Interviewer: Agnim Agarwal Trivia Favorite book: I really like Gone with the Wind. I know that there are a lot of issues with it; it is important to understand that it is a heavily biased and, therefore, misleading portrayal of the South during the Civil War. However, I still love the story and the character…

Author: Haoye Qin Mentors: Scott Cushing, Jonathan Michelsen, and William Denman       Editor: Alex Bardon Introduction Acoustic waves are capable of trapping particles of a wide range of materials and sizes, compared to the narrower range achieved by optical trapping and magnetic levitation, in which the materials need to be equipped with suitable electromagnetic properties…

Author: Saehui Hwang Mentors: Sergi R. Hildebrandt Editor: Michael Yao … Introduction The current push for missions at NASA and others to identify Earth-like exoplanets is driven by the possibility of discovering such planets. In the past, such yield calculations have focused on using a coronagraph to suppress starlight [1]. Though widely studied, coronagraphs have…

Author: Thomas Tran Mentors: Julia Greer, Ryan Ng, Phillippe Pearson Editor: Jonathan Chan Introduction  Materials architected on the nanoscale exhibit nonintuitive mechanical properties unlike those observed in bulk materials. For example, Professor Julia Greer’s work in architecting nanolattice structures from alumina has defied conventional knowledge that ceramics must be brittle [1]. In addition to enabling…

Author: Rupesh JeyaramMentor: Christian FrankenbergEditor: Ishani Ganguly Introduction Scientific research relies on the production and analysis of data. In some domains, this data may consist of a handful of measurements or hand-written observations in notebooks. In other fields, data may be in the form of large Excel files and documents. In geoplanetary studies, satellite data…