2025-2026 Research Scholars
Quad Summer Undergraduate Research Scholars
Supported by the Conard College Foundations of Complexity Initiative Fund
Irmak Altinok, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Investigating how local mechanical interactions impact pattern formation in the Drosophila retinal epithelium
- Mentor: Ilaria Rebay
Lucas Chen, Second-Year, Mathematics
- Project Title: Statistical Universality in Random Matrix Theory and Number Theory
- Mentor: Steven Miller
Clara Hinds, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Understanding Structure and Metabolism in Bacterial Biofilms
- Mentor: Jasmine Nirody
Zongqi Lu, Second-Year, Computer Science, Mathematics
- Project Title: Investigating the Ability of Large Language Models to Differentiate Epistemic and Non-Epistemic Beliefs
- Mentor: Chenhao Tan
Arran Swift, Third-Year, Biological Sciences: Specialization Endocrinology
- Project Title: Investigating the evolutionary divergence and convergence of axis specification in Drosophila and Chironomus embryos
- Mentor: Urs Schmidt-Ott
Armand Todoran, Third-Year, Philosophy, Economics
- Project Title: Mindless Intelligence: A Political Genealogy of Artificial Intelligence
- Mentor: Nicolae Biea
Supported by the Global Health Research Fund
Ali Alamery, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Inhibiting p52 to Enhance Immunotherapy in Glioblastoma
- Mentor: Bakhtiar Yamini
Sofie Alikhan, Second-Year, Biology
- Project Title: Circadian Rhythm Disruption in Non-Diabetic Patients with Cirrhosis
- Mentor: Alan Hutchison
Nina Bao, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: NAD+ Metabolic Crosstalk Between Neurons and Glioma Cells
- Mentor: Rong Grace Zhai
Ava Lee, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Investigating NRC2 as a tumor cell-intrinsic modulator of immune checkpoint inhibitor response in melanoma
- Mentor: Thomas Gajewski
Rishi Purayil, Third-Year, Statistics
- Project Title: Analysing Transparency of Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures by Trauma Surgery Researchers
- Mentor: Timothy Plackett
Grace Stephens, Third-Year, Cognitive Science
- Project Title: Optimizing Lightweight Models for Digital Pathology
- Mentor: Alexander Pearson
Grace Sternberger, Third-Year, CEGU, Sociology
- Project Title: Space to Grow: Green Schoolyards for Community Health and Urban Climate Resilience
- Mentor: Sabina Shaikh
Elizabeth Tian, Third-Year, Comparative Human Development
- Project Title: Mixed-Methods Examination of Nursing Home Inspection Practices and Ratings
- Mentor: Prachi Sanghavi
Helena Wu, Third-Year, Data Science
- Project Title: GRNage: An epigenetic clock based on gene regulatory network features
- Mentor: John Quackenbush
Supported by an Unrestricted Gift from Google
Naomi Gelfer, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering: Quantum Engineering Track
- Project Title: Investigating the Dependence of Fluorescent Protein Qubits on Local Chemical Environments for Cellular Biosensing
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
Nehemiah James, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Engineering Fluorescent Protein Qubits for Nanoscale Biological Diagnostics
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
Ken Liu, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Focusing the Ultraviolet laser beam down to 3 microns to enable ARPES at micron-level sites
- Mentor: Shuolong Yang
Julian McBride, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering [Quantum], Philosophy
- Project Title: Microscale and Nanoscale Quantum Sensing for Biomedical Applications
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
Supported by the Insight Undergraduate Research Fund
Gavin An, Second-Year, Economics, Mathematics
- Project Title: The Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Replication and Extension of Gruber and Saez (2002)
- Mentor: Alexander Torgovitsky
Phoebe Burgis, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Earth Aerosol Insights for Exoplanet Atmospheres
- Mentor: Diana Powell
Colbert Chang, Second-Year, Chemistry, Economics
- Project Title: Integrating a Biologically Active Motif with a Conductive Polymer for Implantable Bioelectronics
- Mentor: Sihong Wang
Runjie Chen, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Simulation and Fabrication of High-throughput Waveguide Raman
- Mentor: Koseki J Kobayashi-Kirschvink
Ria Choi, Third-Year, Biology
- Project Title: Mapping STK25 Protein Interaction Networks Driving Cancer Progression in Colorectal and Head and Neck Cancer
- Mentor: Le Shen
Azeem Currah, Third-Year, Chemistry BS
- Project Title: A Use Case for Ni3THT2
- Mentor: John Anderson
Ualype de Andrade Uchoa, Third-Year, Physics, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Reconstructing Quintessence Dark Energy with DES and DESI
- Mentor: Scott Dodelson
David Dellizotti, Third-Year, Joint 3+1 BS Biological Chemistry/MS Chemistry
- Project Title: Investigation on the effect of valine-conjugated RNA duplexes on oleic acid vesicles
- Mentor: Jack Szostak
Eva Devlin, Third-Year, Chemistry (BS), Data Science (BS)
- Project Title: Unlocking C(sp3)–F Bond Reactivity via Silver-Mediated Electrochemistry
- Mentor: Anna Wuttig
Nurai El Ashry, Third-Year, Biochemistry, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Analysis of Membraneless Organelles in Diseased and Healthy Tissue Using Simultaneous FISH and IF Application
- Mentor: Jingyi Fei
Lydia Gafford, Third-Year, Art History, History
- Project Title: The Craft Chronicle
- Mentor: Erica Warren
Patrick Gao, Second-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Terminal RNA Ligation based Proximity Labeling
- Mentor: Bryan Dickinson
Ellis Garver, Second-Year, Mathematics, Statistics
- Project Title: LLMs for Economic Forecasting
- Mentor: Dacheng Xiu
Olivia Greipp, Second-Year, Geophysical Sciences, Chemistry
- Project Title: Refining Deep Earthquake Models Through Co-Seismic Deformation Analysis of the Tonga Subduction Zone
- Mentor: Sunny Park
Luis Hernandez, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Dissecting the Mitochondrial Transfer-mediated Interactions between Cancer Cells and Neutrophils
- Mentor: Yuxuan Miao
Hexi Jin, Second-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Measuring Ca II K Metallicities in SEGUE-1 and SEGUE-2 Survey Spectra
- Mentor: Alex Ji
Sumin Kim, Second-Year, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Economics
