OUR Featured Researchers
Meet OUR Featured Researchers for 2020-21. These students were selected to have their research featured online and across campus through the Office of Undergraduate Research.
OUR Featured Researchers 2020-21
Aishwarya Krishnaswamy '23
Oberlin College Research Fellow (OCRF)
We Are What We Remember: Memories of U.S. Presidential Election
Major: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Clinton Merck
Alaina Helm '21
Digitally Reuniting an Alaskan Ethnographic Collection/ Petrology of an Oxidized Blueschist from San Onofre, CA
Majors: Archaeological Studies & Geology
Faculty Mentors: Amy Margaris, Zeb Page
Anna Slebonick '22
Privacy and Ethical Concerns with Pediatric Genetic Testing
Major: Religion
Faculty Mentor: Joyce Babyak
Christian Ikeokwu '21
The Mathematics of Mutual Aid: Robust Welfare Guarantees for Decentralized Financial Organizations
Major: Computer Science & Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Sam Taggart, Adam Eck
Claire Nave '21
Changes in Sensory Noise Explain Attentional Disruptions to Multisensory Perception
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Leslie Kwakye
Dhruv Tandon '22
Oberlin College Research Fellow (OCRF)
Excess Power Axion Star Search for GNOME
Major: Physics
Faculty Mentor: Jason Stalnaker
Elsie Wang '21
Intercultural Theatre as Embodied Liminality: The Toki Experimental Project and the Interweaving of Noh and Kunqu
Major: East Asian Studies & Comparative Literature
Faculty Mentor: Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Emma Glen '22
Isagoge Manuscript Project
Major: Latin Language & Literature
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Lee
Evans Muzulu '22
SQL Injection and Security Advice on Stack Overflow
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Cynthia Taylor
Gabriela Castillo '23
Using phylogenetics and genomics to study Hawaiian and desert plants
Major: Theater and Biology
Faculty Mentor: Mike Moore
Han Yang '23
Oberlin Isagoge Project
Major: Classics, German & East European Studies
Faculty Mentor: Ben Lee, Francis Newton and Eliza Glaze
Hang (Heather) Do '21
Stability and Continuity of Social Regard Among African American Students in Low-Income Urban Schools
Major: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Travis Wilson
Iliana Lukasik '21
Refugees and Resilience
Major: Politics
Faculty Mentor: Rumi Shammin
Luci Williams '22
Natalia Goncharova: Designing Russian Identity
Major: Art History
Faculty Mentor: Christina Neilson
Michelle Liu '21
What can genetic diversity tell us about how gypsum endemic plants survived the Pleistocene? A test using multiple plant groups
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Mike Moore
Precious Gonzalez '24
Investigating the pathopharmacological interplay between vanadium and vanadium containing compounds in Huntington's disease
Major: Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Gunnar Kwakye
Qayyum Ogunsanya '22
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow (MMUF)
Music Dey Bridge: Fostering Transnational Black Solidarity Through Sound
Major: Africana Studies
Faculty Mentor: Darko Opoku
Renée Geyer '21
Phylogeography of Petalonyx crenatus (Loasaceae): genetic structure across a gypsum archipelago
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Mike Moore
Ritesh K Isuri '21
Development of chemical probes to capture succinimide modifications in complex proteomes
Major: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Will Parsons
Samuel Fertig '21
Security Advice on StackOverflow: Is SO SQL-safe?
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Cynthia Taylor
Victoria Fisher '21
Changes in Sensory Noise Explain Attentional Disruptions to Multisensory Perception
Major: Neuroscience & Biology
Faculty Mentor: Leslie Kwakye
Zoë Martin del Campo '22
Investigating the role of dopamine D2 receptors on a novel Go/No-go reversal task
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Tracie Paine