Celebrate student excellence with us! More than 150 students to share their summer research and internship experiences with the Reed community and beyond.
Excellence in scholarship, research, and internship experience leading to “academics with a purpose” is at the heart of Reed’s reputation. Presented by the Office of the President, this postering event highlights Reed student research, internships, academic projects, and creative endeavors across all majors and disciplines.
Join us for this community-wide celebration as students showcase their posters and connect with Reed community members, alumni, and other professionals for knowledge-sharing and networking.
Event Details
September 5, 2025
4–6 p.m.
Performing Arts Building
This event is free and open to the public.
About the President’s Student Showcase
Building on Reed's poster session tradition for science majors, the President's Student Showcase expands the event to include students of all majors who received funding through Reed for summer learning experiences. For summer 2025, more than 150 students received funding from across Reed, including the Undergraduate Research Committee, the Center for Life Beyond Reed, the Office for Institutional Diversity, the President’s Summer Fellowship, academic departments, faculty grants, and more.
Students and Poster Titles
| Student's Name | Poster Title |
| Mateo Admire | Effects of Nanometer Scale Structure on Conductivity in PEDOT:PSS Composites |
| Samir Ashford | Municipal Bond Rating and Climate Change: Evidence from the PNW |
| Maggie Auerbach | Star Cluster Identification and Classification in Early Type Galaxies |
| Sakura Azzopardi | Resilience Strategies for Coastal Communities Vulnerable to Flooding |
| Lindsey Babcock | Method optimization for the extraction, detection, and quantification of the tire rubber derived pollutant, 6PPD-quinone |
| Tan Bahar | Biosynthesis of α-Cyclopiazonic Acid (α-CPA) in E. coli |
| Cayden Bauer | Up in Smoke: Chemistry of Fresh and Aged Wildfire Smoke |
| Tate Beech | Thermal Adaptation in Mount Saint Helen’s Zooplankton Populations |
| Asher Behmer | The Palimpsest of the 杏吧原创 Canyon: An Elementary, Ecocritical Examination of the Three Reeds |
| Ella Bender | The Effect of Repetitive Visual Stimulation on Task Performance in ADHD |
| Emma Benson | Municipal Bond Rating and Climate Change: Evidence from the PNW |
| Emma Benson | Evaluating the effect of FEMA's Community Rating System and Storm Events on Flood Insurance uptake in Oregon. |
| Sofia Bernstein | Investigating how gdf6a regulates proliferation and differentiation during zebrafish retinal growth and development |
| Prisha Bharadwaj | Using Menstrual Cycle and Prior Drinking Behaviors to Predict Laboratory Alcohol Self-Administration in Female Young Adults (Funded by Northeastern University's SPHERE Internship) |
| Sophia Bigg | A Kinder Approach to Drug Use in Portland |
| Ivan Bondarenko | Engineering Property via Structure in Anthracene-based OSC |
| Eamon Bowen | Effects of the Habit of Mind Model on Bias Confrontation Receptivity |
| Samuel Boysen | Characterization of Damping Forces For Two Oscillators from Introductory Physics Labs |
| Piper Brandy | Purification of Human Cytochrome P450 3A4 and Characterization of Oligomeric State |
| Lauren Brown | The Effect of Repetitive Visual Stimulation (RVS) on Cognitive Performance and EEG in People with ADHD |
| Alastair Budd | Civic Engagement Action |
| Estella Burque | Fragile Horses - A Collection of Poetry Developed on Amtrak Rails |
| Willa Cantlon | Host receptor characterization of lytic phage PDX via transposon mutagenesis |
| Remi Castellanos | Illuminating the orchard: Art, Archives, and a Changing Landscape |
| Tyler Celotta | Machining 101 - A Mechanical Engineering Internship |
| Miles Churchland | Reinforcement learning in densely recurrent biological networks |
| Rosa Coles | Developing a spatially resolved approach to characterize copper cathodes |
| Salis Conn | Summertime Ground-Level Ozone in a High-Exposure Urban Area |
| Avis Corea | Nanoplastic Exposure Effects in D. melanogaster |
| Beau Crawford | Ir(III) Complex Developments for Catalyzed Formic Acid Dehydrogenation |
| Camille Daley | Building From Scraps, Volunteer Coordinating Internship at Scrap PDX |
| Clement DaSilva | Computational Analysis of Proline Ring Closure via Epoxide |
| Haydyn Davila | Local Organizing Internship |
| Christina Davis | Non-neuronal Modulation of Cognitive Flexibility: ACC Astrocyte Activation Enhances Learning but Not Mastery in Reversal Learning |
| Sofia DeAngelis | LC-MS/MS Confirmation of 𝛼-CPA and 𝛽-CPA Precursor |
| David Deng | Probabilistic Program Verification |
| Damien Desmond | Thermal Refuges in Freshwater Heatwaves: A Mesocosm Experiment |
| Anne Determann | The effect of repetitive visual stimulation on pupillary unrest and electroencephalographic (non-)oscillatory components |
| Alex Diamond | Civil Conflict and Development: Long-Run Impacts of the Sendero Luminoso Conflict on Rural Peru |
| Aanika Doshi | Establishing Primary Hemocyte Cultures from Drosophila for Homogeneous Cell Models in Research |
| Michael Dunn | Frequency-Informed Oscillator Position Tracking |
| Ryan Estrin | The Southern Agrarians and the Long Rise of Radical Conservatism |
| Katie Evans | Place Re-Naming in “Vancouver, British Columbia” |
| Elaina Feldman | Ir(III) Complex Developments for Catalyzed Formic Acid Dehydrogenation |
| Alex Ferfas | Localization of inhibition in the Xenopus Laevis vocal circuit |
| Owen Fidler | Light Concentration and Physical Distribution of Star Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies |
| Tristan Figueroa-Reid | SPRAS (Signaling Pathway Reconstruction Analysis Streamliner) |
| Zoe Fleysher | Women and the Law: Gayot de Pitaval’s Causes Célèbres |
| Sara Ford | Education for a Better Education: An Civics Guide for the PPS |
| Sabine Fraley | Psychedelic Therapy for Veterans With PTSD, MDD, and Meth-Use Disorder |
| Alta Freedman | Sustainable Intentional Communities |
| Nikolai Friedberg | Auditing AI’s Fairness Without Seeing Its Data! |
| Nina Friedman | My Summary at PDX Contemporary Art |
| Ezra Frohlich | farFETched science: Electrical Response in 2D Field Effect Transistors |
| Alicia Funk-Walker | Ir(III) Complex Developments for Catalyzed Formic Acid Dehydrogenation |
| Ciaran Gavaghan | Wildlife Rehabilitation Internship |
| Nora Genovese | Pies the Limit |
| Peter Gilbert | Protecting Drugs Via Nitrogen-Boron Coordination. |
| Solveig Gisslen | Growing Gardens and Shaping Minds |
| Teddy Goemans | Turning Trash into Treasure |
| Nat Gong | Spidey Senses: The Role of Substrate-Borne Vibrations in Wolf Spider Hunting |
| Valeria Gonzalez Padilla | Natural Sciences Volunteering and Camp Counseling |
| Clementine Gripman Whistler | Exploring the World of Fine, Rare, and Unusual Books at Passages Bookshop |
| Taya Gu | The influence of temperature on the behavior of Drosophila melanogaster throughout their lifespan |
| Andee Gude | The First Zines Were Black: The Radical Act of Black Self Publication |
| Paris Harrell | Testing a Lead Phage Cocktail Against Klebsiella Pneumonia |
| Meredith Hastings | Effect of Aspen Running Canker on Dead Woody Debris of Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides) Stands Across Interior Alaska |
| Clara Hay | Working at a Portland Women's Day Shelter |
| Nat Hill | Up in Smoke: Chemistry of Fresh and Aged Wildfire Smoke |
| Rosalind Hinchliff | Literary Publicity Internship at Brown Bird Consulting |
| Claire Ho Ferrance | The People's Summit for Korea, Student Track: Our Inheritance is Revolution |
| Nathan Holland | Environmental Policy on a Bicycle |
| Emily Howley | Growing Together @ The SCGC |
| Aiden Hsu | The Application of Neural Networks and Deep Reinforcement Learning in Life-Cycle Models |
| Michael Hubbard | Probing Transient Chirality and Diastereoselectivity in Ruthenium-Catalyzed Azide Alkyne Cycloadditions |
| Brennan Hunt | Finally Purifying CYP3A4 and Investigating its Metabolism of Mitragynine |
| Sophia Hutcherson | Queering the Narrative: Building Intersectional Community Spaces of Literary Power and Refuge |
| Delyse Ingabire | From Hashtags to Headspace: Linking Online Discrimination, ERI, and Mental Health |
| Rubayat Jalal | Bifurcations of an Electronic Delayed Relay System |
| Iris Jan | Analyzing Metabolomics Data of Avasimibe-Treated Cell Lines Using Bayesian Algorithm UnitedMet |
| Henry Kallerud | Summer Internship at Red Hook Editions |
| Jamin Kamanya | Base promoted synthesis of D-Proline, 4-hydroxy-5,5-dimethyl-1-[(4-methylphenyl)sulfonyl]-, ethyl ester |
| Morgen Kaufman | Oregon Contemporary Art Center Internship |
| Sun Kim | Effects of Ketamine on Anxiety-Like Behaviors in Rats Under Different Enrichment Conditions |
| Emily Kim | Voices from the Peninsula: Human Rights, Reunification, and the Power of Story |
| Victor Kirchmeier | Amplitude death with directly coupled nonlinear oscillators |
| Manu Klein | Probabilistic Program Verification |
| Feyd Knisley | Garden Maintenance and Education Programs |
| Tanvi Kodangal | Investigating the Crosstalk Between BMP, RA, & MAPK in Retinal and Vascular Development |
| Miranda Kubek | Virus-Infected Bacterial Endospores are Evolutionary 'Time Capsules' |
| Hunter Lange | BIPOC Adoptees Resource Library |
| Subin Lee | Potential of Repetitive Visual Stimulation as a Therapeutic Device for Sleep Deprivation Related Cognitive Deficits |
| Camilia Lindauer | Leftist Mutual Aid Network in Southern Oregon |
| Laila Maidenberg | Endo-Selective Suzuki-Miyaura coupling for the Synthesis of Cyclopiazonic Acid |
| Asa Marley-Jester | Sounds of Practice |
| Eryn Marquardt | Influence of enrichment conditions in ketamine use and decision-making |
| Anna McClendon | Experimental and Computational Studies of (cod)PtMe2 Protonolysis with Trifluoroacetic Acid |
| CJ McLaughlin | Summer Journalism Institute - Student Support for the City of Boston |
| Patrick McMahon | Encountering TerBulence: Optimizing the TerB Purification Process |
| Luna McNeff Yee | Sort Out the System: Student Supports in Portland Public Schools |
| Leila Menezes | Does The Shoe Fit? A taste of clinical work |
| Audrey Mills | PETase Activity in a Bacterial Consortium |
| Noelani Mitchell | Seed-Starting: Supporting Youth Environmental Stewardship with Grow Portland |
| Ellarain Moore | Thermal Refuges in Freshwater Heatwaves: A Mesocosm Experiment |
| Luisa Morgan | Towards Structural and Functional Characterization of Small Molecule-Mediated hP2X7 Modulation |
| Isara Moriya | Examining How Identity Profiles Predict Meaning-Making in Asian American Ethnic-Racial Identity Narratives |
| Isara Moriya and Yuki Nagura | “The Things We Took With Us” |
| Ella Morton | A NUV Metal Detector: Chemical Abundances of Old, Metal-Poor Halo Stars |
| Theo Muehr | Oh Puck!: A Midsummer’s Exploration into Drag, Camp, and Queer Satire |
| Jayna Mumo | Understanding the Costs Perceptions of Underrepresented Students in Higher Education: An Asset-Based Approach |
| Emy Musgrove | Sensitivity of augmented weighted estimators to omitted variables |
| Harnoor Nagra | A Biochemical Characterization of Split Discs |
| Khushi Naik | Closing the Gaps: Improving Operational Efficiency in a Non-Profit Orphanage for Autistic Children |
| Andrew Nguyen | More than Eats the Eye! Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Phagocytic Microglia in the Developing Zebrafish Tectum |
| Minh Nguyen | The Application of Neural Networks and Deep Reinforcement Learning in Life-Cycle Models |
| Nana Nguyen | Screening Routes in the Synthesis of des-dimethyl CPA |
| Aden O'Brien | SPRAS (Signaling Pathway Reconstruction Analysis Streamliner) |
| Evan O'Neill | Effects of Blue Light-Induced Sleep Loss on Tau Accumulation in a Drosophila Alzheimer’s Model |
| Percy Okoben | Warp and Weft: Recreating Ancient Greek Fiber Practices |
| Pratik Oli | Variational Quantum Eigensolver for Quantum-Classical Hybrid Simulation of the XXZ Spin Model |
| Jenna Ong | A Summer of Creative Firsts |
| Patricio Palomino | Studying the effects of nano-PET plastics on Drosophila melanogaster behavior |
| Remy Pham | Curating, Researching and Sustaining Creative Space: My Internship at NÉM |
