2021-2022 Research Scholars
Quad Summer Research Scholars
- Hannah Halpern, Fourth-Year, Classical Studies
- Project Title: Raffaelo Maffei’s Commentariora Urbana and the History of Censorship
- Mentor: Ada Palmer
- Eyshe Beirich, Fourth-Year, Germanic & Jewish Studies
- Project Title: The work of feminist translation and Miriam Karpilove’s Yiddish-language archive
- Mentor: Jessica Kirzane
- Yike Huang, Second-Year, East Asian Languages and Civilizations & Music
- Project Title: Overflow of Songs: Pan Zhiheng and Kunqu Performance
- Mentor: Judith Zeitlin
- David Spitz, Second-Year, Computer Science & Philosophy and Allied Fields
- Project Title: Further Topics in Logic: Type Theory for Philosophers
- Mentor: Kevin Davey
- Elizabeth Gerlach, Fourth-Year, Romance Languages and Literature
- Mentor: Timothy Campbell
- Mara Duquette, Third-Year, Global Studies & Creative Writing
- Project Title: Object Handling and Word Learning Across Cultures
- Mentor: Marisa Casillas
- Su Karaca, Third-Year, Psychology & Data Science
- Project Title: Effects of Conversational Disruptions in Computer Mediated Communication Models on People’s Feeling of Closeness and Social Connection
- Mentor: Anne Henly
- Samantha Feder-Trosclair, Third-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: The representation and communication of social thought through gestures
- Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
- Brandon Shin, Third-Year, Sociology
- Project Title: Concentrated Poverty, Exposure to Violent Crime, and Child Academic Achievement
- Mentor: Geoffrey T. Wodtke
- Katherine Ambrose, Third-Year, Media Arts and Design & Sociology
- Project Title: fNIRS and Math Equivalence
- Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
- Tianyi Zhang, Fourth-Year, Economics & Mathematics
- Project Title: Investor behavior and returns in markets for crypto-assets
- Mentor: Anthony Lee Zhang
- Erica Hogan, Fourth-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts & Economics
- Mentor: Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
- Shannon KIm, Second-Year, Biochemistry & Chemistry
- Project Title: Enantiomeric Specificity in Chemical Aminoacylation
- Mentor: Jack Szostak
- Joseph Farrell, Fourth-Year, Economics & Computer Science and Mathematics
- Project Title: Automated Refinement Protocol to Improve the Quality of Protein Structures Deposited in the Protein Data Bank, Applied to SARS-COV-2
- Mentor: Esmael Jafari Haddadian
- Darius Suplica, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Decoding Auditory Working Memory Load Using Multivariate Analysis
- Mentor: Ed Awh
- Krishna Raghavan, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry & Chemistry
- Project Title: The effects of charge and tail composition of membrane phospholipids on the binding of α-synuclein
- Mentor: Ka Yee Lee
- Jan Kasal, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Auditory Motor Adaptation in the Speech Production System in Humans
- Mentor: Shannon Heald
- Emily Scott, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Behavioral Implications of Inner Ear Potassium Channels in Mice
- Mentor: Ruth Anne Eatock
- Jonathan Tang, Fourth-Year, Biological Science
- Project Title: Naturally assembled microbial communities for BPA degradation
- Mentor: Seppe Kuehn
- Polly Ren, Second-Year, Computational and Applied Math & Economics
- Project Title: Elucidating the structural conformations of amyloid-beta oligomers, involved in Alzheimer’s disease, on 2D surfaces
- Mentor: Esmael Haddadian
- Mukerrem Tufekcioglu, Second-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: MD Simulation of Human IDE
- Mentor: Esmael Haddadian
- Lingjie Chen, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering & Physics
- Project Title: Investigating Heat Shock Response with Diamond Nanothermometry
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
- Sze Hang Chan, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Investigating Nanoparticles in their Packaging and Release Capabilities of Anti-Cancer Drugs
- Mentor: Matthew Tirrell
- Jonah Medoff, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Searching for Dwarf Galaxies Around NGC 55
- Mentor: Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil
- Kevin Yao, Third-Year, Chemistry & Philosophy
- Project Title: Investigation into the effects of irradiation conditions for squid beak inspired materials
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- Jiatong Li, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Physica: Tangible Physics Simulation via Swarm Robot Cluster for Improvisation with Tangible User Interface
- Mentor: Ken Nakagaki
- William Zhao, Fourth-Year, Chemistry & History
- Project Title: Asymmetric Epoxidation by Chiral Brønsted Acid Activated Dimethyl Dioxirane (DMDO)
- Mentor: Viresh Rawal
- Joseph Guter, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Adoptive Cell Therapy of Cancer Using Tumor-Associated Memory-Phenotype CD8+ T Cells
- Mentor: Peter Savage
- Sarah Candelaria McDuffie, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Improving the Mechanical Properties of Polylactic Acid with Diblock Copolymer Grafted Cellulose Nanocrystals
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- Yunyan Mo, Fourth-Year, Geophysical Sciences
- Project Title: Revision of the carboniferous ray-finned fossil fish Woodichthys bearsdeni
- Mentor: Michael Coates
