Past Summer Scholars
Spotlight Scholar: Arturo Muñoz
Arturo A. Muñoz, a Educational Studies and Psychology major at Tufts, was selected to receive a 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship in the Technology Education category. The GRFP provides three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period to students pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. The program also provides Fellows with funded opportunities for professional development and for global research collaborations. In his GRFP application, Arturo proposed a critical Makerspace ethnography that considers how Makerspaces might be differently and more equitably designed, particularly on pedagogical and epistemic levels, through immigrant youth’s narrated understandings about how they experience the sociopolitical dimensions of learning in Makerspaces. Arturo intends to use the Fellowship support to pursue his proposed line of inquiry in Northwestern University’s Learning Sciences PhD program, beginning Fall 2017.
During his undergraduate career at Tufts, Arturo conducted independent and collaborative research across the Departments of Education and Psychology. Under the advisement of Professor Sabina Vaught and with support from the Summer Scholars Program at Tufts, Arturo designed and carried out an independent critical qualitative study of a high school STEM classroom. Arturo also worked alongside Professor Brian Gravel to carry out preliminary ethnographic data collection at a high school Makerspace. Arturo, as an undergraduate research assistant, also supports the work of doctoral students in Professor Samuel Sommers’ Diversity and Intergroup Relations Lab. The support that Arturo has received from his faculty and research advisors, from the Summer Scholars Program, from his colleagues, and from his family helped him develop the intellectual and methodological foundations he needs to carry out rigorous research at the doctoral level.
2018 Summer Scholars
Husain Adamji
Major: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Prashant Deshlahra
Mentor Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Project Title: Density Functional Theory Based Study of III - V Semiconductors
Henry Allison
Major: Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peter Levine
Mentor Department: Philosophy
Project Title: Answering to Avoid Fault: could political survey data be affected by respondents' attempts to avoid stigma?
Ana Sofia Amieva-Wang
Major: American Studies and Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jean Wu
Mentor Department: American Studies
Project Title: On a Critical Politics of Care in the Domestic Childcare Industry
Constantinos Angelakis
Major: Classical Studies, International Relations
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ioannis Evrigenis
Mentor Department: Political Science
Project Title: A History of Political Thought: De Administrando Imperio and The Six Bookes of a Commonweale
Serena August
Major: Fine Arts
Faculty Mentor: Peter Scott
Mentor Department: SMFA
Project Title: Alternative Histories and the Pictographic Alphabet
Maura Barry
Major: Biology and Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kelly McLaughlin
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: Correcting birth defects: novel lessons learned from amphibians
Max Battle
Major: American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Noe Montez
Mentor Department: Drama and Dance
Project Title: Moving Towards Power: Examining How Settler Colonial Constructions of Gender Impact the Trans-Masculine Experience
Veronica Berger
Major: Environmental Studies and French
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alexander Blanchette
Mentor Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Exclusionary approaches in the environmentalist and animal welfare movements
Parker Breza
Major: American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lisa Lowe
Mentor Department: English
Project Title: Interrogating US and UK Transnational Student Solidarity Movements for Justice in Palestine
Britt
Major: American Studies, WGSS
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Abowd
Mentor Department: American Studies, Anthropology
Project Title: Interrogating the Embodiment of Gendered and Racialized norms in Early Childhood Education: A Research Project in a Boston-area Primary School
Carolyn Burtt
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Crone
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: The Effect of Habitat Barriers on Bumblebee Dispersal
Eric Chen
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yu-Shan Lin
Mentor Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Using cyclic peptides to modulate DDR2-collagen interactions in osteoarthritis
Justine Chung
Major: Philosophy, Film and Media Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Malcolm Turvey
Mentor Department: Film and Media Studies
Project Title: Narrative, Image, and Agency in Virtual Reality Film
Catherine Cowell
Major: Computer Science and Education
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marina Bers
Mentor Department: Child Study and Human Development
Project Title: Learning Computer Programming in Early Childhood: The Impact of Speaking a Second Language
Isabella Del Priore
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Catherine Freudenreich
