Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
Fall Research Expo 2021
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
September 14 2021 - 5:00 PM - September 14 2021 - 6:30 PM
Ann Vernon-Grey
The Role of Non-Muscle Myosin in Joint Formation
Developing a Coding System for Social Robot Interactions with Patients of Motor and Cognitive Impairment
Misinformation on the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter
Music Therapy and Integrative Medicine for Cancer using Qualitative Analysis
COVID and Crime Rates: “Do Cops Know Who to Stop?” Assessing Optimizing Models of Police Behavior with a Natural Experiment
A 3-Dimensional Tissue Culture Model for Studying Bile Acid Regulation of Barrier Immunity
Quantifying Public Perception of End-of-Life Care Policies
KLauS6 ASIC Tests for Potential Use in Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments
Use of Pharmacotherapy to Improve Weight Loss in Early Non-Responders to Behavioral Treatment
Diversification of the SprT-like Gene Family and Functional Consequences for Chromosome Transmission
Racial Differences In Preferred Treatment Method for Obesity and Desired Weight Loss
Toll of COVID-19 Critical Care on ICU Nursing Staff
The Bioethics of End-of-Life Care
A Case Study on Greenpeace’s Role in Pressuring United States to Comply with the 1997 Kyoto Protocol
Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
COPE in PACE: Reducing Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Dementia Patients
Segmentation of Cortical Ribbon in Whole Brain Hemispheres on Ex vivo T2w Imaging
Testing the Role of CENP-A Assembly in Prophase-Arrested Mammalian Oocytes
Adaptive Optics Imaging for the Study of Retinal Photoreceptors
The Validation of Blood-Based Biomarkers: Lipopolysaccharide Binding Protein (LBP)
Phenotypic Studies of Galnt2 Neuronal Knockout Mice
"Supportive Women" or "Certified Professionals": Professionalization and its effects on the uptake of modern doula care in the United States
Carleton Stevens Coon and The Legacies of Scientific Racism in Anthropology
Controllability of Granular Packings
| Title Sort descending | First & Last Name | Co-Presenter(s) | School | Advisors | Project Funding Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RESSEG and DeepResection: A Comparison of Classifiers Trained on Simulated and Real Resections | Joseph Dong |
Chelsea
Pan
|
College of Arts & Sciences |
|
Other |
| RGC and Vision Loss from Traumatic Optic Neuropathy Induced by Repetitive Closed Head Trauma is Dependent on the Number of Impacts | Alex Kwok | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Robust Estimation of the Optical Depth Using 21 cm Data and Machine Learning | Lawrence Phillips |
|
Benjamin Franklin Scholars Summer Grant | ||
| Role of Brain Macrophages in Krabbe Disease Mouse Model | Ethan Abraham | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research | |
| Role of PERK in oAB-induced Neurotoxicity in Alzheimer Disease | Yi-An Hsieh |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | ||
| Segmentation of Cortical Ribbon in Whole Brain Hemispheres on Ex vivo T2w Imaging | Grace Choi | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
Team Grants for Interdisciplinary Activities | |
| Selective Vulnerability of the Locus Coeruleus in Tau versus TDP Proteinopathies | Alejandra Bahena | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Side- effects of nasal steroids use to treat pediatric obstructive sleep apnea syndrome | Faizah Saadmim | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver | Alexandra Weinsten | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Sleep and Survival in a Roundworm | Marija Westfall | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Slow Wave Sleep Impairment & Neuroplasticity in People with Major Depressive Disorder | Samantha Costello | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Social Demographic Variables Obtained from Secondary Data Sources Relate to Spatial Trends in Traffic Volume Variables Obtained from PennDOT Data Sources | Mena Tausner | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Social Identities & Engagement on Twitter | Dylan Radley | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Social Relationships and Non-Verbal Interactions in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors, Children with Autism, and Typically Developing Children | Anabel Silver | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Sociolinguistic Research on Alveolar vs velar realizations of /n/ vs. /ŋ/, TH-Stopping And Non-Rhoticity | Yendi Guindo | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| SOLO V1: Detecting, and Segmenting Objects | Tyler Edwards |
Nicholas
Kuo
|
Engineering & Applied Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program |
| South Philly Refinery Complex: The Atlantic Refinery | Lynn Larabi | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Spatial Distribution of Metallicity in AGN Host Galaxies from the MaNGA Survey | Owen Crise |
|
Benjamin Franklin Scholars Summer Grant | ||
| Specification and Verification of Functional Programs: Verifying Haskell’s IntMap | Mohamed Abaker | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Stage and outcomes of cervical cancer with or without HIV infection in Botswana 2013-2020 | Ganen Chinniah | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Steroidogenic Factor 1 (SF1) Neurons and Exercise | Megan Zhong | College of Arts & Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Steroidogenic Factor 1 (SF1) Neurons and Exercise | Trinity Kellarakos |
Megan
Zhong
|
College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program |
| Streamlined Analysis for Convoluted Rodent Touchscreen Data by Building a Customized Python Application | Raymon Shi |
Harley
Haas
,
Grace
Bancroft
|
College of Arts & Sciences |
|
Other |
| Stronger mutualism may lead to a higher susceptibility to parasitism | Nova Meng | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
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PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program |