Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
Fall Research Expo 2024

Our undergraduate researchers are eager to share their findings 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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September 16 2024 - 5:00 PM - September 16 2024 - 6:30 PM
Ann Vernon-Grey
Jiayi Pang
Effect of Rosemary extract on wound healing
Hannah Kim
Synthesis of a Pt(II) Complex and Preliminary Oxygenation Studies
Stacy Liang
Verification of β-cell Specific Tamoxifen-Induced Dec1 Knockout in Mice
Alex Bui
Identifying Callous-Unemotional Behaviors in Early Childhood: Leveraging Observational Methods to Evaluate Positive Affect Within Dyadic Interaction
Grace Shuying Liu
  • Mariam Rizvi
Lung-SARG: An Open Data Platform for Sustainable, Accessible, Lung RadioGenomics in Nigeria
Daniel Boyko
Migration in Ghana: Creating Quantitative Tools for Data Analysis
Annika Jennie Sheridan
Location Analysis of Climate Change Discourse on Twitter
Sophia Tang
Evaluation of Concentrated and Dual-Peptide Conjugated Lipid Nanoparticles for Targeted mRNA Delivery to Brain Endothelial and Neuronal Cells
Daniel S Dai
Investigating Granulovacuolar Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathy Models
Dominic Joseph Willadsen
DFT Study of the Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Curved MXenes
Alexandria Sambrano
Covariation between skull shape and jaw leverage in six dietarily distinct primate genera.
Celina Liang
Usage of Emotional Reactivity Tests as a Puppy Assessment Method to Predict Working Dog Success
Kevin Xu
Analysis of High and Low-risk HPV E7 Proteins on PTPN14 Activity in Human Cell Types
Melinda Amorosi
  • Cole Bruen
Preserving a Critically Endangered Language: Optimizing the Kashaya Linguistic Database
Chekayli Meyer
Development of an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot for Negotiations
Taiwo Adeaga
  • Ziana Sundrani
A Simple Model of Infant Word Finding Using Computational Phonetics Embeddings
Cody T Nguyen
Regulation of Hypermethylation in EBV-Associated Gastric Carcinomas Through EBNA1 and DNMT1
Antonio Lobaccaro
Analyzing Various Machine Learning Models for Use in the Large Hadron Collider ATLAS Detector
Ayma Waqar
Sleep Duration and Glycemic Control in Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Assata Dawson
Ectopic Acvr2 regulates mesoderm induction and patterning via TGF-β signaling pathways
Leon Chen
Outcomes following CMV D+/R- Kidney Transplantation: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Christopher Tyburski
  • Reagan O’Neil
Particle Physics at the Large Hadron Collider
Ryan Wolff
La Década Perdida (The Lost Decade)—Brazil in the 1980s: Attempts to Tame an Economic Crisis Fall Flat
Arush Arora
Automation of mRNA-Transcript Measurement Algorithms for Embryonic Biomedical Imaging
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Bimodal Approach to Assessing Higher-Level Visual Processes in Tree Shrews Anna Lugovskoy College of Arts & Sciences
  • Michael Arcaro
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Biochemical diagnosis of fumarate hydratase (FH) deficiency disease Monica Madya College of Arts & Sciences
  • Rebecca Ganetzky
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Biodiversity Within the Soil Microbiome in Response to Zinc Contamination Alana Cyril College of Arts & Sciences
  • Jeffrey Field
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Bone Health in Pediatric Patients: A Multicenter Study of Bisphosphonate Utilization Marbella Aguilar College of Arts & Sciences
  • Joseph A. Janicki, MD, MS
Other
Breaking It Down: An Example of Effective Information Dissemination Lily Futeran College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melanie Pellecchia, PhD, BCBA, NCSP
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Breastfeeding in Black Women: Reviewing Racial and Socioeconomic Differences in Breastfeeding and the Impact on Bonding, Breastfeeding Rates, and COVID-19 Pandemic Worr Khady Mbodj College of Arts & Sciences
  • Wanjiku F Njoroge
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Building a Revolutionary Movement in Paris, 1968 Nishanth Bhargava College of Arts & Sciences
  • Siarhei Biareishyk
University Scholars
Can Aortic Strain Be Used To Predict Future Risk Of Aortic Dissection? Maria Awadalla College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Kendall Lawrence
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Carbon Dioxide Reduction on Silver Catalyst Using a Gas Diffusion Electrolyzer Isaac Yang Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Dohyung Kim
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Causes and Consequences of Variation in PRC1 Mediated Heterochromatin Across Mus Species Malena Parrado College of Arts & Sciences
  • Michael Lampson
  • Piero Lamelza
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Characterizing maternal mutant phenotypes in cathepsin B zebrafish mutant lines Angela Zhu
  • Jeet Patel
  • Mary Mullins
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Childhood Adversity and Polygenic Scores Interact to Predict Substance Use Disorder Criteria Jackson SooHoo College of Arts & Sciences
  • Henry Kranzler
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Integration Site Analysis in Patients with B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Avi Loren College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kai Tan
Jumpstart for Juniors
Christ, Spinoza's Progenitor of National Religion Justin Miller College of Arts & Sciences
  • Talya Fishman
University Scholars
Community Engagement on Clean Energy Siting Devin Casano College of Arts & Sciences
  • Parrish Bergquist
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Community Land Trusts: A Comparative Analysis of Organizing Efforts Leo Biehl
  • Stephen Fried
Gelfman International Summer Fund
Comparing lipid nanoparticle mediated delivery of Cas9 mRNA and protein for cystic fibrosis CRISPR gene editing Ryann Joseph Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Michael Mitchell
Jumpstart for Juniors
Comparing Phonemic Features and Production Processes in PPA Subtypes Lily Erdogan College of Arts & Sciences
  • Roy Hamilton, MD, MS
  • Tifani Biro, PhD
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Comparing the Effect of TBI on Horizontal vs. Vertical Random Dot Kinematogram Performance in a Rodent Visual Discrimination Task Nitin Seshadri College of Arts & Sciences
  • H. Isaac Chen, M.D.
Other
Comparing the Protective Effects of BM-MSCs Cultured in FBS and Equine Serum Media in an OA Model Sidney Wong College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kyla F. Ortved
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Comparison of Electroporation and Peptide-Mediated Engineering of Human Lymphocytes Julia Kincaid College of Arts & Sciences
  • Daniel Powell Jr.
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Comparison of Feature Extraction Methods for Predicting Synthetic Hemoglobin A1C Values Kyle Liao College of Arts & Sciences, Engineering & Applied Sciences
  • Hersh Sagreiya
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Comparisons of Bacterial Antiviral Homologs Found Across the Tree of Life Phelps Tin College of Arts & Sciences
  • Andrew Santiago Frangos
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Complication Rates of Proximal Hypospadias Surgery Ivan Lin College of Arts & Sciences
  • Christopher Long
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program