Michael Ditton – (University of Massachusetts) worked with Watkins examining the topology and morphology of Pluronic F127 films with the objective of controlling the film topology by altering solvent-polymer interactions and substrate polymer interactions.

Taryn Harchik – (University of Massachusetts) worked with McCarthy to examine methods for coating anodized aluminum oxide membranes using spin coating and vapor phase reactions involving polystyrene and polyparaxylylene

Jarret Marcoux – (University of Massachusetts) worked with Strey focusing on condensing DNA into a liquid crystal phase and identifying behavior at different monovalent and multivalent salt concentrations

Jennifer Simeone – (University of Massachusetts) worked with Emrick in the synthesis of biodegradable polyesters.

Dannon Stigers – (University of Massachusetts) worked with Tew examining the crosslinking of poly(-3 hydoxyoctanoate-co-3 hydroxydecanoate) with lysine and PEG derivatives

Yann Tambouret – (University of Massachusetts) worked with Rotello examining the interactions of specific nanoparticles to surface self assembled monolayers

Diwakar Turaga – (University of Massachusetts) worked with Muthukumar measuring the self differential coefficients of polyelectrolytes using nuclear magnetic resonance and conductivity

Lyndi Boudreau – (University of Illinois, Chicago) worked with Lesser developing experimental methods for measuring residual stresses in polymer thermoset (epoxy) coatings.

Vincent Carreon – (University of California, Santa Cruz) worked with Russell examining nanoparticle self assembly at polymer interfaces using PS-PMMA and PS-PVP homopolymers

Jenny Raynor – (Bridgewater State College) worked with Hsu studying the chemistry of polyester prepolymers and how molecular weight and side product formation affects physical properties