Andrea Mitchell Center Undergraduate Research Grants

The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy will award up to 10 undergraduate research fellowships for projects to be begun in the summer of 2021 and completed during the 2021-2022 academic year.

Contact Information

Dr. Ann Vernon-Grey
anneliza@upenn.edu
Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
The ARCH, 3601 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6244
215-746-6488

Applications should be made via the CURF website.  For further information, contact Matthew Roth, Administrator of the Andrea Mitchell Center, at maroth@sas.upenn.edu.

Communication within the Curriculum

Through the Emerging Scholar Talk (EST) competition, CWiC celebrates both strong research projects and solid speaking abilities by providing students with a public forum in which to talk about their academic work. Emerging Scholars may present any type of research in any field that they have conducted independently at Penn. This may include independent studies, senior theses, class projects, etc. All undergraduates in all four schools are welcome and encouraged to apply.

College House Research Fellows

Application Deadline: Whatever date is suggested by your House

The Office of College Houses and Academic Services announces that undergraduate proposals are now being accepted for the 2020-2021 College House Research Fellowship Program. A research proposal in any academic field may qualify for a fellowship; only one research fellow per College House will be selected to receive the $1,500 award, which will be paid over an 18 month period (January 2020 – May 2021).

College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant

**Please note that priority will be given to submissions that detail projects which can be undertaken within the current COVID-19 restrictions.**

