2022 UChicago Undergraduate Research Symposium

2022 UChicago Undergraduate Research Symposium

SESSION 1 (click for poster archive)

SESSION 2 (click for poster archive)

To access the virtual Symposium sessions (read abstracts and view posters) click on the hyperlinks for each session above.

See below for a complete list of student presenter name(s) and their assigned session (Session 1 or Session 2).

Undergraduate Research Symposium presenters share their gratitude for their faculty and research mentors--read their messages here!

Thank you for celebrating undergraduate research and mentorship at the University of Chicago!

2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium Presenter List

Session 1: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM CT Session 2: 1:00-3:00 PM CT
Aarthi Koripelly, 2nd-Year, Computer Science Abigail Case, 3rd-Year, Geophysical Sciences
Ahmed Zaki, 4th-Year, Political Science, Economics Aidan Jones, 2nd-Year, Physics
Aidan Cloonan, 3rd-Year, Astronomy and Astrophysics Ainsley Iwanicki, 2nd-Year, Chemistry
Alex Hinkle, 4th-Year, Chemistry Alex Rodriguez, 4th-Year, Biological Sciences
Alexis Hatch, 2nd-Year, History Alex Ellerstein, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences
Ana Bertuol, 2nd-Year, Biological Chemistry , Mathematics  Alexandra Masegian, 3rd-Year, Astrophysics
Angel Soba, 4th-Year, Environmental and Urban Studies Alina Kim, 4th-Year, Political Science, History
Anjali Mirmira, 3rd-Year, Chemistry Allie Chu, 3rd-Year, Computer Science, Media Arts and Design
Anna Argulian, 3rd-Year, Biology Amanda Hill, 2nd-Year, Biological Chemistry
Anurima Mummaneni, 2nd-Year, Neuroscience Anjali Kotamarthi, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences
Bernadette Miao, 3rd-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry Areeha Khalid, 4th-Year, Biology, Comparative Human Development
Chi Ian Ip, 3rd-Year, Physics, Philosophy Audrey Scott, 2nd-Year, Astrophyics, Anthropology; Rowen Glusman, 3rd-Year, Astrophysics; Isaiah Escapa, 2nd-Year, Astrophysics, Creative Writing
Christina Pirrotta, 4th-Year, Molecular Engineering Beatrice Katsnelson, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences; Elise Katsnelson, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences
Claire Fuschi, 4th-Year, Molecular Engineering Benjamin Kash, 4th-Year, Chemistry, Molecular Engineering
Daisy Coates, 4th-Year, Art History, Cinema and Media Studies Blaise Munyampirwa, 4th-Year, Computer Science , Computational and Applied Mathematics
Doga Sarier, 4th-Year, Economics, Art History Bruce Ke Zhen Wen, 3rd-Year, Economics
Elaine Liang, 2nd-Year, Philosophy and Allied Fields Cal LeDoux, 2nd-Year, Geophysical Sciences
Ellie Ostroff, 3rd-Year, Chemistry Cassie Manrique, 4th-Year, Biological sciences
Emilio Rosas Linhard, 2nd-Year, Molecular Engineering Mudmee Sereeyothin, 2nd-Year, Neuroscience, Psychology
Erica Hogan, 3rd-Year, Economics, Fundamentals Christopher Zhu, 4th-Year, Computer Science
George Li, 3rd-Year, Biology, Economics Christopher Cebra, 4th-Year, Statistics, Mathematics
Isabel O'Malley-Krohn, 4th-Year, Biology Cole Meldorf, 4th-Year, Astrophysics, Physics
Isabella Xu, 4th-Year, Biological Sciences Dana Lin, 2nd-Year, Molecular Engineering
Isabella Cisneros, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences Dang Nguyen, 2nd-Year, Computer Science, Mathematics
Jack Riley, 3rd-Year, Biochemistry, Chemistry Daniel Paraizo, 4th-Year, Physics, Mathematics
Jeff Guo, Recent Alum, Statistics Diego Garza, 3rd-Year, Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jessica Oros, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences Edward Wang, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics (Data Science Specialization)
Jessica Aaron, 2nd-Year, Philosophy, History Elisabeth Snyder, 1st-Year, Law, Letters, and Society, Public Policy Studies; Anna Guzman, 2nd-Year, Law, Letters, and Society; 
Jessica Markman, 3rd-Year, Neuroscience, Creative Writing Elise Katsnelson, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences; Beatrice Katsnelson, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences
Jessica Metzger, 4th-Year, physics, mathematics Emma Kugelmass, 2nd-Year, Sociology, History
Jielu Yu, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences Eric Jiahan Zhao, 3rd-Year, Molecular Engineering
Joel Gardner, 4th-Year, Chemistry, Mathematics Ethan Yarberry, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences
Jonathan Zeevi, 2nd-Year, Neurology; Noor Amin, 3rd-Year, Neuroscience, Media Arts and Design Gaby Berman, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences
Jonathan Chung, 4th-Year, History Giácomo Rabaiolli Ramos, 4th-Year, Political Science, Anthropology
Josephine Dawson, 3rd-Year, English Language and Literature; Caroline Galt, 4th-Year, English Language and Literature; Jacob Schroeder, 2nd-Year, Computer Science, English Language and Literature Haley Nguyen, 3rd-Year, Physics
Jovan Stanisavic, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences Hannah Halpern, 3rd-Year, Classical Studies
Julius Kim, 3rd-Year, Chemistry Hugh Cairney, 2nd-Year, Physics
Kaan Tarhan, 4th-Year, Chemistry Huiting Liu, 4th-Year, Physics
Kameel Khabaz, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences Irene Li, 4th-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
Katie Ko, 2nd-Year, Computer Science Bella Gomez, 3rd-Year, Economics; Nicole Yao, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics; Narvella Sefah, 2nd-Year, Global Studies
Kian Yoo-Sharifi, 4th-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts Koby Rosen, 1st-Year, Neuroscience
Lauren Cecchini, 4th-Year, Global Studies , Russian and Eastern European Studies  Jacob Bernheim, 2nd-Year, Biological Sciences
Leighton Stanfill, 3rd-Year, Linguistics Jillyn Turunen, 3rd-Year, neuroscience
Lingyue Yu, 3rd-Year, Biological Chemistry, Mathematics Jo Blankson, 4th-Year, Fundamentals
Livia Guttieres, 3rd-Year, Physics, Mathematics João Shida, 4th-Year, Mol. Eng., Physics
Lucas Lelis Graciliano, 2nd-Year, Economics, Computer Science Joseph Geniesse, 3rd-Year, Chemistry, Environmental and Urban Studies
Mac Maedke, 4th-Year, Physics, Molecular Engineering (Quantum Track) Joseph Farrell, 3rd-Year, Economics, Computer Science
Maggie Hayes, 4th-Year, Physics, Philosophy Joshua Kim, 3rd-Year, Psychology
Maggie Mills, 3rd-Year, Political Science; Teddy Foley; Robert Gorman Juan-Pablo Armes, 2nd-Year, Environmental and Urban Studies
Mari Knudson, 4th-Year, Environmental Studies  Julia Du, 4th-Year, Sociology, Economics
Marti Gendel, 4th-Year, Biological Sciences Julien Lee Heberling, 3rd-Year, Chemistry (B.S.), Biological Chemistry (B.S.)
Maya Olcer, 2nd-Year, Biological Sciences k80 ambrose, 2nd-Year, Media Arts and Design, Sociology; Navid Mazidabadifarahani, 2nd-Year, History
Maya Ordonez, 3rd-Year, Neuroscience , English Language and Literature Kabir Dubey, 2nd-Year, Mathematics
Miranda McKibben, 4th-Year, Biology Karen Yuan, 4th-Year, Biological Sciences
Nicole Yao, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics; Narvella Sefah, 2nd-Year, Global Studies; Bella Gomez, 3rd-Year, Economics Kelly Zhang, 3rd-Year, Mathematics, Statistics
Noel Cercizi, 3rd-Year, Chemistry, Psychology Keyer Thyme, 3rd-Year, Physics
Patrick Sun, 3rd-Year, Quantitative Biology Kyla Mullaney, 2nd-Year, Astrophysics; George Afentakis, 2nd-Year, Physics, Mathematics
Peyton Dooley, 2nd-Year, Biological Sciences, Cinema and Media Studies Laura Chen, 4th-Year, Biological Sciences, Public Policy 
Raj Shetty, 2nd-Year, Neuroscience Lara Braverman, 4th-Year, Physics, Mathematics
Rohan Venkat, 2nd-Year, Physics, Computer Science Lev Copelan, 4th-Year, Psychology
Sadie Seddon-Stettler, 4th-Year, Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics Jason Chen, 3rd-Year, Molecular Engineering, Physics; Maia Driggers, 3rd-Year, Medieval Studies, Cinema and Media Studies; 
Sandhini Agarwal, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences Liviu Megherea, 2nd-Year, Biological Sciences, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine (HIPS)
Sara Salomon, 4th-Year, Neuroscience  Maddie Ouimet, 4th-Year, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Sophie Hare, 3rd-Year, Public Policy Manu Sundaresan, 2nd-Year, Biological Sciences
Stephanie Kim, 3rd-Year, Computer Science, Philosophy; Spencer Ng, 3rd-Year, Computer Science; Clark Kovacs, 2nd-Year, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Fundamentals Maren Klineberg, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences
Stephanie Reitzig, 4th-Year, History Max Moncada Cohen, 4th-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
Torres Shi, 3rd-Year, Art History Meira Chasman, 3rd-Year, Cinema and Media Studies, Political Science
Tyler Mandrell, 4th-Year, Psychology, Comparative Human Development Jacky Li, 4th-Year, Physics
Uma Mani, 2nd-Year, Neuroscience Michael Han, 3rd-Year, Chemistry, Economics
William Cerny, 4th-Year, Astrophysics Minerva Roscoe, 2nd-Year, Physics
Wilson Turner, 3rd-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry Morten Lee, 3rd-Year, Chemistry
Violet Wu, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences Nathaniel Selub, 2nd-Year, Physics, Mathematics
Yiqin Gao, 4th-Year, Neuroscience, Computational and Applied Mathematics; Bianca Campagnari, 3rd-Year, Biology, Psychology Nidhi Talasani, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences
Yue Pan, 3rd-Year, Astrophysics Noah Dohrmann, 3rd-Year, Molecular Engineering
Yuerong Zhuang, 3rd-Year, Economics, Computational and Applied Math Noor Amin, 3rd-Year, Neuroscience, Media Arts and Design
Yunyan Mo, 3rd-Year, Geophysical Sciences Paddy Liu, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences, Philosophy
Zander Arnao, 3rd-Year, Public Policy Studies Raj Tummala, 2nd-Year, Biochemistry, Mathematics
Zebeeb Nuguse, 4th-Year, Environmental and Urban Studies Raul Gomez del Estal Teixeira, 2nd-Year, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Ziyu Ren, 2nd-Year, Psychology, Data Science Rebecca Greenberg, 4th-Year, Psychology
  Rhea Shah, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences, Specialization Cancer Biology, Romance Languages and Literatures
  Sarah Weber, 2nd-Year, Biological Sciences , Neuroscience
  Sarah Melton, 3rd-Year, Chemistry
  Seth Nguyen, 3rd-Year, Art History, Religious Studies
  Shivani Chatterji, 3rd-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
  Sophie Barth, 2nd-Year, Psychology
  Katherine Nurminsky, 4th-Year, Mathematics, Tissue Engineering; Stephanie Ran, 3rd-Year, Biological Sciences, Computer Science; 
  Stephanie Zhang, 4th-Year, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine; Joel Ssepuuya, 2nd-Year, Anthropology
  Tatiana Rachlin, 2nd-Year, Psychology
  Tinyan Dada, 4th-Year, Comparative Human Development 
  Tori Ankel, 3rd-Year, Physics, Mathematics
  Trent Davis, 3rd-Year, Neuroscience, Visual Arts
  Walker Gillett, 4th-Year, Molecular Engineering
  Wanran Zhao, 2nd-Year, Undeclared
  Yohhan Kumarasinghe, 3rd-Year, Statistics