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