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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Start Time: September 14 2021 - 5:00 PM
End Time: September 14 2021 - 6:30 PM
Ann Vernon-Grey
Elle Ferguson
The Role of Non-Muscle Myosin in Joint Formation
Julie Elfishawy
Developing a Coding System for Social Robot Interactions with Patients of Motor and Cognitive Impairment
Michelle Wu
Misinformation on the COVID-19 Vaccine on Twitter
Grace Choi
Music Therapy and Integrative Medicine for Cancer using Qualitative Analysis
David Feng
  • Caroline Li
COVID and Crime Rates: “Do Cops Know Who to Stop?” Assessing Optimizing Models of Police Behavior with a Natural Experiment
Alyssa Gonzalez
A 3-Dimensional Tissue Culture Model for Studying Bile Acid Regulation of Barrier Immunity
Emily T Huynh
Quantifying Public Perception of End-of-Life Care Policies
David Setiawan
KLauS6 ASIC Tests for Potential Use in Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments
Kylie M Burcaw
Use of Pharmacotherapy to Improve Weight Loss in Early Non-Responders to Behavioral Treatment
Isabella Z Farkas
Diversification of the SprT-like Gene Family and Functional Consequences for Chromosome Transmission
Seamus Y Wang
Racial Differences In Preferred Treatment Method for Obesity and Desired Weight Loss
Toll of COVID-19 Critical Care on ICU Nursing Staff
Izzy Zhang
The Bioethics of End-of-Life Care
Vanessa Dib
A Case Study on Greenpeace’s Role in Pressuring United States to Comply with the 1997 Kyoto Protocol
Alexandra B Weinsten
Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver
Melissa Murin
  • Samantha Cueto
  • Abigail Oentung
COPE in PACE: Reducing Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Dementia Patients
Grace Choi
Segmentation of Cortical Ribbon in Whole Brain Hemispheres on Ex vivo T2w Imaging
Katelyn G. Boese
Testing the Role of CENP-A Assembly in Prophase-Arrested Mammalian Oocytes
Allyson Lu
Adaptive Optics Imaging for the Study of Retinal Photoreceptors
Adriana Purcell
The Validation of Blood-Based Biomarkers: Lipopolysaccharide Binding Protein (LBP)
Melody Yu
Phenotypic Studies of Galnt2 Neuronal Knockout Mice
Sarah Finkelstein
"Supportive Women" or "Certified Professionals": Professionalization and its effects on the uptake of modern doula care in the United States
Aleia M Manning
  • Jesus Pallares
Carleton Stevens Coon and The Legacies of Scientific Racism in Anthropology
Samantha C Simon
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
  • Campbell Arnold
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
  • Kenneth Shindler
  • Ahmara Ross
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Robust Estimation of the Optical Depth Using 21 cm Data and Machine Learning Lawrence Phillips
  • James Aguirre
Benjamin Franklin Scholars Summer Grant
Role of Brain Macrophages in Krabbe Disease Mouse Model Ethan Abraham College of Arts & Sciences
  • Frederick Bennett
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Role of PERK in oAB-induced Neurotoxicity in Alzheimer Disease Yi-An Hsieh
  • Kelly Jordan-Scuitto
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
  • John Detre
  • Paul Yushkevich
Team Grants for Interdisciplinary Activities
Selective Vulnerability of the Locus Coeruleus in Tau versus TDP Proteinopathies Alejandra Bahena College of Arts & Sciences
  • David J. Irwin, MD
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
  • Christopher Cielo
  • Ignacio Tapia
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope Receiver Alexandra Weinsten College of Arts & Sciences
  • Mark Devlin
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Sleep and Survival in a Roundworm Marija Westfall College of Arts & Sciences
  • David Raizen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Slow Wave Sleep Impairment & Neuroplasticity in People with Major Depressive Disorder Samantha Costello College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jennifer Goldschmied
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
  • Blanca Himes
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Social Identities & Engagement on Twitter Dylan Radley College of Arts & Sciences
  • Daniel Hopkins
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
  • Matthew Hocking
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
  • Nicole Holliday
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
SOLO V1: Detecting, and Segmenting Objects Tyler Edwards
Nicholas Kuo
Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Jianbo Shi
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
South Philly Refinery Complex: The Atlantic Refinery Lynn Larabi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jared Farmer
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Spatial Distribution of Metallicity in AGN Host Galaxies from the MaNGA Survey Owen Crise
  • Matilde Mingozzi
Benjamin Franklin Scholars Summer Grant
Specification and Verification of Functional Programs: Verifying Haskell’s IntMap Mohamed Abaker
Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Stephanie Wierich
  • Stephan A. Zdancewic
  • Benjamin C. Pierce
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
  • Surbhi Grover
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Steroidogenic Factor 1 (SF1) Neurons and Exercise Megan Zhong College of Arts & Sciences
  • John Nicholas Betley
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Steroidogenic Factor 1 (SF1) Neurons and Exercise Trinity Kellarakos
Megan Zhong
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Nicholas Betley
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Streamlined Analysis for Convoluted Rodent Touchscreen Data by Building a Customized Python Application Raymon Shi
Harley Haas
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Grace Bancroft
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sanghee Yun
  • Amelia J. Eisch
Other
Stronger mutualism may lead to a higher susceptibility to parasitism Nova Meng Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Corlett Wood
  • Eunnuri Yi
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program