Asst. Prof. Roberto Orozco
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development | College of Education and Human Development, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Kimberly Hernandez Gutierrez | Youth Studies
Samantha Cortez | Political Science
Project Title:
Contested Truths, Political Realities: Examining Identity, Sociopolitical Consciousness Development, and Material Realities of Queer and Trans Latinx/a/o Collegians in the Midwest
Asst. Prof. Darrius Stanley
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development | College of Education and Human Development, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Mahogany Robinson | Business Marketing Education
Project Title:
Historicizing the Lucy Moten-FAMU High School
Asst. Prof. Thomas Helgerman
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Work and Organizations | Carlson School of Management, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Seth Bose | Economics and Mathematics
Project Title:
Addressing Racial Disparities in Medical Education and Science: The Role of the Civil Rights Movement
Asst. Prof. Yunxing Su
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering | Swenson College of Science and Engineering, Duluth
Student & Major:
Axel Olson | Mechanical Engineering
Project Title:
Optimization of Wake-Driven Pitching-Foil Marine Renewable Energy Systems
Asst. Prof. Alejandra A. Fernández Morgado
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Education | College of Education and Human Service Professions, Duluth
Student & Major:
Sofia Saucedo | Integrated Elementary & Special Education
Project Title:
From Borderlands to the North Shore: Testimonio, Persistence, and Resistance in Minnesota’s Educator Pathways
Asst. Prof. Xiaoran Sun
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Family Social Science | College of Education and Human Development, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Eric Linder | Psychology
Project Title:
Adolescent AI Companion Use, Mental Health, and Social Relationships: A Mixed-Method Approach
Asst. Prof. Xiaowen Chen
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering | College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Melissa Dai | Statistics
Project Title:
Automated Live/Dead Nematode Identification and Counting from Microscope Videos Using Computer Vision
Asst. Prof. Leslie Barlow
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Art | College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Madelyn Churchill | Art
Project Title:
Us, Becoming: An art exhibition and creative research project about Black cosplay
Asst. Prof. Xianghan Xu
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Physics and Astronomy | College of Science and Engineering, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Simon Goss-Grubbs | Physics
Project Title:
Symmetry-Guided Discovery and Characterization of Altermagnets
Asst. Prof. Robert Erdmann
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Center for Learning Innovation | Rochester
Student & Major:
Carly Johnson | Health Sciences
Micah Kieckhefer | Health Sciences
Payton Waltz | Health Sciences
Maida Abdulahi | Health Sciences
MJ Jung | Health Sciences
Nakrie Kha | Health Sciences
Lauren Wessels | Health Sciences
Project Title:
How Time-Resolution Shapes What We See in STEM Classrooms: Evaluating Observation Granularity in STEM Teaching
Asst. Prof. Dominic Petrella
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Horticultural Science | College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Isabelle Murillo | Mathematics
Project Title:
Developing metabolomic tools to help identify different fine fescue turfgrass species
Asst. Prof. Soon Li Teh
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Horticultural Science | College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Jeremy Cohen | Horticultural Science
Project Title:
Systematic Phenotypic Characterization and Profiling of Advanced Cold-Hardy Grape Selections
Research Asst. Prof. Sunantha Kosonsiriluk
RISE Cycle:
Spring 2026
Department, College, Campus:
Animal Science | College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Zoe Swanson | Animal Science
Project Title:
Pilot Dose Optimization of an Experimental Escherichia coli Challenge Model in Turkeys
Asst. Prof. Emma Arends
RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:
Theatre Arts | Morris
Student & Major:
Savana Hauck | History
Project Title:
Threads of Support: The Multifunctional Role of the Costume Shop Technology Assistant
Asst. Prof. Daniel Greenberg
RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:
Art History | College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Elaine Reise | Undeclared
Project Title:
First Impressions: A RISE Curatorial Fellow for Fall/Spring
Asst. Prof. Adriana Uscanga
RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:
Forest Resources | College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Atlas Lawrence | Environmental Geography
Project Title:
Tracking vegetation and green space change over time in urban social-ecological systems
Asst. Prof. Amelia Lindsey
RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:
Entomology | College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Anna Worden | Plant Science
Project Title:
Understanding the molecular biology of asexual reproduction
Asst. Prof. Fernanda F G Dias
RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:
Food Science and Nutrition | College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Scarlet Valarezo | Food Science
Project Title:
Sustainable oilseeds for food applications: holistic characterization of lipid profile and oxidation stability in winter camelina and pennycress oils
Asst. Prof. Madelaine Cahuas
RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:
Geography, Environment & Society | College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Alma Quiroz | Sociology of Law, Criminology and Justice; Spanish
Project Title:
Right to Remain: Housing Access and Displacement of Latinx School Families in the Twin Cities
Asst. Prof. Hooi Ling Soh
RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:
Institute of Linguistics | College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Voua (Bob) Yang | Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Project Title:
A Linguistic Study of Discourse Particles in Hmong Dialects
Asst. Prof. Jansen Smith
RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:
Earth and Environmental Sciences | Swenson College of Science and Engineering, Duluth
Student & Major:
Joseph Kunze | Earth and Environmental Sciences
Project Title:
Paleoecology of Cretaceous Mollusks in Montana
Asst. Prof. Ganesh Vasan
RISE Cycle:
Fall 2025
Department, College, Campus:
Neuroscience | Medical School, Twin Cities
Student & Major:
Tristen Rothrum | Neuroscience
Project Title:
Illuminating the Depths: Directed Protein Evolution of red-shifted FRET-Opsin GEVIs for Multipopulation Voltage Recording of the brain