July 18-19, 2019 at the I Hotel & Conference Center
The Illinois Summer Research Symposium brings together research programs that support the inclusion and participation of students from US populations underrepresented in graduate study to present their research. More than 150 students will present research that has been developed through the mentorship and training of faculty members from across a variety of disciplines.
Participating Programs
EBICS REU - National Science Foundation Center on Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems
EFRI REM - Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Research Experience and Mentoring
Frontiers in Biomedical imaging REU - National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates for Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging
GSEF - Graduate School Exploration Fellowship
McNair - TRiO Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
POETS - Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems
PRECS - Phenotypic Plasticity Research Experience for Community College Students
REACH Program - Research & Education for the Advancement of Compassionate Healthcare
REU-INCLUSION - Incubating a New Community of Leaders Using Software, Inclusion, Innovation, Interdisciplinary & Open-Science
SPI - Summer Predoctoral Institute
SROP at Illinois - Summer Research Opportunities Program for Undergraduates at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
SROP at UIC - Summer Research Opportunities Program for Undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Chicago
SURE Tox - Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Toxicology at the University of Illinois
2019 ISRS Award Winners:
Outstanding Poster
- Isako Di Tomassi (PRECS) - Effects of Struvite and Its Placement on Mycorrhizal Colonization and P Uptake in Tomato Plants
- Cheri McChesney (SROP-Illinois) - Angiogenesis in Healthy vs. Diabetic Mice Imaged Using Pulsed Power Doppler Ultrasound
- Michaela Perez (SROP-Illinois) - Effects on Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer when Additively Manufacturing Heat Exchangers with Microgeometries
Honorable Mention
- Jennifer Castillo (SROP-UIC) - The tRNA Recognition Mechanism of Human Selenocysteine Synthase
- Alexis Baldeon (SPI) - Microbial Diversity Analyses on Most Recent American Gut Project Data
- Ishatou Diambou (SROP-Illinois) - Controlled N-acetylcysteine Release through Reactive Oxygen Species Responsive Polymer to Treat Oxidative Stress at the Cornea
Outstanding roundtable
- Destiny Williams (SPI) - Current Findings and Future Directions for Patterns of Online Help-Seeking Behavior for Underrepresented Students in STEM
- Becky Rose (PRECS) - Stressed Induced Remodeling in the Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans
Honorable Mention
- Brittney Decimus (SPI) - Community Responses to Gun Violence
- Ty’Kira Dubose (McNair) - Who Says We Can’t Read? Reading Comprehension among African-American Students
Outstanding Oral Presentation
- Jodi Aguilar (SROP-UIC) - Epistemological Disobedience: Responsibly Sustaining Queer Race Pedagogies in K-5 through Chicana Feminist Theory
- Jonathan Villasenor (SROP-UIC) - Effects of Value on Value-directed Item Memorization Tasks in Young Adults
- Rayven Morrow (SPI) - Sugar Babies and Higher Ed
- Dejuante Walker (SROP-Illinois) - What Is the Effect of Random Sequence Error on Polyampholyte Self-coacervation
Honorable Mention
- Dureti Godana (SROP-Illinois) - Effects of Intergenerational Trauma on Identity Formation and Coping of Low Income African American Single Mothers
- Joshua Dupaty (SROP-Illinois) - Tracking Neurite Complexity for Better Understanding of Glutathione Redox States
- Victor Gonzalez (SPI) - Occlusion Robustness in 3D Human Pose Estimation
- Joel Roberts (SPI) - Synthesis of Functionalized Polymers
