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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Start Time: September 19 2022 - 5:00 PM
End Time: September 19 2022 - 6:30 PM
Ann Vernon-Grey
Cloe Cho
The Monster and The Cyborg: Unfurling Interiorities in Lee Bul's Early Work
Achint Das
Assessing the Perception of Communities Towards Traditional Healers and Analyzing their Relationship with Biomedical Practitioners in Orthopedic Care in Northern Tanzania
Dushaun Thompson
Getting Away with Murder: Recognizing and Combatting Justice-Frustrating Doctrines and Practices in the Criminal Justice System
Annie Wu
Therapeutic effect of NKG7 splicing variant mRNAs in boosting the antitumor activity of CD8 cytotoxic T cells
Tseion S Mebratu
How Educational Institutions Have Marginalized and Accommodated the Disabled
Gonzalo Ortega
A COMPARISON OF ACOUSTIC FEATURES IN LVPPA BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT PROGRAMMES
Isabella Jiang
Elucidating the Link between Intimate Partner Homicide and State-Level Gun Control
Alexandra Ann Dumas
Decellularized Meniscus Scaffolds for Laryngotracheal Reconstruction in a Porcine Model
Anastasios Panagopoulos
Generic Keypoint Detection for Objects in the Wild
Malini Hyde Correa
Effectiveness of Facebook as a method for recruiting Latino elders for research
Pranav Tadikonda
Investigating the Methodology for Community Consultation in EFIC Studies
Laura-Joelle Geschwindt
Sex Talks to Empower Parents: Barriers and Facilitators of Inclusive Parent-Child Sex Communication in Parents with Queer Sons
Venkatesh Shenoy
Analyzing Osteoblast Differentiation From Murine Calvarial Cells Via RNA Sequencing
Winston Peloso
Devices for Photoactivity Characterization of Point Defect Ensembles in h-BN Monolayers
Klea Gjuzi
Evaluation of the Difference Between Automated and Manual QTc Interval in Normal and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Subjects
Savanna Cohen
  • Shannon DiFulgo
Incidence of Seizure in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Irene Liang
ABCC4 as a Possible Target for Neuroblastoma Treatment
Sydney Kahn
  • Irma Kiss
Settlement in Sədərək: an Iron Age Excavation in Naxçivan, Azerbaijan
Jaeeun (Janice) Yoon
Buddhist Aesthetics and Suicide in Japanese Literature: The Development of Bushido and seppuku as a concept in Literature
Talia Coopersmith
Insulin promotes GCK activation and translocation through AKT-dependent mechanism
Samah Sharmin
Assessing the Structure of Def1-PH Through XRay Crystallography
Jonathan Tran
Analyzing and Contextualizing CMIP6 Data in Observations
Rosario Navarro-Escamilla
Determining the Rotational Period of Dwarf Planet Eris From CCD Photometric Observations
Selena Rosario
  • Imani Miller
International Borders, Human Trafficking, and Human Rights
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Vertically Stacked MoS2/ WS2 Heterostructure Afrah Chowdhury College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marija Drndic
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Clinical correlates of CT-derived phenotypes in patients with hepatic steatosis Isabel Song Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Hersh Sagreiya
  • Walter Witschey
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke (eCEASE) Maha Essaidi
Elizabeth Xu
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Shikha Kumar
,
Misato Shimizu
Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Alexander Fiks
  • Brian Jenssen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Clinical Simulation Training in Virtual Reality Jacqueline Li Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Kristoffel Dumon
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Co-delivery of mRNA and siRNA to achieve SIRPα knockdown, enabling macrophage-mediated phagocytosis of cancer cells Jacqueline Li Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Michael J. Mitchell
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Co-Loading Dexamethasone Palmitate into siRNA-LNPs Danish Mahmood Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Jacob Brenner
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Coding Strategies for a Retrospective Chart Review in a Community-Based Specialty Anxiety Clinic Sophia Young College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Emily Becker-Haimes
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Comparing PET Imaging Results of L-[18F]FETrp and 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Radiotracers in a Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Transgenic Mouse Model Shriya Boyapati Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Xuyi (Kevin) Yue
Other
Comparing Subphonemic Errors of Primary Progressive Aphasia Subtypes Jeffry Alfaro College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Roy H. Hamilton, M.D., M.S.
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Comparison of Dynamic Contrast Enhancement Computed Tomography Analysis Models to Characterize Pulmonary Blood Flow in Pig Model of ARDS Taehwan Kim Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Maurizio Cereda
Other
Conflict, Resistance, and Resolve: Uncovering Lost Narratives in Japanese-American Internment Hannah De Oliveira College of Arts & Sciences
  • Eiichiro Azuma
  • Amy Offner
Jumpstart for Juniors
Constructing a 3D Galactic Data Cube Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data Joy Gong College of Arts & Sciences
  • Masao Sako
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Context Effects: Primary Odor vs. Secondary Odor in Working Dog Searches Jamie Yuen College of Arts & Sciences
  • Cynthia M. Otto
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing of Target Gene B to Mediate Brain Tumor Angiogenesis In Vivo Katherine Han Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Yi Fan
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Decellularized Meniscus Scaffolds for Laryngotracheal Reconstruction in a Porcine Model Alexandra Dumas Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Riccardo Gottardi
University Scholars
DELongSeq: An Efficient Isoform Expression Detection Method for long-read RNA Sequencing Data Anagha Gouru College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kai Wang
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Dendritic cell subsets internalize lipid nanoparticles and translate the messenger RNA encapsulated in messenger RNA vaccines at varying rates Breelyn Stelle College of Arts & Sciences
  • Michela Locci
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Depletion of Interleukin-17a Ameliorates Behavioral Phenotypes of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in SOD1 G93A Mice Stephanie Chen College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jinsu Park
  • Jun R. Huh
Other
Design and Characterization of a Passive Folding Wing Erica Feehery Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Cynthia Sung
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Detecting Supernovae Using Machine Learning Erica Wang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Masao Sako
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Determining the Rotational Period of Dwarf Planet Eris From CCD Photometric Observations Rosario Navarro-Escamilla College of Arts & Sciences
  • Gary M. Bernstein
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Developing a Noninvasive Tracking Method using Click Chemistry to study Novel Cancer Immunotherapy Alex Chen College of Arts & Sciences
  • Michael Farwell
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Developing a Surgical Skin Cutting System For Virtual Reality Training Didactics Dineth Meegoda Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • William Yi
  • Kristoffel Dumon
  • Daniel Weber
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Development of a semi-quantitative mitochondrial protein assay Christine Kong College of Arts & Sciences
  • Rebecca Ganetzky
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant