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Submissions from 2022
Audience Member’s Parasocial Relationship to Twitch Streamers, Zoe Miller and Patrick Ewell
Seeing Double: Assortative Mating in the North American Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica erythrogaster, Omar J. Morosse and Iris Levin
The Effects of Land Restoration Techniques of Post- agricultural Soil on Mycorrhizal Colonization, Liz Navratil, Ruth Heindel, and Siobhan Fennessy
Elizabeth Inchbald: Professional Woman Writer, Zoe Neirink and Margaret Yoon
Power Study of Nonparametric Tests for Interaction in Two-Way ANOVA, Andrew Nguyen and Bradley A. Hartlaub
Hoskins Frame Summer Science Writing Scholars, Lara O'Callaghan, Imani Rucker, Bryn Savidge, et al.
An Updated Database of ℤ4 codes, Vishad Onta and Nuh Aydin
An algorithm to find elements of large order in Z∗N, Suarav R. Pandey, Ghaith Hiary, and Jonathan Hales
Assessing Methods for RNA Interference in Lumbriculus Variegatus, Iris Pardue and Kathy Gillen
Origin of the Coupling of Retinoic Acid to Hindbrain Segmentation, Erika A. Pontillo, Alice M.H. Bedois, Hugo Parker, et al.
Knox County Intel Perspectives, Joseph Pozo and Katie Black
Synchronous Swallows: How Breeding Synchrony Changes with Colony Size, Ammar Ralsan and Iris Levin
Characterizing Circadian Regulation of the Physcomitrium Patens Transcriptome, Sofia Rehrig, Lauren Woodward Hartzler, and Karen A. Hicks
Examining Exposure to Particulate Matter Along an Urban-Agricultural Gradient, Sadie Richards and Ruth Heindel
Free Riders and Fortresses: Understanding Housing Spillover Effects, Peter Sachs and David Foster
Dirac-Born-Infeld Inflation, Sophie Schmitz and Tom Giblin
Investigating the Coherence Time of Three-Body Mixed States Through Ramsey Interferometry, Dilara Sen and Aaron Reinhard
Upgrading the MOT to Observe Three-Body State Mixing of RB 43D5/2 States, Lucy Shamel and Aaron Reinhard
Evaluating The Effect of Maternal Prenatal Corticosterone Treatment on MCT8 Expression in the Mouse Placenta, Colin Shin, Alejandro Paulino, and Arianna Smith
Understanding Regional Dominance in South Asia: Neocolonialism or a New Era?, Samyak Shrestha and Wendy Singer
Cation Transport Activity of Drosophila Ncc83 Expressed in Oocytes, Hemmi Song and Christopher Gillen
Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbance and Restoration on Microbial Community Metabolic Profiles in Ohio Wetlands, Rachael Tomasko and Siobhan Fennessy
Lipophilic Weak Acids Select Against Multidrug Resistance in E. coli K-12, Andrew M. Van Horn, Yangyang Liu, Rachel Chen, et al.
The Effect of pH Stress on E. faecalis OG1RF Biofilm Formation, Ayman Wadud and Joan Slonczewski
Manufacturing Unity: How Populists Use History and National Identity to Win, Ashita Wagh and Pamela Camerra-Rowe
An Examination of James Baldwin's Faith, Benjamin Weiner and Matthew Suazo
Object Biographies: Queer Experiences in Central Ohio, Ocean Wei and Khadene Harris
Determining if RNAi Can Reduce Actin Expression in Lumbriculus variegatus, Boyu Yang and Kathy Gillen
Relationship between Mental and Physical Health Disparities in Knox County, Yuqi (Jill) Zheng and Jessie Greenlee
Submissions from 2020
Correlation of Childhood Adversity and Perceptions of Media, Henry W. Biedron and Patrick J. Ewel
Compact Structures in Nonlinear Gravity, Allegra Fass and Tom Giblin
More than just nicotine – A comparison of tobacco and e-cigarette in utero exposure on offspring gene expression in the brain, Sebastian Georg Gaese and Anna Dorothea Asimes
A novel zebrafish mutant, stl159, exhibits defects in sensory axon and glial patterning, Lauren Limbach, Afomia Ayele, Kristen Pitts, et al.
