College Center for Research and Fellowships

Source: https://ccrf.uchicago.edu/office-undergraduate-research/research-scholars-2021-2022 Parent: https://ccrf.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-research/quad-undergraduate-research-conference-grants

2021-2022 Research Scholars

Quad Summer Research Scholars

Hannah Halpern, Fourth-Year, Classical Studies
Project Title: Raffaelo Maffei’s Commentariora Urbana and the History of Censorship
Mentor: Ada Palmer
Eyshe Beirich, Fourth-Year, Germanic & Jewish Studies
Project Title: The work of feminist translation and Miriam Karpilove’s Yiddish-language archive
Mentor: Jessica Kirzane
Yike Huang, Second-Year, East Asian Languages and Civilizations & Music
Project Title: Overflow of Songs: Pan Zhiheng and Kunqu Performance
Mentor: Judith Zeitlin
David Spitz, Second-Year, Computer Science & Philosophy and Allied Fields
Project Title: Further Topics in Logic: Type Theory for Philosophers
Mentor: Kevin Davey
Elizabeth Gerlach, Fourth-Year, Romance Languages and Literature
Mentor: Timothy Campbell
Mara Duquette, Third-Year, Global Studies & Creative Writing
Project Title: Object Handling and Word Learning Across Cultures
Mentor: Marisa Casillas
Su Karaca, Third-Year, Psychology & Data Science
Project Title: Effects of Conversational Disruptions in Computer Mediated Communication Models on People’s Feeling of Closeness and Social Connection
Mentor: Anne Henly
Samantha Feder-Trosclair, Third-Year, Psychology
Project Title: The representation and communication of social thought through gestures
Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
Brandon Shin, Third-Year, Sociology
Project Title: Concentrated Poverty, Exposure to Violent Crime, and Child Academic Achievement
Mentor: Geoffrey T. Wodtke
Katherine Ambrose, Third-Year, Media Arts and Design & Sociology
Project Title: fNIRS and Math Equivalence
Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow
Tianyi Zhang, Fourth-Year, Economics & Mathematics
Project Title: Investor behavior and returns in markets for crypto-assets
Mentor: Anthony Lee Zhang
Erica Hogan, Fourth-Year, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts & Economics
Mentor: Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
Shannon KIm, Second-Year, Biochemistry & Chemistry
Project Title: Enantiomeric Specificity in Chemical Aminoacylation
Mentor: Jack Szostak
Joseph Farrell, Fourth-Year, Economics & Computer Science and Mathematics
Project Title: Automated Refinement Protocol to Improve the Quality of Protein Structures Deposited in the Protein Data Bank, Applied to SARS-COV-2
Mentor: Esmael Jafari Haddadian
Darius Suplica, Second-Year, Neuroscience
Project Title: Decoding Auditory Working Memory Load Using Multivariate Analysis
Mentor: Ed Awh
Krishna Raghavan, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry & Chemistry
Project Title: The effects of charge and tail composition of membrane phospholipids on the binding of α-synuclein
Mentor: Ka Yee Lee
Jan Kasal, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
Project Title: Auditory Motor Adaptation in the Speech Production System in Humans
Mentor: Shannon Heald
Emily Scott, Second-Year, Neuroscience
Project Title: Behavioral Implications of Inner Ear Potassium Channels in Mice
Mentor: Ruth Anne Eatock
Jonathan Tang, Fourth-Year, Biological Science
Project Title: Naturally assembled microbial communities for BPA degradation
Mentor: Seppe Kuehn
Polly Ren, Second-Year, Computational and Applied Math & Economics
Project Title: Elucidating the structural conformations of amyloid-beta oligomers, involved in Alzheimer’s disease, on 2D surfaces
Mentor: Esmael Haddadian
Mukerrem Tufekcioglu, Second-Year, Computer Science
Project Title: MD Simulation of Human IDE
Mentor: Esmael Haddadian
Lingjie Chen, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering & Physics
Project Title: Investigating Heat Shock Response with Diamond Nanothermometry
Mentor: Peter Maurer
Sze Hang Chan, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title: Investigating Nanoparticles in their Packaging and Release Capabilities of Anti-Cancer Drugs
Mentor: Matthew Tirrell
Jonah Medoff, Third-Year, Astrophysics
Project Title: Searching for Dwarf Galaxies Around NGC 55
Mentor: Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil
Kevin Yao, Third-Year, Chemistry & Philosophy
Project Title: Investigation into the effects of irradiation conditions for squid beak inspired materials
Mentor: Stuart Rowan
Jiatong Li, Fourth-Year, Physics
Project Title: Physica: Tangible Physics Simulation via Swarm Robot Cluster for Improvisation with Tangible User Interface
Mentor: Ken Nakagaki
William Zhao, Fourth-Year, Chemistry & History
Project Title: Asymmetric Epoxidation by Chiral Brønsted Acid Activated Dimethyl Dioxirane (DMDO)
Mentor: Viresh Rawal
Joseph Guter, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title: Adoptive Cell Therapy of Cancer Using Tumor-Associated Memory-Phenotype CD8+ T Cells
Mentor: Peter Savage
Sarah Candelaria McDuffie, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
Project Title: Improving the Mechanical Properties of Polylactic Acid with Diblock Copolymer Grafted Cellulose Nanocrystals
Mentor: Stuart Rowan
Yunyan Mo, Fourth-Year, Geophysical Sciences
Project Title: Revision of the carboniferous ray-finned fossil fish Woodichthys bearsdeni
Mentor: Michael Coates
Aniela Mitchell, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title: Engineering co-BBz CAR-T cells
Mentor: Jun Huang
Genevieve Ansay, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering & Mathematics
Project Title: Investigation of Polymer Thin Films as Anti-Icing Materials with a Quartz Crystal Microbalance
Mentor: Steven J. Sibener
Aditya Bhardwaj, Third-Year, Physics
Project Title: Quantum Optimal Control of Multimode Systems
Mentor: David Schuster
Chi Ian Ip, Fourth-Year, Physics & Philosophy
Project Title: Light-induced Time-reversal Symmetry Breaking at the Bi2Se3/WSe2 Interface
Mentor: Shuolong Yang
Sophia Li, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry & Chemistry
Project Title: Synthesis of N-Heterocycles via C-C Activation
Mentor: Guangbin Dong
Emma Yang, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry & Chemistry
Project Title: Transition metal-catalyzed [5+2] cycloaddition of 1-indanone with tethered alkynes via oxidative addition
Mentor: Guangbin Dong
Noah Geller, Third-Year, Physics & Mathematics
Project Title: A Kinematic Analysis of the Tidal Stream of Antlia II
Mentor: Alexander Ji

