Research Scholars 2023-2024

2023-2024 Research Scholars

Summer Quad Research Scholars

Supported by the Global Health Research Fund

  • Maya Goldkorn, Third-Year, Cognitive Science
    • Project Title: Constructing the subjective value of food in Anorexia Nervosa
    • Mentor: Akram Bakkour
  • Jeremy Lee, Fourth-Year, Economics
    • Project Title: Building a multi-state database of animal feeding operations
    • Mentor: Eyal Frank
  • Jacob McGrew, Second-Year, Common Year
    • Project Title: Breast Cancer Health Disparity
    • Mentor: Dezheng Huo
  • Rhea Shah, Third-Year, Economics, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Medical Care Costs and Health Insurance
    • Mentor: Betsy Cliff
  • Noah Vetter, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
    • Project Title: Medical Care Costs and Health Insurance
    • Mentor: Betsy Cliff

Supported by the Hoeft Family Research Fund

  • Emma Alcyone, Third-Year, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Developing lysine-reactive covalent activity probes for kinases
    • Mentor: Raymond Moellering
  • Daniel Babnigg, Fourth-Year, Astronomy, Astrophysics
    • Project Title: COOL-LAMPS: Analysis of the Brightest Lensed Galaxy at Cosmic Dawn
    • Mentor: Michael D. Gladders
  • Xiaoyu Chen, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Undergraduate Summer Research in Dr. Yan's Group
    • Mentor: Zoe Yan
  • Leo Chen, Third-Year, Chemistry, Computer Science
    • Project Title: Nitrogen Atom Insertion into Cyclic Olefins
    • Mentor: Mark Levin
  • Ha Do, Third-Year, Astrophysics, Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
    • Project Title: Investigating the Jet Stream Spur Using the DECam MAGIC Survey
    • Mentor: Alexander Ji
  • Sarah Grannis, Fourth-Year, Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Classical Studies
    • Project Title: Investigation and Analysis of Lensed Arc CJ1402
    • Mentor: Michael Gladders
  • Noah Grethen, Fourth-Year, Physics, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Search for the Decay K-Long to 3 Gamma
    • Mentor: Yau Wah
  • Kenny Huang, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Investigation of Metallosupramolecular Template-based Synthesis of Olympic Gels
    • Mentor: Stuart Rowan
  • Dani Levy, Fourth-Year, Religious Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
    • Project Title: Biblical Women and Female Figures in the Late Antique Roman East
    • Mentor: Erin Galgay Walsh
  • Yuxiao Li, Third-Year, Computer Science, Physics
    • Project Title: ShapeKit: Passive Pin Display with Mechanical Transducers as Design Platform for Crafting Expressive Haptics
    • Mentor: Ken Nakagaki
  • Mira Littmann, Fourth-Year, Physics, Philosophy in the Allied Fields
    • Project Title: Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection
    • Mentor: David Miller
  • Rohan Mehta, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering, Physics
    • Project Title: Investigating Fault-Tolerant Parity Gates & Quantum Sorting Networks with Reconfigurable Atom Array Processors
    • Mentor: Liang Jiang
  • Ryan Michaud, Third-Year, Physics, Computer Science
    • Project Title: Final Cooling with Thick Wedges
    • Mentor: Karri DiPetrillo
  • Lucas Montoya, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Optimizing High Throughput Screening for Cancer-Related Drugs
    • Mentor: Raymond Moellering
  • Shivam Mundhra, Fourth-Year, Physics, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Realizing Dipolar Spin Liquids in a Rydberg Quantum Simulator
    • Mentor: Norman Y. Yao
  • Glasha Osipycheva, Fourth-Year, Physics, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Entanglement
    • Mentor: Cheng Chin
  • Joshua Park, Fourth-Year, Geophysical Sciences, Environmental Science
    • Project Title: Simulation of Antarctic Circumpolar Deep Water Flux Intervention as a Glacial Geoengineering Strategy: Glacial Discharge Management (GDM)
    • Mentor: Douglas R. MacAyeal
  • Abby Pavlicek, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Investigating Magnetic Exchange Coupling in Bimetallic Compounds using Localized Active Space Methods
    • Mentor: Laura Gagliardi
  • Otto Reed, Third-Year, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Topological Entropy of Braids
    • Mentor: Benson Farb
  • Vanessa Vaz, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Engineering fully recyclable plastics from biopolymer-based polyelectrolyte complexes
    • Mentor: Matt Tirrell
  • David Wang, Third-Year, Chemistry, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Construction of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Sustainable Photocatalytic Reactions
    • Mentor: Wenbin Lin
  • Tracy Wu, Fourth-Year, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Partition Function of N-radial Loop-erased Random Walk
    • Mentor: Gregory F Lawler
  • Linda Yiu, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Mono-directed Catalytic Activation of Unstrained C-C Bonds
    • Mentor: Guangbin Dong
  • Ashley Zhu, Third-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
    • Project Title: Creation of a Stable Water Oxidation Catalyst for Deeper Mechanistic Insights
    • Mentor: John Anderson
  • Guanchen Zhu, Third-Year, Chemistry, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Bipolarolide A, a Caged Terpene with Unprecedented 5/6/6/6/5 Pentacyclic Structure
    • Mentor: Scott A. Snyder