Polycyclic Codes, Paul Liu, Bryan Yoshino, and Nuh Aydin
What to Do After You Lose? Examining Cases of Post-Enactment Opposition to Federal Policy in the Postwar Era, Logan Reimbold-Thomas
Biophysical Model of the Serine Shuttle, Aleksandr Smirnov and Sheryl Hemkin
Influence of Thickness and Temperature on Electronic Transitions of Bi2Se3 Thin Films, Xiaoyu Wang, Frank Peiris, Maria Hilse, et al.
Submissions from 2019
Effects of uncoupler Sodium Salicylate on Pseudomonas fluorescens, Sumaya T. Ahmed, Rodaba Rahim, and Joan Slonczewski
The Effects of Phage P1 Vir on Benzoate Evolved Escherichia coli strains in Salicylate, Benzoate and media adjusted to pH 7 and pH 6.5, Lizzy Apunda and Joan Slonczewski
Mechanisms Shaping Migration of Glial Cells and Peripheral Axons in Danio Rerio, Afomia Ayele, Lauren Limbach, Kristen Pitts, et al.
Experimental Design Using Regression Trees, Bakdaulet Baitan and Erin R. Leatherman
The Final Hurdles: Finishing a Library of Lactones for Polymerization, Suzanna Bator and Yutan D.Y.L. Getzler
In vivo identification of small molecules mediating Gpr126/Adgrg6 signaling during Schwann cell development, Ethan Bradley, Rebecca Cunningham, Caroline Wilde, et al.
Parameter Estimation Of Overlapping Poisson Data, Michaela Brydon, Erin R. Leatherman, Kenneth J. Ryan, et al.
Designing a Strong Lewis Acid MOF Catalyst for Continuous Flow Catalysis, Carter U. Brzezinski
Knockout of COP1-like genes causes early reproduction in Physcomitrella patens, Jo Bùi, Viktoriya Coneva, and Karen Hicks
Computationally Predicting Protein Structure using RosettaCommons with sparse experimental SID data, Shane Canfield, Justin Seffernick, and Steffen Lindert
The Effects of Maternal Stress on TLR Expression in neonatal Mus musculus Alveolar Epithelial Cells, Myanna Cook and Arianna Smith
Sequencing the elusive klf9 lncRNA in the frog Xenopus tropicalis, Reed Crocker and Wade H. Powell
Finding Perishable Technologies: Fibers, Sophie Dodd and Bruce Hardy
Expression and functional characterization of insect sodium-dependent cation chloride cotransporters, Phu Duong and Christopher M. Gillen
Anomalous biodiversity patterns in bryophytes, Julia Eckberg, Jackie O'Malley, Susy Echeverría-Londoño, et al.
Quantifying the Impact of State-Mixing on the Rydberg Excitation blockade, Milo Eder, Abigail Plone, Tom Yoda, et al.
Assessing the functional conservation of ELF3-like and COP1-like proteins from Bryophytes to Angiosperms, Kristen N. Edgeworth, Alanta Budrys, Viktoriya Coneva, et al.
Carbon Fluxes in Restored Wetlands: Comparisons with Natural Systems, Fiona Ellsworth, Siobhan Fennessy, and Grace Gavazzi
Trace-Metal Analysis of Cobalt and Mercury in Aqueous Solution via Complementary Duel Thermal Lens and Cloud Point Extraction Technique, Geir Falck-Pederson and James Keller
Tissue-Specific Induction of klf9 in Response to Thyroid Hormone and Dioxin in Xenopus laevis, Ali Fox and Wade H. Powell
Swept Sine Injections & Digital Filtering Techniques in LIGO Calibration, Chase Frederick and Madeline Wade
Cycling DOF Factor-like genes play a role in sexual reproduction in the moss Physcomitrella patens, Alex Freidinger, Shawn Ruiz, Jo Bùi, et al.
Designing a floating wetland island: improving water quality at the Kokosing Nature Preserve, Grace Gavazzi, Siobhan Fennessy, and Fiona Ellsworth
Characterizing physiological diversity of light responses in Sphagnum magellanicum, Chris Goodall and Christopher P. Bickford
One-pot synthesis of glycosyl β-thiols, Grant Hall, Emma Becker, Kirollos Nader, et al.
