Celebrate student excellence with us! More than 150 students to share their summer research and internship experiences with the 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ community and beyond.
Excellence in scholarship, research, and internship experience leading to “academics with a purpose” is at the heart of 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ’s reputation. Presented by the Office of the President, this postering event highlights 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ student research, internships, academic projects, and creative endeavors across all majors and disciplines.
Join us for this community-wide celebration as students showcase their posters and connect with 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ community members, alumni, and other professionals for knowledge-sharing and networking.
Event Details
September 5, 2025
4–6 p.m.
Performing Arts Building
This event is free and open to the public.
About the President’s Student Showcase
Building on 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ's poster session tradition for science majors, the President's Student Showcase expands the event to include students of all majors who received funding through 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ for summer learning experiences. For summer 2025, more than 150 students received funding from across 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, including the Undergraduate Research Committee, the Center for Life Beyond 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, the Office for Institutional Diversity, the President’s Summer Fellowship, academic departments, faculty grants, and more.
Students and Poster Titles
| Student's Name | Poster Title |
| Mateo Admire | Effects of Nanometer Scale Structure on Conductivity in PEDOT:PSS Composites |
| Samir Ashford | Municipal Bond Rating and Climate Change: Evidence from the PNW |
| Maggie Auerbach | Star Cluster Identification and Classification in Early Type Galaxies |
| Sakura Azzopardi | Resilience Strategies for Coastal Communities Vulnerable to Flooding |
| Lindsey Babcock | Method optimization for the extraction, detection, and quantification of the tire rubber derived pollutant, 6PPD-quinone |
| Tan Bahar | Biosynthesis of α-Cyclopiazonic Acid (α-CPA) in E. coli |
| Cayden Bauer | Up in Smoke: Chemistry of Fresh and Aged Wildfire Smoke |
| Tate Beech | Thermal Adaptation in Mount Saint Helen’s Zooplankton Populations |
| Asher Behmer | The Palimpsest of the 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Canyon: An Elementary, Ecocritical Examination of the Three 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵs |
| Ella Bender | The Effect of Repetitive Visual Stimulation on Task Performance in ADHD |
| Emma Benson | Municipal Bond Rating and Climate Change: Evidence from the PNW |
| Emma Benson | Evaluating the effect of FEMA's Community Rating System and Storm Events on Flood Insurance uptake in Oregon. |
| Sofia Bernstein | Investigating how gdf6a regulates proliferation and differentiation during zebrafish retinal growth and development |
| Prisha Bharadwaj | Using Menstrual Cycle and Prior Drinking Behaviors to Predict Laboratory Alcohol Self-Administration in Female Young Adults (Funded by Northeastern University's SPHERE Internship) |
| Sophia Bigg | A Kinder Approach to Drug Use in Portland |
| Ivan Bondarenko | Engineering Property via Structure in Anthracene-based OSC |
| Eamon Bowen | Effects of the Habit of Mind Model on Bias Confrontation Receptivity |
| Samuel Boysen | Characterization of Damping Forces For Two Oscillators from Introductory Physics Labs |
| Piper Brandy | Purification of Human Cytochrome P450 3A4 and Characterization of Oligomeric State |
| Lauren Brown | The Effect of Repetitive Visual Stimulation (RVS) on Cognitive Performance and EEG in People with ADHD |
| Alastair Budd | Civic Engagement Action |
| Estella Burque | Fragile Horses - A Collection of Poetry Developed on Amtrak Rails |
| Willa Cantlon | Host receptor characterization of lytic phage PDX via transposon mutagenesis |
| Remi Castellanos | Illuminating the orchard: Art, Archives, and a Changing Landscape |