Supported by Rosalyn S. and Lawrence Bogorad Undergraduate Research Stipends

  • Hannah Berley, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Exploring the Regulation of Gαq Signaling in Key Metabolic Processes and Energy Homeostasis
    • Mentor: Janane Rahbani
  • Maya Chandwaney, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry
    • Project Title: Modulation of IBD with A. caccae LAHUC Synbiotic in a Murine Model
    • Mentor: Cathryn Nagler
  • Shaherzad Chawdree, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Hedgehog Signaling in Cardiac Development of Down Syndrome Patients
    • Mentor: Ivan Moskowitz
  • Aidan Choi, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Economics
    • Project Title: Design of engineered immune modulators for celiac disease therapy
    • Mentor: Seounghun Kang
  • Taylor Elliott, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Engineering Aptamer Micelle Nanoparticles to Treat Cardiovascular Atherosclerosis in Vitro
    • Mentor: Yun Fang
  • Sofia Goitiandia, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Determining the Intermediary Protein Necessary for LC3 and GTP2 Colocalization to the Replication Complex of Murine Norovirus.
    • Mentor: Glenn Randall
  • Andrew Lee, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Role of CD8+ Tregs in S1P1R Modulator (ozanimod) Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
    • Mentor: Anthony T. Reder
  • Kevin Lin, Fourth-Year, Data Science, Statistics
    • Project Title: Quantifying Water Rigidization Near Protein Surfaces
    • Mentor: Esmael J. Haddadian
  • Michelle Lu, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences, Philosophy
    • Project Title: Validation of Oncogenic Drivers of Neuroblastoma
    • Mentor: Mark Applebaum
  • Jordan Miller, Fourth-Year, Anthropology
    • Project Title: The Evolutionary Origin of Bone Remodeling
    • Mentor: Yara Haridy
  • Ornella Ndatabaye, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Elucidating the mechanism of Helminth-induced lipid malabsorption and its benefit to the parasite
    • Mentor: Daria Esterhazy
  • Lily Yu, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Elucidating Connexin Changes in a Tissue Culture Model of Lens Differentiation
    • Mentor: Eric Beyer

Supported by the Vishny Family Research Fund

  • Cooper Costello, Second-Year, Chemistry, French
    • Project Title: Resolving the Microscopy Mechanism of Energy Quenching Induced by the Orange Carotenoid Protein in Cyanobacteria via Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy
    • Mentor: Gregory S. Engel
  • Mason McCormack, Second-Year, Astrophysics
    • Project Title: Using SO2 to Trace Giant Planet Formation Histories
    • Mentor: Diana Powell
  • Samarth Ram, Second-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
    • Project Title: Development of a More Active Engineered IscB System
    • Mentor: Weixin Tang

Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors

  • Alex Arnell, Third-Year, Statistics
    • Project Title: Spatial Analysis and Evaluation for Improving Accessibility via Bus Rapid Transit in Chicago
    • Mentor: Crystal Bae
  • Emmanuel Barajas, Second-Year, Psychology
    • Project Title: The Effect of Masculinity Threat on Boys' Help Seeking Behaviors
    • Mentor: Lin Bian
  • Declan Hilfers, Third-Year, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Examining and Interpreting Alternate Measures of Income Distributions
    • Mentor: Thomas Coleman
  • Carina Kane, Fourth-Year, Data Science, Philosophy
    • Project Title: Using Assembly Theory to Model and Predict Scientific Innovation
    • Mentor: James Evans
  • Colby Lundak, Third-Year, Cognitive Science
    • Project Title: The Effects of Film Music on Film Effectiveness
    • Mentor: Howard Nusbaum
  • Leo Sun, Fourth-Year, Computer Science, Cognitive Science
    • Project Title: No, it’s still biased: Discovering and Counteracting Implicit Bias in Large Language Models
    • Mentor: Xuechunzi Bai
  • TianTian Xu, Third-Year, Comparative Human Development, Cognitive Science, and Psychology
    • Project Title: Investigating the Foreign Language Effect and Numerical Magnitude Estimations in Fractions”
    • Mentor: Boaz Keyzar
  • Jacob Zhang, Fourth-Year, Psychology, Economics
    • Project Title: Exploring the effects of noise on creativity and psychological richness
    • Mentor: Shigehiro Oishi

