Interns 2002

Every summer the Institute welcomes a small number of highly motivated and extremely talented undergraduates who benefit from exposure to the rich interdisciplinary mix of ideas at SFI. Students are matched with one or more mentors with meaningful research problems of interest to the student and to which the intern can make significant contributions. These mentorships have produced continuing collaborations and have resulted in several co-authored papers in the refereed literature. This summer SFI welcomes six participants to this NSF-supported program.

Jeremy Barofsky, Boston University, Boston, MA
Senior, majoring in Interdisciplinary Economics. While at SFI, Barofsky is interested in studying how self-fulfilling financial crises affect economic development prospects.

• Project
• Final Report (PDF 94 KB)
• Figures (PDF 527 KB)

Lauren Childs, Duke University, Durham, NC
Junior, majoring in Mathematics and Chemistry. She is a member of the Howard Hughes Research Fellows Program at Duke pursuing work in mathermatical biology.

• Project
• Final Report (PDF 1 MB)

Sara Friedman, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Junior, Double major in Applied Mathematics and the Interdisciplinary Studies Field of Social Science. Her specific research interest is the conflict between human and natural systems.

• Project
• Final Report (PDF 337 KB)

Janine Garnham, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Junior, majoring in Computer Science. Her current research interests are in computational biology encompassing both small and large-scale applications.

• Project

Alex Herman, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Senior, Majoring in Physics. Currently he wants to learn more about modeling biological systems, including the immune system, intra-cellular protein trafficking and gene networks.

• Final Report (PDF 148 KB)

Jacob Usinowics, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
Junior, Majoring in Human Ecology (with a focus in the Physical and Biological Sciences). He is particularly interested in the theoretic aspects of self-organization and incorporating these ideas into his interests in evolutionary ecology.

• Project
• Final Report (PDF 139 KB)