The Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair provides an opportunity for our undergraduates to share their work in a campus-wide celebration of undergraduate student research. The fair is sponsored by the Office of Experiential Learning and Immersion Vanderbilt and the Office of the Provost.
The Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair Spring 2024 Poster Winners
Basic and Natural Sciences
Winner: Liudmyla Arifova
Title: Exploring the Molecular Mechanism of Nuclear Receptor PPARg for Diabetes and Bladder Cancer Therapeutics
Faculty Mentor: Douglas Kojetin
Runner-Up: Sana Fatah
Title: Investigating the Effect of RANKL Signaling on Bone Marrow Derived Monocytes
Faculty Mentor: Jim Cassat
Runner-Up: Norbu Shastri
Title: Characterizing the Effects of Temperature, Age, and Their Interaction on Lytic Immunity in Anopheles gambiae
Faculty Mentor: Julian Hillyer
Runner-Up: Joshua Park
Title: Screening CD33-targeting siRNA Sequences for Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Faculty Mentor: Ethan Lippmann
Clinical and Translational Research & Public Health
Winner: Isabelle Smith
Title: Effects of Hypertensive Endothelial Cell Stretch on the Formation of exTregs
Faculty Mentor: Matt Alexander
Runner-Up: Jacob Myers
Title: Blocking Purine Biosynthesis Prevents Diet-Induced Obesity Through Futile Cycle Upregulation
Faculty Mentor: Elma Zaganjor
Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Winner: Ada Novak
Title: Interactive Map of Risk Indicators for Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Case Study of Greater Houston Power Infrastructure
Faculty Mentor: Hiba Baroud
Runner-Up: Abihith Kothapalli
Title: Stereographic Spherical Sliced Wasserstein Distances
Faculty Mentor: Soheil Kolouri
Social, Behavioral, Education Studies, and Humanities
Winner: Nandi Zhang
Title: Parasympathetic Regulation and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Faculty Mentor: Blythe Corbett
Runner-Up: Casey Carrow
Title: Maternal prenatal anxiety and infant negative affect: Investigating the moderating role of caregiving sensitivity
Faculty Mentor: Kathryn Humphreys
Runner-Up: Zoe Abel & Lily Baker
Title: From ‘helping peers succeed’ to ‘struggling to develop research questions’
Faculty Mentor: Cynthia Brame
Vanderbilt students who have completed research projects are invited to share their work with the campus community. Students must present work that was completed while enrolled at Vanderbilt.
Questions? Contact the Office of Experiential Learning and Immersion Vanderbilt via email at experiential.learning@vanderbilt.edu.
Additional Resources
Partner offices have provided additional resources which are helpful to research projects.