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: Determining the role of nucleases in fill-in synthesis of a CAG repeat
Lucia Francese
Major: Political Science and Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rosemary Taylor
Mentor Department: Sociology and Community
Project Title: Representing disease: How Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS acquired a political identity
Guadalupe Garcia
Major: Architectural Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Penn Loh
Mentor Department: Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy
Project Title: Life of Latinx Women in Somerville
Danielle Golub
Major: Astrophysics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Danilo Marchesini
Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy
Project Title: Spectral Classification of Galaxies Over 12 Billion Years of Cosmic History
Lily Hayes
Major: Biology and Architectural Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Madeleine Oudin
Mentor Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Innervation & Cancer
Kathryn Jason
Major: Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eitan Hersh
Mentor Department: Political Science
Project Title: Empathetic Canvassing
Julie Jiang
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Liping Liu
Mentor Department: Computer Science
Project Title: Graph Embedding in Large Scale Networks
Christiana Lano
Major: Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Helen Marrow
Mentor Department: Sociology
Project Title: Understanding Italian-American Identity through Intergenerational Interactions in an Ethnic Core
Madeline Lee
Major: Environmental Studies, Architectural Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ninian Stein
Mentor Department: Environmental Studies and Anthropology
Project Title: Somerville ARTFarm: Siting Urban Environmental Regeneration & Sustainable Creativity
Ann-Marie Lee
Major: Community Health, Religion with a Concentration in Colonialism
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elana Tatum-Jefferson
Mentor Department: Religion
Project Title: U.S. Colonial Legacies and Present-Day Religious Landscapes: Histories of Colonial Resistance among Non-Judeo-Christian Communities in the Boston Area
Martin Majkut
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rob White
Mentor Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Highly Deformable Snake-Like Robots Using Soft and Hard Robotic Modules
Akari Miki
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicola McKeown
Mentor Department: Nutritional Epidemiology
Project Title: An examination of plant-based dietary patterns using data from the ADAPT study
Elizabeth Moison
Major: Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kristen Wendell
Mentor Department: Engineering Education
Project Title: Examining the experiences of young girls in STEM education
Albert Mousad
Major: Biochemistry and Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Krishna Kumar
Mentor Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Molecular Design of Peptides to Address Growth Deficiency in Children
Isaac Mudge
Major: Civil Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Julian Agyeman
Mentor Department: Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Project Title: Scaldin' Malden: A Red Hot Opportunity for Tufts University
Faizan Muhammad
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jivko Sinapov
Mentor Department: Computer Science
Project Title: Augmented Reality for Collaborative Service Robots
Nicole Nadwodny
Major: Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gina Kuperberg
Mentor Department: Psychology
Project Title: The mystery of the inconsistent late frontal positivity: Examining neural and cognitive differences among varying levels of language comprehension
Jade Nantwi
Major: International Literary and Visual Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peter Probst
Mentor Department: Art History
Project Title: Can the Gallery be a Space of Resistance?: Study on Decolonial Exhibition Architecture and Alternatives to the White Cube Model
Kevin Naranjo
Major: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Karen Panetta
Mentor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Performance Analysis of Key Facial Recognition Algorithms
Ashish Peupane
Major: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sameer Sonkusale
Mentor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Magnetic Tracking Vest
Annie Nguyen
Major: Biology and Environmental Studies (Environmental Science Track)
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Reed
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: Assessing Life History and Risk Factors for Conservation of U.S. Fireflies
Han Nguyen
Major: Biomedical Engineering and Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Xiaocheng Jiang
Mentor Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: High-Purity Enrichment of Disease-Specific Genomes through Selective Cell Lysis
Man Duc Nguyen
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shuchin Aeron
Mentor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Learning word embeddings via variational tensor factorization
Katherine Parker
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Julia Gouvea
Mentor Department: Education
Project Title: Experimental Design: Instructor Prompting and Student Thinking
