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	Creating the first racially diverse, spatial genome atlas of pancreatic cancer_Steele lab Project Description	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)