Carstens David '21, "On the Advantage and Disadvantage of Democracy for the English Language"
Mentor: Fred Baumann, professor of political science
Kieran Allsop '20, "Cost of Community Services Study - Knox County"
Mentor: Katie Black, assistant professor of economics
Isaac Susser '21, "Connecting Small Farms to Consumers: a computational project on rural sustainability."
Mentor: Jim Skon, professor of mathematics and computer science
Joseph DeAngelo '21, "Jews and the Great War: Understanding WWI Through Jewish Oral History"
Mentor: Eliza Ablovatski, associate professor of history
Charlotte Marshall, Alasia Destine-DeFreece '21, "A Podcast Series on “Commitment as Traveling Theory: Politics in Modern Arabic Literature”
Mentor: Qussay Al-Attabi, assistant professor of Arabic
Sutton Amthor '21, "A Shared Messenger: The Archangel Gabriel and the Development of Angelic Discourse in Christianity and Islam during the Early Medieval Period"
Mentor: David Maldonado Rivera, assistant professor of religious studies
Devin Bean '20, "St. Brigid in the Irish Literary Revival: 1890-1920"
Mentor: Bruce Kinzer, professor of history
Rose Bialer '20, "Trans and Non-Binary Health Care Provision in the U.S. South"
Mentor: Austin Johnson, assistant professor of sociology
Hanna Feuer '21, "You’ve come a Long Way Kenyon: Daily Life & Culture of Kenyon’s First Co-education Classes"
Mentor: Wendy Singer, Roy T. Wortman Distinguished Professor of History
Willow Green '21, "Dance as a Cultural Artifact: The Living Legacy of Latvian Folk Dance"
Mentor: Julie Brodie, professor of dance
Emma Becker '22, "Non-natural conjugation of natural products to carbohydrates"
Mentor: Mo Hunsen, professor of chemistry
Alanta Budrys '21, "Genetics and evolution of seasonal plant reproduction"
Mentor: Karen Hicks, professor of biology
Jo Bùi '22, "Genetics and evolution of seasonal plant reproduction"
Mentor: Karen Hicks, professor of biology
Julia Eckberg '21, "Biodiversity Science"
Mentor: Drew Kerkhoff, professor of biology
Christopher Goodall '22, "Comparative ecophysiology of diverse Sphagnum magellanicum populations" Mentor: Chris Bickford, associate professor of biology
Jeremy Kauffman '21, "Molecular biology of regeneration in Lumbriculus variegatus"
Mentor: Kathy Gillen, assistant professor of biology
Kirollos Mikhaeel '22, "Non-natural conjugation of natural products to carbohydrates"
Mentor: Mo Hunsen, professor of chemistry
Grace Ryder '21, "Biodiversity Science"
Mentor: Drew Kerkhoff, professor of biology
Armiya Shaikh '21, "Coding Theory: Search for Better Codes"
Mentor: Nuh Aydin, professor of mathematics
Nell Simons '22, "Molecular mechanisms of axon and glial cell development"
Mentor: Sarah Petersen, Ashby Denoon Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Alice Tillman '21, "Reproductive Immunology"
Mentor: Arianna Smith, assistant professor of biology
Tomohisa Yoda '22, "Ultracold Rydberg Atoms"
Mentor: Aaron Reinhard, associate professor of physics
Sumaya Ahmed '22, The Growth of Salicylate-Tolerant strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens and Escherichia coli in pH, antibiotic-, and oxygen-stressed conditions."
Mentor: Joan Slonczewski, professor of biology
Elizabeth Apunda '22, "The effects of Phage P1vir on Escherichia coli evolved in benzoate"
Mentor: Joan Slonczewski, professor of biology
Afomia Ayele '21, "Molecular Interactions Shaping Migration of Glial Cells and Peripheral Axons in Danio Rerio"
Mentor: Sarah Petersen, Ashby Denoon Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Bakdaulet Baitan '20, "A Prediction-Based Study of the Effect of Bone Segmentation Uncertainty using a Combined Finite Element and Statistical Experimental Model"
Mentor: Erin Leatherman, assistant professor of statistics
Suzanna Bator '20, "The Final Hurdles: Finishing a Library of Lactones for Polymerization"
Mentor: Yutan Getzler, associate professor of chemistry
Henry Biedron '21, "Picturing the Past: Photogrammetry of Ancient Maya Archaeological Contexts at Chan Chich, Belize"
Mentor: Claire Novotny, assistant professor of anthropology
Ethan Bradley '20, "Investigating the pathway by which Telmisartan rescues myelination in zebrafish" Mentor: Sarah Petersen, Ashby Denoon Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Michaela Brydon '21, "Poisson Count Data Estimation"
Mentor: Erin Leatherman, assistant professor of statistics
Rand Burnette '21, "Simulating Dark Matter as a Scalar Field on Realistic Mass Scales"
Mentor: Tom Giblin, associate professor of physics
Myanna Cook '21, "The Effects of Maternal Stress on TLR Expression in Mus musculus Alveolar Epithelial Cells"
Mentor: Arianna Smith, assistant professor of biology
Reed Crocker '20, "Investigating the regulatory potential of the klf9 lncRNA"
Mentor: Wade Powell, professor of biology
Sophia Dodd '20, "Finding Perishable Technologies: Fibers"
Mentor: Bruce Hardy, professor of anthropology
Phu Duong '21, "Immunolocalization of aeCCC2 in Aedes aegypti adult and larval whole guts"
Mentor: Christopher Gillen, professor of biology
