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Past Cohort

2026 SROP Cohort

Group photo of the 2026 Summer Research Opportunity class.

Past Cohort
Student Name Undergraduate Institution Research Project Title Faculty Mentor
Adiyah Obolu  Yale University  "Grandchildren Beyond the Seas”: Ethiopia and Black Diasporic Solidarity during the Harlem Renaissance Barnor Hesse, PhD
Anabelle Jimenez Northeastern Illinois University  The Impact of Critical AI Messaging on AI Attitudes Micheal Kraus, PhD
Anicia Miller Harvard College  Effects of Prosthetic Foot and Ankle Stiffness on Quiet Standing Balance of Unilateral Transfemoral Prosthesis Users  Steven Gard, PhD
Annie Wu Brown University  Uncovering Pathogenic Mechanisms in PACS1 Syndrome Models Alicia Guemez Gamboa, PhD
Arrielle Henderson University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Unequal Teams: Examining Behavioral Health Team Implementation Across Chicago Public Schools by School Characteristics  David Johnson, PhD
Daniel Few North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Neighborhood Opportunity and School-Identified Priorities: Informing Equitable Substance Use Prevention in Chicago Public Schools Faith Summerset-Williams, PhD
Diti Patel  University of Illinois Chicago Exploring the regulatory role of [4Fe-4S] clusters in ATP hydrolysis within PepT Nucleotide Binding Domains  Heather Pinkett, PhD
Elyse King Northwestern University  Repair, Not Removal: Care Ethics and the Moral Foundations of Punishment   Baron Reed, PhD 
Gavyn Lewis-Richmond Northwestern University Redlined, not Sidelined: Black Women’s Agency in Evanston’s Fifth Ward, 1930s-1940s Mark Lockwood, PhD 
Johnathon Marston Knox College Characterization of TolTEC’s Continuously Rotating Half-Wave Plate Using Polarization Measurements  Giles Novak, PhD
Josh Rascón Northwestern University Making Time: Exploring timelines and temporality in Mrs. Mary Eales’s “The Complete Confectioner (1717)”  Jennifer Comerford, PhD
Jude Rischpater Dickinson College  Sex Dependent Brain Gene Networks: Alzheimers Risk Factors in Black American Women    Kynon J. Benjamin, PhD
Lekan Aleshe-Shittu Oberlin College On Black Sufism: Exploring Questions of Power, Indigeneity, Decolonization and the Need for an “African Islam” Robert Launay, PhD
Mark Martinez Northwestern University A World in Harmony: Exploring Music in the Nahua Worldview  Baron Reed, PhD
Mrinmayee Sama University of Rochester in New York Role of Axon Guidance Genes in Lung Vascular Development and Disease   Lisandra Vila-Ellis, PhD
Mya Booth Duke University  Quantitative Immunofluorscene Analysis of Engineered IL-10 Therapies in Atherosclerotic Plaques Lisa Volpatti, PhD
Najua Strooband-Said University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo campus miRNA Expression Profiles in Archival Canine Lymph Nodes Following Internal Radiation Exposure: Evaluation of Candidate Biomarkers 
Gayle Woloschak, PhD
Oluwapemisola Ogunjimi Indiana University Bloomington Pathogenic KCNB1 Mutations as Contributors to Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies   Jennifer Kearney, PhD
Pablo Gonzalez-Villaseca Georgia Institute of Technology  mRNA Design of Peptide Antigens for Cancer Vaccines  Chad Mirkin, PhD
Reggie Blue University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill We’ve Got Our Own Thing: Communication Strategies of Hood Jujutsu Kaisen’s Fan Communities Rayvon Fouché, PhD
Sarah Louis  Northwestern University Fractured: Political Party Fragmentation, Political Polarization and Their joint Effects on Congressional Gridlock   Tabitha Bonilla, PhD
Sophia Veranga University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Identifying Novel Theraputic Targets for TP53-mutated Myelodysplastic Syndromes  
Yan Liu, PhD
Warren Bingcang Grinnell College “Weird Transgender”: Cross-Gender Body-swapping in Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep” Justin Mann, PhD