Title: 2025 Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellows Symposium: Pictures

It’s a wrap for the MURF Research Symposium of 2025! Seniors and Sophomores impressed us with their projects and presentation skills, and it was such a pleasure to gather and celebrate these students’ research journeys!

Congratulations to all the Fellows on their outstanding work and a special shoutout to the 12 students who presented on April 30th, 2025!

Senior Research Projects

• Sanjana Ranganathan, Youth, Memory, and Politics: The Effect of Conflict Memory on Youth Political Engagement in Sri Lanka
  Faculty Mentor: Raj Desai
• Nia Law, Who Brings Home the Bacon: An Analysis of Gerrymandering, Distributional Politics, and Earmark Spending in the United States
  Faculty Mentors: Marc Busch, Erik Voeten
• Jupiter Huang, The Political Utility of Deterrence Gaps and Implications for the Hypersonic Arms Race
  Faculty Mentor: Toshihiro Higuchi
• Serena Pradhan, Digital Finance and the Gender Divide: Exploring Women’s Financial Inclusion in Kenya’s Fintech Ecosystem
  Faculty Mentor: Lahra Smith
• Salmah Elmasry, Nude Protest in North Africa and Europe: Transnational Feminism, and the Politics of Corporeality during the 2011 Arab Uprising
  Faculty Mentor: Killian Clarke
• Jake Lang, Selling Pain: Opioid Industry Soft Power and The Case of UW Pain
  Faculty Mentor: Emily Mendenhall

The Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellows (MURF) program provides Georgetown undergraduates with mentored research experiences throughout their undergraduate careers. Learn more about the MURF program.