Sessions Schedule

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Shruti Mahajan

Solence, Self-Portrait, & Ethervescence: A Creative Work in Virtual Reality

Speakers

Elaine Batts

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Cole Belmont Thomas Jordan

The Cuter, the Better: Baby Schema Effect Applied to Screen-faced Robot

Speakers

Aydana Djoroeva

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Nicholas Webb

Studying the effects of interactive large screen visualizations on mental health

Speakers

Ramissa Khan

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Shruti Mahajan

Baja SAE

Speakers

Oliver D'Anna Miles Teng-Levy

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

William Keat

Aero Team

Speakers

Maia Chapin

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Takashi Buma

The Intranasal Cleaning Sheath: Streamlining Nasal Endoscopic Procedures

Speakers

Molly Bannon Shayna Kantor Timothy McGarry

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Shane Cotter Joshua Chuah

Running and Deadlifting Form Analyzer Using Human Pose Estimation and Machine Learning

Speakers

Nicholas DeBaise Dylan Robichaud

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Michael Okwori

Exploring Disparities in Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatment Timeliness

Speakers

Shriya Biswas

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Jue Wang

In Search of Inquiry: Creating an Inquiry Based CHM-101 Laboratory Assignment to Improve Student Engagement

Speakers

Ferneidy Dotel

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Brandon Schabes Olivia Soliman Laura MacManus-Spencer

The Synthesis and Biological Reactivity of Copper(ii) and Nickel(ii) Dimeric Metallo-Organic Complexes

Speakers

Kennedy Alexis Abigail Bowman

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Laurie Tyler Colleen Connelly

Design of a Mechanical Spine to Reduce Neck Strain During Prolonged Surgical Operations

Speakers

Jack Anderson Johnny Horvath Jon Forbes

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Jennifer Currey Sagan Leggett

Mutagenesis to Improve Protein Expression and Study Proteolytic Sites in Metacaspases

Speakers

Amy Gagliardi

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Kristin Fox

Investigating HPV Vaccine Hesitancy

Speakers

Sriya Baru Elizabeth Bentsianov

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Marlow Guerrant

Dancing with Radicals: A Computational Investigation of the Vinyl + Nitrogen Dioxide Reaction

Speakers

Tri Le

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Timothy Barnum

Investigating the Role of the G459V Glucocorticoid Receptor Variant in Metabolic Syndrome

Speakers

Safa Ahmad

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Brian Cohen

Investigating the associations of parenting styles with parent-child gaslighting

Speakers

Marcus Brem

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Cameron Kay

Testing Maximum Matching Solvers in d-Partite Graphs

Speakers

Kurtik Appadoo Samuel Appleton

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Matthew Anderson

Controlling Soft Robots with Morphological Communication and SNNs

Speakers

Matthew Meek Thomas Breimer

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

John Rieffel

Nitrogen and Salt Pollution in Connecticut Streams: A Preliminary Study

Speakers

Nora Kliczewski

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Faculty Sponsors

Anouk Verheyden-Gillikin

Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Remote Wildlife Tracker for Wolves

Speakers

Mayra Morales Austin Gregory

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Chandra Pappu

Asymmetry Effects on Truncation Resonances in Acoustic Metamaterials

Speakers

Peter Schroder

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Hasan Al Babaa

Development of a library of annotated H-NMRs of amino acids

Speakers

Ewan Pavoni

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Joanne Kehlbeck

Chemical Recycling and Upcycling of Polylactic Acid Mixed Plastic Waste

Speakers

Vasilisa Palkova Ria Vij

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Olivia Soliman

Spatial Autocorrelation of Bone Material Stiffness and its Implications on Skeletal Toughness

Speakers

Brendan Long

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Andrew Rapoff

Designing a Rear Wheel / Four Wheel Clutch System for the 2025 Union SAE Baja Car

Speakers

Miles Teng-Levy

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

William Keat

Synthesis of TADDOLs as Enantioselective Organocatalysts

Speakers

Michael Reikes

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

George Riegel

Development of Low-Cost and Bidirectional Syringe Pumps for Soft Robotics Applications

Speakers

Krishamsu Subedi Chhetri Aryan Mayor

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

John Rieffel

Examining the Association Between Z-Drug Usage and Falls in Hospice Patients

Speakers

Samantha Rocco

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Carol Weisse

VANFIST: Versatile Autonomous Navigation for Flexible Industrial and Strategic Tasks

Speakers

Minh Phuc Nguyen Trung Ngo Hoang Tran

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Cherrice Traver

Differing Investment Strategies Among Single Individuals and Heterosexual Couples, And What This Reveals About Household Financial Decision-Making Dynamics.

Speakers

Kristen O'Shea

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

George Bizer Lewis Davis

Investigating Fatty Acid Uptake in Endothelial Cells Using a 3T3L1 Adipocyte Model

Speakers

Priya Patel Sophia Pappas

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Ayon Ibrahim

Spiral Stellar Wind Bubbles

Speakers

Nabeel Naqvi

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Francis Wilkin

Modal Analysis of a Toothpick Pattern Structure

Speakers

Spencer Walter

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Hasan Al Babaa

Analysis of Gait Disturbances and Cerebellar Dysfunction in a Spinocerebellar Ataxia-1 Mouse Model

Speakers

Rajveer Singh

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Leo Fleishman

Kinetics Study of alkaline hydrolytic degradation of PET Plastic bottle Waste into Useful Products

Speakers

Michael Rocco O'Krepky Melika Niakosari Ria Vij

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Olivia Soliman

Let's tok about s3x: Patterns and possibilities of utilizing TikTok to improve LGBTQ+ sexual health

Speakers

Maggie Weinstein Elizabeth Bentsianov

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Marlow Guerrant

Modeling Inner Surface Electrostatics of the Capsid for DNA Packaging of phi29

Speakers

Ahdaf Zaman

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Cecilia Bores Quijano

Performance Evaluation of Maximum Matching Algorithm Implementations

Speakers

Jeremy Perez

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Matthew Anderson

Deinonychus antirrhopus: A Union College's alum's lasting legacy

Speakers

Andrea Olanescu Christopher Brandreth

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Anouk Verheyden-Gillikin

Examining the Role of Fat-Related Proteins in Endothelial Cell Fatty Acid Uptake

Speakers

Abigail Trzepla

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Ayon Ibrahim

Comparing Facial Emotion Recognition Model Performance Across Different Demographics

Speakers

Aavasna Rupakheti

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Nicholas Webb

Lightcurve of Asteroid (1363) Herberta During its 2024 Apparition

Speakers

Abigail Ramsey Eduardo Castro Glauk Hizmo

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Francis Wilkin

Overall Satisfaction and Belonging at Union College Through Varying Fitness Environments

Speakers

Sage Stinson

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Mariah Purol

6

Biochemistry

Investigating Correlation of Biomarkers in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Speakers

Naomi Goldsmith

01:50 PM

Session: 6

Topic: Biochemistry

Faculty Sponsors

Brian Cohen

Investigating The Role of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated With Cortisol Activity in Metabolic Syndrome and Post-Bariatric Surgery Weight Loss Success

Speakers

Maya Jones Sophie Matsoukas

02:10 PM

Session: 6

Topic: Biochemistry

Faculty Sponsors

Brian Cohen

Investigating the binding properties of copper-based chemotherapeutics to ribonucleic acids

Speakers

Alexander Erickson

02:30 PM

Session: 6

Topic: Biochemistry

Faculty Sponsors

Colleen Connelly

Investigating the Biological Activity and Anticancer Properties of a Set of Copper(II) Complexes Containing Ethylenediamine Backbones

Speakers

Paige Tromblee

02:50 PM

Session: 6

Topic: Biochemistry

Faculty Sponsors

Laurie Tyler Colleen Connelly

Characterization of Schizophyllum commune Metacaspase Autoproteolysis and Cleavage Sites Using LC-MS

Speakers

Jake Karp

03:10 PM