DEEPS undergraduate students closed academic year 2024-2025 with summer research and distinctions
November 17, 2025
DEEPS faculty welcomed numerous undergraduate students into their research groups this past summer of 2025. Several of these talented and motivated students performed research they proposed themselves and were granted a financial award for by Northwestern's Office of Undergraduate Research, including Shailen Chugh, Corbin Diaz, Amelia Freeland, and Elise Neal. Others, like Rose Carlson and Jonathan Chen, were supported by a grant from WCAS' Baker Program in Undergraduate Research, and yet others, like Sze Lam and Elisa Duan, were supported by a Data science Application for Undergraduates award from the Metropolitan Chicago Data science Corps.
All student researchers distinguished themselves through the research they completed with determination, independence, and creativity. Several received external recognition for these efforts or adjacent efforts. For example, NU's Undergraduate Research Expo in May, 2025, bestowed several awards onto undergraduate presentations of research in Earth, environmental, and planetary sciences:
- The best oral presentation award in Innovations in Science and Technology award went to Shailen Chuch
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The best oral presentation award in New Discoveries in Science and Engineering went to Kyan Shlipak
- The 1st place award in the Natural Sciences and Engineering category of the afternoon poster presentation session went to Henry Lukela.
Also in May, 2025, Amelia Freeland received the DEEPS Undergraduate Service Award and Jonathan Chen received the DEEPS Junior Research Excellence Award. Rose Carlson and Jonathan Chen subsequently presented their research at the 2025 GSA Connects Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
Are you an undergraduate student with similarly notable achievements in Earth, environmental, or planetary sciences? If yes, please let us know at deeps@northwestern.edu, so we can highlight your achievements here in the future.