Meet OUR Featured Researchers for 2019-20. These students were selected to have their research featured online and across campus through the Office of Undergraduate Research.
OUR Featured Researchers 2019-20
Charlotte Babarinsa '20
Oberlin College Research Fellow (OCRF)
An Electroencephalography Investigation of the Effects of Attention on Crossmodal Temporal Acuity
Majors: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Leslie Kwakye
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Miyah Byers '20
Oberlin College Research Fellow (OCRF)
Moving Beyond Colorblind Casting: A Racially Specific Approach to Directing Classical Theater
Major: Cinema Studies
Faculty Mentor: Justin Emeka
Jen Crainic '20
Medically Relevant Biological Research
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentors: William Parsons, Mary Garvin, Jeff Gildersleeve
Aaron Morales Dolich '22
Changing Local Concentration of Binding Sites Affects Effective Affinity of Transcription Factor Binding to DNA Origami
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Michael Darcy
Leina Mizuno Fieleke '21
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow (MMUF)
Disability as Curatorial Methodology: A Reconsideration of Sight and Art Museum Practices
Majors: Art History and Psychology
Faculty Mentors: Christina Neilson and Bonnie Cheng
Daniel Hill '21
Determination of Possible Formation Mechanisms for Organosulfate Species Present in Secondary Organic Aerosol
Majors: Chemistry and Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Elrod
Julian Hirsch '21
The Oberlin Near East Study Collection (ONESC) InitiativeMajors: Chemistry and Mathematics
Majors: Archaeological Studies, Classical Civilizations
Faculty Mentors: Amy Margaris and Cindy Chapman
Cecelia Longo '20
Oberlin College Research Fellow (OCRF)
“Strategic Victims: Agency, Power, and Belonging in Seattle, Washington 1880-1910”
Majors: History and Politics
Faculty Mentor: Pablo Mitchell
Kara Nepomuceno '20
“Side to Side” - Pangalay codification and performance in Filipino American communities
Majors: Dance and Biology
Faculty Mentors: Alysia Ramos and Ann Cooper Albright
Tosheania Phoenix '23
STRONG Scholar
Effects of Peer Acceptance and Teacher-Student Relationship Quality on Student Academic Performance
Majors: Neuroscience (Prospective)
Faculty Mentor: Travis Wilson
Gaurab Pokharel '21
Oberlin College Research Fellow (OCRF)
Recognition of Emotion Expression from Still Images using CNNs
Majors: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Adam Eck
Garrett Robins '21
Interacting Particle
Systems as Epidemics
Major: Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: David Sivakoff
Santiago Roman '20
Africatown Oral History Project
Major: Environmental Studies
Faculty Mentor: Janet Fiskio
Claire Segura '20
STRONG Scholar
Excess Power Axion Star Search for GNOME
Majors: Physics and Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Jason Stalnaker
Olivia Smith '21
Oberlin College Research Fellow (OCRF)
Non-Random Distribution and Abundance of the Invasive Species Rosa multiflora in the Chance Creek Preserve
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Roger Laushman
Lexi Trikoulis '20
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow (MMUF)
Women and Magic in Classical Athens
Majors: Classics and Creative Writing
Faculty Mentor: Kirk Ormand
Elmo Tumbokon '21
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow (MMUF)
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Rust Belt's Future
Major: Comparative American Studies
Faculty Mentor: Wendy Kozol
Sophia Zandi '21
Oberlin College Research Fellow (OCRF)
The Myth of Nature: Ecological Fertility in Literary Adaptations of the Persephone/Demeter Myth
Majors: Comparative Literature and Environmental Studies
Faculty Mentor: Stiliana Milkova