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Annual Report 24-25

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Summer Undergraduate Research Academy

students presenting research

The Summer Undergraduate Research Academy (SUReA) is an annual 10-week program that provides students with the ability to work on their research and creative activities over the summer with the guidance of their faculty mentor. Beyond supporting faculty mentoring and student participation, SUReA also provides workshops to develop students’ presentation skills. The program concludes with a  Summer Student Symposium , where students present their work to the wider campus community. SUReA recognizes the importance of involving undergraduates in research projects and creative activities with faculty mentors all disciplines.

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2024-2025 Impacts at a Glance

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  • 86
  • undergraduate participants
  • $457,500
  • directly to student research
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  • 54
  • faculty mentors
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“Programs like these allow students to start engaging in meaningful academic projects, which helps them realize that they belong in scholarly spaces. Many students come in unsure if they’re ready, but they leave with the confidence that they can ask important questions and contribute meaningfully to their field.”

Nicole Bonuso

Director, UROC

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SUReA 2025 Student Participants

Student Project Faculty mentor
Adilene Flores Metal Hydrides: A Sustainable Hydrogen Storage Solution for Energy Systems Xinyi Wang
Aleishai Pena Lopez The effects of fibromyalgia on the elderly population's executive function Jennifer Trevitt
Alexa Aure & Kiran Desai Digital Artifact and Asset Creation with Reality Capture Technology JR Luker
Alexandre Hall How the Theory of Aversive Racism Can Best Explain Juror Bias Toward Mentally Ill Minority Defendants. Russ Espinoza
Alex Salgado & Janice Alfaro Purification and Characterization of the Ligand Binding Domain of Human Membrane-Bound Guanylat Cyclase B Kenneth Childers
Alina Lippiatt Humanizing the Unhoused in Orange County.  Michaela Bettez
Allison Shih & Carolina Cardenas Two Tongues, One Brain: Exploring Literacy Skills in Heritage Bilinguals Natsuki Atagi
Angela Camacho Smart Curing: Tracking Pervious Concrete Strength with Maturity Meters Pratanu Ghosh
Angelica Brillantes Designing and Analyzing Stealthy Hardware Trojans. Jaya Dofe
April Garcia Does Immigration Status and Country of Origin of a Murder Victim Effect Juror Decisions? Russ Espinosa
Ariana Flores Divergent Motherhoods: Intersections of Identity and Resistance in Hispanic Contexts Montserrat Fuente-Camacho
Arthur Hein & Ronan Eddy Innovative Infrastructure for Sustainable Commuting: A Conceptual Evaluation Sharma Deepak
Azim Ibragimov & Otajon Shavka-tov Classification of 3x3 real additive matrices Zair Ibragimov
Ben Le Analysis of Memory Processes in Older Adults Using EEG.  Kiran George
Brock Nguyen & Fady Kahlil

Integrating Automation and Remote Control in 3D Printing-Based Manufacturing, Assembly, and Inspection

Sagil James
Chrisna Ung & Linh Huynh

Being Asian Isn’t The Only Thing About Us”: The Mental Health And Cultural Experiences of APISA Student Leaders

Eugene Fujimoto
Crystal Padron

Investigating Recent Sedimentation along the Santa Barbara Margin

Joseph Carlin
Donald Chang

Determining the Role of Lysine Acetylation in RNA Binding Protein Function

Niroshika Keppetipola
Dulce Funez Chinchilla

Predicting the Risks of Preventable Deaths by Suicide

Doina Bein
Dylan Carrillo

Development of Non-opioid Therapeutics for Chronic Pain Treatment

Stevan Pecic
Edrin Joshua Astillero

Exploring the Effects of PTBP2 Phosphorylation on its Subcellular Localization.

Niroshika Keppetipola
Edwin Valdez

Socioeconomic inequities in the health of California College Students

Tabashir Nobari
Ellie Hernandez & Quintessa Wedell

Situating the La Horchata Zine in Central American Writing and Art Pedagogy

Mario Obando
Erik Dominguez

An Evaluation of Acorn Storage Temperatures on Germination, Seedling Emergence, and Gas Exchange in Six Southern California Oak Species

Darren Sandquist
Fernando Fuentes

N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Ligand Library Search

Michael Groves
Fira Mireles

Spoons, Stories, and Sorority: Cooking as Empowerment in the Latin American Kitchen. 

