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
Salvador Galvez Jr
Disparities in Heathcare: Living in Chronically Stressed Neighborhoods May Predispose Trauma Patients to Worse Health Outcomes
Alexandra Piven
The Impact of Heat Stress on Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata
Adam Gorka
  • Rohan Gala
Quality Control and Topological Analysis of MRI Segmentation Data
Sana Yooseph
Comparison of Perihematomal Edema (PHE) around Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) on CT versus MRI scans
Linda Lin
Broadband Solar Light Harvesting from Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Heterostructures
Miette Gourlay
  • Dara Jih-Cook
Depression Prevalence Among US Women on Welfare: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis
Zida Daniella Anyachebelu
  • Cassandra Owei
Stroke Health Care Assessment in Nigeria
Ryujin Creighton
How does queerness intersect with fandom bonding in a Discord youth writing community?
Hiba Jamil
Optimal Management of Background Therapy in Patients with Symptomatic Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Initiated on Mavacamten
Roshni Datta
Effects of Anesthetics on Mitochondrial Delocalization in Zebrafish Neurons
Kevin Liu
Task Aware Representations of Sentences Improves Seizure Freedom Classification in Data-Limited Settings
Stefan Hatch
Qualitative Interviews for Participants in the PHL Housing+ Project
Inis Trifka
Medicaid Perinatal Payment Reform
Sophia Liu
Perception Can Be Reality: How Nation Branding and a Country’s Brand Impacts Openness To Immigration
Nina Wang
  • Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford
Kashaya Language Resources
Jake Brewington
Morphological Alterations in Placentas with HIF Activation
Jinny Chung
Effects of Chronic Sleep Disruption on Hippocampal Tau and Locus Coeruleus Projections
Avinash Singh
Characterization of alternatively-spliced isoforms in the PERK-coding gene EIF2AK3 under ER stress
Cynthia Dong
  • Tony Le
Inhibition of Axonal Degeneration Using SARM-1 siRNA Loaded Lipid Nanoparticles
Amehja M Williams
Developing An Algorithm for Runtime Gameplay Adjustments in A Mobile Cognitive Assessment
Cassandra Owei
  • Zida Anyachebelu
Stroke Health Care Assessment in Nigeria
Vidhur Polam
Lipid Accumulation Leads to Reactive Macrophage Pathology in settings of GALC dysfunction
Pierce Bruner
Fecundity and Population as Measures of Fitness in D. melanogaster
Hannah Shumsky
A Case Study of Digital Humanities: David Oppenheim's Printed Texts and the History of Jewish Books
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
In Search of New Russian Readership: Communal Experience and Literary Form in Mikhail Kuzmin's Wings Liam Phillips College of Arts & Sciences
  • Brian Kim
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Individual Rats’ Stress Coping Mechanisms and Extinction of Fear Eshu Venkataswamy Wharton, Wharton
  • Seema Bhatnagar
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Induction of Cre-Recombinase Activity In Vivo in Mice Hannah Kim College of Arts & Sciences
  • Zhaolan Zhou
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Inflation and Hyperinflation in Brazil During the 1980s and 1990s Adam Thomson Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Melissa Teixeira
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Inhibition of Axonal Degeneration Using SARM-1 siRNA Loaded Lipid Nanoparticles Cynthia Dong
Tony Le
Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Anh D. Le
  • Justin Burrell
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Inhibition of NF-kB Pathway in MuSCs Impairs Muscle Regeneration Iris Gong College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Foteini Mourkioti
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Inner Retinal Changes in Mouse Model of LCA5 Retinal Degeneration Alex Iyer College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Katherine Uyhazi
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Insights into potential production of PERK protein isoforms resulting from EIF2AK3 alternative splicing JoAnna James
  • Dr. Kelly L. Jordan-Sciutto
  • Dr. Elena Alvarez-Periel
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Integrated Circuit to Record from Neurons in Cowbird Song System Sukhmani Grover Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dr. Marc Schmidt
  • Dr. Firooz Alfatouni
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Integrating Exposure Therapy into Training to Reduce Clinician Anxiety in Implementing Evidence-based Suicide Prevention Practices Camellia Bui College of Arts & Sciences
  • Emily Becker-Haimes
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
International State-Building in Post-WWII Japan Moira Connell College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melissa Lee
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
International State-Building in Post-WWII Japan Vishal Krishnaiah
Moira Connell
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melissa Lee
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Interrogating mechanism to design efficient CRISPR-Cas12a genome editors Jasleen Gill College of Arts & Sciences
  • Rahul Kohli
Other, Vagelos Molecular Life Sciences
Intranasal Administration of Dantrolene Nanoparticles as Neuroprotection for Alzheimer’s Disease Yutong Yi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Huafeng Wei
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Intranasal Administration of Dantrolene Nanoparticles as Neuroprotection for Alzheimer’s Disease Luna Sato College of Arts & Sciences
  • Huafeng Wei
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Intrinsic Alignment and Cosmic Shear John Purple College of Arts & Sciences
  • Bhuvnesh Jain
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigating Condensate Formation and RAS/ERK Signaling of 20 Fusion Oncoproteins Sofia Wissert Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Lukasz Bugaj
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigating Dual Polyamine Synthesis Inhibition and Proline-Arginine Depletion Therapy in TH-MYCN+/+ Mice with Neuroblastoma Om Gandhi Engineering & Applied Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Michael D. Hogarty, MD
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Investigating LFY in Arabidopsis: Functionality and Phenotypic Effects Prabh Kaur College of Arts & Sciences
  • Doris Wagner
  • Sandhan Parkash
Other
Investigating Pattern Separation Ability in an Epileptic Mouse Model of Dravet Syndrome Yerahm Hong Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Ethan Goldberg
  • Amelia Eisch
  • Sanghee Yun
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Investigating PHF6-ePHD2 missense mutations in THP1 leukemia cell line Aleena Alex College of Arts & Sciences
  • Vikram Paralkar
  • Aishwarya Pawar
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Investigating RASA2 Overexpression to Reduce CAR T Cell On-Target Off-Tumor Toxicity Ryan Lim Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • James Riley
Other
Investigating Roles of a Mobile Transcription Factor on Leave Polarity and Shape Sarah Ortiz-Polanco
  • Aman Husbands
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Investigating the Impact of Stigma and Dehumanization on the Healthcare Engagement and Access of Unhoused Individuals: A Photo-elicitation Study Neha Shetty College of Arts & Sciences
  • Anne Teitelman
  • Laura Sinko
Mazzatenta Award