Summer 2023 Research Projects
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In summer 2023, nearly 70 undergraduates took part in one of the Center for Research & Fellowships-sponsored summer research fellowship programs. Below are the names of some of the projects, ones that participants have given us permission to share online.
Kalorama Fellowship Program
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Russell Niglo Adzedu (SFS’25) – “Shifting Narratives: Exploring Generational Changes in Ghanaian Literary Depictions of Mental Illness”
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Urooj Ahmed (CAS’24) – “Healthcare Barriers for Women in Rural Pakistan: The Rising Role of Collectivism as a Healing Practice”
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Mariska Bogaard (CAS’24) – “We’re NOT All Doomed! Tone and Language in Twitter Interactions among Climate Change Academics”
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Pietro Elie (CAS’24) – “Ma by Pietro Elie”
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Areesha Fatima (GU-Q’25) – “Environmental Justice in Waste Management: The Case of Kasur”
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Kathleen Felli (CAS’24) – “Defeminized: An Analysis of Black Womanhood Through Motherhood”
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Lisa Kennedy (CAS’25) – “The Forest County Potawatomi’s Gamble on Gaming: A Historical-Legal Analysis of Tribal Gaming as an Engine of Political and Cultural Sovereignty”
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Bernardo Medeiros (CAS’24) – “Putting Fires Out: State Governors as Subnational Agents of Deforestation Prevention in the Brazilian Amazon”
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Angela Nguyen (CAS’24) – “Redefining War Crimes: The Bertrand Russell Tribunal’s Expansion of the Definition of War Crimes”
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Sarah Pino (SOH’24) – “Developing the Bridge for Equitable Pandemic Preparation and Response: An Analysis of the Western Balkans”
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Pace Schwarz (CAS’23) – “Revolutionary Language of Occupy Wall Street”
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Charlotte Taylor (SFS’24) – “Urban Artivism: Street Art as a Tool of Indigenous Resistance in Brazilian Cities”
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Daniel Turner (CAS’24) – “Images of an Illusory Past: The Role of History in the Changing American Far-Right”
Raines Fellowship Program
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Daniella Arevalo (CAS’25) – “Bridging the Spaces Between Writing Centers and Low-Income, First Generation, and Working Class Students: Tutor Perspectives on Hiring, Training, and Tutoring” (collaborative)
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Elene Chkhaidze (GU-Q’25) – “When One Door Closes, Another Opens: How has the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Shaped the Development Trajectory of the Middle Corridor?”
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Natalie Kim (SFS’25) – “The Gap in the Images of South Korea: Analysis of Domestic and Foreign Media Coverage on LGBTQ+ Rights”
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Liang Lin (SOH’24) and Anisha Patibandla (SOH’24) – “Health Literacy Among College and Graduate Students” (collaborative)
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Ikram Muhammedsani (SOH’25) – “Key Factors Influencing Student Experience in Government Schools in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan: A Qualitative Study of Teacher and Parent Perspectives” (collaborative)
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Neval Mulaomerovic (SFS’24) – “Motivations Driving Japanese Remilitarization: Assessing Influences from Domestic Leadership, Regional Actors, and Global Security Conditions”
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Isabel Powell (CAS’24) – “Public Health Interest in the United States: A Broad Analysis of Internet Usage Patterns”
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Haley Wexelblatt (CAS’24) – “Intestinal Epithelial Permeability in Giardiasis”
SMURF Program
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Naama Ben-Dor (CAS’26) – “In Vitro Inhibition of the 20S Neuronal Membrane Proteasome on Network Activity and Plasticity in Mice Hippocampal Culture”
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Kate Bohigian (SOH’25) – “From Obstacles to Opportunities: A Summer of Learning in Psychological Research”
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Heather Doherty (COL’24) – “What Makes Someone Charismatic?”
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Alexandria Henderson (CAS’24) – “Studying First Appearances in Court by Video”
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Lawrence Kim (CAS’25) – “Geltrex Cell Culture and CUBIC Tissue Clearing: Enhanced Methods for Studying Glial Cells”
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Ariel Le (SOH’24) – “Barriers and Facilitators to Shared Decision-Making and Lung Cancer Screening Among Individuals Who Use The Maryland Tobacco Quitline”
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Ingrid Leigh (CAS’24) – “Overexpressing and Purifying the Phosphatase Siw14 to Measure the Activity due to Magnesium”
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Dua Mobin (COL’25) – “Defining Metabolic Heterogeneity ER+ Breast Cancer Cells Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy”
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Brandon Peng (SOH’24) – “Investigation of Transcriptional Drivers of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma”
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Tharun Potluri (SOH’25) – “Does Dermal Fibrosis Lead to Epidermal Dyschromia Within the Skin?”
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Nicole Saad (CAS’26) – “Determining the Effect of MEK Inhibitors on the Metabolism of CD4+ T-Cells”
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Nadia Sadanandan (SOH’24) – “The Role of Tumor Associated Macrophages and Interleukin-6 in Sonic Hedgehog Medulloblastoma”
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Omar Sbaih (CAS’26) – “An Exploration of Projects beyond MDMA Pharmacology”
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Jonas Schemm (CAS’24) – “Examining Mechanisms of Redox-Based Quinolinal Resistance in Plasmodium Falciparum”
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Daniel Vizcarra (SFS’24) – “Longer Larval Development Time in Populations of Ae. albopictus Mosquitoes that Do Not Require Blood to Reproduce”
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Elizabeth Wells (CAS’24) – “Trimming Tiers – Motivations and Means for De-Tiering Select Agents”