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4

Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Baja SAE

Speakers

Oliver D'Anna Miles Teng-Levy

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

William Keat

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

Speakers

Safa Ahmad

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Brian Cohen

Controlling Soft Robots with Morphological Communication and SNNs

Speakers

Matthew Meek Thomas Breimer

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

John Rieffel

Exploring Disparities in Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatment Timeliness

Speakers

Shriya Biswas

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Jue Wang

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

Speakers

Elaine Batts

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Cole Belmont Thomas Jordan

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

Speakers

Nicholas DeBaise Dylan Robichaud

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Application of An Ethidium Bromide Displacement Assay to Observe the Interaction Between DNA and Oxazole-based Copper Complexes

Speakers

Luisa Arizpe Sierra

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Colleen Connelly Laurie Tyler

Pitching Training Aid

Speakers

Emma Garabedian

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

William Keat

Understanding the role of sexual selection in speciation by studying the secondary sexual traits of the Drosophila Melanogaster species

Speakers

Khadija Amir

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Roman Yukilevich

Mapping Chaos to Evaluate LPI Characteristics of Radar Systems

Speakers

Max Helfrich Louis Rahilly

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

The Effect of Varying Temperatures on Metacaspase Yield in Escherichia coli

Speakers

Adithi Chellappan

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Kristin Fox

The Theory of Virtuous Violence in the US and Brazil

Speakers

Sara Harrow

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Cameron Kay

Optimizing the solid-phase synthesis of amphiphilic peptoid sequences for the assembly of gold embedded nanosheets

Speakers

Khadija Amir

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Ellen Robertson

Investigating HPV Vaccine Hesitancy

Speakers

Sriya Baru Elizabeth Bentsianov

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Marlow Guerrant

Cricket: Biomechanical analysis of Fast Bowling in Cricket

Speakers

Muhammad Farooq Memon Zuhair AlMassri

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Shane Cotter

Node Graph Music Synthesis

Speakers

Harmon Cleary

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Cherrice Traver

Aero Team

Speakers

Maia Chapin

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Takashi Buma

Mutagenesis to Improve Protein Expression and Study Proteolytic Sites in Metacaspases

Speakers

Amy Gagliardi

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Kristin Fox

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

Speakers

Ferneidy Dotel

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Brandon Schabes Olivia Soliman Laura MacManus-Spencer

Ego and academic ethics: Investigating the association of narcissistic antagonism, agentic extraversion, and neuroticism with academic entitlement and academic dishonesty.

Speakers

Trishikha Kiran Rao

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering I

Faculty Sponsors

Cameron Kay

Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

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

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

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

Remote Wildlife Tracker for Wolves

Speakers

Mayra Morales Austin Gregory

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Synthesis of TADDOLs as Enantioselective Organocatalysts

Speakers

Michael Reikes

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

Spiral Stellar Wind Bubbles

Speakers

Nabeel Naqvi

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

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

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

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

Modal Analysis of a Toothpick Pattern Structure

Speakers

Spencer Walter

12:30 PM

Session: 4

Topic: Posters: Natural Sciences and Engineering II

Faculty Sponsors

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

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

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

Session: 6

Topic: Biochemistry

Faculty Sponsors

Kristin Fox

Biology I

Eyes, Antennae, and Appendages: Defining the dimensions of the mantis shrimp "strike zone"

Speakers

Quincy Brown

01:50 PM

Session: 6

Topic: Biology I

Faculty Sponsors