Ten-week summer research projects
DEFINING PRIVACY NORMS FOR FERTILITY DATA
Zander Chown 2025
Aarathi Prasad, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
THE MILITARY IN DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY IN THE MILITARY
Billy Lee, 2023; Ilena Berro Pizzarossa, 2024
Yelena Biberman, Associate Professor, Political Science Department
ARE LOCAL VOTERS AS IGNORANT AS POLITICAL SCIENTISTS THINK THEY ARE?
Bella Bruno, 2025
Robert C. Turner, Associate Prof, Political Science Department
THE HOPE OF A HOOP HOUSE
Emily Chase, 2022 and Julia Danielson, 2022
Lowery Parker, Visiting Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Science Program
PROLINE ISOMERIZATION COMPENSATES FOR THE EFFECT OF PHOSPHORYLATION IN CONFORMATIONS OF THE DISORDERED RNA POLYMERASE II CTD
Ray East ‘23, Lizbeth Mendoza ’25, Wei Chen1, Scott Showalter1, Pennsylvania State University1
Aurelia Ball, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department
EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM CALORIC RESTRICTION ON CARDIOMETABOLIC MEASURES IN OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE INDIVIDUALS
Brigitte Yunda and Anna Churchill, 2023
Stephen J Ives, Associate Professor, Health and Human Physiological Sciences Department
Justin DeBlauw, Visiting Assistant Professor, Health and Human Physiological Sciences Department
CHEMICAL GENOMICS: EXPERIMENTAL INTERROGATION OF THE GOLGI APPARATUS IN THE GREEN ALGA, PENIUM MARGARITACEUM
Kaylee Bagdan, 2024
David Domozych, Professor of Biology and Director of the Skidmore Microscopy Imaging Center, Biology Department
Josie LoRicco, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biology
OXIDATION OF FATTY ACIDS IN THE PRESENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PHOTOSENSITIZERS
Emily Davis, 2023
Juan G. Navea, Professor, Department Chair, Chemistry Department
RESURRECTION OF ANCESTRAL ASPARTYL-tRNA SYNTHETASES
Lindsey Han, 2025
Kelly Sheppard, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department
CHARACTERIZING A SUBVOLCANIC MAGMA PLUMBING SYSTEM IN ICELAND
Caroline Rogers, 2024
Andrew Horst, Visiting Assistant Professor, Geosciences Department
PROCESSING PORTRAIT EMOTIONS IN ARTIST LIA COOK’S WOVEN TAPESTRIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS: EFFECT OF MEDIUM, HEMISPHERIC SPECIALIZATION, AND VIEWER EMOTIONAL STATE
Victoria Thorpe, 2023; Lilia Sattler, 2023; Kelby Wittenberg, 2023
Denise L. Evert, Associate Professor, Neuroscience Program and Psychology Department
EFFECTS OF ACID CONCENTRATION AND AQUEOUS WASHES ON TIO2 DOPED WITH FE AND CU
Johanna Nally, 2024, Ciaran Healey, 2024
Mayuri Roca, Senior Teaching Professor, Chemistry Department
DEVELOPMENT OF LOW-COST METHODS FOR ANALYZING IODIDE IN HYDROFRACKING FLOW BACK WATER
Leonard Ivan Parra Jr, 2024
Kimberly Frederick, Professor, Chemistry
PASSIVATION OF GOLD ANTIBODY NANOCONJUGATES FOR A FASTER WESTERN BLOT
Zack Barnet, 2024
Mayuri Roca, Senior Teaching Professor, Chemistry Department
ATMOSPHERIC MOBILITY OF IRON FROM SIMULATED COMBUSTION PARTICLES
Olivia Kazanjian, 2024 and Lyra Flinn, 2025
Juan G. Navea, Professor of Chemistry, Chair of the Chemistry Department
FOOD CAPACITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Morgan Hidalgo, 2024
Feryaz Ocakli, Associate Professor, Political Science Department & IA Program
GENE NERFIN-2 AMELIORATES DIP-α-MEDIATED NEUROMUSCULAR CONNECTIVITY DEFICITS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Bill Wu, 2023
Christopher G. Vecsey, Associate Professor, Neuroscience Program
HIDDEN TREASURES: REDISCOVERING LOST ART FROM THE 1980 WINTER OLYMPICS IN LAKE PLACID, NY
Maddie Egger, 2023, Evan Little, 2022
David Howson, Senior Teaching Professor and Arthur Zankel Executive Director of Arts Administration, Arts Administration
ANALYZING BINDING OF EACH SEGMENT OF A DISORDERED PEPTIDE TO AN SH3 DOMAIN
Adriana Cuibus, 2024; Ray East, 2023
Aurelia Ball, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF GLUCAN PHOSPHATASE STARCH EXCESS4
Kenyon Weis
Madushi Raththagala, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department
STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF STARCH EXCESS4 FROM STORAGE CROPS
Juan Carlos Cruz Vargas, 2023
Madushi U. Raththagala, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department
INVESTIGATING THE CO-ACTIVATION OF sNPF - AND LEUCOKININ -PRODUCING NEURONS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Ariana Tucker, 2024; Sophie Sacco, 2024
