View the 17th Annual Aresty Undergraduate Research Virtual Symposium Presentations

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Each spring, the Aresty Research Center hosts a university-wide Undergraduate Research Symposium. A celebration of scholarship and creative activity, the Symposium is a chance for undergraduates to present a paper or poster on their findings to an audience of faculty, peers, and corporate and community partners.

The research presentations at the Symposium range across the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. This unique event, which is one of the largest undergraduate research celebrations in the country, is a rare opportunity to engage with some of the most exciting research at Rutgers all in one place.

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Please see below for the list of 2020-2021 Aresty Undergraduate Research Virtual Symposium Presentations.

First Name Last Name  Project 
David Aaronson Geoscience REsearch At the Cordillera Talamanca (GREAT) Project 
Jonathan Ackerman Computer Formalization of Common Sense and Intuitive Probabilistic Reasoning
Kamola Agzamova The Effects of Transmembrane Protein CD44 on mTor Signaling in Breast Cancer.
Bilal Yousuf Ahmed Bank Supervision and Financial Stability
Israa Al-Shrouf A Raciolinguistics of Arabic in the U.S.
Hira Alam Risk Analysis and Management for New Jersey Food Supply Chain
Ihiel Alhasov Pharmaco-Informatic Genetics
Aila Altunbilek Keeping Black Mothers Alive: A Maternal Health Project
Daniel Amadei Rodrigues Dos Sa Bank Supervision and Financial Stability
Mridini Anand American consumers’ food consumption behavior: A closer look the food we eat, where we eat it, differences among us when it comes to food, and what influences our food choices
Omkar Anaspure Mechanisms underlying airway hyperresponsiveness
Gayatri Anguloori Assessing the Use of Ecosystem Services in Asia
Tarek Ani 4D Printing of Smart Polymeric Materials toward Biofabrication and Medical Applications
Kassia Antin Research Assistant - Luminescence Probes of Food Quality and Stability
Danielle Antoine Emerging contaminants in NJ waters
Sobhana Archakam Nutrients in physiological and biochemical support of detoxification in mosquito larvae.
Naomy Arias-Fernandez Advanced control of continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing pilot-plant
Yara Assadi Keeping Black Mothers Alive: A Maternal Health Project
Laura Astasenkova Checks and balances and other constitutional myths: Power and accountability in the United States
Nyle Bajwa Impacts of Early Childhood Programs. 
Arielle Banal Cake filtration of catalyst materials
Tanvi Banota Alterations in miRNAs Promote Nitrogen Mustard-Induced Lung Inflammation and Injury
Miranda Barnes Assessing tick-borne disease prevalence in Hunterdon County, NJ.
Malena Bashar CODE: Crowd Optimized Design of Environments 
Barbara Benda Measuring the Clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies 
Lauren Best The Microscopic Record of Human Behavior and Paleoecology
Het Bhagat Modeling and Operations of Manufacturing Systems for Individualized Products
Atul Bhattiprolu Sex-Specific Effects of D-Serine and Antipsychotics on Cultured Rat Cortical Neurons 
Shannon Bobb How Therapy Works with Anxious and Depressed Youth
Paul Boerstoel Research experience with the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino Program
Deanna Bolislavsky American consumers’ food consumption behavior: A closer look the food we eat, where we eat it, differences among us when it comes to food, and what influences our food choices
Srishti Bose Analysis of behavior and affective states during chronic cocaine vs. fentanyl self-administration and withdrawal
Peri Burton Paleo-proxies and their use in Climate Change Research
Jean-Paul Calin Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)
Hanna Campiglia Child Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic Experiments
Jack Cannon Experimental Testing of Pervious Concrete/The use of hybrid steel fibers in concrete and FRP strengthening
Michael Cappabianca WAM! Women in Art Music
Brooklyn Castillo Investigating the Structure-Function Relationship of Bio-Inspired Manganese Oxide Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Isabelle Chang Speech production and perception in adult second language learners
Ashley Chang The Quest for Legitimacy: Exploring the Role of Social Media in Social Entrepreneurship
Matthew Chase New Lightweight Materials for Modern Applications
Justin Chen Brain Imaging Data Analysis
Hao Chen Flying Insects and Flapping Robots
Shuyi Chen Numerical Linear Algebra. Applications to Data Science and Imaging.
Daniel Cheng Electrospray Deposition of Nanomaterials
Angelina Cheng Mathematical models of color theory in art and product design
Kavyasree Chigurupati Checks and balances and other constitutional myths: Power and accountability in the United States
Micaela Chin Membrane Lipid Metabolism
Elizabeth Chiu Computational design of novel enzyme catalysts using synthetic metal-binding co-factors
Han Choi Using Innovative Technology to Support Students' Science Learning
Emily Chow American consumers’ food consumption behavior: A closer look the food we eat, where we eat it, differences among us when it comes to food, and what influences our food choices
Joshua Chung Quality Engineering for 3D Printing
Drue Clark Youth with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Single Case Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Classroom Based  Services
Carson Cummins The International Press Reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Junyan Dai Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems
Yashavani Dhawan Neural circuits underlying decision making behavior
Luke Dragon Experimental Testing of Pervious Concrete/The use of hybrid steel fibers in concrete and FRP strengthening
Soumya Duggirala Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems
Soham Dutta Investigate the interaction of nanospheres with cells so as to enhance their ability to deliver drugs to tissue
Chin-Ching Fan Quantum  Mechanics  with Matrices
Jessica Faure Neuroplasticity and information storage in the brain
Carina Ai Feeney Functional Organization Within the Spinal Cord: Behavioral Responses to Pain as Seen Through Tactile Sensitivity
Pamela Ferrali WAM! Women in Art Music
Samantha Forcht Child Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic Experiments
Samuel Friedman  A Genome-Wide Association Study of Bipolar Disorder Using Dimensional Symptom Classifications
Allen Fu The neuroprotective effects of cypin activators in TBI models: understanding the role of astroglia.
Abigail Gamboa Epigenetics involved in endocrine disrupting chemical exposures and effects on mammalian uteri
 
Eshaan Gandhi Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems
Dominick Gangemi Neuroscience of addiction using rat models
Jacqueline Gelman Evaluating the St. Petersburg Paradox Resolutions
Renee Ghosh Geoscience REsearch At the Cordillera Talamanca (GREAT) Project 
Gianna Glatz NEW Minor in Disability Studies: 

Research, Curriculum Development, Project Management and Communications for Interdisciplinary Minor 
Brandon Goldstein Bank Supervision and Financial Stability
Kimberly Gomez Speech production and perception in adult second language learners
Christina Gonzalve The Ramapough Lunaape and the Ringwood Mines Superfund Site - History, Culture, Education, and Environmental Justice
Alina Gorbunova Mathematical models of color theory in art and product design
Devin Grenard Neuroplasticity and information storage in the brain
Igor Guranovic Enzyme engineering for synthesis of prebiotic human milk oligosaccharides
Kuhu Halder CODE: Crowd Optimized Design of Environments 
Jiali Han Functional Systems in the Brain
Patrick Hanna Computer Formalization of Common Sense and Intuitive Probabilistic Reasoning
Sohaib Hassan Defining the Properties of Intestinal Stem Cells
Bahgat Hassan Spectroscopy of superconductors
Libby Helfant  A balancing act in transcriptional regulation by response regulator transcription factors
Jaquelyn Hester Drosophila evolutionary genomics and 3D genome organization
Elizabeth Hinks Computational Modeling and Molecular Simulation of Nanomaterials
Price Holman Functional Diversity of Scavengers along Ocean-exposed Sandy Beaches 
Andrew Hsieh Characterization of targeted mutants in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002
Lily Huang Aquaculture through stripe bass and duckweed
Sharia Hussain Computational Simulation of Spherical Diffusion Flame Dynamics and Extinction in Microgravity
Sharia Hussain Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems
Anna Igaunis Visualizing virus infection at the nanoscale
Francesca Imbriacco Development of Extrusion or Material Jetting Based Bioprinting Constructs and Bioprinters
Vrinda Jain Enzyme engineering for synthesis of prebiotic human milk oligosaccharides
Swasti Jain John Lewis: A Life in Politics
Ameel Jani CODE: Crowd Optimized Design of Environments 
Malaika Jawed Religious Minorities in Iran and the Middle East
Zaixi Jiao American consumers’ food consumption behavior: A closer look the food we eat, where we eat it, differences among us when it comes to food, and what influences our food choices
Julianna Johnson Research Assistant - Understanding Chinese Through the Study of Dialects, Poetry, and the Writing System
Jahnvi Joshi Greek Myth in the Roman Republic
Lisa Joy Development of Extrusion or Material Jetting Based Bioprinting Constructs and Bioprinters
Ece Kadayifci Cancer Prevention Studies by Dietary Phytochemical Compounds
Tejasvi Kalakota Cohort Studies of Drug Users
Vismita Kandasmy Dietary supplement purity analysis by HPLC and other analytical techniques.
Aastha Kasera Computational Modeling and Molecular Simulation of Nanomaterials
Bryan Katchikian Paleo-proxies and their use in Climate Change Research
Anusha Kemburu Center on the American Governor at the Eagleton Institute of Politics
Jenna Kettler Mechanisms of coexistence between native plant species and invasive cattails 
Laiba Khan Religious Minorities in Iran and the Middle East
George Kharchilava Stardust: Investigating the building blocks of the Solar System
Yun Seo  Kim Studies in the perception of prosody and intonation
Garrett Knappe Decarbonization and bioenergy carbon capture and storage
Fiona Kniaz Checks and balances and other constitutional myths: Power and accountability in the United States
Siddhant Kumarapuram Ganapath The Effects of Extracellular Stiffness on Neuronal Mitochondria
Bhavini Lakshmanan Establishing a microbial biosynthesis platform for value-added molecules
Mackenzie Lawson The Effects of Transmembrane Protein CD44 on mTor Signaling in Breast Cancer.
Erin Lee Youth with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Single Case Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Classroom Based  Services
Grace Lewis John Lewis: A Life in Politics
Katharine Little The Civically Engaged Districts Project
Jennifer Liu Mechanisms of coexistence between native plant species and invasive cattails 
Toby Lo Detrimental effects of developmental exposure to environmental chemicals in the ovary
Armand Longo Data Analytics for Advanced Vehicle Manufacturing
Tianyi Luo Water Utility Rate Trends
Ashley Ly Molecular mechanisms and neural circuits of maternal care and postpartum depression-like behavior in mice
Darin Mak Enzyme engineering for synthesis of prebiotic human milk oligosaccharides
Anum Malik Meta-Analysis of Social Skills Interventions for Youth with ADHD
Siddarth Mandayam Computer Formalization of Common Sense and Intuitive Probabilistic Reasoning
Megan Maniar Experiments to Enhance Nanosphere-Cell Interactions for Targeted Drug Delivery
Shamanth Manjunatharao In planta single-molecule imaging and holographic force spectroscopy to study

real-time, multimodal turnover dynamics of polysaccharides and associated

carbohydrate metabolites
Andrew Marden Geoscience REsearch At the Cordillera Talamanca (GREAT) Project 
Meridian Mathes Supporting Resilient Fishing Communities in the Northeast Region: Adapting to Changes in Abundance, Availability, and

Access in Coastal Fisheries
Kelly Matthews Using intersectionality to understand historical and policy contexts for Black children receiving child welfare services in the United States
Emma Mattio-Smith Research Assistant - Luminescence Probes of Food Quality and Stability
Jacqueline Mehr The orexin system as a common mediator for sleep and mood dysregulation in binge eating disorder
Kishan Mehta In planta single-molecule imaging and holographic force spectroscopy to study

real-time, multimodal turnover dynamics of polysaccharides and associated

carbohydrate metabolites
Amay Mehta Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal Human Development Data in SAS
Joseph Mezza The Microscopic Record of Human Behavior and Paleoecology
Aniela Mielke Social Interaction
William Milne Development of A Prototype Smart Material Extrusion or Material Jetting Process for In-Process Monitoring and Control
Deeksha Misri Understanding the basis of coral resilience to fluctuating environmental conditions
Izzy Mizell Black Girls Through Space: How Black Girls Challenge Injustice in Educational Spaces
Eric Mooney Protein production for solid-state NMR based structural biology
Adia Moore Neighborhood Watch and Social Identity Threat for African Americans 
Laura Morejon Perez Development of ionic polymers
Leila Moustafa Placement, Experience and Identification of Arab Americans into Formal Categories 
Alex Mozsolits Synthesis of New Antimalarials
Renata Mukhametzhanova Nutrients in physiological and biochemical support of detoxification in mosquito larvae.
Izabella Mus Neuroscience of addiction using rat models
Nivashini Muthuvel Fabrication of hierarchical scaffolds for bone regeneration
Sachin Mysore Neurodegeneration: intrinsically disordered proteins, protein structuring, Huntington’s disease
Fizza Naqvi The Effects of Transmembrane Protein CD44 on mTor Signaling in Breast Cancer.
Shrikant Nayak Do cardiac signals shape emotional detection, or just salient stimulus detection?
Silpita Neti Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)
Brianna Newman Religious Minorities in Iran and the Middle East
Tran Trong Tan Ngo Improvement and expansion of software based image analysis sub-routines to analyze single-molecule interactions
Christine Nguyen The Civically Engaged Districts Project
Mudia Ogbevire Participation in and Evaluation of a Regional Community-Based Health Coalition Project 
Chinelo Ossai Black Girls Through Space: How Black Girls Challenge Injustice in Educational Spaces
Soham Palande Data Science for Renewable Energy Nowcasting
Max Pandolpho Developing Principled Digitalized Interactive Components of Geometry Items to Assess Performance of Students Disadvantaged in Traditional Assessment
Nidhi Pantula New Lightweight Materials for Modern Applications
Nicholas Panzera Inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system
Felicia Paradiso Narratives about the Environment during the Vietnam War from US Veterans
Divya Parikh The Deconstruction of “Female Madness” in Women’s Surrealist Art
Jessica Parineet Decarbonization and bioenergy carbon capture and storage
Viraj Patel A Bird’s Eye View of Geology: Evaluating the use of UAVs in Environmental and Geoscience Research and Classrooms
Khushbu Patel Assessing the Use of Ecosystem Services in Asia
Anirudh Patel Geoscience REsearch At the Cordillera Talamanca (GREAT) Project 
Kashees Patel Meta-Analysis of Social Skills Interventions for Youth with ADHD
Prince Patel Meta-Analysis of Social Skills Interventions for Youth with ADHD
Krishaben Patel New Lightweight Materials for Modern Applications
Preet Patel Nutrient metabolism in cancer
Mann Patel Uric Acid as a Therapeutic Agent for Spinal Cord Injury
Shiv Patel Wired for touch: the neurons and circuits of the somatosensory system
Likhitha Patlolla The Effects of Transmembrane Protein CD44 on mTor Signaling in Breast Cancer.
Izilda Amber Pereira-Jorge Essentialist Beliefs and Prejudice Expectations: Downstream Effects on Authenticity for Racial and Sexual Minorities
Manisha Persaud Genetic analysis of Chromosome Segregation in Drosophila
Jessica Philip Interpersonal identity cues: The perceived link between identity, personality, and prejudice
Shuohao Ping Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems
Jonathan Pinto Game Science
Austin Preiss Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems
Delmarice Price Standing in the Gap: Middle Level Music Learning in the United States (A National Survey)
Xiner Qiu American consumers’ food consumption behavior: A closer look the food we eat, where we eat it, differences among us when it comes to food, and what influences our food choices
Alifiya Quresh Reengineering Agrobacterium for T-DNA delivery to chloroplasts
Nazir Qureshi Control of organ growth and morphogenesis
Aparna Ragupathi Why can’t we print organs on-demand, yet?
Alex Rashduni Bank Supervision and Financial Stability
Aarif Razak Neural circuits underlying decision making behavior
Lauren Reavey Supporting Resilient Fishing Communities in the Northeast Region: Adapting to Changes in Abundance, Availability, and

