Professor Christine Heitsch's current undergraduate student, David Esposito, tied for first place in the 2012 Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) Research Symposium. David's work, "Improved RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Using Stochastic Context Free Grammars," began as a School of Mathematics funded REU project during summer 2011 and has continued through the year. Besides Christine Heitsch, Shel Swenson, and Svetlana Poznanovik were also David's advisors on the project.