2022 SURE Participants and Mentors
2022 SURE Participants and Mentors
Now welcoming the SURE participants and mentors for 2022. See below for the listing of participants, mentors, and research topics.
Student Name |
Major |
Mentor Name |
Department |
Research Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dees, Haley | Aerospace Engineering | Abdul-Aziz, Ali | Aeronautics & Engineering | Introduce Haley to a new approach in understanding the concept of aerodynamics, the mechanism of rotor dynamics, and its relation to turbine engine technology. |
| Cragel, Lucas | Mechanical Engineering Technology | Du, Yanhai | Aeronautics & Engineering | Train on the lasted 3D metal laser printing technology and EOS M100 equipment. After the training, he will be tasked with design, printing preparation, print and post treatment and analysis of the parts. |
| Pakala, Bhargav Teja | Mechanical Engineering Technology | Du, Yanhai | Aeronautics & Engineering | |
| Johnson, Jacqueline | Aeronautics | Fussell, Stephanie | Aeronautics & Engineering | Contribute to the design, development, and testing of virtual reality programs to enhance aviation training. |
| Alkharusi, Mohammed | Mechatronics Engineering | Mirinejad, Hossein | Aeronautics & Engineering | Design and evaluation of a novel test bed for fluid resuscitation systems. |
| Alsenaidi, Mustafa | Mechatronics | Mirinejad, Hossein | Aeronautics & Engineering | Design of novel control strategies to optimize the timing, magnitude, and frequency of the fraction of inspired oxygen in critical care. |
| Horn, Katie | Aeronautics - Professional | Shihab, Syed | Aeronautics & Engineering | Perform research in the GAME lab under my supervision to collect bird movement data in the US, which would subsequently be used to develop a bird movement prediction model to prevent bird strikes with UAVs. |
| Chukwukere, Chukwuemeka | Nursing | Syed, Idris | Africana Studies | Public health and community development |
| Lambert, Benjamin | Anthropology | Eren, Metin | Anthropology | Early stone age cooking |
| Tun, Alice | Biology | Takeshita, Rafaela | Anthropology | Perform genetic analysis for “The Role of Adrenarche in the Evolution of Human Brain”. |
| Coulter, Georgia | Architecture | Meakins, Jennifer | Architecture | Perform three research projects related to knitting, technology, craft, and architecture. |
| Walschburger Hurtado, Martin | Biology | Bagavandoss, Paul | Biological Sciences | Examine how combinatorial treatment of SKOV3 cancer cells with cannabidiol and pterostilbene affect their viability and migratory ability in cell culture. |
| Niesz Kutsch, Maya | Botany | Blackwood, Chris | Biological Sciences | Examine a tree species that can readily develop various types of symbiosis to experimentally establish whether the expected effects will result from the presence of different types of fungi alone. |
| Recser, Paulo | Environmental Biology | Blackwood, Christopher | Biological Sciences | Ask questions about species identification of roots, mycorrhizal fungal colonization, and analysis of root microbiomes. |
| Griffin, Nicole | Chemistry/Biochemistry Pre-Medicine | Caldwell, Heather | Biological Sciences | Neuroendocrinology |
| Latimer, Felix | Environmental & Conservation Biology | Case, Andrea | Biological Sciences | Analyze and extract data from images of plant specimens from online databases. |
| Kiser, Alaya | Neuroscience | Coolen, Lique | Biological Sciences | Investigate effects of spinal cord injury on molecular changes in neurons within spinal pattern generators. |
| Redd, Autumn | Neuroscience | Coolen, Lique | Biological Sciences | Investigate effects of spinal cord injury on molecular changes in neurons within spinal pattern generators. |
| Seifert, Angela | Public Health Pre-Med | Costello, David | Biological Sciences | Study how trace metals control the structure and function of stream ecosystems. |
| Duryea, Hannah | Biology | Dalman, Mark | Biological Sciences | Use cellular and molecular biology techniques to study matching and nonmatching tissue that will be DNA sequenced looking for distinctive SNP Genes relating to diabetes; as well as redheads and their differences compared to brunettes for analgesic response that will be studied through DNA sequencing as well. |
| Holman, Augustin | Applied Horticulture | Eichler, Sarah | Biological Sciences | Test edible mushroom production on sustainable substrate options: composted livestock manure, and hardwood pellets. |
| Frey-Burkart, Hunter | Neuroscience | Johnson, John | Biological Sciences | Study interactions between the nervous and immune systems and their relationship in regulating mental disorders such as depression. |
| Watson, Grace | Environmental and Conservation Biology | Kinsman-Costello, Lauren | Biological Sciences | Leading a statewide group of university researchers to develop and implement a program to monitor the effectiveness of over 80 wetland restoration projects in Ohio. Our group has a critical need for students to explore detailed and specific questions within this larger umbrella. |
| Manns, Morgan | Biology | Kooijman, Edgar | Biological Sciences | |
| Neuman, Peighton | Biology | Kurokawa, Manabu | Biological Sciences | Study the role of the ubiquitin E3 ligase Huwe1 in cancer and development, utilizing various conditional Huwe1 KO mice. |
| Capatosto, Lukas | Environmental & Conservation Biology | Lamichhaney, Sangeet | Biological Sciences | Study the genomics of birds adapting to high altitudes. |
| Taylor, Natalie | Zoology | Lamichhaney, Sangeet | Biological Sciences | Perform molecular studies of seasonal variation in gene expression and gut metagenomic profiles in local bird populations in Ohio. |
| Balcom, Sophie | Biology | Lehman, Michael | Biological Sciences | |
| Shaikh, Zoha | Medical Technology | McDonough, Jennifer | Biological Sciences | Investigate mechanisms involved in neurodegeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. |
| Mahajan, Austin | Biology | Model, Michael | Biological Sciences | |
| Dillon, Kendra | Neuroscience | Moore, Aleisha | Biological Sciences | Study prenatal programming of adult disease. |
| Anello, Anna | Neuroscience | Piet, Richard | Biological Sciences | Continue work she has carried out in my laboratory, focusing on a population of neurons located in the hypothalamus, the kisspeptin neurons, that are involved in generating the preovulatory surge in gonadotropin secretion in females. |
| Hutchison Goldinger, Violet | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Piontkivska, Helen | Biological Sciences | Enumerate editing sites from publicly available norovirus RNA-seq dataset and examining the role of different interferons and ADARs in viral-driven changes of editing patterns. |
| Morgan, Evelynne | Biology Pre-Med | Piontkivska, Helen | Biological Sciences | Explore various types of kinome analyses and questions, positioning herself to jump-start the analyses once the primary data is received from the core facility. |
| Amador, Marcus | Zoology | Ward, David | Biological Sciences | Care and management of plants |
| Awad, Mariam | Biology | Freeman, Ernest | Biomedical Science | Evaluate use of exercise to alleviate neural outcomes of toxic demyelination. |
| Akhigbe, Stephanie | Architecture | Liu, Rui | CAED | Evaluate the life cycle environmental impacts of the “green” building. |
| Porter, Megan | Architecture | Liu, Rui | CAED | Run a comprehensive literature review on the topic of automation in construction. He will learn how to code for the KUKA arm operation using the developed masonry vaults design algorithms, which may need improvements with a better understanding on the constrains of the technology. |
| Engel, Jill | Aeronautics - Professional | Lorenzon, Jason | CAED | Research the latest policies, regulations, and current cases associated with the mental health of pilots. |
| Rediger, Kyle | Aeronautics - Professional | Lorenzon, Jason | CAED | Research the latest policies, regulations, and current cases associated with the mental health of pilots. |
| Stratton, Rebecca | Chemistry | Shen, Hao | Chemistry | Train for various modern instruments, including a home-built microscopy imaging system, a potentiostat analyzer in my lab, and spectrophotometers in our department. |
| He, Alina | Undecided | Goncalves Schmidt, Diana | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Study synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) functionalized with oligonucleotides for the specific target of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) cancer stem cells (CSCs). |
| Nguyen, Thai | Biology | Schmidt, Diana | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Perform synthesis of a synthetic extracellular matrix (ECM) system to be used for three-dimensional (3D) cell culture of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) tumor spheroids. |
| Kanel, Alinea | Speech & Audiology | Winters, Bradley | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Extend her previous anatomical work into physiology. She will learn to patch-clamp neurons in brain slices from mice to better understand how the synaptic inputs onto sound localization neurons develop after hearing onset. |
| Betters, Tyler | Chemistry | Zheng, Yaorong | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Develop photoactivatable platinum(IV) prodrugs for treating drug-resistant ovarian cancer. |
| Multani, Parmeet | Chemistry | Zheng, Yaorong | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Develop photoactivatable platinum(IV) prodrugs for treating drug-resistant ovarian cancer. |
| Anderson, London | Integrated Health Studies | McDonough, Jennifer | College of Arts & Sciences | Investigate mechanisms involved in neurodegeneration. |
| Jang, Guensu | Biology | Novak, Colleen | College of Arts & Sciences | There are a few options we are considering for his project, including measurement of thermogenic gene expression and proteins in muscle after thermogenic stimulation, and possibly bioinformatic analysis of the muscle and brain pathways critical for the thermogenic process. |
| Dannemiller, Justin | Computer Science | Kim, Jong-Hoon | Computer Science | Participate in the machine intelligence group in the TeleBot-3R development team, and we aim to deploy this robot in the Robocup 2022 - Rescue league challenge that will be hosted at Bangkok, Thailand this July. |
| Matar, Sophia | Computer Science | Kim, Jong-Hoon | Computer Science | Participate in the machine intelligence group in the TeleBot-3R development team, and we aim to deploy this robot in the Robocup 2022 - Rescue league challenge that will be hosted at Bangkok, Thailand this July. |
| Wimer, Bailey | Computer Science | Kim, Jong-Hoon | Computer Science | Participate in the machine intelligence group in the TeleBot-3R development team, and we aim to deploy this robot in the Robocup 2022 - Rescue league challenge that will be hosted at Bangkok, Thailand this July. |
| Ahammed, Mariha | Computer Science | Lian, Xiang | Computer Science | |
| Soni, Rajvi | Computer Science | Lian, Xiang | Computer Science | Survey existing problems for incomplete data management, and study new queries over incomplete data streams. |
| Bhandari, Ishan | Computer Science | Sharma, Gokarna | Computer Science | Algorithm design and analysis |
| Pandit, Abhishek | Computer Science | Sharma, Gokarna | Computer Science | Algorithm design and analysis |
| Ludovici, Madalyne | Psychology | Akbar, NJ | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion | |
| Garner, Lauren | Economics | Rohlin, Shawn | Economics | Examining how emails to students affect study habits before exams and sales taxation on small businesses on Amazon. |
| Bell, Mikayla | Integrated Mathematics | Caniglia, Joanne | EHHS | Conduct a qualitative study examining parental encouragement and support of student success. |
| Szymanski, Jacob | Exercise Science | Jajtner, Adam | EHHS | Analyze multiple circulating biomarkers (various cytokines; IL-6, TNF-α, etc.) from samples already collected. |
| McCormick, Ashley | English | Camden, Vera | English | Transcribe interviews for Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics featuring interviews with international comics creators and transcribing the Cleveland letters of Anna Freud. |
| Saho, Bintou | Fashion Design | Benitez, Margarita | School of Fashion | Investigate the methodology, workflow, and production of “phygital” fashion which will include interactive augmented reality (AR) elements. The goal is to combine a real-world object that would also exist in the virtual space. |
| Kulin, Olivia | Fashion Merchandising | Copeland, Lauren | School of Fashion | |
| Modjrian, Nadia | Fashion Design | Ohrn-McDaniel, Linda | Fashion Design | |
| Neuman, Maxwell | Fashion Design | Ohrn-McDaniel, Linda | Fashion Design | Continue research around the “Beyond Fashion Knit Exhibit.” |
| O'Brien, Charlotte | Fashion Design | Benitez, Margarita | Fashion Design & Merchandising | Work in both 3D via CLO 3D and digital fabrication/output technologies to express concepts of biomimicry. The final garment will be multilayered in meaning and techniques. |
| Ng, Sui Kwan | Fashion Design | Campbell, J.R. | Fashion Design & Merchandising | Investigate perceptions of ethnicity in textile and apparel products as well as thinking about how traditional designs can be reinterpreted to continue to have relevance in current markets. |
| Youst, Kylie | Psychology | Kaplan, David | Geography | Look into the best ways to implement community gardens which could also increase our students’ involvement with community engagement. |
| Shaw, Patrick | Geography - Social | Mapes, Jennifer | Geography | This project will identify the land use types, including types of trees, wetlands, and agriculture that existed here before campus was developed and how these land uses changed over time. |
| Gooch, Jenna | Environmental Studies | Parylak, Rebecca | Geography | Research food waste on the KSU campus and in Kent households. |
| Eader, Olivia | Environmental Studies | Ward, Aimee | Geography | Assess how children react to an outdoor learning environment versus an indoor learning environment. |
| Evanick, Jonathan | Public Health | Ward, Aimee | Geography | Assess the homelessness situation in Ohio by comparing student homelessness between universities and regional campuses. |
| Dudik, Annika | Jefferson, Anne | Geology | Study plastic abundance and degradation in urban stream environments. | |
| Meola, Shawn | Geology | Jefferson, Anne | Geology | Study plastic abundance and degradation in urban beach environments. |
| Mitchell, Alexis | Physics | Jefferson, Anne | Geology | Study plastic abundance and degradation in urban stream environments. |
| Grimmett, Holly | Medical Technology | Schweitzer, Carrie | Geology | The project we planned is on the cuticle, or exoskeleton, of decapod crustaceans, which include shrimp, lobsters, crabs and their relatives. |
| Molina, Anthony | Geology | Singh, Kuldeep | Geology | Hydrology |
| Benson, Tyrese | Africana Studies | Berrong, Richard | History | Move toward completion of a documentary film about encounters between Black Gis and the French in 1944. |
| Daniel, Joshua | Psychology | Smith, Gregory | Human Development & Family Studies | |
| Moir, Alex | Psychology | Vachon, Lauren | LGBTQ Studies | Research queer history, art and literature in Italy and Europe, investigate effective study-abroad teaching methods, and explore the specific challenges encountered in teaching queer history. |
| Waroquet, Ronan | Physics | Jakli, Antal | Liquid Crystal Institute | Study electrically tunable liquid crystal lenses. |
| Hartley, Garrett | Physics | West, John | Material Science & Liquid Crystals | Study the interaction of liquid crystals and fibers. |
| Gmitra, Cameron | Actuarial Mathematics | Kasturiarachi, Aloysius Bathi | Mathematical Sciences | Involve objects known as “Ford Circles” and “Conway’s Topography.” These are both topics in Number Theory. |
| Miller, Nathaniel | Actuarial Science | Kasturiarachi, Bathi | Mathematical Sciences | Analyze generalizations of Collatz’s original problem (still unsolved) and discover patterns and create geometrical depictions of these patters. |
| Bathrick, Alexandra | Classics | Metzgar, Emily | Media & Journalism | Identify media coverage about contemporary events that help connect the past to contemporary developments. |
| Butz, Emily | Music Education | Matthews, Wendy | Music Education | Examine personal testimonies of women professional brass players. |
| Kaczmarek, Dacoda | Music Education | Matthews, Wendy | Music Education | Examine personal testimonies of women professional brass players. |
| Connell, Melina | Nursing | Dowell, Jo | Nursing | Develop and test the usability of stretchable sleeve called Chee Sleeve. |
| Monturo, Taylor | Nursing | Dowell, Jo | Nursing | Develop and test the usability of stretchable sleeve called Chee Sleeve. |
| Murphy, Mia | Nursing | Dowell, Jo | Nursing | Develop and test the usability of stretchable sleeve called Chee Sleeve. |
| Vavruska, Mary Grace | Nursing | Dowell, Jo | Nursing | Develop and test the usability of stretchable sleeve called Chee Sleeve. |
| Nieh, Wayne | Nursing | Petrinec, Amy | Nursing | |
| Wheeler, N'Kaiya | International Relations | Arai, Tatsushi | Peace & Conflict Studies | Primary research project: mediative practice – Aims to make significant progress in wiring a monograph and completing a refereed journal article. Secondary research project: role of historical memory in conflict resolution – Produce a refereed journal article; project in an advanced stage already. |
| Valverde-Romero, Naidi | Global Studies | Koopman, Sara | Peace & Conflict Studies | Maping May 4th and a digital archive of blog entries by protective accompaniers in Colombia. |
| Ritch, Jeremy | Peace & Conflict Studies | Merryman, Molly | Peace & Conflict Studies | Queer Pandemic Project |
| Palmer, Veronica | Biology Pre-med | Dengler-Crish, Christine | Pharmaceutical Sciences | Investigate the role of ovarian hormones in mediating sex-dependent therapeutic effects of a neuroprotective hormone called “irisin” in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. |
