This summer the Center for STEM Education ran its 30th year of the Young Scholars’ Program. First started in 1989 (with a hiatus between 1996 and 2003), the Young Scholars’ Program is a six week summer research program for rising high school seniors in the Boston area. This summer, 32 students from 26 high schools joined us, working with 16 faculty across the NEU colleges, representing COE, COS, & Khoury. In each lab, as highlighted below, a pair of students worked on research with the help of their faculty and graduate student mentors, bringing all their research together at the end of the program in a poster and presentations session (which can all be seen on the YSP 2026 webpage. Also see the COE News Article overview of YSP: COE Link
- Modelling Tissue Changes During Limb Regeneration
- YSP: Zara Atti & Maiia Vovk | Faculty: Calina Copos
- Assessing Quality Control of MRI-based Measurements of Iron in Subcortical Structures for Adolescent Learning
- YSP: Adil Tigli & Lena Lee | Faculty: Juliet Davidow
- Charge-Based Targeted Drug Delivery
- YSP: Tejasvi Kalluri & Katherine Sola | Faculty: Ambika Bajpayee
- Comparison of Motion in Chiari Type I Malformation Patients Versus Healthy Controls
- YSP: Nymisha Goli & Henry Mai | Faculty: Francis Loth
- Molecular Computations for Understanding Crystallization Pathways for Amorphous Calcium Carbonate
- YSP: Soumalya Chatterjee & Srishti Kar | Faculty: Moneesh Upmanyu
- Video Language Models for Generic Task Assistance
- YSP: Arin Shinde & Nyasa Luharaka | Faculty: Sarah Ostadabbas
- Leveraging Robot Gaze to Signal Membership in Dynamic Group Settings
- YSP: Alina Shi & Ilyas Mohamed | Faculty: Xiang Zhi Tan
- Interference Signal Power Monitoring within Front-End Circuits of Wireless Receivers
- YSP: Angela Wang & Chenghao Xu | Faculty: Marvin Onabajo
- Low-Latency AI Execution Systems for Resource-Constrained Devices / Evaluating Segment Anything Model 3 Against Adversarial Perturbation
- YSP: Arihant Rangoli & Matthew Sokoloff | Faculty: Francesco Restuccia
- AI-Driven Design of Semiconductor Alloys with Tuned Effective Masses
- YSP: Farah Can & Dhruvaite Upmanyu | Faculty: Peter Schindler
- Does Freezing Change the Mechanical Behavior of Aortic Tissue?
- YSP: Anjali Misra & Kunal Shanbhag | Faculty: Rouzbeh Amini
- Synthesis and Characterization of Biomass-Derived Functional Carbon for Electrochemical Water Treatment
- YSP: Chelsea Bateman & Spencer Seidel | Faculty: Akram N. Alshawabkeh
- Bioremediation of Nanoplastics Using Mycelium Paddy Biopods and Plants
- YSP: Phoebe Corcell & Marcus Klingler | Faculty: Adam Caparco
- Vanadium Pentoxide Cathodes in Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries
- YSP: Alexander Braga & Tarun Kannan | Faculty: Joshua Gallaway
- Determining How Shot Proteins Affect Neuronal Morphology
- YSP: Emme Turner & Fennell Wisseh | Faculty: Maijia Liao
- Creating Dark Matter Mass Maps using Stratospheric Balloon Observations
- YSP: Adam Aoua & Karuna Tarafdar | Faculty: Jaqueline McCleary
Kenny, Ahmed and Frances: YSP Coordinators Mark (YSP support) and Claire (Exec. Dir) Franklin (YSP ’20) and Tasha (YSP Coord ’20) Claire and Nick (YSP Manager)
This summer’s program was coordinated by YSP program alumni: Ahmed Othman (’24), Kenneth Santizo Carbajal (’24) and Frances Corcell (’25). Over the six weeks, the coordinators and the Center staff organized a variety of career exploration seminars, team-building activities, hands-on STEM explorations, and field trips.
Students doing research in their lab: Arihant, Emme, Fennell, Farah, Matt
Hands-on activities with YSP
YSP on campus scavenger hunt
Field trips: NEU’s Marine Science Center, George’s Island, and Harmonic Drive LLC