Lydia Ra
Major: English
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joel Rosenberg
Mentor Department: International Literary and Visual Studies
Project Title: Diaspora and Nationalism: Comparing Jewish and Korean World War Films
Colin Raposo
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephen Fuchs
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: Repetitive Domains in Cell Surface Proteins of the Fungal Pathogen Candida glabrata
Zoe Schoen
Major: Interdisciplinary Studies - Critical Psychology, Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sarah Pinto
Mentor Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Picturing Selves: Lobotomy and the Visual
Sarah Shnayder
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mitch McVey
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: Discovering and Characterizing Novel Template Switching Genes
Emily Sim
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthias Scheutz
Mentor Department: Computer Science
Project Title: Impact of a Normatively Charged, High-Risk, Multi-Agent System on a Robot's Norm Learning Process
Isabel Smokelin
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Irene Georgakoudi
Mentor Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Non-Invasive Optical Imaging for Improved Understanding of Gaucher's Disease in Tissue Engineered Models
Aubrey Specht
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Allen Rutberg
Mentor Department:Cummings, Biomedical Sciences and Center for Animals and Public Policy
Project Title: Taming the Spirit of the West: A Study of Adopted Wild Horses
Celeste Teng
Major: Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amahl Bishara
Mentor Department:Anthropology
Project Title: Re-imagining the nation in diaspora: Singaporean creatives in New York City
Katharine Toll
Major: American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Burton
Mentor Department:Film and Media Studies
Project Title: The Meanings of Different Birds in Art and Science: Using Film to Understand D'Arcy Thompson's "A Glossary of Greek Birds" in Today's World
Sara Torres
Major: International Relations (Development Economics concentration) & Economics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nimah Mazaheri
Mentor Department:Political Science
Project Title: Democracy and the Working Class in the Arab World
Makayla Trask
Major: Engineering Physics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Taritree Wongjirad
Mentor Department:Physics and Astronomy
Project Title: Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment Data Collection Research and Development
Ethan Whitman
Major: Clinical Psychology, Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lisa Shin
Mentor Department:Psychology
Project Title: Assessing the origins of amygdala function in PTSD
Ilya Yurchenko
Major: Physics and Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cristian Staii
Mentor Department:Physics and Astronomy
Project Title: Neuronal Dynamics on Patterned Substrates
2016 Summer Scholars
Ana Antolin
Major: International Relations, Quantitative Economics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Druscilla Brown
Mentor Department: Economics, International Relations
Project Title: The Effects of the Lifting of Trade Quotas on Apparel Factory Accidents
Grace Aro
Major: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ayse Asatekin
Mentor Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Project Title: Surface Water Filtration Using Specialized Polymer Table
Rose Banks
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Li Zeng
Mentor Department: Department of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology (Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences)
Project Title: Optimizing knee joint maintenance using a novel Osteoarthritis model system
Dina Bedri
Major: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Cook
Mentor Department: Psychology
Project Title: Illusory Motion Perception in Pigeons
Matthew Bicakci
Major: Biopsychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joe DeBold
Mentor Department: Psychology
Project Title: Biological causes of alcohol-related aggression
Sean Boyden
Major: Biopsychology, Community Health
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Philip Starks
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: Paper Wasps (Polistes dominulus) as Cryptic Vectors of Disease in Agriculture
Ross Bretherton
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lauren D. III Black
Mentor Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Using physiologically relevant electromechanical stimulation to investigate biological mechanisms responsible for cardiomyocyte hypertrophy
Amy Bu
Major: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paul Muentener
Mentor Department: Psychology
Project Title: Examining the Interaction between Action Understanding and Causal Reasoning in Infancy
Noah Bugbee
Major: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amy Lischko
Mentor Department: Quantitative Economics
Project Title: Applying a Game Theory Solution to the Regulation of Prescription Drug Prices Under Medicare Part D
Osvaldo Calzada
Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Iryna Zenyuk,
Mentor Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Alkaline Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.
