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
Neural Network Training for Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery Planning
An Experiment Evaluating the Impact of Large-Scale, High-Payoff Vaccine Regret Lotteries
Factors Mediating Lung Cancer in Never Smokers Identified from Advanced Imaging and Epidemiologic Analysis
Genetic Modifiers of TDP-43 Toxicity
COVID-19 AND NEW NORMS OF SURVEILLANCE: BIPOC PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC HEALTH
Numerical Methods for Macroeconomists
Opioid withdrawal produces negative affect via the nitric oxide pathway and presents differently in male and female mice
Predicting Stock Price Movement Using Deep Learning
Interneuron transplants as a potential treatment for Dravet syndrome in mouse models
Working as a MOVE Activist Archivist
Black Youth IMPACT Project
Encoding of dynamic auditory structure: vocalizations versus noise
Unsupervised Contrastive Learning for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Diagnosis
Implementation of Low Cost Drone and Feasibility of 3D Outdoor Mapping
Health Related Quality of Life Among Parents of 3-7 Year Old Children with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
The Enteric Nervous System Relays Psychological Stress to Intestinal Inflammation
Optrode Recording of P-Wave Generating Pontine Neurons
Phenotypic Differences between HPV +/- Cancers Could Stem from Contrasting Effects of FAT1 and PTPN14
The Impact of Global Disruptions on Supply Chain Strategy
International Human Rights and “Democracy”: The implications of U.S. involvement in suppressing people’s movements in South Korea
Muscular Segmentation for Development of AI
Characterization of Potential Stress Response Mutants to Conquer Antibiotic Resistance
SOLO V1: Detecting, and Segmenting Objects
Host Phenology and Parasite Virulence Evolution in Co-infection System
| Title Sort descending | First & Last Name | Co-Presenter(s) | School | Advisors | Project Funding Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decreasing Health Inequity Through the Center for Disease Control’s Social Vulnerability Index | Gianna LaBella |
Neha
Nagpal
,
Nneka
Okoli
|
Nursing |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program |
| Deep Learning Pipeline for Classification of Time Series Data | Arjun Shah | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Defining the Stress-Strain Response of the Rat Lumbar Facet Capsular Ligament | Ignacio Villasmil | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| DeLIGHTful Proteins: Engineering NIRW Light Activated Guanylate Cyclase | Alhena Islam | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
Other | |
| Dementia Care Coordination: Evaluating the Implementation of Telephone Care Consultations | Abigail Oentung |
Samantha
Cueto
,
Melissa
Murin
|
Nursing |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program |
| Designing and Developing a Wearable Sepsis Sensor | Kunal Jadeja |
Nisha
Shah
,
Aditi
Ghalsasi
,
Sanjana Reddy
Peddagorla
|
Engineering & Applied Sciences |
|
Team Grants for Interdisciplinary Activities |
| Determining predictive risk of schizophrenia in individuals with 22qDS through failed mitochondrial compensation | Angela Yang | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant | |
| Determining programmed characteristics for smart thermal material using topology optimization | Jonathan Lee | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Determining the Bioavailability of Intranasally Administered Dantrolene for Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice | Nicholas Hong | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
University Scholars | |
| Developing a Coding System for Social Robot Interactions with Patients of Motor and Cognitive Impairment | Julie Elfishawy | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Developing KLF1 Detection and Expression Techniques | Charles Cameron | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Developing privacy-preserving, communication-efficient algorithms for multicenter learning | Geshi Yeung | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Development of (Tp)Ir(OAc)2 Complexes for Alkane Dehydrogenation | Kayla Powell | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Diabetes and FOXO1 Deletion in Oral Mucosal Wound Healing | Alyssia Liu | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Diagnostics and Restoration of Electronics for Imaging the Duomo of Florence | Zhixuan Li |
Jaime
Cayo
|
College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program |
| Digital Database: Myths of Origin in Medieval Chronicles of Europe | Cagney Kelshaw | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Digital Database: Myths of Origin in Medieval Chronicles of Europe | Cagney Kelshaw | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Digital Visualization of the Medieval Church at Sopoćani, Serbia | Logan Cho | Engineering & Applied Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Digitizing the Census of Religious Bodies | Umme Khan |
Emma
Koskovich
,
Augustus Otto
Kindel
,
Maria
Bellacosa
,
Alex
Wenig
|
College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program |
| Discrete Morse Theory and Finite Topological Spaces | Adam Zheleznyak |
|
University Scholars | ||
| Dissecting the unique roles of NCOR1, SMRT, and HDAC3 in hepatic lipid metabolism | Bethany So | College of Arts & Sciences |
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College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant | |
| Distribution of MN423 Tau Pathology in the Hippocampus | Yi Qing Huang | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
Jumpstart for Juniors | |
| Diversification of the SprT-like Gene Family and Functional Consequences for Chromosome Transmission | Isabella Farkas | College of Arts & Sciences |
|
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program | |
| Does Antioxidant Triterpenoid CDDO-EA mitigate 33-particle Galactic Cosmic Ray Radiation-induced Dentate Gyrus Neurogenesis in Adult Female C57BL/6J Mice? | Grace Bancroft |
Raymon
Shi
,
Harley
Haas
|
College of Arts & Sciences |
|
Other |