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
Caroline Paik
  • Daisy Gracia
Immersive Virtual Reality for Surgical Simulation Training
Julie Sohnen
More than Just a Spy: Jonathan Pollard and the "Special Relationship"
Abigail Oentung
  • Samantha Cueto
  • Melissa Murin
Dementia Care Coordination:  Evaluating the Implementation of Telephone Care Consultations
Hannah Cho
Expressing Pride Lowers Forecasted Performance Potential
Laura Eugene
Impacts of Social Constraints on the Use of African American English
George Morcos
Novel echocardiographic techniques for analysis of experimental myocardial infarct in mice treated with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy
James Tang
Handoffs and Transitions in Critical Care-Understanding Scalability
Mattison Boveri
The endogenous role of hindbrain ghrelin receptors in regulating feeding behavior
Leah R Lerner
An Overview of Summer Research at Perry World House
Joanna Yang
Data Sharing and Evidence Synthesis for Advancing Research
Christa Elise Simaan
The Formalization of Permutation Networks
Daniel D Ghaderi
Optimizing In Vivo Testing of Drug-Eluting Endotracheal Tubes to Prevent Subglottic Stenosis
Ivy Nguyen
Hedging in Conversation
Kishen Sivabalan
Multi-class text predictive labelling in marketing
Evan Si
UAV trajectory planning & tracking in simulation
Riju Datta
Binary and Multi-Class Biomedical Data Classification Using Automated ML Pipelines
Keshava Katti
Few-Shot Learning with Ferroelectric Analog Content-Addressable Memory
Fiona Miller
Consequences of Consumer Boycotts: Analysis of Financial Boycotts of Fortune 500 Corporations
Yaelee Valencia
Overlap in Penk & Y1R Genes Involved in Pain & Hunger
Kaitlyn Rentala
Analyzing the Influence of Private Tech Through the Basic Structure
Zhen (Tom) Huang
Latent Stratification n Advertising Experiments
Liliann Zou
Effect of mPFC inhibition on REM regulation
Ishaan Lal
Approaching the Climate Crisis with Multi-Criteria Decision Making Techniques and Novel Software
Magnolia Wang
Interferon-alpha Treated Pre-adipocyte Fibroblasts Selectively Express Type I Interferon Gene Signature in Both Control and Diet-induced Obesity Models
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
The Mechanical Role of Kinetochore Fibers in Anaphase Chromatid Segregation Megan Chung College of Arts & Sciences
  • Michael Lampson
  • Geng-Yuan (Scott) Chen
Class of 1971 Robert J. Holtz Fund
The MHC-II Processing and Presentation of HIV-1 Antigens Noah Zawadzky College of Arts & Sciences
  • Laurence C. Eisenlohr
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
The MOVE Activist Archive Weston Matthews College of Arts & Sciences
  • Krystal Strong
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Necessity to Create a Facilities Master Plan For Philadelphia Schools Lauryn Reynolds College of Arts & Sciences
  • Akira Rodriguez
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Prognosis of The United States Postal Service: A Study of Changing Occupational Structure Using the Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2000-2020 Sophie Hirt
Sylvie Tuder
Wharton
  • Xi Song
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Reconstruction Crusade: Rebuilding France's Catholic Churches after World War I Leo Gearin College of Arts & Sciences
  • Anne Berg
University Scholars
The Repletion of Electrolytes and The Adaptation of Clinical-Decision Support Systems Gabe Brodeur College of Arts & Sciences
  • Krzysztof Laudanski
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The reward choice paradigm is a viable alternative for identifying drug-susceptible subjects Nicole Harrington
  • Elizabeth Heller
  • Kyle Czarnecki
University Scholars
The Role of Non-Muscle Myosin in Joint Formation Elle Ferguson Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Nathaniel Dyment
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Unsustainability of Hospital Waste Natalie Doppelt College of Arts & Sciences
  • Meghan Crnic
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
The Validation of Blood-Based Biomarkers: Lipopolysaccharide Binding Protein (LBP) Adriana Purcell College of Arts & Sciences
  • Morgan Hoke
University Scholars
The Vitality of International Organizations: An Analysis of the Legal and Practical Aspects of IOs Naveen Farook
Carolina Herrera Figueroa
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Hannah Norman
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Vita Raskeviciute
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Julia Gray
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Thermotaxis in Immobilized Caenorhabditis elegans Isaac Kim Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Christopher Fang-yen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Toll of COVID-19 Critical Care on ICU Nursing Staff
  • Krzysztof Laudanski
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Total Synthesis of Carbazole Alkaloids, Clausenawallines D & I Julia Davies College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marisa Kozlowski
Other
Tracking Uptake and Regulating Release of Acute Myeloid Luekemia-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Meena Mandalapu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Stephanie Hurwitz
  • Peter Kurre
Jumpstart for Juniors
Traits of Persistent Neuroinflammation in Patients with COVID-19 Pranav Tadikonda College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Krzysztof Laudanski, MD, PhD
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Treatment delays of cervical cancer patients with or without Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection in Botswana 2013-2020 Jane Muni Nursing
  • Surbhi Grover
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Triple Negative Breast Cancer and Disparities in Endometrial Cancer Shahana Banerjee College of Arts & Sciences
  • Anne-Marie McCarthy
  • Sarah Ehsan
  • Nitya Kumar
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
UAV trajectory planning & tracking in simulation Evan Si
  • Pratik Chaudhari
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Understanding the Rapid Evolution of Pigmentation in D.melanogaster Liam Flatley Wharton
  • Paul Schdmit
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Understanding the Regulatory Function of PPP1R1A Through Analysis of a Human Beta Cell line Under Diabetic Stress Conditions Anika Tiwari College of Arts & Sciences
  • Paul Gadue
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Unstable Archives Juliana Lu
Michael Goerlitz
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Megan Eaton Robb
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Unsupervised Contrastive Learning for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Diagnosis Rohit Jagga Wharton, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Aaron Masino
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program