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NEWS FROM COSMOS-UCI, WEEK 4
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IT’S PROJECT PRESENTATION WEEK!

  • “I’ve changed so much as a person and a student.”
    --Raymond Liu
  • “One of the best months of my life.”
    --Stephanie Munoz
  • “Strong bonds of friendship have been formed.”
    --Julia Chornak
  • “The experience and breathtaking moments will not be forgotten.”
    --Ernesto Villasenor
  • “I was astonished by the sheer number of activities.”
    --Xi “CC” Gong
  • “COSMOS is something that can only be understood through experience.”
    --Alice Ramirez
  • “For once in my life, you were cool if you were smart.”
    --Alyson Fink
  • “I have learned to be more independent.”
    --Phuong Mai
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THANKS AND APPRECIATION
To our UCI faculty, scientists, and graduate students for offering COSMOS students an unparalleled academic experience in UCI classrooms and labs. The hands-on labs and projects afforded students eye-opening discoveries. Thank you to the following: School of Biological Sciences, School of Physical Sciences, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science. Special thanks to the Back Bay Science Center for welcoming our marine biology students to their facilities. Thank you to the UCI Observatory, UC Natural Reserve System, Residential Dining, Anteater Recreation Center, and Conference Services, all of which contributed to the “life of a college student” for our COSMOS Class of 2009. Our appreciation also to Intel and the College Access Foundation as well as to the UC Office of the President for supporting student goals and aspirations.
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STUDENT SPEAKERS AT CLOSING CEREMONY
Monday night was try-out night for aspiring public speakers. Selected to represent the 2009 COSMOS student body at closing ceremony, Friday, July 24 are: Jose Gonzalez (Cluster 1), Lennox Math Science Technology Academy, Inglewood, CA; Chris Probert (Cluster 4), Half Moon Bay High School, Half Moon Bay, CA; Kaneisha Washington (Cluster 7), Cabrillo High School, Long Beach, CA.
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FACULTY PERSPECTIVE
“I really enjoyed the COSMOS students this year; they are an extremely enthusiastic and interactive group of students. With so much truly college-level material to cover in so little time, I am always amazed at how well the students can cope! This year, I was particularly struck by how quickly (and voraciously) they absorbed fundamentals like the difficult material about the properties of light, blackbody spectra, and the interactions between light and matter. I hope they translate that sharp interest into a lifelong love for astronomy.”
--Elizabeth "Betsy" Barton, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy

STUDENT PERSPECTIVE
“In general I’m just loving everything here. My professor is an expert in Logic and he’s been teaching me a lot. COSMOS has helped me understand what real-life music production is like. It has helped me refine my skill in digital-audio editing. My professor said, ‘When you have professional software in your hands, you get professional results.’ I composed a soundtrack for a video I took of a Boeing 737 in flight - my own flight from Oakland to John Wayne Airport. To write the score, I used a combination of Logic and Sibelius, a program named after a Finnish composer, which is the leading music composition and notation software. … I would definitely apply to the UC system, which campus, I haven’t decided. I need to hone my major. I’m actually sad to leave COSMOS.” --Myron Lam, Cluster 6
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STUDENT ACTIVITIES
This week is a whirlwind of academic and social activity, with students working diligently on projects and taking in a few activities. The Resume Workshop had a big draw, with students preparing to present themselves in the future for internships, college, and jobs. For those interested in a hand-crafted souvenir, the “Hot Hat” activity allowed students to create their own head gear. Thursday night is our big talent show, headed by RA committee members TeKeyia (chair), Emilio and Saron, Emcees, and Ameera, Cedric, and Christina. Students showcased their artistic talents at the “Little Theater,” site of student productions and film festivals. All enjoyed seventeen varied performances, from piano solos to an original group production by Cluster 6 to Irish dancing and poetry recitation. Our vocalists and instrumentalists enjoyed being center-stage. Students are eager to share their projects conducted over the past several weeks in our poster session, Friday morning at the Cross Cultural Center.

