2021-2022 Research Scholars
Quad Summer Research Scholars
- Hannah Halpern, Fourth-Year, Classical Studies
- Project Title: Raffaelo Maffei’s Commentariora Urbana and the History of Censorship
- Mentor: Ada Palmer
- Eyshe Beirich, Fourth-Year, Germanic & Jewish Studies
- Project Title: The work of feminist translation and Miriam Karpilove’s Yiddish-language archive
- Mentor: Jessica Kirzane
- Yike Huang, Second-Year, East Asian Languages and Civilizations & Music
- Project Title: Overflow of Songs: Pan Zhiheng and Kunqu Performance
- Mentor: Judith Zeitlin
- David Spitz, Second-Year, Computer Science & Philosophy and Allied Fields
- Project Title: Further Topics in Logic: Type Theory for Philosophers
- Mentor: Kevin Davey
- Elizabeth Gerlach, Fourth-Year, Romance Languages and Literature
- Mentor: Timothy Campbell
- Mara Duquette, Third-Year, Global Studies & Creative Writing
- Project Title: Object Handling and Word Learning Across Cultures
- Mentor: Marisa Casillas
- Su Karaca, Third-Year, Psychology & Data Science
- Project Title: Effects of Conversational Disruptions in Computer Mediated Communication Models on People’s Feeling of Closeness and Social Connection
- Mentor: Anne Henly
- Samantha Feder-Trosclair, Third-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: The representation and communication of social thought through gestures
- Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
- Brandon Shin, Third-Year, Sociology
- Project Title: Concentrated Poverty, Exposure to Violent Crime, and Child Academic Achievement
- Mentor: Geoffrey T. Wodtke
- Katherine Ambrose, Third-Year, Media Arts and Design & Sociology
- Project Title: fNIRS and Math Equivalence
- Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
- Tianyi Zhang, Fourth-Year, Economics & Mathematics
- Project Title: Investor behavior and returns in markets for crypto-assets
- Mentor: Anthony Lee Zhang
- Erica Hogan, Fourth-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts & Economics
- Mentor: Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
- Shannon KIm, Second-Year, Biochemistry & Chemistry
- Project Title: Enantiomeric Specificity in Chemical Aminoacylation
- Mentor: Jack Szostak
- Joseph Farrell, Fourth-Year, Economics & Computer Science and Mathematics
- Project Title: Automated Refinement Protocol to Improve the Quality of Protein Structures Deposited in the Protein Data Bank, Applied to SARS-COV-2
- Mentor: Esmael Jafari Haddadian
- Darius Suplica, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Decoding Auditory Working Memory Load Using Multivariate Analysis
- Mentor: Ed Awh
- Krishna Raghavan, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry & Chemistry
- Project Title: The effects of charge and tail composition of membrane phospholipids on the binding of α-synuclein
- Mentor: Ka Yee Lee
- Jan Kasal, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Auditory Motor Adaptation in the Speech Production System in Humans
- Mentor: Shannon Heald
- Emily Scott, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Behavioral Implications of Inner Ear Potassium Channels in Mice
- Mentor: Ruth Anne Eatock
- Jonathan Tang, Fourth-Year, Biological Science
- Project Title: Naturally assembled microbial communities for BPA degradation
- Mentor: Seppe Kuehn
- Polly Ren, Second-Year, Computational and Applied Math & Economics
- Project Title: Elucidating the structural conformations of amyloid-beta oligomers, involved in Alzheimer’s disease, on 2D surfaces
- Mentor: Esmael Haddadian
- Mukerrem Tufekcioglu, Second-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: MD Simulation of Human IDE
- Mentor: Esmael Haddadian
- Lingjie Chen, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering & Physics
- Project Title: Investigating Heat Shock Response with Diamond Nanothermometry
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
- Sze Hang Chan, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Investigating Nanoparticles in their Packaging and Release Capabilities of Anti-Cancer Drugs
- Mentor: Matthew Tirrell
- Jonah Medoff, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Searching for Dwarf Galaxies Around NGC 55
- Mentor: Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil
- Kevin Yao, Third-Year, Chemistry & Philosophy
- Project Title: Investigation into the effects of irradiation conditions for squid beak inspired materials
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- Jiatong Li, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Physica: Tangible Physics Simulation via Swarm Robot Cluster for Improvisation with Tangible User Interface
- Mentor: Ken Nakagaki
- William Zhao, Fourth-Year, Chemistry & History
- Project Title: Asymmetric Epoxidation by Chiral Brønsted Acid Activated Dimethyl Dioxirane (DMDO)
- Mentor: Viresh Rawal
