Cascade Scholar Chanda Maambo ’28 worked with Professor of Biology Karen Hicks for her project, “Using Genetics to Study Seasonal Responses in moss P. patens.”
For many students, summer is a time to take what they learned in the classroom during the academic year and focus it, laser-like, on a particular question:
How can we slow the spread of disease by mosquitos?
What land-use strategies might reduce the use of pesticides in apple orchards?
Why do certain patients develop resistance to a new lung cancer drug?
Paired with a faculty mentor, these students follow their curiosity wherever it leads while getting hands-on experience in their field of choice. They enhance their skills by conducting cutting-edge experiments in laboratories, analyzing complicated data sets, researching primary sources, and thinking critically and creatively.
The following 115 students were involved in summer research projects related to the natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, fine arts and other fields under the expert guidance of 68 different faculty mentors in 2026.
CSAD Democracy Scholars
The CSAD Democracy Scholars Program allows students to spend up to 10 weeks in the summer to delve into research projects related to a fundamental question, text or theme of American liberal democracy. The program is supported by the Class of 1978 Summer Research Fund and the Pamela K. Jensen Faculty Research Fund endowments for the Center for the Study of American Democracy.
- Anna Sugg ’28, “Gender Troubles: Archiving the Everyday Northern Irish Women’s Experience during the Troubles”
Mentor: Hilary Buxton, associate professor of history - Faye Wishnack ’28,”Power Concentration and Nonprofit Vulnerability in Rural Charitable Food Systems”
Mentor: Nancy Powers, assistant professor of political science and CSAD associate director
Cascade Scholars
The Cascade Science Scholars program is designed for first-year and second-year students in the natural sciences who have no previous research experience:
- Champ Blose ’29, “Why Do Male and Female Birds (Sometimes) Differ in Their Flight Anatomy?”
Mentor: Natalie Wright, associate professor of biology - Jael Cohn ’28, “Optical Properties of 2D-Semiconductor Thin Films”
Mentor: Frank Peiris, professor of physics - David Do ’29, “Validating the Indole Lactic Acid Biosynthesis Pathway in Bifidobacteria”
Mentor: Ethan Hillman, assistant professor of biology - Casey Landers ’29, “Evidence for Apoplastic Phloem Loading in Model Lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii”
Mentor: Kamesh Regmi, assistant professor of biology - Mukeni Irungu ’29, “How Mosquito Kidneys Sort Friend From Foe: Understanding Xenobiotic Transport in Aedes aegypti Renal Tubules”
Mentor: Matthew Rouhier, assistant professor of chemistry - Abdullah Sajid Ismail ’28, “Coding Theory: Search for Good Classical and Quantum Codes”
Mentor: Noah Aydin, professor of mathematics - Chanda Maambo ’28, “Using Genetics to Study Seasonal Responses in moss P. patens”
Mentor: Karen Hicks, professor of biology - Elaina Mardula ’29, “Red Blood Cell Progenitors as Immune Sensors in Early Life”
Mentor: Rebecca Clements, assistant professor of biology - Joseph Mekaiel ’30, “Ligand Development for Novel Tetrel Coordination Complexes”
Mentor: Nathanael Hunter, assistant professor of chemistry - Cambell Quijano ’29, “Stress, Survival and Synthesis: Unlocking Plant Metabolic Pathways”
Mentor: Kerry Rouhier, associate professor of chemistry - Max Swanson ’29, “Cosmic Preheating in the Lab”
Mentor: Tom Giblin, professor of physics - Xiangqi Tan ’28, “LGBTQ+ TV and Social Media’s Role in Queer Youths’ Identity Status and Well-Being”
Mentor: Sarah Murnen, Samuel B. Cummings Professor of Psychology - Haiyang Wang ’29, “Bespoke Polymer Degradation”
Mentor: Yutan Getzler, professor of chemistry - Cynthia Xu ’29, “Analysis of Iron-Induced Germ Cell Death”
Mentor: Peter Kropp, Harvey F. Lodish Faculty Development Chair in Natural Sciences and assistant professor of biology
Community-Engaged Summer Research Program
The Community-Engaged Summer Research Program provides opportunities for students to collaborate with faculty members as full participants in community-engaged research. The program is supported in part by the “Sense of Place” grant from the Mellon Foundation.
