2018 Abstracts
Project Title | Student(s) | Mentor(s) |
Artificial Intelligence for the Board Game Pandemic | Eugene Kramskoi and Mira Jacobs (Syracuse University) | Sean McCulloch (OWU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) |
Starspots on LO Pegasi | Amanda Jewell and Brooke Kimsey-Miller (Indiana University) | Robert Harmon (OWU Department of Physics and Astronomy) |
Effects of Garlic Mustard on the Ohio Deciduous Forest | Stefani Schmocker | Laurel Anderson (OWU Department of Botany and Microbiology) |
The Effects of Video Game Exposure on Cognitive Control | Lexi Lease, Mickey Rice, and Malia Walker | Kira Bailey (OWU Department of Psychology, OWU Neuroscience Program) |
Level Scheme and Spin Assignments in 70Ga | Michael Heeschen | Robert Haring-Kaye (OWU Department of Physics and Astronomy) |
The Global Salt Experiment | Rebecca Porter, Katie Vonderembse, and Colin Hawes | Amy Downing (OWU Department of Zoology) |
Immune Function and Acute Stress Response During Simulated Predator Presentations in Troglodytes aedon | Cailynne Angelo | Elizabeth Schultz (OWU Department of Zoology) and Dustin Reichard (OWU Department of Zoology) |
Redox Active Ligand Scaffold for the Activation of Oxygen | Jackson Druckenbroad, Ramsha Shah, and Nolan Norman | Allen Pistner (OWU Department of Chemistry) |
Social Modulation of Testosterone and Corticosterone in Two Species of North American Wren | Joe Brush | Dustin Reichard (OWU Department of Zoology) and Elizabeth Schultz (OWU Department of Zoology) |
Optimization of Differentiation of SH-SY5Y Cells as a Model System for Neurons | Landry Cowles, Jin Jun, and Maddie Meyer | Suren Ambegaokar (OWU Department of Botany and Microbiology, OWU Neuroscience Program) |
Effects of Amur Honeysuckle on Soil CO2 Emissions | Aidan Shumaker | Laurel Anderson (OWU Department of Botany and Microbiology) |
Drone Mapping and Spatial Storytelling | Lucas Farmer | Timothy Hawthorne (University of Central Florida Department of Sociology) |
Theory-to-Practice Grant: Studying Conservation in Endangered Panamanian Frogs | Eva Blockstein | Brian Gratwicke (Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute) and Roberto Ibañez (Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Center) |
Neutrino Physics with Prospect Background Characterization at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) | Diego Venegas Vargas | Alfredo Galindo-Urribari (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Physics Division) |
Investigation of MBD3 Function in Spermatogenesis | Margaret Michicich | Satoshi Namekawa (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) Department of Reproductive Services) |
Feather-Degrading Bacteria in a Tropical Environment | Kyle Davis | Laura Tuhela-Reuning (OWU Department of Botany and Microbiology) and Dustin Reichard (OWU Department of Zoology) |
Predicative Value of Fecal Indole and Calprotectin in Successful Outcome in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) for Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) | Jack Hibbard | Herbert DuPont (McGovern Medical School Department of Internal Medicine) |
Performance Analysis of a Gene Family Classification Method for Plant Kinome Identification | Joseph Emerson | George Popescu (Mississippi State University Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing, and Biotechnology) |
House Dust Mite Effect on Viral Replication in Human Airway Epithelial Cells | Jack Mauter | Mitchell Grayson (Nationwide Children’s Hospital Department of Allergy and Immunology) |
Tick Ectoparasites on Roadkill Vertebrates in Northern Tanzania | Serena George and Sarah Brink (College of the Holy Cross) | John Kioko (Center for Wildlife Management Studies School for Field Studies) |
Confirmation of Irregular Signature Splitting in 74As | Bojana Ivanic (University of Texas) | Robert Haring-Kaye (OWU Department of Physics and Astronomy) |
The Search for Πf7/2 Intruder States in 73As | Amelia Doetsch (Wayne State University) | Robert Haring-Kaye (OWU Department of Physics and Astronomy |
Theoretical Notions of Ecological Stability and Their Relation to Temporal Variability | Chace Covington (Francis Marion University) | Craig Jackson (OWU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) |
Analysis of Climate Feedbacks | Carina DiChello (Salve Regina University) | Craig Jackson (OWU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) |
Inference for Sample Correlation When Data Are Subjected to Type II Censoring | James Konoske (Point Loma Nazarene University) | Scott Linder (OWU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) |
Shrinkage of Tropical Glaciers in Perú | Ashley McCracken | Nathan Rowley (OWU Department of Geology-Geography) |
Yeast Display of Cysteine Free 3E8 Antibodies | Madeleine Sorrick | Nicholas Long and Thomas Magliery (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Ohio State University. This project was conducted as part of the Ohio-Five SURE Program.) |