Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program

CASL:

• The effect of Bisphenol S on the sex-determination of the vertebrate embryo, John Abramyan (faculty mentor), Mohamedeyed Ammari (student researcher)
• #MeToo and a Culture of Respect: Creating a Policy-Based Institutional Life History, Kathleen Darcy (faculty mentor), Sajra Terzic (student researcher)
• Investigating the mechanisms of planar cell polarity and cell-cell junction dynamics, Ji Fan (faculty mentor), Fatima ElSaghir (student researcher)
• How Cancer Hijacks Immune Cells: Investigating the Role of NHE9 in Macrophage-Mediated Tumor Progression, Kaylan Kondapalli (faculty mentor), Francesca Badalamenti (student researcher)
• The End of Human Rights: Corporate Voices in Human Rights Rhetoric, Michael MacDonald (faculty mentor), Megan Brown (student researcher)
• Mapping forest and lake temperature variability in the natural area of the Environmental Interpretative Center, Jacob Napieralski (faculty mentor), Talia List (student researcher)
• What is the government hiding? Examining the challenges of communicating practical administrative knowledge to citizens, Vadym Pyrozhenko (faculty mentor), student researchers TBD
• Toward a Coexistent Future Between the Arts and Technology, Liz Rohan (faculty mentor), Jenny Huynh (student researcher)
• Parents without borders: Exploring the impacts of international parental child abductions, Amny Shuraydi (faculty mentor), Cadence Pero (student researcher)
• Artificial Intelligence & Personality Evaluation Through Narrative Assessment, Caleb Siefert (faculty mentor), Carley Wehab (student researcher)
• ARPA and Innovation; Foundations, Cities, and Alternative Economic Development; Detroit Oral Histories, Dale Thomson (faculty mentor), Lilly Samulski (student researcher)
• Electron Microscopy Techniques and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry as Tools to Characterize Biosorption of Lead by Bacterial Strains from an Urban Watershed, Sonia Tiquia-Arashiro (faculty mentor), Somie Opara (student researcher)
• Unravelling the Influence of Membrane Composition on Kinesin-Driven Organelle Movement, Suvranta Tripathy (faculty mentor), Hassan Bazzi (student researcher)
• Investigating the Role of Natural Products in the Treatment of Renal Cancer, Besa Xhabija (faculty mentor), Eva Schwark (student researcher)

CECS:

• Optimal Operation of EV Fast Charging Stations: A Data-Driven Approach to Load Estimation and Uncertainty Management, Van Hai Bui (faculty mentor), Daniel Skilarov (student researcher)
• Uncertainty estimation in deep neural networks, Srijita Das (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
• The viability of dynamic ultrasound imaging as a tool for enhanced smooth muscle tissue characterization during a simulated perturbation test, Amanda Esquivel (faculty mentor), Issraa Fakih (student researcher)
• Study and Detect CAN Protocol Related Bugs in Cyber-Physical Systems(CPS), Foyzul Hassan (faculty mentor), Michael Gharbieh (student researcher)
• Error Analysis for Machine Learning Classification Models in Autonomous Driving, Jian Hu (faculty mentor), Andy He (student researcher)
• BadKAN: Backdoor Attacks to Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, Ang Li (faculty mentor), Hussein Haidar Ahmad (student researcher)
• Exploration of sex based differences in pulmonary fibrosis, Caymen Novak (faculty mentor), Batoul Chalhoub (student researcher)
• Materials Characterization for Sustainable Steelmaking, Christopher Pannier (faculty mentor), Kennedi Williams (student researcher)
• Developing transmigration assays in microphysiological systems to understand neuroinflammation, Aditya Raghunandan (faculty mentor), Malak Harajli (student researcher)
• AI Meets Robotics: Creating an Interactive Conversational Robot with ChatGPT, Samir Rawashdeh (faculty mentor), Natalie Kim (student researcher)
• Designing a Device to Characterize the Stiffness of Hydrogels for In Vitro Tissue Applications, Rafael Ruiz (faculty mentor), Santiago Dugarte (student researcher)
• Software Engineering Applications of Family Engineering Research Study, DeLean Smith (faculty mentor), Boluwatife Kolawole (student researcher)
• Repurposing Old Smartphones for Community Sensing, Zheng Song (faculty mentor), Marwa Chbeir (student researcher)
• Optimal Control for Differential Wheeled Robots: Addressing Uncertainties and Disturbances, Guilherme Vieira Hollweg (faculty mentor), Harpreet Mann (student researcher)
• Energy-Efficient Light and LoRa Hybrid Communication Framework for Mobile Robots, Xiao Zhang (faculty mentor), Syed Zitmir Gilani (student researcher)

CEHHS:

• Careful Conversations: Area Educators’ Perceptions of Teaching During a National Election, Erin Bronstein (faculty mentor), Esraa Abukhadijeh (student researcher)
• Understanding the Mental Health Needs of Formerly Incarcerated People in Michigan, Vitalis Im (faculty mentor), Myron Wood (student researcher)
• Improving Educational Support Systems for Multilingual Learners, Kyongson Park (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
• Climate Adaptation in the Midwest: Learning from Immigrants and Refugees, Natalie Sampson (faculty mentor), Noor Raza (student researcher)
• Diversity and Disability Representation through Children’s Literature, LaShorage Shaffer (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
• Unequal Healthcare Access: Children of Single Mothers of Color Before and After the Affordable Care Act, Yiwan Ye (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD

COB:

• Virtual Tutor: learning and having fun with a friend?, Yi Maggie Guo (faculty mentor), Sophia Guo (student researcher)
• Ghost Parents: Neurodiversity, identity destruction, and institutional trauma, Elif Izberk-Bilgin (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
• Do I Pollute During Uncertain Time? Political Uncertainty and Toxic Emissions, Jing Kong (faculty mentor), Jansen Sangala (student researcher)
• A Bitcoin Company: The Strategy of Microstrategy, Lee Redding (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD

Mardigian Library:

• Capabilities and Limitations of Bibliometric Reporting in Various Platforms, Amy Seipke (faculty researcher), Jeneen Jadallah (student researcher)

Visit the Past Projects page for information about all previous SURE projects.

Students who were credited in publications for their work on SURE projects:

SURE 2024

• A. A. Farhat, Y. A. Almahdi, F. Z. Alshuhani, B. Xhabija, Morphological and Optical Profiling of Melanocytes and SK-MEL-28 Melanoma Cells Via Digital Holographic Microscopy and Quantitative Phase Imaging. Adv. Biology 2024, 2400346. https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202400346

SURE 2023

• D. Johnson, O. Pellegrini, R. Sauer, J. Schall, K. Mottakin and Z. Song, "Extending Automotive Vision System by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Operations, Services and Technologies (MOST), Detroit, MI, USA, 2023, pp. 223-224, doi: 10.1109/MOST57249.2023.00031.
• Hachem, Z., Hadrian, C., Aldbaisi, L., Alkaabi, M., Wan, L. Q., & Fan, J. (2024). Asymmetrical positioning of cell organelles reflects the cell chirality of mouse myoblast cells. APL Bioengineering, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0189401 
• Pagnucco G, Overfield D, Chamlee Y, Shuler C, Kassem A, Opara S, Najaf H, Abbas L, Coutinho O, Fortuna A, Sulaiman F, Farinas J, Schittenhelm R, Catalfano B, Li X, Tiquia-Arashiro SM. Metal tolerance and biosorption capacities of bacterial strains isolated from an urban watershed. Front Microbiol. 2023 Oct 23;14:1278886. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1278886
• Sampson, N., Price, C., Almaleky, A., Reda, Z., & Reda, Y. (2024). Lessons from the Environmental Health Research-to-Action Academy. Environmental Justice. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2024.0041 
• Susko, D.J., and Jamil, A.N. 2024. Effects of Seed Number and Fruit and Seed Packaging on Dispersal Potential of the Multiseeded Fruits of Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis). International Journal of Plant Sciences 185:503-508.

SURE 2022

• Perla et al. Acidic pH of Early Endosomes Governs SARS-CoV-2 Transport in Host Cells Fares, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Volume 0, Issue 0, 108144 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.108144
• DiDonato, StuartP. and Antonios M. Koumpias. 2024. “Effects of property value assessment limit portability on migration outflows.” Public Budgeting & Finance. 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbaf.12373
• Faulkner MB, Rizk M, Bazzi Z, Dysko RC, Zhang Z. Sex-specific effects of buprenorphine on endoplasmic reticulum stress, abnormal protein accumulation, and cell loss after pediatric mild traumatic brain injury in mice. Neurotrauma Reports 2023:4(1):573-585. doi: 10.1089/neur.2023.0051
• Marincean, S., Nichols, D. L., & Benore, M. A. (2023). Riboflavin interactions with the chicken isolated carrier protein. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 96, 129529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2023.129529 

SURE 2021

• Hang, B., Jassem, E., Mohammed, H., Wan, L. Q., Herschkowitz, J. I., & Fan, J. (2022). Interacting with tumor cells weakens the intrinsic clockwise chirality of endothelial cells. APL Bioengineering, 6(4), 046107. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0115827
• Hogan, J., Salo, A., Rzig, D. E., Hassan, F., & Maxim, B. (2022). Analyzing Performance Issues of Virtual Reality Applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.02013. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2211.02013
• Napieralski, J., Sulich, C., Taylor, A., & Draus, P. (2022). Mapping the link between outdoor water footprint and social vulnerability in Metro Phoenix, AZ (USA). Landscape and Urban Planning, 226, 104498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104498

SURE 2020

• Song, Z., Rowader, O., Li, Z., Tello, M., & Tilevich, E. (2022). Quality of Information Matters: Recommending Web Services for Performance and Utility. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 41–48. https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudCom55334.2022.00016

SURE 2019

• Nasser, M., Wu, Y., Danaoui, Y., & Ghosh, G. (2019). Engineering microenvironments towards harnessing pro-angiogenic potential of mesenchymal stem cells. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 102, 75–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2019.04.030
• Sampson, N., Price, C., Alwishah, K., Saleh, I., Mahdi, A., Mozip, A., Luqman, S., Archambault, D., Gleicher, S., Norwood, D., Almaklani A.B., Leonard, N, Arouche, A., Tariq, M., Reda, Z. (2021). Building youth capacity to address environmental health and justice concerns in Dearborn, MI. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 15(3):401-410. doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2021.0041.

SURE 2018

• Alkhazi, B., Abid, C., Kessentini, M., & Wimmer, M. (2020). On the value of quality attributes for refactoring ATL model transformations: A multi-objective approach. Information and Software Technology, 120, 106243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2019.106243
• Bazzi, K., Meka, V. M., Rathi, A., & Jayaraman, T. V. (2019). Influence of temperature on the magnetic properties of nanostructured Fe-49 wt.% Co-2 wt.% V alloy powder synthesized by mechanically milling pre-alloyed gas-atomized powder. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 227, 36–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2019.01.044
• Doctrove, Q. A., Alsafi, Z., Smith, S. R., & Benore, M. A. (2019). Improved Purification of Apo and Holo Riboflavin Binding Protein from Chicken and Turkey Egg Yolk. The FASEB Journal, 33(S1), 472.2-472.2. https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.472.2
• Rebai, S., Sghaier, O., Alizadeh, V., Kessentini, M., & Chater, M. (2019). Interactive Refactoring Documentation Bot. 2019 19th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), 152–162. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM.2019.00026