Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
2023 Spring Poster 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 14 2023 - 3:30 PM
End Time: April 14 2023 - 5:00 PM
Jarryd Kainz
Sophia E Glinski
Performance Anxiety, Gastrointestinal Distress, and Fear of Food Among Collegiate Student-Athletes
Alexandra Ann Dumas
Decellularized Meniscus Scaffolds and Cartilage Progenitor Cells for Total Meniscal Repair
Sagar Gupta
HLA3DB: comprehensive annotation of peptide/HLA complexes enables blind structure prediction of T cell epitopes
Liala Sofi
3 Easy Steps to Measure Muscle Sarcomere Length
Carlos Montes
Queering Political Communities in Post-Disaster Puerto Rico
Tara Shilkret
The Child Care Connection: Popular Media Representations of Care and Mothers' Support of Potential Care Policies
Maya Saidi Litvak
How Ethnicity and Immigrant Status Combine to Produce American Attitudes Toward Immigrants
Sydney Sun
Context-Specific Use of Emotion Words and Child Disruptive Behavior Problems
Grace Choi
Cbi-Ex4 for the Treatment of Cancer Anorexia-Cachexia Syndrome
Alexandra E Venth
Changes in Pro-Environmental Behaviors from Home to High School to the College Campus
Gautham Nair
DECELLULARIZED CARTILAGE for PEDIATRIC TYMPANOPLASTY in an IN VIVO RAT MODEL
Seungwon Lee
Community Health Workers in Uganda and the Unknown in the Implementation of Government and Non-governmental Health Interventions
Chloe Katz
The Influence of Recent Learning on Conceptual Activation
Isabella Schlact
  • Riley Macks
  • Clara Williams
Prevalence of IBS in Psychiatric Populations
Tommy Christaldi
Fake or Scripted?: Fact versus Fiction in Professional Wrestling's "Worked Shoots" from 1982-2022
Kennon Moon
Area Perception in Children
Michelle Mahecha Perez
Examining the Effect of Past and Present Socioeconomic Status on Time Preferences Across Monetary, Health, and Social Rewards
Jaden S Stevens
Can we Increase Competitiveness in Women by Making Competitions Less Risky?
Ashley Marie Blanco Liz
Gen Z Latinas on TikTok: Uncovering Their Complex Intersectional Identities
Alex Bui
Evaluating the Predictive Utility of Dyadic Reciprocity on Early Language Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Video-Feedback Caregiver Intervention
Serena Gao
The Role of Hindbrain GABA-ergic Signaling in the Modulation of Anorexia and Malaise by GLP-1R Agonists
Matthew Liu
VALIDATING SYSTEMS OF INDUCIBLE GENE PERTURBATIONS IN STEM CELLS AND NEURONS
Jennifer Ben Nathan
Amylin signaling in the mesolimbic reward system reduces oxycodone and cocaine self-administration in female rats
Jeffrey A. Fishman
Relationship-Building in Philadelphia’s Communication Infrastructure: Integrating Youth Participatory Action Research with Community-Based Organizations and Local Media Groups
Title First & Last Name Sort descending Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Amylin signaling in the mesolimbic reward system reduces oxycodone and cocaine self-administration in female rats Jennifer Ben Nathan College of Arts & Sciences
  • Heath D. Schmidt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Gen Z Latinas on TikTok: Uncovering Their Complex Intersectional Identities Ashley Blanco Liz College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jessa Lingel
  • Kimberly Woolf
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Identifying the Role of HSP70 Co-Chaperones in Modulating Sarcomeric Proteostasis Graham Branscom College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sharlene Day
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research, University Scholars
Evaluating the Predictive Utility of Dyadic Reciprocity on Early Language Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Video-Feedback Caregiver Intervention Alex Bui College of Arts & Sciences
  • Allyson Mackey
University Scholars
The cerebellum satiation network as a forward model for feeding Ella Cho College of Arts & Sciences
  • J. Nicholas Betley
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Cbi-Ex4 for the Treatment of Cancer Anorexia-Cachexia Syndrome Grace Choi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Tito Borner
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Role of Cofilin and Calcium Signaling in Sleep Loss Neural Injury Allison Chou College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sigrid Veasey
University Scholars
Fake or Scripted?: Fact versus Fiction in Professional Wrestling's "Worked Shoots" from 1982-2022 Tommy Christaldi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Perry B. Johnson
  • Dr. Kim Woolf
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Decellularized Meniscus Scaffolds and Cartilage Progenitor Cells for Total Meniscal Repair Alexandra Dumas Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Riccardo Gottardi
University Scholars
Relationship-Building in Philadelphia’s Communication Infrastructure: Integrating Youth Participatory Action Research with Community-Based Organizations and Local Media Groups Jeffrey Fishman College of Arts & Sciences
  • Andy Tan
  • Kimberly Woolf
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
François-Victor Hugo’s French Shakespeare, or What is in the archive of a translation? Julie Flandreau College of Arts & Sciences
  • Zachary Lesser
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
The Role of Hindbrain GABA-ergic Signaling in the Modulation of Anorexia and Malaise by GLP-1R Agonists Serena Gao College of Arts & Sciences
  • Tito Borner
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Multilayer network associations between functional brain development and home and neighborhood exposomes Martins Gatavins College of Arts & Sciences
  • Allyson P. Mackey
University Scholars
Performance Anxiety, Gastrointestinal Distress, and Fear of Food Among Collegiate Student-Athletes Sophia Glinski College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melissa Hunt, Ph.D.
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Performance Anxiety, GI Distress, and Fear of Food Among Collegiate Student-Athletes Sophia Glinski College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melissa Hunt, Ph.D.
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Enhancing Human Summaries for Question-Answer Generation in Education Hannah Gonzalez Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Chris Callison-Burch
Vagelos Undergraduate Research Grant
HLA3DB: comprehensive annotation of peptide/HLA complexes enables blind structure prediction of T cell epitopes Sagar Gupta College of Arts & Sciences
  • Nikolaos G. Sgourakis
Other
Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Unstructured Environment with a Quadrotor Siming He Wharton, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Pratik Chaudhari
Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (Wharton)
Targeting Endogenous Tau in Human Seeded Tauopathy Models of Neurodegeneration with a Non-Human Antibody Elliot Jang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Hong Xu
Other
Encapsulation of Colchicine in Nanoparticle for Improved Treatment of Myocardial Infarction Chaitanya Karimanasseri Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Pavan Atluri
Other
The Influence of Recent Learning on Conceptual Activation Chloe Katz College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sharon Thompson-Schill
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Human-associated Redondoviruses Infect the Oral Protozoan Entamoeba gingivalis Emma Keeler College of Arts & Sciences
  • Frederic Bushman
  • Ronald Collman
University Scholars
Community Health Workers in Uganda and the Unknown in the Implementation of Government and Non-governmental Health Interventions Seungwon Lee College of Arts & Sciences
  • Lee Cassanelli
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
VALIDATING SYSTEMS OF INDUCIBLE GENE PERTURBATIONS IN STEM CELLS AND NEURONS Matthew Liu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Ophir Shalem
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant