Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
2022 Spring Research Symposium

The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships is the University’s hub for undergraduate research, as well as the launch pad for Penn students seeking to apply for nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships

Welcome to CURF’s Spring Research Fair!

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Start Time: April 22 2022 - 4:00 PM
End Time: April 22 2022 - 5:00 PM
Ann Vernon-Grey
Lia Brodrick
Increased Vagal Tone During Cognitive Stress Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Psychopathy
Austin Lee Smith
Tracking Goal Conflict: The Motivational Determinants of Self-Control
Amanda "Mandi" Nerenberg
He Said, She Said: The Impact of Gendered Language on Perceived Confidence
Lora Assi
Relationships between Blood Cell Types and Demographic/Morphological Factors in Rhesus Macaques
Leo Gearin
The Anatomical Figure and Erotic Energy in American Artist Jess’s Early Collages
Adriana Purcell
Fertility & the Female Body in Biomedicine
Daniella Batievsky
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Treatment of Comorbid Depression and Chronic Pain: A Pilot Study of Two Different Approaches
Jennifer Locke
Metallicity Gradients in Simulated Tidal Streams
Kevin Liang
Distributional Learning of Syntactic Categories
Ashley Sniffen
Reframing Joan Mitchell: Feeling, Memory, and Abstract Impressionism
Maddy Alexis Fair
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Game-Based Intervention for Conduct Problems
Emma H Palermo
Perceived Sleep Quality and REM are Integral to Emotion Regulation
Samantha Braffman
Failure to Compromise: The Effects Of United States Political Polarization On Foreign Policy In The Case Of The North Korean Denuclearization Process
Tiffany Tieu
  • Hope Cho
Exploring the Impact of Anti-Asian Hate on Penn Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cody Dong
Predictive Shifts in Object Representations with Statistical Learning
Grace Daley
Dissecting Parental Warmth and its Associations with Callous-Unemotional Traits
Joshua S Steinberg
Perceptions and experiences of mental health treatment among suicidal individuals
Tej A Patel
CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout of Src Homology-2 Domain-Containing Phosphatases Enhances Anti-Tumor Activity of CAR T cells
Bethany Nahri So
Dissecting the unique roles of NCOR1, SMRT, and HDAC3 in hepatic lipid metabolism
Emily Hong
The Relationship Between Parental Emotion Scaffolding and Child Emotion Recognition and Expression
Hannah Gonzalez
Extension of Deep Learning-Based Automated Segmentation of Resection Cavities on Postsurgical Epilepsy MRI
Simay Inci Ipek
A CBT Smartphone App for IBS Improves Visceral Anxiety and Fear of Food
Lindsay M. Smith
Learning Continuous Chaotic Attractors with a Reservoir Computer
Leah Narun
Efficient Analysis of Photoluminescence Images for the Identification of Single-Photon Emitters
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Efficient Analysis of Photoluminescence Images for the Identification of Single-Photon Emitters Leah Narun Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Lee Bassett
  • Rebecca Fishman
University Scholars
The Age of Aquarius: Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Use of Narrative in Empowering the Boomer Generation Sabrina Elson
  • David Eisenhower
  • Kimberly Dyuck Woolf
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
A CBT Smartphone App for IBS Improves Visceral Anxiety and Fear of Food Simay Ipek College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Melissa Hunt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Game-Based Intervention for Conduct Problems Maddy Fair College of Arts & Sciences
  • Rebecca Waller
  • Samantha Perlstein
Other
Callous Versus Anxious and Substance Choices in Adjudicated Adolescents: A Longitudinal Test of the Self-Medication Hypothesis Maia Chester College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Rebecca Waller
  • Samantha Perlstein
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Conflicting Logics: Organization-based Gig Work Alexa Addison College of Arts & Sciences
  • Benjamin
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout of Src Homology-2 Domain-Containing Phosphatases Enhances Anti-Tumor Activity of CAR T cells Tej Patel Wharton, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marco Ruella
Other
Differential Degeneration of Inhibitory Neurons in FTLD-Tau and FTLD-TDP in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Patients Alejandra Bahena College of Arts & Sciences
  • Irwin, David, MD
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Dissecting Parental Warmth and its Associations with Callous-Unemotional Traits Grace Daley College of Arts & Sciences
  • Rebecca Waller
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Dissecting the unique roles of NCOR1, SMRT, and HDAC3 in hepatic lipid metabolism Bethany So College of Arts & Sciences
  • Mitchell Lazar
  • Amy Hauck
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Distributional Learning of Syntactic Categories Kevin Liang College of Arts & Sciences, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Charles Yang
University Scholars
Effects of Zeolite as a Drug Delivery System on Cancer Therapy: A Systematic Review Jessica Hao College of Arts & Sciences
  • Fusun Ozer
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Exploring the Impact of Anti-Asian Hate on Penn Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic Tiffany Tieu
Hope Cho
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Melissa Hunt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Extension of Deep Learning-Based Automated Segmentation of Resection Cavities on Postsurgical Epilepsy MRI Hannah Gonzalez Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Kathryn Adamiak Davis
  • Thomas Campbell Arnold
MindCore
Failure to Compromise: The Effects Of United States Political Polarization On Foreign Policy In The Case Of The North Korean Denuclearization Process Samantha Braffman College of Arts & Sciences
  • Alex Weisiger
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Fertility & the Female Body in Biomedicine Adriana Purcell College of Arts & Sciences
  • Morgan Hoke
University Scholars
He Said, She Said: The Impact of Gendered Language on Perceived Confidence Amanda "Mandi" Nerenberg College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Angela Duckwoth
  • Dr. Louis Hickman
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
HLA3DB: an annotated database of high-resolution pHLA structures Sagar Gupta College of Arts & Sciences
  • Nikolaos G. Sgourakis
Other
How Sexual Attitudes Are Formed: The Association between Different Sources for Sexual Education and Their Relationship with Sexual Shame Aerin Shea Fergus College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. David Lydon-Staley
  • Dr. Kim Woolf
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Increased Vagal Tone During Cognitive Stress Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Psychopathy Lia Brodrick College of Arts & Sciences
  • Adrian Raine
Other
Investigating Decision Processes of Organ Donor Registration: A Query Theory Approach Feiyi Wang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sudeep Bhatia
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
It’s More About What You’re Saying: Emergent Leaders in Virtual Groups Lana Prieur College of Arts & Sciences
  • Scott Rennie
University Scholars
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Treatment of Comorbid Depression and Chronic Pain: A Pilot Study of Two Different Approaches Daniella Batievsky College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Michael Thase
  • Dr. Michelle Weiner
Other
Learning Continuous Chaotic Attractors with a Reservoir Computer Lindsay Smith College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dani S. Bassett
University Scholars