2020-2021 Awarded Students
Agrawal, Sanjna Allen, Sadie Amra, Layth Anakwe, Stephanie Atha, Simeon Ayre, Meghan Bacchus, Yeelin Baik, Phillip Bhatia, Dev Bidstrup, Devin Birol, Ece Sureyya Boggio-Shean, Cameryn Bone, Joshua Boustany, Rana Bredy, Grayce Bromley, Fern Brown, Kendall Bui, Melissa Bukowski, Timothy Buzharsky, Michelle Caballero, Daniel Calia, Giuliana Carceroni, Laura Carey, Katie Carroll, Ashlyn Casas, Jorge Cavallino, Anna Cerón Giraldo, Lucia Cesa, Asia Challain, Julie Che, Zhixing Collier, Charles Conlin, Meghan Cowart, Bailey Cushman, Megan Dasouki, Tima de Barcellos Junqueira, Pedro Henrique deLange, Julie DelBene, Rhianna Devlin, Catherine Diamond, Elizabeth Evdaev, Khai Faber-Rico, Bella Feather, Sarah Figueroa, Celeste Fisher, Ava Fogliasso, Justin Friend, Jack Ganley, Helen Gerstenbacher, Cecelia Gholap, Eesha Gjonbalaj, Nik Gomez, Elena Grandpierre, Gloria Guerrero, Elizabeth Gupta, Anya Gustinvil, Lordean Hanchar, Elizabeth Hayes, Jonas Helmling, Alyssa Henneman, Dennis Honigsberg, Rachel Hui, Zheng Hussein, Abdelaziz Hussein, Rana Inirio, Jason Jadick, Michalina Jarquin Tapia, Cecilia Jezak, Katarzyna Ji, Chelsea Jordan, Victoria Jordanides, Jonathan Joshi, Nikita Kalyan, Prinjali Katchmar, Amanda Khemani, Muskaan Kiani, Niki Kim, Dong-Ho Kimball, Marie Kuriyama, Andrea Kwon, Eunhye Laman, Russell Lanna, Helena Leary, Julia Lee, Harin Liang, Shuangyu Lierle, Patrick Lincoln, Emma Lindey, Caroline Livney, Benjamin Loyd, Estill Magane, Riley Mahabir, Brian Maniar, Kairav Marchuk, Nicholas Martiny, Clara McCall, Aidan Mecha, Grace-Rebecca Melsheimer, Trevor Mendez, Estevan Merriman, Meaghan Meyer, Caitlin Michel, Manon Miranda, Crystal Mooneyham, Erin Moore-Otto, Daniel Jackson Mulaw, Birhanemeskel Mulick, Trenton Mussi, Jacob Naik, Amartya Neumann, Alexander Ni, Yunruo Nicholas, Sarah O’Connor, Logan Ollivier Yamin, Sabine Parkington, Emily Paulisick, Cullen Pierce, Kirk Piligian, Spencer Portela, Sara Puterman, Samantha Quinn, Kevin Rajaram, Rahul Ramey, Grace Ramiz, Michelle Rampam, Sanjeev Reiss, Kevin Reiter, Harrison Renehan, Lauren Reynolds, Leanna Rich, Claire Riganti, Roberto Riley, Noah Rustom, Faris Safi, Sarah Salame, Cedric Samrow, Petal Sangermano, Alexandria Santos, Ana Sharov, Mikhail Shaukat, Mohammad Fayzan Sheeran, Megan Shnitman, Ryan Simon, Sarina Sison-Gilmore, Brianna Srivastava, Anjana Stathis, Alexa Surets, Michelle Sze, Samuel Tian Hong Tandon, Avantika Teplensky, Evan Thakar, Bhargavi Thyen, Amelia Ting, Dayi Torrez, Juliana Unni, Prasida Valladares, Mercedes Varki, Rahul Vrettakou, Metaxoula Wall, Juliana Wallace, Ernest Wang, Zixiong White, Moriah Wright, Aidan Wright, Baiden Wright, Baiden Xin, Zihua Yamin, Nikka Yuan, Yutong Zdanowicz, Victoria Zhang, Yujia Zhou, Samuel Zhou, Yuxiang Zhou Peng, Hui Cong Zhu, Yixiu Zou, CarolynFall 2020 Award Recipients
App Assistant: Robust Assistive AI for Navigating Apps Using Spoken Instructions
Faculty Mentor: Bryan Plummer (CAS Computer Science)
Tritium: Leveraging cross-layer telemetry on Cloud to diagnose SLO violations
Faculty Mentor: Ayse Coskun (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
A computational Tool for Sharing and Dissemination of 2-photon Oxygen Imaging Data
Faculty Mentor: Anna Devor (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Evaluating and Applying New Methods of Extracting Beta Band Activity to Find its Neural Correlates
Faculty Mentor: Chandramouli Chandrasekaran (MED Anatomy and Neurobiology)
Tentative Title: Building the World’s Highest Subway: Lessons Learned from Metro de Quito
Faculty Mentor: Janine Ferretti (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Coalition and Defense Treaties
Faculty Mentor: Rosella Cappella (CAS Political Science)
Implementing a Fidelity Tool to Evaluate CenteringParenting
Faculty Mentor: Renee Boynton-Jarrett (MED Pediatrics)
Using Digital Image Correlation to Assess Cartilage Tissue Constructs
Faculty Mentor: Michael Albro (ENG Mechanical Engineering; Material Science and Engineering; Biomedical Engineering)
Simulation Study of the Infrared Nerve Inhibition
Faculty Mentor: Michelle Sander (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Ethernet Frame Introspection Using A Programmable Hardware Monitor
Faculty Mentor: Ajay Joshi (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Image Analysis with a Principal Component Analysis Model for Photothermal Microscopy in the Mid-Infrared
Faculty Mentor: Michelle Sander (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Defining the Epigenetic Alterations Caused by a Promoter Deletion in the Dlk1-Dio3 Noncoding RNA Locus
Faculty Mentor: Francisco Naya (CAS Biology)
Person Re-Identification in Overhead Fisheye Cameras
Faculty Mentor: Janusz Konrad (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Investigating the Spread of Information About COVID-19 Using Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Faculty Mentor: Eleanor Murray (SPH Epidemiology)
Providing Financial Stability Pathways to Low-Income, Multicultural Parents With Newborns to Improve Health Outcomes
Faculty Mentor: Lucy Marcil (MED Pediatrics)
Assessment of Transpiration Through Sap Flux in Urban Trees
Faculty Mentor: Lucy Hutyra (CAS Earth & Environment)
Engineering Lab Project
Faculty Mentor: Jerry Whitmore (SED Higher Education Administration)
Outsourcing Security
Faculty Mentor: Kaija Schilde (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Measurement of Quadrotor Aerodynamics and Performance
Faculty Mentor: Sheryl Grace (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Kyoto Literature Project
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Frederick (CAS Comparative Literature; Japanese)
Analysis of the Effect of Damping on the Discrete Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation and its Relation to the Damped and Driven Form
Faculty Mentor: Eugene Wayne (CAS Mathematics & Statistics)
Concussion Referrals to the Urban Safety-Net Hospital (CRUSH)
Faculty Mentor: Jason Weller (MED Neurology)
Modeling the Effect of Urgency on Decision-Related Dynamics in the Dorsal Premotor and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Faculty Mentor: Chandramouli Chandrasekaran (MED Anatomy and Neurobiology)
Developing Online Educational Modules to Present Evidence-Based, Scientific Information about COVID-19 Transmission
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Green (SED Teaching & Learning)
Developing A Soft Robotic Skin with Optical Waveguides and Pressure Sensing in Order to Improve Endoscopic Procedures
Faculty Mentor: Sheila Russo (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Creating Phantom Tumors from Quantum Dot (QD) Embedded Phosphate-Terminated Poly(Dimethyl Siloxane) (PDMS) for Quantification of Dual Probe Imaging
Faculty Mentor: Allison Dennis (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
CARES: Covid-19 Resilience Study for Young Adults
Faculty Mentor: Hyeouk Hahm (SSW Social Research)
Spanish Adaptation of Mobile Applications for the Assessment of Memory and Cognition
Faculty Mentor: Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Digital Technology and the Refugee Crisis in Europe
Faculty Mentor: Noora Lori (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Evaluating the Relationship Between Cannabis Use and the Development of Borderline Personality Disorder
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Rosellini (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Anomaly Detection for the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at CERN
Faculty Mentor: Indara Suarez (CAS Physics)
An Ethnographic Study of Syrian Refugee Resettlement and Asylum-Seeking in the United States, Canada, and Germany
Faculty Mentor: Heba Gowayed (CAS Sociology)
Connected Scholars: School Connectedness Among First-Generation College Students at UMass Boston
Faculty Mentor: Renee Spencer (SSW School of Social Work)
Comparing Stomatal Arrangement in Samaras and Leaves of Trees in Differing Water Availability
Faculty Mentor: Adrien Finzi (CAS Biology)
Investigating Acoustic Measures of the Articulatory and Laryngeal Subsystems in Speakers With and Without Parkinson’s disease
Faculty Mentor: Cara Stepp (SAR Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences)
Outsourcing Security to Global Markets: An Escape from Bureaucracy or an Obscurity from the Public Eye?
Faculty Mentor: Kaija Schilde (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Memorials and the Brazilian Dictatorship
Faculty Mentor: Ana María Reyes (CAS History of Art & Architecture)
Assessing Heat Exposure in Chelsea and East Boston Through a Summer Field Study
Boston University School of Public Health & GreenRoots, Inc., Chelsea, MA
Faculty Mentor: Madeleine Scammell (SPH Environmental Health)
Characterization of the In Vivo Function of SRGAP1 Gene in the Pathogenesis of CAKUT and Glomerular Disease in a Mouse Model
Faculty Mentor: Weining Lu (MED Nephrology)
Recovering the Stories of Christians in Africa with the Dictionary of African Christian Biography
Faculty Mentor: Michèle Sigg (STH World Christianity)
Ingestible Micro-Bio-Electronic Device for Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring
Faculty Mentor: Rabia Yazicigil (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
A Simple Reaction-Diffusion Model for Early Stage Gastrulation in Mammalian Embryos
Faculty Mentor: Ryan Goh (CAS Mathematics & Statistics)
Investigating Aging, Care, and Kinship in Israel’s Transforming Kibbutz Communities
Faculty Mentor: Merav Shohet (CAS Anthropology)
Are the Feminists Taking Over?: A Critical Analysis of Feminist Foreign Policy and Contemporary Feminist Approaches to Global Affairs
Faculty Mentor: Roberta Micallef (CAS World Languages & Literature)
Fabrication and Measurement of MoS2 Integrated Nanomechanical Resonators
Faculty Mentor: Scott Bunch (ENG Engineering)
Identifying, Describing and Quantifying Potential Alternative Reproductive Behaviors in Male Gliding Treefrogs, Agalychnis Spurrelli
Faculty Mentor: Karen Warkentin (CAS Biology)
Surface Lesion Recovery of Mixed Symbiotic Astrangia Poculata in Response to Starved and Fed Conditions
Faculty Mentor: Randi Rotjan (CAS Biology)
CK2? Dependent Targeting and Feedback in Wnt/?-catenin Signaling
Faculty Mentor: Maria Isabel Dominguez (MED Hematology-Oncology )
STEMcees: Learning Computational STEM and Arts Integration in Culturally Sustaining Learning Ecologies
Faculty Mentor: Eli Tucker-Raymond (SED Department of Language and Literacy)
Microplastic Density and Distribution on Associated Seagrass Species Zostera Marina Throughout Sites of Varying Coastline Development Along Massachusetts Intertidal Zones
Faculty Mentor: Alyssa Novak (CAS Earth & Environment)
Multi-Camera Real-Time Sensor Data Processing, Object Detection and Tracking (For Improved Situational Awareness in Autonomous Vehicles)
Faculty Mentor: Richard West (CAS Computer Science)
Approximate Counter-Diabatic Driving in Classical and Quantum Oscillator Systems
Faculty Mentor: Anatoli Polkovnikov (CAS Physics)
How Developmental Changes in Red-eyed Treefrog Embryo Behavior Increase Escape-hatching Success During Wasp Attacks
Faculty Mentor: Karen Warkentin (CAS Biology)
Are We in a 6th Mass Extinction? How Studying the Deep Past can Inform Us About the Future
Faculty Mentor: Alisa Bokulich (CAS Philosophy)
Mapping of Mughal Sites in the valley of Kashmir, India
Faculty Mentor: Jan Haenraets (COM History of Art and Architecture)
Effectiveness of Educational Pre-Lecture Videos in Increasing Student Engagement and Performance in Organic Chemistry 1 at Boston University
Faculty Mentor: Rebecca Loy (CAS Chemistry)
Visualizing Cell Membrane-localized PKA Dynamics in Migrating 3T3 fibroblasts Using FRET Reporters and Live Cell Imaging
Faculty Mentor: Allyson Sgro (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
CT-based Diagnosis of Co-optive Growth Patterns in Lung Cancer
Faculty Mentor: Hadi Nia (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Lighting and Celluloid: How Lighting Looks on Celluloid Vs. Digital
Faculty Mentor: Mark Stanley (CFA SoT Design and Production)
Investigating the Effects of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic on Noise Pollution in the Boston Area
Faculty Mentor: Richard Primack (CAS Biology)
Augmented Reality for Sculpture Stability Analysis
Faculty Mentor: Emily Whiting (CAS Computer Science)
Notch Transmembrane Domain Residues Critical for Mediating VE-Cadherin and Rac GEF Trio
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Chen (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Auditing Youtube’s Recommendation System
Faculty Mentor: Mark Crovella (CAS computer science)
Identifying Plasma Conditions Associated with Fast Flows in Space Optical Emissions in the Upper Atmosphere
Faculty Mentor: Toshi Nishimura (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
A Predictive Model for Malnutrition in Yemen
Faculty Mentor: Muhammad Zaman (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
AI-accelerated Sound Absorption Technology on Drones Reveals Many Possibilities and Opportunities in Reducing Ambient Sound Levels in Technologies, and Namely, Drones. Using Reinforcement Machine Learning, CAD modeling, Fluid Dynamic and Vibrational Analysis, I will attempt to block/dampen a wide range of frequencies at various decibel ranges
Faculty Mentor: Anna Swan (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Predicting Latency to Alzheimer’s Dementia Utilizing MRI scans and Flortaucipir-PET-trained Generative Adversarial Networks
Faculty Mentor: Vijaya Kolachalama (MED Medicine)
In-depth Case Study of Codeswitching Between a Teacher and Her Dual Language Learner in Three Classroom Settings
Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Curenton (SED Educational Policy Studies)
Mapping the Road of Excess: Blake, Swedenborg, and the Dialectic of Heaven and Hell
Faculty Mentor: Michael Prince (CAS English)
Psychometric Validation of Revised ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) Questionnaire in English and Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Andrea Spencer (MED Psychiatry)
Investigation of the Mechanism of Activation of the RET Receptor Using GDNF Derived Peptides
Faculty Mentor: Adrian Whitty (CAS Chemistry)
Using a Lanthanide Binding Tag to Assess Conformational Changes in NF-?B Essential Modulator Protein (NEMO)
Faculty Mentor: Karen Allen (CAS Chemistry)
Exploring Questions and Explanations in Inquiry-Based Learning.
Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Corriveau (SED Counseling and Applied Human Development)
Using Diffusion MRI to Classify Patients with Fronto-Temporal Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
Faculty Mentor: Bang-bon Koo (MED Anatomy and Neurobioloy)
Effect of Massachusetts House Bill No. 4196 on Electronic Cigarette Use
Faculty Mentor: Michael Siegel (SPH Community Health Sciences)
The Indian National Army Trials at the Dawn of South Asia’s Decolonization: A Re-Examination
Faculty Mentor: Jayita Sarkar (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Trump, Refugees, and Political Cartoons: How the Portrayal of Migrants Shifted Since the 2016 US Election
Faculty Mentor: Noora Lori (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Validation Study of Mobile Applications for the Assessment of Episodic and Working Memory
Faculty Mentor: Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
War, Drugs and Global Pandemics: How Extreme Conditions Influence Immigration Politics and Policy on Global, National, and Local Scales
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Nolan (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
The “Aging Disaster” of Covid19: The Association of Social Isolation and Loneliness to Perceived Health, Psychological Wellbeing, and Material Hardship Among Boston Residents Age 60 and Older
Faculty Mentor: Judith Gonyea (SSW Social Research)
Detecting Structural Damage with Machine Learning
Faculty Mentor: Emma Lejeune (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
The Ecological Impacts of Out Planting Acropora Cervicornis on Caribbean Reefs
Faculty Mentor: Les Kaufman (CAS Biology)
The “Aging Disaster”* of Covid19: The Association of Social Isolation and Loneliness to Perceived Health, Psychological Wellbeing, and Material Hardship Among Boston Residents Age 60 and Older
Faculty Mentor: Judith Gonyea (SSW Social Research)
Pointing in Parent Input During Interaction with Deaf Children in American Sign Language
Faculty Mentor: Amy Lieberman (SED Deaf Studies)
Soft-Robotic Stabilization Mechanism Modeling for Bronchoscopy
Faculty Mentor: Sheila Russo (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD)
Faculty Mentor: Eugenio Menegon (CAS History)
Mapping Potassium in Mercury’s Exosphere with the BU-Commissioned Rapid Imaging Planetary Spectrograph (RIPS)
Faculty Mentor: Carl Schmidt (CAS Astronomy)
Analyzing Data to Investigate Police Response to Incidents Involving Mental Health in Boston Public Schools
Faculty Mentor: Jen Green (SED Teaching & Learning)
Strategic Celebrities: Examining the Role of Famous Refugees and Defectors in US Foreign Policy
Faculty Mentor: Noora Lori (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
A Novel Power Supply Design to Drive Electrodynamic Screens for Self-Cleaning Solar Panels
Faculty Mentor: Mark Horenstein (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
The Ritual and Social Use of Animals by the Prehistoric Coastal Alaska
Faculty Mentor: Catherine West (CAS Archaeology)
Optimizing Pre-lecture Assignments: Evaluating the Impact of Total Assignment Length on Student Engagement with and Retention of Material from Educational Pre-lecture Videos in Introductory Organic Chemistry at Boston University
Faculty Mentor: Rebecca Loy (CAS Chemistry)
Analysis of Environmental Degradations in Photovoltaic (PV) Modules and an Assessment Against Current Methods for Energy-yield Losses Through Economics
Faculty Mentor: Malay Mazumder (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Adaptive Optics for Aberration Correction in Multi-area Two-photon Imaging System
Faculty Mentor: Jerry Chen (CAS Biology)
Generating Synthetic Labeled Datasets of Hard-to-Access Structures
Faculty Mentor: Emma Lejeune (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
A Moment or a Movement? An Analysis of the Online and Offline Anti-Quarantine Protests in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Faculty Mentor: Jeremy Menchik (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Imaging Spectrometer
Faculty Mentor: Siddharth Ramachandran (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Heschl’s Gyrus and Reading & Learning Capabilities
Faculty Mentor: Tyler Perrachione (SAR Speech, Language, & Hearing)
Smooth Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) Modeling of the Effect of Pulse Charging Cycles on Dendrite Growth in Lithium Metal Batteries
Faculty Mentor: Emily Ryan (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
STEM Literacy, Learning, and Identities through Cascading Models of Near-Peer Mentorship (otherwise abbreviated as STEM Cascades)
Faculty Mentor: Eli Tucker-Raymond (SED Research Associate Professor)
Strategies Parents Use to Transfer Responsibility for Daily Life Tasks to their Children
Faculty Mentor: Wendy Coster (SAR Occupational Therapy)
A Double Whammy of Public Health Crises: Radiation Sickness and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation
Faculty Mentor: Jayita Sarkar (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Drawing Trees: an Investigation into the Structure, Science, Aesthetics and Metaphysical Inspiration of Trees
Faculty Mentor: Breehan James (CFA Painting)
Evolving Minds- Storybook and Material Illustrations
Faculty Mentor: Deborah Kelemen (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Dogs or Foxes? Applying Metric Analysis to Distinguish Canids in the Archaeological Record
Faculty Mentor: Catherine West (CAS Archaeology)
Change and Adaptation in COVID-19 Housing Relief Policy
Faculty Mentor: Maxwell Palmer (CAS Political Science)
An Analysis on Regime and Religion: A Case Study of Ethiopia
Faculty Mentor: Timothy Longman (CAS Political Science)
Investigating the Accumulation of Microplastics Over the Past 100 years in The Great Marsh, Massachusetts
Faculty Mentor: Duncan FitzGerald (CAS Earth & Environment)
Studying the Scattering Behavior of Caviton Collisions in a Saturated Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
Faculty Mentor: Ryan Goh (CAS Mathematics & Statistics)
Mapping Fracture Risk of The Human Proximal Femur by Finite Element Modelling
Faculty Mentor: Elise Morgan (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
China Historical Christian Database: Mapping the Social and Spatial Relationships
of Christianity in China, 1550-1950
Faculty Mentor: Daryl Ireland (STH Global Christianity and Mission)
Comprehensive Diagnostic Tool for Dementias
Faculty Mentor: Vijaya B. Kolachalama (MED Medicine)
Earth Agency: How Beliefs About the Earth Impact Our Concern About Environmental Damage
Faculty Mentor: Deborah Kelemen (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Quantifying Changes in Lung Biophysical Characteristics Over Time with Intra-Subject CT-Scan Image Registration to Improve Lung Cancer Diagnostics
Faculty Mentor: Hadi Nia (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
The Bachelor in Athens: Voyeurism and Plague in Greek Tragedy and Reality Television
Faculty Mentor: Sophie Klein (CAS Core Curriculum)
Social & Ecological Identities Lab: Well-Being in Women with Cancer
Faculty Mentor: Brenda Philips (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
“Elucidation of Phosphorelay and Its Effect on Biofilm Formation in B. Subtilis”
Faculty Mentor: Allyson Sgro (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Growth Factor Transport Modelling in Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Michael Albro (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
A Novel, One-step Method to Synthesize Energy Relevant Core-Shell Materials via Molten Salt Solvent
Faculty Mentor: Srikanth Gopalan (ENG Material Science and Engineering)
A Study of Moods, Extreme Cognitions, and Loneliness Among an Undergraduate Sample
Faculty Mentor: Michael Otto (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Advancing Automated Distributed Tracing in the Cloud
Faculty Mentor: Ayse Coskun (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
COVID-19 in Universities Across America
Faculty Mentor: Evimaria Terzi (CAS Computer Science)
Robust Anywhere Localization Using Machine Learning and Ubiquitous Devices
Faculty Mentor: Eshed Ohn-Bar (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.DACB.com)
Faculty Mentor: Michelle Sigg (STH World Christianity)
Continuation of Prof. Coppock’s and Danielle Dionne’s “Cross-linguistic Pragmatic Differences as a Function of Hyponym Viability.”
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Coppock (CAS Linguistics)
Revealing dynamic neural features of learning and memory operations across the adult lifespan using a novel computational framework of massive feature extraction
Faculty Mentor: Robert Reinhart (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou Metastability Issue
Faculty Mentor: David Campbell (CAS Physics)
Investigating the Effects of Heparan Sulfate Binding to Serum Amyloid A (SAA) and pH-Dependence of Amyloid Formation by SAA
Faculty Mentor: John Straub (CAS Chemistry)
Improving AlexNet Performance on Partially Occluded Animals and Trash in the Environment through Transfer Learning; Occlusion Sensitivity Mapping, and Weight Features
Faculty Mentor: Arash Yazdanbakhsh (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Manipulating Maladaptive Aversive (Fear) and Appetitive (Drug-Related) Memories
Faculty Mentor: Steve Ramirez (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Out of Bounds: The Borders of the Bayeux Tapestry, Model Books and the Loire Valley (tentative title)
Faculty Mentor: Deborah Kahn (CAS History of Art & Architecture)
Development of Constant-complexity Stochastic Simulation Algorithm with Optimal Binning
Faculty Mentor: Samuel Isaacson (CAS Mathematics & Statistics)
Creating a Typology to Evaluate the Foreign Policy Architecture and Concepts Underlying the Idea of Great Power Competition
Faculty Mentor: Joshua Shifrinson (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Deep Learning Applications in Brain Cancer Research
Faculty Mentor: Arash Yazdanbakhsh (CAS Neuroscience)
Exploring the Effect of the Iraq War on Women’s Health Care Seeking Behavior and Well-Being
Faculty Mentor: Mahesh Karra (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Ionic Liquids as Electrolytes for Future Batteries
Faculty Mentor: David Coker (CAS Chemistry)
The Impact of Subtle Linguistic Cues on Children’s Beliefs about STEM
Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Corriveau (SED Applied Human Development)
Comparison of the Motile Macro-biome of the Coral Porites Divaricata Across Habitats, From Patch Reef to Mangrove Forest
Faculty Mentor: John Finnerty (CAS Biology)
Working Conditions and Instructional Decision Making in Classrooms for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (EBD)
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Bettini (SED Special Education)
Io’s Optical Airglow in Jovian Eclipse
Faculty Mentor: Carl Schmidt (CAS Astronomy)
Haiti HIV Stigma Reduction Projection – SKS
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jasmine Abrams (SPH Community Health Sciences)
Role of NEURL4 Protein in mtDNA Maintenance and Regulation of Immune Response in a Mouse Myoblast Model
Faculty Mentor: Valentina Perissi (MED Biochemistry)
A Case Study of the Design and Integration of OpenPilot in the Quest-V system
Faculty Mentor: Richard West (CAS Computer Science)
Relationship between Lesson Design and Student Engagement
Faculty Mentor: Leslie Dietiker (SED Mathematics Education)
Traditional Knowledge and Heritage Horticulture of the Philippine Mountain Province
Faculty Mentor: Jan Haenraets (CAS History of Art & Architecture)
Synthetic Datasets of Endoscopic Surgery for Testing Machine Learning-Based Optical Flow Algorithms
Faculty Mentor: Emma Lejeune (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Bone Exosomes from Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Up-regulate Transcription of Mesenchymal Genes in Prostate Cancer Cells
Faculty Mentor: Gerald Denis (MED Hematology-Oncology)
Investigation of Chronic Hyperactivity for the Induction of Neurodegenerative Pathology
Faculty Mentor: Steve Ramirez (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Locally Resonant Acoustic Metamaterial (LRAM) Design and Optimization Within Cement Structures to Detect Wellbore Damage
Faculty Mentor: Xin Zhang (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Muslim European Discrimination Study
Faculty Mentor: Mahesh Karra (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies )
Educational Policy Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Effect on Students
Faculty Mentor: Aaron Brakoniecki (Other Wheelock College of Education & Human Development (WED): Teaching and Learning)
Perkins Automation Project
Faculty Mentor: Philip Muirhead (CAS Astronomy)
Gender Differences in How Military-connected Youth Respond to Making Friends During School Transitions
Faculty Mentor: Renee Spencer (SSW Human Behavior)
Working Conditions and Instructional Decision Making in Classrooms for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (EBD)
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Bettini (SED Special Education)
Sustainable Buildings and Its Importance for the Future of Architecture
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Abramson (CAS Art and Architecture)
Understanding the Effects of CSNK2A1 Gene Mutations on Signaling Pathways Related to Craniofacial Development and Their Corresponding Clinical Manifestations in Okur-Chung Neurodevelopmental Syndrome
Faculty Mentor: Maria Isabel Dominguez (MED Hematology-Oncology )
Degree Abstraction in M?or?
