CASCADE Science Scholars
Cindy Chen '26, A targeted drug screen to rescue defective mitochondrial metabolism
Mentor: Peter Kropp, assistant professor of biology
Sam Connors '26, The characterization of organic anion transporters
Mentors: Chris Gillen, professor of biology, and Matt Rouhier, assistant professor of chemistry
Elizabeth Cramer '25, Flight performance and sexual dimorphism in house sparrows
Mentor: Natalie Wright, assistant professor of biology
Ally Lavy '26, Structure-function relationship of the enzyme HIBDH
Mentor: Kerry Rouhier, associate professor of chemistry
Emmanuel Makelele '25, Gravitational-wave Physics with LIGO
Mentor: Madeline Wade, associate professor of physics
Seryne Rafique '26, Annelid Regeneration
Mentor: Kathy Gillen, assistant professor of biology
Jeremy Roberts '26, Atmospheric Deposition in Ohio and Antarctica
Mentor: Ruth Heindel, the Dorothy & Thomas Jegla Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Paula Soric '25, Determining the effects of maternal, prenatal stress on glycogen production in the mouse placenta
Mentor: Arianna Smith, assistant professor of biology and the Harvey F. Lodish Faculty Development Professor in the Natural Sciences
Lynne Usanase '26, How kidneys sort friend from foe; using mosquitoes to assess xenobiotic transport
Mentor: Matt Rouhier, assistant professor of chemistry
Center for the Study of American Democracy Summer Scholar
Julián Clivillés Morales '25, Racialization, Racecraft, or Something Else? Racism and the Recentering of the “Vital Center” in Civil Repair
Mentor: Celso Villegas, associate professor of sociology
Environmental Studies Sustainability Scholars
Vincent Vispo '25, Ecosystem Services Valuation of the Brown Family Environmental Center Lands
Mentor: Robert Alexander, professor of economics and environmental studies
Hoskin Frame Science Writing Scholars
- Sam Bowden '24
- Sarah Carmichael '25
- Tara Cerny '24
Kenyon College and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Pelotonia Partnership
- Grateful Beckers '24
Mentor: Dr. Timothy Pawlik - Keller Bueneman '25
Mentor: Dr. Anna Vigelm - Jackson Newell '24
Mentor: Dr. Dario Palmieri - Ayman Wadud '25
Mentor: Dr. Daniel Gallego Perez - Rachel Chen '24
Mentor: Dr. John Bridges
Summer Scholars in the Humanities, Fine Arts and Social Sciences
Cade Apton '25, Qualitative Advances in the Study of Emotion Regulation and the Pandemic Nursing Project
Mentor: Marci Cottingham, associate professor of sociology
Nicole Cooper '24, Layered Traumas: The First World War Refugee Crisis and Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Mentor: Eliza Ablovatski, associate professor of history
Eve Currens '25, Collaboration Research in Labanotation
Mentor: Julie Brodie, professor of dance
Zoe DeLay '25, An Exploration of Textiles and Diet in the Late Viking Era: Identifying Microfossils of Fibers and Edibles in Calculus
Mentor: Kimmarie Murphy, John B. McCoy-Banc One Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology
Sara Landon '24, Greek Quotation in the Letters of Cicero and Fronto
Mentor: Michael Barich, assistant professor of classics
Catherin Mori '25, Collaborative Labanotation Research
Mentor: Julie Brodie, professor of dance
Hannah Sussman '25, The Impact of Social Relationships and Social Resources on Transgender Experiences of Minority Stress.
Mentor: Austin Johnson, associate professor of sociology
Mia Tsuchida '25, In Their Own Words: A Documentary on Migrant Workers in Japan
Mentor: Sam Pack, professor of anthropology
Maya Virdell '24, Empresses and Saints: Translating the Synaxarion of Constantinople
Mentor: Brad Hostetler, assistant professor of art history
Summer Science Scholars
Zachary Baker '24, Adapting WMISH to Lumbriculus variegatus to Study the Mechanisms of Regeneration
Mentor: Kathy Gillen, assistant professor of biology
Emily Banthin '24, Cell Regeneration and ROS in Lumbriculus variegatus
Mentor: Kathy Gillen, assistant professor of biology
Adam Blum '25, Local Gravity Using GPU-accelerated Spectral Methods
Mentor: Tom Giblin, professor of physics
Isabel Braun '26, Constraining the Neutron Star Equation of State Using LIGO Measurements of Tidal Deformation
Mentor: Leslie Wade, associate professor of physics
William Bryant '25, Analyzing chemical and physical properties of aeolian sediment collected in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Mentor: Ruth Heindel, the Dorothy & Thomas Jegla Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Katherine Coffin '26, Noncovalent interactions in molecular semiconductor solids
Mentor: Katie Mauck, assistant professor of chemistry
Logan Coleman '25, Evaluation of Organic Anion Transporter Inhibitors Probenecid and Naringin in Aedes Aegypti through Microinjection of Patent Blue VF and Phenol Red.
