Undergraduate Research and Creative Collaborations

Project Title: "SIFamide modulates muscles of the stomatogastric system of the crab, Cancer borealis"

Faculty Mentor: Eve Marder

Project Title: "Knowledge Graph Augmented API Agent"

Faculty Mentor: Pengyu Hong

Project Title: "Modern Post-Atrocity Memorials and their Local and International Perception in Sinjar and Srebrenica"

Faculty Mentor: Muna Güvenç

Project Title: "How Colonial Teachings Shape Black Identity: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Black Americans and Afro-Germans"

Faculty Mentor: Sabine von Mering 

Project Title: "Negotiating Authority: Expertise, Trust, and the Immigration Attorney’s Role in a Politically Volatile Era"

Faculty Mentor: Sarah Mayorga

Project Title: "From Colonial Hanoi to Metropolitan France; An investigation of Vu Cao Dam's Career and Postmortem Reception" 

Faculty Mentor: Aida Wong

Project Title: "The Role of Spatial Frequency and Culture in Visual Short-Term Memory"

Faculty Mentor: Angela Gutchess & Robert Sekuler 

Project Title: "Teaching and writing poetry in a time of crisis"

Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Bradfield

Project Title: "Click glycosylation of protected alkynyl nucleosides towards functionalized aptamers"

Faculty Mentor: Isaac Krauss

Project Title: "Understanding the Relationship Between Polysubstance Use and Health Outcomes in Berkshire County and the State of Massachusetts"

Faculty Mentor: Darren Zinner

Project Title: "Dynamic Pricing in the Age of Algorithms: Modeling Seller Behavior and Consumer Welfare in Online Marketplace -- A Case Study of Amazon"

Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Shiller

Project Title: "Legacies of Play in German Art: Schiller, Rilke, Kafka, and the Eurogame"

Faculty mentor: Steve Dowden

Project Title: "Synthesis of Hyaluronic Acid Via Iron-Catalyzed 1,2-trans-β-Selective Glycosylation"

Faculty mentor: Hao Xu

Project Title: "Structure and mechanism of pyroptolysins"

Faculty mentor: Alex Johnson

Project Title: "Woody Plant Pollinating Insect Surveys at the Arnold Arboretum"

Faculty mentor: Colleen Hitchcock

Project Title: " Response of the cardiac rhythm of the crab, Cancer borealis, to long-term temperature perturbations in vivo"

Faculty mentor: Eve Marder

Japhy T. '26

Project Title: "Circular RNA Misregulation in Lifespan-Altered Drosophila: Disentangling Chronological and Biological Aging"

Faculty mentor: Sebastian Kadener

Project Title: "Investigating Detector Response to Dark Photon Signals in the DarkQuest Experiment"

Faculty mentor: Aram Apyan

Project Title: "Picturing the Pavement of Hanoi (1897-1920)"

Faculty mentors: Catherine J. Lewis Theobald & Howie Tam

Project Title: "The Sexualization of the Jewess: Analyzing Anti-Jewish Rhetoric through Dramatic Literature"

Faculty mentor: William Flesch

Project Title: "Benchmarking LSM Buffer Designs under Variable Workloads"

Faculty mentor: Subhadeep Sarkar

Project Title: "MAHAlli Project and Finding Rhapta"

Faculty mentor: Alexandra Ratzlaff

Project Title: "Linking goal-directed behaviors with rumination, anhedonia, and depression"

Faculty mentor: Hannah Snyder

Project Title: "Two-Dimensional Deficit in Balancing a Visual Inverted Pendulum"

Faculty mentor: Paul DiZio

Project Title: "Comparative analysis of the interaction of Parkinson’s-associated α-synuclein expression with mitochondrial dynamics in Drosophila dopaminergic and clock neurons"

Faculty mentor: Michael Rosbash