CSR Scholars 2023-2024

Scholars by Major

Name: Gina Christophersen

Research Mentor: Dr. Janet Green

Project Title: Sorting the Landscape of Artist & Scientist Collaborations

Name: Jordan Barragan

Research Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Zaleski

Project Title: Investigation of the Effect of Aggregating Ions on Surface-enhanced Raman Spectra of Anthraquinone Dyes

Name: Timothy Carlo Catbagan

Research Mentor: Dr. Monika Sommerhalter

Project Title: Purification of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase from the marine gastropod Tritonia diomedea

Name: Sandhya Rijal

Research Mentor: Dr. Monika Sommerhalter

Project Title: Characterization of Phenolics and Antioxidants in Pistacia vera Leaf Tissues Under Salinity Stress

Name: Shonushka Sawant

Research Mentor: Dr. Wendy Rummerfield

Project Title: Upgrading by Ungrading

 

Name: Jasmine Rattanpal

Research Mentor: Dr. Ruth Tinnacher

Project Title: TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON URANIUM ADSORPTION TO MONTMORILLONITE

 

Name: Klavdija Bukovec

Research Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Zaleski

Project Title: INVESTIGATION OF ZINC SOAP FORMATION AND DAMAGE MECHANISMS IN OIL PAINTINGS USING FTIR SPECTROSCOPY

 

Name: Justine Garcia

Research Mentor: Dr. Mark Borja

Project Title: The Effects of Clinically Relevant Mutations on the Exchange of Apolipoprotein A-I on HDL

 

Name: Raj Patel

Research Mentor: Dr. Marlin Halim

Project Title: FIBER IDENTIFICATION AND DYE EXTRACTION

 

Name: Kyle McCray

Name: Alexis Peck

Research Mentor: Dr. Anita Chang

 

Name: Sai Lokesh Reddy Gayam

Research Mentor: Dr. Fay Zhong

Project Title: Enhancing Patient Safety Training Through Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation


Name: Adarsha Yemparala

Research Mentor: Dr. Roya Nasimi

Project Title: Enhancement of Vision-based Data for Bridge Health Monitoring

Name: Sepehr Khosravi

Research Mentor: Dr. Amara Miller


Name: Laura Noriega

Research Mentor: Dr. Oanh Tran

Project Title: Preservice Teachers' Understanding of Instructional Practice related to the NGSS Science and Engineering Practices: Impact of the A-STEP Toolkit

 

Name: Angie Tse

Research Mentor: Dr. Kavita Atwal

Project Title: An Educator Survey: Supporting Asian American, Muslim, and Sikh Students

 

Name: Christy Koyabu

Reseach Mentor: Dr. Kavita Atwal

Project Title: An Educator Survey: Supporting Asian American, Muslim, and Sikh Students

Name: Roya Sana

Reseach Mentor: Dr. Michael Lee

Project Title: Towards Sustainability: Understanding CSU East Bay's Response to Climate Challenges

 

Name: Armando Valencia

Reseach Mentor: Dr. Jenkinson & Dr. Tony Marks-Block

Project Title: Analyzing the Influence of Fire on Oak Acorn Food Resources: Effects on Filbert Weevil (Curculio occidentis) and Filbert Moth (Cydia latiferreana) Infestations

Name: Monica Esqueda

Research Mentor: Dr. Emilio Grande

Project Title: Coupled high-frequency sensor network deployed in SF Estuary to quantify nutrient transport in sub-surface hydrologic interactions between coastal tides and watersheds

 

Name: EDUARDO GAMEZ JR

Research Mentor: Dr. Patty Oikawa

Project Title: Partitioning Water Fluxes In Tidal Wetlands: Improving Understanding Of Evaporation And Transpiration

Name: Triniti Gistand

Research Mentor: Michael Stanton

 

Name: Esha Kumar

 

Name: Ria Maharaj

Research Mentor: Dr. Arnab Mukhiejea

Project Title: Mental Health Needs of South Asians in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater New York Metropolitan Region Stemming From Social Isolation Due to COVID-19 Restrictions.

 

Name: Tiffany Chacon

Research Mentor: Dr. Ram Kandasamy

Project Title: Effects of simultaneous inhibition of fatty acid amide hydrolase and soluble epoxide hydrolase on trigeminal pain in female Sprague-Dawley rats

 

Name: Shama Farhad

Research Mentor: Arnab Mukherjea

Project Title: Mental Health Needs of South Asians in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater New York Metropolitan Region Stemming From Social Isolation Due to COVID-19 Restrictions.