- Tucker White ’27, “The Patrons of Husbandry: Charting America’s Changing Rural Identity”
Mentor: Patrick Bottiger, associate professor of history
Environmental Studies Sustainability Scholars
The Sustainability Scholars program provides opportunities for environmental studies majors to pursue research with a faculty mentor related to climate change or sustainability. The Sustainability Scholars program is supported by the Fund for Environmental Studies.
- Aarno Heller-Matza ’27, “Assessing the Influence of Leaf Traits on Particulate Matter Retention and Patterns of Atmospheric Deposition in Central Ohio”
Mentors: Ruth Heindel, Philip and Sheila Jordan Associate Professor in Environmental Studies, and Lauren Schmitt, Dorothy and Thomas Jegla Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies - Hedi Madhu ’27, “Understanding The Relationship Between Floral Abundance and Insect Communities In Central Ohio Apple Orchards”
Mentor: Lauren Schmitt, Dorothy and Thomas Jegla Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies - Allegra Quimby ’28, “Tree Canopy, Throughfall and Variation in Atmospheric Deposition in Rural Versus Urban Ohio”
Mentor: Ruth Heindel, Philip and Sheila Jordan Associate Professor in Environmental Studies - Olivia Wangerow ’28, “Effects of Local and Landscape Management on Biological Control in Central Ohio Apple Orchards”
Mentor: Lauren Schmitt, Dorothy and Thomas Jegla Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Hoskins Frame Summer Science Writing Scholars
The Hoskins Frame Summer Science Writing Scholars program supports student writers who wish to communicate artfully and with precision about science, with the goal of deepening our understanding of the natural world and our place in it. The program is supported by the Hoskins Frame Science Writing Student Associates Fund.
- Olivia Braun ’27
- Jackie Chen ’29
- Hibat Allah Gillani ’28
- Arden Kraunz-Brown ’28
- Anna Matu ’28
- Cole Szostak ’27
Mentors: Chris Gillen, Robert A. Oden, Jr. Professor of Biology; Jodi Kovach, Pamela and Christopher Hoehn-Saric Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Education and visiting assistant professor of art history; and Orchid Tierney, William P. Rice Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Independent Computing Research
- Calvin Deka ’28
Mentor: Jordan Crouser, professor of computing - Luke Galik ’28
Mentor: Jordan Crouser, professor of computing - Savannah Massey ’29
Mentor: Jordan Crouser, professor of computing - Henry Nguyen ’28
Mentor: Jordan Crouser, professor of computing
John W. Adams Summer Scholars Program in Socio-Legal Studies
The John W. Adams Summer Scholars Program in Socio-Legal Studies provides opportunities for students to work in close collaboration with faculty members as full participants in the design and execution of a socio-legal studies research project. The initiative was established in 2008 by the Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society in honor of the father of Michael W. Adams ’93.
- Aidan Cantrell ’27, “Federalist Society Judicial Influence”
Mentor: Zachary McGee, assistant professor of political science - Jane Fanning ’29, “Against Anti-Trans Law: A Cultural History of Activism and Abolition by Trans Communities”
Mentor: John Rufo, assistant professor of American Studies - Yemaya Gaspard ’28, “Beyond Black and White: Multiraciality and Activism in the Context of BLM”
Mentor: Courtney Jones, assistant professor of psychology - Christopher Jacobson ’27, “What Strategies and Resources Do Pro Se Respondents Draw Upon When Facing Immigration Removal?”
Mentor: Christopher Levesque, assistant professor of law and society and sociology - Lauren Karg ’28, “Is There an Implicit Dehumanizing Association Between Latinos and ̀ƒAliens?”
Mentor: Margaret Stevenson, associate professor of psychology - Caleb Kirkpatrick ’28, “Studying Trends on Drug Use and Crime in Knox County”
Mentor: Christopher Levesque, assistant professor of law and society and sociology - Paul Lou ’28, “Research on Affiliations with the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies”
Mentor: Zachary McGee, assistant professor of political science - Chau Anh Nguyen ’27, “Feelings Anew: What Neo-Emotions Reveal about Culture, Crisis and Change”
Mentor: Marci Cottingham, associate professor of sociology - Hannah Sharp ’27, “Studying Disparities in Immigrant Detention”
Mentor: Christopher Levesque, assistant professor of law and society and sociology - Natalia Segelbach ’28, “Legal, Political, and Moral Responsibility: Hannah Arendt and the Case of Srebrenica”
Mentor: Eliza Ablovatski, professor of history - Laney Tullius ’28, “Examining the Civil Legal Justice Gap and Legal Consciousness at Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio”
Mentor: Margaret Stevenson, associate professor of psychology - Yaell Urrunaga Adrianzen ’27, “Expanding El Trabajo de La Memoria: Investigating Competing Memories of the Dictatorship and External Debt in Buenos Aires”
Mentor: Robert Franco, assistant professor of history - Xincan Wang ’28, “Legality or Justice? A Comparative Study of Pretrial Liberty in the U.S. and Germany”
Mentor: Alexandra Bradner, visiting assistant professor of philosophy - Corey Won ’28, “Federalist Society Affiliates in Private Practice and Legal Academia”
Mentor: Zachary McGee, assistant professor of political science
Kenyon College and The Ohio State University James Comprehensive Cancer Center Pelotonia Partnership
For this highly competitive, 10-week summer research project at Ohio State’s James Cancer Hospital that uses Pelotonia funds, scholars participate in groundbreaking studies and methods to advance cancer research.
- Owen Gingras ’28, “Culture Conditions Regulate Phenotypic and Cell State Plasticity of Patient-derived Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Cells”
Mentor: Rachid Drissi, principal investigator at the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Nationwide Children's Hospital, director of the Translational Research and Correlative Studies Laboratory for the Collaborative Network for Neuro-Oncology Clinical Trials (CONNECT) and associate professor at The Ohio State University - Jack Levitt ’28, “Evaluating SMARCA4's role in resistance to KRAS inhibition in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer”
Mentor: Dongsung (DS) Kim, assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Biosciences at The Ohio State University - Julia McGovern ’27, “Understanding How Food Processing Influences Nutrition and Health”
Mentor: Fred Tabung, associate professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center - Sadie Olson ’27, “Evaluating Immune Modulation in Radiation Therapy Combination Settings for Treatment of Small-Cell Lung Cancer”
Mentor: Dr. Yoko Nishiga, associate radiobiologist at the James Comprehensive Cancer Center at The Ohio State University - Pedro Rodrigues de Mello Araujo ’27, “A Weight Loss Medication Slows Obesity-Associated Pancreatic Cancer Progression in Mice”
Mentor: Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, Endowed Professor in Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, the James Comprehensive Cancer Center - Dylan Ryznar ’28, “Engineering a Bacterial Histone Deacetylase to Treat Skin Cancer”
Mentor: Masaoki Kawasumi, associate professor of dermatology at The Ohio State University
Kenyon Farm Fellow
The Kenyon Farm Fellow program provides opportunities each summer for students to work with a faculty mentor on research or scholarship related to agriculture at the Kenyon Farm. The program is funded by the Diane Elam ’80 and Nancy Donohue Endowment for Kenyon Farm Fellows.
- Miles Ford ’29, “Understanding the Effects of Microplastic Uptake on Brassica Plant Growth and Herbivory By Cabbage Looper Larvae”
Mentor: Lauren Schmitt, Dorothy and Thomas Jegla Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
LGBTQ+ Studies Scholar
The Kenyon LGBTQ+ Studies Scholars team up with faculty mentors during the summer months to work on collaborative scholarly projects related to the history, culture or experiences of lesbian, bisexual, trans and/or queer (LGBTQ+) people and communities. The LGBTQ+ program is funded by Kenyon parents.
- Mara Thomas ’27, “Lesbian Politics and Cultural Production in the Women’s Music Movement”
Mentor: Jessica Pruett, assistant professor of gender and sexuality studies
Ohio 5/Ohio State University Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)
The Ohio State University and the Five Colleges of Ohio co-sponsor paid summer research internships in biochemistry, chemistry, mathematics, physics and statistics. The 10-week program partners interns from Kenyon, Wooster, Denison, Oberlin and Ohio Wesleyan with The Ohio State University faculty members to create and execute a research project, then present results in a public forum.
