Posters from the annual student research session where DePauw students can demonstrate their collaborative work with faculty or internship experiences.
Submissions from 2022
Nicotine-Seeking and Avoidance Behavior in Zebrafish Mutants, Lidya Araya, Thanh Ngoc, Thien Nguyen, Daniel Rhodes, and Henning Schneider
ChemWeb: A 2D Molecular Builder Game, Suleman Bashir Baloch and Jeff Hansen Ph.D
Investigating rare genetic variants in a human enzyme, Ayden Bennet, Delany Collier, Elizabeth Davis, Braden Mallery, Daniel Glimco, Ellen Trautman, Beck Wakefield, Sharon Crary Ph.D, and Daniel Gurnon Ph.D
Latex Induction and Effects of Herbivory on Apocynum cannabinum, Shiley Claypool, Tim Douglas, and Rose Keith
Inhibiting S100β and Troubleshooting Cell Growth, Animesh Dali, Suhana Basnyat, Robert Passarelli, and Nipun Chopra
Diagnosing the Present with An Ecotopian Lexicon, Chirag Giri and Adam Liebman
High-Risk Behavior of Students Carrying Weapon to School, Nan Lin Wah Sin Htoo and Naima Shifa
Linking Historical Redlining Maps to Present‐Day Environmental Hazards in St. Louis, Margaret Keller and Kenneth Brown
Extended Duration Studies of Energetic Particles in the Stratosphere, Ian Kuhl, Ashna Coondiah, and Howard Brooks
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) for Ampicillin and Cefuroxime, Patrick McInerney and Richard Martoglio
SD Prisms 2D & 3D: Visualizing the Standard Deviation, Hieu Nguyen, Tom Nguyen, Mamunur Rashid, and Jyotirmoy Sarkar
Method Development for the Analysis of Pharmaceuticals Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography, To Uyen (Anita) Nguyen and Richard Martoglio Ph.D
Impact of Urea on Size and Red-Edge Emission Spectroscopy of Reverse Micelles, Tran Nguyen, Nancy E. Levinger, and Bridget Gourley Ph.D
Effects of nitrogen fertilizer on the sugar and ethanol production of C. Sativa, Aidan Power, Christian Mugisha, Boanerges Bamaca, Asmita Mahara, and Mark Wilkins Ph.D
The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Undergraduate Students’ Interest in the STEM Field, Zaheen Rashed, Yuchen Jiang, Zimo Ma, and Pamela Propsom
Magma Mixing in the 874 AD Hrafntinnuhraun Rhyolite Eruption, Chris Shannon, Kenneth Brown, D. McGarvie, and Matthew Looke
Distal Exposures of the Miocene Peach Spring Tuff in the Marble and Ship Mountains, CA, Kelsang Shrestha, Matthew Loocke, and Kenneth Brown
Introduction to Common Molecular Biological Techniques Used in Research Laboratories, Dington Tan, Ruitang Deng, Winifer Ali, and Qiwen Chen
Outdoor Leadership in New England, Sarah Tiggleman and Adam Liebman
Emotion-Aware Music Recommendation, Hieu Tran, Tuan Le, Anh Do, Tram Vu, Steven Bogaerts, and Brian Howard
Gender Disparities in NLSY97: Educational Attainment and Income Level, Ngan Tran and Naima Shifa
Visualization for Better Learning in Chem 120, Ngoc (Valerie) Tran and Jeff Hansen Ph.D
Megacrystic Potassium Feldspar Magmatism In The Southern Mojave Desert, California, Claire Wolfe, Matthew Loocke, and Kenneth Brown
Investigating Conflicts in Mind Wandering and Neural Oscillation Studies, Mahnoor Zahid and Robert West
Submissions from 2021
Latex Variation in Hemp Dogbane (Apocynum Cannabinum), Michael Aikin and Rose Keith PhD
Life on the rocks: Small-scale primary succession in an abandoned limestone quarry, Sophia P. Atkinson, Diana Borse, Cedrick Chandler, Daniel L. Saltz, and Dana A. Dudle PhD
Edge influence on forest composition in a pine-oak forest in central Mexico, Isidro Avila and Dana Dudle PhD
The Effectiveness of Serial Casting in Children with Arthrogryposis, Christina Bourantas; Chris Church MPT; Stephanie Butler BPT; Jose de Jesus Salazar-Torres PhD; John Henley PhD; Maureen Donohoe PT, DPT; Freeman Miller MD; and L. Reid Nichols MD
Small Farms Throughout Southwest Indiana, Thomas Brelage
A model of flexible feature learning for segmentation and unitization, Ziyi Chen and Michael E. Roberts PhD
Problematic Social Media Use: Are There Gender Differences in Control and Craving, Aaniyah Childs and Robert West PhD
Behavior and Genomics of Nicotine-Seeking Larval Zebrafish, Kuzivakwashe Chinyanya, Andrew Button, and Henning Schneider PhD
Testing Inductive Learning Effects from Changing Attentional Focus with Training Instructions, Bradon Collins, Emily Gost, and Michael E. Roberts PhD
The Impact of Local Anthropogenic Activities on Soil Health within a Retired Farm: Implications for Urban Gardens, Abigail Cook '22, W. Roberts, E. Prince, and K. Brown PhD
Neural Innervation of the Immune Response Could Lead to Treatments for Severe Asthma: The Screening of Neurotransmitters on T Helper 17 Cell Differentiation, Kate Cowger, Wei Wang PhD, and Xingbin Ai PhD
The Impacts of the Presence of Amino Alcohols on Xenobiotic Cell Signaling Pathways, John Csehill and Sarah Mordan-McCombs PhD
The Effects of Sugar Osmolytes on Reverse Micelle Systems, Jenna Deckard and Bridget Gourley PhD
Effect of a Hexylamine Derivative on Cancer Cell Viability, Rachel DeLancey, Bamlak Deju, Jeff Hansen PhD, and Nipun Chopra PhD
Extracting the Mean Lifetime of the Neutron, Adam Forward, Muhammad Omer Sajid, and Alexander Komives PhD
Investigating the effects of the benzylamine and epoxide product on the cell viability of MCF7 and SUM159 breast cancer cell lines, Rachael Hinshaw and Sarah Mordan-McCombs PhD
Expression of Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDHA) WT and A320T Mutant, Natalie Husby, John Csehill, Ian Longen, Ellie Reece, and Daniel Gurnon PhD
Assessing the Cognitive and Social Behaviors of Apis mellifera in Finding Food, Sophia Jones and Claire Dorner
Conodonts in the Nature Park: Exploring Our History, Emily G. Kaiser, Lannea Allen, and T. Cope PhD
In-vitro Stimulation of CD4+ Lymphocytes Following Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury, Emma G. Kennedy, Jason A. Collett, and David P. Basile
Identifying an appropriate in vitro model to study the effects of microRNA-4705 on S100β expression, Alyssa Koch, Vidhur Bynagari, Yangjie Tan, and Nipun Chopra PhD
Determining Swimming Power Output using a Commercially Available Tethered Pulley Device, Samantha Loudermilk
Thinking Global & Acting Local in Chiang Mai, Thailand: A Semester with the International Sustainable Development Studies Institute, Erika Marchant '22
Analyzing the effect of benzylamine product on yeast cells deficient in the oxidative stress response, Autumn McDaniel and Sarah Mordan-McCombs PhD
Mental Health among College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study, Jillian Meyer, Lizzie Bell, and Michael E. Roberts PhD
Droplet Impact, Part 2: Engineering a Droplet Generator, Nanami Mezaki, Ben Wilkerson, and Jacob Hale PhD