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
Amadi Essoka-Lasenberry
Geo-Political Development in the Caribbean: The Case For Renewable Energy Investment in Trinidad and Tobago
Alysha Ravendran
What is "Lain-lain"? : The Construction of the Other in Contemporary Malaysia
Erin O'Malley
Archiving Asian American Studies at Penn: A Historical Study of Student Organizing
Aakash Jajoo
1 World Connected project
Jonathan Cheng
UPENN Aviary: Latent Space Analysis of Cowbird Song
Anika Prakash
"The Land of Sad Oranges": The Politics of Israeli-Palestinian Citriculture
Avneet Kaur Randhawa
Joanna Hogg’s Architectures of Affect: Exhibition and the Domestic Sphere
Martha Gakunju
Uwezo Ya Vijana - The Experience of Kenyan Youth in the 21st Century
Santana Browning
Visualizing the Elements of Political Rank and Hierarchy in the Mughal Era, 1556-1627
Andrew Brose
Analyzing the History of Central Research Labs in the United States
Aukkarwit Nakprasert
Diagnosis Screening of Ovarian Cancer using DNA-Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Vapor Sensor
Allison Dreier
Development of a mouse model to study the effects of adolescent vaping of Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) 
Neel Vallurupalli
Trends in FDA Vaccine Approvals
Sophia McKee
Understanding Iron-catalyzed Cross-coupling
Aditya M. Rao
Effects of methadone treatment on construct expression and exosomal content in cultures transfected with rs10485058 allele constructs
Sarah Zhou
Exploring Trends in Technology Private Equity
Raisa Islam
The Making of Akbar's Empire
Rachel Jessamy
Visualizing the Elements of Political Rank and Hierarchy in the Mughal Era, 1556-1627
Kirti Nath
Characterizing Dietary and Lifestyle Risk Factors for the Development of Serrated versus Conventional Adenomas
Gulzar Berdimuratova
Visualizing the Elements of Political Rank and Hierarchy in the Mughal Era, 1556-1627​
Gantavya Pahwa
An Experiment in Identity and Coordination
William A. San Pedro
14,000 Children & 90 Miles to Miami: The Role of the Catholic Church in Operation Pedro Pan
Grant Li
Morphological Changes of Muscle Stem Cells during Aging and Muscular Dystrophy
John Alex Carbonell
Analysis of Central Research Laboratories as the Engine of Innovation in Large Firms
Title Sort ascending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Using Data To Change Public Policy Raz Allon Wharton
  • Judd Kessler
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 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 Analysis Methods to understand Mesozoic Diversity and Predation Luisa Fernandez College of Arts & Sciences
  • Lauren Sallan
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
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
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
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 Design Through Multi-Level Journal Club Lilia Carpenter College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Hansell Stedman
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Understanding Iron-catalyzed Cross-coupling Sophia McKee College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marisa Kozlowski
  • Lucille Wells
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 Global Generosity During Times of Crisis Grant Wang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Femida Handy
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
Underdog Narratives in the Workplace Ariana Freire Wharton
  • Samir Nurmohamed
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
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
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
Trends in FDA Vaccine Approvals Neel Vallurupalli College of Arts & Sciences
  • Genevieve Kanter, Ph.D.
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
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
The Simulation of Magnetic Field in Deformable Bodies Haorong Yang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Chenfanfu Jiang
Team Grants for Interdisciplinary Activities
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 Role of BAP1 in the Enteric Nervous System Jessica Anderson College of Arts & Sciences
  • Robert Heuckeroth MD, PhD
Jumpstart for Juniors
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 Question of Immoral Humor Jacques Thompson College of Arts & Sciences
  • Ralph Rosen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The prevalence and severity of TDP-43 pathology in Alzheimer's disease Nick Loh College of Arts & Sciences
  • John L. Robinson
US National Institutes of Health Grants