2022-2023 Research Scholars
Summer Quad Research Scholars
Supported by the Global Health Research Fund
- Eshan Dosani Second-Year, Economics, Political Science
- Project Title: Investigating Deaths of Despair
- Mentor: Harold Pollack
- Maggie Liu Third-Year, Psychology, Comparative Human Development
- Project Title: Risk Factors of Loneliness
- Mentor: Jayant Pinto
- Yvonne Ma Third-Year, Biochemistry, Economics
- Project Title: Thermoresponsive Polymersomes for Vaccine Delivery
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- Dang Nguyen Third-Year, Computer Science, Mathematics
- Project Title: Radiology Report Generation
- Mentor: Chenhao Tan
- Abigail Yuhan Third-Year, Biology, Public Policy
- Project Title: GATA3 Mutations in Breast Cancer Patients of African Descent
- Mentor: Olufunmilayo Olopade
- Songyang Zhang Third-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Protect Yourself or Others: The Effect of Messaging Intervention on Male HPV Vaccination
- Mentor: Boaz Keysar
Supported by the Fosun Fund for Undergraduate Research
- Abigail Blenko Second-Year, Chemistry, Music
- Project Title: Ir-F Metal-Organic Layer Photoredox Catalysis of Dehalogenative Coupling Reactions
- Mentor: Wenbin Lin
- Sabina DSouza Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The NLRP3 Project
- Mentor: Akash Patnaik
- Emma Edwards Second-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Tracking Carboxylate Binding Motifs During RuO2-Electrocatalyzed Butene Synthesis
- Mentor: Anna Wuttig
- Emilie Faracci Third-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: 'Card'inality
- Mentor: Ken Nakagaki
- Natalie Floreancig Second-Year, Physics, Public Policy Studies
- Project Title: Improving Energy Resolution to Detect Sterile Neutrino Oscillations
- Mentor: David Schmitz
- Laine Hirn Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Characterizing Energy Transfer in Diffuse Giant Intragroup Nebulae in the Distant Universe
- Mentor: Hsiao-Wen Chen
- Sara Hoggatt Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Effect of physical dynamics on bacteria detection in single-cell host-pathogen interactions using Fluidic Force Microscopy
- Mentor: Aaron Esser-Kahn
- Nora Sampson Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Structure and robustness of the genetic networks patterning the midbrain
- Mentor: Francois Spitz
- Maryam Shariff Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The Role of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Prostate Cancer
- Mentor: Akash Patnaik
- Natalia Solano Second-Year, Biology
- Project Title: Nanomaterial-drug delivery to enhance targeted immunomodulatory therapies in Type-1 Diabetes
- Mentor: Diana Velluto
- Marie Tagliavia Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Analysis of Two Hyperbolic Umbilic Strong Lens Candidates
- Mentor: Michael Gladders
- Trisha Vinay Third-Year, Biology
- Project Title: Investigation of the Roles of MAL Proteins in Governing the Tumor-Initiating Cell-Specific Immune Evasion
- Mentor: Yuxuan Miao
- Xiaoshu Wang Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Physics
- Project Title: Application of Plasticizing Effect on TDAF Polymer as Eletron Transporting Layer in Stretchable Organic Light-Emitting Diode
- Mentor: Sihong Wang
- Jiayi Wang Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Psychology
- Project Title: A Role of the Integrated Stress Response in Macrophage Migration and Polarization in the Context of T1D
- Mentor: Raghavendra Mirmira
- Shuofeng Zhao Second-Year, Physics, Philosophy and Allied Fields
- Project Title: Probe magnetic field strength using GFP + CRY4 Fusion protein
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
Supported by the Hoeft Fund for Undergraduate Research
- Dillon Bass Second-Year, Astrophysics, Computer Science
- Project Title: Confirming Long Period Exoplanets to Search for Rings and Moons
- Mentor: Daniel Fabrycky
- Brian Fu Second-Year, Economics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Pareto Efficient Allocations for the House Allocation Problem
- Mentor: Joseph Root
- Kruthi Gollapudi Second-Year, Psychology, Data Science
- Project Title: Dynamic fluctuations of functional brain network topology and arousal effects on memory performance during naturalistic recall
- Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong
- Surya Gowda Third-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
- Project Title: Democracy and the Elites: The Secret History of American Political Science
- Mentor: Natasha Piano
- John LeGrow Third-Year, Physics, Chemistry
- Project Title: Thermal Mechanics of Atomically-Thin Sensors
- Mentor: Jiwoong Park
- Mengzhan Liufu Second-Year, Physics, Computer Science
- Project Title: Understanding the role of Hippocampal-prefrontal Synchrony in Spatial Learning with Closed-loop Control Technology
- Mentor: Jai Yu
- Qinwen Luo Third-Year, Geophysical Sciences, Philosophy
- Project Title: Insights into the Late-Stage Martian Paleoclimate from Hillslope Morphologies
- Mentor: Gaia Stucky de Quay
- Jinseo Park Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Development of 20GSa/s Analog-to-Digital Converter ASIC
- Mentor: Henry J. Frisch
- Rebecca Sealy Third-Year, Mathematics, Public Policy Studies