Mentor: Matt Rouhier, assistant professor of chemistry
Ronan Daly '25, Modeling Astrocytic Ca2+ Signaling in Epileptogenesis
Mentor: Sheryl Hemkin, acting provost
Casey Flueckiger '24, Comparative Regression Modeling of Economic Inequity From DAACS Compiled Artifacts at Mount Vernon and Little Bay Plantations
Mentor: Khadene Harris, assistant professor of anthropology
Dominick Frost '26, Increasing Signal Strength in Measurements of State Mixing Through Spin Echo Excitation and Magneto-Optical Trap Upgrades
Mentor: Aaron Reinhard, associate professor of physics
Audrey Gibson '26, Examining Consequences of Soil Condition on Microorganismal Nitrogen Processes through Metagenomic Analyses
Mentor: Joan Slonczewski, professor of biology
Vaughn Hajra '24, A Long-Term Statistical Analysis of Injuries in Elite Athletes
Mentor: Brad Hartlaub, professor of mathematics and statistics
James Hart '24, Neutron Star Equation of State
Mentor: Leslie Wade, associate professor of physics
Isaac Johnson '24, Histopathology of Liver and Ovary in Xenopus tropicalis Frogs Lacking the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
Mentor: Wade Powell, professor of biology
Subin Kim '26, Identifying a cotransport that carries out an excretion in Aedes aegypti
Mentor: Matt Rouhier, assistant professor of chemistry
Sophia Knaysi '24, Evaluating the Effects of Maternal Stress on Dio2 Expression and Glycogen Storage in the Mouse Placenta
Mentor: Arianna Smith, assistant professor of biology and the Harvey F. Lodish Faculty Development Professor in the Natural Sciences
Sam Kovach '25, Modeling the Dielectric Function of PdCdTe using Ellipsometry
Mentor: Frank Peiris, professor of physics
Jolien Kusi '25, Investigating the role of membrane androgen signaling in SNB cell survival
Mentor: Lauren Rudolph, assistant professor of neuroscience
Adrian Lee '25, Building an Avian Life History Dataset: The Impact of Life History on Sexual Dimorphism in Flight Muscles
Mentor: Natalie Wright, assistant professor of biology
Issachar Lopez '25, Identifying membrane androgen receptor location and role in androgen signaling in the apinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus
Mentor: Lauren Rudolph, assistant professor of neuroscience
Makarios McCune '24, Determining Structural and Functional Capabilities of Arabidopsis thaliana HIBDH Mutants
Mentor: Kerry Rouhier, associate professor of chemistry
Amanda Miller '25, Understanding Local Gravity in Cosmological Processes
Mentor: Tom Giblin, professor of physics
Grace Neuger '24, Characterization of Aedes aegypti CCC3
Mentor: Chris Gillen, professor of biology
Alyssa Perez '25, Semiconductor solids characterization
Mentor: Katie Mauck, assistant professor of chemistry
Gabriella Pesticci '25, Finding Coherence of Three-Body States with Spin Echoes
Mentor: Aaron Reinhard, associate professor of physics
Reid Pfaltzgraff-Carlson '26, Modeling Structure Formation in the Early Universe
Mentor: Tom Giblin, professor of physics
Wyatt Phillips '25, Modeling an Inhomogeneous Universe
Mentor: Tom Giblin, professor of physics
Michelle Polak '25, Web Portal for Open-Source Cloud-Controlled Enterprise Wi-Fi Software
Mentor: James Skon, professor of mathematics and computer science
Slaybrina Raphael '26, Effect of Lipophilic Non-Acid Organosulfur Compounds on the Selection of Multidrug Efflux Pumps in Escherichia coli K-12
Mentor: Joan Slonczewski, professor of biology
Olivia Rataezyk '24, Sexual Dimorphism in House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Flight
Mentor: Natalie Wright, assistant professor of biology
Leif Schaumann '25, Fractal Integer Sequences
Mentor: Judy Holdener, professor of mathematics
Jordan Schisler '25, Sediment composition, characteristics, and mineral weathering processes in supraglacial ice and snowbanks, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Mentor: Ruth Heindel, the Dorothy & Thomas Jegla Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Lucy Shamel '24, Use of spin echo to measure decoherence times of three-body entangled states near Forster resonance
Mentor: Aaron Reinhard, associate professor of physics
Isabella Strickland '26, Memory Strategies for Learning American Sign Language
Mentor: Tabitha Payne, associate professor of psychology
Kavya Thaker '25, Effects of neuronal defects in NFU1/NFU-1 mutants on chemosensation in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of MMDS1
Mentor: Peter Kropp, assistant professor of biology
Rachel Tomasko '25, Scaling Changes in Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Conservation Reserve Program Wetlands across Ohio, Indiana and Michigan
Mentor: Siobhan Fennessy, professor of biology and the Philip & Sheila Jordan Professor in Environmental Studies
Khue Tran '25, Monte Carlo Power Studies in the Two-way Layout with Replications and Various Types of Interactions
Mentor: Brad Hartlaub, professor of mathematics and statistics
Michael Van Keuren '24, Searching for Gravitational Wave Echos
Mentor: Madeline Wade, associate professor of physics
Olivia Westley-Sherman '25, The World According to Neanderthals
Mentor: Bruce Hardy, professor of anthropology
Ryan Yarcusko '25, Using mutagenesis to predict the novel functionality of Aedes aegypti CCC2
Mentor: Chris Gillen, professor of biology
TW Smith Free Market Societies Scholar
Eliya France '24, Elections, Policymaking and Economic Development in Nineteenth Century America
Mentor: Keith Harris, postdoctoral fellow in CSAD and history
Ellianne Retzlaff '25, Gender and Race in Early Banking Institutions: Evidence from the Wilmington Savings Fund Society, 1831-1850
Mentor: Amanda Gibson, postdoctoral fellow in CSAD and history