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
Pranav Tadikonda
Traits of Persistent Neuroinflammation in Patients with COVID-19
Peter Chun Pang Li
  • Andy Liu
Modeling Battery Overpotential
Kunal Jadeja
  • Nisha Shah
  • Aditi Ghalsasi
  • Sanjana Reddy Peddagorla
Designing and Developing a Wearable Sepsis Sensor
I'deyah Ricketts
Examining Sleep Apnea in Infants
Nathaniel Lao
  • Elda Mekonnen
  • Craig Lee
Evaluating Machine Learning-Powered Generators
Justin Akuamoah Acheampong
MOVE Activist Archive
Freud Thomas
Minority Entrepreneurship
Jack Zhang
  • Sriram Tolety
  • Ryan Tong
Verifiably Robust Sonar Perception
Joseph P Dong
  • Chelsea Pan
RESSEG and DeepResection: A Comparison of Classifiers Trained on Simulated and Real Resections
Sarah N Borders
Architectural Research in Robotic Fabrication: Interior Skin Development
Gabriel Gonsalves Bertho
Study of the Use of Ion-exchange Porous Materials and Biofilms Established in Coconut Fibers as a Waterbody Restoration Alternative
Michele Anzabi
History and Needs regarding Menstrual Justice
Truongan Pham
Impact of Surgical Trauma and Gender on Prostaglandin Metabolite Level Following Third Molar Extraction
Hung T Nguyen
  • Christopher Johnson
Biodegradable Fibrillar Polysaccharide Membranes
Taussia Boadi
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: An Investigation of MyBPC and HSP 70 Co-Chaperone Family using siRNA
Tseion S Mebratu
Implementation of a Standardized Labor Induction Protocol to Reduce Racial Disparities in Obstetrical Cases
Arnav Lal
Blastocoel Fluid Analysis: The Process of Creating a New Research Project at Penn
Sherry G Liu
Preliminary Observations of the Killing Effect Caused by E. coli
Trinity Kellarakos
  • Megan Zhong
Steroidogenic Factor 1 (SF1) Neurons and Exercise
Shirley W Li
Elucidating the Neural Circuitry behind Male and Female-directed Song in Songbirds through Immediate Early Genes
Jessica Lvov
The impact of adjuvant and Gardasil9 vaccine on cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Andy Jimenez
  • Brandon Anaya
Culture, Power, and Radical Movements
Megan Zhong
Steroidogenic Factor 1 (SF1) Neurons and Exercise
Lindsay M. Smith
Learning Continuous Chaotic Attractors with a Reservoir Computer
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Consequences of Consumer Boycotts: Analysis of Financial Boycotts of Fortune 500 Corporations Fiona Miller
  • Maurice Schweitzer
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Construct Validity of Hospital-Acquired Sepsis as a Distinct Entity Himanshi Verma College of Arts & Sciences
  • Nuala Meyer MD, MS (MSTR)
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Control, Learning, and Perception for an Intelligent Robot Siming He Wharton, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Pratik Chaudhari
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Controllability of Granular Packings Samantha Simon College of Arts & Sciences
  • Danielle S. Bassett
University Scholars
COPE in PACE: Reducing Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Dementia Patients Melissa Murin
Samantha Cueto
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Abigail Oentung
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Nancy Hodgson, PhD, RN, FAAN
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Copper Regulation of the PERK Arm of the Integrated Stress Response Noah Beratan College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Kelly Jordan-Sciutto
  • Sarah Bond
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Corporate Political Activity Nicholas Hamilton
Daniel Kaplan
Wharton
  • Mary-Hunter McDonnell
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Correlates of Long-Term Follow-Up Care in Adolescents and Young Adults Jasmin Medina-Martinez Nursing
  • Lisa A. Schwartz
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Cortical Gray Matter Segmentation on Ex Vivo T2W Imaging and the Effect of Neurodegenerative Pathologies on Cortical Thinning Elyse Migdal College of Arts & Sciences
  • Paul Yushkevich
  • John Detre
  • Corey McMillan
Team Grants for Interdisciplinary Activities
Cortical thinning in the central sulcus is associated with gyrification processes, sensorimotor development and environmental pressures Martins Gatavins College of Arts & Sciences
  • Allyson P Mackey
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
COVID and Crime Rates: “Do Cops Know Who to Stop?” Assessing Optimizing Models of Police Behavior with a Natural Experiment David Feng
Caroline Li
Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • David Abrams
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
COVID-19 AND NEW NORMS OF SURVEILLANCE: BIPOC PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC HEALTH Amelia Mauldin College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jessa Lingel
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Creating a Metagenomic Library of Clathria prolifera Lucy An College of Arts & Sciences
  • Monica E. McCallum
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
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
Creating An Archive of American Religious Groups Elizabeth Meisenzahl
Zhangyang Xie
  • Melissa Wilde
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Creation and Use of Nanoporous Aluminum to Power a Fuel Cell with Hydrogen Gas Asaph Lee College of Arts & Sciences, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Eric Detsi
  • Timothy Lee
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Cryogenic Thermometry Readout System Anika Patel
  • Professor Mark Devlin
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
CSF-1 deficiency in bone marrow adipogenic lineage precursors (MALPs) results in trabecular bone mass increase in femurs Richard Tran College of Arts & Sciences
  • Ling Qin, Ph.D.
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
CT Segmentations for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgical Planning and Modeling Image Segmentations with Deep Learning Noah Erdogan College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Chamith Rajapakse
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Culture, Power, and Radical Movements Andy Jimenez
Brandon Anaya
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jennifer Ponce De León
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
DARPin Delivery Using Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticles Emily Kim Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Michael J. Mitchell
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Data Sharing and Evidence Synthesis for Advancing Research Joanna Yang Wharton
  • Yong Chen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Debiasing Overconfidence Feiyi Wang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Barbara Mellers
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