Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
Fall Research Expo 2020

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 Research Expo!

Over 300 undergraduates are eager to share their research with you, so enjoy learning about the array of opportunities embraced by students at one of the world’s leading research universities.

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Details
September 17 2020 - 5:00 PM - September 17 2020 - 6:30 PM
Aaron Olson
Chancelor L Mitchell
Effects of Radiotherapy on Dentin & Enamel
MinJu Kim
Neuroprotective Effects of Lithium: Repurposed Drug to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
Jipeng Liu
Inferring Spatial Wages Distribution from Bilateral Commuting Choices in France
Kai Song
Addressing Social Justice and Environmental Health Issues in the Construction Industry: Polymers, Toxins, and Philadelphia Energy Solutions
Maddy Alexis Fair
The Impact of Reducing Weight Stigma on Weight Loss
Raz Allon
Using Data To Change Public Policy
Jiacheng Shen
Unsupervised Method of Automatic Lesion Segmentation and Quantification of Pathological COVID-19 Lung Tissue on Computed Tomography Scans
Charlene Canning
Supreme Businesses: Impacts of Business Cases Since 1888
Isabel Martinez
The G.I.S.T (Gender Identity and Sex Talks) Program
Nancy Yang
Association Between 90-Minute Door-to-Balloon Time and Selective Exclusion of Myocardial Infarction Cases: Insights from the Cardiac Care Outcomes Assessment Program from Washington State
Zoe Moscovici
Gender Identity & Commute to High School
William Daniels
Project Exile: Federal Intrusion into Local Crime
Madeline Mandell
Glioblastoma: Survival Data and Overall Descriptive Statistics
Elizaveta A Brover
WIC and the Infant Formula Market
Jewelianna Moore
(Hexamethylbenzene)Ru Complexes for the Aldehyde-Water Shift Reaction
Variational Auto-encoder for Unsupervised Learning
Gabriella Nguyen
Misinformation on the HPV Vaccine on Instagram
Iman Syed
Advocacy, Identity, and Liberation: Palestinian Olive Oil, a case study
Jerry Gao
Characterizing the Effect of Multiple Blood Vessels On Neuronal Permeability Following Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injuries
Riley Merkel
A Paradoxical Role of Amygdalar GLP-1 Signaling on Drug-Seeking Behavior
Ollie Kim Dupuy
In the Pursuit of a Fuller Humanity: #BlackInKidLit and the Urgency of Humanizing Stories
Alexys Knighton
Investigating the Frequency of Copy Number Variants according to Ancestry in an Unselected Population
Ana Lorenza R. Colagrossi
The Unity of the Roses: How the Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York Created the Foundation of the Tudor Political Identity
Haley M Phillips
Classifying Ultrasonic Vocalization Subtypes During Oxycodone Self-Administration in Male Rats
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Attitudes, Investments, and Confidence-building Measures Concerning Military Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Technology Esther Lee Wharton
  • Professor Michael Horowitz
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Automated Gender Detection of C. Elegans Samples Andrew Zhao Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Christopher Fang-Yen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Automated Segmentation of Postoperative Epilepsy Imaging Ramya Muthukrishnan Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Brian Litt
  • Thomas Campbell Arnold
Other
Behavior Change For Good Marco Yap College of Arts & Sciences
  • Angela Duckworth
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Behavioral Correlates of the Pragmatic Prospection Scale Abigail Laver College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Ayelet Ruscio
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Big Tech and Social Welfare - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Jessy Syed Wharton
  • Eric K. Clemons
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Binding Affinities of Lamellipodin’s PRM Domains for Endophilin SH3 Samuel Botterbusch College of Arts & Sciences
  • Tobias Baumgart
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Brain Age in Epilepsy Kevin Mathew Wharton
  • Dr. Kathryn Davis
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Built to Last: Examining the Persistence of Minority Exclusion in Philadelphia’s Building Trades Craft Unions Brendan Lui College of Arts & Sciences
  • Julia Lynch
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Caught In/Between: Expressions of Liminality in Jazz Aesthetic Literature Ashley Codner College of Arts & Sciences
  • Herman Beavers
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder: A Literature Review Isabel Zhang
  • Zhaolan Zhou
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Characterization of Genomic and Phenotypic Variation in the Khoesan Speakers of Southern Africa Nicole Da Costa College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sarah A. Tishkoff
  • Michael A. McQuillan
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Characterizing Dietary and Lifestyle Risk Factors for the Development of Serrated versus Conventional Adenomas Kirti Nath Wharton
  • Dr. Christoph Thaiss
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Characterizing Grey Matter and White Matter SEEG Electrodes Signals Dhanya Mahesh College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kathryn Davis
MindCore
Characterizing the Effect of Multiple Blood Vessels On Neuronal Permeability Following Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injuries Jerry Gao Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • D. Kacy Cullen
  • Kathryn Wofford
  • Victor Acero
  • Erin Purvis
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Chemogenetic Activation of the Endogenous NTS to VTA GLP-1 Signaling Pathway Reduces Cocaine Seeking in Rats Sana Zeb College of Arts & Sciences
  • Heath D. Schmidt
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Classifying Ultrasonic Vocalization Subtypes During Oxycodone Self-Administration in Male Rats Haley Phillips College of Arts & Sciences
  • Amelia J. Eisch, Ph.D
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Climate Change & Coronavirus: Misinformation & Skepticism in the Digital Age Anjali Berdia College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Irina Marinov
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Collaboration with Research Project on “The Role of Interlocking Directorates in Historic Bank Crises in France” Fabio Tessiore Wharton
  • Angelo Riva
  • Elisa Grandi
  • Simone Marinesi
World Research Assistantship Program (WRAP)
Commensal Bacterial Colonization of the Intestine Kaitlyn Boyle College of Arts & Sciences
  • Mark Goulian
Jumpstart for Juniors
Community Health Needs Assessment in Cobbs Creek Thomas Statchen Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Frances K. Barg, PhD MEd, Kent D.W Bream, MD
Team Grants for Interdisciplinary Activities, PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program, University Scholars
Complications of Arthroscopic Drilling in the Treatment of Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Knee David Isaacs College of Arts & Sciences
  • J. Todd Lawrence
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Computational Analysis of Bacterial Protein-Inhibitory Interactions Julia Davies College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marisa C. Kozlowski
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Considering Barriers to Research Participation Amongst Pregnant and Postpartum Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic Madeline Smith College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sara Kornfield, PhD
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant