Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
CURF Spring 2021 Research Fair

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 Spring Research Fair!

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Details
Start Time: April 23 2021 - 1:00 PM
End Time: April 23 2021 - 4:00 PM
Aaron Olson
Jayme C Banks
The Effects of Sleep on Category Structure Knowledge
Greer Bizzell-Hatcher
Fostering Children’s Early Curiosity, Learning, and Motivation with Question-Asking: An Intervention Study
Nicholas Bishop
Efficacy and Acceptability of an Ethical Decision Making Tool for Clinical Trainees
Navpreet Reehal
Differentiating Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation Across Vascular Territories
Mary Webb
Investigating the Co-use of Nicotine and Opioids
Adam Konkol
Form from flow: How fluctuations shape network design
Eirini Zoupou
Evaluating an Online Wellness Intervention for Greek Adolescents
Margaret Tebbe
The "Beating Heart" of the Community: Redefining Neighborhood Schools as Real Utopias
Anika S Dalvie
Will a CBT Smartphone App Perform Better than a Sham App in Improving Quality of Life for people with IBS?
Alessia McGowan
Impact of Friend Group Gender Composition on Depression in Adolescence
Reilly Wright
Cutthroat Capitalism and Luck: Does Governmental Action Benefitting “a Lucky Few” Increase Individuals’ Desire to Redistribute?
Jessica B Anderson
Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Characterizing GI Motility in CLN1 Disease
Kassidy Houston
Inferences in conversation: The relationship between questions and responses in goal-oriented tasks
Madison West Jaffe
Why are dating apps more widely used than friendship apps?
Joyee Au-Yeung
Urban Agriculture in Philadelphia: effects on gardeners’ mental and physical health disparities and community relationships
Sarah G Kane
  • Eli Wiston
Searching for Exoplanets with Machine Learning
Danny Chiarodit
  • Tiffany Tieu
  • Julie Baum
Evaluating and Increasing Mask-Wearing on Penn's Campus
Amanpreet Singh
Plagued by Inequity: How COVID-19 Impacted Perceptions of Inequality and Desires for Redistribution
Kyra Bronfman
Psychosocial Factors and Technology Use: Relationships with Disordered Eating among College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Gabriel Jose Muro
Understanding Attitudes Towards Mental Health and Wellness Apps Among College Students
Jennifer Locke
  • Jennifer Locke
Stream Metallicity Gradients in FIRE
Hiba Fatima Hamid
Disrupted Sleep in a Large Animal Model of Traumatic Brain Injury
Regina A. Fairbanks
DNA Repair in the Functional Consequences and Cell Biological Regulation of Reproductive Arrest in Drosophila melanogaster
Tiffany Schell
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Inspiring Women to Compete
Title First & Last Name Sort ascending Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Evaluating an Online Wellness Intervention for Greek Adolescents Eirini Zoupou College of Arts & Sciences
  • Robert J. DeRubeis
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Follow Friends, One Hour a Day Jia (Elisa) Xu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melissa Hunt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Cutthroat Capitalism and Luck: Does Governmental Action Benefitting “a Lucky Few” Increase Individuals’ Desire to Redistribute? Reilly Wright College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Abraham Aldama Navarrete
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Macroevolutionary Analysis of Queen-Worker Size Dimorphism in Ants Michelle White
Michelle White
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Tim Linksvayer
Vagelos Undergraduate Research Grant
Investigating the Co-use of Nicotine and Opioids Mary Webb College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Mariella De Biasi
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
The "Beating Heart" of the Community: Redefining Neighborhood Schools as Real Utopias Margaret Tebbe College of Arts & Sciences
  • Annette Lareau
Mazzatenta Award
Plagued by Inequity: How COVID-19 Impacted Perceptions of Inequality and Desires for Redistribution Amanpreet Singh College of Arts & Sciences
  • Abraham Aldama
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Inspiring Women to Compete Tiffany Schell College of Arts & Sciences
  • Coren Apicella
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Associations Between Neighborhood-Level Characteristics and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in Southeastern Pennsylvania Alexandra Rizaldi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Blanca E. Himes, PhD
Other
Differentiating Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation Across Vascular Territories Navpreet Reehal College of Arts & Sciences
  • Christopher G. Favilla, MD
University Scholars
Individual Agency and Economic Decision-Making in the Fourth-Century Great Oasis of Roman Egypt James Nycz College of Arts & Sciences
  • Cam Grey
Other
Understanding Attitudes Towards Mental Health and Wellness Apps Among College Students Gabriel Muro College of Arts & Sciences
  • Robert J. DeRubeis
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Cell Type-Specific Effects of Amylin Receptors in the Nucleus Accumbens Shell on Oxycodone Reinforcement Amanda Moreno
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Heath D. Schmidt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Impact of Friend Group Gender Composition on Depression in Adolescence Alessia McGowan College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Sara Jaffee
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Stream Metallicity Gradients in FIRE Jennifer Locke
Jennifer Locke
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Robyn Sanderson
University Scholars
Form from flow: How fluctuations shape network design Adam Konkol College of Arts & Sciences
  • Eleni Katifori
  • John Shaw
2025
Searching for Exoplanets with Machine Learning Sarah Kane
Eli Wiston
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Bhuvnesh Jain
  • Cullen Blake
  • Cyrille Doux
Other
A Drosophila Drug Screening Platform for Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas Geena Jung College of Arts & Sciences
  • Yuanquan Song
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Promoting the Development of Prosocial Emotions Via a Home-Based Intervention Callie Jones College of Arts & Sciences
  • Rebecca Waller
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Why are dating apps more widely used than friendship apps? Madison Jaffe College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Lyle Ungar
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Inferences in conversation: The relationship between questions and responses in goal-oriented tasks Kassidy Houston College of Arts & Sciences
  • Delphine Dahan
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
The Antimicrobial and Mechanical Effects of Zeolite Use in Dental Materials: A Systematic Review Jessica Hao College of Arts & Sciences
  • Fusun Ozer
  • Francis Mante
College House Research Fellowship
Disrupted Sleep in a Large Animal Model of Traumatic Brain Injury Hiba Hamid College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Sasha Ulyanova
Other
Loyalty and Disloyalty in Urban America: A Comparative Study of New York City and Philadelphia Politics Justin Greenman College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sarah Gronningsater
  • Warren Breckman
Other