» SURF Fellows

Amy Whitmarsh- Health Sciences, Decoding Action Selection from Preceding Neural Activity

Audrey Bichelmeir- Computer Science, A smartwatch to assess processing

CJ Tadros- Psychology, Nonverbal Communication in Collaborative Contexts

Cristina Molina- Communication Studies, Assessing Latinx Young Adults With ADHD: Late Diagnosis and Its Affects

Daniel Dinh- Software Engineering, Tracking Student Attentiveness using FMCW Radar

Delilah Schuerman- Biological Sciences, Determining brain regions activated during parental care

Helen Lee- Psychology, The Implications of Affect Variability on Cortisol and Sleep

Jonathan Vergonio- Pre-Pharmacy Freshman Early Assurance Program, siRNA Delivery using Fatty Acylated Cell-Penetrating Peptides

Kellie Omori- Health Sciences, Biological Sciences, Targeting flexible regions on chlorogenic acid esterases to engineer highly active enzymes and reduce greening in sunflower products

Kevan Parang- Computer Science, Exploring Global Processing Via Virtual Reality and Video Games

Kevin Nguyen- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The effect of carbon monoxide on the mutualistic interaction between alfalfa and rhizobia

Madeleine Chang- Applied Human Physiology; University Honors Program, The Effect of Sociality on the Production of Major Urinary Protein in Wild Mice

Micah Gonchar- Psychology, Motivational Properties of Music in Exercise

Philip Goodrich- Political Science and History (Secondary Education minor), Student Body Presidents’ Perceptions of Campus Free Expression

Samuel Bernsen- Computer Engineering, Measuring Attentiveness of Students Using Radar and Machine Learning

Sarah Connolly- Chemistry, Effect of Particle Size on Arsenic Concentration and Bioaccessibility

Shree Murthy- Computer Science, Patient Length of Stay Prediction Based on Clinical Data

Stephanie Yanes- Psychology and Political Science Double Major, Imposter Syndrome and its Link to Perfectionism and Psychological Distress, in an Era of Constant Social Comparison

Vanessa Alarcon- Health Sciences, The disinfection of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) on surfaces using the Contamination Sanitization Inspection and Disinfection (CSI-D) system

Aviv Zohman- Software Engineering, Designing and Characterizing an Improved Graphene Production Method for Graphene Based Composites

Chelsey Cortes-Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Photocatalysis with Titanium Nitride and Ruthenium Nanoparticles

Chloe Sermet- Psychology, Eliminating undesired greening in sunflower seed derived ingredients by hydrolysis of chlorogenic acid using an engineered esterase

Cindy Ramirez- Software Engineering, Gender Gap in Computer Science: An Invitational Rhetorical Analysis

Christina Uribe- Psychology, Searching for the Subjective Threshold of Consciousness

Emma Krivoshein- Psychology, The Relationship Between Norepinephrine Neuromodulation and Stability of Global Brain States

Harshitha Venkatesh- Psychology, The Coronavirus Pandemic: Associations of Stress, Optimism, and Positive Emotions on the Outcomes of Health & Learning

Ishaan Shah- Chemistry, Investigation of the Effect of Ru-Au and TiN-Ru nanoparticle catalysts on CO Oxidation and Hydrogenation Reactions

Lauren Bramlett- Dance; English Literature, Rhetoric, and Cultural Studies, Embodied Rhetoric: Meaning-Making in Dance Protest Art  

Liam Sullivan- Chemistry, Ketone Hydrosilylation with a Novel Carbodiphosphorane Catalyst

Liora Mayats Alpay- Computer Science, AI-enhanced COVID-19 detection using chest X-ray images

Michael Bertagna- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Why Is Ca(Otf)2 Less Efficient Than Ca(Ntf2)2 In Activating Sulfur(Vi) Fluorides Towards Medicinally Relevant Sulfur(Vi) Compounds?

Nat Pendergraft- History and TV Writing and Production, The Doctor Will See You Now - An Interactive Exhibit

Nathan Reynoso- BFA Creative Writing, BA Theatre, Rebuilding Identities: British radio dramas in the late ‘40s and ‘50s 

Nikki Trippler- Strategic & Corporate Communication and Theatre Studies, Long-Distance Peer-to-Peer Relationships Interpersonal Communication Methods

Nina Dours - Psychology and Screenwriting, Traditional Sexual Script and Double Standard Adherence: Predictors of Heterosexually Identified Women’s and Men’s Interest in Consensual Non-Monogamy

Roksana Gorgolewski- Economics, Political Science, Peace Studies, Female Political Participation Aided by Constitutional Provisions

Sophie Srivastava- Psychology, Perceptions of Homelessness and Mental Illness

Natanael Alpay-Mathematics, Physics, French-Differential Forms as Tools in Differential Geometry and Analysis on Manifolds

Dylan Arrazati-Biochemistry and Spanish-Computational Investigation of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Machine Learning

Emma Chen-Pre-Pharmacy Freshman Early Assurance Program-Validating Neurofeedback as a Treatment for Depression

Ginger Chen-Screenwriting-Letters from an AI Poet to its Creator

Kayley Cho-Biochemistry, Molecular Biology-Synthesis of Oleoyl-CGKRK-(HR)4 Peptide for Targeted siRNA Delivery

Nicole Daskas-Studio Art-The Leaky Female Body

Jordan Farmer-Chemistry-Profiling of the Secondary Metabolites in Hyptis suaveolens using GC-MS

Shun Kato-Biochemistry, Molecular Biology-Tumor Targeted Delivery of siRNA via Fatty Acyl Conjugates of Cell-Penetrating Peptides

Brian Katz-Strategic and Corporate Communication-3D-Printed Robot Arm for Robotic Bartender

Trevor Kling-Physics, Computer Science-Analyzing Error in Fundamental Two-Qubit Quantum Gates

Christine Lo Verde-Biochemistry-Determining the cold-response activity of the protein CowN

Bryn Merrill-Chemistry-Hot Electron Chemistry on Bimetallic Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Prince Mutabazi-Creative Writing, Political Science-The Man Who Knows His Name

Amber Osorno-Health Sciences-The Mediating Role of Stress and Negative Affect between Parental Social Support and Biological Lung Function among Adolescents

Joanna Pak-Health Sciences-Free Will and Free Won't: Analyzing the Neurological Origins of Intention using TMS

Leana Sottile-Television & Production, History, War and Society-The Good War?: Reinterpreting the Second World War in Contemporary Musical Theatre

Melissa Sugimoto-Mathematics-Differential Forms as Tools in Differential Geometry and Analysis on Manifolds

Corrine Tam-Sociology-Tiger Moms, Dragon Dads, and Baby Pandas: Cultural Expectations of Success Among Asian-American College Students

Nicole Williams-Integrated Educational Studies, Psychology-Language Brokering & the Child-Parent Relationship: Insights on Schooling Processes

Cedric Bobro- Film Studies- Reconstructing Cinematic Meaning: A New Semiotic Model for the Spectator and the Signifier

Daniel Briseno- Mathematics, Computer Science- An Exploration of Quantum Computing through Recursion

Michael MacInnes- History- Propaganda and Violence of Inkatha in South Africa

Jamie Chang- Pre-pharmacy- Synthesis of Oleoyl-CGKRK-(HR)4 Peptide for Targeted siRNA delivery

Cara Fleener- Biochemistry, Molecular Biology- Ketone Hydroboration With a New Carbodiphosphorane Catalyst 

Amber Hopkins- Psychology, Philosophy- Pupillometry and W-Time

Prabhnoor Kaur- Art History- The Influence of the South Asian Diaspora on Contemporary Guyanese Art

Vivian Luong- Health Science- Undertreatment of Pediatric Postoperative Pain: Parent Medication Attitudes and Demographic Predictors

Brynne McKee- News & Documentary- Student Stories Documentary Project

Roxanne Naumann- Chemistry- Renewable Polymer Synthesis 

Thang Nguyen- Chemistry- Preparation and Characterization of Ruthenium-Gold Raman-Active Catalyst 

Lydia Ong- Psychology- Not in My Home: An Objective Analysis of Secondhand Smoke Exposure and the Relationship to Ethnicity/Nativity and Smoking Norms 

Natalie Paterson- Biochemistry, Molecular Biology- Investigation of Folate Supplementation to Mitigate Azathioprine Toxicity in Children with IBD 

Heidi Standke- Biochemistry- Analyzing Nitrogenase’s Regulator - NifA’s Interaction with DNA

Jaryd Sugihara- Creative Writing, Philosophy- Who We Are

Olivia Wissa- Mathematics- An Exploration of Quantum Computing through Recursion

Lindsay Zumwalt- Biological Sciences- Computational Investigation of the Mechanism of Cysteine Oxidation by Bleach (HOCl) in the Zinc-Binding Core of Cystolic Chemoreceptor Transducer-Like Protein D (TlpD)

Brandon Bernardo — Biological Sciences — The Roles of Known Growth Promoting Hormones on Solar Tracking in Sunflowers

Ben Bond — Religious Studies — Voodoo Fire in New Orleans Jazz

Emily Cauble — Biological Sciences — Gain-of-function p53 mutations in field cancerization of histologically normal prostate tissues

Daniel Chang — Chemistry — Stereospecific Synthesis of Vinylcyclopropanes

Maya Collins — Biological Sciences, Spanish — Do mycosporine-like amino acids, like other Molecules of Keystone Significance, deter predation of the sea hare Aplysia californica?