- Project Title: Population Distribution in Agricultural Regions of the Reconstruction South
- Mentor: John Levi Martin
- Yiming Su Third-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Self-Supervised Representation Learning with Diffusion Model
- Mentor: Michael Maire
- Austin Szatrowski Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: New Targets for the Treatment of Cardiovascular-renal-metabolic (CVRM) Disease
- Mentor: Bohdan Khomtchouk
- Charles Walsh First-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Photometric Derivation of Stellar Surface Gravity with Artificial Neural Networks
- Mentor: Alexander Ji
- Zikai Zhou Third-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Understanding, Detecting, and Exposing Idempotency Violations in Serverless Software Systems
- Mentor: Shan Lu
Supported by the Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors
- Jessica Aaron Third-Year, Philosophy, History
- Project Title: Participatory Epistemologies in Science and Fan Culture
- Mentor: Katherine Buse
- Marlon Davis Third-Year, Political Science
- Project Title: Uncommon Ground: Memory Wars in the United States, United Kingdom and the Republic of Turkey
- Mentor: Kathleen Cavanaugh
- Tatiana Rachlin Third-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Making the Most of Pretend Play to Boost Girls’ Engagement in Science
- Mentor: Lin Bian
- Samuel Rosenthal Second-Year, Psychology, History, Anthropology
- Project Title: Analyzing Theories of Forgetting in the Context of Spatial and Object Memory
- Mentor: Wilma Bainbridge
- Yining Yan Second-Year, Germanic Studies, Philosophy
- Project Title: The Poetics of Truth: Parrhesía and Michel Foucault’s Concept of Life
- Mentor: Christopher J. Wild
- Akash Bindal Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Biological Engineering
- Project Title: Differential Plasma miRNome Homologs in Humans and Mice for Biomarker Development in Aging Patients with Cerebral Microbleeds
- Mentor: Issam A. Awad
- Chad Coen Second-Year, Biological Chemistry, Economics
- Project Title: Exploring the Effects of YTHDF2 on Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
- Mentor: Shannon Elf
- Michelle Hu Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Building Cateye Lasers for Chemical Enhancement of Strontium-Monofluoride (SrF) production and Magneto-Optical Trapping of Sr
- Mentor: David DeMille
- Liam Leeming Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The Role of WASP and WAVE Complex in Cytoskeletal Self-Organization in the C. elegans Zygote
- Mentor: David Kovar
- Xiangchen Li Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: K-Long Rare Decay Search (KL -> Pi0 e+e-e+e-)
- Mentor: Yau W. Wah
- Chang Li Third-Year, Physics, Philosophy and Allied Fields
- Project Title: Quantum Networking with Atom Arrays in the Quantum Matter Synthesizer
- Mentor: Cheng Chin
- Hongyi Meng Second-Year, Physics
- Project Title: PID-based Electronic Control System for Laser Stabilization
- Mentor: Hannes Bernien
- Antonino Pusateri Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Pre-Clinical Characterization of Scandium-43-DOTATATE - a Novel PET Radiotracer for the Imaging of Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Mentor: Chin-Tu Chen
- Jacob Rosen Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Cyproheptadine Improving Temozolomide Effectiveness Against Glioblastoma by Inhibiting p52
- Mentor: Bakhtiar Yamini
- Maryam Shariff Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The Role of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Prostate Cancer
- Mentor: Akash Patnaik
- Rajit Tummala Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Mathematics
- Project Title: Evaluation of Dose Calculation Algorithms for Small Animal 3D-CRT and IMRT
- Mentor: Bulent Aydogan
- Rohan Venkat Third-Year, Physics, Math
- Project Title: Studying Galaxy Mergers Using Deep Learning and Domain Adaptation
- Mentor: Aleksandra Ciprijanovic
- Zewei Wu Second-Year, Astrophysics, Data Science
- Project Title: A Predictive Study on the Luminosity Function of High-Redshift Dwarf Galaxies
- Mentor: Andrey Kravtsov
- Yifan Zhao Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Machine Learning and Supernova Cosmology
- Mentor: Joshua Frieman
- Kannon Bhattacharyya Second-Year, Cognitive Science, Music
- Project Title: Investigating the effects of music-related visual representations on memory and affective engagement during music listening
- Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong
- Tomas Germanas Second-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Synthesis of 3-Dimensional Phthalocyanine Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks for Photodynamic Therapy
- Mentor: Wenbin Lin
- Joshua Pixley Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Biochemistry
- Project Title: Continuous Evolution of Mutant Selective KRAS Binders
- Mentor: Bryan Dickinson
- Raphael Stone Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Electrochemical Lithium Extraction from Unconventional Water Sources using cathode battery materials
- Mentor: Chong Liu
Winter Quad Research Scholars
Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund
- Joseph Geniess Fourth-Year, Chemistry; Environmental and Urban Studies
- Project Title: Liquid Phase Behavior of Colloidal PbS Quantum Dots
- Mentor: Dmitri Talapin
- Arnav Brahmasandra Second-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Using Active Learning to Optimize Melting Points of Molten Salts for Electrolyte Applications
- Mentor: Chibueze Amanchukwu
- Justin Jung Fourth-Year, Computational Applied Math Economics, Statistics
- Project Title: Co-Optimization of Design and Control of Soft Robots with Sim-To-Real Transfer
- Mentor: Matthew Walter
- Yvonne Ma Third-Year, Biochemistry, Economics
- Project Title: Thermoresponsive Polymersomes for Vaccine Delivery
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- Samuel Reynolds Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Anomalous Behavior in Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
- Mentor: Peter Littlewood
- Raphael Stone Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: nano-LCO
- Mentor: Chong Liu
- Antoni Wellisz Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Computer Science
- Project Title: Heterogeneous Integration of Spalled Silicon Carbide for Next-Generation Electronics
- Mentor: Supratik Guha
- Nikhil Patel First-Year, Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Project Title: Fairness in Nonpartisan Redistricting Reform: Generating Actionable Insights from Contiguity-Constrained Clustering Results
- Mentor: Luc Anselin
- Elizabeth Press Fourth-Year, Economics
- Project Title: Who Wears the Hijab? Predictors of Veiling among American Muslim Women
- Mentor: Eman Abdelhadi
- Julia Stefanska Third-Year, Economics, Psychology
- Project Title: She is a successful computer scientist! Do female role models impact early stereotypes about gender or field?
- Mentor: Lin Bian
- Alana Yevzlin Third-Year, Anthropology
- Project Title: The Former Hijab Project
- Mentor: Eman Abdelhadi
- Austin San Juan Second-Year, Art History
- Project Title: 'Twentieth-Century Peruvian Art: Episodes in a History of Modernism and its Others'
- Mentor: Megan Sullivan
- Elizabeth Gerlach Fourth-Year, English
- Project Title: Modern Philology Archival Database and Social Media Research
- Mentor: Timothy Campbell
Supported by the Global Health Research Fund
- Maggie Liu Third-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Risk Factors of Loneliness: A Study of Older US Adults Using the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
- Mentor: Jay Pinto
- Maya Ordoñez Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Determining Social Exposure and Spatial Variation Effect on Depression Rates within Cities
- Mentor: Marc G. Berman
- Sophie Hare Fourth-Year, Public Policy
- Project Title: Ending Entanglement: Evaluating the Human Services Impact of Policies that Disrupt the Arrest-to-Deportation Pipeline in New York
- Mentor: Aresha Martinez-Cardoso
Supported by the Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors
- Matthew Warden Third-Year, Neuroscience, Psychology
- Project Title: Impact of Repeat Opioid Use on Locus Coeruleus (LC) activity and its activity relationship with breathing
- Mentor: Alfredo J. Garcia
- Eliza Wiener Second-Year, Neuroscience, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Understanding the function of neuronal cell surface proteins: Examining human teneurin-2 autoproteolysis
- Mentor: Demet Araç
- Sabina DSouza Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The NLRP3 Project
- Mentor: Akash Patnaik
- Laine Gregory Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Optimizing an Allele-Specific RNAi Therapy for Prion Disease in Mice
- Mentor: James Mastrianni
- Grace Hu Second-Year, Neuroscience, Public Policy
- Project Title: Determining the Potential Role of Hox Genes in Neural Circuit Formation
- Mentor: Elizabeth Heckscher
- Noel McGrory Third-Year, Biology, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Investigating the Role of the Neural Crest in the Development of the Zebrafish Anterior Lateral Line System
- Mentor: Victoria Prince
- Priya Rawal Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Global Studies
- Project Title: Quantitative Assessment of Overall Acid-Base Balance in Humans
- Mentor: Elaine Worcester
- Yasin Badawy Third-Year, Molecular Engineering (Chemical Track)
- Project Title: Characterization of semiconductor colloidal quantum dots deposited on crystalline substrates for optoelectronic applications
- Mentor: Paul Alivisatos
- Hugh Cairney Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Synthesis, characterization, and spectroscopic study of bismuth based lead-free perovskite quantum dots
- Mentor: Greg Engel
- Emilie Faracci Third-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: ‘Card’inality: Actuated Card Interface with Haptic Feedback
- Mentor: Ken Nakagaki
- João Henrique Fontes Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Developing a new superconducting qubit control and measurement hardware protocol
- Mentor: Andrew Cleland
- Zachary Gillis Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Designing a Microwave Cavity for Magneto-Optic Transduction of Quantum States for Quantum Networking
- Mentor: Tian Zhong
- Raul Basilides Gomez del Estal Teixeira Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Characterizing Redshift Distributions in DELVE using SOMPZ, RAIL, and Clustering Redshifts for Cosmic Shear
