Undergraduate Research Database

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Project Title: Bio-Mimetic Design and Nanoscience Lab
Faculty Lead: Jinglin Fu
Home Department: Chemistry and CCIB
Keywords/Areas of Study: Bionanotechnology, self-assembly, nanobiosensing, nanomedicine, biochemistry


Project Title: Light-activated macromolecules
Faculty Lead: Julianne Griepenburg
Home Department: Physics
Keywords/Areas of Study: nanomaterials, light, drug-delivery


Project Title: Consuming Bodies: The Colonial Abject in Indigenous Horror
Faculty Lead: Jillian Sayre
Home Department: English and Communication
Keywords/Areas of Study: Native American and Indigenous Studies, literary studies, film studies, horror studies


Project Title: AI Ethics and Law
Faculty Lead: Nate Walker
Home Department: Philosophy and Religion, and the Digital Studies Center
Keywords/Areas of Study: artificial intelligence, law, ethics


Project Title: The State of Policing
Faculty Lead: Kayla Preito-Hodge
Home Department: Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice
Keywords/Areas of Study: Policing, Organizations, Criminology, Criminal Justice


Project Title: Computational materials for energy and sustainability
Faculty Lead: Hong Fang
Home Department: Physics and CCIB
Keywords/Areas of Study: biomaterials; energy materials; batteries; modeling; data analysis; machine learning


Project Title: Social and Existential Motives Lab
Faculty Lead: Andrew Abeyta
Home Department: Psychology
Keywords/Areas of Study: Nostalgia, Social Psychology, Meaning in life, Religion/Spirituality


Project Title: Distributed Computing and Evolutionary Games
Faculty Lead: Sunil Shende
Home Department: Computer Science
Keywords/Areas of Study: Game Theory, Algorithms


Project Title:“Voces de la comunidad: Connecting environmental perspectives in Camden, New Jersey”
Faculty Lead: Carla Giaudrone
Home Department: World Languages and Cultures, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities 
Keywords/Areas of Study: Climate Change, Community Engagement and Resilience, Bilingual Library, Spanish and English Resources, Latinx Community


Project Title: Language change and innovation in New Jersey: the case of Guatemalan Spanish in the city of Trenton
Faculty Lead: Silvia Perez-Cortes
Home Department: World Languages and Cultures 
Keywords/Areas of Study: Migration, Latinos, language, linguistics, Spanish, Central America


Project Title: Drones for crowd and traffic surveillance
Faculty Lead: Benedetto Piccoli Ph.D.
Home Department: Mathematics
Keywords/Areas of Study: mathematical modeling, crowd dynamics, vehicular traffic


Project Title: Large-scale genome analysis
Faculty Lead: Andrey Grigoriev Ph.D.
Home Department: Biology, Computer Science
Keywords/Areas of Study: genome, DNA, computational biology


Project Title: Mellon Foundation Undergraduate Internship
Faculty Lead: Susan Miller Ph.D.
Home Department: Childhood Studies
Keywords/Areas of Study: arts, humanities


Project Title: Judgment and decision making
Faculty Lead: Sean Duffy, Ph.D.
Home Department: Psychology
Keywords/Areas of Study: Perception, memory, judgment, environmentalism, cognitive development, culture and thought


Project Title: Independent Study in the Cognition In Action (CIA) lab
Faculty Lead: Robrecht van der Wel, Ph.D.
Home Department: Psychology
Keywords/Areas of Study: Action Cognition, Cognitive Science, Social Cognition


Project Title: Well Played Videogame Research Group
Faculty Lead: Jim Brown, Ph.D.
Home Department: Digital Studies
Keywords/Areas of Study: digital studies, video games


Project Title: Health Development Lab
Faculty Lead: Charlotte Markey, Ph.D.
Home Department: Psychology, Health Sciences
Keywords/Areas of Study: eating, body image, health, psychology, diet, weight


Project Title: Promotion of early literacy and community health among Latinx families 
Faculty Lead: Silvia Perez-Cortes, Ph.D.
Home Department: World Languages and Cultures
Keywords/Areas of Study: Latino, health, early literacy, language, minorities


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Africana Studies

Project Title: Mellon Foundation Undergraduate Internship
Faculty Lead: Susan Miller Ph.D.
Home Department: Childhood Studies
Keywords/Areas of Study: arts, humanities

Arts

Project Title: Mellon Foundation Undergraduate Internship
Faculty Lead: Susan Miller Ph.D.
Home Department: Childhood Studies
Keywords/Areas of Study: arts, humanities

Biology

Project Title: Large-scale genome analysis
Faculty Lead: Andrey Grigoriev Ph.D.
Home Department: Biology, Computer Science
Keywords/Areas of Study: genome, DNA, computational biology

Chemistry

Project Title: Bio-Mimetic Design and Nanoscience Lab
Faculty Lead: Jinglin Fu
Home Department: Department of Chemistry and CCIB
Keywords/Areas of Study: Bionanotechnology, self-assembly, nanobiosensing, nanomedicine, biochemistry

Childhood Studies

Project Title: Mellon Foundation Undergraduate Internship
Faculty Lead: Susan Miller Ph.D.
Home Department: Childhood Studies
Keywords/Areas of Study: arts, humanities

Computational and Integrative Biology

Project Title: Bio-Mimetic Design and Nanoscience Lab
Faculty Lead: Jinglin Fu
Home Department: Department of Chemistry and CCIB
Keywords/Areas of Study: Bionanotechnology, self-assembly, nanobiosensing, nanomedicine, biochemistry

Project Title: Computational materials for energy and sustainability
Faculty Lead: Hong Fang
Home Department: Physics and CCIB
Keywords/Areas of Study: biomaterials; energy materials; batteries; modeling; data analysis; machine learning

Computer Science

Project Title: Distributed Computing and Evolutionary Games
Faculty Lead: Sunil Shende
Home Department: Computer Science
Keywords/Areas of Study: Game Theory, Algorithms

Digital Studies

Project Title: AI Ethics and Law
Faculty Lead: Nate Walker
Home Department: Philosophy and Religion, and the Digital Studies Center
Keywords/Areas of Study: artificial intelligence, law, ethics

Project Title: Well Played Videogame Research Group
Faculty Lead: Jim Brown, Ph.D.
Home Department: Digital Studies
Keywords/Areas of Study: digital studies, video games

Economics

Projects coming soon.

English and Communication

Project Title: Consuming Bodies: The Colonial Abject in Indigenous Horror
Faculty Lead: Jillian Sayre
Home Department: English and Communication
Keywords/Areas of Study: Native American and Indigenous Studies, literary studies, film studies, horror studies

Health Sciences

Project Title: Health Development Lab
Faculty Lead: Charlotte Markey, Ph.D.
Home Department: Psychology, Health Sciences
Keywords/Areas of Study: eating, body image, health, psychology, diet, weight

Humanities

Project Title: Mellon Foundation Undergraduate Internship
Faculty Lead: Susan Miller Ph.D.
Home Department: Childhood Studies
Keywords/Areas of Study: arts, humanities

Project Title:“Voces de la comunidad: Connecting environmental perspectives in Camden, New Jersey”
Faculty Lead: Carla Giaudrone
Home Department: World Languages and Cultures, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities 
Keywords/Areas of Study: Climate Change, Community Engagement and Resilience, Bilingual Library, Spanish and English Resources, Latinx Community

Mathematics

Project Title: Drones for crowd and traffic surveillance
Faculty Lead: Benedetto Piccoli Ph.D.
Home Department: Mathematics
Keywords/Areas of Study: mathematical modeling, crowd dynamics, vehicular traffic

Philosophy and Religion

Project Title: AI Ethics and Law
Faculty Lead: Nate Walker
Home Department: Department of Philosophy and Religion, and the Digital Studies Center
Keywords/Areas of Study: artificial intelligence, law, ethics

Physics

Project Title: Light-activated macromolecules
Faculty Lead: Julianne Griepenburg
Home Department: Physics
Keywords/Areas of Study: nanomaterials, light, drug-delivery

Project Title: Computational materials for energy and sustainability
Faculty Lead: Hong Fang
Home Department: Physics and CCIB
Keywords/Areas of Study: biomaterials; energy materials; batteries; modeling; data analysis; machine learning

Psychology

Project Title: Social and Existential Motives Lab
Faculty Lead: Andrew Abeyta
Home Department: Psychology
Keywords/Areas of Study: Nostalgia, Social Psychology, Meaning in life, Religion/Spirituality

Project Title: Judgment and decision making
Faculty Lead: Sean Duffy, Ph.D.
Home Department: Psychology
Keywords/Areas of Study: Perception, memory, judgment, environmentalism, cognitive development, culture and thought

Project Title: Independent Study in the Cognition In Action (CIA) lab
Faculty Lead: Robrecht van der Wel, Ph.D.
Home Department: Psychology
Keywords/Areas of Study: Action Cognition, Cognitive Science, Social Cognition

Project Title: Health Development Lab
Faculty Lead: Charlotte Markey, Ph.D.
Home Department: Psychology, Health Sciences
Keywords/Areas of Study: eating, body image, health, psychology, diet, weight

Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice

Project Title: The State of Policing
Faculty Lead: Kayla Preito-Hodge
Home Department: Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice
Keywords/Areas of Study: Policing, Organizations, Criminology, Criminal Justice

World Languages and Cultures

Project Title:“Voces de la comunidad: Connecting environmental perspectives in Camden, New Jersey”
Faculty Lead: Carla Giaudrone
Home Department: World Languages and Cultures, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities 
Keywords/Areas of Study: Climate Change, Community Engagement and Resilience, Bilingual Library, Spanish and English Resources, Latinx Community

Project Title: Language change and innovation in New Jersey: the case of Guatemalan Spanish in the city of Trenton
Faculty Lead: Silvia Perez-Cortes
Home Department: World Languages and Cultures 
Keywords/Areas of Study: Migration, Latinos, language, linguistics, Spanish, Central America

Project Title: Promotion of early literacy and community health among Latinx families 
Faculty Lead: Silvia Perez-Cortes, Ph.D.
Home Department: World Languages and Cultures
Keywords/Areas of Study: Latino, health, early literacy, language, minorities.