Summer 2021 Provost’s Student-Faculty Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Awardees

Olivia M. Astrologo

School and Major: School of Education, Childhood & Early Childhood Education

Faculty Mentor: Shobana Musti

Project Title: Team Pace: Remote Tutoring to Prevent Summer Reading Loss

Sarah-Louise M. Baldwin

School and Major: Dyson, Biology

Faculty Mentor: Courtney L. Gosnell

Project Title: The Role of Gratitude in Buffering Cross-Party Political Relationships

Morgan T. Brown

School and Major: School of Education, Adolescent Education

Faculty Mentor: Shobana Musti

Project Title: Team Pace: Remote Tutoring to Prevent Summer Reading Loss

Purnima Chopra

School and Major: Dyson, Biology

Faculty Mentor: Wei Fang

Project Title: Developing a Species Distribution Model to Identify the Drivers of Invasive Water Chestnut in the Hudson River

Casey M. Cloutier

School and Major: Dyson, Economics | Modern Languages and Cultures

Faculty Mentor: Andriy Danylenko

Project Title: Translation of Business Texts Into French and Russian: A Comparative Analysis

Tyler Deriggi

School and Major: Dyson, Biology

Faculty Mentor: Aaron B. Steiner

Project Title: Innervation of supernumerary hair cells induced by Dkk inhibition in zebrafish

Thanh Phuong Doan

School and Major: Lubin, Finance

Faculty Mentor: Jessica A. Magaldi

Project Title: Big Data Privacy: Consent and Consequences

Samantha J. Dorsi

School and Major: Dyson, Economics

Faculty Mentor: Jessica A. Magaldi

Project Title: Taking Music into the Internet Age: Crafting a Music Licensing Scheme to Address 21 Century Concerns for Artists, Producers, and Consumers

Jodi A. Greene

School and Major: Lubin, Business Analytics

Faculty Mentor: James P. Lawler

Project Title: Applying the Benefits of Robots to Help Elderly People with Disabilities in Low Income Neighborhoods

Jennifer L. Hutnik

School and Major: Dyson, Forensic Science | Chemistry

Faculty Mentor: Elmer-Rico E. Mojica

Project Title: Optimization of pressure liquid extraction conditions in the extraction of propolis samples

Andrew T. Iadevaia

School and Major: Seidenberg/Dyson, Computer Science | Mathematics

Faculty Mentor: John Cronin; Leanne Keeley

Project Title: Choate Pond Smart Pond

Alexandra M. Kennedy

School and Major: Dyson, Sociology & Anthropology

Faculty Mentor: Claire D. Panetta

Project Title: Observing and Analyzing the Growth of Activist Movements in St. James, Louisiana in Retaliation Against Chemical Plants

Everton Mendoza-Holmes

School and Major: Dyson, Business Economics

Faculty Mentor: Anna Shostya

Project Title: Culture Matters: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on economic outcomes in 57 countries

Cecilia J. Puentes

School and Major: School of Education, Childhood & Early Childhood Education

Faculty Mentor: Shobana Musti

Project Title: Team Pace: Remote Tutoring to Prevent Summer Reading Loss

Fernando Salcedo

School and Major: Dyson, Biology

Faculty Mentor: Elmer-Rico E. Mojica

Project Title: Biological and Chemical Characterization of Bee Pollen

Jane E. Toyber

School and Major: Dyson, Environmental Science

Faculty Mentor: Michael H. Finewood

Project Title: Building Capacity for Watershed Groups: Conducting a Content Analysis of Needs Assessment Data for Local Watershed Groups

Hannah M. Wyllie

School and Major: Lubin, Business Management

Faculty Mentor: Meng Xu

Project Title: Linking Taylor’s law and individual size distribution of disturbed ecological communities using maximum entropy models