Undergraduate Research Awards for 2025-2026 have been awarded to 49 of students from disciplines and departments across campus. Click on the names below to read the abstracts that summarize each research project. Mark your calendars to attend Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day to see these students present their research findings.
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Conceptualizing Intimate Partner Abuse through the Lens of Intracultural Dialogue Amongst South Asian Students through Qualitative Interviewing
Christopher Murphy
Psychology

The Moderating Role of Internalized Model Minority Myth in the Relation Between Asian American Adolescent Discrimination and Socioemotional Difficulties
Charissa Cheah
Psychology

Evaluation of Pain Management Education in Predoctoral Dental Programs: Efficacy and Integration of Alternative Medicine Modalities
Tiffany Gierasch
Individualized Studies

Manufacturing of the First Industrial-Scale Elastic Energy Storage
Kevin Fulmer
Mechanical Engineering
Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship

The Role of Populism in Shaping Politics in Latin America
Felipe Filomeno
Political Science and Global Studies

The Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Pain: An Examination of the Moderating Roles of Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Gender
Raimi Quiton
Psychology

Polynomial Chaos in Financial Mathematics: Reproducing, Predicting, and Extending Models of Asian Options with Random Volatility
Bedřich Sousedík
Mathematics and Statistics

Analyzing Supermassive Black Holes in Minor Mergers to Characterize Merging Effects
Adi Foord
Physics

Relationship between Social Support, Loneliness, and Injury-related Chronic Pain intensity in College Athletes
Raimi Quiton
Psychology

Developing a Prototype GenAI Tool for Enhancing Early Literacy through Dialogic Reading
Shuling Yang
Education

Bay Shore Amusement Park:
A Forgotten History of Sparrows Point
Michael Casiano
Public Humanities

Fiscal-Monetary Policy Misalignment and Its Impact on Inflation Persistence and Real GDP Growth: Evidence from the United States (2000–2024)
Nandita Dasgupta
Economics

Motor Imagery based Brain Computer Interfaces
Ramana Vinjamuri
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Elucidating Microbe-Microbe-Host Interactions in the Vaginal Microbiome
Jackman Burden
Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering

Voyages: Chapter Seven
Nigel Semaj
Theatre

How Much can Aspects in Dance Improve Over the Course of Just a Week?
Amanda Fair
Theatre

Collegiate Commerce
Tasha Vanzie
Mechanical Engineering
Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship

Synthesis of Beta-DiKeto Acid Derivatives as Potential Inhibitors of Beta-Lactamase NDM-1
Paul Smith
Chemistry and Biochemistry

Sex Workers and Missionaries: A Comparative Study of Language, Power, and Cultural Mediation in Postwar Japan and Colonial Mexico
Julie Oakes
Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication

Cluster Headache Diagnostic Delay: Examining the Role of Biopsychosocial Factors and Patient Behavior
Raimi Quiton
Individualized Studies / Psychology

Do Speciesism, Animalistic Dehumanization, and Hostile Masculinity Affect Ratings of Culpability in Sexual Assault Scenarios?
Christopher Murphy
Psychology

Submerged Culture Viscosity of Aspergillus nidulans Kinase Deletion Strains
Mark Marten, Alexander Doan
Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering

Voices and Networks: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ethnic Conflict Resolution
Steven McAlpine, Dr.Asif Majid
Individualized Studies

Tourism in Tiny Towns: An Ethnographic Study of Old Ellicott City
Nicholas Welcome
Sociology and Anthropology

Improvement of Cell Vitality and Proliferation with Layer-By-Layer Method
Jorge Almodovar
Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering

The Role of Mindfulness and Reappraisal Tendencies in Emotional Regulation
Lira Yoon
Psychology

Linking Experience-Induced Behavioral Changes and Autism-Related Traits Through shank3 Expression in Fish
Cheng-Yu Li
Biological Sciences

Parental Awareness of Discrimination and Asian American Adolescent Socioemotional Difficulties: The Mediating Roles of Bicultural Identity Blendedness and Harmony
Charissa Cheah
Psychology

Beyond the Gate: A Guide to Reentry Reform in Urban America
Elaine MacDougall
Political Science

Role of Preadipocyte-Derived CTRP6 in Adipose Tissue Extracellular Matrix Stiffness in Obesity
Diana Elizondo
Biological Sciences

Hyphal Structures and Conidial Structures Contribute to Material Properties
Mark Marten
Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering

The Student’s Role in Muscular Bonding and Dance within the Classroom
Diana Elizondo
Dance and Philosophy

Mekong River Politics: Waterworks and Geopolitical Leverage
Political Science
Political Science

Comic Books and Philosophy: Using Superheroes to Teach Ethics
Greg Ealick
Philosophy

Using AI Song Recognition to Identify the Distribution of an Endemic Songbird
Kevin Omland
Political Science

Boholana: Translating the World into Sound
Linda Dusman
Music

Synthesis of Thiophene Derivatives as Potential Inhibitors for the β-Lactamase NDM-1
Paul Smith
Chemistry and Biochemistry

Foundational Skills for Building a Bilingual Repertoire in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Mirela Cengher
Psychology

Design and Optimization of Bioinformatics Tools for Dynamic Omic Data
Mark Marten
Chemical, Biochemical, Environmental Engineering

Medieval Moralization, Dehumanization, and Demonization of the Disabled Body in Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer
Kathryn McKinley
English

Amplifying Asian American Voices: Teachers’ Explorations of Picture Books Centering Asian American Characters
Amy Tondreau
Education

Optically Strain-Tuning Coherent Magnons in van der Waals Magnetic Semiconductors
Geoffrey Diederich
Physics

The Language of Decriminalization: Drug Policy Rhetoric and Public Health in 21st Century Canada
Earl Brooks
English

Extraterritorial Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Extraterritorial Courts as Arbiters of Human Rights Law and Advocates for Victims
Political Science
Jeffrey Davis

Examining the Interdisciplinary Roles of Choreographer and Director Through Dance on Film
Ann Sofie Clemmensen
Dance

Understanding and Visualizing Socioeconomic Disparities and their relationship to the Effects of Natural Disasters in the United States
Dena Aufseeser
Geography and Environmental Science

Networking and Research of Methodologies in Film and TV Production for “Paradox”, an animated original series from Chloe Weaver
Sharon Tran
Individualized Studies

Human Presence in Fragile Spaces: A Geospatial Study of Antarctica
Charles Kaylor
Geography and Environmental Science