Jorge Dumenigo '21, "Immigrant Worker Project"
Mentor: Nancy Powers, CSAD assistant director, assistant professor of political science
Cassandra Hudson-Heck '19, "Immigrant Worker Project on Rural Immigrant Communities in Ohio"
Mentor: Nancy Powers, CSAD assistant director, assistant professor of political science
Delaney Barker '20, "Voting Rights Cases in Reconstruction Era Ohio"
Mentor: Ric Sheffield, professor of sociology and legal studies, distinguished professor in diversity and inclusion
Zhiyue Guang '19, "Research Into Chinese State-Society Relations"
Mentor: Michelle Mood, assistant professor of political science and Asian studies
Sawyer Hiton '19, "Brain on Trial: Confronting the Tensions of Neurolaw"
Mentor: Joel Richeimer, professor of philosophy
Michaela Jenkins '19, "Understanding Modes of Civic Education in Rural Ohio"
Mentor: Shaun Golding, assistant professor of sociology
Sarah Jensen, "Mass Shootings and Mental Illness: Public Perceptions, Policy Responses, and Legal Action"
Mentor: Abbie Erler, associate professor of political science
Meghna Kulshrestha '20, "Examining Remorse and the Death Penalty in India"
Mentor: Ric Sheffield, professor of sociology and legal studies, distinguished professor in diversity and inclusion
Josh McClain '19, "Victims' Rights in the U.S., U.K., and Germany: A comparative discussion of policy outcomes"
Mentor: Abbie Erler, associate professor of political science
Brooks McCoy '19, "Judicial Review and Policy Feedback: Undermining Policy by Challenging its Constitutionality"
Mentor: Abbie Erler, associate professor of political science
Mustafa Aziz '19, " The Thought of Ibn ‘Arabi and its Influence on Sufism in South Asia"
Mentor: Vernon Schubel, professor of religious studies
Joseph DeAngelo '21, "The First World War Jewish Refugee Crisis and the Autobiographies of East European Jews"
Mentor: Eliza Ablovatski, assistant professor of history
Oscar Dow '19, "Exploring Abstract Narratives Through Artistic Experimentation"
Mentor: Claudia Esslinger, professor of art
Marc Delucchi '20, "Predicting Professional Baseball Performance from College Baseball Performance"
Mentor: Katie Black, assistant professor of economics
Pilar Hoye '19, "How Shared Language Played into the Brutality of the Balkan Wars"
Mentor: Dave Suggs, professor of anthropology
Kathleen Duffy '20, "Food Will Not Bring Us Close to God? Women Mystics, Food, Eucharist and Relationality in the Early-Modern Transatlantic"
Mentor: David Maldonado Rivera, assistant professor of religious studies
Brent Matheny '19, "A Man of Infinite Letters: Examining the relation between Georg Cantor’s public mathematics and private philosophical correspondences"
Mentor: Jason Waller, associate professor of philosophy
Evangeline Warren '19, "Low Income People and Rural Health Care"
Mentor: Austin Johnson, assistant professor of sociology
Daniel Olivieri '19, "Mapping Ancient Texts: Visualizing the Second Punic War"
Mentor: Micah Myers, assistant professor of classics
Rebecca Allen '19, "Low-Income Women and Rural Health Care: the Provider’s Perception"
Mentor: Austin Johnson, assistant professor of sociology
Lucas Kreuzer '20, "Mapping the Industrial History of Mount Vernon, Ohio"
Mentor: Pam Camerra-Rowe, professor of political science, and Eric Holdener, assistant professor of physics
Yara Awwad '2o, "Exploring a Novel Vinylogous Aldol Reaction"
Mentor: John Hofferberth, professor of chemistry
Sabrina Halavi '20, "Brainwave studies of face perception"
Mentor: Andrew Engell, Lodish Faculty Development Assistant Professor in Natural Sciences, assistant professor of psychology
David Han '21, "Forest Ecology and Computational Biodiversity Science"
Mentor: Andrew Kerkhoff, professor of biology
Grant Hall '20, "Synthesis of carbohydrate-conjugated N- and S-glycosides"
Mentor: Mo Hunsen, professor of chemistry
Xiaoxuan Hu '20, "Ecophysiology of Sphagnum magellanicum"
Mentor: Chris Bickford, associate professor of biology
Maria Huey '21, "Visualizing the Early Universe"
Mentor: Tom Giblin, associate professor of physics
Nyota Mbuyu '20, "Bird flight ecology and evolution"
Mentor: Natalie Wright, assistant professor of biology
Shawn Ruiz '21, "Genetics and evolution of seasonal plant reproduction"
Mentor: Karen Hicks, associate professor of biology
Armiya Shaikh '21, "Coding Theory: Search for Better Codes"
Mentor: Nuh Aydin, professor of mathematics
Nicole Steady '21, "Mosquito Toxin Research"
Mentor: Matt Rouhier, visiting assistant professor of chemistry
Kai Wilczewski-Shirai '21, "Mapping the metabolic pathway from isoleucine to beta-alaine"
Mentor: Kerry Rouhier, associate professor of chemistry
Weichen Zhao '20, "Regulation of klf9 transcription during tadpole metamorphosis"
Mentor: Wade Powell, professor of biology
Fernanda Banic Viana Martins '19 "BBO superlattice approach to photon entanglement"
Mentor: James Keller, associate professor of chemistry
Julia Borys '21, "Significance of leuE, sohA, and idnR Mutations Found within Potassium Benzoate-Evolved Escherichia coli"
Mentor: Joan Slonczewski, Robert A. Oden, Jr. Professor of Biology
Ty Boyd '20, "Evaluation of Photodynamic Dye Molecules as Larvicides Against the Mosquito (Aedes aegypti)"
Mentor: Matt Rouhier, visiting assistant professor of chemistry
Julia Cashell '19, "American Internet Culture: A Case Study of Social Media on Individual and Social Impacts"
Mentor: Sam Pack, associate professor of anthropology
Clare Chou '19, "One-pot synthesis of glycosyl thiocyanate compounds from simple sugars"
Mentor: Mo Hunsen, professor of chemistry
Matthew Cole '19, "Investigation of Xenopus laevis aryl hydrocarbon receptor alloallele function in cell cycle regulation"
Mentor: Wade Powell, professor of biology
Alejandra Colmenares '19, "Investigating Differences in Voluntary Ethanol Consumption Between Unstressed and Acutely Stressed BTBR T+tf/j Mice"
Mentor: Hewlet McFarlane, professor of neuroscience
Margaret Ellingwood '20, "Mount Vernon Farmers' Market Eleven Years Later: Attitudes Towards Local Food"
Mentor: Kimmarie Murphy, associate professor of anthropology
Alexander Freidinger '20, "Analysis of the mechanism of seasonal regulation of sexual initiation in Physcomitrella patens: Cycling DOF Factor gene Pp3c3_26370"
Mentor: Karen Hicks, associate professor of biology
Anna Gerhardinger '19, "Solutions of the Erdos-Straus Equation: Existence and Character"
Mentor: Brian Jones, associate professor of mathematics
Sarah Griswold '20, "The Sphagnum Project: Photosynthesis and Respiration"
Mentor: Chris Bickford, associate professor of biology
Andrew Herbelin '21, "Construction and Factorization of Multi-perfect Numbers"
Mentor: Judy Holdener, professor of mathematics
Hannah Hertz '19, "Temperature-Responsive Expression of DET1 Homologs and Role in Sexual Reproduction in the moss Physcomitrella patens"
Mentor: Karen Hicks, associate professor of biology
Elizabeth Hoover '19, "Mount Vernon Farmers' Market 11 Years Later: Attitudes Towards Local Food"
Mentor: Bruce Hardy, John B. McCoy Bank One Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology
Austin Hulse '19, "Obtaining probabilities from possibility"
Mentor: Benjamin Schumacher, professor of physics
Miriam Hyman '21, "Determining the function of mutant alleles cpxA and rob in Escherichia coli evolved in benzoate through competition against ancestral strain using a cell-sorter"
Mentor: Joan Slonczewski, Robert A. Oden, Jr. Professor of Biology
Phoebe Killea '20, "Optical Properties of Topological Insulators"
Mentor: Frank Peiris, professor of physics
Jess Kotnour '19, "Interactions of avian life history traits and locomotion across the phylogenetic tree"
Mentor: Natalie Wright, assistant professor of biology
Jesseca Kusher '19, "Differential reproductive energy allocation in Leach’s storm petrel eggs"
