PRESENTED BY THE DIVISION OF STUDENT LEARNING AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS
AND THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES STUDENT RESEARCH WEEK
CELEBRATING RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
MARCH 30– APRIL 3 CANCELED BECAUSE OF CORONAVIRUS2020
KICK-OFF EVENT
SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM WELCOME TO STUDENT RESEARCH WEEK
Each year, the University of Central Florida celebrates the research and creative scholarship of undergraduate and graduate students across all disciplines at a variety of events throughout Student Research Week.
These events provide hundreds of students the opportunity to present their work through posters or oral presentations and receive valuable feedback. Novice students can also find ideas for their own projects working alongside UCF faculty. The best projects in each category are also recognized with scholarship awards.
Join us and explore how our students’ research and creative scholarship enrich their learning experience, our university community, and make a difference in the world.
To learn more, please visit researchweek.ucf.edu.
The Division of Student Learning and Academic Success, the College of Graduate Studies, and the Office of Undergraduate Research.
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Student Research Week
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS To see a full list of Student Research Week events, please visit researchweek.ucf.edu
Monday, March 30 Student Research Week Kick-Off Event (Student Union: Cape Florida Ballroom)...... 10 - 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, March 31 Graduate Research Forum – Poster Presentations (Student Union: Pegasus Ballroom)...... 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Wednesday, April 1 Graduate Research Forum – Oral Presentations (Student Union: Cape Florida Ballroom)...... 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Thursday, April 2 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence (Student Union: Pegasus Ballroom and Cape Florida Ballroom).9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
3 | STUDENT RESEARCH WEEK PLANNING TEAM
Nathalia Bauer Aubrey Kuperman Kimberly Schneider Tyler Campbell Tara Levine Ryan Seilhamer Wendy Cartier Kelli Marini Barbara Smith Melissa Gillis Jennifer Parham Andres Torres Zenaida Kotala Elitza Rodriguez Carreen Krapf Simone Rousseau
SPECIAL THANKS
The College of Graduate Studies, the Division of Student Learning and Academic Success, and the Office of Undergraduate Research thank the student presenters for sharing their scholarly work and demonstrating the outstanding research conducted at UCF. The events of Student Research Week would not be possible without the support of the entire UCF community.
| 4 ORDER OF EVENTS
Monday, March 30 Student Research Week Kick-Off Event Student Union: Cape Florida Ballroom 10 – 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, March 31 Graduate Research Forum – Poster Presentations Student Union: Pegasus Ballroom Poster Judging: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Open Viewing: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Awards Ceremony: 2 p.m.
Wednesday, April 1 Graduate Research Forum – Oral Presentations Student Union: Cape Florida Ballroom Session I: 10 – 11 a.m. Session II: 11:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Session III: 12:20 – 1:20 p.m. Session IV: 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Awards Ceremony: 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 2 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence Student Union: Pegasus Ballroom Research Intensive Course Presentations: 9:30 – 11 a.m. Independent Project Presentations: Poster Session I: 9:30 – 11 a.m. Poster Session II: 12 – 1:30 p.m. Poster Session III: 2:30 – 4 p.m. Award Ceremony: 4:30 – 5 p.m. (Cape Florida Ballroom)
5 | TABLE OF CONTENTS
STUDENT RESEARCH WEEK KICK-OFF EVENT...... 7
GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM – POSTER PRESENTATIONS...... 11
GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM – ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION I...... 17 SESSION II...... 18 SESSION III...... 19 SESSION IV...... 20
SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE – RESEARCH INTENSIVE COURSE PRESENTATIONS...... 21
SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE– INDEPENDENT PROJECT PRESENTATIONS POSTER SESSION I...... 22 POSTER SESSION II...... 28 POSTER SESSION III...... 35
| 6 STUDENT RESEARCH WEEK KICK-OFF EVENT
Monday, March 30, 2020 | 10 - 11:30 a.m. Student Union Cape Florida Ballroom
WELCOME AND AWARDS
Dr. Elizabeth Klonoff Vice President for Research and Dean of the College of Graduate Studies
Dr. Theodorea Regina Berry Vice Provost for the Division of Student Learning and Academic Success and Dean of the College of Undergraduate Studies
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Joshua Colwell Planetary Scientist and Pegasus Professor of Physics
POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR POSTER PRESENTATIONS
RECEPTION
7 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. JOSHUA COLWELL
Dr. Joshua Colwell is a Planetary Scientist and Pegasus Professor of Physics at the University of Central Florida. He came to UCF in 2006 from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado where he earned his Ph.D. in Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences. Since 2011, he has held the positions of Associate Chair of the Department of Physics, Assistant Director of the Florida Space Institute, and Director of the Center for Microgravity Research.
His research interests are in the origin and evolution of the solar system with a particular emphasis on planet formation, asteroids, planetary rings, comets, and interplanetary dust. As a Co-Investigator on the international Cassini mission to Saturn that orbited the ringed planet from 2004 – 2017, he designed and analyzed observations of Saturn’s rings. He studies the structure and dynamics of Saturn’s rings with data from Cassini. He has led experiments that have flown on the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, suborbital rockets, parabolic airplane flights, and is the Principal Investigator of a CubeSat that will launch in 2020.
| 8 STUDENT RESEARCH WEEK KICK-OFF EVENT
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARDS Distinguished Undergraduate Research Award
Carly Grimison Stefani Hammond Sarah Swiersz Mentor: Dr. John Starbuck Mentor: Dr. John Starbuck Mentor: Dr. Peter Jacques
Leah Rittenburg Adil Riahi Eleni Triantafyllopoulo Mentor: Dr. Anna Savage Mentor: Dr. Shawn Putnam Mentor: Dr. Anna Savage
Emyli Peralta Megan Rizer Simran Pawar Mentor: Dr. Robert Borgon Mentor: Dr. Alicia Hawthorne Mentor: Dr. Amelia Lyons
Katherine Viehl Bianca Pizzaro Matthew Caldwell Mentor: Dr. Michelle Gaither Mentor: Dr. Frenando Rivera Mentor: Dr. Claudia Andl
9 | STUDENT RESEARCH WEEK KICK-OFF EVENT
Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor of the Year
Dr. Chase Mason Biology Nominated by Mari Irving
Champion of Undergraduate Research Faculty Award
Dr. Michael Rovito Health Sciences
Dr. Valerie Sims Psychology
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Publishing
Katherine Harris Mentor: Dr. Linda Walters
| 10 GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM | TUESDAY, MARCH 31
POSTER PRESENTATIONS 11 A.M. - 2 P.M.
A Literature Review on The Effects Literature Review: Examining EDUCATION of Metacognitive Strategies Used Medical Providers’ Levels of During Mathematics Instruction Confidence in Making a Diagnosis Focusing on the Progression for Students with Learning of Autism Spectrum Disorder of Mathematical Topics in K-12 Disabilities in Mathematics (ASD) Teacher Education Content Molly Greer Chelsea Pierce Courses Education PhD - Exceptional Education Education PhD - Exceptional Education Shahabeddin Abbaspour PhD Trk Tazehkand Examining Graduate Student Education PhD - Mathematics Education Use and Perspectives of Web Academic Outcomes of Students Resources and Tools for Academic Born Late-Preterm in Kindergarten Universal Design for Learning Support and First Grade in Kindergarten Mathematics Kelly Grieneisen Tillotson Annette Romualdo Curriculum: A Novel Approach Curriculum and Instruction EdD Education PhD - Exceptional Education Kiera Anderson Education PhD - Exceptional Education Innovation in Case-Based The Impact of Perceived Learning Through Integration Contextual Factors on Examining the Pedagogical of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Departmental Climate for Underpinnings of Medical Software Developed for Medical Teaching Quality Improvement in Education Commercial-off-the- Education (MedEd-COTS) STEM Across Institutional Types Shelf (MedED-COTS) Resources Luke Horger and Faculty’s Institutional Roles in Ziana Bagot Instructional Design and Technology MA Higher Education Education PhD - Instructional Design and Eman Saqr Technology Exploring Preservice Elementary Education PhD - Instructional Design and Teachers’ Integration of Technology Community Hunger Outreach Socioscientific Issues in Their 5E Caitlin Browder Science Written Lesson Plan Investigating the Impact Early Childhood Development and Lisa Le of Pre-Service Teachers’ Education MS Education PhD - Science Education Attitudes Toward Inclusion and Metacognitive Processes Preparing Educators to Support An Examination of the Quality and When Identifying Classroom Social-Emotional Learning Development of Educational Plans Accommodations in a Simulated for Students with Cognitive for Gifted Students Teaching Environment Disabilities David Maddock Lynn Scott Sacha Cartagena Educational Leadership EdD - Executive Education PhD - Exceptional Education Education PhD - Exceptional Education Exploring the Development of Considerations When Working Research Trends in Mathematics Preservice Teachers’ Science with BDSM Practitioners: Education Doctoral Dissertations Teaching Identity Dispelling the Myths at University of Central Florida Regina McCurdy Ana Songer Siddhi Desai Education PhD - Science Education Counselor Education MA - Clinical Mental Education PhD - Mathematics Education Health Counseling Predicting the Instructional Developing an Enhanced Teacher Practices of Introductory Physics Effects of Post-Exercise Recovery Preparation Model: Lessons and Faculty Drinks on Metabolic Demand Learnings in Supporting Pre- Claudine McLaren Turner During High-Intensity Intervals Service Teachers in High Needs Education PhD - Higher Education Tristan Starling-Smith Schools Education PhD - Exercise Physiology PhD Christine DeStefano The Position of an Instructional Trk Education PhD - Methodology, Literacy Coach: A Case Study of Measurement and Analysis the Perceptions of High School An Analysis of Teacher Decision- Administrators, Classroom Making in Grading 10th Grade A Case Study of the Impact of Teachers, and Coaches in One Student Writing in English the DPLC Model of Professional Florida School District Language Arts Learning on Collective Teacher Rachel Miracolo Guy Swenson Efficacy and Organizational Trust Educational Leadership EdD - Executive Educational Leadership EdD - Executive in a Middle School Maria Gaspar Using the UDL Framework to Using UDL to Enhance Science Educational Leadership EdD Support Teachers of Culturally Instruction for Students with Diverse Learners Executive Function Deficits Keri Lynn Nass Rohana Swihart Education PhD - Exceptional Education Education PhD - Exceptional Education 11 | GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM | TUESDAY, MARCH 31
An Analysis of 1:1 Digital Evaluating the Disinfection By- Using Dual-Layer Implementation and English Product Formation Potential of a Electroencephalography (EEG) Learner Enrollment and Highly Colored Volcanic Surface to Improve the Fidelity of EEG Performance on Advanced Water Supply Source Signals Placement English Examinations in Paula Campesino Jinfeng Li a Large Urban School District Environmental Engineering MSEnvE Mechanical Engineering PhD Mary Vetter Educational Leadership EdD - Executive Assisting Lower Body Movements CFD Based Assessment of Using Upper Limb Muscles During Undulating Propulsion Cycles of Inheritance: The Efficacy Prolonged Walking George Loubimov of Hand-Off Procedures for Renoa Choudhury Aerospace Engineering MSAE - Student Run Conferences Mechanical Engineering PhD Thermofluid Aerodynamic Systems John Wilhelm Design and Engineering Medicine Hotspot Size Effect on Jet Impingement Cooling Work Function Extraction of Performance BCN Thin Films From BCN/n-Si ENGINEERING, COMPUTER Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury Heterojunction Devices Mechanical Engineering PhD Shraddha Nehate SCIENCE, AND MODELING Electrical Engineering PhD AND SIMULATION Additive Manufacturing to Create Antimicrobial Nitric Oxide The Potential of Wave Energy Releasing Surfaces Conversion to Mitigate Erosion Proportional Power Sharing in Coastal Regions of the United Control of Distributed Generators Manjyot Kaur Chug Materials Science & Engineering PhD States in Microgirds Cigdem Ozkan Farzad Aalipour Civil Engineering PhD Mechanical Engineering PhD How Different Nucleotide States Affect Actin Filament Mechanics A Low-Cost Thermal Mapping An Experimental Investigation of Bryan Demosthene Nanotechnology MS Technique for Electronics Cooling Single Micro Impinging Jet with Using Quantum Dots Super-Critical Carbon Dioxide as Multiscale Investigation of Khan Mohammad Rabbi Working Fluid Chemically Stabilized Bilgewater Mechanical Engineering PhD Stephen Adeoye Mechanical Engineering PhD Emulsions Under Various Environmental Conditions Utilizing Human-Centered Machine Learning to Develop and Improve Multi-Agent Collaborative Problem Daniela Diaz Hernandez Environmental Engineering MS Adolescent Risk Detection Solving Based on the Theory of Systems Mind Examining the Effects of Zinc Afsaneh Razi Toktam Amanzadeh Oghaz Computer Science PhD Computer Science PhD Oxide Nanoparticles on a Silk Patch Just in Time Readiness Computational Modeling of Yifei Fu Materials Science & Engineering PhD Assessment Framework For Surge Droplet Breakup in Hypersonic Event Response Flow Variable Resistance Suit Chaithanya Renduchintala Caroline Anderson William Hardy Modeling and Simulation PhD Aerospace Engineering PhD Mechanical Engineering MSME Oil Separation from Emulsified Considering Cognition: The Case Advanced Agile Additive (AAA) Oily Wastewater via Forward for Integrating 4E Cognition into Manufacturing of Mg Alloy WE43 Osmosis (FO) Using an the VV&A Process Microlattice Structures Aquaporin-Based PES Membrane Nicholas Armendariz Holden Hyer AnnMarie Ricchino Modeling and Simulation PhD Materials Science & Engineering PhD Environmental Engineering MS - Environmental Engineering Sciences A Social Ecological Approach to Intelligent, Interactive and Empowering Foster Youth to be Intuitive Autonomous Robotic Interactive User Experiences with Safer Online Cart (I3ARC) Visual Art-Based Feedback for Karla Badillo-Urquiola Bhuvanesh Jeevarathinam Improving Balance Control Modeling & Simulation-ENGR PhD Data Analytics MS Lietsel Richardson Mechanical Engineering PhD Scalable Community Detection Use-of-Force Simulator for in the Heterogeneous Stochastic Law Enforcement Handgun Battery Degradation Modeling Block Model Qualification and Its Impact on Battery Health Andre Beckus Julie Kent Management Electrical Engineering PhD Modeling and Simulation PhD Junchuan Shi Mechanical Engineering PhD A Localized Radial-Basis Function Design and Characterization of Meshless Approach to Modeling HiPER-STAR Facility Multi-Scale Non-Newtonian Cory Kinney Hemodynamics Aerospace Engineering PhD | 12 Kyle Beggs Mechanical Engineering PhD GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM | TUESDAY, MARCH 31
The Effect of Microstructure and From Harbin, With Love: Exploring The Effects of Metformin and Annealing on the Protrusion of Life in a Twentieth-Century Probiotics in Slowing the Through-Glass Via Borderland through Postcards Progression of Huntington’s Vishnu Shukla Rachael Rothstein-Safra Disease Materials Science & Engineering PhD History MA Taylor Blum Nanotechnology MS Shock Tube Investigation of Effectiveness of Digital Interactive Aerothermodynamics Relevant to Experiment in Learning Outcome Parkinsonian Rats Show Sparing Hypersonic Vehicles Matin Salemirad of CD68, an M2 Microglial Marker, Clayton Sigler Emerging Media MFA After Aerobic Exercise Aerospace Engineering MSAE - Alexandra Bunea Thermofluid Aerodynamic Systems The Miss-Adventures of Molly & Anatomical Sciences Certificate Design and Engineering Sage Nathaniel Shrage Gender Role Significance in Exploiting Dynamic Emerging Media MFA - Animation and Burnout and Retention Rates Magnetic Fields for New Visual Effects Shannon Carmody Magnetorheological Fluid Master of Athletic Training Damping Capability “He Calls it Reason”: Considering Christian Vazquez the Theodicy of Faust: Part One in Investigating the Effects of Aerospace Engineering PhD Terms of the Social Construction Nanoparticles in Optogenetic- of Religion Based Deep Brain Stimulation Data-Driven Predictive Modeling Amanda Skutinsky Kimberly Caudell of Tensile Behavior of Parts English MA - Literary, Cultural, and Nanotechnology MS Fabricated by Cooperative 3D Textual Studies Printing A Longitudinal Comparison of Ziyang Zhang Connecting with the Youths: Using Concussion & Musculoskeletal Mechanical Engineering PhD the IDEA Model to Analyze Youth Injury Incidence in Recreationally Minister Pedagogy Competitive College Sports - A Lakelyn Taylor FINE ARTS AND HUMANITIES Retrospective Study Communication MA Chandler Collins Physical Therapy DPT Why Women Writers are Taken Ophelia’s Swan Song: A Minor Less Seriously than Men: A Discourse of Femininity in Hamlet Investigating the Acceptability Sara Thames and Feasibility of an Innovative Feminist Viewpoint English MA - Literary, Cultural, and Dolores Batten Textual Studies Intergenerational Physical Activity Texts and Technology PhD Program The Swan - A Virtual Reality Film Kayla Combs If Found Damian Thorn-Hauswirth Physical Therapy DPT Hannah Huffman Emerging Media MFA - Animation and Emerging Media MFA - Animation and Visual Effects Targeting Polyamine Metabolism Visual Effects in Human Pancreatic Cancers Florida’s Vanishing Heritage: Aiste Dobrovolskaite Portal Problem! Mapping Climate Change at Biomedical Sciences PhD Ira Klages Florida Cultural Heritage Sites Emerging Media MFA - Animation and Functional Characterization of Visual Effects Levi Watson History MA - Public History miR-299-3p that Target Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer Hungry like a Wolf: Cyberstalking Crossed Kavya Ganapathy in the 21st Century Biomedical Sciences PhD Alexandra Minnick Dillon Williams Emerging Media MFA - Animation and Gender Studies Certificate Visual Effects Skeletal Muscle Echo Intensity: Indicative of Voluntary or Somerville College Novelists: Involuntary Strength? Visualizing Author Networks in HEALTH SCIENCES Ryan Girts Early 20th Century Oxford Education PhD - Exercise Physiology PhD Abigail Moreshead Trk Texts and Technology PhD Is Echo Intensity Associated with Age or Muscle Strength The Effectiveness of the Core Representations of Multiracial Akash Bali Physical Therapy DPT Muscle Activation on Increase Student Identity in Their Literacy Performance and Endurance in Practices Across Curricula The Synthesis and Individuals with Low Back Pain Anjelica Rechsteiner Aracelis Guzman English MA, Rhetoric and Composition Characterization of Antimicrobial Copper/n-acetylcysteine Coated Master of Athletic Training Iron Oxide Nanomaterial Danya Belnour Biotechnology MS
13 | GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM | TUESDAY, MARCH 31
Changes in Motor Unit Effectiveness of Novel The Immediate Effects of Recruitment Thresholds as a Therapeutics Targeting Polyamine Mobilization with Movement Compensatory Strategy During Biosynthesis and Transport in Versus Passive Stretch on Hip Neuromuscular Fatigue Pancreatic Tumor Progression and Range of Motion Kylie Harmon Anti-Tumor Immune Modulation Daniel Torres Education PhD - Exercise Physiology PhD Sai Preethi Nakkina Physical Therapy DPT Trk Biomedical Sciences PhD Correlation in Achieving Work- Strain-Level Analysis of the IBD- Role of Selenium Nanoparticles in Life Balance and Satisfactory: Associated Fecal Microbiome Preventing Ferroptotic-Induced Perspectives of Athletic Training Sayf Al-Deen Hassouneh Neuronal Cell Death After Stroke Emily Tran Biomedical Sciences PhD Ernesto Navarro Garcia Master of Athletic Training Nanotechnology MS Isometric Mid-Thigh Pull and 18 Years of Service: A Study of Power-Force-Velocity Profiles Validity and Reliability of NIH Patient Care, Comfort, and Safety During Jumping and Sprinting Toolbox® Compared to the Biodex at the Saint Thomas Aquinas Free in Resistance-Trained Men and Balance System SD M-CTSIB Medical Clinic Women Alexander Peller Rachel Truong Chad Herring Physical Therapy DPT Medicine Education PhD - Exercise Physiology PhD Trk Early Screening and the The Effects of Lumbopelvic Hip Recognition of Scapular Strength on a Golfer’s Swing First Impressions of the Bedside Dyskinesis Performance Nurse: A Pilot Study Julia Phillips Brittney Webb Sharon Imes Master of Athletic Training Master of Athletic Training Nursing PhD Association of Student Asymptomatic Nephrolithiasis Interprofessional Practice LIFE SCIENCES in Children: How Often Should Experience with Interprofessional Patients Receive Follow-up Attitudes Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Control Ultrasound Imaging? Bridget Presnell Genes in Parkinson’s Disease: John Jayman Physical Therapy DPT Medicine Epigenetic Writers Levi Adams Investigating the Effects of Biomedical Sciences PhD A Retrospective Analysis of Trigeminal Neuralgia on Oral Group-Based Boxing Exercise On Health and Potential Treatment Excess Cholesterol in a High Fat Measures of Physical Mobility In Options Diet Enhances Severity of NAFLD Parkinsonian Subjects Idean Rezaei and Promotes Insulin Resistance Kyle Joslyn Graduate Non Degree Seeking Jordan Beardsley Physical Therapy DPT Biomedical Sciences PhD Role of Klotho Beta in Colorectal Millennial Generation Nurses: A Cancer Tumorigenesis E-cigarette Vape Exposure State of the Science Review of Michael Rohr Potentially Increases Epithelial Current Strategies for Reducing Biomedical Sciences PhD - MD/PhD Inflammatory Response, DNA Turnover Damage and S. Aureus Oral Angela Keith Is How We Group Data Important? Nursing PhD Colonization Statistical Differences in Alma Catala-Valentin Analyzing Independent Variables Biomedical Sciences PhD Efficacy of Traditional Physical for Categorizing Fall Groups Therapy vs Otago-Based Exercise Andrea Sarto Microplastic Cycling: Are in Fall Prevention for ALF- Physical Therapy DPT Eastern Oysters, Crassostrea Residing Older Adults virginica, Capable of Excreting Sky Knott Investigating the Role of Physical Therapy DPT Microplastics? Membrane Nanotubes in Casey Craig Preserving Neuronal Density in Biology MS Form Does Not Equal Function: Strokes Fast Gait Speed in Older Adults Stephen Scheller Doxorubicin-Induced Muscle is Best Predicted by Functional Nanotechnology MS Toxicity: A Novel Mechanism Performance Involving Inflammation-Mediated Daniel Komforti The Effects of Pain Neuroscience Physical Therapy DPT Pyroptosis in Soleus Muscle Education (PNE) on Pain Fatima Bianca Dessouki Tolerance in a Healthy Population Biotechnology MS Impact of an Intergenerational Jeffrey Schmidt Physical Activity Program on Physical Therapy DPT Dietary Peroxidized Lipids Could Children 6 to 12 Years Old Alter Gene Expression Profile in Kelly LaMaster Physical Therapy DPT Intestinal Epithelial Cells Nisreen Faizo Biomedical Sciences PhD | 14 GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM | TUESDAY, MARCH 31
Activin A and Macrophage- Bacteria Consortia Networks Clustering in Sparse Popularity Induced Inflammation Contributes of The Healthy Human Gut Adjusted Stochastic Block Model to the Pathogenesis of Barrett’s Microbiome Majid Noroozi Esophagus Mark Loftus Mathematics PhD Cheyanne Fedder Biomedical Sciences PhD Biomedical Sciences PhD Study of Doping of Sodium Azide Development of an OWL2 Sensor on MoS2-FET and its Effects on Consuming a Carbohydrate- to Detect Single Nucleotide Biosensors Protein Beverage Between Polymorphisms in Folded Analyte Gregory Shinaberry Bouts of Exhaustive Intermittent Brittany Mueller-Mabry Physics PhD Exercise Enhances Performance Chemistry PhD Erica Goldstein Experimental Observation of a Education PhD - Exercise Physiology PhD The Effects of a 10-Week Judo Topological Phase Transition in Trk Program on Cortisol and Stress in Magnetic EuB6 Children with Autism Spectrum Christopher Sims Single Cell Forensic Disorder Physics PhD Genomics: DNA Profiling of Justine Renziehausen Micromanipulated Single Education PhD - Exercise Physiology PhD Exploring the Photochemical Spermatozoa Trk Properties of Defect-Laden Haley Hardin Hexagonal Boron Nitride Biotechnology MS Fernand Torres-Davila MATHEMATICS, OPTICS, AND Physics PhD Patient Attitudes, Experiences PHYSICAL SCIENCES Toward Health Care and the The Effects of Airborne Organic Frequency of Office Visits Among Particles on Cloud Microphysics Medicare Beneficiaries with Type Segmental Aggregation and Brett Young 2 Diabetes Structural Propensities of Amyloid Chemistry PhD Qing He Beta Peptide Big Data Analytics PhD Faisal Abedin Jahn-Teller Effect in Three-Body Physics PhD Recombination of Hydrogen Gelsolin-Mediated Actin Atoms Filament Severing in Crowded Florida Prison Education Project – Chi Hong Yuen Environments Physics and Everyday Thinking Physics PhD James Heidings Dave Austin Physics PhD Biotechnology MS SOCIAL SCIENCES, Deconvolution of Multi-Frequency Atomic Force BUSINESS, AND HOSPITALITY Microscopy for Functional Forensic DNA Mixtures by MANAGEMENT Probabilistic Genotyping and Nanoscale Analysis of Micromanipulation with Enhanced Heterogeneous Systems Chance Barrett Trends in Unpaid Family DNA Typing of Single Cells Electrical Engineering PhD Kaitlin Huffman Caregiving: A Study of Shifting Chemistry PhD Sub-Two Cycle Pulse Generation Household Composition in Florida Aliya Anjarwalla from Enhanced Rotational A Nested PCR Strategy for Public Affairs PhD - Health Services Recovering Highly Discriminatory Nonlinearity in Molecular Gas- Management and Research Y-STR DNA Profiles from Trace filled Hollow-Core Fiber John Beetar Understanding Red Tide Through Male DNA Samples Physics PhD Anna Kimball Lenses of Hospitality Employees Forensic Science MS Frida Bahja Exoplanetary Atmospheric Hospitality Management PhD Physiological Response to Retrieval via Bayesian Machine Varying Salinity Levels by Learning Stakeholder Engagement for Michael Himes Sustainability: Partnerships for Coastal and Inland Juvenile Physics PhD - Planetary Sciences PhD American Alligators (Alligator U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Implementation mississippiensis) High Throughput Exfoliation of John Konvalina Sean Beaudet Large Area Atomically Thin Two- Public Administration MPA Conservation Biology PhD Dimensional Semiconductors A Comparison of Sleep and Through Sacrificial Copper, Nickel, “Waiting on Dorian”: A Content Physical Activity Patterns or Aluminum Layer Analysis of Memes Related to Ammon Johnston Hurricane Dorian Posted on Social Between Typically Developing Physics PhD Adolescents and Adolescents with Media Platforms Developmental Disorders Laura Boutemen Fourier Analysis of Simulated Strategic Communication PhD Nicholas Leahy Plasma Induced Electrostatic Education PhD - Exercise Physiology PhD Trk Discharge Events for Spacecraft Materials 15 | Eric Markowitz Physics MS GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM | TUESDAY, MARCH 31
Bringing Home To Work: The Cognitive Challenge: How Hispanic Serving Institutions: Effects of Eldercare Demands on Students’ Mental Models and Exploring the Depth of a Work Related Strain Implicit Theories Impact Cognitive Designation Hillary Chandler Load and Learning Ashley Stone Industrial and Organizational Psychology Ecem Olcum Sociology PhD MS Psychology PhD - Applied Experimental and Human Factors Psychology Meeting in The Middle: The Role Be a Champion at Home and at of Cultural Diversity in Spaceflight Work: Examining the Moderating Chronicling Colonial Armies: An Exploration Effects of Segmentation and Sleep Analysis of American Newspaper Krisztina Szabo on Eldercare Demands and Time Coverage of the Tirailleurs Industrial and Organizational Psychology Theft Sénégalais During World War I MS Kinjal Chheda Matthew Patsis Industrial and Organizational Psychology History MA Intimate Partner Homicide and MS Access to Services at the County “But Were They Asking For Level Analysis of Larger Sized Housing It?”: An Analysis of the Public’s Kayla Toohy Redevelopment within College Empathy and Perception Sociology PhD Park Towards Differentiating Levels of Heather Croney Victimization A Quantitative Analysis of Casual Urban & Regional Planning MS Ciara Peebles Dining Sales Trends by Day of Applied Sociology MA Week Newspaper Stories About Jonathan Van Dyke Hurricanes Covert Language: How Common Hospitality & Tourism Management MS Rebecca Dupont Law Coverture Created the Communication MA Legal Tradition of Disbelieving Reaching Young Voters: Do Young Women in the Face of the #MeToo Voters use Social Media more than Exploring the Impact of 360 Movement TV News? Enabled Imagery in Meeting Jax Rogero Craig Wilding Planner Site Selection Inspection Gender Studies Certificate Political Science MA Jeremy Fairley Hospitality Management PhD Gastrointestinal Health Mediates the Impact of Self-Reported Preliminary Investigations for Depression and Anxiety Documenting Human Skeletal Symptoms on Health-Related Remains in Obstructed Wooded Quality of Life in the Emerging Environments Adult Population Morgan Ferrell Emily Ross Anthropology MA Psychology PhD - Clinical Psychology
Entering New Lands: Exploring Communicating the #Vape Crisis International Students’ Perception with Hashtags of Therapy and Mental Health Marissa Salas Before and After Arriving to the Texts and Technology PhD United States Hanifah Griffith My Choice or Their Life Applied Sociology MA Aaron Scott Communication MA The Journey to Berlin: Identifying Migrant Routes A Patriotic Adventure? Exploring Jane Holmstrom Individual Motives for Conflict Integrative Anthro Science PhD Participation in Ukraine: 2014- 2018 Generations Gap in Value Miroslav Shapovalov Perception and Intention to Use Security Studies PhD Online Reviews in Travel Decision Making “I have faith in you young people”: Linh Le Measuring Racial Tolerance in Hospitality Management PhD Millennials Through the Color Blind Racism Lens Reading the Mind Through the Andrea Smith Lonely Eye: Social Cognition and Applied Sociology MA Loneliness Fernando Montalvo Police Officers’ Perceptions of the Psychology PhD - Applied Experimental New Frontier: Smart CCTV and Human Factors Psychology Matthew Stephenson Criminal Justice PhD | 16 GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION I: 10 – 11 A.M.
Leader-Follower Controls in Additive Manufacturing of Sequence Patterning of Peptides Systems with Two Controllers Copper-Based Alloy with Increased Hydrophobic Raaed AlAzzawi Binghao Lu Content for Drug Delivery Electrical Engineering PhD Materials Science & Engineering PhD Sara Tabandeh Materials Science & Engineering PhD Future Storm Surge Scenarios Data-Driven Compound Flooding from Pseudo-Global Warming Analysis in Sabine Lake, Texas Two-Level Multi-Objective Hurricane Simulations Victor Malagon Santos Optimal Transactive Control for Jeane Camelo Civil Engineering PhD Commercial Buildings’ Day-Ahead Civil Engineering PhD HVAC Scheduling Macromolecular Crowding Guanyu Tian Using Self-Paced Treadmills: Modulates the Organization Electrical Engineering PhD Controller Sensitivities can and Mechanics of Actin Bundles Increase Gait Variability Crosslinked by Regulatory A Numerical Method Study of Cesar Castano Proteins Momentum Losses From Rough Mechanical Engineering PhD Jinho Park Surfaces Materials Science & Engineering PhD Jose Urcia A Real-World Biomechanics Aerospace Engineering MSAE - Measurement and Analysis Suit Tracking the Ultrafast Thermofluid Aerodynamic Systems Surendar Devasundaram Photoinduced Reaction Dynamics Design and Engineering Electrical Engineering MSEE of CD3I on CeO2 Thin Films Md Afjal Khan Pathan Evaluation of Chitosan-Hyaluronic Observation of Topological Physics PhD Acid Scaffold Processing Surface State in a Parameters to Produce an Superconducting Material Low Cost, Calibration-Free Enhanced Breast Cancer Tumor Gyanendra Dhakal Ionophore-Based Ion-Selective Microenvironment Physics PhD Electrodes for Determination of Zi Wang Na, K and Heavy Metals Materials Science & Engineering PhD Cable-Driven Upper Body Exosuit Mohammad Rostampour Kakroudi (CUBE): A Bilateral Myoelectric Chemistry PhD Effect of Growth Conditions on Control the Electrical Properties of Large Rodrigo Duran SLIM-ADC: Spin-Based Logic- Area CVD Grown MoS2 Thin Films Mechanical Engineering MSME - In-Memory Analog to Digital Sajeevi Withanage Mechanical Systems Converter Leveraging SHE- Physics PhD Enabled Domain Wall Motion Simple Polypeptides as Templates Devices 3D Porous Chitosan-Chondroitin for Tunable, Biomimetic Soheil Salehi Mobarakeh Sulfate Scaffolds Promote Nanoparticle Synthesis Computer Engineering PhD Epithelial to Mesenchymal Allen Eyler Transition in Prostate Cancer Cells Materials Science & Engineering PhD DeepMalaria: Artificial Intelligence Kailei Xu for Drug Discovery Materials Science & Engineering PhD Near-Zero Temperature Milad Salem Coefficient of Resistivity (nz-TCR) Computer Engineering PhD of ALD TixSiyNz Films Corbin Feit “Tug-of-War” of a DNA in the Materials Science & Engineering PhD Three-Dimensional Double Nano- Pore System Size-Dependent Activity for Swarnadeep Seth N2 Electroreduction on Metal Physics PhD Nanocatalysts Lin Hu Molecular Encapsulation Materials Science & Engineering PhD Selectivity of Polyelectrolyte Complex Micelles High-Pressure Laminar Burning Sachit Shah Velocity Measurements of Materials Science & Engineering PhD Ethanol/Air Mixtures Gihun Kim Brain Dynamics and Movement Mechanical Engineering PhD Responses to Perturbations are not Coupled Seyed Yahya Shirazi Mechanical Engineering PhD
17 | GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION II: 11:10 A.M. – 12:10 P.M.
A Fabrication Quality Assessment Clinically Immersive Experiences Osmolarity Affects Sodium of a MEMS Based Piezoelectric Among Health Professional Transport Across Mouse Lingual Microphone for Aircrafts Noise Students and Interprofessional Tissue Evaluation Attitudes: Are We Staying Afloat, Angela Mohrman Omar Ahmed In Stagnant Waters, or Drowning Biomedical Sciences PhD Materials Science & Engineering PhD in Immersion? Emiangeliz Gonzalez Luna Change Detection of Direct Measurement of Nano- Physical Therapy DPT Hydrologically Restored Sized Li Dendrite Growth Stress Subtropical Freshwater Wetlands by In-Situ TEM Rule Space Clustering Using Remote Sensing Megan Aubin Charles Harrison Sarah Parker Materials Science & Engineering PhD Big Data Analytics PhD Biology MS
Investigation of a Novel Sample Soil Biogeochemistry and A Mystery Solved: Why Smoke Type for Elemental Contaminant Microbial Activity Along the Extract Worsens Symptoms in Quantification in Avian Predators Marsh-to-Mangrove Transition Smokers with Crohn’s Disease and Jennifer Bouchenot Sarah Harttung not Ulcerative Colitis? Gut MAP! Biology MS Conservation Biology PhD Dania Qasrawi Biomedical Sciences PhD Treatment Wetland Organic TNF-a Inhibitors Through Notch-1 Matter Reduction via Periodic Signaling Modulate Immune A Database for 20th Century Water Level Draw-Down Defense and Exacerbate Bacterial Global Storm Surges Paul Boudreau Infection in Autoimmune Disease Michael Getachew Tadesse Biology MS Esra’a Keewan Civil Engineering PhD Biomedical Sciences PhD Impact of Oyster Reef Restoration Genetic Underpinnings of Host on Bird Populations in Mosquito Predicting the Effects of Manipulation by Ophiocordyceps Lagoon Disturbance Related Fish Kills on as Revealed by Comparative Jessica Copertino Fish Communities Along Florida’s Transcriptomics Biology MS Coast Ian Will Dakota Lewis Integrative Consrv Biology PhD Adhesion and Dissipation in FeO Biology MS Nanoparticles Collision Early Prediction to Identify At- Baochi Doan Assessing the Response of Risk Student with High Level of Materials Science & Engineering PhD Mangrove Snapper (Lutjanus Precision griseus) Trophic Dynamics to Jianbin Zhu Impact of High Water Season Oyster Reef Restoration in the Big Data Analytics PhD on Living Shoreline Success and Indian River Lagoon Methodology Jennifer Loch Rebecca Fillyaw Conservation Biology PhD Biology MS Exploring Student Reflection After Modelling Tree Growth Rates Virtual Simulation of Florida Forests to Determine Valorie MacKenna Carbon Capture and Residence Nursing PhD Time Alicia Formanack Quantifying the Effects on Fish Biology MS and Mobile Decapod Communities Following Habitat Restoration in a Characterization and Implications Dynamic Coastal Estuary of the DosR Regulon in Richard Mahoney Mycobacterium abscessus During Biology MS Stress Response Breven Gaines The Use of Cerium Oxide Biomedical Sciences PhD Nanoparticles as an Antibacterial Agent in Orthopedic Implants Kari Martyniak Biomedical Sciences PhD
| 18 GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION III: 12:20 – 1:20 P.M.
Dual Language Teachers’ Beliefs Changes to Muscle Strength and Assessing Dependence Between and Practices Regarding Effective Function Following Repeated Drivers of Compound Flooding Second Language Instruction: A Bouts of Eccentric Exercise on Around the Contiguous United Qualitative Study Dominant and Non-Dominant States Coastline Deddy Amrand Elbow Flexors Ahmed Nasr Education PhD - Teaching English to Nicholas Coker Civil Engineering PhD Speakers of Other Languages Education PhD - Exercise Physiology PhD Trk Life Partners’ Perceptions Steady Hand at the Wheel: How of Affective, Behavioral and Perceived Movement Influences Determinants of Burnout in Cognitive Reactions Experienced Consumer Responses to Service Certified Athletic Trainers by their Partner Who Stutters Failures Peter Dawry Randy Panzarino Lam An Master of Athletic Training Communication Sciences and Disorders Business Administration PhD - Marketing MA The Influence of Autonomy on Testing the Factor Structure of the Learners’ Affective States During Effects of Neurophysiological College Success Factors Index 2.0 Reading within a Narrative- Pain Education in Patients with Suat Babayigit Centered Game-Based Learning Kinesiophobia Linked to Chronic Education PhD - Methodology, Environment Low Back Pain: A Critically Measurement and Analysis Daryn Dever Appraised Topic Instructional Design and Technology MA Mollie Przybocki Strength-Based Influences on the Master of Athletic Training Efficacy of Rest-Redistribution Addressing Patient-Provider During Barbell Squats Communication Needs in Rural The Sinkhole “Problem” in Ariel Boffey Settings: Acknowledging the Central Florida: Geotechnical Education PhD - Exercise Physiology PhD Growth and Diversity Within the Investigation Tools to Discern Trk Latino Population Between Sinkhole Vulnerability or Cristina Figueroa The Elite Meroitic Experience on Gullibility Graduate Non Degree Seeking - Grd Stdt Ryan Shamet Sai Island, Sudan: Using Stable seeking Pre Reqs Civil Engineering PhD Isotope Analysis to Identify Patterns Related to Sex and Age Narrowing English Learner (EL) Engineer Surface Redox-Acid Pair for the Interpretation of Social Achievement Gaps: A Multilevel Sites for Efficient Removal of NOx Identity Analysis of an EL-Infused Teacher Ge Song Alexandria Brock Preparation Model Environmental Engineering PhD Integrative Anthro Science PhD Nirmal Ghimire Education PhD - Teaching English to Large-Scale Algal Cultivation A Multilevel Study of Body Speakers of Other Languages Strategies for Carbon Capture Mass Index Effect on Children’s Ruth Spierling Mathematics Performance: The The LEFT, Standing Long Jump, Environmental Engineering PhD Analysis of ECLS-K 2011 and Single Leg Hop as Predictors Yuting Chen of Lower Extremity Injury in Aging Moderates the Impact of Education PhD - Methodology, Collegiate Athletics: A Critically Disclosure Forms on Financial Measurement and Analysis Appraised Topic Decision Making Jessica Harris Xiaoqing Wan Autonomic Nervous System Master of Athletic Training Psychology PhD Response and Behavior During Exercise and Short-Term Watch and Learn: Examining Modeling Metacomprehension Recovery Following Energy Drink Bilingual Children’s Language Monitoring Accuracy with Eye Consumption Acquisition Through Television Gaze on Informational Content Nicolas Clark Patricia Jaramillo in a Multimedia Learning Education PhD - Exercise Physiology PhD Early Childhood Devel&Educ MS Environment Trk Megan Wiedbusch The Parent Trap: How Instructional Design and Technology MA Are Eye-Gaze Behaviors Related Oversharenting Impacts Observer to Scientific-Reasoning Actions? Perceptions of Parents Quantifying 21st Century Skills Sona Klucarova Using Eye Tracking During Game- Business Administration PhD - Marketing Based Learning Elizabeth Cloude Dynamic Customer Churn Instructional Design and Technology MA Prediction in Banking Industry Hoiyin Leung 19 | SAS Data Mining Certificate GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION IV: 1:30 – 2:30 P.M.
The French Far-Right and A Phenomenological Inquiry Project Florida Real-Time: Closing Immigration of Mass Shooting Survivors’ the Real-Time Transit Info App Alexander Aders Experiences of Loss and Growth Gap with the General Transit Feed Political Science MA Amanda DiLorenzo Specification (GTFS) Real-Time Education PhD - Counselor Education Extension Enhancing Students’ Behaviors David Moran in the City of Taif, Saudi Arabia Instructional Communication as a Texts and Technology PhD Using the Modified Positive Primary Function of Communities Behavior Intervention and Support of Practice During Crises Zephaniah Kingsley v. Thomas (Modified PBIS) America Edwards Jefferson: The Legal and Social Sami Algethami Communication MA Case of Kinship and Legitimacy in Education PhD - Exceptional Education Interracial Families Emerging Methodology in Samuel Ortiz Held in the Grip of the Local and Tourism and Hospitality Research: History MA Federal Governments: Why Puerto Applying Moment-Based Methods Rico Has Faced an Inappropriate for Measuring Visitor Experience Predicting the Persistence of and Uncoordinated Emergency Maksim Godovykh Traditional and Nontraditional Response to Hurricane Maria Hospitality Management PhD Undergraduate University Sara Belligoni Students Using the Security Studies PhD Freud, Feminism, and Ghosts: Psychosociocultural Model Liminality Within Henry James’s Lauren Remenick Maroon Spectral Silence: Communicative The Turn of the Screw Education PhD - Higher Education Failings and Repressed Trauma in Kendall Hall The Turn of the Screw English MA - Literary, Cultural, and Casting Youth Performers: An Jonathan Burnette Textual Studies Educational Take on a Professional English MA - Literary, Cultural, and Practice Textual Studies Climate, Security and Survival of Scott Savage Women and Households in the Theatre MFA - Theatre for Young Barriers of Health Access in Pine Nigerian North-East Audiences MFA Hills Area, Orlando, Florida and Jennifer Joel Policies Addressing Them Security Studies PhD Pregnant Killers: A Five-State Xian Cao Analysis of Pregnancy-Associated Public Affairs PhD - Health Services Postcolonial Hauntings: Ghosts Intimate Partner Homicides Management and Research as Historical Metaphors in Henry Sonya Spence James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ Applied Sociology MA - Domestic Why Do Teachers Stay? A Reverse John Lancaster Violence Look Into the Teacher Shortage English MA - Literary, Cultural, and Timara Davis Textual Studies Territorial Salience: A Better Education PhD - Exceptional Education Predictor for Territorial War and Adult, International Students’ Peace The Influence of Tourism on Real Shared Speaking and Listening Karthikeyan Thiagarajan Estate Prices in the Great Orlando Experiences with the Utilization of Security Studies PhD Area Pecha Kucha Presentations in a US Marcos de Medeiros EAP Program Participating in 12-step Support Hospitality & Tourism Management MS Van Thi Hong Le Groups While Using Medication Education PhD for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD): Discrimination Against Muslims, Individuals’ Experiences With Religious Networks and Terrorist F2F or Online? A Pilot Study of Stigma Attacks in Western Europe: The Preservice Teachers’ Learning Rachel Totaram Cases of United Kingdom, France, Preferences and Outcomes Public Affairs PhD - Health Services Germany and Italy Courtney Lopas Management and Research Davide Dell’Isola Education PhD - Reading Education Security Studies PhD E-Government and Its Implications Hidden in Plain Sight: Assessing for Accessibility, Transparency, the Spatial Distribution of Illicit and Government Performance Massage Businesses in the State of Jeannetta Maxena Florida Public Administration MPA Madelyn Diaz Sociology PhD
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RESEARCH INTENSIVE COURSE PRESENTATIONS SESSION I: 9:30 – 11 A.M.
The Effects of Plant Based Diets How’d You Get Here? Methods THE “DISNEY LOOK”: How Disney on Symptoms of Stage 1 Dementia of Invasive Plant Species Utilizes Cast Member Appearances Mae Abukhadrah, Mostafa Diab, Introduction to the State of to Maintain The Disney Brand Tillie Schumann, Sumeen Sajid, Florida Katharine Smith Meredith Sauceda, Nicole Parsels Mayerlin Fischbach, Mari Irving Mentor: Dr. Christian Ravela (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Michael J. Rovito (Health Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason (Biology) Sciences) Investigating the Abundance and Crystallization of the Fusion Diversity of Microplastics between The Association Between Vitamin Protein GST-EGFP Stormwater Ponds and Lakes on Deficiencies and Insomnia in Nancy Flynn the Campus of the University of American College Students Mentor: Dr. Robert Borgon, Nicole Verity Central Florida Genesis Brador, Jazmin Alvarez, (Biomedical Sciences) Megan Witt, Lindsey Relue, Gisselle Halabi Molli, Juan Reyes, Laurens Vermeulen, Tessa Brant Emily Kukielka, Nidhi Patel Microplastics, It’s What’s for Mentor: Dr. Linda Walters (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Michael Rovito (Health Lunch! Sciences) William Giles, Julia DeMayo, Miranda McClanahan, Abigail Comparison of Water Quality Traver, Nicole Rivera Parameters between Lacustrine Mentor: Dr. Linda Walters (Biology) and Palustrine UCF Campus Wetlands Tracking the Movement of Invasive Melanie Buziak, Janet O’Leary, Species Entering Florida via Ashley Boggs, Kira Allen, Steven E-commerce Steiniger Jason Litwak, Lyndsey Chute, S. Mentor: Dr. Lisa Chambers (Biology) Elizabeth Auricchio, John Buzby, Aspen Oudshoorn Effects of Marijuana Use through Mentor: Dr. Linda Walters (Biology) Peer Influence on Anxiety in College Freshmen Identifying Bacterial Contaminants Katrina Claydon, Iyat Neimat, in UCF Food Court Restaurants Anthony Martina Radwanski, Sarah Welter Mentor: Dr. Michael J. Rovito (Health Mentor: Dr. Robert Borgon, Nicole Verity Sciences) (Biomedical Sciences)
Burning Rubber while Torching Comparing the Biodiversity of Ecosystems: Microplastics Birds in Emergent and Forested Associated with Car Tires in our Wetlands Waterways Shurooq Saryoul, Matthew Blow, Grace Clayton, Nathaniel Madison Schmidt, Taylor Toro, Abernathy, Veronica Ospina, Chase David Yannick Paquette, Matthew Myers Mentor: Dr. Lisa Chambers (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Linda Walters (Biology) Comparing the Influence of Examination of Lichen Vegetation Coverage and Communities as a Proxy for Air Water Depth on Organic Matter Quality at University of Central Accumulation in a Central Florida Florida Basin Marsh Steven DeGarmo, Angela Ferebee, Jessica Scales, Karyssa Kemp, Taylor Nelson, Joseph Wilbur Trevor Sweeney, Steven Elsaid Mentor: Dr. Lisa Chambers (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Lisa Chambers (Biology)
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INDEPENDENT PROJECT PRESENTATIONS POSTER SESSION I: 9:30 – 11 A.M.
Connecting Capabilities Exploration of Nozzle ARTS AND HUMANITES Responsibly: A Report of a Circumferential Flow Attenuation Student-Run Global Health in Rotating Detonation Engines The Study of Free Will in the East Cooperation in Mare-Brignol, Haiti Zane Berry and the West Shreya Rao Mentor: Dr. Kareem Ahmed (Mechanical Nicholas Colecio Mentor: Dr. Luciana Garbayo (Philosophy) and Aerospace Engineering) Mentor: Dr. Louise Kane (English) The Hydrodynamic Length Scale Allen Ginsberg’s “Kaddish”: ENGINEERING, OPTICS AND of a Detonation Wave A Definitive American Mid- PHOTONICS, AND COMPUTER Karena Boyd Twentieth-Century Poem Mentor: Dr. Kareem Ahmed (Mechanical SCIENCE and Aerospace Engineering) Teddy Duncan Mentor: Dr. William Fogarty (English) Comparative Study on Clock Understanding the Challenges Devotional Authorship and Structures for Nanomagnetic Case Managers Face Regarding Logic Literary Sponsorship: Analyzing Foster Teens’ Online Safety Religious Devotional Literature as Precious Grace Brazil Denielle Abaquita Mentor: Dr. Deliang Fan (Arizona State a Reaction to Societal Values and Mentor: Dr. Pamela Wisniewski University) Issues (Computer Science) Nathanael Ettel Microbe-resistant Hybrid Mentor: Dr. Jeanine Viau (Philosophy) Implementation of Compressive Membranes for Healing Burns, Sensing Using AMP for Wounds and Scars A Transnational Look at the Probabilistic Inference Simulation Jodie Chen, Kasey Rigby Modern Woman Adedoyin Adepegba Mentor: Dr. Kausik Mukhopadyay, Dr. Isabella Hardesty Mentor: Dr. Ronald DeMara (Electrical Kaitlyn Crawford (Materials Science and Mentor: Dr. Louise Kane (English) and Computer Engineering) Engineering)
Macho Remixes: A Collection of Sintering Behavior, Structural, And Synthesis and Characterization Writings Catalytic Properties of Ytterbium of Water-Dispersible Super- Daniel Hernandez Oxide (Yb2O3) Paramagnetic Iron Oxide Mentor: Dr. Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes Alina Aftab Nicole Clark (English) Mentor: Dr. Nina Orlovskaya (Mechanical Mentor: Dr. Swadeshmukul Santra and Aerospace Engineering), Dr. Richard (Materials Science and Engineering) Essential Prerequisites for the Blair (Florida Space Institute) Professional Musician Flame-Vortex Dynamics in a Model Theodore Jackson A Novel Ca2+ Detection Sensor Ramjet Combustor Mentor: Dr. Thad Anderson (Performing for Direct Monitoring of Membrane Chandler Crimmins Arts) Fouling in Nanofiltration Mentor: Dr. Kareem Ahmed (Mechanical Amaya Bajorek and Aerospace Engineering) Enhancement of Critical Foreign Mentor: Dr. Woo Hyoung Lee (Civil, Language Curricula through Environmental, and Construction Effect of Platform Oscillations on Technology Engineering), Dr. Karin Chumbimuni- Torres (Chemistry) the Flow Field of an Off-Shore Taylor Jenko Wind Turbine using Particle Image Mentor: Dr. Alla Kourova (Modern Velocimetry Languages and Literatures) Ignition Delay Time Measurements of Highly Diluted Oxy-Methane Juan Escudero Mentor: Dr. Samik Bhattacharya Mapping Flu Mortality in Florida, Mixtures (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) 1918-1919 Jessica Baker Andrew Kishuni Mentor: Dr. Subith Vasu (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Using Machine Learning to Mentor: Dr. Connie Lester (History) Identify Access Patterns in Optimized Data Storage Motion Without Movement Landing Kinematics of Ae. aegypti Implementations Jamie Lachnicht Mosquitoes Mentor: Michael Cabrera (Visual Arts and Jasmine Balsalorbe Shaneal Findley Mentor: Dr. Jun Wang (Electrical and Design) Mentor: Dr. Andrew K. Dickerson (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Computer Engineering) Theatre for the Gods: the Overlap of Theatre and Ritual A Better Way to Cool Your Phone: New Conditional Lower Bounds Susan Liss The Design for Edit Distance on K Strings Mentor: Dr. Chloe Rae Edmonson Jordon Bennett Gary Hoppenworth (Theatre) Mentor: Dr. Shawn Putnam (Mechanical Mentor: Dr. Sharma Thankachan and Aerospace Engineering) (Computer Science) | 22 SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Developing a Stress Sensing Understanding Medical Error Alumina Paint that can be Applied HEALTH SCIENCES in Surgical Stapler Use: A to Aircraft for Nondestructive Philosophical and Scientific Evaluation The Perception, Usage, and Analysis Perla Latorre, Ryan Hoover Knowledge of Moringa Oleifera in Jacob Howard Mentor: Dr. Seetha Raghavan (Mechanical Mare-Brignol, Haiti after Increased Mentor: Dr. Luciana Garbayo (Philosophy) and Aerospace Engineering) Education and Access Preethashree Anbukkarasu, Phillip The Effect of Estrogen on Diet IoT-Enabled Smart Mobility Saad, Nichika Holdrum, Chinelo Induced Obesity Devices for Aging and Germain, Leticia Emi Ebihara, Archi Anna Jurlina Rehabilitation Mentor: Dr. Timothy Gilbertson Patel (Biomedical Sciences) Nafisa Mostofa Mentor: Dr. Mary Schmidt-Owens Mentor: Dr. Damla Turgut (Computer (Biomedical Sciences) Science) The Relationship Between Factors Associated with Diet Community Health Worker Supply Evaluating Ecosystem Services of Quality Scores Among Adult and the Rate of Preventable Intact Shorelines and Oyster Reefs Cancer Survivors: Results from Hospitalizations of Rural Latinos in Indian River Lagoon: A Meta- NHANES 2005-2016 with Diabetes Analysis of Hydrodynamics and Rachael Bernardo, Julia Velazquez Danielle Mapp Mentor: Dr. Judith Ortiz (Health Sciences) Sediment Carbon Storage Mentor: Dr. Eunkyung Lee (Health Dr. Richard Hofler (Economics) OlaToyin Olasimbo, Jordyn Sciences) Washington, Christopher Hagglund Mentor: Dr. Kelly Kibler (Civil, Inter-Rater Reliability and Intra- The Influence of Mental Imagery Environmental, and Construction Rater Reliability of Synchronous on Myofascial Restrictions Engineering) Ultrasound Imaging and Juan Rodriguez Mentor: Dr. William Hanney (Kinesiology Numerical Simulation of a Nickel- Electromyography Measures of and Physical Therapy) Based Superalloy Under Creep- Lumbopelvic-Hip Muscle Complex Fatigue, Thermomechanical Courtney Caputo, Sarah Akbarpour Effect of Short-term Vitamin Mentor: Dr. L. Colby Mangum, Dr. Kristen D Supplementation on Blood Fatigue, and Creep- Schellhase (Kinesiology and Physical Thermomechanical Fatigue Therapy) Pressure in Vitamin D-deficient Devin O’Neal Hypertensive African American Mentor: Dr. Ali Gordon (Mechanical and The Effect of Interventions on Adults Aerospace Engineering) Radiotherapy-induced Skin Anika Saxena King Toxicity in Breast Cancer Patients: Mentor: Dr. Keith Brazendale (Health Rapid Orbital Motion Emulator Sciences) A Systematic Review (ROME) Claudia Figueroa, Rose Gelin Tobacco Control Policies at Hunter Quebedeaux, Ryan Ketzner Mentor: Dr. Eunkyung Lee (Health Mentor: Dr. Tarek Elgohary (Mechanical Sciences) Ten Largest Public Universities and Aerospace Engineering) in Florida and UCF Students’ Hospital Footwear as a Vector for Support for Smoke-Free Policy The Effect of Cardiopulmonary Organism Transmission Nour Tanbari Functions in Measuring David Frederick Mentor: Dr. Julia N. Soulakova (Biomedical Sciences) Respiratory Sinus Arrythmia and Mentor: Dr. Brian Peach (Health Sciences) Heart Rate Variation by Utilizing Various Breathing Exercises The Perception and Knowledge LIFE SCIENCES Ankur Ravikanth, Seren Ozoglu, of E-Cigarrete use among College Brinna Desai Students Mentor: Dr. Hansen Mansy (Mechanical Kayla Garcia Identification of Wnt7a, Dkk2, and Aerospace Engineering) Mentor: Dr. Katia Ferdowsi (Health Mlxipl, and Rtl1 Genes as a Sciences) Target of Alcohol-Induced Gene Florida Electricity Prediction Repression in the Embryonic Using Machine Learning Caring for Dying Infants: Health Heart: Implications for Congenital Lily Schleider Care Provider Attitudes and Defects Due to Maternal Binge Mentor: Dr. Qipeng Phil Zheng (Industrial Experiences with Neonatal Engineering and Management Systems) Drinking Palliative Care Shani Abraham, Chad Lindo, Erika Thermal Performance of a Novel Marie Hamel Lytle, Thuy Tien Nguyen Mentor: Dr. Susanny Beltran (Social Mentor: Dr. Steven Ebert (Biomedical Flexible Cooling System Work) Tulio Tavares Sciences) Mentor: Dr. Shawn Putnam (Mechanical Grammatical Errors in Early and Aerospace Engineering) A Study of the Interaction Sentence Productions of 5-Year Between Microplastics and Vibrio Olds Using Augmentative and Parahaemolyticus in Coastal Alternative Communication Aquatic Environments Kasandra Hernandez Valentina Acosta Borreros, Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Kent-Walsh, Carolyn Stephanny Rodriguez Cordero Buchanan (Communication Sciences and Mentor: Dr. Melanie J. Beazley Disorders) (Chemistry) 23 | SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Investigating the Relationship In Situ Cultivation of Potential Computational Methods Used Between Hypothyroidism PAH Degrading Bacteria from in Preliminary Drug Design: and Migraines and Potential Coastal Sediment Predicting Peptide Interactions Treatments Kyle Benkel with RNA Motifs Alexandra Adair Mentor: Dr. Melanie Beazley (Chemistry), Laurence Dugan Mentor: Dr. Camilla Ambivero (Biomedical Dr. Anna Forsman (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Kersten Schroeder Sciences) (Biomedical Sciences) Sensing Symbiosis: Investigating Beer-o-Matics: A Bioinformatics a Link Between Magnetotactic The Effects of Sleep Deprivation Study of Biofilms and Microbes in Bacteria and Cartilaginous Fishes on Mental Health and Neurological Beer Lines using Genomics Disorders Laurie Agosto Elizabeth Boggs, Anthony Hevia Gabriella Fernandez Mentor: Dr. Sean Moore (Biomedical Mentor: Dr. Robert Fitak (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Sciences) Sciences) Isolation and Characterization Identification of Druggable of Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cross-Talk between PAINT-1 and Targets and Efficacy for Treatment Exosomes as a Cell-Free Therapy the Tumor Suppressor Cluster of Schwannomatosis Salma Bouchibti miRNA 17-92a in Prostate Cancer Abdulrahman Allaf Mentor: Dr. Dinender Singla (Biomedical Elizabeth Fernandez Paz, Ayman Mentor: Dr. Cristina Fernandez-Valle Sciences) Khatib (Biomedical Sciences) Mentor: Dr. Ratna Chakrabarti Nanoparticle Impact on Oogenesis (Biomedical Sciences) Beetle Babies: Investigating using the Drosophila Model Effects of Polystyrene Kirsten Bouck Investigating the Need for Consumption on Gut Microbiome Mentor: Dr. Laurence von Kalm (Biology) Gender-Based Treatment Composition in Mealworms and Protocols for Concussion in the Superworms Understanding the Molecular Emergency Department Victoria Allanson Effects of Polyamine Blockade Destiny Fillmer Mentor: Dr. Anna Forsman (Biology) Therapy in PDAC Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Jasmine Brown (Biomedical Sciences) What Factors Cause Congenital Mentor: Dr. Deborah Altomare Heart Diseases in Fetuses During (Biomedical Sciences) Capabilities of Metal Extraction Pregnancy? Along Florida Roads by the Ashante Antenor Effect of Multiple Sclerosis Sunflower Helianthus debilis Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical on Cognition and the Positive Mayerlin Fischbach Sciences) Influence of a Cognitive- Mentor: Dr. Eric Goolsby, Dr. Chase Mason Occupation Based Program (Biology) The Effects of Agrochemical 2,4- Grace Bundz D on Aedes aegypti Life History Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Investigating the Use of Traits (Biomedical Sciences) Gold Nanoparticles in Muscle Alexandra Aybar, Muhammad Regeneration Parupia Investigating the Effects of Marco Foreman, Connor Harmon Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Fedorka (Biology) Docosahexaenoic acid and Leptin Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Receptor Upregulation in Pediatric Sciences) Investigation of Planetesimal Leukemia Formation through Granular Jacqueline Conyers How can it Live there? Ecological Cohesion Experiments in Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Niche Modeling of Helianthus Microgravity (Biomedical Sciences) using R Yeniz Azconovieta Maxwell Gebhart Mentor: Dr. Joshua Colwell, Dr. Adrienne The Role the Gut Microbiome Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason, Dr. Erik Goolsby Dove (Physics) Can Play in Amyotrophic Lateral (Biology) Sclerosis Characterization of a Label- Kiera De Arellano Save the Bracts for Last Free Florescent Assay for Point Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Kaley Haff Mutation Discrimination based on (Biomedical Sciences) Mentor: Dr. Eric Goolsby (Biology) Split Aptamers The Role of 5-Alpha Reductase Shannon Beaton Side effects of Cushing’s Mentor: Dr. Yulia Gerasimova (Chemistry) Syndrome on Pregnancy in Inhibitors in the Chemoprevention Pregnant Female and Fetal of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma Investigating the Effects of Green Development Kevin Healey Camelia Del Valle Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Light as an Alternative Treatment (Biomedical Sciences) of Photophobia for Migraineurs Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Sciences) Jonathan Benjamin The Mechanism of Pyroptosis: An Mentor: Dr. Camilla Ambivero (Biomedical Sciences) Inflammation-Mediated Cell Death Bruno Kallas Mentor: Dr. Dinender K. Singla (Biomedical Sciences)
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Frabin, a RhoGEF, Promotes MUL1: A Mitochondrial Protein Pancreatic Cancer Progression with Potential Therapeutic PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND Ayman Khatib Function Against Parkinson’s MATHEMATICS Mentor: Dr. Ratna Chakrabarti Disease (Biomedical Sciences) Kevin Reyes Mentor: Dr. Antonis Zervos, Dr. Lucia OWL 2 Sensor for the Analysis of Psychedelic Medicine and the Cilenti (Biomedical Sciences) Single Nucleotide Variations Attenuation of Depressive Raniah Al Rabbat Symptoms Is the Zombie Ant Phenomenon Mentor: Dr. Dmitry Kolpashchikov Andrew Laino in Part a Product of a More (Chemistry) Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Generalized Stress Response? (Biomedical Sciences) Zaynah Shahab, Renee Ouellette Electrochemical Biosensor Mentor: Dr. Charissa De Bekker (Biology) Based on DNA for Detection of Constitutively Active Rheb- Pathogenic E. coli mCherry Cloning Strategy for Co- Analyzing the Effect of 4R on Angelica Balcarcel Transfection in Neuronal Neuro2a Macrophages to assess its Efficacy Mentor: Dr. Karin Chumbimuni-Torres and F11 Cell Lines as a Post-Ischemic Inflammatory (Chemistry) Leticia Lenkiu, Alex Balfour, Linda Modulator Analysis of Centaur-to-Jupiter Gavric, David Engel Sandeep Sreerama Family Transition Comets using Mentor: Dr. Alicia Hawthorne (Biomedical Mentor: Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya (Biomedical Sciences) Sciences) Publicly Available Observations from the Dark Energy Survey Overcoming Plants Blindness: In Vivo Characterization of Archive Tropisms miR-299-3p in Prostate Cancer Rachel Belton Caroline Luce, Logan McCaskill Xenograft Animal Models Mentor: Dr. Charles Schambeau (Florida Mentor: Dr. Rani Vajravelu (Biology) Stephen Staklinski Space Institute) Mentor: Dr. Ratna Chakrabarti Stable Isotope Analysis of an (Biomedical Sciences) Electrochemical Sensor for Invasive Crab Species, Charybdis Ibuprofen based on Molecularly hellerii, in the Indian River Lagoon Exploration of Nasal Microbiota Imprinted Polymer Justin Meyer Associated with Non-Carriage of Alexander Bennett, Andrew Murray Mentor: Dr. Geoffrey Cook (Biology) Staphylococcus aureus Mentor: Dr. Percy Calvo-Marzal, Dr. Meera Sundar, Ana Lopez Marcos Foguel (Chemistry) Investigating the Potential Role Mentor: Dr. Amy Cole, Dr. Alex Cole Recombinant Expression of a of Dopaminergic Agonists in the (Biomedical Sciences) Proposed Hydrazinoacetic Acid Treatment of Uterine Fibroids Biosynthetic Pathway from Mukonyo B, Valere L, Worley M Elucidating the Fate of the Barb ar Mukonyo, Lynn-Caelle Cytolethal Distending Toxin “A” Streptomyces noursei Subunit After Cell Binding. Nicole Boyd Valere Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Caranto (Chemistry) Mentor: Melissa Worley (Biomedical Nalysha Torres Mangual Sciences) Mentor: Dr. Ken Teter (Biomedical Sciences) Determining the Role of The Effects of Agriculture Caspase-4 and Caspase-5 in Herbicide Pendimethalin on Investigating the Potential Role of Inflammasome Activation the Immune Function of Aedes Neuroinflammation in Addictive Stephanie Schreiner Behaviors Mentor: Dr. Sunny Shin (University of aegypti and its Ability to Vector Pennsylvania) Diseases Samantha Totty, Marissa Dyer, Nicole Hancock, Jillian Mezo Kassady Perkinson, Dania Micro-Raman Spectroscopy of Rodriguez-Hernandez Mentor: Melissa Worley (Biomedical Sciences) Meteorites Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Fedorka (Biology) Alexander Chioma Smells like Family to Me! Mentor: Dr. Alfons Schulte, Dr. The Role of UBXN7 Scaffold Christopher Bennett (Physics) Protein in the Regulation of HIF-1α Population Structure Correlates of Corolla Terpenoid Variation and NRF2 Transcription Factors Representations of the Cuntz Diana Quiroga Juliana Wall Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason (Biology) Algebras Arising from Random Mentor: Dr. Antonis Zervos (Biomedical Walks Sciences) Assessing Leaf Ecophysiology and Nicholas Christoffersen Mentor: Dr. Dorin Ervin Dutkay Otolith Size Relationships Chemical Defense Traits as Drivers of Plant Growth Rate in Temperate with Geographic Location and The Effects of Sublimation from Trees Fish Size of Atlantic Croaker, Icy Granular Materials Microprogonias undulatus Dannielle Waugh Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason (Biology) Christopher Cox Lindsey Relue Mentor: Dr. Adrienne Dove (Physics) Mentor: Dr. Geoffrey Cook (Biology)
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Controlling Lead Leaching in The Production of CreE Enzyme A Spare Part Protein that Water Systems Responsible for the Oxidation of Reactivates the Glycyl Radical Russell Cox, Zon Thwin L-Aspartic Acid to Succinate and Enzyme Pyruvate Formate Lyase Mentor: Dr. Karin Chumbimuni-Torres Nitrous Acid Alan Trudeau (Chemistry), Dr. Woo Hyoung Lee Rahiim Lake Mentor: Dr. Catherine L. Drennan, Dr. (Civil, Environmental, and Construction Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Caranto (Chemistry) Jonathan Caranto (Chemistry) Engineering) Exploring Galvanic Replacement Comparative Studies on the A Jones Calculus Approach to as a Method to Engineer Sorption and Desorption of High Order Harmonic Generation Peroxidase-Mimics Nanoparticles Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Bulk Crystal Kuryn MaGloire on Microplastics Erin Crites Mentor: Dr. Xiaohu Xia (Chemistry) Unaisah Vorajee Mentor: Dr. Michael Chini (Physics) Mentor: Dr. Andres Campiglia (Chemistry) Engineering Active Site Residues Design of Recyclable Multi- to Alter Stereoselectivity in the Determining the Infrared Metallic Nanoparticles for Second Ketoreductase of the Fingerprint Corresponding To Catalysis Amphotericin Polyketide Synthase Cell Wall Degrading and Protein Marie Davy Maria Martinez Inhibiting Treatments on E. Coli Mentor: Dr. Titel Jurca (Chemistry) Mentor: Dr. Constance Bailey (University Khadijah Wright of Tennessee), Dr. Jonathan Caranto Mentor: Dr. Laurene Tetard (Physics) A Model Experiment to Investigate (Chemistry) the Possibility of Glyphosate Contamination in St. Kitts and Counting Vector Partitions SOCIAL SCIENCES Nevis David Melendez Winston Fu Mentor: Dr. Pamela Harris (Williams Mentor: Dr. Michael Hampton, Dr. Melanie College) Effects of Demographics on Beazley (Chemistry) Opportunistic Product Return Optimization of Dapoxyl Aptamer Behaviors in E-Commerce Femtosecond Soft X-Rays for Label-Free Bioanalysis Nikhila Anand Photoinduced Reactions in H2O Jack Mordeson Mentor: Dr. Carolyn Massiah (Marketing) Ice Layers Grown on Silica Surface Mentor: Dr. Yulia Gerasimova (Chemistry) Aakash Gupta Archaeology of the Burns Site Mentor: Dr. Mihai Vaida (Physics) Simulating Spacecraft Charging in at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Plasma Environments Station Spectral Effects of Parameters in John Peterson Adriana Almonte, Krista Marie Diffuse Reflectance IR and Visible Mentor: Dr. Adrienne Dove (Physics) Walkley, Chloe Sherwood, Andrea Spectra of Regolith Simulants Perry Riley Havel Seaweed as a Potential Carrier of Mentor: Dr. Neil Duncan (Anthropology) Mentor: Dr. Christopher Bennett (Physics) Microplastics: A Pollution Study Originating in Saint Kitts and Rumination and Anticipation: How Analyzing the History and Nevis Cognitions about Mistreatment Morphology of Tropical Storms to Stephanie Rodriguez Experiences Influence Work Better Understand the Paleostorm Mentor: Dr. Michael Hampton, Dr. Melanie Engagement Record Beazley (Chemistry) Ignacio Azcarate Julia Holt Mentor: Dr. Steve Jex (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Joseph Donoghue (Physics) Predictive Buyer Behavior Model Using an SIR Framework Unpacking the Social Media Searching for a Non-Destructive Zach Schwartz Paradox: Gender Differences in Digestion Procedure to Analyze Mentor: Dr. Zhisheng Shuai (Mathematics) Motivations for Social Media Use Chemicals Adsorbed on Micro- Nikki Anne Ballelos, Kendal Allen Plastics Multilayer Integration of DNA Johanna Rose Villadarez, Lesly Margaret Jenkins Logic Gates for Biomedical Corona, Mentor: Dr. Andres Campiglia (Chemistry) Application Mentor: Dr. James Szalma (Psychology) Ashley Sewsankar Improving and Automating Mentor: Dr. Dmitry Kolpashchikov Smoking Identities and Vaping Measurements in the Cryogenic (Chemistry) Jacqueline Beretsky Lithic Ice Failure (CLIF) Mentor: Dr. Steven Berman, Dr. Shahram Experiment The Role of Mn(III) Oxides in Ghiasinejad (Psychology) Trisha Joseph the Oxidative Dissolution of Mentor: Dr. Adrienne Dove (Physics) TcO2 Under Oxygen Restricted The Back Experience: Exploring Conditions the Awareness of Morbidity and An In-Silico Approach to Assist Ilana Szlamkowicz Mortality in the Black Community NASBA-Based Assays: A Primer Mentor: Dr. Vasileios Anagnostopoulos Elmire Bien-Aime (Chemistry) Mentor: Dr. Amy Reckdenwald Design Software (Sociology) Rohit Karnati Mentor: Dr. Yulia Gerasimova (Chemistry) Electrostatics and Riemann Surfaces Spencer Tamagni Mentor: Dr. Costas Efthimiou (Physics) | 26 SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Clicking in the Red: Color & Color Impact of PHQ-9 Symptoms on Bail: Reforming the Rules, Placement Effects on Purchase Activities of Daily Living Resisting the Status Quo in Intention of Loot Boxes in Video Tirzah Fernandes Misdemeanor Courts Games Mentor: Dr. Kimberley Gryglewicz, Lisa Caroline King, Jodi Lewis, Krupali Mackenzie Bland Borntrager (Social Work) Patel, Camille Robinson, Nefertari Mentor: Dr. David Luna, Dr. Xin He Elshiekh (Marketing) Factors Contributing to Academic Mentor: Dr. Alisa Smith (Legal Studies) Performance of Spanish-English Recovery in Teachers: Barriers, Bilingual College Students at UCF Working Memory Capacity in Facilitators and the Relationship Catherine Gathings Navarro, Trauma-Exposed Versus Trauma to Physical Stress Symptoms Isabella McLaughlin Unexposed Individuals Amber Blatchford Mentor: Dr. Marisol Parra-Tatge Isabella McLaughlin, Michaela Mentor: Dr. Kristin Horan (Psychology), (Psychology) Schaal Dr. Crystal Maraj (Simulation and Mentor: Dr. Marisol Parra-Tatge Technology) Social Factors and Their Effect on (Psychology) Diabetic Patients in Puerto Rico A Psychological View of Post Hurricane Maria Help Provided by Religious Environmental Politics Breishka Gomez Communities in Central Florida in Jady Chen Mentor: Dr. Fernando Rivera (Sociology) Response to Hurricane Maria Mentor: Dr. Sharon Woodill Gabrielle Morales (Interdisciplinary Studies) Academic Burnout Among College Mentor: Dr. Fernando Rivera (Sociology) Students: The Role of Gender, Investigation of Chemistry GTAs’ Workload, and Social Support No Parental Guidance: Perception of Cold Calling and Ashley Greindl Investigating the Influence of Error Framing after Rehearsal in a Mentor: Dr. Shahram Ghiasinejad, Dr. Young Adult Perceptions of Mixed-Reality Teaching Simulator Steven Berman (Psychology) their Parents on Their Ability to Andrew Cheshire Maintain Independent Living Mentor: Dr. Erin Saitta (Chemistry) Central Florida Farmers: Climate Casandra Ricketts Change, Disaster Preparedness Mentor: Dr. Grace White (Psychology) The Experience of LEP Patients in and Resilience Healthcare Maria Fernanda Grisales Geospatial Approaches to Javier Cintron Mentor: Dr. Fernando I. Rivera Mentor: Dr. Joanna Mishtal (Sociology) Managing Cultural Resources on (Anthropology) Federal Lands Swiping and Satisfaction: The Charlotte Robinson, Simone Tripoli Should I Start Packing? The Mentor: Dr. Edward González-Tennant Connection Between Relationship (Anthropology) Joint Impact of Leader- Origin and Relationship Member Exchange Quality and Satisfaction Differentiation on Job Insecurity Tanner Hess and Turnover Intentions Mentor: Dr. Grace White (Psychology) Divya Doshi, Marc Astacio Mentor: Dr. Mark Ehrhart (Psychology) The Role of Grey Literature in the Successful Management of Anthropological and Legislative Cultural Heritage Resources on Approaches to Disaster: An Federal Lands Evolving Relationship Marilyn HIlton Margaret Fender Mentor: Dr. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant Mentor: Dr. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant (Anthropology) (Anthropology)
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INDEPENDENT PROJECT PRESENTATIONS POSTER SESSION II: NOON – 1:30 P.M.
An Assessment of the Impacts of ARTS AND HUMANITES EPA Superfund Sites on Central COMMUNITY INNOVATION Florida Residents AND EDUCATION Judging JONAS: A Genre Analysis Kurt Ramos of a Restaurant Management Mentor: Vanessa Calkins (Writing and Rhetoric) Comparison of Chemistry Software Instructors’ Teaching Philosophies Jamie Cooney Mentor: Melissa Pompos Mansfield Happiness and Social Media: The to the Hierarchy of Their Ideal (Writing and Rhetoric) Truths, Myths, and Statistics Learning Space Seva Reilly, David Gomez-Fandino, Bethany Arcaya The Rise and Fall of Urartu: A Mark Dolmovich, Krista Guerne, Mentor: Dr. Julie Donnelly, Dr. Nicole Textual Geography of the Corpus Edwin Rivera Jorge Lapeyrouse (Chemistry) Mentor: Sybil St. Claire (Performing Arts) dei Testi Urartei (CTU) Exploring the Potential of STEAM: Jacob Finegan Mentor: Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni Functional Fables and Fabulous Using Music as a Stimulus to (History) Failures: Tradition, Definition, and Positively Impact Elementary Innovation Student Academic Performance in Fear, Ideal, and the Quest for Abigail Reynolds Mathematics Understanding: Russian Gentry Mentor: Dr. Tyler Fisher (Modern Nicholas Cassara Writers on Peasantry from the Languages and Literatures) Mentor: Dr. Norine Blanch (Educational 19th- Early 20th Centuries Leadership & Higher Education) Mariana Kellis 2d-3d Zoetrope Mentor: Dr. Vladimir Solonari (History) Madison Stevens The Need for Active-Based Mentor: Michael Cabrera (Visual Arts and Learning and Problem-Based Female Gender Presentation in Design) Learning Techniques within the Asian Literature Undergraduate Science Classroom Anne Bradstreet: America’s Catherine Le Setting Mentor: Dr. Louise Kane (English) First Poet & How She Applies To Erika Lytle, Zainab Baqri Americans Today Mentor: Dr. Kersten Schroeder Project Victory: Exploring Theodore Summers (Biomedical Sciences) Graduate School Opportunities Mentor: Dr. Louise Kane (English) Through Cost-Effective Virtual English Education Policies and Mangrove: A Soundscape Ecology Reality Tech Their Effects on Children in Toolkit Isaiah Morales Botswana Mentor: Dr. Liza Potts (Michigan State Irene Tanner, Alexander Salazar, Olivia MacDonald University), Dr. Mel Stanfill (Nicholson Ryoma Hashida, James Upchurch Mentor: Dr. Sharon Woodill School of Communication and Media) Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Beever (Philosophy) (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Borrowing Time: The Classical Taking Control of Your Happiness An Analysis on the Length of Time Tradition in the Poetic Theories of Bradley Thornton, Jason Taché, in Training and the Retention of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound Jesse Harris, Camila Murphy, Isabel Knowledge in the QPR Suicide Nicholas Odom Aviles, Prevention Program Mentor: Dr. Louise Kane, Dr. William Mentor: Sybil St. Claire (Performing Arts) Aartie Poonai Fogarty (English) Mentor: Dr. Kimberley Gryglewicz (Social The Beat Generation: How Work) A “Herstory” of Coach Rachael Central Florida Inspired Author Klunder: Exploring the Experience Jack Kerouac as Both Grew in Are all Relationships the Same? A and Challenges of Women Leaders Popularity Comparison of Intimate Partner in Athletics Courtney Verna-Brown Victimization within Heterosexual Haleigh Oglesby Mentor: Dr. Lori Walters (Simulation and and Same-Sex Couples Mentor: Dr. Anne Bubrski (Women’s and Technology) Nicole Rosenzvaig Gender Studies) Mentor: Dr. Erica R. Fissel (Criminal 2D Visual Development and Justice) Manipulating Ball and Joint Storyboarding Armature to Mimic Humanoid Marielle White Can Strain Theory be Used to Motion Mentor: Michael Cabrera (Visual Arts and Explain the Relationship between Patricia Quintero Design) Recidivism and Secure Placement? Mentor: Michael Cabrera (Visual Arts and Alessia Shaw Design) Light Placement Using Python Mentor: Dr. James Ray (Criminal Justice) Scripting in Maya Sierra Williams Mentor: Michael Cabrera (Visual Arts and Design) | 28 SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Biochemistry and Teaching ESOL: Drop Sloshing Damping Improved Mutation for Evolved Active Learning Implementation Michael Cassette Actor-Critic Based-Models in Deep Across Disciplines Mentor: Dr. Andrew Dickerson Reinforcement Learning Dylan Thibaut (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Alec Kerrigan Mentor: Irina McLaughlin (Teacher Mentor: Dr. Annie Wu (Computer Education), Dr. Jonathan Caranto Conducting Responsible Research Science) (Chemistry) with Teens and Parents About Online Risks A Sustainable New Process for Sahana Chandra the Catalytic Removal of Toxic ENGINEERING, OPTICS AND Mentor: Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Mercury from Flue Emission PHOTONICS, AND COMPUTER (Computer Science) Zachary Loeb Mentor: Dr. Anwar Sadmani (Civil, SCIENCE Assessing Nutrient Removal Environmental, and Construction Performance of Vegetated Filter Engineering) A Web-Based Tool for Strips Using Water Quality Investigating Teen Online Safety Parameters Postmortem Hydrogen Cyanide Kevin Abreu-Aguila, Enelson Andrew Corrado Molarity Determination Castro Mentor: Dr. Kelly Kibler (Civil, through Thiocyanate Detection Environmental, and Construction Mentor: Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Utilizing Silver Nanosensors via Engineering) (Computer Science) Colorimetric Analysis Christiana Lovell Comprehensive Study of Firing Co-Designing “Teenovate:” An Mentor: Debashis Chanda, Dr. Pablo Temperatures and Contact Intergenerational Online Safety Manuel Cencillo Abad (Physics) Resistivity of Si Solar Cells Design Team Christian Avalos Arianna Davis Photo Induced Synaptic Behaviors Mentor: Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Mentor: Dr. Kristopher Davis (Materials Emulated in Monolayer MoS2 (Computer Science) Science and Engineering) Devices for Neuromorphic Computing Enzyme-Mimetic Properties of Predictive Modeling of Droplet Madison Manley Carbon-Nanodot Templated Ejection from Dampened, Damped Mentor: Dr. Tania Roy (Electrical and Hollow Ceria Cantilever Computer Engineering) Balaashwin Babu Ryan Deryk, Kevin Shitaho Mentor: Dr. Andrew Dickerson Mentor: Dr. Tamil Selvan Sakthivel, Dr. Quantifying Left Ventricular (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Sudipta Seal (Materials Science and Strains During Late Filling to Engineering) Understand Heart Failure New Design for Shock Tube End Saar Peles, Sarah Villamil A Blood Test for Brain Monitoring Wall to Simultaneously Measure Mentor: Dr. Luigi Perotti (Mechanical and Aliyah Baksh Pressure and Spectroscopic Aerospace Engineering) Mentor: Dr. Debashis Chanda (Physics) Emissions During Combustion of Fuels Utility of Wrist Devices for Sine (Pi): Sensor Integrated Novel Daniel Dyson Monitoring Cardiac Health Electric Portable Instrument Mentor: Dr. Subith Vasu (Mechanical and Through Heart Rate Measurements Arnaldo Barreto, Brian Smith Aerospace Engineering) Pinak Raodeo, Oleksandra Mentor: Dr. Joon-Hyuk Park (Mechanical Myronenko and Aerospace Engineering) Noninvasive Quantification of Mentor: Dr. Hansen Mansy (Mechanical Muscle Health Using Dual EMG and Aerospace Engineering) Transforming Configurable C Code and MMG for Automated Bug-Finding and Emily Flynt, Rehana Koilpillai, Vibration vs Audio Cues Improving Security Analysis Sujena Koilpillai, Nicholas Skiados, Reaction Time and Accuracy in Julian Braha Kristen Ling, Mary Isabelle Guerra Decision Making Mentor: Dr. Paul Gazzillo (Computer Mentor: Dr. Hansen Mansy (Mechanical John Sirera Science) and Aerospace Engineering) Mentor: Dr. Sang-Eun Song (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Corticomuscular Coherence in Parametric Study of Shock-Flame Alpha Band Differentiates Active Bubble Interactions with Varying Sensor Integrated Novel Electric and Passive Stepping Equivalence Ratios Portable Instrument [S.I.N.E(P.I)]: Samantha Brunson Rachel Hytovick Trombone Mentor: Dr. Helen Huang (Mechanical and Mentor: Dr. Kareem Ahmed (Mechanical Brian Smith, Narjess Husainy, Aerospace Engineering) and Aerospace Engineering) Arnaldo Barreto Mentor: Dr. Joon-Hyuk Park (Mechanical A Spin-based Analog to Digital Developing Arduino Code to and Aerospace Engineering) Converter Interactive Simulation Enhance Low-Level Sensing and Framework Control of Agricultural Robotics Phosphor Thermometry for Gustavo Camero Jean Jerome Measurements in Extreme Turbine Mentor: Dr. Ronald DeMara (Electrical Mentor: Dr. Yunjun Xu (Mechanical and Environments and Computer Engineering) Aerospace Engineering) Christopher Williamson, Khanh Vo Mentor: Dr. Seetha Raghavan (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) 29 | SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
