SURF 2023 Projects & Papers

Congratulations to SURF 2023 Fellows!

We are pleased to announce the SURF 2023 student researchers and their faculty mentors:

SURF Fellow	Project Title	Mentor(s)
Bryan Cadavos	Investigation of the Toxicity of Methylamine Salts on Mammalian Cells	Chong Qiu, Shue Wang
Justin Caron	Effects of Mechanical Compression on Collective Cell migration	Shue Wang
Joshua Christensen	Application of Particle Correlated Raman Spectroscopy (PCRS) for the forensic Examination of Soils	Brooke Kammrath
Gianna Cologna	Synthesis of a Library of Dibenzo-Azocine-Diones for General High-Throughput Screening	Pier Cirillo
Asher Duke	Comic Books and Transmedia: A Historic Relationship	Dianne Russo
Riley Eagleson	Differentiation of Biological Sex by Color Coding (ULW) Latent Fingerprint Images	Josep Fossoul
Nox Garner	Predictors of Eating Disorders in a Novel Sample of College Students in the Northeast: A Cross-Sectional Analysis	Alvin Tran
Beatrice Glaviano	The Estimated Concentration of Microplastics in Humans Due to the Consumption of (Dicentrarchus labrax) & Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata)	Jean-Paul Simjouw, Christian Conroy
Hayat Khan	Developing Polydopamine-Coated Glycogen Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy	Sun Hao
Kaylee Salazar	Literature in the Age of the Internet and Algorithms: An Autoethnographic Study of TikTok’s Online Book Community	Mary Isbell
Justine Valentino	Investigation of Borrelia burgdorferi in Gynecological Cancer Tissues	Eva Sapi
Cody Velikaneye	Biodegradation of Plastic Using Bacterial Biofilm	Gu Huan
Lily Walsh	Role of Family Violence in Childhood on Criminal Thinking Styles in Adulthood	W. Amory Carr