2025 SROP Cohort
| Student Name | Undergraduate Institution | Research Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Adriana Guzmán Garcia | University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras | In the Slowness of Mourning: Gender and the Poetics of Care in Archivo rural (2022) and Perfume de gardenias (2023) | Alejandra Uslenghi, PhD |
| Allison Morales | Swarthmore College | Who’s Logging On? School Staff Engagement with Online Wellness & Equity Courses: Unveiling Motivation & Demographic Trends | David W. Johnson, PhD |
| Amber Constante | Northwestern University | Altered Foodways: The Impact of Colonialism on PCOS Prevalence in the Andes | William Leonard, PhD |
| Ana Torresarpi | University of Michigan | Misperceptions of Asian American Threat in STEM among hierarchy-favoring Whites | Michael Kraus, PhD |
| Angelica Oliveras-Alsina | University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras | CRISPR-Cas9 Screen Identifies Synthetic Lethal Stress-Response Genes Driving Drug Resistance | Marc L. Mendillo, PhD |
| AnnaGrace Harris | Miami University of Ohio | Affective Language in Relation to Sleep Outcomes in Adolescents | Katie Insel, PhD |
| Brianna Harris | Howard University | Evaluating Mitochondria Transplantation in a Preclinical Mode of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms |
Bin Jiang, PhD |
| Cela López | Washington University in St. Louis | Mr. Smith Goes to the Movies: Partisan Interpretations of Films and their Audiences |
Laurel Harbridge-Yong, PhD |
| Chase Mitchell | Howard University | Trouble in Mind: Nina Simone and Gothic-Blues Expression | Justin L. Mann, PhD |
| Dorothy Danbury | Saint Joseph University | The Silence and the System: Intersectional Disability in Rivers Soloman’s An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017) |
Noah Chaskin, PhD |
| Emma Relyea | Northwestern University | Exploring Teacher Perspectives on Accountability Theatre in a Diverse Suburban High School Under Accountability Pressures | Simone Ispa-Landa, PhD |
| Emma Tsai | Louisiana State University | Investigating the Role of Transcriptomes in Suicide and Schizophrenia | Kynon J. Benjamin, PhD |
| Jonah Kandell | University of Pennsylvania | Targeted Removal of Lipid Contaminants for Enhanced Biomarker Profiling | Lisa Volpatti, PhD |
| Katie Karecki | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Blueprints in the Background: Revealing How Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lineage Influences Brain Organoid Development | Alicia D. Guemez-Gamboa, PhD |
| Lauryn Mitchell | Hampton University | The Influence of Caregiver Dialect Density on Toddler Language Assessment Validity | Elizabeth Norton, PhD |
| Liam Moore | University of Michigan | Optimizing Fabrication of Gravity Driven Single Cell Traps for the Study of Cancer Cell Invasion |
Colin Hisey, PhD |
| Lillian Hiraoka | University of California – Berkeley | Characterization of Self-Assembling Bottlebrush Peptide Amphiphiles for Cartilage Regeneration |
Liam Palmer, PhD |
| Mai-Jeanna Sakho | University of Notre Dame | Psychological Distance: The Relation Between Self Distancing and Prosocial Behaviors |
Michael Kraus, PhD |
| Margarita Serrani Williams | Northwestern University | Rhythmic Remixing and Reliving: Political and Intergenerational Hip-Hop Sampling | Ivy Williams, PhD |
| Mariam Fofana | Northwestern University | Migration, Memory, and Making Place: A Comparative Ethnography of West African Refugee Women in Chicago and New York | Sean Hanretta, PhD |
| Medina Miranda | Northwestern University | The Color of Dust: Slow Violence, Racialization, and Environmental Disaster in 1930’s American Literature |
Sarah Dimick, PhD |
| Morgan Creighton | Emory University | Identifying Gait Rehabilitation Targets from a Global Gait Asymmetry Measure in Chronic Stroke |
Arun Jayaraman, PhD |
| Nia Terry | Spelman College | Unraveling the Epigenetic Landscape of Inflammation, Aging, and Schizophrenia Rosk through DNA Methylation Biomarkers | Kynon Benjamin, PhD |
| Noelle Smith | North Carolina Central University | Understanding Wellbeing Among Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
Jennifer Tackett, PhD |
| Paige Galperin | Ohio State University | From Bark to Bite: The Link Between Political Discussion Network Composition and Support for Partisan Violence | Erik Nisbet, PhD |
| Poulami "Mimi" Ghosh | Ohio State University | 3D-Printed, Citrate-Based, Radiopaque Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds Loaded with Bismuth (III) Oxide Nanoparticles | Guillermo A. Ameer, PhD |
| Ryann Samuel | Winston Salem State University | From the Perspective of Privilege: White Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Racial Bias in University Justice Systems | Laura Beth Nielsen, PhD |
| Sarah Velez-Osorio | University of Central Florida | Evidence to Impact: A Youth Suicide Prevention Package for Implementation in Ethiopia |
Rinad Beidas, PhD |
| Sukaina Jallow | Roosevelt University | “Don’t Make Them Uncomfortable”: The Emotional Toll of White Fragility on Black Women and Men |
Sylvia Perry, PhD |
| William Villasi | CUNY Brooklyn College | Exploring How Transcription Factors Control Gene Positioning | Jason Brickner, PhD |
| Zein Saleh | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | The Role of Anti-Asian Threat in the Endorsement of the Model Minority Myth and Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype | Michael Kraus, PhD |