- Project Title: Calibration and Software Development for Picosecond Waveform Sampling
- Mentor: Henry J. Frisch
Susanna Kritzler, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Expanding the toolkit for targeted protein degradation by de novo binder discovery
- Mentor: Bryan Dickinson
Ava Lalich, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: AI/ML-Based Energy Reconstruction and Photon Detection Calibration for the DUNE Far Detector
- Mentor: Zelimir Djurcic
Robin Luo, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Using high-energy CC muon neutrino interactions to constrain high-energy CC electron neutrino
- Mentor: David Schmitz
Angeth Mayen, Second-Year, Law, Letters, and Society
- Project Title: What Gets Lost: Cultural Continuity in African Diasporas
- Mentor: Adom Getachew
Genesee Quon, Second-Year, Biological Sciences - Global and Public Health Track
- Project Title: Investigating Genes HLA-DQA2 and HLA-DQB2 in Adult-Onset Asthma
- Mentor: Nathan Schoettler
Laya Raj, Second-Year, Biology
- Project Title: Investigating TMEM163 Function in Myelination Using Zebrafish
- Mentor: Yamuna Krishnan
Ivey Rao, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Optimizing machine learning algorithms for neutrino interaction analysis
- Mentor: David Schmitz
Ivan Roberts, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Split Gibbs Method for Restrained Sampling
- Mentor: Aaron Dinner
Genevieve Robinson, Second-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Synthesis of a pH-resistant Fluorescent Reporter for Lysosomal Potassium Quantification
- Mentor: Yamuna Krishnan
Mireille Schlepp, Third-Year, Psychology, Business Economics
- Project Title: Ape-Homesign Project
- Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
Sophia Shahul, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Characterizing Sensory-Guided Stop-Related Activity in Mouse Secondary Motor Cortex
- Mentor: Jason MacLean
Almendra Tantajulca Sanchez, Second-Year, Political Science
- Project Title: Do Anti-Elite Governments Trigger Offshore Wealth Protection?
- Mentor: Pilar Manzi Gari
Ashok Tate, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Self-Tethering Viologens for Durable Feedwater Agnostic H2O2 Electrosynthesis
- Mentor: Anna Wuttig
Kumiko Ueda, Third-Year, Cognitive Science, Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Project Title: How does valence affect central and peripheral memory of narratives?
- Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong
Chengzhi Wang, Second-Year, Physics, Chemistry
- Project Title: Joint Bayesian Refinement of Conformational Ensembles and Amide-I IR Forward-Model Parameters for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
- Mentor: Aaron Dinner
Alisa Wu, Second-Year, Comparative Human Development, Sociology
- Project Title: Causeway Project
- Mentor: Leoandra Onnie Rogers
Jessica Wu, Second-Year, Chemistry, Sociology
- Project Title: Total Synthesis of Neocucurbol A Enabled by Enantioselective [4+2] Cycloadditions of Highly Activated Siloxyfurans
- Mentor: Alexander Cusumano
Sarina Zhao, Third-Year, Biology
- Project Title: Developing a Novel Baculovirus-based System for Effective Generation of iPSCs
- Mentor: Tong-Chuan He
Stacey Zhao, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Dissecting the Mechanism of PGE2-Mediated Suppression of IFN Signaling in rTANs
- Mentor: Yuxuan (Phoenix) Miao
William Zheng, Third-Year, Physics, Statistics
- Project Title: Interpretable Machine Learning for Madden Julian Oscillation Forecast
- Mentor: Da Yang
Supported by Generous Donors to the Dean's Fund for Undergraduate Research
Faye Callander, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering (Bioengineering Track), Mathematics
- Project Title: Developing OECT-Based Sodium, Potassium, and Glucose Sensors for Chipless Monitoring
- Mentor: Sihong Wang
Alyssa Chicoine, Second-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Investigating Oxytocin-Mediated Immune Regulation in Cancer Immunology
- Mentor: Jing Chen
Emma Chung, Second-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Using Large Language Models to Assess Conversation Predictability in Romantic Couples
- Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong
Lucas Dong, Third-Year, Physics, Chemistry
- Project Title: Designing Protein Binders to Regulate Adhesiveness in Protocadherin-19, a Protein Involved in Epilepsy
- Mentor: Marcos Sotomayor
Aidan Etterer, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Solving the Dyson Integral
- Mentor: Paul Wiegmann
Zvi Gomez Fisher, Second-Year, Linguistics, Public Policy
- Project Title: A Descriptive Phonology of Anabar Dolgan, Revisited
- Mentor: Lenore Grenoble
Gabrielle Horn, Second-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Modeling pathogenic and benign TET2 mutations in ageing and manifestation of leukemia
- Mentor: Amittha Wickrema
April Huang, First-Year, Molecular Engineering, Physics
- Project Title: Investigation of the Heat Dissipative Properties of Diamond for Power Electronics
- Mentor: Alexander High
Akshay Kirthi, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Rapamycin's Regulation of Myocardial Oxygen Consumption and Cell Injury
- Mentor: Willard Sharp
Savanah Lares, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Synthesis Study of Fusaterpenol
- Mentor: Scott A. Snyder
Matheus Martino-Wojciechowski, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Geometric Modeling of Aortic Aneurisms
- Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek
Yonu Oh, Third-Year, Biology with a Specialization in Cancer Biology
- Project Title: Computational design and biochemical validation of PDCD10-binding peptides in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma
- Mentor: Le Shen
Pablo Ramirez-Garcia, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
- Project Title: Development of a General Method for the Synthesis of Terpene Natural Products
- Mentor: Scott Snyder
Hanna Ruiz, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, Business Economics
- Project Title: The Dosage-Dependent Effect of Interferons on BCMA CAR T-cells
- Mentor: Jun Huang
Samuel Smith, First-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Examining the Crosstalk Between Cadherins and Integrins Junctions in the Drosophila
- Mentor: Katheryn Rothenberg
Jared St Jean, Third-Year, Astrophysics, History
- Project Title: Richard G Kron's Group on the Yerkes Plates
- Mentor: Richard G Kron
