Option I Richter Projects
Black History of Lake Forest College: 1970-2000
Payton Cm Ross and Sofy Hassan Abdelmawgoud
Faculty mentor: Courtney Joseph
Brain waves distraction and attention
Liam Michael Thumser and Rin Olivia Kato
Faculty mentor: Naomi Wentworth
Development of impulse control in preschoolers
Alexandra Ryan Soto
Faculty mentor: Naomi Wentworth
The Cold War and Truman's Decision to End Discrimination in the U.S. Military
Tobi Isabella Claire Ellis, Daniela Maria Angel Vivas, and Lera Mamatkazina
Faculty mentor: James Marquardt
Spring Flora
Yeldy Luchmun, Ella Louise Chicone, Elinor Carlton Coleman, and Sardar Atayev
Faculty mentor: Glenn Adelson
Violence against women in elections and political ambition
Dana K Saeed
Faculty mentor: Diana Davila-Gordillo
Understanding Allyship: Bias Disclosures in Interracial Friendships
Mia Jessica Hernandez and Jenna Rose Thomas
Faculty mentor: Emily Dix
Instructor Presence in Instructional Video: Student Recall Perception and Anxiety
Kiera Talento McKee and Stephanie Maria Arreola
Faculty mentor: Nora McLean
Reading History with Decolonial Lens: Rethinking the History of Education in Africa
Aika Samwel Minja and Tendo Matthew Ndawula
Faculty mentor: Desmond Odugu
French Literature & Cinema
Sanorah Scarlette Joseph
Faculty mentor: Tessa Sermet
Decoding the Feminine: ‘Artificial’ Intelligence, Robots, & Gender”
Valerie Hope Guerrero
Faculty mentor: Tessa Sermet
Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Investing
Bernardo Salvini Aguiar and Beatriz Dinis Neves
Faculty mentor: Nancy Tao
Plant-soil interactions in temperate and tropical oak forests
Calista Diamantina Leja
Faculty mentor: Maria Pizano
Option II Richter Projects
Synthesis of Anti-Microbial Natural Products
Silas Jacob Tooth and Sona Akiyama
Faculty mentor: Paul Gladen
Explaining the Kraemer Effect
Ethan Riley Oller and Annika Sankner
Faculty mentor: Paul Henne
Emotion Regulation and Social Relationships
Izabella Rose Harju
Faculty mentor: Benjamin Swerdlow
Studying the function of a possible tuberculosis drug target
Karem Alejandra Hernandez Guerrero and Fiona Kai Oberhofer
Faculty mentor: William Conrad
Molecular Genetics of Telomeres and Telomerase
Shuntaro Nakamura and Shadi A.M. Alazzeh
Faculty mentor: Karen Kirk
Removing environmentally persistent pharmaceuticals from waste water
Connor James Robert Mckelvey
Faculty mentor: Erica Schultz
Digital Innovation in Linguistic Practices Education and Development in Multilingual Africa
Adam Huzeifa Kaderbhai and Anora Okemena Ogboka
Faculty mentor: Desmond Odugu
Evolution and sexual selection in beetles
Teo Sega Sumic
Faculty mentor: Flavia Barbosa
Role of membrane protein folding in the nervous system
Martin Ettlin Cuitino
Faculty mentor: Rebecca Delventhal
Molecular Mechanisms of injury-induced neurodegeneration
Samuel E Smith
Faculty mentor: Karen Kirk
Investigating the role of biodiversity risk in firms' performance
One Bantle Kenosi and Judith Johnson
Faculty mentor: Linh Pham
Examining the Role of the Family of Synucleins in Neurodegenerative Diseases using Yeast Models
Mieng Chandavimol and Kate Emma Feist
Faculty mentor: Shubhik DebBurman
Violence Against Women in Elections and Politica Ambition: Latin America and India
Diya Mokha
Faculty mentor: Diana Davila-Gordillo