UPRISE @ UC (REU 2019)

REU Program

The UC UPRISE REU program provides 12-week summer research opportunities for undergraduate students in the science and engineering fields. Students admitted to the program work closely with a faculty mentor on a specific research project where they will be actively engaged in the collection and analyses of data. At the end of the program students will present their results to the university community in a formal oral presentation and submit a technical paper. UPRISE students also attend weekly professionalization workshops on topics related to graduate/medical school, pursuing careers in STEM fields, and how to present research results in various formats. UPRISE students are also eligible for funding support to present the results of their research at academic conferences.

REU 2019 Dates: May 06, 2019 - July 25, 2019

The UPRISE deadline is March 1, 2019, for completing the UPRISE applications in their entirety.

Thank you very much.

Heather Norton & Yana Zavros

Online Application Form for Summer 2019 Program (Preferred Method of Application)

REU 2018 Participants

MORE SUMMER 2018 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS COMING SOON!

The following table contains links to the Individual Projects Information:

Amanda Zacharias, Creating transgenes to study embryonic gene regulation	Andrew Herr, Staphylococcal biofilms in allergic disease	Anjanette Wells, Improving Adherence in Cervical Cancer Prevention among At-Risk Women
Anthony Guanciale MD, A Retrospective Review of Severity, Morbidity, and Mortality of Cervical Central Cord Syndrome in Populations Approached with Surgical and Non-surgical Intervention	Biplab Dasgupta, Understanding the molecular connection between Hyperglycemia and Cancer	Boyang Wang, Investigating Privacy of Smart Home Speakers
Christy K. Holland, Chronic thrombus ablation with histotripsy and thrombolytics	Christy K. Holland, Ultrasound-enhanced thrombolysis for the treatment of stroke	Christy K. Holland, Ultrasound-mediated drug delivery to treat cardiovascular disease
Dennis Grogan, Genome integrity in archaea from geothermal environments	Dieter Vanderelst, Robots and Biology: a summer program aimed at underrepresented high school students	Dr. Teri J. Murphy, Engineering Education Research in Diversity and Inclusion
Elizabeth A. Shaughnessy, Axillary Breast Cancer Metastases Relative to Receptor Profile: What Subset Lacks Nodal Extension?	Ephraim Gutmark, 2.Combustion Control and Flameless Combustion	Ephraim Gutmark, 3.Pulse Detonation Engines â€“ PDE and Rotating Detonation Engines RDE
Ephraim Gutmark, Airway, Voice, Cardiovascular Research	Ephraim Gutmark, Novel Augmentor System Design	Ephraim Gutmark, Supersonic Jet Noise Characterization and Suppression
Jeremy Koster, Twitter and the NBA: A Social Network Analysis	Jiaqi Ma, Modeling and Simulation of Vehicle-Highway Automation Systems	Jing Shi, Data Analytics for Online Thermal Monitoring of 3D Printing
Jingiie Wu, Carbon-for-Carbon: Engineering Carbon Topological Nanostructures for Electrocatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Ethanol	Judith A. Heiny, Role of the transcription factor KLF2 in neutrophil activation and migration during skeletal muscle regeneration after injury	Karla Washington, Code-mixing rates and patterns in the spontaneous productions of Jamaican Creole and English-Speaking preschoolers: A pilot study
Katherine (Katie) Burns, The Role of Environmental Toxicant Exposure in Endometriosis	Kay Kinoshita, First Look at Data from Belle II	Kevin Haworth, Oxygen Scavenging in Whole Blood for Reperfusion Injury
Kevin Haworth, Systematic investigation of parameters affecting microfluidic droplet production	Kim, Woo Kyun, Computer Simulation of Sliding Friction between Graphene Layers	Latha Satish PhD, Fibrosis and Scar Contractures
Lucinda Lawson, Microbiome Evolution in an Invasive Cincinnati Lizard	Manoj Pandey, Alpha-synuclein-specific autoantibodies fuel neurodegeneration in Parkinsonâ€™s disease	Manori Jayasinghe: Computing thermodynamic properties to search for descriptors of surfactant harshness
Maria F Czyzyk-Krzeska, Role of pentose phosphate pathway in renal cancer	Mark G. Turner, Fan Design for Advanced NASA Aircraft Concept	Mark G. Turner, Maple Seed Inspired Controlled Decelerator
Matthew J. Robson, Role of Sigma-1 Receptors in Traumatic Brain Injury	Michael Sokoloff, Applications of Machine Learning in High Energy Physics	Michelle McGowan, Ohio Policy Evaluation Network
Microelectrodes for bio-medical implants	Noe T. Alvarez, Ph. D., Heavy metal sensor for drinking water	Professor Manish Kumar, COLLABORATIVE TRANSPORTATION OF A COMMON OBJECT USING MULTIPLE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAVs)
Professor Yurena Yanes, Climate change in the subtropical eastern Atlantic Ocean over the last two millennia	Reza, Soltanian, Hydrogeochemical dynamics during river and groundwater exchange	Ruxandra Dima, Mechanochemistry and cellular processes
Sakthivel Sadayappan, Establishing an early and sensitive cardiac biomarker for heart attack	Sakthivel Sadayappan, Improving skeletal muscle function in distal arthrogryposis	Structural analysis of poly(ADP-ribose) signaling proteins
Teresa Meier MD, Evaluating lymphopenia and treatment outcomes in patients with gynecologic cancers	Timothy Hodges, Periodic Binomial Coefficients and their Application to Cryptography and to Solutions of Systems of Polynomial Equations over Finite Fields	Tom Cunningham, Testing a Novel Strategy to Limit Cellular Nucleotide Production
Virtual Reality Simulations & Social Determinants of Health	Xia Wang, Bayesian hidden Markov models for dependent large-scale hypotheses testing	Xiaoting Zhang Ph.D., Targeting Human Breast Cancer Metastasis by RNA Nanotechnology
Yoonjee Park, Development of Reversible Drug Release Cargo	Yoonjee Park, Development of Skin Stratum Corneum Platform

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."

List of Projects and Information (Last 8 years archive)

2020 REU Materials	2019 REU Materials
2018 REU Materials	2017 REU Materials
2016 REU Materials	2015 REU Materials
2014 REU Materials	2013 REU Materials

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