- Joseph Guter, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Adoptive Cell Therapy of Cancer Using Tumor-Associated Memory-Phenotype CD8+ T Cells
- Mentor: Peter Savage
- Sarah Candelaria McDuffie, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Improving the Mechanical Properties of Polylactic Acid with Diblock Copolymer Grafted Cellulose Nanocrystals
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- Yunyan Mo, Fourth-Year, Geophysical Sciences
- Project Title: Revision of the carboniferous ray-finned fossil fish Woodichthys bearsdeni
- Mentor: Michael Coates
- Aniela Mitchell, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Engineering co-BBz CAR-T cells
- Mentor: Jun Huang
- Genevieve Ansay, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering & Mathematics
- Project Title: Investigation of Polymer Thin Films as Anti-Icing Materials with a Quartz Crystal Microbalance
- Mentor: Steven J. Sibener
- Aditya Bhardwaj, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Quantum Optimal Control of Multimode Systems
- Mentor: David Schuster
- Chi Ian Ip, Fourth-Year, Physics & Philosophy
- Project Title: Light-induced Time-reversal Symmetry Breaking at the Bi2Se3/WSe2 Interface
- Mentor: Shuolong Yang
- Sophia Li, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry & Chemistry
- Project Title: Synthesis of N-Heterocycles via C-C Activation
- Mentor: Guangbin Dong
- Emma Yang, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry & Chemistry
- Project Title: Transition metal-catalyzed [5+2] cycloaddition of 1-indanone with tethered alkynes via oxidative addition
- Mentor: Guangbin Dong
- Noah Geller, Third-Year, Physics & Mathematics
- Project Title: A Kinematic Analysis of the Tidal Stream of Antlia II
- Mentor: Alexander Ji
Supported by the Fosun Fund for Undergraduate Research
- Emma Montgomery, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Development of a humanized zebrafish model to test functional consequences of insulin mutations
- Mentor: Raghavendra Mirmira
- Katharine Fox, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Cellular basis for androgen-androgen receptor mediated protection from Type 1 Diabetes
- Mentor: Alexander Chervonsky
- Sofia V Montoto, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Functional Role of DHHC2 in Golgi Satellite Proliferation
- Mentor: William Green
- Ellen Ma, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Endothelization and Cell Differentiation Projects at the Hibino Lab
- Mentor: Narutoshi Hibino
- Jillyn Turunen, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Role of GABA Transaminase (ABAT) in Pediatric Brain Tumor Medulloblastoma Development and Spread
- Mentor: Josh Neman
- Maya Ordonez, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience & English Language and Literature
- Project Title: Understanding the Spatial Variation in Depression Rates within Cities
- Mentor: Marc G. Berman
- Daisy Maslan, Third-Year, History & Biology
- Project Title: Characterizing Yan Phase Separation
- Mentor: Ilaria Rebay
- Rowen Glusman, Fourth-Year, Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Project Title: Measuring Stellar Cycles of Young Stars with K2 and TESS
- Mentor: Jacob Bean
- Riley Rosener, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Detector Trigger Timing for Scalar Particles in ICARUS
- Mentor: David Schmitz
- Raul Basilides Gomez del Estal Teixeira, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Characterizing the Photometric Redshifts for Cosmic Shear
- Mentor: Chihway Chang
- Steven Labalme, Third-Year, Chemistry & Mathematics
- Project Title: Enhancing Photoredox Gold Catalysis with Metal-Organic Layers
- Mentor: Wenbin Lin
- Maya McDaniel, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Development of a Photoswitchable Dye-Based Detector for Improved PET Scans
- Mentor: Allison Squires
- Caroline McCleary, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Undergraduate research position in UChicago Professor Wenbin Lin's lab
- Mentor: Wenbin Lin
- Ainsley Iwanicki, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Investigating the Effect of Chirality on Charge Transfer in TMD-Organic Heterostructures Using 2D-Circular Dichroism
- Mentor: Greg Engel
Supported by the Hoeft Fund for Undergraduate Research
- Alexander Stern, Third-Year, Linguistics & Environmental and Urban Studies
- Project Title: Tracking children’s shift from child-like to adult-like vocabulary
- Mentor: Marisa Casillas
- Wanxin Peng, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Influence of Modalities of Preference Expression on Post-Choice Satisfaction
- Mentor: Boaz Keysar
- Yizhou Lyu, Third-Year, Psychology & Statistics
- Project Title: Neural correlates of Hostile Attribution Bias
- Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong
- Dana Christopher, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Testing the Inhibition Properties of Candidate Compounds on Bacterial Protein Mfd's Role in the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Development
- Mentor: Houra Merrikh
- Aidan Cloonan, Fourth-Year, Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Project Title: Search for Widely Separated Lensed Quasars
- Mentor: Michael Gladders
- Joseph Geniesse, Fourth-Year, Chemistry & Environmental and Urban Studies
- Project Title: Ytterbium-Doped Lead-Free Halide Perovskite Quantum Cutting Materials to Increase the Efficiencies of Silicon Solar Cells
- Mentor: Eray Aydil
- Alexander Costle-Tyler, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Snyder Research Group: Synthesis of Harziane Diprotenoids
- Mentor: Scott Snyder
- Hugh Cairney, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Synthesis, characterization, and spectroscopic study of bismuth based lead-free perovskite quantum dots
- Mentor: Greg Engel
- Frederick Wehlen, Fourth-Year, Physics & Astrophysics
- Project Title: Holographic Anomalies in the CMB
- Mentor: Craig Hogan
Quad Scholars (Winter 2022)
Funded through the NK Cheung Chemistry Research Fellowship
- Sarah Melton, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Fabrication and characterization of PTCDA-MoS2 heterostructure for investigation of electronic structure at the interface using sum-frequency generation spectroscopy
- Faculty Mentor: Sarah King, Chemistry
Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund
- Kaitlyn Ko, Second-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Investigating exacerbated partisan bias during the act of recalling political information
- Faculty Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong, Psychology
- Alicia Chu, Third-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation: Gentrification and Social Mixing
- Faculty Mentor: Wenfei Xu, Center for Spatial Data Science, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
- Huiting Liu, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Narrow-linewidth Cat-eye Lasers
- Faculty Mentor: Cheng Chin, Physics, James Franck Institute
Supported by the Global Health Research Fund
- Yoon Seo Lee, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: The Role of HIV Infection on Genetic Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among Women and Black Communities: A Mendelian Randomization Approach
- Faculty Mentor: Bohdan Khomtchouk, Medicine, Computational Biomedicine, Biomedical Data Science
- Sophie Hare, Third-Year, Public Policy
- Project Title: Mental Health, Nativity, and Migration: A Binational Examination of Mexicans Living in Mexico and in the US using the HCHS/SOL and MxFLS Surveys
- Faculty Mentor: Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, Embodying Race(ism) Lab
- Chloe Roske, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Vitamin D in refeeding hypophosphatemia (RH) among individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
- Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Wildes, Psychiatry
Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors
- Zheyuan (Torres) Shi, Second-Year, Art History, Computer Science
- Project Title: Picturing the Early Modern Japanese City
- Faculty Mentor: Chelsea Foxwell, Art History
- Miles Mikofsky, Fourth-Year, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
- Project Title: European views and definitions of Sunni Islam (ca. 1600-1900)
- Faculty Mentor: Ahmed El Shamsy, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Franke Institute
- Kaan Tarhan, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Computationally Guided Synthesis of New Anomeric Amides
- Faculty Mentor: Mark Levin, Chemistry
- Maggie Mills, Second-Year, Creative Writing
- Project Title: Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
- Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
- Anna Guzman, Second-Year, Public Policy
- Project Title: Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
- Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
- Elisabeth Snyder, First-Year, Common Year
- Project Title: Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
- Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
- Timothy Foley, First-Year, Mathematics
- Project Title: Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
- Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
- Emma Kugelmass, Second-Year, Sociology
- Project Title: Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
- Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
- Robert Gorman, Third-Year, Inquiry and Research in the Humanities
- Project Title: Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
- Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
- Yue Pan, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: A model of ram pressure stripping of simulated Milky Way satellite galaxies
- Faculty Mentor: Andrey Kravtsov, Astronomy, Astrophysics