Jacquelin Dang — Screenwriting, Peace Studies — Real Talk: Asian Alienation

James Francese — Mathematics, Philosophy — New Algebraic Methods for Clifford Analysis

Lauren Friend — Biochemistry, Molecular Biology — The Locomotion of Pacific Hagfish in Confined Spaces

Ryley Hall — Chemistry — Design and Evaluation of Fatty Acyl Conjugates for siRNA Delivery and Silencing in Breast Cancer Cells

Natasha Hikita — Psychology, Spanish — Effects of Positive Emotions and Ethnicity on Pediatric Postoperative Distress

Edena Khoshaba — Biochemistry and Molecular Biology — The Effects of Induced Liver Disease in Rats on Cytochrome P450-Mediated Metabolism in the Brain

Adela Kim — Irvine Valley College

Sophia Morrissette — Peace Studies, Psychology — Asian-American Female Feminist Movements

Valeria Park — Business Administration and Economics — Reorganization of Systemically Important Financial Institutions

Nicholas Piscitelli — Philosophy, Health Sciences — Patient Autonomy and Medical Decision Making

Allie White — Strategic Corporate Communication, Public Relations & Advertising — Faculty Perceptions and Behaviors Related to College Students Mental Health

Felicia Viano — History, Peace Studies — Icons, Images, and Paraphernalia: Analyzing Visual Tactics of the United Farm Workers and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Sarah Alexander  — Major: Mathematics — Title of Project: Commutative Partial Semigroups: Generalized Effect Algebras and Orthoalgebras

Humam Alkhaled — Major: Biological Sciences — Title of Project: Cell Penetrating Peptide

Francesca Artalejo — Major: Screen Acting — Title of Project: The Influence and Unexpected Relatability of a Woman’s Journey Through Film

Erika Gibson — Major: History and Philosophy — Title of Project: Frenchified

Danielle Grainger — Major: Communication Studies — Title of Project: Understanding drug resistance messages from young adults recovering from addiction

Aaron Grisez — Major: Physics and Computational Science and Music Composition — Title of Project: Gamifying the Quantum with Music

Carlos Hernandez — Major: Music Performance, Instrumental and Music Education, Instrumental— Title of Project: Translating Musical Languages and Intelligences

Chloe Horner — Major: Psychology — Title of Project: The Effect of Yoga on Body Image Among Women

Greyson Horst — Major: Film Production— Title of Project: Hillbilly

Morgan Kindel — Major: Psychology and Political Science — Title of Project: Effects of Episodic Memory on Appetite Regulation in Restrictive Eating

Haley Miller — Major: Environmental Science and Policy -Title of Project: Exploring Methane Flux from the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

Alexander Murcia — Major: Philosophy and English Literature— Title of Project: Pragmatic Encroachment and the Importance of Contextual Factors in an Analysis of Forbidden Base Rates

Kathryn Peck — Major: Art — Title of Project: Weaving the Polluted Tides

Nadiya Upegui — Major: Mathematics — Title of Project: Noncommutative Partial Semigroups: Pseudoeffect Algebras and Groupoids

Ariana Victor — Major: Film Production — Title of Project: Dream Seekers

Beck Wilson — Major: Peace Studies — Title of Project: Homelessness and Criminalization in Orange County."

Alexandra Sidun — Major: Environmental Science and Policy — Title of Project: Ocean Acidification and Predator-Prey Relations: Correlating Disruption of Predator Avoidance with Chemosensory Deficits 

Jessica Bocinski — Major: Art History and Anthropology — Title of Project: The Invisible Artist: Reframing William Holman Hunt's Work through 15 century Netherlandish Art 

Sho Schrock-Manabe — Major: Creative Producing — Title of Project: VR Horror 

Robert A. Roussel — Major: Political Science and Psychology — Title of Project: Speech and Cooperative Exchange 

Natalie Tom — Major: Chemistry — Title of Project: Mushrooms as Shelf-Life Extender of Meat 

Benji Whitmore — Major: Chemistry — Title of Project: Allosteric Modulation of SK Channels 

Emmett Griffith — Major: Integrated Educational Studies and English Literature — Title of Project: To Always Feel Like an Afterthought: Transgender Student Experiences in Higher Education 

Nicole Hornaday — Major: Biological Sciences — Title of Project: Using Bioinformatics Tools to Characterize the Effect of Cancer Mutations in ABL Kinase 

Lena Romano — Major: Theatre Studies and Sociology — Title of Project: The Influence of Social Class on Women in Theatre 

Rose MacKenzie — Major: Theatre Studies and Philosophy — Title of Project: Performing Queer Femininities 

Mary Howard — Major: Economics — Title of Project: Cognizing Property 

Seth Yund — Major: Biological Sciences — Title of Project: Fighting Celiac Disease with Gut Bacteria: Non-Cytotoxic Gliadin Digestion by Bifodobacterium longus

Anastasia Kalyta — Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology — Title of Project: Connecting the Physiological and Behavioral Response to Heat Stress on a Warming Planet 

Samira Amirazizi — Major: Psychology — Title of Project: Are Bilingual Speakers on the Same Emotional Page as Monolinguals?

Shannon Corenth — Major: Theater Performance — Title of Project: The Forgotten Story of African American Women Playwrights 

Kathy Tavakoli — Major: Biological Sciences — Title of Project: Design and Evaluation of Peptides as Drug Delivery Tools 

James Langner —Major: Business and Sociology — Title of Project: The Division of Labor and Firm Formation

Emma Plotnik —Major: Music — Title of Project: Vocal Emphasis- From A Chat in the Parlor to Viral Music Videos: An Analysis of Music as a Social Occasion

Austin Thiel — Major: Computer Science — Title of Project: Virtual Reality Systems for Treating Autism

Tran Bao Le — Major: Health Science — Title of Project: Cortisol in Breast Milk and the Implications on Growth

Jessica Paek — Major: History — Title of Project: Between Language and People: Origins of Bantu Languages in Namibia

Andrew Shiroishi — Major: Chemistry — Title of Project: Tumor-Targeting Peptide Drug Delivery System

Aaron Goodman — Title of Project: Recovering Newtonian Limits from String Dilaton Fields

Young Jae Kim — Major: Biology — Title of Project: Designing and Evaluating of Dasatinib-Peptide Conjugates as Anti-Cancer Agents

Tyler Demshki — Major: Computer Science — Title of Project: A Comprehensive Study of Performance Bugs That Have Non-Intrusive Fixes

Alfredo Gonzalez —Major: History — Title of Project: Between Language and People: Origins of Bantu Language in Namibia

Brady Slater —Major: Biological Sciences — Title of Project: The Effects of Diet and Resistance Training on Female Rats during the Growth Period

Alexander Himstead — Major: Biology — Title of Project: The Behavioral Ethology of an Phylogenetic Knock Out

Kory Cablay — Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology — Title of Project: Arsenic Reduction by Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (GAPDH) in Rat Liver Cells due to Arsenic Particulate Exposure

Kayla Velloso — Major: Communication Studies — Title of Project: The Hollywood Hillbilly

Fernando Amador II — Major: History — Title of Project: Between Language and People: Origins of Bantu Languages in Namibia

Lauren Henderson — Major: Strategic and Corporate Communication — Title of Project: Water & Energy Conservation

Abigail Kim —Major: History — Title of Project: The Comfort Women Controversy: Its Impact on Post-War Politics of Japan

Morgan Green —Major: English Literature and theatre Studies — Title of Project: Living Between the Lines: Intersectionality and Self-Actualization in Shakespeare’s Plays

Yasmin Akbari —Major: Psychology — Title of Project: Information Processing as a Risk Factor for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Leah Ficeli — Major: Psychology — Title of Project: Mathematics Learning: Implicit or Explicit?

Isabelle Grimm — Major: Theatre Performance — Title of Project: Trojan Whores: Unsung Stories of Women in Theatres of War

Tracey Gunanto — Major: Biological Sciences — Title of Project: Lottia Gigantea as a New Model Species for the Non-Lethal Effects of Global Warming

Lena Haddad — Major: Chemistry — Title of Project: Assessment of the Effects of Caffeine, Gallic Acid, and Epigallocatechin-3-gallate on the PIM-3 Protein Levels in Two Lines of Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Sovanndara Hok — Chemistry and Physics — Title of Project: Schrodinger Equation for Gravity

Kassandra Lee — Major: Biological Science — Title of Project: Young Women's Cognitive, Behavioral, Emotional, & Physiological Empathic Responsiveness as Mediated by Evocative Video Stimulus Content

Justine Li — Major: Athletic Training — Title of Project: Consortium for Outcomes Research and Education for Athletic Trainers (CORE-AT)

