Major: Human Biology
| Faculty Mentor: JSteven Finkel, PhD., Professor of Biological Sciences | Department: Dornsife: Biological Sciences | Research Gateway Project: “The Predictability of Antibiotic Susceptibility Using Genetic Mutations in Long Term Stationary Phase Escherichia Coli”
Sierra Williams
Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering
| Faculty Mentor: John Carlsson, PhD., Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering | Department: Viterbi: Industrial & Systems Engineering | Research Gateway Project: “First-Generation, Low Income, Minority Student Retention in STEM Fields”
Cindy Pineda
Major: Public Policy, Planning, and Development
| Faculty Mentor: LaVonna Lewis, PhD., Teaching Professor of Public Policy | Department: Price: Public Policy | Research Gateway Project: “A Call for Community Planning: Higher Education Attainment and the Influence of the Built Environment on Attitudes Towards Higher Education”
Fridaouss Ikpindi Nadine
Major: Public Policy, Planning, and Development
| Faculty Mentor: Morgan Polikoff, PhD., Associate Professor of Education | Department: Price: Public Policy
| Research Gateway Project: “Resource Disparities in Rural and Urban Public Education Systems and its Impact on Student Achievement”
Karen Kwon
Major: Sociology
| Faculty Mentor: Leland Tadaji Saito, PhD., Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity | Department: Dornsife: Sociology | Research Gateway Project: “Identity Formation Among Monoracial and Multiracial Individuals”
Alfredo Gonzalez Ruiz
Major: Mechanical Engineering
| Faculty Mentor: Kaila Rajiv, PhD., Professor of Physics | Department: Viterbi: Mechanical Engineering | Research Gateway Project: “Fusion Ion Confinement in Spherical Ion Trap”
Ronit Farahmandian
Major: Computational Neuroscience | Faculty Mentor: Jason Zevin, PhD., Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics | Department: Dornsife: Psychology | Research Gateway Project: “Validity of the Common Working Memory Tests in L2 Individuals”
Eloisa Campuzano
Major: American Studies & Ethnicity | Faculty Mentor: Stanley Huey, PhD., Associate Professor of Psychology and American Studies & Ethnicity | Department: Dornsife: Psychology, American Studies & Ethnicity | Research Gateway Project: “Stitching a Community Together: Youth as Agents of Community Transformation”
Ana Yaneiry Barrios
Major: Social Sciences with emphasis in Psychology and Contemporary Latino and Latin American Studies | Faculty Mentor: George Sánchez, PhD., Professor of History and American Studies & Ethnicity | Department: Dornsife: Sociology | Research Gateway Project: “The Lasting Effects of the Guatemalan Genocide”