| Tyler Celotta | Machining 101 - A Mechanical Engineering Internship |
| Miles Churchland | Reinforcement learning in densely recurrent biological networks |
| Rosa Coles | Developing a spatially resolved approach to characterize copper cathodes |
| Salis Conn | Summertime Ground-Level Ozone in a High-Exposure Urban Area |
| Avis Corea | Nanoplastic Exposure Effects in D. melanogaster |
| Beau Crawford | Ir(III) Complex Developments for Catalyzed Formic Acid Dehydrogenation |
| Camille Daley | Building From Scraps, Volunteer Coordinating Internship at Scrap PDX |
| Clement DaSilva | Computational Analysis of Proline Ring Closure via Epoxide |
| Haydyn Davila | Local Organizing Internship |
| Christina Davis | Non-neuronal Modulation of Cognitive Flexibility: ACC Astrocyte Activation Enhances Learning but Not Mastery in Reversal Learning |
| Sofia DeAngelis | LC-MS/MS Confirmation of 𝛼-CPA and 𝛽-CPA Precursor |
| David Deng | Probabilistic Program Verification |
| Damien Desmond | Thermal Refuges in Freshwater Heatwaves: A Mesocosm Experiment |
| Anne Determann | The effect of repetitive visual stimulation on pupillary unrest and electroencephalographic (non-)oscillatory components |
| Alex Diamond | Civil Conflict and Development: Long-Run Impacts of the Sendero Luminoso Conflict on Rural Peru |
| Aanika Doshi | Establishing Primary Hemocyte Cultures from Drosophila for Homogeneous Cell Models in Research |
| Michael Dunn | Frequency-Informed Oscillator Position Tracking |
| Ryan Estrin | The Southern Agrarians and the Long Rise of Radical Conservatism |
| Katie Evans | Place Re-Naming in “Vancouver, British Columbia” |
| Elaina Feldman | Ir(III) Complex Developments for Catalyzed Formic Acid Dehydrogenation |
| Alex Ferfas | Localization of inhibition in the Xenopus Laevis vocal circuit |
| Owen Fidler | Light Concentration and Physical Distribution of Star Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies |
| Tristan Figueroa-Reid | SPRAS (Signaling Pathway Reconstruction Analysis Streamliner) |
| Zoe Fleysher | Women and the Law: Gayot de Pitaval’s Causes Célèbres |
| Sara Ford | Education for a Better Education: An Civics Guide for the PPS |
| Sabine Fraley | Psychedelic Therapy for Veterans With PTSD, MDD, and Meth-Use Disorder |
| Alta Freedman | Sustainable Intentional Communities |
| Nikolai Friedberg | Auditing AI’s Fairness Without Seeing Its Data! |
| Nina Friedman | My Summary at PDX Contemporary Art |
| Ezra Frohlich | farFETched science: Electrical Response in 2D Field Effect Transistors |
| Alicia Funk-Walker | Ir(III) Complex Developments for Catalyzed Formic Acid Dehydrogenation |
| Ciaran Gavaghan | Wildlife Rehabilitation Internship |
| Nora Genovese | Pies the Limit |
| Peter Gilbert | Protecting Drugs Via Nitrogen-Boron Coordination. |
| Solveig Gisslen | Growing Gardens and Shaping Minds |
| Teddy Goemans | Turning Trash into Treasure |
| Nat Gong | Spidey Senses: The Role of Substrate-Borne Vibrations in Wolf Spider Hunting |
| Valeria Gonzalez Padilla | Natural Sciences Volunteering and Camp Counseling |
| Clementine Gripman Whistler | Exploring the World of Fine, Rare, and Unusual Books at Passages Bookshop |
| Taya Gu | The influence of temperature on the behavior of Drosophila melanogaster throughout their lifespan |
| Andee Gude | The First Zines Were Black: The Radical Act of Black Self Publication |
| Paris Harrell | Testing a Lead Phage Cocktail Against Klebsiella Pneumonia |
| Meredith Hastings | Effect of Aspen Running Canker on Dead Woody Debris of Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides) Stands Across Interior Alaska |
| Clara Hay | Working at a Portland Women's Day Shelter |
| Nat Hill | Up in Smoke: Chemistry of Fresh and Aged Wildfire Smoke |
| Rosalind Hinchliff | Literary Publicity Internship at Brown Bird Consulting |
| Claire Ho Ferrance | The People's Summit for Korea, Student Track: Our Inheritance is Revolution |
| Nathan Holland | Environmental Policy on a Bicycle |
| Emily Howley | Growing Together @ The SCGC |
| Aiden Hsu | The Application of Neural Networks and Deep Reinforcement Learning in Life-Cycle Models |
| Michael Hubbard | Probing Transient Chirality and Diastereoselectivity in Ruthenium-Catalyzed Azide Alkyne Cycloadditions |
