Undergraduate Summer Research and Fellowships

Adelphi connects undergraduate students with a variety of summer research opportunities—from summer research fellowships with faculty mentors through the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Works and the Honors College to external research fellowships that fund student efforts.

Becoming an Undergraduate Summer Research Fellow

Applications for the Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships will open in Spring 2025. If you have any questions or would like to learn about other opportunities, please email the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Works at ourc@adelphi.edu.

2024 Undergraduate Research and Creative Works Summer Fellowship

Congratulations to Adelphi University’s 2024 cohort of undergraduate summer research fellowship recipients!

Student Name Mentor Name Department Project Title
Sarah Marino Dr. Orion Duckstein Dance (CAS) Process and Performance
Thea Crouch Dr. Edward Reno History (CAS) Gone, but Not Forgotten: How Alexander T Stewart’s Death Became the Foundation for Spirituality and Higher Education in Garden City, NY.
Katelyn Schwab Dr. Chana Etengoff Psychology (Derner) LGBTQ+ Wellbeing in Contemporary Contexts
Heather Gittleson Dr. Karolina Lempert Psychology (Derner) Can taking the perspective of a relative in the future influence climate change risk perception?
Brienna Conner Dr. Patricia Lesipnasse African, Black, and Caribbean Studies (CAS) The African Diaspora: Myths & Legends
Vaishnavi Dixit Dr. Joshua Hiller Math and Computer Science (CAS) Enhancing k-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Improved Decision Making

Honors College Summer Research Fellows

Student Name Mentor Name Department Project Title
Keara Malazarte Dr. Shana Caro Biology (CAS) Collective Decision-Making in Superorganisms as a Model for Human Neural Pathways
Jason Bier Dr. Matt Wright Physics (CAS) Evaluating and Restoring Disparities in the Development of STEM Communities Due to HighTeacher Turnover in Lower-Income Districts
Aaron Comerford Dr. Natalia Prado-Oviedo Biology (CAS) Sloth Bear: Francois End Life of Study and Reproductive Senescence in African and Asian Elephants
Hemish Naidoo Dr. Sladjana Lukic Communication Sciences and Disorders (CEd) Meta-Analysis of Connected Speech Patterns in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSD) and Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD)
Roya Parsa Dr. Sixia Chen Mathematics and Computer Science (CAS) Optimizing Dual Energy CT Models for Accurate Proton Stopping Power Estimation in Pediatric Cancer Therapy
Noor Ellahie Dr. Justyna Widera-Kalinowska Chemistry (CAS) Photocatalytic Degradation of Duloxetine Using a BiVO4/C3H3N3S3 Nanocomposite with a Mo Co-catalyst
Vincent Calvagno Dr. Michael LaCombe History (CAS) Troubled Waters: Contrast and Conflict Over New England Rivers, 1620-1800
Antonio Ruiz Dr. Edward Reno History (CAS) Church Reform and Geopolitical Reorganization: Western Europe 1000-1300

Landesberg Family Summer Research Fellow

Major Name Mentor Career goal Title of project
Chemistry Selin Aptoula Dr. Justyna Widera-Kalinowska Material scientist/medical doctor Improving the efficiency of the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction through the use of cyanometallate catalysts

McDonell Summer Research Fellows

Major Name Mentor Title of project
Chemistry Clara Ghali Dr. Justyna Widera-Kalinowska Water Purification Through Nanotechnology and Solar Light
Chemistry Rachel Amirova Dr. Melissa Van Alstine-Parris Synthesis of Phenyl Pyrrolidinol compounds to Inhibit Uridine Nucleoside Ribohydrolase Enzymes for Trichomoniasis
Biology Ashley Restrepo Dr. Jonna Coombs. Investigating Pharmaceutical Drug Toxicity on Bacterial Strains from Salt Marshes
Biology Ben Klass Dr. Tandra Chakraborty Neuroprotection by Ashwagandha: Combating Inflammation in Neuronal Cells
Physics Carolina Guekjian Dr. Sean Bentley Quantum Entanglement Assisted Magnetic Field Detector

Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Works

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