Chloe Su, First-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Investigating the Impact of Radiotherapy on Lymphatic Coagulation and Immune Cell Distribution in Melanoma Models
- Mentor: Melody Swartz
Eli Wakefield, Third-Year, Math, Chemistry
- Project Title: End of Scent Mixture Discrimination and Olfactory Enrichment in mouse models of Alzheimer's
- Mentor: Leslie Kay
Crystal Wang, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Simulation of Long-Lived Axino Signals in Particle Collisions
- Mentor: David Miller
Jason Wang, First-Year, Computational Biology, Chemistry
- Project Title: Disruption of CELSR1 Signaling through Designed Mutations in the CADH9-GAIN Interface
- Mentor: Demet Araç
Feifei Xu, Second-Year, Global Studies, Media Arts and Design
- Project Title: “Revenge on Gold Diggers:” Misogyny in Gaming and Social Media Discourse in China
- Mentor: Caterina Fugazzola
Sophia Xu, First-Year, Biology
- Project Title: Analysis of Image Grading Comparison for Microbial Keratitis
- Mentor: Jewel Hu
Winter Quad Research Scholars
Supported by the Natasha and Niccolo De Masi Undergraduate Research Fund
- Sal Ochoa, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Improving the Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles
- Mentor: Chin-Tu Chen
Supported by the Stuart J. Freedman Undergraduate Research Fund
- Elisa Gao, Third-Year, Astrophysics, Theatre and Performance Studies
- Project Title: X-ray Emission of Supernova 2023ixf
- Mentor: Vikram Dwarkadas
- Vivi McDermott, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Continuum Models For Diffuse Buckling Fronts in Auxetic Lattices
- Mentor: Heinrich M. Jaeger
- Kate Wandrisco, Second-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Searching For New Particles at a 10 TeV Muon Collider
- Mentor: Karri DiPetrillo
- Crystal Wang, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: A Flexible Test-Vector Generation Pipeline for ATLAS Hardware and Algorithm Testing
- Mentor: David Miller
Supported by the Global Health Research Fund
- Jason Chang, Fourth-Year, Economics
- Project Title: Investigating the combined effects of gingipains from Porphyromonas gingivalis and Toxoplasma gondii on the neurodegeneration in neuronal cell lines and human brain organoids
- Mentor: Rima McLeod
- Brian Chao, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
- Project Title: Developing a Toxoplasma gondii Vaccine for Humans
- Mentor: Rima McLeod
- Jordan Hanna, Third-Year, Economics
- Project Title: Regulatory Mechanisms Against Toxoplasma Gondii Infection for Pregnant Women
- Mentor: Rima McLeod
- Sofia Perri, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: RNA Splicing as a Biomarker for Multiple Sclerosis
- Mentor: Anthony Reder
- Ray Yang, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Tracing Past Epidemics through Metagenomic Screening of Ancient Human Genomes
- Mentor: Maanasa Raghavan
Supported by an unrestricted gift from Google
- Ky Julian McBride, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Philosophy
- Project Title: Microscale and Nanoscale Quantum Sensing for Biomedical Applications
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
Supported by the Insight Undergraduate Research Fund
- Irmak Altinok, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Investigating how local mechanical interactions impact pattern formation in the Drosophila retinal epithelium
- Mentor: Ilaria Rebay
- Ciara Balanza, Second-Year, Neuroscience, Fundamentals
- Project Title: The Localization of the human tRNA Splicing Endonuclease Complex
- Mentor: Cassandra Hayne
- Diego Bey, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Sythesis of Polymer Bound Bistrip
- Mentor: Viresh Rawal
- Kira Bhatia, First-Year, Physics
- Project Title: How Mechanical Interactions Between Cells Shape Organ Development
- Mentor: Noah Mitchell
- Israel Brown Jr., Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Statistics
- Project Title: Elucidating Fiber Metabolic Networks and Essential Genes through Metagenomic Analysis
- Mentor: Alice Cheng
- Katherine Chen, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Foundation model-assisted characterization of mixed rejection of renal allograft
- Mentor: Madeleine Torcasso
- Evelyn Chua, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Immunotherapy Influence on cf-RNA Signatures
- Mentor: Jing Chen
- Ualype de Andrade Uchoa, Third-Year, Physics, Astrophysics
- Project Title: A New Analysis of the S8 Tension: Constraining the Clustering of Matter using DES and Early-Universe Priors
- Mentor: Scott Dodelson
- Nathan Gehl, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Integrated Circuit Design and Layout for Rapid Waveform Sampling
- Mentor: Henry Frisch
- Ishaan Gunjati, Second-Year, Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Regulation of ADGRG6 Signaling through Isoform-Specific Antibodies
- Mentor: Demet Arac
- Rohan Haack, Second-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Cytokine Dynamics Following a Point Source Perturbation
- Mentor: Elizabeth Jerison
- Angela Joo, Third-Year, Economics
- Project Title: The Aftermath of the Ban on Universal Injunctions on Chapter 15 and the U.S. Foreign Bankruptcy Court’s Remedial Powers
- Mentor: Antony Casey
- Wael Kouki, Third-Year, Chemistry, Geophysical Sciences
- Project Title: Controllable behaviors of vesicle electrofusion
- Mentor: Jack Szostak
- Yannik Leuz, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Assessing the Cross-Reactivity of Mouse and Human Cytokines
- Mentor: Juan Mendoza
- Ethan Li, Third-Year, Chemistry, Economics
- Project Title: Structural Integration of a New Eukaryotic Organelle (Nitroplast) and its Remodeling During the Day
- Mentor: Mohammed Kaplan
- William Li, Third-Year, Computer Science, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Effects of Expressive Behaviors of Robotic Arms
- Mentor: Sarah Sebo
- Nicole Liu, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Investigation of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors in CAF State Decisions Under Nutrient Stress
- Mentor: Simon Schwörer
- Mouhamed Mbengue, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Implementation of a 2-Dimensional Optical Dipole Trap for an Atomic Quantum Mixture
- Mentor: Cheng Chin
- Dinah Megibow-Taylor, Second-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
- Project Title: Is Freedom of Expression Hindered by the Pursuit of Happiness?
