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
Sagar Gupta
Structure-based modeling of peptide/MHC-I complexes
Dana Raphael
At the Crossroads of Life and Death: The Migration of Memories in Holocaust-era France from the Past to the Present. A Tribute to Holocaust Survivor Annette Muller
Yanu Kume-Kangkolo
Population Structure and Genetic Diversity in Native Communities in America
Hayden Luke Siesel
Investigating the signaling mechanism of GPER via BRET
Brenden D Burke
Adrenergic Nervous System and Memory
Sofia Wawrzyniak
Military Technology Adoption & Public Perceptions: AI & Aerospace
Weston E. Matthews
The MOVE Activist Archive
Kaya Panchalingam
Exploring the Lung Transplant System with the MICE imputation methods and ML modelling
Dana Raphael
Microglial Cell Density and Morphology Classification in the Hippocampus of Early-Postnatal Female and Male Mice
Yuying Fan
A Computer-Vision Method for Automated Phenotyping Sex and Morphology in C. elegans on Agar Media
Adam Zheleznyak
Discrete Morse Theory and Finite Topological Spaces
Ethan Lior
  • Jonathan Tran
Ocean Physics and Ecology: Satellite and Climate Model Data Analysis
Kevin Liang
A large-scale comparison of cross-situational word learning models
Zarina Iman
On the Tails of the Trade: Enslaved Women, Slave Traders, and the Households they Shared
Gabe Brodeur
The Repletion of Electrolytes and The Adaptation of Clinical-Decision Support Systems
Jack Vernon Lee
An Investigation of The Cosmic Microwave Background
Kelly L. Garcia-Ramos
Biosensing With Graphene
Lynn Larabi
South Philly Refinery Complex: The Atlantic Refinery
Kayla Powell
Development of (Tp)Ir(OAc)2 Complexes for Alkane Dehydrogenation
Geshi Yeung
Developing privacy-preserving, communication-efficient algorithms for multicenter learning
Jennifer J Kang
Characterizing the Frequency of Familial Cardiomyopathy in a Population of Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure
Daphne Kontogiorgos-Heintz
Generating de novo, noncanonical Antimicrobial Peptides
Cagney N Kelshaw
Digital Database: Myths of Origin in Medieval Chronicles of Europe
Simon S Oros
Characterizing Extremal Elements under the Partial Order on Preference Profiles
Title Sort ascending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Working as a MOVE Activist Archivist Ruqaiyyah Lucas-Caldwell
  • Krystal Strong
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Who Has A Same Race Teacher in Kindergarten? Comparing Students With and Without Disabilities Tommy Hesch College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Michael Gottfried
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
We Have a Deal!: Designing a Virtual Negotiation Chatbot David Hernandez College of Arts & Sciences
  • Maurice Schweitzer
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Walt Whitman: Specimen Days Gabrielle Maloy College of Arts & Sciences
  • Max Cavitch
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Voices of Israel: Study of Hebrew Poetry Davida Krauss College of Arts & Sciences
  • Nili Gold
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Visceral-Myopathy–Inducing ACTG2 Mutations Alter Actin Organization and Function Vasia Barka College of Arts & Sciences
  • Robert O. Heuckeroth MD PhD
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Virtual Team Interactions during the Age of Lockdowns Lana Prieur College of Arts & Sciences
  • Scott Rennie
  • Michael Platt
University Scholars
Virtual Supportive Care for Cancer Patients Emily Locandro
Rohan Krishnan
Nursing
  • Sarah Kagan
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Virtual Reality for Image-Based Quantitative Assessment of the Aortic Root Michael Lu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Alison Pouch
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Verifiably Robust Sonar Perception Jack Zhang
Sriram Tolety
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Ryan Tong
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Ivan Ruchkin
  • Radoslav Ivanov
  • Insup Lee
  • Oleg Sokolsky
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Variation in African American Language: Th-Stopping, Non-Rhoticity, & Alveolar vs Velar Nasal Tyeirra Lynch Wharton
  • Nicole Holliday
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Validation of Transferrin as a Blood-Based Biomarker of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED) Selinda Qiu
Adriana Purcell
  • Morgan Hoke
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Utilization of Lipid Nanoparticles to Show Proof-Of-Concept of Gene-Editing of Lung Cells for Future Studies Regarding Cystic Fibrosis Matthew Jester
  • Rebecca Haley
  • Michael Mitchell
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Using Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in the Treatment of Chronic Post-stroke Aphasia: a Preliminary Analysis of TMS as a Supplement to Constraint-Induced Language Therapy Jeffry Alfaro College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Roy H. Hamilton, MD, MS
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Using Neural Networks to Inform Architectural Design Cecily Nishimura College of Arts & Sciences
  • Andrew Saunders
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Using Heritability Analysis and Genome-Wide Association Studies to Understand the Genetic Etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease​ Dzung Than College of Arts & Sciences
  • Li Shen
University Scholars
Using Genome-Wide Association Study and Stratified Analysis to Understand Sex-Based Differences in Alzheimer's Disease Claire Brinster College of Arts & Sciences
  • Li Shen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Using Data to Change Public Policy Ivory Gao College of Arts & Sciences
  • Judd Kessler
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Use of the Cox Proportional-Hazards Model for Survival Analysis and Prognostic Prediction of Glioblastoma (GBM) Nari Kim College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dokyoon Kim
  • Jake Leiby
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Use of Pharmacotherapy to Improve Weight Loss in Early Non-Responders to Behavioral Treatment Kylie Burcaw Nursing
  • Jena Shaw Tronieri
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
Unstable Archives Juliana Lu
Michael Goerlitz
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Megan Eaton Robb
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
Understanding the Rapid Evolution of Pigmentation in D.melanogaster Liam Flatley College of Arts & Sciences
  • Paul Schdmit
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program