URA Scholars Presenting at URCAD

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:52:50 -0400

Ayah Aligabi | Investigating the Neurological Links Associated with Immunity Using Drosophila Melanogaster as a Model Organism | Dr. Jeff Leips | Biological Sciences

Brady Allen, Frank Furtado, and Nathaniel Shindell | Benzoxazole Derivatives to Combat Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance | Dr. Paul Smith | Chemistry and Biochemistry

Chase Andre | Investigating MicroRNA Let7 In Cell Migration In Drosophila Melanogaster | Dr. Michelle Starz-Gaiano | Biological Sciences

James Angle | ¿Me Hace Sonar Gay Esta Voz? An Intercultural Study on the Perception of Speaker Sexuality in English and Spanish | Dr. Renée Lambert-Brétière | Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication

Chantal Nica Anicoche | Ti Sao Mi Ditoy: A Snapshot of the Phillippine Diaspora | Dr. Katherine Lashley | Psychology

Madeline Arbutus | The Life and Work of Design Professional, Alma Shon | Prof. Margaret Re | Visual Arts

Alex Armbruster | The Experience of Women in Jazz: The Genius of Ella Fitzgerald | Prof. Matt Belzer | Music

Courtney Arrington | A Parametric Analysis of the Number of Conditional Discriminations Taught Concurrently to Children with ASD | Dr. Mirela Cengher | Psychology

Thomas Azari | A Comparative Analysis of the Experience of Criminal Defendants in the US and Japanese Court Systems | Dr. Jeffrey Davis | Political Science

Mickayla Bacorn | Characterizing Nutrient Specificity of TonB-Dependent Transporters in Cellvibrio Japonicus | Dr. Jeffrey Gardner | Biological Sciences

Sierra Barber | The Effect of Anthropogenic Noise on Heterospecific and Conspecific Association Within the Genus Etheostoma | Dr. Tamra Mendelson | Biological Sciences

Jacob Brown | Constructing a Microscopy Interface in LabVIEW | Dr. Matthew Pelton | Physics

Dylan Chao | “Through the Lens”: An Exploration of Gender, Identity, and the Queer Asian-American Experience | Prof. Jules Rosskam | Visual Arts

Viridiana Colosio-Martinez | Bilingualism and Cultural Identity in the Latinx Community | Dr. Tania Lizarazo | Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication

Lami Damachi | A Qualitative Study of the Factors that Influence Dental Care During Pregnancy | Prof. Meryl Cozart | Public Health

Sergio Diaz | Investigating Dynamical Error Correction With Shaped Pulses on IBM Quantum Using the Qiskit Pulse Package | Dr. Jason Kestner | Physics

Thu Dinh | Positive Affect, Discrimination, and Blood Pressure in Racially Diverse Adults | Dr. Danielle Beatty Moody | Psychology

Jacob Doody | Spatiotemporal Model for Dynamics of Covid-19 | Dr. Bedrich Sousedik | Mathematics and Statistics

NnaEmeka Ejimogu | Investigating Mechanistic Details of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae arginyl-tRNA Transferase Using Site-directed Mutagenesis | Dr. Aaron Smith | Chemistry and Biochemistry

Michaela Emmerich | "Under This Roof"- Examining the Effect of Power Imbalances in a Family | Prof. Ann Sofie Clemmensen | Dance

Kevin Gibbons | Identifying Novel Deubiquitinating Enzymes that Regulate Mutant P53 in Ovarian Cancer Cells | Dr. Achuth Padmanabhan | Biological Sciences

Bailey Godwin | Testing The Role of Drosophila NPF as the Molecular Link Between Chronic Pain and Ethanol Sensitivity | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biological Sciences

Janae Gordon | Investigating the Impact of First Hand Exposure to E-Cigarette Vapor Through Olfactory Guided Behavioral Assays | Dr. Weihong Lin | Biological Sciences

Elyssa Kristine Marie Granados Lou | Examining Filipino-American Mental Health Attitudes, Needs, and Barriers to Help-Seeking | Dr. Anne Brodsky | Psychology