- Raul Basilides Gomez del Estal Teixeira, Second-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Characterizing the Photometric Redshifts for Galaxies in the Dark Energy Camera Local Volume Exploration Survey
- Faculty Mentor: Chihway Chang, Astronomy, Astrophysics
- Junsung Kim, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Geometric Analysis of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Patients with Endovascular Aortic Repair
- Faculty Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek, Surgery, SurgBioMech Lab
- Yunyan Mo, Third-Year, Geophysical Sciences
- Project Title: Revision of the carboniferous ray-finned fossil fish Woodichthys bearsdeni
- Faculty Mentor: Michael Coates, Evolutionary Biology
- Shivani Chatterji, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Hydrogel Semiconductors for Ultra-Soft and High-Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors
- Faculty Mentor: Sihong Wang, Molecular Engineering
- Hugh Cairney, Second-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Synthesis and characterization of bismuth based lead-free perovskite quantum dots
- Faculty Mentor: Greg Engel, Chemistry
- Aidan Jones, Second-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Understanding the Intracellular Stress Response
- Faculty Mentor: Peter Maurer, Molecular Engineering
- Mengyang Li, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Fabrication and Implementation of Patterned anodes with sub-millimeter spatial resolution for large-area MCP-based photodetector systems
- Faculty Mentor: Henry J. Frisch, Physics, Enrico Fermi Institutes
- Maxwell Moncada Cohen, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Infrared Compatible Rapid Mixing Technology to Probe Bimolecular Kinetics and Dynamics
- Faculty Mentor: Andrei Tokmakoff, James Franck Institute
- Amanda Hill, Second-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: The Regulation of Cell Fate Specification in the Developing Fly Eye
- Faculty Mentor: Ilaria Rebay, Ben May Department for Cancer Biology
- Peyton Dooley, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The Molecular Basis for Thymic Insulin Expression
- Faculty Mentor: Andrew Koh, Pathology
- Sarah Weber, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: High Throughput Identification of Functional Enhancer Elements Across Species
- Faculty Mentor: Heather Marlow, Organismal Biology and Anatomy
- Edward Wang, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Exploring the biology of aging in cancer
- Faculty Mentor: Stephen J. Kron, Kron Lab
- Patrick Sun, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Quantification of Factors Mediating Elevated Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in HIV-infected Individuals
- Faculty Mentor: Bohdan Khomtchouk, Medicine
- Anyu Cao, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Hippocampal CA1 Place Cell Activity in an Alternate Reward and No Reward Paradigm
- Faculty Mentor: Mark Sheffield, Neuroscience
- Roma Shah, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Investigating the different roles of bilateral CA3-CA1 circuitry in hippocampus during spatial navigation
- Faculty Mentor: Mark Sheffield, Neuroscience
- Yuerong Zhuang, Third-Year, Economics
- Project Title: The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India
- Faculty Mentor: Eyal Frank, Public Policy
- Wanran Zhao, Second-Year, Mathematics
- Project Title: Generative Art Collections on the Blockchain
- Faculty Mentor: Anthony Lee Zhang, Business
- Jacob Rosen, First-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: A Common Dynamical Model of Voicing for Speech and Birdsong
- Faculty Mentor: Howard Nusbaum, APEX Lab
- Noelle Norona, Third-Year, Philosophy
- Project Title: Approximations of Virtue: How Machiavelli Scaled Down Ancient Virtue for Contemporary Florence
- Faculty Mentor: John P. McCormick, Political Science
- Thomas Song, Third-Year, Political Science
- Project Title: Wellbeing, Mobility, and Credit: The Relation Between National Credit Systems and Social Stratification Processes in Mexico and the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Faculty Mentor: Ines Escobar Gonzalez, Global Studies
- Lev-David Copelan, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Social Gestures
- Faculty Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow, Goldin-Meadow Lab
- Sophie Barth, Second-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Gendered Perceptions of Ability
- Faculty Mentor: Lin Bian, Psychology, Early Social Thinkers Lab
- Ziyu Ren, Second-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Impact of Language on Promoting Blood Donation
- Faculty Mentor: Boaz Keysar, Psychology
- Joshua Kim, Third-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Cognitive mechanisms underlying spontaneous, object-based solution-finding
- Faculty Mentor: Shannon Heald, Psychology
Quad Scholars (Autumn 2021)
Funded through the NK Cheung Chemistry Research Fellowship
- Colin Cooper, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Total Synthesis of Antroalbocin A
- Faculty Mentor: Scott Snyder, Chemistry
- Alexandra Hinkle, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Application of Isostatic Pressure on the Synthesis of InP and InGaP Quantum Dots
- Faculty Mentor: Dmitri Talapin, Chemistry
- Ainsley Iwanicki, Second-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Investigating the Efficiency of Energy Transfer between Cyanobacterial Phycobilisomes and Photosystems I and II Using Pump-Probe Spectroscopy
- Faculty Mentor: Greg Engel, Chemistry
- Kevin Zong, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Enantioselective Amination of β-ketoesters with Aryl Hydroxylamines
- Faculty Mentor: Scott Snyder, Chemistry
- Kaan Tarhan, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Computationally Guided Synthesis of New Anomeric Amides
- Faculty Mentor: Mark Levin, Chemistry
- Noah Dohrmann, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Training New MC-PDFT Functionals
- Faculty Mentor: Laura Gagliardi, Chemistry
- Wilson Turner, Third-Year, Chemistry, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Directed Synthesis and Testing of [2]Rotaxane Slide-Ring Gels
- Faculty Mentor: Faculty Mentor: Stuart Rowan, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
- Cindy Xue, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Development of Novel Fluoroether Electrolytes for High Energy Density Lithium Metal Batteries
- Faculty Mentor: Faculty Mentor: Chibueze Amanchukwu, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund
- Erica Ramos, Fourth-Year, Comparative Human Development
- Project Title: Exploring the Intersection of Tradition and Technology in Ceramics
- Faculty Mentor: Laura Letinsky, Visual Arts
- Karhan Kayan, Fourth-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Integrating Latent Variable Causal Inference with Generative Models
- Faculty Mentor: Bryon Aragam, Booth School of Business
- Bruce Ke Zhen Wen, Third-Year, Economics
- Project Title: Growth of Urban Charter Education Sector in New York City
- Faculty Mentor: Michael Dinerstein, Economics
- Emily Pelliccia, Third-Year, Philosophy
- Project Title: U.S. Mass Incarceration in Historical and Comparative Perspective
- Faculty Mentor: John Clegg, History
- Stephanie Kim, Third-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Tamagotchi Robot
- Faculty Mentor: Sarah Sebo, Computer Science
- Blaise Munyampirwa, Fourth-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Machine Learning for Usage-Based Insurance
- Faculty Mentor: Rebecca Willett, Computer Science
- Yunxian Song, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Nuclear quantum effects on the structural and electronic properties of tetrahedral amorphous carbon
- Faculty Mentor: Giulia Galli, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
- Gabriela Garcia, Third-Year, Classical Studies
- Project Title: US Mass Incarceration in Historical and Comparative Perspective
- Faculty Mentor: John Clegg, History
- Sophia Salvato, Fourth-Year, Critical Race Studies and English
- Project Title: Early Black Filmmaking in Chicago
- Faculty Mentor: Allyson Fields, Cinema Studies
- Vivian Lei, Fourth-Year, English
- Project Title: “Seeing Race Before Race” in the Newberry’s Center for Renaissance Studies
- Faculty Mentor: Lia Markey, Newberry Library and Art History
- Elizabeth Gerlach, Third-Year, English
- Project Title: Premodern Women at the Newberry’s Center for Renaissance Studies
- Faculty Mentor: Lia Markey, Newberry Library and Art History
Supported by the Global Health Research Fund
- Ramshankar Balasubramaniyan, Fourth-Year, Law, Letters, and Society
- Project Title: Understanding how national policymakers and practitioners use road traffic injury statistics in national dialogue about road safety
- Faculty Mentor: Kavi Bhalla, Public Health Sciences
- Beatrice Katsnelson, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Computer Aided Diagnosis with Deep Learning Algorithms of COVID-19 in Lung CT Scans (with Clinical Applications)
- Faculty Mentor: Maryellen Giger, UChicago Medicine Department of Radiology
- Elise Katsnelson, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Computer Aided Diagnosis with Deep Learning Algorithms of COVID-19 in Lung CT Scans (with Clinical Applications)
- Faculty Mentor: Maryellen Giger, UChicago Medicine Department of Radiology
- Manu Sundaresan, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Delineating immunogenetic constitution of oral squamous cell carcinoma tumorigenesis
- Faculty Mentor: Evgeny Izumchenko, The University of Chicago Department of Medicine
- Mercer Winer, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Assessing the reliability of global road traffic injury estimates produced by two reputable health data sources
- Faculty Mentor: Kavi Bhalla, Public Health Sciences
- Megan Lee, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences (Global Health concentration)
- Project Title: Radiosensitizing Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors by Artemin inhibition
- Faculty Mentor: Xavier M. Keutgen, The University of Chicago Department of Surgery
Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors
- Miles Ogihara, Fourth-Year, Political Science
- Project Title: Federal Bailwatching Project
- Faculty Mentor: Alison Siegler, University of Chicago Law School, Federal Criminal Justice Clinic
- Tatiana Rachlin, Second-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Exploration of Gender Biases in Children Regarding Brilliance
- Faculty Mentor: Lin Bian, Psychology
- Phalgun Garimella, Seconnd-Year, Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Project Title: Ship-napping: patronage and extortion during the Sicily-Tunisia Fish War, 1960-1995
- Faculty Mentor: Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, Harris School of Public Policy
- Anjali Mirmira, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Quantification of Immunoglobulin A as a Potential Therapeutic for Food Allergies
- Faculty Mentor: Cathryn Nagler, Pathology
- Guanghua Hao, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Base Editor Mediated Large-Scale Lineage Tracing
- Faculty Mentor: Weixin Tang, Chemistry
- Julien Lee Heberling, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Efforts Towards the Total Synthesis of Picrinine
- Faculty Mentor: Scott A. Snyder, Chemistry
- Liviu Megherea, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Understanding the Evolution of Axis Specification in Diptera
- Faculty Mentor: Urs Schmidt-Ott, Organismal Biology & Anatomy
- Jovan Stanisavic, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Investigating the Role of Kdm5b Histone Demethylase in Cancer Immune Evasion
- Faculty Mentor: Yuxuan (Phoenix) Miao, The Ben May Department for Cancer Research
- Raj Tummala, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Deep Learning-Assisted Digitization of Interstitial Needles
- Faculty Mentor: Jordan M. Slagowsk, Department of Radiation and Oncology
- Hannah Ye, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Characterization of Actin-Binding Protein Tetrathymosin Beta
- Faculty Mentor: David Kovar, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
- Karen Yuan, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Geometric Analysis of Normal Aortas: Age and Sex-related Variations in Aortic Geometry
- Faculty Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek, Department of Surgery
- Ethan Dintzner, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Understanding the function of model adhesion GPCRs through structural biology and biophysics
- Faculty Mentor: Demet Araç, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Jane Rosin, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Functions of PVT1 lncRNA and its DNA Locus in Regulating Expression of The MYC Oncogene
- Faculty Mentor: Alex Ruthenburg, Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Anjali Kotamarthi, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Identification of -7/del7q specific genetic vulnerabilities
- Faculty Mentor: Megan McNerney, Department of Pathology
- Jillyn Turunen, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Role of p52 Inhibition in Sensitization of Glioblastoma to Temozolomide
- Faculty Mentor: Bakhtiar Yamini, Department of Neurological Surgery
- Uma Mani, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Examining the Generalizability of Odor-Based Cues Learned in Various Contexts
- Faculty Mentor: Jai Yu, Psychology
- Etienne Sotto, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Blocking Ectopic Activation of Oncogenes in Neuroblastoma
- Faculty Mentor: Francois Spitz, Molecular Engineering
- Lucas Lelis Graciliano, Second-Year, Economics
- Project Title: Chicago Project on Security and Threats
- Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Lessing, Political Science
- Jose Prata, Third-Year, Economics
- Project Title: Histpun
- Faculty Mentor: John Clegg, History
- Morten Lee, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Nanoscale Coordination Polymers for Targeted Chemotherapy and Immunomodulation
- Faculty Mentor: Wenbin Lin, Chemistry
- Madeline Joseph, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Characterization of Cyanine Dye-DNA Complexes
- Faculty Mentor: Allison Squires, Molecular Engineering
- Dana Lin, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Developing a Single-Molecule Assay for Direct Observation of Heat Shock Protein Activity
- Faculty Mentor: Allison Squires, Molecular Engineering
