Graduate Division Summer Scholar Presentations

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Paul Spickard
Graduate Mentor: Chiquitara Kendall

Presentation Title:
Issac Aboab da Fonseca: Architecture, Identity, and a Case Study of the Sephardic Jewish Diaspora’s Entanglement in the Colonial Atlantic

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kyle Ratner
Graduate Mentor: Lee Cui

Presentation Title:
Relationship between Stigmatization and Emotions

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kyle Ratner
Graduate Mentor: Lee Cui

Presentation Title:
The Effect of Negative Stereotypes on Neural Reward Processing and Emotional Responses in Mexican Americans

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dolores Inés Casillas
Graduate Mentor: Karla Larrañaga

Presentation Title:
Memes as Everyday Discourse: Exchanges Regarding Accents and Latinx Experiences

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Arpit Gupta
Graduate Mentor: Jaber Daneshmooz

Presentation Title:
Speed Test Contextualization: Last Hop Medium Classifier for Speed Test

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lucy Arellano
Graduate Mentor: Marilyn Monroy Castro

Presentation Title:
Rotating Along Borders: Contextualizing Experiences of Rurality Among Queer Transfronterizxs College Students

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Phillip Christopher
Graduate Mentors: Matea Hooper and Anika Jalil

Presentation Title:
The Influence of Polyviny|pyrrolidone (PVP) and Temperature on Copper Nanoparticle Sizes though Chemical Reduction Synthesis to Reduce Sintering

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Max Millar-Blanchaer
Graduate Mentor: Skyler Palatnick

Presentation Title:
Improving Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Through the Use of Silicon-on-Glass Metasurfaces

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Irene Beyerlein
Graduate Mentor: Morgan Jones

Presentation Title:
Mesoscale modelling of screw dislocation glide in body-centred cubic metals

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Zoe Liberman
Graduate Mentor: Elizabeth Quinn-Jensen

Presentation Title:
CRP-D: Contextual Racial Presentation

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Goard
Graduate Mentor: Nora Wolcott

Presentation Title:
Effects of highly fluctuating estradiol on the neuroplasticity of pregnant mice

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Prabhanjan Ananth

Presentation Title:
Proving the Security of Candidate Construction of Quantum Pseudorandom Unitaries

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrea Young
Graduate Mentor: Yi Guo

Presentation Title:
Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Twisted Molybdenum Ditelluride (Mote2)

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Max Wilson
Graduate Mentor: Jose Roberto Rodrigues Reyes

Presentation Title:
Optogenetic Control of PERK in the Integrated Stress Response

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Beyeler
Graduate Mentor: Lily Turkstra

Presentation Title:
Comparing the Accuracy of Key Neural Extraction Techniques

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ambuj Singh
Graduate Mentor: Danish Ebadulla

Presentation Title:
Targeted Edge Perturbations on Graph Neural Networks

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tommy Sprague
Graduate Mentor: Amelia Harrison

Presentation Title:
Split-Attention: An Electroencephalogram Study

Faculty Mentor: Dr. James Roney
Graduate Mentor: Tikal Catena

Presentation Title:
Navigating Virtual Environments

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Javier Birchenall
Graduate Mentor: Leshan Xu

Presentation Title:
Opioids and Inefficacy of Public Policies: Economics of the War on Drugs

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Giuliana Perrone
Graduate Mentor: Sarah Dunne

Presentation Title:
Rectifying Dred Scott: African American Citizenship in American Law

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Zoe Liberman
Graduate Mentor: Shreya Sodhi

Presentation Title:
Children’s Expectations and Attitudes of Immigrant’s Cultural Practices

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Zoe Liberman
Graduate Mentor: Chuyi Yang

Presentation Title:
Is Private Correction a Good Friendship Cue?

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Karen Szumlinski
Graduate Mentor: Fernando Cano

Presentation Title:
Neurobiological Mechanisms of Drug Craving: Does Blocking the mTOR Pathway Reduce Drug Craving?

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Norbert Reich
Graduate Mentor: Drew McDonald

Presentation Title:
The Biochemistry of Epigenetic Gene Regulation - DNMT3 Enzyme

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Yang Hai
Graduate Mentor: Wenhui Xi

Presentation Title:
​​​​​​​Synthesis, Purification and Crystallization of Iron-II 2-Oxogluterate Dependent Recombinant SwnH2