QUIZMOS AT UCSD
On Saturday, July 18, COSMOS students piled into buses and headed to La Jolla and the UC San Diego campus to join COSMOS-UCSD students for an exciting academic competition -- QUIZMOS! UCI Team Awesome included: Chris Probert, Aditi Gupta, Laurence Toal, Elly Shao, and Adarsha Shivakumar. After an intensive battle of the minds, Team Awesome emerged the winner. (See our website home page). Nearly 140 UCI COSMOS students were in the audience, supporting their team and celebrating the outcome. Next summer, UCI will host Quizmos, and offer the UCSD Tritons the opportunity to take the trophy away! It is anticipated that this activity will become an annual special event. Dr. Daniel G. Aldrich III was on hand to extend his congratulations. Dr. Aldrich represents the UC Office of the President, and oversees all the COSMOS programs. UCI’s Aldrich Park and Aldrich Hall were named for his father, Chancellor Aldrich, UCI’s first chancellor. What an honor for the students! Irvine says THANK YOU, Dr. Charles Tu, Becky Hames, Adam Peterson, and all the staff and students of COSMOS-UCSD.
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OTHER WEEKEND RECAP
Friday night Casino Night was a big success, with our RA staff putting on a Las Vegas style casino, complete with all the favorites: Texas Hold ‘Em, Black Jack, War, Dealer’s Choice and others. Our very own Anteater paper money was in play. Students received masks, beads, and leis, and enjoyed the music and punch. Hats off to our committee: Dennis, Joshua, Dairian, Anish, Iris, Nduka, and Jen. A raffle topped off the evening. “Liberty dinner” at the Marketplace for one girls’ suite and one boys’ suite was the big prize offered by program coordinator Tatiyana Webb. Also last Friday were tryouts for the talent show and Life Size Checkers, where perspective really came into play. On Sunday, students enjoyed swimming and tennis at the ARC (Anteater Recreation Center).

STARS OF THE WEEK
Students: Yeabsra Aleligne, Nathanial Narbonne HS; Ernesto Villasenor,
Compton HS; Coordinator's Choice: Stephanie Munoz, Toussaint Academy of the Arts and Sciences; RAs: Jennifer Le and Andrew Nguyen
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FACULTY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Dr. Jeffrey Krichmar, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences, presented his research in cognitive robotics at CARL, the Cognitive Anteater Robotics Laboratory. Dr Krichmar studies how the brain works to design robotic systems whose behaviors are guided by simulations of the brain. His presentation to COSMOS students, “The Brain is Embodied and the Body is Embedded in the Environment,” gave students a taste of what research teams are achieving to build a smarter robot. Perception, spatial memory and motor control are just a few of the areas discussed by Dr. Krichmar in a presentation that included clips of early robots built in the 1940s by Dr. Grey Walters, a neurophysiologist. Walters’ pioneering robotic tortoises were influential in the birth of the science of cybernetics.

Students received a short lesson in brain biology and functions, and learned how these are examined by computer scientists and applied in such projects as RoboCup, in which humans play soccer with robots. Dr. Krichmar and his interdisciplinary “brain team” develop neurorobots based on the premise that they must be situated in the real world and be able to sense the environment. He discussed aspects such as motor control, learning and memory systems, and value systems - how robots can make decisions based on signals. These include attention/distraction, reward, and risk. The CARL robot can make “decisions” on what, for example, is a threat or reward, which is reflected in a color-coded system. Dr. Krichmar told students, “The brain has a million billion synaptic connections, all constantly interacting with each other and communicating.” In his research, he has used rats, who have a “compass in their head -- head direction cells,” that let them learn where they are and how they got there. His presentation particularly resonated with the “Robots to Rockets” students, who are finishing up their own hand-built robots.

The Department of Cognitive Sciences pursues research in five broad areas: cognition and information processing, mathematical behavioral science, perception and action, language and cognitive neuroscience.
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Cluster Highlights, Week 4

Cluster 1-- ROBOTS TO ROCKETS: ENERGY AND POWER FOR MACHINES
Group Projects:

  • Patrick Brady, Troy Farmer, & Reetika Rastogi
    Effect of Wing Sweep and Aspect Ratio on Airplane
  • Steven Jens Jorgensen, Darwin Nelson, & Maksim Nikiforov
    Effects of Tail Dihedral Design on Aircraft Stability
  • Jose Gonzalez, Ernesto Villasenor, & Armaan Vachani
    The Role of Fuel Cells on Alternative Energy
  • Victor Cervantes, Albert Gordon, & Jacqueline Thomas
    Propeller Length and the Velocity of Remote-Controlled Aircraft
  • Matthew Lung, Wesley Tsang, & Wesley Yu
    Cost Efficiency of Ethanol Compared with Gasoline
  • Albert Nakao & Sarah Roy
    The Effect of Weight on Required Power in Planes
  • Augustin Alva, Marco Gutierrez, & Khoa Nguyen
    Effects of Body and Wing Type in Supersonic Planes