| Brennan Hunt | Finally Purifying CYP3A4 and Investigating its Metabolism of Mitragynine |
| Sophia Hutcherson | Queering the Narrative: Building Intersectional Community Spaces of Literary Power and Refuge |
| Delyse Ingabire | From Hashtags to Headspace: Linking Online Discrimination, ERI, and Mental Health |
| Rubayat Jalal | Bifurcations of an Electronic Delayed Relay System |
| Iris Jan | Analyzing Metabolomics Data of Avasimibe-Treated Cell Lines Using Bayesian Algorithm UnitedMet |
| Henry Kallerud | Summer Internship at Red Hook Editions |
| Jamin Kamanya | Base promoted synthesis of D-Proline, 4-hydroxy-5,5-dimethyl-1-[(4-methylphenyl)sulfonyl]-, ethyl ester |
| Morgen Kaufman | Oregon Contemporary Art Center Internship |
| Sun Kim | Effects of Ketamine on Anxiety-Like Behaviors in Rats Under Different Enrichment Conditions |
| Emily Kim | Voices from the Peninsula: Human Rights, Reunification, and the Power of Story |
| Victor Kirchmeier | Amplitude death with directly coupled nonlinear oscillators |
| Manu Klein | Probabilistic Program Verification |
| Feyd Knisley | Garden Maintenance and Education Programs |
| Tanvi Kodangal | Investigating the Crosstalk Between BMP, RA, & MAPK in Retinal and Vascular Development |
| Miranda Kubek | Virus-Infected Bacterial Endospores are Evolutionary 'Time Capsules' |
| Hunter Lange | BIPOC Adoptees Resource Library |
| Subin Lee | Potential of Repetitive Visual Stimulation as a Therapeutic Device for Sleep Deprivation Related Cognitive Deficits |
| Camilia Lindauer | Leftist Mutual Aid Network in Southern Oregon |
| Laila Maidenberg | Endo-Selective Suzuki-Miyaura coupling for the Synthesis of Cyclopiazonic Acid |
| Asa Marley-Jester | Sounds of Practice |
| Eryn Marquardt | Influence of enrichment conditions in ketamine use and decision-making |
| Anna McClendon | Experimental and Computational Studies of (cod)PtMe2 Protonolysis with Trifluoroacetic Acid |
| CJ McLaughlin | Summer Journalism Institute - Student Support for the City of Boston |
| Patrick McMahon | Encountering TerBulence: Optimizing the TerB Purification Process |
| Luna McNeff Yee | Sort Out the System: Student Supports in Portland Public Schools |
| Leila Menezes | Does The Shoe Fit? A taste of clinical work |
| Audrey Mills | PETase Activity in a Bacterial Consortium |
| Noelani Mitchell | Seed-Starting: Supporting Youth Environmental Stewardship with Grow Portland |
| Ellarain Moore | Thermal Refuges in Freshwater Heatwaves: A Mesocosm Experiment |
| Luisa Morgan | Towards Structural and Functional Characterization of Small Molecule-Mediated hP2X7 Modulation |
| Isara Moriya | Examining How Identity Profiles Predict Meaning-Making in Asian American Ethnic-Racial Identity Narratives |
| Isara Moriya and Yuki Nagura | “The Things We Took With Us” |
| Ella Morton | A NUV Metal Detector: Chemical Abundances of Old, Metal-Poor Halo Stars |
| Theo Muehr | Oh Puck!: A Midsummer’s Exploration into Drag, Camp, and Queer Satire |
| Jayna Mumo | Understanding the Costs Perceptions of Underrepresented Students in Higher Education: An Asset-Based Approach |
| Emy Musgrove | Sensitivity of augmented weighted estimators to omitted variables |
| Harnoor Nagra | A Biochemical Characterization of Split Discs |
| Khushi Naik | Closing the Gaps: Improving Operational Efficiency in a Non-Profit Orphanage for Autistic Children |
| Andrew Nguyen | More than Eats the Eye! Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Phagocytic Microglia in the Developing Zebrafish Tectum |
| Minh Nguyen | The Application of Neural Networks and Deep Reinforcement Learning in Life-Cycle Models |
| Nana Nguyen | Screening Routes in the Synthesis of des-dimethyl CPA |
| Aden O'Brien | SPRAS (Signaling Pathway Reconstruction Analysis Streamliner) |
| Evan O'Neill | Effects of Blue Light-Induced Sleep Loss on Tau Accumulation in a Drosophila Alzheimer’s Model |
| Percy Okoben | Warp and Weft: Recreating Ancient Greek Fiber Practices |
| Pratik Oli | Variational Quantum Eigensolver for Quantum-Classical Hybrid Simulation of the XXZ Spin Model |
| Jenna Ong | A Summer of Creative Firsts |
| Patricio Palomino | Studying the effects of nano-PET plastics on Drosophila melanogaster behavior |