The Effect of Obesity on the The Effect of Vitamin D and HEALTH SCIENCES Mortality Rate of Coronary Heart Changes in Short-Chain Fatty Disease in Florida Acids on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Rural Disparities in Lung Cancer Claire Maher Ariej Alkowni Mortality: An Ecologic Study in Mentor: Dr. Eunkyung Lee (Health Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Florida Sciences) Sciences) Batel Amouyal Mentor: Dr. Cassie Lewis Odahowski, Dr. Exploring the Effect of Performing Investigating the Role Altered Kyle Riding (Health Sciences) Testicular Self-Examination on Circadian Rhythm Play in an Tumor Stage Diagnosis Astronaut’s Gut Microbiome Factors Associated with Michael Maresca Brianna Ariza, Kirsten Scheller Anosognosia in People with Mentor: Dr. Michael Rovito (Health Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Comorbid Mental Health Sciences) Sciences) Conditions: An Integrative Health Literacy and Health Probing the Secondary Structure Literature Review Information Seeking Behaviors of Intrinsically Disordered Squid Tiffany Baula Mentor: Dr. Leslee Damato-Kubiet, Dr. of Students at the University of Reflectin Protein Through ssNMR Angeline Bushy (Nursing) Central Florida Harriet Austin Abigail McWhorter Mentor: Dr. Bo Chen (Physics) How does Dehydration and Rapid Mentor: Dr. Suha Saleh (Health Sciences) Weight Loss Effect Cognition in E-cigarette Vapor Exposure Combat Sports Athletes During Association Between the Promotes Streptococcus Mutans Competition WCRF/AICR Cancer Prevention Biofilm Formation Sean Cavey Guidelines and Cancer Antigen Matthew Caldwell Mentor: Dr. Claudia Andl (Biomedical Mentor: Dr. Anna Valdes (Kinesiology and Level Among U.S. Women: Sciences) Physical Therapy) Analysis of 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Perceptions of Electronic Survey High Rates of Misdiagnosis Cigarette Usage and Vaping Omar Ragab, Vanessa Kady of Pediatric Acute-Onset Among College Students Mentor: Dr. Eunkyung Lee (Health Neuropsychiatric Syndrome and Safia Centner Sciences) How to Reduce Them: A Meta- Mentor: Dr. Suha Saleh (Health Sciences) Analysis Millennial Attitudes Toward Aliya Centner Evaluating the Nutritional Status Telehealth: An Integrative Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam of Peruvian Born Children Literature Review (Biomedical Sciences) Chantelle Garcia Hannah Gwyneth Tabora Mentor: Dr. Desiree A. Diaz, Dr. Heather Mentor: Dr. Leslee A. D’Amato-Kubiet Analysis and Classification Peralta (Nursing) (Nursing) of Lubricants using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Drug Therapy in Individuals with Creative Approaches to Meeting Sharon Dale Substance Use Disorder During Diabetes-Related Needs in Florida Mentor: Dr. Candice Bridge (Chemistry) Acute Care Hospitalization for Anudeep Udumula Comorbid Health Conditions Mentor: Dr. Judith Ortiz (Health Sciences) Anthropogenic Changes: Impact Jessica Jonas on Wildlife Living in Florida Mentor: Dr. Leslee D’Amato-Kubiet, Impact of Work-Life Balance on Marshes Sandra Sturgeon (Nursing) Health-Related Quality of Life Melanie DallaValle, Timothy Among College Students Evan McCann, William David Factors Associated With Serum Emily Vernet Bevan-Thomas, Maxwell Gebhart, Phytoestrogen Levels Among Mentor: Dr. Suha Saleh (Health Sciences) Madeleine Elizabeth Schmitz Women With Breast Cancer Mentor: Dr. Linda Walters (Biology) Jongeon Kim, Tran Pham Mentor: Dr. Eunkyung Lee (Health LIFE SCIENCES siRNA Knockdown of the Boris Sciences) Protein utilizing Receptor- The Role Circadian Rhythm Mediated Endocytosis Which Exercise is Better to Plays in Incidence of Myocardial Christina DeBarro, Brandon Kaye Reduce Fatigue in Prostate Infarction Mentor: Dr. Robert Borgon, Nicole Verity Cancer: Aerobic or Resistance Samantha Abbott (Biomedical Sciences) Training? Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Jin Lee, Anay Patel Sciences) Look & Smell Pretty? Correlates Mentor: Dr. Eunkyung Lee (Health of Petal Carotenoid Content & Sciences) Behavioral Analysis of the Terpenoid Variation in Cultivated Cryptoprocta ferox in an Ex-Situ Helianthus Aerobic Exercise and Its Promising Condition Bree-Alexandra Donley Therapeutic Effects on Parkinson’s Emilie Alfonso Mentor: Dr. Eric Goolsby (Biology) Disease Pathogenesis Mentor: Frank Logiudice (Biology) Cullen Lemieux Mentor: Dr. James Sonne, Dr. Jason Groshong (Health Sciences) | 30 SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
The Interactions Between Pollinator Populations: Impacts Investigating Cerebrovascular Microplastic and Inorganic of Various Urban Landscapes on Hemodynamics in Clinical Biogeochemical Nutrients Pollinator Diversity Development of Alzheimer’s Evan Duga Elli Howard, Brooke Saitta, Disease Mentor: Dr. Lisa Chambers (Biology) Shannon Murphy, Andrew Geml, Ana Martins Sophia Vermeulen Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Assessing Density and Diversity Mentor: Jennifer Elliott, Kelsie Johnson (Biomedical Sciences) of Oyster Reef Resident Fishes (Biology) Following Habitat Restoration Role of Genetic Factors in Katie Durham Developmental Effects of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Mentor: Dr. Geoffrey Cook (Biology) Terpenes on Vanessa Cardui at Treatment Response Varying Temperatures Sara Matiz Evaluating Green Turtle (Chelonia Mari Irving Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical mydas) Differential White Blood Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason (Biology) Sciences) Cell Counts in the Indian River Lagoon Identifying Microplastic Non-Coding RNAs in Lung Tumor Gianna Fanelli Abundances and Hotspots in the Initiation and Progression Mentor: Dr. Kate Mansfield (Biology) Guana, Tolomato, and Matanzas Ruben Mercado, Cerena Moreno Rivers in northeast Florida Mentor: Dr. Wencai Zhang (Biomedical Extraterrestrial Plant Growth: Why McKenna Keplinger Sciences) Climate Change Is More Important Mentor: Dr. Linda Walters (Biology) Than the Colonization of Mars The Role of dSLC12A8 in Savanna Freeman, Hannady Halaby Comparative Analysis of Creative Polyamine Transport Mentor: Dr. Rani Vajravelu (Biology) Therapy for Opioid Addiction Victoria Millington Daniella King, Richard Shao, Jason Mentor: Dr. Laurence von Kalm (Biology) Utilizing Potato Chip Waste for Young Salmonella Smugglers: Intertidal Oyster Reef Restoration Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam William Giles (Biomedical Sciences) Investigating the Role that Mentor: Dr. Linda Walters (Biology) Migratory Birds Play in The Spread Protein Disulfide Isomerase’s Role of Salmonella Potential Benefits of CXL in the Inhibition of Amyloid Beta Julia Nadeau Gneckow Treatment for Thinning Corneas Aggregation Mentor: Dr. Anna Forsman (Biology) Due to Contact Lenses Jasmina Kovacevic Nicole Hancock, Marissa Dyer, Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Teter (Biomedical Investigating the Role of ChREBP Jillian Mezo, Samantha Totty Sciences) in Alcohol-Induced Congenital Mentor: Dr. Camilla Ambivero (Biomedical Heart Defects Sciences) Hoot for the Root - Urban Sandhill Thuy Tien Nguyen Tree Canopy Restoration Mentor: Dr. Steven N. Ebert (Biomedical Investigating the Potential Role of Nicole Kraemer, Tracy Alt, Sciences) Dopamine in Regulating Growth of Savannah Leduc, Mariah Aponte, Gliomas Sophia Hutton Clinical Efficacy of Novel Connor Harmon, Marco Foreman Mentor: Jennifer Elliott (Biology) Antibiotic Formulation-X is Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Demonstrated by Reduction in Sciences) The Combinatorial Effect of Crohn’s Disease Activity Index Constitutively Active Rheb and Score From Dwarfs to Giants: A Taxol on Axon Outgrowth in Tarek Obeid Genome-Wide Association Study Vitro on Inhibitory and Growth- Mentor: Dr. Saleh Naser, Dr. Ahmad on the Growth Rate of Cultivated Promoting Substrates Qasem (Biomedical Sciences) Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) Cathy Le The Effect of Pesticides on Austin Hart Mentor: Dr. Alicia Hawthorne (Biomedical Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason (Biology) Sciences) the Foraging Behavior of Hymenoptera: A Systematic Exploring Alternative Therapies Investigating the Effects of Review in the Treatment of Huntington’s Autonomous Sensory Meridian Veronica Ospina, Whitney S. Disease Response on Neurotransmitter Stephen Kenneth Hawkins Levels in Mental Health Patients Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Elenie Lopez, John Nicho (Biomedical Sciences) Mentor: Melissa Worley (Biomedical Investigating the Effects of Sciences) an Altered Gut Microbiome in Maternal Thyroid Dysfunction Diabetes Effect on Brain Development The Transstadial Effects of Pruthvi Patel During Pregnancy: Links to Autism Roundup on the Life History, Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Spectrum Disorder Stress Response, and Immune (Biomedical Sciences) Caroline Hobson Function of Aedes aegypti, the Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Yellow Fever Mosquito Sciences) Lindsay Martin Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Fedorka (Biology)
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Genetic Structure of Green Turtle Tracking the Lionfish Invasion Novel Non-Precious Metal Catalyst (Chelonia mydas) Foraging Across the Indian River Lagoon for Vehicle Emission Control Aggregations on the East Coast of using Environmental DNA Samantha Collier Florida (USA) Katherine Viehl Mentor: Dr. Shaohua Xia, Dr. Fudong Liu Monica Reusche Mentor: Dr. Michelle Gaither (Biology) (Civil, Environmental, and Construction Mentor: Dr. Kate Mansfield, Dr. Eric Engineering) Hoffman (Biology) Exploring the Driving Factors Behind Mangrove Colonization Observation of Dirac state in DySb Observational Study of Two Ex of Oyster Reefs within Mosquito Klauss Dimitri Situ North American River Otters Lagoon Mentor: Dr. Madhab Neupane (Physics) (Lontra canadensis) Megan Witt Detection of a Peptide Hormone Julia Rifenberg Mentor: Dr. Linda Walters (Biology) Mentor: Frank Logiudice (Biology) – Somatostatin – with Label-Free Split-Aptameric Probes The Effects of Roundup® on PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND Charles Dowis Disease Transferability Probability MATHEMATICS Mentor: Dr. Yulia Gerasimova (Chemistry) of Aedes aegypti Jennifer Rote, Michele Crowhurst Development of Nonlocal Green Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Fedorka (Biology) Understanding the Kubo Formalism with Applications Photoisomerization reaction of to Heat and Mass Transport Population Dynamics of Microbial Tricyanofuran-type Metastable- Kevin Fernando Communities Among Cystic state Photoacids Mentor: Dr. Patrick Schelling (Physics) Fibrosis Patients Receiving CFTR Mohamed Abdelrahim Modulator Mentor: Dr. Karin Chumbimuni-Torres Protocol Establishment of Anita Samadabadi (Chemistry) Temperature-Based Degradation Mentor: Dr. Taj Azarian (Biomedical of Lubricants Sciences) Sodium Analysis in Blood using Nancy Flynn Ion-Selective Electrodes Mentor: Dr. Candice Bridge (Chemistry) De Novo Discovery of Pathogens Cody Autrey in American Alligators Mentor: Dr. Karin Chumbimuni-Torres Cell Design for Inclusion with IRAS Jessica Scales (Chemistry) of Thin-Film Aluminosilicate Model Mentor: Dr. Robert Fitak (Biology) Regolith for Space-Weathering Environmental Analysis for Studies Investigating Advanced Further Economic Prosperity of St. Jillian Gloria Treatments for Rheumatic Fever Kitts and Nevis Dual-Island Nation Mentor: Dr. William Kaden (Physics) and Rheumatic Heart Disease Morgan Baranek, Morgan Monica Sehgal Longieliere Hybridization Light-Up Probes for Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Mentor: Dr. Michael Hampton (Chemistry) Prediction of Nucleic Acid Base- (Biomedical Sciences) Pairing Design and Characterization of a Mary Gomez Involvement of RIP2 in ALOX5 Portable Mini-CO2/VOC Sensor Mentor: Dr. Yulia Gerasimova (Chemistry) Activation and Specialized Pro- and Gas Chromatograph for Field Resolving Lipid Mediator (SPM) Research Experimental Characterization of Production Rishi Basdeo Hafnium Boride (HfB2), Zirconium Roopin Singh Mentor: Dr. Michael Hampton (Chemistry) Boride(ZrB2) and Hafnium- Mentor: Dr. Justine Tigno-Aranjuez Zirconium Boride Samples (Biomedical Sciences) Reagentless Amplification of Daniel Harrison the Electrochemical Signal of a Mentor: Dr. William Kaden (Physics) The Genetic Control of Biosensor for a cancer Biomarker Mycorrhizal Colonization in in Serum Sample Predicting h-BCN Geometric Sunflower Maria Boza Structures using Clustering and Katherine Stahlhut Mentor: Dr. Karin Chumbimuni-Torres Regression Methods Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason (Biology) (Chemistry) Sonali Joshi Mentor: Dr. Talat Rahman (Physics) Dried Whole-Leaf Tissue VS Factors Contributing to Nucleic Homogenized Ground-Leaf Acid Binding Dye Interactions with Tuning the Dielectric Constant Tissue: A Comparative Analysis Single-Stranded DNA of Substitutional Solid State of Predictive Reflectance-Based Colin Campbell Materials Models for Determining Nutrient Mentor: Dr. Yulia Gerasimova (Chemistry) Kyle Langlois Content Mentor: Dr. Fernando Uribe-Romo Milton Valdiviezo Algebraic and Combinatorial (Chemistry) Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason, Dr. Eric Goolsby Approaches for Counting Cycles (Biology) Arising in Population Biology Predicting Diffusion Barriers of Brian Chau Ag Clusters on the Ag(111) Surface Investigating the Role of Vitamin Mentor: Dr. Zhisheng Shuai (Mathematics) Using Machine Learning D in Alopecia Patients Connor Malley Lynn-Caelle Valere, Barbara Mentor: Dr. Talat Rahman, Dr. Duy Le Mukonyo (Physics) Mentor: Melissa Worley (Biomedical | 32 Sciences) SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Numerical Investigation of Particle Assessing Risk Factors, Warning “I Got Your Back”: The Role of Physics and its Implications for Signs, and Protective Factors Social Support on Black Students’ Planetesimal Formation Among Suicidal Youth by Race Mental Health. Jeb Massaro Michael Cosare Chelsea Johnson Mentor: Dr. Joshua Colwell (Physics) Mentor: Dr. Kimberly Gryglewicz (Social Mentor: Dr. Grace White (Psychology) Work) Investigating the Effect of Positive Connections to Nature Caffeine Coated Quantum Dots of Difficulties Sleeping and Fatima Khan Cell Uptake Loneliness; Qualitative Analysis Mentor: Dr. Daniel S. McConnell, Dr. Janan Ava Milani Nikia Crews, Taila Ben-lulu Smither (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Swadeshmukul Santra Mentor: Dr. Daniel McConnell (Chemistry) (Psychology) Ancient Gaming: Patolli Game Boards in Pre-Columbian DNA Nanorobots for Cancer None of Your Business: Situational Mesoamerica Therapeutics Antecedents of Knowledge Nicholas Kopp Caitlyn Niccum Sharing and Warmth Mentor: Dr. Brigitte Kovacevich Mentor: Dr. Dmitry Kolpashchikov Clayton Culbreth, Camila Velez De (Anthropology) (Chemistry) Jesus, Richelle Cruz Quetell Mentor: Dr. Mark Ehrhart (Psychology) Emotion Expression Suppression How Unique is Almahata Sitta and Relates to Lower Empathy How Relevant is it to Bennu? Can Underdog Stories Help Chloe LaRochelle Jennifer Nolau Students to Overcome Perceived Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Bedwell (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Humberto Campins (Physics) College Barriers? A study on Gender and Ethnicity Differences Too Worried to Sleep: The Effect Versatile Metallic Nanostructure Daniela Gonzalez of Present and Future Workload for Enhanced Full Angle Mentor: Dr. Alvin Wang (Psychology) on Employee Sleep Quality Independent Colorization Angela Le, Zoe Politis Juan Sebastian Perilla History of Combat Sports Mentor: Dr. Steve Jex (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Debashis Chanda (Physics) Involvement and Severity of Subtypes of Psychopathy Examining the Relationship Allen Hagen Between Relative Gender SOCIAL SCIENCES Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Bedwell, Dr. Daniel Composition of Peer Study Groups (Psychology) and Mathematics Self-Efficacy Impact of Information and Gustavo Lemos Moure Communication Technology Use Voter Suppression and its Effects Mentor: Dr. Amy Reckdenwald on Loneliness among Older Adults on Voter Participation (Sociology) Taila Ben-lulu, Nikia Crews Corina Hajj Mentor: Dr. Janan A. Smither, Dr. Daniel Mentor: Dr. Amy Reckdenwald Prevalence Effects are not Driving McConnell (Psychology) (Sociology) Hazard Detection on the Road Priscilla Louis, Minh Pham, Differences in Language Effects of Stress on Prefrontal Alexandra Figueroa Rodriguez, Processing Between Monolinguals Cortex (PFC) Activity: Emotion Bryan Medina and Bilinguals as Determined by Versus Pressure Based Stress on Mentor: Dr. Ben Sawyer, Dr. Katherine Top-Down Functioning During Rahill (Industrial Engineering and Biobehavioral Responses and Management Systems) Electrophysiology Attention Based Tasks Dalaia Hernandez Aaron Canafe Content Analysis of Community Mentor: Dr. Mustapha Mouloua Mentor: Dr. Joseph Schmidt (Psychology) (Psychology) Doulas’ Impact on Women of Mosquito Lagoon from a Bird’s- Color with Low Incomes An Examination of Oppression Via Eye View: Engaging Hospitalized Emely Matos Anti-Abortion Legislation Children in Citizen-Science Mentor: Dr. Angela Vergara (Sociology) Saphronia Carson to Investigate Threatened/ An Analysis of “Lucky’s” Lake Mentor: Dr. Kenicia Wright (Political Endangered Aquatic Bird Diversity Science), Dr. Anne Bubriski (Women’s and Abundance Cane and Gender Studies) Jacob Hromyak Jaire McNichols Mentor: Dr. Peter Jacques (Political Mentor: Dr. Linda Walters (Biology) Loneliness and Parasocial Science) Relationships with Video Game Competence and Warmth: Profiles in Political Ideology: Why Characters Investigating the Relationships Radha Chebolu Are Women More Religious but Between Perceived Traits and Not More Conservative? Mentor: Dr. Janan Smither, Dr.Daniel Perceiver Emotions and Behaviors McConnell (Psychology) Keira Monaghan, Ceeara Carlos During the Evaluation of Mentor: Jason Chesnut (Psychology) Professionals Tori Jansen Mentor: Dr. Grace White (Psychology)
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Using Spatial Technology to Enhancing Learning Outcomes Capture Cape Canaveral’s Past with Gamification Alexander Nalewaik, Summer Dishanki Savla Warren, Hannah JeanLouis Mentor: Dr. Kristin Horan, Dr. Steve Jex Mentor: Dr. Sarah Barber (Anthropology) (Psychology)
Event-Related Potentials Religiosity and Mental Illness Following Rare Visual Targets Eileen Stremming and Working Memory Ability in Mentor: Dr. Shahram Ghiasinejad a Transdiagnostic Psychiatric (Psychology) Sample Mistreatment on the Mind: Samuel Naranjo Rincon Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Bedwell (Psychology) The Impact of Mistreatment Characteristics on Deliberate and The Fungus Among Us: An Intrusive Rumination. Anthropological Analysis of Eram Syed, Magali Scotto Lavina Psilocybin-Assisted Retreats in Mentor: Dr. Steve Jex (Psychology) Jamaica Maria Orozco Mentor: Dr. Shana Harris (Anthropology)
Intersectional Analysis; Effects of Active Shooter Drills on Students Angelica Powell Mentor: Dr. Anne Bubriski (Women’s and Gender Studies)
21st Century Engagement among UCF Students: Exploring Metrics & Platforms Daniel Robles Mentor: Dr. Aubrey Jewett (Political Science) Dr. Carolyn Massiah (Marketing)
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INDEPENDENT PROJECT PRESENTATIONS POSTER SESSION III: 2:30 – 4 P.M.
