Institutional Partnerships
ESRP Projects Archive - 2025
Institutional Partnerships has led the Exemplary Student Research Program (ESRP) for over 10 years, and many bright and inventive high school teams have shared their in-depth scientific research with Argonne National Laboratory.
We have collected the abstracts of past teams’ research in this archive, so that you may look back at all the many discoveries that high school students have made here at the Lab. Every ESRP project makes a significant difference for Argonne as a whole and in the STEM pathways of all students and faculty involved.
2025 ESRP Teams:
- East Aurora High School - Analyzing Air Quality in Aurora Winter 2025, Particulate Concentration and Elemental Composition at Metropolitan Sites
- Whitney M. Young Magnet High School - Studying Ni2P and NiCoP as Viable Catalyst Alternatives to Au and Pt in Hydrogen Evolution Reactions
- West Aurora High School - Ruby Microwave Fabrication
- Saint Charles East High School - Comparing Bacterial Gene Expression in Earth and Space Environments
- Plainfield North High School - Investigating the Effects of Ag111 Surface Texture on the Hydrogenation of CO2
- Naperville Central High School - Morphological Characteristics and Cadmium Accumulation in Plants Grown in a Cadmium-Rich Environment
- Glenbrook South High School - Analyzing DNA Sequences from Plastic Degrading Microbes
- Bolingbrook High School - Solving for the Hydrogen Emission Spectrum and Energy Levels
- Carmel Catholic High School - Study of Cycling Effects on Molybdenum Based Anodes in Batteries
- York Community High School - Spectroscopic and X-ray Analysis of Cobalamin: Oxidation States and Structural Determination
- Lyons Township High School - Do You Know What’s in Your Drink? An Awareness Study on Teen Caffeine Consumption and Its Presence in Common Caffeinated Drinks
- Lincoln Way East High School - Creating a TiO2 Thin Film on Variable Substrates Using Solid Phase Epitaxy
- Lockport Township High School - Assembly and Characterization of a Plug-and-Play Position-Sensitive Silicon Detector Array for Use in a Solenoidal Spectrometer (SOLARIS) at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University
- Metea Valley High School - The Impact of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on the Growth of Herbs in the Presence of Excess Copper
- Lemont High School - Root Uptake of Iron in Common Plants and Vegetables
- Joliet Central High School - Exploring Environmental Contamination from Resource Processing in Plant Structures in the Joliet Area
- Neuqua Valley High School - X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Prosthetic Materials