Joshua Gray | Exploring Stories Of Political Activism And Ideological Perpetuation In Black Religious Institutions | Prof. Ann Sofie Clemmensen | Dance

Garrett Hill | Phenotypic Characterization of Aspergillus Nidulans Protein Kinase PrkA | Dr. Mark Marten | Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering

Shamis Hired | Being Muslim Amidst the West: The Construction of Symbols of Terror | Dr. Yolanda Valencia | Geography and Environmental Systems

Timothy Huynh | Optogenetic Manipulation of the Reward System in Drosophila and its Effects on Brain Function and Behavior | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biological Sciences

Yoni Isaacs | At the Birth of Modern Socialism: A Comparative Study of the Ideas of Thomas Paine and Thomas Spence | Dr. Daniel Ritschel | History

Nneamaka Iwobi | Sexually Dimorphic Effect of the Alzheimer’s Associated Gene APPL in Drosophila | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biological Sciences

Kaily Johnson | Structure Function Analysis of Ovarian Cancer Oncogene Zinc-finger Protein 217 | Dr. Achuth Padmanabhan | Biological Sciences

Isabella Justice | Identifying Protein-Protein Interactions of Set3 and Set4 in Budding Yeast | Dr. Erin Green | Biological Sciences

Zulekha Karachiwalla | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Refugees’ Access to Health and Accessibility Resources in the United States | Dr. Foad Hamidi | Information Systems

Matthew Kelbaugh | Coverage of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and the 2008 Russo-Georgian War in Russian and Ukrainian Print Media | Prof. Vira Zhdanovych | Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication

Erin Kosloski | Categorizing Errors to Improve Learning Outcomes | Dr. Mirela Cengher | Psychology

Esenam Kpodo | Brinkmanship and Bluffing: A Comparative Analysis | Dr. Brigid Starkey | Political Science

Se Rin Lee | Understanding How Natural Reinforcers Regulate Spatial & Contextual Learning & Examining the Associated Sex Differences | Dr. Tara LeGates | Biological Sciences

Logan Lineburg | The Histological and Proteomic Effects of Hoxb13 Deletion in Mouse Prostate and Bulbourethral Glands | Dr. Charles Bieberich | Biological Sciences

Vendela Lundgren | The Port of Baltimore through a Lens of Abolition Ecologies | Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi | Geography and Environmental Systems

Sahar Mahate | Evaluation of NIH Policy Development Process | Dr. Katie Vance | Public Health

Sahar Mahate | The Impact of Vaping on the Integrity of the Olfactory Epithelium | Dr. Weihong Lin | Biological Sciences

Rohan Mandayam | Developing a Neural Network Model to Predict Algal Blooms on the Surface of Lake Erie | Dr. Pengwang Zhai | Physics

Kayla Massey | Choreographing Intersectionality: A Compositional Exploration of the Challenges Black Women Face | Prof. Shaness Kemp | Dance

Alexandra Misciagna | Identification of TonB-mediated Iron Transporters in the Gram-negative Bacterium Cellvibrio Japonicus | Dr. Jeffrey Gardner | Biological Sciences

Fanny Morfin-Reyes | Differentiating Genetic Manipulations in Drosophila Flies to Investigate Synaptic Refinement | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biological Sciences

Jane Nam | Influence of COVID-19 on First Generation vs. Non-First-Generation UMBC Undergraduate Students’ Academic Success | Dr. Susan Sonnenschein | Psychology

Jane Nam | Analyzing Academic Success in Disadvantaged vs. Advantaged UMBC Undergraduate Students | Dr. Susan Sonnenschein | Psychology

Nithya Navarathna | Determining the Link Between Nutrient Availability and Ovarian Cancer Metastasis | Dr. Achuth Padmanabhan | Biological Sciences

Harley Nguyen | Exploring Aspects of the Asian-American Identity through Contemporary Poetry | Prof. Lia Purpura | English

Aminba Musa | Identifying the Barriers Towards Access to Social Services Amongst Immigrants in the Baltimore Community | Dr. Kerri Evans | Social Work

