Presentation Schedule | Steinmetz Symposium

Session Title

Session I (08:30 AM - 10:10 AM)

Aerogels

Graphene Aerogels for Sustainable Environmental Solutions

Speakers

Georgia Pool

Faculty Sponsors

Mary Carroll

08:30 AM

Wold 128

Design of an Additive Manufacturing Machine for Aerogels

Speakers

Nick Gellrich

Faculty Sponsors

Ann Anderson
Mary Carroll

08:50 AM

Wold 128

Additive Manufacturing of Silica Aerogels: Ink Characterization and Process Optimization

Speakers

Audra McFarland

Faculty Sponsors

Ann Anderson

09:10 AM

Wold 128

Minimizing Aviation Ice Adhesion with Hydrophobic Aerogel Surfaces

Speakers

Abbey Ramsey

Faculty Sponsors

Ann Anderson

09:30 AM

Wold 128

An Affordable Haze Meter for Characterizing Aerogel Clarity

Speakers

Zachary Kalb

Faculty Sponsors

Ann Anderson

09:50 AM

Wold 128

Biochemistry & Chemical Biology

Assessing ScMCA-Ia Metacaspase Proteolytic Inhibition by Zinc and Arginine-based Compounds

Speakers

Adithi Chellappan

Faculty Sponsors

Kristin Fox

08:30 AM

Wold 225

Investigating The Role of Ions in Schizophyllum Commune Type-Ia Metacaspases

Speakers

Mehir Badlani

Faculty Sponsors

Kristin Fox

08:50 AM

Wold 225

Investigation of S. commune Type-Ia Metacaspase Proteolysis Using LC-MS and Mutagenesis

Speakers

Elma Dema

Faculty Sponsors

Kristin Fox

09:10 AM

Wold 225

Exploring the synthetic scope of Schizophyllum commune metacaspase I inhibitors

Speakers

Erik Roberts

Faculty Sponsors

Joanne Kehlbeck

09:30 AM

Wold 225

Biology I

Testing Depletion of RNF213 in Endothelial Cells To Reduce Lipotoxicity

Speakers

Maya Mitra

Faculty Sponsors

Ayon Ibrahim

08:30 AM

ISEC 387

Investigation of DRD4 VNTR Polymorphisms and ADHD-Related Traits in Humans

Speakers

Dana Aument

Faculty Sponsors

Steve Horton

08:50 AM

ISEC 387

Investigating the Molecular Mechanism of DS16570511 in Endothelial Fatty Acid Uptake

Speakers

Mridula Shanker

Faculty Sponsors

Ayon Ibrahim

09:10 AM

ISEC 387

Rescuing the Enemy: The Reversibility of Programmed Cell Death in Jurkat Leukemic T Cells

Speakers

Marissa Gnitzcavich

Faculty Sponsors

Robert Lauzon

09:30 AM

ISEC 387

Borrelia Burgdorferi antigens linked fusion proteins for use in an outer membrane vesicle based Lyme disease vaccine

Speakers

Adam Hecker

Faculty Sponsors

Stephanie Curley

09:50 AM

ISEC 387

Biomedical Engineering

Analysis of Various Fusion Protein Compositions in an Outer Membrane Vesicle-based Lyme Disease Vaccine

Speakers

Elizabeth Bias

Faculty Sponsors

Stephanie Curley

08:30 AM

ISEC 222

Mapping the Gut-Liver-Brain Axis: A Machine Learning Approach to Staging Mild Cognitive Impairment

Speakers

Araya Cserepy

Faculty Sponsors

Joshua Chuah

08:50 AM

ISEC 222

GLP-1 Drugs & Muscle Performance

Speakers

Molly Boyer

Reese Fendelet

Faculty Sponsors

Jennifer Currey

09:10 AM

ISEC 222

A Biomechanical Analysis of the iWALK Hands-Free Crutch on Upper Leg Musculature: Modeling Muscle Activation in Above-the-Knee Amputees

Speakers

Ashley Moore

Kat Bruun

Faculty Sponsors

Jennifer Currey

09:30 AM

ISEC 222

Classics I

Thriving Thespiai (or Not): Tracing the Survival of the Sanctuary of the Muses through the Hellenistic Gap

Speakers

Cora Bessette

Faculty Sponsors

Gregory Callaghan

08:30 AM

Karp 005

War Wounds and Arena Injuries: Surgical Adaptation in Human and Veterinary Medicine in Imperial Rome

Speakers

Claire DerKazarian

Faculty Sponsors

Angela Commito

08:50 AM

Karp 005

Hero Cults of Ancient Greece and Today

Speakers

Jackson Klein

Faculty Sponsors

Tommaso Gazzarri

09:10 AM

Karp 005

"Bedmates": A Case Study of Terms Applied to Wives and Enslaved Women in Homeric Epic

Speakers

Allison Shelley

Faculty Sponsors

Hans-Friedrich Mueller

09:30 AM

Karp 005

Reconstructing the Lost Recipe of Greek Fire: Byzantine Warfare and Experimental Chemistry

Speakers

Armaan Uppal

Faculty Sponsors

Tommaso Gazzarri
Christopher Whitehead

09:50 AM

Karp 005

English I

Ireland Through A Window: My Mother's Youth and an Evolving Nation

Speakers

Daniel Buletza

Faculty Sponsors

Jenelle Troxell
Claire Bracken

08:30 AM

Karp 105

Navigating In-Betweens: Close- and Distant Reading in the Digital

Speakers

Amelia Keese

Faculty Sponsors

Jenelle Troxell

08:50 AM

Karp 105

filia Dei: the intersectionality of a daughter of God

Speakers

Emely Montes

Faculty Sponsors

Jenelle Troxell

09:10 AM

Karp 105

"I Am Not That I Play:" A Critical Analysis of Drag and Shakespeare

Speakers

Cassandra DeGeorge

Faculty Sponsors

Jenelle Troxell
Dan Venning

09:30 AM

Karp 105

The Written Woman: How women used authorship in the 20th century to expose and conceal