Supported by the Fosun Fund for Undergraduate Research

Emma Montgomery, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title: Development of a humanized zebrafish model to test functional consequences of insulin mutations
Mentor: Raghavendra Mirmira
Katharine Fox, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title: Cellular basis for androgen-androgen receptor mediated protection from Type 1 Diabetes
Mentor: Alexander Chervonsky
Sofia V Montoto, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title: Functional Role of DHHC2 in Golgi Satellite Proliferation
Mentor: William Green
Ellen Ma, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title: Endothelization and Cell Differentiation Projects at the Hibino Lab
Mentor: Narutoshi Hibino
Jillyn Turunen, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
Project Title: Role of GABA Transaminase (ABAT) in Pediatric Brain Tumor Medulloblastoma Development and Spread
Mentor: Josh Neman
Maya Ordonez, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience & English Language and Literature
Project Title: Understanding the Spatial Variation in Depression Rates within Cities
Mentor: Marc G. Berman
Daisy Maslan, Third-Year, History & Biology
Project Title: Characterizing Yan Phase Separation
Mentor: Ilaria Rebay
Rowen Glusman, Fourth-Year, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Project Title: Measuring Stellar Cycles of Young Stars with K2 and TESS
Mentor: Jacob Bean
Riley Rosener, Third-Year, Astrophysics
Project Title: Detector Trigger Timing for Scalar Particles in ICARUS
Mentor: David Schmitz
Raul Basilides Gomez del Estal Teixeira, Third-Year, Astrophysics
Project Title: Characterizing the Photometric Redshifts for Cosmic Shear
Mentor: Chihway Chang
Steven Labalme, Third-Year, Chemistry & Mathematics
Project Title: Enhancing Photoredox Gold Catalysis with Metal-Organic Layers
Mentor: Wenbin Lin
Maya McDaniel, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title: Development of a Photoswitchable Dye-Based Detector for Improved PET Scans
Mentor: Allison Squires
Caroline McCleary, Third-Year, Chemistry
Project Title: Undergraduate research position in UChicago Professor Wenbin Lin's lab
Mentor: Wenbin Lin
Ainsley Iwanicki, Third-Year, Chemistry
Project Title: Investigating the Effect of Chirality on Charge Transfer in TMD-Organic Heterostructures Using 2D-Circular Dichroism
Mentor: Greg Engel

Supported by the Hoeft Fund for Undergraduate Research

Alexander Stern, Third-Year, Linguistics & Environmental and Urban Studies
Project Title: Tracking children’s shift from child-like to adult-like vocabulary
Mentor: Marisa Casillas
Wanxin Peng, Fourth-Year, Psychology
Project Title: Influence of Modalities of Preference Expression on Post-Choice Satisfaction
Mentor: Boaz Keysar
Yizhou Lyu, Third-Year, Psychology & Statistics
Project Title: Neural correlates of Hostile Attribution Bias
Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong
Dana Christopher, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title: Testing the Inhibition Properties of Candidate Compounds on Bacterial Protein Mfd's Role in the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Development
Mentor: Houra Merrikh
Aidan Cloonan, Fourth-Year, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Project Title: Search for Widely Separated Lensed Quasars
Mentor: Michael Gladders
Joseph Geniesse, Fourth-Year, Chemistry & Environmental and Urban Studies
Project Title: Ytterbium-Doped Lead-Free Halide Perovskite Quantum Cutting Materials to Increase the Efficiencies of Silicon Solar Cells
Mentor: Eray Aydil
Alexander Costle-Tyler, Third-Year, Chemistry
Project Title: Snyder Research Group: Synthesis of Harziane Diprotenoids
Mentor: Scott Snyder
Hugh Cairney, Third-Year, Physics
Project Title: Synthesis, characterization, and spectroscopic study of bismuth based lead-free perovskite quantum dots
Mentor: Greg Engel
Frederick Wehlen, Fourth-Year, Physics & Astrophysics
Project Title: Holographic Anomalies in the CMB
Mentor: Craig Hogan

Quad Scholars (Winter 2022)

Funded through the NK Cheung Chemistry Research Fellowship

Sarah Melton, Third-Year, Chemistry
Project Title: Fabrication and characterization of PTCDA-MoS2 heterostructure for investigation of electronic structure at the interface using sum-frequency generation spectroscopy
Faculty Mentor: Sarah King, Chemistry

Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund

Kaitlyn Ko, Second-Year, Computer Science
Project Title: Investigating exacerbated partisan bias during the act of recalling political information
Faculty Mentor: Yuan Chang Leong, Psychology
Alicia Chu, Third-Year, Computer Science
Project Title: Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation: Gentrification and Social Mixing
Faculty Mentor: Wenfei Xu, Center for Spatial Data Science, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
Huiting Liu, Fourth-Year, Physics
Project Title: Narrow-linewidth Cat-eye Lasers
Faculty Mentor: Cheng Chin, Physics, James Franck Institute

Supported by the Global Health Research Fund

Yoon Seo Lee, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title: The Role of HIV Infection on Genetic Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among Women and Black Communities: A Mendelian Randomization Approach
Faculty Mentor: Bohdan Khomtchouk, Medicine, Computational Biomedicine, Biomedical Data Science
Sophie Hare, Third-Year, Public Policy
Project Title: Mental Health, Nativity, and Migration: A Binational Examination of Mexicans Living in Mexico and in the US using the HCHS/SOL and MxFLS Surveys
Faculty Mentor: Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, Embodying Race(ism) Lab
Chloe Roske, Fourth-Year, Psychology
Project Title: Vitamin D in refeeding hypophosphatemia (RH) among individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Wildes, Psychiatry

Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors

Zheyuan (Torres) Shi, Second-Year, Art History, Computer Science
Project Title: Picturing the Early Modern Japanese City
Faculty Mentor: Chelsea Foxwell, Art History
Miles Mikofsky, Fourth-Year, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Project Title:European views and definitions of Sunni Islam (ca. 1600-1900)
Faculty Mentor: Ahmed El Shamsy, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Franke Institute
Kaan Tarhan, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
Project Title:Computationally Guided Synthesis of New Anomeric Amides
Faculty Mentor: Mark Levin, Chemistry
Maggie Mills, Second-Year, Creative Writing
Project Title:Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
Anna Guzman, Second-Year, Public Policy
Project Title:Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
Elisabeth Snyder, First-Year, Common Year
Project Title:Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
Timothy Foley, First-Year, Mathematics
Project Title:Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
Emma Kugelmass, Second-Year, Sociology
Project Title:Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
Robert Gorman, Third-Year, Inquiry and Research in the Humanities
Project Title:Archival and Case Study Research, Parrhesia Program
Faculty Mentor: Leila Brammer, Parrhesia
Yue Pan, Third-Year, Astrophysics
Project Title:A model of ram pressure stripping of simulated Milky Way satellite galaxies
Faculty Mentor: Andrey Kravtsov, Astronomy, Astrophysics
Raul Basilides Gomez del Estal Teixeira, Second-Year, Astrophysics
Project Title:Characterizing the Photometric Redshifts for Galaxies in the Dark Energy Camera Local Volume Exploration Survey
Faculty Mentor: Chihway Chang, Astronomy, Astrophysics
Junsung Kim, Third-Year, Chemistry
Project Title:Geometric Analysis of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Patients with Endovascular Aortic Repair
Faculty Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek, Surgery, SurgBioMech Lab
Yunyan Mo, Third-Year, Geophysical Sciences
Project Title:Revision of the carboniferous ray-finned fossil fish Woodichthys bearsdeni
Faculty Mentor: Michael Coates, Evolutionary Biology
Shivani Chatterji, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title:Hydrogel Semiconductors for Ultra-Soft and High-Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors
Faculty Mentor: Sihong Wang, Molecular Engineering
Hugh Cairney, Second-Year, Physics
Project Title:Synthesis and characterization of bismuth based lead-free perovskite quantum dots
Faculty Mentor: Greg Engel, Chemistry
Aidan Jones, Second-Year, Physics
Project Title:Understanding the Intracellular Stress Response
Faculty Mentor: Peter Maurer, Molecular Engineering
Mengyang Li, Fourth-Year, Physics
Project Title:Fabrication and Implementation of Patterned anodes with sub-millimeter spatial resolution for large-area MCP-based photodetector systems
Faculty Mentor: Henry J. Frisch, Physics, Enrico Fermi Institutes
Maxwell Moncada Cohen, Fourth-Year, Biological Chemistry
Project Title:Infrared Compatible Rapid Mixing Technology to Probe Bimolecular Kinetics and Dynamics
Faculty Mentor: Andrei Tokmakoff, James Franck Institute
Amanda Hill, Second-Year, Biological Chemistry
Project Title:The Regulation of Cell Fate Specification in the Developing Fly Eye
Faculty Mentor: Ilaria Rebay, Ben May Department for Cancer Biology
Peyton Dooley, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:The Molecular Basis for Thymic Insulin Expression
Faculty Mentor: Andrew Koh, Pathology
Sarah Weber, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:High Throughput Identification of Functional Enhancer Elements Across Species
Faculty Mentor: Heather Marlow, Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Edward Wang, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Exploring the biology of aging in cancer
Faculty Mentor: Stephen J. Kron, Kron Lab
Patrick Sun, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title: Quantification of Factors Mediating Elevated Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in HIV-infected Individuals
Faculty Mentor: Bohdan Khomtchouk, Medicine
Anyu Cao, Third-Year, Neuroscience
Project Title:Hippocampal CA1 Place Cell Activity in an Alternate Reward and No Reward Paradigm
Faculty Mentor: Mark Sheffield, Neuroscience
Roma Shah, Fourth-Year, Neuroscience
Project Title: Investigating the different roles of bilateral CA3-CA1 circuitry in hippocampus during spatial navigation
Faculty Mentor: Mark Sheffield, Neuroscience
Yuerong Zhuang, Third-Year, Economics
Project Title:The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India
Faculty Mentor: Eyal Frank, Public Policy
Wanran Zhao, Second-Year, Mathematics
Project Title:Generative Art Collections on the Blockchain
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Lee Zhang, Business
Jacob Rosen, First-Year, Neuroscience
Project Title:A Common Dynamical Model of Voicing for Speech and Birdsong
Faculty Mentor: Howard Nusbaum, APEX Lab
Noelle Norona, Third-Year, Philosophy
Project Title:Approximations of Virtue: How Machiavelli Scaled Down Ancient Virtue for Contemporary Florence
Faculty Mentor: John P. McCormick, Political Science
Thomas Song, Third-Year, Political Science
Project Title:Wellbeing, Mobility, and Credit: The Relation Between National Credit Systems and Social Stratification Processes in Mexico and the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Faculty Mentor: Ines Escobar Gonzalez, Global Studies
Lev-David Copelan, Fourth-Year, Psychology
Project Title:Social Gestures
Faculty Mentor: Susan Goldin-Meadow, Goldin-Meadow Lab
Sophie Barth, Second-Year, Psychology
Project Title:Gendered Perceptions of Ability
Faculty Mentor: Lin Bian, Psychology, Early Social Thinkers Lab
Ziyu Ren, Second-Year, Psychology
Project Title:Impact of Language on Promoting Blood Donation
Faculty Mentor: Boaz Keysar, Psychology
Joshua Kim, Third-Year, Psychology
Project Title:Cognitive mechanisms underlying spontaneous, object-based solution-finding
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Heald, Psychology

Quad Scholars(Autumn 2021)

Funded through the NK Cheung Chemistry Research Fellowship

Colin Cooper, Third-Year, Chemistry
Project Title: Total Synthesis of Antroalbocin A
Faculty Mentor: Scott Snyder, Chemistry
Alexandra Hinkle, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
Project Title: Application of Isostatic Pressure on the Synthesis of InP and InGaP Quantum Dots
Faculty Mentor: Dmitri Talapin, Chemistry
Ainsley Iwanicki, Second-Year, Chemistry
Project Title: Investigating the Efficiency of Energy Transfer between Cyanobacterial Phycobilisomes and Photosystems I and II Using Pump-Probe Spectroscopy
Faculty Mentor: Greg Engel, Chemistry
Kevin Zong, Third-Year, Chemistry
Project Title: Enantioselective Amination of β-ketoesters with Aryl Hydroxylamines
Faculty Mentor: Scott Snyder, Chemistry
Kaan Tarhan, Fourth-Year, Chemistry
Project Title: Computationally Guided Synthesis of New Anomeric Amides
Faculty Mentor: Mark Levin, Chemistry
Noah Dohrmann, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title: Training New MC-PDFT Functionals
Faculty Mentor: Laura Gagliardi, Chemistry
Wilson Turner, Third-Year, Chemistry, Molecular Engineering
Project Title: Directed Synthesis and Testing of [2]Rotaxane Slide-Ring Gels
Faculty Mentor: Faculty Mentor: Stuart Rowan, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Cindy Xue, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title: Development of Novel Fluoroether Electrolytes for High Energy Density Lithium Metal Batteries
Faculty Mentor: Faculty Mentor: Chibueze Amanchukwu, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Supported by the Liew Family Research Fund

Erica Ramos, Fourth-Year, Comparative Human Development
Project Title: Exploring the Intersection of Tradition and Technology in Ceramics
Faculty Mentor: Laura Letinsky, Visual Arts
Karhan Kayan, Fourth-Year, Computer Science
Project Title: Integrating Latent Variable Causal Inference with Generative Models
Faculty Mentor: Bryon Aragam, Booth School of Business
Bruce Ke Zhen Wen, Third-Year, Economics
Project Title: Growth of Urban Charter Education Sector in New York City
Faculty Mentor: Michael Dinerstein, Economics
Emily Pelliccia, Third-Year, Philosophy
Project Title: U.S. Mass Incarceration in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Faculty Mentor: John Clegg, History
Stephanie Kim, Third-Year, Computer Science
Project Title: Tamagotchi Robot
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Sebo, Computer Science
Blaise Munyampirwa, Fourth-Year, Computer Science
Project Title: Machine Learning for Usage-Based Insurance
Faculty Mentor: Rebecca Willett, Computer Science
Yunxian Song, Fourth-Year, Physics
Project Title: Nuclear quantum effects on the structural and electronic properties of tetrahedral amorphous carbon
Faculty Mentor: Giulia Galli, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Gabriela Garcia, Third-Year, Classical Studies
Project Title: US Mass Incarceration in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Faculty Mentor: John Clegg, History
Sophia Salvato, Fourth-Year, Critical Race Studies and English
Project Title: Early Black Filmmaking in Chicago
Faculty Mentor: Allyson Fields, Cinema Studies
Vivian Lei, Fourth-Year, English
Project Title: “Seeing Race Before Race” in the Newberry’s Center for Renaissance Studies
Faculty Mentor: Lia Markey, Newberry Library and Art History
Elizabeth Gerlach, Third-Year, English
Project Title:Premodern Women at the Newberry’s Center for Renaissance Studies
Faculty Mentor: Lia Markey, Newberry Library and Art History

Supported by the Global Health Research Fund

Ramshankar Balasubramaniyan, Fourth-Year, Law, Letters, and Society
Project Title:Understanding how national policymakers and practitioners use road traffic injury statistics in national dialogue about road safety
Faculty Mentor: Kavi Bhalla, Public Health Sciences
Beatrice Katsnelson, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Computer Aided Diagnosis with Deep Learning Algorithms of COVID-19 in Lung CT Scans (with Clinical Applications)
Faculty Mentor: Maryellen Giger, UChicago Medicine Department of Radiology
Elise Katsnelson, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Computer Aided Diagnosis with Deep Learning Algorithms of COVID-19 in Lung CT Scans (with Clinical Applications)
Faculty Mentor: Maryellen Giger, UChicago Medicine Department of Radiology
Manu Sundaresan, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Delineating immunogenetic constitution of oral squamous cell carcinoma tumorigenesis
Faculty Mentor: Evgeny Izumchenko, The University of Chicago Department of Medicine
Mercer Winer, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Assessing the reliability of global road traffic injury estimates produced by two reputable health data sources
Faculty Mentor: Kavi Bhalla, Public Health Sciences
Megan Lee, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences (Global Health concentration)
Project Title:Radiosensitizing Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors by Artemin inhibition
Faculty Mentor: Xavier M. Keutgen, The University of Chicago Department of Surgery

Supported by Collegiate Research Funds and other generous gifts from donors

Miles Ogihara, Fourth-Year, Political Science
Project Title:Federal Bailwatching Project
Faculty Mentor: Alison Siegler, University of Chicago Law School, Federal Criminal Justice Clinic
Tatiana Rachlin, Second-Year, Psychology
Project Title:Exploration of Gender Biases in Children Regarding Brilliance
Faculty Mentor: Lin Bian, Psychology
Phalgun Garimella, Seconnd-Year, Computational and Applied Mathematics
Project Title:Ship-napping: patronage and extortion during the Sicily-Tunisia Fish War, 1960-1995
Faculty Mentor: Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, Harris School of Public Policy
Anjali Mirmira, Third-Year, Chemistry
Project Title:Quantification of Immunoglobulin A as a Potential Therapeutic for Food Allergies
Faculty Mentor: Cathryn Nagler, Pathology
Guanghua Hao, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
Project Title:Base Editor Mediated Large-Scale Lineage Tracing
Faculty Mentor: Weixin Tang, Chemistry
Julien Lee Heberling, Third-Year, Biological Chemistry
Project Title:Efforts Towards the Total Synthesis of Picrinine
Faculty Mentor: Scott A. Snyder, Chemistry
Liviu Megherea, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Understanding the Evolution of Axis Specification in Diptera
Faculty Mentor: Urs Schmidt-Ott, Organismal Biology & Anatomy
Jovan Stanisavic, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Investigating the Role of Kdm5b Histone Demethylase in Cancer Immune Evasion
Faculty Mentor: Yuxuan (Phoenix) Miao, The Ben May Department for Cancer Research
Raj Tummala, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Deep Learning-Assisted Digitization of Interstitial Needles
Faculty Mentor: Jordan M. Slagowsk, Department of Radiation and Oncology
Hannah Ye, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Characterization of Actin-Binding Protein Tetrathymosin Beta
Faculty Mentor: David Kovar, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Karen Yuan, Fourth-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Geometric Analysis of Normal Aortas: Age and Sex-related Variations in Aortic Geometry
Faculty Mentor: Luka Pocivavsek, Department of Surgery
Ethan Dintzner, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Understanding the function of model adhesion GPCRs through structural biology and biophysics
Faculty Mentor: Demet Araç, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Jane Rosin, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Functions of PVT1 lncRNA and its DNA Locus in Regulating Expression of The MYC Oncogene
Faculty Mentor: Alex Ruthenburg, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Anjali Kotamarthi, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Identification of -7/del7q specific genetic vulnerabilities
Faculty Mentor: Megan McNerney, Department of Pathology
Jillyn Turunen, Third-Year, Neuroscience
Project Title:Role of p52 Inhibition in Sensitization of Glioblastoma to Temozolomide
Faculty Mentor: Bakhtiar Yamini, Department of Neurological Surgery
Uma Mani, Third-Year, Neuroscience
Project Title:Examining the Generalizability of Odor-Based Cues Learned in Various Contexts
Faculty Mentor: Jai Yu, Psychology
Etienne Sotto, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title:Blocking Ectopic Activation of Oncogenes in Neuroblastoma
Faculty Mentor: Francois Spitz, Molecular Engineering
Lucas Lelis Graciliano, Second-Year, Economics
Project Title:Chicago Project on Security and Threats
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Lessing, Political Science
Jose Prata, Third-Year, Economics
Project Title:Histpun
Faculty Mentor: John Clegg, History
Morten Lee, Third-Year, Chemistry
Project Title:Nanoscale Coordination Polymers for Targeted Chemotherapy and Immunomodulation
Faculty Mentor: Wenbin Lin, Chemistry
Madeline Joseph, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title:Characterization of Cyanine Dye-DNA Complexes
Faculty Mentor: Allison Squires, Molecular Engineering
Dana Lin, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title:Developing a Single-Molecule Assay for Direct Observation of Heat Shock Protein Activity
