The Richter Scholar Summer Research Program provides students with the opportunity to conduct independent, individual research with Lake Forest College faculty early in their academic careers.
The ultimate goal of this program is to foster a strong commitment to the intellectual life, and to encourage participating students to consider careers in research and teaching.
Academically excellent students with an interest in research are invited to apply for the Richter Scholar Summer Research program in the early spring of their first year. During this time, they work one-on-one with a faculty member, doing independent research in one of a wide variety of fields. As the Richter Scholars live and work together and participate in a weekly colloquium, they become a community of peers, providing encouragement and support for one another’s research endeavors. The result is a group of scholars motivated to continue their intellectual achievement in the future.
Both symposia will be livestreamed on this page (below).
The livestream will begin at 9 a.m.
2023 Summer Program Dates
Option I
Tuesday, May 16 through Friday, June 9
Symposium held on Friday, June 9
Option II
Tuesday, May 23 through Friday, July 14
Symposium held on Friday, July 14
Morning Session — 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Tarble Room
Removing environmentally persistent pharmaceuticals from waste water
Anna Kathleen Garry
Faculty mentor: Erica Schultz
New Materials from Ionic Liquids
Gizem Ilayda Ozturk
Faculty mentor: Jason Cody
Examining the Role of the Family of Synucleins in Neurodegenerative Diseases using Yeast Models
Holly Ann Kiernan and Leslie Diaz (Casares)
Faculty mentor: Shubhik DebBurman
The Fish Lateral Line System: Hair Cells to Behavior
Anais Azevedo and Jeremy Daniel Levin
Faculty mentor: Margot Schwalbe
Data 3.0
Anna Ceslavska
Faculty mentor: Arthur Bousquet
Strategies for Filling Up Your Gas Tank
Ako Ogihara
Faculty mentor: Sara Jamshidi
Artist and Style Recognition from Paintings
Brian Rivera
Faculty mentor: Sugata Banerji
Afternoon Session — 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Tarble Room
Telomere Genetics
Jose Carlos Hernandez Perussina and Martha Sofia Alatorre Martinez
Faculty mentor: Karen Kirk
Digital Innovation in Linguistic Practices Education and Development in Multilingual Africa
Andrew Kame Kame Mpondo Ngango and Fatma Allam
Faculty mentor: Desmond Odugu
Why do people judge that actions are more causal than inactions?
Hoku Mae Canlas
Faculty mentor: Paul Henne
Towards a host based therapy for tuberculosis
Alvaro Arroyo and Zoe Danay Draper
Faculty mentor: William Conrad
Assessing Procedural Justice in Police Body-Worn Camera Videos
Alexandra Gascoigne
Faculty mentor: Vivian Ta
Molecular mechanisms of injury-induced neurodegeneration
Doyinsola Oluwadoyinsola Ogunshola
Faculty mentor: Rebecca Delventhal
Timing of ER membrane complex 4 (EMC4) function in glial cells
Ines Andrea Riojas
Faculty mentor: Rebecca Delventhal
The early research experience students obtain through the Richter Scholars Program sets students on an upward trajectory that leads to academic honors and graduate school completion at much higher rates.
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June 09, 2023
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April 19, 2023
Laurel Robbins ’23 wins top prize for tuberculosis research
Richter Scholar Program Contact Information
2022-23 Richter Program Committee
Cassondra Batz-Barbarich (Economics, Business, Finance)
cbatz-barbarich@lakeforest.edu
Arthur Bousquet (Math/CS)
bousquet@lakeforest.edu
Jason Cody, chair (Chemistry)
cody@lakeforest.edu
Anya Golovkova (Religion)
agolovkova@lakeforest.edu
Matt Kelley (Associate Dean of the Faculty)
kelley@lakeforest.edu
Richter Summer Program 2023
Arthur Bousquet (Math/CS)
bousquet@lakeforest.edu