- Mentor: Shigehiro Oishi
- Evie Miller, Second-Year, Linguistics, Psychology
- Project Title: Ape-Homesign Project
- Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
- Yonu Oh, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Computational design and biochemical validation of PDCD10-binding peptides in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC)
- Mentor: Le Shen
- Adriana Ortega, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The Role of HIF-1? and Reactive Oxygen Species in Lung Inflammation
- Mentor: Parker Woods
- Jay Shen, Fourth-Year, Physics, Computer Science
- Project Title: Pruning fluid dynamics foundation models
- Mentor: Dorian Abbot
- Kiran Simon, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Checkpoint Receptor-medicated Regulation of T Cells in Healthy Tissues
- Mentor: Martina Damo
- Samuel Smith, First-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Data-Driven Modeling of the Mechanicals Driving Egg Chamber Elongation in Drosophila
- Mentor: Noah Mitchell
- Alitza Soiffer, Second-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Asymmetric Photocatalyzed Vinylcyclopropane Rearrangement
- Mentor: Alex Cusumano
- Youssef Tazoui, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Effects of External Magnetic Fields on the Crystalline Structure of Binary Superlattices
- Mentor: Dmitri Talapin
- Sarah Thau, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Biochemistry
- Project Title: Improving Quality of Zirconium-89 Radiopharmaceuticals for Pancreatic Cancer Imaging
- Mentor: Satish Chitneni
- Campbell Vander Heiden, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Investigation of MAT1A as a novel ATF4 target gene required to maintain S-Adenosylmethionine levels during pancreatic cancer tumorigenesis
- Mentor: Kay Macleod
- Isabel Vargas-Hurlston, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Transient Absorption Spectroscopy on MoOCl2
- Mentor: Sarah King
- Jacob White, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Creative Writing
- Project Title: Investigating the impact of the ZAP70 proline-rich motif on TCR signaling and thymic development
- Mentor: Lin Shen
- Annabel Yarborough, Third-Year, Astrophysics
- Project Title: Illuminating WASP-18 b : UV/Optical Secondary Eclipse Observations with HST
- Mentor: Jacob Bean
- Kevin Yuan, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Genetic Characterization of Moth Fly Anterior Posterior Axis Development
- Mentor: Urs Schmidt-Ott
Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund
- Tianhe Chen, Second-Year, Art History
- Project Title: Archival Research on Exhibiting Chinese Experimental Art in Chicago
- Mentor: Ellen Larson
- Orion Douglas, Fourth-Year, Environment, Geography, & Urbanization, Global Studies
- Project Title: Art’s Block History Research
- Mentor: Adrienne Brown
- Charlotte Engrav, Third-Year, Creative Writing, English Language/Literature
- Project Title: The Craft Chronicle
- Mentor: Erica Warren
- Yuliia Ihnatesku, Fourth-Year, Data Science
- Project Title: Imagining a Sanctuary City: Newly Arrived Ukrainians in Chicago
- Mentor: Ania Aizman
- Chris Low, Fourth-Year, Computer Science, Economics
- Project Title: EnvAgent: Automating Software Environment Construction with Multi-Agent Systems
- Mentor: Kexin Pei
Supported by the Davidow & Collins Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Fund
- Nina Bao, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: NAD+ Metabolic Crosstalk Between Neurons and Glioma Cells
- Mentor: Rong Grace Zhai
- Leyla Campos, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Cinema Studies
- Project Title: The Neural Dynamics of Long-Term Memory with Repeated Learning
- Mentor: Edward Vogel
- Graham Hansen, Second-Year, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Linguistics
- Project Title: Impact of Natural Architecture on Cortical Activity and Attention Restoration
- Mentor: Marc Berman
- Jem Klancnik, Second-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: SCA-6 Therapy
- Mentor: Christopher M. Gomez
- Tori Liu, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: The Role of p52 Signaling in Immune Evasion in Glioblastoma
- Mentor: Bakhtiar Yamini
- Thereza Pedrazini de Castilho, Second-Year, Biological Chemistry, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Nicotine-Induced Upregulation of ?4?2 Receptors is Shaped by ?2 Subunit-Dependent Glycosylation and Golgi Satellite Processing
- Mentor: William Green
- Anwita Revoori, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Standardizing Virtual Reality Environments for Hippocampal Imaging: How Visual Cues Influence Training and Spatial Encoding
- Mentor: Mark Sheffield
Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors
- Jake Felsenthal, Fourth-Year, Computer Science, Creative Writing
- Project Title: Environmental Futures Through Critical Game Design
- Mentor: Katherine Buse
- Marcus Gao, Fourth-Year, Economics, Psychology
- Project Title: Epiphanies from Life Turning Points: How Negative Experiences Can Enrich the Good Life
- Mentor: Shigehiro Oishi
- Jenny Hu, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
- Project Title: Investigating the Role of RTCB in Stress Signaling and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Mentor: Scott Oakes
- Owen Mahan, Second-Year, Physics, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Characterizing the Activity of the IDR of RbBP5
- Mentor: Alexander Ruthenburg
- BJ Moses-Rosenthal, Fourth-Year, Sociology
- Project Title: Scientific Racism
- Mentor: Bernard Koch
- Zhonghe Qin, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
- Project Title: Synthesis of High-Entropy MXene via Lewis Acidic Molten Salt Etching
- Mentor: Dmitri Talapin
- Radha Ramanathan, Third-Year, Economics
- Project Title: Reconstructing Haiti’s Labor Economy: Archives, Race, and State Formation
- Mentor: Martin Castillo Quintana
