2018

• Nurul Ezzaty Binti Hasbullah (COL 2020): “Let's talk about sex; A qualitative study on the beliefs, perception, and attitudes of girls in Malaysia towards sexual activity” [Mentor: Ramah McKay, History and Sociology of Science]
• Gabriella Lott (COL 2019): “Assembling Public Cultural Enrichment Archives” [Mentor: Brian Peterson, Africana Studies]
• Phoebe Ruggles (COL 2019): “Relationships and Working Conditions on Organic Dairy Farms in Humboldt County” [Mentor: Mary Summers, Political Science]

2017

• Olivia Hess (COL 2018): "21st Century Conservation of Paraguayan Fauna"
• Jisoo Kim (COL 2018): "Using a Mixed-Method Approach to Optimize Mid Level Ophthalmic Personnel Counseling in Aravind Eye Hospital’s Glaucoma Clinic"

2016

• Mary Peyton Sanford

  Mary Peyton Sanford
  (COL 2017): “Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing”

• Mara Zafiu

  Mara Zafiu
  (COL 2017): “Internship at the Romanian Permanent Mission at the United Nations”

• Antoinette Zoumanigui

  Antoinette Zoumanigui
  (COL 2017): “Internship With AlEFS”

2015

• Courtney Bliler (COL 2016): "Summer 2015 Internship at the Center for the National Interest"
• Catherine Darin (COL 2016): "Urban Foraging: Can eating weeds help the world?"
• Hannah Morse (COL 2016): "Relations and Motivation Lab at Northwestern University Internship"

2014

• Joyce Kim (COL 2015): “Internship at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations”
• Iris Zhang (COL 2016): “Summer Internship with the New York State Office of the Attorney General”

2013

• Christina Economy (COL 2014): “Department of State Internship, Embassy La Paz”
• Yessenia Gutierrez (COL 2014): “Philadelphia Zoo Animal Care Internship”
• Monica Purmalek (COL 2014): “2013 Summer Internship at National Research Center for Women and Families”

2012

• Carthi Mannikarottu (COL 2014): “Morbidity and Utilization in Below-Poverty Line Patients with Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme”
• Autumn Patterson (COL 2013): “Internship with the Embassy of the US in Ankara, Turkey”

2011

• Kathryn McCabe (COL 2012): Communicating Change: A Case Study of School Reform in the Recovery School District of New Orleans
• Renee McDougall (COL 2012): Investigating the Epidemiologic Characteristics of Nosocomial Pneumonia in a Veterinary Setting

2010

• Diane Dao (COL 2011): Research Recruitment, HPV, and Cervical Cancer Prevention in Asian American Women
• Elana Lev (COL 2011): Internship at the Institute for International Relations and Strategy in Paris, France

2009

• Sarah Brown (COL/WH 2011): Bringing Relief to Rural Alaskan Villages
• Melissa Gradilla (COL 2011): Giving Birth in Santiago Atitlan:  The Impact of a Newly Established Birth Center on Traditional Views of Labor and Delivery

2008

• Lindsay Eierman (COL 2010): Internship with Women’s Campaign International in Chile
• Mary Riddle (COL 2009): 8-week Medical Internship, Cuzco, Peru; 2-week Biological Conservation Work, La Reserva Ecologica, Taricaya, Peru
• Elena Stein (COL 2010): Internship: Ties To The World

2007

• Rachel Conrad (COL 2008): Severe Anemia Among Patients Prescribed Zidovudine in Developing Countries: A Case-Control Study in Gaborone, Botswana

2006

• Giselle Aris (COL 2007): Internship at Bureau of African Affairs, US Dept of State
• Rachel Han (COL 2008): Internship Philadelphia Health Outcomes Photo-Documentary Project
• Megan Peppel (COL 2007): Internship at the Foreign Policy Research Institute

2011

• Joseph Cloward (COL ’12), Nanjing University and Amity Foundation
• Julia D’Souza (EAS ’14), Guatemala Health Initiative
• Sarvshrehth Gupta (WH ’14), Akansha India
• Jessica S. Kim (COL ’12), Winchester College, UK
• Kevin Leiby (COL ’12), Ivy League Consult Africa
• Joan Larbi (COL ’12), Ivy League Consult Africa
• Cindy Wei (WH/COL ’13), Nanjing University and Amity Foundation

2016

• Avalon O'Connor

  Avalon O'Connor
  (COL 2017)

• Brad Pettigrew

  Brad Pettigrew
  (COL 2017)

2009

• Sophie Cavoulacos (COL ’10): “Politics, Intellectuals and Culture: Dwight Macdonald and mid-century shifts in America”
• Danielle Daidone (COL ’10)
• Aaron Ecay (COL ’10): “Investigating the genesis and evolution of the do-support construction in Early Modern English”
• Spencer Glantz (EAS ’11)
• Lauren Kapsalakis (COL ’11): “Attitudes Towards the Use of Contraceptives in an Indigenous Population in Transition”
• Michelle Han-Han Lee (COL ’12): “The Post-Industrial Waterfront: a study of how the forces of geography, heritage, economic use, demographic profile, and community leadership shape the built environment”
• Jacinda Li (WH ’11)
• Clara Ng (COL ’10)
• Ilana Porter (COL ’10)

2001

• Eric Lee (EAS’03)
• Natalie Michelle Gallant (COL’02)
• Nicholas McDermott (COL’02)
• Ethan Kay (WH’03)
• Lydia Dowlath (EAS’04)

2000

• Corey Brooks (COL’03)
• Lincoln Ellis (COL’03)
• Nicholas McDermott (COL’02)
• Seung-Hae Jasmine Park (COL’01)
• Asgeir Sigfusson (COL’01)

2016 (Spring)

• Braden Cordivari

  Braden Cordivari
  (COL 2018): “Mapping the Roads of Phrygian Gordion” [Mentor: C. Brian Rose, Classical Studies/Penn Museum]

• Caroline Lachanski

  Caroline Lachanski
  (SEAS 2018): “Characterizing the Role of BRD4 in Gene Expression and Cell Fate in Neural Stem Cells” [Mentor: Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, Bioengineering]

2013 (Fall)

• Penny Jennewein (COL 2014): “Student Involvement in On-Campus Unionization Efforts” [Mentor: Walter Licht, HIST]
• Kelvin Wang (EAS 2016): “Immunofluoresence of Innate Immune Cells in Human Skin” [Mentor: Brian Kim, MED]

2012 (Fall)

• Heather Bromfield (COL 2013): “Fires in Slums – A Comparison of Three Cities” [Mentor: Dr. Marton Markovits, Political Science]
• Allison Oakes (COL 2013): “Anxiety, Depression, and Risky Decisions” [Mentor: Dr. Joe Kable, Psychology]

2011 (Fall)

• Paul Martin (COL 2012): “Competitive Cooperation: Understanding Germany’s Dialogue and Diplomacy with East Asia in the World Expo” [Mentor: Dr. Eric Jarosinski, Germanic Languages and Literature]
• Andres Rene Munoz Rojas (EAS 2012): “The Role of SHP2 in non-small cell lung cancer and glioblastomas in regulating cell survival in response to treatment withEGFR kinase inhibitors” [Mentor: Dr. Matthew J. Lazzara, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering]

2010 (Fall)

• Casey McQuade (EAS 2012): Engineering a Bioactive Single-Chain Insulin Analog for Oral Delivery Using a Streamlined mRNA Display Protocol
• Paul Mitchell (COL 2013): Morphological Correlates of Locotomor Patterns in Living and Fossil Primates
• Rachel Romeo (COL 2011): Phonological Word Recognition Development in Children with Potential Hearing Impairments

2009 (Fall)

• Tiffany John-Lewis (COL 2011) “Recognizing a Legacy of Excellence: Archives of William H. Waddell”
• Steven Plimpton (COL2011) “Paramagnetic Salt Pill Optimization for use in an Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator”

2019

• Amanda Damon (COL 2019): "The Immigration Debate in America: the Civil Rights Question of our Time?" [Mentor: David Eisenhower, Institute for Public Service at Annenberg School for Communication]

2018

• Rebecca Heilweil (COL 2018): "The Search For Solidarity Beyond Bloom: Jewish Advocacy in Ireland, 1933-1958" [Mentor: Ann Moyer, History]

2016

• Madeleine Wattenbarger (COL 2016): "Race, Religion and Social Capital in West Philadelphia" [Mentor: Molly McGlone, Urban Studies]

2015

• Danielle Kerker (COL 2015): "The Implacable Surge of History" [Mentor: Sarah Barringer Gordon, History]

2018

• Vishal Tien (SEAS 2020): "Characterizing the Preferential Outgrowth for Micro Tissue Engineered Neural Networks" [Mentor: Kacy Cullen, Neuroscience]

2017

• Youn Young Hur (NURS 2019): "Prospective Investigation of the Impact of Smoking and Smoking Cessation on Obstructive Sleep Apnea" [Mentor: Jinyoung Kim, Nursing]
• Gabriel Koo (SEAS 2019): "Mapping the Signaling Pathways of Rho GEF, Vav2, in Human Breast Cancer" [Mentor: Marina Guvakva, Harrison Department of Surgical Research]
• Angelique Onorati (LPS 2018): "GRP78 Arginylation and Melanoma Cancer Therapy" [Mentor: Ravi Amaravadi, Medicine]
• Justin Qian (COL/SEAS 2019): "Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of MoS2/WS2 Heterostructures" [Mentor: Ritesh Agarwal, Materials Science]
• Jacqueline Valeri (SEAS 2018): "Light Activated Gene Expression in Embryonic Stem Cells" [Mentor: Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, Bioengineering]
• Andres Zambrano (SEAS 2019): "Implementation of Dynamics into motion simulations of robots made through rapid-fabrication" [Mentor: Cynthia Sung, MEAM]

2016

• Joseph Maggiore

  Joseph Maggiore
  (SEAS 2019): “Modality-Specific Motor and Sensor Axon Regeneration Using Tissue Engineered Nerve Grafts” [Mentor: Kacy Cullen, Bioengineering]

• Julian Mark

  Julian Mark
  (SEAS 2019): “Ablation of C. Elegans motor neurons with Mini-sog” [Mentor: Chris Fang-Yen, Bioengineering]
• Kimberly Newman (COL 2018): “Cell metabolism, spindle mechanics, and chromosome segregation in fission yeast” [Mentor: Phong Tran, Cell and Developmental Biology]

2015

• Mounika Burugupalli (SEAS 2017): “Validation of a novel Rac inhibitor, Ehop-016 in preclinical model of Her2-postive breast cancer” [Mentor: Marina Guvakova, Medicine-Translational Research]
• DeDe DeDe (LPS 2016): “Steel Pan (Africanism)” [Mentor: Dr. Tamara Walker, History]
• Lina Huang (SEAS 2016): “An Agent-Based Approach to Predicting Population Trends” [Mentor: Barry Silverman, Electrical and Systems Engineering]
• Joshua Jayasinghe (NUR 2017): “Increasing Quality Antenatal Care And Maternal Care Access And Education In Rural Nepal” [Mentor: Barbra Wall, Nursing: Family & Community Health]

2014

• Catherine Cleveland (COL 2015): “A Different Kind of Alignment: Recontextualizing German-Israeli Relations from 1960-1965 in the International Arena of the Cold War” [Mentor: Benjamin Nathans, History]
• Ashleigh Seely (COL 2015): “Flexible Attention in Guide Dog Puppies” [Mentor: Robert Seyfarth, Psychology]
• Brian Tong (EAS 2016): “Computer-Automated Quantification (COMPAQ): A Novel Method for High Throughput Protein Profiling of Clinical Tissue Samples” [Mentor: Marina Guvakova, Surgery]
• David Zhang (EAS 2016): “Blood Proteins Exposed to Supraphysiologic Shear Stress from a Left Ventricular Assist Device Alter Endothelial Cell Behavior” [Mentors: Pavan Atluri and Carlo Bartoli, Surgery]

 
2013

• Donald Antenen (LPS 2015): “The Face(s) of Phaedrus” [Mentor: Ralph Rosen, Classical Studies]
• Ariella Barel (EAS 2014): “Mitochondrial DNA Damage Prevention” [Mentor: Brett Kaufman, Veterinary Medicine]
• Camilo Bermudez (EAS 2014): “Quantitiative Methods of EEG Analaysis to Predict Seizure Onset in Pediatric Patients with Epilepsy” [Mentor: Eric Marsh, Medicine]
• Richard Liu (EAS 2014): “Early Lead Exposure and Neurocognitive Outcomes in 12 Year-Old Children” [Mentor: Jianghong Liu, Nursing]

2012

• Bhargavi Ammu (COL 2013): “Studying Perceptions of Ayurveda in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and State Health Policies’ Effects on Integration” [Mentor: Dr. Projit Mukharji, History of Sociology of Science]
• Parth Kothari (EAS 2013): “Expansion of CD34+ HSCs Using Nanofiber Scaffolds” [Mentor: Dr. Martin Carroll, Medicine]
• Mi Kwon (EAS 2013): “The role of increased Nampt expression in sirtuin activity in muscle tissue” [Mentor: Dr. Joseph Baur, Medicine]
• Kun Lee (EAS 2013): “Genetic Basis of Neuroplasticity in Lethargus C. elegans” [Mentor: Dr. David Raizen, Neurology]
• Amalya Lehmann (COL 2013): “A Serious Look at Rossini’s Musical Wit and Humor” [Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Kallberg, Music]
• Amy Wu (EAS; WH 2014): “Assembly and Characterization of Thin Film Overcoated CdSe Photoanodes” [Mentor: Dr. Christopher Murray, MSE and Chemistry]

2011

• Meghan Hussey (COL 2012): Criminals or Political Prisoners? The Management of the 1980-81 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland by the Governments of the United Kingdom & Ireland
• Andres Munoz Rojas (EAS 2012): The role of SHP2 in the EGFR/ERK network in cells with differential expression of EGFR-activating mutations
• Rachel Schonwetter (COL 2012): Samuel S. Mayerberg: The Twisted Religious Road Toward Social Justice
• Rumen Stamatov (EAS 2012): Investigating the Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Aurora B Kinase Activation during Cell Division
• Catherine Wang (EAS 2012): Assessing the reliable detection of mtDNA damage resulting from chemotherapeutic and anti-retroviral drug treatment using 2D-IMAGE
• Sarabeth Zielonka (COL 2012): The Sinyavsky-Daniel Trial and the Origins of Soviet Legalism

2010

• Spencer Glantz (EAS 2011A): The Characterization of MLL5 in Leukemogenesis
• Mfon Umoh (EAS 2011A): Device to Measure Thumb Force during Abduction
• Jue Pu (EAS; WH 2011C): Mechanical properties of micro scaled metals fabricated through focused-ion beam method
• Dorsey Standish (EAS 2012A): VerroTouch: High-Frequency Acceleration Feedback for Telerobotic Surgery

2009

• Dingyun Chan (EAS 2010): Mapping Health Care Service Needs of a National Sample of Cancer Survivors
• Spencer Glantz (EAS 2011): Investigation of Bexarotene’s Effect onCCAAT/Enhancer Binding Protein Epsilon Gene Expression in Acute Myelogenic Leukemic Cell Lines
• Andrew Rogers (WH 2010): Evalutating the Effectiveness of a Preventative Hypertension Program Administered by a Free, Student-Coordinated Health Clinic from an Outcomes Economic Perspective

2008

• Laura Heckman (COL 2009): The inhibition of L1 retrotransposon expression byDNA methylation
• Mary Kreamer (COL 2009): Ethnicity Created
• Lauren Mancuso (COL 2009): Educating the Wandering Mind: A Cognitive Analysis of Text Comprehension During Reading
• Joseph Wong (EAS 2010): Microfabrication of microfluidic chambers to study cytoskeletal structure during yeast cell mating
• Amber Woodward (COL 2008): Li Yang and his Crazy English

2007

• Clara Choo (COL 2008): The Operation and Function of DSCR1
• Deptee Jain (COL 2009): The role of iMap1 in fission yeast microtubule organization and cell pattern formation

2006

• Sujit Datta: Electrostatic Force Microscopy Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanotube-Derived Structures
• Amber Woodward: Li Yang and His Crazy English

2018 (Fall)

• Julci Areza (COL 2021): “Identification and characterization of sleep-wake circuits in Drosophila larvae” [Matthew Kayser, Psychiatry]
• Tochukwu Awachie (COL 2019): “Is Beauty in the Nose of the Smeller?” [Coren Apicella, Psychology]
• Jung hyun Bae (COL 2019): “Purpose in Life and Pain Experience” [Yoona Kang, Annenberg School of Communications]
• Mohamed Barmada (COL 2021): “Testing the External Stability of CENP-A in Mice” [Michael Lampson, Department of Biology]
• Alexi Chacon (COL 2019): “Closing the Gap Between Implementation Science and Child Welfare Programs” [Antonio Garcia, Child Well-Being & Child Welfare (CW2) / The Field Center for Children's Policy]
• Ria Chhabra (COL 2019): “Investigating Generational Differences in Immigrant Families” [Jeremy Clifton, Psychology]
• Sophia Clark (COL 2019): “Book History and the Politics of Publishing African Children’s Books” [Mary Jennifer Hasty, Africana Department]
• Olivia Crocker (COL 2020): “Identification of novel architectural proteins implicated in long-range chromatin interactions” [Eric Joyce, Department of Genetics]
• Suzan Idil Demirdag (COL 2019): “Is a nudge enough? An exploration of when people incorporate obstacles into their goal-setting strategies” [Sara Jaffee, Psychology]
• Katherine Fink (COL 2019): “The Impact of Individual-Level Factors on American Public Approval of Lethal Drone Strikes” [Michael Horowitz, Political Science]
• Emylee Fleshman (COL 2021): “Clinically Practical” [Erica Carpenter, Medicine]
• Benjamin Friedman (COL 2019): “Microtargeting with Moral Foundations” [Kenneth Winneg, Annenberg School for Communication]
• Benjamin Goodman (COL 2019): “Institutional Ambiguity and Economic Growth: An Experimental Approach” [Judd Kessler, Business Economics and Public Policy]
• Kay Gottlieb (COL 2019): “How Does a Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Explain the Poor Prognosis of Early-Onset Conduct Disorder?” [Sara Jaffee, Psychology]
• Flora Ho (COL 2021): “BRD4 Hyperphosphorylation in Mitosis” [Jianxin You, Microbiology]
• Christopher Lee (COL 2020): “Uncovering the salt-preference regulatory neural circuit in Drosophila melanogaster” [Yali Zhang, Physiology]
• Patrick Loftus (COL 2019): “Resilience and Coping in College” [Melissa Hunt, Psychology]
• Sofia Miguez (COL 2020): “Bio 3D Printing of Bone Grafts for Non-Healing Bone Defects” [Chamith Rajapakse, Radiology]
• Carly Miron (COL 2019): “Short and (Not So) Sweet” [Rebecca Waller, Psychology]
• Sidia Mustapha (COL 2019): “Investigating Generational Differences In Immigrant Families” [Jeremy Clifton, Positive Psychology]
• Jacob Nelson (COL 2019): “Disunity and Defeat: Why the Iraqi Kurds' 2017 Drive for Statehood Failed” [Brendan O'Leary, PSCI]
• Duc Nguyen (COL 2021): “Biochemical Interaction of HIV-1 Integrase and Reverse Transcriptase” [Kushol Gupta, Biophysics and Biochemistry]
• Andreas Nolan (COL 2019): “Is a nudge enough? An exploration of when people incorporate obstacles into their goal-setting strategies” [Sara Jaffee, Psychology]
• Chaereen Pak (COL 2019): “Investigating Generational Differences in Immigrant Families” [Jer Clifton, Psychology]
• Angela Ra (COL/WH 2019): “In Lady Justice We Trust: The Effects of Social and Political Trust in Judgments of Culpability in a Legal Context” [Geoffrey Goodwin, Psychology]
• Jasmine Raj (COL 2019): “Testing Toddlers’ Interpretation of Phonological Distinctions” [Daniel Swingley, Psychology]
• Adithya Sriram (COL/SEAS 2020): “Integrated Microfluidics and Graphene Nanoelectronics for HIV Viral Load Measurement” [A.T. Charlie Johnson, Physics]
• Pei Hsuan (Sherry) Tseng (COL 2020): “A Formalized Semantic Model in Consideration of Social Identity” [Scott Weinstein, Philosophy]
• Jessica Wang (COL 2019): “Early childhood aggression and associated factors: a follow-up of the Healthy Brains and Behavior Study” [Jianghong Liu, Nursing]
• Zhuoyang Wang (COL 2021): “Development and Validation of a Liquid Biopsy Assay for Detection of C797S Mutation in cell-free DNA of NSCLC Patients” [Erica Carpenter, Medicine]
• Sarah Werner (COL 2020): “Algal Competition in Re-Establishment of Coral Symbiosis” [Katie Barott, Biology]
• Tina Wu (COL 2020): “Nutrition Intervention Study” [Jianghong Liu, Family and Community Health]
• Jeffrey Yang (COL 2019): “Information Avoidance in Education Investment” [Judd Kessler, Business Economics and Public Policy]
• Jordyn Young (COL 2019): “Impact of Dating App Usage on Well-Being” [Melissa Hunt, Psychology]

2018 (Spring)

• Nana Acquah (COL 2019): “Effect of Mild TBI on Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus Volume” [Amelia Eisch, Anesthesiology and Critical Care]
• Adam Aharoni (COL 2019): “Identifying Putative enhancers of Engrailed-1” [Yana Kamberov, Genetics]
• Julci Areza (COL 2021): “The Effect of Sleep Deprivation during Larval Stages on Adult Fly Learning and Memory” [Matthew Kayser, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes]
• Dillon Bergin (COL 2019): “Fees Must Fall: Student Revolt in Post-apartheid South Africa” [Rita Barnard, Comparative Literature]
• Luis Bravo (COL 2019): “Barriers of Access to Public Services for Philadelphian Residents” [Chenoa Flippen, Sociology]
• Ezra Brooks (COL 2019): “The Impact on Health Outcomes of Chilean OB/GYN Collusion” [Juan Pablo Atal, Economics]
• Shae Chambers (COL 2019): “Behavioral threat response following repetitive traumatic brain injury” [Akiva Cohen, Anesthesiology and Critical Care]
• Ari Clements (COL 2019): “Understand the role of subchondral bone marrow MSCs in osteoarthritis” [Ling Qin, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery]
• Ivan Covarrubias (COL 2019): “Sleep Deprivation Effects on Sleep Neuron Activity in the POA” [Shinjae Chung, Neuroscience]
• Celine Cumming (COL 2019): “The Anatomical Organization of the GLP-1 System” [Harvey Grill, Psychology]
• Yehudith Dashevsky (COL 2019): “Internet Initiatives for the Physical/Virtual Symposium “Your Language—My Ear 2019: Russian and American Poetry in Conversation” [Kevin Platt, Russian and East European Studies]
• Eric Eisner (COL 2019): ““The Most Generous, Disinterested, and Philanthropic Motives”: Religion, Race, and the Maryland Jew Bill” [Beth Wenger, History]
• Justin Estreicher (COL 2019): “Celebrating Conquest: Broken Treaties, World's Fairs, and Constructions of Native American Savagery, 1875-1905” [Robert St. George, History]
• John Filosa (COL 2019): “Crithidia fasciculata as a model for Social Motility in Trypanosomatids” [Michael Povelones, Pathobiology]
• Wilson Fisher (COL 2019): “Co-Working, Hacking and the Pursuit of Something Viral - Towards a Future with Cory Arcangel” [Kenneth Goldsmith, English (Creative Writing)]
• Daniel Fradin (COL 2019): “Documentary Short on Greenland's Inuit” [Meta Mazaj, Cinema and Media Studies]
• Maxwell Frankfurter (COL 2020): “Investigating the role of FZD2 in regulating hair follicle stem cells” [Sarah Millar, Dermatology]
• Jillian Grimsley (COL 2019): “Drama and Flair in Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh: A Twelfth-Century Guide to Rewriting History” [Ada Kuskowski, History]
• Aime Bienfait Igiraneza (COL 2020): “Study of N-glycosylation in biofilm formation of Haloferax volcanii” [Mechthild Pohlschröder, Biology]
• Ian Jean (COL 2019): “Sexual response to song: effects of song manipulation in female cowbirds” [Marc Schmidt, Biology]
• Fiona Jensen-Hitch (COL 2019): “Politics, identity, and ethics in ancient and contemporary Israel: an integrated approach to a bioarchaeological collection” [Janet Monge, Anthropology]
• Lara Jung (COL 2019): “Nature, Prescribed: The Environment and Wellbeing from 1930-2018” [Meghan Crnic, Health and Societies]
• Michelle Kahng (COL 2020): “Determining the efficacy of systemic amylin infusions on attenuating voluntary oxycodone taking and seeking in rats” [Heath Schmidt, Biobehavioral Health Sciences]
• Hareena Kaur (COL 2020): “cfDNA yield and ddPCR mutational analysis as a minimally invasive quantitative biomarker for disease progression in glioblastoma” [Erica Carpenter, Hematology/Oncology]
• Delaney Keenan (COL 2020): “Connections Between the Art of Spain and the Low Countries during the Spanish Golden Age” [Gwendolyn Shaw, English]
• Bryce Klehm (COL 2019): “US-Russia Cooperation in Bosnia” [Benjamin Nathans, History]
• Ryan Leone (COL 2019): “Multi-Trauma: Comparing the Effects of Concomitant Bone Fracture on Mice Given Controlled Cortical Impact or Blast Injury” [Peter Stokes, LSM Advisor]
• Lena Leszinsky (COL 2020): “Opioid Use Following an Enhanced Recovery after Neurosurgery Pathway” [Zarina Ali, Neurosurgery]
• Ari Levine (COL 2020): “Neurological basis of aberrant social behaviors associated with NF1 mutations in the drosophila melanogaster gustatory pathway” [Matthew Kayser, Psychiatry]
• Michael McCarthy (COL 2019): “Statins as a Treatment for Impaired Cognition in Sepsis Patients (STICS)” [Nuala Meyer, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (HUP)]
• Sylvia Rhodes (COL 2020): “Novel Methodology for Evaluating Osteoporosis in the Spine Using 18F-Sodium Fluoride PET/CT Imaging” [Chamith Rajapakse, Radiology]
• Zubaida Salman (COL 2020): “The Power of Memory: Iraqi Children, Spacetoon, and the Politics of Nostalgia” [Marwan Kraidy, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC)]
• Max Schechter (COL 2019): “The Transcriptional Regulation of CREB in the Hippocampus Following Administration of Ketamine” [Julie Blendy, Department of Pharmacology]
• Ila Sethi (COL 2020): “Generation of Functional and Robust Cerebral Organoids” [Isaac Chen, Neurosurgery]
• Katherine Sizov (COL 2019): “Investigating EB2's role in CDKL5 Disorder” [Zhaolan Zhou, Genetics]
• Se Lin Song (COL 2019): “Nickel Catalysis: Synthesis of Dendritic Building Blocks” [Virgil Percec, Chemistry]
• Leah Sprague (COL 2019): “The Government's Role as a Nutrition Expert in the United States” [David Barnes, History & Sociology of Science]
• Sophie Trotto (COL 2019): “Is hosting the Olympics worthwhile? Examining short and long-term effects on athletic performance” [Shane Jensen, Statistics]
• Paul Um (COL 2020): “Characterization of sleep on Caenorhabditis elegans infected with Orsay Virus” [David Raizen, Neurology]
• Vanessa Weir (COL 2019): “The Relevance of the Endogenous GLP-1 System in Regulating Cocaine Priming-induced Reinstatement in Rats” [Heath Schmidt, Biobehavioral and Health Sciences]
• Yuefeng Wu (COL 2019): “Reimagining Spaces: Art, Architecture, and Landscape” [David Brownlee, Art History]
• Michelle Yang (COL 2019): “Identification of Bacterial Pathogens from RBCs” [Nilam Mangalmurti, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division]
• Monglin Zhang (COL 2019): “Fuel Utilization and Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Primary Genetic Mitochondrial Disease” [Shana McCormack, Psychiatry and Neuroscience; Chronobiology]

2017 (Fall)

• Maramawit Abera (COL 2018): “Highs and Lows” [Mentor: Robin Stevens, Family and Community Health]
• Hyuntae Byun (COL 2020): “Symbiotic Relationships and Pathways Between Vibrio cholerae and Anabaena sp.” [Mentor: Jay Zhu, Microbiology]
• Christopher D'Urso (COL 2018): “Translating Justice: U.S. Efforts to Promote Criminal Procedural Reform in Panama” [Mentor: Sara McGuire, International Relations Program]
• Donnisa Edmonds (COL 2020): “Environmental Decision Making” [Mentor: Geoff Goodwin, Psychology]
• Emma Finkel (COL 2018): “Emotional Coherence in Children with ASD” [Mentor: John Herrington, Psychiatry]
• Ben Friedman (COL 2019): “The Sacred Divide: Political Polarization and Sacred Values” [Mentor: Emile Bruneau, Annenberg School for Communication]
• Celine Jo (COL 2019): “Experiences around Diet among Type II Diabetes Patients in Cobbs Creek” [Mentor: Kent Bream, Family Medicine and Community Health]
• Hali Kim (COL 2020): “Development of a flow cytometry antibody panel to identify circulating tumor cells in colorectal cancer patient blood samples” [Mentor: Erica Carpenter, Hematology/Oncology]
• Noah Klayman (COL 2018): “Hadza Folk Psychology for Existence of Moral Exemplars” [Mentor: Coren Apicella, Psychology]
• Aria Kovalovich (COL 2018): “How does Nationalism Relate to Attributions of U.S. Moral Responsibility for Climate Change?” [Mentor: Geoffrey Goodwin, Psychology]
• Elizabeth Lazarus (COL 2020): “Highs and Lows and City Uncensored” [Mentor: Robin Stevens, Family and Community Health]
• Daniel Leone (COL 2018): “Increased Violent Religious Extremism in Egypt since 2013: Addressing and Alleviating Causal Factors” [Mentor: Sara McGuire, International Relations]
• Corey Loftus (COL 2018): “Anni Albers: Abstract Ark Panels and Midcentury Jewish Synagogue Design” [Mentor: David Brownlee, History of Art]
• Rebecca Lopez (COL 2018): “Media Depictions of Latinxs: Effects on Anti-Immigrant Sentiment” [Mentor: Emile Bruneau, Communications]
• Kimberly Newman (COL 2018): “Microtubule-drug resistant fission yeast cells – Effects on spindle and chromosome dynamics” [Mentor: Phong Tran, Cell and Developmental Biology]
• Nathaniel Rome (COL 2018): “U.S. Support for European Integration: A Case Study of the Kennedy Administration’s Decision to Support UK Entry into the Common” [Mentor: Sara McGuire, International Relations]
• Donavon Sandoval-Heglund (COL 2019): “Investigating X-Chromosome Inactivation in Quiescent Cell Populations” [Mentor: Montserrat Anguera, Biomedical Sciences]
• Brandon Santhumayor (COL 2020): “Sex-specific Cdk5 Epigenetic Remodeling in Behavior” [Mentor: Elizabeth Heller, Pharamcology]
• Myung Jin Shin (COL 2018): “Predicting the Virality of Instagram Video Advertisements” [Mentor: Eran Ben-Porath, Communication]
• Aakash Shingala (COL 2018): “Investigating the Role of Cellular Senescence in Tauopathy” [Mentor: Gabor Egervari, Cell and Molecular Biology]
• Adithya Sriram (COL/SEAS 2020): “Graphene Aptasensor for Rapid Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease” [Mentor: A.T. Charlie Johnson, Physics and Astronomy]
• Emily Trimm (COL 2019): “Selfish Centromeres Drive Non-Mendelian Segregation” [Mentor: Michael Lampson, Biology]
• Ivy Tse (COL 2019): “Facial Perception and Social Value Learning” [Mentor: Sharon Thompson-Schill, Psychology]
• Tiffany Wang (COL 2020): “The Golden Standard: Examining Ethics and American Journalism in a Global Context” [Mentor: Sharrona Pearl, Communication]
• Lacy Wright (COL 2018): “Senior Thesis: Examining the Role of Public Art and Graffiti in Gentrification” [Mentor: Gwendolyn Shaw, History of Art]
• Qingyang Zhou (COL 2020): “The Influence of Jewish Refugees on Chinese Communities in Shanghai during World War II” [Mentor: Kathryn Hellerstein, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures]

2017 (Spring)

• Fahad Ahmed (COL 2020): “Penn Glioblastoma Volumetric Analysis Project” [Mentor: Kalil Abdullah, Neurosurgery]
• Helen Berhanu (COL 2018): “Afro-Caribbean Immigration and the Rise of Conservative Populism in 20th Century Britain” [Mentor: Alex Chase-Levenson, History]
• Austin Borja (COL 2018): “Key Features of Drosophila Larvae Sleep – Postural Changes and Octopamine Pharmacological Analysis” [Mentor: Matthew Kayser, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior]
• Molly Bucklin (COL 2018): “Ability of IL-21 to Improve CAR T-Cell Efficacy” [Mentor: John Scholler, Center for Cellular Immunotherapy]
• Natalie Burke (COL 2018): “Cut Without Hands: The Works of Martha Anne Honeywell (1787-1848)” [Mentor: Michael Leja, History of Art]
• Jeffrey Careyva (COL 2018): “Derrida, Heidegger, and the Question of Poetry” [Mentor: Jean-Michel Rabaté, English]
• Patricia Chan (COL 2018): “Investigations into distinct Protein-Protein Interactions by different protein isoforms produced by ESRP1 Regulated alternative” [Mentor: Russ Carstens, Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension]
• Ivan Covarrubias (COL 2019): “Sleep and the Drosophila Larval Brain” [Mentor: Matthew Kayser, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior]
• Taylor Daniel (COL 2018): “Enhancing FIX Through Site-Directed Mutagenesis” [Mentor: Valder Arruda, Pediatrics]
• Mihir Dekhne (COL 2018): “Injury Response in Normal Tendons: Regulatory Roles of Collagen V” [Mentor: Louis Soslowsky, Bioengineering]
• John Filosa (COL 2019): “Mechanisms of epithelial attachment by Crithidia fasciculata in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes” [Mentor: Michael Povelones, Pathobiology]
• Isabel Gendler (COL 2018): “The Role of Popular Conceptions of History in 19th-Century British National Identity” [Mentor: Alex Chase-Levenson, History]
• Kendra Hong (COL 2018): “Systematic analysis of telomere length in pediatric cancer types” [Mentor: John Maris, Pediatrics]
• Lynn Hur (COL 2019): “A Comprehensive Analysis of the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala” [Mentor: Frances Barg, Anthropology]
• Kristen Ierardi (COL 2018): “Revisiting the Revolution: Examining How the Women’s Movement Influenced Female Attitudes on College Campuses in the 1970s” [Mentor: Bruce Lenthall, History]
• Shivansh Inamdar (COL 2019): “Simulation of Data to be Produced by NEID Spectrometer” [Mentor: Cullen Blake, Physics and Astronomy]
• Adrian Kase (COL 2018): “Stress Response in Monomorium Pharaonis Ants” [Mentor: Timothy Linksvayer, Biology]
• Joseph LaSure (COL 2018): “The Development of Early Modern Resistance Theory and The Execution of Charles I” [Mentor: Thomas Safley, History]
• Zachariah Lee (COL 2019): “Effect of Enterobacteriae on Klebsiella pneumonia” [Mentor: Jun (Jay) Zhu, Microbiology]
• Da Lin (COL 2018): “Curating as Feminist Activism: Exhibitions on Women Artists and Feminist Art, 1977-2007” [Mentor: Christine Poggi, History of Art]
• Scott Massa (COL 2019): “Discipline-based Communication Differences Between Clinicians in Operating Room to Intensive Care Unit Handoffs” [Mentor: Meghan Lane-Fall, Anestheisa]
• Ashutosh Mishra (COL 2019): “The Politics and Incentives of Indian Diarrheal Death Prevention Reform” [Mentor: Projit Mukharji, History and Sociology of Science]
• Hillary Nguyen ( 2018): “My Transgender Brain (MyT Brain) Study” [Mentor: Cynthia Neill Epperson, Center for Women's Behavioral Wellness]
• Catherine Oksas (COL 2018): “Effects of NEUREXIN1 Mutations on Autism Phenotypes” [Mentor: Edward Brodkin, Psychiatry]
• Nicholas Paleologos (COL 2020): “Neuropathological Examination of the Hippocampus after Traumatic Brain Injury” [Mentor: D. Kacy Cullen, Neurosurgery]
• Andrew Park (COL 2018): “Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings” [Mentor: Christine Poggi, History of Art]
• Maria Pomponio (COL 2018): “Emotion Recognition in Asperger’s Syndrome” [Mentor: Edward Brodkin, Psychiatry]
• Darsol Seok (COL 2018): “Neural representation of reward and action value in decision-making” [Mentor: Michael Platt, Neuroscience]
• Austin Spence (COL 2018): “Conversation Pieces: Documenting Political Art Collectives in Argentina” [Mentor: Jennifer Sternad-Ponce de León, English]
• Amy Stidham (COL 2018): “Making it Old and New” [Mentor: James English, English]
• Samuel Tolbert (COL 2018): “Freedmen in an Unfree World: Slaves, Planters, and Capital in the Post-War South” [Mentor: Kathy Peiss, History]
• Andrew Wang (COL 2018): “The roles of KLF4 in UV-induced skin damage and squamous cell cancer” [Mentor: Jonathan Katz, Medicine-GI]
• Vanessa Weir (COL 2019): “Physiological relevance of endogenous GLP-1R signaling in the VTA for cocaine reinstatement” [Mentor: Heath Schmidt, Biobehavioral and Health Sciences]
• Brian Yan (COL 2018): “Human inflammasome activation in response to bacterial pathogens” [Mentor: Sunny Shin, Microbiology]

2016 (Fall)

• Austin Bream (COL 2017): “Eco-Samizdat: Underground Environmentalism” [Mentor: Bethany Wiggin, Germanic Languages and Literatures]
• Zachary Cross (COL 2017): “Molecular mechanisms underlying cocaine-induced transgenerational effects” [Mentor: Bruno Fant, Psychiatry]
• Helen Dai (COL 2019): “A New Type of Spectrometer for Finding Nearby Earth-like Planets” [Mentor: James Aguirre, Physics & Astronomy]
• Myrna Dominique (COL 2017): “Therapeutic Target Discovery in a New Mouse Model of Sporadic Amyotrophic Laterl Sclerosis” [Mentor: Krista Spiller, Pathology Lab & Medicine]
• Kelly Gao (COL 2018): “The Effect of Arf Knockdown on ALS Pathology using model ALS motor neurons from Mice” [Mentor: Robert Kalb, Cell and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience]
• Busra Gungor (COL 2017): “Genomic Characterization of Meningioma Progression” [Mentor: Nadia Dahmane, Neurosurgery]
• Hannah Harney (COL 2017): “A Study of Lies: How Social Norms Affect Deception” [Mentor: Eugen Dimant, Philoshophy, Politics and Economics]
• Abigail Hong (COL 2018): “3D-printed allografts guided by high-resolution imaging” [Mentor: Chamith Rajapakse, Radiology]
• Jakub Jarmula (COL 2019): “Constructing a Biomechanical Model of Copulation Solicitation Display in Female Cowbirds” [Mentor: Marc Schmidt, Biology]
• Arbab Khalid (COL 2019): “Bone-on-a-Chip” [Mentor: Chamith Rajapakse, Radiology and Imaging]
• Hope MacKenzie (COL 2017): “Feast your eyes: capturing television viewership on streaming services” [Mentor: Paul Messaris, Communications]
• Rachel Mardjuki (COL 2017): “Expanding the Utility of the Tetrazine Staple” [Mentor: Amos Smith, Department of Chemistry]
• Jaslyn McIntosh (COL 2017): “Identity in the Age of Swiping: An Exploration of Identity Formation on TinderSocial” [Mentor: Sharrona Pearl, Communications]
• Emma Montoya (COL 2017): “Drug Trafficking Organizations and Undocumented Migration Through Mexico” [Mentor: Dorothy Kronick, Political Science]
• Cora Neumann (COL 2017): “A comparison between US aid to West Germany and Soviet Aid to East Germany 1945-1955” [Mentor: Peter Holquist, History]
• Emily Offit (COL 2017): “Sexual Crimes and Morality” [Mentor: Robert Kurzban, Psychology]
• Charlotte Peterson (COL 2017): “French-American Differences in the Family Meal” [Mentor: Paul Rozin, Psychology]
• Blake Pittell (COL 2017): “The Impact Of China on Hollywood” [Mentor: Guobin Yang, Communication]
• Cristina Serban (COL 2017): “Addressing the Absence of an Institutionalized Asylum-Protection System in Morocco:Recommendations for Fondation Orient Occident” [Mentor: Sara McGuire, International Relations]
• Justin Sheen (COL 2017): “The Behavior of the Infected Vector of Chagas Disease” [Mentor: Michael Levy, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology]
• Julia Spandorfer (COL 2017): “Character Feedback to Inspire Behavior Change” [Mentor: Angela Duckworth, Psychology]
• Sandra Tsikor (COL 2017): “Brain Gain: An Exploration of Entrepreneurial Ghanaian Return Migrants” [Mentor: Sara McGuire, International Relations]
• Christina Uria (COL 2017): “Sex Crimes and Morality” [Mentor: Robert Kurzban, Psychology]
• Jennifer Wright (COL 2017): “Adolescents’ Privacy Perceptions and Risky Health Behavior Displays on Social Media” [Mentor: Amy Bleakley, Communication]
• Christopher Yao (COL 2018): “Spectral Analyses of Pupillary Oscillation Frequency in Relation to Psychomotor Vigilance Test Lapses of Attention across…” [Mentor: David Dinges, Ph.D., (1) Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Med.; (2) Bio. Basis of Behavior Pgrm., SAS; (3) Psychology Dept. Graduate Grp., SAS]
• Kristin Yeakel (COL 2017): “Effects of Dual Asymmetry on Competitive Behavior: An Experimental Study” [Mentor: Cristina Bicchieri, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)]
• Jimin Yoon (COL 2018): “Investigating the polyproline peptide structure containing noncanonical amino acids (NCAA) using Rosetta” [Mentor: Ernest Petersson, Department of Chemistry]

2016 (Spring)

• Avalon O'Connor

  Avalon O'Connor
  (COL 2017): “Src mediates molecular alterations leading to NMDAR hypofunction in schizophrenia” [Mentor: Steven Siegel, Translational Neuroscience Program]

• Isis Cendan

  Isis Cendan
  (COL 2017): “NANCI lncRNA Effects on Nkx2.1 and its Downstream Effectors” [Mentor: Stewart Anderson, Psychiatry]