Michelle Min-chong Lin — Major: Film Production — Title of Project: Multiculturalism and Diversity at Chapman University

Karen Liu — Major: History — Title of Project: Oral History on Beijing Female Artists

Jennifer Seo — Major: Art — Title of Project: Exploration of the LA River

Dor Shoshan — Major: Biological Sciences — Title of Project: Field Cancerization – Thinking Outside of the Tumor, Association Analyses of Markers of Prostate Oncogenesis

Gabrielle Stetz — Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/Music — Title of Project: Protein-protein Interactions of HSP70 and HSP110 Chaperone Proteins

Caleb Sturges — Major: Political Science and Economics — Title of Project: A Two Party System, by Design: Testing the Mechanism of Plurality Rule

Erin Wainwright — Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology — Title of Project: The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Bone Metabolism in Rats

Christopher Watkins — Major: Mathematics — Title of Project: Exploring New Ranking Methods

Jessica Mosolf — Major: Environmental Science & Policy — Title of Project: Humic Reduction in Peatland Soils – Redox Recycling

Amy Ortega — Major: Biological Sciences — Title of Project: Evolutionary Responses of California Grassland Species to Variation in Precipitation and Nitrogen Levels Following Prescribed Fire

Krista Rasmussen — Major: Integrated Education Studies — Title of Project: The impact of Haboob events on Precipitation patterns in Arizona: A Cross‐Correlation Analysis

Nathan Lawless — Major: Mathematics and Biochemistry — Title of Project: An Orderly Algorithm for Generation of Modular Lattices

Mindy Gibson — Major: Psychology — Title of Project: Identifying Sociocultural Predictors of Body Image in White and Asian American Women: Understanding the Role of Culture

Gianvieve Schwirblat Major: Biology

Ashley Lovell — Major: Peace Studies and Economics — Title of Project: Microfinance After War

Marley McLaughlin — Major: History and Anthropology — Title of Project: The California Gold Rush: Historical and Anthropological Analysis into the “Rush” to Abandon Mining and Cerro Gordo - 1870-1875

Aaron Gerston — Major – Biochemistry and molecular Biology — Title of Project: Attenuation of Bone Degradation in Calorie‐Restricted Animals

Kyle Lee — Major: Physics and Mathematics — Title of Project: Experiments with (2+1)‐Dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations

Diana Gonzalez — Major: Sociology — Title of Project: The Rise of Latino community Organizing and Political Opposition

Jared Celniker — Major: Psychology — Title of Project: “Illusions of Oasis Making You Look Twice:” Repression and Narcissism in Hip-Hop

Marilyn Love — Major: Religious Studies — Title of Project: The Cult of the Canaanite Gods in Jezreel

Stephanie Nelson — Major: Theatre — Title of Project: Theatrical Trans*formations

Brad Sherwood — Major: Business Administration and Economics — Title of Project: Narrativizing the Extensive form Game

Adam Borecki — Major: Music Composition and Guitar Performance — Title of Project: Online learning of advanced music theory concepts, and its influence on music education

Cathleen Browning —Major: Peace Studies — Title of Project: Excuse me Officer?: Police Officer's Perceptions of Rape and the Current Criminal Justice System

Casey Coleman —Major: Physics/Computational Science — Title of Project: Nonlinearity and the Superposition Principle: The Interplay between Dynamical Systems & Algebra  

Christina Dietz —Major: Philosophy — Title of Project: The Role of Emotion in Perceptual Recognition               

Azriel Dror — Major: Chemistry — Title of Project: Osteogenic Effects of Resistance Training on Young Female Rats             

Malia Horch — Major: Biological Sciences — Title of Project: Human Impact on climate variability around the Antarctic Region       

Daniel Howard — Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology — Title of Project: Desensitization of Muscarinic Receptor-mediated Modulation of Adenylate Cyclase Activity in Transfected Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells       

Courtney James — Major: Biology — Title of Project: A model system for predicting the effects of global warming:  Acute and chronic effects of warm temperature on feeding behavior of Paragus samuelis

Krish Rangarajan — Major: Biological Sciences — Title of Project: A Simulation Based Study on the Selection of Optimal Statistical Weights Incorporated in Regression Analysis of Tumor Methylation Data     

Eileen Regullano — Major: Piano Performance/Keyboard Collaborative Arts — Title of Project: Assimilation, Space, and Identity in Japanese Americans             

Julianne Russo — Major: Art — Title of Project: Relativity

Jennifer Schumacker — Major: Integrated Educational Studies — Title of Project: Transformative Interactions Between University and Community Spaces:  An Exploration of Engaged Scholarship, Service-Learning, and Civic Engagement