Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
Fall Research Expo 2022

Welcome to CURF’s Research Expo!

Over 350 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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September 19 2022 - 5:00 PM - September 19 2022 - 6:30 PM
Ann Vernon-Grey
Dana Raphael
The [Re]habilitation, [Re]integration, and [Re]membrance of Holocaust Survivors in Post-World War II France
Natalayna Purnell
How Much Population Structure Do Humans Have?
Lilly Friedman
Development of GFP-Tagged Akata EBV Cell Line via BACmid System
Riley Fotis
Ultrafast polymer dynamics through a nanopore
Riley Fotis
Ultrafast polymer dynamics through a nanopore
Valeria Sofia Dubon
Establishment of shSTAT3 knockdown in EBV+ DLBCL
Raymund Lee
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) Exposures Identified in Maternal and Fetal Metabolome
Maria J Arias Villela
Investigating novel, sex-specific therapeutic targets to treat MDD: Using CRISPR-Cas9 to enhance stress resilience
Majd Ayyad
Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) Film Growth: The Conditions for Creating a Uniform Membrane for Ionic Measurements
Jacob X. Isaac
Untargeted Metabolomics using Marine Sponges
Paola Rodriguez
Supporting IPV survivors: Medical school training, student beliefs, and later IPV screening use
Manzi Hugues Mucyo
Machine Learning- ATLAS
Robert J Gamble
Positive Psychology: Agency & the History of Human Progress
Emilie Yen
Examining the Specificity and Robustness of Site-Specific and Non-Site-Specific DNA-Labeled Antibodies
Joy Gong
Constructing a 3D Galactic Data Cube Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data
Lauren St. Louis
  • Roland Zhang
Mechanisms of Lithium Chloride Neuroprotection in Alzheimer's Disease
Eric Y Tao
Automatic Detection of Brown-headed Cowbird Song in Urban Environments
Bolanle Gaba
Shifts in Board Diversity
Owen Frausto
Activation Energies of African Dark Earth Soils
Roland Zhang
  • Lauren St. Louis
Mechanisms of Lithium Chloride Neuroprotection in Alzheimer’s Disease
Faye Parker
Using Flow Fields to Observe the Role of Diel Vertical Migration on Biomixing
Aravind Krishnan
A subpopulation of lipogenic brown adipocytes drives thermogenic memory
Camille Naa Korkor Quaye
The role of histone crotonylation in neuronal function
David Kedeme
Neural Circuitry in Songbirds
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Developing Tools to Study the Immune Antagonistic C15 Virulence Protein Jillian Neuner College of Arts & Sciences
  • Laurence Eisenlohr, VMD, PhD
  • Stephen Carro
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Reducing racial disparities in breast cancer risk assessment Isabelle Lhuilier College of Arts & Sciences
  • Anne Marie McCarthy
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
A Comparative Case Study on the Complexities of Responsive Teaching Gretel Tassah College of Arts & Sciences
  • Janine Remillard
  • Lara Condon
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
A COMPARISON OF ACOUSTIC FEATURES IN LVPPA BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT PROGRAMMES Gonzalo Ortega College of Arts & Sciences
  • Tifani Biro
  • Roy Hamilton
  • Mark Liberman
Other
A Fully Digitally Integrated Workflow for Brain MRI Point Cloud Generation and Augmented Reality 3D Model Visualization Jerry Cai Engineering & Applied Sciences, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Chamith Rajapakse
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
A Look at Parent-Mediated Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Intervention Milana Korobko College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melanie Pellecchia
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
A microbiome-dependent neuronal pathway regulates the motivation for exercise in mice Ana Glassman College of Arts & Sciences
  • Christoph Thaiss
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
A Secondary Analysis of “Development of a nursing staffing model to ensure appropriate care for hospitalized patients according to the nursing intensity.” Irene Pyo Nursing
  • Dr. Sarah Kagan
  • Dr. Eunice Suh
Paul and Kathleen Barthmaier Award
A subpopulation of lipogenic brown adipocytes drives thermogenic memory Aravind Krishnan College of Arts & Sciences, Wharton
  • Cristoph Thaiss
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
ABCC4 as a Possible Target for Neuroblastoma Treatment Irene Liang College of Arts & Sciences, Nursing
  • Kristina Cole
  • Kai Tan
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Activation Energies of African Dark Earth Soils Owen Frausto Engineering & Applied Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Alain Plante
VIPER
Adsorption of Wastewater Pollutants on Lignocellulosic Biomass – a Molecular Dynamics Simulations Viewpoint Gabriel Gonsalves Bertho Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Joseph Francisco
University Scholars
African Immigrant Health and Wellness Program (AIHWP): A Community Health Needs Assessment of African Immigrants in West and Southwest Philadelphia Gaby Montes College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kent Bream
Hassenfeld Foundation Grant
AI-Based Quantification of Cellular Protein Expression Levels Ashrit Challa College of Arts & Sciences
  • Elizabeth McDonald
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
An acute injection of a subanesthetic ketamine dose normalizes stress-induced cognitive deficits: Molecular evidence of disinhibition of ketamine's antidepressant action Harley Haas College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Sanghee Yun
  • Dr. Amelia Eisch
Other
An Analysis of Socioeconomic Status on the Nursing Home Selection Process Ryan Schager College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. John Wnek
Other
An engineered DNA-modifying enzyme facilitates non-destructive sequencing of epigenetic cytosine modifications Laura Liu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Rahul Kohli
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
An Innovative Tracking Technique...in 3D Aaron Reisman College of Arts & Sciences
  • Arnold Mathijssen
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Analysis of a machine learning model exploring the input space Max Wang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Pratik Chaudhari
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Analysis of Anesthetic Depth with Processed EEG and NIRS Samir Maarouf Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Ian Yuan
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Analysis of Mouse-Isolated Bacterial Strains and Their Interactions with Pathogenic and Enteric Bacteria Sherry Liu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jun (Jay) Zhu, Ph.D.
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Analyzing and Contextualizing CMIP6 Data in Observations Jonathan Tran Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Irina Marinov
Class of 1971 Robert J. Holtz Fund
Analyzing Osteoblast Differentiation From Murine Calvarial Cells Via RNA Sequencing Venkatesh Shenoy Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Fanxin Long
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Are you good at Spot The Difference games? Understanding the neural substrates controlling behavioral pattern separation Elise Wallen-Friedman College of Arts & Sciences
  • Amelia Eisch
  • Sanghee Yun
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program