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 ascending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Targeting a “novel” circuit for depression: stimulation of inhibitory circuit from the entorhinal cortex ameliorates stress-induced social avoidance Hannah An College of Arts & Sciences
  • Amelia J Eisch
  • Sanghee Yun
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Synthesis of Protein Degrading IgG-M6P Compound Andrew Chiang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Andrew Tsourkas
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program, US National Institutes of Health Grants
Synthesis of Barcoded mRNA for High-Throughput Nucleic Acid Delivery Screening Ryann Joseph Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Michael J Mitchell
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Synthesis and Reactivity of a Gold(III) Pincer Complex Nathan Gewant College of Arts & Sciences
  • Karen Goldberg
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Supporting IPV survivors: Medical school training, student beliefs, and later IPV screening use Paola Rodriguez Nursing
  • Dr. Millan AbiNader
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Studying the effect of bow vibration on violin sound production using an automated bowing machine Nathan Zhang
William Qi
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Chris Fang-Yen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Structural classification of peptide/HLA complexes Sagar Gupta College of Arts & Sciences
  • Nikolaos G. Sgourakis
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Spectacle and Time in Andy Warhol's Early Films (1963-1965) Rema Hort College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jonathan Katz
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Solving Stiff ODEs with Physics Informed Neural Networks Eric Myzelev College of Arts & Sciences
  • Lu Lu
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Socioeconomic Status and Transition Readiness in Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Survivors of Cancer Rachel Yocom Nursing
  • Lisa Schwartz
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Sleep Fragmentation in 16p11.2 Deletion Mouse Model of Autism Isabella An College of Arts & Sciences
  • Shinjae Chung
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Simulating Entrainment in Diel Vertical Migration Anthony Mohr College of Arts & Sciences
  • Hugo Ulloa
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Significance of Religion to Improve Cultural Competency in Research Amongst Older Latino Adults Ashley Acevedo College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Adriana Perez
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Shifts in Board Diversity Bolanle Gaba Wharton
  • Dr. Mary-Hunter McDonnell
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Sex Talks to Empower Parents: If Parents Had Their Way Alyssa Marie Lagua
  • Dr. Dalmacio Dennis Flores
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Sex Talks to Empower Parents: Barriers and Facilitators of Inclusive Parent-Child Sex Communication in Parents with Queer Sons Laura-Joelle Geschwindt College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dalmacio Dennis Flores, PhD, ACRN
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Settlement in Sədərək: an Iron Age Excavation in Naxçivan, Azerbaijan Sydney Kahn
Irma Kiss
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Lauren Ristvet
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
SENSBIOM: Development of a Structurally Scalable Biomaterial Composite Lattice Module Victor Li College of Arts & Sciences
  • Laia Mogas-Soldevila
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
SENSBIOM: Developing Aroma-Active Biomaterials Abby Weinstein
Shivani Chawla
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Camila Irabien
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Laia Mogas-Soldevila
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research, PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Selective Synthetic Lethality of Colon Cancer Cells via CRISPR-Cas9 Mediated Knockout Ibnat Meah College of Arts & Sciences
  • Eric Brown
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Screen Printed Resistive Heaters for Tunable Stiffness Robotic Grippers Akhilesh Khambekar Engineering & Applied Sciences, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Kevin Turner
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
S. Aureus (Staph) Genomic DNA can be recovered from Red Blood Cells Olivia Canalejo College of Arts & Sciences
  • Nilam Mangalmurti
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Role of HAD2 in Metabolic Homeostasis and Drug Resistance in Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum Cathy Chen College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Audrey R. Odom John, MD, PhD
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant, Other
Revealing the Role of BCAAs in Macrophage Immune Response Aaron Wu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Will Bailis
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research