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PJ Blanco
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PJ Blanco, a doctoral stu-
dent in the counseling pro-
gram and assistant director
of clinical services at UNT's
Child and Family Resource
Clinic, is investigating the
impact of play therapy on
children's academic achieve-
ment, self-concept and rela-
tionship with teachers.
He and colleagues at the
clinic conducted an eight-week
research study of first-graders
identified as at-risk by the
Denton Independent School
District based on factors such
as failure on a grade-level
academic achievement mea-
sure, lack of English language
proficiency or homelessness.
Play therapy gives the children
an opportunity to express
emotions symbolically, learn
coping skills, build self-esteem
and develop responsibility and
self control.The research was super-
vised by Dee Ray, associate
professor of counseling and
center director.
Korok Chatterjee
Korok Chatterjee attended
UNT's Texas Academy of
Mathematics and Science,
the nation's first accelerated
residential program for tal-
ented teens who take university
courses to complete their first
two years of college while
earning high school diplomas.
His research with Murali
Varanasi, chair of the Depart-
ment of Electrical Engineering,
earned him recognition as a
semifinalist in the 2008 Intel
Science Talent Search and
honorable mention status in
the 2008 Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarship competition.
Chatterjee worked to develop
a cryptosystem to protect the
privacy of electronic informa-tion. The system, which uses
a joint error-correction and
encryption method, reduces
computational costs, increases
the speed of data transmission
and lowers the possibility of
a message being corrupted by
a third party. The research
can be useful in areas of
communication in which a high
volume of data is being trans-
ferred, including the Internet,
phones, and government and
corporate networks.
Chatterjee graduated from
TAMS last year and is finish-
ing his undergraduate degree
at the University of California
at Berkeley.
Wen Chyan
Enqineenrng polymers
Wen Chyan, a second-year
TAMS student, won the 2008
Siemens Competition in Math,
Science and Technology, con-
sidered the premier high schoolcompetition for math, science
and technology research.
As the national winner, he
received a $100,000 scholar-
ship for his work to engineer a
silver-releasing polymer coat-
ing that could help prevent
bacterial infections during
hospital stays. Nosocomial
infections affect more than 2
million hospital patients annu-
ally and kill about 100,000.
Chyan created a polymer with
imbedded silver ions that
prevents and kills bacteria. The
adhesive polymer can be used
on catheters, breathing tubes
and other medical devices that
have contact with patients.
Chyan, whose father, Oliver
Chyan, is a UNT professor of
chemistry, was mentored by
Richard Timmons, a professor
of chemistry at the University
of Texas at Arlington. Chyan
plans to major in chemistry or
chemical engineering after grad-
uating from TAMS in May.32 SPRING 2009 UNT RESEARCH
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