- Aniela Mitchell, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Engineering co-BBz CAR-T cells
- Mentor: Jun Huang
- Genevieve Ansay, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering & Mathematics
- Project Title: Investigation of Polymer Thin Films as Anti-Icing Materials with a Quartz Crystal Microbalance
- Mentor: Steven J. Sibener
- Aditya Bhardwaj, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Quantum Optimal Control of Multimode Systems
- Mentor: David Schuster
- Chi Ian Ip, Fourth-Year, Physics & Philosophy
- Project Title: Light-induced Time-reversal Symmetry Breaking at the Bi2Se3/WSe2 Interface
- Mentor: Shuolong Yang
- Sophia Li, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry & Chemistry
- Project Title: Synthesis of N-Heterocycles via C-C Activation
- Mentor: Guangbin Dong
- Emma Yang, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry & Chemistry
- Project Title: Transition metal-catalyzed [5+2] cycloaddition of 1-indanone with tethered alkynes via oxidative addition
- Mentor: Guangbin Dong
- Noah Geller, Third-Year, Physics & Mathematics
- Project Title: A Kinematic Analysis of the Tidal Stream of Antlia II
- Mentor: Alexander Ji
Supported by the Fosun Fund for Undergraduate Research
- Emma Montgomery, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Development of a humanized zebrafish model to test functional consequences of insulin mutations
- Mentor: Raghavendra Mirmira
- Katharine Fox, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Cellular basis for androgen-androgen receptor mediated protection from Type 1 Diabetes
- Mentor: Alexander Chervonsky
- Sofia V Montoto, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Functional Role of DHHC2 in Golgi Satellite Proliferation
- Mentor: William Green
- Ellen Ma, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Endothelization and Cell Differentiation Projects at the Hibino Lab
- Mentor: Narutoshi Hibino
- Jillyn Turunen, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Role of GABA Transaminase (ABAT) in Pediatric Brain Tumor Medulloblastoma Development and Spread
- Mentor: Josh Neman
- Maya Ordonez, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience & English Language and Literature
- Project Title: Understanding the Spatial Variation in Depression Rates within Cities
- Mentor: Marc G. Berman
- Daisy Maslan, Third-Year, History & Biology
- Project Title: Characterizing Yan Phase Separation
- Mentor: Ilaria Rebay
- Rowen Glusman, Fourth-Year, Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Project Title: Measuring Stellar Cycles of Young Stars with K2 and TESS
- Mentor: Jacob Bean
- Riley Rosener, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Detector Trigger Timing for Scalar Particles in ICARUS
- Mentor: David Schmitz
- Raul Basilides Gomez del Estal Teixeira, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Characterizing the Photometric Redshifts for Cosmic Shear
- Mentor: Chihway Chang
- Steven Labalme, Third-Year, Chemistry & Mathematics
- Project Title: Enhancing Photoredox Gold Catalysis with Metal-Organic Layers
- Mentor: Wenbin Lin
- Maya McDaniel, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Development of a Photoswitchable Dye-Based Detector for Improved PET Scans
- Mentor: Allison Squires
- Caroline McCleary, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Undergraduate research position in UChicago Professor Wenbin Lin's lab
- Mentor: Wenbin Lin
- Ainsley Iwanicki, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Investigating the Effect of Chirality on Charge Transfer in TMD-Organic Heterostructures Using 2D-Circular Dichroism
- Mentor: Greg Engel
Supported by the Hoeft Fund for Undergraduate Research
- Alexander Stern, Third-Year, Linguistics & Environmental and Urban Studies
- Project Title: Tracking children’s shift from child-like to adult-like vocabulary
- Mentor: Marisa Casillas
- Wanxin Peng, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Influence of Modalities of Preference Expression on Post-Choice Satisfaction
- Mentor: Boaz Keysar
- Yizhou Lyu, Third-Year, Psychology & Statistics
- Project Title: Neural correlates of Hostile Attribution Bias
- Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong
- Dana Christopher, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Testing the Inhibition Properties of Candidate Compounds on Bacterial Protein Mfd's Role in the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Development
- Mentor: Houra Merrikh
- Aidan Cloonan, Fourth-Year, Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Project Title: Search for Widely Separated Lensed Quasars
- Mentor: Michael Gladders
- Joseph Geniesse, Fourth-Year, Chemistry & Environmental and Urban Studies
- Project Title: Ytterbium-Doped Lead-Free Halide Perovskite Quantum Cutting Materials to Increase the Efficiencies of Silicon Solar Cells
- Mentor: Eray Aydil
- Alexander Costle-Tyler, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Snyder Research Group: Synthesis of Harziane Diprotenoids
- Mentor: Scott Snyder
- Hugh Cairney, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Synthesis, characterization, and spectroscopic study of bismuth based lead-free perovskite quantum dots
- Mentor: Greg Engel
- Frederick Wehlen, Fourth-Year, Physics & Astrophysics
- Project Title: Holographic Anomalies in the CMB
- Mentor: Craig Hogan
Quad Faculty Research Grantees
- Susanne Paulus, Faculty Mentor, NELC/Oriental Institute