- Mentor: Chihway Chang
- Caroline Kellogg Second-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: The Design of Peptides to Target NK Cells
- Mentor: Jun Huang
- Shannon Kim Second-Year,Biological Chemistry, Chemistry
- Project Title: RNA Stereoselectively Incorporates (L)-Amino Acids in Aminoacylated Loop Ligation
- Mentor: Jack Szostak
- Clark Kovacs Third-Year, Computational and Applied Mathematics Fundamentals
- Project Title: Long-Term Robot Caretaking and Well-Being
- Mentor: Sarah Sebo
- Jonah Medoff Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Searching for Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Around Low-Mass Hosts
- Mentor: Alex Drlica-Wagner
- Shivam Mundhra Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Quantum Sensing of the Heat Shock Response Process in Cells
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
- Addison NewRingeisen Third-Year, Molecular Engineering (Quantum), Economics
- Project Title: Interactions Between Single Rare Earth Qubits Coupled to Silicon Nanophotonic Devices
- Mentor: Tian Zhong
- Haley Nguyen Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Dual-Element Atomic Tweezer Array for Quantum Information Processing
- Mentor: Hannes Bernien
- Yue Pan Fourth-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Stellar Metallicities from Photometry: A Study of Milky Way Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies
- Mentor: Alex Drlica-Wagner
- Rithvik Papani Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Soft, Stretchable, and Biocompatible Pressure Sensors for Implantable Uses in Neuroprosthetic Applications
- Mentor: Sihong Wang
- Krishna Raghavan Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, Chemistry
- Project Title: Quantifying the charge dependences of alpha-synuclein’s membrane interactions
- Mentor: Ka Yee Lee
- Finnegan Roach Second-Year, Physics, Biological Sciences (Ecology and Evolution Track)
- Project Title: A High Throughput Method for Measuring Mutation Rates
- Mentor: Arvind Murugan
- Wilson Turner Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
- Project Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Poly[3]Rotaxane Slide-Ring Gels
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- Emma Yang Third-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Dissymmetric Transformation of Ketones via Rhodium-Catalyzed C−C/C−H Activation
- Mentor: Guangbin Dong
- Yuanlong Zheng Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Machine Learning-Aided Automated Molecular Beam Epitaxy
- Mentor: Shuolong Yang
- Zikai Zhou Third-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Efficient Binary Neural Networks
- Mentor: Yanjing Li
- Joshua Ahn Third-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Accelerating VoxelNeRF Convergence with Learned Scene Scaling
- Mentor: Greg Shakhnarovich
- Madison Huynh Third-Year, Chemistry, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Novel Electrode Modification via Self-Assembly for Improved Energy Storag
- Mentor: Anna Wuttig
- Shihan Liu Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Cavity enhanced optical coherence measurements of single erbium ions in yttrium oxide thin film at millikelvin
- Mentor: Tian Zhong
- Abbey Piatt Price Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Developing a Photothermally Derived Carbon Capture Device
- Mentor: Aaron Esser-Kahn
- Aoife Anderson Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Characterizing the Transcriptional Networks Governing Sea Anemone Neuron Development
- Mentor: Heather Marlow
- Gabrielle Berman Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Assessing mechanisms of ectopic expression through pervasive accessibility of the Ins2 locus in mTECs
- Mentor: Andrew Koh
- Ana Bertuol Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: The Role of STAG Proteins in 3D Genome Structure Evolution
- Mentor: Heather Marlow
- Akash Bindal Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Biological Engineering
- Project Title: Differential Plasma miRNome for Biomarker Development in Aging Patients with Cerebral Microbleeds
- Mentor: Issam A. Awad
- Peyton Dooley Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The Role of Yap Activity in Ectopic Gene Expression in the Thymus to Promote Immunological Tolerance
- Mentor: Andrew Koh
- Niranjan Joshi Third-Year, Biology, Philosophy
- Project Title: Investigating Kibra’s Role in Neuroblast Asymmetric Cell Division
- Mentor: Richard Fehon
- Thomas Li Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Characterizing the Role of Proline Hydroxylation in Regulating BACH1 Function
- Mentor: Marsha Rosner
- Miguel Saucedo Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Investigating Consequences of HOXA13 Deletion on Gene Expression and Cell Type Identity
- Mentor: Neil Shubin
- Penelope Toll Third-Year, Classical Studies, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Using CaImAn to Identify Inhibitory Interneuron Spiking
- Mentor: Jason MacLean
- Andrew Youssef Third-Year, Neuroscience (BS), MS in Computer Science (Combined Degree Program)
- Project Title: Analysis of Milk Metabolome-Infant Metagenome Interactions: The Metabolome-Microbiome Map
- Mentor: Ran Blekhman
