2026 CNF REU Summer Info
Keep an eye on this website for the summer calendar, weekly updates, etc.
Feel free to share any photos of your work, adventures, or time with friends - we’d love to capture it all and share at the end of the program 😊
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2026 Expectations & Final Report Guidelines
THINGS TO DO!
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2026 REU Summer Calendar
2026 CNF REU + SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS
Anabelle Brueggeman
Major, Institution: Lafayette College
Program: CEEMag (SLAC/DOE)
Principal Investigators: Gregory Fuchs
Mentors: Yinshi Chen
Project Title: Fabrication and characterization for spin wave imaging
Ben Chong
Major, Institution: Cornell University
Program: CURE
Principal Investigators: Nozomi Nishimura
Project Title: Intravital Two-Photon Microscopy in the Beating Heart in Disease
Andrew Diviney
Major, Institution: Cornell University
Program: CURE
Principal Investigators: Jan Lammerding
Project Title: Identifying The Molecular Pathogenesis and Novel Treatment Strategies for LMNA-Related Dilated Cardiomyopathy
David Eastman
Major, Institution: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Program: NFS
Principal Investigators: Rong Yang & Nicholas Abbott
Mentors: Shiqi Li & Soumyamouli Pal
Project Title: Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD) polymerization in the LC to synthesize polymer particles in an automated fashion to enable cyber-aided synthesis
Lincoln Hogan
Major, Institution: North Carolina State University
Program: SUPREME
Principal Investigators: Grace Xing
Mentors:
Project Title: Gate Stack Dielectric Development for GaN p-FETs
Sanskriti Nanda
Major, Institution: SUNY Oswego
Program: CURE
Principal Investigators: Jonathan Butcher
Project Title: Kinematics of Ventricular Morphogenesis
Aditya Narayana Chembravattom Ananthakri
Major, Institution: University of Florida
Program: SUPREME
Principal Investigators: James Hwang
Mentors:
Project Title: Millimeter-wave Electrical Permittivity of Semiconductors and Insulators
Renata Ortega
Major, Institution: University of Texas El Paso
Program: CURE
Principal Investigators: James Antaki
Project Title: Evaluation of Ventricular Cannulas
Bruce Pan
Major, Institution: U.C. Berkeley
Program: SUPREME
Principal Investigators: Judy Cha
Mentors: Jack Coyle
Project Title: Fabrication and characterization of Nanowires of topological materials for advanced interconnects
Danaan Perry
Major, Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Program: CEEMag EFRC
Principal Investigators: Dan Ralph
Mentors: Matthew Roddy
Project Title: Generating and Controlling Magnons in an Antiferromagnet
Helen Robinson
Major, Institution: University of Alabama Birmingham
Program: SUPREME
Principal Investigators: David Muller
Mentors:
Project Title: Solving the atomic structure of electron materials using multislice electron ptychography
Sally Scofield
Major, Institution: Cornell University
Program: CURE
Principal Investigators: Iwijn De Vlaminck
Project Title: Noninvasive Monitoring of Heart Injury
Gabriel Strobel
Major, Institution: Rose Hulman Institute
Program: NFS
Principal Investigators: Fengqi You & Nicholas Abbott
Mentors: Soumyamouli Pal & Rahul Sheshanarayana
Project Title: Computer vision applied to polymer particles in liquid crystal (LC) to enable on-the-fly characterization of their morphology and size distribution, among other properties
Alisa Zamora
Major, Institution: Wellesley College
Program: SUPREME
Principal Investigators: Julia Dshemuchadse
Mentors:
Project Title: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Self-assembled Nanoparticle Structures