Maryam Khan, Rana Mohamed, Annabel Xie,Larissa Brijmohan, Fizza Nayab
NYCSEF First Award
- Rana Mohamed (Engineering)
Project: Energy efficient design for a partially actuated passive walker.
Mentor: Mr. William Zhiren Peng and Dr. Joo H. Kim, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Rana also received the Naval Science Award from the Office of Naval Research.
NYCSEF Second Award
- Larissa Brijmohan (Animal Sciences)
Project: The effect of an audience on monk parakeet nest construction effort.
Mentor: Dr. Frank Grasso, Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College - Annabel Xie (Animal Sciences)
Project: Monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) prefer to nest in greenspace in New York City compared to other types of land.
Mentor: Dr. Frank Grasso, Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College
NYCSEF Third Award
- Fizza Nayab (Animal Sciences)
Project: Monk to monk communication: Do monk parakeet calls influence conspecific behaviors?
Mentor: Dr. Frank Grasso, Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College - Maryam Khan (Behavioral Neuroscience)
Project: Defining the mechanisms of memory associated neural ensembles in the hippocampus.
Mentor: Dr. Juan Marcos Alarcon, Department of Pathology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center