- Courtney Brandt Second-Year, Statistics
- Project Title: Characterizing variability in epigenetic clock estimates across diverse tissue types
- Mentor: Brandon Pierce
- Leidan Chen Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Characterizing the regulatory role of butyrate on mucosal mast cell aggregation and degranulation in food allergy
- Mentor: Cathryn Nagler
- Benjamin Cheng Fourth-Year, Mathematics
- Project Title: Identification of Phenotypic Effects of FKBP11 Protein Depletion
- Mentor: Bob Keenan
- Chang Han Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The regulation of macrophage functions by the lysine lactyltransferases
- Mentor: Yingming Zhao
- Eva McCord Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Understanding the Influence of Nuclear Actin Depletion on Chromatin Organization Through Auxin-Inducible Degron System
- Mentor: Alexander J. Ruthenburg
- Jenna Nimer Third-Year, Biology
- Project Title: Assessing Patterns of Practice in the Management of Appendix Cancers
- Mentor: Ardaman Shergill
Autumn Quad Research Scholars
Supported by the NK Cheung Chemistry Research Fellowship
- Junsung Kim Fourth-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: A Novel Approach to Understand the Geometric Remodeling of Dialysis Access Arterio-Venous Fistulas in order to Optimize Fistula Durability and Longevity for End Stage Renal Patients
- Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek
- Shivani Chatterji, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
- Project Title: Hydrogel Semiconductors for Organic Electrochemical Transistors
- Mentor: Sihong Wang
- Michael Han, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Economics
- Project Title: Synthesis of Novel Fluorinated Cyclic Ether Electrolytes
- Mentor: Chibueze Amanchukwu
- Shi Qi Huang, Third-Year, Physics, Chemistry
- Project Title: Consequences of Optical Magnetic Resonance: Contrarian Vortex Motion and Photonic Hall Effect of Silicon Nanoparticles in Optical Traps
- Mentor: Norbert F. Scherer
- Ainsley Iwanicki, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Investigating the Kinetics of Singlet Fission Using Cross-Peak Specific Transient Absorption Spectroscopy on TIPS-Pentacene
- Mentor: Greg Engel
- Steven Labalme, Third-Year, Chemistry, Mathematics
- Project Title: Improving nickel catalysis with photosensitizing covalent-organic frameworks
- Mentor: Wenbin Lin
- Julien Lee Heberling, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Efforts Towards the Total Synthesis of Picrinine
- Mentor: Scott A. Snyder
- Eleanor Ostroff, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Properties and Applications of Tissue-like Materials
- Mentor: Dr. Bozhi Tian
- Tingting Yu, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Visual Arts
- Project Title: Rh-Catalyzed C―C Activation of Unstrained Lactams
- Mentor: Guangbin Dong
- Elaine Liang, Third-Year, Philosophy and Allied Field
- Project Title: Compiling a Materials Dataset for the Synthesis of Tissue-like Materials
- Mentor: Bozhi Tian
Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund
- Noah Rizk, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Rat Dinner Party
- Mentor: Peggy Mason
- Jordan Yi, Third-Year, Visual Arts, Linguistics
- Project Title: Understanding Rat Empathy Toward Robots
- Mentor: Peggy Mason
- Manu Sundaresan, Third-Year, Biological Studies, Philosophy
- Project Title: Development of an in vivo PDCD10 animal model for immunogenetic analysis of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
- Mentor: Dr. Evgeny Izumchenko
- Yiming Su, Third-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Code Documentation Verification with Large Language Model
- Mentor: Shan Lu
- Irene Madejski, Third-Year, Biochemistry
- Project Title: Mechanistic studies and improvements toward RNA-based translational activators to upregulate clinically deficient proteins
- Mentor: Bryan Dickinson
- Jinseo Park, Second-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Fermilab Test Beam Facility Time-of-flight System Development
- Mentor: Henry J. Frisch
- Ishaan Roy, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Combining CO2 Capture and Conversion
- Mentor: Chibueze Amanchukwu
- Lilith Yu, Second-Year, Physics, Media Arts & Design
- Project Title: Mid-Air Actuated Tangible User Interfaces for Spatial Interaction
- Mentor: Ken Nakagaki
- Haley Stiscak, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Alpha Power and ERP Magnitude in Early Visual Processing and the Relation to Working Memory Performance
- Mentor: Molly Erickson
- William Boyes, Third-Year, Biological Studies, Public Policy
- Project Title: Evaluating the Efficacy of Bison Reintroduction Programs in the United States Using Satellite Imaging
- Mentor: Eyal Frank
- Trent Davis, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience, Visual Arts
- Project Title: Memorability of Art
- Mentor: Wilma Bainbridge
- Antoinette Fang, Fourth-Year, Mathematics
- Project Title: Increasing Gender Equality in STEM through Children’s Structural Reasoning
- Mentor: Lin Bian
- Erica Hogan, Fourth-Year, Economics, Fundamentals
- Project Title: Morality, Violence and Opportunism: Inside the Nduma Defense of the Congo-Renewed
- Mentor: Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