Cluster 2-- ASTRONOMY/ASTROPHYSICS
The students are on the home stretch, organizing and putting the final touches on their posters. I am amazed at the creativity these students have shown in presenting their projects. The parents, facility and the other clusters will be very impressed at the final product. On Monday the students attended lectures on the expanding universe and learned about what the future holds. That evening the students went to their final trip to the observatory for an “open scope night”. They had access to the observatory telescopes to look at whatever was available in the night sky. Tuesday had the students playing a group game of Jeopardy and participating in the “ Battle of the Astronomy All Stars”. From Tuesday afternoon on to Thursday they put their nose to the grindstone and completed their posters. It has been a pleasure working with such talented students these last four weeks, and I will definitely miss their company over the remainder of the summer. I know each of these young men and women will have successful careers, and they will always remember their experience at COSMOS.

Cluster 3-- TISSUE AND TUMOR BIOLOGY AND MATHEMATICAL/COMPUTER MODELING
Dr. Lowengrub prepared a special poster fore each student, consolidating the key points of each of the following student projects:

  • Do Young “Marcus” Kwak, Henry Zhang, Raymond Liu, & Kevin Heh
    A Mathematical Analysis of Norepinephrine on Carcinoma Progression
  • Madeleine Scott, Mariela Magana, & Nicole Gonzalez
    Predicting The Effect of Nutrient Restriction on Tumor Proliferation: A Mathematical Modeling Solution
  • Electra Chong, Jennifer Ngo, Laura Garcia, Alexis Casillas
    The Effect of Green Tea Extract on Tumor Growth
  • Thalia Fabian, Francis Villaruz, Evelin Lopez
    The Impact of Interleukin-13 in Liposomal Doxorubicin on Glioblastoma Multiforme Cells
  • Sumeet Sharma, Derek Yip, Joshua Yip, Eric Wu
    Optimal Treatment Cycle for Administering Chemotherapy Drugs
  • Ashley Chu, Nghi Tran, Tiffany Weng
    The Effect of the Angiogenic Inhibitor AAV-Angiostatin on the Migration and Proliferation of Liver Cancer Cells
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Cluster 4-- GLOBAL CHANGE CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY
Wow! Cluster 4 had another busy week preparing for the poster session. We also had our final lectures. Dr. LeBauer presented information regarding how organisms respond to global changes, whereas Dr. Tyler presented the scientific evidence used to support global climate change. The lectures were supplemented by two exciting labs where students measured the pH of various acid rain solutions that were created by mixing a series of chemicals. Using sophisticated computer software they were able to analyze the differences in acidity due to the various chemicals. In the second lab the students tested the enzymatic activity of three different mushroom species through the use of UV-Vis spectroscopy. Finally, on Thursday the students perfected their posters and practiced presenting their findings to one another. They are all excited to present their research to the rest of the COSMOS clusters and their families tomorrow!