- Ethan Sitzes, First-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Linking Past to Present: How Children and Adults Understand Historical Structural Barriers
- Mentor: Lin Bian
- Meilin Song, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Effect of particle size on the shear rheology of silica-based colloidal gels
- Mentor: Heinrich Jaeger
- Arvin Wang, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Development of Bifunctional Probes Targeting Neighboring Asp/Glu–Cys Motifs in Proteins
- Mentor: Professor Chuan He
Autumn Quad Research Scholars
Supported by the Global Health Research Fund
- Emmanuel Barajas, Fourth-Year, Psychology, Comparative Human Development
- Project Title: Reframing Help-Seeking: The Promise of Public Recognition in Motivating Boys to Seek Help
- Mentor: Lin Bian
- Hunter Bershtein, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences, Economics
- Project Title: The Therapeutic Potential of CD16hi Macrophages in Atherosclerosis Resolution
- Mentor: Ada Weinstock
- Sabrina Chang, Second-Year, Biology, Data Science
- Project Title: Characterizing the effects of smoking on age-associated DNA methylation
- Mentor: Brandon Pierce
- Vivian Chang, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Longitudinal Structural MRI Signatures of Resistance and Resilience in SuperAging
- Mentor: Adam Martersteck
- Ephraim Craddock, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: An IL-2-TGF-β Fusion Protein Expands Tregs and Induces Tolerance of Transplants
- Mentor: Maria-Luisa Alegre
- Emilio Del Angel, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Assessing the Effect of Weight Cycling on Neutrophil Recruitment and Development
- Mentor: Ada Weinstock
- Ahtziri Fernandez, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Spanish
- Project Title: Identifying the sex-specific roles of the gut microbiome-brain axis in aged Alzheimer’s Disease APPPS1-21 and NLF/PS1 (M146V) knock-in Mouse Models
- Mentor: Piyali Saha
- Bella Hobaugh, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience, Philosophy
- Project Title: Empathy and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
- Mentor: Peggy Mason
- Jeffrey Ke, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Long term effects of IFN-β therapy in Multiple Sclerosis
- Mentor: Anthony Reder
- Layne Kohler, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Weight Cycling Effect on Female Reproductive Function
- Mentor: Ada Weinstock
- Alison Lafayette, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Extracellular Vesicle RNA as Biomarkers of Glycocalyx Injury and Graft Dysfunction in Liver Transplantation
- Mentor: Kentaro Noda
- Diya Mishra, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Designing Case-Control Studies to Assess Road Traffic Injury Risks in India
- Mentor: Kavi Bhalla
- Rishi Purayil, Third-Year, Statistics
- Project Title: Analysing Transparency of Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures by Trauma Surgery Researchers
- Mentor: Timothy Plackett
- Nicole Reed, Fourth-Year, Biology, CEGU
- Project Title: Tractor Rollovers and Road Safety in India
- Mentor: Kavi Bhalla
- Sophia Sasaki, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Spontaneous breathing and diaphragm protection in mechanically ventilated patients
- Mentor: Bhakti Patel
- Hannah Thier, Fourth-Year, Biology, HIPS
- Project Title: Impact of Physician Anti-Bias Intervention on Care Satisfaction for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
- Mentor: Austin Wesevich
- Akanksha Varanasi, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Gene Expression and Immune Mechanism Profiles of Interferon-Treated Multiple Sclerosis Patients Across Subtypes
- Mentor: Anthony Reder
- Jazmine Vitela, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Impact of color tint maps on regions of interest for radiomic feature extraction in ultrasound images
- Mentor: Heather Whitney
- Luna Wang, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Impact of Alteration of the Microbiome During Critical Illness on Long-term Clinical Outcomes
- Mentor: Krysta Wolfe
- Alexandra Zhou, Third-Year, Economics, Applied Mathematics
- Project Title: Proximate Causes of the Global Fertility Decline
- Mentor: Anup Malani
Supported by the Hoeft Family Research Fund
- Sammy Alderden, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
- Project Title: Testing the Permeability and Conductivity of Cationic Mesoporous Membranes
- Mentor: Shrayesh Patel
- Maya Atassi, Third-Year, Astrophysics, Physics
- Project Title: Calibrating the Cosmos: Precision Polarization for the Simons Observatory
- Mentor: Jeff McMahon
- Jeff Baek, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: The investigation of the expression pattern of BMP9, Smad 1/5/8, and Runx2 in mouse cranial suture development via hybridization chain reaction
- Mentor: Russell Reid
- Mia Bocian, Third-Year, Psychology, Economics
- Project Title: The Autonomic Ear: Auditory feedback controls autonomic regulation
- Mentor: Howard Nusbaum
- Carmen Cox, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Assessing the Anatomy and Function of Fish Pectoral Fins
- Mentor: Mark Westneat
- Clarissa Ding, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Effects of SNF2H Residue Character on RNA Binding Interactions
- Mentor: Alexander J. Ruthenburg
- Shelley Fernando, Third-Year, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry
- Project Title: Dissecting the Role of the JK3 Locus in Immunity
- Mentor: Marcus Clark
- Rafael Gutierrez, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Examining the role of ventral muscles in larval fly movement
- Mentor: Elizabeth Heckscher
- Luis Hernandez, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Mitochondrial Transfer between Cancer Cells and Neutrophils
- Mentor: Yuxuan (Phoenix) Miao
- Alex Hu, Third-Year, Fundamentals, Germanic Studies
- Project Title: The Political Novel Today: Problems and Possibilities
