Quad Undergraduate Research Scholars (Winter 2022)

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