Speakers

Amelia Davis

Faculty Sponsors

Jenelle Troxell
Jillmarie Murphy

09:50 AM

Karp 105

Geoscience I

Influence of Environmental Controls on Rice Grain Arsenic Concentrations in Cambodia: Insights from Soil Spectroscopy

Speakers

Amelia Casassa

Faculty Sponsors

Mason Stahl

08:30 AM

Olin 306

Coral Geochemistry Tracks Spatial Evolution of Surface Water in the Red Sea

Speakers

Andrea Olanescu

Faculty Sponsors

David Gillikin

08:50 AM

Olin 306

Atmospheric diagnostics investigate turbulence processes behind 21 May 2024 SQ321 severe turbulence event

Speakers

Zainab Al-Abbasi

Faculty Sponsors

Osamu Miyawaki

09:10 AM

Olin 306

Speleothem Isotope Records and Precipitation Dynamics in the Peruvian Andes

Speakers

Sophia Rodriguez

Faculty Sponsors

David Gillikin

09:30 AM

Olin 306

Spatial and temporal variation in tap water quality across Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Speakers

Zachary Dickinson

Faculty Sponsors

Mason Stahl

09:50 AM

Olin 306

Neuroscience I

Studying the Effects of Exergaming on Biomarkers Related to Mild Cognitive Impairment and Parkinson's Disease.

Speakers

Ruby Phillips-Levin

Faculty Sponsors

Brian Cohen
Cay Anderson-Hanley

08:30 AM

Bailey 207

Cognitive Function among Older Adults: Exploring the Role of Stress and Inflammatory Biomarker C-Reactive Protein (CRP)

Speakers

Sophie Brady

Faculty Sponsors

Cay Anderson-Hanley

08:50 AM

Bailey 207

Cognition, Gut-Brain Biomarkers, and Nutrition among those with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease

Speakers

Sam Corman

Faculty Sponsors

Cay Anderson-Hanley
Brian Cohen

09:10 AM

Bailey 207

Event Related Potential of Skill Learning in Unimpaired Participants: Replication and Extension of Findings

Speakers

Sara Harrow

Faculty Sponsors

Stephen Romero

09:30 AM

Bailey 207

A Frequency-Domain Analysis of Skill Learning in Unimpaired Participants: Replication and Extension of Findings

Speakers

Anna Zusi

Faculty Sponsors

Stephen Romero

09:50 AM

Bailey 207

Physics

Quantification and Modeling of Capsid Electrostatics for DNA Packaging

Speakers

Ahdaf Zaman

Faculty Sponsors

Cecilia Bores Quijano

08:30 AM

ISEC 120

A String-theoretic model for Strong Interactions

Speakers

Nabeel Naqvi

Faculty Sponsors

Nelia Mann

08:50 AM

ISEC 120

Exploration of Coordinates on a D-Brane Configuration through Induced Metrics and Action Principles

Speakers

Nolan Blake

Faculty Sponsors

Nelia Mann
Christina Tonnesen-Friedman

09:10 AM

ISEC 120

Eurocentricity is the Achilles Heel of Acoustics: An Acoustical Comparison of Performance Spaces at Union College

Speakers

Alex Roginski

Faculty Sponsors

Chad Orzel
Chris Chandler

09:30 AM

ISEC 120

Political Science I

The Unitary Executive Theory Realized: The Office of Legal Counsel on Privilege, Removal, and National Security

Speakers

Eleanor Peterson

Faculty Sponsors

Bradley Hays

08:30 AM

Lippman 016

Whereto After Woke Identitarianism: Hyperobjectivity, Neoliberalism, and Rhizomatic Universalism

Speakers

Guy Bellingrath

Faculty Sponsors

Robert Hislope

08:50 AM

Lippman 016

The National Mind: Political Authority, Collective Identity, and the Enduring Psychology of Nationalism

Speakers

Sydney Alphabet

Faculty Sponsors

Mariah Purol
Clifford Brown

09:10 AM

Lippman 016

How to Assess Responsibility?: Analysis of Argentina's Progressive Legal Trials, Human Rights Advocacy, and Global Rights Innovation in Response to the 1976-1983 Military Dictatorship

Speakers

Esther Lee

Faculty Sponsors

Guillermina Seri
Maite Cruz Tleugabulova

09:30 AM

Lippman 016

Psychology I

Investigating the effects of length of teacher feedback on student effort and performance

Speakers

Marcus Brem

Faculty Sponsors

George Bizer

08:30 AM

Bailey 312

Girl Math: How Internet Trends Influence Perceptions of Financial Decision-Making

Speakers

Elizabeth Paykuss

Faculty Sponsors

George Bizer

08:50 AM

Bailey 312

Translating Japanese Onomatopoeia for English Manga: A Cognitive Cross-linguistic Comparison of Sound Symbolism Transferability

Speakers

Alanna Byrne

Faculty Sponsors

Chad Rogers
Junko Ueno

09:10 AM

Bailey 312

Politics Makes (Liberals) Puritans! Moral Judgments in Political and Personal Domains

Speakers

Talia Gitlin

Faculty Sponsors

Joshua Hart

09:30 AM

Bailey 312