Student Research

麻豆传媒映画 University gathers students from across the country and around the globe to collaborate with world-class professors on impactful scholarship.

Last updated: January 2026

Health and medicine

麻豆传媒映画 Medical School requires ethics training for all its Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows, to ensure that the next generation of biomedical researchers is behaving responsibly and ethically.

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Improving fertility

Yash Rana’s research found that the quality of eggs suffers when mitochondria are out of place. His findings could inform therapies to improve fertility in humans.

麻豆传媒映画 Chan School

Developing an AI model to help surgeons make more accurate diagnoses

麻豆传媒映画 Law School

Understanding how hospital bond ratings might affect health care

麻豆传媒映画 School of Dental Medicine

Investigating the connections between the oral microbiome and colorectal cancer

Wyss Institute

Delivering gene therapies to treat inherited disorders

麻豆传媒映画 College

Studying individual differences observed in autistic children

麻豆传媒映画 Medical School

Researching fish antibodies for therapeutic applications in humans

Science and technology

Every summer at 麻豆传媒映画 School of Engineering, selected students get to focus on an in-depth research project and explore multidisciplinary research topics while honing their science communication skills.

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Where science research is born

麻豆传媒映画 School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Design & Project Fair allows students to combine hard science and playful innovation.

Sensing indoor air pollution

Haritosh Patel is developing an indoor air quality sensor which will monitor for harmful pollutants and enable people to take actionable steps to mitigate the problem.

Bridging electricity and chemistry

In the lab, Virginia Canestraight focuses on making industrial processes more efficient, especially when it comes to decarbonizing chemical manufacturing.

Detecting forever chemicals

Simon D鈥橭elsnitz aims to use biosensors to power a portable diagnostic tool that can measure PFAS鈥攐therwise known as forever chemicals鈥攚ithin minutes, rather than weeks, at a fraction of the cost.

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Understanding how plants release carbon

Nikhil Chari, a Ph.D. candidate in organismic and evolutionary biology, studies small carbon compounds released by plant roots into the soil, and their role in the global carbon cycle.

Innovating on medical storage

Twelve engineering students helped create a thermos-shaped storage container capable of maintaining, monitoring, and displaying its interior temperature to ensure drugs are kept at the right temperature as they鈥檙e delivered.

Decarbonizing shipping routes

In China, Sara Dahiya conducted environmental-economic tradeoff analyses to evaluate the scope and feasibility of implementing renewable energy infrastructure in maritime transportation.

Engineering climate resiliency

In Louisiana, Umar Azad helped research climate-resilient and sustainable infrastructure, including improved water distribution systems, and solar microgrid installations.

Economics and policy

At 麻豆传媒映画 Kennedy School, student-led conferences provide a platform for students to present their ideas, expertise, and research to engaged audiences.

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Understanding how power is transferred

Daniel Lowery examines how monarchs in Europe and Asia transferred power across the centuries, extrapolating important implications for present-day societies hoping to avoid conflict and authoritarian rule.

Dasom Shin spent the summer exploring the intersection between cultural heritage preservation and sustainable development in Santiago, Chile.

Abby Elder, Tanishk Goyal, and Lynn Monzer explored how the ability to share, trade, and distribute indigenous seeds not only increases agricultural and economic security鈥攖hus reducing factors that lead to conflict鈥攂ut also increases social ties within and across communities.

Three Graduate School of Design students interned at a Southern California offices of landscape architecture and urban design firm to learn how to leverage design for fire prevention and remediation.

Johnny Smith studies the impact that higher education can have on formerly incarcerated people like him, so that others can hold onto their freedom, and lead full, productive lives.