Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
Fall Research Expo 2023

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 18 2023 - 5:00 PM
End Time: September 18 2023 - 8:00 PM
Ann Vernon-Grey
Patrick Zhang
Understanding Determinants of Child Maltreatment by Parents in Mexico
Ashley B Ray
Mortuary Archaeology on the Northern Coast of Peru
Thomas H. Li
The Economic Significance of Rising Inflation Uncertainty
Sam Salcedo Martinez
Uplifting Historically Marginalized Adults under G3's Financial Aid Program
Tianhao Luo
Deciphering the Genetic Code behind Single-Cell Chromatin Accessibility-- Interpreting scBasset: a Sequence-based Convolutional Neural Network
Charles H Cameron
Synthesis of Modified CD4 Mimetic Compounds
Aili Waller
On the Trail of a Lost Woman Artist: The Case of Mary Josephine Walters
Roene Nasr
Regulation of Dental Pulp Stem Cells in Fibrotic Hydrogels
Melody A. Cheng
Temperature-Dependent Impairment of Interneuron Physiology in a Mouse Model of Febrile Seizures
Hayle H Kim
A candidate-based screen to identify genes involved in sleep maturation
Skyler Y Nova
Effect of Inhibiting Octopamine in Early and Mid L3 Drosophila Larvae
Thomas Sharrock
Audience Perception of Opera and Demographic Influence in Modern British State Opera
Ethan Yu
Building a Data Harmonization Pipeline for BIGA GWAS
Om Gandhi
Investigating Dual Polyamine Synthesis Inhibition and Proline-Arginine Depletion Therapy in TH-MYCN+/+ Mice with Neuroblastoma
Maliha Rahman
An Assessment of Need for Automatic External Defibrillators by Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Region in Pennsylvania Public Schools
Makayla D. Clark
MRI Quantifications in Hepatitis C Patients
Olakanmi Adio
Relationship Between Economic Disparities and School Automated External Defibrillator Availability in the Most Populated Cities of the Six Regions of Pennsylvania
Melissa Huerta
Philadelphia Mayoral Democratic Primary Polls
Dhivya Arasappan
The Climate-Health Revolution: Examining Climate Change as a Health Crisis
Jessica K. Lin
Barriers and Facilitators of Implementing Teamwork Training for School Mental Health Teams
Sam Jung
TikTok, What's on the Clock?
Pranav Palleti
Machine Learning Approach for Enhancing Cancer Cell Classification in Breast Tissue IHC Slides
Zarah Meek
Cognitive Aging in Chile and the Context of Chile's Indigenous Population
Klaudia Julia Zalewska
  • Lucie Song
Metabolomic Profiles and Urinary Concentrations of Phenols and Phthalates in Mother-Infant Dyads
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Analyzing Dirac Shifts in GFETs Functionalized with Viral RNA Shiny Shen Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Alan T. Charlie Johnson
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Analyzing Hospital Ownership Impact on Quality of Care, Financial Performance, and Social Determinants of Health Katherine Wei
  • Joseph Rossano
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Analyzing Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure in the Philadelphia Area Irene Woo College of Arts & Sciences
  • Blanca E Himes, PhD
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Anatomical Analysis of the LDTg CTR to VTA Projection Carlie Zhang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Matthew Hayes
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Animating Sustainability: Unveiling Professor Poldergeist's Research on Dutch Water Management Katherine Li
Annabel Sumardi
Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Joshua Mosley
  • Simon Richter
Other, PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Antiretroviral Activation of the PERK Pathway Leads to Stress Granule Formation in Differentiating Oligodendrocytes Sophie Levin College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kelly L. Jordan-Sciutto, PhD
  • Judith Grinspan, PhD
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Application of Deep Learning Networks on Higgs Boson Decay Zhiyuan Wang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dylan Rankin
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Assessing Cell-Specific Mitochondrial Response to Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Devora Weintraub College of Arts & Sciences
  • Todd Kilbaugh
Other
Assessing mechanisms of brain malformation in SCN3A encephalopathy using a stem cell-derived model Sarah Pham College of Arts & Sciences
  • Julie P. Merchant
  • Ethan M. Goldberg
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant, Other
Assessing Smartphone Use in Ghana Simon Roling
Minnie Kim
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Allison Mi
Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Christopher S. Yoo
  • Leon Gwaka
  • Sindhura KS
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Assessing the antidepressant activity of molecularly distinct psychedelic agents in a novel mouse model of chronic stress Daniel Markman College of Arts & Sciences
  • Joseph Cichon
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Audience Perception of Opera and Demographic Influence in Modern British State Opera Thomas Sharrock College of Arts & Sciences
  • Professor Molly McGlone, Ph.D.
  • Professor Geoffrey Crossick Ph.D., FRHistS.
Benjamin Franklin Scholars Summer Grant, Paul and Kathleen Barthmaier Award
Automated 3D Segmentation of Lumbar Spines and Femurs for Augmented Reality Eva Gonzalez-Whitehouse College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Chamith Rajapakse
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Backend Development of XRAD Electronic Medical Records System Hannah MacDonald College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Chamith Rajapakse
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Barriers and Facilitators of Implementing Teamwork Training for School Mental Health Teams Jessica Lin College of Arts & Sciences
  • Courtney Benjamin Wolk
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Baseline Land and Conservation Evaluation of the Amazon Rainforest in Colombia Caroline Bach College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Heather Huntington
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
BEYOND GUANTÁNAMO: RESTORING THE RULE OF LAW TO THE LAW OF WAR Benjamin Cohen
  • Claire Finkelstein
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Beyond the Clean-Up: An analysis of the relationship between litter and gun violence in Philadelphia Talyah Pierce College of Arts & Sciences
  • John MacDonald
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Brain-wide labeling of neurons contributing to positive and negative reinforcement strategies Wenxin Tu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Marc V Fuccillo
  • Diaz-Hernandez, Edgar
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Broadband Solar Light Harvesting from Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Heterostructures Linda Lin Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Deep Jariwala
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Building a Data Harmonization Pipeline for BIGA GWAS Ethan Yu Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Bingxin Zhao
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Building at Risk Ivanna Dudych College of Arts & Sciences
  • Franca Trubiano
Other
Cargo transport by schooling micro-organisms Ivy Liu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Arnold Mathijssen
  • Albane Théry
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Cell-Free DNA Methylation as a Biomarker of Malignant vs. Benign Lung Nodules: Cross-Validation of 2022 and 2023 Patient Cohorts Siri Dandu
Prishna Martinez
Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Erica L. Carpenter, MBA, PhD
  • Jeffrey C. Thompson, MD
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program