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
Start Time: September 17 2020 - 5:00 PM
End Time: September 17 2020 - 6:30 PM
End Time: September 17 2020 - 6:30 PM
Aaron Olson
Effects of Radiotherapy on Dentin & Enamel
Neuroprotective Effects of Lithium: Repurposed Drug to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease
Inferring Spatial Wages Distribution from Bilateral Commuting Choices in France
Addressing Social Justice and Environmental Health Issues in the Construction Industry: Polymers, Toxins, and Philadelphia Energy Solutions
The Impact of Reducing Weight Stigma on Weight Loss
Using Data To Change Public Policy
Unsupervised Method of Automatic Lesion Segmentation and Quantification of Pathological COVID-19 Lung Tissue on Computed Tomography Scans
Supreme Businesses: Impacts of Business Cases Since 1888
The G.I.S.T (Gender Identity and Sex Talks) Program
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
Gender Identity & Commute to High School
Project Exile: Federal Intrusion into Local Crime
Glioblastoma: Survival Data and Overall Descriptive Statistics
WIC and the Infant Formula Market
(Hexamethylbenzene)Ru Complexes for the Aldehyde-Water Shift Reaction
Variational Auto-encoder for Unsupervised Learning
Misinformation on the HPV Vaccine on Instagram
Advocacy, Identity, and Liberation: Palestinian Olive Oil, a case study
Characterizing the Effect of Multiple Blood Vessels On Neuronal Permeability Following Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injuries
A Paradoxical Role of Amygdalar GLP-1 Signaling on Drug-Seeking Behavior
In the Pursuit of a Fuller Humanity: #BlackInKidLit and the Urgency of Humanizing Stories
Investigating the Frequency of Copy Number Variants according to Ancestry in an Unselected Population
The Unity of the Roses: How the Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York Created the Foundation of the Tudor Political Identity
Classifying Ultrasonic Vocalization Subtypes During Oxycodone Self-Administration in Male Rats
| Title | First & Last Name Sort descending | Co-Presenter(s) | School | Advisors | Project Funding Source |
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| 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 |
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College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant | |
| Hypermotile Screen Reveals Potential Haloferax volcanii Two Component Regulatory System | Michiyah Collins | College of Arts & Sciences |
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Jumpstart for Juniors, Benjamin Franklin Scholars Summer Grant | |
| Neural Circuitry for Female Reproductive Behavior in Songbirds | Elena Cruz-Adames | College of Arts & Sciences |
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College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant | |
| Characterization of Genomic and Phenotypic Variation in the Khoesan Speakers of Southern Africa | Nicole Da Costa | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Project Exile: Federal Intrusion into Local Crime | William Daniels |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | ||
| Rivers of Plastic: Investigating Mumbai's Land-Sea Waste Flows | Courtney Daub | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PUSAG - Penn Undergraduate Sustainability Action Grant | |
| Computational Analysis of Bacterial Protein-Inhibitory Interactions | Julia Davies | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Single nuclei RNAseq of anterior cingulate cortex in a mouse model of chronic pain | Emilie Davila | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Gated Graph Recurrent Neural Networks | Ricardo Del Rio | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Your Language My Ear | Rachel Dennis | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Magic and Religion in the Indian Ocean World | Sarah Diaz | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| The Aviary Project: An Analysis of Cowbird Behavior with a focus in Action Classification | Emmanuel (Manny) Dodson | College of Arts & Sciences |
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Team Grants for Interdisciplinary Activities | |
| Gender Identity & Commute to High School | Caroline Donnelly Moran | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Cooperation and Game Theory | Daniel Draganoff | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Development of a mouse model to study the effects of adolescent vaping of Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) | Allison Dreier | College of Arts & Sciences |
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College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant | |
| Evaluating the Long-Term Viability of the Oral Rehydration Tube in Rural Uganda | Jacob Dubner | College of Arts & Sciences |
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Gelfman International Summer Fund | |
| In the Pursuit of a Fuller Humanity: #BlackInKidLit and the Urgency of Humanizing Stories | Ollie Dupuy | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Girls Outside: Building Community and Empowering Middle School Girls in Wimauma, Florida | Carson Eckhard | College of Arts & Sciences |
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Hassenfeld Foundation Grant | |
| Developing Philosophy Curricula With an Eye Towards Personal Growth | David Ehrenreich | College of Arts & Sciences |
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College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant | |
| Technological Challenges with Diamond Electronics | Noam Elul | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Using Rayleigh Matching to Identify Individual Differences in Cone Parameters | Deena Elul | College of Arts & Sciences |
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Other | |
| Analysis of trends in federal workplace harassment litigation with respect to the #MeToo movement | Ibreez Esmail | Wharton |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Geo-Political Development in the Caribbean: The Case For Renewable Energy Investment in Trinidad and Tobago | Amadi Essoka-Lasenberry | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PUSAG - Penn Undergraduate Sustainability Action Grant | |
| The Impact of Reducing Weight Stigma on Weight Loss | Maddy Fair | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program |