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