General Information

Past Projects Funded

Young, Jordyn The Impact of Dating Application Usage on Well-Being
Yang, Jeffrey Information Avoidance in Education Investment
Wu, Tina Omega-3 Fatty Acid Nutritional Intervention Study
Wang, Zhuoyang Development and Validation of a Liquid Biopsy Assay for Detection of C797S Mutation in cell-free DNA of NSCLC Patients
Wang, Jessica Early biosocial risk factors and later health outcomes in adolescents: a follow-up of the Healthy Brains and Behavior Study
Sriram, Adithya Aptamer Based Detection of Alpha-Synuclein
Raj, Jasmine Designing a Method that Tests Two-Year-Olds’ Interpretation of the Lexical Relevance of Speech-Sound Distinctions
Ra, Angela The Role of Institutional Trust in Moral Judgements
Pak, Chaereen Investigating Generational Worldview Differences in Immigrants
Nolan, Andreas Is a nudge enough? An exploration of when people incorporate obstacles into their goal-setting strategies.
Nguyen, Duc HIV Integrase CCD domain drug interaction
Nelson, Jacob The October War: Masoud Barzani's Independence Referendum and its Fallout
Mustapha, Sidia Investigating Generational Worldview Differences in Immigrants
Miron, Carly No Shoulder to Cry On? An Examination of Callous-Unemotional Traits and Friendship Quality among Adolescents
Miguez, Sofia Bio 3D Printing of Bone Grafts for Non-Healing Bone Defects
Loftus, Patrick Resilience and Coping in College
Lee, Christopher Uncovering the Neural Circuit Underlying Salt Taste Perception
Ho, Flora Understanding Merkel Cell Polyomavirus LT Function Through Thr297 Mutagenesis
Gottlieb, Kay A Picture of Comorbid ADHD and Conduct Disorder in a Longitudinal Study: Elevated Symptoms, Executive Function Deficits and Poor Outcomes
Goodman, Benjamin Institutional Ambiguity and Economic Growth: An Experimental Approach
Friedman, Benjamin Microtargeting with Moral Foundations Theory
Fink, Katherine Boots Off the Ground: The Impact of Individual-Level Factors on American Public Approval of Lethal Drone Strikes
Demirdag, Idil The Role of Obstacle Integration in Goal Planning and Attainment
Crocker, Olivia Using a Novel PEV Assay to Identify Heterochromatin Clustering Factors
Clark, Sophia Resistance in African Children’s Literature: How the Legacy of Colonialism Impacts the Publishing Industry and its Ramifications
Chhabra, Ria Investigating Generational Worldview Differences in Immigrant Families
Chacon, Alexi Understanding how CASA Volunteers can Improve the Implementation of the Positive Parenting Program
Bae, Jung hyun Purpose in Life, Pain Sensitivity, and the Psychosocial functioning of Chronic Pain Patients
Awachie, Tochukwu Is Beauty in the Nose of the Smeller?
Areza, Julci Identification and characterization of sleep-wake circuits in Drosophila larvae
Wu, Tina The influence of motivation to move on rehabilitation outcome in young children with cerebral palsy
Wen, Yuxin Of Two Minds: A Critical Study of the Relationships Between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
Teshome, Hiab Understanding IMPDH2 Aggregates and Their Role in Neurodegeneration
Stein, Samantha Reconciling Risk: The Logics and Practices of Community Engagement in Exception from Informed Consent Research
Shringari, Sumant Computational Prediction of Thioamide Stabilization of Peptides
Sethi, Ashna The role of a bacteriophage lysin in the supplementation of microbiome therapy to treat C. difficile infections.
Robnett, Maya Targeting Sox-2 as an Antigen for Multiple Myeloma
Repsold Franca, Luiza Art, Fashion and the Hybrid Art Object: Twentieth Century Artist-Designed Textiles
Ravendran, Alysha Racialized Narrative Structures in Malaysia
Moreno, Amanda Activation of amylin receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell reduces oxycodone-taking and -seeking behaviors in rats
Maheshwari, Nikita Epitopes in Influenza Infection
Ma, Lucy The Impact of Socially Stigmatized Pre-Existing Conditions on Outcomes After Injury
Kaufmann, Samuel TRAP2 for Neuron Identification and Modification
Kargilis, Daniel Mechanical Testing and Validation of MRI-Derived Finite Element Models
John, Michael The Implication of Ethnic Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Helm, Kaila Characterizing the Slit/Robo Pathway in a Tissue-Engineered Rostral Migratory Stream
Hardy, Connor Community Needs in Queer Kolkata
Guy, Natasha French Women Photographers in the First Half of the 20th Century
Griff, Jessica The Effectiveness of Wilms Tumor Screening in Beckwith-Wiedemann Spectrum
Dubner, Jacob Evaluating the Long-Term Viability of the Oral Rehydration Tube in Rural Uganda
Dreier, Allison Development of a mouse model to study the effects of adolescent vaping of Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Collins, Michiyah Identification and characterization of Haloferax vocanii hypermotile mutants
Chong, Joseph Understanding the Roles of ESRP1 and Sox2 in Orofacial Clefting
Chen, William Establishing a High-Throughput Cryo-Electron Tomography Pipeline, Database, and Web Server
Chen, Delia Novel Specialized Properties of Adult Muscle Stem Cells
Chen, Yujiao (Cecily) Feeling Good About Feeling Bad: The Feminist Sex Wars and the Writing of Kathy Acke
Chan, Peter Establishing a Model of Challenged Rotator Cuff Tendon-to-Bone Healing Using Ovariectomized Rats
Campbell, Catherine The Persistent Feminization and Devaluation of Care Work
Boey, Emma Epstein Barr Virus Encoded BHRF1 miRNA Targets Have a Role in Maintaining Lytic Latency
Bhagwagar, Sanaea Identification and Characterization of Adipose Tissue Macrophage microRNAs
Alifimoff, Rebecca Political In the Personal: Postcards of the Dreyfus Affair
Al Rashed, Fatima Menstrual Hygiene and Management in Bwiam, The Gambia
Hood, Ryan The role of TIPE0 and its regulation of GasderminC in intestinal epithelial cell proliferation and pyroptosis.
Uria, Christina Sex Crimes and Morality
Tolbert, Samuel, Not Whole Yet: The Demise of the Plantation and the Emergence of Post-Emancipation Order in Kershaw and Camden Counties, South Carolina
Spence, Austin, Conversation Pieces: Documenting Political Art Collectives in Buenos Aires
Spandorfer, Julia, How Can I Improve?: Character Strengths and Openness to Negative Feedback in Childhood
Sheen, Justin, See Chiri Run: Understanding the Movement of Chagas Disease in the Lab and in the Field
Seok, Darsol, Gazes Reflect Loss Aversion
Wang, Andrew The Roles of KLF4 in UV-induced Skin Damage and Squamous Cell Cancer
Pomponio, Maria, Acute Treatment of Pcdh10 +/- mice with a Glycine Transporter Inhibitor: Testing a Potential Treatment for Social Deficits in Autism
Pittell, Blake, The Rise of Chinawood: China’s Expanding Influence upon Hollywood
Peterson, Charlotte, French-American Differences in Family Meals
Park, Andrew, Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings
Paleologos, Nicholas, Neuropathological Examination of the Hippocampus after Traumatic Brain Injury
Oksas, Kate, Effects of NEUREXIN1 Mutations on Autism Phenotypes
Offit, Emily, Sexual Crimes and Morality
Nguyen, Hillary, My Transgender Brain Study
Montoya, Emma, Drug Trafficking Organizations and Undocumented Migration through Mexico
Weird, Vanessa, Chemogenetic Activation of Hindbrain Projections to the Ventral Tegmental Area
Massa, Scott, Discipline-Based Communication Differences Between Clinicians in Operating Room to Intensive Care Unit Handoffs
Mardjuki, Rachel, Expanding the Utility of the Tetrazine Staple
Lin, Da, Curating as Feminist Activism: Exhibitions on Women Artists and Feminist Art in the US, 1977-2007
Lee, Zachariah, Identifying an NO Detoxification Regulator Using S-Nitrosylation in Vibrio Cholera
Lasure, Joseph, The Development of Early Modern Resistance Theory and the Execution of Charles I
Wright, Jennifer, Sex, Drugs, and Privacy Settings: How Online Privacy Relates to Youth Posting Risky Health Behaviors on Social Media
Linksvayer, Timothy Preferential Cannibalism of Larvae in Queen-Right and Queen-Less Monomorium Pharaonis Colonies
Jarmula, Jakub Identifying the Sexual Differences in the Neuromuscular Circuitry of Courtship Behavior in Cowbirds
Inamdar, Shivansh, Distortion of the Spectra of Faraway Objects
Hur, Lynn, Is Obesity the Cost of Being Food Insecure? An Analysis of Food Environments and Behaviors in Rural Guatemala
Hong, Kendra, Increased MYC/N Signature is Associated with Biallelic Expression of TERT in Multiple Histotypes
Hong, Abigail, Feasibility of Fabricating Personalized 3D-Printed Bone Grafts Guided by High-Resolution Imaging
Harney, Hannah, A Study of Lies: Social Norms, Beliefs & Deception
Gendler, Isabel, Oliver Cromwell in Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Nonfiction
Gao, Kelly, The Effect of Arf Knockdown on ALS Pathology Using Model ALS Motor Neurons from Mice
Dominique, Myrna, Therapeutic Target Discovery in a New Mouse Model of Sporadic Amyotrophic Laterl Sclerosis
Dekhne, Mihir, Injury Response in Normal Tendons: Regulatory Roles of Collagen V
Daniel, Taylor, Enhancing FIX through Site-Directed Mutagenesis
Dai, Helen, A New Type of Spectrometer for Finding Nearby Earth-like Planets
Covarrubias, Ian, Identifying a Wake Promoting Octopaminergic System during Drosophila Larval Development
Chan, Patricia, Investigating the Distinct Protein-Protein Interactions by Different Protein Isoforms produced by ESRP1 Regulated Alternative Splicing
Yan, Brian, Human Inflammasome Activation in Response to Bacterial Pathogens
Careyva, Jeffrey, Derrida, Heidegger, and the Question of Poetry
Bucklin, Molly, Ability of Cytokines to Improve CAR T-Cell Efficacy
Bream, Austin, Underground Environmentalists: The Origins and Outcomes of the East German Environmental Movement
Austin, Borja, Key Features of Drosophila Larval Sleep – Postural Changes and Quiescent Sequence
Austin, Borja, Key Features of Drosophila Larval Sleep – Postural Changes and Quiescent Sequence
Berhanu, Helen, Afro-Caribbean Immigration and the Rise of Conservative Populism in 20th Century Britain
Yao, Christopher, Analyses of Pupil Oscillation Frequency in Relation to Psychomotor Vigilance Test Lapses of Attention across Different Doses of Sleep Deprivation
Yoon, Jimin, Computational Modeling of Non-Canonical Amino Acid to Determine Photophysical Mechanisms of Experimentally Observed Fluorescence
McCarthy, Michael, Statins as a Treatment for Impaired Cognition in Sepsis Patients
Covarrubias, Ivan, Sleep Deprivation Effects on Sleep Neuron Activity in the POA
Rhodes, Sylvia, Assessment of Osteoporosis in the Spine Using 18F-Sodium Fluoride PET/CT
McCarhty, Michael, Statins as a Treatment for Impaired Cognition in Sepsis Patients
Levine, Ari, Neurological basis of aberrant social behaviors associated with NF1 mutations in the drosophila melanogaster gustatory pathway
Sandoval-Heglund, Donavon, Investigating X-Chromosome Inactivation in Quiescent Cell Populations
Leszinsky, Lena, Opioid Use Following an Enhanced Recovery after Neurosurgery Pathway
Leone, Ryan, Comparing Neurological Recovery After Traumatic Brain Injury with Additive Concomitant Bone Fracture and Lung Injury
