{"id":2588,"date":"2025-08-25T20:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/kuhn\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:32:35","slug":"undergraduate-summer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/kuhn\/2025\/08\/25\/undergraduate-summer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Summer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/kuhn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/08\/Ayla_Seddighnezhad-1280x720-1-768x432.webp\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/kuhn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2025\/08\/Ayla_Seddighnezhad-1280x720-1-768x432.webp 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  USC senior Ayla Seddighznezhad works at the Convergent Science Institute in Cancer within the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, studying immune profiling of healthy human tonsil tissue using nanoparticles. 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