This spring, the Columbia School of General Studies is proud to announce the Second Annual GS Research Festival! The GS Research Festival will be taking place from April 6-16 with a reception held on Thursday., April 16 from 12-2 p.m. in the Peter J. Awn Student Lounge.
As Jenny Li, Senior Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at GS, shared, "One of the best things about GS is the way our students love to help one another. The GS Research Festival is a perfect example. We’ll have half a dozen or more of our amazing student researchers on hand. All of them are doing fascinating projects, and all of them are excited to explain to their fellow students how they made it happen. We’re so proud in Academic Affairs to be hosting this one-of-a-kind event."
Here are this year’s GS Research Festival presenters:
Yu Duo Xu ‘27GS
Major: Political Science & Human Rights
Topic: Balancing Liberty and Security: Democratic Responses to Terrorism in Comparative Perspective
Uriel Dante Benymon ‘27GS
Major: Computer Science and Mathematics
Topic: Exploring Improvements to B-Tree Indexes for Database Optimization
Maria Laura Melillo Sanchez ‘26GS
Major: Cognitive Science & Anthropology
Topic: Understanding Misinformation Load and Dose-Response Curve
Nomin Khurelchuluun ‘26GS
Major: Data Science
Topic: Climate Variability and Livestock Dynamics in Mongolia
Debpriya Das ‘28GS
Major: Biological Sciences
Topic: The Trade-Off of a Beating Heart: How cardiomyocytes sacrifice regeneration for strength
Glenn Paul ‘27GS
Major: Sociology
Topic: Disposable Community: Ritual, Collective Intensity, and Temporary Intimacy in Social Saunas
Melina Rozehkhan ‘26GS
Major: Political Science & Human Rights
Topic: Gendered Mobilization and the Framing of Protest: Comparing the Arab Spring and Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom Movement
Tooli Shariah ‘26GS
Major: Human Rights & Middle Eastern Studies
Topic: Desert Authority: Reclaiming Bedouin Women’s Political Power in the British Mandate Period
Shira Weiss-Ishai ‘26GS
Major: Biochemistry & Jewish Ethics
Topic: Development of Novel Small-Molecule GPX4 Inhibitors
Megan M. Marostica ‘26GS
Major: Earth Science
Topic: First Insights into Volatiles and Magma Storage Beneath Poás Volcano: A Shallow Phreatomagmatic System
May Kyi Phyu Thinn ‘26GS
Major: Neuroscience and Behavior
Topic: Developing Stress and Inflammation Biomarkers in Teeth as Developmental Archives for Autism Spectrum Disorder
Una Aleksic ‘26GS
Major: Psychology
Topic: Framing Juvenile Crime: How family, education, and neighborhood contexts influence public punishment decisions
Rachel Papirmeister ‘26GS
Major: Cognitive Science & English
Topic: Beyond Explore-Exploit: Causal Reasoning as Multimodal Evidence for Neurosymbolic AI