| Merkel, Kylie | Physics | Balci, Hamza | Physics | Perform single molecule fluorescence measurements on telomeric overhangs, the structures they form, and their accessibility. |
| Pasha, Sabaha | Physics | Balci, Hamza | Physics | Perform single molecule fluorescence measurements on telomeric overhangs, the structures they form, and their accessibility. |
| Kehler, Matthias | Physics | Lavrentovich, Oleg | Physics | |
| Rahman, Turaba | Physics - Research | Lavrentovich, Oleg | Physics | |
| Dudones, Philip | Physics | Schmidt, Thorsten | Physics | Investigate biophysics of tightly curved DNA and intrinsically curved DNA sequences such as A-tracts. |
| Matthews, Holly | Physics - Research | Schmidt, Thorsten | Physics | Develop molecular tools that will allow to study membrane proteins (MP). |
| Loar, Samantha | Psychology | Himmelstein, Mary | Psychological Sciences | Collect a substantial pilot sample (N=~100) which she will pre-register and replicate during her independent study during the subsequent academic year and learn to use psychophysiological equipment to measure stress reactivity via heart rate, blood pressure, cardiac impedance, skin conductance, and respiration. |
| Richeson, Alexis | Psychology | Himmelstein, Mary | Psychological Sciences | Test whether growing up with purity culture is associated with sexual behavior (sexual autonomy, sexual submissiveness, sexual excitation/ inhibition) and whether this relationship is mediated by body shame, benevolent sexism, and sexual trauma. |
| Zaborowski, Samantha | Psychology | Thompson, Clarissa | Psychological Sciences | Investigate this procedural/conceptual knowledge distinction with the children’s fraction book that I am developing. |
| Cimino, Maria | Psychology | Ben-Porath, Yossef | Psychology | Examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college students. |
| Staib, Joseph | Biology | Delahanty, Doug | Psychology | |
| Scott, Lindsay | Psychology | Sato, Amy | Psychology | Examine adolescent stress and eating disorder severity during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Conroy, Grace | Public Health | Hallam, Jeffrey | Public Health | 1. Complete CITI training specific to Human Subjects Research and Protocol Registration and Results Summary Disclosure in ClinicalTrials.gov 2. Produce a written literature review on the effects on COVID-19 on adult physical activity and associated weight gain in adults. 3. Initiate recruitment process for a social cognitive theory-based physical activity intervention study comparing adherence to short-bouts and long-bouts of physical activity. |
| Atkeson, Alissa | Biotechnology | Kenne, Derric | Public Health | Conduct a program evaluation for an intervention to increase retention for frontline, entry level new hires working as Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). |
| DiCresce, Kristen | Public Health | Lanese, Bethany | Public Health | Study birth outcomes in THRIVE program. |
| Chevalier, Lilly | Anthropology | Leveto, Jessica | Sociology | Study the impact of COVID-19 on Mothers in Academia. |
| Patterson, Kristen | Integrative Studies | Leveto, Jessica | Sociology | Study the impact of COVID-19 on Mothers in Academia. |
| Fisher, Fionna | Sociology | Taylor, Tiffany | Sociology | Mainstreaming Hate: The Rise and Fall of Hate Groups and the Dissemination of Racist Ideology |
| Kleinman, Shiah | Sociology | Taylor, Tiffany | Sociology | Mainstreaming Hate: The Rise and Fall of Hate Groups and the Dissemination of Racist Ideology |
| Engelhart, Kaitlyn | Speech Pathology & Audiology | Arnold, Hayley | Speech Pathology & Audiology | Explore the associations between the level of task stress and speech fluency in preschool-aged children. |
| Falter, Lauren | Speech Pathology & Audiology | Barikroo, Ali | Speech Pathology & Audiology | |
| Duszak, Julie | Speech Pathology & Audiology | Huyck, Julia | Speech Pathology & Audiology | Determine the extent to which late development on auditory tasks can be attributed to cognitive vs. perceptual factors. |
| Williams, Gabrielle | Speech Pathology & Audiology | Huyck, Julia | Speech Pathology & Audiology | Determine the extent to which late development on auditory tasks can be attributed to cognitive vs. perceptual factors. |
| Heipp, Xavier | Theatre Performance | Kurahashi, Yuko | Theatre & Dance | Study adaptations and productions of Shakespeare, which relates to multiple areas in the humanities, from gender studies and postcolonial studies to race and ethnic studies. |
| Baxter, Alexandra | Theatre Design | Polanco, Fabio | Theatre | Serve as a stage manager for a U.S. production of La Siempreviva. |