2022-2023 Research Scholars
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