Mickey Muscalli | 3d Printing Modular Amino Acid Components to Create Polypeptide Models | Dr. Stephen Freeland | Individualized Study

Phoebe Oh | The Distorted Self: An Interactive Exploration of Identity and Self-Perception | Prof. Evan Tedlock | Visual Arts

Eriberto Osorio | Population Survey of Invasive Nest Predators on Andros Island in the Bahamas | Dr. Kevin Omland | Biological Sciences

Crystal Parry | Characterizing the Activity of the UAS-roGFP-GRX1 Sensor in Drosophila Melanogaster | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biological Sciences

Kennedy Person | The Influence of Maternal Stress on the Regulation of GPR158 in Adolescent Mice | Dr. Laurie Sutton | Biological Sciences

Bella Possidente | Animating Bouboulina: An Interactive Painting Project | Dr. April Householder | Undergraduate Research and Prestigious Scholarships

Mackenzie Primrose | Escape From the Epithelium: A Role for Trol in Collective Border Cell Migration | Dr. Michelle Starz-Gaiano | Biological Sciences

Aiman Raza | Using Solar Tracking Technology to Study Year-Round Territoriality of the Northern Mockingbird | Dr. Kevin Omland | Biological Sciences

Omar Rekhi | Porting Fortran Comet Simulation Code to MATLAB | Dr. Roy Prouty | Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Kamran Ataran Rezai | Autonomous Navigation and Obstacle Prevention for Crazyflie Drone | Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin | Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Safa Riaz | Characterization of a Mouse Model with Telomere Shortening | Dr. Charles Biebreich | Biological Sciences

Roshnee Roberts | The Effects of Maternal Stress on the Development of Anhedonia in Offspring | Dr. Tara LeGates | Biological Sciences

Caleb Ruck | Identifying How Harmful Language Ideology Manifests and Spreads on Social Media Platforms | Dr. David Beard | Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication

Fouad Saiedy | The Use of Virtual Reality to Assess the Effect of Acute Stress on Food Selection in Emerging Adults | Dr. Charissa Cheah | Psychology

Mansoor Shehzad | Creating an Asynchronous Optical Sampling-Based THz-Imaging System to Detect Defects on Metal Armor | Dr. L. Michael Hayden | Physics

Mason Shuckman | Moffat Fitting and Iterative Registration of Synthetic Stellar Images in Preparation for Superresolution | Dr. Roy Prouty | Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Alexa Smith | Little Mountain Town: A Small Community’s Struggle with its Difficult History | Dr. Denise Meringolo | History

Owen Sparr | The Design and Synthesis of Fleximer Analogues of Telbivudine and Lamivudine | Dr. Katherine Seley-Radtke | Chemistry and Biochemistry

Aris Stovall | Investigating the Inheritance of Stress-Dependent Molecular Changes Through Paternal Pathways in Drosophila Melanogaster | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biological Sciences

Diego Iglesias Vega | Spatiotemporal Analysis of Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter in Two Urban Watersheds In Baltimore | Dr. Lee Blaney | Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering

Laura Ventura | The Role of Not1 in Gastrointestinal Distress in Drosophila Melanogaster: A Model For Autism and Gut Health | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biological Sciences

Ismael Watts-Ouattara | Preparation of Bifunctional Dendronized Gold Nanoparticles for Combination Chemotherapy | Dr. Marie-Christine Daniel | Chemistry and Biochemistry

Giuliana Weiss | Exploring Autistic America: Changing Persepctives of Autism Spectrum | Prof. Elaine MacDougall | English

Rachel Wesley | The Fourth Wall | Prof. Ann Sofie Clemmensen | Dance

Lauren Wotring | Understanding the Impact of Consent Decrees in the Music Industry on the Earnings of Songwriters in the United States | Dr. Jeffrey Davis | Political Science

Rianna Zacharias | Analyzing the Expression of Shroom3 in the Zebrafish Anterior Neural Plate | Dr. Rachel Brewster | Biological Sciences