Brian Greene '05  |
David Harmon '04 
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Brittnee Jones '04 
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Brian Greene (Wofford 2005)
Ph.D. student in Cornell University’s Department of Natural Resources
Greene is studying how food frequency affects plant diversity. His NSF proposal was based on research that he completed for his Wofford honors project. Before enrolling at Cornell, Greene was working in New Hampshire on salamander research and was teaching part time at a public high school in Maryland. He also traveled in Latin America and spent two months in Chile and Argentina visiting seven different national parks
in Patagonia.
David Harmon (Wofford 2004)
Ph.D. student in computer science at Columbia University in New York
Most of Harmon’s research in the computer graphics lab blends physics, applied mathematics and computer science. A current project involves cloth simulation, specifically developing a collision detection and response system for cloth that allows it to interact appropriately with itself and its environment. Harmon recently submitted a paper presenting a faster model for computing bending energy in cloth/thin-shells to a conference and completed research at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif.
Brittnee Jones (Wofford 2004)
Ph.D. student in biochemistry at the University of California-San Francisco
Jones is studying messenger RNA (the way the body takes DNA and codes it for proteins). To do this she will be using nuclear magnetic resonance to look at the protein structure to determine the way the body destroys this translational message. Her research will take her to Poland during the next year.