| Rehaan Pillai | Research Assistanship at North Star Civic Foundation |
| Malena Podolsky | Developing Methods for Assessing Bacterial Growth on Microplastics |
| Krishna Pothugunta | Movement Maps: Computational Tracking of Drosophila and Daphnia Behavior |
| Reasat Prottoy | Auditing AI’s Fairness Without Seeing Its Data! |
| Ellie Provost | The Things We Can Learn From the Trees |
| Eleri Reyman | Segregated Healthcare: The Legacy of Medicaid, Medicare and Malpractice |
| Fiona Ricciardi | Investigating Student Engagement Levels in General Chemistry Courses Using the ICAP Framework |
| Katie Riley | The Effects of Recent Invasive Ivy Removal on Tree Canopy Lichen Biodiversity |
| Mason Ross | Groundbreaking Discoveries: Breaking Ground at Pyla-Vigla |
| Nanati Safawo | Shaping the Axon Initial Segment: Roles of Substrate Composition and Genetic Background |
| Ella Sakakeeny | Pills to Ponds: Ecotoxicological Effects of Progesterone & Progestins on D. magna |
| Veronica Sanudo Diaz | Children She Wishes She Never Had: Short Story & Poetry Collection |
| Zander Scholl | NV-Net: A deep image prior for reconstructing magnetization from scanning NV microscopy |
| Celve Schultz | Celve Michael Schultz, Art, Junior, Contemporary Artist Leslie Baum |
| Andrew Schwiebert | Kalman Filter Position Tracking |
| Sarah Severinghaus | How does aerosol size mediate cloud droplet growth? |
| Mary-Sophia Shakespeare | Fire on the Mountain: Tracking Mercury in Biomass Burning Plumes |
| Alaric Shaw | A Summer of Photochemistry: Using BNOFs to Tune Photochemical Reactivity |
| Lee Sinskey | Using color banding to investigate Spotted towhee (Pipilo maculatus) vocalizations and color patches, and designing dummies for use in simulated territory intrusions. |
| Hannah Smith | Rap, Graffiti, and DJs OH MY! |
| Natalie Soutonglang | Seeding Change: Summer of Advocacy with APANO |
| Zachary Spangler | Remarks on the Schrödinger Representation and Algebraic Quantization |
| Emma Sternfeld | Neuron Development: The Effects of Substrates on Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Growth Cones |
| Will Stevens | Theoretical Bounds for Fair Hierarchical Clusterings |
| Duncan Stewardson | Theoretical Bounds for Fair Hierarchical Clusterings |
| Aida Taha | Community Mural on Wastepicking |
| Joseph Tally | From Dirt to Data: Fossil Preparation at the Denver Museum |
| Dante Tirado Morales | Activism in the Theatre: 68’ and now |
| Arthur Tran | Investigating Anther Color Polymorphism in Erythronium |
| Rain Tronoski | Survivor Support Summer Advocacy, Harm Reduction & Policy |
| Kenta Tsukamoto | Gene Expression Variation in Recently Diverged Delphinium Species |
| Selma Uddin | Investigating Photoperiodic Regulation of Sex Determination in Daphnia magna |
| Alex Vandendries | This again!? Repeated sampling of two conifers reveals evidence of hydraulic acclimation and/or recovery from past hydraulic degradation |
| Lutetia Wang | Old West Gate, Shanghai - Artbook as Research or How to Understand Gentrification in the context of urban Shanghai in 2025? |
| Noah Weber | Working Towards an Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Norfluorocurarine |
| Ayden West | Exploring the impact of gonadal hormones on the development of PTSD and its comorbidities |
| Shiloh Williams | What Makes A Garden Grow? |
| Isabelle Wong | Documentary: Show Me Your Chinatown! |
| Anna Wu | Farmer-Owned Technology: The Sustainable Intersection Between Agriculture and App Development |
| Frank Yan | Qualitative Research on Student Confusion in Chemistry Education: Insights from Lewis Structures and Limiting Reactants Problem-Solving |
| Schwa Yeleti | Probabilistic Program Verification |
| Martin Yuan | Reinforcement Learning for Atomic-Level Protein Structure |
| Zuni Zarate-Ramirez | Arts and Culture in West Kesington, Philadelphia |
| Adrian Zhang | Temperature and its Effects on Aggression in Mated vs. Virgin Female Drosophila Melanogaster |
| Ariel Zheng | Inducible Type I Interferon Gain of Function Models in Zebrafish |