- Tatiana Rachlin, Third-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: The Impact of Stereotype Beliefs and Biases on Resilience in Science Tasks
- Mentor: Lin Bian
- Maxwell Rosenblum, Third-Year, History, Philosophy
- Project Title: Workers’ Evolving Perception of Temporality in Early Twentieth Century America: Historical Research for "Our Weary Years"
- Mentor: Gabriel Winant
- Rohan Vencat, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Memory and Mood
- Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong
- Josephine Dawson, Fourth-Year, English Language and Literature
- Project Title: Beshrew Me!
- Mentor: Ellen MacKay
- Laura Mahaniah, Third-Year, Theatre and Performance Studies
- Project Title: Beshrew Me!
- Mentor: Ellen MacKay
Supported by the Global Health Research Fund
- James Kenniff, Fourth-Year, Biological Studies
- Project Title: County Incarceration, Immigration Enforcement Activity, and Adverse Birth Outcomes
- Mentor: Aresha Martinez-Cardoso
- Audrey Leonard, Third-Year, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine
- Project Title: Bicycling in the Cities of Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Mentor: Kavi Bhalla
- Poum Tangkitvanich, Third-Year, Economics
- Project Title: Looking at Traffic Accidents through the lens of impacting vehicle
- Mentor: Kavi Bhalla
- Helen Wei, Third-Year, Biological Studies, Public Policy
- Project Title: Investigating the Role of CD80 in Orchestrating Immune Resistance of Tumor-Initiating Stem Cells
- Mentor: Yuxuan Miao
- Paige Evans, Second-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
- Project Title: Ending Entanglement: Evaluating the Human Services Impact of Policies that Disrupt the Arrest-to-Deportation Pipeline in New York
- Mentor: Aresha Martinez-Cardoso
- Emily Shi, Second-Year, Biological Studies, Public Policy
- Project Title: Exploring How BACH1 modulates the hypoxia response through chromatin organization in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells
- Mentor: Marsha Rosner
- Mukerrem Tufekcioglu, Second-Year, Computer Science, Mathematics
- Project Title: MD Simulation of Human IDE in the Presence of Insulin
- Mentor: Esmael J. Haddadian
- Emily Jacobs, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based Approach to Understanding DNA-Damage-Mediated Responses in Fungal Lung Infections
- Mentor: Dr Joyce Chen
- Safia Singer-Pomerantz, Second-Year, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine
- Project Title: Unauthorized Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Trends and Drivers of Migration
- Mentor: Susan Gzesh
Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors
- Jacob Bernheim, Third-Year, Biological Studies
- Project Title: Elucidating the Role of Bhlhe40 as a Determinant of Ectopic Gene Expression in Medullary Thymic Epithelial Cells
- Mentor: Andrew Koh
- Mallory Brodnik, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: METTL3 inhibition promotes decreased proliferation and increased differentiation in neuroblastoma
- Mentor: Dr. Susan Cohn
- Caroline Chael, Third-Year, Biological Studies, English
- Project Title: Avian Behavioral Analysis of Sex-Linked Morphological Characteristics
- Mentor: John Bates
- Ethan Dintzner, Fourth-Year, Biological Studies, Mathematics
- Project Title: Investigating the free energy landscape of a model aGPCR through molecular dynamics and other biophysical approaches
- Mentor: Demet Araç
- Joseph Kaczor, Third-Year, Biological Studies
- Project Title: A Biochemical Analysis of a Bacteriophytochrome in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Mentor: Sampriti Mukherjee
- Liam Leeming, Second-Year, Biological Studies
- Project Title: Recombinant Purification of the Caenorhabdites Elegans Arp 2/3 Complex
- Mentor: David Kovar
- Blessing Nnate, Third-Year, Biological Studies, English
- Project Title: The Fragile Aorta Project
- Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek
- Ruby Otavka, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Linguistics
- Project Title: Tactile Underpinnings of Sensory Language
- Mentor: Peggy Mason
- Nora Sampson, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Structure and robustness of the genetic networks patterning the midbrain
- Mentor: Dr. Francois Spitz
- Jonathan Zeevi, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Pacman Proprioception Game
- Mentor: Peggy Mason
- Sarah Weber, Third-Year, Biological Studies, Neuroscience
- Project Title: High Throughput Identification of Functional Enhancer Elements Across Species
- Mentor: Heather Marlow
- Xiyan Wu, Fourth-Year, Biological Studies
- Project Title: Tumor Microenvironment nutrients constrain tumor lipogenesis by impairing the activity of SREBP transcription factors
- Mentor: Alexander Muir
- Hannah Ye, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Biochemical Characterization of Fascin Inhibition of Arp2/3 Complex-mediated Actin Assembly
- Mentor: David Kovar
- Rachel Zhang, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Regulation of SYNGAP1 expression by redirecting alternative splicing
- Mentor: Xiaochang Zhang
- Georgios Panagiotis Afentakis, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Analyzing the shortest possible time for a Mercury instability event using action minimization
