Alumni

Enjoy the slideshow of all our program's alumni. Additionally, we want to thank the alumni, especially this year, who have helped our students immensely by attending virtual help sessions, editing papers, and serving as judges at various competitions. #asrfamily

FINAL ALUMNI PPT 2025

Keynote Speaker for 2025

Audrey Saltzman, Class of 2017

Audrey is completing the fourth year of her PhD at MIT in Nuclear Science and Engineering funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. She earned her bachelor’s degree in physics from MIT, along with a minor in economics and accreditation in engineering leadership. A 2017 graduate of Byram Hills High School, Audrey conducted an ASR project on neutron stars and was recognized as a Regeneron Science Talent Search Top Scholar and an International Science and Engineering Fair Finalist. She currently works at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center where she is optimizing the configuration of the plasma for future power plant designs starting directly from physics-based models. Her past work has included modeling the overnight cost of a proposed fusion pilot plant and modeling the propagation of heat pulses through the plasma. She helps lead her research center’s Women+ group and is passionate about making science accessible. As part of her outreach work, she co-led the proposal, design, and construction of atoroidal glass plasma device called Altator. In her free time, she loves spending time outdoors and snuggling with her two cats.

Published Alumni

Publications featuring alumni as contributing authors reflect the ongoing academic engagement and scholarly impact of past participants. These are merely a few of the numerous papers of former students, published across a range of peer-reviewed journals and academic platforms, that demonstrate the lasting influence of symposium experiences on continued research and collaboration.

Application of micro capillary blood sampling in an anti-doping setting

Calvin Cai (Class of 2024)

Treatment practices and response in Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma: a multi-center cohort study

Max Teitelbaum (Class of 2023)

Mechanistic Elucidation of Nanomaterial-Enhanced First-Generation Biosensors Using Probe Voltammetry of an Enzymatic Reaction

Jamie Kaplan (Class of 2022)

Quantifying the recreation use value of New England natural lands

Grace Lin (Class of 2024)

Early life adversity: Epigenetic regulation underlying drug addiction susceptibility

Mia Dittrich (Class of 2021)

Utilizing a lower extremity vein graft for immediate lymphatic reconstruction

Tanya Postian (Class of 2022)

Adverse driving behaviors are associated with sleep apnea severity and age in cognitively normal older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease

Ella Fleischer (Class of 2022)

T cells in kidney injury and regeneration

Dylan Haber (Class of 2022)

Helping Diagnosed Mothers and Their Adolescent-Young Adult Daughters Navigate Challenging Breast Cancer Conversations

Alana Curley (Class of 2022)

Making sense of disorder: Investigating intrinsically disordered proteins in the tardigrade proteome via a computational approach

Nora Lowe (Class of 2022)

Use of anti-spike monoclonal antibodies in kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19: Efficacy, ethnic and racial disparities

Elizabeth Klein (Class of 2014)

Pharmacokinetics of transdermal flunixin meglumine and effects on biomarkers of inflammation in horses

Skyler Goldin (Class of 2021)

Determining effective cycle thresholds for evaluating colonization versus true infection of Clostridium difficile using Xpert assay

Drew Siskin (Class of 2021)

"Peek-a-boo!": determining the latency to laughter in the case of three different jokes within infants aged six to eighteen months

Sophie Stumacher (Class of 2021)

Exploring parental expectations for children’s educational degree attainment and its relationship with a child’s actual educational degree, parental involvement in the college search process, and a child’s overall well-being

Alexa Cohen (Class of 2021)

The Use of Cpg Oligodeoxynucleotides as an Adjuvant for Immunotherapy to Mediate the T-Helper cell Response Against Dog Allergies

Meagan Eickelbeck (Class of 2020)

Familiarity plays a small role in noun comprehension at 12-18 months

Alexis Aberman (Class of 2018)

Dual pharmacological inhibitor of endocannabinoid degrading enzymes reduces depressive-like behavior in female rats

Arjun Goyal (Class of 2018)

Anxiety Symptoms Differ in Youth With and Without Tic Disorders

Carolina Pedraza (Class of 2020)

Mechanisms underlying simultaneous brightness contrast: Early and innate

Sarah Crucilla (Class of 2016)

Convergent Identification and Interrogation of Tumor-Intrinsic Factors that Modulate Cancer Immunity In Vivo

Alan Chang (Class of 2019)

Neuroimmunomodulation of tissue injury and disease: an expanding view of the inflammatory reflex pathway

Benjamin Hammond (Class of 2020)

Systemic nature of spinal muscular atrophy revealed by studying insurance claims

Alexandra Brocato (Class of 2018)

Finding the Needle in a Haystack: Detrending Photometric Timeseries Data of Strictly Periodic Astrophysical Objects

Moses Zhang (Class of 2019)

The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: HD32963 — A New Jupiter Analog Orbiting a Sun-like Star

Dominick Rowan (Class of 2016)

Quantitative Evaluation of Nasolabial Alterations following Nasoalveolar Molding (NAM) Therapy in Patients with Unilateral Cleft Lip

Rebecca Barnett (Class of 2013)

Neonatal mouse intervertebral discs restore function following herniation injury

Ramy Berenblum (Class of 2018)

Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis and Non-Encephalitic HSV1 Infection

Kylie Roslin (Class of 2018)

A degenerate HLA-DR epitope pool of HER-2/neu reveals a novel in vivo immunodominant epitope

Courtney Formicola (Class of 2008)

Mechanisms underlying simultaneous brightness contrast: Early and innate

Sarah Crucilla (Class of 2016)

Evaluating the improvements of StarCraft gameplay in the ABL agent EISBot by implementing dynamic specificities through an external component

Jared Okun (Class of 2016)

"Living 10 Months for 2:" The Social Impact Residential Camp on the Development of the Self in Preteen and Teen Girls

Alexandra Mautner (Class of 2016)

Brain-Region-Specific Organoids Using Mini-bioreactors for Modeling ZIKV Exposure

Christopher Hadiono (Class of 2012)

Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers and Reserve Variables as Predictors of Future "Non-Cognitive" Outcomes of Alzheimer's Disease

Adam Ingber (Class of 2014)

High School Student Discovers New Exoplanet

Dominick Rowan (Class of 2016)

The Mass of the Black Hole in LMC X-3

Alec Guberman (Class of 2013)

Distribution of Non-Gal Antigens in Pig Cornea: Relevance to Corneal Xenotransplantation

David Cohen (Class of 2012)

Oncolytic viral therapy for pancreatic cancer: Current research and future directions

Elizabeth Klein (Class of 2014)

Situational and Environmental Factors Associated With a Child's Willingness To Use An Epinephrine Auto-Injector

Amanda Tantleff (Class of 2014)

Comparison of CT and fluoroscopic guidance for lumbar puncture in an obese population with prior failed unguided attempt

Andrew Brook (Class of 2014)

Athletic participation in children with symptomatic spondylolysis in the New York area

Eric Grossman (Class of 2012)

Visual Navigation during Colony Emigration by the Ant Temnothorax rugatulus

Daniel Glatt (Class of 2006)

Reanalysis of refractive growth in pediatric pseudophakia and aphakia

Aurora Xu (Class of 2012)

Weather Variability Affects Abundance of Larval Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) in Storm Water Catch Basins in Suburban Chicago

Allison Gardner (Class of 2006)

Does an In-Season Only Neuromuscular Training Protocol Reduce Deficits Quantified by the Tuck Jump Assessment?

Madelyn Klugman (Class of 2011)

World of Warcraft: The Viability of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games as Platforms for Modeling and Evaluating Perfect Competition

Eli Kosminsky (Class of 2009)

Cancellation of force induced artifacts in surface EMG using FSR measurements

Jeremy Blum (Class of 2008)

Comparison of the Effect of Human Interaction, Animal-Assisted Therapy, and AIBO-Assisted Therapy on Long-Term Care Residents with Dementia

Stephen Kramer (Class of 2005)

Release of Oncofetal Fibronectin from Human Placenta

Lauren Colasacco (Class of 2003)

Double Bonds in Fused Hexacyclic Systems

Julian Stauffer (Class of 2004)

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