Faculty Mentor: Allison Squires, Molecular Engineering
Cody Googin, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title:Laser Intensity Stabilization Device
Faculty Mentor: Hannes Bernien, Molecular Engineering
George Afentakis, Second-Year, Physics
Project Title:Predicting the Observability of Flare-Driven Atmospheric Chemistry on Earth-like Exoplanets
Faculty Mentor: Dorian Abbot, Geophysics
Sophia Chiang, Third-Year, Physics
Project Title:Evolution of mutation rates through forward molecular evolution
Faculty Mentor: Arvind Murugan, Physics
Livia Guttieres, Third-Year, Physics
Project Title:Using Machine Learning to visualize topological polarization of 3-dimentional solid media with odd elasticity
Faculty Mentor: Vincenzo Vitelli, Physics
Nathaniel Selub, Third-Year, Physics
Project Title:Measurements of Holographic Symmetries in CMB Temperature Fluctuations
Faculty Mentor: Craig Hogan, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mufan (John) Shao, Third-Year, Physics
Project Title:Ion Transport through Single-Digit Nanopores in Two-Dimensional Materials
Faculty Mentor: Chong Liu, Molecular Engineering
Ana Bertuol, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:The Role of Stromal Antigen Proteins in 3D Genome Structure Evolution
Faculty Mentor: Heather Marlow, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Maren Klineberg, Second-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Hemodialysis Vein Models
Faculty Mentor: Anidita Basu, Genetic Medicine
Jessica Oros, Third-Year, Biological Sciences
Project Title:Activation of Host Kinase Vps34 by Murine Norovirus Non-Structural Protein NS4
Faculty Mentor: Glenn Randall, Microbiology
Riona Chen, Fourth-Year, Psychology
Project Title:Investigating the Connection between Nutrient Availability in the Tumor Microenvironment and Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer
Faculty Mentor: Alexander Muir, The Ben May Department for Cancer Research
Daniel Paraizo, Fourth-Year, Physics
Project Title:Angular Momentum at Null Infinity and their Properties
Faculty Mentor: Robert Wald, Physics
Linus Woodard, Third-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title:Near Field Deposition with Atom Scale Resolution
Faculty Mentor: Alexander Muir, The Ben May Department for Cancer Research
Anna Argulian, Third-Year, Biological Sciences, Psychology
Project Title:NLRP3 Activation Controls Prostate Cancer via Induction of Macrophage-Mediated Phagocytosis
Faculty Mentor: Akash Patnaik, Biological Sciences
Laura Braverman, Fourth-Year, Physics
Project Title:Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Odd Viscosity
Faculty Mentor: Vincenzo Vitelli, James Frank Institute
Haley Nguyen, Fourth-Year, Physics
Project Title:Cat-Eye Laser for Optical Tweezing of Caesium in Quantum Networks
Faculty Mentor: Hannes Bernien, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Aidan Cloonan, Third-Year, Astronomy, Astrophysics
Project Title:Investigation into Selection Bias in DES Strong Gravitational Lenses
Faculty Mentor: Alex Drlica-Wagner, Astronomy, Astrophysics
Haley Cerny, Fourth-Year, Astrophysics
Project Title:Characterizing the Newly Discovered Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Pegasus IV
Faculty Mentor: Alex Drlica-Wagner, Astronomy, Astrophysics
Isaac Sierra, Fourth-Year, Astrophysics
Project Title:Apache Point Observatory Diffuse Interstellar Bands Collaboration
Faculty Mentor: Don York, Astronomy, Astrophysics
Joao Shida, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title:Radiation Switching of Photoswitchable Fluors for applications in Positron Emission Tomography
Faculty Mentor: Henry Frisch, Enrico Fermi Institute
Walker Gillett, Fourth-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title:Polysulfide-LPS Based Hybrid Solid Electrolytes for Increased Cycling Longevity
Faculty Mentor: Chibueze Amanchukwu, Molecular Engineering
Emilio Rosas Linhard, Second-Year, Molecular Engineering
Project Title: Jaws of Death
Faculty Mentor: Supratik Guha, University of Chicago Guha Lab

Quad Faculty R esearch Grantees

Susanne Paulus, Faculty Mentor, NELC/Oriental Institute
Undergraduate Researcher:Madeline Ouimet
Timothy Harrison, Faculty Mentor, English
Undergraduate Researcher:Finn Barry
Agnes Callard, Faculty Mentor, Philosophy
Undergraduate Researcher:Jessica Aaron
Ellen MacKay, Faculty Mentor, English and TAPS
Undergraduate Researcher:Jode Sparks
Andrew Koh, Faculty Mentor, Pathology
Undergraduate Researcher:Gabrielle Berman
Undergraduate Researcher:Jacob Bernheim
Sampriti Mukherjee, Faculty Mentor, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
Undergraduate Researcher:Emilia Lim
Undergraduate Researcher:Ethan Yarberry
Jingyi Fei, Faculty Mentor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Undergraduate Researcher:Xiaoshu Wang
Peggy Mason, Faculty Mentor, Neurobiology
Undergraduate Researcher:Jonathan Zeevi
Brandon Pierce, Faculty Mentor, Public Health Sciences
Undergraduate Researcher:Yohhan Kumarasinghe
Undergraduate Researcher:Stephanie Zhang
Stephanie Palmer, Faculty Mentor, Organismal Biology and Anatomy; Physics
Undergraduate Researcher:Minerva Roscoe
Akira Imamoto, Faculty Mentor, Ben May Department for Cancer Research
Undergraduate Researcher:Violet Wu
John Anderson, Faculty Mentor, Chemistry
Undergraduate Researcher:Joel Gardner
Pedro Lopes, Faculty Mentor, Computer Science
Undergraduate Researcher:Rahman Mustapha
Undergraduate Researcher:Noor Amin
Bozhi Tian, Faculty Mentor, Chemistry
Undergraduate Researcher:Elaine Liang
Undergraduate Researcher:Ellie Ostroff
Reika Yokochi, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
Undergraduate Researcher:Nicholas Durani
Hsiao-Wen Chen, Faculty Mentor, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Undergraduate Researcher:Naren Kasinath
Undergraduate Researcher:Rohan Venkat
David Jablonski, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
Undergraduate Researcher:Sharon Zhou
Marc Berman, Faculty Mentor, Psychology
Undergraduate Researcher:Maya Ordonez
Robert Vargas, Faculty Mentor, Sociology
Undergraduate Researcher:Juan-Pablo Armes
Undergraduate Researcher:Gabriel Morales
Ada Palmer, Faculty Mentor, History
Undergraduate Researcher:Hannah Halpern
Zhiying Ma, Faculty Mentor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Undergraduate Researcher:Michelle Liu
Eugene Raikhel, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
Undergraduate Researcher:Nicholas Durani
Olufunmilayo Olopade, Faculty Mentor, Global Health
Undergraduate Researcher:Lingyue Yu
Undergraduate Researcher:Aarthi Koripelly
Allen Lu, Faculty Mentor, Linguistics
Undergraduate Researcher:Henry Mackall
Undergraduate Researcher:Jonathan Roven
Timothy Sanders, Faculty Mentor, Pediatrics & Biological Sciences
Undergraduate Researcher:Sara Salomon
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, Faculty Mentor, Harris School of Public Policy
Undergraduate Researcher:Erica Hogan
Akram Bakkour, Faculty Mentor, Psychology
Undergraduate Researcher:Defne Buyukyazgan
Gabriel Winant, Faculty Mentor, History
Undergraduate Researcher:Benjamin Tjandra
Undergraduate Researcher:Abed Alsolaiman
Malte Janson, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
Undergraduate Researcher:Cal LeDoux
Luca Grandi, Faculty Mentor, Physics
Undergraduate Researcher:Victoria Ankel
Dorian Abott, Faculty Mentor, Geophysical Sciences
Undergraduate Researcher:Kyla Mullaney
Haryadi Gunawi, Faculty Mentor, Computer Science
Undergraduate Researcher:Dang Nguyen
Jacob Bean, Faculty Mentor, Computer Science
Undergraduate Researcher:Dang Nguyen
Haryadi Gunawi, Faculty Mentor, Astronomy & Astrophysics
Undergraduate Researcher:Devin Hoover
David Miller, Faculty Mentor, Physics
Undergraduate Researcher:Macallan Maedke
Undergraduate Researcher:Sadie Seddon-Stettler

Dean's Fund for Undergraduate Research - Conference Awardees

Jonathan Wuwong, Third-Year, Linguistics
Presentation Title:Accounting for Grammatical Change and Variation Within Endangered Language Grammars: The Case of Even
Conference: Descriptive Grammars and Typology II (Paris, 2021)
Mari Mirasol, Fourth-Year, Sociology
Presentation Title:The Right to Citizenship: Education in Juvenile Detention Centers in El Salvador
Conference: LASA 2022 Congress: Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias (San Francisco, 2022)
Devin Hoover, Third-Year, Astrophysics
Presentation Title:The Population of Interstellar Objects Detectable with the LSST and Accessible for In Situ Rendezvous with Various Mission Designs
Conference: American Astronomical Society (Salt Lake City, 2022)
Nathaniel Martinez, Third-Year, Computer Science
Presentation Title:Using autoencoders to cluster NEXRAD reflectivity images
Conference: 21st Annual American Meteorological Society Student Conference (Houston, 2022)
Leighton Stanfill, Third-Year, Linguistics
Presentation Title:Processes of gesture change within digital media
Conference: American Dialect Society (Washington, DC, 2022)

Pictured: João Shida, 2020-2021 Liew Family College Research Fellow and College Summer Research Scholar (Photo Credit: Prof. Allison Squires)