• Julia Chatterjee

  Julia Chatterjee
  (COL 2017): “Dreaming in the Ancient World” [Mentor: Deven Patel, SAST]

• Michael Duong

  Michael Duong
  (COL 2019): “Does Genome Editing CRISPR-dCas9 DNA Binding Protein Disrupt 3D Chromatin Architecture in ES Cells?” [Mentor: Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, Bioengineering]

• Hannah Fagen

  Hannah Fagen
  (COL 2017): “The History and Social Functions of Newborn Nurseries in American Hospitals” [Mentor: Meghan Crnic, History and Sociology of Science]
• Ryan Fan (COL 2018): “Detection of PD-L1 Expression in Metastatic NSCLC Patients with Malignant Pleural Effusions using CellSearch® CTC Technology” [Mentor: Erica Carpenter, Hematology/Oncology]
• Julia Fine (COL 2017): “British aristocracy's influence on public access to fine art in the 19th century” [Mentor: Alex Chase-Levenson, History]

• Claire Fishman

  Claire Fishman
  (COL 2018): “Comparing the Motility of Myosin-X with Parallel and Antiparallel Dimerization Domains” [Mentor: Yale Goldman, Physiology]

• Michael Fortunato

  Michael Fortunato
  (COL 2018): “The Functional Role of Local Circuit Interneurons in Behavioral Flexibility” [Mentor: Marc Fuccillo, Neuroscience]

• Andrew Furash

  Andrew Furash
  (COL 2018): “Effects of Reward Magnitude on Decision-Making” [Mentor: Marc Fuccillo, Neuroscience]

• Cassidy Golden

  Cassidy Golden
  (COL 2017): “Communication with Adolescent Parents in the NICU” [Mentor: Meghan Crnic, History and Sociology of Science]

• Chloe Kaczvinsky

  Chloe Kaczvinsky
  (COL 2017): “Amblyomma americanum Population Structure and Demography” [Mentor: Dustin Brisson, Biology]

• Michaela Kotziers

  Michaela Kotziers
  (COL 2017): “Feminizing Pain: from Eve to Virginia” [Mentor: Emily Steiner, English]
• Emma Leibowitz (COL 2017): “"Mistuh Crump Loses Dixie"” [Mentor: Steven Hahn, History]

• Da Lin

  Da Lin
  (COL 2018): “Curating as Feminist Activism: Exhibitions on Women Artists and Feminist Art in the US, 1977-2007” [Mentor: Christine Poggi, History of Art]

• Kingson Lin

  Kingson Lin
  (COL 2017): “Dual Catalytic Single Electron Trans-metalation” [Mentor: Gary Molander, Chemistry]

• Talia Moss

  Talia Moss
  (COL 2017): “Katharine McCormick” [Mentor: Meghan Crnic, History and Sociology of Science]
• Shawn Ong (COL 2018): “Mapping The Vowel Space” [Mentor: Eleni Katifori, Physics]
• Onyoo Park (COL 2018): “Comparative Analysis of AGRP Subpopulations Across Species” [Mentor: Nicholas Betley, Biology]

• Brad Pettigrew

  Brad Pettigrew
  (COL 2017): “Characterization of MAV under pulsing torque” [Mentor: Mark Yim, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics]

• Siyona Ravi

  Siyona Ravi
  (COL 2017): “Envisioning Social Change: Developing a Visual Framework for Social Movements” [Mentor: Ian Verstegen, Visual Studies]
• Rani Richardson (COL 2018): “The genetic basis of seasonal adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster” [Mentor: Paul Schmidt, Biology]
• Joseph Sageman (COL 2017): “Democracy in Crisis: the Human Costs of Emergency Manager Laws” [Mentor: Marc Meredith, Political Science]
• Sarah Samuels (COL 2017): “Transitional Experiences: The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars” [Mentor: Beth Wenger, History]

• Will Schupmann

  Will Schupmann
  (COL 2017): “Schools as Loci for Vaccine Experimentation” [Mentor: Jonathan Moreno, Medical Ethics and Health Policy]

• Katherine Senter

  Katherine Senter
  (COL 2017): “Improving Health Promotion Partnerships Between Communities and Faith-Based Organizations” [Mentor: Rosemary Frasso, Center for Public Health Initiatives]

• Ingharan Siddarthan

  Ingharan Siddarthan
  (COL 2017): “Identifying Mechanisms for Human Inflammasome Activation” [Mentor: Sunny Shin, Microbiology]

• Randa Som

  Randa Som
  (COL 2017): “Reimagining Transgender: An Ethnography of Transgender Lived Experience” [Mentor: Meghan Crnic, History and Sociology of Science]

• Austin Spence

  Austin Spence
  (COL 2017): “Conversation Pieces: Documenting Argentinian Art Collectives” [Mentor: Jennifer Sternad Ponce de León, English]

• Kevin Sun

  Kevin Sun
  (COL 2018): “Effect of Microflora Depletion on Disease Phenotype in Mouse Model of Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome” [Mentor: Wenchao Song, ]

• Ogul Uner

  Ogul Uner
  (COL 2017): “Investigating MAGUK Compensation in SAP97 Neuronal Knockout Mice” [Mentor: Robert Kalb, Neurology]

• Miranda van Dijk

  Miranda van Dijk
  (COL 2017): “British Identities in the Spanish Civil War” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]

• Kevin Zhang

  Kevin Zhang
  (COL 2017): “PD-L1 and its role in the development of resistance to cisplatin chemotherapy in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma” [Mentor: Daqing Li, Otorhinolaryngology]

• Evan Zou

  Evan Zou
  (COL 2019): “Examining Effect of Ca2+ Sensitizers on Contractility in Engineered Heart Tissues” [Mentor: Kenneth Margulies]

2015 (Fall)

• Prince Addai (COL 2016): “The effect of Denervation on Established Gastric Cancer in a Newly Generated Transgenic Mouse Model of Gastric Cancer” [Mentor: Sandra Ryeom, Cancer Biology]
• Benjamin Bolnick (COL 2016): “How do differences between extraverts and introverts in cooperation games arise from differences in the stimulation levels prese” [Mentor: Gordon Bermant, Psychology]
• Theodore Caputi (COL 2017): “How Do They Choose: What Decision Makers Look for when Deciding Elementary and Middle School In-School Substance Use Prevention” [Mentor: David Oslin, Medicine]
• Elana Chapman (COL 2017): “Examining the usage of Mouthing in ASL with Second-Language Learners” [Mentor: Beatrice Santorini, Linguistics]
• Danielle Citera (COL 2016): “Just Breathe! Smoking Cessation Program” [Mentor: Melissa Hunt, Psychology]
• Carolina English (COL 2016): “Implied Objects and their effect on Phenomenal Agency” [Mentor: Orkan Telhan, Penn Design]
• Korey Gall (COL 2016): “Boredom and Opportunity Cost: Motivating Us to Pursue More Appealing Alternatives” [Mentor: Robert Kurzban, Psychology]
• Carolina Hernandez (COL 2017): “The Portuguese Influence on Chinese Benevolent Societies” [Mentor: Justin McDaniel, Religious Studies]

• Akansha Jain

  Akansha Jain
  (COL 2017): “Unorthodox Acetylcholine Binding Sites in Two Different Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors” [Mentor: Jon Lindstrom, Neuroscience]
• Joanna Kass (COL 2016): “Investigation of Threat Sensitivity Using Ecological Momentary Assessment” [Mentor: Ayelet Ruscio, Psychology]
• Do Eon Lee (COL 2016): “Understanding the Effect of Technological Development on the Expressions of Hatrism on Homosexuality in South Korea” [Mentor: Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Communications]
• Dylan Manfredi (COL 2016): “The Influence of Testosterone on Masculine Language Expression” [Mentor: Coren Apicella, Psychology]
• Alyssa Marcus (COL 2016): [Mentor: Emily Falk, Annenberg School]
• Afrah Mohammad (COL 2016): “Inhibitory Striatal Networks Underlying Action Selection” [Mentor: Marc Fuccillo, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences]
• Hannah Morse (COL 2016): “The role of supernatural beliefs on economic risk preferences” [Mentor: Coren Apicella, Psychology]

• Hillary Nguyen

  Hillary Nguyen
  (COL 2018): “Targeting the Metabolic Stress Response in Hepatocellular Carcinoma” [Mentor: Terence Gade, Radiology]

• Christian Powers

  Christian Powers
  (COL 2018): “Assessing the Feasibility of CellSearch-based Measurement of Estrogen Receptor on Breast Cancer Patient Circulating Tumor Cells” [Mentor: Erica Carpenter, Hematology/Oncology]
• Aaron Schweitzer (COL 2017): “The Effect of Chronic Exercise on Reducing Cisplatin Induced Emesis in Rats” [Mentor: Bart De-Jonghe, Biobehavior Health Sciences]
• Catherine Shao (COL 2018): “Effect of chronic social defeat on male rat periaqueductal gray and medial amygdala” [Mentor: Seema Bhatnagar, Anesthesiology]
• Jaeyoung Shin (COL 2017): “Neutrophils from Down syndrome mice are functionally defective” [Mentor: Sandra Ryeom, Cancer department]
• Lauren Smith (COL 2016): “An Examination of the Mind-Brain Bias in Moral and Immoral Acts” [Mentor: Geoff Goodwin, Psychology]
• Arianna Ulloa (COL 2016): “From Shy to Compassionate: the Effects of a Compassion Intervention on Shyness” [Mentor: Angela Duckworth, Psychology]

2015 (Spring)

• Gabrielle Abramowitz (COL 2016): “Living with Terror, Not Living in Terror: Perspectives on the Impact of Terrorist Violence on Israeli Society” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• Sharika Bamezai (COL 2018): “Role of Piezo1 Mechanotransducer in Heart Development” [Mentor: Mark Kahn, Medicine]
• Olga Belyanina (COL 2017): “Spanish Gardens and Palaces in Sargent's Watercolors” [Mentor: Andre Dombrowski, Art History]
• Isis Cendan (COL 2017): “Zswim5 and Zsim6 in the development of the cerebral cortex” [Mentor: Stewart Anderson, Psychiatry]
• Kevin Chen (COL 2018): “Fabrication of zero mode waveguides for single molecule FRET on ribosomes” [Mentor: Yale Goldman, Physiology]
• Lauren Chun (COL 2016): “A Functional Analysis of Sendai-Virus Defective Viral Genome Motifs” [Mentor: Carolina Lopez, Pathobiology]
• Sarah Emmerich (COL 2016): “Human Relations in the post-World War II Displaced Persons Camps:  A Feminine Narrative” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• Taylor Evensen (COL 2016): “Making Claims: Fidel Castro’s Expropriation of American Property in Cuba” [Mentor: Walter Licht, History]
• Nirupa Galagedera (COL 2017): “Elucidating novel virulence transcriptional regulators acting in concert with AphB to promote V. cholerae colonization” [Mentor: Jun (Jay) Zhu, Microbiology]
• Chloe Getrajdman (COL 2016): “Triage? An Ethnography of American Medical Missionaries' Decisions in Resource Limited Environments” [Mentor: Adam Mohr, Anthropology]
• Perry Goffner (COL 2016): “WW Keen's Defense of Vivisection and its Effect on the Professionalization of Surgery” [Mentor: Beth Linker, History and Sociology of Science]
• Carolyn Grace (COL 2016): “The Cinematic Influence of American and French Youth Cultures, 1950-1970” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• Christine Huang (COL 2016): “Economic Efficiency of Intellectual Property: Database Copyrights” [Mentor: Jan Lindemans, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics]
• Otto Kienitz (COL 2016): “Sir Percy Loraine & Anglo-Turkish Rapprochement 1934-1939” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• Chad Komar (COL 2017): “Gene Expression Profiles of Lymph Nodes in CEL Treated KPC Mice” [Mentor: Gregory Beatty, Medicine]
• Alexa Levy (COL 2016): “Informed Mourning: Museum Representation of the Holocaust in Berlin and DC” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• Joel McCarthy (COL 2016): “Modeling Epistemic Networks of Scientific Communities” [Mentor: Michael Weisberg, Philosophy]
• Blake Mergler (COL 2016): “GLP-1 Receptor in NTS is required for normal control of energy balance” [Mentor: Harvey Grill, Psychology]
• Katherine Morucci (COL 2016): “Excavations and Faunal Analysis of the Peopling of Peru” [Mentor: Katherine Moore, Anthropology]
• Seika Nagao (COL 2016): “Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Small Molecules that Regulate Oxygen Binding for Sickle Cell Anemia” [Mentor: Jeffrey Winkler, Chemistry]
• Ruchita Pendse (COL 2016): “Experience of Medical Debt Among Under-Insured Low-Income Philadelphians” [Mentor: Peter Reese, Epidemiology]
• Shelley Pu (COL 2017): “Grinder Development During Lethargus of Caenorhabditis Elegans” [Mentor: David Raizen, Neurology]
• Gabriella Puig (COL 2016): “Regulation of Hunk Activity” [Mentor: Lewis Chodosh, Cancer Biology]
• Nikole Sanchez (COL 2016): “The political influence and perception of Girolamo Savonarola” [Mentor: History Ann, Moyer]
• Enika Selby (COL 2016): “Burmese Migrants in Bangkok” [Mentor: Brian Spooner, Anthropology]
• Alexander Shazad (COL 2017): “Novel Targeted Combination Therapies for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma” [Mentor: John Maris, Pediatrics]
• Anne Weis (COL 2016): “"Forcibly and Against Her Will": Sexual Violence, Race, and Gender in the American Civil War” [Mentor: Stephanie McCurry, History]

2014 (Fall)

• Andrew Azzam (COL 2015): “Human Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genome Variants Implicated in Oxidative Phosphorylation (OXPHOS) Disorders” [Mentor: Theodore Schurr, Anthropology]
• Joseph Bruch (COL 2015): “The Effects of Psychotropic Medication on Income” [Mentor: Sara Jaffee, Psychology]
• Danica Fine (COL 2016): “A close analysis of the nutritional value of trace minerals in the sustenance of Apis mellifera” [Mentor: Timothy Linksvayer, Biology]
• Anna Garson (COL 2017): “Sectarian Violence in Northern Ireland: Recounting & Understanding the Events of June 23, 1922 in Cushendall, Northern Ireland” [Mentor: Brendan O'Leary, Political Science]
• Trevin Glasgow (COL 2015): “The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and Three Good Things on Depression, Positive Affect and Cognition” [Mentor: Roy Hamilton, Neurology]
• Audrey Harnagel (COL 2016): “A Method for Investigating Stochastic Evolution in Escherichia coli” [Mentor: Harvey Rubin, Infectious Diseases]
• Susanna Lustbader (COL 2015): “Measuring Barriers to Treatment Selection for Clinicians through Simulated Case Studies” [Mentor: Robert DeRubeis, Psychology]
• Jack McDonald (COL 2015): “Measuring Restorative Justice Preferences” [Mentor: Geoffrey Goodwin, Psychology]
• Karanbir Pahil (COL 2016): “Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel HIV-1 Fusion Inhibitors” [Mentor: Amos Smith, Chemistry]
• Sarah Parkinson (COL 2017): “Curation and Display of Glass Wampum Beads” [Mentor: Margaret Bruchac, Anthropology and the Penn Cultural Heritage Center]
• Angela Perfetti (COL 2016): “Attitudes of Iraqi Refugees toward Healthcare” [Mentor: Fran Barg, Anthropology]
• Rachel Rosenzweig (COL 2015): “Friendship Jealousy” [Mentor: Robert Kurzban, Psychology]
• Frances Starn (COL 2015): “Activism in the Philadelphia School District: The Fragmentation and Evolution of Action Groups in Response to Crisis” [Mentor: Rand Quinn, Teaching, Learning, and Leadership]
• Arianna Ulloa (COL 2016): “The Effects of Situation Modification on Health Goal Achievement” [Mentor: Angela Duckworth, Psychology]
• Peter Yin (COL 2015): “Discovery and Assessment of Potential Causal Risk Factors for Migraine: A Mendelian Randomization Approach” [Mentor: Benjamin Voight, Pharmacology]
• Neil Zhao (COL 2016): “Synthesis of Photolabile Ruthenium Compounds” [Mentor: Ivan Dmochowski, Chemistry]

2014 (Spring)

• Anwar Akrouk (COL 2015): “The Last Jihad: Arab Nationalism, the Fall of the Ottoman Empire, and Minorities” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• Ryan Boe (COL 2015): “In Pursuit of the High Resolution Structure of Telomerase, a Universal Cancer Target" [Mentor: Emmanuel Skordalakes, Chemistry]
• Brennan Cusack (COL 2015): “Investigating Local Conflicts between Environmental Conservation and Economic Development” [Mentor: Paul Hendrickson, English]
• Hayden Dohnalek (COL 2015): “Deciphering the functional role of oncoprotein Vav2 in human breast cancer” [Mentor: Marina Guvakova, Surgery]
• Molly Elson (COL 2016): “People versus objects: holistic face processing of sexually promiscuous women” [Mentor: Robert Kurzban, Psychology]
• Danielle Golub (COL 2015): “Peptide YY signaling in the parabrachial nucleus contributes to food intake control” [Mentor: Harvey J. Grill, Psychology]
• Robert Hsu (COL; WH 2015): “Changes in Attitudes Towards Smoking and E-Cigarettes After Brief E-Cigarette Experimentation” [Mentor: Andrew Strasser, Psychiatry]
• Andrew Huang (COL 2015): “The Role of Voriconazole in Promoting UV-Induced DNA Damage and SCC” [Mentor: John Seykora, Dermatology]
• Sharon Kim (COL 2017): “Epigenetic Characterization of Neuroblastoma Driver Genes ARIDA and ARIDB” [Mentor: Michael Hogarty, Pediatric Oncology]
• Curtis Lee (COL 2015): “Investigating the role of LINC00461 in the Notch signaling pathway” [Mentor: Warren Pear, Pathology]
• Sofia Lund (COL 2016): “Urban Voices” [Mentor: Naomi Waltham-Smith, Music]
• Alex Ruan (COL 2015): “Examination of a putative fat-specific enhancer of Pparγ2 in human mesenchymal stem cells using the CRISPR/Cas system for genome editing” [Mentor: Mitchell Lazar, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism]
• Xiaohe Sun (COL 2015): “Role of enhancers in the coordinated expression of odorant and guidance receptors in zebrafish olfactory system” [Mentor: Jonathan Raper, Neuroscience]
• Mitchell Tang (COL; WH 2016): “Bioinformatics Pipeline for Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease (LOAD) Associated Enhancer Prediction” [Mentor: Li-San Wang, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine]
• Eric Jia Yi Xu (COL 2015): “Membrane Localization and Function of the PTEN Tumor Suppressor” [Mentor: Tobias Baumgart, Chemistry]
• Wei Yu (COL 2016): “Investigating the genetics and life-history of grinder function in C. elegans” [Mentor: David Raizen, Neurology]
• Ryan Zahalka (COL 2015): “Molecular Mechanisms of Axon-Mediated Axon Growth” [Mentor: Kacy Cullen, Neurosurgery]

 
2013 (Fall)

• Claudia Acha (COL 2015): “UN Counternarcotic Efforts Effects on Cocaine Trafficking and Production in Bolivia” [Mentor: Isa Camyar, International Relations]
• Maya Afilalo (COL 2016): “Content of Naturally-Occurring Worry in Daily Life” [Mentor: Ayelet Ruscio, Psychology]
• Bonnie Arbittier (COL 2014): “Amour as Projection” [Mentor: Nancy Davenport, Fine Arts]
• Devin Barney (COL 2015): “Coordination in Conversation in Schizophrenia” [Mentor: Delphine Dahan, Psychology]
• Robert Franco (COL 2014): “¡Salva la Madre!: Ecuadorian and Colombian Reactions to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• Joseph Isaac (COL 2014): “Wrinkles of Memory; Understanding the Narrative Created by JR’s ‘Wrinkles of the City, Berlin’” [Mentor: Karen Beckman, History of Art]
• Bahar Javdan (COL 2014): “Investigating the Relationship between Non-Conventional Practices and Immune Functioning Among West African Immigrants in Philadelphia Receiving Conventional Care for HIV” [Mentor: Laura Bamford, Medicine]
• Colleen Kase (COL 2014): “The Effects of Sorority Recruitment on Perceptions of Social Support” [Mentor: Melissa Hunt, Psychology]
• Barunie Kim (COL 2015): “The Process of Naturally-Occurring Worry in Daily Life” [Mentor: Ayelet Ruscio, Psychology]
• Deepa Lakshmin (COL 2014): “The role of payment incentives in effort” [Mentor: Coren Apicella, Psychology]
• Katelynn McShane (COL 2016): “The influence of predicative factors on the frequency and duration of naturally occurring worry” [Mentor: Ayelet Ruscio, Psychology]
• Charity Migwi (COL 2015): “The Evolution of Women’s Costumes at the Trinidad Carnival” [Mentor: Deborah Thomas, Anthropology]
• Duyen Quach (COL 2016): “Regulation of discoidal HDL particle biogenesis by nuclear receptors” [Mentor: Daniel Rader, Medicine]
• Olivia Rutigliano (COL 2014): “The Original Cabin in the Woods: ‘Walden’ and the Tradition of Modern Supernatural Adaptations of Nineteenth Century Literature” [Mentor: Michael Gamer, English]
• Lisa Sha (COL; WH 2014): “Refining a literature ELISA protocol to detect Aβ from axon-only regions on the Smith Lab neuron culture platform” [Mentor: Douglas Smith, Medicine]
• Jessica Stokes (COL 2014): “ADHD, Self-Concept, and Biofeedback Training” [Mentor: Melissa Hunt, Psychology]
• Josh Tycko (COL 2014): “Engineering the Epigenome: Development of a Standardized Assay for Site-Specific Methylases” [Mentor: Brian Chow, Bioengineering]
• Christina Wu (COL 2014): “Comparative Study of Elderly Chinese Immigrants and Elderly African Americans in Philadelphia in their Attitudes Towards Vision and Eye Care and Perceived Barriers to Seeking and Receiving Eye Care” [Mentor: Giang Nguyen, Medicine]
• Jenny Yan (COL 2015): “Effects of Enhanced DNA Vaccine against Tyrosinase on Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in a Murine Melanoma Model” [Mentor: Kar Muthumani, Medicine]
• Wei Yu (COL 2016): “Investigating the expression & role of prion-like ABU/PQN proteins in C. elegans” [Mentor: David Raizen, Medicine]

 
2013 (Spring)

• Amanda Ball (COL 2014): “Death in the Landscape: a study of Ancient Greek Hades worship and the archaeological imprint” [Mentor: Thomas Tartaron, Classical Studies]
• John Baranik (COL 2016): “Music Printing and Publishing Culture in Early Philadelphia” [Mentor: Peter Stallybrass, English]
• Davis Butner (COL 2014): “Consecrating a City through Culture: A Study of the Effects of Cultural Centers and Performance Halls on a Surrounding Urban Fabric” [Mentor: Emily Dolan, Music]
• Fangyu Chen (COL 2015): “Agonist-Induced Binding of the Regulatory Scaffold Protein Spinophilin to Phospholipase-C in Platelets” [Mentor: Lawrence Brass, Medicine]
• John Cheo (COL 2014): “Co-Opting Confucian – The Rise and Fall of ‘Asian Values’” [Mentor: Yuhua Wang, Political Science]
• Kelsey Cloonan (COL 2014): “South African Punk: a Musical Discourse of Identity” [Mentor: Carol Muller, Music]
• Marisa Denker (COL 2014): “A Brave New Dublin” [Mentor: Mark Stern, Urban Studies]
• Matthew Fernandez (COL 2014): “Literary Nationalism and the Politics of Memory in Stephen Vincent Benet” [Mentor: Catherine Turner, English]
• Arielle Fogel (COL 2014): “Stress and reproductive status for a captive population of owl monkeys (Aotus nancymae) in different social environments” [Mentor: Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Anthropology]
• Robert Franco (COL 2014): “Madres, Mujeres, y Obreras: Women and Labor Activism in Ecuador, 1922-1944” [Mentor: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History]
• Natasha Gabbay (COL 2014): “Women Helping Women: Manifestations of Sisterhood in Early Modern English Courts” [Mentor: Margo Todd, History]
• Geoffrey Hogan (COL 2014): “Stress or Glucocorticoid Induced Impairment of Working Memory Mediated by β-adrenoceptors in the Prefrontal Cortex” [Mentor: Steven Thomas, Medicine]
• Bahar Javdan (COL 2014): “Investigating the calcium-dependence of IL-1α and IL-1ß expression, processing, and secretion” [Mentor: Sunny Shin, Medicine]
• Julia Kelsoe (COL 2014): “The Court of Star Chamber: From Legality to Tyranny” [Mentor: Margo Todd, History]
• Leslie Krivo-Kaufman (COL 2014): “The Arts and Political Engagement in Philadelphia” [Mentor: Mark Stern, Urban Studies]
• Jonathan Levenson (COL 2014): “Effects of Sleep Deprivation and Circadian Shifts on the Neural Circuitry of Aggression in Drosophila” [Mentor: Amita Sehgal, Medicine]
• Jordan Lidsky-Everson (COL 2015): “Attention and Motivation in Female Offspring of Maternal Malnutrition” [Mentor: Teresa Reyes, Medicine]
• Shaj Mathew (COL 2014): “Literary and Literal Violence in Roberto Bolaño’s “2666”” [Mentor: Andrea Goulet, Comparative Literature]
• Ariel Miller (COL 2014): “The Effects of DNMT1 on DNA Methylation” [Mentor: Teresa Reyes, Medicine]
• Isabel Oliveres (COL 2014): “More Than Just Bombs: Tracing the Development of Catalan Anarchism Through “La Revista Blanca”” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• So Jung Park (COL 2014): “Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage by Petrogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons” [Mentor: Jeffrey Field, Medicine]
• Akiva Sanders (COL 2014): “Fingerprints and Changes in Pottery Production at Tell Leilan Over the Course of the Early Bronze Age” [Mentor: Lauren Ristvet, Anthropology]
• Sarah Schulte (COL 2014): “Understanding Rising Obesity in the Latino Population in South Philadelphia” [Mentor: Jason Schnittker, Sociology]
• William Smith (COL 2014): “The Effects of Personal Politics on Judicial Procedure in the House of Lords in 1620s & 1640s” [Mentor: Margo Todd, History]
• David Steinmetz (COL 2014): “Viability of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) after enumeration with adenovirus” [Mentor: Jay Dorsey, Medicine]
• Nicole Williams (COL 2015): “Music Printing and Publishing Culture in Early Philadelphia” [Mentor: Peter Stallybrass, English]
• Abby Worthen (COL 2014): “Barriers to Access of Cervical Cancer Screening for African-American Muslim Women in Philadelphia” [Mentor: Jonathan Moreno, History and Sociology of Science]
• Winona Wu (COL 2014): “The Role of the Trib1:MALT1 Interaction in Acute Myelogenous Leukemia” [Mentor: Warren Pear, Medicine]
• Wenda Ye (COL 2014): “Effects of Olfactory Sensory Receptors and Guidance Cues on Axon Mapping in the Developing Zebrafish Olfactory System” [Mentor: Jonathan Raper, Medicine]

2012 (Fall)

• Erin Beck (COL 2013): “A Body at Work: Neurodegenerative Disease and the Production of Artwork” [Mentor: Dr. Murray Grossman, Visual Studies]
• Kelsey Bogue (COL 2013): “Attitudes and Behaviors regarding Mammograms” [Mentor: Dr. Melissa Hunt, Psychology]
• Daniel Brooks (COL 2015): ““Gene flow among Totonacan-speaking populations and other linguistic groups from Veracruz and Puebla states of Mexico”” [Mentor: Dr. Theodore Schurr, Biology]
• Christopher Dunn (COL 2013): “Backward Magical Contagion Effects in the United States” [Mentor: Dr. Paul Rozin, Psychology]
• Elaine Fitz Gibbon (COL 2013): “György Kurtág’s Hölderlin: the Voice and Text in Contemporary Composition” [Mentor: Dr. Simon Richter, Germanic Languages and Literatures]
• Dorry Guerra (COL 2013): “Snap-shot: Camera, Celebrity, and the Paparazzi” [Mentor: Dr. Peter Decherney, Visual Studies]
• Emma Gwaltney (COL 2014): “A Balancing Act: Zoo Exhibit Design for Animals, Guests, and Staff” [Mentor: Dr. Andrew Dahlgren, Architecture]
• Geena Ianni (COL 2013): “Metaphor Comprehension in Right and Left Brain Damaged Patients” [Mentor: Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, Biological Basis of Behavior]
• Emma Kaufman (COL 2014): “Art Heroes: The Discovery of Japan’s Sexual Identity” [Mentor: Dr. Ayako Kano, East Asian Languages and Civilizations]
• Kate Kerpen (COL 2014): “The Fate of Beneficial Mutations in Asexual Mutator Populations of Escherichia Coli Experiencing Fitness Decline” [Mentor: Dr. Paul Sniegowski, Biology]
• Rose Kleiman-Weiner (COL 2014): “Role of Fibroblast Activation Protein in Tumor Growth and Progression” [Mentor: Dr. Ellen Puré, Biology]
• Nicolas Klocanas (COL 2015): “Sweden, a Laboratory for Immigrant Integration” [Mentor: Dr. Peter Steiner, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics]
• Kevin Lou (COL 2014): “Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Triazolopyrimidine Microtubule-Stabilizing Agents as Potential Candidates for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Tauopathies” [Mentor: Dr. Amos Smith, Chemistry]
• Sonali Mehta (COL 2015): “The effect of training on art viewing and aesthetic experience” [Mentor: Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, Cognitive Science]
• Olivia Rutigliano (COL 2014): “Bardrobing: Conventions and Inventions in Shakespeare Costume Design” [Mentor: Dr. Cary Mazer, English]
• Hayley Sacks (COL 2013): “Impact of Anxiety on Treatment Reponse to Pediatric Trichotillomania” [Mentor: Dr. Martin Franklin, Psychology]
• Alisha Saxena (COL 2013): “Gaze Patterns of Autistic Children in Response to Anxiety-Provoking Stimuli” [Mentor: Dr. Coralie Chevallier, Psychology]
• Nicole Seligman (COL 2013): “The Girls in Transition Program as an Intervention to Reduce Body Image Anxiety by Challenging Thin Media Ideals” [Mentor: Dr. Jane Gillham, Psychology]
• Annie Shearer (COL 2013): “The effects of mindfulness meditation on alleviating maladaptive perfectionists’ response to stress” [Mentor: Dr. Melissa Hunt, Psychology]
• Jonah Stern (COL 2013): “Film as a Visual Medium” [Mentor: Dr. Ellen Reynolds, Visual Studies]
• Thamolwan Surakiatchanukul (COL 2013): “Stress Responses in C. elegans Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis” [Mentor: Dr. Robert Kalb, Biochemistry]

2012 (Spring)

• Lauren Ambler (COL 2013): “NMDA receptor activity in amygdala and social function” [Mentor: Dr. Steven Seigel, Psychiatry]
• Logan Bayroff (COL 2013): “The Creation of American Russia Policy in the Wilsonian Age: The University, the State Department, and Samuel Harper” [Mentor: Dr. Peter Holquist, History]
• Camilo Bermudez (COL; EAS 2014): “Quantitative Analysis of EEG Spike Density to Predict Seizure Onset” [Mentor: Dr. Eric Marsh, Medicine]
• Moshe Bitterman (COL 2013): “The Role of PTEN in the Insulin Signaling Pathway” [Mentor: Dr. Morris Birnbaum, Medicine]
• Davis Butner (COL 2014): “Steps in Synthesizing Music from Spatial Design (An Exploration of the Methodology of Iannis Xenakis)” [Mentor: Dr. James Primosch, Music]
• Shayna Friedman (COL 2013): “The Role of GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit Trafficking in the Nucleus Accumbens in Cocaine Priming-Induced Reinstatement” [Mentor: Dr. Heath Schmidt, Medicine]
• Naomi Fujiki (COL 2013): “The Evolution of U.S. Government Policies Towards Soviet Dissidents from 1969-1980” [Mentor: Dr. Vanessa Ogle, History]
• Leanne Gale (COL 2013): “The Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement as a Case Study of Joint-Israeli Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance” [Mentor: Dr. Ian Lustick, Political Science]
• Keshav Garud (COL 2015): “Social Networks and Economic Development” [Mentor: Dr. Brian Spooner, Anthropology]
• Joshua Herren (COL 2013): “Aids, Activism, and the Art of Mourning: Queer Art and Visual Culture in the Fight to End Aids, 1980-1994” [Mentor: Dr. Kathy Peiss, History]
• Emma Kaplan (COL 2014): “Cross-hemispheric Plasticity of the Zebra Finch Song System Following Unilateral RA Lesion in Juvenile Birds” [Mentor: Dr. Marc Schmidt, Biology]
• Vinayak Kumar (COL 2013): “Determining the Prevalence of Diabetes and Obesity in a Slum Population in Trujillo, Peru” [Mentor: Dr. Mark Kahn, Medicine]
• Muyi Li (COL 2013): “Inducible RNAi Knockdown Detection Using Tag Proteins” [Mentor: Dr. Michael Lampson, Biology]
• Irina Markina (COL 2013): “The theme of antiquity in the Lyon murals of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.” [Mentor: Dr. Gerald Prince, French]
• Urja Mittal (COL; WH 2014): “Mobile Banking Methodologies and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study in Colombia” [Mentor: Dr. Mauro Guillen, Management]
• Arielle Pardes (COL 2014): “The Birds, the Bees, and the Swedes: An Exploration of the Swedish Sex Education System” [Mentor: Dr. Shannon Lundeen, Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies]
• Cara Piccoli (COL 2013): “Nr1 expression may mediate sociability in C57BL/6J mice” [Mentor: Dr. Edward Brodkin, Medicine]
• Pallavi Podapati (COL 2013): “Appalachian Water Watch” [Mentor: Dr. David Barnes, Health and Societies]
• Julio Reynaga Galeas (COL; WH 2013): “Receipt or No Receipt: Tax Compliance in Buyer-Seller Transactions” [Mentor: Dr. Judd Kessler, Business and Public Policy]
• Alethea Roe (COL 2013): “Mummy Portraits” [Mentor: Dr. Kimberly Bowes, Classical Studies]
• Stephanie Rogers (COL 2014): “Expression Patterns of Proteases After Status Epilepticus” [Mentor: Dr. Brenda Porter, Neurology]
• Sheila Shanmugan (COL 2013): “Utilizing fMRI to Determine Effects of Vyvanse on Memory, Attention, and Brain Activity in Menopausal Women” [Mentor: Dr. C. Neill Epperson, Medicine]
• Madeleine Shiff (COL 2013): ““Outsiders in Berlin: Christopher Isherwood, George S. Messersmith, and William Shirer’s Responses to the Rise of the Nazi Regime”” [Mentor: Dr. Warren Breckman, History]
• Noreen Sit (COL 2013): “Wealth and Reputation from the Late Roman Republic to Early Empire” [Mentor: Dr. Cynthia Damon, Classical Studies]
• Andrew Starling (COL 2013): “Stories about the Past, Lessons of the Present: A Study of American History Textbooks, Their Adoptions and Their Cultural Implications” [Mentor: Dr. Daniel Richter, History]
• Alexandra Stern (COL 2013): “Contagious Rebellion: The Dakota Uprising in the Civil War Period” [Mentor: Dr. Stephanie McCurry, History]
• Avital Warburg (COL 2014): “Sexually transmitted infections and housing instability” [Mentor: Dr. Nadia Dowshen, Medicine]
• Anthony Zarate (COL 2013): “Student-Led Culture and the Effects on Urban Schools” [Mentor: Dr. John Fantuzzo, Education]

2011 (Fall)

• Billie Bian (COL 2012): “Targeting HIV Infection with Rapamycin” [Mentor: Dr. Karuppiah Muthumani, Medicine – Pathology]
• Jennifer Blackwell (COL 2012): “Molecular mechanisms of age-related memory deficits” [Mentor: Dr. Ted Abel, Biology]
• Marisa Brau (COL 2012): “The founding of Bloomers, a Comedic Venue for Penn Women” [Mentor: Dr. Rose Malague, Theatre Arts]
• Ian Bussard (COL 2013): “Autonomy and Awareness in Agnes Martin’s “The Islands”” [Mentor: Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, History of Art]
• Jennifer Gamarra (COL 2012): “Coping Strategies in College Students” [Mentor: Dr. Melissa Hunt, Psychology]
• Carolyn Gombert (COL 2012): “The Gordon Alexander Project” [Mentor: Dr. Jay Kirk, English]
• To Nhu Huynh (COL 2012): “History of Dock Street Market: Mid 19th Century to 1959” [Mentor: Dr. Andrew Deener, Wharton – Robert Wood Johnson Health and Societies Scholars Program]
• Nalini Jain (COL 2014): “Physiological characterization of thalamus-projecting neurons in the respiratory brainstem” [Mentor: Dr. Marc Schmidt, Biology]
• Yeonjin Jung (COL 2012): “Responsibility for Harm in Health-Care Allocation Decisions” [Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Baron, Psychology]
• Xiao Kang (COL/NUR 2012): “How Far is the East from the West: Historial Study of Transnational Nursing Knowledge Exchange in China” [Mentor: Dr. Barbra Wall, Nursing]
• Lily Kim (COL 2012): “Influences of Children’s Programming on Racial Attitude Formation in a “Post-Racial” Society” [Mentor: Dr. John Jackson, Communication]
• Sam Krupa (COL 2013): “Numerical Analysis of Euler Characteristic Integrals” [Mentor: Dr. Michael Robinson, Mathematics]
• Bethany Morgan (COL/LPS 2012): “Social Engagement in Water Practices” [Mentor: Dr. Orkan Telhan, School of Design]
• Deven Parker (COL 2012): “A Politics of Dissent in Keat’s “Endymion”” [Mentor: Dr. Michael Gamer, English]
• Jesse Rappaport (COL 2012): “Elucidating the role of Jun in cell migration” [Mentor: Dr. Jason Stoller, CHOP Neonatology]
• Emily Rickard (COL 2012): “If You Tell a Fool a Proverb, He Will Ask You its Meaning: The Life and Legacy of Captain R.S. Rattray” [Mentor: Dr. Steven Hahn, History]
• Sarah Rosenbach (COL 2012): “Academic and Social Functioning in Adolescent Victims of Sexual Trauma with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” [Mentor: Dr. Carmen Mclean, Medicine]
• Parth Shah (COL/WH 2012): “Analyzing the effectiveness of a dairy cooperative via estimating the cost of milk production” [Mentor: Dr. Santosh Anagol, Business and Public Policy]
• Erica Shandell (COL 2012): “Religious Identity and Body Image” [Mentor: Dr. David Sarwer, Medicine – Center for Weight and Eating Disorders]
• Janet Sung (COL 2012): “How Tz’utujil Maya mothers treat illness in children in Santiago Atitlan” [Mentor: Dr. Frances Barg, Anthropology]
• Joel Tee (COL 2012): “The Political Economy of Welfare: Explaining the Policy Mix of State TANF Programs in the United States” [Mentor: Dr. Julia Lynch, Political Science]
• Kaiwen Zhu (COL 2014): “Changes in Neuronal Circuitry Underlying Maternal Behavior” [Mentor: Dr. Gregory Carlson, Medicine – Psychiatry]
• Hannah Zickgraf (COL 2012): “Cleanliness and moral decision-making” [Mentor: Dr. Paul Rozin, Psychology]

2011 (Spring)

• Etan Aber (COL 2012): The Choline Transporter and the Neuromuscular Junction
• Samuel Belfer (COL 2012): Investigating sexual dimorphisms in C. elegans lethargus
• Laura Cooper (COL 2012): Formation of Reactive Cerium and Uranium Carbenes
• Thadeus Dowad (COL 2012): The Paternity of Puppetry: Paul Klee’s Hand Puppets, 1916-1925
• James Ebeling (COL 2012): French Identity and the ‘Other’ in Parisian Museums
• Sara Ehsani-Nia (COL 2012): Go Forth and Do Good: US-Iran Relations and the Peace Corps
• Rebecca Freedman (COL 2012): Moses Montefiore: Philanthropy in Jerusalem as a Catalyst for Development of the Yishuv in the pre-Zionist era of Jewish Palestine
• Sarah Huepenbecker (COL 2012): The Effects of Carbon Limitation on Storage and Growth in Oaks
• Meghan Hussey (COL 2012): Criminals or Political Prisoners? The Management of the 1980-81 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland by the Governments of the United Kingdom & Ireland
• Yeonjin Jung (COL 2012): Guilt and Anger in Fairness Perceptions
• Mark Kaltenbach (COL 2012): Belief Overkill Differences Among Individuals and Categories of Belief
• Charles Austin Kasserman (COL 2012): Application of the Seismoelectric Effect to Geophysical Surveying
• Galileu Kim (COL 2013): The Paris Club: The Politics of Debt Restructuring in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
• Vinayak Kumar (COL 2013): Determining the Prevalence of Diabetes and Obesity in a Slum Population in Trujillo, Peru
• Regina Lam (COL 2012): Untangling the Healing Effect: Exploring the Acupuncturist-Patient Relationship
• Heui Beom Lee (COL; EAS 2013): Synthesis and Characterization of Lanthanide-Nitroxyl Complexes with Potential Applications in Lanthanide Separation
• Samuel Levi (COL 2014): The Design and Synthesis of Novel Chloroquine Derivatives to Block Autophagy in Tumor Cells
• Flora Liu (COL; WH 2012): The End of Political Economy Studies in America: An Analysis of Wharton’s Disintegration as a Social Sciences Institution
• Kevin Liu (COL 2013): Modeling Human Melanoma in a 3D Environment
• Shaina Mann (COL 2012): A Study of SYTOX Blue Dead Cell Stain in Investigating Natural Killer Cell Function
• Ben McGuire (COL 2012): The Roots of Growth: Philadelphia’s Progress in a Time of Decline
• Sarah McKenna (COL 2013): Analysis of the Role of the Exocyst in the Novel Urocrine Signaling Pathway
• Divya Mishra (COL 2013): Effects of gender on the changes in roles and responsibilities of family members after migration to the US: A study of Nepali refugee families in Baltimore
• Michael Morse (COL 2013): The Electoral Impact of Felon Disenfranchisement Reform: A Case Study in Iowa
• Adam Saltzman (COL 2012): Morality of Terrorism Against Democracies
• James Sawyer (COL 2013): Ottomania: The Implications of Historic Nostalgia on Contemporary Turkish Identity
• Emily Schapira (COL 2013): Understanding Human Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Utilization of an Engineered Three-Dimensional Model to Characterize Genetic Changes Driving Malignancy
• Khoi Vo (COL 2012): The Role of the Basal Ganglia in Decision Making
• Carly Ziegler (COL 2012): A Transcriptional Network Approach for Studying T Cell Exhaustion During Chronic Infection

