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
The International Security Environment: A Look Into Militant Alliances, Military Inclusion, Artificial Intelligence, and Strategic Stability
Molecular and Cellular Mechanism that Protect Against Cancer and Neurodegeneration
Your Language My Ear
Study on Breast Cancer Dormancy and Recurrence through HDAC10 and KMT2/MLL5
Adaptive optics imaging applications to understand the structure and function of the human visual system
Climate Change & Coronavirus: Misinformation & Skepticism in the Digital Age
The Matchmaking Process: Charter School Funding and the Role of Charter Management Organizations
Novel Nanoporous Magnesium for High-Energy Density Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes
The Challenges and Success Factors of Internet Connectivity Initiatives Around the World and Policy Implications
Simulations of Optical Properties of 2D Materials
Understanding Hormonal Variation in Cameroonian Rainforest Hunter-Gatherer Populations
Exploring Statistical and Computational Methods in Circadian Metabolomics
The Aviary Project: An Analysis of Cowbird Behavior with a focus in Action Classification
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?
Question Wording & Favorability of the Affordable Care Act
Community Health Needs Assessment in Cobbs Creek
Rivers of Plastic: Investigating Mumbai's Land-Sea Waste Flows
Considering Barriers to Research Participation Amongst Pregnant and Postpartum Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Statistical Properties of Elemental Abundances in Solar Analogs and the Possible Link to Planet Formation
Analysis of trends in federal workplace harassment litigation with respect to the #MeToo movement
Misfolded proteins lead to neurodegenerative diseases that ruin lives of friends, family, and yourself, so how does the body protect itself?
“I’m Not a Slave, I’m a Mother;” Motherhood and the Seeds of Freedom and Gendered Law in Colonial Jamaica from 1807 to 1834
Nanostructured Spacers: Creating Micron-Sized Gaps for Conductive Plates in Thermionic and Thermophotovoltaic Energy Converters
Stakeholder Engagement in the Darby Cobbs Watershed
| Title | First & Last Name Sort ascending | Co-Presenter(s) | School | Advisors | Project Funding Source |
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| Flood Forecasting with Gated Graph Recurrent Neural Networks | Yuxuan Zhu | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Exploring Trends in Technology Private Equity | Sarah Zhou | Wharton |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Synaptic Transmission Is Delayed During NREM Sleep Compared to Awake State in the Mouse Hippocampal CA1 Commissural Pathway. | Shujing (Maggie) Zhou | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Assessing sensitivity to cues of social affiliation in an era of COVID-19 | Sylvia Zhao |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | ||
| Automated Gender Detection of C. Elegans Samples | Andrew Zhao | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Linking Quantitative Traits with Molecular Evidence for Alzheimer's Disease | Yinuo Zhang | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder: A Literature Review | Isabel Zhang |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | ||
| Prognostic Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers in Glioblastoma | Deborah Zhang | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| LCS-DIVE: Detecting and Characterizing Signal in Complex Datasets | Robert Zhang | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
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Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research | |
| Simulating Drosophila Population Dynamics with SLiM | Daria Zhadanova | College of Arts & Sciences |
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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 |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| The Matchmaking Process: Charter School Funding and the Role of Charter Management Organizations | Hannah Yusuf | College of Arts & Sciences |
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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 |
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Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research | |
| Behavior Change For Good | Marco Yap | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| The Simulation of Magnetic Field in Deformable Bodies | Haorong Yang | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
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Team Grants for Interdisciplinary Activities | |
| 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 | Nancy Yang | College of Arts & Sciences |
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Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research | |
| Simulating the Self-Assembly of Particles Comprising the Haberdasher Dissection | Yueling Xu | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| A Comparative Analysis of Intellectual Property Policies in the U.S. and China | Yue Xi | College of Arts & Sciences |
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College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant | |
| Surgeon Resident Engagement: OR to ICU Handoffs | Jasmine Wu | College of Arts & Sciences |
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College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant | |
| Using Racial Literacy to Combat Racial Stress and Trauma | Nyah Williams | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Intermittent Fasting and Obesity: A Systematic Review | Xueting Wei | Nursing |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Private equity and its ever-increasing prominence in every corner of the M&A markets | Yihan Wang |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | ||
| Organizational Behavior and Beyond | Justin Wang | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| The Effects of General Anesthetics on Synaptic and Cognitive Function | Katherine Wang | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program |