Ergonomics and Architecture Examining Potentially Harmful ARTS AND HUMANITIES in a Well-Designed Hospital Viral Social Media Challenges on Environment Reddit Crafting Fables for the 21st Natalie Verdiguel Amy Godfrey, Maria Lopez Century Mentor: Tommy James (Visual Arts and Mentor: Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Sean Glatch Design) (Computer Science) Mentor: Dr. Tyler Fisher (Modern Languages and Literatures) Laser Speciation Measurements ENGINEERING, OPTICS AND During Shock Tube Ignition Daughters of Lesbos: Exploring PHOTONICS, AND COMPUTER of Cyclic Jet and Rocket Fuel the Historical and Modern Impact SCIENCE Components of Hellenic Texts on Lesbian Robert Greene Neopagan Practitioners Mentor: Dr. Subith Vasu Madeline Judy Evaluation of Lift with Wing Icing Mentor: Dr. Jeanine Viau (Philosophy) Patricia Baker Probing the Effects of Substrate Mentor: Dr. Michael Kinzel (Mechanical Stiffness on Endothelial Cell The Shoe Fits: The Cinderella and Aerospace Engineering) Adhesion and Spreading Cycle and Women’s Voice Mechanics Farrah Kurronen Single Sensor Fiber-Based High- Jovani Gutierrez Mentor: Dr. Charlotte Trinquet du Lys Speed Tomographic 4D Particle Mentor: Dr. Robert Steward Jr. (Modern Languages and Literatures) Image Velocimetry (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) Alexander Bazzi Social Stigma and Substance Use Mentor: Dr. Kareem Ahmed (Mechanical The Effect of Altering PDMS Disrorder in Albania and Aerospace Engineering) Solutions on Hemiwicking Ediola Malkouari Manuel Hernandez Mentor: Dr. Yovanna Pineda (History) Validation of Prism Layer Design Mentor: Dr. Shawn Putnam (Mechanical in 2-D Incompressible Flow and Aerospace Engineering) Look Out, Here Comes Fraud!: Modeling A Multimodal Analysis of Retail Joshua Bentley Exploring Airfoil Designs for Scammers Mentor: Dr. Michael Kinzel (Mechanical Flight Efficiency Optimization of a DiGray Olcima and Aerospace Engineering) Subsonic Cruise Missile Mentor: Melissa Pompos Mansfield Hannah Jarrett (Writing and Rhetoric) Chalcogenide Fiber Bundle for Mentor: Dr. Michael Kinzel (Mechanical Large Field of View Thermal and Aerospace Engineering) Australian and New Zealand Imaging ANZACs of World War I: Public Austin Brigham Characterization of Contact Memory and the Making of Mentor: Dr. Kyle Renshaw Resistance Properties of Different National Identity TLM Structure Designs Simran Pawar Intelligent, Interactive and Nicole Karam Mentor: Dr. Amelia Lyons (History) Intuitive Autonomous Robotic Mentor: Dr. Kristopher Davis, Dr. Mengjie Cart (I3ARC) Li (Materials Science and Engineering) Exploring Creative Rigging Joao Pedro Cilento Lopes Solutions For Non-Humanoid Mentor: Dr. Joon-Hyuk Park (Mechanical Evaluating the Importance of Skeletons and Aerospace Engineering) Domain Knowledge in Extractive Alycia Robb Meeting Summarization Systems Mentor: Michael Cabrera (Visual Arts and Virtual Brain Tingles: Exploring Jia Jin Koay Design) Augmented Reality Induced Mentor: Dr. Fei Liu (Computer Science) Autonomous Sensory Meridian An Ethical Study of the Modern Response Using Weather Predictions and Western Adolescent Transition of Alyssa Feagans MODBUS Microcontroller for Care Model Mentor: Dr. Gregory Welch (Computer Energy Distribution in a Small Samuel Schepps Science) Community Net Zero Grid Mentor: Dr. Luciana Garbayo (Philosophy) Lynn Komarek, Francis Olearczyk Characteristics of a Reacting Jet- Mentor: Dr. Qun Zhou (Electrical and Examining Video Conversion and in-Crossflow at Elevated Pressures Computer Engineering) the Integration of 2D animation Max Fortin Larisa Toledo-Delgado Mentor: Dr. Kareem Ahmed, Dr. Nina Fabrication of Metal Biopolymer Mentor: Michael Cabrera (Visual Arts and Orlovskaya (Mechanical and Aerospace Composite Electrochemical Design) Engineering) Sensor for Heavy Metal Detection in Water Hew-Tun Li Mentor: Dr. Hyoung Jin Cho, Dr. Pawan Pathak (Mechanical and Aerospace 35 | Engineering) SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Evaluating a Space Vehicle User Sample Generating Apparatus Understanding Urban Traffic Interface with UX Methodologies for the Chemical Profiling of Tire Congestion through Uber Thomas Lukas, Timothy Dinh Traces Movement Using Non-parametric Mentor: Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Kestrel Pourchot Regression Approach (Computer Science) Mentor: Dr. Luigi Perotti (Mechanical and Jorge Ugan Aerospace Engineering) Mentor: Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Dr. A Comparison Of Virtual Reality Samiul Hasan (Civil, Environmental, and and Augmented Reality as Assessment of Correlation Construction Engineering) Educational Tools between Learning Diagnostics and Matthew MacKinnon, Kevin Performance in Simulated Tasks A look at the Role in Temperature Galeano through Machine Learning-Based in Wicking Performance on a Mentor: Dr. Joseph J. LaViola Jr. Techniques Microstructured Surface (Computer Science) Geela Margo Ramos Anthony Villegas Mentor: Dr. Stephen Fiore (Philosophy), Mentor: Dr. Shawn Putnam (Mechanical A Qualitative Examination on Dr. Gita Sukthankar (Computer Science) and Aerospace Engineering) Adolescents’ Support Seeking for Online Sexual Experiences Optimizing a Parabolic Solar Madison Maynard Trough’s Receiver HEALTH SCIENCES Mentor: Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Adil Riahi (Computer Science) Mentor: Dr. Shawn Putnam (Mechanical Long-Term Outcomes of Neonatal and Aerospace Engineering) Herpes Simplex Virus Infection Applications of Machine Learning and Treatment Bias Correction Algorithms for Defining an Effective Heat Genesis Brador Predictions of Hurricane Storm Transferring Metamaterial via Van Mentor: Dr. Humberto López Castillo, Dr. Surge Risk der Waals Forces Michael Rovito (Health Sciences) Joel Montano Bianca Rosendahl Mentor: Dr. Talea Mayo (Civil, Mentor: Dr. Shawn A. Putnam (Mechanical Effectiveness of a Mindfulness Environmental, and Construction and Aerospace Engineering) Meditation App on Those with Engineering) Intellectual Disabilities Enrolled Applications of Augmented in a Post-Secondary Education Manufacturing and Optimization Cognition in Cyber Security of Self-asembled Metallic Program Andres Rosero, Corey Walton Michele Guillard, Madilyn Nanoparticles Using Thin-Film Mentor: Dr. Ryan Wohleber, Samantha Maschhoff, Kaylan Kelly, Taylor Deposition Techniques Napier (Simulation and Technology) Leidy Moreno, Ilina Sunkara Duffy, Audley Ridley, Cristal Rivera Mentor: Dr. Keith Brazendale (Health Mentor: Dr. Debashis Chanda (Optics and Improving the Range Preformance Sciences) Photonics) of Infrared Imagers Jasper Rowe A Quantitative Analysis of Online Peer Support for Mentor: Dr. Ronald Driggers (Optics and Adolescent Online Sexual Photonics) Loneliness and Somatic Symptoms Luciana Jones Experiences: An Analysis of Tech Talk: Examining Factors that Mentor: Dr. Janan Smither, Dr. Daniel Digital Trace Data McConnell (Psychology) Pia Nelson, Gabriel Laaroussi, Influence How Teens and Parents Gabriela Mariz Perceive Their Communication Possible Misdiagnosis of Deep Mentor: Dr. Pamela Wisniewski about Teen Internet Use Vein Thrombosis After Acute (Computer Science) Tara Rutkowski Mentor: Dr. Pamela Wisniewski Achilles Tendon Rupture in a Performance of Ultra-High (Computer Science) Collegiate Recreational Athlete Stephen LeStrange Performance Concrete Shells Statistical and Lifetime Mentor: Dr. L. Colby Mangum, Dr. Kristen for Use in Concrete Beams and Couper Schellhase (Kinesiology and Columns Characterization of PTFE Materials Physical Therapy) Bolivar Perez for Extreme Environments Mentor: Dr. Kevin Mackie (Civil, Sannmit Shinde Reported Exercise Enjoyment Environmental, and Construction Mentor: Dr. Ali Gordon (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) of Upper-Body and Lower-Body Engineering) Cycling Exercise Characterization of Coal Ash: Shanelle Osorio Impacts of Climate Change on Mentor: Dr. David Fukuda (Kinesiology Wave Energy Conversion and Identifying the Constituents of and Physical Therapy) Coastal Erosion Ash Samples Kelsey Perez Nino Stea, Alexandra Lobanova Optimizing Transcranial Mentor: Dr. Talea Mayo (Civil, Mentor: Dr. Debra Reinhart (Civil, Magnetic Stimulation Research Environmental, and Construction Environmental, and Construction Engineering) Engineering) Methodology: How Many Pulses are Necessary to Minimize Heart Modeling and Identification Direct-Contact Biocompatibility Interpulse Variability in of Scar Tissue based on Cardiac Analysis of Additive Manufactured Corticospinal Excitability? Diffusion Tensor Imaging WE-43 Magnesium Alloy Jason Pagan Munish Persaud, Maria Bower Taylor Toth Mentor: Dr. Matt Stock (Kinesiology and Physical Therapy) Mentor: Dr. Luigi Perotti (Mechanical and Mentor: Dr. Stephen J. Florczyk (Materials Aerospace Engineering) Science and Engineering) | 36 SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Tobacco Use Disparities by Sexual Quantifying the Mutagenic and Gender Minority Status LIFE SCIENCES Potential of BPA Analogs on Among UCF Students Mouse L-Fibrolast Cell Lines in Parth Patel Using eDNA to Test Whether vitro Mentor: Dr. Julia N Soulakova (Biomedical Cuban Tree Frogs (Osteopilus Eric Neil Emperio, William Hudson Sciences) septentrionalis) Can Amplify the Shaw, Joseph Sullivan Amphibian Pathogen Perkinsea Mentor: Dr. Alicia Hawthorne, Dr. Emily The Fighting Journey of the Matthew Blow Bradshaw (Biomedical Sciences) Premature Baby: A Systemic Mentor: Dr. Anna Savage (Biology) Review Using Genetics to Understand Dana Patel The Effects of Salinity on Kidney Hybridization and Immunogenetic Mentor: Dr. Katia Ferdowsi (Health Histology in Coastal vs. Inland Variation in Cyclura Iguanas Sciences) Alligators Noah Fabiano Mentor: Dr. Anna Savage (Biology) Exploring the Impact of Pre- Sara Brunner Mentor: Dr. Eric Hoffman (Biology) Exposure Prophylaxis Related to Developing an eDNA Tool for Sexual Behavior in College Men Defining the Role of a Monitoring the of Dwindling Dwarf Dalton Poe SenX3-RegX3 Orthologous Seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) Mentor: Dr. Christa Cook (Nursing) Two-Component System in Tara Fellows Mentor: Dr. MIchelle Gaither (Biology) Blood Pressure Responses Mycobacterium Abscessus to Lower And Upper Cycling Christian Castano Mentor: Dr. Kyle Rohde (Biomedical Using DNA Barcoding to Exercises Sciences) Understand the Evolution of Plant Hillary Porto Physiology Through a National Mentor: Dr. David Fukuda (Kinesiology Systematic Genetic Analysis Survey of Mycorrhizae and Wild and Physical Therapy) of L,D-Transpeptidases in M. Sunflower Associations Abscessus and M. Smegmatis Gillian Gomer Association Between Central Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason (Biology) Motor Conduction Time and Rapid as Synergistic Targets for Beta- Lactam Antibiotics and Absolute Grip Strength in Integrative Taxonomy Reveals Older Adults Isabella Castellano, Nivas Patel Mentor: Dr. Kyle Rohde (Biomedical Cryptic Amphibian Diversity in the Gabriela Rodriguez Sciences) Tropical Andes of Ecuador Mentor: Dr. Matt Stock, Dr. Nicole Dawson Brittney Gray (Kinesiology and Physical Therapy) Tinnitus’s Effect on Mental Health Mentor: Dr. Anna Savage (Biology) Farzon Danesh Cold Water Immersion Yielded Investigating the Persistence of Decreased Perception of Delayed Mentor: Dr. Kersten Schroeder (Biomedical Sciences) Stress and its Relationship to the Onset Muscle Soreness within Elite Development of Chronic Migraine Athletes Over Contrast Therapy A Plant-Based Diet and its Effects Collin Harris Immersion: A Critically Appraised on Cardiovascular Diseases Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Topic Seena Darwish, Sara Darwish (Biomedical Sciences) Danielle Scognamiglio, Andrew Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Schewitzer, Kameelah Jade Sciences) Role of Monoclonal Antibodies in Belgrave, Amaris McLendon Treating Migraine Mentor: Dr. Lauren Colby Mangum Screening Temperate Amin Kordian (Kinesiology and Physical Therapy) Woody Plants for Aluminum Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Hyperaccumulation and Exclusion (Biomedical Sciences) The Impact of Food Insecurity in Dashiell Desravines Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason (Biology) Elucidating the Value Of Skin, Valeria Sostre Blood, and Fibropapilloma Mentor: Dr. Humberto López Castillo Acknowledging Conservative Samples For Detecting (Health Sciences) Options to Knee Arthritis Surgery Herpesvirus In Chelonia mydas in Elderly Patients Tamara Lee Relationship Between Executive Mostafa Diab, Eric Singh Mentor: Dr. Anna Savage, Dr. Kate Function and Postural Control Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Mansfield (Biology) Lara Suarez (Biomedical Sciences) Mentor: Dr. Nicole Dawson (Kinesiology Utilizing Wildlife Cameras to and Physical Therapy) Role of Antioxidant Therapies in Identify Vertebrate Behaviors and the Prevention and Treatment of Abundance on a Living Shoreline The Impact of Virtual Reality on Diabetic Retinopathy in Canaveral National Seashore Chronic Pain Management Carlos Diaz Jason Litwak, Julia Rifenberg Alexis Whitehead Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Mentor: Dr. Linda J. Walters (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Kelly Allred (Nursing) (Biomedical Sciences) The Search for Groundcover The Effects of the Gut Microbiome Katlyn McCoy, Colin Kelley, Karyssa in Hypothyroid Patients Kemp, Desdemona Kurowski, Kristi Safa El-Ali Malanga Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Mentor: Jennifer Elliott (Biology) 37 | (Biomedical Sciences) SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Tissue-Specific Regulation of The Catbird Climate Conundrum: Investigating the Role of Gut Pnmt by Intron Retention During Is Climate Change Affecting the Microbiome in Post-traumatic Neural Development Gray Catbird? Stress Disorder Meeti Mehta Lauren Puleo Kirsten Scheller, Brianna Ariza Mentor: Dr. Steven Ebert (Biomedical Mentor: Dr. Anna Forsman (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Sciences) (Biomedical Sciences) Marine Leeches are Associated Potential Role of SSRI Usage by with the Tumor Disease The Hunt for Novel Antimalarials: Mothers Leading to Increasing Fibropapillomatosis in Green Sea 2-Styrylquinoline Derivatives as Risk of Autism in Children Turtles but Not in Loggerhead Sea Plasmodium Parasite Inhibitors Jillian Mezo, Marissa Dyer, Nicole Turtles Justin Shaw Hancock, Samantha Totty Leah Rittenburg Mentor: Dr. Debopam Chakrabarti Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Mentor: Dr. Anna Savage, Dr. Kate (Biomedical Sciences) Sciences) Mansfield (Biology) Use Of Brn3a-Lacz Reporter Synthesis of IL-6/gp130 Protein- Role of Polyploidy in Leaf Mice to Study Sensory Protein Interface Small Molecule Functional Traits and Secondary Neuron Innervation In Familial Inhibitors Metabolite Evolution Across Wild Dysautonomia Model Alyssa Mickle Helianthus Isabel Silva Mentor: Dr. Chenglong Li (University of Anestacia Robinson Mentor: Dr. Ioannis Dragatsis (University Florida) Mentor: Dr. Chase Mason (Biology) of Tennessee)