Lazarus, Elizabeth, City Uncensored
Santhumayor, Brandon, Sex-specific Cdk5 Epigenetic Remodeling in Behavior
Klehm, Bryce, US-Russia Cooperation in Bosnia
Jo, Celine Experiences around Food among Type II Diabetes Patients in Cobbs Creek
Keenan, Delaney, Connections Between the Art of Spain and the Low Countries during the Spanish Golden Age
Schechter, Max, Optimization of the Novelty Suppressed Feeding Protocol as a Measure of Ketamine’s Antidepressant Effect
Kahng, Michelle, Systemic infusions of amylin attenuate oxycodone-taking behavior in rats
Jung, Lara, Nature, Prescribed.
Jensen-Hitch, Fiona, Politics, identity, and ethics in ancient and contemporary Israel: an integrated approach to a bioarchaeological collection,”
Sethi, Ila, Refining Forebrain Organoid Size and Architecture for Transplantation Studies
Jean, Ian, Sexual response to song: effects of song manipulation in female cowbirds
Igiraneza, Aime Bienfait, Open Modification Searches Facilitate the Study of Protein Modifications Including Glycosylation in Haloferax volcanii
Sizov, Katherine, Investigating Affected Molecular Pathways of CDKL5 Disorder
Song, Se Lin, Synthesis of ABn Constitutional Isomeric Dendritic Building Blocks Using Air-Stable Nickel Catalyst
Grimsley, Jillian, Drama and Flair in Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh: A Twelfth-Century Guide to Rewriting History
Sprague, Leah, The Government's Role as a Nutrition Expert in the United States, 1945-80
Friedman, Benjamin, The Sacred Divide: Political Polarization and Sacred Values
Fradin, Daniel, The Arctic Town of Tuktoyaktuk: A Profile of a Changing Community
Filosa, John,Crithidia fasciculata as a model to study insect-specific adhesion
Estreicher, Justin, Celebrating Conquest: Broken Treaties, World’s Fairs, and Constructions of Native American Savagery, 1875–1905
Eisner, Eric, “The Most Generous, Disinterested, and Philanthropic Motives”: Religion, Race, and the Maryland Jew Bill
Edmonds, Donnisa, Environmental Decision
Dashevsky Yehudith, What Makes a Good Translation? Theory, Practice, and Translating Requiem
Cumming, Celine, Anatomical and Behavioral Characterization of NTS PPG Axonal Projections: PVH and VTA
Trimm, Emily, Optogenetic techniques in the study of meiotic drive
Clements, Ari, Understanding the Role of Subchondral Bone Marrow MSCs in Osteoarthritis
Tse, Ivy, Face Study and Social Value Learning
Um, Paul, Characterizing Sleep in C. elegans with Orsay-Infection
Chambers, Shae, Behavioral threat response following repetitive mild traumatic brain injury in mice
Wang, Tiffany, The Golden Standard: Examining Ethics and American Journalism in A Global Context
Brooks, Ezra The Impact on Health Outcomes of Chilean OB/GYN Collusion
Wu, Yuefeng, A Survey of Contemporary Museum Architecture
Dillon Bergin, Fees Must Fall: Student Revolt in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Yang, Michelle, Identification of Bacterial Pathogens from RBCs
Julci Areza, Identification of sleep-wake circuits in Drosophila larvae
Zhang, Monglin (Mona), Fuel Utilization and Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Primary Mitochondrial Disease
Zhou, Qingyang, Interactions Between the Chinese and the Jewish Refugees in Shanghai During World War II
Weir, Vanessa, A hindbrain to VTA pathway regulates cocaine-seeking behavior via a glucagon-like peptide-1 dependent mechanism
Hur, Lynn, A Comprehensive Analysis of the Relationship between Food Insecurity and Obesity in Cobbs Creek, West Philadelphia.
Fisher, Wilson, Co-Working, Hacking and the Pursuit of Something Viral - Towards a Future with Cory Arcangel
Aharoni, Adam, Exploring Cellular Diversity in the Skin Using Nuclear RNA Sequencing
Acquah, Nana, Investigating Granule Cell Layer Volume after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Ahmed, Fahad Association of Glioblastoma Extent of Resection and Survival
Fagen, Hannah The Happiest Place in the Hospital; Newborn Nurseries in American Hospitals; A History
Cendan, Isis The Effects of NANCI lncRNA on Nkx2.1 Expression
Duong, Michael YY1 and CTCF Orchestrate/Coordinate a Looping Switch during Early Neural Development
Chatterjee, Julia Dreaming in the Ancient World

Contact Information

Dr. Ann Vernon-Grey
anneliza@upenn.edu

For questions, and to schedule an appointment to discuss developing an application, please call 215-746-6488

Class of 1971 Robert J. Holtz Fund

**Please note that priority will be given to submissions that detail projects which can be undertaken within the current COVID-19 restrictions.**

General Information

Past Projects Funded

Valeri, Jacqueline Light Activated Gene Expression to Control Embryonic Stem Cell Fate
Qian, Justin, Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of WS2/MoS2 Heterostructures
Onorati, Angelique, Exploring the Role of GRP78 Arginylation in Melanoma during Targeted Cancer Therapy
Koo, Gabriel, Mapping the Signaling Pathways of Rho GEF, Vav2, in Human Breast Cancer
Hur, Youn Young, Prospective Investigation of the Impact of Smoking and Smoking Cessation on Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Zambrano, Andres, Implementation of Dynamics into Motion Simulations of Robots Made Through Rapid-Fabrication
Tien, Vishal, Optogenetic Stimulation of Neuronal Aggregates

Contact Information

Dr. Ann Vernon-Grey
anneliza@upenn.edu
Please call 215-746-6488 to schedule an appointment

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