- Undergraduate Researcher: Madeline Ouimet
- Timothy Harrison, Faculty Mentor, English
- Undergraduate Researcher: Finn Barry
- Agnes Callard, Faculty Mentor, Philosophy
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jessica Aaron
- Ellen MacKay, Faculty Mentor, English and TAPS
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jode Sparks
- Andrew Koh, Faculty Mentor, Pathology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Gabrielle Berman
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jacob Bernheim
- Sampriti Mukherjee, Faculty Mentor, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Emilia Lim
- Undergraduate Researcher: Ethan Yarberry
- Jingyi Fei, Faculty Mentor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Xiaoshu Wang
- Peggy Mason, Faculty Mentor, Neurobiology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jonathan Zeevi
- Brandon Pierce, Faculty Mentor, Public Health Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Yohhan Kumarasinghe
- Undergraduate Researcher: Stephanie Zhang
- Stephanie Palmer, Faculty Mentor, Organismal Biology and Anatomy; Physics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Minerva Roscoe
- Akira Imamoto, Faculty Mentor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research
- Undergraduate Researcher: Violet Wu
- John Anderson, Faculty Mentor, Chemistry
- Undergraduate Researcher: Joel Gardner
- Pedro Lopes, Faculty Mentor, Computer Science
- Undergraduate Researcher: Rahman Mustapha
- Undergraduate Researcher: Noor Amin
- Bozhi Tian, Faculty Mentor, Chemistry
- Undergraduate Researcher: Elaine Liang
- Undergraduate Researcher: Ellie Ostroff
- Reika Yokochi, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Nicholas Durani
- Hsiao-Wen Chen, Faculty Mentor, Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Naren Kasinath
- Undergraduate Researcher: Rohan Venkat
- David Jablonski, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Sharon Zhou
- Marc Berman, Faculty Mentor, Psychology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Maya Ordonez
- Robert Vargas, Faculty Mentor, Sociology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Juan-Pablo Armes
- Undergraduate Researcher: Gabriel Morales
- Ada Palmer, Faculty Mentor, History
- Undergraduate Researcher: Hannah Halpern
- Zhiying Ma, Faculty Mentor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
- Undergraduate Researcher: Michelle Liu
- Eugene Raikhel, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Nicholas Durani
- Olufunmilayo Olopade, Faculty Mentor, Global Health
- Undergraduate Researcher: Lingyue Yu
- Undergraduate Researcher: Aarthi Koripelly
- Allen Lu, Faculty Mentor, Linguistics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Henry Mackall
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jonathan Roven
- Timothy Sanders, Faculty Mentor, Pediatrics & Biological Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Sara Salomon
- Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, Faculty Mentor, Harris School of Public Policy
- Undergraduate Researcher: Erica Hogan
- Akram Bakkour, Faculty Mentor, Psychology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Defne Buyukyazgan
- Gabriel Winant, Faculty Mentor, History
- Undergraduate Researcher: Benjamin Tjandra
- Undergraduate Researcher: Abed Alsolaiman
- Malte Janson, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Cal LeDoux
- Luca Grandi, Faculty Mentor, Physics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Victoria Ankel
- Dorian Abott, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
- Undergraduate Researcher: Kyla Mullaney
- Haryadi Gunawi, Faculty Mentor, Computer Science
- Undergraduate Researcher: Dang Nguyen
- Jacob Bean, Faculty Mentor, Computer Science
- Undergraduate Researcher: Dang Nguyen
- Haryadi Gunawi, Faculty Mentor, Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Devin Hoover
- David Miller, Faculty Mentor, Physics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Macallan Maedke
- Undergraduate Researcher: Sadie Seddon-Stettler
Dean's Fund for Undergraduate Research - Conference Awardees
- Jonathan Wuwong, Third-Year, Linguistics
- Presentation Title: Accounting for Grammatical Change and Variation Within Endangered Language Grammars: The Case of Even
- Conference: Descriptive Grammars and Typology II (Paris, 2021)
- Mari Mirasol, Fourth-Year, Sociology
- Presentation Title: The Right to Citizenship: Education in Juvenile Detention Centers in El Salvador
- Conference: LASA 2022 Congress: Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias (San Francisco, 2022)
- Devin Hoover, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Presentation Title: The Population of Interstellar Objects Detectable with the LSST and Accessible for In Situ Rendezvous with Various Mission Designs
- Conference: American Astronomical Society (Salt Lake City, 2022)
- Nathaniel Martinez, Third-Year, Computer Science
- Presentation Title: Using autoencoders to cluster NEXRAD reflectivity images
- Conference: 21st Annual American Meteorological Society Student Conference (Houston, 2022)
- Leighton Stanfill, Third-Year, Linguistics
- Presentation Title: Processes of gesture change within digital media
- Conference: American Dialect Society (Washington, DC, 2022)
Pictured: João Shida, 2020-2021 Liew Family College Research Fellow and College Summer Research Scholar (Photo Credit: Prof. Allison Squires)