Cluster 5-- COMPUTER SOLUTIONS FOR MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES AND GAMES
The last week was so intense. The students played and learned about different types of board games (High Noon, Peep War); they came up with the strategies of being “the last man standing” (High Noon), and eating all the opponents (Peep War had edible game pieces). Dr. Eichhorn brought back the concept of geometric fractals by analyzing the Van Koch Snowflake and the Sierpinski triangle which were used in the Chaos game. On Wednesday, the students had a chance to review all the mathematical theories which they had learned in Cluster 5 by playing many different games and puzzles. Working rigorously with Dr. Arvo, the students finished the game bots which were very “sophisticated,” as Dr. Arvo commented. On Thursday, the students were very excited to see their game bots work successfully during the Risk Tournament. In the afternoon, together with Cluster 3, the students exchanged their knowledge in Mathematics and Biology as well as practiced their speaking skill in a PowerPoint show. Cluster 5 students explained some of the mathematical concepts (probability, stochastic process, graph theory, Markov chains, etc.) behind some popular games (Minesweeper, Risk, Chinese Chess, Chinese Checker, Riversi or Flop). This practice prepared the students for a larger audience on Friday when they presented their final projects.
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Cluster 6-- MATHEMATICS OF MUSIC: RHYTHM, TONES, AND SELF-EXPRESSION
It's hard to believe we're almost finished with Cosmos 2009. The students are very talented and hardworking, and our progress with both the creative and technical aspects of music has been impressive. This week we focused on finishing our final presentations. Working in teams of two, students are working on projects about symmetry in musical composition, human perception of music and sound, gender differences in auditory sensitivity, tuning systems in western music, building electronic instruments, and other topics. Using resources available at the UCI Libraries' excellent website, the library itself, and other online sources each team is developing a nuanced understanding of their research areas and doing college (and even graduate) level work. One challenge with The Mathematics of Music cluster is finding appropriate language and concepts to relate musical and sound-related research to the fields of science and math. Terms like key, harmony, rhythm, and musical form are understood to be music specific or exclusively creative concepts. Of course all music uses our sensitive and highly evolved sense of hearing, and music's effect on the mind demonstrates our abilities as hearing animals and as social beings. All musical tools and methods are both creative and highly technical; careful investigation of musical phenomenon reveals much about the mind, scientific principles of vibration and perception, and the relationships between cultural practice and neurological function. Our cluster's students are doing excellent work unpacking these relationships and we can't wait to share our findings and creative projects this Friday. In addition this Wednesday we returned to the REAL lab, UCI's computer music studio, where Prof. Michael Dessen gave a lecture-presentation about his work as a composer and improvisin musician. Prof. Dessen demonstrated his custom interface for controlling computer audio with the trombone (this was really amazing), discussed technical and creative considerations in computer music, and related these concepts to his work as an improvising musician. As we finish up we'd like to express thanks to the COSMOS administrative team for creating such a great and unique learning environment, all the RA's and support staff who organized all the logistics very well, UCI for the excellent facilities, Professors Dobrian and Dessen for their contribution of time and expertise, and especially the COSMOS students and families for bringing such great spirit to our experience.

Cluster 7-- SPECIAL TOPICS IN MARINE BIOLOGY
Group Projects:
  • Alma Gomez, Alice Ramirez, Alyson Fink, Maria Lissette Torres, & Juliana Wong
    The Influence of Submergence in Water on the Motility of Bat and Leather Sea Stars
  • Taylor Moniz, Jennifer Fong, & Luan Bach
    Human Impact on Organismal Diversity in the Wetlands of Newport Back Bay
  • Jamie Sadd, Sonia Vargas, Lily Sugrue, Benjamin Wu, & Kaneisha Washington
    The Effects of Water Pollution on Percent Abundance, Diversity, and Size of Clams in Upper Newport Bay
  • Daysha Bermudez, Curtis Wang, & Danny Ma
    Efficiency of Protothaca staminea (clam) Filtration in Various Solutions
  • Angela Estrada, Natalie Ramirez, Maritza Duenas, & Tania Hernandez
    Snail Grazing Behavior in the Presence of Bat Sea Stars in the Upper Newport Back Bay

Cluster 8-- THE WORLD OF MOLECULES: CHEMISTRY AT THE NANO-SCALE
Students took a field trip to Newport Optics in Irvine, a company that has been manufacturing optical components and coatings for more than 30 years. Newport Optics is a world-class optical fabrication facility. Students learned about some of the products they fabricate, including cylindrical and specialty lenses, high energy optics, beamsplitters, mirrors, optical filters and optical systems, prisms, spherical lenses and ultrafast laser optics, among others. Dr. Potma led the group, and related the equipment to those that students used in their nanotechnology labs in COSMOS. Students enjoyed sharing their projects, below, at the COSMOS poster session on Friday morning, July 24.

