Undergraduate Research
Oberlin College Summer Research Symposium 2025
July 23-24, 2025
The Oberlin College Summer Research Symposium is a two-day conference showcasing the research of Oberlin Summer Research Institute (OSRI). Presentations on July 23rd will be located in Hallock Auditorium in the AJLC. Presentations on July 24th will be located in Dye Lecture Hall in the Science Center. To access the livestream of the Symposium, please register in advance.
Students will be giving talks about the research they conducted during the summer 2025 under the mentorship of Oberlin faculty. Presentation information and schedule is available below.
Photo Credit: Amanda Phillips
OSRI 2025 Symposium Schedule
| 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:30 AM | Welcome and Session 1 Intro |
| Session 1: Prediction and Probability: Encouraging structural change through statistical analysis, moderated by Professor Zeinab Mohamed | |
| 9:35 AM | Rachael Diaz Sanz and Maria Mozumdar - Mentor: Prof. Zeinab Mohamed |
| 9:55 AM | Esme Tobias, Lucho Rubio Fernandez, Cloude Fewkes, and Hunter Harnphanich - Mentor: Prof. Zeinab Mohamed |
| Session 2: Breaking the Silence: Exploring resistance to systemic violence, moderated by Professor Amy Margaris | |
| 10:15 AM | Session Intro |
| 10:20 AM | Clarady Brooks - Mentor: Prof. Baron Pineda |
| 10:32 AM | Jackie Shugert - Mentor: Prof. Gina Perez |
| 10:44 AM | Annelies Schoolderman - Mentor: Prof. Jennifer Fraser |
| 10:56 AM | Judah Firestone-Morrill - Mentor: Prof. Amy Margaris |
| Session 3: Cognitive Cause and Effect, moderated by Professor Elliot Sommer | |
| 11:08 AM | Session Intro |
| 11:12 AM | Huyen Kim - Mentor: Prof. Danielle Godon-Decoteau |
| 11:24 AM | Jessie Carney - Mentor: Prof. Rebecca Totton |
| 11:36 AM | Winter Makler - Mentor: Prof. Rebecca Totton |
| 11:48 AM | Claudia Castro and Will Gordon - Mentor: Prof. Elliot Sommer |
| 12:08 PM | LUNCH |
| 1:00 PM | Welcome Back |
| Session 4: Evaluating the Environment through Change, moderated by Prof. Zeb Page | |
| 1:04 PM | Arlo Zang & Caroline Tran - Mentor: Prof. Cindy Frantz |
| 1:24 PM | Coco You - Mentor: Prof. Aaron van Neste |
| 1:36 PM | Luke De Carlo-McCann - Mentor: Prof. Zeb Page |
| 1:48 PM | Julia Sotelo-Emery - Mentor: Prof. Zeb Page |
| 2:00 PM | Alira Allen - Mentor: Prof. Zeb Page |
| 2:12 PM | Addison Matsumura - Mentor: Prof. Andrew Pike |
| 2:24 PM | Break |
| Session 5: Investigating Stability through the Social Sciences, moderated by Prof. Udara Peiris | |
| 2:45 PM | Welcome Back |
| 2:48 PM | Caledonia Joing - Mentor: Prof. Ali Masood |
| 3:00 PM | An Nguyen - Mentor: Prof. John Duca |
| 3:12 PM | Amar Mujezinovic - Mentor: Prof. Arwa Awan |
| 3:24 PM | Khanh Le - Mentor: Prof. Udara Peiris |
| 3:36 PM | Madeline Epstein - Mentor: Prof. Jenny Garcia |
| 10:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 10:55 AM | Welcome and Session Intro |
| Session 6: Sights and Sounds: Representation in Creative Practice, moderated by Emily Spezia-Shwiff | |
| 11:00 AM | Lily MacDonald - Mentor: Prof. Chris Trinacty |
| 11:12 AM | Olivia Hood - Mentor: Prof. Joshua Sperling |
| 11:24 AM | Jaileen Portorreal - Mentor: Prof. Carmen Merport Quiñones |
| 11:36 AM | Max Lang - Mentor: Prof. Charles McGuire |
| 11:48 AM | Mia Knox - Mentor: Prof. Caroline Jackson-Smith |
| 12:00 PM | LUNCH |
| 1:10 PM | Welcome back and Session Intro |
| Session 7: Infections, Injections, Transfections, and Fish, moderated by Prof. Gaybe Moore | |
| 1:15 PM | Julian Hurley and Simon Korotzer-Mariani - Mentor: Prof. Tracie Paine |
| 1:36 PM | Ujjaini Saha - Mentor: Prof. Gaybe Moore |
| 1:48 PM | Michael MacFarlane - Mentor: Prof. Gaybe Moore |
| 2:00 PM | Riley Conklin - Mentor: Prof. Gaybe Moore |
| 2:12 PM | Elizabeth Huettig - Mentor: Prof. Michelle Johnson |
| 2:24 PM | Madeline Deep - Mentor: Prof. Michelle Johnson |
| 2:36 PM | Haley Gottesman - Mentor: Prof. Michelle Johnson |
| 2:48 PM | Alexandra Chen - Mentor: Prof. Lisa Ryno |
| 3:00 PM | Sophia Dorsey and Sandra Baltazar - Mentor: Prof. Monica Blatnik |
| 3:20 PM | BREAK |
| 3:30 PM | Session Intro |
| Session 8: Analytical & Creative Approaches to Informational Delivery, moderated by Prof. Emily Wang | |
| 3:32 PM | Alisha Akhtar, - Mentor: Prof. Cynthia Taylor |
| 3:44 PM | Jacob Bazemore - Mentor: Prof. Mary Hogan |
| 3:56 PM | Henry Feller, - Mentor: Prof. Sammy Gardner |
| 4:08 PM | Axel Martin - Mentor: Prof. Sammy Gardner |
| 4:20 PM | Ben Rappoport - Mentor: Prof. Howard Levinson |
| 4:32 PM | Amanda Rabin - Mentor: Prof. Emily Wang |
| 4:45 | Closing Remarks & Group Photo |
AirTable
Please see the details of each student's presentation below.