Undergraduate Research

Oberlin College Summer Research Symposium 2026

July 22-23, 2026

The Oberlin College Summer Research Symposium is a two-day event showcasing the research of Oberlin Summer Research Institute (OSRI) Fellows.  Presentations will be located in Dye Lecture Hall in the Science Center.  Information about remote viewing will be available subsequently.  

Students will be giving talks about the research they conducted during the summer 2026 under the mentorship of Oberlin faculty. Presentation information and schedule is available below.

Student presenting research

Photo Credit: Amanda Phillips

OSRI 2026 Symposium Schedule

Day 1: July 22nd, Dye Lecture Hall
9:00 AM

Breakfast

 
9:30 AM

Session 1 
Interdisciplinary Perspectives 
on Social Research: Exploring culture, 
society, and justice 
through mixed methods

Moderator: Professor Nicholas Bujalski
9:35 AM

Camilla Hildebrand

Katherine Thomson-Jones

9:47 AM

Kiera Leitch

Rebecca Totton

9:59 AM

Kaia Chang Roper

Jenny Garcia

10:11 AM

Thomas Stafford

Ali Masood

10:23 AM

Isaac Bullwinkle

Emir Murathanoglu

10:35 AM

Gabrielle Koehler

KJ Cerankowski

   
10:50 AM

Session 2
Quality of Life and Physical 
Environments: Projects addressing the 
relationship between built and natural environments and societal concerns

Moderator: Professor Josh Davidson
10:52 AM

Carol Tang

Zeinab Mohamed

11:04 AM

Calvin Burkholder and Jade Hinz

Josh Davidson

11:16 AM

MC McGreivey

Aaron Van Neste

11:28 AM

Noah Lyford

Paul Brehm

11:40 AM

Gideon Hurtado-Sher

Zeinab Mohamed

   
11:52 AM

LUNCH

 
   
12:45 PM

Session 3
Signal Processing Across Disciplines:
Discovering, analyzing, and transforming signals within machine 
vision, astrophysics, and sound design

Moderator: Professor Jason Stalnaker
12:50 PM

Mahi Zarif

Zeinab Mohamed

1:02 PM

Nishalya Vijay Kumar

Jennifer Chan

1:14 PM

Robin Gillespie

Eli Stine

   
1:26 PM

Session 4
History Unleashed: Reconsidering socially-defined identity

Moderator: Professor Nicholas Bujalski
1:31 PM

Florian Hofweber

Pablo Mitchell

1:43 PM

Jennifer Walker

Jennifer Fraser

1:55 PM

Sparrow Fuller

Annemarie Sammartino

   
2:07 PM

BREAK

 
   
2:20 PM

Session 5
Love, Jealousy, & Capital: Social  comparison across disciplines

Moderated by Professor Udara Peiris
2:25 PM

Junwoo Oh 

Greggor Mattson

2:37 PM

Belle Robles 

Ledina Imami

2:49 PM

Sofía Muñoz Kazakova 

Amanda Zadorian

3:01 PM

Lukas Verling 

Udara Peiris

   
3:13 PM

Session 6
Physiological Measures in Cognition Research: How we use EEG and eye 
tracking to explore mechanism attention, sensation, spatial reasoning, and perception

Moderated by Professor Aaron Beckner
3:18 PM

Rivkah Gold 

Aaron Beckner

3:30 PM

Uri Kieu 

Aaron Beckner

3:42 PM

Annan Luo 

Leslie Kwakye

Day 2: July 23rd, Dye Lecture Hall, Science Center
10:45 AM

Session 7
Intersections in Philosophy & Culture: The jury will decide on Kant, the Discourse

Moderator: Professor William Underwood
10:50 AM

Ray Davis

Jaime Edwards

11:02 AM

Harsh Satish

Jaime Edwards

11:14 AM

Lukas Feld

William Underwood

11:26 AM

Vincent Jenner

Corey Barnes

11:38 AM

Pijus Vasiliauskas

William Underwood

   
11:50 AM

LUNCH

 
   
12:40 PM

Session 8
Invertebrates: Student research with wax moth larvae, crayfish, mosquitoes, and duckweed

Moderator: Professor Angie Roles
12:45 PM

Sam Gorby

Gaybe Moore

12:57 PM

Savannah Wright

Angie Roles

1:09 PM

Alexis Croatt

Andrew Pike

1:21 PM

Miles Smith

Angie Roles

   
1:33 PM

Session 9
Mediums and Modes of Knowledge: Engaging with learning across disciplines

Moderator: Professor Ann Cooper Albright
1:38 PM

Wren long

Rian Brown-Orso

1:50 PM

Molly Ferguson

Ann Cooper Albright

2:02 PM

Sam Wilson

Ze Wille Kielwagen

2:14 PM

Jasper Howard

Taylor Allen

   
2:26 PM

Session 10
The Musical Nucleus: Perspectives in society, time, and culture

Moderated by Professor Nicholas Bujalski
2:31 PM

Derek Hibben

Charles McGuire

2:43 PM

Kira Glanton

Samuel Gardner

2:55 PM

Owen Brandes

Nicholas Bujalski

   
  

 

3:07 PM

Session 11
Down to Earth: Exploring traces in spaces from around the Laurentian continent

Moderator: Professor Zeb Page

3:10 PM

Quinn O'Halloran

Maximiliano Paz

3:22 PM

Aether Bridges

Zeb Page

3:34 PM

Lucien Regnier

Zeb Page

3:49 PM

Grace Gordon

Zeb Page

   
4:01 PM

Session 12
Neurodevelopmental Roles in Neuropsychiatric & Neurodegenerative Disease

Moderator: Emily Hilpman

4:06 PM

Mallika Narayan & Ayaka Nakanishi 

Elliot Sommer

4:21 PM

Socorro Islas & Lillian Fast 

Michelle Johnson

 

 

 

4:36 PM

Closing Remarks & Group Photo

Abby Aresty

 

 

 

5:00 PM

Closing BBQ