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2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

Winners of the 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)

Image of 2025 SURF winner Kunaal Chandrashekar

Student's Name: Kunaal Chandrashekar

Supervisor: Professor Sidhartha Goyal

Project Title: Studying variable gene expression at invertible promoters and its role in bacterial multicellularity


Student's Name: Bill Chen

Supervisor: Professor Stephen Julian

Project Title: Search for superconductivity in palladium-oxides


Image of 2025 SURF winner Natasha Karolewska

Student's Name: Natasha Karolewska

Supervisor: Professor Sergio de la Barerra

Project Title: Adhesive polymer development for ultraclean layered assembly of two-dimensional materials


Image of 2025 SURF winner Julianna Lai

Name: Julianna Lai

Supervisor: Professor Sidhartha Goyal

Project Title: Mapping out antigen dependent plasma cell dynamics and quality


Image of 2025 SURF winner Jiaqi Ou

Student's Name: Jiaqi Ou

Supervisor: Professor Ziqing Hong

Project Title: SuperCDMS Prototype Detector Testing


Image of 2025 SURF winner Camille Paule

Name: Camille Paule

Supervisor: Professor Hanno Rein

Project Title: Testing a new pair-wise timestepping algorithm for adaptive integrators in REBOUND.


Image of 2025 SURF winner Philip Stabler

Student's Name: Philip Stabler

Supervisor: Professor Sidhartha Goyal

Project Title: B cell maturation - how weak selection allows for specific antibodies


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