2010 (Fall)

• Samuel Belfer (COL 2012): Ice-chewing as a novel treatment for attention and working memory defecits in iron-deficeint anemics
• Prerana Bharadwaj (COL 2011): Ice-chewing as a novel treatment for attention and working memory defecits in iron-deficeint anemics
• Solomon Bienstock (COL 2011): ADHD and Diurnal Variation
• Rachel Chizkov (COL 2011): An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of a Therapy Dog on Depth of Emotional Processing and Outcome in a Standard Expressive Writing Paradigm
• Olivia Choy (COL 2013): Biosocial Risk Factors of Crime
• Michael Contillo (COL 2012): Shifting Socio-Legal Paradigms of Victorian Women’s Criminal Deviance in a Sensation Novel: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret
• McKenna Crilley (COL 2011): Constructing Contemporary Cultural Identiy
• Pooja Doshi (COL/WH 2012): Merging Health care Delivery and Economic Development: An economic model
• Ryna Frankel (COL 2011): Just Short of Ambitious: A Study of Provisional Painting and Visual Culture
• Carol Gianessi (COL 2011): The effects of sleep on spatial and non-spatial transitive memory consolidation
• Emily Goshey (COL 2013): African American Muslims: an exploration of identity in West Philadelphia
• Christian Grados (COL 2011): Universities as Sites of Citizenship
• Xinpei Jiang (COL 2011): Molecular analysis of Cu-dependent mutants of Rhodobacter capsulatus that affect the production of the cytochrome cbb3-oxidase
• Margaret Kross (COL 2011): Normative Perceptions and Rhizomatic Conceptions: The Intersection of Art and Architecture in Contemporary Installation Art Practices
• Greg Kurzhals (COL 2013): Famine, Fenians, and Firearms: The Irish Militia Tradition in Antebellum American Cities
• Alison Lai (COL 2012): Confirmation and Analysis of Rare Variants in the Serine Rich Domain of the Ankyrin 3 Gene in a European American Population with Bipolar Disorder, Type I
• Qintan Lin (COL 2011): An Experimental Study of the “Marriage Problem”: When do people stop their decision making search for partners
• Kyle Lutkewitte (COL 2011): “The Black Grandma Moses”: Creating Clementine Hunter
• Jeanne Michele Mariani (COL 2011): Self-Imposed Failure: The problems with waging limited war in contemporary society
• Claire Masteller (COL 2012): Modelling Relative Sea Level Changes through Microfossil Analysis, Georgia, United States
• Dorothy Melander-Dayton (COL 2011): Freakshows: Blurring the Lines Between Fantasy, Reality, and the Assumed Persona
• Yu Ri Park (COL 2012): Impact of American foreign diplomacy on the geopolitics of East Asia during the beignning years of the 20th century
• Kexin Qiang (COL 2011): ADHD and Diurnal Variation
• Darina Shtrakhman (COL 2012): Foreshadowing the Post-War Economic Order: The Anglo-American Wheat Talks of 1941
• Arielle Spellun (COL 2012): Song Production and Modulation by the nTS Region of the Zebra Finch Brainstem
• Julie Stein (COL 2011): The role of worry in influencing emotional reactivity to verbal-linguistic threats.
• Vaughn Stewart (COL 2011): Classless and Free?: Working Class Whites and the Conservative Activism
• Cassandra Turcotte (COL 2012): A Morphological Analysis of Change in Juvenile Suid Skeletons due to Burning
• Polly Van Den Berg (COL 2011): The Effects of Long-acting GLP-1 Receptor Analogs on Food Intake and Meal Patterns in Rats
• Catalina Villamil (COL 2011): An examination of microscopic changes to burnt immature remains
• Julia Wong (COL 2012): The Cluster Approach to Effective International Humanitarian Response
• Kathryn Wynbrandt (COL 2012): Shifting Socio-Legal Paradigms of Victorian Women’s Criminal Deviance in a Sensation Novel: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret

2010 (Spring)

• Sean Angiolillo (COL 2011A): The Maoist Movement in Bihar: A Centre-State Dilemma
• Adam Behrens (COL 2011A): Fear and Loathing in Paris: Atheism and Religious Debate in the French Enlightenment
• Michael Chien (COL 2011A): Molecular Simulations to Investigate Nanotube-DNAHybrids
• Stephen Childs (COL 2011A): Averting Crisis: The Washington Peace Conference of 1861 – Its Failure, and the Quandary of the Border-States
• Rachel Cohen (COL 2011A): Shakespeare’s External Construction of Identity and Contemporary Performances of Virtuality
• James Ebeling (COL 2012A): Assessing the Prospect of a National Museum of Belize
• Clare Foran (COL 2011A): The construction of memory: An analysis of Antigone and Les Mouches in postwar France
• Lydia Gau (COL 2011A): ADH Variation in Indigenous Altaian, Kazakh and Mongolian Populations
• Evi Heilbrunn (COL 2011A): Learning the Black Body: Approaches of Black Women to Body Care Post-Emancipation.
• To Nhu Huynh (COL 2012A): The Invisible Fear: Representation of H1N1 in the Vietnamese Online Newspapers
• Amanda Johnson (COL 2012A): Economic Stimulus: Investigating Where the Money Has Gone and Why
• Celine Kosian (COL 2011A): Never Mind the Past! The Enemy of my Enemy is My Friend: Foreign Relations between the United States and Spain from 1945 to 1953
• Shira Lerner (COL 2011A): The Effects of Psychosocial Stressors on Hypertension Control at a Student-Run Free Clinic
• Mark Lester (COL 2011A): Philistine Culinary Culture in a Wider World
• Carly Levitz (COL 2011A): Understanding the Persistent Racial Disparity in “Avoidable” Cancer Mortality
• Aaron Levy (COL 2011A): Symmetron Particles in the Early Universe
• Gina Mahatma (COL 2012A): Evaluating core sequences in enhancer of RUNX2
• Kaneesha Parsard (COL 2011A): Dougla/dougla: The “Miscegenate” in Caribbean Nation-Building
• Arithruth Reyes (COL 2012A): Interneurons in CDKL5 deficient mice: Implications for infantile spasms associated with mental retardation
• Sasha Riser-Kositsky (COL 2011A): Are Smaller States ‘Better’ States? Development and Governance in Jharkhand and Uttarkhand
• Andrew Rizzo (COL 2011A): Support in romantic relationships: A comparison of actual and desired social support
• Rachel Romeo (COL 2011A): Phonological Word Recognition Development in Children with Potential Hearing Impairments
• Sarah Rosenbach (COL 2012A): The Role of Deliberate Practice in Determining Performance on the SAT
• Andrew Schlossberg (COL 2011A): The Military Dimensions of Post-Cold War US Oil Strategy
• Emily Schultheis (COL 2011A): From English Countryside to New World: Jane Austen’s Literary Presence in Early America
• Eric Smith (COL 2011A): Feudal Capitalism: An Economic Analysis of the Rents due to a Late Fifteenth Century French Estate
• Arber Tasimi (COL 2011A): The Sociolinguistics of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Language and its impact on social cognition
• Jonathan Williams (COL 2011A): Forward Through the Past: Confederate Legacy Groups and the New South

2009 (Fall)

• Ashley Takacs (COL 2010) “The Grain Elevator as an American Icon”
• Brynn Applebaum (COL 2010) “Joe Chemo’s Impact: A Cultural Comparison of Anti-Smoking Campaigns”
• Sarah Brody (COL 2010) “Reconstructing Holocene Earthquakes and Tsunamis from the Cascadia Subduction Zone”
• Jonathan de Jong (COL 2011) “From Also-Rans to Bargaining Equals: The Benelux and Early European Integration”
• Stephanie Scott (COL 2010) “Biogeochemistry of Organic Waste in Soils from Spain”
• Xiaoyun (Linda) Yin (COL 2012) “Memory Encoding in the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus: Effect of Fear Conditioning on Spatial Memory and Place Field Remapping”
• Aaron Ecay (COL 2010) “Applicatives and ditransitives in Itawes”
• Kyle Johnson (COL 2010) “Black (super) Power: Representations of African American Leadership in Popular Culture”
• Sara Mead (COL 2010) “Green Roofs for Urban Dwellers: Heightening Awareness, Exposing Benefits”

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  Lauren Hoffman
  (COL 2010) “The Girls in Transition Project”
• James Katz (COL 2010) “Alternate Universes: How the self-serving bias warps our perception of reality.”
• Amy Kranzler (COL 2010) “The Girls In Transition Program”
• Molly Seltzer (COL 2010) “The Girls in Transition Program”
• Danielle Daitch (COL 2010) “The Effects of Language on Perceptual Processing of Color”
• Lucy la Cour (COL 2010) “Social Influences on Reproductive Stimulation in Cowbirds”
• Karuna Meda (COL 2010) “A study on the novel role of REST in learning and memory.”
• Valeria Tsygankova (COL 2011) “Representing Church and State: Title Pages, Portraits of Patrons, Decorative Initials and Woodcut Ornaments in English Bibles, 1535-1611”
• Jessica Leifer (COL 2010) “Fostering Self-Control: Attention to Rewards and Work”
• Daniella Mak (COL 2010) “Luso-Tropicalismo The New Colonizer and the New Colonized in Brazilian Literature, Music, and Film from 1933-1975 on Angolan Decolonization”
• Benjamin van Buren (COL 2012) “The Role of Aesthetic Sensibility in Directing Covert Attention”
• Rachel Weinblatt (COL 2010) “How Phonological Differences Affect Children’s Word Individuation”

2009

• Pablo Barrera (COL 2010): The Evolution of Joseon Dynasty Aesthetics and Architecture: A Cross Disciplinary Study of “Hanok” in South Korea’s National Building Campaign
• Emily Belfer (COL 2010): Popular Culture in WWI London
• Elena Blebea (COL 2010): The Latin American Diet Pyramid: Serving the Hispanic Population?
• Sophie Cavoulacos (COL 2010): Cold War Cultural Diplomacy: Early U.S. policy in Europe
• Rachel-Marie Gittelman (COL 2010): Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation in the Argentinean Gram Chaco
• Yuki Hashimoto (COL 2010): Project Evaluation of a PennEWB Water Distribution Initiative in Gundom, Cameroon: a Cultural Ecological Study
• Sol Jung (COL 2010): The Evolution of Joseon Dynasty Aesthetics and Architecture: A Cross Disciplinary Study of “Hanok” in South Korea’s National Building Campaign
• Lauren Kapsalakis (COL 2011): Attitudes Towards the Use of Contraceptives in an Indigenous Population in Transition
• Benjamin Kaufman (COL 2010): Social Identity Among Russian and Russian-Speakers in Latvia
• Adam Mandelsberg (COL 2011): A Second Look at the Election of 1976: How Jimmy Carter Resuscitated the New Deal Coalition and Why it Failed to Last
• Kendra McKoy (COL 2011): Hurricane Erosion and Deposition in the Cape May, New Jersey, Area for the Past 2500 Years and Future Implications
• Anish Mehta (COL 2010): The Effects of Mindfulness/Meditation Training on Executive Function Deficits in Adult ADHD
• Emma Morgenstern (COL 2011): A Sociolinguistic Study of the Jews in Greece and their Language, Judeo-Spanish
• Clara Ng (COL 2010): Opportunity Amid Struggle: Development of the Fourth Sector as a Response to Diabetes in West Africa
• Michail Reiche (COL 2010): Translation Kinetics of an mRNA Containing a Stem Loop
• Curtis Rogers (COL 2010): Troutfishing a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

2008

• Mary Kreamer: “Ethnicity Created”
• Lauren Mancuso: “Educating the Wandering Mind: A Cognitive Analysis of Text Comprehension During Reading”
• Laura Heckman: “The inhibition of L1 retrotransposon expression by DNAmethylation”
• Ningkun Li: “Identify MiRNAs that regulate the expression of the neuropeptide Neuromedin U in malignant immature blood cells”
• Yuri Castaño: “Daily life of La Merced’s sex workers”
• Steven Wang: “Promotion and Inhibition of Hematopoletic Stem Cell Derived Myofiber Regeneration by Defined Factors”
• Lavanya Madhusudan: “Self Perceptions of Maternal Health and Their Effects on Child Nutritional Status in Bangalore, India”
• Max Reibman: “Paris and Damascus Beyond the Holy Land: The Partition of Greater Syria and the Birth of the Palestine Mandate”
• Brinda Alagesan: “Evaluating the roles of prostaglandins D2 and E2 in skin stem cell function in vivo and in vitro”
• Srujan Peddapaidi: “Breast cancer stem cells derived from mammospheres and DC61 cells”
• Sasha Renninger: “Middle Kingdom bread molds and trays at Abydos: creating a ceramic chronology.”
• Tali Yahalom: “The Murder Trial of Sam Sheppard: Media, Crime and the Court of Public Opinion”
• Daniel Ross: “Jew Like Me: An Oral History of Congregation Temple Bethel, a Black Synagogue in the West Oak Lane Neighborhood of Philadephia”
• Jody Pollock: “Documenting the development of sustainable business”
• Mark Dela Cruz: “The Effect of Prosody on Theory of Mind in Frontotemporal Dementia”
• Jean Lee: “Philadelphia’s Sex Trafficking Industry”
• Allison Rao: “Functional Role of New Neurons in Memory”
• Jason You: “The Mystery of Motility in Archaea”
• Amber Alhadeff: “Caudal brainstem AMP-kinase as an intracellular mediator of energy balance”
• George Karandinos: “Dying with AIDS in America”
• Roopa Gogineni: “Naxal Settlement in Rural Andhra Pradesh”

2009

Eric Augenbraun C’10
W.E.B. DuBois College House
Tuskegee in Philadelphia: The Ideological and Institutional Foundations of Leon Sullivan’s Opportunities Industrialization Centers

Abraham Chen C’10
Riepe College House
Small Medium Enterprises in Development: Chinese Entrepreneurs in Africa and the Zambian

Fonda Chen C’10
Harrison College House
Solidarity within the School System: Improving Behavioral Policies and Their Enforcement in the Philadelphia School District

Daniella Mak C’10
Harnwell College House
Reconstructing Home and Identity: Refugees, Asylum Workers, and Migrant Workers in Angola

Enmanuel Martinez C’11
Fisher Hassenfeld College House
Color(in)g Cuba: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Communist Cuba’s Effectiveness in Eliminating Racist Inequality

Katie McCabe C’12
Hill College House
Begin with the Children: The Effects of Child-Trafficking in Allahabad, India

Anna Mesina C’10
Ware College House
The Status of Immunization among the People of Santiago-Atitlan

Corey Metzman W’12 / C’12
Kings Court English College House
Dorm-Room Diplomacy: Establishing an Online Framework for American-Arab Dialogue between Students

Clara Ng C’10 / W’10
Rodin College House
Opportunity amid Struggle: Development of the Fourth Sector as a Response to Diabetes in West Africa

Shanti Singh C’11
Gregory College House
Women, Tradition and Microfinance in the Developing World

2011

• Samuel Greenberg (COL 2013): Bnei Akiva and the Politics of Israeli Youth Movements
• Rachel Grosser (COL 2012): Healthcare Issues of Palestinian Children

2010

• Yuval Orr (COL 2010C): Sounds of National Struggle: Hip-Hop and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2009

• Elisheva Goldberg (COL 2011), “God, Man, and Israel: A New Look”
• Andrew Kibert (COL 2011), “Examining Graffiti: An Investigation of the Psychological Impact of the Israeli Separation Barrier on West Bank Palestinians”

2008

• Ariel Fisher (COL 2011), “An Investigation of the Interplay Between Jewish Law and Political Ideology Among West Bank Settler Communities”
• Max Reibman (COL 2009), “Paris and Damascus Beyond the Holy Land: The Partition of Greater Syria and the Birth of the Palestine Mandate”

2018

• Princess Aghayere (COL 2019): “Promoting Education and Cultivating Empowerment(PEACE) through Girls Basketball” [Mentor: Harvey Rubin, Professor of Medicine  and Computer Science]
• Julia Barr (COL 2019): “Casting the Role of Goliath: the Blitz, the Bombing of Germany, and British Identity during World War II” [Mentor: Alexander Chase-Levenson, History]
• Arjun Doshi (COL 2019): “The Heart of Indian Pedagogy: Religion, Language, and the Great Anglicist-Orientalist Debate” [Mentor: Alex Chase-Levenson, History]
• Shiri Gross (COL 2019): “Caffè Michelangiolo Rediscovered” [Mentor: Ann Moyer, History]
• Wesley Harris (COL 2019): “Sahrawi Political Identity Performance in Algeria” [Mentor: Heather Sharkey, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations]
• Summer Kollie (COL 2019): “Promoting Education and Cultivating Empowerment(PEACE) through Girls Basketball” [Mentor: Harvey Rubin, Professor of Medicine  and Computer Science]
• Celeste Marcus (COL 2019): “Intellectual Leadership in Jacob Franklin's The Voice of Jacob” [Mentor: David Ruderman, history]
• Sarah Marron (COL 2019): “Deconstructing Repression During the Spanish Civil War: Seville, 1936” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• Maggie Taylor (COL 2019): “Intersection of Identity & Chronic Kidney Disease in Sri Lankan Farmers” [Mentor: Amelia Carter]

2017

• Alisa Feldman (COL 2018): "Be Fruitful and Medicalize: IVF Risk Communication and the Politics of Assisted Reproduction in Israel" [Mentor: Adam Mohr, History and Sociology of Science, Anthropology, Critical Writing Program]
• Olivia Hess (COL 2018): "Using a Mixed-Method Approach to Optimize Mid Level Ophthalmic Personnel Counseling in Aravind Eye Hospital’s Glaucoma Clinic" [Mentor: Devesh Kapur, Political Science/Center for the Advanced Study of India]
• Vibha Kannan (COL 2018): "Female Consumerism and Morality: Political Mobilization during the British Anti-Slave Trade Movement" [Mentor: Alex Chase-Levinson, History]
• Kristen Pearson (COL 2018): "Examining the Impact of Horse Domestication in Northern and Western Mongolia" [Mentor: Katherine Moore, Anthropology]

2016

• Kathryn Marshalek

  Kathryn Marshalek
  (COL 2017): “Love Thy Neighbor? Religiously Motivated Violence in Seventeenth-Century London” [Mentor: Margo Todd, History]

• Tess Kerins

  Tess Kerins
  (COL 2017): “Protest Movements and Religious Identity in South Africa” [Mentor: Anthea Butler, Religious Studies]

• Mariana Pavia

  Mariana Pavia
  (COL 2017): “Colombians’ memories of the 1948 riots in Bogotá” [Mentor: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History]

• Marissa Priceman

  Marissa Priceman
  (COL 2017): “Injustices in the Israeli Labor Force” [Mentor: Ian Lustick, Political Science]
• Logan Staller (COL 2017): “The Cantankerous Christian Hebraist: The Life of Hugh Broughton as a Glimpse into Early Modern British Philosemitism” [Mentor: David Ruderman, History]

• Daniel Thompson

  Daniel Thompson
  (COL 2017): “Church/State conflict in the early years of the Cuban Revolution” [Mentor: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History]

• Alec Ward

  Alec Ward
  (COL 2017): “The Politics of Police Reform in 20th Century Northern Ireland” [Mentor: Brendan O’Leary, Political Science]

2015

• Joseph Fisher (COL 2016): "The intersection between collectivism and prosocial behavior" [Mentor: Geoff Goodwin, Psychology]
• Vanessa Koh  (COL 2016):   "Disrupting  Citizenship:  The Fate of Migrant Workers in Contemporary Singapore"[Mentors:  Kathleen Hall, Graduate School of Education and Adriana Petryna,  Anthropology]
• Minhyung Lee (COL 2016): "The integration of North Korean refugees in to South Korea" [Mentor:Sumantra Sen, Philosophy Politics and Economics]
• Stephen Pintauro (COL 2016): "The Worcester Hope and Reconciliation Process Mentorship Program" [Mentor:Henry Kranzler, Psychiatry]
• Eileen Wang (COL 2016): "Investigating the Sociocultural Context of Cesareans on Maternal Request in Shanghai, China" [Mentor:Adriana Petryna, Anthropology]

2014

• Kimberly Kolor (COL 2015): “Color-Coding the Margins: Socio-Spatial Negotiations of Community Identity in Eastern Sri Lanka” [Mentor: Justin McDaniel, Religious Studies]
• Zachary Levine (COL 2015): “African Community Internship Placement Program (ACIPP) West Africa” [Mentor: Eileen Doherty-Sil, Political Science]
• Edwin Paz (COL 2015): “Revisiting the Grassroots: Strategies, Praxis and Political Survival” [Mentor: Anne Farnsworth-Alvear, Latin American & Latino Studies Program/ History Department]
• Madeleine Stevens (COL 2015): “Do gender equality laws make a difference in news coverage of female politicians? A study of France and the United States” [Mentor: David Eisenhower, Communication]

 
2013

• Panarat Anamwathana (COL 2014): “The Gendered Nature of Quaker Charity” [Mentor: Margo Todd, History]
• Alice Conant (COL 2013): “Energize the Chain Assessment” [Mentor: Harvey Rubin, Medicine]
• Courtney Gans (COL 2014): “Trends in the 16th Century British and French Slave Trades” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• Mansara Hassan (NUR 2014): “Choosing your Care: An Evaluation of Maternal Care in Sierra Leone and the Factors that Influence a mother’s Choice” [Mentor: Barbra Mann Wall, Nursing]
• Elizabeth Hyde (COL 2014): “Evaluation of the French Approach to School Lunch” [Mentor: Paul Rozin, Psychology]
• Hyun-Soo Lim (COL 2014): “Being “Others”: State Policies and North Korean Migrant Youths and Families in South Korea” [Mentor: Jaesok Kim, Anthropology]
• Brian Mund (COL 2013): “Strategic Tradeoffs: Azerbaijan’s Foreign Policy Relationships With Russia and Israel” [Mentor: Alex Weisiger, Political Science]
• Steven Perez (COL 2014): “Once and For All: a study of the Nationalists’ concentration camps during the Spanish Civil War” [Mentor: Jonathan Steinberg, History]
• Daneel Schaechter (COL 2014): “Levels of Jewish Observance in Ecuador: Support or Opposition of President Correa’s 21st Century Socialism” [Mentor: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History]

2012

• Humna Bhojani (COL 2013): “Depictions of the Other” [Mentor: Dr. Ian Lustick, Political Science]
• Ryan Carty (COL 2013): “The Hospital Fann’s Development through Colonialism and Independence” [Mentor: Dr. Cheikh Anta Babou, African Studies]
• Veronica Casellas (COL 2013): “The Political and Social Rhetoric of Women’s Organizations during the Spanish Second Republic and the Civil War” [Mentor: Dr. Antonio Feros, History]
• Jacob Chefitz (COL 2013): “Zionism and the 1924 Anglo-American Convention on Palestine” [Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Steinberg, History]
• Mike Chen (COL; WH 2013): “On the Margin: Migrant Workers in a Shenzhen Paint Factory” [Mentor: Dr. Jaesok Kim, Anthropology]
• Arielle Herzberg (COL 2013): “Combating Anti-Semitism Through Science: Examination Works of Austrian-Jewish Doctor Ignaz Zollschan (1877-1948)” [Mentor: Dr. David Ruderman, History]
• Daniel Weinblatt (COL 2013): ““This Joyfull Union”: The Government of England and Scotland under James VI” [Mentor: Dr. Margo Todd, History]

2011

• Tali Arbit (COL 2012): BIblical Scenes in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts
• Michael Drake (COL 2012): The Argentinean Black Howler Monkey Survey
• Kelsi Schoenrock (COL 2012): Cortisol Levels in Adult Monogamous Male Owl Monkeys

2010

• Kanwar Kabir Singh Bedi (COL; WH 2011A): Impact of Micro-Credit in Chochomba, Bolivia
• Anthony Cordaro (COL 2011A): Space, Place, and Movement: An ethnography of an Indian highway
• Jonathan de Jong (COL 2011A): From Also-Rans to Bargaining Equals? The Benelux and Early European Integration
• Laura Goergen (NUR 2011A): Evaluating the Academic and Professional Impact of UK-US Baccalaureate Nursing Education Exchange
• Stephanie Winer (COL 2011A): Sudanese Refugees in Israel
• Elaine Yang (COL 2011A): Risks for Cardiovascular Disease and their Influence among Women of the Indigenous Toba

2009

• Anna Aagenes (COL 2010), “Mayan Women in Santiago Atítlan: An Investigation into Gender Roles and Resistance against Domestic Violence”
• Alexandra Leavy (COL 2010), “The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Role of Educational and Media Systems in Palestinian Politics”
• Katherine Wu (EAS 2010), “Volunteering and Studying Patient Perceived Barriers to Health in Unite For Sight Outreach Regions in Accra, Ghana”

2018

• Dr. Ravi Amaravadi (Medicine/Medicine)
• Dr. Paul Axelsen (Medicine/Pharmacology)
• Dr. Joshua Gold (Medicine/Neuroscience)
• Dr. Julia Gray (Arts and Sciences/Political Science)
• Dr. Roy Hamilton (Medicine/Neurology)
• Dr. Daniel Hopkins (Arts and Sciences/Political Science)
• Dr. Sarah Millar (Medicine/Dermatology)
• Dr. Jennifer Punt (Veterinary Medicine/Biomedical Sciences)
• Dr. Jonathan Raper (Medicine/Neuroscience)
• Dr. Lauren Sallan (Arts and Sciences/Earth and Environmental Science)
• Dr. Heath Schmidt (Nursing/Biobehavioral Health Sciences)

2017

• Dr. Norman Badler (Engineering and Applied Sciences/Computer & Information Science)
• Dr. Gordon Barr (Medicine/Anesthesiology)
• Dr. Shelley Berger (Medicine/Cell & Developmental Biology)
• Dr. Erfei Bi (Medicine/Cell and Developmental Biology)
• Dr. Edward Brodkin (Medicine/Psychiatry)
• Dr. David Cormode (Medicine/Radiology)
• Dr. Bart De Jonghe (Nursing/Biobehavioral Health Sciences)
• Dr. James English (Arts and Sciences/English)
• Dr. C. Neill Epperson (Medicine/Psychiatry)
• Dr. Roy Hamilton (Medicine/Neurology)
• Dr. A T Charlie Johnson (Arts and Sciences/physics and astronomy)
• Dr. Carolina Lopez (Veterinary Medicine/Pathobiology)
• Dr. Chamith Rajapakse (Medicine/Radiology)
• Dr. Elizabeth Rhoades (Arts and Sciences/Chemistry)
• Dr. Domenic Vitiello (Design/City & Regional Planning)

2016

• Dr. Ted Abel (College/Biology)
• Dr. Paul Axelsen (Medicine/Pharmacology)
• Dr. Jonathan Katz (Medicine/Gastroenterology)
• Dr. Irina Marinov (College/Earth and Environmental Sciences)
• Dr. Andrew Rappe (College/Chemistry)
• Dr. Marc Schmidt (College/Biology)
• Dr. Deborah Thomas (College/Anthropology)
• Dr. Naomi Waltham-Smith (College/Music)

2018

• Luis Bravo (COL 2019): “Barriers of Access to Public Services for Philadelphian Residents” [Mentor: Chenoa Flippen, Arts and Sciences]
• Adrian Evans IV (COL 2021): “Makuu/ Robeson Cooper Scholars Summer Social Impact Program” [Mentor: Brian Peterson, Africana Studies]
• Lynn Hur (COL 2019): “A comprehensive analysis of the relationship between food insecurity and obesity in Cobb’s Creek, West Philadelphia” [Mentor: Kent Bream, Family Medicine]
• Sabina London (COL 2020): “STEM You Can!: STEM Enrichment for low-income kids in Pennsylvania” [Mentor: Adam Mohr, ]
• Deborah Rabinovich (COL 2019): “Impact of Know Your Rights Interventions on Latina Immigrants” [Mentor: Elaine Simon, Urban Studies]
• Brendan Taliaferro (COL 2019): “Addressing the Epidemic of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness: An Evaluation of the Continuum of Care for LGBTQ Youth in Philadelphia” [Mentor: Amy Hillier, Social Policy Program]

2017

• Rachel Brock (COL 2018): "Improving the evidence and policies for better performing livestock systems in Ethiopia [ELISE]" [Mentor: Keren Weitzberg, Africana Studies]
• Yasmine Issah (COL 2018): "The Role of Ethnicity in the Distribution of Type II Diabetes Care in Santiago Atitlán and West Philadelphia Communities" [Mentor: Hans-Peter Kohler, Sociology]
• Nubia Ortega (COL 2018): "The Impact of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) Intervention Research on the Residents of Balaka, Malawi" [Mentor: Frances Barg, Anthropology]

2016

• Ramathi Bandaranayake (COL 2018): “ A Quantitative Study on Mathematics Anxiety as a Predictor of Achievement Among GCE O/L Students in Sri Lanka ” [Mentor: Herbert Turner, Quantitative Methods Division]

• Shay Moon

  Shay Moon
  (COL 2019): “Catalyzing sustainable development in post-Ebola Sierra Leone” [Mentor: Lee Cassanelli, History]

• Liqhwa Ncube

  Liqhwa Ncube
  (COL 2019): “Investigating the effectiveness of alternative sources of energy in tandem to the accessibilty of vaccines in Zimbabwe” [Mentor: Amanda Cottone, Biology]

• Kenan Saleh

  Kenan Saleh
  (COL 2019): “Effects of stress on physical development in adolescents” [Mentor: Abraham Wyner, Statistics]

2015

• Athena Buell (COL 2017): "Health of Agave Field Laborers" [Mentor: Lucille Pilling, Nursing]
• Nicholas Carrino (COL 2018): "Penn International Business Volunteers" [Mentor: Jose Miguel Abito, Business Economics and Public Policy]
• Ivana Kohut (COL 2018): "Healthcare in Cuba: A Cuban Woman's Perspective" [Mentor: Olga Guadalupe, Hispanic Studies]
• Arjun Malik and Hani Warith (COL 2018): "Interview-based Research Study on Egypt's Irreligious Minority" [Mentor: Robert Vitalis, Political Science]
• Antoinette Zoumanigui (COL 2017): "Seeking Cultural and Historical Understanding of the Talibe Phenomenon in Dakar, Senegal" [Mentor: Cheikh Anta Mbacke Babou, History]

2014

• Steven Acchione (COL 2017): “Building Opportunity through Social Entrepreneurship” [Mentor: Marton Markovits, Management]
• Shuhao Fan (COL 2016): “Investigating Various Political Actors’ Influence on Lawmaking through China’s Legislature” [Mentor: Yuhua Wang, Political Science]
• Benjamin Fogel (COL 2017): “Measured by its Own Yardstick: A Critical Look at the Human Rights Council” [Mentor: James McGann, International Relations]

2019

• Zacharia Hamdi (COL 2019): "Economics, Demographics, or Something Else? Exploring the Causes of Populism in the Developed and Developing World" [Mentor: Farah Jan, International Relations]

2018

• Mark Perfect (COL 2018): "Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Measuring the Impact of the Recovery School District on Student Outcomes" [Mentor: Holger Sieg, Mathematical Economics]

2016

• Sarah Baldinger (COL/WH 2016): "Lost and Won: A New Empirical Analysis of Economic Power Sharing" [Mentor: Alex Weisiger, Political Science]

2015

• Jose Romero (COL 2015): "A Taste of Brown: Alimentary Anthropology Between Michoacan and Washington" [Mentor: Deb Thomas, Anthropology]

2014

• Michael-David Mangini (COL 2014): “A Tale of Two Controversies: Impact of IMF Bias on Moral Hazard 1990-2010” [Mentor: Thomas Cavanna, International Relations]

2013

• Ryan Kuo (COL; WH 2013): “Authoritarian Institutions and Economics: Credible Commitment and Property Rights in Non-Democratic Settings” [Advised by: Dr. Yuhua Wang, Political Science]

2012

• Richard Lurito (COL 2012): “Say: It Isn’t So – A Vindication of the Misinterpreted Jean-Baptiste Say” [Advised by: Dr. Jonathan Steinberg, History]

2011

• Minh Chau (COL; WH 2011A): Individual Privacy and Online Services. [Advised by: Dr. Eric Clemons, Operations and Information Management]

2018

• Courtney Carpinello (COL 2019): “The Fight for American English” [Mentor: Kathleen Brown, History]
• Paul Ehmann (COL 2019): “A Consensus on Dual-Use Research of Concern” [Mentor: Jonathan Moreno, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Department of History and Sociology of Science]
• Lea Eisenstein (COL 2019): “From Icon to Bygone: The Rise and Fall of the Contraceptive Diaphragm in Twentieth-Century America” [Mentor: Beth Linker, History and Sociology of Science]
• Renee Hastings (COL 2019): “Uncovering the Role of Intrinsically Disordered Protein "PIR" in Plant Stress Response” [Mentor: Doris Wagner, Biology]
• Seyeon Kim (COL 2019): “Fathers' Engagement with Children's Education in Korea Across Different Educational Levels” [Mentor: Hyunjoon Park, Sociology]
• Aaron Kim (COL 2019): “Effect of Radiation on Demineralization and Remineralization of Dental Enamel and Dentin” [Mentor: Francis Mante, Restorative Dentistry]
• Gabrielle Leon (SEAS 2019): “Cation-Induced Membrane Deformations” [Mentor: Tobias Baumgart, Chemistry]
• Emma Lipschutz (COL 2019): “H1t-GFP as a marker for in vitro meiotic progression” [Mentor: Jeremy Wang, Biomedical Sciences]
• John McGahay (COL 2019): “Effects of Conditioned Mergers on Underlying Representations” [Mentor: Meredith Tamminga, Linguistics]
• Aakash Parikh (COL 2019): “Linear Algebraic Groups As Differential Galois Groups over C(x)” [Mentor: Julia Hartmann, Math]
• Santiago Peralta Ramos (COL 2019): “Leibniz, Wolff, and du Châtelet on Principles of Knowledge” [Mentor: Karen Detlefsen, Philosophy]
• Arielle Pierson (LPS 2019): “The Structures of Smith Creek: construction and communal organization” [Mentor: Megan Kassabaum, Anthropology]
• Melanie Xu (COL 2019): “Chattel Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: A History” [Mentor: Sarah Barringer Gordon, Penn Law]
• Lynna Ye (COL 2019): “EFFECT OF PVM/MA COPOLYMER ON BOND DURABILITY OF ADHESIVE RESINS” [Mentor: Fusun Ozer, Preventive and Restorative Sciences]

2017

• Rachel Beeson (COL 2018): "Social Capital in Knowledge Sharing" [Mentor: Gareth Roberts, Linguistics]
• Barbara Biney (COL 2018): "Identifying the Genes Responsible for Non-Disease Transmittance in the Aedes aegypti Mosquito [Mentor: Michael Povelones, Pathobiology]
• Jessica Burke (COL 2018): "Viscerosensory feedback on motor control of song in the adult male zebra finch [Mentor: Marc Schmidt, Biology]
• Kevin Chen (COL 2018): "Single Molecule Analysis of Translating Eukaryotic Ribosomes at Physiological Ligand Concentrations [Mentor: Yale E. Goldman, Physiology]
• Nia Kaudo (COL 2018): "Perpetually Bound: The Impact of 20th Century Policies on Black American and Afro-Brazilian Incarceration Rates [Mentor: Michael Hanchard, Africana Studies]
• Karla Kim (COL 2018): "Metabolic Regulation of NFAT Related Migration [Mentor: Kathryn Wellen, Cancer Biology at Penn Medicine]
• Vivian Kitainda (COL 2018): "Study of fused protein complexes in Rhodobacter capsulatus [Mentor: Fevzi Daldal, Biology]
• Kate Panzer (SEAS 2018): "Development of scaffolds comprised of aligned Schwann cells to facilitate axon regeneration following peripheral nerve injury [Mentor: D. Kacy Cullen, Penn Neurosurgery]
• Elena Schiavone (COL 2018): "Investigating the Science Gender Bias [Mentor: Deena Weisberg, Psychology]
• Grant Shao (SEAS 2018): "Exploration of High-Rate Charge and Discharge Battery Electrode Materials [Mentor: Eric Detsi, Materials Science and Engineering]
• Jesus Tamez (COL 2018): "Investigating the role of BACE1 Substrates on Neurite Regrowth following Induced Injury [Mentor: Kelly Jordan-Scuitto, Pathology at Penn Medicine]
• Huanyi Xiao (COL 2018): "Changing social norms: Combating open defecation in India [Mentor: Alexander Funcke, PPE]

2016

• Louisa Baidoo

  Louisa Baidoo
  (COL 2017): “Mental Health Among Black and Latino Homeless Populations” [Mentor: Melissa Wilde, Sociology]

• Joseph Butkiewicz

  Joseph Butkiewicz
  (COL 2017): “A Case Study of Northeastern Pennsylvania English” [Mentor: Meredith Tamminga, Linguistics]

• Eric Chen

  Eric Chen
  (COL 2017): “Characterizing the Orientation of Nanorods Via Ellipsometry” [Mentor: Zahra Fakhraai, Chemistry]

• Jill Golub

  Jill Golub
  (COL 2017): “Moses Margoliouth: Examining a Convert in Context” [Mentor: David Ruderman, History]

• Carla Hoge

  Carla Hoge
  (COL 2017): “Modeling human colorectal cancer initiation using in vitro directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells” [Mentor: Christopher Lengner, Biomedical Sciences]

• Micaela Lucero

  Micaela Lucero
  (COL 2017): “The Domain of “Any” within Legal Contexts” [Mentor: Florian Schwarz, Linguistics]

• Jordan Wolfheimer

  Jordan Wolfheimer
  (COL 2017): “Effects of PICK1 Inhibitor on Reinstatement of Cocaine-seeking Behavior” [Mentor: Heath Schmidt]

2018

• Daniel Furman (COL 2020): “Ice Sintering” [Mentor: David Goldsby, Earth and Environmental Science]
• Preethi Kumaran (COL 2021): “Methanogenic Bioremediation” [Mentor: Ileana Perez-Rodriguez, Earth and Environmental Science]
• Darby Levin (COL 2019): “Interactions Between Climate, Vegetation, and Fire in the Santa Monica Mountains” [Mentor: Jane Dmochowski, Earth and Environmental Science]
• Abigail McGuckin (COL 2019): “Adaptive Governance and Holistic Flood Management in Aarhus” [Mentor: Michael Nairn, Urban Studies]
• Kyle Rosenbluth (SEAS 2019): “Documentary Short on Greenland’s Inuit” [Mentor: Meta Mazaj, CIMS]
• Felix Shen (COL 2020): “Emergence of climate trends in ocean biology: a joint modeling - satellite study of the Pacific Ocean and Ocean Station PAPA” [Mentor: Irina Marinov, Earth Science]
• JaHyun Yang (COL 2019): “Environmental impacts on the mayfly and mermithid parasites” [Mentor: Aurora MacRae-Crerar]

2017

• Ana Alonso (COL 2018): "The Transitioning Traditional: Using Cards as a Vehicle for Traditional Ecological Knowledge Transmission"
• Madeleine Andrews (COL 2018): "Effects of salivary cortisol on frequencies of self-directed behaviors"
• Amy Chen (COL 2018): "Sustainable Peru: The Impact of Textile Design on Profits, People, and the Planet"
• Hailey Dougherty (COL 2018): "The adaptive capacity of traditional agro-economic systems to extreme drought and flooding events in the Cordillera Blanca"
• Sarah Haber (COL 2018): "Urban Road Dust: A comparative study of anthropogenic inputs in Freiburg, Germany"
• Jisoo Kim (COL 2018): "21st Century Conservation of Paraguayan Fauna"
• John San Soucie (COL 2018): "Southern Ocean Deep Convection and Global Climate Teleconnections"
• Cynthia Wang (COL 2018): "E-Waste Management Internship/Research"

2016

• Lauren Brunsdale

  Lauren Brunsdale
  (COL 2017): “Monitoring Landscape and Vegetation Change in Ventura River Watershed, California Using Remote Sensing” [Mentor: Jane Dmochowski, Earth and Environmental Sciences]

• Harry Smith

  Harry Smith
  (COL 2018): “Creating a Novel, Phytoplankton Size-Dependent Ocean Ecological Model” [Mentor: Irina Marinov, Earth and Environmental Sciences]

• Mauricio Tassano

  Mauricio Tassano
  (SEAS 2017): “The Thermodynamic Stability of Corner and Edge Sharing, Inorganic CsPbI3 Surfaces” [Mentor: Andrew Rappe, Chemistry]

2015

• Jordan Doman (COL 2017): "Developing emerging biosensor technology" [Mentor: Ivan Dmochowski, Chemistry]
• Annie Liu (COL 2016): "Intersections of Spirituality and Sustainability: a Critical Examination of Healthcare and Healing in Auroville" [Mentor: Andrew Lamas, Urban Studies]
• Elizabeth Schwartz (COL 2016): "Implementing an expanded science curriculum to students at Philadelphia Freedom Schools" [Mentor: Andrew Schiera, Urban Studies]
• Alisa Shargorodsky (COL 2016) "Reducing single use waste outputs that burden the urban metabolism" [Mentor: Amy Hillier, Design]
• Harry Smith (COL 2018) "Contrasting the ecological responses to climate change in the Arctic and Southern Oceans" [Mentor: Irina Marinov, Earth & Environmental Sciences]
• Khadija Tarver (COL 2016) "Climate change risk perception in West Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic" [Mentor: Jane Dmochowski, Earth & Environmental Sciences]
• Siyuan Wu (COL 2016) "Analyzing Potential for Carcinogenic Ptaquiloside Exposure in Danish Groundwater Sources" [Mentor: Alain Plante, Earth & Environmental Sciences]

2014

• Leah Davidson (WH 2016): “The Significance of Color in Environmental Art” [Mentor: Bethany Wiggin, Germanic Languages and Literatures]
• Minsik Jun (EAS 2015): “Sr0.55Na0.45SiO2.775 for solid oxide fuel cells” [Mentor: John Vohs, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering]
• Gabriella Meltzer (COL 2015): “The Hidden Bodies Behind E-Waste: A Case Study of Accra, Ghana” [Mentor: Andria Johnson, History and Sociology of Science]
• Charity Migwi (COL 2015): “A Sustainability Impact Study of the Sahara Forest Project Using Selected Indicators of Sustainability” [Mentor: Kristen Hughes, VIPER]
• Angela Perfetti (COL 2016): “The Response to Asbestos: Medical Decision-Making” [Mentor: Fran Barg, Anthropology]
• Kyra Reumann-Moore (COL 2015): “The Effects of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Quality in the Denver-Julesburg Basin” [Mentor: Richard Pepino, Earth and Environmental Science]

 
2013

• Mariah Deters (COL 2014): “The Future of Sustainable Energy in Modern China” [Mentor: Yuhua Wang, Political Science]
• Lingbin Cai (EAS 2016): “Impact of Climate Change on the Tropical Oceans” [Mentor: Irina Marinov, Earth and Environmental Sciences]
• Shabnam Elahi (COL 2014): “Mapping Risk: Environmental Exposure to Asbestos in Ambler, PA” [Mentor: Frances Barg, Anthropology]
• Kim Gordon (COL; EAS 2014): “Environmental Behavior in Argentine Society” [Mentor: Joseph Sun, ]
• Hoon Kim (COL; WH 2013): “A Political Analysis of Japan’s post-Fukushima Alternative and Nuclear Energy Policy” [Mentor: Frederick Dickinson, History]
• Jessica Mangin (COL 2014): “Redefinition | Form in Sustainable Design” [Mentor: Daniel Barber, Architecture]
• Mark Pantano (COL 2014): “Ecological Memory: Environmental Adaptation and Representation in Islamic Domestic Architecture” [Mentor: Renata Holod, Art History]
• Gerard Salter (COL 2014): “Equilibrium Channel Geometry of Suspended Load Streams: Experimental Study” [Mentor: Douglas Jerolmack, Earth and Environmental Sciences]

2012

• Kensey Berry (COL 2013): “Cost, Carbon, and Social Responsibility: A Multifaceted Analysis of Penn’s Policy of Purchasing Renewable Energy Credits” [Mentor: Dr. Craig Calabria, Earth and Environmental Science]
• Adriel Koschitzky (COL; WH 2014): “Green Synthesis of Boronic Acids” [Mentor: Dr. Gary Molander, Chemistry]
• Hyejung Lee (COL 2013): “Recent Trends in Floodplain Carbon: Paradigm Case or Bias?” [Mentor: Dr. Jane Willenbring, Earth and Environmental Science]
• Shirley Leung (COL; LPS 2013): “North-South Assymetries in the Responses of Ocean Ecology and Biogeochemistry to Global Climate Change” [Mentor: Dr. Irina Marinov, Earth and Environmental Science]
• Katherine Oberwager (COL 2012): “Mexican and Puerto Rican Immigrant Urban Agriculture in the United States” [Mentor: Dr. Domenic Vitiello, City and Regional Planning]
• Mark Pantano (COL 2014): “Life in the Quarry: Gaudi and the Search for Art Nouveau Environmentalism” [Mentor: Dr. Lothar Haselberger, History of Art]
• Pallavi Podapati (COL 2013): “Appalachian Water Watch” [Mentor: Dr. David Barnes, Health and Societies]
• Meg Schneider (COL 2013): “Nudges Toward Sustainability: Digital Shower Timers in Dorms” [Mentor: Dr. Jason Dana, Psychology]

2011

• Bianca Datta (EAS 2014): Nanocrystals for Solar Energy Conversion
• Joanna Karaman (COL 2012): Defining Sustainable Use of Building Materials
• Shirley Leung (COL; LPS 2012): Using 10Be to Understand Anthropogenic Influences on Soil Erosion Rates
• Claire Masteller (COL 2012): Vegetation Stability and Climate Change: A case study at White Sands National Monument, NM
• Douglas Miller (COL 2012): Sustainable Behavior Inducement

2010

• Zachary Bell (COL 2012A): Nonprofit Sustainability Management Model
• Rachel Gittelman (COL 2011A): The Role of ALDH3A1 Variation in Climatic Droplet Keratopathy in the Mapucha Indians of Argentina
• Maura Goldstein (COL 2011A): Penn Garden Development and Outreach
• Rachel Margolis (COL 2011A): Studying Relative Sea Level on Georgia Coast
• Claire Masteller (COL 2012A): Examination of the evidence for sea level rise through proxy data; Georgia, United States
• Kirstin Washington (COL 2011A): The Geochemistry of Limestone Cave Waters and Its Implications for the Development of New Methods for Studying Paleoclimate

2019 (Rising Sophomores)

• Valery Aguilar (College 2022): “History of Mexican and Latin American Immigration to the United States” [Dr. Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Arts and Sciences, HISTORY]
• Anushree Aneja (College 2022): “Cell type-specific manipulation to treat epilepsy and autism in experimental models of neurodevelopmental disorders” [Dr. Ethan Goldberg, Medicine, NEUROSCIENCE]
• Chanseo Bae (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “How do Delay Announcements Impact Customer Behavior: Experimental Study” [Dr. Gad Allon, Wharton, OPERATIONS, INFORMATION AND DECISIONS]
• Alejandra Bahena (College 2022): “Ex vivo mapping of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders” [Dr. David Irwin, Medicine, NEUROLOGY]
• Junyoung Baik (College 2022): “Bibliographies in Traditional Chinese Studies” [Dr. Paul Goldin, Arts and Sciences, EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CIVILIZATIONS]
• Daner Baxhija (College 2022): “Causes of Corruption” [Dr. Philip Nichols, Wharton, LEGAL STUDIES AND BUSINESS ETHICS]
• Selene Bonczok Sotelo (College 2022): “Global Citizenship and Indigenous Rights” [Dr. Tulia Falleti, Arts and Sciences, LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDIES]
• Samuel Botterbusch (College 2022): “Using gene editing to engineer fluorescent proteins suitable for super-resolution imaging of cellular membrane trafficking” [Dr. Tobias Baumgart, Arts and Sciences, CHEMISTRY]
• Elizaveta Brover (College 2022): “The Infant Formula Market and the WIC Program” [Dr. Jose Miguel Abito, Wharton, BUSINESS ECONOMICS & PUBLIC POLICY]
• Isabel Buckingham (Nursing 2022): “Medical Complications and Outcomes in Adolescents with Eating Disorders” [Dr. Rebecka Peebles, Medicine, ADOLESCENT MEDICINE]
• Emily Campbell (College 2022): “Ther Persistent Feminization and Devaluation of Care Work” [Dr. Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Social Policy and Practice, SOCIOLOGY]
• Minhtrinh Cao (College 2022): “The Fine Structure and Function of the Human Olfactory System” [Dr. Jay Gottfried, Medicine, NEUROLOGY]
• Alyssa Cavazos (College 2022): “Synthesis and Reactivity of New Transition Metal Complexes” [Dr. Karen Goldberg, Arts and Sciences, CHEMISTRY]
• Baile Chen (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Paxos through the lens of concurrency” [Dr. Sebastian Angel, Engineering and Applied Sciences, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE]
• Joshua Chen (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Two-dimensional materials: growth, device fabrication, electrical measurements, data analysis” [Dr. Marija Drndic, Arts and Sciences, PHYSICS]
• Stacey Chen (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Corporate Venture Capital and Technology Startups” [Dr. David Hsu, Wharton, MANAGEMENT]
• Billy Chen (Wharton 2022): “When Organizational Rules Conflict with What is Best for Customers” [Dr. Maurice Schweitzer, Wharton, OPERATIONS, INFORMATION AND DECISIONS]
• Olivia Cheng (College 2022): “The History of the US Federal Reserve System” [Dr. Peter Conti-Brown, Wharton, LEGAL STUDIES AND BUSINESS ETHICS]
• Lan-Ting Chiang (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Behavior Change for Good” [Dr. Katherine Milkman, Wharton, OPERATIONS, INFORMATION AND DECISIONS]
• Amira Chowdhury (College 2022): “Global Citizenship and Indigenous Rights” [Dr. Tulia Falleti, Arts and Sciences, LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDIES]
• Helen Chung (College 2022): “Understanding how general anesthesia causes unconsciousness” [Dr. Alexander Proekt, Medicine, ANESTHESIOLOGY AND CRITICAL CARE]
• Abigail Clyde (College 2022): “Understanding white matter deficits in HIV positive children and adolescents” [Dr. Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, Dental Medicine, PATHOLOGY]
• Elena Cruz-Adames (College 2022): “Neurobiology of courtship behavior in songbirds” [Dr. Marc Schmidt, Arts and Sciences, BIOLOGY]
• Tserenpuntsag Davaadorj (College 2022): “Wrecking Ball: Solo Sculpture Exhibition ICA Philadelphia” [Dr. Michelle Lopez, Design, FINE ARTS]
• Emma Davies (College 2022): “The Center for Health Equity Advancement” [Dr. Jaya Aysola, Medicine, MEDICINE]
• Nathaly De La Paz (College 2022): “Urban Digital Humanities” [Dr. Francesca Ammon, Design, CITY PLANNING]
• Vaibhav Desikan (College 2022): “Cellular Dynamics of Tissue Formation & Stem Cell Biology” [Dr. Stephen DiNardo, Medicine, CELL BIOLOGY]
• Kartik Devashish (College 2022): “A Mechanistic Exploration of Abnormal Angiogenesis in Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease: Discovering Novel Therapies” [Dr. Andrew Glatz, Medicine, PEDIATRICS]
• Makhari Dysart (College 2022): “The relationship between fascism and racism in modern politics” [Dr. Michael Hanchard, Arts and Sciences, AFRICANA STUDIES]
• Natalie Edman (College 2022): “Numbers and the brain” [Dr. Elizabeth Brannon, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Emily Eiler (College 2022): “Immunity, inflammation, and intestinal wound healing” [Dr. Youhai Chen, Medicine, PATHOLOGY]
• Hannah Erdogan (College 2022): “Uncovering a novel mechanism of pediatric neurodegeneration” [Dr. Elizabeth Bhoj, Medicine, PEDIATRICS]
• Caitlin Frazee (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “The molecular and cellular mechanisms that protect against cancer and neurodegeneration” [Dr. Xiaolu Yang, Medicine, CANCER BIOLOGY]
• Carlos Garcia (College 2022): “"Lame Ducks" in the London Stock Exchange 1780-1801” [Dr. Marc Flandreau, Arts and Sciences, HISTORY]
• Alyssa Gonzalez (College 2022): “Deconstructing the neural control of food intake” [Dr. J Nicholas Betley, Arts and Sciences, BIOLOGY]
• Eva Gonzalez (College 2022): “Is Putin's Russia truly "revisionist"? Continuity and Change in Russian Foreign Policy” [Dr. Rudra Sil, Arts and Sciences, POLITICAL SCIENCE]
• Gaurav Gupta (College 2022): “Toward Predicting the Analgesic Response to Ibuprofen Following Third Molar Extraction” [Dr. Elliot Hersh, Dental Medicine, ORAL SURGERY AND PHARMACOLOGY]
• Natasha Gupta (College 2022): “Medical Complications and Outcomes in Adolescents with Eating Disorders” [Dr. Rebecka Peebles, Medicine, ADOLESCENT MEDICINE]
• Angelina Heyler (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Uncovering the brain neural circuits of pain and emotion” [Dr. Gregory Corder, Medicine, PSYCHIATRY]
• Qiuman Huang (College 2022): “Misallocation in Innovation” [Dr. Winston Dou, Wharton, FINANCE]
• Jane Huang (Wharton 2022): “Corporate Political Activity” [Dr. Mary McDonnell, Wharton, MANAGEMENT]
• Yi Qing Huang (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Neurotransmitter signaling in cognition, aging and Alzheimer's disease” [Dr. Steven Thomas, Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY]
• Julian Hunter (Wharton 2022): “When Organizational Rules Conflict with What is Best for Customers” [Dr. Maurice Schweitzer, Wharton, OPERATIONS, INFORMATION AND DECISIONS]
• Maya Itkin-Ofer (College 2022): “Affiliation, parenting, and callous-unemotional traits” [Dr. Rebecca Waller, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Akash Jain (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “HATRICC Sustainability” [Dr. Meghan Lane-Fall, Medicine, ANESTHESIOLOGY AND CRITICAL CARE]
• Jonathan Jenkins (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Heat-Scavenging Photovoltaic Cells” [Dr. Deep Jariwala, Engineering and Applied Sciences, ELECTRICAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING]
• Steven Jin (College 2022): “Effect of Playing on a Sports Team in High School on Later Life Outcomes” [Dr. Dylan Small, Wharton, STATISTICS]
• Jaun Johnson (College 2022): “Survival and Recurrence of Dormant Cancer Cells” [Dr. Lewis Chodosh, Medicine, CANCER BIOLOGY]
• Tevye Johnson (College 2022): “Plato and Aristotle: Ethics and Politics” [Dr. Susan Meyer, Arts and Sciences, PHILOSOPHY]
• Julia Kafozoff (College 2022): “Baby Doctor Mamas” [Dr. Rebecca Simmons, Medicine, PEDIATRICS]
• Glen Kahan (College 2022): “Naxcivan Archaeological Project” [Dr. Lauren Ristvet, Arts and Sciences, ANTHROPOLOGY]
• Hyong Min Kim (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Two-dimensional materials: growth, device fabrication, electrical measurements, data analysis” [Dr. Marija Drndic, Arts and Sciences, PHYSICS]
• Joongwon Kim (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics: Translational Research Positions” [Dr. Brian Litt, Medicine, NEUROLOGY]
• Emily Kopp (College 2022): “Numbers and the brain” [Dr. Elizabeth Brannon, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Daniel Koropeckyj-Cox (College 2022): “Guatemala Health Initiative: Health related research in the Guatemalan Western Highlands” [Dr. Frances Barg, Medicine, FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH]
• Kayla Kruger (College 2022): “Deconstructing the neural control of food intake” [Dr. J Nicholas Betley, Arts and Sciences, BIOLOGY]
• Melody-Susan Kulaprathazhe (College 2022): “Art and Politics across the Americas” [Dr. Jennifer Ponce de León, Arts and Sciences, ENGLISH]
• Priya Kumar (College 2022): “Dentate gyrus stimulation for animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders” [Dr. Amelia Eisch, Medicine, NEUROSCIENCE]
• Isabela Lamadrid (College 2022): “Canine Detection of Medical Conditions” [Dr. Cynthia Otto, Veterinary Medicine, CLINICAL STUDIES PHILA (VET SCHOOL)]
• Matthew Lebermann (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Self-driving cars: Build one yourself” [Dr. Rahul Mangharam, Engineering and Applied Sciences, ELECTRICAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING]
• Joy Leeswadtrakul (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “High-fidelity wearable activity monitors” [Dr. Insup Lee, Engineering and Applied Sciences, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE]
• Carol Li (College 2022): “Neurobiology of courtship behavior in songbirds” [Dr. Marc Schmidt, Arts and Sciences, BIOLOGY]
• Junduo Liu (College 2022): “Research Assistant for the Biocultural Anthropology Methods Laboratory” [Dr. Morgan Hoke, Arts and Sciences, ANTHROPOLOGY]
• Hunter Liu (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Environmental influences on early childhood brain development” [Dr. Allyson Mackey, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Emily Lo (College 2022): “Uncovering the brain neural circuits of pain and emotion” [Dr. Gregory Corder, Medicine, PSYCHIATRY]
• Cezanne Lojeski (College 2022): “How Have Ice Ages Impacted Fish Biodiversity in the Oceans?” [Dr. Lauren Sallan, Arts and Sciences, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE]
• Michael Lu (College 2022): “Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias” [Dr. Francis Marchlinski, Medicine, MEDICINE]
• Alyssa Lu (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Energy storage and mechanics of robots made from soft, stretchable materials” [Dr. James Pikul, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS]
• Jennifer Luo (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Understanding how general anesthesia causes unconsciousness” [Dr. Alexander Proekt, Medicine, ANESTHESIOLOGY AND CRITICAL CARE]
• Alexander Massaro (College 2022): “Applications of behavioral economics and empirical methods to global health” [Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy, Medicine, MEDICAL ETHICS AND HEALTH POLICY]
• Morgan McLees (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Design Algorithms for Printable Robots” [Dr. Cynthia Sung, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS]
• Claire Medina (College 2022): “"Lame Ducks" in the London Stock Exchange 1780-1802” [Dr. Marc Flandreau, Arts and Sciences, HISTORY]
• Jonathan Mendelson (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Adapting Smartphone Applications for the Developing World” [Dr. Mayur Naik, Engineering and Applied Sciences, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE]
• Patrick Mercho (College 2022): “Genetic variations in neuronal excitability, intellectual disability and neurodegenerative diseases” [Dr. Dejian Ren, Arts and Sciences, BIOLOGY]
• Brianna Messam (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Enhancing Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Materials through Control of Geometry” [Dr. Kevin Turner, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS]
• Munashe Mhlanga (Wharton 2022): “Data science methods for studying human behavior” [Dr. Sudeep Bhatia, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Silvi Minga (College 2022): “Survival and Recurrence of Dormant Cancer Cells” [Dr. Lewis Chodosh, Medicine, CANCER BIOLOGY]
• Arnaud Mutabazi Nyirishabure (College 2022): “Tracking Social Change in Philadelphia and Africa” [Dr. Krystal Strong, Education, EDUCATION, CULTURE, & SOCIETY]
• Jamie Nash (College 2022): “The Separation of Power between Congress and the President:  Tools of Presidential Control” [Dr. Jean Galbraith, Law, LAW]
• Vanessa Nieto (College 2022): “Laboratory language games” [Dr. Gareth Roberts, Arts and Sciences, LINGUISTICS]
• Ryan Norton (College 2022): “Laboratory language games” [Dr. Gareth Roberts, Arts and Sciences, LINGUISTICS]
• Joshua Nouriyelian (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “How mothers teach infants language” [Dr. Daniel Swingley, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Evan Oh (College 2022): “Corporate Political Activity” [Dr. Mary McDonnell, Wharton, MANAGEMENT]
• Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo (College 2022): “Tracking Social Change in Philadelphia and Africa” [Dr. Krystal Strong, Education, EDUCATION, CULTURE, & SOCIETY]
• Janice Owusu (Wharton 2022): “Causes of Corruption” [Dr. Philip Nichols, Wharton, LEGAL STUDIES AND BUSINESS ETHICS]
• Michelle Paolicelli (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Pediatric Patient Safety Learning Lab at CHOP” [Dr. Christopher Bonafide, Medicine, PEDIATRICS]
• Jang Jun Park (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Automated machine learning” [Dr. Jason Moore, Medicine, BIOSTATISTICS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND INFORMATICS]
• Jahnvi Patel (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Understanding white matter deficits in HIV positive children and adolescents” [Dr. Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, Dental Medicine, PATHOLOGY]
• Sarah Payne (College,Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Help computers better understand human languages with multimodal representations of words and images” [Dr. Chris Callison-Burch, Engineering and Applied Sciences, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE]
• Yat Kit Pei (College 2022): “Misallocation in Innovation” [Dr. Winston Dou, Wharton, FINANCE]
• Andrew Perez (College 2022): “Ther Persistent Feminization and Devaluation of Care Work” [Dr. Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Social Policy and Practice, SOCIOLOGY]
• Mira Potter-Schwartz (College 2022): “Understanding Effects of Mexico's Prospera Program on Reducing Inequalities in Schooling and Academic Achievement” [Dr. Petra Todd, Arts and Sciences, ECONOMICS]
• Adriana Purcell (College 2022): “Guatemala Health Initiative: Health related research in the Guatemalan Western Highlands” [Dr. Frances Barg, Medicine, FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH]
• Selinda Qiu (College 2022): “HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Risks, and Stigma among People with Mental Disorders in Rural China” [Dr. Yin Ling Irene Wong, Social Policy and Practice, SOCIAL WORK]
• Sireesh Ramesh (College 2022): “Creating a Sustainable Model for the Delivery of Musculoskeletal Orthopaedic Care in Sub-Saharan Africa - Tanzania” [Dr. Neil Sheth, Medicine, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY]
• Dana Raphael (College 2022): “Dentate gyrus stimulation for animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders” [Dr. Amelia Eisch, Medicine, NEUROSCIENCE]
• Anya Reddy (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Machine learning methods and analysis of unstructured electronic health record data” [Dr. Aaron Masino, Medicine, ANESTHESIOLOGY AND CRITICAL CARE]
• Charles Rockhead (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics: Translational Research Positions” [Dr. Brian Litt, Medicine, NEUROLOGY]
• Anyara Rodriguez (College 2022): “A fruit fly model for social behavioral dysfunction in autism” [Dr. Matthew Kayser, Medicine, PSYCHIATRY]
• Evan Rosario (College 2022): “Patient Satisfaction with the Use of Sedation in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement” [Dr. Prakash Patel, Medicine, ANESTHESIOLOGY AND CRITICAL CARE]
• Aidan Rubio (College 2022): “Environmental influences on early childhood brain development” [Dr. Allyson Mackey, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Aseal Saed (College 2022): “Tracking Social Change in Philadelphia and Africa” [Dr. Krystal Strong, Education, EDUCATION, CULTURE, & SOCIETY]
• Vatsal Sahani (Nursing 2022): “Emerging Markets Research” [Dr. Santosh Anagol, Wharton, BUSINESS ECONOMICS & PUBLIC POLICY]
• Tiffany Schell (College 2022): “Affiliation, parenting, and callous-unemotional traits” [Dr. Rebecca Waller, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Run Shi (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Help computers better understand human languages with multimodal representations of words and images” [Dr. Chris Callison-Burch, Engineering and Applied Sciences, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE]
• Erin Siciliano (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Engineering Quantum Biosensors” [Dr. Lee Bassett, Engineering and Applied Sciences, ELECTRICAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING]
• Uday Sidhu (College 2022): “An imaging approach to predict and contain lung injury” [Dr. Maurizio Cereda, Medicine, ANESTHESIOLOGY AND CRITICAL CARE]
• John Sproch (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Engineering Quantum Biosensors” [Dr. Lee Bassett, Engineering and Applied Sciences, ELECTRICAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING]
• Maria Suarez (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Immunity, inflammation, and intestinal wound healing” [Dr. Youhai Chen, Medicine, PATHOLOGY]
• Pranshu Suri (Engineering & Applied Sciences,Wharton 2022): “Machine Learning Strategies for Mining Complex Patterns from Biomedical Data” [Dr. Ryan Urbanowicz, Medicine, BIOSTATISTICS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND INFORMATICS]
• Bala Thenappan (College 2022): “The Separation of Power between Congress and the President:  Tools of Presidential Control” [Dr. Jean Galbraith, Law, LAW]
• Linda Ting (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Design Algorithms for Printable Robots” [Dr. Cynthia Sung, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS]
• Alexandra Audrey Tirtaguna (College 2022): “How Do International Organizations Work? Credible Commitments, Backsliding, and Investment” [Dr. Julia Gray, Arts and Sciences, POLITICAL SCIENCE]
• Maria Tu (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Adapting Smartphone Applications for the Developing World” [Dr. Mayur Naik, Engineering and Applied Sciences, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE]
• Hannah Uehara (College 2022): “Screens: Why We Love Them, Why We Hate Them, and Why They’re Not Going Away” [Dr. Jonathan Moreno, Medicine, MEDICAL ETHICS AND HEALTH POLICY]
• Olivia Unger (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Geometry, design, and dynamics of deployable, reconfigurable structures” [Dr. Jordan Raney, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS]
• Rachael Villari (College 2022): “Genetic variations in neuronal excitability, intellectual disability and neurodegenerative diseases” [Dr. Dejian Ren, Arts and Sciences, BIOLOGY]
• Alexander Wang (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “High-fidelity wearable activity monitors” [Dr. Insup Lee, Engineering and Applied Sciences, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE]
• Yiyue Wang (College 2022): “Understanding organ failure in critically ill lung transplant and trauma patients” [Dr. Michael Shashaty, Medicine, MEDICINE]
• Adam Watson (College 2022): “Is Putin's Russia truly "revisionist"? Continuity and Change in Russian Foreign Policy” [Dr. Rudra Sil, Arts and Sciences, POLITICAL SCIENCE]
• Caleb Watt (College 2022): “Data analysis of proton collisions at the CERN LHC” [Dr. Evelyn Thomson, Arts and Sciences, PHYSICS]
• Micah Weitzman (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Energy storage and mechanics of robots made from soft, stretchable materials” [Dr. James Pikul, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS]
• Meghan Wenzinger (Nursing 2022): “Complete Eats: Summer Meals at CHOP” [Dr. Joel Fein, Medicine, PEDIATRICS]
• Eli Wiston (College 2022): “Data analysis of proton collisions at the CERN LHC” [Dr. Evelyn Thomson, Arts and Sciences, PHYSICS]
• Yanet Wossenseged (College 2022): “Mechanisms of stem cell loss in Fanconi Anemia” [Dr. Peter Kurre, Medicine, PEDIATRICS]
• Steven Wren (College 2022): “The molecular and cellular mechanisms that protect against cancer and neurodegeneration” [Dr. Xiaolu Yang, Medicine, CANCER BIOLOGY]
• Jasmine Wu (College 2022): “HATRICC Sustainability” [Dr. Meghan Lane-Fall, Medicine, ANESTHESIOLOGY AND CRITICAL CARE]
• Jason Wu (College 2022): “How Have Ice Ages Impacted Fish Biodiversity in the Oceans?” [Dr. Lauren Sallan, Arts and Sciences, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE]
• Jason Xiao (College 2022): “1 World Connected” [Dr. Christopher Yoo, Law, LAW]
• Michelle Xiong (Wharton 2022): “Why Do Some Things Become Popular? Natural Language Processing and Behavioral Insight” [Dr. Jonah Berger, Wharton, MARKETING]
• Sahill Yadav (Wharton 2022): “The History of the US Federal Reserve System” [Dr. Peter Conti-Brown, Wharton, LEGAL STUDIES AND BUSINESS ETHICS]
• Lark Yan (College 2022): “The Fine Structure and Function of the Human Olfactory System” [Dr. Jay Gottfried, Medicine, NEUROLOGY]
• Alexander Yang (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Paxos through the lens of concurrency” [Dr. Sebastian Angel, Engineering and Applied Sciences, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE]
• Marisa (Shu-Han) Yang (Wharton 2022): “Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Integration by Asset Managers” [Dr. Witold Henisz, Wharton, MANAGEMENT]
• Sihan Ye (College 2022): “How do Delay Announcements Impact Customer Behavior: Experimental Study” [Dr. Gad Allon, Wharton, OPERATIONS, INFORMATION AND DECISIONS]
• Zhilin Ye (Wharton 2022): “Analysis of driving data in teenagers: Statistics saves lives!” [Dr. Abraham Wyner, Wharton, STATISTICS]
• Aidan Young (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Chiral Photodetectors for Quantum computing” [Dr. Ritesh Agarwal, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING]
• Lilian Zhang (College 2022): “Coordination meaning and understanding in conversations” [Dr. Delphine Dahan, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Robert Zhang (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Machine Learning Strategies for Mining Complex Patterns from Biomedical Data” [Dr. Ryan Urbanowicz, Medicine, BIOSTATISTICS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND INFORMATICS]
• Lucy Zhu (College 2022): “A fruit fly model for social behavioral dysfunction in autism” [Dr. Matthew Kayser, Medicine, PSYCHIATRY]
• Chuning Zhu (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2022): “Adapting Smartphone Applications for the Developing World” [Dr. Mayur Naik, Engineering and Applied Sciences, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE]

2019 (Rising Juniors)

• Aja Altenhof (College 2021): “Laboratory language games” [Dr. Gareth Roberts, Arts and Sciences, LINGUISTICS]
• Jordy Atencia (College 2021): “Microbiome mediation of population and evolutionary dynamics” [Dr. Paul Schmidt, Arts and Sciences, BIOLOGY]
• Greer Bizzell-Hatcher (College 2021): “Low-Income Women and Depression: 1. Prevalence in the U.S. and 2. Depression in African-Americans & Latinas” [Dr. Jacqueline Corcoran, Social Policy and Practice, SOCIAL WORK]
• Zhun Yan Chang (Wharton 2021): “Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Integration by Asset Managers” [Dr. Witold Henisz, Wharton, MANAGEMENT]
• Zeyu Chen (College 2021): “Estimating the Benefits of Regulation” [Dr. Cary Coglianese, Law, LAW]
• Beryl Chen (College 2021): “Legislative changes in US states’ to increase HPV vaccination” [Dr. Melanie Kornides, Nursing, FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH]
• Casey Colleran (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “Understanding organ failure in critically ill lung transplant and trauma patients” [Dr. Michael Shashaty, Medicine, MEDICINE]
• Mitchell Cornell (College 2021): “Particle Physics Track Processing Hardware” [Dr. Elliot Lipeles, Arts and Sciences, PHYSICS]
• Maria DaSilva (College 2021): “Naxcivan Archaeological Project” [Dr. Lauren Ristvet, Arts and Sciences, ANTHROPOLOGY]
• Jada Edwards (Nursing 2021): “Improving Interprofessional Teamwork in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit” [Dr. Jennifer Walter, Medicine, PEDIATRICS]
• Zahra Elhanbaly (College 2021): “Drawing archaeological finds on Paros (Greece)” [Dr. Mantha Zarmakoupi, Arts and Sciences, ART HISTORY]
• Kathryn Farrell (College 2021): “Advancing the Rule of Law in the Areas of Grey Zone Warfare and Women in National Security” [Dr. Claire Finkelstein, Law, LAW]
• Kelly Feng (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “The 3D genome and Alzheimer's Disease” [Dr. Jennifer Cremins, Engineering and Applied Sciences, BIOENGINEERING]
• Liam Forsythe (College 2021): “Microbiome mediation of population and evolutionary dynamics” [Dr. Paul Schmidt, Arts and Sciences, BIOLOGY]
• Beverlye Gedeon (Wharton 2021): “Understanding Effects of Mexico's Prospera Program on Reducing Inequalities in Schooling and Academic Achievement” [Dr. Petra Todd, Arts and Sciences, ECONOMICS]
• Sarah Goldfarb (College 2021): “Curricular Redesign: "Jewish Political Thought and Action"” [Dr. Talya Fishman, Arts and Sciences, NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES AND CIVILIZATIONS]
• Felipe Gomez (Wharton 2021): “Cinema Minimo: Micro-Short Filmmaking in Spain 2000-2019” [Dr. Michael Solomon, Arts and Sciences, ROMANCE LANGUAGES]
• Tengqin Han (College 2021): “Plato and Aristotle: Ethics and Politics” [Dr. Susan Meyer, Arts and Sciences, PHILOSOPHY]
• Seung Hyun (David) Hong (College 2021): “Improving mental health care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease” [Dr. Joanna Hart, Medicine, MEDICINE]
• Kassidy Houston (College 2021): “Coordination meaning and understanding in conversations” [Dr. Delphine Dahan, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Johanna Inamagua (College 2021): “Drosophila models of human disease” [Dr. Nancy Bonini, Arts and Sciences, BIOLOGY]
• Aashna Jain (Wharton 2021): “Machine Learning, Economics and Marketing” [Dr. Pinar Yildirim, Wharton, MARKETING]
• Moiz Ali Jehangir (College 2021): “Mapping kin and migrations in northern India” [Dr. Ramya Sreenivasan, Arts and Sciences, SOUTH ASIA STUDIES]
• Evan Jiang (College 2021): “Cell type-specific manipulation to treat epilepsy and autism in experimental models of neurodevelopmental disorders” [Dr. Ethan Goldberg, Medicine, NEUROSCIENCE]
• Eva Karlen (College 2021): “Everyday Economic Life in Hyperinflation Brazil” [Dr. Melissa Teixeira, Arts and Sciences, HISTORY]
• Dhruv Karthik (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “Self-driving cars: Build one yourself” [Dr. Rahul Mangharam, Engineering and Applied Sciences, ELECTRICAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING]
• Karen Kim (College 2021): “Redeeming Race?: Anti-Racist Science and Postcolonial Development in the Twentieth Century” [Dr. Sebastián Gil-Riaño, Arts and Sciences, HISTORY & SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE]
• Melina Lawrence (College 2021): “Urban Digital Humanities” [Dr. Francesca Ammon, Design, CITY PLANNING]
• Huilin Liang (College 2021): “How Do International Organizations Work? Credible Commitments, Backsliding, and Investment” [Dr. Julia Gray, Arts and Sciences, POLITICAL SCIENCE]
• Amy Liu (Wharton 2021): “Information System and Societal Disruption — Managing the Risks” [Dr. Eric K Clemons, Wharton, OPERATIONS, INFORMATION AND DECISIONS]
• Katelyn Lobo (College 2021): “Legislative changes in US states’ to increase HPV vaccination” [Dr. Melanie Kornides, Nursing, FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH]
• Louise Lu (College 2021): “Architecture and Energy Transitions: Past, Present and Future” [Dr. Daniel Barber, Design, ARCHITECTURE]
• Vivian Luong (Nursing 2021): “Binge Eating and Neural Treatment Outcomes” [Dr. Ariana Chao, Nursing, BIOBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SCIENCES]
• James Lynch (College 2021): “Geometry, design, and dynamics of deployable, reconfigurable structures” [Dr. Jordan Raney, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS]
• Omar Martinez (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “On-chip Photonic Circuits to Guide, Sort, and Direct Twisted Light” [Dr. Liang Feng, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING]
• Nicole Mayer (College 2021): “Research Assistant for the Biocultural Anthropology Methods Laboratory” [Dr. Morgan Hoke, Arts and Sciences, ANTHROPOLOGY]
• Maria Paulina Megias Canton (College 2021): “How Do International Organizations Work? Credible Commitments, Backsliding, and Investment” [Dr. Julia Gray, Arts and Sciences, POLITICAL SCIENCE]
• Mark Michna (College 2021): “LGBT Health Research Through mHealth Applications” [Dr. Jose Bauermeister, Nursing, FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH]
• Elliot Miciek (College 2021): “Mapping kin and migrations in northern India” [Dr. Ramya Sreenivasan, Arts and Sciences, SOUTH ASIA STUDIES]
• Jewelianna Moore (College 2021): “Synthesis and Reactivity of New Transition Metal Complexes” [Dr. Karen Goldberg, Arts and Sciences, CHEMISTRY]
• Marvin Morgan (College 2021): “Exploring the Milky Way’s dynamics with Gaia” [Dr. Robyn Sanderson, Arts and Sciences, PHYSICS]
• Anya Mushakevich (College 2021): “SPACES - Spatialized Performance And Ceremonial Event Simulations” [Dr. Norman Badler, Engineering and Applied Sciences, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE]
• Paige Orner (College 2021): “Learning to compensate perceptual biases” [Dr. Alan Stocker, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Chanmin Park (College 2021): “Ther Persistent Feminization and Devaluation of Care Work” [Dr. Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Social Policy and Practice, SOCIOLOGY]
• Seeun Park (College 2021): “Neurotransmitter signaling in cognition, aging and Alzheimer's disease” [Dr. Steven Thomas, Medicine, PHARMACOLOGY]
• Deep Patel (College 2021): “Identifying neural substrates of resilience to stress” [Dr. Seema Bhatnagar, Medicine, ANESTHESIOLOGY AND CRITICAL CARE]
• Jonathan Patterson (College 2021): “Radiology Applications” [Dr. Chamith Rajapakse, Medicine, RADIOLOGY]
• Samuel Pfrommer (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “Modeling and learning dynamic robot models” [Dr. Michael Posa, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS]
• Imania Powers (College 2021): “Using gene editing to engineer fluorescent proteins suitable for super-resolution imaging of cellular membrane trafficking” [Dr. Tobias Baumgart, Arts and Sciences, CHEMISTRY]
• Christopher Regan (College 2021): “Exploring the Milky Way’s dynamics with Gaia” [Dr. Robyn Sanderson, Arts and Sciences, PHYSICS]
• Emma Ronzetti (College 2021): “Estimating the Benefits of Regulation” [Dr. Cary Coglianese, Law, LAW]
• Bradley Saunders (College 2021): “Capitalism, Indigeneity and Literature in 20th-Century Peru” [Dr. Ericka Beckman, Arts and Sciences, ROMANCE LANGUAGES]
• Reeti Shah (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “Understanding the role of archaea in methanogenesis across anoxic environments” [Dr. Dipti Pitta, Veterinary Medicine, CLINICAL STUDIES NEW BOLTON]
• Zhifei Shen (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “Modeling and learning dynamic robot models” [Dr. Michael Posa, Engineering and Applied Sciences, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS]
• Enrique Henry Sherwood Caballero (College 2021): “Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas” [Dr. David Kazanjian, Arts and Sciences, ENGLISH]
• Jackie Shi (College 2021): “Sociological Research on American Religious Denominations” [Dr. Melissa Wilde, Arts and Sciences, SOCIOLOGY]
• Kenneth Shinn (College 2021): “Corporate Venture Capital and Technology Startups” [Dr. David Hsu, Wharton, MANAGEMENT]
• Emily Solomon (College 2021): “Tobacco Control Communication” [Dr. Joseph Cappella, Annenberg, ANNENBERG SCHOOL]
• Edward Stevens (College 2021): “History of Mexican and Latin American Immigration to the United States” [Dr. Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Arts and Sciences, HISTORY]
• Melissa Tanaka (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “Legacy of coal mining sediments in alluvial soils in central Pennsylvania” [Dr. Alain Plante, Arts and Sciences, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE]
• Biruktawit Tibebe (College 2021): “Tracking Social Change in Philadelphia and Africa” [Dr. Krystal Strong, Education, EDUCATION, CULTURE, & SOCIETY]
• Omaya Torres (College 2021): “Public Libraries as Partners for Addressing the Opioid Epidemic” [Dr. Carolyn Cannuscio, Medicine, FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH]
• Huen-Yee Tso (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “Substrate stiffness and astrocyte ATP release” [Dr. Claire Mitchell, Dental Medicine, ANATOMY AND CELL BIOLOGY]
• Kristen Ukeomah (College 2021): “The Center for Health Equity Advancement” [Dr. Jaya Aysola, Medicine, MEDICINE]
• Sciaska Ulysse (College 2021): “Physiologic stress response and role of neuroactive steroid hormones in Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)” [Dr. Liisa Hantsoo, Medicine, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Eliud Vargas (College 2021): “Contextual flexibility in human thought and behavior” [Dr. Adrianna Jenkins, Arts and Sciences, PSYCHOLOGY]
• Ana West (College 2021): “In Circulation: Modern Literature, Philosophy, Art, and the Medium of the Postcard” [Dr. Liliane Weissberg, Arts and Sciences, GERMAN]
• Yarden Wiesenfeld (College 2021): “Role of TRPV1 hot-pain-sensing pathways in burning mouth syndrome” [Dr. Wenqin Luo, Medicine, NEUROSCIENCE]
• Josephine Wiklund (Nursing 2021): “The Role of Palliative Care Interventions to Reduce Circadian Rhythm Disorders in Persons with Dementia” [Dr. Nancy Hodgson, Nursing, BIOBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SCIENCES]
• Wenyao Yang (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “Understanding Effects of Mexico's Prospera Program on Reducing Inequalities in Schooling and Academic Achievement” [Dr. Petra Todd, Arts and Sciences, ECONOMICS]
• Daria Zaitseva (College 2021): “Pathogenic Studies of CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder” [Dr. Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, Medicine, GENETICS]
• Weichen Zheng (Engineering & Applied Sciences 2021): “Research in artificial intelligence and deep learning” [Dr. Edgar Dobriban, Wharton, STATISTICS]
• Rongxuan Zhou (College 2021): “Baroque Topologies: Novel Spatial Analysis and Representation of the Sacred Interiors of Italian Baroque Architecture” [Dr. Andrew Saunders, Design, ARCHITECTURE]

2017 (Rising Sophomores)