Therapeutic Strategies Targeting Prospecting for Pathogens: De Identifying Pathways Affected by Immunological Factors to Reduce Novo Pathogen Discovery in an RNA Helicase Using a Synthetic Multiple Sclerosis Progression and Burrowing Owls Lethal Screen Relapse Rate Occurrence Coral Robson Brandon Simons Selena Miranda Mentor: Dr. Robert Fitak (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Sean Moore (Biomedical Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Sciences) (Biomedical Sciences) Biomedical Applications of Quantum Dot Nanoparticles in Surveying Endogenous Regions Identification of the region in Breast Carcinoma for Varying Epigenetic Regulation protein disulfide isomerase that is Alexa Rodriguez via a Novel Suntag-dCas9 System responsible for the disassembly of Mentor: Melissa Worley (Biomedical Anishaa Sivakumar cholera toxin Sciences) Mentor: Dr. Yoon-Seong Kim (Biomedical Daisy Mora, Elizabeth Torres, Sciences) Elisabeth Emory, David M Investigating the Role of Alpha- Caraballo Delgado, Antonio Mele, Lipoic Acid Supplementation in Effects of Vitamin E Vapor on Cell Antonio Torres Glioblastoma Multiforme Growth/Death Patterns Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Teter (Biomedical Thalia Romero Valorie Smith, Brian Brady Mentor: Nicole Verity, Dr. Robert Borgon Sciences) Mentor: Dr. Camilla Ambivero (Biomedical (Biomedical Sciences) Sciences) Memory T Cell Regulation of Innate Lymphoid Cell Repair Optimization of Western Blots Understanding Crohn’s Disease: Proteins Following Influenza A Briana Marie Rosado, Ruben Treatment Efficacy and Virus Vaccination and Infection Mercado Comparison of Stress Induced Mate Nagy Mentor: Nicole Verity, Dr. Robert Borgon Crohn’s Disease Mentor: Dr. Tara M. Strutt (Biomedical (Biomedical Sciences) Jaynlynn Sosa Sciences) Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Synergistic Effect of PI3K (Biomedical Sciences) Effect of Vitamin D and Beta Inhibitors on Neurofibromatosis Interferon in Multiple Sclerosis Type-2 Schwannomas Investigating the Effects of Patients Eliel Ruiz Vitamin D Supplementation on Anvita Nath Mentor: Dr. Cristina Fernandez-Valle Testosterone Levels in Males Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical (Biomedical Sciences) Isabella Stamas, Michaela Carson Sciences) Mentor: Dr. Camilla Ambivero (Biomedical Surgical Interventions in Sciences) Terpenoid Diversity of the Treatment of Laryngeal- Rhododendron Esophageal Clefts Analysis of Auranofin’s Lindsay Plyler Sumeen Sajid Antimicrobial Activity Against Mentor: Dr. Eric Goolsby (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Clostridioides Difficile Sciences) Noah Stoeckel Sea Turtle Nesting Behavior and Mentor: Dr. William Self (Biomedical Incubation Duration in Response Retinal Sensitivity of Hormonally Sciences) to Increasing Storm Severity Modulated Hyla cinerea Using Jessica Provenzano Electrophysiological Techniques Mentor: Dr. Kate Mansfield (Biology) Ashley Santana Mentor: Dr. Hamilton Farris (Louisiana State University) | 38 SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Utilizing Cinnamon Aldehyde to Discovering Novel Fast-Acting Determining the Variance of treat the associated comorbidities Cytocidal Antimalarial Compounds Human Hair Features for Forensic of Obesity and Obesity- by Incorporating Fluorescence- Examination Independent Type 2 Diabetes Activated Cell Sorting into Rate- Jillian Morgan among Asian Indian Population of-Killing Assays Mentor: Dr. Candice Bridge (Chemistry) Holiyan Suresh Joshua Welden Mentor: Dr. Mohtashem Samsam Mentor: Dr. Debopam Chakrabarti Understanding Lunar and Asteroid (Biomedical Sciences) (Biomedical Sciences) Surfaces Using SLOPE, a Parabolic Flight Experiment A Comparative Study on Varying Evaluation of Human Platelet Alexander Nicola, Austin Varroa Destructor Sampling Lysate as a substitute for Fetal Rothermich and Monitoring Methods on Our Bovine Serum in NK Cell culture Mentor: Dr. Adrienne Dove (Physics) Locally Adapted Apis mellifera Elizabeth Williamson Population Mentor: Dr. Alicja Copik (Biomedical Is Water-ice Subsisting Inside Ghada Swissi Sciences) Certain Asteroids? Mentor: Dr. Patrick Bohlen (Biology) Aracelis Partida Characterization of B-field Effects Mentor: Dr. Julie Brisset (Physics) Investigating the Effects of UV on Late-Time Rayleigh-Taylor Filters in Sunscreens on Human Growth Applications of Edge Detection and Environmental Health Zoe Barbeau Techniques to Spectroscopic Data Brittany Thompson Mentor: Dr. Kumar Raman (Lawrence Analysis Mentor: Dr. Melinda Donnelly, Dr. Linda Livermore National Laboratory) Luis Persaud Walters (Biology) Mentor: Madhab Neupane (Physics)
Relationship Between Rising PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND Determination of Formaldehyde Atmospheric CO2 Levels, MATHEMATICS Derivative in Embalming Fluid Environmental Conditions, and using Direct Analysis in Real Time- Tree Productivity The Effects of Vacuum Conditions -Mass Spectrometry and Solid Alyssa Uebele in the Mechanical Properties of Phase Microextraction Mentor: Dr. Oleksandra Hararuk (Biology) Lauktona Rimpel Regoliths Mentor: Dr. Candice Bridge (Chemistry) Investigating The Connection Dennis Corraliza Mentor: Dr. Julie Brisset (Florida Space Between Fibromyalgia and Institute) Designing an Interstellar Dust Psychology Cloud Simulator Tania Velez Mercado Self-Healing Polymer Composition Courtney Scalf Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Mentor: Dr. Julie Brisset (Florida Space Sciences) and Associated Uses US-2020- Institute) 0040184-A1 Hyperspectral Reflectance Ezat El-Said Precise Measurement of as a Potential Noninvasive Mentor: Dr. Gang Chen (Chemistry) Transmission and Phase Phenotyping Technique for Searching for Gentamycin Transitions in Stimuli-Responsive Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Resistance Using a Split-G4 Probe Polymers (CAM) Photosynthesis Austin Schrader in Escherichia coli Mentor: Dr. Alfons Schulte (Physics) Logan Walck Michael Greenberg Mentor: Dr. Eric Goolsby (Biology) Mentor: Dr. Yulia Gerasimova (Chemistry) Attosecond X-rays Beyond Oxygen Defining the Role and Regulon of The Extraction of Glitter and K-edge for Probing Charge the Master Virulence Regulator Shimmer from Cosmetics for the Motions in Condensed Matter DosRS in Mycobacterium David Smerina Analysis of Particles Transferred Mentor: Dr. Zenghu Chang (Physics) abscessus during Close Personal Attacks George Walters-Marrah Velda Iskandar Mentor: Dr. Kyle Rohde (Biomedical Pulling a DNA through a Double- Mentor: Dr. Candice Bridge (Chemistry) Sciences) Nanopore system: A Brownian Study of Molecular Aggregation of Dynamics Study A Brief Inquiry into the Effects of Peter Smucz Curcumin in Solution using UV-vis, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Across Mentor: Dr. Aniket Bhattacharya (Physics) the Lifespan Fluorescence Emission, and Life- Madelyn Weaver time Spectroscopy Theoretical Calculations of Mentor: Dr. Raheleh Ahangari (Biomedical Miranda Londono Infrared Intensities and Raman Sciences) Mentor: Dr. Florencio Eloy Hernández (Chemistry) Activities of NxOy (x=1-2, y = 1-5) Compounds Thermal Extraction of Water Ice Sarah Swiersz from the Lunar Surface - A 3D Mentor: Dr. Christopher Bennett (Physics) Numerical Model Functional Decision Theory in an Thomas Miletich Mentor: Dr. Julie Brisset (Florida Space Evolutionary Environment Institute) Noah Topper Mentor: Dr. Eric Schmidbauer 39 | (Economics)
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Swinholide A: An Investigation Interviewer Gender Effects in the Adverse Childhood Experiences, into the Effects of a Cytoskeletal Afrobarometer Survey Sensation Seeking, and Substance Drug in a Crowded Environment Carla Garcia Abuse Among College Students Tevin Um Mentor: Dr. Cristina Bodea (Michigan Javier Molina, Rachel Fidel, Jenna Mentor: Dr. Ellen Kang (Physics) State University) Russo Mentor: Dr. Kimberly Renk (Psychology) Surveying of Fauna on Sandhill Determining Patterns of Diet Restoration Site at UCF Main Domestication through Trace Are You Interested in Graduate Campus Element Analysis School? You May Want to Know Brooke Weston, Celina Lezcano, Stefani Hammond About Coping Stress Mechanism Julianna Belitz, Lucy Caicedo, Mentor: Dr. Lana Williams (Anthropology) Sandra Montenegro Danielle Mekwinski Mentor: Dr. Steve Jex (Psychology) Mentor: Jennifer Elliott (Biology) Past and Present: The Level of Childhood Trauma and its Possible Examining Momentary Emotional Prediction of Crystal Structures Effects on Adult Romantic Functioning on Drinking and Non- and Mechanical Properties for Relationships Drinking Days Three Organic Polymorphs Kathleen Hassanpur Katie Moskal Meryl Wiratmo Mentor: Dr. Grace White (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Robert Dvorak (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Artem Masunov (Chemistry) Loneliness and its Effects on the Psychological Distress Patterns in Simulating Systematic Errors and Interpretation of Emojis Second-Generation Immigrants Planetary Transits for the James Kaitlin Higby Nicole Palmeri Webb Space Telescope Mentor: Dr. Janan Smither (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Grace White (Psychology) David Wright Mentor: Dr. Joseph Harrington (Physics) Implementation of Social Presence Meaning Making in Migration Evaluation within HRI: An Experiences of Hispanic-American The Design of Split G-Quadruplex Intersubjective Approach Students: Effects on Psychological Probes for Improved Selectivity of Sean Hinkle Health the Influenza A Virus Genome Mentor: Dr. Janan Smither, Dr. Daniel Kristina Parras, Aaron Geril Tamar Yishay McConnell (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Widaad Zaman (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Yulia Gerasimova (Chemistry) Using Survey Research Methods to The Effectiveness of U.S. Military Examine the Relationship Between Aid to Non-State Actors SOCIAL SCIENCES Education Level and Motivations Alexi Sadaka to Volunteer Mentor: Dr. Andrew Boutton (Political Jenna Jacobs Science) Social Anxiety and Sexual Mentor: Dr. Maritza Concha (Public Victimization: The Roles of Administration) A Comparison in the Health of Assertiveness, Gender, and Race? Puerto Ricans Before and After Samantha Berg Factors Mediating Millennial Mentor: Dr. Amie Newins (Psychology) Hurricane María Ethical Fashion Consumption Rebecca L. Sanchez, Adriana K. Sheldine Louisjuste Deindustrialization and Voting Solla Mentor: Dr. Amy Reckdenwald Mentor: Dr. Fernando Rivera (Sociology) Behavior in Ohio Rust Belt (Sociology) Counties Centrality to Identity in the Casey Craig Domestic Migrant Workers in Identity Narratives of Hispanic- Mentor: Dr. Barbara Kinsey (Political Lebanon: Factors Influencing a Science) American Emerging Adults: Precarious Position Relations to Psychological Well- Jasmine Masri Reaction Time Analysis of Mentor: Dr. Gunes Murat Tezcur, Dr. Being Emotional Perception in Lonely Konstantin Ash (Political Science) Piper Schroeder, Tayana Rich, and Socially Isolated Individuals Destiny Fillmer Joel Davies An Analysis of Factors Present Mentor: Dr. Widaad Zaman (Psychology) Mentor: Dr. Janan Smither, Dr. Daniel in the Obstruction of Energy McConnell (Psychology) Transition in the United States An Updated Examination of the Nathaniel Miller Psychometric Properties of the Analyzing Arabs versus Western Mentor: Dr. Peter Jacques (Political Post-Event Processing Inventory Political Speeches on Terrorism Science) (PEPI) Ranya Eid Tiara Smith, Christian Clevenger Mentor: Dr. Gunes Murat Tezcur, Dr. Bruce Lived Experiences and Mentor: Dr. Brian Fisak (Psychology) Farcau (Political Science) Concomitant Somatic Symptoms of Loneliness The Hunt for Nathan Penny: Elaboration in the Bi-cultural Bahia Mohd The Unsolved Mystery of the Identity Narratives of Emerging Mentor: Dr. Janan Smither and Dr. Daniel Penny Family Cemetery in Cape Adults: Relations to Identity McConnell (Psychology) Canaveral, Florida Development, Perceived Academic Lauren Sweatt, Brittney Panzone, Competence and Psychological Emma Delis Well-Being Mentor: Dr. Amanda Groff (Anthropology) Betsy Gallardo Mentor: Dr. Widaad Zaman (Psychology) | 40 SHOWCASE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE | THURSDAY, APRIL 2
Sexual Minorities’ Motives for Prescription Drug Misuse IN ABSENTIA Caralyn Tenney, Kelsey Boyd Mentor: Dr. Jason Ford (Sociology) Adapting Accessible Narratives Olivia Damm How Free is Free?: Restrictive Mentor: Dr. Brenda Peynado (English) Agency and Optimism Mel Tornin A New Experimental Setup Mentor: Dr. Grace White (Psychology), Dr. for In-Plane Torsion Testing of Karina Cespedes (Philosophy) Lightweight Metal Sheets Connor Hack Feeling Accepted in the LGBTQ+ Mentor: Dr. Yuanli Bai (Mechanical and Community and the Influence on Aerospace Engineering) Your Authenticity of Oneself Tammy Van Using eDNA to Determine Mentor: Dr. Grace White (Psychology) Distribution of the Non-native Charybdis hellerii in the Indian The Connection Between YouTube River Lagoon and The Alt-Right Pipeline: The Karin Shull Use of Humor as a Mechanism Mentor: Dr. Michelle Gaither (Biology) to Mainstream White Supremacy Ideology Alexis Williams Mentor: Dr. J. Scott Carter (Sociology)
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