Abstracts from 2016-2017

Project Title – Exploring Memory Impairment in a Rural Community in Tanzania: Trends and Reflections
Mentor – Ali Skandor

Project Title – Curcumin Enhances T2 Bacteriophage Yield in E. coli
Mentor – Gerald Goldstein

Project Title – A study of Lonicera maackii: Understanding the proliferation through time of this invasive plant species
Mentor – Nathan Rowley

Project Title – Food Inequality in Delaware
Mentor – Paula White

Project Title – Forum Theatre for Sexual Assault Prevention
Other Student Participants – Beverly King ’20, Becca Porter ’19
Mentor – Ed Kahn

Project Title – The Effect of Curcumin on Adenylyl Cyclase Expression in Escherichia Coli
Mentor – Suren Ambegaokar

Project Title – Primary Mathematics Education Methodologies
Mentor – Paula White

Project Title – Ginger Extract Inhibits T2 Bacteriophage Yield in E. coli
Mentor – Gerald Goldstein

Project Title – GEOG 499: Sustainability Seminar
Other Student Participants – Ryan Bishop ’18, Eva Blockstein ’19, Maddy Coalmer ’17, Sarah Hanes ’18, Emily Howald ’17, James Ormerod ’17, Elizabeth Sommerdorf ’17, Sydney Spotts ’17
Mentor – John Krygier

Project Title – Ecological, Economical, and Social Dependence on Coral Triangle Tuna Fisheries
Mentor – Nathan Rowley

Project Title – Song Sparrows: As Temperature Decreases Body Size Increase, Always?
Mentor – Dustin Reichard

Project Title – Broccoli or Candy: What Should I Feed my Captive Bird?
Mentor – Dustin Reichard

Project Title – Intersectionality of The Alt-Right Group
Other Student Participants – Ares Harper ’19, Mallory Griffith ’18
Mentor – Paul Dean

Project Title – Queering Young Adult Literature
Mentor – Paula White

Project Title – The Effect of Glyphosate on Feather-Degrading Bacteria
Mentor – Laura Tuhela-Reuning

Project Title – Dynamics of Hippocampal Circuit described by Hodgkin-Huxley Model
Mentor – Pamela B. Pyzza

Project Title – Examining Three French Films Through the Lens of Ethnofiction
Other Student Participants – Meg Teitelman ’18, Yitie Chen ’17
Mentor – Ana Oancea

Project Title – Stochasticity in a Loggerhead Turtle Population Matrix Model and Conservation Implications
Mentors – Amy Downing, Craig Jackson

Project Title – Construction Alternatives to Capitalism
Mentor – Doug Bush

Project Title – 500 Years Later: Christianity in Post-Christian Wittenberg
Mentor – David L. Eastman

Project Title – The Language of Heresy in Christian Tradition
Mentor – Susan Gunasti

Project Title – Seasonal Lakes: Modeling Meltwater on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Mentor – Nathan Rowley

Project Title – The Score is Strong with this One: A Musical Analysis of the Star Wars Saga
Mentor – Frank Chiou

Project Title – Chinese Assimilation in the United States through Immigration and Education
Other Student Participants – Grace Mitchener ’17, Breanna Riggle ’18
Mentor – Darrell Albon

Project Title – Identifying the potential expansion of the Walnut Twig Beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis, to Black Walnut trees, Juglans nigra
Mentor – Nathan Rowley

Project Title – Through the Lens of Realism: The Documentary Genre
Other Student Participants – Elikem Gadzekpo ’17, Mariama Goodwin ’17
Mentor – Ana Oancea

Project Title – The Legacy of the African Diaspora Through Slavery in Afro-Brazilian Identity
Other Student Participants – Kadra-Ayan Ahmed ’17

Project Title – The Historical Context of Queer Characters and Censorship in Comic Books
Mentor – Nancy Comorau

Project Title – I Just Wanna Break the Rules: Idealism in the Filmic Representation of the French Education System
Other Student Participants – Kristen Nooney ’18, Claudio D’ambrosio ’19
Mentor – Ana Oancea

Project Title – Ana de Mendoza: Her Role as a Mother in the Court of Phillip II of Spain
Mentor – Glenda Nieto Cuebas

Project Title – American Democracy Upheld by Religion: Connecting Durkheim to Tocqueville
Mentor – Susan Gunasti

Project Title – A New Genre of Film: Fictional Documentary
Other Student Participants – Kaillie Winston ’17
Mentor – Ana Oancea

Project Title – Common Core Standards: More Than A Meme
Mentor – Katherine Glenn-Applegate

Project Title – Refugee Crisis in France
Other Student Participants – Harang Jung ’17, Michael Mora Brenes ’17, Memé Salazar Rodriguez ’17
Mentor – Glenda Nieto Cuebas

Project Title – Effects of Metyrapone on Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in Rats
Mentor – Jennifer Yates

Project Title – How Healthcare and Culture Impacts Cost and Experience of Sex Reassignment Surgery in Various Sites of Europe
Mentor – Richelle Schrock

Project Title – Physical Fences and Social Boundaries: The Human Implications of Privatizing Nature in Patagonia Park
Mentor – Jennifer Mokos

Project Title – The Length of Antisense RNA Indirectly Inhibits Translation of Beta-Galactosidase and Urease Enzymes
Mentor – Gerald Goldstein

Project Title – Antibodies Suggestive of Immunity to Hepatitis A and B Are Not Detected in the Majority of Adolescents and Young Adults Seeking Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Mentor – Kira Bailey

Project Title – Influence of Sex and Ambient Temperature on Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Dusting Behavior
Mentor – Shala Hankison

Project Title – Evaluating Methods of Collective Action and Movement Building for Prison Reform and Abolition in Central Ohio
Other Student Participants – Philippos Alevizopoulos ’19, Deji Adebiyi ’19
Mentor – Paul Dean

Project Title – Mobilizing for Immigration Rights and Justice
Other Student Participants – Robyn Madrishin ’17, Cindy Huynh, ’18
Mentor – Paul Dean

Project Title – Using Performance Art to Show How LGBTQ+ Organizations Address Issues
Other Student Participants – Melanie Doweiko ’20, Madeline Oslejsek ’17
Mentor – Paul Dean

Project Title – Parrotfish Grazing Rates Effect on Algal and Coral Abundance
Other Student Participants – Ingrid Hanson ’20, Alexis Shomon, Erin Magill ’20
Mentors – Craig Jackson, Amy Downing

Project Title – Effectiveness of Harvester Ant Mounds as Sample Sources Based on Geographic Comparison of Oxfordian (Jurassic) Marine Fauna, Wyoming, USA
Mentor – Keith Mann

Project Title – The Intersections of Queerness and the Arab Jew
Mentor – Michal Raizen