Summer Research Program 2022 – Funding Sources
Amabel Boyce James ’74 Fund for Summer Research in the Sciences
- Augmenting Search Results with Domain Credibility Signals: A User Study
- Conscious of the Crowd: Creating an AI Crowdspace to Prototype More Diverse Social Platforms
- Effect of vitamin B12 on the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus
- Facilitator Experience in Participatory Design with Early Social Media Users
- Trait Irritability and Temporal Discounting
Anderson Faculty Grant
Beck Chemistry Research Fund
Beckman Scholars Program
Brachman Hoffman Fellowship
- Adapting an Assessment for Theory of Mind
- Chinese American Adolescent Racial-Ethnic Identity and Well-being
- Conscious of the Crowd: Creating an AI Crowdspace to Prototype More Diverse Social Platforms
- Development of a Portable Multimodal All-sky Observatory
- DISCOVRE: Mixed Reality Environments for Coral Reef Research
- Endorsement of Just-World Beliefs in Asian American Adolescents and Parents
- Exploring Morality in Preschool Children’s Fantasy Play
- Facilitator Experience in Participatory Design with Early Social Media Users
- Fairness, Competitiveness, and Multi-member Congressional Districts
- Investigating the Effects of Cosolutes on G-Quadruplex Formation in Bacterial DNA
- The Effects of Vection on Mental Time Travel
- The Mobile Office: Designing for the Future of Work in Automated Vehicles
- Why are insects getting smaller?: Hormonal responses to temperature changes
Brubach and Anderson Faculty Grants
Chen Faculty Grant / Brachman Hoffman Fellowship
Clare Boothe Luce Scholars Program
- Augmenting Search Results with Domain Credibility Signals: A User Study
- Conscious of the Crowd: Creating an AI Crowdspace to Prototype More Diverse Social Platforms
- Creating a Little Bit of Heaven on Earth: Building a New Ultra-High Vacuum Chamber
- DISCOVRE: Mixed Reality Environments for Coral Reef Research
- Facilitator Experience in Participatory Design with Early Social Media Users
- The Mobile Office: Designing for the Future of Work in Automated Vehicles
Claudine Malone ’63 Summer Science Research Scholars Gift
David and Ruth Hubel Endowed Fund for Summer Internships in Neuroscience
Department of Astronomy – Annie J. Cannon Astronomy Fellow and Whiting Medal Fund
Department of Biological Sciences Fiske Award/Paulson Ecology of Place Initiative
Department of Chemistry – Eleanor R. Webster Prize in Chemistry
Department of Neuroscience Klein Fund
Dreyfus Foundation Grant (Stanley)
Elizabeth Rockwood Patterson ’84 Endowed Fund for Neuroscience
- Event-related potential correlates of auditory perception in the rat brain
- Testing the involvement of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in involuntary attention in rats
Frost Endowed Environmental Science Studies Fund
- Analyzing Lead (Pb) concentrations in Compost for Urban Community Agriculture
- What Makes Seaports Green? An Investigation of the Busiest 209 Ports
Garath R. and Sandra S. Eaton ’68 Endowed Science Center Summer Research Fund
- Mass Spectrometry on a Ship: Patterns of Oxygen and Argon on the Atlantic Northeastern Shelf in Summer 2022
- Synthesis of polymer/polyoxometalate multilayered gold nanoparticles
- Targeted Buforin II Arginine Substitution: Progress Towards Better Cellular Membrane Binding
Geosciences Department Gift
Helen Wallace ’33 Summer Research Health Professions Fund
- Desert Dreams: Characterizing Sleep in Drosophila Desert Species
- Effects of Dopamine on Song Learning in Sequentially Tutored Songbirds
- Investigating chemotherapeutics induction of apoptosis in CHO cells through biochemical hallmarks
- Investigating chemotherapeutics induction of apoptosis in CHO cells through epifluorescence microscopy
- Synthesis and Stabilization of Silver Nanoparticles for Fluorescence Enhancement
- The Effects of Vection on Mental Time Travel
- The Wellesley-Mayo Gut and Vaginal Microbiome Study
- Trait Irritability and Temporal Discounting
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellent Grant
- Investigating chemotherapeutics induction of apoptosis in CHO cells through biochemical hallmarks
- Investigating chemotherapeutics induction of apoptosis in CHO cells through epifluorescence microscopy
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Janina A. Longtine ’76 Endowed Fund for Summer Research in the Natural Sciences
Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium
Mary M. and Edward B. Allen Endowed Fund for Summer Undergraduate Research in Biological Chemistry
- Characterizing Non-Canonical Mobile Genetic Elements in Prochlorococcus
- Exploring viral infection in Prochlorococcus bacteria using vesicle enclosed viral DNA
- Modulating behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans through gut microbial restoration of neurotransmitter levels
Massachusetts Space Grant
- Creating a Little Bit of Heaven on Earth: Building a New Ultra-High Vacuum Chamber
- The Hunt for Hot Jupiters: How We Help NASA Confirm Exoplanets
National Institutes of Health Grant (Nunez)
- Effects of a DNA Base Lesion on Duplex Breathing Dynamics and Stability
- Effects of the Spiroiminodihydantoin Lesion on DNA Breathing Dynamics and Stability
- Measuring the Stability of DNA Hairpins Using Optical Tweezers
National Institutes of Health Grant (Pyers)
National Institutes of Health Grant (Tantama)
National Science Foundation Grant (Berg)
National Science Foundation Grant (Hall)
National Science Foundation Grant (Mustafaraj)
- The Effect of Query Formulation and User Location on Google Search: A Case Study on Abortion
- The Power of the Three Ws: Learning About Web Domains Using Wikidata, Wayback Machine, and Whois
- The SERP Observatory: Longitudinal Auditing, Exploration, and Analysis of Google Search Results
National Science Foundation Grant (Núñez)
- Effects of a DNA Base Lesion on Duplex Breathing Dynamics and Stability
- Investigating the Antimicrobial Activity of Des3A through the mutation T11V, truncation (1-16) and their Mix Species
- Measuring the Stability of DNA Hairpins Using Optical Tweezers
National Science Foundation Grant (Shaer)
- DISCOVRE: Mixed Reality Environments for Coral Reef Research
- The Mobile Office: Designing for the Future of Work in Automated Vehicles
National Science Foundation Grant (Stanley)
National Science Foundation Grant (Suzuki)
Neuroscience Department
- Effects of Dopamine on Song Learning in Sequentially Tutored Songbirds
- Event-related potential correlates of auditory perception in the rat brain
- Testing the involvement of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in involuntary attention in rats
Paulson Ecology of Place Initiative
- Roots of the Wellesley landscape: the unseen work in our Botanic Gardens
- What It Means to Belong: Finding Kinship and Interconnection with The Paulson Initiative
Roberta Day Staley and Karl A. Staley Fund for Cancer-related Research Awards
- Design and Synthesis of a Novel Coumarin Derivative Against Pancreatic Cancer
- Functionalizing Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
- Investigating the effects of macromolecular crowding on antimicrobial peptide activity
- Investigation of Optimal Synthetic Strategies for DCM-MJ-I-21 Derivatives as Pancreatic Anti-Cancer Agents
- Optimizing reaction conditions of pyrazole reactions
- Progress Towards The Computational Design Of Tighter DNA-Binding Buforin-II Modeled In A Crowded Cellular Environment
Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program
- Adapting an Assessment for Theory of Mind
- Beyond Social Class: Resource Predictability, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Temporal Discounting
- Investigating the Antimicrobial Activity of Des3A through the mutation T11V, truncation (1-16) and their Mix Species
- Strategies for Sign Language Acquisition: Impact of Iconicity in ASL for Deaf Children of Hearing Caregivers
Sally Etherton Cummins ’58 Summer Science Research Fellowship Fund
Sara Langer Geology Prize
Social Science Summer Research Program
- Applying a U.S. Multidimensional Poverty Index in a Low-Income Latinx Neighborhood in Chicago
- Digital Wellbeing & STEM Workshops for Adolescents
- Trauma-Informed Efforts to Remake the Criminal Legal System
- What Makes Seaports Green? An Investigation of the Busiest 209 Ports
- Why welfare does not reach those who need it: An analysis of TANF funding flows
T.T. and W.F. Chao Summer Scholars Program in Natural Sciences
- Analyzing Lead (Pb) concentrations in Compost for Urban Community Agriculture
- Exploring Morality in Preschool Children’s Fantasy Play
- The hormonal regulation of temperature-dependent color changes in Manduca sexta larvae
- Investigating the activity of the designed antimicrobial peptides, Des1 and Des1-C, against bacteria and eukaryotic cells
- Mass Spectrometry on a Ship: Patterns of Oxygen and Argon on the Atlantic Northeastern Shelf in Summer 2022
- Striking Finds About Lightning Strikes: Measuring Infrared Verdet Constant in Optical Fiber