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
Dominic K Duah
A Systematic Review of the Lung Cancer Screening Process
Lin Ang
Interracial Relationships and Parent-Child Bonds
David Hernandez
We Have a Deal!: Designing a Virtual Negotiation Chatbot
Peng (Justin) Zhao
Minority Entrepreneurship and Alternative Opportunities inside Established Organizations
Dylan E Radley
Social Identities & Engagement on Twitter
Mason Singer
Investigating Clathria prolifera Holobiont and Metabolites
Andrew Raine
Generating A Problem Solving Dataset Using A Deep Learning Pipeline
Tahlea Salmon
Racial Disparities in Gun Homicide Rates
Jane Wairimu Muni
Treatment delays of cervical cancer patients with or without Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection in Botswana 2013-2020
Jacqueline Chan
Memory of cold in brown adipose tissue: therapeutic relevance in obesity
Donya Zarrinnegar
Effects of Prenatal Hypoxia on Excitatory Synaptic Transmission and Histological Markers
Zhong Zhang
A Unified Model of Network Formation and Network Bargaining
Andrew Borbi
Antimalarial Drug Research
Andrew Zhang
Federated Learning Algorithms
Selene Li
Photobleaching of a new monomeric yellow fluorescent protein variant
Sheil Desai
Air Pollution Changes in Philadelphia Following the 2019 PES Refinery Closure
Anthony Hu
Act Like You’ve Been Here Before: Expressing Pride Lowers Forecasted Performance Potential
Ganen Chinniah
Stage and outcomes of cervical cancer with or without HIV infection in Botswana 2013-2020
Hyong Min Kim
Fabrication of novel 2D nanodevices with mechanically deposited metal contacts
Karen Pan
Exploring the Relationship Between Research Quality and Political Slant of Research
Leo Gearin
The Reconstruction Crusade: Rebuilding France's Catholic Churches after World War I
David V Candia
Optimizing Sensitivity of Nanodisk LSPR Sensors
Ingrid Sotelo
The Exposome and its Associations with Psychopathology in Early Adolescence
Gregory Tasik
Architectural Research in Robotic Fabrication: Autonomous Rod Bending
Title First & Last Name Sort descending Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Berry Force Effects on Electron Transfer Rates in Systems with Spin-Orbit Coupling Suraj Chandran College of Arts & Sciences
  • Joseph E. Subotnik
Other
Host Phenology and Parasite Virulence Evolution in Co-infection System Seokyoon Chang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dustin Brisson
  • Hannelore MacDonald
University Scholars
Haloacid dehalogenase family member HAD1 appears to be a glycerol-3-phosphatase in Plasmodium falciparum Cathy Chen College of Arts & Sciences
  • Audrey R. Odom John, MD, PhD
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
CVD Growth of MoS2-hBN Heterostructures Annie Cheng College of Arts & Sciences
  • A. T. Charlie Johnson
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
Expressing Pride Lowers Forecasted Performance Potential Hannah Cho Wharton
  • Rebecca Schaumberg
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Digital Visualization of the Medieval Church at Sopoćani, Serbia Logan Cho Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Ivan Drpić
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Applied DInSAR Analysis to Crustal Deformation along Greenland’s Northwestern Coasts Phillip Choi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kristy Tiampo
  • Michael Willis
NSF-REU
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
Music Therapy and Integrative Medicine for Cancer using Qualitative Analysis Grace Choi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Thomas Atkinson
  • Yuelin Li
  • Morgan Hoke
Mazzatenta Award
Mechanisms Controlling Non-Amyloidogenic Processing in NMDA-Associated Excitotoxicity Sarah Chowdhury College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kelly Jordan-Sciutto
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
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
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
Optogenetics-mediated Gene Control in S2 Cells Ashley Cousin Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Bomyi Lim
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
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
Representing Greek Pottery from Shipwrecks Christina Cunningham College of Arts & Sciences
  • Mantha Zarmakoupi
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Fibroblasts Regulate Local Strains that May Modulate Neuron Activity for Injurious Stretch in a Collagen Gel Simulating a Ligament Adiva Daniar Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Beth Winkelstein
  • Dr. Sagar Singh
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Novel mechanisms of lithium protection against impaired neurogenesis and synaptogenesis in Alzheimer’s Disease Ipsita Das
Samuel Anchipolovsky
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Huafeng Wei
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Cirrhosis is Associated with Higher Mortality and Organ Failure in Sepsis Anushka Dasgupta College of Arts & Sciences
  • John P. Reilly
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Binary and Multi-Class Biomedical Data Classification Using Automated ML Pipelines Riju Datta Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Ryan J. Urbanowicz
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Total Synthesis of Carbazole Alkaloids, Clausenawallines D & I Julia Davies College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marisa Kozlowski
Other
Creating a Mouse Pain Model to Understand Chronic Human Pain Joyce Davis College of Arts & Sciences
  • Wenqin Luo
  • Long Ding
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Studying the Developmental Circuitry of Layer V Neurons in Cortical Brain Organoids Mehek Dedhia College of Arts & Sciences
  • H. Isaac Chen
University Scholars