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 First & Last Name Sort descending 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
Effects of Ibuprofen on COX-2 Activity Following Third Molar Extraction Gina Chryssofos College of Arts & Sciences
  • Katherine Theken
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Transcriptional Profiling of Desemzia incerta to Explore Colony Morphology Differences Emily Chu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Elizabeth Grice
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Mechanical Role of Kinetochore Fibers in Metaphase Megan Chung College of Arts & Sciences
  • Michael Lampson
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Knowledge of Treatment History and Late Effects Among Adolescent and Young Adults Survivors of Cancer Alyssa Clayton College of Arts & Sciences
  • Lisa Schwartz
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Incidence of Seizure in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Savanna Cohen
Shannon DiFulgo
  • Shavonne Massey, MD, MSCE
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Insulin promotes GCK activation and translocation through AKT-dependent mechanism Talia Coopersmith College of Arts & Sciences
  • Paul Titchenell
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Bioinformatic Analysis of Factors Recruited to the Replication Fork Following ATRi/WEE1i Treatment Alexandra Cordoba College of Arts & Sciences
  • Eric J. Brown
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Effectiveness of Facebook as a method for recruiting Latino elders for research Malini Correa Nursing
  • Adriana Perez
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Assessing the Perception of Communities Towards Traditional Healers and Analyzing their Relationship with Biomedical Practitioners in Orthopedic Care in Northern Tanzania Achint Das College of Arts & Sciences
  • Neil Sheth
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
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
Erk Signaling in KM12 Oncogenic Cells Sara Dedhia Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • David Gonzalez-Martinez
  • Lukasz Bugaj
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Life and Work of Charles Edward Stowe, the Son of Harriet Beecher Stowe Emma DeMonte College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sarah Gronningsater
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Grouped Randomization R-Package & Survival Analysis with Augmented Index for Cerebral Malaria Patients Yang Dong College of Arts & Sciences, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dylan Small
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Reliability of Pupilometry Data as Measures for Cognitive Activities Bingrong Duan Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Joshua Gold
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Establishment of shSTAT3 knockdown in EBV+ DLBCL Valeria Dubon College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Erle Robertson, Ph.D.
  • Dr. Hui Yu, M.D., Ph.D.
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
Relationship between context stability and arousal-driven pupil response in dynamic environments Gwendolyn Duncan Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Joshua Gold
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Vowel Modification in Singing Voice Nicholas Eiffert College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jianjing Kuang
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Incorporating Action Observation Rehabilitation onto a Social Robot System Julie Elfishawy College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Michelle J. Johnson
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke (eCEASE) Maha Essaidi
Elizabeth Xu
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Shikha Kumar
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Misato Shimizu
Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Alexander Fiks
  • Brian Jenssen
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
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
Design and Characterization of a Passive Folding Wing Erica Feehery Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Cynthia Sung
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Ultrafast polymer dynamics through a nanopore Riley Fotis College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marija Drndic
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research