• Sneha Advani (COL,EAS 2020): “From photons to objects: machine learning and visual processing in the brain” [Dr. Vijay Balasubramanian, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Emiliya Al Yafei (EAS 2020): “Virtually interacting with the past” [Dr. Norman Badler, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Rebecca Alifimoff (COL 2020): “Beyond Contempt: Political Dialogue and Disagreement in the age of Trump” [Dr. Susan Meyer, PHILOSOPHY, Arts and Sciences]
• Jun Hwuy An (COL 2020): “Organ Donor Registration Decision Experiments” [Dr. Judd Kessler, BUSINESS ECONOMICS & PUBLIC POLICY, WH]
• Ransford Antwi (EAS 2020): “Safety Implications of Travelers Switching from Air to Ground” [Dr. Megan Ryerson, CITY PLANNING, Design]
• Jessica Araten (COL 2020): “Monument Lab exhibition of public art” [Dr. Kenneth Lum, FINE ARTS, Design]
• Rhosean Asmah (COL 2020): “The effect of musicality on linguistic tone perception” [Dr. Jianjing Kuang, LINGUISTICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Yue (Ella) Bei (COL 2020): “The topology of the network of semantic relations in the English language” [Dr. Eleni Katifori, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Ian Bernardin (COL 2020): “Intertextual studies on the Fables of Phaedrus” [Dr. Joseph Farrell, CLASSICAL STUDIES, Arts and Sciences]
• Joyce Bian (COL 2020): “Underlying Neuroanatomical Processes Related to Social Impairments in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors” [Dr. Matthew Hocking, PSYCHOLOGY, Medicine]
• Juan Botero (COL 2020): “Telomeres on a treadmill: causes and consequences of telomere protein evolution” [Dr. Mia Levine, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Tiger Brown (WH 2020): “Understanding Attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act” [Dr. Daniel Hopkins, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Catherine Campbell (COL 2020): “Building Bridges to Philadelphia's Immigrant Heritage” [Dr. David Barnes, HISTORY & SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Luis Felipe Carvao (COL 2020): “Probing vision at the cellular scale” [Dr. Jessica Morgan, OPHTHALMOLOGY, Medicine]
• Puti Cen (COL 2020): “Harnessing the Social Brain to Increase Clinical Trial Participation” [Dr. Michael Platt, NEUROSCIENCE, Medicine]
• Nok Yin Connie Chan (WH 2020): “Why Did They Do It? A Taxonomy of Divestiture Motivations” [Dr. Emilie Feldman, MANAGEMENT, WH]
• James Chapman (COL 2020): “Adaptive Molecular Sensing in The Olfactory and Immune Systems” [Dr. Vijay Balasubramanian, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Yujiao (Cecily) Chen (COL 2020): “Description in Literature and the Human Sciences” [Dr. Heather Love, ENGLISH, Arts and Sciences]
• Xiaoxuan (Emily) Chen (COL 2020): “Characterization of novel natural products derived from the skin microbiome” [Dr. Elizabeth Grice, DERMATOLOGY, Medicine]
• Nathan Chiu (WH 2020): “Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Impression Management” [Dr. Laura Huang, MANAGEMENT, WH]
• Samantha Claypoole (COL 2020): “Romantic Dramatic Networks” [Dr. Michael Gamer, ENGLISH, Arts and Sciences]
• Alexander Crane (COL 2020): “Response of maternal immune cells to the fetus during pregnancy” [Dr. Paige Porrett, SURGERY, Medicine]
• Imani Davis (COL 2020): “Romantic Dramatic Networks” [Dr. Michael Gamer, ENGLISH, Arts and Sciences]
• Calista Dominy (EAS 2020): “Supporting children during cancer treatment” [Dr. Charles Bailey, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]
• Claire Donovan (EAS 2020): “Experimental language games” [Dr. Gareth Roberts, LINGUISTICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Ashley Douglas (WH 2020): “The Supreme Court of Finance: A History of the US Federal Reserve” [Dr. Peter Conti-Brown, LEGAL STUDIES AND BUSINESS ETHICS, WH]
• Eiman Eltigani (COL 2020): “Prospective Study of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Chronic Pain and Pain Burden” [Dr. Therese Richmond, BIOBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SCIENCES, Nursing]
• Christina Eng (EAS 2020): “Fluorescence imaging of interactions between antimicrobial peptides and mammalian cells” [Dr. Feng Gai, CHEMISTRY, Arts and Sciences]
• Jacob Faber-Rico (EAS 2020): “Probing Carrier Physics in Quantum Dot-Based Solar Cells” [Dr. Cherie Kagan, ELECTRICAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Connor Fenn (EAS 2020): “Robotic gripping via switchable adhesive surfaces” [Dr. Kevin Turner, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Gianna Ferrarin (COL 2020): “Experimental language games” [Dr. Gareth Roberts, LINGUISTICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Connor Gallagher (EAS 2020): “Drug Patents, Economic and Health Outcomes” [Dr. David Abrams, LAW, Law]
• Erick Garza (COL 2020): “Sex and the Brain” [Dr. Laura Almasy, GENETICS, Medicine]
• Irene Gendelman (COL 2020): “What is moral disgust?” [Dr. Paul Rozin, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Grace Gilbert (EAS 2020): “Virtually interacting with the past” [Dr. Norman Badler, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Mahip Grewal (COL 2020): “The role of the Neurexin1in autism spectrum disorder” [Dr. Edward Brodkin, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]
• Qiaochu (Nova) Guo (EAS 2020): “Search for Planet Nine” [Dr. Masao Sako, ASTRONOMY, Arts and Sciences]
• Ben Habermeyer (EAS 2020): “Exploring a worm's sense of touch using a novel microfluidic device” [Dr. Christopher Fang-Yen, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Kieu Anh Hoang (COL 2020): “The Changing Landscape of Environmental Activism in China” [Dr. Guobin Yang, SOCIOLOGY, Annenberg]
• Yunhee Hyun (COL 2020): “The Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services II (PACTS II): Reaching the Most Vulnerable Youth” [Dr. Rinad Beidas, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]
• Aditya Yo Inada Somasundaram (COL 2020): “Search for Planet Nine” [Dr. Masao Sako, ASTRONOMY, Arts and Sciences]
• Adiel Izilov (COL 2020): “Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality in Chicago, 1937-1967” [Dr. Dorothy Roberts, SOCIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Kavin Jagnarain (EAS 2020): “Understanding the Gender Gap in the Era of Women's Suffra” [Dr. Dawn Teele, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Nathan Jianag (COL 2020): “Fiscal Federalism” [Dr. Holger Sieg, ECONOMICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Kuanhao Jiang (COL 2020): “Statistics of Natural Scenes and the Perception of Visual Textures” [Dr. Vijay Balasubramanian, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Amy Juang (COL 2020): “Environmental Histories of Architecture” [Dr. Daniel Barber, ARCHITECTURE, Design]
• Nidhi Kapate (EAS 2020): “Optimizing light matter interactions in nanoscale cavities for efficient photocatalysis from solar energy to fuel” [Dr. Ritesh Agarwal, MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Hareena Kaur (COL 2020): “Personalizing care for pancreatic cancer patients through next generation sequencing of circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA” [Dr. Mark O'Hara, MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Jason Kim (COL 2020): “International Negotiations, Leader’s Strategies, and Public Opinion” [Dr. Ryan Brutger, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Hali Kim (COL 2020): “Personalizing care for pancreatic cancer patients through next generation sequencing of circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA” [Dr. Mark O'Hara, MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Marc Klinger (COL 2020): “How much would a High School Football draft be worth?” [Dr. Abraham Wyner, STATISTICS, WH]
• Talya Koschitzky (COL 2020): “Genomics of Addiction” [Dr. Laura Almasy, GENETICS, Medicine]
• Hari Kumar (COL 2020): “Changing social norms: Combating open defecation in India” [Dr. Cristina Bicchieri, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECON., Arts and Sciences]
• Elizabeth Lazarus (COL 2020): “HIV/STI Prevention for Black Youth” [Dr. Bridgette Brawner, FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH, Nursing]
• Hao Chuan (Jordan) Lei (EAS,WH 2020): “From photons to objects: machine learning and visual processing in the bra” [Dr. Vijay Balasubramanian, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Lena Leszinsky (COL 2020): “Neurosurgery enhanced recovery after surgery” [Dr. Zarina Ali, NEUROSURGERY, Medicine]
• Jason Li (EAS 2020): “Epigenetic editing of Cdk5 in stress” [Dr. Elizabeth Heller, PHARMACOLOGY, Medicine]
• Chelsea Lin (COL 2020): “The role of ceramide synthase in alcoholic liver disease” [Dr. Rotonya Carr, MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Tianyu (Christina) Lin (COL 2020): “Defining the phenotype and axon targets of transplanted cerebral organoids” [Dr. Han-Chiao Isaac Chen, NEUROSURGERY, Medicine]
• Hannah Listerud (COL 2020): “The Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services II (PACTS II): Reaching the Most Vulnerable Youth” [Dr. Rinad Beidas, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]
• Frances Liu (WH 2020): “Evaluating Professional Development for STEM Educator” [Dr. Yasmin Kafai, TEACHING, LEARNING, & LEADERSHIP, Education]
• Nicholas Lumsden (WH 2020): “Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Impression Management” [Dr. Samir Nurmohamed, MANAGEMENT, WH]
• Lucy Ma (COL 2020): “In utero gene therapy for the correction of congenital genetic anomalies” [Dr. William Peranteau, SURGERY, Medicine]
• Brendan McLaughlin (EAS 2020): “Ethical Challenges in National Security Reporting” [Dr. Claire Finkelstein, LAW, Law]
• Tom McMonagle (COL 2020): “Cellular Systems that Degrade Misfolded Proteins Related to Neurodegenerative  Disease” [Dr. Xiaolu Yang, BIOMEDICAL GRADUATE STUDIES, Medicine]
• Simon Miller (COL 2020): “Progression of tau pathology in non-amnestic Alzheimer's disease” [Dr. David Irwin, NEUROSCIENCE, Medicine]
• James Mo (COL 2020): “CRISPR Modification of Primary Hepatocytes” [Dr. Joseph Baur, PHYSIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Zoeb Mohammedshah (EAS 2020): “Designer proteins for biomaterials applications” [Dr. Ivan Dmochowski, CHEMISTRY, Arts and Sciences]
• Sophia Moses (EAS,WH 2020): “Automated machine learning” [Dr. Jason Moore, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Medicine]
• John Mullan (COL 2020): “Language as Fossilized History: Myth, the Etymological Method and Medieval Historians” [Dr. Julia Verkholantsev, SLAVIC LANGUAGES, Arts and Sciences]
• Robert Naruse (COL 2020): “Old and Young Drivers: understanding driving behaviors of inexperienced and elderly drivers” [Dr. Abraham Wyner, STATISTICS, WH]
• Ashten Nguyen (COL 2020): “Effect of Addition of Gantrez Copolymer (PVM/MA) on the Physical and Antibacterial Properties of Orthodontic/Denture Resin Polymethyl Methacrylate” [Dr. Fusun Ozer, DENTAL, Dental Medicine]
• Mary Osunlana (COL 2020): “Humanizing Stories: Using Social Media for Literary Diversity and Justice” [Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, READING/WRITING/LITERACY, Education]
• Chetan Parthiban (COL 2020): “From photons to objects: machine learning and visual processing in the brain” [Dr. Vijay Balasubramanian, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Leila Pearlman (COL 2020): “The effect of musicality on linguistic tone perception” [Dr. Jianjing Kuang, LINGUISTICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Javier Peraza (EAS 2020): “Development of a Novel Preclinical Model of Dormant Residual Disease and the Impact of Diet-Induced Obesity on Breast Cancer Recurrence” [Dr. Lewis Chodosh, CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences, Graduate]
• Leonardo Petit (COL 2020): “Immigrants & Justice: Gendered Understandings of Crime and Policing among Latino Immigrants in Philadelphia” [Dr. Amada Armenta, SOCIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Cassidey Phanord (COL 2020): “Language Learning in Children and Adults” [Dr. John Trueswell, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Ammar Plumber (COL 2020): “Fiscal Federalism” [Dr. Holger Sieg, ECONOMICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Olivia Podos (COL 2020): “Optimism about the climate: a double-edged sword?” [Dr. Geoff Goodwin, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Abigail Poteshman (COL 2020): “A network science of quantum transport” [Dr. Danielle Bassett, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Samhith Punukula (WH 2020): “Betting and Match-Fixing in Professional Sports” [Dr. Cristina Bicchieri, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECON., Arts and Sciences]
• Divya Rajagopal (WH 2020): “Divestitures: The Ugly Duckling of Corporate Strategy” [Dr. Emilie Feldman, MANAGEMENT, WH]
• Martin Rubin (COL 2020): “The language of mathematics” [Dr. Danielle Bassett, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Nahima Saliba (COL 2020): “Using Mobile Devices to Track Physical Activity of Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Survivors of Childhood Cancer” [Dr. Lisa Schwartz, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]
• Brandon Santhumayor (COL 2020): “Epigenetic editing of Cdk5 in stress” [Dr. Elizabeth Heller, PHARMACOLOGY, Medicine]
• Jackson Sauls (COL 2020): “Interracial Marriage and Racial Equality in Chicago, 1937-1967” [Dr. Dorothy Roberts, SOCIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Jordyn Schor (COL 2020): “Protecting the memories of very positive past events” [Dr. Paul Rozin, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Jiyeux Seok (EAS 2020): “Experimental determination of moisture control on soil erodibility” [Dr. Douglas Jerolmack, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Karen Shen (EAS 2020): “Big Data Analytics, Sentiment and Stock return” [Dr. Lynn Wu, OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, WH]
• Curie Shim (EAS 2020): “The topology of the network of semantic relations in the English language” [Dr. Eleni Katifori, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Dayoung Shin (EAS 2020): “Electronic Nose System Based on Carbon Nanotubes” [Dr. A. T. Charlie Johnson, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Evan Snyder (COL 2020): “Genes promoting precision and robustness during cell specification in embryos” [Dr. Shawn Little, CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Annie Su (COL 2020): “From photons to objects: machine learning and visual processing in the brain” [Dr. Vijay Balasubramanian, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Andrew Tsai (COL 2020): “Emergency department utilization prior to visiting the dental school emergency clinic” [Dr. Thomas Sollecito, DENTAL, Dental Medicine]
• Pei Hsuan Tseng (COL 2020): “Bringing Criminal Law Principles and Controversies to a Popular Audience” [Dr. Paul Robinson, LAW, Law]
• Erik Vargas (COL 2020): “Immigrants & Justice: Gendered Understandings of Crime and Policing among Latino Immigrants in Philadelphia” [Dr. Amada Armenta, SOCIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Vighnesh Vijay (EAS 2020): “3D printing bot” [Dr. Jordan Raney, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Tiffany Wang (COL 2020): “#sorrynotsorry: the power dynamics of mediated forgiveness” [Dr. Sharrona Pearl, ANNENBERG SCHOOL, Annenberg]
• Abigail Waugh (COL 2020): “Combining Living and Fossil Data to Track Fish Responses to Long-term and Rapid Global Environmental Change” [Dr. Lauren Sallan, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Ya (Nancy) Xu (COL 2020): “Coordination in conversation” [Dr. Delphine Dahan, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Yuan (Jane) Xu (EAS 2020): “Debugging wrong answers given by database queries” [Dr. Val Tannen, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Kevin Yang (COL 2020): “Telomeres on a treadmill: causes and consequences of telomere protein evolution” [Dr. Mia Levine, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Wei Zhang (COL 2020): “Debugging wrong answers given by database queries” [Dr. Val Tannen, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Emily Zhao (WH 2020): “Better Bargaining: Machine Learning and Criminal Sentencing” [Dr. David Abrams, LAW, Law]
• Brian Zhong (COL 2020): “Neurogenetics of social behavior” [Dr. Michael Platt, NEUROSCIENCE, Medicine]
• Qingyang (Freya) Zhou (COL 2020): “Paper Cuts in Nineteenth-Century Germany and Denmark” [Dr. Catriona MacLeod, GERMAN, Arts and Sciences]
• Hanming Zu (EAS 2020): “3D printing bot” [Dr. Jordan Raney, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

2017 (Rising Juniors)

• Adamseged Abebe (COL 2019): “Surviving the Epidemic: Families and Well-Being, Malawi 1998--2020” [Dr. Hans-Peter Kohler, SOCIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Abigail Anmuth (EAS 2019): “The effect of canine exercise on hydration and olfaction” [Dr. Cynthia Otto, CLINICAL STUDIES PHILA (VET SCHOOL), Veterinary Medicine]
• Nadira Berman (COL 2019): “Women in Parliament and the Politics of Abortion” [Dr. Dawn Teele, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Daniel Blackey (COL 2019): “Analysis of Twitter discussions of risky behaviors” [Dr. Lyle Ungar, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Brianna Brooks (COL 2019): “Neuroendocrine control of energy balance” [Dr. Matthew Hayes, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]
• Rafael Castro Menjivar (EAS 2019): “Commercializing Science: Evidence from Simultaneous Discoveries” [Dr. David Hsu, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Yiyi Chen (COL 2019): “Developing Methods for Personalized Mental Health” [Dr. Robert DeRubeis, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Michelle Dziedzic (COL 2019): “Developing an assay of excessive selfishness” [Dr. Edward Brodkin, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]
• Steven Farrell (COL 2019): “Assist with launch and data collection for international patient registry study” [Dr. Vera Krymskaya, MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Bryn Ferguson (WH 2019): “The Implications of being Underestimated” [Dr. Samir Nurmohamed, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Cooper Gardner (COL 2019): “Assist with launch and data collection for international patient registry study” [Dr. Vera Krymskaya, MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Amy Goldfischer (COL 2019): “Community-Based Ecology in the Galápagos Archipelago” [Dr. Michael Weisberg, PHILOSOPHY, Arts and Sciences]
• Brandon Gonzalez (COL 2019): “Atmospheric Neutrino Studies with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory” [Dr. Joshua Klein, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Heide Gutierrez (COL 2019): “Immigrants & Justice: Gendered Understandings of Crime and Policing among Latino Immigrants in Philadelphia” [Dr. Amada Armenta, SOCIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Renee Hastings (COL 2019): “Statistical Model of Chemical Reaction Outcomes” [Dr. Marisa Kozlowski, CHEMISTRY, Arts and Sciences]
• Jack Hostager (COL 2019): “Bringing Criminal Law Principles and Controversies to a Popular Audience” [Dr. Paul Robinson, LAW, Law]
• Sarah Huang (Nursing 2019): “Using Social Media for Sexual Health” [Dr. Robin Stevens, FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH, Nursing]
• Amanda Hurd (COL 2019): “International Negotiations, Leader’s Strategies, and Public Opinion” [Dr. Ryan Brutger, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Amanda Jankelovits (COL 2019): “Musculoskeletal MRI and Biomechanics” [Dr. Chamith Rajapakse, RADIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Snega Kalaparambath (COL 2019): “Probing vision at the cellular scale” [Dr. Jessica Morgan, OPHTHALMOLOGY, Medicine]
• Tae Wook Kang (EAS 2019): “Machine Learning Methods for Ranking and Choice Modeling” [Dr. Shivani Agarwal, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Benjamin Kelser (COL 2019): “Novel molecular mechanisms in the establishment of memory” [Dr. Steven Thomas, PHARMACOLOGY, Medicine]
• Sai Sripad Kodukula (COL 2019): “Identification of axonal guidance factors in the zebrafish olfactory system” [Dr. Jonathan Raper, NEUROSCIENCE, Medicine]
• Shreyas Kudrimoti (COL 2019): “Identification of axonal guidance factors in the zebrafish olfactory system” [Dr. Jonathan Raper, NEUROSCIENCE, Medicine]
• Christina Kuhlmeier (COL 2019): “Gentrification and parent problem solving in schools” [Dr. Rand Quinn, TEACHING, LEARNING, & LEADERSHIP, Education]
• William Lee (COL 2019): “Assessing Electoral Integrity” [Dr. Marc Meredith, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Andrea Lin (EAS 2019): “Bio Maker Lab – Interface Designer” [Dr. Orkan Telhan, FINE ARTS, Design]
• Julian Mark (EAS 2019): “Exploring a worm's sense of touch using a novel microfluidic device” [Dr. Christopher Fang-Yen, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Michael McCarthy (COL 2019): “Clinical risk factors for Sepsis-Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and Mortality” [Dr. Nuala Meyer, MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Kyler McVay (COL 2019): “Can neuroscience help make better ad campaigns? Neural mechanisms of health behavior change” [Dr. Emily Falk, ANNENBERG SCHOOL, Annenberg]
• Gabriella Morace (COL 2019): “Highlighting Women's Voices in South Asia” [Dr. Megan Robb, RELIGIOUS STUDIES, Arts and Sciences]
• Ethan Nelson (COL 2019): “Beyond Contempt: Political Dialogue and Disagreement in the age of Trump” [Dr. Susan Meyer, PHILOSOPHY, Arts and Sciences]
• Christina Nordrum (EAS 2019): “High-performance nanoporous alloy-type anodes materials for next generation energy storage” [Dr. Eric Detsi, MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Lauren O'Mara (COL 2019): “Assessing the impact of stress on sleep” [Dr. Seema Bhatnagar, ANESTHESIA, Medicine]
• Grace O'Neil (COL 2019): “Atmospheric Neutrino Studies with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory” [Dr. Joshua Klein, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Matthew Peng (COL,WH 2019): “Musculoskeletal MRI and Biomechanics” [Dr. Chamith Rajapakse, RADIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Jonathan Pollack (COL 2019): “Interdisciplinary approach for the development of novel latent fingerprint detection reagents” [Dr. Madeleine Joullie, CHEMISTRY, Arts and Sciences]
• Cole Purdy (COL 2019): “Role of mTORC2 Signaling in Hypothalamic Neurons” [Dr. Joseph Baur, PHYSIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Rudmila Rashid (COL 2019): “Perceiving and Representing Events in the Mind and Brain” [Dr. John Trueswell, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Erin Reger (COL 2019): “The Supreme Court of Finance: A History of the US Federal Reserve” [Dr. Peter Conti-Brown, LEGAL STUDIES AND BUSINESS ETHICS, WH]
• Yosef Robele (COL 2019): “Experimental determination of moisture control on soil erodibility” [Dr. Douglas Jerolmack, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Mikaela Salvesen-Quinn (Nursing 2019): “Supporting children during cancer treatment” [Dr. Charles Bailey, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]
• Hannah Sanders (COL 2019): “Characterization of Anthropogenic Dark Earth soils” [Dr. Alain Plante, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Donavon Sandoval-Heglund (COL 2019): “Epigenetic profiling of the inactive X in female immune cells” [Dr. Montserrat Anguera, BIOMEDICAL GRADUATE STUDIES, Veterinary Medicine]
• Charles Sansone (COL 2019): “Rise of Jawed Fishes As a Result of an Ancient Mass Extinction” [Dr. Lauren Sallan, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Eric Selzer (COL 2019): “The Effects of Voter Identity Laws on Perceptions of Political Legitimacy” [Dr. Yphtach Lelkes, COMMUNICATIONS, Annenberg]
• Savannah Simon (COL 2019): “Measuring Improvement in OCD Patients Receiving Exposure Therapy” [Dr. Anu Asnaani, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]
• Victoria Siu (COL 2019): “Investigating the role of the posterior paraventricular thalamic nucleus in habituation to repeated stress” [Dr. Seema Bhatnagar, ANESTHESIA, Medicine]
• Julianne Smolyn (Nursing 2019): “Economic Evaluation of Long-term Survivors of Childhood Cancer treated on Clinical Trials” [Dr. Lamia Barakat, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]
• William Spence (EAS 2019): “High-performance nanoporous alloy-type anodes materials for next generation energy storage” [Dr. Eric Detsi, MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Joy Sun (COL 2019): “Enhacing allogeneic engraftment following in utero hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in a mouse model” [Dr. William Peranteau, SURGERY, Medicine]
• Raouf Tawfik (EAS,WH 2019): “Safety Implications of Travelers Switching from Air to Ground” [Dr. Megan Ryerson, CITY PLANNING, Design]
• Alfredo Tovar (EAS 2019): “Cancer Immunotherapy” [Dr. Daniel Powell, PATHOLOGY, Medicine]
• Sophie Trotto (COL 2019): “A Radical Solution to the Race Problem” [Dr. Quayshawn Spencer, PHILOSOPHY, Arts and Sciences]
• Ivy Tse (COL 2019): “Human learning and memory” [Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Ryan Tu (EAS 2019): “Interdisciplinary approach for the development of novel latent fingerprint detection reagents” [Dr. Madeleine Joullie, CHEMISTRY, Arts and Sciences]
• Nishant Upender (COL 2019): “Africa 2050: An Atlas of Speculative Urbanization—New Town Typology Case Studies” [Dr. Christopher Marcinkoski, LANDSCAPE ARCH & REGIONAL PLANNING, Design]
• Jasmine Wang (EAS 2019): “Orthopaedic Bioengineering” [Dr. Louis Soslowsky, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, Medicine]
• Jeremy Wilson (COL 2019): “Clinical risk factors for Sepsis-Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and Mortality” [Dr. Nuala Meyer, MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Luming Yang (COL,WH 2019): “Commercializing Science: Evidence from Simultaneous Discoveries” [Dr. David Hsu, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Michelle Zhan (COL 2019): “Translational pediatric cancer reserach” [Dr. John Maris, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]
• Henry Zhu (EAS 2019): “Anomaly testing for Internet security” [Dr. Nadia Heninger, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

2016 (Rising Sophomores)

• Frank Aguilar (COL 2019): “Deconstructing the behavioral function of hunger circuits” [Dr. Nick Betley, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Caroline Atkinson(EAS 2019): “Monitoring activity changes in neurons that drive hunger” [Dr. Nick Betley, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
•  Amani Bey (COL 2019): “Historic Preservation in Philadelphia and Beyond” [Dr. Francesca Russello Ammon, CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING, Design]

• Shannon Calter

  Shannon Calter
  (WH 2019): “The role of meta-analytic talk in foreign language development” [Dr. Paul McDermott, QUANTITATIVE METHODS, Education]

• Caroline Carballeira

  Caroline Carballeira
  (COL 2019): “Memory and Preference” [Dr. Sudeep Bhatia, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Neeraj Chandrasekar

  Neeraj Chandrasekar
  (WH 2019): “Technological Choice in Response to Environmental Regulation: Electricity Markets and the Clean Power Plan” [Dr. Mike Abito, BUSINESS ECONOMICS & PUBLIC POLICY, Wharton]

• Daphne Cheung

  Daphne Cheung
  (EAS 2019): “Understanding how mice regenerate ears” [Dr. Thomas Leung, DERMATOLOGY, Medicine]

• Karen Chi

  Karen Chi
  (COL 2019): “Statistical modeling of the fundamental diagram” [Dr. Yong Chen, BIOSTATISTICS & EPIDEMIOLOGY, Medicine]

• Sona Dadhania

  Sona Dadhania
  (EAS 2019): “Solvent Annealing of Polymer Nanocomposites” [Dr. Russell Composto, MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Helen Dai

  Helen Dai
  (COL 2019): “Building a New Type of Spectrometer for Finding Nearby Earth-like Planets” [Dr. James Aguirre, PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, Arts and Sciences]

• Denise DeFelice

  Denise DeFelice
  (COL 2019): “The Ethics of Biosocial Research” [Dr. Dorothy Roberts, SOCIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Jordan Dewar (WH 2019): “The Future Of War: Technology, Proliferation, and International Security” [Dr. Michael Horowitz, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]

• Tiffany Dominguez

  Tiffany Dominguez
  (COL 2019): “Psychological and neural mechanisms of decision-making” [Dr. Joseph Kable, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Lea Eisenstein

  Lea Eisenstein
  (COL 2019): “America’s Forgotten Epidemic: Poor Posture and the Twentieth-Century Promise of Health and Beauty” [Dr. Beth Linker, HISTORY & SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]

• Ingemar Falcones

  Ingemar Falcones
  (EAS 2019): “Coordination Chemistry for the Recycling of Critical Rare Earth Metals” [Dr. Eric Schelter, CHEMISTRY, Arts and Sciences]

• Carolina Ferrari

  Carolina Ferrari
  (EAS 2019): “Developing transferrin receptor bispecific antibodies that cross the blood brain barrier” [Dr. Andrew Tsourkas, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Joseph Fortes

  Joseph Fortes
  (NURS 2019): “Mixed-methods Research to Elucidate Mechanisms of Clinical Disparities in Cancer Pain and Symptom Outcomes” [Dr. Salimah Meghani, NURSING, Nursing]

• Arlene Garcia

  Arlene Garcia
  (COL 2019): “Experimental evolution of mutation rates” [Dr. Paul Sniegowski, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Joseph Gehler

  Joseph Gehler
  (COL 2019): “The Future Of War: Technology, Proliferation, and International Security” [Dr. Michael Horowitz, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]

• Joelle Goldston

  Joelle Goldston
  (COL 2019): “The Ethics of Biosocial Research” [Dr. Dorothy Roberts, SOCIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Dylan Hawkes

  Dylan Hawkes
  (EAS 2019): “Designing Interactions with the Baxter Research Robot” [Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Emily He

  Emily He
  (NURS 2019): “Community In-Alliance for Recovery: Challenging Stigma of Mental Illness in Rural China” [Dr. Yin Ling Irene Wong, SOCIAL POLICY & PRACTICE, Social Policy and Practice]
• Beidi Hu (COL 2019): "Global Sustainabilities" [Dr. Simon Richter, GERMAN, Arts and Sciences]

• Fangjian Hu

  Fangjian Hu
  (EAS 2019): “Imaging Alopecia- Computer Science and Dermatology” [Dr. Leslie Castelo-Soccio, MEDICINE, Medicine]

• Yi-Lin Huang

  Yi-Lin Huang
  (EAS 2019): “Designing Interactions with the Baxter Research Robot” [Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Trevor Huang

  Trevor Huang
  (EAS 2019): “Big Data, Innovation, and Business Strategy” [Dr. Anoop Menon, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]

• Stephen Imburgia

  Stephen Imburgia
  (COL 2019): “Varieties of Petro-states” [Dr. Rudra Sil, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]

• Jayveer Jadeja

  Jayveer Jadeja
  (COL 2019): “The role of meta-analytic talk in foreign language development” [Dr. Paul McDermott, QUANTITATIVE METHODS, Education]
• Varun Jain (EAS 2019): “Computing relations among solutions of linear differential equations” [Dr. Julia Hartmann, MATHEMATICS, Arts and Sciences]

• Ian Jean

  Ian Jean
  (COL 2019): “Psychological and neural mechanisms of decision-making” [Dr. Joseph Kable, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Alexandra Johnson

  Alexandra Johnson
  (COL 2019): “Racial Pluralism” [Dr. Quayshawn Spencer, PHILOSOPHY, Arts and Sciences]

• Aadir Khan

  Aadir Khan
  (COL 2019): “Liability and the Non-State Actor in Asymmetric Conflict” [Dr. Claire Finkelstein, LAW, Law]

• Suzanne Knop

  Suzanne Knop
  (EAS 2019): “Investigation of subliminal eye tracking for virtual reality (VR) applications” [Dr. Stephen Lane, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Meera Kohli (COL 2019): “The Chronic Neuropathological Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury” [Dr. Victoria E. Johnson, NEUROSURGERY, Medicine]

• Shivani Komma

  Shivani Komma
  (WH 2019): “History of the Federal Reserve” [Dr. Peter Conti-Brown, LEGAL STUDIES AND BUSINESS ETHICS, Wharton]
• Veronica Kowalski (COL 2019): “” [Dr. Justin McDaniel, RELIGIOUS STUDIES, Arts and Sciences]

• Andreina Lamas

  Andreina Lamas
  (COL 2019): “The Market versus Merit: Is the Market Gender-Biased Against Achievement?” [Dr. Nancy Hirschmann, GENDER, SEXUALITY AND WOMEN'S STUDIES, Arts and Sciences]

• Alexander Lee

  Alexander Lee
  (COL 2019): “Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Impression Management” [Dr. Laura Huang, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]

• Zachariah Lee

  Zachariah Lee
  (COL 2019): “Vibrio cholerae ROS resistance during infection” [Dr. Jay Zhu, MICROBIOLOGY, Medicine]

• Rachel Levinson

  Rachel Levinson
  (COL 2019): “Mechanisms of sex-specific behavioral and structural deficits in a mouse model of autism” [Dr. Ted Abel, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Nikki Lin

  Nikki Lin
  (COL 2019): “Make America Great Again? Evangelical support for Donald Trump” [Dr. Michele Margolis, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]

• Carolyn Liu

  Carolyn Liu
  (COL 2019): “Kashaya Dictionary” [Dr. Gene Buckley, LINGUISTICS, Arts and Sciences]

• Angela Lo

  Angela Lo
  (COL 2019): “Impact of dental radiographic quality on patient treatment planning at Penn Dental Medicine” [Dr. Mel Mupparapu, ORAL MEDICINE, Dental Medicine]

• Ying Luo

  Ying Luo
  (COL 2019): “Using Digital Mapping Systems and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Document South China’s Informal Settlements” [Dr. Stefan Al, CITY PLANNING, Design]

• Trang Luu

  Trang Luu
  (COL 2019): “Write4Change: An online global writing community for youth” [Dr. Amy Stornaiuolo, READING/WRITING/LITERACY, Education]

• Elisabeth Machielse

  Elisabeth Machielse
  (EAS 2019): “Using Digital Mapping Systems and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Document South China’s Informal Settlements” [Dr. Stefan Al, CITY PLANNING, Design]

• Ankur Makani

  Ankur Makani
  (COL 2019): “Experimental evolution of mutation rates” [Dr. Paul Sniegowski, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• John McGahay

  John McGahay
  (COL 2019): “Cognitive characteristics of the leaders of language change” [Dr. Meredith Tamminga, LINGUISTICS, Arts and Sciences]

• Carlos Medina

  Carlos Medina
  (EAS 2019): “Probing the role of regulatory genetic variation in diabetes and obesity” [Dr. Raymond Soccio, ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES & METABOLISM, Medicine]

• Megha Nagaswami

  Megha Nagaswami
  (COL 2019): “Measuring Thoughts in Real Time to Understand the Inner Experience of Anxiety and Depression” [Dr. Ayelet Ruscio, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• James Nassur

  James Nassur
  (COL 2019): “Risk stratification in Orthopedic Surgery - Implications for Health Policy” [Dr. Atul Kamath, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, Medicine]

• Santosh Nori

  Santosh Nori
  (COL 2019): “Probing the role of regulatory genetic variation in diabetes and obesity” [Dr. Raymond Soccio, ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES & METABOLISM, Medicine]

• Nadia Park

  Nadia Park
  (COL 2019): “Using Research in Sociocultural Linguistics to Engage All Learners in the English Language Arts Curriculum” [Dr. Betsy Rymes, EDUCATIONAL LINGUISTICS, Education]
• Matthew Peters (EAS 2019): “Microfluidic assays for touch sensation in C. elegans” [Dr. Christopher Fang-Yen, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Eve Phelps

  Eve Phelps
  (COL 2019): “Identifying mechanisms of sleep regulation” [Dr. David Raizen, NEUROLOGY, Medicine]

• Karthik Prabhakaran

  Karthik Prabhakaran
  (COL 2019): “MRI imaging of bone and soft tissue sarcomas” [Dr. Ronnie Sebro, RADIOLOGY, Medicine]

• Nicole Profit

  Nicole Profit
  (WH 2019): “African American Literature and Racial Conduct” [Dr. Herman Beavers, AFRICANA STUDIES, Arts and Sciences]

• Anika Ranginani

  Anika Ranginani
  (WH 2019): “What is It Like to be a Group? - A Computational Modeling Approach” [Dr. Daniel Singer, PHILOSOPHY, Arts and Sciences]

• Yueqi Ren

  Yueqi Ren
  (EAS 2019): “Embedding electrodes within engineered neural tissues” [Dr. H. Isaac Chen, NEUROSURGERY, Medicine]

• Elise Reynolds

  Elise Reynolds
  (COL 2019): “Cognitive characteristics of the leaders of language change” [Dr. Meredith Tamminga, LINGUISTICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Sandy Samuel (COL 2019): “Synaptic plasticity in the Amygdala following traumatic brain injury” [Dr. Akiva Cohen, ANESTHESIA, Medicine]

• Akanksha Santdasani

  Akanksha Santdasani
  (WH 2019): “Creativity” [Dr. Jerry Wind, MARKETING, Wharton]

• Sonia Sarda

  Sonia Sarda
  (WH 2019): “Big Data and Firm Performance” [Dr. Lynn Wu, OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, Wharton]

• Jonathan Schiff

  Jonathan Schiff
  (COL 2019): “” [Dr. Irina Marinov, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]

• Michelle Shen

  Michelle Shen
  (COL 2019): “Tissue Engineering to Study Human Skin Pigmentation and Skin Cancer” [Dr. Todd Ridky, DERMATOLOGY, Medicine]

• Matthew Simon

  Matthew Simon
  (COL 2019): “Analysis of eye tracking data for attention to the roadway during driving simulation” [Dr. Catherine McDonald, FAMILY & COMMUNITY HEALTH, Nursing]

• Jaesung Son

  Jaesung Son
  (COL 2019): “Reputation-Building on Online Platforms” [Dr. Aislinn Bohren, ECONOMICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Jamie Song (COL 2019): “Vibrio cholerae ROS resistance during infection” [Dr. Jay Zhu, MICROBIOLOGY, Medicine]

• Luke Tortora

  Luke Tortora
  (COL 2019): “Risk stratification in Orthopedic Surgery - Implications for Health Policy” [Dr. Atul Kamath, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, Medicine]

• Harrison Troche

  Harrison Troche
  (EAS 2019): “Biomechanics of Painful Injury” [Dr. Beth Winkelstein, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Olivia Venancio

  Olivia Venancio
  (COL 2019): “Deconstructing tumor progression in the mouse” [Dr. David Feldser, CANCER BIOLOGY, Medicine]

• JiCi (Jenny) Wang

  JiCi (Jenny) Wang
  (COL 2019): “Deconstructing tumor progression in the mouse” [Dr. David Feldser, CANCER BIOLOGY, Medicine]

• Cecilia Wang

  Cecilia Wang
  (NURS 2019): “Handoffs and Transitions in Critical Care (HATRICC)” [Dr. Meghan Lane-Fall, ANESTHESIA, Medicine]

• Richard White

  Richard White
  (COL 2019): “History of the Federal Reserve” [Dr. Peter Conti-Brown, LEGAL STUDIES AND BUSINESS ETHICS, Wharton]
• Joyce Xu (COL 2019): “Microfluidic assays for touch sensation in C. elegans” [Dr. Christopher Fang-Yen, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Lucia Zhang

  Lucia Zhang
  (COL 2019): “Reputation-Building on Online Platforms” [Dr. Aislinn Bohren, ECONOMICS, Arts and Sciences]

• Robin Zhang

  Robin Zhang
  (EAS 2019): “” [Dr. Irina Marinov, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Ethan Zhao (EAS 2019): “Neurophysiology of Pain” [Dr. Beth Winkelstein, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Chuyi Zhou

  Chuyi Zhou
  (WH 2019): “Discrimination and Partisanship among Immigrants to the U.S.” [Dr. Daniel Hopkins, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]

2016 (Rising Juniors)

• Maham Ahmad

  Maham Ahmad
  (COL 2018): “Tumor Supressor p53's Role in Cancer Metabolism” [Dr. Xiaolu Yang, CANCER BIOLOGY, Medicine]

• Sophie Bodek

  Sophie Bodek
  (COL 2018): “Microbial CO2 respiration of soil organic matter” [Dr. Alain Plante, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]

• Christopher Cahill

  Christopher Cahill
  (EAS 2018): “Big Data and Firm Performance” [Dr. Lynn Wu, OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, Wharton]

• Albert Cai

  Albert Cai
  (EAS,WH 2018): “Big Data, Innovation, and Business Strategy” [Dr. Anoop Menon, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]

• Logan Castrucci

  Logan Castrucci
  (COL 2018): “Kashaya Dictionary” [Dr. Gene Buckley, LINGUISTICS, Arts and Sciences]

• Sunnia Chen

  Sunnia Chen
  (EAS 2018): “Developing transferrin receptor bispecific antibodies that cross the blood brain barrier” [Dr. Andrew Tsourkas, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Karbi Choudhury (COL 2018): “The impact of altered immunity on synaptic development and behavior in a genetic mouse model of autism” [Dr. Delia M. Talos, NEUROLOGY, Medicine]

• Theresa Christensen

  Theresa Christensen
  (COL 2018): “Bullying in patients with Alopecia Areata” [Dr. Leslie Castelo-Soccio, MEDICINE, Medicine]

• Asha Collins

  Asha Collins
  (COL 2018): “Criminal Justice Experience Survey” [Dr. Charles Loeffler, CRIMINOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Sarah Dozil

  Sarah Dozil
  (COL 2018): “Sayre Health Center Community Health Assessment” [Dr. Kent Bream, FAMILY MEDICINE, Medicine]

• Ryan Draper

  Ryan Draper
  (EAS 2018): “Robotic grippers based on switchable adhesive surfaces” [Dr. Kevin Turner, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Nia Ebrahim

  Nia Ebrahim
  (COL 2018): “Neurobiology of Nausea and starvation” [Dr. Bart De Jonghe, BIOBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SCIENCES, Nursing]

• Joseph Gao

  Joseph Gao
  (EAS 2018): “Animating Individuals in a Community” [Dr. Norman Badler, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Noah Glachman

  Noah Glachman
  (EAS 2018): “Investigating mechanisms of lubricant additives using the Atomic Force Microscope” [Dr. Robert Carpick, MECH ENGR AND APPLIED MECHANICS, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Serena Gupta

  Serena Gupta
  (COL 2018): “Mobile Health Interventions with Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors” [Dr. Lisa Schwartz, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]

• Danielle Guy

  Danielle Guy
  (COL 2018): “Evaluation of Public Mental Health Programs” [Dr. David Mandell, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]

• Jenna Harowitz

  Jenna Harowitz
  (COL 2018): “Targeting Replicative Stress in Pediatric High Grade Gliomas” [Dr. Kristina Cole, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]

• William Ho

  William Ho
  (EAS 2018): “Investigation of subliminal eye tracking for virtual reality (VR) applications” [Dr. Stephen Lane, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Dara Hofmann

  Dara Hofmann
  (COL 2018): “Ovarian Cancer Detection by trained dogs” [Dr. Cynthia Otto, CLINICAL STUDIES PHILA (VET SCHOOL), Veterinary Medicine]
• Kiara Honma (COL 2018): “Neurobiology of Nausea and starvation” [Dr. Bart De Jonghe, BIOBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SCIENCES, Nursing]

• Eleanor Johns

  Eleanor Johns
  (COL 2018): “Cellular Systems that Degrade Misfolded Proteins Related to Neurodegenerative Disease” [Dr. Xiaolu Yang, CANCER BIOLOGY, Medicine]

• Yoojin Kim

  Yoojin Kim
  (EAS 2018): “Animating Individuals in a Community” [Dr. Norman Badler, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Kimberly Kreider

  Kimberly Kreider
  (EAS 2018): “Animating Individuals in a Community” [Dr. Norman Badler, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]

• Cristina Leon

  Cristina Leon
  (COL 2018): “Imaging Human Thought” [Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Yangzi (Clarissa) Liu

  Yangzi (Clarissa) Liu
  (EAS 2018): “Creating and transplanting frontal cortical neurons derived from human stem cells” [Dr. H. Isaac Chen, NEUROSURGERY, Medicine]

• Hari Magge

  Hari Magge
  (COL 2018): “Studying how human skin heals” [Dr. Thomas Leung, DERMATOLOGY, Medicine]

• Kelly Mannion

  Kelly Mannion
  (NURS 2018): “Social Outcomes of Childhood Cancer Survivors” [Dr. Matthew Hocking, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]

• Andro Mathewson

  Andro Mathewson
  (COL 2018): “Global Sustainabilities” [Dr. Simon Richter, GERMAN, Arts and Sciences]

• Alaya Mazon

  Alaya Mazon
  (WH 2018): “Memory and Preference” [Dr. Sudeep Bhatia, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Dalton Noakes

  Dalton Noakes
  (COL 2018): “Sayre Health Center Community Health Assessment” [Dr. Kent Bream, FAMILY MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Peter Ohazuruike (COL 2018): “Sayre Health Center Community Health Assessment” [Dr. Kent Bream, FAMILY MEDICINE, Medicine]

• Catherine Oksas

  Catherine Oksas
  (COL 2018): “The role of Pcdh10, an autism candidate gene, in brain and behavior development” [Dr. Edward ("Ted") Brodkin, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]

• Sanaa Ounis

  Sanaa Ounis
  (COL 2018): “Computer simulation of bilingual infants learning Catalan and Spanish” [Dr. Daniel Swingley, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Hunter Pearl

  Hunter Pearl
  (COL 2018): “Corporations and the Politics of American Citizenship Laws in the 20th Century” [Dr. Rogers Smith, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]

• Kristen Pearson

  Kristen Pearson
  (COL 2018): “Ur Digitization Project Research Intern” [Dr. Richard Zettler, NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURE, Arts and Sciences]

• Julia Reger

  Julia Reger
  (COL 2018): “Synaptic plasticity in the Amygdala following traumatic brain injury” [Dr. Akiva Cohen, ANESTHESIA, Medicine]

• Katelyn Roberts

  Katelyn Roberts
  (NURS 2018): “Factors associated with mortality from severe sepsis in the Medical Intensive Care Unit” [Dr. Nuala Meyer, MEDICINE, Medicine]

• Madeline Rosato

  Madeline Rosato
  (COL 2018): “Treatment Outcomes in OCD, PTSD and Anxiety Disorders” [Dr. Anu Asnaani, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]

• Deepan Saravanan

  Deepan Saravanan
  (EAS 2018): “Betting and Match Fixing in Professional Sports” [Dr. Cristina Bicchieri, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECON., Arts and Sciences]

• Samantha Snyder

  Samantha Snyder
  (COL 2018): “Criminal Justice Experience Survey” [Dr. Charles Loeffler, CRIMINOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Kate Sohn

  Kate Sohn
  (COL 2018): “Noninvasive-optogenetic enhancement and characterization of memory circuits with IlaC, a novel optogenetic tool” [Dr. Ted Abel, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

• Arjun Subramanyam

  Arjun Subramanyam
  (COL 2018): “Global Sustainabilities” [Dr. Simon Richter, GERMAN, Arts and Sciences]

• Darya Volgina

  Darya Volgina
  (COL 2018): “Factors associated with mortality from severe sepsis in the Medical Intensive Care Unit” [Dr. Nuala Meyer, MEDICINE, Medicine]

• Joyce Wang

  Joyce Wang
  (EAS 2018): “Building a informatics resource for the study of pediatric cancer” [Dr. Deanne Taylor, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]

• Zoe Weissberg

  Zoe Weissberg
  (COL 2018): “The genetics of pediatric rhabdomyosacromas and osteosarcomas” [Dr. Ronnie Sebro, RADIOLOGY, Medicine]

• Kennedy Wong

  Kennedy Wong
  (COL 2018): “Testing a novel treatment to improve social functioning in adults with autism” [Dr. Edward ("Ted") Brodkin, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]

• Lucy Wu

  Lucy Wu
  (EAS 2018): “Gene set enrichment analysis in pediatric cancer with multivariate logistic regression” [Dr. Deanne Taylor, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]

• Xinping Yang

  Xinping Yang
  (COL 2018): “Adaptive Molecular Sensing in The Olfactory and Immune Systems” [Dr. Vijay Balasubramanian, PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, Arts and Sciences]
• Zhaoyu Yang (COL 2018): “Corruption, Human Rights, and State Behavior:  Does Disclosure Make a Difference?” [Dr. Jean Galbraith, LAW, Law]

• Tiffany Yung

  Tiffany Yung
  (WH 2018): “Precautionary Federalism and the Sharing Economy” [Dr. Sarah Light, LEGAL STUDIES AND BUSINESS ETHICS, Wharton]

2015 (Rising Sophomores)

• Sai Abhishek (COL 2018): “Is Family screening Improved by Genetic Testing in Familial Hypercholesterolemia (I FIGhT FH)?” [Dr. Emil deGoma, Cardiology, Medicine]
• Isabela Alvarez (COL 2018): “Latino Immigrants and the Law” [Dr. Amada Armenta, SOCIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Benjamin Cushing (COL 2018): “Genetic, behavioral, and evolutionary basis of ant personality” [Dr. Timothy Linksvayer, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Kelsey Desir (COL 2018): “Transcribing Jack Kerouac's Manuscripts” [Dr. Jean-Christophe Cloutier, ENGLISH, Arts and Sciences]
• Brinda Doshi (COL 2018): “Integration, Spillovers and Plan Design in Medicare Part D” [Dr. Robert Town, HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Shuangcheng Du (WH 2018): “Customer-based corporate valuation for publicly traded companies” [Dr. Peter Fader, MARKETING, Wharton]
• Austin Du (COL 2018): “Animal Models of Brain Abnormalities in Schizophrenia” [Dr. Steve Siegel, PSYCHIATRY, Medicine]
• Sabrina Elkassas (COL 2018): “Public Understanding of Evolution” [Dr. Michael Weisberg_Michael, PHILOSOPHY, Arts and Sciences]

• Ryan Fan

  Ryan Fan
  (COL 2018): “Personalizing care for melanoma patients through next generation sequencing of circulating tumor DNA” [Dr. Erica Carpenter, Hematology/Oncology, Medicine]
• Michael Finnan (COL 2018): “Understanding the role of T cell cross-reactivity in vaccination response” [Dr. Laura Su, MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Trevin Gandhi (EAS 2018): “The Allocation of Indivisible Goods” [Dr. Rakesh Vohra, ECONOMICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Amarsingh Gawande (COL 2018): “The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope - BLAST” [Dr. Mark Devlin, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Benjamin Gendelman (COL 2018): “Conflicted omnivores and the vegetable-fruit distinction in nutrition and psychology” [Dr. Paul Rozin, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Francisco Gomez-Alvarado (COL 2018): “Sustained release of miRNAs in injectable hydrogels induce cardiac regeneration” [Dr. Pavan Atluri, SURGERY, Medicine]
• Elizabeth Hamp (EAS 2018): “Big Data, Information Technology and Firm Productivity” [Dr. Lynn Wu, OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Siyin Han (COL 2018): “The Allocation of Indivisible Goods” [Dr. Rakesh Vohra, ECONOMICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Kaela Harvey (COL 2018): “Understanding organ failure in critically ill trauma patients” [Dr. Michael Shashaty, PULMONARY, ALLERGY, AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Xavier Islam (EAS 2018): “Neuroscience Approaches to Pain” [Dr. Beth Winkelstein, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Adrian Kase (COL 2018): “Genetic, behavioral, and evolutionary basis of ant personality” [Dr. Timothy Linksvayer, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Kyle Kobilka (COL 2018): “Where did Robo-signing come from?” [Dr. Natalya Vinokurova, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Sriharsha Kolla (COL 2018): “Role of CHD5 in Neuroblastoma Tumorigenesis” [Dr. Garrett Brodeur, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]
• Nikitha Kosaraju (COL 2018): “Early detection of cardiotoxicity in pediatric sarcoma patients” [Dr. Bonnie Ky, CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Aria Kovalovich (COL 2018): “Impact of dust and organic matter on Puerto Rican soil sustainability” [Dr. Jane Willenbring, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Ila Kumar (COL 2018): “Psychophysiological Responses to Reward in Depression” [Dr. Ayelet Ruscio, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Yingjiao Jessica Li (COL 2018): “Conflicted omnivores and the vegetable-fruit distinction in nutrition and psychology” [Dr. Paul Rozin, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Max Li (EAS 2018): “Landing on Empty: Estimating the Benefits from Reducing Fuel Uplift in the International Aviation System” [Dr. Megan Ryerson, CITY PLANNING, Design]
• Julia Lin (EAS 2018): “Measurement and control of custom instruments for measuring friction and wear” [Dr. Robert Carpick, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND APPLIED MECHANICS, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Joshua Lopez (COL 2018): “Risk stratification in Orthopedic Surgery - Implications for Health Policy” [Dr. Atul Kamath, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, Medicine]
• Daniel Lundgren (COL 2018): “Patient Attitudes and Perceptions in Orthopedic Surgery” [Dr. Atul Kamath, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY, Medicine]
• Ariana Martino (COL 2018): “The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope - BLAST” [Dr. Mark Devlin, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Timothy McAuliffe (COL 2018): “Protective immunity and vaccines against bacterial pneumonia” [Dr. Hao Shen, MICROBIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Jillian Moely (COL 2018): “Varieties of Petrostates” [Dr. Rudra Sil, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Danielle Moore (COL 2018): “Representing the French in American Popular Culture” [Dr. Lydie Moudileno, ROMANCE LANGUAGES, Arts and Sciences]
• Mark Murphy (EAS 2018): “Reappraising Emotions” [Dr. Maurice Schweitzer, OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Sarah Murray (COL 2018): “Patient-centered approach to preventive cardiology: Developing a web-based decision aid to promote shared decision-making” [Dr. Emil deGoma, Cardiology, Medicine]
• Namita Nandakumar (WH 2018): “Customer-based corporate valuation for publicly traded companies” [Dr. Peter Fader, MARKETING, Wharton]
• Hillary Nguyen (COL 2018): “Skeletal Site-Specificity of Mesenchymal Stem Cells” [Dr. Sunday Akintoye, Oral Medicine, Dental Medicine]
• Shawn Ong (COL 2018): “Characterizing the topology of language” [Dr. Eleni Katifori, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Richard Potter (COL 2018): “Using nanorods to probe surface diffusion” [Dr. Zahra Fakhraai, CHEMISTRY, Arts and Sciences]
• Manasvi Ramanujam (WH 2018): “The Strategic Value of Online Price Discrimination” [Dr. Katja Seim, BUSINESS ECONOMICS & PUBLIC POLICY, Wharton]
• Siddhi Ramesh (COL 2018): “Preclinical formulation of a therapeutic complement inhibitor” [Dr. John Lambris, PATHOLOGY, Medicine]
• Anisha Reddy (COL 2018): “Antibody Drug Conjugate Targeting of the ALK Oncogene in Neuroblastoma” [Dr. Yael Mosse, Oncology, Medicine]
• Elena Rohner (COL 2018): “How to make oil companies safer?” [Dr. Natalya Vinokurova, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Jessica Schwartz (EAS 2018): “Optogenetic control of cell division” [Dr. Michael Lampson, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Catherine Shao (COL 2018): “Sex differences in hypothalamic peptides regulating stress and arousal” [Dr. Seema Bhatnagar, ANESTHESIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Sheridan Small (COL 2018): “Smith Creek Archaeological Project” [Dr. Megan Kassabaum, ANTHROPOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Shawn Srolovitz (EAS 2018): “Unraveling 3-D genome folding in an Alzheimer's Disease model” [Dr. Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Nicholas Stiansen (EAS 2018): “Biomechanics of Pain” [Dr. Beth Winkelstein, BIOENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Anita Tenjarla (EAS 2018): “Emerging Technologies” [Dr. Lynn Wu, OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• John Vella (COL 2018): “Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia” [Dr. Kenneth Lum, FINE ARTS, Design]
• Tarmily Wen (COL 2018): “Topology, scaling and conductivity of leaf vascular networks” [Dr. Eleni Katifori, PHYSICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Yi Di Wu (COL 2018): “Teaching computers to read the medical literature” [Dr. Ani Nenkova, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Elise Yang (EAS 2018): “Protective immunity and vaccines against bacterial pneumonia” [Dr. Hao Shen, MICROBIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Benjamin Young (NUR 2018): “Feasibility of slow-paced respiration therapy for treatment of a symptom cluster in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension” [Dr. Lea Ann Matura, BIOBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SCIENCES, Nursing]
• Lihi Zaks (EAS 2018): “Investigating the functions of circular noncoding RNAs” [Dr. Jeremy Wilusz, BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS, Medicine]
• Shannon Zhan (WH 2018): “Humor and Negotiations” [Dr. Maurice Schweitzer, OPERATIONS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Kathy Zhang (COL 2018): “Down syndrome and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia” [Dr. Sandra Ryeom, Cancer Biology, Medicine]
• Wenli Zhao (EAS 2018): “Teaching computers to read the medical literature” [Dr. Ani Nenkova, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Cathy Zheng (COL 2018): “Chemotherapy sensitization in pediatric cancers” [Dr. Kristina Cole, PEDIATRICS, Medicine]
• Henry Zhou (COL 2018): “Discovering how the post-translational modification PARylation functions to modulate ALS pathology using Drosophila.” [Dr. Nancy Bonini, BIOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]

2015 (Rising Juniors)

• Eric Chen (COL 2017): “Using nanorods to probe surface diffusion” [Dr. Zahra Fakhraai, CHEMISTRY, Arts and Sciences]
• Ana Cohen (COL 2017): “Engineering Quantum Dots for Efficient Solar Photovoltaic Devices” [Dr. Cherie Kagan, ELECTRICAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Jeremy Cohen (COL 2017): “Chronicling and Mapping Greco-Roman Literature” [Dr. James Ker, CLASSICAL STUDIES, Arts and Sciences]
• Carlos Couce (COL 2017): “What causes obesity? Individual differences in response to satiation signals” [Dr. Harvey Grill, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Nicholas Demes (EAS 2017): “Improving Heart Surgery Outcomes” [Dr. Natalya Vinokurova, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Sofia Demopolos (COL 2017): “Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia” [Dr. Kenneth Lum, FINE ARTS, Design]
• Ria Desai (COL 2017): “Applying genomic sequencing to pediatrics: An examination of the ethical, social, and relationship challenges” [Dr. Allison Werner-Lin, SOCIAL WORK, Social Policy and Practice]
• Cheshta Dhingra (COL 2017): “Estimating the Effects of Online Discussions on Student Performance” [Dr. Francis DiTraglia, ECONOMICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Patrick Dinh (COL 2017): “Bioengineered shear-thinning gels deliver endothelial progenitor cells, and stabilize regional ischemic myocardium” [Dr. Pavan Atluri, SURGERY, Medicine]
• Thomas DiSanto (COL 2017): “Adipose inflammation as a cause of organ dysfunction in critically ill trauma patients” [Dr. Michael Shashaty, PULMONARY, ALLERGY, AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Luis Ferre (COL 2017): “Anti-Poverty Programs, Social Conflict, and Economic Thought in Colombia and the US, 1948-1980” [Dr. Amy Offner, HISTORY, Arts and Sciences]
• Brittany Hartmire (COL 2017): “Consumer food behavior survey” [Dr. Zhengxia Dou, Clinical Studies/New Bolton Center, Veterinary Medicine]
• Einas Hassan (COL 2017): “Gender, Economic Development, and Higher Education” [Dr. Laura Perna, HIGHER EDUCATION, Education]

• Carolina Hernandez

  Carolina Hernandez
  (COL 2017): “The Emperor of All Asia” [Dr. Justin McDaniel, RELIGIOUS STUDIES, Arts and Sciences]
• Claire Jenets (COL 2017): “Education Policy Research and Writing” [Dr. Jonathan Supovitz, Consortium for Policy Research in Education, Education]
• Michael Karam (COL 2017): “Causes and consequences of militant group alliances” [Dr. Michael Horowitz, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Kelly Kennedy (COL 2017): “Public Understanding of Evolution” [Dr. Michael Weisberg_Michael, PHILOSOPHY, Arts and Sciences]
• Noah Kennedy White (COL 2017): “What causes obesity? Individual differences in response to satiation signals” [Dr. Harvey Grill, PSYCHOLOGY, Arts and Sciences]
• Richard Levy (COL 2017): “Understanding the genetics of rare hair and skin disorders” [Dr. Leslie Castelo-Soccio, DERMATOLOGY, Medicine]
• Taylor Lewis (COL 2017): “Causes and consequences of militant group alliances” [Dr. Michael Horowitz, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Taryn MacKinney (COL 2017): “Bringing Criminal Law Principles and Controversies to a Popular Audience” [Dr. Paul Robinson, Law]
• Nicolò Marzaro (COL 2017): “Where did Robo-signing come from?” [Dr. Natalya Vinokurova, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Mitchelle Matesva (COL 2017): “Preparation for an RCT in Zimbabwe” [Dr. Elizabeth Lowenthal, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Jessica McDowell (COL 2017): “Long-Range Human Development in Post-Communist Europe and Eurasia” [Dr. Rudra Sil, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Hannah Nam (COL 2017): “Mechanisms underlying vulnerability to stress” [Dr. Seema Bhatnagar, ANESTHESIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Oluchukwu Okonkwo (COL 2017): “Search for hidden germline mutations in bilateral retinoblastoma - a childhood onset eye cancer” [Dr. Arupa Ganguly, GENETICS, Medicine]
• Joshulyne Park (COL 2017): “How to make oil companies safer?” [Dr. Natalya Vinokurova, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Alejandro Paz (COL 2017): “Early detection of cardiotoxicity in pediatric sarcoma patients” [Dr. Bonnie Ky, CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE, Medicine]

• Marissa Priceman

  Marissa Priceman
  (COL 2017): “Accounting for the Failure of the Two State Solution and Searching for Ways Forward” [Dr. Ian Lustick, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Ramita Ravi (COL 2017): “Literacy Practices in Urban High School Makerspaces” [Dr. Amy Stornaiuolo, READING/WRITING/LITERACY, Education]
• Maya Rawal (COL 2017): “The effects of chronic sleep loss on locus coeruleus neuronal activation in vivo” [Dr. Sigrid Veasey, NEUROSCIENCE, Medicine]
• Dashiell Ridolfi-Starr (COL 2017): “The Neurobiology of Nausea” [Dr. Bart De Jonghe, BIOBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SCIENCES, Nursing]
• Lucy Rogers (COL 2017): “Estimating the Effects of Online Discussions on Student Performance” [Dr. Francis DiTraglia, ECONOMICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Joseph Sageman (COL 2017): “Improving Heart Surgery Outcomes” [Dr. Natalya Vinokurova, MANAGEMENT, Wharton]
• Will Schupmann (COL 2017): “Suicidality and Drug and Alcohol use among Secondary School Students in Botswana” [Dr. Elizabeth Lowenthal, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Medicine]
• Aaron Schweitzer (COL 2017): “The Neurobiology of Nausea” [Dr. Bart De Jonghe, BIOBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SCIENCES, Nursing]
• Logan Staller (COL 2017): “Looted Books, Restitution, and the Offenbach Archival Depot after World War II” [Dr. Kathy Peiss, HISTORY, Arts and Sciences]
• Francine Stephens (COL 2017): “Education Policy Research and Writing” [Dr. Jonathan Supovitz, Consortium for Policy Research in Education, Education]
• Emily True (COL 2017): “Accounting for the Failure of the Two State Solution and Searching for Ways Forward” [Dr. Ian Lustick, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Arts and Sciences]
• Samuel Tullman (COL 2017): “Neural Injury in Sleep Loss” [Dr. Sigrid Veasey, NEUROSCIENCE, Medicine]
• Melissa Tustin-Gore (COL 2017): “Global Economic History” [Dr. Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, ECONOMICS, Arts and Sciences]
• Aaron Wolff (COL 2017): “Bringing Criminal Law Principles and Controversies to a Popular Audience” [Dr. Paul Robinson, Law]
• Samuel York (COL 2017): “Resurrecting a Pagan Martyr” [Dr. James Ker, CLASSICAL STUDIES, Arts and Sciences]

2014 (Rising Sophomores)

• Shaili Babbar (COL 2017): Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services (PACTS) [Dr. Rinad Beidas, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Parag Bapna (SEAS 2017): Neurobiology of social aversion [Dr. Olivier Berton, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Camara Brown (COL 2017): Education Policy Research and Writing [Dr. Jonathan Supovitz, Teaching, Learning, & Leadership, Education]
• Aizhaneya Carter (COL 2017): Patience in the Arts [Dr. Marcia Ferguson, Theatre Arts, Arts and Sciences]
• Cathy Chen (SEAS/WH 2017): Two-Sided Matching in the Market for Venture Capital [Dr. Francis Diebold, Economics, Arts and Sciences]
• Sean Cohen (SEAS 2017): Physics of Granular Materials [Dr. Danielle Bassett, Bioengineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Michael Coyne (COL 2017): Disruptive Technologies and Employment Opportunities [Dr. Jerry Jacobs, Sociology, Arts and Sciences]
• Charles Du (SEAS/WH 2017): Entrepreneurial Team Composition & Innovation [Dr. David Hsu, Management, Wharton]
• Oluwatunmise Fawole (COL 2017): Policy to Implementation (P2i) [Dr. Rinad Beidas, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Challes Foley (COL 2017): Interracial Romance and Friendship in Adolescence and Adulthood [Dr. Grace Kao, Sociology, Arts and Sciences]
• Anna Garson (COL 2017): Political Violence in Ireland in the Twentieth Century [Dr. Brendan O’Leary, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Leah Goldberg (COL 2017): Tetralogy of Fallot: Outcomes of Adult Congenital Surgical Repair [Dr. Yuli Kim, Cardiology, Medicine]
• Kristen Grabarz (COL 2017): Behavioral Economics to Promote Organ Donation [Dr. Judd Kessler, Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton]
• Claire Greenberg (COL 2017): Does Money Buy Elections? [Dr. Marc Meredith, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Mara Greenberg (COL 2017): Genetically encoded Xe-129 NMR contrast agents [Dr. Ivan Dmochowski, Chemistry, Arts and Sciences]
• Kathy Guo (COL 2017): In vivo gene editing to assess tumor suppressor gene function [Dr. David Feldser, Cancer Biology, Medicine]
• Stephanie Hodges (COL 2017): A Pilot Study of Stability in Risk and Protective Factors in Adolescents’ Lives [Dr. Sara Jaffee, Psychology, Arts and Sciences]
• Alissa Johnson (SEAS 2017): Quantum Engineering — Imaging single electron spins in diamond [Dr. Lee Bassett, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Urooj Khalid (COL 2017): Biobanking and Research Registry [Dr. Susan Domchek, Hematology/Oncology, Medicine]
• Abha Kulkarni (COL 2017): METEOR:Multiplex Testing for Evaluation of Breast Cancer Risk [Dr. Susan Domchek, Hematology/Oncology, Medicine]
• Ingrid Lan (COL 2017): Imaging Protein-Protein Interactions in Live Cells [Dr. Matthew Lazzara, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Ishara Lareef (COL 2017): Medical Care for Children with Mental Illness [Dr. Trevor Hadley, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Joon Soo Lee (COL 2017): Role of Orofacial Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Oral Cancer Complications [Dr. Sunday Akintoye, Oral Medicine, Dental Medicine]
• Kyu Il Lee (COL 2017): Graphene-enabled nanosensors for multiplexed detection of disease biomarkers [Dr. A.T. Charlie Johnson, Physics and Astronomy, Arts and Sciences]
• Kelli Liu (COL 2017): Organizational Innovations in Primary Care [Dr. Guy David, Health Care Management, Wharton]
• Ruihong Liu (COL 2017): East Asian Policies for Gender Equality [Dr. Ayako Kano, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Arts and Sciences]
• Phoebe Low (COL 2017): Creativity in th Business Environment [Dr. Jerry Wind, Marketing, Wharton]
• Aaron Mandelbaum (COL 2017): How Do International Organizations Actually Work? Power and Implementation [Dr. Julia Gray, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Ian Masters (COL 2017): Nonparametric Methods for Nonlinear Economic and Financial Relationships [Dr. Francis Diebold, Economics, Arts and Sciences]
• Natalie Meeder (COL 2017): Strategies to for the spatial containment of acute respiratory distress syndrome [Dr. Maurizio Cereda, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Medicine]
• Latifah Oduola-Owoo (COL 2017): Creativity [Dr. Jerry Wind, Marketing, Wharton]
• Hannah Peifer (COL 2017): Optimizing operating room to intensive care unit handoffs [Dr. Meghan Lane-Fall, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Medicine]
• Zachary Penfil (COL 2017): Understanding organ failure in critically ill trauma patients [Dr. Michael Shashaty, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Medicine]
• Sofia Rodriguez (COL 2017): Wellness after Breast Cancer [Dr. Jun Mao, Family Medicine and Community Health, Medicine]
• Jasmine Rogasner (COL 2017): Empirically-derived personalized treatment plans for maximizing symptomatic change in cognitive therapy of depression and personality disorders [Dr. Robert DeRubeis, Psychology, Arts and Sciences]
• Anna Rosenfeld (COL 2017): The Roman Peasant Project [Dr. Cam Grey, Classical Studies, Arts and Sciences]
• Alexander Shazad (COL 2017): SU2C-St. Baldrick’s Pediatric Cancer Dream Team: Immunogenomics to Create New Therapies for High-Risk Childhood Cancers [Dr. John Maris, Pediatrics, Medicine]
• Elizabeth Sieber (NURS 2017): Patient-centered primary care for cancer survivors [Dr. Jun Mao, Family Medicine and Community Health, Medicine]
• Ariel Smith (COL 2017): Education Policy Research and Writing [Dr. Jonathan Supovitz, Teaching, Learning, & Leadership, Education]
• Dakyung Song (COL 2017): Smart Mobile Application for Residential Building Energy Usage Simulation [Dr. Yun Kyu Yi, Architecture, Design]
• Cole Speidel (COL 2017): Are Trade Agreements and Economic Organizations Good for Countries? [Dr. Julia Gray, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Alec Stablow (SEAS 2017): Neuroscience of Pain [Dr. Beth Winkelstein, Bioengineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Spencer Winson (COL 2017): Evaluating the Impact of a Non-profit Supermarket on Food Shopping and Diet [Dr. Amy Hillier, City and Regional Planning, Design]
• Xinying Xu (SEAS 2017): Building a Character “Bible” [Dr. Norman Badler, Computer & Information Science, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Evan Yang (COL 2017): Characterization of novel membrane anchoring machinery for cell surface proteins [Dr. Mecky Pohlschroder, Biology, Arts and Sciences]
• Derek Yee (SEAS 2017): Understanding Activation of the EGF Receptor in Cancer [Dr. Mark Lemmon, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Medicine]
• Wei Zhang (COL 2017): The Body and the Will [Dr. Nancy Hirschmann, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]

 
2014 (Rising Juniors)

• Jonathan Bloom (COL 2016): Animal models of psychiatric disorders [Dr. Steven Siegel, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Maxwell Bolno (COL 2016): CFDP: The Contemporary Fiction Database Project [Dr. James English, English, Arts and Sciences]
• Nell Briggs (COL 2016): Clinical Trial Decision-making among Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer [Dr. Lamia Barakat, Pediatrics/Oncology, Medicine]
• Elizabeth Broden (NURS 2016): RESTORE-Cognition and Braden Q+D Instrument Validation Study [Dr. Martha Curley, Family and Community Health, Nursing]
• Sean Carpenter (COL 2016): Manuscript transcription for a digital edition [Dr. Cynthia Damon, Classical Studies, Arts and Sciences]
• Todd Costa (COL 2016): Bringing Criminal Law Principles and Controversies to a Popular Audience [Dr. Paul Robinson, Law, Law]
• Halie Craig (COL 2016): Here and Over There: Penn, Philadelphia, and the Middle East [Dr. Heather Sharkey, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Arts and Sciences]
• Antonia Diener (COL 2016): Guatemala Health Initiative Summer Intern [Dr. Frances Barg, Family Medicine and Community Health, Medicine]
• Emma Edoga (COL 2016): Adipose inflammation as a cause of kidney failure in critically ill trauma patients [Dr. Michael Shashaty, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Medicine]
• Danica Fine (COL 2016): Ocean Biology in a future climate [Dr. Irina Marinov, Earth and Environmental Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Perry Goffner (COL 2016): Continuity of Providers in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Does it improve communication and outcomes? [Dr. Jennifer Walter, Pediatrics, Medicine]
• Jin Hanna (COL 2016): The evolution of ecological dynamics [Dr. Paul Schmidt, Biology, Arts and Sciences]
• Calvin Jennings (COL 2016): For-profit, nonprofit or public sector? Influencing factors for employment sector choice [Dr. Femida Handy, Social Policy and Practice, Social Policy and Practice]
• Bradley Kaptur (SEAS 2016): Molecular Characterization of Cytochromes in Major Energy Production Pathways [Dr. Fevzi Daldal, Biology, Arts and Sciences]
• Jacob LaViolette (COL 2016): Myths of Origin and the Art of Etymology in Medieval Chronicles [Dr. Julia Verkholantsev, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Arts and Sciences]
• Joseph Mellia (COL 2016): Early health risk factors and child psychophysiology [Dr. Jianghong Liu, Family and Community Health, Nursing]
• Kate Odulukwe (COL 2016): The Helsinki Declaration and the United States [Dr. Jonathan Moreno, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Medicine]
• Kriya Patel (COL 2016): Identifying genes controlling sleep [Dr. David Raizen, Neurology, Medicine]
• Meg Pendoley (COL 2016): British Children’s Literature in the US, Peter Pan to Harry Potter [Dr. Jed Esty, English, Arts and Sciences]
• Priya Ramchandra (COL 2016): Understanding Frailty and Cancer in Older Adults [Dr. Sarah Kagan, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Nursing]
• George Romer (COL 2016): Forecasting International Political Events: The Good Judgment Project [Dr. Michael Horowitz, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Nikole Sanchez (COL 2016): Slavery and Seafaring in the South Sea, 1565-1815 [Dr. Tamara Walker, History, Arts and Sciences]
• Felipe Santos (WH 2016):  Best Practices in Heart Surgery Outcome Reporting [Dr. Natalya Vinokurova, Management, Wharton]
• David Shields (SEAS 2016): Ocean Biology in a future climate [Dr. Irina Marinov, Earth and Environmental Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Wing Tung So (COL 2016): Virtual Literary Worlds [Dr. Deven Patel, South Asia Studies, Arts and Sciences]
• Virginia Walcott (COL 2016): Understanding and documenting youth activism in Philadelphia schools [Dr. Rand Quinn, Teaching, Learning, & Leadership, Education]
• Katelyn Ward (NURS 2016): Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Adolescent Sarcoma Survivors [Dr. Sarah Kagan, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Nursing]
• Jessie Zhou (COL 2016): Tooth function in the aging nematode [Dr. David Raizen, Neurology, Medicine]

2013 (RISING SOPHOMORES)

• Florencia Arisi (AS 2016): Differential Plasma Induced Cardiomyocyte Survival and Proliferation [Dr. Joseph Libonati, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Nursing]
• Kyla Balkan (AS 2016): Empowering Scenes for Women [Dr. Rosemary Malague, Theatre Arts Program, Arts and Sciences]
• Coby Basal (AS 2016): Health and Health Care Utilization among Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer [Dr. Jun Mao, Family Medicine and Community Health, Medicine]
• Jonathan Bell (AS 2016): Structural insights into nucleosome stability and epigenetic inheritance [Dr. Michael Lampson, Biology, Arts and Sciences]
• Franklin Brown (AS 2016): Foraging Patterns of Queen Right and Queen-less Monomorium pharaonis Colonies [Dr. Timothy Linksvayer, Biology, Arts and Sciences]
• Run Ze Cao (AS 2016): Ant Colonial Behaviour [Dr. Timothy Linksvayer, Biology, Arts and Sciences]
• Orlando Castillo (AS 2016): Characterization of Immune Response utilizing ENO1DNA Vaccine in Pancreatic tumors [Dr. Karuppiah Muthumani, Pathology & Lab. Medicine, Medicine]
• Benson Chen (AS 2016): Development and Application of Double Labeled Protein: towards eluciadting structure of alpha synuclein [Dr. E. James Petersson, Chemistry, Arts and Sciences]
• Jane Chen (AS 2016): Dynamic Calibration of the Influence of Priors and Sensory Input for Perceptual Estimation [Dr. Joshua Gold, Neuroscience, Medicine]
• Lucy Chen (AS/WH 2016): Discovery of new strategies to cure the childhood cancer neuroblastoma [Dr. John Maris, Pediatrics, Medicine]
• Phoebe Chen (AS/WH 2016): Catching The Wave: How Venture Capitalists Identify Valuable New Technologies [Dr. David Hsu, Management, Wharton]
• Victoria Chen (AS 2016): Understanding Fat Metabolism among Various Strains of C. Elegans [Dr. David Raizen, Neurology, Medicine]
• Harry Cooperman (AS 2016): Patent Value and Citations: Creative Destruction or Defensive Disruption? [Dr. David Abrams, Law, Law]
• Amanda Cornfeld (AS 2016): Effects of anesthetic exposure during early postnatal brain development [Dr. Roderic Eckenhoff, Anesthesiology & Critical Care, Medicine]
• Margaret De Berardine (AS 2016): Determining the Effects of Various Metabolic Perturbations, Types, and Numbers of Progenitors on Cardio-myocyte Survival and Proliferation [Dr. Joseph Libonati, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Nursing]
• Ruby Holland (AS 2016): Cisplatin chemotherapy induces a dose-dependent increase of Fos expression in the mouse brain [Dr. Bart De Jonghe, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Nursing]
• Lina Huang (EG 2016): Improving Dental Care Services for Pennsylvania’s 80,000+ Nursing facility Residents [Dr. Guy / John David & Whitman, Health Care Management, Wharton]
• Abdel-Aziz Kamoun (AS 2016): New Excavations at the Neandertal Site of La Ferrassie (France) [Dr. Harold Dibble, Anthropology, Arts and Sciences]
• Jiyoung Kim (AS 2016): Characterization molecular DNA adjuvant effect of the Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) in vaccine-specific immunity in vivo [Dr. Karuppiah Muthumani, Pathology & Lab. Medicine, Medicine]
• Alice King (WH 2016): Selection and funding of entrepreneurial ventures [Dr. Laura Huang, Management, Wharton]
• Rebecca Klahr (AS 2016): T cell memory development in solid organ transplantation [Dr. Paige Porrett, Transplant Surgery, Medicine]
• Emma Kloppenburg (AS 2016): Participatory Design of mHealth Interventions for Maternal Health in Vulnerable Populations [Dr. Ian Bennett, Family Medicine and Community Health, Medicine]
• Kurt Koehler (AS 2016): Sumoylation of the protein kinase HUNK [Dr. Lewis Chodosh, Cancer Biology, Medicine]
• Rohit Kothur (EG 2016): Words and Mechanical Turks [Dr. Charles Yang, Linguistics, Arts and Sciences]
• Daniel Kurland (AS 2016): Lazaretto Ghosts: Stories of Immigration, Epidemics, and Quarantine in the Nineteenth-Century City [Dr. David Barnes, History & Sociology of Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Thuy Le (AS 2016): Augmented Paper and Printed Electronics in Action [Dr. Orkan Telhan, Fine Arts, Design]
• Maria Lee (AS 2016): Effects of non-invasive stimulation of human brain on thought, language, and memory [Dr. Rita Valentino, Anesthesiology, Medicine]
• Pearl Li (AS 2016): Patent Value and Citations: Creative Destruction or Defensive Disruption? [Dr. David Abrams, Law, Law]
• Sofia (Amalia) Lund (AS 2016): A comparative study of urban street sound and aural flânerie [Dr. Naomi Waltham-Smith, Music, Arts and Sciences]
• Morgan Lundblad (EG 2016): nanoparticles for the simultaneous controlled release of antibiotic and adjuvant [Dr. Paul Ducheyne, Bioengineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Catherine MacQueen (AS 2016): Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation For Depression During Pregnancy [Dr. Deborah Kim, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Meriah O’Neil (EG 2016): Culture Wars [Dr. Melissa Wilde, Sociology, Arts and Sciences]
• Wesley Peng (AS 2016): Sleep Disruption Contributes to Dopaminergic Neuron Injury in Parkinson’s Disease [Dr. SIGRID Veasey, MEDICINE, Medicine]
• Elise Pi (AS 2016): Stigma and Community Inclusion of People with Psychiatric Disabilities and Their Family Members in Urban China [Dr. Yin Ling Irene Wong, Social Policy and Practice, Social Policy and Practice]
• Gabriella Puig (AS 2016): Sumoylation of the protein kinase HUNK [Dr. Lewis Chodosh, Cancer Biology, Medicine]
• Shreehari Raghavan (AS 2016): Corruption, Institutions, and Emerging Economies [Dr. Philip Nichols, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton]
• Deborah Schwartz (AS 2016): Effects of anesthetic receptor over-expression in Xenopus tadpoles [Dr. Roderic Eckenhoff, Anesthesiology & Critical Care, Medicine]
• Aaron Senior (AS 2016): The Uses and Abuses of the History of Political Thought [Dr. Jeffrey Green, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Shivani Shah (AS 2016): Hormonal effects on Emotion and Behavior [Dr. Lori Flanagan-Cato, Psychology, Arts and Sciences]
• Sheila Shankar (AS 2016): A topical P13K/mTOR inhibitor induces regression of squamous cell carcinomas in K14-Fyn Y528F mice [Dr. John Seykora, Dermatology, Medicine]
• Anup Singh (AS 2016): Molecular Tools for Optical Control of Biological Circuits [Dr. Brian Chow, Bioengineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Zachary Slayback (AS 2016): Interpersonal Relationships and the Reactive Attitudes [Dr. Adrienne Martin, Philosophy, Arts and Sciences]
• Shriram Sundararaman (EG 2016): Molecular Tools for Optical Control of Biological Circuits [Dr. Brian Chow, Bioengineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Rebecca Trillo (AS 2016): Discovery of new strategies to cure the childhood cancer neuroblastoma [Dr. John Maris, Pediatrics, Medicine]
• Lufei Tu (NU/WH 2016): Stigma and Community Inclusion of People with Psychiatric Disabilities and Their Family Members in Urban China [Dr. Yin Ling Irene Wong, Social Policy and Practice, Social Policy and Practice]
• Brenda Wang (AS 2016): Timbuktu Documentary Film Project [Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Sociology, Arts and Sciences]
• Michelle Wang (AS 2016): Trust, Networks, Relationships and Emerging Economies [Dr. Philip Nichols, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton]
• Timothy Yoon (AS 2016): Improving Dental Care Services for Pennsylvania’s 80,000+ Nursing facility Residents [Dr. Guy / John David & Whitman, Health Care Management, Wharton]
• Tiffany Young (AS 2016): examining patient views of unilateral defibrillator and pacemaker deactivation [Dr. James Kirkpatrick, Cardiovascular medicine, Medicine]
• Iris Zhang (AS 2016): From Birth Control to Gay Marriage: The Development of Progressive American Religion [Dr. Melissa Wilde, Sociology, Arts and Sciences]
• Xiuruo Zhang (EG 2016): Responsive material – from nano-fabrication to micro-electronic circuitry to large scale application [Dr. Jan Van der Spiegel, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Wanjin Zhu (AS 2016): The role of Actin dynamics in memory deficits caused by sleep loss [Dr. Ted Abel, Biology, Arts and Sciences]

2013 (RISING JUNIORS)

• Laura Agosto (AS 2015): Divine Signs and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Divination in Antiquity [Dr. Peter Struck, Classical Studies, Arts and Sciences]
• Dawn Androphy (AS 2015): Interracial Marriage in Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement [Dr. Dorothy Roberts, Law, Law]
• Henry Chang (AS 2015): The Evolution of Industrial Relations in Post-Communist Societies: Labor Politics in Comparative Perspective. [Dr. Rudra Sil, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Angel (Fangyu) Chen (AS 2015): The role of the platelet scaffold protein, spinophillin, in preventing heart attacks and strokes [Dr. Lawrence Brass, Medicine, Medicine]
• Melissa Co (AS 2015): Imaging Human Thought [Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill, Psychology, Arts and Sciences]
• Ryan Dungee (AS 2015): Modeling the evolution of ocean phytoplankton [Dr. Irina Marinov, Earth and Environmental Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Mo Green (EG 2015): Modeling the evolution of ocean phytoplankton [Dr. Irina Marinov, Earth and Environmental Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Jacqueline Heinrich (AS 2015): A Dataset on Regional Economic Organizations [Dr. Julia Gray, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Jae Ho Hur (AS 2015): Tenant Farmers in China & Labor Market in the UAE [Dr. Shing-Yi Wang, BEPP, Wharton]
• Abrina Hyatt (AS 2015): The Uncertainty of Blackness [Dr. Herman Beavers, English/Africana Studies, Arts and Sciences]
• Elizabeth Joseph (AS 2015): Sensitivity to Threat in Anxiety and Depression. [Dr. Ayelet Ruscio, Psychology, Arts and Sciences]
• Jordan King (AS 2015): Interracial Marriage in Chicago and the Civil Rights Movement [Dr. Dorothy Roberts, Law, Law]
• Alexander Klochenok (AS/EG 2015): Deception and Emotions [Dr. Maurice Schweitzer, OPIM, Wharton]
• Abigail Koffler (AS 2015): Community Mobilization, Race, and the Politics of School Desegregation in the Urban North [Dr. Rand Quinn, Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Division, Education]
• Curtis Lee (AS 2015): Characterization of Notch target genes in cancer [Dr. Warren Pear, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medicine]
• Elena Leib (AS 2015): Imaging Human Thought [Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill, Psychology, Arts and Sciences]
• Taylor McLendon (WH 2015): Jazz Studies in the 21st Century [Dr. Herman Beavers, English/Africana Studies, Arts and Sciences]
• Winnie (Kerubo) Mokaya (AS 2015): Timbuktu Documentary Film Project [Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Sociology, Arts and Sciences]
• Rissa Papillion (AS 2015): Art Collection Research [Dr. Gwendolyn Shaw, History of Art, Arts and Sciences]
• Sandra Shen (EG 2015): Tendon Injury and Healing in Rodent Models [Dr. Louis Soslowsky, Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering, Medicine]
• Nicolette Sookar (AS 2015): Genetic screen for zebrafish mutants affecting skull formation [Dr. Shannon Fisher, Cell and Developmental Biology, Medicine]
• Rameen Vafa (EG 2015): Rotator Cuff and Biceps Pathology in a Rat Model with Kinematic Alterations [Dr. Louis Soslowsky, Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering, Medicine]
• Elizabeth Vaziri (AS 2015): Print Culture, Intelligence, and Cultural Reconstruction in the World War II Era [Dr. Kathy Peiss, History, Arts and Sciences]
• Sarah Voisine (NU 2015): Needs and resources of adolescent and young adult patients with cancer [Dr. Lamia P. Barakat, Pediatrics, Medicine]
• Melanie White (AS 2015): Bad Friday in Africa: Roots, Rights, and Reparations [Dr. Deborah/John Thomas and Jackson, Anthropology, Arts and Sciences]
• Adisa Williams (AS 2015): Implicit Paradigms as Potential Markers of Preclinical Alzheimers Disease [Dr. Selamawit Negash, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Yuan (Iris) Yao (AS/WH 2015): Technology and the Changing Family [Dr. Jeremy Greenwood, Economics, Arts and Sciences]
• Stefanie Zavodny (NU 2015): Measuring Parents’ Preferences and Capacities for Shared Decision-Making for their Chronically Ill Children [Dr. Jennifer Walter, Pediatrics, Medicine]
• Max Zeger (AS 2015): Using Historical Gallup Data to Better Understand Partisan Realignment [Dr. Marc Meredith, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]

2012 (RISING SOPHOMORES)

• Claudia Acha (COL 2015): Oral Histories of Colombian migrants to Jackson Heights [Dr. Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History and Latin American and Latino Studies, Arts and Sciences]
• Jaynie Anguiano (COL 2015): Mouse models of Autism Spectrum Disorders [Dr. Steven Siegel, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Sainath Badugu (SEAS 2015): Regulaton of Lymphocyte Cell Cycle by the Bacterial-Derived Cytolethal Distending Toxin [Dr. Bruce Shenker, Pathology, Dental Medicine]
• Allison Bart (COL 2015): Migration Patterns in the Monogamous Owl Monkey of Argentina [Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Anthropology, Arts and Sciences]
• Jonathan Boiarsky (COL 2015): Role of Chromatin in BRCA1 Dependent DNARepair [Dr. Roger Greenberg, Cancer Biology, Medicine]
• Daniel Brooks (COL 2015): Genetic Variation in Nahua Populations of Central Mexico [Dr. Theodore Schurr, Anthropology, Arts and Sciences]
• Anthony Ciacci (COL 2015): Mouse models of Autism Spectrum Disorders [Dr. Steven Siegel, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Nikhil Das (WH 2015): Gender Differences in Medical Severity and Outcomes in Adolescents with Eating Disorders [Dr. Rebecka Peebles, Pediatrics, Medicine]
• Emily Davis (COL 2015): Sleep Deprivation-Induced Changes in Protein Translation and Memory [Dr. Ted Abel, Biology, Arts and Sciences]
• Vinay Dinesh (COL 2015): Culture Clash in Post-Merger Integration [Dr. Emilie Feldman, Management, Wharton]
• Frederick Ding (SEAS 2015): Protein Folding in Reverse Micelles [Dr. Paul Axelsen, Pharmacology, Medicine]
• Vinicius Ferreira (COL 2015): Regulation of the Hypoxic Response [Dr. Frank Lee, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Medicine]
• Theodore Guenin (WH 2015): Molecule Delivery from Engineered Hydrogels [Dr. Jason Burdick, Bioengineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Aman Gupta (COL 2015): Evaluations of Recent Financial Market Policies in India [Dr. Santosh Anagol, Business and Public Policy, Wharton]
• Nicole Hammons (COL 2015): Another Classicism: Epicurean Political Philosophy [Dr. Jeff Green, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Ingrid Heidelberger (COL 2015): Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism: The Evidence of the Pseudo-Clementines [Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed, Religious Studies, Arts and Sciences]
• Tina Hsu (COL 2015): Mouse models of Autism Spectrum Disorders [Dr. Steven Siegel, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Yvonne Hyde-Carter (COL 2015): Student Success and Degree Completion at Minority Serving Institutions [Dr. Marybeth Gasman, Higher Education, Education]
• Seh Hyun Lee (COL 2015): Pilot Testing Food Marketing Interventions in Supermarkets [Dr. Karen Glanz, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medicine]
• Kendall Jackson (COL 2015): It’s Not the Economy, Stupid: Differences in Presidential Approval Ratings [Dr. Daniel Gillion, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Michael Keramidas (COL 2015): Global Economic History [Dr. Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Economics, Arts and Sciences]
• Nadia Laher (COL 2015): Africa in Stereo: Music and Literature of the Black Atlantic [Dr. Tsitsi Jaji, English, Arts and Sciences]
• Duong Ly (COL 2015): How Immigrant Communities Support Children’s Education [Dr. Gerald Campano, Reading/Writing/Literacy, Education]
• Michael Mahachi (WH 2015): The Health of Black Immigrants in the United States [Dr. Irma Elo, Sociology, Arts and Sciences]
• Devika Mehta (COL 2015): Nanocrystal-Based Solar Photovoltaics [Dr. Cherie Kagan, Electrical and Systems Engineering/Materials Science and Engineering/Chemistry, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Sarah Murray (COL 2015): The MUSTANG Camera on the Green Bank Telescope [Dr. Mark Devlin, Physics, Arts and Sciences]
• Aye Nyein Thu (WH 2015): Misery loves Microfinance – Sometimes [Dr. Tyler Wry, Management, Wharton]
• Derick Olson (COL 2015): Religion and International Conflict [Dr. Michael Horowitz, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Emily Olson (SEAS 2015): Breastfeeding Norms, Attitudes and Beliefs of West Philadelphia Residents [Dr. Marilyn Stringer, Family and Community Health, Nursing]
• Sai Parepally (SEAS 2015): Evaluations of Recent Financial Market Policies in India [Dr. Santosh Anagol, Business and Public Policy, Wharton]
• Aavni Piparsania (COL 2015): Public/Art/Performance/Provocation: Aesthetics, Ideology, Politics in Contemporary Public Culture [Dr. James Schlatter, Theatre Arts Program, Arts and Sciences]
• Jennifer Preys (COL 2015): Irregularities in Language and How Children Learn Them [Dr. Charles Yang, Linguistics, Arts and Sciences]
• Madeline Reckart (NURS 2015): Bridging Cultural Divides: Religion and Medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa 1938-2000 [Dr. Barbra Wall, Family and Community Health, Nursing]
• Joshua Rojas (SEAS 2015): Real Time Simulation with the Smartphone [Dr. Yun Kyu Yi, Architecture, Design]
• Darryl Seligman (COL 2015): The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope – BLAST [Dr. Mark Devlin, Physics, Arts and Sciences]
• Avisha Shah (COL 2015): Guatemala Health Initiative- Santiago Atitlan Community Health Survey [Dr. Kent Bream, Family Medicine and Community Health, Medicine]
• Britney Smith (NURS 2015): Spiritual Vignettes to Increase Medication Adherence Among Hypertensive Black Church Members [Dr. Lisa Lewis, Family and Community Health, Nursing]
• Madeleine Stevens (COL 2015): Prominent Women of Penn: A Living History [Dr. Felicity Paxton, Communications and Women’s Studies, Annenberg]
• Jennifer Thompson (COL 2015): Mouse models of Autism Spectrum Disorders [Dr. Steven Siegel, Psychiatry, Medicine]
• Phoebe Wang (COL 2015): Gender Differences in Medical Severity and Outcomes in Adolescents with Eating Disorders [Dr. Rebecka Peebles, Pediatrics, Medicine]
• Daniel Wendler (COL 2015): Engineering Genetically Defined Human Cancer [Dr. Todd Ridky, Dermatology, Medicine]
• Joseph Yi (WH 2015): Legacy Divestitures and Family Businesses [Dr. Emilie Feldman, Management, Wharton]
• Zhiyi Zhang (SEAS 2015): Smart Biofilms for Oil Spill Clean-up [Dr. Daeyeon Lee, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Mengzhou Zhou (COL 2015): Contrasting Labile Soil Carbon Pools in Temperate and Tropical Soils [Dr. Alain Plante, Earth & Environmental Science, Arts and Sciences]

2012 (RISING JUNIORS)

• Leron Arama (SEAS 2014): Molecule Delivery from Engineered Hydrogels [Dr. Jason Burdick, Bioengineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Tyler Baldor (COL 2014): Immigrant Parents and Youth in Spain [Dr. Grace Kao, Sociology, Arts and Sciences]
• Caroline Cohn (COL 2014): Critical Refusals: Critical Theory Publishing Project [Dr. Andrew Lamas, Urban Studies, Arts and Sciences]
• Brian Collopy (SEAS 2014): Pension Reform in Chile [Dr. Petra Todd, Economics, Arts and Sciences]
• Constantin Gumenita (WH 2014): What Type of Employer is the Family-owned Firm? [Dr. Adam Cobb, Management, Wharton]
• Connie Ju (COL 2014): Hydrocephalus After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Relation to Treatment [Dr. Sherman Stein, Neurosurgery, Medicine]
• Joshua Kaminetsky (COL 2014): The Impact of an Interdisciplinary Team Clinic on Symptoms, Nutrition, and Function of Patients With Head and Neck Cancers [Dr. Sarah Kagan, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Nursing]
• Sari Leventhal (NURS 2014): Impact of an Urgent Dermatology Service on Patients and Referring Providers [Dr. Sarah Kagan, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Nursing]
• Catherine Lipsher (COL 2014): Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Neuroscience [Dr. Jonathan Moreno, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Medicine]
• Megan McCarthy-Alfano (COL 2014): Multiple Mentors Survey [Dr. Seema Sonnad, Surgery, Medicine]
• Sabrina Mills (COL 2014): Labor Politics in Central Europe [Dr. Rudra Sil, Political Science, Arts and Sciences]
• Alexander Neier (SEAS 2014): Mechanical Connector for Modular Robots [Dr. Mark Yim, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Anais Ortiz (COL 2014): Strictly a Negro Art: Biography and Belief in the Work of Sargent Johnson [Dr. Gwendolyn Shaw, History of Art, Arts and Sciences]
• Akiff Premjee (COL 2014): Hydrocephalus After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Relation to Treatment [Dr. Sherman Stein, Neurosurgery, Medicine]
• Doron Roberts-Kedes (COL 2014): Imaging Human Thought [Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill, Psychology, Arts and Sciences]
• Kristina Woodard (COL 2014): Effects of Non-Invasive Stimulation of Human Brain on Thought, Language, and Memory [Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill, Psychology, Arts and Sciences]
• Raymond Xu (WH 2014): LTCC Based Coupling Super-Capacitor [Dr. Jorge Santiago-Aviles, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Engineering and Applied Sciences]
• Rosa Zedek (COL 2014): Genetic Variation in Nahua Populations of Central Mexico [Dr. Theodore Schurr, Anthropology, Arts and Sciences]
• Sifan Zhang (COL 2014): Early Childhood in Developing Countries [Dr. Jere Behrman, Economics, Arts and Sciences]

2011 (RISING SOPHOMORES)

• Aakash Abbi (COL 2014): Do School Boards Cause Educational Inequality? [Mentor: Dr. Marc Meredith, Political Science, SAS]
• Akshay Amin (SEAS 2014): Graphene-Enabled Nanosensors [Mentor: Dr. A.T. Charlie Johnson, Physics and Astronomy, SAS]
• Alec Barnes (COL 2014): Linking integrals in three (and higher) dimensional spaces [Mentor: Dr. Dennis DeTurck, Mathematics, SAS]
• Joseph Benedick (COL 2014): Power-Sharing [Mentor: Dr. Brendan O’Leary, Political Science, SAS]
• Diana Blidarescu (COL 2014): Blood Vessel Development in Metastatic Melanoma [Mentor: Dr. Sandra Ryeom, Cancer Biology, Schoool of Medicine]
• Dudley Charles (COL 2014): Guatemala Health Initiative [Mentor: Dr. Frances Barg, Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine]
• Jessica Chen (COL 2014): How Emotions Regulate Relationships [Mentor: Dr. Maurice Schweitzer, Operations and Information Management, Wharton]
• Jeffrey Cho (COL 2014): Binge Eating, Purging, and Metabolic Risk in Adolescents with Eating Disorders and Obesity [Mentor: Dr. Rebecka Peebles, Pediatrics, Medicine]
• Alicia Cho (COL 2014): Nonprofit Organizations: Measuring “Nonmember Benefits” [Mentor: Dr. John DiIulio, Political Science, SAS]
• Serena Covkin (COL 2014): Jewish manhood in the United States, 1870-1950 [Mentor: Dr. Beth Wenger, History, SAS]
• Danneile Davis (COL 2014): President Barack Obama: Changing Racial and Ethnic Minority Lives or Changing Minority Hopes [Mentor: Dr. Daniel Gillion, Political Science, SAS]
• Jing Deng (COL 2014): Corporate Taxes and Firm Outcomes [Mentor: Dr. Alexander Gelber, Business and Public Policy, Wharton]
• Ellen Frierson (COL 2014): Language and Power in Sudan [Mentor: Dr. Heather Sharkey, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, SAS]
• Paul Gallagher (COL 2014): Linking integrals in three (and higher) dimensional spaces [Mentor: Dr. Dennis DeTurck, Mathematics, SAS]
• Sophie Gindea (COL 2014): Decision making and subjective probability [Mentor: Dr. Joe Kable, Psychology, SAS]
• Kenneth Ginsburg (COL 2014): Immigration and urban revitalization [Mentor: Dr. Michael Katz, History, SAS]
• Hengyi Guo (COL 2014): Neural Basis of Risk Processes in Anxiety and Depression [Mentor: Dr. Ayelet Ruscio, Psychology, SAS]
• Miguel Hernandez (SEAS 2014): The relationship between attention and learning [Mentor: Dr. Joshua Gold, Neuroscience, School of Medicine]
• Emily Hyman (SEAS 2014): Noise monitoring and characterization in a hospital settings [Mentor: Dr. Jan Van der Spiegel, et al, Electrical and Systems Engineering, SEAS]
• Gary Kafer (COL 2014): Understanding YouTube [Mentor: Dr. Peter Decherney, English/Cinema Studies, SAS]
• Jacquelyn Kemmer (COL 2014): Energetics of Paternal Care in Monogamous Owl Monkeys of Argentina [Mentor: Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Anthropology,SAS]
• Victoria Koc (COL 2014): Politics and Cosmology [Mentor: Dr. Rogers Smith, Political Science, SAS]
• Adriel Koschitzky (COL 2014): Solution-Processable Nanocrystal Photovoltaics [Mentor: Dr. Christopher Murray, Chemistry/Materials Science and Engineering,SAS/SEAS]
• Monica Laskos (COL 2014): Accentuate the Positive: Jazz, Writing, and the Politics of Racial Conduct [Mentor: Dr. Herman Beavers, English, SAS]
• Spencer Lee (SEAS 2014): Humanoid Robot Intelligence [Mentor: Dr. Daniel Lee, Dan, Electrical and Systems Engineering, SEAS]
• Hyejung Lee, Year of Water Theme Year PURM Award (COL 2014): Stored carbon routing through a Puerto Rican watershed: the Consequences of a Warmer World [Mentor: Dr. Jane Willenbring, Earth and Environmental Science, SAS]
• Steven Lee (SEAS 2014): “All-in-One” Thin Film Coatings from Layer-by-Layer Deposition [Mentor: Dr. Daeyeon Lee, Daeyeon, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, SEAS]
• Shana Mansbach (COL 2014): Civic Horizons [Mentor: Dr. Rogers Smith, Political Science, SAS]
• Elise A Mitchell (COL 2014): Europe’s Global Vision—The Centuries after Columbus [Mentor: Dr. Larry Silver, Art History, SAS]
• Vihang Nakhate (COL 2014): Engineering Invasive Human Cancer in 3D [Mentor: Dr. Todd Ridky, Dermatology, School of Medicine]
• Priya Patel (COL 2014): Contextual Priors in Perceptual Decision Making: Coding and Computation [Mentor: Dr. Alan Stocker, Psychology, SAS]
• Melissa Riegel (COL 2014): Gender Differences in Health Outcomes in Adolescents with Eating Disorders and Obesity [Mentor: Dr. Rebecka Peebles, Pediatrics, School of Medicine]
• Jason Rudin (SEAS/Wharton 2014): Corporate Divestiture Experience [Mentor: Dr. Emilie Feldman, Management, Wharton]
• Anand Salem (COL 2014): Functional Localization of CLEC-16 in Natural Killer Cells [Mentor: Dr. Jordan Orange, Pediatrics, School of Medicine]
• Seth Schimmel (COL 2014): To Empathize with the Enemy?: Exploring Taboo Cognitions and Feelings [Mentor: Dr. Philip Tetlock, Psychology/Management,SAS/Wharton]
• Julia Steinberg (COL 2014): Investigations of Protein-Carbon Nanotube Hybrids using Molecular Dynamics Simulations [Mentor: Dr. A.T. Charlie Johnson, Physics and Astronomy, SAS]
• Nicholas Thomas (COL 2014): Blood Vessel Development in Metastatic Melanoma [Mentor: Dr. Sandra Ryeom, Cancer Biology, School of Medicine]
• Kasun Waidyaratne (SEAS 2014): A computational model of worm locomotion [Mentor: Dr. Christopher Fang-Yen, Bioengineering, SEAS]
• Channell Warren (COL 2014): The contribution of social interventions to reducing violence and enhancing health in poor at-risk urban families [Mentor: Dr. Therese Richmond, Biobehavioral and Health Sciences Division, Nursing]
• Celine Wee, Fox Leadership Fellow (COL 2014): Nonprofit Organizations: Measuring “Nonmember Benefits”[Mentor: Dr. John DiIulio (also a Fox Fellow), Political Science, SAS]
• Michael Wei (SEAS 2014): Linking integrals in three (and higher) dimensional spaces [Mentor: Dr. Dennis DeTurck, Mathematics, SAS]
• Jeff Wen (COL 2014): The Corporate Governance of Spinoffs [Mentor: Dr. Emilie Feldman, Management, Wharton]
• Amy Wu (SEAS 2014): Nanocrystal Based Luminescent Solar Concentrator [Mentor: Dr. Christopher Murray, Chemistry/Materials Science and Engineering, SAS/SEAS]
• Winona Wu (COL 2014): Upstream regulation of actin reorganization at the NK cell immunological synapse [Mentor: Dr. Jordan Orange, Pediatrics, School of Medicine]
• Jiayi Yang (COL 2014): Corporate Taxes and Firm Outcomes [Mentor: Dr. Alexander Gelber, Business and Public Policy, Wharton]
• Chih-Chieh (Jay) Yu (SEAS 2014): Using optics to read the mind of a worm [Mentor: Dr. Christopher Fang-Yen, Bioengineering, SEAS]
• Kevin Zhao (SEAS 2014): How Good of a Measure of Tax Risk Are Disclosed Amounts of Unrecognized Tax Benefits? [Mentor: Dr. Stephanies Sikes, Accounting, Wharton]

2011 (RISING JUNIORS)

• Heather Bromfield (COL 2013): Social Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities in China: Building a Cross-Cultural Research Agenda [Mentor: Dr. Yin Ling Irene Wong, Social Policy and Practice]
• Pablo Castillo (SEAS 2013): Creating an Online Database of Haptic Textures for Virtual Environments [Mentor: Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, SEAS]
• Taylor Cook (COL 2013): Modern Science and Modernist Harlem: Using New Science in Modern Literature [Mentor: Dr. Thadious Davis, English, SAS]
• Marguerite Leone (COL 2013): The First Alphabetical English Index [Mentor: Dr. Emily Steiner, English, SAS]
• Jonathan Roth (COL 2013): The Impact of Demographic Events on the Family: Do Welfare State Policies Matter? [Mentor: Dr. Kristen Harknett, Sociology, SAS]
• Emilce Santana (COL 2013): How are Mexican Immigrants being Received in the New Latino Diaspora? [Mentor: Dr. Stanton Wortham, Graduate School of Education]
• Sheila Shanmugan (COL 2013): Applying Novel Brain Imaging to the Study of Human Behavior [Mentor: Dr. C.Neill Epperson, Psychiatry, School of Medicine]
• Erica Shockley (COL 2013): Visual and Divisible Modernism: Technologies of Seeing Black [Mentor: Dr. Thadious Davis, English, SAS]
• Samantha Simon (COL 2013): Race, Class and Gender in the American Religious Field, circa 1930 [Mentor: Dr. Melissa Wilde, Sociology, SAS]
• Isabelle Sun (COL 2013): Civic footprint of nonprofits [Mentor: Dr. Femida Handy, Social Policy and Practice]
• Arielle Van Backer (COL 2013): Civility in the House of Representatives: 107th – 112th Congresses [Mentor: Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg Public Policy Center]
• Allyson Volinsky (COL 2013): Civility in the House of Representatives: 107th – 112th Congresses [Mentor: Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg Public Policy Center]
• Nicole Ward (COL 2013): Tailoring Interventions to Promote Healthy Relationships for Urban Adolescents [Mentor: Dr. Anne Teitelman, Family and Community Health Division, Nursing]

2010 (RISING SOPHOMORES)

• Joshua Black (EAS 2013A): Bioengineering: Inflammatory Responses in Pain. Faculty Mentor: Beth Winkelstein
• Maya Brandon (COL 2013A): Assessing the Americans With Disablities Amendment Act. Faculty Mentor: Nancy Hirschmann
• Alexa Bryn (COL 2013A): Kashmir – the history of a conflict zone. Faculty Mentor: Suvir Kaul
• Meghna Chandra (COL 2013A): Immigrant arts and culture in Philadelphia. Faculty Mentor: Mark Stern
• Molly Dee (EAS 2013A): The Atacama Cosmology Telescope. Faculty Mentor: Mark Devlin
• Irina Denisenko (COL; WH 2013A): Prevalence of risks of cardiovascular disease in an indigenous population in northern Argentina. Faculty Mentor: Claudia Valeggia
• Rachel Eisenstadt (COL 2013A): Brain inflammation in septic shock following different fluid treatments. Faculty Mentor: Jose Pascual
• Amr Elsaify (WH 2013A): Microfinance Funding Around the World. Faculty Mentor: Santosh Anagol
• Leanne Gale (COL 2013A): “I Wanna Live in Forks” or How Movie Fans Spur Economic Development. Faculty Mentor: Louise Krasniewicz
• Kara Holtz (COL 2013A): What is the relationship between fear, pain, catecholamines, and serum lactate levels in patients who present with penetrating extremity trauma? Faculty Mentor: Daniel Holena
• Benjamin Horn (COL 2013A): Machiavellian Democracy. Faculty Mentor: Jeff Green
• Eric Kim (EAS 2013A): The clinical utility of high bandwidth EEG in localizing epileptic networks. Faculty Mentor: Brian Litt
• Parth Kothari (EAS 2013A): Engineering insulin for oral delivery. Faculty Mentor: Casim Sarkar
• Karthik Kumar (EAS 2013A): Nanowire Memory Devices. Faculty Mentor: Ritesh Agarwal
• Greg Kurzhals (COL 2013A): Purgatory-on-Delaware: Epidemics, Politics, and Quarantine at Philadelphia’s Lazaretto, 1801-1895. Faculty Mentor: David Barnes
• Pierre Lax (COL 2013A): The PLAAY Peacemakers Project- Anger Management Through Basketball. Faculty Mentor: Howard Stevenson
• Kevin Lee (EAS 2013A): Three Dimensional Nasolabial Soft Tissue Changes Following Surgically Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion (SARPE). Faculty Mentor: Joli Chou
• Luben Li (EAS; WH 2013A): International, Cross-Sector Partnerships: Research Design and Implementation. Faculty Mentor: Meredith Myers
• Hui Liu (WH 2013A): Inter-company lawsuits and uncertainty resolution. Faculty Mentor: Pavel Savor
• Thomas McQuaid (COL 2013A): Theatrical Science/Scientific Theatre Project. Faculty Mentor: Marcia Ferguson
• Seth Pollack (COL 2013A): The Origin of Modern Humans in Morocco. Faculty Mentor: Harold Dibble
• John Psonis (COL 2013A): Measuring protein stability at the air-water interface. Faculty Mentor: Ivan Dmochowski
• Kenny Puk (COL 2013A): Oxidative Phenol Coupling. Faculty Mentor: Marisa Kozlowski
• Xin Qian (COL 2013A): Virtual Economics. Faculty Mentor: David Abrams
• Giovanni Rivera (COL 2013A): Clarification of Optimal Anticoagulation through Genetics Study. Faculty Mentor: Emile Mohler
• Aya Saed (COL 2013A): Alternative Economy Project: Microfinance and Local Currencies. Faculty Mentor: Andrew Lamas
• Hanyuan Shi (COL 2013A): NMDA, neurotransmitter-mediated neuronal cell death and Golgi Apparatus. Faculty Mentor: Sangwon Kim
• Michael Shmulevich (COL 2013A): Intraoperative monitoring in spinal surgery: cost-effectiveness. Faculty Mentor: Sherman Stein
• Jierui Song (EAS 2013A): World Music Resources. Faculty Mentor: Carol Muller
• Jamie Siew Yuin Soo (EAS 2013A): Biodiesel recovery from microalgae. Faculty Mentor: Wen Shieh
• Spencer Stubbs (NUR 2013A): A novel approach to elucidate mechanisms for disparity in cancer pain outcomes. Faculty Mentor: Salimah Meghani
• Shani Ting (WH 2013A): The Tension Between Cooperation and Competition. Faculty Mentor: Maurice Schweitzer
• Darryle Ulama (COL 2013A): Exercise Training and Cardiac Remodeling in Aged Hearts. Faculty Mentor: Joseph Libonati
• Avin Veerakumar (EAS 2013A): Effects of glucocorticoids on behavior and gene transcription in HDAC6 mutant mice. Faculty Mentor: Olivier Berton
• Wei Wang (NUR 2013A): Nutrition and children’s neurocognitive-behavioral outcomes. Faculty Mentor: Jianghong Liu

2010 (RISING JUNIORS)

• Nicholas Bartlett (EAS 2012A): Self-reconfiguring robot magnet faces. Faculty Mentor: Mark Yim
• Maxwell Carpenter (COL; WH 2012A): History of Computerized Financial Modeling. Faculty Mentor: Nathan Ensmenger
• Rachel Cohen (COL 2012A): Novel Blood Tests in Dogs With Heart Disease. Faculty Mentor: Mark Oyama
• Jiayi Deng (COL; WH 2012A): International Trade and Investments in Currency and Commodity Markets. Faculty Mentor: Nikolai Roussanov
• Rachael Dickson (COL 2012A): American Apocrypha:Desire, Deception, and Depiction in American Art. Faculty Mentor: Gwendolyn Shaw
• Florentina Dragulescu (COL 2012A): How cell phones and other technologies have changed interactions in public. Faculty Mentor: Keith Hampton
• Joanna Karaman (COL 2012A): Architectural Plastics and Environmental Health. Faculty Mentor: Franca Trubiano
• Mansi Kothari (COL 2012A): Environmental Influences on Physical Activity and Nutrition Behaviors. Faculty Mentor: Karen Glanz
• David Yang (EAS 2012A): Analyzing the naturalness of computer-generated animations. Faculty Mentor: Alla Safonova
• Hannah Zickgraf (COL 2012A): Lay understanding of contagion. Faculty Mentor: Paul Rozin

2009

• Ioana Aron (COL 2012) Electrophilic Aromatic Substitutions of Aryltrifluoroborates Faculty Mentor: Gary Molander
• Yomara Arroyo (COL 2012) How Mexican Immigrants are Being Received in an American Suburb Faculty Mentor: Stanton Wortham
• Genevieve Barnard (COL 2012) Consequences, Sexual Networks and Self Testing in Malawi Faculty Mentors: Hans-Peter Kohler and Susan Watkins
• Sara Brenes (COL 2012) Critical Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Film Theory Faculty Mentor: Timothy Corrigan
• Matt Buchwald (SEAS 2012) Family training in CPR Using Novel Video Self Instruction Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Abella
• Royce Cohen (WH 2012) Stakeholders, Stockholders and the Global Credit CrisisFaculty Mentor: Tara Radin
• Gregory Cordina (SEAS 2012) Using Light to Treat Cancer Faculty Mentor: Theresa Busch
• Haoyu Deng (SEAS 2012) Guatemala Health Initiative Faculty Mentor: Kent Bream
• David Dunning (COL 2012) Richard Nisbett’s Privacy and Yours Faculty Mentor: Max Cavitch
• Michelle Fang (COL 2012) Urban Food Environments Faculty Mentor: Amy Hillier
• Emily Huang (SEAS 2012) Early Recognition of Children At Risk of Cardiopulmonary Arrest Faculty Mentor: John Holmes
• To Nhu Thanh Huynh (COL 2012) Our Stories, Our Health Faculty Mentor: Giang Nguyen
• Amanda Johnson (COL 2012) Poor Richardisms: The Proverbs of Benjamin Franklin Faculty Mentor: Michael Zuckerman
• Sonia Kartha (COL 2012) Myelination of Stretch-grown Axons Faculty Mentors: Douglas Smith and Min Tang-Schomer
• Jeffrey Lee (NUR/WH 2012) Transitions in Health Care for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Faculty Mentor: Mary Naylor
• Tamar Lisbona (COL 2012) Hollywood and Copyright Faculty Mentor: Peter Decherney
• Michelle Lu (NUR/WH 2012) Exploring Economic Abuse in Serious Adolescent Relationships Faculty Mentor: Anne Teitelman
• Alexander Marple (SEAS 2012) Predicting Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity Faculty Mentor: Lyle Ungar
• Michael Masciandaro (COL 2012) That Poor, Insane Creature, the Laureate Faculty Mentor: Michael Gamer
• Laura Micu (COL 2012) Fostering Self-Control and Grit in School Children to Enhance Achievement Faculty Mentor: Angela Duckworth
• Reina Moriyama (COL 2012) Wellness after Breast Cancer Faculty Mentor: Jun Mao
• Brendan Orinstein (SEAS 2012) Improving the Efficacy of anti-ErbB Chemotherapeutics Faculty Mentor: Matthew Lazzara
• Varesh Prasad (SEAS 2012) All-in-One’ Thin Film Coatings from Layer-by-Layer Deposition Faculty Mentor: Daeyeon Lee
• Shilpa Sarode (COL 2012) Cognitive Deficits Following Early Life Seizures Faculty Mentor: Brenda Porter
• Priya Sehgal (COL 2012) Advance Directives and End of Life Preferences Among Defibrillator Recipients Faculty Mentor: James Kirkpatrick
• Leigh Silver (COL 2012) The Stigma Archive Faculty Mentor: Heather Love
• Dorsey Standish (SEAS 2012) Vibrotactile Feedback for Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery Faculty Mentor: Katherine Kuchenbecker
• Thmolwan Surakiatchanukul (COL 2012) CD56+ T Cells and Hepatitis C VirusFaculty Mentor: Wenzhe Ho
• Meredith Thurston (COL 2012) Globalization: Method and Theory Faculty Mentor: Brian Spooner
• Michael Underriner (COL 2012) The SDSS-II Supernova Survey: Properties of Supernova Host Galaxies Faculty Mentor: Masao Sako
• Benjamin Van Buren (COL 2012) The Central Role of the Arts in Undergraduate Education Faculty Mentor: James Schlatter
• Andre Xiao (WH/COL 2012) The Use of Bundling Strategies in Communications Industries Faculty Mentor: Katja Seim
• Tongjia Zhang (COL 2012) Lapham’s Quarterly Research Assistant Faculty Mentor: Peter Struck
• Fangzhou Zhu (SEAS 2012) Study of Electronic Structure of Graphite Based Layered Compounds Faculty Mentor: Sohrab Rabii
• Carly Ziegler (COL 2012) A Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease Faculty Mentor: David Gasser and Julie Blendy

2008

• Amy Altemeyer (NUR 2011) Image and Biography Among Older Women Cancer Survivors Faculty Mentor: Sarah Kagan
• Annie Ashok (COL 2011) Telomere Maintenance and Dysfunction Faculty Mentor: Brad Johnson
• Eric Cohen (EAS 2011) Relationships and Mechanisms of Tendon and Ligament Injuries Faculty Mentor: Louis Soslowsky
• Diane Dao (COL 2011) Development of Immunosuppressives for Myasthenia Gravis Faculty Mentor: Jon Lindstrom
• Hayley Germack (COL 2011) Guatemala Health Initiative Faculty Mentor: Fran Barg
• Evi Heilbrunn (COL 2011) Seeking Lolita; Cinema, Sexuality, and the New WomanFaculty Mentor: Simon Richter
• Mary Ibrahim (COL 2011) The Linguistic Structure of Writing Systems Faculty Mentor: Eugene Buckley
• David Jacobson (COL 2011) Atacama Cosmology Telescope Faculty Mentor: Mark Devlin
• Anthony Jiang (COL 2011) Human Sideroblastic Anemia Faculty Mentor: Fevzi Daldal
• Tiffany John-Lewis (COL 2011) African American Scholars in International Relations Faculty Mentor: Robert Vitalis
• Lauren Kapsalakis (COL 2011) Old Stone Age Archaeology in France Faculty Mentor: Harold Dibble
• Gerardo Melendez-Torres (NUR/WH 2011) Overcrowding in the Nation’s Emergency Rooms Faculty Mentor: Julie Sochalski
• Katherine Palusci (WH 2011) Applications of Probability Models Faculty Mentor: Peter Fader
• Vyas Ramanan (EAS 2011) Spatially Patterning Hydrogels Faculty Mentor: Jason Burdick
• Melissa Retkwa (COL 2011) Progression of Coronary Calcifications Faculty Mentor: Sylvia Rosas
• Arden Rienas (COL 2011) Owl Monkeys in Argentina Faculty Mentor: Eduardo Fernandez-Duque
• Aaron Ross (COL 2011) The Politics of Resentment Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Green
• Steven Schenkel (COL 2011) Investigations of Protein-Carbon Nanotube Faculty Mentor: Charlie Johnson
• Melissa Siegel (COL 2011) Gaming and Gambling in Human History Faculty Mentor: Louise Krasniewicz
• Lauren Springer (COL 2011) How Cell Phones Have Changed Human InteractionsFaculty Mentor: Keith Hampton
• Michael Sulewski (COL 2011) Molecular Mechanisms of Memory Storage Faculty Mentor: Ted Abel
• Lee Vandivier (COL 2011) Identification of Human Brain Proteins Faculty Mentor: Ray Roginski
• Athanasia Vgontzas (COL 2011) Politics of Health Inequalities Faculty Mentor: Julia Lynch
• Catalina Villamil (COL 2011) Analysis of mtDNA in Native Americans Faculty Mentor: Ted Schurr
• Shawn Wang (COL/WH 2011) Women and Leadership: Combating Malaria in Malawi Faculty Mentor: Marjorie Margolies
• Caitleen Weaver (COL 2011) Philadelphia’s Lazaretto Faculty Mentor: David Barnes
• Summer Yuan (COL 2011) Perceptions of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Faculty Mentor: Lisa Bolton
• Ali Zahalka (COL 2011) Quantitative Analysis of Neural Progenitors Faculty Mentor: Lynnae Schwartz

2007

• Marga Andersen (COL 2010) Morality, Morbidity and the Epidemiology of SpaceFaculty Mentor: Herman Beavers
• Daniel Axelsen (WH 2010) Understanding CEO Sense-making in a Crisis Faculty Mentor: Sarah Kaplan
• Phillip Benedetti (COL 2010) Development of Novel Small Molecule Biological Probes: Design and Synthesis Faculty Mentor: Amos Smith
• Laura Boudreau (WH 2010) Philadelphia and American Business History Faculty Mentor: Daniel Raff
• Ava Childers (COL 2010) Investigation of a Bronze Age Harbor Town in Southern Greece Faculty Mentor: Thomas Tartaron
• Evan Daugharthy (COL 2010) Analysis of H19 MicroRNA Function in Early Mouse Development Faculty Mentor: Marisa Bartolomei
• Carolyn Fu (EAS 2010) Development of Image-Driven Patient-Specific Biomechanical Models for Brains with Tumors Faculty Mentor: George Biros
• Lin He (COL 2010) Political Logic of Regional Financial Cooperation in Asia Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Amyx
• Harrison Liu (EAS 2010) Detection of Multiple Community States in Marine Ecosystems Faculty Mentor: Peter Petraitis
• Julia Luscombe (COL/WH 2010) Ownership for All: Transformative Models of Alternative Economy Faculty Mentor: Andrew Lamas
• Lua O’Brien (COL 2010) The Religious Ideas of Benjamin Franklin Faculty Mentor: Michael Zuckerman
• Natasha Piano (COL 2010) Figures of Political Thought Faculty Mentor: Ellen Kennedy
• Daniel Puller (EAS 2010) Email Summarization and Visualization Faculty Mentor: Fernando Pereira
• Charles Slominski (EAS 2010) Does Soil Aggregation Reduce the Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Organic Matter Decomposition and CO2 Release Faculty Mentor: Alain Plante
• Mordechai Treiger (COL 2010) Identifying Genes Necessary for Proper Stem Cell Function Faculty Mentor: Steve DiNardo
• Brandi Waters (COL 2010) Civil classrooms and uncivil wars: Comparing the National History Curriculum in Angola and Colombia 1968-2008 Faculty Mentor: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
• Alexander Yen (EAS/WH 2010) A Directed Evolution Platform for Enhancing the Therapeutic Potency of a Cytokine by Attenuating Cellular Uptake Faculty Mentor: Casim Sarkar
• Gordon Zhu (COL 2010) Congregational Participation by Immigrants: A Stepping Stone to Social and Political Inclusion Faculty Mentor: Femida Handy

2006

• John Di Camillo: Il Terrorismo in Italia nel 1978: La Vicenda Moro
• Michael D. Grosack: Revisiting the Iron Cage: New Insights in Institutions Theory from Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Sarah Bertozzi: Vicious Geography: The Spatial Organization of Prostitution in Twentieth Centry Philadelphia
• Max Fraser: Blue-Collar Patriots: The New York Hard Hat Riots and the Remaking of Class in America
• Lindsay Owens: The Effects of Physician Trust on Preferences for and Beliefs about Genetic Testing
• Lauren Tang: Neural Adaptation of the Hair Cell Afferent Synapse
• Amelia Duffy Tumasz: Credit and Co-wives: Exploring Empowerment in Senegal
• Thomas Lay: “Account Mee Man”: Economic Incarnation and Commonwealth in Paradise Lost
• Melissa Miller

2005

• Noah Pink – Foreign Perceptions of Joola Resistance in the Casamance: Over Three Centuries of Misinterpretation and Misunderstanding
• Albert Lang – Catalytic mechanism of phytochelatin synthase, a cysteine protease-like transpeptide
• Samantha S. Goldman – Self Discipline Predicts Academic Performance in Low-Achieving Adolescents
• Rachel Rouhana – Yes, Madam! The Exploitation of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
• Jessica Fain – Tides of Resistance and Resiliance: Changes in Cuban Art in the Periodo Especial
• Zachary James Silver – The Excommunication of Mordecai Kaplan: How an Act of Intolerance Paved the Way Towards Cultural Pluralism in Post-war America
• Samuel Kahn – Kant, Negative Freedom, and Contingent Evil
• War and Identity: Stalin, Khmelnytsky, and Russo-Ukrainian Relations
• Penina Bernstein – Creating a World of Trust (photographs)
• Willa Rohrer – Stinging Red, Smarting Pink: The Ethics of Representation in Nabokov’s Lolita

2004

• Sean Cusack, Joyce Tam and Eiji Takizawa (Chemical Engineering)
• Andria Bibiloni (Fine Arts)
• Emily Blumenthal (History)
• Jennifer Burgess (Spanish)
• Natalia Adler (French)
• Lynn Huang (English)
• Terri Ginsberg (History)
• Alastair Green (African Studies)
• Justin Hulbert (Psychology)
• Philip Labo (Biology)
• Kate Lehman (PPE)
• Erica Miao (English)

2019

• Parker Abt (COL 2019): “What They Can Do Themselves: Agency and Politics in the Colonias of South Texas, 1945-95” [Mentor: Brent Cebul, History]
• Angus Beane (COL 2019): “Seeing the Light: Novel Cross-Correlation Methods” [Mentor: Adam Lidz, Physics & Astronomy]
• Lea Eisenstein (COL 2019): “From Icon to Bygone: The Rise and Fall of the Contraceptive Diaphragm in Twentieth-Century America” [Mentor: Beth Linker, History and Sociology of Science]
• Emily Elenio (COL 2019): “‘I Don’t Really Get It’: An Ethnographic Investigation of the National School Lunch Program in Middle School Children in New Jer” [Mentor: Morgan Hoke, Anthropology]
• Victoria Greene (COL 2019): “Recovering Lost Voices: The Experiences of Women during the Peloponnesian War” [Mentor: Jeremy McInerney, Classical Studies]
• James Hiebert (COL 2019): “Taylor's Scientific Management in Discourse: Extending the Cultural Turn to Business History” [Mentor: Carolyn Marvin, Communications]
• Wan Jiang (WH 2019): “Measuring firm innovation and its relationship with IPO and M&A activities” [Mentor: Lynn Wu, Operations, Information and Decisions]
• Megha Nagaswami (COL 2019): “Evidence Based Ethics? Testing A Novel Decision-Making Tool” [Mentor: Melissa Hunt, Psychology]
• John Aggrey Odera (COL 2019): “The Poverty of Effective Altruism: An Essay on Epistemology and Practical Ethics” [Mentor: Karen Detlefsen, Philosophy]
• Jimmy Qian (COL 2019): “The ecology of cancer metastasis” [Mentor: Erol Akçay, Biology]
• Elizabeth Speyer (COL 2019): “China’s Master Plan: Is the Belt Road Initiative an Ambitious Hegemonic Design or an Inauspicious Economic Entanglement?” [Mentor: Farah Jan, International Relations]
• Jack Stack (COL 2019): “The Evolution of Skull Elongation in Ray-Finned Fishes” [Mentor: Lauren Sallan, Earth and Environmental Science]
• Emily Trimm (COL 2019): “Meiotic Drive: The Molecular Arms Race in which it Pays to Cheat” [Mentor: Michael Lampson, Biology]
• Vanessa Weir (COL 2019): “The Role of Hindbrain Projections to the Nucleus Accumbens in Cocaine Seeking” [Mentor: Heath Schmidt, Biobehavioral Health Sciences]
• David Wigglesworth (COL 2019): “Crop Production and Climate Change: The Importance of Temperature Variability” [Mentor: Jere Behrman, Economics]

2018

• Molly Bucklin (COL 2018): “Ability of Co-expression of IL-15 and IL-15R-alpha, and IL-21 to Improve CAR T-Cell Efficacy” [Mentor: John Scholler, Smilow Center for Translational Research - Pathology and Laboratory Medicine]
• Braden Cordivari (COL 2018): “The Beyceğiz Tumulus: A Phrygian Monument and its Social Significance” [Mentor: Brian Rose, Classical Studies; Penn Museum]
• Kathryn DeWitt (COL 2018): “Evidence-Based Practice Training for Suicide Prevention among Clinicians in College Mental Health Centers” [Mentor: Rinad Beidas, Department of Psychiatry]
• Christopher D'Urso (COL 2018): “Translating Justice: An Evaluation of U.S. Efforts to Support Criminal Procedure Reform in Panama” [Mentor: Sara McGuire, International Relations Program]
• Alisa Feldman (COL 2018): “Be Fruitful and Medicalize: IVF Risk Communication and the Politics of Assisted Reproduction in Israel” [Mentor: Adam Mohr, Critical Writing Program, History and Sociology of Science]
• Jacob Gardenswartz (COL 2018): “After Gawker: Lawsuits Against News Media in the Trump Era” [Mentor: David Eisenhower, Institute of Public Service]
• Brandon Hayes (SEAS 2018): “Engineering Macrophages and Tumor Cells to Study the Macrophage Checkpoint” [Mentor: Dennis Discher, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering]
• Angela Ip (COL 2018): “Technology & Conflict in Long-Distance Romantic Relationships” [Mentor: Jessa Lingel, ]
• Jisoo Kim (COL 2018): “Habitat-Body Form Analysis of Fishes Over Time” [Mentor: Lauren Sallan, Earth & Environmental Science]
• Henrique Laurino dos Santos (WH 2018): “MODELLING HETEROGENEOUS EFFECTS IN NETWORK CONTAGION: EVIDENCE FROM THE STEAM COMMUNITY” [Mentor: Lorin Hitt, Operations, Information, and Decisions]
• Cornell Overfield (COL 2018): “All Quiet on the West German Front? Changes in East German Political Agitation in West Germany, 1945-1955” [Mentor: Samuel Helfont, International Relations]
• Kristen Pearson (COL 2018): “Tangled Motivations: Community, Mobility, and Frugality in a 10th Century Textile Assemblage from the Mongolian Altai” [Mentor: Katherine Moore, Anthropology]
• Mariel Regenstreif (COL 2018): “Egon Schiele’s Dead Mother I: Disembodiment of the Secession Rebirth Construct” [Mentor: André Dombrowski, History of Art]
• Nathaniel Rome (COL 2018): “A Study of the Strategic Origins of U.S. Support for European Integration” [Mentor: Sara McGuire, International Relations]
• Sheridan Small (COL 2018): “Robert H. Lamborn: At the Intersection of Anthropology and Museums in the Nineteenth Century” [Mentor: Megan Kassabaum, Anthropology]