| Remy Pham | Curating, Researching and Sustaining Creative Space: My Internship at NÉM |
| Rehaan Pillai | Research Assistanship at North Star Civic Foundation |
| Malena Podolsky | Developing Methods for Assessing Bacterial Growth on Microplastics |
| Krishna Pothugunta | Movement Maps: Computational Tracking of Drosophila and Daphnia Behavior |
| Reasat Prottoy | Auditing AI’s Fairness Without Seeing Its Data! |
| Ellie Provost | The Things We Can Learn From the Trees |
| Eleri Reyman | Segregated Healthcare: The Legacy of Medicaid, Medicare and Malpractice |
| Fiona Ricciardi | Investigating Student Engagement Levels in General Chemistry Courses Using the ICAP Framework |
| Katie Riley | The Effects of Recent Invasive Ivy Removal on Tree Canopy Lichen Biodiversity |
| Mason Ross | Groundbreaking Discoveries: Breaking Ground at Pyla-Vigla |
| Nanati Safawo | Shaping the Axon Initial Segment: Roles of Substrate Composition and Genetic Background |
| Ella Sakakeeny | Pills to Ponds: Ecotoxicological Effects of Progesterone & Progestins on D. magna |
| Veronica Sanudo Diaz | Children She Wishes She Never Had: Short Story & Poetry Collection |
| Zander Scholl | NV-Net: A deep image prior for reconstructing magnetization from scanning NV microscopy |
| Celve Schultz | Celve Michael Schultz, Art, Junior, Contemporary Artist Leslie Baum |
| Andrew Schwiebert | Kalman Filter Position Tracking |
| Sarah Severinghaus | How does aerosol size mediate cloud droplet growth? |
| Mary-Sophia Shakespeare | Fire on the Mountain: Tracking Mercury in Biomass Burning Plumes |
| Alaric Shaw | A Summer of Photochemistry: Using BNOFs to Tune Photochemical Reactivity |
| Lee Sinskey | Using color banding to investigate Spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus) vocalizations and color patches, and designing dummies for use in simulated territory intrusions. |
| Hannah Smith | Rap, Graffiti, and DJs OH MY! |
| Natalie Soutonglang | Seeding Change: Summer of Advocacy with APANO |
| Zachary Spangler | Remarks on the Schrödinger Representation and Algebraic Quantization |
| Emma Sternfeld | Neuron Development: The Effects of Substrates on Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Growth Cones |
| Will Stevens | Theoretical Bounds for Fair Hierarchical Clusterings |
| Duncan Stewardson | Theoretical Bounds for Fair Hierarchical Clusterings |
| Aida Taha | Community Mural on Wastepicking |
| Joseph Tally | From Dirt to Data: Fossil Preparation at the Denver Museum |
| Dante Tirado Morales | Activism in the Theatre: 68’ and now |
| Arthur Tran | Investigating Anther Color Polymorphism in Erythronium |
| Rain Tronoski | Survivor Support Summer Advocacy, Harm Reduction & Policy |
| Kenta Tsukamoto | Gene Expression Variation in Recently Diverged Delphinium Species |
| Selma Uddin | Investigating Photoperiodic Regulation of Sex Determination in Daphnia magna |
| Alex Vandendries | This again!? Repeated sampling of two conifers reveals evidence of hydraulic acclimation and/or recovery from past hydraulic degradation |
| Lutetia Wang | Old West Gate, Shanghai - Artbook as Research or How to Understand Gentrification in the context of urban Shanghai in 2025? |
| Noah Weber | Working Towards an Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Norfluorocurarine |
| Ayden West | Exploring the impact of gonadal hormones on the development of PTSD and its comorbidities |
| Shiloh Williams | What Makes A Garden Grow? |
| Isabelle Wong | Documentary: Show Me Your Chinatown! |
| Anna Wu | Farmer-Owned Technology: The Sustainable Intersection Between Agriculture and App Development |
| Frank Yan | Qualitative Research on Student Confusion in Chemistry Education: Insights from Lewis Structures and Limiting Reactants Problem-Solving |
| Schwa Yeleti | Probabilistic Program Verification |
| Martin Yuan | Reinforcement Learning for Atomic-Level Protein Structure |
| Zuni Zarate-Ramirez | Arts and Culture in West Kesington, Philadelphia |
| Adrian Zhang | Temperature and its Effects on Aggression in Mated vs. Virgin Female Drosophila Melanogaster |
| Ariel Zheng | Inducible Type I Interferon Gain of Function Models in Zebrafish |