Provost’s 2020-2021 Academic Year Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Awardees
Nicolette K. Camacho
School and Major: School of Education, Mathematics & Adolescent Education
Faculty Mentor: Christine D. Clayton
Project Title: The Impact of Digital Learning in the Mathematics Classroom
Brandon L. Clark
School and Major: Dyson, Behavioral Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Matthew R. Marcello
Project Title: Database Creation for Genes Involved in Infertility in Humans, Mice, and C. elegans
Kendra N. Dascano
School and Major: Lubin/Dyson, Mgt: Entrepreneurship | Applied Psychology & Human Relations
Faculty Mentor: Courtney L. Gosnell
Project Title: The Influence of Positive and Negative Event Support Provision on College Student Outcomes
Jesse M. Devlin
School and Major: Dyson, Biology
Faculty Mentor: Marcy A. Kelly
Project Title: A Cholesterol-Mediated Metabolic Shift Protects Mycobacterium bovis-BCG (BCG) from Glutathione (GSH) Induced Reductive Stress Killing by Increasing Electron Sink Availability
Briana Dincher
School and Major: Lubin, Public Accounting | Taxation
Faculty Mentor: Jessica A. Magaldi
Project Title: Where should the United States draw a boundary between Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to protect free speech online while preventing the spread of cyber crimes and misinformation?
Emmanuelle C. Egodigwe
School and Major: Dyson, Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Lisa Rosenthal
Project Title: Understanding Experiences of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter with Youth Participatory Action Research
Allison M. Fisher
School and Major: Seidenberg School of CSIS, Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Kristen di Gennaro
Project Title: You Talk Like a Girl: Stereotypes about Women’s Language
Federico Gutierrez
School and Major: Seidenberg School of CSIS, Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Juan Shan
Project Title: How different loss functions of a deep learning model affect the segmentation accuracy on medical images
Amber L. Hunter
School and Major: Lubin, Advertising and Integrated Marketing Communications
Faculty Mentor: Erin K. Mysogland
Project Title: Intersectionality and Youth Voter Turnout: Using NSLVE Data to Inform Best Practices
Kourtney Kelly
School and Major: Dyson, Biology
Faculty Mentor: Marcy A. Kelly
Project Title: Evaluating the ATP concentrations and NAD:NADH, H+ ratios Of M. bovis-BCG upon addition of GSH under a state of NRP
Catherine H. Kennison
School and Major: Dyson, English
Faculty Mentor: Meaghan H. Brewer
Project Title: Is that Even a Real Major?: The Place of Creative Writing in the Academy
Rachel Mazariegos
School and Major: Lienhard School of Nursing, Nursing
Faculty Mentor: Angela Northrup
Project Title: Exploring Consumption of Sugar Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) Amoung Young Children
Sierra J. Metviner
School and Major: Dyson, Psychology | Mental Health Counseling
Faculty Mentor: Courtney L. Gosnell
Project Title: Beliefs and Coping with COVID-19
Emily Oberlender
School and Major: Dyson, Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Meghana V. Nayak
Project Title: Language as a Political Tool: Using Linguistic Theory to Examine American Political Attitudes on Immigration
Angel E. Ordonez Flores
School and Major: Dyson, Forensic Science
Faculty Mentor: Eric P. Chang
Project Title: Paving a New Way for Treating an Old Disease – Characterizing the Mobile Loop Region of Lactate Dehydrogenase from P. falciparum
Naya J. Rivera
School and Major: School of Education, Biology & Adolescent Education
Faculty Mentor: Joan T. Walker
Project Title: What does expertise look and sound like? Examining how master teachers approach simulated parent-teacher conferences about student academic progress
Nicole Rodriguez
School and Major: Dyson, Digital Cinema & Filmmaking
Faculty Mentor: Melanie La Rosa
Project Title: Steps to Writing a Historical Drama
Shayan Saniei
School and Major: Dyson, Biology
Faculty Mentor: Rita K. Upmacis
Project Title: Sex-Specific Ramifications of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
Samantha L. Smith
School and Major: Dyson, History | Art History
Faculty Mentor: Sarah B. Cunningham
Project Title: Substance: Meaningful Materials Exhibition
Raven M. Vaughan
School and Major: College of Health Professions, Health Science: Generalist
Faculty Mentor: Erica L. Gollub
Project Title: Introducing a novel HIV prevention product for women: a focus on public health approaches and cultural competency
Emma L. Wolkenstein
School and Major: Dyson, Sociology/Anthropology | Communications Studies
Faculty Mentor: Claire Panetta
Project Title: Nationalism in the Age of Brexit: The Identity and Attitudes of Younger Voters
Shen Yang
School and Major: Dyson, Sociology/Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Judith Pajo
Project Title: COVID-19 as ‘Lived Experience’ in New York City: The Cultural Transformation of Campus Life during the Pandemic