- Cody Googin, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Laser Intensity Stabilization Device
- Faculty Mentor: Hannes Bernien, Molecular Engineering
- George Afentakis, Second-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Predicting the Observability of Flare-Driven Atmospheric Chemistry on Earth-like Exoplanets
- Faculty Mentor: Dorian Abbot, Geophysics
- Sophia Chiang, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Evolution of mutation rates through forward molecular evolution
- Faculty Mentor: Arvind Murugan, Physics
- Livia Guttieres, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Using Machine Learning to visualize topological polarization of 3-dimentional solid media with odd elasticity
- Faculty Mentor: Vincenzo Vitelli, Physics
- Nathaniel Selub, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Measurements of Holographic Symmetries in CMB Temperature Fluctuations
- Faculty Mentor: Craig Hogan, Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Mufan (John) Shao, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Ion Transport through Single-Digit Nanopores in Two-Dimensional Materials
- Faculty Mentor: Chong Liu, Molecular Engineering
- Ana Bertuol, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The Role of Stromal Antigen Proteins in 3D Genome Structure Evolution
- Faculty Mentor: Heather Marlow, Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Maren Klineberg, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Hemodialysis Vein Models
- Faculty Mentor: Anidita Basu, Genetic Medicine
- Jessica Oros, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Activation of Host Kinase Vps34 by Murine Norovirus Non-Structural Protein NS4
- Faculty Mentor: Glenn Randall, Microbiology
- Riona Chen, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Investigating the Connection between Nutrient Availability in the Tumor Microenvironment and Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer
- Faculty Mentor: Alexander Muir, The Ben May Department for Cancer Research
- Daniel Paraizo, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Angular Momentum at Null Infinity and their Properties
- Faculty Mentor: Robert Wald, Physics
- Linus Woodard, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Near Field Deposition with Atom Scale Resolution
- Faculty Mentor: Alexander Muir, The Ben May Department for Cancer Research
- Anna Argulian, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Psychology
- Project Title: NLRP3 Activation Controls Prostate Cancer via Induction of Macrophage-Mediated Phagocytosis
- Faculty Mentor: Akash Patnaik, Biological Sciences
- Laura Braverman, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Odd Viscosity
- Faculty Mentor: Vincenzo Vitelli, James Frank Institute
- Haley Nguyen, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Cat-Eye Laser for Optical Tweezing of Caesium in Quantum Networks
- Faculty Mentor: Hannes Bernien, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
- Aidan Cloonan, Third-Year, Astronomy, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Investigation into Selection Bias in DES Strong Gravitational Lenses
- Faculty Mentor: Alex Drlica-Wagner, Astronomy, Astrophysics
- Haley Cerny, Fourth-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Characterizing the Newly Discovered Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Pegasus IV
- Faculty Mentor: Alex Drlica-Wagner, Astronomy, Astrophysics
- Isaac Sierra, Fourth-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Apache Point Observatory Diffuse Interstellar Bands Collaboration
- Faculty Mentor: Don York, Astronomy, Astrophysics
- Joao Shida, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Radiation Switching of Photoswitchable Fluors for applications in Positron Emission Tomography
- Faculty Mentor: Henry Frisch, Enrico Fermi Institute
- Walker Gillett, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Polysulfide-LPS Based Hybrid Solid Electrolytes for Increased Cycling Longevity
- Faculty Mentor: Chibueze Amanchukwu, Molecular Engineering
- Emilio Rosas Linhard, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Jaws of Death
- Faculty Mentor: Supratik Guha, University of Chicago Guha Lab
Quad Faculty Research Grantees
- Susanne Paulus, Faculty Mentor, NELC/Oriental Institute
- Undergraduate Researcher: Madeline Ouimet
- Timothy Harrison, Faculty Mentor, English
- Undergraduate Researcher: Finn Barry
- Agnes Callard, Faculty Mentor, Philosophy
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jessica Aaron
- Ellen MacKay, Faculty Mentor, English and TAPS
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jode Sparks
- Andrew Koh, Faculty Mentor, Pathology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Gabrielle Berman
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jacob Bernheim
