adjodah '11, Creating Environmental Indices from Population Models of Ecosystems using Methods from Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos Theory for Improved Environmental Conservation & Policy Making


• Katie Everett '12, A Sexual-Network-Based Model Evaluating the Effect of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination on Infection Prevalence in an Adolescent Population


• Raqeebul I. Ketan '11, iSchool for a Better Learning Experience


• S. Cory Li '12, Automated Directed Evolution: A New Tool for Rapid Optimization of Genetic Circuitry


• Harrison O'Hanley '11, Designing a Thermoelectric Generator to Provide Light to Developing World Residences


• Tina Srivastava '09, Multi-Media Report, Revealing the Link between the East and the West

2008 Recipients:

• Shane W. Colton '08, Realization of a Scale Electric Vehicle with Capacitive Regeneration and Launch Assist
  

• Emilienne Repak '09, The Pied Piper of the Peripheral Nervous System: Comparing Guidance Cues for Directing Neuronal Growth
  

• David Reshef '08, Computational and Visual Approach to Understanding the Vibrio Cholera Epidemic
  

• Alec Resnick '08 & Sarah Ackley '08 , Design and Construction of a Low-Cost, Educational NMR Kit
  

• Jessica Schirmer '08, 'The Words to Say It': Narratives of Class Transition
  

• Lynne Tye '10, The Role of Dopamine in the Formation of Emotional Memories
  

2007 Recipients:

• Raffaela Wakeman ‘08 for her Political Science project: "Democratization in the Arab World: Jordan as a Case Study."
  
  
• Richard Lin ‘09 for his Materials Science and Engineering & Biology project: " Establishment of a Mobile Clinic in Tanzania."
  
  
• Anna Konotchick ‘07 for her Architecture project: "Documenting Communal Spaces in the Shantytowns of Buenos Aires: A Tool for Better Public Housing."
  
  
• Manuel Rivas ‘08 for his Mathematics project: "Integrating Genomic Data to Interpret Human Traits."
  
  
• Serenus Hua ‘07 for his Biology project: "Traditional Chinese Treatments for Diabetes From a Modern Medical Perspective."

Prior Project Examples

The following descriptions of prior Fellowship recipients can help to illustrate the creative intellectual qualities sought for in this award.

 Engineering: 

• Example 1:  Development, construction, and flight test of a novel vertical Takeoff Aircraft Concept
  

• Example 2: Development of strategies and techniques to ensure clean drinking water in an area environmentally affected by gold-mining processes in Honduras.
  

Science:

• Example 1:  A chemistry project investigating previously unexplored issues surrounding anomalies found in the electrolytic oxidation of aluminum.
  

• Example 2: Development of a biological register through the application of site-specific Recombination for the Construction of Biological Memory.
  

Humanities:

• Example 1:  Creative writing project to produce a collection of short stories as a means for preserving the oral heritage of Karanga people of Southern Zimbabwe.

• Example 2: An anthropological study of Traditional Life and Technological Change with the Dine people.
  

Arts:

• Example 1: Development of screen-play and storyboards for a film about the relationship of a young man and his father surrounding the father’s possible involvement with the Viet Cong during the Vietnam Conflict.
  

• Example 2:  Development of a novel glass sculpture installation for exhibit at MIT.