Current UPRISE Projects

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MORE 2026 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS COMING SOON!

The following table contains links to the Individual Projects Information:

Abridging the Text: Narratives of Liberation in Gigachurch Sermons	Astrocyte Network Disruption in Opioid Relapse	Astroglial mechanisms underlying primary antipsychotic resistance
Behavioral Ecology of Wolf Spiders: Mating Systems, Sexual Selection, and Communication	Clinical implementation of large language models in Pathology.	Computational regulatory genomics
Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background	Defining Relationships of Early Mediators and Moderators of Sleep (DREAMS) Research Study	Design and development of low-cost rheological tools
Design and synthesis of target and mechanism specific anticancer agents	Designing a Two-Qubit Topological Quantum Computer	Designing High Performance Bonds for Ultrasonic Energy Transfer
Development of a Specific Immunoassay for diagnosis of progesterone allergy	Discovering mechanisms of infertility using zebrafish	Engineering microbiome for therapy and imaging
Environmental and Genetic Drivers of Diabetes and Neurodegeneration	Environmental Timing Cues and Circadian Control of Brain, Behavior, and Disease	Explore New Danger Signaling in HFpEF
Genetic Toolkit for Pneumocystis: Characterizing Endogenous Promoter Sequences	Hazards for Home Healthcare Workers	Hormones and Development
Identifying the molecular binding partners of alternatively spliced tissue factor in the MASH liver	Improving Access to Cervical Cancer Screening: HPV Self-Testing on the Hamilton County 513Relief Bus (IMPACT 513)	Molecular and cellular mechanisms of antipsychotic resistance in a rodent model
Monitoring and Using Ultrasound Emissions for Guiding Therapies	Nanovesicles based fetal treatments	Neutrophil heterogeneity and the mechanics of alveolar injury in PjP
Pathologic and molecular assessment of pediatric liver tumors	Post-transcriptional regulation of spermatogonial stem cells	Probing the Standard Model with the LHCb Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
Project: Mapping Stress, Distress, and Trauma in Engineering Students (Mind + Body + Context)	Projects in Soft Materials	Resolving Distant Galaxies with Gravitational Lensing
Romantic Relationships and Mental Health Among South Asian Communities	Safer 3D Printing Project	Secure IoT: Low-Power Hardware Solutions for Wireless Vulnerabilities
Sleep and circadian rhythms in blood feeding insects	Spin Fractionalization in Kondo Lattices	Study of essential protein kinases involved in the regulation of the life cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi.
Stuttering and social cognition: a series of experimental studies	The Impact of Carbon Dioxide on Brain Metabolism after Traumatic Brain Injury	The impact of environmental variation on gene expression in non-human primates
The role of the unfolded protein response pathway in microbiome-associated abdominal aortic aneurysm	Therapeutic target to treat inherited chronic intrahepatic cholestasis	Tools for galaxy survey cosmology
Understanding Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections to Improve Patient Safety	Understanding Cerebral Pathophysiology in Relation to Traumatic Brain Injury	VR-Based Employee Safety Training: Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Simulation
Wearable molecular monitors spanning wellness to disease management

Note - "Some projects are multi-disciplinary; a project in one area may be of interest to students from another major. Be sure to look at the projects in related areas to widen your choices."

Contact: Tiffany Grant, Ph.D., UPRISE REU Director (Email: tiffany.grant@uc.edu)