2016

• Elizabeth Ames (COL 2016): “Gendered Terrorism: Contrasting Newspaper Coverage of Male and Female Suicide Bombings” [Mentor: David Eisenhower, Annenberg]
• John Baranik (COL 2016): “Temporality and Choice in Milton's Middle Sonnets” [Mentor: Rebecca Bushnell, English]
• Annie Bennett (COL 2016): “The Art of the Steal: Organized Art Plunder in Italy under Napoleon Bonaparte” [Mentor: André Dombrowski, History of Art]
• Kimberly Bernardin (COL 2016): “The Piazza in Northern Liberties: the Negative Cycle of an Empty Space” [Mentor: Eric Schneider, History]
• Peter Bryan (COL 2016): “Rectilinear edge selectivity is insufficient to explain the category selectivity of the parahippocampal place area” [Mentor: Russell Epstein, Psychology]
• Hannah Buchan (COL 2016): “Examining Structural Adjustment's Impact on Standards of Living in Sub-Saharan Africa” [Mentor: Anna Viden, International Relations]
• Louis Capozzi (COL 2016): “Stilicho the Survivor: A Re-Evaluation of Stilicho's Regime” [Mentor: Cam Grey, Classical Studies]
• Caroline Chung (COL 2016): “Hippocampal 4EBP2 Phosphorylation Promotes Spatial Memory Consolidation” [Mentor: Ted Abel, Biology]
• Sean Foley (COL 2016): “A Shield, Not a Sword: The Strict Scrutiny Standard of Judicial Review in RFRA and RLUIPA” [Mentor: Rogers Smith, Political Science]
• Rahul Gupta (SEAS 2016): “C9orf72 RAN Translation Products Lead to Cellular Degradation Pathway Dysfunction” [Mentor: Robert Kalb, Neurology]
• Otto Kienitz (COL 2016): “Sir Percy Loraine & Anglo-Turkish Rapprochement 1934-1939” [Mentor: Walter McDougall, History]
• Mark Kilpatrick (COL 2016): “An Examination of Urban Road Dust in Philadelphia Based on Site Characteristics” [Mentor: Reto Gieré, Earth & Environmental Sciences]
• Vanessa Koh (COL 2016): “Precarious Lives: The Fates of Migrant Workers in Singapore” [Mentor: Kathleen Hall, Education, Culture, and Society]
• Varun Menon (COL 2016): “One Nation Overseas: The Statecraft of the United States Congress in the Age of Democratic Revolutions” [Mentor: Walter Licht, History]
• Katherine Morucci (COL 2016): “Interpreting Morphological Variation in Archaeological Swine Teeth from Western and Central Asia” [Mentor: Katherine Moore, Anthropology]
• Jason Mulholland (WH 2016): “Predicting the Future of Free Agent Receivers and Tight Ends in the NFL” [Mentor: Shane Jensen, Statistics]
• Wesley Peng (COL 2016): “Discovering the Targets of Sevoflurane, a General Anesthetic: A Photolabeling Approach” [Mentor: William Dailey, Chemistry]
• Sophie Prach (COL 2016): ““Embeddedness and Disembeddedness:” The BRICS’ Role in International Economic Governance, 1990-2013” [Mentor: Anna Viden, International Relations]
• Allison Resnick (COL 2016): “"Pallor" in Juvenal: A Symptom of Social Disease” [Mentor: James Ker, Classical Studies]
• Aaron Senior (COL 2016): “The Fallacy of the Ideological Press: How American National Newspapers Reacted to the French Revolution from 1789 to 1793” [Mentor: Michael Zuckerman, History]
• Lauren Shapiro (COL 2016): “The Planner in Action: China’s Influence as a Developing and Non-Market Economy on the WTO” [Mentor: Ellen Kennedy, Political Science]
• David Shields (SEAS 2016): “Remote Sensing of Phytoplankton: Seasonal variability” [Mentor: Irina Marinov, Earth & Environmental Sciences]
• Alexandra Sternlicht (COL 2016): “DOCUMENTING PHILADELPHIA DRAG QUEENS: A CREATIVE WRITING WORK IN THREE PARTS” [Mentor: Paul Hendrickson, English]
• Eileen Wang (COL 2016): “Choice, Control and Childbirth: Cesarean Deliveries on Maternal Request in Shanghai, China” [Mentor: Adriana Petryna, Anthropology]
• Carla Winter (SEAS 2016): “Transplantable micro-tissue engineered constructs consisting of aligned astrocytes to facilitate nervous system regeneration” [Mentor: Kacy Cullen, Neurosurgery]

2015

• Carly Sokach (COL 2015): “A Potion for the Goddess: Controlling Menstruation and Fertility Through the Thesmophoria” [Mentor: Jeremy McInerney, Classical Studies]
• Joseph Bruch (COL 2015): “Antidepressant Usage Increases Income Among Poor Population” [Mentor: Sara Jaffee, Psychology]
• Samantha Cordero (COL 2015): “A GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF DIAPSID CLAW SHAPE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR KERATINOUS SHEATH MORPHOLOGY IN EXTINCT TAXA” [Mentor: Peter Dodson, Veterinary Medicine]
• Michael D'Antonio (COL 2015): “The timing of terrestrialization of sessile organisms - a functional approach” [Mentor: Hermann Pfefferkorn, Earth & Environmental Studies]
• Zoe Gan (COL 2015): “Volatile Anesthetics Transiently Disrupt Early Postnatal Brain Development in the Rat” [Mentor: Maryellen Eckenhoff, Anesthesiology]
• HongYu (Erica) Ma (COL 2015): “A State Divided: The Decisive Impact of Third-Party Interventions on Secession Conflicts (1945-2011)” [Mentor: Thomas Cavanna, International Relations]
• Jennarose Placitella (COL 2015): “Crazy or Calculated? : Dissecting the persuasive and propaganda techniques in Islamic State Videos on Twitter” [Mentor: David Eisenhower, Annenberg]
• Kimberly Schreiber (COL 2015): “Documenting Disremembrance: Histories of Loss in Contemporary Chinese Representation” [Mentor: Kevin Platt, Slavic Languages & Literatures]
• Sunny Shen (COL 2015): “The Harry Potter Effect: Predicting the Box Office Performance of Y.A. Novel Movie Adaptations” [Mentor: Kimberly Woolf, Annenberg]
• Rebecca Shifera (COL 2015): “Doctors without Borders: The Interconfessional and Intercultural Fluidity of Royal Physicians in the Crusades” [Mentor: Tamara Walker, History]
• Chloe Sigal (COL 2015): “CASHING IN VERSUS BEING DANGEROUS: THE CLASS-MEDIATED NATURE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT COALITION IDENTITY” [Mentor: Amada Armenta, Sociology]
• Neeti Singhal (COL 2015): “Cognitive & Socio-Emotional Skills in Urban Bolivia and Colombia  A Latin American Perspective on the Economic Returns to Skills” [Mentor: Jere Behrman, Economics]

2014

• Sanjeethan Baksh (COL 2014): “Oncogene Inhibition Enriches for Mesenchymal Cells Lacking Tumor Initiating Cell Properties in HER2/Neu Driven Breast Cancer” [Mentor: Lewis Chodosh, Cancer Biology]
• Nora Castle (COL 2014): ““surface, surface, surface”: The Text of American Psycho” [Mentor: Jean-Christophe Cloutier, English]
• Christen Chan (COL; WH 2014): “Disgust and the Human Ecology of Insect Consumption” [Mentor: Katherine Moore, Anthropology]
• Serena Covkin (COL 2014): “Patriotic Women, North and South: The American Civil War, Citizenship, and Memory” [Mentor: Stephanie McCurry, History]
• Patrick Fitz (COL 2014): “Utmost Power with Adverse Power Opposed: The Political Economy of Migrant Farm Labor in Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle” [Mentor: Rita Barnard, English, Comparative Literature]
• Julia Hurley (COL 2014): “Food In Roman Britain: A discussion of current issues in scholarship and a proposed new approach” [Mentor: Ann Kuttner, History of Art]
• Aleksandra Igdalova (COL 2014): “Neural Mandalas: Bridging the Gap Between the Cosmos and the Geometric Brain” [Mentor: Gary Hatfield, Philosophy]
• Colleen Kase (COL 2014): “The Psychological Effects of Sorority Recruitment: A Question of Self-Selection” [Mentor: Melissa Hunt, Psychology]
• Megan McCarthy-Alfano (COL 2014): “Driving Without a Roadmap: Parents’ Treatment Decisions in Autism Care” [Mentor: Fran Barg, Anthropology, Family Medicine and Community Health]
• Isabel Oliveres (COL 2014): ““By Pen, Word, and Example”: Federico Urales and his Anarchist Project (Spain 1898-1936)” [Mentor: Antonio Feros, History]
• Elie Peltz (COL 2014): “The Adaptability of Peacebuilding Organizations within Changing Political Environments Social Boycotts and Israeli-Palestinian Civil Society Relations” [Mentor: Ian Lustick, Political Science]
• Steven Perez (COL 2014): “Once and For All: The Spanish Civil War and the Nationalist Concentration Camps” [Mentor: Jonathan Steinberg, History]
• Benika Pinch (COL 2014): “Finding Propofol’s Targets: Using Photoaffinity Labeling and Click Chemistry” [Mentor: William Dailey, Chemistry]
• Gerard Salter (COL 2014): “Dynamics and Geometry of Equilibrium Channels Well Above Threshold” [Mentor: Douglas Jerolmack, Earth and Environmental Science]
• Akiva Sanders (COL 2014): “Fingerprints and the Organization of the Ceramic Industry Over Time at Tell Leilan: Gender and the State in Northern Mesopotamia during the Early and Middle Bronze Age” [Mentor: Lauren Ristvet, Anthropology]
• Samuel Schnittman (COL 2014): ““All are punished”: Violent [Self-]Destruction in Pieter Bruegel’s Triumph of Death” [Mentor: Larry Silver, History of Art]
• David Stahl (COL 2014): “Turbidity on the Kenai River of Alaska: A Regression Analysis” [Mentor: Richard Berk, Statistics]
• Julia Steinberg (COL 2014): “Bulk Dirac Points in Distorted Spinels” [Mentor: Andrew Rappe, Chemistry]
• Manon Vergerio (COL 2014): “The Role of Art in Urban Revitalization: A case study of Fishtown, Philadelphia” [Mentor: Mark Stern, Urban Studies]
• Michael Yu (EAS 2014): “Macro- and Micro-scale Variables Regulate Stent Hemodynamics” [Mentor: Peter Davies, Bioengineering / Cardiovascular Medicine]

 
2013

• Rachel Eisenstadt (COL 2013): “Development of a Rodent Model of Repeated Immunemodulating Resuscitation for Sepsis Allows Delayed In Vivo Evaluation of Microcirculation” [Advised by: Dr. Jose Pascual, Division of Trauma, Critical Care & Emergency Surgery]
• Leanne Gale (COL 2013): “The Terrible Paradox of the Left: The Solidarity Movement as a Case Study of Joint Israeli-Palestinian Nonviolent Activism” [Advised by: Dr. Ian Lustick, Political Science]
• Emily Goshey (COL 2013): “Salafism in Philadelphia: Re-examining the “Rise and Fall” Narrative” [Advised by: Dr. Fariha Khan, Asian American Studies]
• Rowland Han (EAS; WH 2013): “Sustained Release of Proteins and Antibiotics from Hybrid Polymer-Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles” [Advised by: Dr. Paul Ducheyne, Bioengineering]
• Joshua Herren (COL 2013): “Furious Acts: AIDS and the Arts of Activism, 1981-1996” [Advised by: Dr. Kathy Peiss, History]
• Thomas Krane (COL 2013): “Photometric Confirmation of High Redshift X-ray Bright Galaxy Clusters” [Advised by: Dr. Masao Sako, Physics]
• Max Levy (COL 2013): “Shmuel Alexandrov and the Making of a Modern Russian Jewish Philosophy” [Advised by: Dr. David Ruderman, History]
• Muyi Li (COL 2013): “Effects of Chromatin Binding on Inner Centromere Protein Localization and Function during Cell Division” [Advised by: Dr. Michael Lampson, Biology]
• Irina Markina (COL 2013): “L’antiquité en rêve [Antiquity in Dreams]” [Advised by: Dr. Andrea Goulet, Romance Languages]
• Mateen Moghbel (COL 2013): “Amyloid-β Imaging with PET in Alzheimer’s Disease” [Advised by: Dr. Abass Alavi, Radiology]
• Michael Morse (COL 2013): “Discretionary Disenfranchisement” [Advised by: Dr. Marc Meredith, Political Science]
• Joe-Ann Moser (COL 2013): “Structure Function Relationships of Metal Requiring Enzymes: Studies of Isoprene Synthase and Histone Deacetylase 8” [Advised by: Dr. David Christianson, Chemistry]
• Courtney Ng (COL 2013): “Womanhood and Maternal Health-Seeking Behaviors in Periphery China: A Hani Perspective” [Advised by: Dr. Katherine Mason, History and Sociology of Science]
• Anshuman Pal (COL 2013): “Nodal Surfaces in Photoemission from Twisted Bilayer Graphene” [Advised by: Dr. Eugene Mele, Physics]
• Seth Pollack (COL 2013): “The Role of Retail Investors in Book Built IPOs: Evidence from India” [Advised by: Dr. Hanming Fang, Economics]
• Alethea Roe (COL 2013): “Ancient Faces, Enduring Questions: The “Fayum” Mummy Portraits and the Problem of Verisim” [Advised by: Dr. Ann Kuttner, Art History]

2012

• Tali Arbit (COL 2012): “The Free Library Bible, its Decoration and its History: A Case Study in 15th Century Spanish Hebrew Bibles” [Advised by: Dr. David Stern,NELC]
• Danielle Bainbridge (COL 2012): ““The Two Women Shook Hands: A Dramaturgical Reading of No Telephone to Heaven and Lionheart Gal”” [Advised by: Dr. Tsitsi Jaji, English]
• Samuel Belfer (COL 2012): “Worm-in-a-drop approach for high throughput long-term monitoring of C. elegans quiescent behavior” [Advised by: Dr. David Raizen, Neurology]
• Limor Bordoley (COL 2012): “Rethinking the Six Day War: an Analysis of Counterfactual Explanations” [Advised by: Dr. Ian Lustick, Political Science]
• Jennifer Dailey (COL 2012): “Detecting Lyme Disease Using Antibody-Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistors” [Advised by: Dr. A.T. Charlie Johnson, Physics and Astronomy]
• Jacob Finkel (COL 2012): “Deceptive Veracity: Cicero’s Use of Direct Discourse for Dramatic Invention in ad Atticum 389” [Advised by: Dr. James Ker, Classical Studies]
• John Gee (COL 2012): “The Origins of Rawlsian Metaethics” [Advised by: Dr. Warren Breckman, History]
• Myles Karp (COL 2012): “Dubstep, Darwin, and the Prehistoric Invention of Music” [Advised by: Dr. Janet Monge, Anthropology]
• Jeremy Levenson (COL 2012): “Pouring Water on a Drowning Man: Medicine, the State of New York and the Attica Prison Uprising” [Advised by: Dr. Eric Schneider, Urban Studies]
• Sayra Lopez (COL 2012): “Espagueti a la diabla” [Advised by: Dr. Julie Schneider, Fine Arts]
• Matthew Ricci (COL 2012): “Stokowski the Modernist” [Advised by: Dr. Emily Dolan, Music]
• James Sharp (COL 2012): “The 21st Century New Left: Factors Influencing Economic Change in South America” [Advised by: Dr. Anna Viden, International Relations]

2011

• Sean Angiolillo (COL 2011): Left-Wing Extremism in Bihar, India: Understanding Emergence and Decline Amidst Escalation. [Advised by: Dr. Devesh Kapur, Political Science]
• Pablo Barrera (COL 2011): Yangjindang and WonjijÇ’ngsa: The Syncretism of Chinese Thought and Korean Culture as seen in Hanok Architecture and Design. [Advised by: Dr. Nancy Steinhardt, East Asian Languages and Civilizations]
• Sourav Bose (COL; WH 2011): Determinants of Pricing for Emergent Inter-hospital Ambulance Transfer in a Developing Setting: a Geographically Randomized Study. [Advised by: Dr. Kent Bream, Family Medicine and Community Health]
• Kym Cole (COL 2011): Understanding Duch and His Impact: Reaching Toward National Reconciliation in Cambodia. [Advised by: Dr. Justin McDaniel, Religious Studies]
• Clare Foran (COL 2011): Myth and Obsession: An Analysis of Postwar Criticism of Antigone, Les Mouches, and Jeanne Avec Nous in France. [Advised by: Dr. Antonio Feros, History]
• Lauren Kapsalakis (COL 2011): The Informal and Formal Economies of Indigeneity Among the Toba of Barrio Nam Qom, Formosa, Argentina. [Advised by: Dr. Claudia Valeggia, Anthropology]
• Allegra Marchione (COL 2011): Nonmetallic Catalysis of H2 Release from Ammonia Borane and Boron-Nitrogen Anionic Chain Growth and Reactivity. [Advised by: Dr. Larry Sneddon, Chemistry]
• Emily Schultheis (COL 2011): Philadelphia and the Making of Jane Austen: Austen’s Novels in America 1816-1838. [Advised by: Dr. Peter Stallybrass, English]
• Christopher Shook (COL 2011): Britain’s Propensity for Peace: An Analysis of British Foreign Policy and the International Hague Peace Conference of 1899 and 1907. [Advised by: Dr. Peter Holquist, History]
• Sarah Vaughn (COL 2011): Producers First Amendment Beef with “Beef, It’s What’s For Dinner”: Agricultural Check-Off Programs and the First Amendment. [Advised by: Dr. Rogers Smith, Political Science]

2010

• Phillip Benedetti (COL 2010): Evaluating the salaries of Major League Baseball players
• Laura Boudreau (WH 2010): Promoting food security in a volatile climate: Agricultural insurance protection for Senegalese farmers
• Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot (COL 2010C): The Throwaway People: Social Marginality & Community Solidarity Among Informally-Housed Heroin Injectors
• Emily Kaplan (COL 2010): Matisse’s Surrealism: 1935-1950
• George Karandinos (COL 2010A): “You Ridin’?”: The Moral Economy of Violence in North Philadelphia
• Benjamin Laitman (COL 2010): Reduced Gamma Range Activity at REM Entry and Termination in Fear-Conditioned Wistar-Kyoto Compared to Wistar Rats May Underlie REM Fragmentation
• Julia Luscombe (COL; WH 2010): Our Money: Community Currency and Social Change
• Adam Mandelsberg (COL 2010): The Carter Coalition: A Critical Look at the Ironic (and Seemingly Paradoxical) Assemblage Which Elected Jimmy Carter President in 1976
• Lily Rogath (COL 2010): Pinxere et mulieres: Description of the Villa and the Tomb of a Gallo-Roman Female Artist Discovered at Saint-Médard-des-Prés (Vendée)
• Emily Toops (COL 2010): Why Is there No EU Constitution? An Analysis of Institutional Constitution-Making in the European Union

2009

• Kyle Burr (COL 09) Achieving Peace and Justice in Northern Uganda: An Evaluation of the International Criminal Court and the Prospects for a Hybrid Criminal Justice Regime in Africa and Beyond
• Andrea Finch (COL 09) Time, Place and the Human Experience
• Matthew Franklin-Lyons (COL 09) Dynamic Term Structure Models in the Presence of Real-Time Macroeconomic Effects
• Alexander Lessie (COL 09) The Demiurge of Persuasion: A Reading of Plato’s Gorgias
• Nick Mayer (COL 09) (De/Ef)Facing Shakespeare: Investigating Joyce’s Dramatization of Masochistic Cuckoldry in Exiles and “Circe”
• Hayling Price (COL 09) The Rezoning of 125th Street: A Second Harlem Renaissance? Neoliberal Governance and the Urban Regime
• Max Reibman (COL 09) Beyond the Holy Land: The Partition of Greater Syria and the Birth of the British Mandate in Palestine
• Philip Rocco (COL 09) Claiming Expertise and Authority: Think Tanks, Policy Space, and Twentieth Century American Political Development
• Harvey Zhang (EAS/WH 09) Modeling Discrete-Time Transactions Using the BG/BB Model
• Boris Zinshteyn (COL 09) Effects of Adenosine-to-Inosine Editing on microRNA Function

2008

• Wee Siong Goh (EAS 2008): Investigating the regulatory effects of SMN 3’UTR on mRNA processing.
• Steven Hershman (COL 2008)
• Alexis Hill (COL 2008): Gene duplication of Ion channels as an evolutionary mechanism for neuronal complexity
• Willis Kiessling (COL 2008): RBC-tPA protects hypercapnic and hypotensive induced cerebrovasodilation after hypoxia and global ischemia by inhibiting ERKMAPK upregulation
• Joshua Matz (COL 2008): Free speech from Holt to Holmes
• Robert Medina (COL 2008): “En busca de espacios queer: geografias homoeroticas y discursos de poderen El lugar sin limites y El beso de la mujer arana” (”In search of queer spaces: homoerotic geographies and a discourse of power in Donoso’s Hell Has No Limits and Piug’s Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Rachel Omansky (COL 2008): Their Nation Dishonored, the Queen Shamed and Country Undone: Feuding, Factionalis and Religion in the Chaseabout Raid
• Curtis Roche (COL 2008): The Invocation of Clouds in Plato’s Apology
• Marta Rozmyslowicz (COL 2008)
• Daniel Warsh (COL 2008)

2007

• William Colsher (COL 2008): A Survey of Six Cellae Meretriciae in Pompeii
• Arun Ganesh (COL 2007): Characterization of two acyl-CoA binding-proteins in the parasite Toxoplasma gondii
• Di Hu (COL 2007): Between the Sword and the Wall: Inca and Modern Peruvian State Strategies of Control in Pomatambo-Vilcashuaman
• Anton Matytsin (COL 2007): Skepticism and Belief in Early-Modern France: The Fideism of Bishop Pierre-Daniel Huet
• Nisha Mukherjee (COL 2007): The Roles of Wilms’ Tumor 1, NADPH Oxidase 1, and Phorbolin-1 Proteins in the Mechanism of Cdx2-Mediated Differentiation ofCOLO 205 Cells
• Aaron Rock (COL 2007)
• Jason Schwartz (COL 2007): Fighting Words: Pistol Packin’ Dan Anthony and Frontier Journalism
• Kate Wallis (COL 2007): Clean Screen: Use of An Autism Screening Tool in an Ethnically Diverse Population

2006

• Hannah Shacter: Access to emergency contraception
• Phillip Berkman: Recreation of Colonial Philadelphia
• Sarah Eskreis-Winkler: 1943 BRUSA Agreement
• Josh Gordon: Capture Terroism in the 1970s & 80s
• Michael Grosack: Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Ashley Johnson: Identity formation
• Thomas Lay: “Account Mee Man”: Economic Incarnation and Commonwealth in Paradise Lost
• Claudia Moser: Naked Power: The Phallus as an Apotropaic Symbol in the Images and Text of Roman Italy
• Kirtesh Patel: Identification of a Gene Signature for Rapid Screening of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
• Melissa Shive: The Heavenly Host: Angel Pietas of the Italian Renaissance

2018

• Dr. Norman Badler (Engineering and Applied Sciences/COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE): “An Interactive Recreation of Everyday Life in Pre-Columbian Amazonia”
• Dr. Jianghong Liu (Nursing/NURSING): “Nutrition, Parenting, and Children's Behavior”
• Dr. Michael Platt (Medicine/NEUROSCIENCE): “A Neuroeconomics Approach to Biomarker Discovery in Depression”
• Dr. Bethany Wiggin (Arts and Sciences/COMPARATIVE LITERATURE): “Sink, Float, Spill, Flow: Engaging Art + Science on Philadelphia’s Rivers”

2017

• Dr. Daeyon Lee (Engineering and Applied Sciences/CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING): "Active Coating Technology (ACT)-Enabled Relief Tents for Natural Disaster"
• Dr. Michelle Lopez (Design/Fine Arts): "The Joplin Project/ Glass House"
• Dr. Andrew Rappe (Arts and Sciences/Chemistry): "Theory and modeling to discover new materials and solve energy challenges"

2016

• Dr. Alison Buttenheim (Nursing/Family & Community Health): "Behavioral phenotyping to optimize design and delivery of financial incentives for smoking cessation during pregnancy"
• Dr. Mark Devlin (College/Physics and Astronomy): "BLAST Telescope Integration at NASA"

2018 (Fall)

• Jessica Dubuque (SEAS 2020): “Studying Genetic Regulators of Stress Induced Sleep in C. Elegans” [Christopher Fang-Yen, Bioengineering]
• Kelcey Gibbons (LPS 2020): “The History of Late 20th Century Computing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities” [Stephanie Dick, History and Sociology of Science]
• Raveen Kariyawasam (SEAS 2021): “xAR: Automated Medical AR Model Creation” [Chamith Rajapakse, Radiology]
• Daphne Kontogiorgos-Heintz (SEAS 2021): “Investigation on Differential Regulation of Components of Sleep” [Christopher Fang-Yen, Bioengineering, Neuroscience]
• Shreya Parchure (SEAS 2021): “Modeling the Effects of cTBS (Continuous Theta-Burst Stimulation) using ERP (Event-Related Potentials) and Neural Network States” [Roy Hamilton, Neurology]
• Toni-Ann Peck (SEAS 2021): “Redesigning the Bilateral Assessment System” [Michelle Johnson, Perelman Institute of Medicine]

2017 (Fall)

• Sarah Huang (NUR 2019): “Highs and Lows” [Mentor: Robin Stevens, Family and Community Health]
• Luca Koritsanszky (NUR 2018): “The Nursing Perspective on Infection Prevention” [Mentor: Patricia D'Antonio, Family and Community Health]
• Olivia Landgrover (SEAS 2018): “Understanding Creep in Polymer Nanocomposites” [Mentor: Karen Winey, Materials Science & Engineering]
• Demi Moed (SEAS 2018): “Understanding Creep in Polymer Nanocomposites” [Mentor: Karen Winey, Materials Science and Engineering]
• Grant Shao (SEAS 2018): “Understanding Creep in Polymer Nanocomposites” [Mentor: Karen Winey, Materials Science and Engineering]
• Ryan Tu (SEAS 2019): “Investigation of novel latent fingerprint detecting reagents” [Mentor: Jisun Lee, Chemistry]
• Zachary Whitlock (COL/SEAS 2020): “Hard Core, Soft Shell Composite pHEMA Reversible Adhesive System.” [Mentor: Shu Yang, Materials Science and Engineering]
• Susan Zhao (SEAS 2019): “Efficacy of a Pressure-Sensitive Mat within the Play And Neuro-Development Assessment (PANDA)Gym in Assessing Developmental De” [Mentor: Michelle Johnson, Bioengineering]

2017 (Spring)

• Alice Liu (COL 2020): "Optogenetic analysis of a worm's locomotory circuit" [Mentor: Christopher Fang-Yen, Bioengineering]
• Ana Lujan (COL 2018): "Synthesis of Quantum Biosensors" [Mentor: Lee Bassett, Electrical Engineering]
• Joseph Maggiore (SEAS 2019): "Recreating the Fasicular Architecture of Regenerating Nerves Using Micro-Tissue Engineered Neural Grafts" [Mentor: D. Kacy Cullen, Neurosurgery]

2016 (Fall)

• Jake Hsu (EAS 2017): “Macrophage Mechanosensitivity Drives SIRPα Signaling” [Mentor: Dennis Discher, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering]
• Rohit Shinde (EAS 2019): “Bone-On-A-Chip” [Mentor: Chamith Rajapakse, Radiology and Imaging]
• Cecilia Wang (NUR 2019): “HATRICC Champions” [Mentor: Meghan Lane-Fall, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care]

2015 (Fall)

• John Paul Hagan (LP 2016): “Moral psychology and neuroeconomics” [Mentor: Gordon Bermant, Psychology]

• Fiona La

  Fiona La
  (EAS 2018): “Gold-based nanoparticles for accessing HDL-induced anti-inflammatory signaling pathways in atherosclerosis” [Mentor: Daniel Rader, Perelman School of Medicine, Cardiovascular Institute]
• Shawn Srolovitz (EAS 2018): “On-Demand Architectural Protein Degradation using CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing” [Mentor: Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, Bioengineering]

2015 (Spring)

• Nathaniel Chodosh (SEAS 2017): “Application of Computer Vision to Microscopic Bioactuators” [Mentor: Vijay Kumar, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics]
• Aardra Rajendran (SEAS 2016): “Effect of Weight-Loss on Tongue Position” [Mentor: Richard Schwab, Medicine]
• Hayley Williamson (SEAS 2017): “The landscape of expanded B cell clones in systemic lupus erythematosus” [Mentor: Eline Luning-Prak, Pathology]

2014 (Fall)

• Elizabeth Broden (NUR 2016): “Parental Perceptions of Invasive Procedures and Bereavement: A Qualitative Study of Family Health Outcomes” [Mentor: Martha Curley, Nursing]
• Ingrid Lan (SEAS 2017): “Understanding EGFR Signaling via FRET Imaging” [Mentor: Matthew Lazzara, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering]
• Kelvin Wang (SEAS 2016): “Skin-mediated Control of Systemic Immune Tolerance” [Mentor: Taku Kambayashi, Pathology]
• Derek Yee (SEAS 2017): “Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor and its Link to Cancer” [Mentor: Mark Lemmon, Biochemistry and Biophysics]

2014 (Spring)

• Andrew Parsons (EAS 2017): “Modeling Mechanical Strain in Neonatal Hyperoxic Lung Injury” [Mentor: Phyllis Dennery, Neonatology]
• Carla Winter (EAS 2016): “Development of Astrocytic “Living Scaffold” for Targeted Axon Regeneration” [Mentor: D. Kacy Cullen, Neurosurgery]

2013 (Fall)

• Daniel Cabrera (EAS 2014): “Engineering the Epigenome: Controlling Transcription” [Mentor: Brian Chow, Bioengineering]
• Danielle Fields (EAS 2015): “Optimization of Site-Specific Methylation” [Mentor: Brian Chow, Bioengineering]
• Brad Kaptur (EAS 2016): “Engineering Improved Targeted Methylases Using CRISPR-Cas” [Mentor: Brian Chow, Bioengineering]
• Aricia Shen (EAS 2015): “Determining the Effects of Overuse on Ankle Joint Cartilage Biomechanics and Bone Morphology” [Mentor: Louis Soslowsky, Bioengineering]
• Rameen Vafa (EAS 2015): “The Role of Scapular Dyskinesis in Rotator Cuff and Biceps Tendon Pathology in a Rat Model” [Mentor: Louis Soslowsky, Bioengineering]

 
2013 (Spring)

• Zachary Burchill (COL 2014): “Vamp Till Ready: Investigating the Chunking Problem Through Variably-sized Vamps” [Mentor: Rolf Noyer, Linguistics]
• Amanda Chin (COL 2015): “Factor H 19-20 & Complement in aHUS/AMD” [Mentor: Wenchao Song, Medicine]
• Kelsey Ige (COL 2014): “The role of Glucagon-like-peptide-1 receptors in theVTA in cocaine taking and seeking in rats” [Mentor: Heath Schmidt, Medicine]
• Timothy Kim (COL; EAS 2015): “The effects of learning on human perceptual decision making” [Mentor: Joshua Gold, Medicine]
• Robin Lo (COL 2014): “Mechanism for the Attenuation of LPS-induced Inflammation in the Absence of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products” [Mentor: Nilam Mangalmurti, Medicine]
• Anne Takacs (COL 2014): “The Role of Angiotensin in Anxiety in Male Rats” [Mentor: Loretta Flanagan-Cato, Psychology]
• Eric Jia Yi Xu (COL 2015): “Autoinhibition in the Endophilin Membrane Protein” [Mentor: Tobias Baumgart, Chemistry]
• Michael Yu (EAS 2014): “Stent-induced Flow Perturbations and Their Application to In-Stent Thrombosis” [Mentor: Peter Davies, Medicine]
• Emily Zhang (EAS; WH 2016): “Effect of dynamic loading on MSC-ladern cadherin conjutated hydrogels” [Mentor: Jason Burdick]

2012 (Fall)

• Lisa Chang (COL 2013): “Rejecting Keynesianism: The Divergence of British and French Neoliberal Economic Policies (1979-1992)” [Mentor: Dr. Frank Plantan, International Relations]
• Alexandra Cooper-Ponte (COL 2013): “Sikh Nationalism: Diaspora and Homeland” [Mentor: Dr. Brendan O’Leary, Political Science]
• Richard Liu (SEAS 2014): “The Psychophysiological Testing of Chinese Schoolchildren: Establishing a Baseline and Indications on Early Risk Factors” [Mentor: Dr. Jianghong Liu, Nursing]
• Tyler Moeller (SEAS 2014): “Engineering Functional Protein/Polymer Membranes” [Mentor: Dr. Daniel Hammer, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering]

2012 (Spring)

• Jacob Blumenfeld-Gantz (COL; WH 2012): “The British and the Druze: An Unlikely Alliance” [Mentor: Dr. Eve Troutt Powell, History]
• William Gilbert (COL 2013): “Re-Touching a 1,200 Year Old Paint Job: Restoring Color to an Ancient Maya City” [Mentor: Dr. Robert Sharer, Anthropology]
• Laurel Ma (COL 2013): “National Identity Construction in the Zimbabwean Crisis: Alternative Histories to The Third Chimurenga” [Mentor: Dr. Lee Cassanelli, History/African Studies]
• Courtney Ng (COL 2013): “The Impact of Women’s Status on Health-Seeking Behaviors” [Mentor: Dr. Frances Barg, Medicine]
• Paula Notis (COL 2013): “Organic Chemistry and Methods in Synthesis of Helical Mimics” [Mentor: Dr. David Chenoweth, Chemistry]
• Rami Sherif (COL 2014): “Functionalized Bone-Tissue Scaffold to Promote Angiogenesis” [Mentor: Dr. Hyun-Duck Nah, Medicine]
• Zachary Tabor (COL 2014): “A Comparison of Muslim and Evangelical Christian Religious Education in America” [Mentor: Dr. Jamal Elias, Religious Studies]
• Cecelela Tomi (COL 2013): “Becoming African-American: The Experiences of African Immigrant and Refugee Youth” [Mentor: Dr. Melissa Wilde, Sociology]
• Anthony Zarate (COL 2013): “Student-Led Culture and the Effects on Urban Schools” [Mentor: Dr. John Fantuzzo, Education]

2011 (Fall)

• Michael Borochin (EAS 2013): “Geometric Control of Tissue Formation” [Mentor: Dr. Christopher Chen, Bioengineering]
• Lauren Johnson (NUR 2013): “The History and Impact of Medicalized Birth in Sub-saharan Africa During the Colonial Era” [Mentor: Dr. Barbra Wall, History of Nursing]
• Jun Beom Pyo (EAS 2012): “Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrochemical property of LiFePO4 Cathodes for Lithium-ion Batteries.” [Mentor: Dr. Christopher Murray, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry]
• Amy Wu (EAS; WH 2014): “Synthesis and Characterization of Overcoated Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystals” [Mentor: Dr. Christopher Murray, Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry]

2010 (Fall)

• Kym Cole (COL 2011): Understanding Duch and His Impact
• Barbra Dickerman (NUR 2012): Changing rates of overweight and obesity in children and associated factors in Jintan, China
• William Etter (EAS 2011): Advanced Multiple Aerial Vehicle Leader-Follower Control
• Jooyeon Hahm (COL 2013): The Father, The Son, and the Grandson: North Korea’s Three-generation Hereditary Succession in Question
• Dominique Ingato (EAS 2012): Electrolysis of HBr Using a Bromide-Ion Conductor and Ceramic Electrodes
• Masha Jones (COL 2011): Lessons on the Design and Implementation of a Patient Navigator Program
• Parth Kothari (EAS 2013): Selection and analysis of ribosome binding sites on short leader mRNA in E. coli and human translation systems
• Tarub Mabud (COL; WH 2013): Bed Bugs: Modeling the Infestation and Insecticide Resistance Patterns of Cimex lectularius in West Philadelphia
• Paul Martin (EAS 2011): Advanced Multiple Aerial Vehicle Leader-Follower Control

2010 (Spring)

• Aaron Ross (COL 2011A): Method and Memory: The TRC Confronts the Soweto Uprising
• William Schenk (COL 2011A): Voices from Kolkata: Health in the Slums

2009 (Fall)

• Alejandro Adler Braun (COL/WH 2010) “Happiness and Resilience in Philadelphia’s Mexican Immigrant Population”
• Heather Barness-Blakeman (COL 2010) “Separating Possession from Ownership: Asymmetries in Lay Intuitions about Property”
• Emma Buckhout (COL 2010) “Universities as Sites of Citizenship in Colombia”
• Jana Hirsch (COL 2010) “Shared Geographic Spaces: Investigating the individual food environments of neighbors”
• Kathryn Karas (COL 2010) “Universities as Sites of Citizenship/Neoliberalism and Agriculture: The Case of Colombia, 1985-1995”
• Sonia Kartha (COL 2012) “Tissue Engineering of White Matter Constructs Via Myelination of Stretch Grown Axons”
• Bianca Lauria (COL 2010) “Globalization and Contemporary Mapping Techniques”
• Sheyla Medina (COL 2010) “Perceptions of Traditional and Western Medicine: Case Study of Medical Professionals at Indian * Health Service Hospital”
• Kristen Townsend (NUR 2011) “Environmental Interventions for Childhood Asthma: Inner-city Parents’ Preferences for Management”
• Rohini Venkatraman (COL 2010) “Listeners use prior experience as speakers when interpreting auditory and visual cues”
• Brandi Waters (COL 2010) “Beauty is Not Only Skin Deep: Examining Afro-Colombian Women’s Place in Online Discourse About Race, Gender, and National Belonging in Colombia”
• Amber Weekes (COL 2010) “An Analysis of Human Remains from Tomb A91, Bab edh-Dhra’”

2009

• Pablo Barrera (COL 2011) & Sol Jung(COL 2011) “Cultural Heritage and National Identity in Higher Institutions: A Case Study of the Kahoi-dong Bukchon Area”
• Pallavi Biswas (COL 2009) & Jenny Hong (COL 2009) “Greening Roofs: Cross Sections”
• Yael Bortnick (COL 2009) “Seward’s Melting Ice Box: Alaskans’ decisions to support climate change adaptation and mitigation policies”
• Thomas Dreisbach (COL 2009) “The Capital of the “Other Germany”: July 20, 1944, as Remembered in Berlin”
• Elizabeth Frasco (COL 2009) “Non-Traditional Methods for Non-Traditional Art: Conserving Contemporary Art and Sculpture”
• Jana Hirsch (COL 2010) “Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens: Heavy Metals in the Urban Tree Connection’s (UTC) Gardens”
• Cameron Hu (COL 2009) “Fever Dreams of the Modern: Urban Products and Spatial Politics on the Arabian Gulf”
• Danielle Johnson (COL 2010) & Alycia Davis (COL 2009) “Performance Anxiety, Attention and Concentration”
• Matthew Kolasa (COL 2009) “NAGPRA and Cultural Property”
• Ani Momjian (COL 2009) & Keri Wong (COL 2010) “Diurnal Variation in Attention and Processing Speed in Healthy Young Adults”
• Calypso Montouchet (COL 2009) “Space Beyond Space: The Mirror in Modern Visuality”
• Rebecca Starr (COL 2009) “A Need to Write: The Evolution of Personal Narrative from Private to Blogosphere”
• Kristin Szuhany (COL 2009) “Coming through in the Clutch: Validation of a Measure of Clutch Hitting in Major League Baseball”
• Matthew Torre (COL 2010) “Activation of the Medial Amygdala in C57BL165 and BALB1cJ Mice and Following Social Interaction”
• Elizabeth Traxler (COL 2010) “The Role of NHERF-1 in the Regulation of Platelet signaling Pathways in Thrombosis and Thrombus Formation”
• Aro Velmet (COL 2010) “History Textbooks and Curricula in Post-Soviet Estonia”
• Steven Wang (COL 2010) “Role of Sox2 in Satellite Cell Activation and Myofiber Regeneration”

2008

• Brandon Chen (EAS 2008) “Mind Wandering”
• Sujit Datta (COL 2008) “Complex Particle Dynamics and Nanomachining”
• Lauren Rosenberg (COL 2008) “Individual Differences in Visual and Verbal Intelligence: an fMRI Study”
• Calvin Gruss (COL 2010) “Tagging genes of the fisson yeast with GFP for cell shape analysis through a confocal microscope”
• Siong Goh (EAS 2008) “Characterizing small molecules that regulate gene expression through the SMN 3’UTR”
• Kelly Asao (COL 2008) “Morality Across Domains”
• Savannah Hayes (COL 2008) “Up-Cycled Product Design”
• Dan Jee (COL 2008) “Racial Stereotyping Examined through Eye Movement Behaviour”
• Emily Behar (COL 2008) “Local Guatemalan Mothers’ Understandings of the “Evil Eye”“
• Kyle Sirianno (COL 2009) “Quantifying Penn’s soil and runoff pollution in West Philadelphia”

2007

• Craig Bergman (COL 2007) “Association Between Primed Leadership Psychology and Third Party Punishment in Human Groups”
• Courtney Darcy (COL 2007) “The media’s effect on implicit and explicit attitudes towards the body”
• YinYin Yang (COL 2007) “Prospective Study of Panic Disorder during Pregnancy and Postpartum”
• Deeptee Jain (COL 2009) “Tagging gene products with GFP in fission yeast for cell pattern analysis”
• Jenny Jin (COL 2008) “Can siRNA Silencing of Caspase-3 Prevent Cytokine-induced Beta Cell Death?”
• Grace Lee (COL 2008) “Leptin Reduces Feeding by Amplifying Stomach Distension Signals”
• Peter Pantelis (COL 2007) “The effects of similarity on memory for name-face associations”
• Ashish Bhumbla (COL 2008) “Identification of the Bcl-2 Proteins Located at the Mitochondria of Neuroblastoma Cell Lines”
• Gabriel Crane (COL 2008) “The Mississippi Project: A Creative Exploration of the Mississippi River in Contemporary America”
• Lucia DiNapoli (CGS 2009) “Citizen Advocacy Groups and the Use of Riparian Buffers in Urban/Suburban Areas Near the Cooper River”
• Lilla Finta-Peterffy (CGS 2007) “Saving the Oligothrophic Mohos Marshes”
• Kristin Gustafson (NURS 2007) “Impact of a Dance Program on West Philadelphia Middle School Students”
• Katherine Fleming (COL 2007) “Doctors, Patients and Battered Women: A Comparison of Knowledge of and Perspectives on Resources”