SUBJECT: Congratulations SURE 2024 Awardees!!
April 17, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Campus Community,
On behalf of the SURE Administration Committee we would like to extend our CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS!! to the following 50 faculty members who received funding for a SURE summer undergraduate student researcher. We had another record breaking year in terms of applications and are so proud of the breadth and range of our faculty's research expertise as well as their commitment to mentoring and developing undergraduate student researchers. These projects represent all four colleges, and include students at every stage of their academic career. Because of the number of excellent applications received this year we were not able to fund every proposal that was positively reviewed. However, with contributions from Enrollment Management, Commission for Women, Mardigian Library leadership, our college Deans, and the Office of the Provost, we were able to increase funding from an original estimate of 20-25 projects to our total of 50 faculty & students!
Throughout the summer, SURE students will be participating in professional development workshops, building cohort relationships with other undergraduate researchers, and engaging in fun, social activities in addition to their research work. Congratulations SURE 2024 faculty mentors and student researchers listed below, and a special thanks to our faculty reviewers for their hard work: Amanda Esquivel (CECS), Yunus Zeytuncu (CASL), Maureen Linker (Provost Office), Wayne Fu (COB), Raya Samet (CEHHS Librarian), Joel Seewald (Natural Sciences Librarian), and Carla Brooks (English, Communication, AAAS Librarian), and Chris Spilker (Head, Library Research Center).
As a reminder, if you would like to donate to the new SURE Gift Fund you can find us at: UM-Dearborn Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Gift Fund
And here are our 2024 SURE Awardees!!
CASL:
Tides of Resistance, Adam Sekuler (faculty mentor), Atia Siddiqui (student researcher)
“He was a criminology major”: Do university majors correlate with criminality?, Amny Shuraydi (faculty mentor), Madison Chervenak (student researcher)
Loss of a Friend, Amy Brainer (faculty mentor), Fatima Al-Bedany (student researcher)
Effects of Retail Health Clinics on Medical Appointment Wait Times, Antonios Koumpias (faculty mentor), Amalia Jamaludin (student researcher)
Arginino Succinate Synthetase 1 agonist and its effect on melanoma, Besa Xhabija (faculty mentor), Ayah Farhat (Student researcher)
Arab American Women: Environmental Justice Narratives, Carmel Price (faculty mentor), Renee Ellis (student researcher)
Preparation of Blatter-type Radicals for Application in Spintronic Devices, Christos Constantinides (faculty mentor), Tyler Stewart (student researcher)
The relative stability and the significance of aromaticity to the stability of the Blatter radical, Daniel Lawson (faculty mentor), David Doty (student researcher)
A Comparison of the Dispersal Potential of Artificial Fruits of Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis), David Susko (faculty mentor), Breckan Myers (student researcher)
“We Hope for Better Days”: Maryann Mahaffey, Social Justice, and Electoral Politics in Post-industrial Detroit, Georgina Hickey (faculty mentor), Maggie Shearer (student researcher)
Bait and Switch of the American Dream: Persuasion Tactic of MLMs, Harmony Reppond (faculty mentor), Leonardo Ruffino (student researcher)
Study tau pathology in brain endothelial cells and their barrier function in Alzheimer’s disease, Jie Fan (faculty mentor), Ayham Kabbani (student researcher)
Endosomal pH Regulation in Exosome-Mediated Cardioprotection Post-Myocardial Infarction, Kalyan Kondapalli (faculty mentor), Lili Hafezi (student researcher)
Understanding Victim Perceptions of Technology Facilitated Sex Trafficking, Kathleen Darcy (faculty mentor), Bethany Slone (student researcher)
Understanding the Impact of Phospholipid Synthesis Gene Mutations on Cellular Functions in Yeast, Keshav Pokhrel (faculty mentor), Jordan Reid (student researcher)
AI'll be there for you: Couples, AI, and Relationship Maintenance, Michelle Leonard (faculty mentor), Aamina Rehman (student researcher)
How comedians use metaphor in humorous memoirs about their ovarian/uterine cancer experiences, Nick Iannarino (faculty mentor), Madelyn Gatteri (student researcher)
Alley Alchemy: Implementing Urban Acupuncture in Detroit's Depopulated Districts, Paul Draus (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
“How is the Brain – Specific Form of the Phospholipid Synthesizing Enzyme, AGPAT4, Unique?”, Peter Oelkers (faculty mentor), Hussein Alshuhani (student researcher)
Marriage as Pious Kin Work: Resistance and Refusal in Arab Detroit, Rose Wellman (faculty mentor), Olivia Carzon (student researcher)
Development of Total Internal Fluorescence Microscopy to Investigate Motility of Single Kinesin, Suvranta Tripathy (faculty mentor), Fawaz Baig (student researcher)
Foundations of causal fairness, Tian An Wong (faculty mentor), Shivani Madhu (student researcher)
Preparing for the largest optical/infrared astronomical datasets, William Clarkson (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
Understanding Bacterial-Metal Interactions Analyses of ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy Data, Xiaohua Li (faculty mentor), Oliver Coutinho (student researcher)
Mechanisms of blood–brain barrier dysfunction after pediatric traumatic brain injury, Zhi Zhang (faculty mentor), Sara Moughni (student researcher)
Bioconjugation of 4-Phenylbutyric acid (4-PBA) to Gold Nanoparticles, Krisanu Bandyopadhyay (faculty mentor), Alaina Small (student researcher)
The impact of pH, light and solvents on the riboflavin derivatives stability and binding ability, Simona Marincean (faculty mentor), Daniel Winder (student researcher)
Wellbeing Policy in the US - Why are we lagging?, Natalia & Hans Czap (faculty mentors), student researcher TBD
CECS:
Engineering the perivascular space on-a-chip to unravel dementia's bleeding mysteries, Aditya Raghunandan (faculty mentor), Sena Alenzi (student researcher)
Construction of an Autonomous Blimp, Alireza Mohammadi (faculty mentor), Derek Servin (student researcher)
GenImageDetector: An ensemble framework for Detecting AI-Generated Image, Ang Li (faculty mentor), Aryan Singh (student researcher)
User Accessibility in Virtual Spaces, Bruce Maxim (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
The impact of sex based differences on mechanotransduction within pulmonary fibroblasts, Caymen Novak (faculty mentor), Nicole Kormos (student researcher)
Comprehensive Wireless Signal Measurement and Analysis: From WiFi to 5G Cellular Spectra, Junaid Farooq (faculty mentor), Jawad Hazime (student researcher)
Mechanical Sutures as a Joint Mechanism for Architected Materials, Rafael Ruiz (faculty mentor), Owen Gill (student researcher)
Learning to make decisions by imitating an expert, Srijita Das (faculty mentor), Ibrahim Alwishah (student researcher)
Bipolar solid state pouch cell development, fabrication and testing, Xuan Zhou (faculty mentor), Ahmad Alamery (student researcher)
Develop Secure and Privacy-Preserving Neighbor Discovery Protocols for IP version 6 (IPv6), Jinhua Guo (faculty mentor), Namaa Mokhtar (student researcher)
Assessment of solar energy generation towards net-zero energy buildings, Van Hai Bui (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
A Comprehensive Data Hub for Visualizing Extreme Weather Events and Power Outages, Wencong Su (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
Battery Management Systems for Secondary Batteries Packs, Rongheng Li (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
Verification of Autonomous Systems Under Uncertainty, Zhen Hu (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
Building a Road Condition Detection System, Zheng Song (faculty mentor), student researcher TBD
CEHHS:
Reproductive Freedom on the Ballot: How Gender and Demands for Self-Determination are Driving Electoral Politics in the Post-Roe Era, Lisa Martin (Chair HHS & CASL; faculty mentor), Sara Chaban (student researcher)
Ypsi Farmers & Gardeners Oral History Project, Finn Bell (faculty mentor), Sasha Kindred (student researcher)
Enhancing ESL Co-Planning by Preservice Teachers in Dearborn Schools, Kyongson Park (faculty mentor), Sofía Martínez Barredo (student researcher)
Building Political Efficacy for Trans Justice: The Role of Advocacy Organizations during Political Crisis, Leonardo Kattari (faculty mentor), Theo Carrubba (student researcher)
Dearborn Green Schoolyards: Baseline Assessment for Equity, Natalie Sampson (faculty mentor), Jena Faraj (student researcher)
COB:
User Assessment of Security Threats, Maggie Yi Guo (faculty mentor), Brendan McCloskey (student researcher)
All the best for the upcoming summer months!
The SURE 2024 Admin Committee:
Maureen Linker, Associate Provost
Yunus Zeytuncu, Associate Dean, CASL, Mathematics
Amanda Esquivel, Associate Professor, CECS, ME
Chris Spilker, Library Research Center, Head
Amy Seipke, Engineering & Mathematics Librarian
Susan Flannery, Senior Administrative
Sam Heintz, EXP+ Administrative
Kelsey Parker, Project Manager for Experiential Learning
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Maureen Linker, Ph.D.
Associate Provost
Professor of Philosophy