Varied Passive Flux: Alterations to Previous Models for Calcium Oscillations in Astrocytes, Sheryl Hemkin and Elise Hokanson
Scalar Field Dark Matter, Maria Huey and Tom Giblin
Apparent TPU limitation in Sphagnum magellanicum Driven by Respiratory Carbon Flux, Xiaoxuan Hu and Christopher P. Bickford
Clade Determination of Our Lumbriculus variegatus, Jeremy Kauffman
Analysis of Hox Genes along the A-P Axis in Lumbriculus variegatus, Zachary LaRocca-Stravalle and Kathy M. Gillen
The Effect of Sodium Salicylate on Escherichia coli Knockout Strains Δ acrA kanR and Δ mdtE kanR, Abby Lee and Joan Slonczewski
The Quantum Wheel, Vincent Lewis and Benjamin Schumacher
Exploration of Healthcare Concerns Among Residents of Knox County, Ohio, Julia Louizides and Edward Schortman
Thermal and Fluorescent Imaging in Sphagnum magellanicum, Keely S. Lovato, Joseph R. Stinziano, Laura E. Green, et al.
The Impact Of Temperature Change and Ambient CO2 On Electron Transport Rate In Sphagnum magellanicum, James P. Loveland and Christopher P. Bickford
Piecewise Polytrope Parameterization for Neutron Star Equation of State, Joe Lucaccioni and Leslie Wade
Guassian Process Models for Quantitative and Qualitative Inputs, Steven Lucas and Erin R. Leatherman
Investigating the effects of M129V mutation on human prion protein wild-type and A117V variant, Yiyi Ma, May Zin Hlaing, Hanj Dao, et al.
Reducing Latency in LIGO Data Calibration, Ezra Moguel and Madeline Wade
Biophysical Characterization and Sequence Analysis of Core Variants of Rop in Escherichia coli, Ryan Nader, Tianqi Guo, Charu Jain, et al.
Development of Neural Networks for use in LIGO Low-Latency Gravitational-Wave Searches, Paul Neubauer, Madeline Wade, and Leslie Wade
Using Python to Study the Rydberg Excitation Blockade, Abigail Plone, Tom Yoda, and Aaron Reinhard
The Effects of Evolution in Sodium Salicylate on Gram Positive Bacillus Subtilis, Rodaba Rahim, Sumaya Ahmed, and Joan Slonczewski
Improving Fossil Leaf Characteristic Predictions, Grace Ryder
Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptors as a Potential Druggable Target for PNS Myelination, Nell Simons, Ethan Bradley, and Sarah Petersen
Calibration Uncertainty of Advanced LIGO and its Effect on Search Sensitivity, Madeline Stover and Madeline Wade
Existence and Character of Solutions to the Erd}os-Straus Equation, Katerina Tang and Brian Jones
Effects of Maternal Stress During Pregnancy on Epidermal Composition in Offspring, Alice TIllman and Arianna Smith
Evaluating Chronic Prenatal Stress and High-Mobility Box Protein 1 (HMGB1) Expression in Trophoblast Cells: Implications for Preeclampsia?, Liana Valin and Arianna Smith
The Quantum Keyhole Problem, Mingchi Xu and Benjamin Schumacher
Studying Effect of State Mixing on Rydberg Excitation Blockade, Tom Yoda, Milo Eder, Abigail Plone, et al.
Submissions from 2018
Shift operators on directed infinite graphs, Aahan Agrawal, Astrid Berge, Seth Colbert-Pollack, et al.
Exploring a Novel Vinylogous Aldol Reaction to Stereoselctively Synthesize All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters, Yara Awwad and John E. Hofferberth
Ultracold Plasma Dynamics in a Radio Frequency Field, Fernanda Banic Viana Martins, James S. Keller, and Edward R. Grant
Growth Mechanisms of Escherichia coli and their Effect on Antibiotic Resistance, Julia Borys and Joan Slonczewski
Evaluation of Xenobiotic Transport of Xanthene Dyes in Adult Aedes aegypti, Ty Boyd and Matthew F. Rouhier
Synthesis of a Scaffold Molecule for Efficient Peptide Stapling and Conjugation, Shane Canfield and Dehua Pei
Cinnamoylation of Free Sugars, Clare Chou, Mackenzie Bruzzio, and Mo Hunsen
The Effect of Acute Stress on Voluntary Ethanol Consumption in BTBR T+tf/j Mice, Alejandra Colmenares and Hewlet McFarlane
Design and implementation of an optical system to study the Rydberg Excitation blockade, Milo Eder, Andrew Lesak, and Aaron Reinhard
Gene Discovery Efforts at Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research at Boston Children’s Hospital, Morgan Engmann
Solutions to the Erdös Straus Equation: Existence and Character, Anna Gerhardinger and Brian Jones
Eastern Bluebird Egg Color and Female Flight Ability, Meredith Glover, Sarah McPeek, and Jess Kotnour