Patricia King Research Grants
Research Grant Fellowships
These are fellowships named in honor of Patricia King (1937-1994) the first Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe College. King was elected to the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa as an undergraduate, and served as an officer until her death. The fellowships, intended to sustain the independent and original research essential to any outstanding thesis or project, were originally a program of the Radcliffe chapter but are now open to all undergraduate members of Phi Beta Kappa. Students do not apply for these fellowships separately, but are automatically considered when they apply to the Harvard College Research Program (HCRP) for a summer award. For more information see the HCRP website.
Fellowship Winners 2026
Nicholas Dang (Class of 2027)
Ecology and Activity of RNA Viruses in the Human Gut Microbiome
Jeffrey Qi (Class of 2027)
The Role of Oxidative Stress in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Chemoresistance
Fellowship Winners 2025
Alice Feng (Class of 2026)
Characterizing CMTR2's function, tumorigenic potential in lung cells, and gene expression targets
Lucy Nathwani (Class of 2026)
Investigating the Quasicrystal Structure of TaTe1.6 with Transmission Electron Microscopy
Beier Nelson (Class of 2026)
Exploring the Potential of Targeted Protein Degradation in Mycobacteria
Fellowship Winners 2024
Jana Amin (Class of 2025)
Reclaiming the Kitchen: Women's Food Practices as Healing, Memory, & Political Resistance
Zachary Halberstam (Class of 2025)
Research in Market Design and Belief Formation
Katalina Toth (Class of 2025)
Alcohol Use Following Sexual Violence Stigma Exposure in a Population-Based Sample of U.S. Adults
Fellowship Winners 2023
Suhaas Bhat (Class of 2024)
An STS Analysis of the History, Development, and Stabilization of Deep Machine Learning
Hari Iyer (Class of 2024)
Random matrix models for S-units and class groups of number fields
Jai Khurana (Class of 2024)
Mutagenesis Studies of a Metalloenzyme Implicated in Human Gut Microbial Metabolism of Cholesterol
Fellowship Winners 2022
Do Yeon Kim (Class of 2023)
Image-Based Sexual Abuse and Stigma
Fellowship Winners 2020
Edward Kim (Class of 2021)
Comparison of the inflammatory response in cases of colitis using single cell transcriptomic data
Alec Sun (Class of 2021)
List Decoding for Insertion-Deletion Codes
Fellowship Winners 2019
Taimur Aziz (Class of 2020)
Mulla Sadra's innovative ontological epistemology (knowledge by Being) and its legacy in South Asia
Isaac Sebenius (Class of 2020)
Deep learning to identify novel genetic contributions to ALS
Fellowship Winners 2018
Laura Kanji (Class of 2019)
On the relationship between emotion regulation flexibility and stress
Hanson Tam (Class of 2019)
Mechanism of Peroxisomal Membrane Protein Insertion in Yeast
Fellowship Winners 2017
Alexandra Smith (Class of 2018)
Corporate Responsibility and Government Sponsored Disaster Relief in US Agriculture
Andrew O'Donohue (Class of 2018)
A Comparative Study of Turkey's 1961 and 1982 Constitutions and their Effect on Democratization
Feng Zhou (Class of 2018)
The role of gendered language in the prediction of cardiovascular symptomology
Fellowship Winners 2016
Daniel Rothchild (Class of 2017)
Designing, Implementing, and Assessing an Improved Scheduler for the LSST
Bo Seo (Class of 2017)
Can we accommodate identity politics within the contemporary doctrine of human rights?
Joule Voelz (Class of 2017)
On the emergence of American female theatre directors in the 20th century
Fellowship Winners 2015
Henry Burnam (Class of 2016)
On the Relationship between Hearing and the Objects of Music-Theoretical Discourse
Shirley Mo (Class of 2016)
Mathematical Modeling of HIV Viral Dynamics In Response to Slow-Release Therapeutics
Colton Valentine (Class of 2016)
Thinking Intertextually: Time Consciousness in Milorad Paviç
Fellowship Winners 2014
Daniel Backman, Class of 2015
Local Economies and Gentrification in Chicago's South Side
Seo Yeon (Sandy) Kim, Class of 2015
The Effect of Executive Function Depletion on the Processing of Garden-Path Sentences
Rachel Wong, Class of 2015
They Spread Their Influence with their Feet”: Chinese Communist Party Propaganda 1934-1949
Fellowship Winners 2013
Alexander J. Diaz (Lowell) Class of 2014
Research on de-minding and dehumanization on an implicit level
Andrew Lea (Lowell) Class of 2014
Research on the history of sex reassignment surgery
Jenny Lu (Mather) Class of 2014
Research towards a single cell DNase-seq technique
Fellowship Winners 2012
Samantha Berstler (Kirkland) Class of 2014
Approaching a model for determining ethical consent within the BDSM subculture
Madeline Zhu (Mather) Class of 2013
Research toward a bio-archaelogical study of funerary patterns in Marcajirca, Peru
Cole Chokran (Quincy) Class of 2013
Research on the prosocial benefits of denying free will
Fellowship Winners 2011
Antonia Michelle Rosen Peacocke (Adams) Class of 2012
Summer thesis research in neuroaesthetics
Tyler Brian Runge (Quincy) Class of 2012
Research into the factors that influence the development of foster care policies in California
Madeleine Marthe Schwartz (Kirkland) Class of 2012
Summer thesis research on Aulus Gellius
Matthew George Tung (Dunster) Class of 201
Characterizing the Role of Get4/5 in the TRC-Mediated Insertion of Tail-Anchored Proteins
Fellowship Winners 2010
Alexander Karadjian (Lowell) Class of 2011
"The Influence of Sebastiano Serlio's Architectural Treatise"
Arnav Tripathy (Pforzheimer) Class of 2011
"Applications of Hodge Theory to Classical Algebraic Geometry"
Helen Yang (Currier) Class of 2011
"Characterization of Protein Interaction Partners of MeCP2"