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
Jasper L Taylor
International Cooperation in Times of Global Crisis
Leah R Van Dyke
Filamentous microbial growth through anaerobic chemosynthetic processes from the crustal subseafloor of the Juan de Fuca Ridge flank.
Emily Xiong
  • Leanna Chen
The Psychological Effects of Meal Timing Among Individuals with Obesity
Tahira Khan
Characterizing Motivation Levels in People with Depression
CHARLIE LU
Gender, Tech Bubbles, and the IT Earnings Gap
Jillian Neuner
Developing Tools to Study the Immune Antagonistic C15 Virulence Protein
Seungwon Lee
The Effect of Maternal and Child Health Education Intervention on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice in Jinja, Uganda
Sam Zou
Power Conflicts between Prosecutorial and Judicial Branches in China’s Criminal System
Juan Mendez
Measuring physical activity in older Latinos living with arthritis
Ethan Weisberg
Improving p53Cinema: A Software for Cell Tracking
Rachel Yocom
Socioeconomic Status and Transition Readiness in Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Survivors of Cancer
Adrian Ke
Oceans Apart and Spaces Between Sociopolitical Identity Formation of Early 20th Century Second Generation Chinese Peruvians
Shreya D Mehta
Histone variant H2BE influences neuronal activity, cognition, and social behavior
Michelle Yoon
TUNE-In Improving Social Functioning in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Aaron Wu
Revealing the Role of BCAAs in Macrophage Immune Response
Inaya A Zaman
Gender, Tech Bubbles, and the IT Earnings Gap
Andrew Yang
Understanding Stably Happy People
Keerthi Jayaraman
Effects of Peer-Led Leadership Workshops on Perception of Leadership Skills Among Middle School Girls of Latinx Descent
Melody A. Cheng
Impaired Fast-Spiking Interneuron Physiology in a Mouse Model of KCNC1 Epilepsy
Dale Kim
E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Triad1 Regulates Eosinophil Development and Maturation
Jiani Tian
Nuances of Womenomics: Continuity and change between Abe and Kishida's economic policies for women
Sophia Liston
  • Angela Shen
Law's Changing Role in China; Two Faces of Sovereignty in China
Karen Raphael
IGFBP7*TIMP2 as an Early Predictor of Acute Kidney Injury After Lung Transplantation
Michael Wang
CD5 depletion enhances Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Neurobiological measurements of contact hypothesis and long term impacts of  intergroup contact: A real world study of contact hypothesis in Academic-based service learning course Ryan Afreen College of Arts & Sciences
  • Lori Flanagan-Cato
Jumpstart for Juniors
Novel Alpha Synuclein Constructs – Effects on Binding, Internalization, and Neurexin-1B/Neuroligin-1A Interactions Amy Wu College of Arts & Sciences, Wharton
  • Elizabeth Rhoades
Life Sciences and Management
Nuances of Womenomics: Continuity and change between Abe and Kishida's economic policies for women Jiani Tian College of Arts & Sciences, Wharton
  • Ayako Kano
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Object Detection and Variational Optical Flow Aaron Mei Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Jianbo Shi
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Occupations in the US Yuntong Fu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Xi Song
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Ocean Ecological Hotspots under Climate Change: A Computational Study Jacob Stanger College of Arts & Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Irina Marinov
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Oceans Apart and Spaces Between Sociopolitical Identity Formation of Early 20th Century Second Generation Chinese Peruvians Adrian Ke College of Arts & Sciences
  • Ann Farnsworth Alvear
Other
One-Shot Learning for the Solution Operators of Partial Differential Equations Ryan Krumenacker College of Arts & Sciences
  • Lu Lu
  • Anran Jiao
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Optimal Artificial Neural Network Depth For Noisy Signal Forecasting Andrew Raine Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Jianbo Shi
Vagelos Undergraduate Research Grant
Optimal Feature Identification in Automated Stimulation Parameter Search for Sensory Restoration Anusha Keshireddy Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Andrew Richardson
Class of 1971 Robert J. Holtz Fund
Optimizing CRISPR-based lineage tracing tools to study metastasis Harish Bayana College of Arts & Sciences
  • Christopher Lengner
  • Kamen Simeonov
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant, Vagelos Molecular Life Sciences
Optimizing Higgs Boson Signal Efficiency with Small-R (R = 0.4) and Large-R (R = 1.0) Jets Sophie Kadan College of Arts & Sciences
  • Evelyn Thomson
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Parallel Hindbrain Circuits Mediate GLP1-Induced Food Suppression Nick Hanchak College of Arts & Sciences
  • Amber Alhadeff
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Patient Attitudes Regarding the Role of the Dentist in Vaccination for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Morgan Faist College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Katherine France
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
PBMC Single Cell Preparation and Library Generation from Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Danielle Liu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sarah Tishkoff
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Persistent Inflammation After Severe Distress Susan Shin
Benita Cui
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Krzysztof Laudanski
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Phenotyping Genetic Risks of Type 2 Diabetes Rachel Brown
Bianca Rodriguez
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Lorraine Levitt-Katz
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Philadelphia, Rome, and Carthage: How Africa Fits Into Philadelphia's Latin Curriculum Dara Sanchez College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. James Ker
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Phototaxic Behavior in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Chloë Mouzakitis College of Arts & Sciences
  • Hugo Ulloa
  • Arnold Mathijssen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) Exposures Identified in Maternal and Fetal Metabolome Priyanka Bhashyam College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Aimin Chen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) Exposures Identified in Maternal and Fetal Metabolome Raymund Lee College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Aimin Chen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Positive Psychology: Agency & the History of Human Progress Robert Gamble College of Arts & Sciences
  • Noah Love
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Power Conflicts between Prosecutorial and Judicial Branches in China’s Criminal System Sam Zou College of Arts & Sciences
  • Yue Hou
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Pre-clinical Evaluation of Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) receptor agonism as a treatment for cancer-induced dysregulation of glucose homeostasis Grace Choi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Tito Borner
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant