Summer 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Thursday August 5th 1-3 PM ET

Showcasing research projects from undergraduate and masters students, and teachers participating in the REU for Nanoscale Physics and Materials,  the REU in Chemistry, the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NSF-MRSEC) Research Experience for Teachers, and the NCCU/PSU and CSULA/PSU Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) Programs.

Posters will be presented in a virtual poster gallery on Gather Town.

  • Session A will be from 1-1:45 PM ET
  • Session B will be from 2:00-2:45 PM ET
  • Presenters are expected to attend their posters for 30 minutes with cameras on, and visit other posters for the remainder. We ask all visitors to respect the collegial environment by also having your camera on.
Poster Session Time (EDT)Poster #NameMentorCo authorsUniversityTitle
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM1Sara K. AdamkovicChris GiebinkJohn P. Murphy, Alex J. Grede, Jonathon R. SchrecengostWest Chester UniversityEnhanced Magneto-Optic Response of CdO Thin Films at their Plasma Frequency
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM2Julien AlfaroStephanie WisselBryan HendricksCalifornia State University StanislausDesigning and Testing Novel Antennas for In-Ice Radio Arrays
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM3Aaron A. VilchezBenjamin LearNate Ginder, Sarah PhillipsUniversity of California, BerkeleyPhotothermal Esterification of Small Molecules
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM4Adaly Garcia & Kinsley WangYixian WangFatima BeiderCalifornia State University, Los AngelesPlasmonic imaging of electrochemical reactions at individual Prussian blue nanoparticles
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM5Netanya DennisFei YanMartha Garcia Cervantes, Bikram Adhikari,  Basant Chitara,North Carolina Central University2D Tellurene-Based Electrochemical Sensing of Hydrogen Peroxide
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM6Jeanpun AntarasenJorge O. SofoBrett R. GreenThe Pennsylvania State UniversityA new measure of localization and coherence in localized wavefunctions
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM7Paula A. Calizaya CabreraMartin BojowaldThe Pennsylvania State UniversityChaotic Dynamics of a Big Bang Singularity with Semiclassical Corrections
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM8Brandon E. EreforokumaElizabeth ElacquaMorgan Murphy, Stephen KoehlerThe Pennsylvania State UniversityThe synthesis of well-defined conjugated donor-acceptor polymers through ring opening metathesis
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM9Samuel Candelario Torres and Nicholas EdwardsMarvin WuNorth Carolina Central UniversityFabrication and Characterization of Triple Cation, Mixed Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM10Melvin RamosTravis Shihao Hu California State University, Los AngelesFinite Element Study of Bio-Inspired Fibrillar Adhesives and Kirigami Inspired Reinforcement of Hydrogels
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM11Herminio CarrilloStephanieWisselAndrew ZeollaSacramento State UniversityUsing RI Reconstruction Methods to Determine Xmax of Extended Air Showers for BEACON
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM12Shae C ColeNathan C. KeimAshbell AbrahamLock Haven UniversitySingle Return Point Memory of a contact line between two fluids and a solid.
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM13Jayda B. DuvernaySquire BookerCody Lloyd, Matt RadleTexas Southern UniversityBiochemical and Strctural Characterization of Mmar15540 from M. marburgenesis: A Class B Radical S-adenosylmethionine Methylase
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM14Juan GamezEric HudsonCalifornia State University San BernadinoMapping Local Strain via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM15Barney R. WalshElizabeth ElacquaSteven HussKalamazoo CollegeSynthesis and Characterization of Ru(II)-containing Catalytic Polymers
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM16Evan KryskoZhiqiang MaoLujin MinThe Pennsylvania State UniversitySynthesis and Characterization of a High-Entropy Spinel Oxide
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM17Mathew A. LeonDavid RadiceAviral PrakashCalifornia State University, Long BeachGeneral-Relativistic Stellar Structure Equations in Julia
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM18Chunhui LiViktoriya GiryanskayaThe Pennsylvania State UniversitySimulating optical light curves of core-collapse supernovaein the presence of dense circumstellar material