Access in Coastal Fisheries
Eesha Reddy Participation in and Evaluation of a Regional Community-Based Health Coalition Project 
Molly Reynolds Housing insecurity and health in northern New Jersey
Lauren Rha Life and Death
Cecilia Ritacco The Young Elected Leaders Project
Siris Rodriguez Personality traits as identity cues: The perceived relationship between prejudice and personality
Amy Rosen Child Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic Experiments
Gabrielle Rosenthal Effects of Wildfires on Orangutan Energetics
Lincoln Roth Flying Insects and Flapping Robots
Gabriella Rozovsky A SERS-Based Sensing Method for Quantification of IL-6 Toward a Better Understanding of the Cytokine Release Syndrome in COVID-19 Patients
Madeline Russell Child Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic Experiments
Ratchell Sadovnik EFFECTS OF αKLOTHO ISOFORMS OVEREXPRESSION ON NEURONAL MORPHOLOGY
Neha Saju The Civically Engaged Districts Project
Sarah Sakeer Computational design of novel enzyme catalysts using synthetic metal-binding co-factors
Paula Santana Development of ionic polymers
Dora Schechter Cannabis use among reproductive-age women during preconception, pregnancy and lactation
Jennifer Schug Activity of Bacteria in the Atmosphere
drashya shah Cannabis use among reproductive-age women during preconception, pregnancy and lactation
Rishabh Shah Glycosylated monoclonal antibody (mAbs) production and mAbs characterization for enabling Quality-by-Control (BbC) biomanufacturing
Urmi Shah Participation in and Evaluation of a Regional Community-Based Health Coalition Project 
Yash Shah Why can’t we print organs on-demand, yet?
Brandon Shane Tracing 3D Magnetic Field Structure Using Dust Polarization and the Zeeman Effect
Christine Shelton Meta-Analysis of Social Skills Interventions for Youth with ADHD
Barbara Shi Narratives about the Environment during the Vietnam War from US Veterans
Charis Shin The Quest for Legitimacy: Exploring the Role of Social Media in Social Entrepreneurship
Taylor Shiroff Housing insecurity and health in northern New Jersey
Maxine Shvachkin Brain activity and affective behavior of rats during fentanyl or cocaine self-administration
Kimberlee Sibilia Contemporary Music: Project Design & Development
Faiza Sikandar Quality Engineering for 3D Printing
Kai Simon Impacts of Early Childhood Programs. 
Anne Somalwar Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)
Ria Soni Role of CRH Signaling in the BNST in Avoidance and Motivation-Related Behaviors
Kavya Srivatsa NETWORKS OF EMPOWERMENT: YOUTH, GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND COMBATING EXTREMISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Diana Stachula Cystine Diamides as Inhibitors of Cystine Stone Formation for Cystinuria
Kathleen Stavole Experimental Testing of Pervious Concrete/The use of hybrid steel fibers in concrete and FRP strengthening
Michael Stringer Renewable hydrogen generation from electrochemical water splitting 
Sanjna Sukumaran Optimal Spike Length of 6-Branched Nanostars for Maximum Efficiency Photocatalytic Water Reduction
xiaoyu sun Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems
Amanda Tadros Role of Masculinity in Predicting Heterosexual and Gay Men's Health Behavior 
Fawaz Tahir Computational biology: investigating origins of life through protein fold phylogenetics
Maya Tailor Impacts of Early Childhood Programs. 
Corine Joy Tamayo Assimilated Masculinities: How Immigration and Assimilation Impact Young Filipino-American Men's Constructions of Modern Masculinities
Natalie Tews Standing in the Gap: Middle Level Music Learning in the United States (A National Survey)
Trinity Tse How Therapy Works with Anxious and Depressed Youth
Ruth Tucker Archivio Digitale Boncompagni Ludovisi
Katrina Tun Topical and Transdermal Drug Delivery: Formulations, Optimization & Testing
Elisabeth Turner Measuring the Clustering of Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies 
Bridget Van Voorst The Ramapough Lunaape and the Ringwood Mines Superfund Site - History, Culture, Education, and Environmental Justice
Jonathan Varghese How Therapy Works with Anxious and Depressed Youth
Lea Vecchiarelli Geoscience REsearch At the Cordillera Talamanca (GREAT) Project 
Mahek Virani Drosophila evolutionary genomics and 3D genome organization
Vani Vora Mechanism of Action of Sulfur and Nitrogen Mustard Blistering Agents on Skin in vitro
Tanvi Wagle How do you make a computer program run really, really fast?
Jonathan Wang Brain Imaging Data Analysis
Qingyang Wang Joint Optimization of Packaging Design and Distribution
Maxwell Wang Testing and Debugging Deep Learning Models
Mia Wells Cannabis use among reproductive-age women during preconception, pregnancy and lactation
George Wenson Sol-Gel Processing for Imprint Lithography
Isabelle Wenzke Insecticide resistance in bed bugs
Ruo Jie Wu Mechanisms for mitochondrial quality control in Alzheimer’s disease, and its impact on neuropathology
Benjamin Yamsuan Studies in the perception of prosody and intonation
Ren Yang American consumers’ food consumption behavior: A closer look the food we eat, where we eat it, differences among us when it comes to food, and what influences our food choices
Richard Yang Defining the Properties of Intestinal Stem Cells
Jessica Yoon Mechanisms for mitochondrial quality control in Alzheimer’s disease, and its impact on neuropathology
Shanrui Yu Quantum Computing for Inverse Modeling
Hyunji Yu Sustainable Chemicals and Fuels are Now Possible: Development of Earth-abundant Catalysts for the Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reaction
Qian Zhou Code Search via Deep Learning
Stephanie Zhou Mathematical Adventures in One-Dimensional Relativistic Physics
Alisha Zhu Aerosolized Nanomedicine for Treatment of Lung Infections
Sarah Zimmer Child Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic Experiments
Hossein Zolfaghari Aquaculture through stripe bass and duckweed