TURC Students
Student Participants
TURC students receive individual training from
their faculty mentors and have received awards and recognition for their
scholarship as well as their contribution to the Tulsa Community.
Listed below are a few students who have participated in the TURC program:
PAVEL GERSHTEYN, ’07 was born in Minsk, Belarus, a small country just west of Russia. Pavel came with his family to the U.S. and attended Palmer High School in Colorado Springs where he completed the International Baccalaureate program. Gershteyn selected TU for its computer science program and with the academic credits accrued through his IB Diploma, he entered TU with sophomore standing. Pavel has directed his TURC research to computer forensics.
Blending his research and developing expertise in forensics with his involvement in the community, Gershteyn is assisting the Tulsa Police Department with its investigations in cyber crime.
ALISON GALATIAN, ’05 has honored TU twice with two prestigious scholarships: the Morris K. Udall in 2003 and the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in 2004. A senior geosciences major from Depew, Oklahoma, Alison’s environmental research has included brine remediation on the Tallgrass Prairie and the superfund site at Tar Creek in Picher. She spent the past summer researching bacteria in South African mines. Alison’s community service has included collaboration with the Tulsa Parks Department in removing liter from Chandler Park.
Her long-term research goals include environmental geobiology, investigating the effects environmental degradation on health, and on the role of microbes in mitigating environmental hazards.
JESSE KELLER, ‘O4 a senior majoring in computer science, entered TU from Union Public High School. Pursuing network security in telecommunications, Jesse’s ground breaking research team has served as consultants to the FBI and to the White House. Keller who won the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in 2002 has volunteered at the St. John Hospital in the emergency care unit and with Networks4Free, a group of TURC students who provide free services to local schools and nursing homes.
Jesse decided during his junior year to shift his career path from computer science to medicine and will begin medical school next fall.
DAVID MCCRARY, ’02 who was recruited to TU from Booker T. Washington High School for the Arts and Sciences TURC program, graduated from TU in 2002 having won the prestigious British Marshall Fellowship. David’s TURC research in utopian and dystopian novels led him to pursue studies in American literature at Leeds University and in history at Cambridge where his research was directed to the collaboration between the intelligence communities of the U.K. and the U.S. during World War II.
McCrary finished two graduate degrees in the U.K., one in literature and the second in history. Continuing his commitment to community through service oriented activities, McCrary who won the Faculty Medal for the outstanding graduate from The University of Tulsa, was selected to serve in his college council at Cambridge.