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM19Alexa MarroquinPaul CremerChristopher ReynoldUniversity College LondonHomogeneous study of the interaction of Cu2+ ions with vesicles containing Phosphatidylserine 
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM20Collin MaurtuaShengxi HuangZiyang WangWest Chester UniversityImplementation of SABARSI: A Statistical Approach for Background Removal and Signal Identification for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectra
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM21Alison WeissMikael C. RechtsmanSachin Vaidya, Christina Jörg Amherst College Searching for Fermi Arcs in a Photonic Chiral Woodpile
Poster Session Time (EDT)Poster #NameMentorCo authorsUniversityTitle
2:00 - 2:45 PM1Nicholas P. MitranJun ZhuCarlton DrewThe Pennsylvania State UniversityExploring Possible Magnetic TI Mn(Bi1-xSbx)6Te10
2:00 - 2:45 PM2Elizabeth MorningstarIsmaila DaboCierra ChandlerSmith CollegeFirst-Principles Study of Transition Metal Sulfides for Lithium Sulfur Batteries
2:00 - 2:45 PM3Thomas NguyenDavid RadiceAbhishek DasThe Pennsylvania State UniversityInvestigating the Oscillation Modes of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Proto-Neutron Stars
2:00 - 2:45 PM4Ava C. Del RioRamesh GiriMargaret G. LakomyThe Pennsylvania State UniversityNickel catalyzed cyclization/cross-coupling of organohalide tethered vinyl silyl ethers to form cyclic silyl ethers
2:00 - 2:45 PM5Arnaldo RendonJohn C. BachmanNicholas GerlitsCalifornia State University, Los AngelesInexpensive Electrochemical 3D Printing 
2:00 - 2:45 PM6Marino Di Franco QuinonezIsmaila Dabo, John Chris BachmanFrancisco Marques dos Santos VieiraCalifornia StateUniversity Los AngelesAnalysis of unary metal perovskites towards the development of multicomponent OER catalysts
2:00 - 2:45 PM7Dante RasoDavid RadiceSurendra Padamata,Ana Matkovic', Tim Schneider, Nahks Tr'ehnlThe Pennsylvania State UniversityBlack Hole Virtual Reality Visualization
2:00 - 2:45 PM8Andrew ReynosoVincent CrespiBohan XuUniversity of California, BerkeleySimulation of Carbon Nanothreads
2:00 - 2:45 PM9Tara L. SherbondyLauren ZarzarRebecca BalajPennsylvania State UniversityInvestigating Reaction Rates at the Oil-Water Interface and Inside Surfactant Micelles
2:00 - 2:45 PM10Ethan N. RitcheyLuiz de ViveirosThe Pennsylvania State UniversityDevelopment of Snowball Chamber into a Novel Particle Detector
2:00 - 2:45 PM11Jose RochinJohn Bachman & Derek M. HallRenaldo SpringerCalifornia State University, Los AngelesUnderstanding the impedance of rechargeable Zinc / MnO2 batteries containing triflate electrolytes.
2:00 - 2:45 PM12Santino M. ServagnoEric NacsaDylan Babcock, Ayush SharmaMount St. Mary's UniversityPhotoredox-Catalyzed Alkyl-Arylation of Unactivated Olefins with Simple Sulfones
2:00 - 2:45 PM13Aiden RossLong-Qing ChenJacob A. Zorn, Bo WangUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonStrain-Driven Superdomain Decomposition in the Lead-Free (Ba1-x, Cax)TiO3 System: Theory and High-Throughput Phase-Field Simulations
2:00 - 2:45 PM14Lauren B. ShepardSusan B. SinnottJacob T. Sivak, Mary Kathleen CaucciUniversity of ArkansasInvestigating Cobalt Valence in Entropy-Stabilized Oxides through Density Functional Theory Calculations
2:00 - 2:45 PM15Mefody PutrinnSquire BookerDouglas M. Warui, Olga A. Esakova The Pennsylvania State UniversityOptimization of the human CDKAL1 protein expression in E.coli for crystallographic study.
2:00 - 2:45 PM16Rebecca SipenNathan C. KeimAngel MartinezCalifornia State University, NorthridgeRheology of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal Thin Films
2:00 - 2:45 PM17Ariel StruzykKenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr.Megan A. Steves, Carly MathewsonCornell University Nonlinear Excitation Spectra of Molecularly Doped MoS2
2:00 - 2:45 PM18Alyssa J. WheelerAmie K. Boal & J. Martin BollingerOlivia Peduzzi, Chi-Yun LinSouthern Nazarene UniversityIdentifying and Characterizing Homologs of a Novel Class Ig Ribonucleotide Reductase
2:00 - 2:45 PM19Pedro Trinidad PerezMauricio TerronesGeorge BepeteUniversity of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus2D hexagonal Boron Nitride-supported metals nanoparticles
2:00 - 2:45 PM20Lincoln WeberVenkatraman GopalanRui ZuSouthern Illinois University-Carbondale Characterization of Tunable Hidden Monoclinic Phases in Barium Titanate with Second Harmonic Generation
2:00 - 2:45 PM21Ryan ZhangDavid WeissFelipe Giraldo Mejia, Peng DuThe Pennsylvania State UniversityParallel Addressing Beam Architecture in a 3D Optical Lattice