Xizhao Chan
Major: Biochemistry and Greek
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Clay Bennett
Mentor Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Preparation of 2,6-Dideoxy-Sugars with Gold-Catalyzed Petasis-Ferrier-Like Approach
Amber Chevannes
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Gavin Schnitzler
Mentor Department: Tufts Medical Center, Molecular Cardiology
Project Title: Understanding the Role of ER alpha in Estrogen’s Vascular-Protective Effects
Mollie Chipman
Major: Biochemistry and Engineering Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amy Yee
Mentor Department: Developmental, Molecular, and Chemical Biology
Project Title: Molecular Underpinnings of the Efficacy of EGCG/DAC Treatment in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Tenzin Chokki
Major: Child Study & Human Development and Community Health
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jayanthi Mistry
Mentor Department: Child Study & Human Development
Project Title: Capturing Tibetan American Youth Experiences through Personal Narratives
Dave Saba Kohli
Major: Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sarah Pinto
Mentor Department: Anthropology
Project Title: The Reproduction of Social Class through Pedagogy in Upper-tier Private Schools in Delhi
Nicholas Dechiara
Major: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Charles Mace
Mentor Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Open-Source Software to Enable Development of Low-Cost Diagnostic Devices
Jasper Du
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Krishna Kumar
Mentor Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Targeting GLP1R and mER for the Treatment of Type II Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Justine Epiney
Major: Biology and Community Health
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kelly McLaughlin
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: The role of the HCN4 channel during cardiogenesis in Xenopus laevis
Stacey Fair
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Catherine Freudenreich
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: Investigating the effect of transcription on CAG repeat fragility
Anuththari Gamage
Major: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Usman Khan
Mentor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Vision-based Control and Stabilization of an Inverted Pendulum
Sydney Giacalone
Major: Anthropology and Environmental Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cathy Stanton
Mentor Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Urban Chicken Keeping and Transformational Food Relationships in Somerville, Massachusetts
Camden Goetz
Major: Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amahl Bishara
Mentor Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Hovering Above: Theorizing and Contextualizing Drone Warfare
Zachary Graziano
Major: ACS Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yu-Shan Lin
Mentor Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Characterization of ice nucleation mechanisms at mineral surfaces
Noah Habeeb
Major: UEP, International Relations
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Thomas Abowd
Mentor Department: GRALL (Arabic), American Studies
Project Title: “Building an Archive of an Arab American Cultural Institution: Co-Producing Knowledge for Community Building”
Lauren Jacobs
Major: Clinical Psychology (BS) and Music (BA), double major
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Race
Mentor Department: Psychology
Project Title: Musical Rhythm's Effect on Memory
Erin Kado-Fong
Major: Physics & Astronomy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Danilo Marchesini
Mentor Department: Psychology
Project Title: Rainbows in Space: the Colors of 1.4 Million Galaxies
Emily Lai
Major: ACS Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Albert Robbat
Mentor Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Effects of Climate on Chemical Composition of Tea
Benjamin Lewson
Major: Philosophy and Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Denby
Mentor Department: Philosophy
Project Title: Time and Change: A Philosophical Inquiry into Ordinary Life
Hannah Marshall
Major: Religion
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Peggy Hutaff
Mentor Department: Philosophy
Project Title: Re-imagining Mary: exploring the Potential of Art to Embody Theological Change
Rachel Martel
Major: English and Community Health
Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Tybor
Mentor Department: Public Health and Community Medicine
Project Title: Predictors of Urogenital Schistosomiasis Knowledge Among Schoolchildren in the Eastern Region of Ghana
Andrew Mascioli
Major: Physics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Timothy Atherton,
Mentor Department: Physics
Project Title: Disrupting Order through Anisotropy: How Bidispersity Prevents Crystallization on Curved Surfaces
Arturo Munoz
Major: Educational Studies and Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sabina Vaught
Mentor Department: Education
Project Title: The Relationship Between U.S. STEM Education Policies and Student and Teacher Epistemologies: Considerations of Race and Gender
Laura Quinto
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. James Van Deventer
Mentor Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Project Title: Designing Selective Inhibitors of Matrix Metalloproteinases in the Tumor Microenvironment
Luis Rebollar
Major: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Panzer
Mentor Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Project Title: Zwitterion Effect in High-Conductivity Ionogels of Varying Polymer Composition
Peter Riley
Major: Physics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cristian Staii
Mentor Department: Physics
Project Title: Electrical Activity of Neuronal Cells Measured by Atomic Force Microscopy
Martha Rimniceanu
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Barry Trimmer
Mentor Department: Physics
Project Title: Neurophysiology of Heat Sensing in Manduca Sexta
Miller Schulman
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eulogio Guzmán
Mentor Department: Visual and Critical Studies
Project Title: Woven Identities: Textiles, Nationalism, and the formation of Perú
Olivia Schultes
Major: Community Health
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Karen Kosinski
Mentor Department: Community Health
Project Title: Willingness to Pay for Ground Water in Rural Eastern Region of Ghana
Rachel Sheldon
Major: History
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Virginia Drachman
Mentor Department: History
Project Title: "Beauty and Duty": Women's Uniform Fashion in the World War II Era
Miranda Siler
Major: Religion, Art History
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Lemons
Mentor Department: Religion
Project Title: In Defense of the Goddess Movement: Is Feminist Spirituality and Artistic Expression Ignored in Contemporary Academia?
Jennifer Skerker
Major: Environmental Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Durant
Mentor Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Impacts of Automobile Emissions from the Central Artery Highway Tunnel on Air Quality in Boston
Avneet Soin
Major: Biopsychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Shalini Tendulkar
Mentor Department: Community Health
Project Title: Using Quantitative Analysis to Understand Sikh Health Trends in the United States
David Stack
Major: Environmental Engineer
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniele Lantagne
Mentor Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Project Title:Residual Chlorine Effect for NaDCC and HOCl
Noah Taxis
Major: International Literary and Visual Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lee Edelman
Mentor Department: English
Project Title: The Translation of the Sixth Seminar of Jacques Lacan on Desire and Its Interpretation, and Reflection on Lacan’s Translatability
Kira Tomlinson
Major: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Josh Kritzer
Mentor Department: English
Project Title: A Novel One-Bead-One-Compound Library for Bisalkylated Peptides
Steven Tran
Major: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Klaus Miczek
Mentor Department: Biopsychology
Project Title: The Role of CRF R-1 in Motivating Aggression in Male Mice
Alexander Trubowitz
Major: Political Science and Classics
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Vickie Sullivan
Mentor Department: Political Science
Project Title: High Treason and Despotism in Montesquieu's THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS
Miranda Wilson
Major: Environmental Studies, Urban Policy & Development
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ninian Stein
Mentor Department: Environmental Studies
Project Title: Industrial Redevelopment: The Case of Woburn, MA
Oliver Yang
Major: Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Avner Baz
Mentor Department: Philosophy
Project Title: Mind, Body, and Life: the Phenomenology of Consciousness in the Living Body and its Implications
2015 Summer Scholars
Ina Bodinaku
Major: Biology and Women and Gender Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Wolfe
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: The Effects of Community Context on the Rapid Evolution of Microbes in Multispecies Communities
Alexandra Brumberg
Major: ACS-certified Chemistry; Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Mary Jane Shultz
Mentor Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Difluoroethane-Assisted CO2 Clathrate Formation
Jackson Burzynski
Major: Physics, Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Hugo Beauchemin
Mentor Department: Physics
Project Title: Sensitivity to New Physics in the Ratio of W + Jets to Z + jets Events at the LHC
Peter Cavanagh
Major: Biochemistry, Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: David Walt
Mentor Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Analysis of Cell Populations via Single-Cell Genome and Expression Studies
Menglan Chen
Major: Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Amahl Bishara
Mentor Department: Anthropology
Project Title: Smart phone-Based Social Media and Transnational Imagination: A Study of Chinese Migrants in Prato, Italy
Susannah Daggett
Major: Child Study and Human Development
Faculty Mentor: Jessica Goldberg
Mentor School: Child Study and Human Development
Project Title: Using Social Network Analysis to Understand How Public Health Providers are Situated in a Community System of Care
Jessica Dimas
Major: Community Health and American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Penn Loh
Mentor Department: Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Project Title: Strategizing for the Future: Exploring Community-Rooted Action in Developing a Just Transition for a Healthier Richmond
Phoebe Dinh
Major: Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: George E. Smith
Mentor Department: Philosophy
Project Title: From Planetary Motion to Pictures in the Brain: A Critique of fMRI Data in Visual Imagery
Teresa Dinter
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Sergei Mirkin/Jane Kim
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: Genetic Analyses of CAG Trinucleotide Repeat Expansions in Yeast
Jeramey Evans
Major: History
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Applebaum and David Proctor
Mentor Department: History
Project Title: Socialist Realism and Soviet Society
Melissa Feito
Major: English
Faculty Mentor: Sonia Hofkosh
Mentor Department: English
Project Title: Alternate Worlds, Our Reality: Gender Identity and Function in 20th Century Science Fiction
Julia Fowler
Major: Astrophysics and Philosophy
Faculty Mentor: Anna Sajina
Mentor Department: Physics and Astronomy
Project Title: Investigating the Effects of Radio Jets on their Host Galaxies
Mukesh Ghimire
Major: Physics and Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Krzysztof Silva
Mentor Department: Physics
Project Title: Analyzing the Putative Higgs Boson Using Support Vector Machines
Miriam Gladstone
Major: Biology and Community Health
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dany Adams
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: How Certain Ion Channel Proteins Contribute to the Development of the Nascent Face in the Xenopus Ectoderm
Caleb Helbling
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Fisher
Mentor Department: Computer Science
Project Title: Resequence: A Global Fine Grained Software Repository
Cassidy Heverling
Major: Sociology and Community Health
Faculty Mentor: Rosemary Taylor
Mentor Department: Community Health/Sociology
Project Title: The Politics of Knowledge: Science, Blood, and the Ebola Epidemic
Pengxiang (Jerry) Hu
Major: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Sameer Sonkusale
Mentor Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Study and Build Instrumentation for Saliva Diagnostics
Ian Hunter
Major: Physics
Faculty Mentor: Timothy Atherton
Mentor Department: Physics
Project Title: Modeling Motor-protein Mediated Cell Shape Programming
Janna Karatas
Major: Political Science and Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Vickie Sullivan
Mentor Department: Political Science
Project Title: “Caesar Says, ‘Do this,’ and it is Performed”: Political Implications of Biblical Allusions in Shakespeare’s Plays
Caitlin Keenan
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Joshua Kritzer
Mentor Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Smoking-hot Inhibitors: Developing Cyclic Peptides Inspired by the “Hot Loops” Database to Block the Oncogenic Skp2-Cks1 Interaction
Grigory Khakimov
Major: History/Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Kris Manjapra
Mentor Department: History
Project Title: Putinism as the Postmodern Governance: Between Theory and Practice
Sophie Laing
Major: Political Science and French
Faculty Mentor: Deborah Schildkraut
Mentor Department: Political Science
Project Title: Flip-flopping Politicians: How Voters Punish and Reward a Changing of Opinion
Drew Latimer
Major: Greek and Latin
Faculty Mentor: Marie-Claire Beaulieu
Mentor Department: Classics
Project Title: New Approaches to Old Problems: Applying New Technologies to Classical Language Learning
Kathleen Li
Major: English, Biology
Faculty Mentor: Ronna Johnson
Mentor Department: English Department, Women's Studies Department (past), and American Studies Program
Project Title: Feminine Equals Death: Ageism and Menopause in Second Wave U.S. Feminist Literature and Theory
Kevin Ligonde
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Robert White
Mentor Department: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers for Mars Anemometry
Sylvia Lustig
Major: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
Mentor Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: The Selectivity and Efficiency of Various Single Atom Metal Alloys as Catalysts for the Dehydrogenation of Methanol
Liang Ma
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Giuseppina Tesco
Mentor Department: Department of Neuroscience, Tufts Medical School
Project Title: The Regulatory Role of GGA3 on Cerebral BACE1 and Aβ Level for Alzheimer's Disease
Allison McIntosh
Major: Music
Faculty Mentor: John McDonald
Mentor Department: Music
Project Title: From the Baton to the Box Office: The Art of Film Composition
Emily Miller
Major: Biology and Community Health
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Miguel Stadecker
Mentor Department: Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology at the Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: Investigation of Genes, Proteins and Enzymes Involved in the Pro-inflammatory Response Associated with Schistosomiasis Disease
Victoria Moore
Major: Political Science and History
Faculty Mentor: Dennis Rasmussen
Mentor Department: Political Science
Project Title: Adam Smith and the One Percent: Champion of Capitalism, Critic of Capitalists
Emily Morton
Major: Child Development and Clinical Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Jana Chaudhuri
Mentor Department: Child Development
Project Title: Maternal Mental Health and Neighborhood Systems of Support: An Analysis of Community Influence
Elim Na
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: David Kaplan
Mentor Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Evaluation of Silk Fibroin Stabilization of Doxorubicin and Vincristine
Isabel O’Brien
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Philip Starks
Mentor Department: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: The Effect of Anthidium Manicatum on Native Pollinator and Plant Fitness
Katherine Okker-Edging
Major: International Relations and Arabic
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Abowd
Mentor Department: German, Russian, Asian Languages and Literatures
Project Title: Building the Archive of an Arab American Cultural Institution: Media as a Tool for Community Building
Samuel Pearl-Schwartz
Major: History
Faculty Mentor: Gary Leupp
Mentor Department: History
Project Title: Historiography of Tokugawa Japan after 1990
Matt Peterson
Major: Engineering Physics
Faculty Mentor: Peggy Cebe
Mentor Department: Physics
Project Title: Understanding the Interactions between Liquid Crystals and Carbon Nanotubes
Vanessa Pinto
Major: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/Child Study and Human Development
Faculty Mentor: Sabina Vaught
Mentor Department: Educational Studies/Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Project Title: Role and Impact of Teachers on Gender-Separated Play
Alex Pugnali
Major: Child Study and Human Development/Engineering Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Marina Umaschi Bers, PhD
Mentor Department: Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development
Project Title: Technology for Young Children: An Assessment of Computational Thinking
Lauren Redosh
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Crone
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: Habitat Preference in Mice as Measured Through Foraging Behavior
Annabelle Roberts
Major: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Heather Urry
Mentor Department: Psychology
Project Title: Recovering from Negative Social Situations: Post-Event Processing and Reappraisal
Umar Shareef
Major: Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Malik Mufti
Mentor Department: Political Science
Project Title: Ibn Khaldun's Political Framework
Avita Sharma
Major: Computer Science, Mathematics, Quantitative Economics
Faculty Mentor: Soha Hassoun
Mentor Department: Computer Science
Project Title: Who is Doing What? Functional Matching between Metabolites and Genomics for Bacterial Pathways
Collins Sirmah
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Ben Shapiro
Mentor Department: Computer Science
Project Title: Peer-Based Learning in Distributed and Parallel Computing Among High School Students
Gina Tomarchio
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Mitch McVey
Mentor Department: Biology
Project Title: A Study of DNA Polymerase θ Structure, Function and Implications in Double-Strand Break Repair
Sarah Vandewalle
Major: Drama
Faculty Mentor: Heather Nathans
Mentor Department: Drama
Project Title: Social Protest in the Federal Theatre Project
Nicholas Whitney
Major: Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard M. Lerner
Mentor Department: Child Development
Project Title: Us vs. Them: Examining In-Group / Out-Group Mentality through Youth Sport Culture
Charles Wiebe
Major: Community Health, Economics
Faculty Mentor: Shalini Tendulkar
Mentor Department: Community Health
Project Title: Race, Identity, and Health: How Men of Color Engage in Cardiovascular Disease Mitigation Programming
Andrew Wofford
Major: History
Faculty Mentor: Kendra Field
Mentor Department: History
Project Title: Moving Beyond Lines of Race and Neighborhood: Family Histories of Boston's School Desegregation Struggle
Peter Wu
Major: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Hopwood
Mentor Department: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: Improving Vintage Synthesizers for Increased Temperature Based Pitch Stability
Gregory Zhang
Major: Sociology and Community Health
Faculty Mentor: Keren Ladin
Mentor Department: Community Health/Occupational Therapy
Project Title: Understanding the Caregiver Experience: Exploring the Benefits and Burdens of a Silent Healthcare Workforce