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Coppock (CAS Linguistics)
Validation of MetaScope: A Complete R-based Platform and Workflow for Metagenomic Sequencing Analysis
Faculty Mentor: William Johnson (MED Computational Biomedicine)
Pricing Mechanisms of Nonrenewable Resources Through Time
Faculty Mentor: Ekaterina Gnedenko (CAS Economics)
Comparison of Caregiver and Patient Perspectives on the Experience of Parkinson’s Disease
Faculty Mentor: Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Using Ntuples for the Muon Detector Performance Group
Faculty Mentor: Indara Suarez (CAS Physics)
Improving T Cell Trafficking Into Lymph Node Metastases
Faculty Mentor: Dennis Jones (MED Pathology & Laboratory Medicine)
Tagging and Reactivating a Positively-Valenced Memory Using Optogenetics to Disrupt the Reconsolidation of a Negatively-Valenced Memory
Faculty Mentor: Steve Ramirez (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Ice in the Anthropocene, Then And Now
Faculty Mentor: Craciun Adriana (CAS English)
Estimating the Private Costs of Healthcare Whistleblowing Lawsuits
Faculty Mentor: Jetson Leder-Luis (QST Markets, Public Policy, and Law)
Estimating the Private Costs of Healthcare Whistleblowing Lawsuits
Faculty Mentor: Jetson Leder-Luis (QST Markets, Public Policy, and Law)
Study of Protoplanetary Disks’ Properties Through SED Modeling
Faculty Mentor: Catherine Espaillat (CAS Astronomy)
The Association of Chronic Health Conditions of Self and Family with Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression during COVID-19
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Rosellini (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Elementary School Career Development: A National Survey of Current Practice
Faculty Mentor: Howard Kimberly (SED Counseling Psychology & Human Development)
Home Range Overlap in Female Bornean Orangutans: Responses to Fluctuations in Habitat-Specific Food Availability
Faculty Mentor: Cheryl Knott (CAS Anthropology)
Applying Three-Dimensional Modified U-Net to Live-cell Volumetric Images for Single-cell Segmentation
Faculty Mentor: Allyson Sgro (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Voltage Imaging of Mice Hippocampal CA1 Spiking and Subthreshold Oscillations During a Spatial Navigation Task
Faculty Mentor: Xue Han (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Distinct Impact of Aging and Hyperlipidemia on Unfolded Protein Response in Mouse Model of Atherosclerosis
Faculty Mentor: Jingyan Han (MED Vascular Biology)
Fabrication of Low-cost Gaskets Using a Consumer CNC Pen Plotter
Faculty Mentor: Selim Unlu (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Thermal Analysis of CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Systems with Integrated Photonics
Faculty Mentor: Ayse Coskun (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Militarized Gaming as Digital Recruiting
Faculty Mentor: Takeo Rivera (CAS English)
Aburida, Sophia Adams, Nicholas Agrawal, Sanjna Allen, Sadie AlSharif, Layan Austin, Ryan Battcock-Emerson, Madelyn Barry, Cristofer Bazan, Danielle Berard, Brennon Berry, Lucas Bhatia, Dev Bidstrup, Devin Birol, Ece Sureyya Blades, Gracie Boggio-Shean, Cameryn Bombard, Keeley Boustany, Rana Bredy, Grayce Bromley, Fern Brown, Kendall Calvert, Madison Capristo Romanoski, Helena Cardini, Jack Cavallino, Anna Ceron Giraldo, Lucia Challain, Julie Chiulli, Nicole Crawford, Tyler Critchfield-Jain, Isabella D’Arrigo, Michael Daniels, Kadesh Dawit, Kaleb de Kock, Ryan deLange, Julie Delgado, Kevin Diamond, Elizabeth Diep, Mia A Eggertsen, Hoku Erasani, Anisha Evancho, Abigail Evdaev, Khai Faber-Rico, Bella Famin, Dina Fardoun, Rayan Farr, Margaret Feather, Sarah Fenn, Abby Figueroa, Celeste Fisher, Ava Fogliasso, Justin Friend, Jack Furmanek, Julia Gallup, Shannon Gaynor, Kate Gjonbalaj, Nik Glowiak, Patrycia Golden, Emma Gomatam, Kiran Graham, Benjamin Gu, Anming Guidi, Luca Gustinvil, Lordean Hager, Audrey Hahm, Christian Hall, Jonathan Hardy, Nina Hennighausen, Christopher Herning, Ana Hinds, Elizabeth Holbrook, Otto Hong, Jason Honigsberg, Rachel Hussein, Rana Ibrahim, Danielle Isaac, John Jain, Ruchita Janke, Taylor Jiang, Lauren Johnson, Michaela Jordan, Victoria Jordanides, Jonathan Jurgensen, John Michael Katchmar, Amanda Kaufmann, Marine Kay, Marguerite Khemani, Muskaan Kim, Inhye King, Simon Kiyanda, Alexis Kolodziejski, Derek Krska, William Laman, Russell Lanna, Helena Lee, Harin Lee, Julia Lee, Taylor Lee, Yennie Lin, Benjamin Lin, Jiaqi Lindsey, Rozime Livney, Benjamin Loftus, John Loo, Rebecca Lu, Qiuyuhong Lutschg, Stefan Lynch, Mara MacIntyre, Lara Magane, Riley Manzoori, Devin McCall, Aidan Mei, Winnie Melsheimer, Trevor Minarik, Gillian Modell, Rebecca Mooneyham, Erin Mullert, Julia Murphy, Caroline Mussi, Jacob Naik, Amartya Narula, Sabeer Natarajan, Sahana Negassa, Abgel Nelson, Elizabeth Nelson, Zachary Nevins, Elizabeth Ngo, Julie Novak, Kathleen Nuchklang, Nateethorn Pak, Jane Parada Rodriguez, Maria Alexandra Paredes, Christian Parkington, Emily Phillips, Maxine Pierce, Kirk Pompa, Isabella Posse, Catalina Powell, Drew Przekop, Kylla Puterman, Samantha Quinn, Kevin Rahman, Md Salman Ramiz, Michelle Rampam, Sanjeev Reed, Taylor Reynolds, Leanna Rich, Claire Riganti, Roberto Romanko, Hunter Rustom, Faris Sakharkar, Mitali Salame, Cedric Salmon, Karolena Santos, Ana Sarpong, Afua Shah, Shashwat Shanahan, Regan Sheeran, Megan Shroff, Yash Shterenberg, Joshua Simon, Sarina Siu, Jessica Sohal, Ruhi Sonti, Akhial Srinivasan, Nayantara Stathis, Alexa Suarez, Allison Sze, Samuel Tian Hong Thakar, Bhargavi Tostevin, Genevieve Townsend, Isabella Truong, Emily Ullman Jr., Lawrence Unni, Prasida Valladares, Mercedes Vargas, Maria Camila Verdieu, Angelee Priya V., C Wall, Juliana Wallace, Ernest Welch, Jakob Wetzler, Andrea White, Moriah Xu, Kailin Yamin, Nikka Yap, Isabelle Ye, Ruo Qi Zheng, Hongli Zheng, Minglan Zhou, Brian Zhou, Kriever Gerstenbacher, Cecelia Wright, AidanSpring 2021 Award Recipients
Testing the Need-Threat Model of Social Exclusion Using Cyberball: Ball Passing Choices and Reaction Times During Reward and Rejection
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Fulford (SAR Occupational Therapy)
Implementation and Testing of CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Hexaboard with NIM+ V2
Faculty Mentor: Lawrence Sulak (CAS Physics)
App Assistant: Robust Assistive AI for Navigating Apps Using Spoken Instructions
Faculty Mentor: Bryan Plummer (CAS Computer Science)
Tritium: Leveraging Cross-Layer Telemetry on Cloud to Diagnose SLO Violations
Faculty Mentor: Ayse Coskun (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Electro-permanent Actuation of a Bioinspired Underwater Soft Robot
Faculty Mentor: Tommaso Ranzani (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Soft Robotic Catheter Stabilization Mechanism for Transnasal Brain Surgery
Faculty Mentor: Sheila Russo (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Improving Camelina Sativa’s Anti-herbivory Chemical Defense Repertoire by Introduction of the Arabidopsis Thaliana CYP83B1 Gene
Faculty Mentor: John Celenza (CAS Biology)
Expression and Characterization of CwlZ: A Protein Encoded by a Putative Cell Wall Hydrolase Gene in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Faculty Mentor: Lynn Deng (MED Medicine)
Modernizing Historical Fashion
Faculty Mentor: Nancy Leary (CFA Costume Production)
Characterization of Neuritogenesis by RET-mediated Signaling Dynamics in Differentiating Neuroblastoma Cells
Faculty Mentor: Adrian Whitty (CAS Chemistry)
Validation of Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy for Intra-operative Margin Guidance During Oral Cancer Resection
Faculty Mentor: Gintas Krisciunas (MED Otolaryngology)
Simulation Study of the Infrared Nerve Inhibition
Faculty Mentor: Michelle Sander (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Implementing a Hardware Monitor for a Network Processor on an FPGA
Faculty Mentor: Ajay Joshi (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Image Analysis with a Principal Component Analysis Model for Photothermal Microscopy in the Mid-Infrared
Faculty Mentor: Michelle Sander (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Examining the Limits of Memory-guided Planning in 3-year-olds
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Kibbe (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Defining the Epigenetic Alterations Caused by a Promoter Deletion in the Dlk1-Dio3 Noncoding RNA Locus
Faculty Mentor: Francisco Naya (CAS Biology)
Policy Recommendation for Supporting Workers in Dying High Emissions Industries
Faculty Mentor: Anne Short (CAS Earth & Environmental)
Investigating the Spread of Information About COVID-19 Using Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Faculty Mentor: Eleanor Murray (SPH Epidemiology)
Providing Financial Stability Pathways to Low-Income, Multicultural Parents With Newborns to Improve Health Outcomes
Faculty Mentor: Lucy Marcil (MED Pediatrics)
Assessment of Transpiration Through Sap Flux in Urban Trees
Faculty Mentor: Lucy Hutyra (CAS Earth & Environmental)
The Engineering-Education Collaborative Laboratory (EE-CoLab)
Faculty Mentor: Jerry Whitmore (SED Higher Education Administration)
The Stateless Collective & UROP: Enhancing Research Ethics at Boston University to Build Well-Rounded Researchers
Faculty Mentor: Carrie Preston (CAS English)
Chagas Disease Prevalence Mapping
Faculty Mentor: Malwina Carrion (SAR Health Science)
The Chromatin Zip Code: Identification of Sequence Determinants in Chromatin-related Proteins for Chromatin Compartmentalization
Faculty Mentor: Ahmad Khalil (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Racially Diverse US Young Adults’ Experience of COVID-19-related Anti-Asian Discrimination
Faculty Mentor: Hyeouk Hahm (SSW Social Research)
Spanish Adaptation of Mobile Applications for the Assessment of Memory and Cognition
Faculty Mentor: Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Evaluating the Relationship Between Oral Contraceptive Use and Depression
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Rosellini (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
The Role of Reward Maximization in Interval Timing Tasks
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Scott (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Does Variation in TMPRSS2 Correspond to Differences in SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility in US Ethnic Populations?