- Sampriti Mukherjee, Faculty Mentor, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Emilia Lim
- Undergraduate Researcher: Ethan Yarberry
- Jingyi Fei, Faculty Mentor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Xiaoshu Wang
- Peggy Mason, Faculty Mentor, Neurobiology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jonathan Zeevi
- Brandon Pierce, Faculty Mentor, Public Health Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Yohhan Kumarasinghe
- Undergraduate Researcher: Stephanie Zhang
- Stephanie Palmer, Faculty Mentor, Organismal Biology and Anatomy; Physics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Minerva Roscoe
- Akira Imamoto, Faculty Mentor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research
- Undergraduate Researcher: Violet Wu
- John Anderson, Faculty Mentor, Chemistry
- Undergraduate Researcher: Joel Gardner
- Pedro Lopes, Faculty Mentor, Computer Science
- Undergraduate Researcher: Rahman Mustapha
- Undergraduate Researcher: Noor Amin
- Bozhi Tian, Faculty Mentor, Chemistry
- Undergraduate Researcher: Elaine Liang
- Undergraduate Researcher: Ellie Ostroff
- Reika Yokochi, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Nicholas Durani
- Hsiao-Wen Chen, Faculty Mentor, Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Naren Kasinath
- Undergraduate Researcher: Rohan Venkat
- David Jablonski, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Sharon Zhou
- Marc Berman, Faculty Mentor, Psychology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Maya Ordonez
- Robert Vargas, Faculty Mentor, Sociology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Juan-Pablo Armes
- Undergraduate Researcher: Gabriel Morales
- Ada Palmer, Faculty Mentor, History
- Undergraduate Researcher: Hannah Halpern
- Zhiying Ma, Faculty Mentor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
- Undergraduate Researcher: Michelle Liu
- Eugene Raikhel, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Nicholas Durani
- Olufunmilayo Olopade, Faculty Mentor, Global Health
- Undergraduate Researcher: Lingyue Yu
- Undergraduate Researcher: Aarthi Koripelly
- Allen Lu, Faculty Mentor, Linguistics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Henry Mackall
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jonathan Roven
- Timothy Sanders, Faculty Mentor, Pediatrics & Biological Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Sara Salomon
- Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, Faculty Mentor, Harris School of Public Policy
- Undergraduate Researcher: Erica Hogan
- Akram Bakkour, Faculty Mentor, Psychology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Defne Buyukyazgan
- Gabriel Winant, Faculty Mentor, History
- Undergraduate Researcher: Benjamin Tjandra
- Undergraduate Researcher: Abed Alsolaiman
- Malte Janson, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Cal LeDoux
- Luca Grandi, Faculty Mentor, Physics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Victoria Ankel
- Dorian Abott, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Kyla Mullaney
- Haryadi Gunawi, Faculty Mentor, Computer Science
- Undergraduate Researcher: Dang Nguyen
- Jacob Bean, Faculty Mentor, Computer Science
- Undergraduate Researcher: Dang Nguyen
- Haryadi Gunawi, Faculty Mentor, Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Devin Hoover
- David Miller, Faculty Mentor, Physics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Macallan Maedke
- Undergraduate Researcher: Sadie Seddon-Stettler
Dean's Fund for Undergraduate Research - Conference Awardees
- Jonathan Wuwong, Third-Year, Linguistics
- Presentation Title: Accounting for Grammatical Change and Variation Within Endangered Language Grammars: The Case of Even
- Conference: Descriptive Grammars and Typology II (Paris, 2021)
- Mari Mirasol, Fourth-Year, Sociology
- Presentation Title: The Right to Citizenship: Education in Juvenile Detention Centers in El Salvador
- Conference: LASA 2022 Congress: Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias (San Francisco, 2022)
- Devin Hoover, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Presentation Title: The Population of Interstellar Objects Detectable with the LSST and Accessible for In Situ Rendezvous with Various Mission Designs
- Conference: American Astronomical Society (Salt Lake City, 2022)
- Nathaniel Martinez, Third-Year, Computer Science
- Presentation Title: Using autoencoders to cluster NEXRAD reflectivity images
- Conference: 21st Annual American Meteorological Society Student Conference (Houston, 2022)
- Leighton Stanfill, Third-Year, Linguistics
- Presentation Title: Processes of gesture change within digital media
- Conference: American Dialect Society (Washington, DC, 2022)
Pictured: João Shida, 2020-2021 Liew Family College Research Fellow and College Summer Research Scholar (Photo Credit: Prof. Allison Squires)