- Mentor: Sophie Salvo
- Sayana Isaac, Third-Year, Economics, South Asian Civilizations
- Project Title: The Role of IL6-ST on Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Inflammation and Cell State Transitions
- Mentor: Simon Schwörer
- Badis Labbedi, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Axion Dark Matter Field Correlations via Entangled Photon Cavities
- Mentor: LianTao Wang
- Elena Lill, Second-Year, Biological Chemistry, Business Economics
- Project Title: Recombination Mechanism for SCCmec
- Mentor: Phoebe Rice
- Desanka Malinovic, Second-Year, Political Science
- Project Title: ‘Po naški’ Through Fiction: A Structured Reader of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian Prose
- Mentor: Nada Petkovic
- Julia Mastracci, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Investigating the Function of Individual and Combined TetraThymosinβ Domains
- Mentor: David Kovar
- Nicole Millan Ortiz, Fourth-Year, English Language and Literature, Romance Languages and Literature / Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Project Title: Postwar Artists' Books: An Investigation into the Curiosities of the Book Form
- Mentor: Christine Mehring
- Gaby Morin, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: High-Throughput Development of Redox-Active Polymers as Electrodes for Organic Batteries
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- Gabe Nelson, Third-Year, Biology, Chemistry
- Project Title: Biomechanical Modeling of Feeding Mechanisms in the Marine Butterflyfishes, Family Chaetodontidae
- Mentor: Mark Westneat
- Michael Qiu, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Elucidating the Roles of U4 sRNA structures in 5’ Splice Site Selection of pre-mRNA Splicing and Neurodevelopmental Disorder
- Mentor: Jonathan Prescott Staley
- Ismael Robles-Razzaq, Third-Year, Statistics, Computer Science
- Project Title: The Geometry of Representations in Mouse Latent-Context Decision-Making
- Mentor: Ramon Nogueira Manas
- Eva Schultz, Third-Year, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Visual Arts
- Project Title: Development of an Integrating Sphere as a Thermal Calibration Source for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations
- Mentor: Jeffrey McMahon
- Rebecca Sias, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, Chemistry
- Project Title: Investigating Cytokine-Specific eQTMs in Airway Smooth Muscle Cells
- Mentor: Carole Ober
- Victoria Sullivan, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Investigating the Spatial Regulation of Kibra by Apical Polarity Protein Interactions in Epithelial Cells
- Mentor: Richard Fehon
Supported by the Kemper Foundation
- Yorik Chuang, Second-Year, Economics, Public Policy Studies
- Project Title: A Century of Accounting Ideas: Quantifying Impacts of Standard-Setters on Innovation in Accounting Practices
- Mentor: Anthony Le
- Paolo Diaz Andrade, Third-Year, Sociology, Cinema and Media Studies
- Project Title: Latin-American Elites’ Perspectives on Poverty and Inequality: A Mixed-Methods Approach
- Mentor: Pilar Manzi
- Nathaniel Kim, Third-Year, Computer Science, Media Arts and Design
- Project Title: Using LLMs to Model the Strength of Non-English Passwords
- Mentor: Blase Ur
- Spencer May, Fourth-Year, Mathematics, Physics
- Project Title: Regression Discontinuity Design Methodology Improvement
- Mentor: Nikolaos Ignatiadis
- Jacob Neplokh, Fourth-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts
- Project Title: Leadership and Democracy
- Mentor: John P. McCormick
- Antonio Persi, Second-Year, Anthropology, Political Science
- Project Title: Violence, Authority, and Aid: Rethinking State-Building in Contemporary Haiti
- Mentor: Martin Castillo-Quintanna
- Allison Row, Third-Year, Statistics, Economics
- Project Title: How Artificial Intelligence Agents Interpret Subjective Human Values: An Audit of Personalization in Large Language Models
- Mentor: Blase Ur
- Noah Sher, Second-Year, Sociology
- Project Title: Entangled Oligarchies: The Hidden Deals Reshaping US-China Power Relations in Offshore Financial Centers
- Mentor: Kimberly Kay Hoang
- Isabella Summe, Fourth-Year, Data Science
- Project Title: Neural Signatures of Human and LLM-Derived Surprise in Story Listening
- Mentor: Monica Rosenberg
- Shreya Thota, Third-Year, Economics, Computer Science
- Project Title: Language Background And Infants' Attention Toward Native And Foreign Language Speakers
- Mentor: Yiyi Wang
Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund
- Henry Baldwin, Fourth-Year, Environment, Geography, & Urbanization
- Project Title: In Human Scale: The Search for Ecological Proportion in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Mentor: Benjamin Morgan
- Rohan Buluswar, Fourth-Year, Mathematics
- Project Title: Physics in Generative Diffusion Models
- Mentor: Lorenzo Orecchia
- Onofrio De Michele, Fourth-Year, Anthropology
- Project Title: Displaying Disappearing WIldlife: The Field Museum 1896 Expedition and Taxidermy in the 21st century
- Mentor: Jessica Landau
- Sebastian Deery, Fourth-Year, Mathematics, Computer Science
- Project Title: Projected Score Matching for Generative Modeling and Inverse Problems in Chaotic Systems
- Mentor: Nisha Chandramoorthy
- Cleo Delogu, Fourth-Year, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema and Media Studies
- Project Title: “Kidnapped”: Capital, Migration and Childhood in Comparative Print Culture 1820-1870
- Mentor: Josephine McDonagh
- Sofya Fadeeva, Second-Year, Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Project Title: Measuring Changes in Astronomical Sources over a Timescale of a Century
- Mentor: Richard Kron
- Lydia Gafford, Third-Year, Art History, History
- Project Title: The Craft Chronicle
- Mentor: Erica Warren
- Jaehyeon Han, Third-Year, History, Germanic Studies
- Project Title: The Political Novel Today: Problems and Possibilities
