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.

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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2:31 PM	Derek Hibben	Charles McGuire
2:43 PM	Kira Glanton	Samuel Gardner
2:55 PM	Owen Brandes	Nicholas Bujalski

3:07 PM	BREAK
	Session 11 Down to Earth: Exploring traces in spaces from around the Laurentian continent
3:13 PM	Quinn O'Halloran	Maximiliano Paz
3:25 PM	Aether Bridges	Zeb Page
3:37 PM	Lucien Regnier	Zeb Page
3:49 PM	Grace Gorden	Zeb Page

4:01 PM	Session 12 Neurodevelopmental Roles in Neuropsychiatric & Neurodegenerative Disease
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

5:00 PM	Closing BBQ

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