The Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair (VURF) provides an opportunity for our undergraduates to share their work in a campus-wide celebration of undergraduate student research.
The fair is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, and Immersion Vanderbilt.
The Spring 2025 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair will be held on April 17, 2025. Registration will open in Spring 2025.
Questions? Contact Immersion Vanderbilt via email at immersion@vanderbilt.edu.
The Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair Spring 2024 Poster Winners
Basic and Natural Sciences
Winner: Suah Woo
Title: Individuals with Extreme High or Low Risk for Long QT Syndrome Exhibit Enriched Kv11.1 Protein Interactors in Cardiomyocytes
Faculty Mentor: Brett Kroncke
Runner-up: Rishik Bethi
Title: Acetyltransferase KAT2A is a Critical Epigenetic Mediator of Cocaine-Induced Behaviors
Faculty Mentor: Erin Calipari
Runner-up: Karen Nie
Title: Characterizing the Function of Putative Iron-Sulfur Cluster Protein A1S_0780 in Acinetobacter baumannii
Faculty Mentor: Eric Skaar
Runner-up: Muhammad Shameer
Title: Characterizing Invasiveness in CCCR cells : Role of miR-100, miR-125b and EVs
Faculty Mentor: Jim Patton
Clinical and Translational Research & Public Health
Winner: Nicholas Joy
Title: Six-minute peak activity: A novel metric in individuals with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Soslow
Runner-up: Samuel Lee Sangmyung
Title: Influence of Anatomical Location and Clinicopathologic factors on the Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer Using MRI/Ultrasound Fusion Biopsy
Faculty Mentor: Jeff Tosoian
Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, and Mathematics
Winner: Maya Nachega
Title: Enhancing Early Autism Diagnosis with Machine Learning Algorithms using Postural Control Features
Faculty Mentor: Yumeng Li, Texas State University
Runner-up: Siwoo Bae
Title: Learning with Preserving for Continual Multitask Learning
Faculty Mentor: Meiyi Ma
Social, Behavioral, Education Studies, and Humanities
Winner: Kai Keltner
Title: Allotments & Actions: US Bureaucratic Repression and Its Effects on First American Collective Action
Faculty Mentor: Emily Ritter
Runner-up: Shuang Wu
Title: Amygdala’s Functional Connectivities with Insula and mPFC and their Correlations with Infant Negative Affect
Faculty Mentor: Kate Humphreys
Vanderbilt students who have completed research projects are invited to share their work with the campus community. Students must present work that was completed while enrolled at Vanderbilt.
Additional Resources
Partner offices have provided additional resources which are helpful to research projects.