Dean's Fund for Undergraduate Research Project Awardees
Academic Year 2018-2019
Autumn Quarter
- Shereen Al-Sawwaf (Global Studies, 4th Year),"What is your definition of a human being?": Shabu use in the Philippines
- Isabel Bloom (Sociology, 4th Year), The Roles of Emotion and Identity in Progressive Grassroots Activism in Chicago
- Isabelle Charo (Sociology, 4th Year), Exploring the Experiences of Service Providers for Immigrant Communities in 2018
- Abraham Friedman (Sociology, 4th Year), Policing under Surveillance: How Body Cameras Influence Police Subjectivities, Strategies, & Interactions in Englewood, Chicago
- Jacob Gosselin (Economics, 4th Year), The Impact of Provider Consolidation on Competition in ACA Insurance Markets
- Ella Hester (History, 4th Year), BA Research in Iowa
- Priyani Karim (Public Policy Studies, 4th Year), Assessing the Impacts of Policy Shifts to Renewable Energy in Gulf States
- Clare Kemmerer (Art History, 3rd Year), Woven Into a Tapestry of Love: Re-Constructing a Medieval Embroidery
- Jillian Lepek (Art History, 4th Year),Tête-à-Tête: How Velàzquez's Infanta Grew Up in Manet's Paris
- Anna Li (Sociology, 4th Year),The Construction of Immigrant Cultural Identity through Chinese American Cookbooks, Pre-WWII to the Present
- Olivia Lopez (Psychology, 4th Year) Analyzing Iconography of Frida Kahlo in Mexican Museums and Archives
- Kristen Lubawski (Public Policy Studies, 4th Year), Ashes to Coal, Coal to Renewables: Understanding the Transitions Between Major Fuel Sources in the Nineteenth Century and Today
- Elizabeth Ortiz-Menchaca (Environmental Studies, 4th Year), Cultural Diversity for Biodiversity: The Utilization of Indigenous Knowledge in Peru’s Climate Change Discourse
- Lucas Penido (Sociology, 4th Year), Making the Unprofitable Profitable: Organizations in the Affordable Housing Scene in Chicago
- Khoa Phan (Sociology, 4th Year), Asians & Friends Chicago: Interracial Intimacy in a Gay Friendship Group
- Margarita Ramirez (Biological Sciences, 4th Year), Evaluating the Effect of Toxoplasmosis on Alzheimer’s Disease
- Danielle Schmidt (Public Policy Studies, 4th Year), Offline World: Assessing At-Home Internet Accessibility in Quasi-Rural Illinois
- Riley Sester (Sociology, 3rd Year), The Effects of Chicago's 61st Street Farmers' Market on the Surrounding Woodlawn and Hyde Park Communities
- Anil Sindhwani (Sociology,4th Year), Perceptions of Crime Among Undergraduates: Identity Creation, Framing, and Total-institutionalization
- Chelsea Smith (IS HUM, 4th Year), Creative Differences: A Comparison of German Olympic Media Coverage
- Katrina Weinert (Public and Policy Studies, 4th Year), Cook County Central Bond Court and General Order 18.8A
Winter Quarter
- Afriti Bankwalla (English Language/Literature, 4th Year), TAPS BA Research Project: "Lady Lazarus" Adaption
- Thomas Hayes (Molecular Biology, 4th Year), Aaditya Rawal (Molecular Engineering and Biology, 4th Year), & Dino Vivanco (Molecular Engineering, 4th Year), Developing a User-Friendly Tool for Sensitivity Analyses on Biorefinery Models
- Keelly Jones (Political Science, 4th Year), Returning Citizen Perspectives on Plea Bargaining and Plea Agreement Utilization in the Cook County Criminal Justice System
- Jonah Lubin (Comparative Literature, 2nd Year), Josef Burg in Vienna: Jewish Citizenship, Identity, and Exile in 20th Century Central Europe
- Wanitchaya Poonpatanapricha (Psychology, 3rd Year), Stress and Social Interaction with Gender and Personality as Moderators
- Gianna Sparks (Chemistry, 4th Year), Investigating endothelial integrity during acute chest syndrome
Spring Quarter
- Nishant Aggarwal (Psychology, 3rd Year), How Social Exclusion Affects Negotiation
- David Amano (English Language/Literature, 3rd Year), Subversive Spaces: Unearthing the Underground
- Mattie Kupfer (English Literature/Language, 3rd Year), The Potency of Abstraction in Wallace Stevens: A Romance with Words
- Megan Lee (Biological Scienes, 1st Year), The Role of the Unfolded Protein Reponse in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Acute Myeloid Leukemia
- Aiyan (Aurelia) Li (Economics, 1st Year), Reverse Correlating Name-based Gender Bias
- Leron Perez (Molecular Engineering, 3rd Year), Stability of Evolving Bacterial Populations
- Alexandra Price (History, 3rd Year), BA Thesis Research: Finding the Voice of the Chicago Jewry: Jewish Immigrant Press in Chicago 1890-1920
- Jorge Sanchez (Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2nd Year), National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Claire Schultz (English Language/Literature, 3rd Year), Folklore & Fiction
- Peter Wang (Biological Sciences, 1st Year), Investigation of Whether Infections by Listeria Monocytogenes can Restore Avidity Maturation after Transplant Tolerance Induction
- Isabella Zanobini (Global Studies, 3rd Year), Global Studies BA Thesis Research in Casablanca
- Evan Zhao (Sociology, 3rd Year), (Re)Orienting Desire: Cosmopolitan Ethnosexuality in Neoliberal China
Pictured: Recipients, Thomas Hayes, Aaditya Rawal & Dino Vivanco