- Mentor: Dorian Abbot
- Cody Googin, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Development of Nanophotonic Crystal Cavities
- Mentor: Hannes Bernien
- Li Jiatong, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: ShadowAstro: Levitating Constellation Silhouette for Spatial Exploration and Learning
- Mentor: Ken Nakagaki
- Daohong Xu, Fourth-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Fault-tolerant quantum computation in bosonic system with ancilla
- Mentor: Liang Jiang
- Cameron Poe, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: A TOPAS Simulation of High-resolution Low-Z-Medium Whole-Body TOF-PET
- Mentor: Henry Frisch
- Emory Apodaca, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
- Project Title: Lithium Extraction From Unconventional Water Sources Via Morphological Control and Metal Doping of FePO4 Host
- Mentor: Chong Liu
- Kaleb Funk, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Photothermally Driven System for Carbon Capture
- Mentor: Aaron Esser-Kahn
- Sara Hoggatt, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Probing how physical contact parameters affect detection of bacteria in single cell host-pathogen interactions using Fluidic Force Microscopy
- Mentor: Aaron Esser-Kahn
- Sumana Turimella, Third-Year, Biological Studies, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Evolution of Kinetic Proofreading in DNA Replication
- Mentor: Arvind Murugan
Quad Faculty Research Grantees
- Iris Clever, Faculty Mentor, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
- Undergraduate Researcher: Aaron Unger
- Undergraduate Researcher: Madeleine Roberts-Ganim
- Emily Talen, Faculty Mentor, Urbanism Lab
- Undergraduate Researcher: Michah Wilcox
- Susane Paulus, Faculty Mentor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Oriental Institute
- Undergraduate Researcher: Dani Levy
- Brad Bolman, Faculty Mentor, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
- Undergraduate Researcher: Oksana Vickers
- Brandon Faubert, Faculty Mentor, Medicine
- Undergraduate Researcher: Mayher Kaur
- Jean Greenberg, Faculty Mentor, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Pierce Hoenigman
- Mark Westneat, Faculty Mentor, Organismal Biology and Anatomy
- Undergraduate Researcher: Olivia Grobmyer
- Undergraduate Researcher: Adera Craig
- Cara Brook, Faculty Mentor, Ecology and Evolution
- Undergraduate Researcher: Vera Soloview
- Undergraduate Researcher: Margot Bolanos-Gamez
- Shannon Elf, Faculty Mentor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jacky Gomez-Villa
- Undergraduate Researcher: Chad Coen
- Mike Albertus, Faculty Mentor, Political Science
- Undergraduate Researcher: Gabriel Aguilar
- Adam Zelizer, Faculty Mentor, Harris School of Public Policy
- Undergraduate Researcher: Owen Castle
- Jennifer Mosley, Faculty Mentor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
- Undergraduate Researcher: Nora Pomper
- Eugene Raikhel, Faculty Mentor, Comparative Human Development
- Undergraduate Researcher: Melody Dias
- Evan Carver, Faculty Mentor, Program on the Global Environment/Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization
- Undergraduate Researcher: Nate Drew
- Monica Rosenberg, Faculty Mentor, Psychology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Taysha Martinez
- Undergraduate Researcher: Anthony James
- Akram Bakkour, Faculty Mentor, Psychology
- Undergraduate Researcher: Abby Shivers
- Undergraduate Researcher: Lucas Mantovani
- Katherine Buse, Faculty Mentor, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jessica Aaron
- Olga Solovieva, Faculty Mentor, Comparative Literature
- Undergraduate Researcher: Katherine Sinyavin
- Luca Grandi, Faculty Mentor, Physics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Ariana Qin
- Leslie Rogers, Faculty Mentor, Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Undergraduate Researcher: Harper Learmonth
- Scott Snyder, Faculty Mentor, Chemistry
- Undergraduate Researcher: Nicholas Duran
- Undergraduate Researcher: Rachel Quan
- Bozhi Tian, Faculty Mentor, Chemistry
- Undergraduate Researcher: Ji Abu-Halimah
- Undergraduate Researcher: Judah Huberman-Shales
- Pedro Lopes, Faculty Mentor, Computer Science
- Undergraduate Researcher: Beza Desta
- Undergraduate Researcher: Jacob Serfaty
Dean's Fund Conference Awardees
- Sharon Zhou, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: Geological Society of America Connects 2022
- Location: Denver, Colorado
- Raul Gomez del Estal Teixeira, Third-Year
- Conference Title: DECam at 10 Years - Looking Back, Looking Forward
- Location: University of Arizona, Tucson
- Li Jiatong, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: UIST 2022
- Location: Bend, Oregon
- Lucy Alejandro, Second-Year
- Conference Title: 2022 Society of General Internal Medicine Midwest Regional Meeting
- Location: St. Louis, Missouri
- Cao Linh Pham, Third-Year
- Conference Title: 2022 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
- Location: Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Rohan Kumar, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning 2022
- Location: Naples, Italy
- Karina Mak, Third-Year
- Conference Title: CHEST 2022
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee
- Gustavo Dias, Third-Year
- Conference Title: Missouri Valley Economic Association
- Location: St. Louis, Missouri
- Connie Chen, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 2022 Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists
- Location: Anaheim, California
- Phoebe Cao, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: SACNAS, National Diversity in STEM Conference
- Location: Puerto Rico
- Becca Sealy, Third-Year
- Conference Title: American Mathematical Society Fall Western Sectional Meeting
- Location: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Jacky Gomez-Villa, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 2022 Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists
- Location: Anaheim, California
- Edison Tang, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: Midstates Consortium 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science
- Location: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
- Mudmee Sereeyothin, Third-Year
- Conference Title: Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research
- Location: Malibu, California
- Stevie Xie, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: Great Lakes Transplant Immmunology Forum
- Location: Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Joseph Geniesse, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 2022 Southwest Regional Meeting: Transformative Chemistry and Energy in the Gulf South
- Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Grace Wagner, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 241st Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Yue Pan, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 241st Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Simon Mork, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 241st Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Aidan Cloonan, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 241st Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Josh Sulkin, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 136th Annual American Historical Association Conference
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Alexandra Masegian, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 241st Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Junsung Kim, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 18th Annual Academic Surgical Congress
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Isabeau Burnett, Second-Year
- Conference Title: World Congress on Undergraduate Research
- Location: Warick, England
- Ana Gonzalez, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: World Congress on Undergraduate Research
- Location: Warick, England
- Harper Learmonth, Third-Year
- Conference Title: 2023 American Astronomical Society Meeting
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Gabriella Silva, Third-Year
- Conference Title: Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2023 Annual Convention
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Lingyue Yu, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: Consortium of Universities for Global Health
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Krishna Raghavan, Third-Year
- Conference Title: 2023 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
- Location: San Diego, California
- Sivakrishna Uppalapati, Second-Year
- Conference Title: International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 43rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions
- Location: Denver, Colorado
- Shayli Birla, Second-Year
- Conference Title: Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Julia Marcussen, Third-Year
- Conference Title: Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Erica Kwok, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: American College of Cardiology's 72nd Annual Scientific Sessions Together with World Congress of Cardiology
- Location: New Orleans, Lousiana
- Maria Reyes Maldonado, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: Consortium of Universities for Global Health
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Layla McDermott, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: World Congress on Undergraduate Research
- Location: Warick, England
- Zhi Zhang, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: National Conference on Undergraduate Research
- Location: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
- Alejandra Bergquist, Third-Year
- Conference Title: British Congress of Undergraduate Research
- Location: Warick, England
- Sam Rubin, Third-Year
- Conference Title: American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Isabelle Baird, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: Consortium of Universities for Global Health
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Mukerrem Tufekcioglu, Second-Year
- Conference Title: 2023 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
- Location: San Diego, California
- Hannah Ye, Fourth-Year
- Conference Title: 2023 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
- Location: San Diego, California
- Georgiana Liang, Second-Year
- Conference Title: 2023 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
- Location: San Diego, California