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Schmitt (CAS Anthropology: Biology)
The Relationship Between Systemic Racism and Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality: Findings, Implications, and Policy Solutions
Faculty Mentor: Michael Siegel (SPH Community Health Sciences)
Identifying Systemic Racism in Music Education
Faculty Mentor: Michael Reynolds (CFA Strings and Chamber Music)
Recruitment of Global Genomic Regulators by Transcription Factors
Faculty Mentor: Trevor Siggers (CAS Biology)
Cytokine Profiling from T cells Co-cultured with Macrophages Treated with Different RPE Eyecups
Faculty Mentor: Andrew Taylor (MED Ophthalmology)
Study of Novel Organic Semi-conjugated Oligomers for Use in Organic-based Electronics
Faculty Mentor: Malika Jeffries-EL (CAS Chemistry)
Assessing Heat Exposure in Chelsea and East Boston Through a Summer Field Study
Boston University School of Public Health & GreenRoots, Inc., Chelsea, MA
Faculty Mentor: Madeleine Scammell (SPH Environmental Health)
Detecting, Predicting and Remediating Student Affect and Grit Using Computer Vision
Faculty Mentor: Margrit Betke (CAS Computer Science)
Ingestible Micro- Bio-Electronic Device for Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring
Faculty Mentor: Rabia Yazicigil (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dynamics of Neural Networks Modulating Flexible Defensive Responses as a Result of Fear Memory Recall
Faculty Mentor: Steve Ramirez (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
State Suppression: How Existing Hegemons Suppress Rising Powers
Faculty Mentor: Joshua Shifrinson (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies)
Chagas Disease Prevalence Mapping
Faculty Mentor: Malwina Carrion (SAR Health Sciences)
Role of BMP6 in Vascular Function
Faculty Mentor: Shakun Karki (MED Medicine)
A Simple Reaction-Diffusion Model for Early Stage Gastrulation in Mammalian Embryos
Faculty Mentor: Ryan Goh (CAS Mathematics and Statistics)
Unmaking and Remaking Kinship and Questions of Care for Old/New Jews in Israel’s
Transforming Kibbutz: An Archival and Ethnographic Project
Faculty Mentor: Merav Shohet (CAS Anthropology)
Franz Kafka’s 1913 short story collection Contemplation
Faculty Mentor: Abigail Gillman (CAS World Languages & Literatures)
Locating eIF4G: NRAS G4 Binding Site and Studying Exogenous Mutated eIF4G in HeLa Cells under Stressful Conditions
Faculty Mentor: Shawn Lyons (MED Biochemistry)
Care and Suffering Among End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients in Disenfranchised Urban Communities Battling COVID-19
Faculty Mentor: Merav Shohet (CAS Anthropology)
Are the Feminists Taking Over?: A Critical Analysis of Feminist Foreign Policy and Contemporary Feminist Approaches to Global Affairs
Faculty Mentor: Roberta Micallef (CAS World Languages & Literatures)
Effect of Paper Characteristics on Final Image Quality in E. coli Melanin Photographic Prints
Faculty Mentor: Abby Fenn (Graphic Design and Painting)
Fabrication and Measurement of MoS2 Integrated Nanomechanical Resonators
Faculty Mentor: Scott Bunch (ENG Material Science and Engineering)
Describing and Quantifying Potential Alternative Reproductive Behaviors in Male Gliding Treefrogs, Agalychnis Spurrelli
Faculty Mentor: Karen Warkentin (CAS Biology)
Surface Lesion Recovery of Mixed Symbiotic Astrangia Poculata in Response to Starved and Fed Conditions
Faculty Mentor: Randi Rotjan (CAS Biology)
Affected Morphology in the CK2α-deregulated Central Nervous System
Faculty Mentor: Maria Isabel Dominguez (MED Medicine)
Carnal Authenticity: Countercultural Models of American Selfhood and the Fight Against Industrial Society
Faculty Mentor: William Howell (CAS English)
A Comprehensive Review of Common Physical Therapy Conditions and Their Associated Animal Models
Faculty Mentor: LaDora Thompson (SAR Physical Therapy & Athletic Training)
Evaluating Optimal Conditions for LSD1 Inhibitors to Induce Fetal Hemoglobin in Human Erythroid Cells
Faculty Mentor: Shuaiying Cui (MED Medicine)
Approximate Counter-Diabatic Driving in Classical and Quantum Oscillator Systems
Faculty Mentor: Anatoli Polkovnikov (CAS Physics)
Impacts of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi on Pine Invasions in the Southern Hemisphere
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Bhatnagar (CAS Biology)
Exploring Atomic Force Microscopy for Applications in Drug Delivery and Therapy
Faculty Mentor: Dan Cole (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Design and Fabrication of Arm and Tentacles for Soft Robot for Heart Surgery
Faculty Mentor: Tommaso Ranzani (ENG Mechanical, Biomedical, Materials Science)
Optogenetic Investigation of the Role of Dopamine In the Dorsomedial Striatum During Learning Acquisition in A Cognitive Instrumental Task In Mice.
Faculty Mentor: Mark Howe (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Optimal Transport Based Mixup Generalization for Deep Learning
Faculty Mentor: Edward Chien (CAS Computer Science)
Computer Vision-Based Guidance to Doors on Smartphone for Visually Impaired Travelers
Faculty Mentor: Eshed Ohn-Bar (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Visualizing Cell Membrane-localized PKA Dynamics in Migrating 3T3 fibroblasts Using FRET Reporters and Live Cell Imaging
Faculty Mentor: Allyson Sgro (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Politics of the Pandemic: A Quantitative Analysis of the ReOpen Movement in the United States
Faculty Mentor: Jeremy Menchik (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies)
Do Economic and Social Resources Buffer the Impact of Life Shocks on Housing Instability?
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Byrne (SSW School of Social Work)
Multiple Language Discernment
Faculty Mentor: Derry Wijaya (CAS Computer Science)
Defining the Role of WDR61 in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Faculty Mentor: Maria Kukuruzinska (SDM Molecular & Cell Biology)
Measurement and Mathematical Modeling of 2-D Pressurized MoS2 Helmholtz Resonators
Faculty Mentor: Scott Bunch (ENG Material Science and Engineering)
Synthesis and Structural Characterization of a new Palladium Complex with the Condensed Thioamide Redox Active Ligand
Faculty Mentor: Linda Doerrer (CAS Chemistry)
The Relationship Between Emotion Words and Regulation
Faculty Mentor: Nicholas Wagner (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Evaluation of Differential Expression Between Endogenous Scabrous and the Scabrous5-120 Mutant
Faculty Mentor: Kyle Gobrogge (CAS Neuroscience)
Developing a Brain-Age Prediction Model Based on Multi-Modal MRI Datasets: A New Feature for Studying Alzheimer’s Disease
Faculty Mentor: Bang-Bon Koo (MED Anatomy and Neurobiology)
Notch TMD Residues Responsible for Mediating the Interaction with VE-cadherin and Rac1 GEF Trio
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Chen (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
A Modeling Approach to Holistically Assess and Predict the Burden of Child Malnutrition in Yemen
Faculty Mentor: Muhammad Zaman (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Sustainable Urban Living – Portable Vertical Garden & Water Pump System
Faculty Mentor: Joel Brandwine (CFA Technical Production)
Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Broadly Neutralizing anti-HIV gp120 Antibodies to Assess The Specific Etiology of Their Highly Effective anti-HIV Neutralization Capacity
Faculty Mentor: Manish Sagar (MED Medicine)
Exploring Atomic Force Microscopy for Applications in Targeted Cell Therapy
Faculty Mentor: Dan Cole (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Developing an Origami Soft Robotic Needle Deployment Mechanism for Endoscopic Procedures
Faculty Mentor: Sheila Russo (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Determining the Nature of Sub-Syllabic Units in Phonological Working Memory
Faculty Mentor: Frank Guenther (SAR Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences)
Exploring Atomic Force Microscopy for Applications in Drug Delivery and Therapy
Faculty Mentor: Dan Cole (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Investigation of the Mechanism of Activation of the RET Receptor Using GDNF-derived Peptides
Faculty Mentor: Adrian Whitty (CAS Chemistry)
Using a Lanthanide Binding Tag to Assess Conformational Changes in NF-κB Essential Modulator Protein (NEMO)
Faculty Mentor: Karen Allen (CAS Chemistry)
Modeling Institutions of Propaganda: A Cross-cultural, Historical, Political, Evolutionary and Ecological Framework
Faculty Mentor: Laurence Breiner (CAS English)
Effect of Massachusetts House Bill No. 4196 on Electronic Cigarette Use
Faculty Mentor: Michael Siegel (SPH Community Health Sciences)
Examining the Role of Affective Arousal on Pupillary Light Responses.
Faculty Mentor: Sam Ling (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Interaction Between the Termite Gut Microbiome and Brain Metabolism
Faculty Mentor: James Traniello (CAS Biology)
The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same: British Economic, Military, and Geopolitical Influence in Independence India, 1947-1965.
Faculty Mentor: Jayita Sarkar (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies)
Subgroup Analysis on Factors Affecting Unemployment Duration – Who are the Most Disadvantaged?
Faculty Mentor: Ishita Dey (CAS Economics)
The Nature & Contexts of Teachers’ Affective Experiences
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Bettini (SED Special Education)
Solidarite Kont Stigmatizasyon (Solidarity Against Stigmatization)
Faculty Mentor: Jasmine Abrams (SPH Community Health Sciences)
The Effect of D1 and D2 Dopamine-Receptor Modulation on Addiction to Ethanol in Drosophila melanogaster
Faculty Mentor: Kyle Gobrogge (CAS Neuroscience)
Monte Carlo Method Applied to Edge Resolved Transient Imaging system
Faculty Mentor: Vivek Goyal (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Assessing the Ecological Impacts of Outplanting Acropora Cervicornis on Caribbean Coral Reefs
Faculty Mentor: Leslie Kaufman (CAS Biology)
The “Aging Disaster”* of Covid19: The Association of Social Isolation and Loneliness to Perceived Health, Psychological Wellbeing, and Material Hardship Among Boston Residents Age 60 and Older
Faculty Mentor: Judith Gonyea (SSW Social Research)
Soft-Robotic Stabilization Mechanism Modeling for Bronchoscopy
Faculty Mentor: Sheila Russo (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Qualitative Analysis of Interventions to Reduce Mental Health Disparities Among Latinx and Other Marginalized Children
Faculty Mentor: Ruth Paris (SSW Clinical Practice)
Earth Agency: How understanding the Earth impacts concerns about transgressions against the environment
Faculty Mentor: Deborah Kelemen (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Listening Effort under Auditory Masking Conditions in Persons with Acquired Aphasia and Age-and Hearing-Matched Controls
Faculty Mentor: Tyler Perrachione (SAR Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences)
Role of Neutrophil Elastase (NE) on Autophagy Activities and Signal Pathways in the Liver of NE Knockout and Wild Type Mice
Faculty Mentor: Zhen Jiang (MED Pharmacology)
Early Career Research Project
Faculty Mentor: Jerry Whitmore (SED Higher Education Administration)
A Study of Organizational Resilience: Two North Carolina El Sistema-inspired Nonprofits Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Faculty Mentor: Brian Kellum (CFA Music Education)
Development of a Method for Detecting and Monitoring Electric Fields on the Surface of Electrodynamic Screens
Faculty Mentor: Malay Mazumder (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Effect of Heterogeneous Surface Geometry on Dendrite Growth in Lithium Batteries
Faculty Mentor: Emily Ryan (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Parent Role in Child Academic Development During Transitions in Highly Mobile Military Families
Faculty Mentor: Renee Spencer (SSW Human Behavior)
Drawing Trees: An Investigation Into the Structure, Science, Aesthetics and Metaphysical Inspiration of Trees
Faculty Mentor: Breehan James (CFA Painting)
Spatial Working Memory Testing Using VR & Visually Guided Navigation
Faculty Mentor: Lucia Vaina (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Youth Narratives of the State
Faculty Mentor: Max Greenberg (CAS Sociology)
AfriWon Research Collaborative Pilot Program Evaluation and Post-Program Support
Faculty Mentor: Chelsea McGuire (MED Family Medicine)
Commentary as Authorship in Medieval Spanish Literature: Examining Juan Manuel’s Manipulation of Religious Modes of Rhetoric in Secular Literature
Faculty Mentor: Anita Savo (CAS Romance Studies)
Extracellular DNA Extraction and Analysis of Carbonate Hosted Microbial Communities
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Marlow (CAS Biology)
Imaging Spectrometer for Spatially and Spectrally Resolved Imaging
Faculty Mentor: Siddharth Ramachandran (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering; Physics; Material Science and Engineering)
Trajectories of Doctoral Students in the Biological Sciences: A Hidden Markov Model Approach
Faculty Mentor: Jerry Whitmore (SED Higher Education Administration)
Smooth Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) Modeling of the Effect of Pulse Charging Cycles on Dendrite Growth in Lithium Metal Batteries
Faculty Mentor: Emily Ryan (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
2D Metal-Organic Framework Characterization and Synthesis: Ni-BDC
Faculty Mentor: Xi Ling (CAS Chemistry; (ENG) Materials Science and Engineering)
The Effect of COVID-19 on TBLION Nutritional Data
Faculty Mentor: Lindsey Locks (SAR Health Sciences)
Dogs or Foxes? Applying Metric Analysis to Distinguish Canids in the Archaeological Record
Faculty Mentor: Catherine West (CAS Archaeology)
The Rise of Online Extremism: A Comparison of the Incel and TradWife Movements
Faculty Mentor: Jessica Stern (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies)
Neuroinflammatory Response in Mice with Selective Deletion of TIA1 in Microglia After Lipopolysaccharide and Kainic Acid Treatment
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Wolozin (MED Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics)
Studying the Scattering Behavior of Caviton Collisions in a Saturated Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
Faculty Mentor: Ryan Goh (CAS Mathematics)
Mapping Fracture Risk of The Human Proximal Femur by Finite Element Modelling
Faculty Mentor: Elise Morgan (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Understanding Weather Impacts on Baseball Flight
Faculty Mentor: Leonard Andres (CGS Natural Sciences)
Effects of Perinatal Choline Supplementation on Cntnap2 Mice Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Faculty Mentor: Tiffany Mellott (MED Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
Building Capacity to adapt to Excessive Heat Exposure in Chelsea and East Boston Through Analysis of Personal and Home Temperature Patterns
Faculty Mentor: Madeleine Scammell (SAR Environmental Health)
Investigating the Molecular and Phenotypic Differences in Cancer Cells with Functional Loss of Either ATRX or DAXX
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Heaphy (MED Medicine)
Investigating Effects of Human Adenovirus Transcriptional Regulators on Antiviral Immune Evasion
Faculty Mentor: Juan Fuxman-Bass (CAS Biology)
Enabling Single Molecule Conductance Measurements in Polar Solvents Using Apiezon Wax-coated Gold Tips
Faculty Mentor: Masha Kamenetska (CAS Chemistry, Physics and Material Science and Engineering)
Mobile Applications for the Assessment of Memory and Cognition in Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and Healthy Aging
Faculty Mentor: Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
The Synthesis of Blinking Fluorescent Dyes for Protein Identification and Localization Through dSTORM
Faculty Mentor: Aaron Beeler (CAS Chemistry)
Functional Printer with Direct Ink Writing for Automated Manufacturing of Electric Circuits
Faculty Mentor: William Boley (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Print Head Extruder for Coaxial Printing of Two Functional Inks
Faculty Mentor: William Boley (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Restoration of Autophagy using Biodegradable Nanoparticles in a Human Midbrain Organoid Model of Parkinson’s Disease
Faculty Mentor: Xue Han (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Young Men and Media
Faculty Mentor: Kimberly Nelson (SPH Community Health Sciences)
Lab of Contemplative Studies “Cancer Study”
Faculty Mentor: Brenda Phillips (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Developing System Tests for the CMS Endcap Timing Layer Detector
Faculty Mentor: Indara Suarez (CAS Physics)
Growth Factor Transport Modelling in Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Michael Albro (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Identifying Functional Components of Human Primary Bone Exosomes That Drive Prostate Cancer Progression
Faculty Mentor: Gerald Denis (MED Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics)
Longitudinal Study of Child Mental Health and Socioeconomic Hardship in the Time of COVID-19
Faculty Mentor: Andrea Spencer (MED Psychiatry)
Effects of Climate Change Across Seasons on Litterfall Nitrogen and Carbon in a Northern Hardwood Forest
Faculty Mentor: Pamela Templer (CAS Biology)
Termite Immunity and Brain Metabolism
Faculty Mentor: James Traniello (CAS Biology)
Advancing Automated Distributed Tracing in the Cloud
Faculty Mentor: Ayse Coskun (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
COVID-19 in Universities Across America
Faculty Mentor: Evimaria Terzi (CAS Computer Science)
The Clinical Applications of Digital Technology in Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia
Faculty Mentor: Rhoda Au (MED Anatomy and Neurobiology)
Russian-Arab Worlds: Lives and Documents
Faculty Mentor: Margaret Litvin (CAS World Languages & Literatures)
Revealing Dynamic Features of Learning and Memory Operations Across the Adult Lifespan Using a Novel Computational Framework of Massive Feature Extraction
Faculty Mentor: Robert Reinhart (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
AfriWon Research Collaborative (ARC) Systematic Review
Faculty Mentor: Chelsea McGuire (MED Family Medicine)
Manipulating Maladaptive Aversive (Fear) and Appetitive (Drug-Related) Memories
Faculty Mentor: Steve Ramirez (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Out of Bounds: The Borders of the Bayeux Tapestry, Model Books and the Loire Valley (tentative title)
Faculty Mentor: Deborah Kahn (CAS History of Art & Architecture)
Development of Constant-complexity Stochastic Simulation Algorithm with Optimal binning: testing and extension to spatial processes
Faculty Mentor: Samuel Isaacson (CAS Mathematics and Statistics)
Keyboards are the New Ticonderoga #2: The Impact of Digitalization and Readiness Thresholds on Standardized Testing Outcomes.
Faculty Mentor: Ivan Fernandez-Val (CAS Economics)
Deep Learning Applications in Brain Cancer Research
Faculty Mentor: Arash Yazdanbakhsh (CAS Neuroscience)
Laminar and Area-based Analysis of the Muscarinic Inhibitory Neurons’ Distribution in Neuromodulatory Pathways in the ACC
Faculty Mentor: Maria Medalla (MED Anatomy and Neurobiology)
Ionic Liquids as Electrolytes for Future Batteries
Faculty Mentor: David Coker (CAS Chemistry)
Catching COVID or ‘Catching Feelings’?
Weighing the Risks of Dating and Commitment During a Global Pandemic
Faculty Mentor: Nancy Smith-Hefner (CAS Anthropology)
Working Conditions and Instructional Decision Making in Classrooms for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (EBD).
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Bettini (SED Special Education)
Determination of Mutant Alleles R59Op, A337V, and L256P in the Aldolase B Gene of Patients with Hereditary Fructose Intolerance Using Amplification Refractory Mutation System
Faculty Mentor: Dean Tolan (CAS Biology)
Development of a Behavioral Motor Task to Measure Task-Specific Brain Activity During Stroke Recovery
Faculty Mentor: David Boas (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
American Heart Association (AHA) P1 Digital Phenotyping of Brain Health
Faculty Mentor: Rhoda Au (MED Anatomy and Neurobiology)
Role of NEURL4 Protein in mtDNA Maintenance and Regulation of Immune Response in a Mouse Myoblast Model
Faculty Mentor: Valentina Perissi (MED Biochemistry)
Examining Brain Processes Underlying Voice Motor Control Through Computational Modeling
Faculty Mentor: Frank Guenther (SAR Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences)
Anomaly Diagnosis in High-Performance Computing Systems Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning
Faculty Mentor: Ayse Coskun (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
How Students React to Mathematically Captivating Learning Experiences
Faculty Mentor: Leslie Dietiker (SED Mathematics Education)
Comparative Analysis of Kidney Tubular and Fibrosis Phenotypes in Two Genetically Modified Mouse Models
Faculty Mentor: Weining Lu (MED Medicine)
Alveolar Epithelial Type 2 Cell Proliferation and Maturation in Response to P53
Faculty Mentor: Darrell Kotton (MED Medicine)
Exploring Atomic Force Microscopy for Applications in Targeted Cell Therapy
Faculty Mentor: Dan Cole (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Assessing the Role of Winter Processes on the Formation and Expansion of Potholes Leading to the Deterioration of Northern Salt Marsh Systems
Faculty Mentor: Duncan FitzGerald (CAS Earth & Environmental)
Bone Exosomes from Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Up-regulate Transcription of Mesenchymal Genes in Prostate Cancer Cells
Faculty Mentor: Gerald Denis (MED Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics)
Screen Printing Recombinant E. coli and Melanin Structure Determination and Preservation
Faculty Mentor: Lucy Kim (CFA Painting)
Designing LRAM Structures in Cement/3D-printed Scaffold for Transmission Enhancement in the Low-frequency Range (50Hz to 10kHz) for Future Demonstrations.
Faculty Mentor: Xin Zhang (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Perkins Automation Project
Faculty Mentor: Philip Muirhead (CAS Astronomy)
Investigating the Effect of Parental Environment on Larval Dispersal Traits
Faculty Mentor: Peter Buston (CAS Biology)
Money and Migration: The Role of Earmarked Funding in the UNHCR and Global Migration Policies
Faculty Mentor: Noora Lori (Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies)
Cholangiocyte-derived Liver Regeneration
Faculty Mentor: Valerie Gouon-Evans (MED Medicine)
Mapping the Anatomical Distribution of Sca and its Role in Conditioned Alcohol Preference in Drosophila
Faculty Mentor: Kyle Gobrogge (CAS Neuroscience)
Visualization of the Effects of CSNK2A1 Mutants on Cranial Neural Crest Development as it Relates to Okur-Chung Neurodevelopmental Syndrome
Faculty Mentor: Maria Isabel Dominguez (MED Medicine)
Degree Abstraction in Mòoré
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Coppock (CAS Linguistics)
Creating Antiracist Modules to Support Antiracist Student Researchers at UROP
Faculty Mentor: Carrie Preston (CAS English; Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies)
Youth Program Study
Faculty Mentor: Max Greenberg (CAS Sociology)
Exemplary School Career Development: Exemplars of Practice
Faculty Mentor: Kimberly Howard (SED Counseling Psychology)
Impact of COVID-19 on Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Their Care Partners
Faculty Mentor: Alice Cronin-Golomb (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Search for New Electroweakly Produced Particles at the LHC
Faculty Mentor: Indara Suarez (CAS Physics)
Autism and Foreign Language Learning
Faculty Mentor: Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
A Comparative Study of Selected Persian Sources on the Mughal Gardens of Kashmir
Faculty Mentor: Jan Haenraets (CAS American & New England Studies)
Tagging and Reactivating a Positively-Valenced Memory Using Optogenetics to Disrupt the Reconsolidation of a Negatively-Valenced Memory
Faculty Mentor: Steve Ramirez (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Understanding Clinical Settings for Cervical Cancer Screening and HPV Vaccination in the U.S., A Scoping Review
Faculty Mentor: Eleanor Murray (SPH Epidemiology)
The Association of Chronic Health Conditions of Self and Family with Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression during COVID-19
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Rosellini (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Persons With Aphasia at the Cocktail Party: Influence of Linguistic-Semantic Factors on Selective Attention to Target Speech
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Villard (SAR Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences)
The Effect of Wolbachia in Drosophila Intestinal Stem Cell Tumors
Faculty Mentor: Horacio Frydman (CAS Biology)
Discourse Analysis: A Novel Method for Assessing the Efficacy of an Intensive Cognitive Rehabilitation Program for Young College-bound Adults with Acquired Brain Injury
Faculty Mentor: Swathi Kiran (SAR Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences)
Simulating Diverse Pedestrians for Inclusive Autonomous Driving
Faculty Mentor: Eshed Ohn-Bar (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Quantitative Computer Model of cyclic-di-GMP Regulation in Bacillus subtilis During Biofilm Formation
Faculty Mentor: Allyson Sgro (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Fabrication of Low-cost Gaskets Using a Consumer CNC Pen Plotter
Faculty Mentor: Selim Unlu (ENG Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Microplastic Density and Distribution on Associated Seagrass Species Zostera Marina Throughout Sites of Varying Coastline Development Along Massachusetts Intertidal Zones
Faculty Mentor: Alyssa Novak (CAS Earth & Environment)
Ice in the Anthropocene, Then And Now
Faculty Mentor: Craciun Adriana (CAS English)
Summer 2021 Award Recipients
Alktaish, Ward
Novel Mechanistic Insights on Bacterial Sepsis
Faculty Mentor: Yang Jin (MED Medicine)
Amato Bauer, Eva
Student Perceptions of Safety on Campus: Contributing Risk Factors and Identifying Communities with Low Senses of Safety on the Boston University Charles River Campus
Faculty Mentor: Erika Wells (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Ausra, Nojus
Investigating the Novel Molecular Regulators of Bacterial-induced Inflammation and Sepsis
Faculty Mentor: Yang Jin (MED Medicine)
Ayre, Meghan
The Cost of Extreme Weather-related Events on United States Military Installations
Faculty Mentor: Rosella Cappella (CAS Political Science)
Bacchus, Yeelin
Implementing a Fidelity Tool to Evaluate Centering Parenting
Faculty Mentor: Renee Boynton-Jarrett (MED Pediatrics)
Bahlous-Boldi, Adam
Studying the Earth’s Extended Atmosphere by Analyzing Lyman-alpha Spectral Emissions Using GISSMO
Faculty Mentor: Brian Walsh (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Bakre, Shirin
Engineering Protein Signal Peptides for More Effective WNT Ligand Secretion from Endothelial Cells
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Chen (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Ballecer, Violette
Relationship Between Local Forcing and Temperature in an Urban Environment
Faculty Mentor: Robert Kaufmann (CAS Earth & Environment)
Barnes, Katie
Which Bodies: A Content Analysis of Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance TikTok
Faculty Mentor: Catherine Connell (CAS Sociology/WGS)
Battcock-Emerson, Madelyn
Improving Camelina Sativa’s Anti-herbivory Chemical Defense Repertoire by Introduction of the Arabidopsis Thaliana Genes that Increase Glucosinolate Production
Faculty Mentor: John Celenza (CAS Biology)
Beatty, Charlotte
“Throwing Out Tradition and Creating New Timelines: College Student Attitudes Towards Marriage and Family”
Faculty Mentor: Nancy Smith-Hefner (CAS Anthropology)
Becerril, Carolina
The Influence of Social Media on Disorderly Eating and Body Image Issues Among College Students
Faculty Mentor: Paula Quatromoni (SAR Nutrition)
Beebe, Nicholas
Transcending “Race” in Forensic Anthropology: Producing Metric Models from Pelvis Measurements (of CT Scans) for Biological Sex Estimation
Faculty Mentor: Sean Tallman (MED Anatomy & Neurobiology)
Belcher, Hadwin
The Effect of Lateral Trunk Position and Contralateral Pelvic Drop on Frontal Plane Hip and Knee Moments
Faculty Mentor: Cara Lewis (SAR Physical Therapy)
Bender, Joshua
Simulating Interactions Between Roots and Soil Using LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator)
Faculty Mentor: Douglas Holmes (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Berard, Brennon
Molecular Characterization of Neuritogenesis by RET-mediated Signaling Dynamics in Differentiating Neuroblastoma Cells
Faculty Mentor: Adrian Whitty (CAS Chemistry)
Bernard, Michelle
Contribution of Mutations in SMAD6 to Risk of Craniosynostosis
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Fisher (MED Pharmacology)
Berniac, Gabriela
Conditioning Neural Progenitor Cells for Transplantation into Injury Environments in the Central Nervous System
Faculty Mentor: Timothy O’Shea (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Bhargava, Kaveri
Exploring the Interplay Between Alternative Nearby Promoters
Faculty Mentor: Ana Fiszbein (CAS Biology)
Bolognino, John
Fisheye Re-ID: Reliably Counting People in Large Indoor Spaces
Faculty Mentor: Prakash Ishwar (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Bronson, Hayden
Measurement of Top-W Scattering in CMS
Faculty Mentor: Indara Suarez (CAS Physics)
Bruno, Beverly-Danielle
Does Bias Among Medical Professionals Correlate with Black-White Disparities in Postpartum Depression and Mental Healthcare?
Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Curenton-Jolly (SED Education Leadership & Policy Studies; Applied Human Development)
Campion, Mary
Effects of perinatal choline consumption on slowing epigenetic clock changes in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Faculty Mentor: Tiffany Mellott (MED Pathology)
Caplan, Sophie
Print Path Routine for Multimaterial 4D Printing Applications
Faculty Mentor: J. William Boley (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Captan, Fiona
Radiation Sickness as Preexisting Condition: COVID-19 in Sites of Nuclear Infrastructure in Nevada
Faculty Mentor: Jayita Sarkar (CAS Pardee)
Carias, Sophia
Characterizing Individual Differences in Children’s Motivations for Forgiveness
Faculty Mentor: Peter Blake (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Chaharom, Caspian
DarkQuest: A Classic Experiment with a New Window to Dark Sectors
Faculty Mentor: David Sperka (CAS Physics)
Challain, Julie
Evaluating the Relationship Between Oral Contraceptive Use and Depression
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Rosellini (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Chan, Nora
Robotic Exosuit Augmented Locomotion (REAL) gait training
Faculty Mentor: Louis Awad (SAR Physical Therapy and Athletic Training)
Chang, Danielle
Chinese Typography in Contemporary Culture
Faculty Mentor: Mary Yang (CFA Graphic Design)
Charny, Kira
Are Children “Happy Victimizers” When They Receive More Than Others?
Faculty Mentor: Peter Blake (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Chen, Angela
Screening Compound Collections for Inhibitors of the KEAP1-Nrf2 Protein-protein Interaction
Faculty Mentor: Adrian Whitty (CAS Chemistry)
Chen, Qingyan
Identification of a Small Molecule Inhibitor of GIV-Gαi Interaction for Cancer-associated Signaling Complex Targeting
Faculty Mentor: Mikel Garcia-Marcos (MED Biochemistry)
Chen, Wanyi
China Historical Christian Database: Mapping the Social and Spatial Relationships of Christianity in China, from 1550 to 1950
Faculty Mentor: Daryl Ireland (STH Mission)
Cheng, Fagzhou
The Role of Glutaredoxin-1 in Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction Associated with Binge Drinking
Faculty Mentor: Jingyan Han (MED Vascular Biology)
Cheng, Victoria
China Historical Christian Database (CHCD): Mapping the History of Christianity in China from 1550-1950
Faculty Mentor: Eugenio Menegon (CAS History)
Chiulli, Nicole
The Role of Reward Maximization in Interval Timing Tasks
Faculty Mentor: Ben Scott (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Chodes, Allison
Children’s Propensity for Generalizing: Exploring Assumed Prevalence of In-group Characteristics
Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Corriveau (SED Applied Human Development)
Clark, Quentin
Electronic Structure Density Functional Theory Hyperparameter Optimization Framework
Faculty Mentor: Sahar Sharifzadeh (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Cole, Rebecca
Oxycodone MSAAP Strain Survey
Faculty Mentor: Camron Bryant (MED Pharmacology)
Cordeiro Lopes, Elisa
Classifying States of Anesthesia in Mice using Local Field Potentials and Fluorescent Calcium Activity
Faculty Mentor: John White (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Cowan, Sadie
The Changing Tides of Mass Incarceration
Faculty Mentor: Heather Schoenfeld (CAS Sociology)
de Kock, Ryan
Study of Novel Organic Semi-conjugated Oligomers for Use in Organic Based Electronics
Faculty Mentor: Malika Jeffries-EL (CAS Chemistry)
De Laney, Maura
Faculty Perceptions of Academic Misconduct of International Students and Students of Color
Faculty Mentor: Andrea Mercurio (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Degtiareva, Vera
Investigating How LAs and TFs Facilitate Group Work in an Active Learning Environment
Faculty Mentor: Manher Jariwala (CAS Physics)
Desai, Niharika
Nutrition and NF-κB in Aiptasia
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Gilmore (CAS Biology)
Diaz Lainez, Sebastian
Development of an Autonomous System to Study 3D Printed Impact Absorbers
Faculty Mentor: Keith Brown (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
DiFillipo, Alexis
Disparities Amongst Popular Epidemiology Movements: How Power Structures Enforce Racism and Classism
Faculty Mentor: Japonica Brown-Saracino (CAS Sociology/WGS)
Dow, Delaney
Improving CT-based Lung Cancer Diagnosis Via In Silico Deformatio Mapping Biophysical Characteristics of Lungs
Faculty Mentor: Hadi Nia (ENG Biomedical Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering)
Duffy, Erin
How Does the Type and Amount of Parental Social Support Buffer Against Stress from COVID to Promote Parent and Child Mental Health?
Faculty Mentor: Nicholas Wagner (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Edwards, Thierry
Development of Computational Pipeline for the Analysis of COF and TF Interaction
Faculty Mentor: Trevor Siggers (CAS Biology)
Enkhbayar, Khaliun
The Role of Stab2 in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche
Faculty Mentor: Elliott Hagedorn (MED Medicine)
Faber-Rico, Bella
Cultural Dynamics of Queer Body Image in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Faculty Mentor: Merav Shohet (CAS Anthropology)
Famin, Dina
This project has no name at this point. It will focus on the final two and a half years of Franz Kafka’s life, 1922-1924, looking at his diaries, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and published works.
Faculty Mentor: Abigail Gillman (CAS World Languages and Literatures)
Fan, Alice
Expanding the Lantern Complex Library: Anthracene-9-Thiocarboxamide as a Backbone Ligand
Faculty Mentor: Linda Doerrer (CAS Chemistry)
Fayie, Soumaya
Development of a BioBank for Various COVID-19 Sample Types
Faculty Mentor: Catherine Klapperich (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Feng, Helen
Interrogate the Interaction Between Transcription from Alternative Promoter
Faculty Mentor: Ana Fizbein (CAS Biology)
Filippova, Sofiya
Solid Sorbent Carbon Capture
Faculty Mentor: Emily Ryan (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Finn, Delaney
Social Empowerment and an Ethic of Care in Music Education
Faculty Mentor: Karin Hendricks (CFA Music Education)
Foran, Christine
ALDO B Wild-type and Knockout Allele Primer Design
Faculty Mentor: Dean Tolan (CAS Biology)
Fraser, Katherine
Listener Perception and Identification of Asian American Speech
Faculty Mentor: Charles Chang (CAS Linguistics)
Frias, Jodee
Identifying Specific Lipid Species in Tissue Using Shortwave Infrared Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging
Faculty Mentor: Darren Roblyer (ENG Biomedical Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Friedman, Harrison
Modeling the Human Survivability Threshold in At-Risk Regions
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Sussman (CAS Mathematics & Statistics)
Fritea, Nikolas
Effect of Netarsudil on Volume of Giant Vacuoles in Schlemm’s Canal Endothelial Cells of Human Eyes
Faculty Mentor: Haiyan Gong (MED Ophthalmology)
Gan, Yaoyuan
Investigating Long Non-coding RNA in Corals Symbiont Partner Symbiodiniaceae
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Davies (CAS Biology)
Garcia, Arturo
Security Assessment of Connected Vehicles (C-V2X Technology)
Faculty Mentor: David Starobinski (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Garcia, David
The Role of Beta Catenin and P2X7 Cell-cell Signaling, Migration, and Actin Rearrangement in the Context of Corneal Wound Healing in Diabetic and Normal Mice Models
Faculty Mentor: Vickery Trinkaus-Randall (MED Biochemistry)
Gardiner, John
Retinal Regulation of Antigen Presentation and Processing
Faculty Mentor: Andrew Taylor (MED Ophthalmology)
Gilbert, Evan
“The Racialized Dating Experiences of Asian, Black, and Latinx Members of the LGBTQ Community”
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Millier (CAS Sociology/WGS)
Gillis, Melissa
Development of Lipid Nanoparticles to Prevent and Treat SARS-CoV-2
Faculty Mentor: Mark Grinstaff (CAS Chemistry)
Goldfeder, Nichole
The Effect of 4-Aminopyridine on Action Potential and Synaptic Transmission in the Crayfish Neuromuscular Junction
Faculty Mentor: Jen-Wei Lin (CAS Biology)
Gomatam, Kiran
Testing Prototype of Soft Robot for Heart Surgery using Modeling and Physical Tests
Faculty Mentor: Tommaso Ranzani (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Graham, Benjamin
Optogenetic investigation of the Dorsomedial Striatum during Instrumental and Pavlovian Learning in Mice
Faculty Mentor: Mark Howe (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Hahm, Christian
Do Economic and Social Resources Buffer the Impact of Life Shocks on Housing Instability?