- Mentor: Sophie Salvo
- Daniel Hernandez, Second-Year, Computer Science
- Project Title: Interpretable Latent Structure of an AI Emulator of Stochastic Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
- Mentor: Dorian Abbot
- Emma Kirwin, Third-Year, Creative Writing, Cinema and Media Studies
- Project Title: Environmental Futures Through Critical Game Design
- Mentor: Katherine Buse
- Larry Li, Third-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Measuring the Relative Branching Ratio of KL-> 3pi0 / KL->pi+pi-pi0
- Mentor: Yau Wah
- Elektra Makris, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: High Throughput Validation of de novo Protein Binders to Probe Mechanisms of Inner-Ear Mechanotransduction
- Mentor: Marcos Sotomayor
- Giovanni Maya, Fourth-Year, Computer Science, Data Science
- Project: Voice vs. Visual Interfaces for Robot Personalization: Evaluating Control and Transparency Tradeoffs
- Mentor: Sarah Sebo
- Viresh Mittal, Third-Year, Computer Science, Economics
- Project Title: Quicksilver
- Mentor: Ben Y. Zhao
- Eliana Schiller, Third-Year, Astrophysics, Anthropology
- Project Title: Characterizing the Baryon Cycle Around Galaxies via Integral Field Spectroscopy
- Mentor: Hsiao-Wen Chen
- Junfei Sun, Fourth-Year, Mathematics, Computer Science
- Project: Asynchronous heavy-tailed Optimization
- Mentor: Tian Li
- Richmond Yeung, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: Design and Development of PSEC5b and PSEC6: A Waveform sampler for fast-timing detectors in Particle Accelerators, Medical Imaging and Astrophysics
- Mentor: Henry Frisch
- Aine Zhang, Second-Year, Statistics, Sociology
- Project Title: Degrowth as a Game Design Problem
- Mentor: Katherine Buse
Supported by the NK Cheung Chemistry Research Fellowship
- Michael Bolgov, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Multiple turnovers of RNA methylation by methyltransferase ribozymes
- Mentor: Matthew Tirrell
- John Brownridge, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Religious Studies
- Project Title: Mechanically-Initiated Polymerization Mediated by Piezochemistry for Bone Repairing
- Mentor: Yixiao Dong
- Felice Chan, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Modeling Fluorescent Proteins as Living Qubits
- Mentor: Greg Engel
- Azeem Currah, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: A Use Case for Ni3THT2 as a Heavy-Metal Sensor
- Mentor: John Anderson
- Josh Gonzalez, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Determination of the Functional Composition of Volume-Regulated Anion Channels During CD4+ Cell-Mediated Immune Response
- Mentor: Axel Concepcion
- Phoebe Hsu, Second-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Regulation of RNA targets by the tRNA splicing endonuclease (TSEN) complex
- Mentor: Cassandra Hayne
- Arnav Modak, Second-Year, Chemistry, Economics
- Project Title: Spin-valley Control of Monolayer MoS2 via Molecular Functionalization
- Mentor: Sarah B. King
- Samarth Ram, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Leveraging Machine Learning to Predict IscB-mediated Genome Editing
- Mentor: Weixin Tang
- Marco Sanchez, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Multiple Turnovers in Non-Enzymatic RNA Replication at the Origin of Life
- Mentor: Jack Szostak
- Juliette Shapiro, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Efforts Towards the Synthesis of Dhilirolide A
- Mentor: Scott Snyder
- Richard Song, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Characterization of Actin Cytoskeleton Changes by Pharmacological Inhibitors of Volume-Regulated Anion Channels
- Mentor: Axel Concepcion
- Ashok Tate, Third-Year, Chemistry
- Project Title: Self-Tethering Viologens for Facile and Durable H2O2 Electrosynthesis
- Mentor: Anna Wuttig
- Della Waldman, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Reconstituting Actin Stress Fiber Repair Through Protein Phase Separation
- Mentor: Margaret Gardel
- Jeffery Zhang, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
- Project Title: Characterizing environmentally responsive condensing proteins in Synechococcus elongatus in vitro
- Mentor: D. Allan Drummond
Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors
- Jacques Attinger, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Printing Superconducting Quantum Circuits using a Miniaturized Molecular Beam Epitaxy
- Mentor: Shuolong Yang
- Naomi Gelfer, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Investigating the pH Dependence of Fluorescent Protein Qubits for Cellular Biosensing
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
- Colleen Kim, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Nb Thin Film Growth Optimization
- Mentor: Supratik Guha
- Siqi Liu, Fourth-Year, Physics, Applied Mathematics
- Project Title: 2D Au
- Mentor: Chong Liu
- Ramon Rivas Varela, Fourth-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Enhancing Quantum Thermometry in Living Cells Using Robust ZFS Extraction Methods
- Mentor: Peter Maurer
- Ha Do, Fourth-Year, Astrophysics, Race, Diaspora, & Indigeneity
- Project Title: A chemical investigation of Milky Way stellar streams
- Mentor: Alexander Ji
- Zvi Gomez Fisher, Second-Year, Linguistics, Public Policy
- Project Title: A Descriptive Phonology of Anabar Dolgan
- Mentor: Lenore Grenoble
- Avivit Ashman, Third-Year, Art History
- Project Title: Art of the Munich Olympics
- Mentor: Christine Mehring
- Iris Badezet-Delory, Third-Year, Physics, Classical Studies
- Project Title: Weather Gridlock: The Dynamics of Back-to-Back Heatwaves in Climate Hot-Spots
- Mentor: Noboru Nakamura
- Aubrey Barb, Third-Year, Biochemistry, Chemistry
- Project Title: Hybrid Proline-Rich Proteins in Systems of Plant Immunity
- Mentor: Jean Greenberg
- Jace Chen, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering, Economics
- Project Title: Identifying targetable vulnerabilities in extrachromosomal DNA–positive cancers.