  • Yeabsra Aleligne, Ashley Davalos, & Kendall Stephens
    Bose Einstein Condensates (BEC): Quantum Mechanical Properties and Potential Uses
  • Carmen Palacios & Rachel Theios
    Chemical Analysis of Types of Stars Using Spectroscopy
  • Brendon Johnson, John Turner, & Mike Van
    Why Blue? Rayleigh & Mei Scattering of Light in the Atmosphere
  • Jeremy Lai, Henry Quach, & Daniel Scalettar
    Optimizing Supercapacitors Using Carbon Nanotubes
  • Michael Jeon & Leon Wang
    The Advantages of Using Cryo-Electron Microscopy on Proteins
  • Regina Ahn, Ivette Alvarez, & Rebekah Liu
    Laser Dyes: An Analysis of Absorbance and Fluorescence
  • Sloka Gundala & Hyunjean Kim
    Determining the Structure of Lysozyme Using X-Ray Crystallography
  • Johnny Hojoon Hwang & Alicia Wei
    Comparative Study of High Temperature Superconductors: Cuprates vs Pnictides
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More about COSMOS: http://www.cosmos.uci.edu/ .

last updated: 11/2/09
CONGRATULATIONS
TO OUR 2009 RECIPIENT
of the COSMOS
DIRECTOR'S SCHOLARSHIP
For a Female, rising senior,
Intending to major
In the physical sciences,
Fall 2010

LAURENCE TOAL
Senior, Fall 2009, Immaculate Heart High School, Glendale
Cumulative weighted gpa: 4.4

COSMOS Cluster:
Astronomy and Astrophysics

Special Participation:
Member of First Annual Quizmos winning team; performer at talent show - traditional Irish dance

Intended College Major:
Double major in astrophysics and political science

Ultimate educational goal:
Ph.D.

Career Goal:
Scientist at JPL or NASA

Current Research:
Working with professors at Loyola Marymount University on satellite orbits and magnetometer data. She has made “detailed plots of the five THEMIS satellites, providing information about how much of the magnetosphere each covered and how long their orbits were.”

Laurence's Quote:  
“I honestly don’t think many other sixteen-year-old girls can say that Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Feynman are some of their all-time favorite authors!"
Voices of COSMOS
“It is great fun to work with the Cluster 5 students this summer! They keep me busy trying to keep up with them and keep them challenged. The teams are doing a phenomenal job working together. I can't wait to see the final projects they will produce!”
--Dr. Sarah Eichhorn, Department of Mathematics
“This has been a tremendous experience for Rachel, and has served to confirm in her mind that she wants to pursue a career in science.”
--Mr. Theios, COSMOS Parent
“COSMOS has not only changed my life as a student participant, but also as administrative staff. I’m just as excited about the program in 2009 as I was in 2002 as a student in COSMOS, and in 2006 and 2008 as a COSMOS RA. It’s all come full circle in my role as program coordinator.”
--Tatiyana Webb, Program Coordinator
“I've had sand in my hair from playing volleyball and paint on my fingers from the picture frame craft activity, and I stayed up until 2 am making a birthday card for one of my girls turning 17. But it's really rewarding. I have done other programs, but COSMOS is different, the pace is different, and you have more time getting to know the kids. You're responsible for them and want to make the most of our time with them. It gives me energy.”
--Christina Flores, Night RA

“I learned a lot and got better with computers. The teachers are really cool. The Logic program is definitely hard, but makes it easier to make music. I play trumpet and I'm in first jazz band and first marching band at my school. Now I can record myself and fix little mistakes.”
--Kyle McIntyre, Cluster 6
“I’ve changed so much as a person and as a student. COSMOS is here to help us reach our potential. This is the real deal. this is the place where we learn who we are and the place where we discover who we want to be.”
--Raymond Liu, Cluster 3

“Before COSMOS I had never been on a college campus. For once in my life, you were cool if you were smart. COSMOS has made me a better person.”
--Alyson Fink, Cluster 7

“My experience has been great. I like the people and all the activities, it's not just the academic based. I like the different equipment, like the mass spectrometer and nuclear equipment. The professors are really interested in biology and chemistry. They really know their material and have helped us a lot.”
--Olumuyiwa Akinrimisi, Cluster 4

“Coming here has opened my mind to a lot of different people, a lot of talented people my age. I’m going to be a sophomore this fall, but I’m already learning biology and Algebra II and a lot of computer modeling. It’s a wonderful experience that I’m going to remember forever.”
--Nicole Gonzalez, Cluster 3

“COSMOS is like college but you're not graded and have no homework - it's college minus the disadvantages. In my cluster, I've found LispWorks to be hard, probably because it is more complicated. It's a good program and has fewer glitches.”
--Cameron Rodd, Cluster 5
“I’m an independent person but it changed my whole view of how to see people. I won’t be as judgmental. Everyone here is so amazing. They promote excellence. I’m really glad you chose me to participate, and I don’t want it to end.”
--Raymond Chang, Cluster 2

