2021-2022 Academic Year Provost’s Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Awardees

Maria A. Andrukhiv

School and Major: Dyson, Economics | Political Science

Faculty Mentor: Anna Shostya

Project Title: Marine Protected Areas and Their Role in Fishing Exports in OECD Countries

Emilija Blozyte

School and Major: Dyson, Psychology

Faculty Mentor: Weihua Niu

Project Title: Effects of Emotion Regulation Skills on Disordered Eating in College Students

Tyler Burenbadrakh

School and Major: Dyson, Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: JaimeLee I. Rizzo

Project Title: Sustainable Development and Water Security: How Can Nations Across the World Prevent National Security Emergencies and International Conflicts Caused by Decreasing Water Resources

Shirly Chen

School and Major: College of Health Professions, Health Science

Faculty Mentor: Erica L. Gollub

Project Title: Law Enforcement – Understanding its Role in Firearm Legislation to Reduce Firearm use in Female Intimate Partner Homicide Using the National Violent Death Reporting System

Maria E. Escobar Acosta

School and Major: Dyson, Women’s and Gender Studies

Faculty Mentor: Emily C. Bent

Project Title: Youth Voices are Essential to the Anti-Trafficking Movement’s Fight Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Grace J. Henderson

School and Major: College of Health Professions, Health Science

Faculty Mentor: Joshua B. Mendelsohn

Project Title: Diagnostic Errors in Healthcare and Possible Prevention Strategies

Simone M. Hougham

School and Major: Dyson, Environmental Studies

Faculty Mentor: Todd R. Yarbrough

Project Title: The United States and Mexico’s Energy Trade and Economic Relationship: The Current Policies’ Effect on Ecosystem Services in the Borderlands

Aisha Jawara

School and Major: College of Health Professions, Health Science

Faculty Mentor: Ana B. Amaya

Project Title: Access to COVID-19 vaccines in The Gambia

Dorina Krasniqi

School and Major: Dyson, Biology

Faculty Mentor: Nancy A. Krucher

Project Title: The Use of ACLY Inhibition to Reverse the Development of Vemurafenib Resistance in Melanoma Cells

Kailey G. Liddell

School and Major: Dyson, English Language and Literature

Faculty Mentor: Sid E. Ray

Project Title: He is Our Bard as Well as Yours

Nicole C. Maewsky

School and Major: Dyson, Psychology

Faculty Mentor: Courtney L. Gosnell

Project Title: Capitalization in an Organizational Context

Tinuade F. McClish

School and Major: Dyson, Psychology

Faculty Mentor: Courtney L. Gosnell

Project Title: Examining the Effects of Political Media in Perceptions of Cross-Party Political Relationships

Sofia M. Perez

School and Major: Dyson, Biology

Faculty Mentor: Eric D. Brenner

Project Title: The Developmental Plan of Inflorescence Circumnutation in Arabidopsis Thaliana

Joseph Peterson

School and Major: Lubin, Arts & Entertainment Management

Faculty Mentor: Marcella Szablewicz

Project Title: Examining Perceived Decision-Making Power Among Pace University Students and Faculty to Influence University Policy

Fernando M. Roger

School and Major: Seidenberg, Computer Science

Faculty Mentor: Miguel A. Mosteiro

Project Title: Algebraic Computations in Anonymous Dynamic Networks, with Applications to Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

Shayan Saniei

School and Major: Dyson, Biology

Faculty Mentor: Erika Crispo

Project Title: Exploring Societal Determinants of COVID Death Rate Over Time

Saloni Shah

School and Major: Dyson, Economics

Faculty Mentor: Jessica A. Magaldi

Project Title: An Analysis of Privacy Incursions and Proposed Limitations to Protect Users

Lindsay M. Varzarevsky

School and Major: Dyson, Economics

Faculty Mentor: Mark L. Weinstock

Project Title: The Economic Impact of Films on Military Enlistment in the US

Brookelynne A. Verrette

School and Major: Dyson, Biology

Faculty Mentor: William D. Eaton

Project Title: Effects of Different Restoration Practices on the Soil Acidobacterial Genera and Carbon Cycle Metrics in a Tropical Forest in Costa Rica

Hanbo Wang

School and Major: Dyson, Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: Rita K. Upmacis

Project Title: Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Female and Male Metabolites

Alexs O. Wijoyo

School and Major: Seidenberg, Computer Science

Faculty Mentor: Jun Yuan

Project Title: A Better Debug – Rust

Jiajia (Man-Chia) Wu

School and Major: Dyson, Fine Arts

Faculty Mentor: Thomas T. Nguyen

Project Title: Environmental Art Project – Living Sculpture in Nature