- Mentor: Lixing Yang
- Charlie Davis, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: In-silico Deployment of Thoracic Aortic Stents to Model Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Disease Progression
- Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek
- Nurai El Ashry, Third-Year, Biochemistry, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Optimization of FISH and IF Protocols in FFPE Tissue
- Mentor: Jingyi Fei
- Alex Garcia, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Investigation of the effect of separator on the performance of low temperature molten salt electrolytes in lithium metal batteries
- Mentor: Chibueze Amanchukwu
- Geordan Haynes, Fourth-Year, Psychology
- Project Title: Caregiver Responsiveness Project
- Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
- Kalea Hidalgo, Third-Year, Neuroscience, Psychology
- Project Title: PIE-Sequencing ATXN2, the RNA-Binding Protein
- Mentor: Paschalis Kratsios
- Nathan Hu, Third-Year, Chemistry, Statistics
- Project Title: Fabrication of Electrically Tuneable Pressure-Sensitive LCE Adhesive Materials System
- Mentor: Stuart Rowan
- Mia Karathanasis, Third-Year, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies
- Project Title: Individual Variability in Perceptual Assimilation: The Relationship Between Spanish Perception and English Production
- Mentor: Melissa Baese-Berk
- Ernest Leong, Fourth-Year, Romance Languages & Literatures: French
- Project Title: Translating Charles Perrault's "Le Parralèle des Anciens et des Modernes"
- Mentor: Larry F. Norman
- Isaac Loh, Third-Year, Biology, Economics
- Project Title: Catfish Staging for Odontode Research
- Mentor: Neil H. Shubin
- Matheus Martino-Wojciechowski, Third-Year, Neuroscience, History
- Project Title: Thoracic Aortic Disease Modeling
- Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek
- Marina Mendes Ferreira, Second-Year, Biological Sciences, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine (HIPS)
- Project Title: Disarming plant defenses: spatial expression of detoxification genes in Pieris rapae
- Mentor: Marcus Kronforst
- Gabby Moon, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: How Does BNIP3 Deletion Impact Skeletal Muscle?
- Mentor: Kay Macleod
- Deqa Muse, Fourth-Year, Chemistry, History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine
- Project Title: Modeling Conical Structures and Surgical Geometries
- Mentor: Nhung Nguyen
- Kyle Obermeyer, Third-Year, Neuroscience
- Project Title: Inflammation and Disease Progression in a Genetic Mouse Model of Prion Disease
- Mentor: James Mastrianni
- Nic Restivo, Third-Year, Geophysical Sciences, Environmental Sciences & Chemistry
- Project Title: Calibrating Biomarker Proxies for Fires in Savannas
- Mentor: Tyler Karp
- Hanna Ruiz, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry, Economics
- Project Title: The Dosage-Dependent Effect of Interferons on CD28 and 4-1BB CAR T-cells
- Mentor: Jun Huang
- Sara Selig, Second-Year, Computer Science, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Sensorimotor cortical activity and perceptual detection of intracortical microstimulation in somatosensory cortex
- Mentor: Nicholas Hatsopoulos
- Noah Sodickson, Second-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis
- Mentor: Vincenzo Vitelli
- Evalds Viguls, Second-Year, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences
- Project Title: Epigenetic Regulation of DNA Double-Strand Break Repair
- Mentor: Stephen J. Kron
- Elijah Wakefield, Third-Year, Mathematics, Chemistry
- Project Title: Scent Mixture Discrimination
- Mentor: Leslie Kay
- Stacey Zhao, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Molecular Engineering
- Project Title: Dissecting the Immune Crosstalk Driving tSC-Dependent Tumor Relapse
- Mentor: Yuxuan (Phoenix) Miao
- Ahan Datta, Third-Year, Physics, Mathematics
- Project Title: Design of PSEC6: An Application Specific Integrated Circuit for Picosecond Timing
- Mentor: Henry Frisch
- Benedikt Nagele, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering, Chemistry
- Project Title: Exploring Mechanisms of Resistance to Trastuzumab Deruxtecan in Endometrial cancers
- Mentor: Sridevi Challa
- Andrew Arzac, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering, Phyiscs, Mathematics
- Project Title: PSEC6
- Mentor: Henry Frisch
- Graydon Schulze-Kalt, Fourth-Year, Physics
- Project Title: PULSE-A Electronics Design, Integration, and Test
- Mentor: Tian Zhong