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
Delaney K Parks
Hollywood Victorians: How the British Imagination Shaped American Power
Mallory J Orenstein
The Genetic Basis of Pigmentation in D. melanogaster
Naveen Farook
  • Carolina Herrera Figueroa
  • Hannah Norman
  • Vita Raskeviciute
The Vitality of International Organizations: An Analysis of the Legal and Practical Aspects of IOs
Jonathan Mui
Nanoporous Gold as a Heterogeneous Electrocatalyst for CO2 Reduction
Tara N Teipel
Implementing PrEP for Women Who Inject Drugs in Healthcare Settings
Michael Wang
Modulation of Protein-X using a Blocking Antibody
Valerie R Bromberg
Evaluating Seroconversion Accuracy Compared to HSV Infection Markers
Michelle M Li
Gun Policy and Homicide Risk
Philip Krotenok
Precision medicine approach to Osteoarthritis: Automatic cartilage segmentation
Ashley Sniffen
Ancient Greek Maritime Networks: Past, Present, Future
Ignacio Jose Villasmil
Defining the Stress-Strain Response of the Rat Lumbar Facet Capsular Ligament
Sophie Hirt
  • Sylvie Tuder
The Prognosis of The United States Postal Service: A Study of Changing Occupational Structure Using the Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2000-2020
Nidhi Ohri
Investigating Photolytic Aerobic Alkane Iodination Catalysis
Elena Tisnovsky
The Green Challenge: A Qualitative Analysis of Environmental Discourse and Policy in the Russian Federation from 2010 to the Present
Kendall Owens
Recruitment for the Slow Wave Sleep Impairment and Plasticity Study
Kayla Kruger
Activity-based anorexia impairs dopamine response to nutrients
Anabel Julia Silver
Social Relationships and Non-Verbal Interactions in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors, Children with Autism, and Typically Developing Children
Graham Branscom
Identifying client proteins of the HSP70 co-chaperone network
Keshav Ramji
An Automated Deep Learning Analysis Pipeline for Classification in Tabular Biomedical Data
Jennifer Locke
Metallicity Gradients in Simulated Tidal Streams
Daniel Pfrommer
Dynamics Filtering Autoencoders
Zhixuan Li
  • Jaime Cayo
Diagnostics and Restoration of Electronics for Imaging the Duomo of Florence
Eujung Park
  • William Han
Profiling Amino Acid Transporters at the Blood-Brain Tumor Barrier​
Kirstin West
Chart-documented Illicit Drug Use Has Implications in Sepsis and Associates with Acute Kidney Injury
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Improving Neuropathological Analysis in IHC through Starburst Artifact Detection Alejandra Bahena College of Arts & Sciences
  • David J. Irwin, MD
Other
Inequity in Schools During COVID-19 Amy Solano College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jonathan Supovitz
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Influence of Surface Stiffness on The Adhesion of Oral Micro-organisms Jeewoo Lee College of Arts & Sciences
  • Geelsu Hwang
  • Marwa Mohammed Bawazir
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Integrating Pointing Sensors for High Altitude Balloon-borne Telescope Jason Li
Mei Han
Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. James Aguirre
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Interferon-alpha Treated Pre-adipocyte Fibroblasts Selectively Express Type I Interferon Gene Signature in Both Control and Diet-induced Obesity Models Magnolia Wang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Patrick Seale, Ph.D.
University Scholars
International Human Rights and “Democracy”: The implications of U.S. involvement in suppressing people’s movements in South Korea Kingsley Song College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Eileen Doherty-Sil
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Interneuron transplants as a potential treatment for Dravet syndrome in mouse models Lauren Nguyen
  • Stewart Anderson
  • Ethan Goldberg
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Interracial Relationships and Parent-Child Bonds Lin Ang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Shannon Cavanagh
Other
Interrupted time series analysis of world nitrogen dioxide Sentinel 5-P satellite concentrations during COVID-19 lockdown Alana Schreibman College of Arts & Sciences
  • Blanca E. Himes, PhD
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigating a Neural Circuit for Female Reproductive Behavior using Viral Tools in Songbirds Elena Cruz-Adames College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marc Schmidt
Jumpstart for Juniors
Investigating Clathria prolifera Holobiont and Metabolites Mason Singer Wharton, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Monica E McCallum
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigating Photolytic Aerobic Alkane Iodination Catalysis Nidhi Ohri Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Karen I. Goldberg
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigating the mechanism of induction of IL-6 secretion by mRNA vaccines Breelyn Stelle College of Arts & Sciences
  • Michela Locci
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigating the role of sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 endocytosis in regulating signaling induced by spingosine-1-phosphate Christine Wu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Janis Burkhardt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Investigating the signaling mechanism of GPER via BRET Hayden Siesel College of Arts & Sciences
  • Todd Ridky
  • In Young Lee
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigation of the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Semaglutide-Induced Anorexia and Visceral Malaise Juliana Vollmer College of Arts & Sciences
  • Harvey Grill
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticle Mediated mRNA Delivery to Multiple Myeloma Cells Andres Hubsch Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Michael Mitchell
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Jewish Orthodox Debates on Enslavement, 1848-1865 Sam Strickberger College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sarah Gordon
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Kashaya Language Database and Dictionary Anthony Burger College of Arts & Sciences
  • Eugene Buckley
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
KLauS6 ASIC Tests for Potential Use in Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments David Setiawan College of Arts & Sciences
  • Christopher Mauger
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Latent Stratification n Advertising Experiments Zhen (Tom) Huang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Ron Berman
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Latin American Economies in Transition during the 20th Century Megha Thomas
  • Melissa Teixeira
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Learning Continuous Chaotic Attractors with a Reservoir Computer Lindsay Smith College of Arts & Sciences
  • Danielle S. Bassett
University Scholars
Limitarianism in America: is there a riches line? Karl Meyer College of Arts & Sciences
  • Raj Patel
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant