This year’s research teams
Energy Prices and Emerging Markets
Colonization and its Lasting Effect on Public Health
Sustainability in Fashion
Factors of Inflation
Check out our work below!
Do Brazilians Want Formal Jobs?
The informal market has always been a huge influence on Brazil’s economy, but COVID-19 may create economic restructuring in Brazil. Will government policies during the pandemic affect labor markets?
A historical take on Brazil's informal labor
Brazil’s current labor markets in the coronavirus pandemic seems volatile and its future murky at best. Despite the uncertainty of the situation, Brazil’s core institutions that have historically fermented informal employment provide great insight into the labor market in 4-6 months.
Brazil’s Public Health Crossroad
Brazil is faced with economic inequality with informal labor markets and a struggle to become a regional hegemon. Add COVID-19 to its list of dilemmas.
The Next Warren Buffett: AI?
Though there are denoted benefits AI in Finance, the long-term impact may end up leaving the world economy worse off. Ultimately, the decision of AI’s integration into finance will come down to the large institutional investors as well as the retail investors like you and me.
AI: Making or Breaking the Healthcare Industry
AI will continue to be integrated into the healthcare system, whether it be something as simple as sifting through data and selecting anomalies or something as difficult as assisting surgeons precisely navigate through a hemispherectomy.
Past Research Teams
Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
Politics of Genocide
Adarsh Javvaji, Tisha Chaudhuri, Emma Costa, Shivani Purohit, Amina Syed
Crisis in Affordable Housing
Sernry Tu, Aditya Dronamraju, Sarah Lee, Sebastián Leal, Henry Stocker
Healthcare
Vedanth Ramabhadran, Aayan Khasgiwala, Anish Ravindran, Anisha Bhattaru
US-China Relations
Melanie Hsieh, Keshav Krishna, Arnav Myana, Zarik Tao
Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
Latin America’s Emerging Economies
Evan Bimaputra, Paul Choi, Grainne O’Casey,
Nikhil Guddati, Chloe Jin
The Global Rise
of China
Mauricio Aguilar, Sahana Rao, Sam Mills,
Jenna Chen, Morgan Myhill, Porter Slack
Artificial Intelligence and Automation
Sanchith Shanmuga, Brian Lee, Nehaarika Shridhar,
Juan Esparza, Faizan Firdaus
Spring 2020
US–China Relations
Evan Bimaputra, Justin Tran, Kaitlyn Marcatante, Mauricio Aguilar, Cameron Waltz
Climate Change
Paul Choi, Sanchith Shanmuga, Seann DSouza, Brian Lee