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
Cassie He
Financial Literacy in Developing Countries
Lindsey Perlman
Analysis of trends in federal workplace harassment litigation with respect to the #MeToo movement
Randy Chen
3D Printed NiFeMn Alloy as a Bifunctional Catalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction and Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Sarah G Kane
Planetary Systems Around Milky Way Stars
James Bradley Parente
Artificial Intelligence in Radiology Across Four Modalities
Carly D Seligman
Differences in T Cell Subset Frequencies in Canine Myasthenia Gravis Patients
Sophie Walsh
Evaluation of the Cardiac Emergency Preparedness of Philadelphia's Parks and Recreation Centers
Tracy T Tran
Reduced activity of histone demethylase Utx modifies brain aging and neurodegeneration in Drosophila melanogaster.
Martin Alijaj
Graph Neural Networks: Optimal Resource Allocation
Sarah Diaz
Magic and Religion in the Indian Ocean World
Deborah Zhang
Prognostic Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers in Glioblastoma
Olivia M. Rivellini
Determining the Effects of Neuronal Proximity to Blood Vessels on Cell Membrane Permeability Following Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injuries
Dhanya Mahesh
Characterizing Grey Matter and White Matter SEEG Electrodes Signals
Nancy Ibrahim
Mental Health Stigma in the West Philadelphia Muslim Community
Andrew Zhao
Automated Gender Detection of C. Elegans Samples
Arda Can Genc
Learning Decentralized Controllers for Robot Swarms with Graph Neural Networks
Thriaksh Rajan
Adult Lumbar Vertebral Fracture Incidence, Etiologies, and Demographics (2010-2018): An Investigation of the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
Jake Freedman
Value of cfDNA Concentration as a Biomarker of Cancer Progression and Prognosis
Michelle Mahecha Perez
Using Prosody to Resolve Syntactic Ambiguity in Speech Production
Erika Lutz
Lymphoma in Irish Wolfhounds
Mariana Luna
Graph Recurrent Neural Networks
Caroline Donnelly Moran
Gender Identity & Commute to High School
Rayan Kabaha
Gustometric Methods: The measurement of taste and its disorders
Nick Loh
The prevalence and severity of TDP-43 pathology in Alzheimer's disease
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Health System Communication of Novel Pandemic-Era Policies Summer Peace College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Joanna Lee Hart
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Hierarchical Ti Surface Structure and Cu Nanoparticle Coating To Inhibit Oral Bacteria and Peri-implantitis Joseph Heo College of Arts & Sciences
  • Geelsu Hwang
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
How Reality Could be Otherwise: Counterfactual Thinking and Preference Feiyi Wang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sudeep Bhatia
  • Ada Aka
MindCore
How Social Exclusion Increases Likelihood of Conspiracy Theory Sharing Kathryn Lord Wharton
  • Maurice Schweitzer
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Hypermotile Screen Reveals Potential Haloferax volcanii Two Component Regulatory System Michiyah Collins College of Arts & Sciences
  • Mechthild Pohlschroder
Jumpstart for Juniors, Benjamin Franklin Scholars Summer Grant
IGF-1R Expression Correlates with an Inflammatory Phenotype in Canine Monocytes Lauren Melendez College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jennifer Punt
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Imaging Techniques for the Differentiation of Progression and Pseudoprogression in High Grade Gliomas Brandon Li College of Arts & Sciences
  • Stephen J. Bagley
  • Erica L. Carpenter
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Impact of RNS Volume Conduction at the Seizure Onset Zone Sofia Mouchtaris Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Brian Litt
  • Brittany Scheid
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
In the Pursuit of a Fuller Humanity: #BlackInKidLit and the Urgency of Humanizing Stories Ollie Dupuy College of Arts & Sciences
  • Christopher Rogers
  • Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Incorporating Neighborhood-Level Covariates from Public Databases into a Geographic Analysis of Adverse Medical Outcomes in Philadelphia Jessica Liu Wharton
  • Mary R. Boland
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Incorporating Strength of Preference Ratings into Bayesian Models of Choice Jess Mixon College of Arts & Sciences
  • John McCoy
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Inferring Spatial Wages Distribution from Bilateral Commuting Choices in France Jipeng Liu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Gilles Duranton
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Inflation and Healthcare in Brazil: Reflections of The Making and Unmaking of Brazilian Democracy Rodrigo Veiga da Cunha College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melissa Teixeira
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Integrating Brain Imaging for Outcome Prediction in Alzheimer’s Disease Jeffrey Qu Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Li Shen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Intermittent Fasting and Obesity: A Systematic Review Xueting Wei Nursing
  • Dr. Ariana Chao
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Interpreting Questions in Conversations Subin Kim College of Arts & Sciences
  • Delphine Dahan
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Interspecific and Intraspecific Variation in Microbiome Composition of Drosophilids Jacob Keller College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Paul Schmidt
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigating Rising Rates of Diabetes in Conakry, Guinea Rouguiatou Sall College of Arts & Sciences
  • Harvey Rubin
  • Amadou Kake
Mazzatenta Award
Investigating the Effect that Polygenic Risk Score has on Heritability of Mental Disorders Nicky Kotler College of Arts & Sciences
  • Laura Almasy
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigating the Frequency of Copy Number Variants according to Ancestry in an Unselected Population Alexys Knighton College of Arts & Sciences
  • Laura Almasy
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigating the Global Healthy Human Nose and Tongue Microbiomes Arnav Lal College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Paul Planet
University Scholars
Joanna Hogg’s Architectures of Affect: Exhibition and the Domestic Sphere Avneet Randhawa College of Arts & Sciences
  • Meta Mazaj
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Land Cover Change Surrounding the Interoceanic Highway in Tambopata, Peru Sabine Nix College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jane Dmochowski
University Scholars
LCS-DIVE: Detecting and Characterizing Signal in Complex Datasets Robert Zhang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Ryan Urbanowicz
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research