Abstracts from 2017-2018
Michael Barr ’18
Project Title: Honors Thesis on the Novels of Joyce
Mentor: Martin Hipsky
Adrian Burr ’19
Project Title: Dissecting The Ring of the Dove
Mentor: Mark Gingerich
Marielle Buss ’19
Project Title: The Effect of Coriander Extract on the Replication of T2 Bacteriophage
Mentor: Jerry Goldstein
Kera Bussey–Sims ’18
Project Title: Brick and Mortar Retail, Online Shopping and Everything in Between: How Technology Is Being Integrated into the Fashion Industry
Mentor: Glenn Bryan
Abigail Connell ’18
Project Title: Juana I of Castile and Maria Pacheco: Leadership and Power in Early Modern Spain
Mentor: Glenda Nieto-Cuebas
Kyle Davis ’19
Project Title: Size Change in an Invasive Species
Mentor: Dustin Reichard
Chloe Dyer ’18
Project Title: A Line in the Sand: Narratives from the U.S.-Mexico Border
Mentor: Juan Rojas
Chloe Dyer ’18
Project Title: Commemorations on Two Continents: The Saint Patrick’s Battalion in Irish-Mexican-American Memory
Mentor: Nancy Comorau
Jackie Everetts ’18
Project Title: Madness and Hysteria: Social Control in Early Modern Spain
Mentor: Glenda Nieto-Cuebas
Jacqueline Feliciano ’18
Project Title: Performance Changes in a Division III Female Field Hockey Program Over a Competitive Season
Mentor: Andrew Busch
Hannah Gebhardt ’18
Project Title: Performance of Single Species as Indicators of Large Mammal Species Richness Across Different Ecosystems in Tanzania
Mentor: Shala Hankison
Guillermo Gutierrez ’18
Project Title: Identifying Influentials in Directed Networks
Mentor: Christian Fink
Emily Howald ’18
Project Title: Endangered Species Conservation on the Military Estate
Mentor: Ellen Arnold
Evan Hudgens ’19
Project Title: Further Investigation of a Novel Rhabditid Nematode
Mentor: Danielle Hamill
Grace Jones ’19
Project Title: The Role of the Midwife in Hapsburg, Spain
Mentor: Glenda Nieto-Cuebas
Sarah Kennedy ’18
Project Title: Examining the European Union Asylum Policy: The EU-Turkey Migration Statement
Mentor: Robert Gitter
Colin McGarry ’18
Project Title: Fighting in the Irish Environment: The Landscape in Ancient Irish Military Matters
Mentor: Carol Neuman de Vegvar
Cassandra Oberle ’18
Project Title: Comparison of Single Leg Performance Tests in Athletes with and Without ACL Reconstruction
Mentor: Andrew Busch
Rebecca Penrod ’18
Project Title: The Dangers of Meritocracy and Education
Mentor: Paula White
Paige Ross ’21
Project Title: Educational Inequality: How We Systematically Fail Our Children
Mentor: John Durst
Emma Sampson ’18
Project Title: Collective Memory of Violence and Oppression Under Dictatorships in Chile and Argentina
Mentor: Andrea Colvin
Erika Shultz ’19
Project Title: Taking Control: Maintaining Goals in the Counting Stroop
Mentor: Kira Bailey
Francesca Socki ’18
Project Title: Comparative Histological Investigation of the Ovarian and Placenta Structure in the Viviparous Fish Genus Poeciliopsis
Mentor: Tamara Panhuis
Brandon Stevens ’20
Project Title: As the Irish Have and as the Irish Will: The Duality of Ireland’s Colonized State Through the Structure of TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
Mentor: Nancy Comorau
Savannah Travis ’19
Project Title: Characterization of the Yeast Gene YDL218W: Carbon Source-Dependent Growth Rates and Cell Wall Defects
Mentor: David Markwardt
Elizabeth Urbanski ’18
Project Title: Glyphosate Inhibits Keratinolytic Activity of Bacillus spp. Isolated from Wild Songbirds
Mentor: Laura Tuhela-Reuning
Lizheyin Wu ’19
Project Title: Modeling the Spread of HPV Through a Network
Mentor: Pamela Pyzza
Ryan (Bishop) Zlatanova ’17
Project Title: Costa Rican Leatherback Turtle Conservation
Mentor: Shala Hankison
Ryan (Bishop) Zlatanova ’17
Project Title: Island Queerness: Exploring LGBT+ Taiwan
Mentor: Mary Howard
Contact Info
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E ddmarkwa@owu.edu
David Markwardt, Associate Dean of the OWU Connection