Milo Eder '20, "State Mixing's Effect on the Rydberg Excitation Blockade"
Mentor: Aaron Reinhard, associate professor of physics
Kristen Edgeworth '20, "Assessing the functional conservation of ELF3-like and COP1-like proteins from Bryophytes to Angiosperms"
Mentor: Karen Hicks, professor of bology
Fiona Ellsworth '20, "The Relationship between Carbon Dynamics and Age in Restored Wetlands"
Mentor: Siobhan Fennessy, professor of biology; Philip and Sheila Jordan Professor in Environmental Studies
Geir Falck-Pedersen '20, "Analysis of Trace Metals in Aqueous Solution via Cloud Point Extraction and Thermal Lens Spectrometry"
Mentor: James Keller, professor of chemistry
Ali Fox '21, "Tissue-Specific Induction of Klf9 in Xenopus Laevis in response to Thyroid Hormone and Dioxin"
Mentor: Wade Powell, professor of biology
Chase Frederick '20, "LIGO Calibration Latency Reduction"
Mentor: Madeline Wade, assistant professor of physics
Alex Freidinger '20, "Exploring the mechanism of seasonal regulation of sexual development in Physcomitrella patens: Cycling DOF Factor-like genes"
Mentor: Karen Hicks, professor of biology
Thomas Guidotti '21, "The Search for New Record Breaking Codes"
Mentor: Nuh Aydin, professor of mathematics
Grant Hall '20, "Green Synthesis of Glucosyl Thiouronium Derivatives"
Mentor: Mo Hunsen, professor of chemistry
Xiaoxuan Hu '20, "Physiological responses of Sphagnum magellanicum to CO2 and temperature variations"
Mentor: Chris Bickford, associate professor of biology
Maria Huey '21, "Exploring the Nature of Scalar Field Dark Matter"
Mentor: Tom Giblin, associate professor of physics
Zachary LaRocca-Stravalle '21, "Analysis of Hox genes in Lumbriculus variegatus: Optimization of Molecular Techniques"
Mentor: Kathy Gillen, assistant professor of biology
Abby Lee '22, "The Effect of an Inhibitor on Escherichia coli Knockout Strains ΔacrA::kanR and ΔmdtE::kanR in Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions"
Mentor: Joan Slonczewski, professor of biology
Vincent Lewis '20, "The Quantum Wheel: Understanding the Emergence of Constraints"
Mentor: Benjamin Schumacher, professor of physics
Peihan Liu '22, "Search for Record-Breaking Codes"
Mentor: Noah Aydin, professor of mathematics
Julia Louizides '20, "Exploration of Healthcare Concerns Among Members of the Mt. Vernon, Ohio Community"
Mentor: Edward Schortman, J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology
Keely Lovato '20, "The effect of environmental changes on photosynthesis and respiration in Sphagnum magellanicum"
Mentor: Chris Bickford, associate professor of biology
James Loveland '22, "Summer science 2019: Discerning and linking electrical impedance in Sphagnum cells to relative water content in an effort to better measure photosynthesis"
Mentor: Chris Bickford, associate professor of biology
Joseph Lucaccioni '21, "Estimating the Equation of State of Neutron Stars Using Gravitational Wave Data"
Mentor: Leslie Wade, assistant professor of physics
Steven Lucas '21, "A Sensitivity Analysis of Knee Joint Pressures Observed Using a Combined Finite Element and Statistical Experimental Model"
Mentor: Erin Leatherman, assistant professor of statistics
Ezra Moguel '21, "Implementing LIGO Data filtering in the Time Domain"
Mentor: Madeline Wade, assistant professor of physics
Paul Neubauer '21, "Applications of Machine Learning in Low-latency LIGO searches for gravitational waves"
Mentor: Leslie Wade, assistant professor of physics
Jacqueline O'Malley '21, "Anomalous biodiversity patterns in bryophytes - evolutionary drivers and conservation implications"
Mentor: Drew Kerkhoff, professor of biology
Rodaba Rahim '22, "Characterization study: Effects of Antibiotics, pH and temperature in the presence of salicylate on gut microbe Enterococcus faecalis"
Mentor: Joan Slonczewski, professor of biology
Scott Shaffer '20, "A Dynamical Model of Big Bang Cosmology and Oscillon Formation"
Mentor: Tom Giblin, associate professor of physics
Liana Valin '21, "Sex-specific changes of lung microbiome diversity in offspring in the mouse model of prenatal stress"
Mentor: Arianna Smith, assistant professor of biology
Mingchi Xu '20, "The Quantum Keyhole Problem"
Mentor: Benjamin Schumacher, professor of physics
Allegra Fass '21, "Compact Cosmological Objects in Spherical Polar Coordinates"
Mentor: Tom Giblin, associate professor of physics
Kathryn Grutkoski '21, "Reheating with Scalar Field Dark Matter"
Mentor: Tom Giblin, associate professor of physics
Elise Hokanson '21, "Investigating the Relationship Between Cytosolic Ca2+ Fluctuations and Metabolism in Astrocytes"
Mentor: Sheryl Hemkin, professor of chemistry
Abby Plone '21, "Quantifying the Impact of State Mixing Interactions on the Rydberg Excitation Blockade" Mentor: Aaron Reinhard, associate professor of physics
Madeline Stover '20, "Studying the effect of realistic Advanced LIGO calibration error on modeled binary search statistics"
Mentor: Madeline Wade, assistant professor of physics
Katherine Tang '21, "Solutions to the Erdos-Straus Equation"
Mentor: Brian Jones, associate professor of mathematics