Undergraduate Summer Research and Creative Works Fellowship
Adelphi connects undergraduate students with a variety of summer research opportunities鈥攆rom summer research fellowships with faculty mentors through the SPARK Center for Undergraduates and the Honors College to external research fellowships that fund student efforts.
The deadline to submit applications for the 2026 Summer Research and Creative Works Fellowship is March 27, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. EST.
All departments and majors are welcome. Each fellowship provides a $4,000 stipend for 8 weeks of full-time research or creative work, including laboratory and fieldwork as appropriate. Sponsored projects will culminate with a written report and presentation at the 2027 最新糖心Vlog Scholarship and Creative Works Conference.
Students will be sent email notification of fellowship selection on Monday, April 6, 2026, with formal letters to follow.
2026 Undergraduate Summer Fellowships
| Student Name | Student Major | Faculty Mentor Name | Mentor Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Errah Fawad | Neuroscience | Brian Wygal | Anthropology | How to Mourn and Wed Glaciers in the Himalayas |
| Qianyi Jiang | Statistics & Interdisciplinary Studies | Jacqueline Olvera | Sociology | How digital access mediates pension policy and individual decision-making |
| Areesha Riaz | Molecular Neuroscience |
Karolina Lempert | Psychology | Can Social Media Increase Impulsive Financial Decisions by Inducing a Scarcity Mindset? |
| Isabella Matura | Nursing | Denisha Dodd | Nursing | Redefining Hospital Navigation: A Digital Wayfinding System for Hospital Visitors |
| Annmarie Schurr | Art History | Eva Zak | Art Department | The Evolving Role of Provenance Research Across Northeastern American Museums |
| Ryan Moritz | Physics | Neda Naseri | Physics | From Shocks to Cosmic Rays: Investigating Particle Acceleration in Extreme Astrophysical Environments |
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Boktor | Brian Stockman | Biology | Designing Prebiotic Ferredoxins |
| Ava Buigas | Maggie Gray | Political Science | Florida鈥檚 鈥淒eath Train鈥�: Fatalities, Policy Response, and the Potential for Ethical Change |
| Maxynae Rigor | Justyna Widera-Kalinowska | Biochemistry | Using BCP-MOx semiconductors for Gas Sensing Applications |
| Ethan Snyder | Shana Caro | Biology | Diet-Driven Behavioral Plasticity and Survival Outcomes Following Chronic Processed Food Exposure |
| Verena Faheem | Justyna Widera-Kalinowska | Biology | Phytomass鈥慏erived Nanostructured Carbon as Efficient Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cells |
| Hillary Htun | Justyna Widera-Kalinowska | Biology | Electrochemical and Hydrothermal Synthesis of WO3, C3N4, and COF Semiconductors for Photocatalysis of Hazardous Waste |
| Sara Held | Maggie Gray | Political Science | Trump, the Unitary Executive Theory, and Democracy |
| Elizaveta Keburia | Katie Laatikainen | International Relations & LGS | Delegating Death: Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, Human Responsibility, and the Limits of International Law |
| Farzaan Khan | Brian Stockman | Biology | Designing Prebiotic Rossmann-Like Folds |
| Olivia Landis | Joy Scharfman | Nursing | Holistic Health: The Impact of Trauma-Informed Care on Patient Trust in the Medical System within the Unhoused Community |
| Tiffany Shu | Ivan Dempsey Hyatt | Biology | Silver(I) Oximates as Potential Antimicrobial Dental Composites |
| Natalie Ward | Maggie Gray | English | The Normalization of Violence in Pornography: Sexism, Racism, Nationalism, and Opportunities for Ethical Change |
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zaib Chaudhary | Justyna Widera-Kalinowska | Chemistry | Block Copolymer鈥揟emplated WO鈧�/MoO鈧� Hybrid Semiconductors for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Energy Conversion |
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Krystal Patel | Bryanne McDonough | Physics | Understanding the regulation of star formation within TNG100 galaxies on kpc-scales using machine learning |
2025 Undergraduate Summer Fellowships
Congratulations to 最新糖心Vlog鈥檚 2025 cohort of undergraduate summer research fellowship recipients!
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vira Bangaru | Raghida Abdallah Yassine | Business Management | AI-Driven vs. Traditional Retention Strategies: Employee Perceptions and Their Impact on Engagement, Career Growth, and Turnover |
| Sophia Minich | Orion Duckstein | Dance | Theme Development Through Choreographic Research |
| Kelly Johnson | Nathan George | Psychology | Role of solo games in maintaining older adults cognition |
| Candice Garwood | Patricia Lespinasse | International Studies major, African, Black and Caribbean Studies minor | “Milk Teeth” (A Vignette Collection on Loss & Coming of Age) |
| Maheen Naqvi | Lee Stemkoski | Computer Science | Interactive 3D Global Visualization Software |
| Arianna Samaroo | Damian Stanley | Neuroscience | Social computational phenotypes in psychopathology |
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aruzhan Bissenbay | Brian Stockman | Mathematics | Reading Between the Residues: Correlated Mutations in Early Proteins |
| Mickeylia Walker | Brian Stockman | Biology major, African, Black, and Caribbean Studies minor | No Flavodoxin, No Life: An Ancient Protein Gateway to Understanding the Origins of Life |
| Nadirah Peakes | Brian Stockman | Computer Science | Proteins Lost to Time: Recovering PFrebiotic Proteins with AI |
| Elias Nauth | Michael Moore | Psychology major, political science minor |
Trauma in the First Responder Population |
| Hemish Naidoo | Emily Cowan | Neuroscience major, minors in Asian studies and biology | Quantifying Linguistic Differences in the Verbal Communication of Memory Across Negative Social Contexts |
| Keara Malazarte | Shana Caro | Neuroscience major, public health minor | The Impact of Individual Habituation on Collective Decision-Making Thresholds in P .bicarinata Ant Colonies |
| Salvatore Bonasia | Dominic Fareri | Neuroscience | The role of social rejection in risky decision-making |
| Mitchell Pozovskiy | Sean Bentley | Physics | Maximizing Violation of Bell Inequality using Compensation Methods |
| Troy Cofie | Mariano Torras | Economics major, minors in mathematics and political science | Social Embeddedness and Legal Institutionalism: Alternative Frameworks for Economic Policymaking |
| Vincent Calvagno | Michael LaCombe | History major, Italian minor | Aquatic Appropriation: Water and Property in Colonial New England |
| Errah Fawad | Natalia Prado-Oviedo | Neuroscience | Meta-analysis Research on the Developmental Impact of Maternally-derived Progesterone on Offspring Phenotypes Across Species |
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myat Noe Khin | Brian Stockman | Biochemistry | Retro Design of Flavodoxin with Only Early Amino Acids |
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Ishal | Kevin Liang | Physics | Evaluating the Impact of Shift Variance on Modal Imaging Resolution Using Seidel Aberrations |
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clara Ossand贸n Melo | Adelheid B. Strelick | Dance and Psychology | Where Movement Speaks: Exploring Dance and Women’s Empowerment through Butoh in Japan |