Mentor: Bob Mauck, professor of biology, expert in animal behavior, physiological ecology
Jonathan Lambrinos '20, "Search for New Linear Codes in the Class of Multi-Twisted Codes"
Mentor: Nuh Aydin, professor of mathematics
Andrew Lesak '19, "Quantifying interaction strength and state-mixing impacts on the Rydberg excitation blockade"
Mentor: Aaron Reinhard, associate professor of physics
Vincent Lewis '20, "Investigating the Vibrational Properties of Topological Insulators"
Mentor: Frank Peiris, professor of physics
Arthur Lian '19, "Exploring the Synthesis of a Dienol Ether to form All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters"
Mentor: John Hofferberth, professor of chemistry
Sarah McPeek '19, "Investigating the learned components of flight development in eastern bluebirds, Sialia sialis"
Mentor: Natalie Wright, assistant professor of biology
Cole Meier '19, "Characterization of the Putative Organic Anion Transporter from Aedes aegpyti Transport of 'Colorful' Molecules"
Mentor: Matt Rouhier, visiting assistant professor of chemistry
Sarah Murphee '19, "Exploring Dark Matter as a Wave Function"
Mentor: Tom Giblin, associate professor of physics
Devon Nothard '20, "LIGO Collaboration Neutron-Star Equation of State"
Mentor: Leslie Wade, assistant professor of physics
Preston Pennington '20, "Coloring Fractals"
Mentor: Jim Skon, visiting professor of mathematics and computer science
Evan Perkins '19, "Integrating phylogenetic information into estimates of fossil leaf traits"
Mentor: Andrew Kerkhoff, professor of biology
Gwyneth Phillips '20, "Probing the Nature of Scalar Field Dark Matter Models in Regions Surrounding Galaxies"
Mentor: Tom Giblin, associate professor of physics
Edwin Ramirez '20, "Identification and Localization of Sulfotransferase Activity in Aedes aegypti"
Matt Rouhier, visiting assistant professor of chemistry
Peter Reinhart '20, "Quantification of Beta-Alanine in Agricultural Plants"
Mentor: Kerry Rouhier, associate professor of chemistry
Kyle Rose '19, "Applications of Machine Learning in Low-latency LIGO searches for Gravitational Waves"
Mentor: Madeline Wade, assistant professor of physics
Samantha Schaffner '21, "The Antibiotic Susceptibility of Escherichia coli with Mutations of the Inner and Outer Membrane"
Mentor: Joan Slonczewski, Robert A. Oden, Jr. Professor of Biology
Patrick Shaw '19, "Localized Gravity in the Early Universe"
Mentor: Tom Giblin, associate professor of physics
Thomas Stanton '19, "Exploring Applications of Augmented Reality at Kenyon"
Mentor: Jim Skon, visiting professor of mathematics and computer science
Madeline Stover '20, "Calibration and Parameter Estimation with LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)"
Mentor: Madeline Wade, assistant professor of physics
Esei Teclemariam '19, "Synthesis of Glycosyl Thiols"
Mentor: Mo Hunsen, professor of chemistry
Sydney Telaak '19, "An Intersectional Analysis of Gender-based Attitudes in Emerging Adults"
Mentor: Dana Krieg, associate professor of psychology
Peyton Thomas '19, "The Effect of Facial Expression on the Identity Sensitive N250r Event-Related Potential"
Mentor: Andrew Engell, Lodish Faculty Development Assistant Professor in Natural Sciences, assistant professor of psychology
Natalie Twitchell '19, "Oscillatory Behavior of the FitzHugh-Nagumo Model"
Mentor: Sheryl Hemkin, associate professor of chemistry
Julia Unangst, "Determining the relationship between forest functional traits and overall forest productivity of a mixed deciduous forest in Knox County, Ohio"
Mentor: Andrew Kerkhoff, professor of biology
Robert Oliver VandenBerg '20, "Mathematical and Computational Explorations of Multi-Twisted Codes"
Mentor: Nuh Aydin, professor of mathematics
Cameron Austin '20; Mentor: William Miller
Justin Clark '19; Mentor: Mike Pennell
Julia Elrod '20; Mentor Asuman Turkmen
Danaye Nixon '19; Mentor: Amy Ferketich
Jordan Potter '19; Mentor: William Miller