From Newington, Connecticut, Ashley is a senior majoring in Political Science with minors in Legal Studies & History, Sociology, and Latin American and Latinx Studies. Her project, Constructing Precarity: DACA, TPS, and the Politics of Temporary Status, uses census microdata and interview-based analysis to examine how temporary immigration programs shape immigrant incorporation in the United States. By comparing the experiences of TPS and DACA holders, she aims to uncover how legal temporariness produces systemic barriers to stability and belonging.

From Basking Ridge, NJ, Emma is studying Communication with a concentration in Data and Network Science. Her project focuses on understanding how crime is represented on social media through computational text analysis and machine learning methods.

From Carmel, Indiana, Sage is majoring in Philosophy, Politics & Economics with a concentration in Public Policy & Governance and minors in Survey Research & Data Analytics and Astrophysics. Her project investigates how the abrupt pause in U.S. foreign aid funding in early 2025 has affected HIV/AIDS outcomes and public narratives of government accountability in 19 bilaterally supported PEPFAR countries.

From Wilmington, North Carolina, Sheel is majoring in Health and Societies with a concentration in Healthcare Markets and Finance as a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. His project focuses on white coat hypertension, examining the pre-referral risk factors that contribute to it and exploring ways to improve the diagnosis and accuracy of out-of-clinic blood pressure readings.

From Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, Esther is majoring in Cognitive Science with a concentration in Computation and Cognition and minors in Psychology and French & Francophone Studies. Her project investigates how AI-generated language differs from caregiver speech in structural complexity and linguistic diversity, with a focus on whether children’s AI toys can deliver the linguistic input necessary to support early language learning.