2020 Scholars and Projects
Scholars |
Faculty Mentor |
Project Title |
Eleanor Cheung | Andrea Acevedo, Assistant Professor; Community Health, School of Arts and Sciences | Substance Use Disorders in Older Adults: Treatment Use and Unmet Need |
Eoghan Downey | Timothy Atherton, Associate Professor, Physics; School of Arts and Sciences | Robust Computational modelling of shapeshifting polymeric systems |
Bronwyn Fulton | Steve Cohen, Senior Lecturer, Education; School of Arts & Sciences | Literacy & Civic Action: Investigating the Efficacy of a Freedom School in the City of Medford |
Salman Gany | Lisa Shin, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies; Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences | Multi-Source Interference Task (MSIT) Analysis |
Ashley Gomez | Stéphanie Khoury, Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, Music; School of Arts and Sciences | Blackness in Dominican Music |
Trevor Hall | Jonathan Garlick, Professor and Director, Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering; Schools of Dental Medicine, Medicine, and Engineering | Developing New Engineered Tissues that Mimic Scleroderma
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Bijan Harandi | Samuel Kounaves, Professor of Chemistry, Adjunct Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Visiting Professor Imperial College of London, Affiliate Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences | Bacterial Growth and Survival under Mars Simulation in High Perchlorate Conditions |
Andrea Horn | Emma Bond, Associate Professor in Italian and Comparative Languages, School of Modern Languages; University of St. Andrews | Transnational Collecting, Curating, and Display |
Abigail Kaplan |
Philip Starks, Associate Professor and Chair, Biology, School of Arts and Sciences | Impact of Dietary Protein on the Size of Hypopharyngeal Glands in Nurse Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) |
Parker Killenberg | Cecilia Flores, Lecturer, Community Health; School of Arts and Sciences | Perinatal Mental Health Amongst the Latina Population in the Medford/Somerville Area |
Hee Yong Kim
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James Rice, Walter S. Dickson Professor, History, School of Arts and Sciences | Hidden Stories of North America: Indigenous Civilizations and Literary Intervention |
Kamil Krukowski
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Soha Hassoun, Professor, Computer Science, Adjunct Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Adjunct Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering; School of Engineering
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Extracting Protein Sequence Features and Applying Them To Machine Learning in the Study of Enzyme-Molecule Interactions |
Christopher LaBudde | Michele Jacob, Professor, Neuroscience; School of Medicine | Identifying a Novel Role for β-Catenin in Regulating FMRP to Impact Learning and Memory |
James Lai
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James Intriligator, Professor of the Practice and Director of Human Factors Engineering Program, Mechanical Engineering; School of Engineering | Integrating Machine Learning into a Software Interface for the Soft Robotics Exosuit |
Jiamin Li |
Elizabeth Remick, Associate Professor, Political Science; School of Arts and Sciences | Creating Belonging in Intolerance: Creative Queer/Tongzhi Activism in China |
Raissa Li | Qiaobing Xu, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering; School of Engineering
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Investigating Formulations of Lipid-like Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery |
Leanne Loo | Madina Agénor, Gerald R. Gill Assistant Professor of Race, Culture, and Society & Tatiana Chudakova, Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Community Health and Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences | Structural Violence and Sexual Reproductive Health Among Adolescent and Young Women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
Rachel McGinn | Madeleine Oudin, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering; School of Engineering | Studying How Upregulated Extracellular Matrix Proteins Impact Triple Negative Breast Cancer Drug Resistance |
Sydney Nepo
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Elizabeth Race, Assistant Professor, Psychology and Aniruddh Patel, Professor; School of Arts and Sciences | Effect of Temporal Rhythm on Visual Memory Encoding |
Ameya Okamoto
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Daanika Gordon, Assistant Professor, Sociology; School of Arts and Sciences | Public Art Matters: The Evolution of Street Art and the Role of Art in Strengthening Communities |
Yunzhu Pan
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Cathy Stanton, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology; School of Arts and Sciences | The Cultural Politics and Histories of Chinese Immigrant-owned Corner Stores in New Zealand |
Aryan Pandey | James Intriligator, Professor of the Practice and Director of Human Factors Engineering Program, Mechanical Engineering; School of Engineering | Evaluating the Correlation Between Upper-Body Posture and Back Pain and Designing a Software Interface for Soft Robotics Exosuit |
Maycon Cesar de Paula Santos | Holly Taylor, Professor of Psychology, Engineering Psychology, Computer Science; School of Arts and Sciences | Do Metacognitive Judgments Impact Environment Learning? |
Sara Siqueira | Nathan Ward, Assistant Professor, Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences | Cognition and Stress |
Katherine Wang | Elizabeth Byrnes, Professor and Associate Chair, Neuroscience and Reproductive Biology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine | Sex Differences in the Impact of Early Life Adversity on Opioid Use Disorder Development and Relapse |
Cole Wennerholm | Timothy Atherton, Associate Professor, Physics; School of Arts and Sciences | Computational Models of Shapeshifting Fluids |
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