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The Undergraduate Research Office hosted the fall 2025 Intersections, an undergraduate research symposium, in December. This program, held each semester, allows members of the ����APP and broader communities to see the breadth of research and creative endeavors completed by undergraduate students. 

Several students received honors for their presentations at the event.

Arts and Humanities 

• First place: Gigi Sengupta— “A Narrative Approach to Establishing Methods of Engaging the Next Generation of Correctional Physicians,” mentored by Monica Gerrek, Department of Bioethics 
• Second place: Erik Watka—“Examining the Association between Food Resource Management and Food Security,” mentored by Melissa Prescott, Department of Nutrition 
• Third place: Mindy Cao—“Public-Health Policy Levers to Improve Depression Treatment Access and Outcomes among Low Socio-Economic Status Populations in the United States,” mentored by Rachel McClaine, Department of Psychological Sciences 

Computer Science and Data Science 

• First place: Taranveer Anand, Salma Bhar, Vedant Gupta, Adam Hamdan, Firas Khalife, Apeksha Malik, Vinlaw Mudehwe, and Ashwin Saraswatula—“SeeCare: An AI-Powered Memory Support System for Dementia Patients,” mentored by Shuai Xu, Department of Computer and Data Sciences 
• Second place: Rishi Jonnalagadda—“Democratizing and Accelerating Chart Review: A Clinician-Operable Prompt Design System for LLM-Enabled Electronic Medical Record Data Extraction,” mentored by Nicholas Heller, Department of Cancer Biology 
• Third place: Sohan Muppidi—“CarpalVision: A Digital Rehabilitation Platform for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Recovery and Prevention,” mentored by Rajendra Muppidi, Department of Computer and Data Sciences

Engineering 

• First place: Amos Langsner—“PrintBot - Autonomous Mobile Robot to Operate 3D Printers,” mentored by Will Hasting, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 
• Second place: Irene Bhunia, Hannah Driscoll, Lucas Romero, Melis Sahin and Jerry Yang—“A Safer and More Inclusive Phototherapy Device for Treatment of T-Cell Lymphoma,” mentored by Matthew Williams, Department of Biomedical Engineering 
• Third place: Katherine Berkner—“Development of an Endothelialized Chip Model for Thromboinflammation,” mentored by Anirban Sen Gupta, Department of Biomedical Engineering 

Life Sciences 

• First place: Anshul Nayak—“Synthesis of Gene-Editing DNA Origami Nanoparticles,” mentored by Divita Mathur, Department of Chemistry 
• Second place: Fiona Brooks—“Sterile versus pathogen inflammation in the dual-disease TNFΔARE mouse,” mentored by Bianca Islam, Digestive Health Research Institute 
• Third place: Emily Katoni—“Investigating the role of WNK1 in Acute Myeloid Leukemia,” mentored by Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, Department of Pathology 

Nursing, Social Science and Management 

• First place: Farhan Mohammad and Liam McKay—“Evaluating Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Resources for Pediatric Disaster Centers of Excellence Websites,” mentored by Carolyn Landis, Department of Psychological Sciences 
• Second place: Kwabena Agyemang—“Life Factors That Protect Well-being Among U.S. Adults with Activities of Daily Living Limitations and Low Mental Health,” mentored by Jenny Brynjarsdottir, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics 
• Third place: Gabrielle Santiago—“The emergence of AI Psychosis in a World of Rapid Technological Progress,” mentored by Vera Tobin, Department of Cognitive Science 

Physical Sciences and Mathematics 

• First place: Dhoopshikha Basgeet—“Predictive Framework to Indicate the Age of Plastics for Proper Recycling,” mentored by Metin Karayilan, Department of Chemistry 
• Second place: Rosy Bae—“Loss of TET2 Increases MHC Class I Expression in AML and Breast Cancer,” mentored by Babal Jha, Department of Molecular Medicine 
• Third place: Zachariah Jones—“Engineering Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials for Enhanced Photon Upconversion in Perovskite Nanocrystals,” mentored by Giuseppe Strangi, Department of Physics 
• Third place: Kalli Wall—“Testing Alternative Electron Transport Layers for use in Organic Photovoltaics,” mentored by Genevieve Sauve, Department of Chemistry