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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Start Time: September 17 2020 - 5:00 PM
End Time: September 17 2020 - 6:30 PM
Aaron Olson
Yuzhou Lin
Using Big Data to Study Cerebral Malaria Pathogenesis
Jeffrey Qu
Integrating Brain Imaging for Outcome Prediction in Alzheimer’s Disease
Yijie Lu
Machine Learning Analysis Pipeline for Regression Datasets
Ashna Sethi
Using Big Data Methods to Understand Mesozoic Fish Diversity and Predation
Kennedy Manley
Sources of Distress and Stress Among Undergraduate Computer Science Students
Ian A. Paez
Muscle Stem Cell Protrusions Variation Depending on Mice Condition
Nicky Kotler
Investigating the Effect that Polygenic Risk Score has on Heritability of Mental Disorders
Yinuo Zhang
Linking Quantitative Traits with Molecular Evidence for Alzheimer's Disease
Julia Davies
Computational Analysis of Bacterial Protein-Inhibitory Interactions
Tathagat Bhatia
Crisis Talk: The Ford Foundation in India, 1952-61
Keshava Katti
AlScN: An Emerging Post-CMOS Compatible Ferroelectric for Non-Volatile Memory
Lena Armstrong
Machine learning of EEG to help diagnose epilepsy: predicting functional connectivity from structural connectivity
William Han
Role of NK Cells in Circadian Regulation of Lung Injury
Sana Zeb
Chemogenetic Activation of the Endogenous NTS to VTA GLP-1 Signaling Pathway Reduces Cocaine Seeking in Rats
Claudia Hejazi-Garcia
Enabling Children with Subglottic Stenosis to Breathe by Creating a Scaffold for Laryngotracheal Reconstruction
Xiteng Lin
2020 Flu Shot Mega-Experiment by Behavior Change for Good Initiative
Sara S
PennAWARE: A Novel Application for Studying Stress Responding in Daily Life
Feiyi Wang
How Reality Could be Otherwise: Counterfactual Thinking and Preference
Katherine A Wang
The Effects of General Anesthetics on Synaptic and Cognitive Function
Pearl Liu
Energy Visions: Haunted Landscapes of the South Philadelphia Refinery Site
LahNasia Shider
ARCH Lab Implementation Science Projects
Ben Kurland
Sleep Spindles
Margaret Tebbe
The "Beating Heart" of a Community: Elements of a Neighborhood School
Sabine Nix
Utilizing NASA Earth Observations to Evaluate Urban Tree Canopy and Land Surface Temperature for Green Infrastructure Development and Urban Heat Mitigation in Huntsville, AL
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
The Rise and Fall of Historical R&D Activities of the World’s Biggest Firms: Are central research laboratories the engine of innovation in large firms? Eunwoo Jang Wharton
  • Natalya Vinokurova
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Role of BAP1 in the Enteric Nervous System Jessica Anderson College of Arts & Sciences
  • Robert Heuckeroth MD, PhD
Jumpstart for Juniors
The Role of TNF-alpha Signaling in the Healing of the Knee Following ACL Rupture and Reconstruction Sinaia Keith Lang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Nathaniel Dyment
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Simulation of Magnetic Field in Deformable Bodies Haorong Yang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Chenfanfu Jiang
Team Grants for Interdisciplinary Activities
The Unity of the Roses: How the Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York Created the Foundation of the Tudor Political Identity Ana Lorenza Colagrossi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Margo Todd
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Trends in FDA Vaccine Approvals Neel Vallurupalli College of Arts & Sciences
  • Genevieve Kanter, Ph.D.
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Ultra-High-Rate Pseudocapacitive Charge Storage in the 3D Nanoporous Metal Scaffold-Supported Silver Oxide and Kinetics Analysis Asset Yermekkaliyev Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Eric Detsi
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Uncovering differences between parent and child completed Pediatric Symptom Checklists in Botswana Sarah Maghraoui College of Arts & Sciences
  • Elizabeth D. Lowenthal
  • Tyler M. Moore
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Underdog Narratives in the Workplace Ariana Freire Wharton
  • Samir Nurmohamed
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Understanding Election Security Through the Tripartite Model of Cognitive Security, Physical Security, and Perceptions of Legitimacy Ashley Fuchs College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Claire Finkelstein
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Understanding Global Generosity During Times of Crisis Grant Wang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Femida Handy
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Understanding Hormonal Variation in Cameroonian Rainforest Hunter-Gatherer Populations Augustine Benjamin College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sarah Tishkoff
  • Daniel Harris
Benjamin Franklin Scholars Summer Grant
Understanding Iron-catalyzed Cross-coupling Sophia McKee College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marisa Kozlowski
  • Lucille Wells
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Understanding SARS-CoV-2 Design Through Multi-Level Journal Club Lilia Carpenter College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Hansell Stedman
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Understanding SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Design Through Multi-Level Journal Club Jake Becker College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Hansell Stedman
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Understanding SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Design Through Multi-Level Journal Club Audrey Singer College of Arts & Sciences
  • Hansell Stedman
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Unsupervised Method of Automatic Lesion Segmentation and Quantification of Pathological COVID-19 Lung Tissue on Computed Tomography Scans Jiacheng Shen College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Maurizio Cereda
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
UPENN Aviary: Latent Space Analysis of Cowbird Song Jonathan Cheng Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Marc Schmidt
  • Marc Badger
Team Grants for Interdisciplinary Activities
Using Big Data Analysis Methods to understand Mesozoic Diversity and Predation Luisa Fernandez College of Arts & Sciences
  • Lauren Sallan
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Using Big Data Methods to Understand Mesozoic Fish Diversity and Predation Ashna Sethi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Lauren Sallan
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Using Big Data to Study Cerebral Malaria Pathogenesis Yuzhou Lin College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dylan S. Small
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Using Data To Change Public Policy Raz Allon Wharton
  • Judd Kessler
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Using Genome-Wide Association Studies and Summary-Data-Based Mendelian Randomization to Understand the Genetic Etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease Brian Lee College of Arts & Sciences
  • Professor Li Shen
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant, College House Research Fellowship
Using Implementation Science to Evaluate the Use of Parent Coaching in the Early Intervention System for Children with Autism Lia Brodrick College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melanie Pellecchia
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program