Quad Faculty Summer Research Grantees

  • Sophia Fodor, Second-Year, Common Year
    • Mentor: Josephine McDonagh
  • Jinhao Pan, Fourth-Year, Fundamentals
    • Mentors: Ghenwa Hayek and Alireza Doostdar
  • William Turner, Second-Year, Common Year
    • Mentor: Jeffrey Tharsen

Winter Quad Research Scholars

Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund

  • Anushka Agrawal, Second-Year, Biological Sciences, Computer Science
    • Project Title: Determining the role of PAR-2 in polarity maintenance in early C. elegans embryos
    • Mentor: Edwin Munro
  • Jack Archer, Second-Year, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine (HIPS)
    • Project Title: Novel Phosphate Therapy Prevents Lethal Peritonitis in P2 IP Infected Mice
    • Mentor: John Alverdy
  • Sam Brink, Third-Year, Computer Science, Religious Studies
    • Project Title: LFSRs for Neural Network Compression and Storage
    • Mentor: Yanjing Li
  • Noah Glasgow, Third-Year, History
    • Project Title: Social Activism in the Shadow of Free Money: Feminism, Full Employment, and the 1970s
    • Mentor: Jonathan Levy
  • Zack Hassman, Second-Year, Computer Science, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Beyond Convolutional Neural Networks: Applying SySMOL to Transformers and Other Neural Network Architectures
    • Mentor: Yanjing Li
  • Matthew Jeung, Second-Year, Computer Science
    • Project Title: ManipulaBots
    • Mentor: Ken Nakagaki
  • Colby Lundak, Third-Year, Cognitive Science
    • Project Title: The Effect of Metaphor Use on the Impact of Homilies
    • Mentor: Howard Nusbaum
  • Breanna Maestas, Fourth-Year, Anthropology
    • Project Title: Automating Archaeological Discovery: Leveraging Machine Learning and GIS for Cataloging Iran-Iraq War Landscape Features
    • Mentor: Mehrnoush Soroush
  • Andi Sun, Second-Year, History, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
    • Project Title: China’s Manifest Destiny: Qing and Uyghur Intellectuals in Xinjiang, 1759-1862
    • Mentor: Kenneth Pomeranz
  • Leo Sun, Third-Year, Computer Science, Cognitive Science
    • Project Title: MultiModal-Eval: A Standardized Framework for Evaluating LLMs’ Cognitive Capabilities
    • Mentor: Yu Ji

Supported by the Global Health Research Fund

  • Aaron Dyas, Third-Year, Biology
    • Project Title: Studying EMT Through Inhibition of MCT1 in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
    • Mentor: Brandon Faubert
  • Huyen-Anh Giang, Third-Year, Psychology
    • Project Title: Cultural Infused Engagement Interview and Intervention Project
    • Mentor: Miwa Yasui
  • Ingrid Li, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Decoding hepatocellular carcinoma through circular tumor cell and exosome analysis.
    • Mentor: Joseph Franses
  • Jenna Nimer, Fourth-Year, Biology
    • Project Title: Patient reported outcomes from patients with early-onset gastrointestinal cancers (eoGIC): A pilot study in patients ages 18-50 evaluating effects of cancer care on cognitive function, sexual health, and quality of life
    • Mentor: Ardaman Shergill
  • Lily Song, Fourth-Year, Sociology, Political Science
    • Project Title: Looking at Democratization Progress from China’s zero-covid policy response
    • Mentor: Marco Garrido
  • Abigail Yuhan, Fourth-Year, Biology, Public Policy
    • Project Title: GATA3 Characterization and Assays
    • Mentor: Olufunmilayo Olopade
  • Wanran Zhao, Fourth-Year, Economics
    • Project Title: The Mortality Burden from COVID in Low-Income Settings:  Evidence from Verbal Autopsies in India
    • Mentor: Anup Malani

Supported by the Hoeft Family Research Fund

  • Nico Barr, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Differentiation and Maturation of Immortalized Mouse Cardiomyocyte Progenitor Cells
    • Mentor: Narutoshi Hibino
  • Sophie Barth, Fourth-Year, Psychology
    • Project Title: Stereotypes about Brilliance: Gender Presentation and Identity
    • Mentor: Lin Bian
  • Pavlik Braverman, Second-Year, Chemistry, Mathematics
    • Project Title: From Carbon to Nitrogen: Theoretically Unlocking Drug Potential of Azaarenes
    • Mentor: David Mazzioti
  • Ryan Cairns, Third-Year, Political Science, Human Rights
    • Project Title: Memory Laws & Parental Rights in U.S. Education Policy
    • Mentor: Kathleen Cavanaugh
  • Theresa Christiansen, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Investigating the Postembryonic Expansion of the Zebrafish Anterior Lateral Line
    • Mentor: Victoria Prince
  • Gabriel Correa Ramos Alves, Third-Year, Linguistics
    • Project Title: Subtitling the Fall of the Wall
    • Mentor: Nicole Burgoyne
  • Sabina DSouza, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: The NLRP3 Project
    • Mentor: Akash Patnaik
  • Paige Evans, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
    • Project Title: Using CODEX to Identify Immune Cell Populations and Macrophage Responses in Celiac Disease
    • Mentor: Valerie Abadie
  • Claire Fu, Second-Year, Biology
    • Project Title: Comparative analyses of doublesex supergene expression during Papilio butterfly wing development
    • Mentor: Marcus Kronforst
  • Tomas Germanas, Third-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
    • Project Title: Protonation and Metalation of a Porphyrin Covalent Organic Framework to Enhance Deep Photodynamic Therapy
    • Mentor: Scott Snyder
  • Kruthi Gollapudi, Third-Year, Psychology, Data Science
    • Project Title: Examining the mechanisms of arousal-dependent memory enhancements: converging evidence from pupillometry, human neuro-imaging, and large-language models
    • Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong
  • Chang Han, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences, Biological Chemistry
    • Project Title: Characterization of dynamic nuclear proteomes of macrophages upon polarization stimuli
    • Mentor: Yingming Zhao
  • Sophie Hu, Fourth-Year, Biology
    • Project Title: A Drug Screening Approach for Enhanced Colorectal Tumor Killing of CAR-NK-92 Cells
    • Mentor: Xiaoyang Wu
  • Judah Huberman-Shlaes, Third-Year, Psychology
    • Project Title: The Effect of Homilies on Perceptual Engagement
    • Mentor: Howard Nusbaum
  • Carina Kane, Fourth-Year, Data Science, Philosophy
    • Project Title: Using Assembly Theory to Model and Predict Scientific Innovation
    • Mentor: James Evans
  • Shannon Kim, Third-Year, Chemistry, History
    • Project Title: Identification of Highly Stereoselective RNAs by Deep Sequencing
    • Mentor: Jack Szostak
  • Stacia Konow, Third-Year, Neuroscience
    • Project Title: Road to Recovery: An Investigation into the Effect of Nicotine Addiction on Hippocampal CA1 Place Cells
    • Mentor: Mark Sheffield
  • Rico Lau, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Immortalized Cardiomyocyte Differentiation
    • Mentor: Narutoshi Hibino
  • Romy Li, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Systematic Characterization of the Role of Lactyl-Coenzyme A Synthetase in Regulating Gene Expression of Bone-Marrow-Derived Macrophages
    • Mentor: Yingming Zhao
  • Sophia Madejski, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Characterization of the HLA-F Binding Groove via Molecular Dynamics
    • Mentor: Erin Adams
  • Jessica Martinez Martinez, Second-Year, Biological Chemistry, Computer Science
    • Project Title: Engineering Ligase Activity in Cryptidases IDE and hPreP: A Comprehensive Study
    • Mentor: Wei-Jen Tang
  • Mason McCormack, First-Year, Astrophysics
    • Project Title: Using SO2 to Trace Giant Planet Formation Histories
    • Mentor: Diana Powell
  • Armin Pazooki, Second-Year, Neuroscience, Psychology
    • Project Title: A Beacon for Early Detection of Sensory Neuropathy
    • Mentor: Peggy Mason
  • Manuela Pinheiro, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Design and Fabrication of Paper-Thin Electrodes for Seawater Desalination
    • Mentor: Stuart Rowan
  • Krishna Raghavan, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Investigating the effects of charge on alpha-synuclein's membrane binding
    • Mentor: Ka Yee Lee
  • Ishaan Roy, Fourth-Year, Physics
    • Project Title: Studying Cytokine responses using IR-Stimulation
    • Mentor: Elizabeth Jerison
  • Miguel Saucedo, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Investigating Ylp1 Mj0606 Complex for Transmembrane Protein Insertion
    • Mentor: Robert Keenan
  • Emily Scott, Third-Year, Neuroscience
    • Project Title: Characterizing Ion Levels in the Golgi apparatus with DNA Nanotechnology
    • Mentor: Yamuna Krishnan
  • Sunny Taylor, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Physics
    • Project Title: In-line Microbial ‘Omics via Raman Spectroscopy: Advancing Single Cell Analysis
    • Mentor: Supratik Guha
  • Davis Turner, Second-Year, Economics, Environment, Geography, and Urbranization
    • Project Title: Assessing Zoning Equity in Chicago
    • Mentor: Emily Talen
  • Lily Yu, Third-Year, Biology
    • Project Title: Elucidating Connexin Changes in a Tissue Culture Model of Lens Differentiation
    • Mentor: Eric Beyer

Supported by the Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors

  • Ethan Eig, Third-Year, Biochemistry, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Biointerface design to facilitate extracellular vesicle release in Staphylococcus epidermidis
    • Mentor: Bozhi Tian
  • Aurora Ferrell, Third-Year, Neuroscience
    • Project Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Cerebellar Intrinsic Plasticity
    • Mentor: Christian Hansel
  • Catalina Garcia, Third-Year, Sociology, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    • Project Title: A Welcoming City? The Reception of Asylum-Seekers in Chicago
    • Mentor: Chiara Galli
  • Sara Hoggatt, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Investigating Physical Dynamics of Single-Cell Host-Pathogen Interactions Using Fluidic Force Microscopy
    • Mentor: Aaron Esser-Kahn
  • Vincent Hou, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Cryo-EM Structural Determination of sAB-bound Borealin N-terminal Domain
    • Mentor: Anthony Kossiakoff
  • Katie Ko, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Pseudouridine-Binding Proteins: A proposed regulatory mechanism of RNA pseudouridylation
    • Mentor: Chuan He
  • Andrew Lee, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
    • Project Title: Single-Cell Analysis of S1P1R Modulator (ozanimod) Effects in Multiple Sclerosis
    • Mentor: Anthony T. Reder
  • Nick Li, Fourth-Year, Physics
    • Project Title: Entanglement-based Quantum Key Distribution for a Quantum Network
    • Mentor: Cheng Chin
  • Ry Papadopoulos, Third-Year, Chemistry, Philosophy
    • Project Title: Unlocking the Interfacial Structure of Defect-Rich Carbon Electrocatalysts
    • Mentor: Anna Wuttig
  • Abbey Piatt Price, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Diagnosing the Drivers for Membrane-Based Photothermal Carbon Capture
    • Mentor: Aaron Esser-Kahn
  • Cailey Riggs, Third-Year, Computer Science
    • Project Title: Analysis of the CATACOMB Gene and PRC2-Mediated Gene Regulation
    • Mentor: Andrea Piunti
  • Emilio Rosas Linhard, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Intestinal Organoid Analysis for Cell Atlas of Crohn’s Disease
    • Mentor: Anindita Basu
  • Rajit Tummala, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences, Mathematics
    • Project Title: GPU-based Fast Monte Carlo Simulations for Small Animal 3D-CRT and IMRT
    • Mentor: Bulent Aydogan
  • Sophia Winney, Second-Year, Astrophysics
    • Project Title: Modeling the Effect of Binary Motion on the Velocity Dispersion of Dwarf Galaxies
    • Mentor: Andrey Kravtsov
  • Joseph Yeung, Third-Year, Astrophysics, Physics
    • Project Title: Characterizing the Prominence of Early Mergers in FIRE-2 Simulated Milky Way-like Galaxies
    • Mentor: Andrey Kravtsov

Autumn Quad Research Scholars

Supported by the NK Cheung Chemistry Research Fellowship

  • Emory Apodaca, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Lithium Extraction From Unconventional Water Sources Via Elemental Doping of FePO4 Host
    • Mentor: Chong Liu
  • Abbie Blenko, Third-Year, Chemistry, Music
    • Project Title: Designing a Thorium-Based Metal-Organic Framework for Synergistic Chemoradiotherapy
    • Mentor: Wenbin Lin
  • Kenny Huang, Third-Year, Chemistry, Math
    • Project Title: Investigation of the Properties of Doubly Threaded Slide-Ring Polycatenane Networks through Synthesis of Entangled Networks
    • Mentor: Stuart Rowan
  • Madison Huynh, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Mechanistic Investigation of Redox-Mediated Electron Transfer for Intramolecular C(sp3)–C(sp3) Bond Forming Reactions
    • Mentor: Anna Wuttig
  • Sarah Kress, Third-Year, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Rational Design of Redox Mediators for Selective Ketone Cyclization
    • Mentor: Anna Wuttig
  • Asaf Lebovic, Third-Year, Biochemistry, Neuroscience, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Establishing the roles of molecular specificity and affinity in motor axon guidance in the developing fruit fly neuromuscular system
    • Mentor: Engin Özkan
  • William Mantzaris, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Photothermally Driven System for Carbon Capture
    • Mentor: Aaron Esser-Kahn
  • Rachel Quan, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
    • Project Title: Study Towards the Cinncassiol Diterpenoids
    • Mentor: Scott Snyder
  • Raphael Stone, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Electrochemical Lithium Extraction from Unconventional Water Sources using cathode materials
    • Mentor: Chong Liu
  • Youssef Tazoui, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Dynamic Self Assembly of Binary AuNP and Fe2O3NP Superlattices Under Variable Magnetic Fields
    • Mentor: Bozhi Tian
  • Guanchen Zhu, Third-Year, Chemistry, Biology
    • Project Title: Microbial Nanostructures in the Human Microbiome: A Cryo-EM Investigation
    • Mentor: Scott A. Snyder

Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund

  • Serena Bernstein, Third-Year, Public Policy
    • Project Title: Spatial Analysis of Chicago Neighborhoods
    • Mentor: Crystal Bae
  • Henry Bloom, Third-Year, Computer Science, Molecular Engineering
    • Project Title: Classification of Pathogenic Gene Splicing Mutations in FASTQ Data
    • Mentor: Yang Li
  • Samara Friedman, Second-Year, Political Science, Law, Letters, and Society
    • Project Title: Presidential Power, the Administrative State, and the Future of American Democracy
    • Mentor: William Howell
  • Esther Goldberg, Third-Year, Data Science
    • Project Title: The Effect of Memorability on Fame
    • Mentor: Wilma Bainbridge
  • Adi Orlyanchik, Third-Year, Neuroscience
    • Project Title: Investigating the Neural Mechanisms of Learning to Learn
    • Mentor: David Freedman
  • Elliot Sher, Second-Year, Global Studies, Law, Letters, and Society
    • Project Title: Conspiracy Theories: How Hunter Biden and Jared Kushner Procured Favorable Business Deals Abroad
    • Mentor: Kimberly Kay Hoang
  • Elena Tiedens, Third-Year, History
    • Project Title: International Science at the Yerkes Observatory
    • Mentor: Emily Kern
  • Austin Xie, Third-Year, English Language and Literature, Media Arts and Design
    • Project Title: Aesthetics of Artificial Intelligence
    • Mentor: Andre Uhl
  • Lana Yevzlin, Fourth-Year, Anthropology
    • Project Title: The Former Hijab Project
    • Mentor: Eman Abdelhadi
  • Cyrus Zhou, Fourth-Year, Computer Science
    • Project Title: Enabling and Speeding Up Mixed Precision Neural Networks on CPUs using SIMD Architecture
    • Mentor: Yanjing Li

Supported by the Global Health Research Fund

  • Ophelia Dominguez, Third-Year, Biology, Anthropology
    • Project Title: Improving Approximations of Biology: Applying Advanced Epistasis Models to Cis-eQTL Analysis
    • Mentor: Andy Dahl
  • Sarah Gaudron, Fourth-Year, Biology
    • Project Title: Entanglements of Endometriosis
    • Mentor: Melanie Jeske
  • Elena Jochum, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, Astrophysics
    • Project Title: Delineating key PDCD10-dependent signaling pathways driving oral cancer tumorigenesis using human longitudinally collected samples
    • Mentor: Evgeny Izumchenko
  • Charlotte Manier, Fourth-Year, Biological Studies, Law, Letters, and Society
    • Project Title: Entanglements of Endometriosis
    • Mentor: Melanie Jeske
  • Gideon Mitchell, Third-Year, Computer Science, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Structure Determination of Amyloid-β Oligomers (40-, 42-residues) with AlphaFold2
    • Mentor: Esmael Haddadian
  • Ornella Ndatabaye, Second-Year, Biological Studies
    • Project Title: Role of Diet in Dictating Regional Gut Lymphatics
    • Mentor: Daria Esterhazy
  • Marayam Shariff, Third-Year, Biological Studies
    • Project Title: Tumor Phagocytosis by Macrophages in Prostate Cancer 
    • Mentor: Akash Patnaik
  • Alexander von Kumberg, Second-Year, Neuroscience, History
    • Project Title: PDCD10 as a Novel Driver for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Development
    • Mentor: Evgeny Izumchenko

Supported by the Hoeft Family Research Fund

  • David Dang, Second-Year, Physics, Economics
    • Project Title: Exploring the conformational transition between open and closed states of insulin degrading enzyme in presence of insulin and Amyloid beta
    • Mentor: Esmael Haddadian
  • Viviana De Alba, Third-Year, Biological Studies
    • Project Title: Examining how the PAR proteins regulate the actomyosin cytoskeleton during polarization
    • Mentor: Edwin Munro
  • Zach Gillis, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Using a Novel Microwave Cavity in an Electron Spin Resonance Setup to Analyze Erbium-Doped Crystal Suitability for Quantum Transduction
    • Mentor: Tian Zhong
  • Olivia Grobmyer, Fourth-Year, Environmental Science
    • Project Title: Quantifying Goatfish Feeding Patterns over Rocky and Sandy Substrates
    • Mentor: Mark Westneat
  • Riley Hamilton, Fourth-Year, Biological Studies
    • Project Title: Weight Cycling Effects on Fertility of Wild-type Female Mice
    • Mentor: Ada Weinstock
  • Lyndon Hu, Third-Year, Biological Studies
    • Project Title: The Role of Mitophagy in Pancreatic Cancer: Uncovering Novel Dependencies Programmed by the Tumor Nutrient Environment
    • Mentor: Alexander Muir
  • Rosalind Huang, Fourth-Year, Physics
    • Project Title: Odd Viscoelasticity in an Active Granular Solid
    • Mentor: Vincenzo Vitelli
  • Smayan Khanna, Third-Year, Physics
    • Project Title: DiAMoNDBack V2: An Improved Graph-based Diffusion Model for Backmapping of DNA-Protein and Cα Protein Traces
    • Mentor: Andrew Ferguson
  • Liam Leeming, Third-Year, Biological Studies
    • Project Title: The Role of WASP and WAVE Complex in Cytoskeletal Self-Organization in the C. elegans Zygote
    • Mentor: David R. Kovar
  • Thomas Li, Fourth-Year, Biological Studies
    • Project Title: Characterizing Tumor Immune Evasion Mechanisms Under Hypoxia in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)
    • Mentor: Marsha Rosner
  • Mira Littmenn, Second-Year, Physics, Philosophy in the Allied Fields
    • Project Title: Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD)
    • Mentor: David Miller
  • Adam Oppenheimer, Third-Year, Mathematics, Physics
    • Project Title: Investigating turbulent flow through intra-fluid particle dynamics
    • Mentor: William Irvine
  • Joshua Park, Third-Year, Geophysical Sciences, Environmental Science
    • Project Title: Simulation of Antarctic Circumpolar Deep Water Flux Intervention as a Glacial Geoengineering Strategy: Glacial Discharge Management (GDM)
    • Mentor: Douglas R. MacAyeal
  • Jinseo Park, Third-Year, Physics
    • Project Title: Development of 20GSa/s Analog-to-Digical converter ASIC
    • Mentor: Henry J. Frisch
  • Ethan Reiter, Fourth-Year, Cognitive Science, Philosophy
    • Project Title: Extending the Foreign Language Effect to Psychological Essentialism
    • Mentor: Boaz Keysar
  • Isabel Salvin, Third-Year, Neuroscience
    • Project Title: Inferring Activity Using Structure of a Neuronal Network
    • Mentor: Bobby Kasthuri
  • Nathaniel Selub, Third-Year, Mathematics, Physics
    • Project Title: A Boolean Satisfiability Approach to Solving Conway's 99-Graph Problem
    • Mentor: Michael Klug
  • Annie Wang, Third-Year, Chemistry
    • Project Title: Impact of mandibular distraction on hyoid position in humans with Pierre Robin Sequence
    • Mentor: Russell R. Reid
  • Cynthia Wang, Fourth-Year, Biological Studies
    • Project Title: Investigation on engineered mistranslating transfer RNAs for correcting pathogenic missense mutations
    • Mentor: Bobby Kasthuri
  • Eliza Wiener, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Biological Studies
    • Project Title: Understanding the function of neuronal cell surface proteins: Examining human teneurin-2 autoproteolysis
    • Mentor: Demet Araç
  • Jarvis Zhang, Third-Year, Astrophysics, Mathematics
    • Project Title: A hypothesis of how CEMP-r stars are form with ejecta of Roche-lobe overflow
    • Mentor: Alexander Ji

Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors

  • Winter Bell, Third-Year, Biological Studies, Business Economics
    • Project Title: Microbial Nanostructures in the Human Microbiome: A Cryo-EM Investigation
    • Mentor: Mohammed Kaplan
  • Charlotte Clulow, Third-Year, Neuroscience
    • Project Title: Representational Drift in Rodent Barrel Cortex
    • Mentor: Jason Maclean
  • Adera Craig, Third-Year, Environmental Science, Biological Studies
    • Project Title: Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Butterflyfish: A Phylo Climatic and Ecological Modeling of Chaetodontidae
    • Mentor: Mark Westneat
  • Bingjie Hsieh, Fourth-Year, Biological Studies, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Investigating the free energy landscape of a model aGPCR through molecular dynamics and other biophysical approaches
    • Mentor: Kimberly Hoang
  • Michelle Hu, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Characterizing and Applying Blue Cateye Lasers for Chemical Enhancement of Strontium-Monofluoride (SrF) production and Magneto-Optical Trapping of Sr
    • Mentor: David DeMille
  • Aaron Huang, Fourth-Year, Music, East Asian Language
    • Project Title: Mobility of the Song: Courtesans and Their Voices in Late Ming Cultural Production
    • Mentor: Judith Zeitlin
  • Natalie Jenkins, Fourth-Year, Art History, Visual Arts
    • Project Title: Munich ‘72: Olympian Art and Architecture
    • Mentor: Christine Mehring
  • Lauren Kingsly, Fourth-Year, Psychology
    • Project Title: The Effect of Motivation on Working Memory Allocation and Performance
    • Mentor: Howard Nusbaum
  • Noa Lotan, Second-Year, History, Religious Studies
    • Project Title: Clearing Up Legal Ambiguity
    • Mentor: Connor Strobel
  • Liviu Megherea, Fourth-Year, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine
    • Project Title: The Emergence of Scientific Opinion Polling
    • Mentor: Tal Arbel
  • Sarah Muhlbaum, Fourth-Year, Inquiry and Research in the Humanities, French and Francophone Studies
    • Project Title: The Political Pastoral in Late Medieval France
    • Mentor: Daisy Delogu
  • Shivam Mundhra, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
    • Project Title: Quantum Sensing of the Heat Shock Response in Cells
    • Mentor: Peter Maurer
  • Kris Peng, Fourth-Year, Psychology
    • Project Title: Influence of Modalities of Preference Expression on Post-Choice Satisfaction
    • Mentor: Boaz Keysar
  • Raymond Qian, Third-Year, Computer Science
    • Project Title: ZoroTK
    • Mentor: Ken Nakagaki
  • Jacob Schroeder, Fourth-Year, English
    • Project Title:  Beshrew Me! Critical Editions for Digital Analysis and Research
    • Mentor: Ellen MacKay
  • Bill Zheng, Fourth-Year, Physics
    • Project Title: Miniature Molecular Beam Epitaxy for Direct Printing of Josephson Junction Qubits
    • Mentor: Shuolong Yang

Quad Faculty Research Grantees

  • Cara Brook, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Anna Riccardi
  • Maryellen Giger, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Arden Frantzen
  • Timothy Harrison, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Benny Wild
  • Marcia Tan, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Cynthia Tang
  • Xuanyao Liu, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Eleni Chronopoulos
  • Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Francesco Rahe
  • Bozhi Tian, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Jhan Liufu
  • Jasmine Nirody, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Maria Manyama
  • Sampriti Mukherjee, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Marta Pantin
  • Junchen Jiang, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Mirza Mehmedagic
  • Ken Nakagaki, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Ramarko Bhattacharya
  • Pedro Lopes, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Katherine Waterman
  • Akram Bakkour, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Nicholas Chiang
  • Evan Carver, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Noam Levinsky
  • Henry Frisch, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Peter Scheidt
  • Jeffrey Tharsen, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: William Turner
  • Richard Payne, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Zhitong Zhou
  • Mike Albertus, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Gabriel Aguilar Perez
  • Robin Bartram, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Kaitlyn Miranda
  • Jordan Bimm, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Nathalie Lai
  • Mark Bradley, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Aabir Mukherjee
  • Alireza Doostdar, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Jinhao Pan
  • James Osborne, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Jiayue Wang
  • Susanne Paulus, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Danielle Levy
  • Luka Pocivavsek, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Sarah Adonle
  • Eugene Raikhel, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: Dora Hou
  • Melanie Jeske, Faculty Mentor
    • Undergraduate Researcher: My Chu

Quad Undergraduate Research Conference Awardees

  • Ali Warraich
    • Conference Title: Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting 2023
    • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Madeline Mahoney
    • Conference Title: Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science "Gender, Sexuality, and Health Across the Life Course: Current Challenges and Opportunities for Population Health and Health Equity"
    • Location: Baltimore, Maryland
  • Gabriel Estrella dos Anjos
    • Conference Title: XX National Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Congress and the XIII Symposium Mexico/USA
    • Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Karen Liao
    • Conference Title: ObesityWeek 2023
    • Location: Dallas, Texas
  • Priya Rawal
    • Conference Title: American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2023 Annual Meeting
    • Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Erika Temprano
    • Conference Title: Learn Serve Lead 2023: The AAMC Annual Meeting
    • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Yasin Badawy
    • Conference Title: American Soceity of Nephrology, Kidney Week
    • Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Claire Fu
    • Conference Title: 2024 Society for Integrative and Comparative BIology Annual Meeting
    • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Thomas Li
    • Conference Title: American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting
    • Location: Denver, Colorado
  • Kantapat Boonme
    • Conference Title: 2023 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AiChE) Annual Student Conference
    • Location: Orlando, Florida
  • Adera Craig
    • Conference Title: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting
    • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Annie Wang
    • Conference Title: The Society of Integrative & Comparative Biology
    • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Christopher Pezanosky
    • Conference Title: American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics
    • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Songyang Zhang
    • Conference Title: Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention
    • Location: San Diego, California
  • Bryce Van Bree
    • Conference Title: 63rd Annual Southern Salt, Water, and Kidney Society Conference
    • Location: Sarasota, Florida
  • Noel McGrory
    • Conference Title: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting 2024
    • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Theresa Christiansen
    • Conference Title: 2024 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB 2024)
    • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Kluivert Suquino
    • Conference Title: American Geophysical Union
    • Location: Seattle, Washington
  • Yifan Zhao
    • Conference Title: 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
    • Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Liam Leeming
    • Conference Title: Cell Bio 2023
    • Location: Boston, Massachusetts