- Greyson Greischar '27, "Engineering Fatty Acid Hydratases for Alkene Hydrofunctionalization"
Mentor: Felix Raps, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Ohio State University - Maggie Grespin ’27, “Relative Effect Size Estimation of Treatments for Non-Normal Outcomes”
Mentor: Steephanson Anthonymuthu, assistant professor of teaching practice at The Ohio State University - Muhammad Ibraheem Nadeem '27, "Predicting Absorption Spectra with Machine Learning from Molecular Dynamics Snapshots"
Mentor: Amr Dodin, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The Ohio State University - Sophia Ngo ’29, “Flipping the Script: Utilizing Nicotine's Three Dimensions to Maximize Public Health”
Mentors: Ahmad El Hellani, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at The Ohio State University; Theodore Wagener, director of the Ohio State University-Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (OSU-TCORS); Jean Nshimiyimana, clinical research coordinator at the OSU-TCORS
Science Education and Outreach Scholars
This program provides opportunities in research and outreach for students interested in science education and community engagement. Selected scholars will work with the Office for Community Partnerships, natural sciences faculty and local science teachers to develop and conduct targeted science programming for K-12 students. Students will develop educational modules during the summer and carry out the work in the community the following year, including reviving the Science Saturday program as “Glowing in Gambier.”
- Abigail Conklin ’27
Mentor: Julie Brodie, director of community partnerships and professor of dance, and Sarah Petersen, Ashby Denoon Associate Professor of Neuroscience - Camille Klopfenstein ’29
Mentor: Julie Brodie, director of community partnerships and professor of dance, and Sarah Petersen, Ashby Denoon Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Summer Scholars in the Humanities, Fine Arts and Social Sciences
This Summer Scholars fellowship allows students to work as full participants in the processes of creating a research plan in certain fields, executing a research project and preparing results for presentation in a public forum. The program is funded by Kenyon and a grant from the Beulah Kahler Foundation.
- Berkay Kurnaz ’27, “The Treadmill of Computation: AI and Its Environmental and Societal Impacts”
Mentor: Nicholas Theis, assistant professor of sociology - Luke Finley-Gillis ’27, “Economic Migration, Family Fragmentation, and Transnational Bodies”
Mentor: Robert Franco, assistant professor of history - Lily Gregory ’27, “Vergilian Bibliography Database”
Mentor: Brad Hostetler, associate professor of art history - Nadya Matish ’27, “Textual Transcription and Translation of the Ilias Picta”
Mentor: Micah Myers, associate professor of classics - Phoebe MacIntosh ’27, “Mankeeping," a novel
Mentor: Keija Parssinen, associate professor of English and creative writing - Kat Skillings ’27, “Ballroom Culture and Its Diaspora: Understanding Its New York City Origins and Colombian Transformations”
Mentor: Reginald Sanders, professor of music - Shooly Chen ’29, “The Interaction Between Audiences and Authors of Contemporary Chinese Web Literature Under a Feminist Perspective”
Mentor: Chengjuan Sun, professor of Chinese
Summer Science Scholars
Student-faculty pairs spend up to 10 weeks in the summer delving into research projects in the natural sciences. Science scholars present their findings to the public at a research poster session during Family Weekend in October.
- Wisdom Akanwe ’27, “Optimizing Heat Transfer to Create Strong Interlayer Bonds in Fused Filament Fabrication”
Mentor: David A. Edwards, professor of mathematics - Dylen Austria ’27, “Investigating the Physics of Epsilon Near Zero (ENZ) Materials”
Mentor: Frank Peiris, professor of physics - Cam Benedix ’28, “Relativistic Simulations of First-Order Phase Transitions”
Mentor: Tom Giblin, professor of physics - Nora Lee Brown ’28, “Comparing the Effects of Conventional and Alternative Plasticizers on Neuroendocrine Development in Pubertal Rats”
Mentor: Lauren Rudolph, assistant professor of neuroscience - Lucy Cassell-Kelley ’27, “Organic Synthesis of Flavonols; a Promising DYRK1A Inhibitor for Treatment of Type I Diabetes”
Mentor: Katie Starr, Kenyon Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Science Fellow and visiting assistant professor in chemistry - Roman Cicero ’28, “Characterization of a Novel Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptide (OATP) in Aedes aegypti via Transport of Model Xenobiotic Dyes”
Mentor: Matthew Rouhier, assistant professor of chemistry - Josiah Cox ’27, “AhR Knock Out Phenotypes in Frog Cell Lines: Genomic Level Analysis”
Mentor: Wade Powell, professor emeritus of biology - Damaris Agyekumwaa Darkwah ’27, “Functional Characterization of β-hyroxyisobutyryl-CoA hydrolases in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Mentor: Kerry Rouhier, associate professor of chemistry - Edward Delk ’27, “Selecting for Homozygous Arabidopsis Line Overexpressing Truncated H+-ATPase in Companion Cell in Phloem Specific Manner”
Mentor: Kamesh Regmi, assistant professor of biology - Quang Doan ’28, “Run, Don’t Fight: A Zombie Apocalypse Model”
Mentor: Marissa Gee, assistant professor of mathematics - Cece Duffy ’27, “Effects of the Plasticizer DEHP and Its Metabolite MEHP on Sex Differences in Microglia and Cytokines in the Hypothalamic Preoptic Area of Rats”
Mentor: Lauren Rudolph, assistant professor of neuroscience - Aidan Dunfee ’28, “Examining Fossil Bryozoan Specimens With GIS”
Mentor: Eric Holdener, assistant professor of physics and environmental studies - Nicole Galbreath ’28, “Summer Research 2026: Bis(amidophenolate)germanium(IV) Synthesis”
Mentor: Nathanael Hunter, assistant professor of chemistry - Sadiksha Gurung ’28, “Kynurenic Acid Production by Bifidobacterium Species”
Mentor: Ethan Hillman, assistant professor of biology - Molly Hunt ’27, “Investigation of P.patens Genes Involved in Photoperiodic Reproduction Through QTLseq Analysis”
Mentor: Karen Hicks, professor of biology - Godwin Idowu ’27, “AI-Guided Authoring for Structured Learning Activities at Kenyon College”
Mentor: James Skon, professor of mathematics and computer science - Lex Kelly ’28, “Characterization of Macrophage Activity in Peripheral Nerve Demyelination and Remyelination”
Mentor: Sarah Petersen, Ashby Denoon Associate Professor of Neuroscience - Adam Khan ’28, “Searching for Glints in Gravitational Wave Data”
Mentor: Madeline Wade, associate professor of physics - Logan LaTrielle-Marsh ’27, “Globally Connected Courses and Intergroup Anxiety”
Mentor: Irene Lopez, Pamela G. Hollie Chair in Global Challenges and professor of psychology - Joey Liu ’28, “Designing a Probabilistic Adaptive Learning Engine for POGIL-ITS”
Mentor: James Skon, professor of mathematics and computer science - Vivien Luce ’28, “Gauge Preheating With Complex Scalar Fields”
Mentor: Tom Giblin, professor of physics - Wren Luo ’28, “Characterizing Quantum Entanglement and Time Evolution via Wigner Quasi-Probability”
Mentor: Benjamin Schumacher, professor of physics - Khanh Mai ’28, “Exploring Polycyclic Codes Associated With Trinomials”
Mentor: Noah Aydin, professor of mathematics - Shoshana Marcus ’28, “Dynamics of Schwann Cell Specific Damage and Regeneration in Zebrafish”
Mentor: Sarah Petersen, Ashby Denoon Associate Professor of Neuroscience - Silvia Martinez Gargallo ’27, “New Methods for Neutron Star EoS Parameter Estimation”
Mentor: Leslie Wade, associate professor of physics - Ainsley McConnell ’28, “Understanding the Reactivity of Gamma-Acyloxy-Epsilon-Caprolactone Substituents”
Mentor: Yutan Getzler, professor of chemistry - Ava Merickel ’27, “Evaluation of Ferroptosis in mecr-1 Deletion C. elegans”
Mentor: Peter Kropp, Harvey F. Lodish Faculty Development Chair in Natural Sciences and assistant professor of biology - Charlie Menzel ’28, “Eastern Bluebird and Tree Swallow Flight”
Mentor: Natalie Wright, associate professor of biology - Jaya Mishra ’28, “Desi Roots, Rural Routes: South Asian Voices and Stories in Knox County”
Mentor: Sam Pack, professor of anthropology - Mallory O'Brien, “Investigating the Effect of Cytosolic DNA Transfection on Erythropoiesis in HUDEP-2 Cells”
Mentor: Rebecca Clements, assistant professor of biology - Anusha Rao ’28, “Using Quasi Probabilities to Explore the Classical-Quantum Spectrum”
Mentor: Benjamin Schumacher, professor of physics - Mariyah Rumpca-Veronese ’28, “Continuation GACL Cataloging: Varying Alkyl Substituents in γ-acyloxy-ε-caprolactones”
Mentor: Yutan Getzler, professor of chemistry - John Schaal ’29, “Experimental Hafted Projectile Tools”
Mentor: Bruce Hardy, J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology - Kunqi Shi ’28, “Identifying Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Reproductive Timing in Physcomitrium Patens with QTLseq”
Mentor: Karen Hicks, professor of biology - Yehor Shyrokyi ’27, “LGBQ+ TV and Social Media’s Role in Queer Youths' Identity Status and Well-Being”
Mentor: Sarah Murnen, Samuel B. Cummings Professor of Psychology - Spencer Stluka ’28, “Synthesis of Glycosylated Flavone Analogues as DYRK1A Inhibitors for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes”
Mentor: Katie Starr, Kenyon Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Science Fellow and visiting assistant professor in chemistry - Ian Switzer ’28, “Probing the Optical Properties of Topological Insulators Using Spectroscopic Ellipsometry”
Mentor: Frank Peiris, professor of physics - Jack Thatcher ’29, “Computational Models of Preheating”
Mentor: Tom Giblin, professor of physics - Flavia Trifu ’28, “Anion Binding in Germanium(IV) Coordination Compounds”
Mentor: Nathanael Hunter, assistant professor of chemistry - Beija Waltmunson ’27, “Characterizing Glial Cell Migration and Maturation Along the Anterior Posterior Axis in tcf15 Zebrafish Mutants”
Mentor: Sarah Petersen, Ashby Denoon Associate Professor of Neuroscience - Lucas Waite ’28, “Exploring the Intersection of Coding Theory and Graph Theory”
Mentor: Noah Aydin, professor of mathematics - Ashlyn Widmer ’27, “Characterizing cGAS-STING Dependent DNA Sensing in Human Erythroid Progenitors”
Mentor: Rebecca Clements, assistant professor of biology - Jack Wiskemann ’29, “Developing a Physics-Informed Neural Network to Better Construct the Response Function of the LIGO Detectors”
Mentor: Madeline Wade, associate professor of physics - JunXuan Zhang ’27, “Sexual Dimorphism in Flight Muscle Fiber Composition and Its Functional Consequences for Flight Performance in House Sparrows”
Mentor: Natalie Wright, associate professor of biology - Ally Zimmerman ’28, “Impacts of Sexual Dimorphism on Flight Maneuverability in Passer domesticus”
Mentor: Natalie Wright, associate professor of biology
Thomas W. Smith Future of Freedom Scholars
The Thomas W. Smith Future of Freedom Scholars Program provides opportunities for students to work in close collaboration with faculty members as full participants to explore issues related to the classical liberal freedoms, including those rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, and the free market, and their implications for liberal democracy, in the United States or other societies. The student spends up to 10 weeks in the summer to delve into the research projects. The program is supported by a grant from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation to the Center for the Study of American Democracy.
- Dalia Fishman ’27, “Examining Kenyon’s Culture of Political Discourse Through Op-eds, Emails, Posters and Graffiti, and YikYak”
Mentor: Celso Villegas, professor of sociology - Samir Kafle ’28, “Delimitation and Democratic Representation in India: An Analysis of Population, Geography and Political Power”
Mentor: Wendy Singer, special assistant to the president for strategic initiative and Roy T. Wortman Distinguished Professor of History - Yaw Oppong-Krampah ’27, “The Effect of Occupational Licensing Deregulation on Political Spending and Rent Seeking”
Mentor: Daniel Kolliner, Wright Family Assistant Professor of Economics - Roman Savage ’27, “Comparative U.S.-EU Antitrust Remedies for Digital Platforms: Patterns, Divergences, and Implications”
Mentor: Jaret Treber, professor of economics