Harvard's Office of Career Services

Herchel Smith Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

2004 Herchel Smith Awardees

Christopher Doucette, 2006, conducted research through the summer and into the fall semester in the laboratory of Eric Shoubridge at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University. Shoubridge and his colleagues study mitochondrial genetic disorders; Doucette researched enzymes involved in energy production in cells.

Patrick Mauro, 2007, worked with Gu-Yeon Wei, assistant professor of electrical engineering on the Gordon McKay Endowment at Harvard. Mauro conducted research concerning power leakage in computer memory and the plausibility of using capacitors in computer memory modules for better power efficiency.

Stefan Patrikis, 2006, worked with William Stein, Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, on a project in computational arithmetic geometry. Their primary goal was to verify the full Birch Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for elliptical curves in a few special cases by studying the order of the Tate-Shafarevich group of an elliptical curve.

Weerawat Runguphan, 2006, did research at the Office of Atoms for Peace in Thailand's Bureau of Radiation Safety Regulation. The primary focus of his research was radiation measurement and radioactive contamination.

Hasuk Francis Song, 2006, worked at the Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique in Paris. He assisted in studies of sonoluminescence, a phenomenon in which gas bubbles trapped in acoustical fields generate flashes of light. Song's physics research focused on increasing observed temperature during sonoluminescence.

Limor Spector, 2007, worked at CERN, the world's largest particle physics research center, in Geneva. Working with Gerald Gabrielse, George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard, Spector helped develop the next generation of devices to trap, characterize, and produce antihydrogen.

Inna Zakharevich, 2006, conducted research with Gunnar Carlsson at Stanford University. Zakharevich studied topological methods in data analysis and experimented with software developed by Carlsson to find shape statistics in images.