Montserrat Fuente-Camacho
Genesis Campos

Designing Sulfamides Through SuFEx Chemistry

Ryan Cammarota
Gustavo Prieto

Can Photobases Activate Transition Metals?

Andrew Petit
Haneefah Syed

Uncovering the SWANA Monster: Tracing the Origins of Stereotypes and Narratives in Literature.

Irene Praitis
Ian Hutton

Changes in sediment along the Santa Barbara Margin

Joseph Carlin
Isaac Stewart

Video Design

Omar Ramos
Isabel Leos

Geological Materials in Three Dimensions

Patrick Phelps
Jacob Aranki & Jaewoo Park

Transitions From Spontaneous Movements to Walking Onset through Behavioral Analyses.

Do Kyeong Lee
Jeksin Ghanem

Coho Salmon Reproduction

Kristy Forsgren
Jennifer Camacho & Vanessa Monterrosa

Cultural Variations in Parents’ Evaluations of Children’s Executive Functions

Lucia Alcalá
Jennifer Moya

Navigating Identity Through Language: Latinx Youth Perspectives on Language Loss and Identity.

Guadalupe Díaz Lara
Jocelyn Ramos

Bilingual Children: How their Environment Influences Spanish-Speaking Children’s Bilingualism

Guadalupe Díaz Lara
Jonathan Olivares & Varun Yedavilli

Modeling the Impact of Partial Shading on Photovoltaic Panels via LargeScale Simulation and Regression

Rakesh Mahto
Jose Hidalgo & Rafik Nassif

Game-Theoretic Approaches to Cyber Defense: Reinforcement Learning Models

Stephanie Reed
Krizel Guansing

Filipina Poetics and Archipelagic Mythology as Counter-Narratives: Exploring Possibilities of Decolonial Communications in Socio-Political Formations

Shanara Reid-Brinkley
Kshitij Pingle

Low-Cost Pollen Monitoring and Estimation: A Deep Dive with Machine Learning

Kanika Sood
Kylin Bilderain

Xr-objects

Rong Jin
Leilani Rains

Recommendations for Co-design within Tertiary Education

Karlena Ochoa
Leonel Cazares

E-Sports and Wellbeing

Phoenix Van Wagoner
Lesley Thomson

Proximity to Concentrated Animal Farming Operations and the Risk of Vaginitis. 

Bo Park
Lucy Haag

Does Family Dynamic (Positive/Negative) Influence whether A Student Decides To Enroll Into Higher Education?

Lucia Alcalá
Makayla Finn

Examining the effects of digestion by Phainopepla on Desert Mistletoe seed morphology

William Hoese
Manting Yu

Insurance Claims using Extreme Value Theorem (EVT) and Generalized Pareto Distribution(GPD). 

Matheus Guerrero
Marcus Mckinstry & Salvador Diaz

PreSense Labs: Improving Sensor Node Efficiency

Ankita Mohapatra
Mashal Khan & Mikayla Potter

How Hormones Relate to Judgments of Female Attractiveness.

Jessie Peissig
Maxwell Chervenak

Machine Learning for Hydrogen Storage in MOFs

Xinyi Wang
Michelle Ramirez

Náhuatl: The Language of Resistance

Carlos Yebra López
Natalie Garcia & Nicole Li

How Traditional Mexican Values Shape Parenting Among Mexican Americans in the U.S.

Joyce Lin
Omar Bello & Sam Sarrafi

I’m trying to grow, trying to be better: Successes, Challenges, and Supports for Part-Time Faculty Engaged in Instructional Improvement

Alison Marzocchi
Reese Angulo

Assessing the Magallana Reproduction Patterns in Southern California

Danielle Zacherl
Ryan Patel

Assessing the Impact of Smoking and Health Insurance Status on Bladder Cancer Diagnosis Among US. Adults

Lohuwa Mamudu
Samantha Geraldo

Investigating Potential Manganese Oxidising Proteins

Hope Johnson

 

 

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