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Byrne (SSW School of Social Work)
Harkopf, Isabella
Critical Pedagogy in School Music Programs: Examining the Disconnect Between Teacher Preparation and Active Teaching
Faculty Mentor: Kelly Bylica (CFA Music Education)
Haynes, Alyssa
Characterizing Responses of Bacterial Communities to Rapid Environmental Changes
Faculty Mentor: Joseph Larkin (CAS Physics, Biology)
Hernandez, Ricardo
Betulin Remodeling of Raman Active Derivatives
Faculty Mentor: John Snyder (CAS Chemistry)
Herning, Ana
Synthesis of O2-Sensitive Alkoxide Fe(II) Complexes and Evaluation of their C-H Bond Oxidation Reactivity
Faculty Mentor: Linda Doerrer (CAS Chemistry)
Hill, Emily
Developing a Caffeine-inducible Split Recombinase System in Zebrafish
Faculty Mentor: Hui Feng (MED Pharmacology)
Holbrook, Otto
Evaluation of Differential Expression between Endogenous Scabrous and the Scabrous5-120 Mutant
Faculty Mentor: Kyle Gobrogge (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Huang, Sarah
P53 and PI3K Cooperativity in Squamous Lung Cancer: a Role for Autophagy Pathway Regulation
Faculty Mentor: Anurag Singh (MED Pharmacology)
Huang, Yongyuan
Evaluating Current Work on Enhancing Research Ethics at Boston University to Build Well-Rounded Researchers
Faculty Mentor: Carrie Preston (CAS English)
Hui, Veronica
Exploring the Role of Breast Cancer Associated Paracrine Signaling on the Morphologic and Invasive Behavior of Nearby WT Mammary Epithelium
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Chen (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Hussein, Abdelaziz
Identifying Plasma Conditions Associated with Fast Flows in Space Optical Emissions in the Upper Atmosphere
Faculty Mentor: Toshi Nishimura (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Hutchison, Ainsley
Effects of Corin on Epigenetic Change in Metastatic Melanocytes in Vivo: A Study with Xenopus Laevis Embryos
Faculty Mentor: Laura Lowery (MED Hematology & Oncology)
Hwangpo, Diane
The Effect of Manipulated Visual Cues on the Adaptive Size Modification of Clown Anemonefish (Amphiprion percula)
Faculty Mentor: Pete Buston (CAS Biology)
Jacimovic, Nadja
How Students Learn and Prepare Effectively for Classroom Work in Chemistry: Assessing the Utility of Question-embedded Videos
Faculty Mentor: Binyomin Abrams (CAS Chemistry)
Jadick, Michalina
Comparative Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid Markers and Multimodal Imaging in Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease Progression
Faculty Mentor: Vijaya Kolachalama (MED Medicine)
Jain, Arkash
Ultrafast Two Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Supercritical Fluids: Energy Relaxation and Local Critical Slowing Effects
Faculty Mentor: Lawrence Ziegler (CAS Chemistry)
Janke, Taylor
Developing an Origami Soft Robotic Needle Deployment Mechanism for Endoscopic Procedures
Faculty Mentor: Sheila Russo (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Jurgensen, JohnMichael
How the Mainstream Shifts: Propaganda and the Use of Language
Faculty Mentor: Laurence Breiner (CAS English)
Kao, Brandon
Investigating the Role of Glucose Levels in Tendon Health In Vitro
Faculty Mentor: Brianne Connizzo (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Kaufmann, Marine
Examining the Role of Affective Arousal on Pupillary Light Responses
Faculty Mentor: Sam Ling (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Khoudary, Anthony
Optogenetic Investigation of the Role of Inhibitory Interneurons in Spatiotemporal Sequence Learning within the Primary Visual Cortex
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Gavornik (CAS Biology)
Kilcawley, Shana
Examining the Effects of Parent-Child Interactions during Storybook Reading on Language Delay
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Zuk (SAR Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences)
Kim, Connor
Examination of Prothrombotic Milieu of CKD patients
Faculty Mentor: Vipul Chitalia (MED Medicine)
Kim, Dain
Quantifying Dissolved Organic Matter Optical Characteristics and Reactivity in a Local Marsh-influenced Estuary (Plum Island Estuary, MA) Through Incubation Experiments and Remote Sensing
Faculty Mentor: Cedric Fichot (CAS Earth & Environment)
King, Simon
The Nature & Contexts of Teachers’ Affective Experiences
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Bettini (SED Special Education)
Klein, Piers
Mechanisms of Marburgvirus Transcription and Replication
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Fearns (MED Microbiology)
Knox, Carlton
Thermal Analysis of Emerging Cooling Solutions for High-Performance Processors
Faculty Mentor: Ayse Coskun (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Kolaghassi, Rashid
Lower Operating Temperature of the Solid Oxide Membrane-Based Electrolysis Process for Solar-grade Silicon Production
Faculty Mentor: Uday Pal (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Kostina, Elizabeth
Spatial Linguistics: Movement as Morphology, Spatial Syntax, and the Phonological Ornament
Faculty Mentor: Japonica Brown-Saracino (CAS Sociology)
Kozlov, Nika
Evaluating the Function of Agonists of PGC-1a, SR-18292 and ZLN005, in Sickle Cell Disease Mice
Faculty Mentor: Shuaiying Cui (MED Medicine)
Krishna Kumar, Meera
Treating Adolescent Depression Through A Family-Focused Online Intervention Program
Faculty Mentor: Martha Tompson (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Lane, Ryan
Transcriptional Activity of Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Protein
Faculty Mentor: Juan Fuxman-Bass (CAS Biology)
Laudon, Aksel
SRGAP1: Podocyte Friend or Foe?
Faculty Mentor: Weining Lu (MED Medicine)
Le, Teresa
2 Projects (each lasts for 5 weeks)
Experiment 1: Effect of Chronic Social Defeat Stress on PACAP Levels in CeA and BNST
Experiment 2: Effect of the PAC1-R antagonist PA-8 on the Negative Outcomes of Chronic Social Defeat Stress
Faculty Mentor: Pietro Cottone (MED Pharmacology and Psychiatry)
Lee, Harin
Soft-Robotic Stabilization Mechanism Modeling for Bronchoscopy
Faculty Mentor: Sheila Russo (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Lee, Pearl
Clinico-radiographic Predictors of Progression in Benign Lung Nodules Found on Screening CT Scans
Faculty Mentor: Kei Suzuki (MED Surgery)
Lee, Yennie
Listening Effort under Auditory Masking Conditions in Persons with Acquired Aphasia and Age-and Hearing-Matched Controls
Faculty Mentor: Tyler Perrachione (SAR Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences)
Lei, Yang
Investigating the Effect of CKLF on Treg in MYCN-Driven Neuroblastoma
Faculty Mentor: Hui Feng (MED Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics)
Leung, Ying Hei
The Impact of COVID-19 on Policy Making Participation Among Boston Music Educators
Faculty Mentor: Kelly Bylica (CFA Music Education)
Li, Yuke
Screening of Genomic Loci in Natural Isolates of D. discoideum for Targeted Integration Sites
Faculty Mentor: Allyson Sgro (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Liao, Sarah
Assessment of Dietary Intake with a State-of-the-art Wearable Sensor
Faculty Mentor: Megan McCrory (SAR Health Sciences, Programs in Nutrition)
Lim, Raymond
Designing a Heat Dissipation Device for a Ferromagnetic 3D Printer
Faculty Mentor: William Boley (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Lim, Zi Heng
Development of a Fully Soft Robot for Minimally Invasive Intracardiac Surgery
Faculty Mentor: Tommaso Ranzani (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Lin, Benjamin
Role of Neutrophil Elastase (NE) on Autophagy Activities and Signal Pathways in the Liver of NE Knockout and Wild Type Mice
Faculty Mentor: Zhen Jiang (MED Pharmacology)
Lin, Mable
Studying C-fos Immediate Early Gene Expression in Mouse Monocular Visual Cortex with Monocular Visual Sequence Stimulation
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Gavornik (CAS Biology)
Liu, Amber
Role of Aortic Carboxypeptidase-like Protein in Connective Tissue Assembly
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Layne (MED Biochemistry)
Liu, Timothy
Image Reconstruction of Amyloid β Electron Microscopy Micrographs
Faculty Mentor: David Harris (MED Biochemistry)
Lohse, Max
Creation of a Conditional hnRNPUL1 Knock-out in Human Cell Culture Using CRISPR/Cas9
Faculty Mentor: Michael Blower (MED Biochemistry)
Love, Mattie
Detecting the Extent of the Role of NPF in Ethanol Reward in Drosophila Using Automated Activity Monitoring
Faculty Mentor: Kyle Gobrogge (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Lu, James
Understanding the Role of Nuclear YAP in Affecting Ciliated Cell Fate
Faculty Mentor: Xaralabos Varelas (MED Biochemistry)
Madsen Hardy, Ione
Building Prosodic Profiles for Pediatric Autism Spectrum Disorder and Language-Based Learning Disability
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Zuk (SAR Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences)
Mahan, Lydia
Preliminary Analysis of Dietary Supplementation Usage in the TBLION Study by TBLION Participants in Tamil Nadu, India
Faculty Mentor: Lindsey Locks (SAR Health Sciences)
Malekan, Deborah
Resistance to Frailty: Investigating Immunity to Osteopenia Due to Hormone Deficiency
Faculty Mentor: LaDora Thompson (SAR Athletic Training and Physical Therapy)
Man, Alexi
Disciplinary and Spatial Talk During STEM Activities in Head Start Classrooms
Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Curenton (SED Education Leadership & Policy Studies; Applied Human Development)
Martin, Rachel
Gun Violence 20/20
Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Jay (SPH Community Health Sciences)
Martinez, Catalina
Localizing Muscarinic Receptors Involved in Sequence Learning in Mouse V1
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Gavornik (CAS Biology)
Mazumder, Miguel
Gut Microbiome Mechanism of Early Onset Prostate Cancer Inflammation Among Men
Faculty Mentor: Evan Johnson (MED Medicine)
McCutcheon, Kelley
Characterizing Effects of Perfluorooctanoic Acid on Skeletal Patterning in Lytechinus variegatus and Rescuing these Effects with Nanoparticles
Faculty Mentor: Cynthia Bradham (CAS Biology)
McDonald, Riley
The Effect of 4-AP on Action Potential and Synaptic Potential in the Crayfish Neuromuscular Junction
Faculty Mentor: Jen Wei-Lin (CAS Biology)
Meara, Grace
Exploring the Effect of CKLF on MYCN Amplification Neuroblastoma
Faculty Mentor: Hui Feng (MED Pharmacology)
Medeiros, Gianna
Determining the Effects of Chronic Intermittent Alcohol Drinking on the Levels of the
Neuropeptide PACAP in the BNST
Faculty Mentor: Valentina Sabino (MED Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics)
Menchaca, August
Analyzing the Effects that Project Accelerate Has on the Long Term Success and Interest in STEM Fields of Former Students
Faculty Mentor: Andrew Duffy (CAS Physics)
Mikolaitis, Jayna
Heirlooms as Female Genealogy: An Investigation of Female Labor, Life and Legacy Through the Fiber Arts
Faculty Mentor: Felice Amato (CFA Art Education)
Milgrim, Kira
Seeing the Forest AND the Trees: Computer Vision and Machine Learning Applied to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery at Harvard Forest
Faculty Mentor: Mark Friedl (CAS Earth & Environment)
Miller, John
The Effect of Microbiome Destruction on Endogenous Serotonin Action via the Gut-brain Axis
Faculty Mentor: Kyle Gobrogge (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Minarik, Gillian
Synthesis of 2D Metal-Organic Frameworks
Faculty Mentor: Xi Ling (CAS Chemistry, ENG Materials Science and Engineering)
Mullens, Isabel
Debate-Inspired Classrooms: A CERES Institute for Children & Youth, Boston Debate League and Boston Public School Partnership
Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Zaff (SED Applied Human Development)
Munsiff, Leela
Language Surveying of Limol, Papua New Guinea
Faculty Mentor: Kate Lindsey (CAS Linguistics)
Murillo, Homar
Barriers and Facilitators of Implementing Youth Advisory Boards in Medical Settings
Faculty Mentor: Astraea Augsberger (SSW Clinical Practice)
Negassa, Abgel
Building Capacity to Adapt to Excessive Heat Exposure in Chelsea and East Boston Through Analysis of Personal and Home Temperature Patterns and Photovoice
Faculty Mentor: Madeleine Scammell (SPH Environmental Health)
Newell, Carly
The Effect of Nrp1 on BMM Growth and Osteoclast Proliferation
Faculty Mentor: Paola Divieti Pajevic (SDM Molecular and Cell Biology)
Ngo, Julie
Density of Excitatory and Inhibitory Populations of Neurons In First and High Order Thalamic Nuclei (LGN and MD) in Neurotypical Primate Brains
Faculty Mentor: Basilis Zikopoulos (SAR Health Sciences)
Novakovic, Alexander
Geometry of Biological Cells, with A Case Study on Immune Cells and Viral Psuedocells
Faculty Mentor: Emma Previato (CAS Mathematics and Statistics)
O’Brien, Annalie
Pretesting and Finalization of the REDCap Questionnaire and Preliminary Analysis on the Data of A-PLUS Growth Participants in Nagpur, India
Faculty Mentor: Lindsey Locks (SAR Health Sciences)
Obenreder, Mackenzie
Determining the Effect of Obesity on Breast Cancer Invasion and Escape
Faculty Mentor: Joe Tien (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Olsen, Christopher
KHK Inhibition as a Potential Therapeutic Target for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Faculty Mentor: Dean Tolan (CAS Biochemistry)
Onipede, Yeshim
Adaptive Precommitment Decisions
Faculty Mentor: Joseph McGuire (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Osman, Sarah
Effect of Temperature on Glucosinolate Defense Compound Levels in Brassicaceae Species
Faculty Mentor: John Celenza (CAS Biology)
Ostrovsky, Nicole
Engineering Peptides and Peptidomimetics to Interfere at the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein- ACE2 Interface
Faculty Mentor: Diane Joseph-Mccarthy (ENG BME)
Panchmatia, Ashna
The Factors in Scleroderma Patient’s Serum that Cause Changes in Healthy Endothelial and Lymphatic Cells
Faculty Mentor: Maria Trojanowska (MED Medicine)
Panetta, Eli
The Foreign Language Effect: Trolley Dilemmas and Ethical Decisions in a Foreign Language
Faculty Mentor: Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Pang, Yanni
Serverless on Embedded Bare Metal
Faculty Mentor: Ayse Coskun (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Paredes, Christian
Young Men and Media
Faculty Mentor: Kimberly Nelson (SPH Community Health Sciences)
Park, Elaine
RNAi and the Potential for a Functional Argonaute2 Protein in Zebrafish
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Cifuentes (MED Biochemistry)
Pascuccio, Krizia
Can Higher Diversity Participation in the Economy Affect Crime Rates Internationally?
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Brule (CAS Global Studies)
Paul, Eleanor
The Role of the eIF5 C-Terminal Domain and its Adjacent Disordered Tails in Binding to eIF1A
Faculty Mentor: Assen Marintchev (MED Physiology/Biophysics)
Peng, Yulu
Systematic Evaluation of the Relationship Between Chorus Waves and Electron Pitch Angle Distributions Using Van Allen Probes Observations: Potential Evidence for Nonlinear Interactions
Faculty Mentor: Wen Li (CAS Astronomy)
Pfaff, Amelia
Development and Validation of Genetically Encoded Versatile Interacting Peptide (VIP) Tags in the RET Proto-Oncogene: Elucidation of Functional Roles of RET Clustering Dynamics
Faculty Mentor: Adrian Whitty (CAS Chemistry)
Phillips, Jensine
How Understanding the History of the Earth Impacts Concerns About Transgressions Against the Environment
Faculty Mentor: Deborah Kelemen (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Phillips, Maxine
Continued Development of System Tests for the CMS Endcap Timing Layer Detector
Faculty Mentor: Indara Suarez (CAS Physics)
Pickering, Alexis
Engineering Lab Project
Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Corriveau (SED Applied Human Development)
Pinto, Felicia
Development of an In Vitro Compressive Injury Model of Tendon
Faculty Mentor: Brianne Connizzo (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Pintor-Hoffmann, Lucia
Colombian Parents’ Approaches to Parenting and Their Beliefs Regarding Parental Roles in Teaching Children About Illness
Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Corriveau (SED Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development)
Pollak, Benjamin
Determining Specificity of KHK Inhibitors Through Structural and Kinetic Studies of ADK
Faculty Mentor: Karen Allen (CAS Chemistry)
Prabhu, Meha
Investigating Cognitive Consequences of Severe COVID-19 Illness
Faculty Mentor: Rhoda Au (MED Anatomy & Neurobiology)
Price, Eliza
Registered Dietitian/Nutritionists (RDNs) in Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) Treatment for Eating Disorders
Faculty Mentor: Paula Quatromoni (SAR Health Science)
Qi, Estelle
Elucidating the Structure of Substrate-Bound C. concisus PglC to Investigate its Binding Mechanism and Inform the Design of Novel Antibiotics
Faculty Mentor: Karen Allen (CAS Chemistry)
Raiff, Laura
The Effect Three Communication Modalities Have on Relative Fundamental Frequency in Individuals With Healthy Voices
Faculty Mentor: Cara Stepp (SAR Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences)
Rajeh, Sahrah
The Effect of Various Concentrations of Sugar in the Diet on Inflammation, Immune Response and Lipogenesis in the Liver Using Aldolase B (aldo 2-/-) Mice
Faculty Mentor: Dean Tolan (CAS Biology)
Rakoczy, Maya
Inhibitory Neuron Microenvironment in Subgenual Cingulate Area 25
Faculty Mentor: Helen Barbas (SAR Health Sciences)
Reiter, Harrison
Elucidation of the Influence of pH and Temperature on the Transition to Amyloid by the Serum Amyloid A Protein
Faculty Mentor: John Straub (CAS Chemistry)
Reynolds, Leanna
Strength of Aversive and Appetitive Associations and Maladaptive Behaviors
Faculty Mentor: Steve Ramirez (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Richter, Sarah
Mating Preferences Based on Socioeconomic Class and Length of Relationship
Faculty Mentor: Erika Wells (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Riese, Gabrielle
Building Productive Uncertainty into Elementary Science Investigations
Faculty Mentor: Eve Manz (SED Science Education Department)
Roberts, James
Developing a Predicate Sequence Corpus for Referring Expression Generation
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Coppock (CAS Linguistics)
Russell, Kelsey
Women of Color Party Too: A Comparison Between Boston University Women of Colors’ Experiences at Predominantly White College Fraternity Parties to Predominantly Black College Fraternities
Faculty Mentor: Saida Grundy (CAS African American Studies)
Russo, Lily
Online Professional Development to Improve Teachers’ Comprehension of Natural Selection
Faculty Mentor: Deborah Kelemen (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Rustom, Faris
Deep Neural Network Applications in Brain Cancer Imaging
Faculty Mentor: Arash Yazdanbakhsh (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Sadler, Justin
Pythia: An Automated, Cross-layer Instrumentation Framework for Diagnosing Performance Problems in Distributed Application
Faculty Mentor: Ayse Coskun (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Salame, Cedric
Ionic Liquids as Electrolytes for Future Batteries
Faculty Mentor: David Coker (CAS Chemistry)
Santos, Ana
Working Conditions and Instructional Decision Making in Classrooms for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (EBD)
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Bettini (SED Special Education)
Sena, Katherine
Differences in BALBcJ and BALBcByJ Brain Activation Following State Dependent Conditioned Place Preference
Faculty Mentor: Camron Bryant (MED Pharmacology and Psychiatry)
Serafini, Angelina
Probing the Effects of Habitat Geometry on Bacillus Subtilis Swarming Morphology
Faculty Mentor: Joe Larkin (CAS Biology; Physics)
Sgrizzi, Samantha
Investigating the Role of the Calponin I Isoform in Aortic Smooth Muscle Contraction, Stiffening, and Signal Transduction Scaffolding in Female CNNI Knockout Mice
Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Morgan (SAR Health Science)
Shah, Shashwat
The Relationship Between Vascular and Cellular Structural Changes in the Loss and Recovery of Neurovascular Coupling after an Ischemic Stroke
Faculty Mentor: David Boas (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Shanabrook, Kristin
Leveraging the Framingham Study to Investigate Relationships between Traumatic Brain Injury, Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
Faculty Mentor: Jesse Mez (MED Neurology)
Shen, Vivian
Uncovering Viral Mechanisms of Interferon Immunodulation
Faculty Mentor: Juan Fuxman Bass (CAS Biology)
Silfen, Zachary
In Silico Prototyping for Intranasally-Administered Agents for COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Pathogens
Faculty Mentor: Diane Joseph-McCarthy (ENG Bioengineering Technology & Entrepreneurship Center)
Simone, Iris
Functionalization of Betulin to Terpene-Separated Amino Acids
Faculty Mentor: John Snyder (CAS Chemistry)
Smolina, Darya
Evaluating the use of Homomorphic Encryption for CNN-based Inference on MNIST Dataset
Faculty Mentor: Ajay Joshi (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Song, Angela
Radiation Sickness as Preexisting Condition: COVID-19 in Sites of Nuclear Infrastructure in Fukushima
Faculty Mentor: Jayita Sarkar (CAS Pardee)
Sotiropoulou, Katherine
The Effects of Environmental Carbon and Nitrogen Availability on Plant-Ectomycorrhizal-Saprotroph Interactions
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Bhatnagar (CAS Biology)
Subramanian, Sandya
Creating an Anatomical Atlas of Brainstem Cell Types
Faculty Mentor: Michael Economo (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Summit, Rebecca
Breastfeeding Counselling Practice in Women with Epilepsy
Faculty Mentor: Abrar Omar Al-Faraj (MED Neurology)
Surets, Michelle
Investigation of Chronic Hyperactivity for the Induction of Neurodegenerative Pathology
Faculty Mentor: Steve Ramirez (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Swift, William
Turn Detection in Post Stroke Walking Using Inertial Measurement Unit
Faculty Mentor: Louis Awad (SAR Physical Therapy)
Tasich, Ksenija
Developing a Minimally-invasive Device that Quantifies Fibrosis and Assesses Chronic Kidney Disease Using Optical Spectroscopy
Faculty Mentor: Ousama Aamar (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Tharani, Yashasvi
Elucidating the Effects of Fli1 Downregulation on Monocyte Migration in Scleroderma
Faculty Mentor: Andreea Bujor (MED Medicine)
Thomas, Claire
The Human Survivability Threshold and its Regional Policy Implications
Faculty Mentor: Bruce Anderson (CAS Earth & Environment)
Ting, Dayi
China Historical Christian Database: Mapping Christianity in China, 1550-1950
Faculty Mentor: Daryl Ireland (STH Mission)
Torres, Daniela
Examining How Students Make Effective Use of Active Learning Components in Educational Videos for Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Binyomin Abrams (CAS Chemistry)
Trachtenberg, Benyamin
Numerical Modeling and Multiparameter Study of the Laser Ablation of Graphene
Faculty Mentor: Michelle Sander (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Tran, Kimberly
Investigating the Effects of Zaire Ebola Virus Transcription Regulators on Host Chromatin Structure
Faculty Mentor: Juan Fuxman Bass (CAS Biology)
Truong, Emily
Cholangiocyte-driven Liver Regeneration
Faculty Mentor: Valerie Gouon-Evans (MED Gastroenterology)
Tummala, Swetha
Postpartum Hemorrhage Risk Assessment
Faculty Mentor: Ashley Comfort (MED Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Unni, Prasida
Okur-Chung Neurodevelopmental Syndrome in the Context of Neurodevelopmental Diseases Related to Wnt/ꞵ-catenin Signaling
Faculty Mentor: Maria Isabel Dominguez (MED Hematology-Oncology Section)
Vachani, Venika
Protein Dynamics Simulations To Model The Viral Inactivation Process
Faculty Mentor: Erramilli Shyam (CAS Physics)
VanWyngarden, Madison
Cataloging the Period of Pulsating White Dwarf Stars
Faculty Mentor: JJ Hermes (CAS Astronomy)
Walia, Anika
A Web Server for Deep-Learning Based Models to Predict Chronic Disease Risk from chest x-rays
Faculty Mentor: Vineet Raghu (MET Computer Science)
Washington, Rakiya
Children’s Use of Reasoning by Exclusion to Track Identities of Occluded Objects
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Kibbe (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Watkins, Luisa
Helium Ion Microscopy Beam Current Variation Mitigation with Time-Resolved Sensing
Faculty Mentor: Vivek Goyal (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Watts, Cheyenne
Does Colorism, a Potential Contributor to Race Related Stress, Negatively Impact Subjective or Objective Cognition?
Faculty Mentor: Karin Schon (MED Anatomy & Neurobiology)
Xie, Ziwen
Engineering Peptides and Peptidomimetics to Interfere at the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein-ACE2 Interface
Faculty Mentor: Diane Joseph-McCarthy (ENG Biomedical Engineering)
Xu, Kailin
Understanding Clinical Settings for Cervical Cancer Screening and HPV Vaccination in the U.S., A Scoping Review
Faculty Mentor: Eleanor Murray (SPH Epidemiology)
Yamin, Nikka
The Direct and Interactive Effects of Sexual Orientation and Belonging to LGBT Communities on Mental Health, Social Well-being, and Life Satisfaction
Faculty Mentor: Anthony Rosellini (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Yang, Joanna
Effect of Antibiotics Use in Clinical Outcomes of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) Patients
Faculty Mentor: Anna Cervantes-Arslanian (MED Neurology)
Ye, Jonathan
Developing a Pneumatic Soft Robotic Haptic Feedback Glove to Assist Minimally Invasive Surgery
Faculty Mentor: Sheila Russo (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Ye, Young
Development and Assessment of a Manual Tracking Procedure for Migrating Neurons in GFP-Expressing Transgenic Zebra Finches
Faculty Mentor: Ben Scott (CAS Psychological & Brain Sciences)
Yin, Junze
Fractal Analysis of the Urbanization Development in Boston: 2000-2020
Faculty Mentor: Emma Previato (CAS Mathematics)
Zdanowicz, Victoria
The Role of Fiber in the Diets of Wild Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii): Implications for Slow Juvenile Growth and Habitat Suitability Modeling
Faculty Mentor: Cheryl Knott (CAS Anthropology & Biology)
Zhang, Tao
Investigating Machine Learning Based Optical Flow Algorithms on an In Silico Beating Heart
Faculty Mentor: Emma Lejeune (ENG Mechanical Engineering)
Zhang, Xiaoyu
Improving the Glycan Structural Assignment Accuracy with Stable Isotope Labeling
Faculty Mentor: Catherine E Costello (MED Medicine)
Zheng, Allyson
Qualifying Biomarkers Released from Cardiomyocytes to Test the Effectiveness of Covid-19 Therapies for Patients with Cardiovascular-related Comorbidities
Faculty Mentor: James Hamilton (MED Biophysics and Physiology)
Zheng, Minglan
Generalizing Machine Learning Models for Pedestrians with Disabilities from Simulation to Real-World
Faculty Mentor: Eshed Ohn-Bar (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Zheng, Nancy
Site-wide Demand Response Policies for Data Centers in the Smart Grid
Faculty Mentor: Ayse Coskun (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Zhou Peng, Hui Cong
Development of an Integrated Processing System for Preparation of Biosensing Chips
Faculty Mentor: Selim Ünlu (ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering)