You’ll be impressed and inspired by the student research presented at Baruch’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Expo. You can see the presentations online here.

 

Student Jie Ying and Prof. Rebecca Spokony with research presentation board
Student Jie Ying and Prof. Rebecca Spokony with research presentation board

Take a look: There’s a wide range of work across the humanities, arts, sciences, social sciences and public affairs, including projects on topics like Dada, Afrofuturism, COVID vaccines, medical devices, NYC parks, and urban heat islands.

The students presented their research in person on May 12 in the Newman Conference Center.  Pictured above are student Jie Ying and Professor Rebecca Spokony with a display at the expo about the student’s fruit fly study, “Two JH Degradation Enzymes, Different Effects on D. melanogaster Growth.”

Other projects included Florence Uritsky’s use of computational methods to study the biosynthetic pathways leading to cannabidiol (CBD) in Cannabis sativa plants; Jahanghir Hussain’s presentation on Ramadan charity for Bangladesh orphans; and pictured below, Juan Diego Ramírez and Ashley Méndez’s study of gender, social class, and cultural and racial identities in two short stories set in New York City, “La llamaban Aurora” by the Dominican writer Aida Cartagena Portalatín, and “La noche que volvimos a ser gente” by the Puerto Rican author José Luis González. Their literary study was for Professor Elena Martinez’s upper level Spanish class, “The City in Latin American Literature.”

Students Ashley Mendez and Juan Diego Ramirez stand in front of presentation at undergrad research expo
Students Ashley Mendez and Juan Diego Ramirez