“It's been amazing meeting university professors that I'd never meet in my high school career. In COSMOS I've been exposed to opportunities that I would never had had. The labs are so much fun - we get to build rockets, robots and airplanes. We get to utilize science from the lectures are able to interact engineering concept in our project.”
--Steven Jens, Cluster 1
“COSMOS really helped me learn about what I like doing: computers. We’re designing a computer robot to play Risk, and analyzing Risk to find out good strategies. The math puzzles are really challenging. We’re solving Kakuro, a type of Sudoku, and we’re building a program that solves the puzzle for us.”
--Kyle Feng, Cluster 5

“I knew that the Astronomy and Astrophysics cluster was going to be hard. I didn't know that I would use some of the formulas and theories learned in high school, but here they teach you how to apply them. I can see how they are useful, the Pythagorean theorem, for example. ... I had never seen through a telescope before!”
--Andy Rodriguez, Cluster 2
“It’s been a great experience meeting kids who share the same interests. It makes me motivated to be the best that I can. I like the hands-on field work, taking what’s learned in the classroom to real life.”
--Benjamin Wu, Cluster 7

“The roommate survey worked perfectly! After the first few days, we realized we were getting along so well, we compared answers. Our answers were the same. The dorms are working really well, spacious and no problem sharing showers. It’s my first time to live on a college campus. For college, my choice is Berkeley but I’m also looking at schools back east.”
--Shera Feinstein, Cluster 5
“It’s been real cool learning from college professors, and meeting people from all over California, seeing their point of view, and how we’re different and how we’re similar. I’m going to miss it.”
--Tyler Chan, Cluster 5

“The picture frame painting was a good time to share your creative side. … At the Back Bay Science Center, we got messy with the mud grabbing. We get to do our projects there, and I’m doing snail grazing. We got our snails from the touch tank. Our instructors are really helpful and they like to interact with us. They’re very willing to help and answer questions.”
--Maritza Duenas, Cluster 7
“I’m really glad I got into COSMOS. It’s been really wonderful, like a new family. I’ve learned more than I’d learn at my school and more advanced subjects. I like how the professors go step-by-step.”
--Jennifer Ngo, Cluster 3

“I got a lot more than I expected -- I wasn’t expecting so much fun in academics as well as in social networking. Everyone’s nice, it’s comfortable to be able to talk to people. We all want to be here, that’s why. I like our cluster. We get to experience to see how it is if we want to pursue the marine biology profession. We learn a lot about ourselves and not only news09-week4draftour subject, how we impact the ocean, and how every day little things play a big role.”
--Juliana Wong, Cluster 7
INTEL INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AWARDS 2009-10

Cecilia Chow
Cluster 2: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research/Question: Does visual acuity change when using various wattages of incandescent vs. flourescent lighting?

Marina Gemma
Cluster 2: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research/Question: Is it possible for an amateur astronomer to build a spatial model of the object that periodically eclipses the star Epsilon Aurigae?

Hojoon Hwang
Cluster 8: World of Molecules
Research/Question: Analyzing Chemical Compositions of Non-Centrosymmetric Superconductors and Superconducting Pnictides

Brendon Johnson
Cluster 8: World of Molecules
Research/Question: Can Raman Spectroscopy be used to identify pesticide absorption in plants?

Raymond Liu
Cluster 3: Tissue and Tumor Biology
Research/Question: Investigating the mechanisms behind the apoptotic factor of grape seed extract on human leukemia cells and its lack of efficiacy in normal leukocytes

Jamie Sadd
Cluster 7: Marine Biology
Research/Question: In Conus Snails, is the amount of venom injected into prey affected by the snail’s size or the size of the prey?

Elly Shao
Cluster 2: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research/Question: How does acetaminophen affect the function of mitochondria?

Ernesto Villasenor
Cluster 1: Robots to Rockets
Research/Question: Do Propane clathrates provide a feasible clean burning energy source?
COSMOS CONTACTS
Marjorie DeMartino, Director

Tatiyana Webb, Program Coordinator

TeKeyia Armstrong, Program Assistant

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