Twelve Irvine Valley College (IVC) students were among 64 students from nine community colleges who presented original research at the 13th Annual California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) Summer Research Symposium on August 6 at the Titan Student Union Pavilion. The annual symposium, co-hosted by CSUF’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Center (UROC) and Project RAISE (Regional Alliance in STEM Education), brought together students to share their scholarly and creative work with faculty, peers and the broader academic community.
The students participated through Project RAISE’s Undergraduate Research Experience, which provides community college students with hands-on research opportunities alongside CSUF faculty mentors in STEM fields. The program helps prepare students to transfer and pursue bachelor’s degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. IVC is one of nine community college partners participating in Project RAISE.
- Ethan Adunagow "Photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes using perovskites." PI: Allyson Fry Petit (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
- Roxana Bazargani (Engineering Academy) "Influence of new emerging supplementary cementitious materials on surface electrical resistivity of concrete." PI: Pratanu Ghosh (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- Juan Castorena (MESA) "Experimental investigation of adhesive bonding for composite T-joints in aerospace applications." PI: Xinyi Wang (Mechanical Engineering)
- Ella Chagan (MESA) "Comparing tidal effects with Cosmic Explorer." PI: Jocelyn Read (Physics)
- Javier Gonzalez (MESA ) "TutorGPT: LLM agent tutors and their usefulness for undergraduate students in calculus courses." PI: Roberto Soto (Mathematics)
- Angel Islas (MESA) "Recent environmental changes in the Tijuana River Estuary identified through elemental proxies." PI: Joe Carlin (Geological Sciences)
- Nimrat Kaur (Engineering Academy) "Synthesis of Glycosylated Amino Acids." PI: Michael Ferracane (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
- Ines Khodja "Late glacial to early Holocene relative lake depths changes at glacial Lake Mojave." PI: Matthew Kirby (Geological Sciences)
- German Leon (MESA) "Enzyme identification for the development of an inkjet-printed digital microfluidic biosensor." PI: Ankita Mohapatra (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Ashley Mendiola (MESA) "PreSense lab: Optimizing protective CAD frames for early wildfire detection." PI: Ankita Mohapatra (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Larry Perez (MESA) "PreSense lab: Design and characterization of inkjet-printed humidity sensors." PI: Ankita Mohapatra (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Danielle Zee (ELEVATE AAPI) "Unexpected consequences of long-term vitamin B12 exposure on antimicrobial resistance." PI: Maria Soledad Ramirez (Biological Science)