Christopher Vecsey, Associate Professor, Neuroscience Program
DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER AS A MODEL FOR EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT SIZED MICROPLASTICS ON CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS
Anika Eastman, 2025, Sara Burr, 2025, Ethan Hull, 2023
Bernard Possidente, Professor, Biology Department
INVESTIGATING ALLOSTERIC REGULATION OF STARCH EXCESS4 USING X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS
Sarah Sinnott and Murphy Alcantara, 2024
Madushi Raththagala, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department
PURIFICATION OF THE BACILLUS SUBTILIS TRANSAMIDOSOME COMPONENTS
Aya Awawdeh, 2022
Kelly Sheppard, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department
OPTOGENETIC STIMULATION OF NEUROPEPTIDE F NEURONS INDUCES SLEEP AND GROOMING BEHAVIOR IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Sophie Sacco, 2024; Ariana Tucker, 2024
Christopher Vecsey, Associate Professor, Neuroscience Program
CONCANAVALIN-BASED IN-VITRO SEDIMENTATION ASSAY TO DETERMINE BINDING AFFINITY OF GLUCAN PHOSPHATASES
Marissa Frenett, 2023, Natasha Machera, 2025
Madushi Raththagala, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department
DETERMINING THE EFFECTS OF LIGHT INTENSITY ON SLEEP IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Aaliyah J. Peralta, 2024
Christopher G. Vecsey, Associate Professor, Neuroscience Program
AQUEOUS STABILITY AND ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MANGANESE COMPOUNDS AS MIMICS OF SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE
Aidan Spengler, 2024
Steven Frey, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department
SH3 BINDING PATHWAY AND KINETICS IN THE PRESENCE OF SALT
Frida Anguiano, 2023
Aurelia Ball, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
STABILITY AND REACTIVITY OF A MANGANESE(II) COMPOUND WITH A TRIPODAL, PYRIDINE-CONTAINING LIGAND THAT MIMICS SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE
Samantha Claussen ‘23
Steven Frey, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department
DEVELOPMENT OF 3D PRINTED CHIPS FOR NITRATE DETECTION
Sophie McCullough, 2025
Kimberley A. Frederick, Professor, Chemistry Department
DELETION OF SNORD116, A PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME CANDIDATE GENE, DOES NOT AFFECT CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS IN MICE
Amr Fatafta, Maggie Arms, 2023
Bernard Possidente, Professor, Biology Department
STABILITY OF THE HIV VIF-A3F INTERFACE OVER TIME
Elizabeth Miller, 2023
Aurelia Ball, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-LAYER PAPER MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR ANALYSIS OF PHOSPHATE IN SOIL
Zoe Gleason, 2025
Kimberley A. Frederick, Professor, Chemistry Department
ASTROCYTES PROMOTE SLEEP IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Matthew Grega, 2023
Chris Vecsey, Associate Professor, Neuroscience Program
STABILITY OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES FOR AN OPTIMIZED WESTERN BLOT
Haru Kato, 2024
Mayuri Roca, Senior Teaching Professor, Chemistry Department
EVALUATION OF THE SUPPORT SYSTEMS ECOMAP FOR LGBTQ+ YOUTH
Minghuang Wang, 2023
June Paul, Assistant Professor, Social Work Department
HETEROGENOUS OZONOLYSIS OF CHEMISORBED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
Aida Castelblanco, 2023; Madison Bourassa, 2024
Juan G. Navea, Professor, Chair, Chemistry Department
DOES LITHIUM HAVE AN EFFECT ON THE CIRCADIAN RHYTHM OF A TRANSGENIC DROSOPHILA MODEL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE?
Jessica Auerbach, 2023
Bernard Possidente, Professor, Biology Department
4-BENZOYLBENZOIC ACID AS A MOLECULAR PHOTOSENSITIZER IN THE CONVERSION OF NO2 INTO HONO
Syafira Nurlita’23 and Roman Montenegro’24
Juan Navea, Professor, Department Chair, Chemistry Department
ANTHRACIS INDIRCT PATHWATY FOR ASPARAGINYL-TRNA FORMATION
Michelle Sawunyama, 2024
Kelly Sheppard, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department
BINDING EFFECTS OF A KEY NEGATIVE CHARGED RESIDUE MUTATION ON THE BINDING PATHWAY OF SH3 DOMAIN COMPLEX AND ARKA PEPTIDE
Oluebube Onwuzulu, 2024
Aurelia Ball, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department
PROLINE ISOMERIZATION AND ITS EFFECT ON SH3 BINDING
Lizbeth Mendoza ‘25
Aurelia Ball, Associate Professor, Chemistry Department