Wake Forest Research Fellowship Archive

Project: Feasibility of Risedronate to Attenuate Bone Turnover in Sleeve Gastrectomy Patients Mentor: Kristen Beavers, Health and Exercise Science

Project: The Effect of Exercise Training on Preventing Type 2 Diabetes Through Building Metabolic Flexibility Mentor: Ke Zhang, Biology

Project: Epidemiological Spaciotemporal Models Mentor: John Gemmer, Mathematics and Statistics

Project: Developing an Observation System to Quantify Physiological and Environmental Responses to Fire in the Southeast U.S. Mentors: Lauren Lowman and Kyle Luthy, Engineering

Project: Automated Genders: Investigating Gender Performances by Chatbots in Online Dating Spaces Mentor: Carrie Johnston, Digital Humanities and English, ZSR Library

Project: A Neuro imaging Study on Connectivity within the Temporal Lobe in Patients with ASD During Facial Recognition Mentors: Kirsten O’Hearn, Physiology and Pharmacology, and Alia Ghoneum, Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Project: Designing and Testing a New Solar Thermal Device Mentors: David Carroll and Lindsey Gray, Physics

Project: Evaluating Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithms for Clustering Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data Mentor: Natalia Khuri, Computer Science

Project: Effects of Compound C on Ovarian Cancer Cell Progression Mentor: Neveen Said and Alia Ghoneum, Cancer Biology, WFU School of Medicine

Project: A phylogenetic and locomotive study of Kryptolebias marmoratus, F. heteroclitus, and Laimosemion agilae terrestrial ‘jumps’ Mentor: Miriam Ashley-Ross, Biology

Project: Roots Modeling Mentor: Lauren Lowman, Engineering

Project: A Drying World: How 21st Century Climate Change Could Impact Droughts Mentor: Robert Erhardt, Mathematics and Statistics

Project: Effects of Malaria Infection on the Gut Microbiome: a Computational Analysis Mentor: Regina Cordy, Biology

Project: Uncovering Interactions along viral genes and proteins Using computational Platforms Mentor: Sarah McDonald, Biology

Project: Enhancing sexual health communication among survivors, spouses, and providers after breast cancer treatment: A triadic perspective Mentor: Mollie Canzona, Communications

Project: Nonsqueezing Theorem in Symplectic Geometry and Topology Mentor: Sarah Raynor, Mathematics and Statistics

Project: The effects of implicit and explicit language instruction on L2 and native-speaker learners Mentor: Sara Fernández Cuenca, Spanish

Project: An Analysis of the Photocatalytic Properties of Melanin Mentor: Elham Ghadiri, Chemistry

Project: Using Fast Matrix Multiplication to Speed Up Neural Network Training Mentor: Grey Ballard, Computer Science

Project: Develop a quantitative model to characterize the mechanistic pathway of AT[N] biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease Mentor: Minghan Chen, Computer Science