Name: Ketema Kiddist

Research Mentor: Dr. Maria Livaudais


Name: Jennifer Lopez

Research Mentor: Dr. Albert Mendoza

Project Title: LLAMA: Innovating Rehabilitation in Post-Stroke Care


Name: Alyssa Mae Mamaclay

Research Mentor: Dr. Maria Livaudais

Project Title: "Mana Wahine: Exploring Cultural Traditions and Policies in Maternal Health for Birthworkers in Hawai'i"


Name: India Rucker

Research Mentor: Dr. Maria Livaudais

Name: Sol Davis

Research Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth McGuire

Project Title: Communist Neverland - Exploring Research and Education

Name: Chelsea Drescher

Research Mentor: Dr. Jaesung An

Project Title: Older Female Travelers’ Eustress and Distress During Leisure Travel

 

Name: Aaliyah Perillo

Research Mentor: Dr. Jaesung An

Project Title: Helping Older Adults Alleviate from Boredom: Development of Leisure Education Intervention Program

Name: Viviana Preciado

Research Mentor: Dr. Vanessa Yingling

Project Title: Dominant vs Non Dominant leg differences in jump landing from different directions in athletic females


Name: Karamvir Singh

Research Mentor: Dr. Michael Rowley

Project Title: Building a Functional Understanding of Lower Limb Prostheses


Name: Justin Matties

Research Mentor: Dr. Michael Rowley

Project Title: Biomechanical and Energetic Trends in Response to 8 Weeks of Training in Advanced Footwear Technology


Name: Vincent Morlino

Research Mentor: Dr. Michael Rowley


Name: Le Tong

Research Mentor: Dr. Vanessa Yingling

Project Title: Dominant vs Non Dominant leg differences in jump landing from different directions in athletic females

Name: Valerie Christine Batino

Research Mentor: Dr. Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn

Project Title: Multiscale Modeling of Bone Tissue

 

Name: Kevin Conn

Research Mentor: Dr. Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn

Project Title: How to approach mathematical modeling: a bone case study

 

Name: Mary Love

Research Mentor: Dr. Jesus Oliver

Project Title: Wave Equations in RNdS and FLRW

 

Name: Antonio Martinez

Research Mentor: Dr. Andrea Arauza Rivera

Project Title: Response Timing in an Iterated Monty Hall Problem

 

Name: Nicholas Rosa

Research Mentor: Dr. Simone Sisneros-Thiry

Project Title: Betting Systems

 

Name: Sagar Shah

Research Mentor: Dr. Ryan Moruzzi

Project Title: The Zero Forcing Number of Hopi Rectangle Graphs

 

Name: Aaditeya Tripathi

Research Mentor: Dr. Ryan Moruzzi

Project Title: Multi-Color Forcing on Graphs

Name: Davis, Julian

Research Mentor: Dr. Kathryn Grimm

Project Title: Radiation Damage to the ATLAS Detector: Finding a New Predictive Model

 

Name: Duenas, Mario

Research Mentor: Dr. Ryan Smith

Project Title: Probing the transient terahertz response of quantum dots

 

Name: Interiano, Andres

Research Mentor: Dr. Derek Kimball

Project Title: Dark matter search with magnetometers

Name: Salaam, Kadeef

Research Mentor: Dr. Anndretta Wilson

Project Title: Golden Gate Quartet Project

 

Name: Abraham, Kimberly

Research Mentor: Dr. Jeri Little

Project Title: Memorization Versus Rule Abstraction as a Function of Sequence and Category Learning


Name: Caballero Galvan, Omar

Research Mentor: Dr. Murray Horne

Project Title: Horne Lab Studies rodent models of spatial navigation and associative learning


Name: Chin, Christopher

Research Mentor: Dr. Ram Kandasamy

Project Title: Non-opioid therapy for pain management


Name: Karlin, Rachel

Research Mentor: Dr. Jeri Little

Project Title: Interleaving is better than blocking for memorizers, but blocking is better than interleaving for finding a rule (even with a delay)


Name: Khosravi, Sepehr

Research Mentor: Dr. Natalie Ingraham and Dr. Amara Miller

Project Title: The Experiences of Fatphobia Among the Iranian Women Population


Name: Liu, Jiaqi

Research Mentor: Dr. Jeri Little

Project Title: Examining relationships between learning modalities and narrative vs expositional content. 


Name: Mckay, Ann

Research Mentor: Dr. Murray Horne

Project Title: Rats and Spacial Awareness


Name: Naidu, Rinisha

Research Mentor: Dr. Liz Kyonka

Project Title: Functional Assessment of Social Media


Name: Nepangue, Jexy An

Research Mentor: Dr. Jeri Little

Project Title: The Effect of Delay on Memorization vs. Rule-Abstractors as a Function of Sequence and Category Learning


Name: Passoni, Daniela

Research Mentor: Dr. Murray Horne

Project Title: Rodent models of spatial navigation and associative learning

 

Name: Ron, Katiana

Research Mentor: Dr. Ram Kandasamy

Project Title: Solutions for Pain relief 


Name: Torres, Ezekiel

Research Mentor: Dr. Liz Kyonka

Project Title: The Gaming Consequences Questionnaire

 

Name: Anderson, Morgan

Research Mentor: Dr. Katrina Nicholas

Project Title: Input Variability Enhances Adjective Learning in 30mo old Late Talkers


Name: Angstadt-Leto, Eli

Research Mentor: Dr. Eve Higby

Project Title: Tracking the development of two inflectional suffixes in Mandarin-English bilingual children


Name: Armstrong, Simone

Research Mentor: Dr. Elena Dukhovny

Project Title: Short-term and long-term support strategies for families of children who are learning to use Speech Generating Devices


Name: Biblin, Carley

Research Mentor: Dr. Katrina Nicholas

Project Title: Predictors of denominal verb use among typically developing and late talking toddlers


Name: Brandt, Jiana

Research Mentor: Dr. Pradeep Ramanathan

Project Title: Constrained Hemisphere Aphasia Therapy


Name: Do, Jennifer

Research Mentor: Dr. Eve Higby and Dr. Katrina Nicholas

Project Title: Mandarin Bilingual English Development


Name: Evans, Hannah

Research Mentor: Dr. Eve Higby

Project Title: Understanding Bilingual Language Processes through Cross-Language Interactions


Name: Gunari, Siena

Research Mentor: Dr. Elena Dukhovny

Project Title: Short-term and long-term support strategies for families of children who are learning to use Speech Generating Devices


Name: Hayashi, Haley

Research Mentor: Dr. Michelle Gravier

Project Title: Interdisciplinary Mindfulness and Self-Acceptance Aphasia Group


Name: Helen, Priscilla

Research Mentor: Dr. Katrina Nicholas

Project Title: Gains in Late Talkers: Verb-Learning by Varying Argument Structure


Name: Konatalapalli, Soujanya

Research Mentor: Dr. Pradeep Ramanathan

Project Title: Intensive cognitive rehabilitation therapy for chronic traumatic brain injury: evidence of training-induced neuroplasticity


Name: Marshall, Amy

Research Mentor: Dr. Pradeep Ramanathan

Project Title: CRT and CHAT Investigations


Name: Miller, Chelsea

Research Mentor: Dr. Pradeep Ramanathan

Project Title: Constrained Hemisphere Aphasia Treatment (CHAT) 


Name: Morales, Rocio

Research Mentor: Dr. Elena Dukhovny

Project Title: Short-term and long-term support strategies for families of children who are learning to use Speech Generating Devices.


Name: Myngheer, Jessica

Research Mentor: Dr. Pradeep Ramanathan

Project Title: Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy for Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury


Name: Roth, Connie

Research Mentor: Dr. Pradeep Ramanathan

Project Title: Intensive Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy for Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury


Name: Setness, Katelynn

Research Mentor: Dr. Michelle  Gravier

Project Title: Interdisciplinary mindfulness and self acceptance aphasia group


Name: Thies, Christy

Research Mentor: Dr. Michelle Gravier

Project Title: Impact of long term participation in aphasia choirs on well being and identity


Name: Tollast, Alexandria

Research Mentor: Dr. Eve Higby

Project Title: Exploring Cross-Linguistic Treatment Effects in Bilingual Individuals with Aphasia


Name: Yanonis, Crystal

Research Mentor: Dr. Elena Dukhovny

Project Title: Short-term and long-term support strategies available with technology purchase for families of children who are learning to use Speech Generating Devices