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Highest Achievements CELEBRATING HONORS & AWARDS

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Honors & Awards HISTORY Samuel Chiles Mitchell Award ERIC BOSSERT BRYAN CARAPUCCI Frances W. Gregory Award ALICE VO NADIA NEMAN ALEXIS HILLS Joseph C. Robert Award PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER J. Taylor Ellyson Award WILL WERNER

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM R.E. Loving Award MICHAEL WYATT J.J. Taylor Award ISAIAH DUPLESSIS Mason Zadan C.W. Beausang Award MOLLY KATE KREIDER Denoon Scholarship CONNOR PAINTER Cole Memorial Scholarship ANNA SHELTON

Joseph C. Robert Award PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Honors & Awards continued BIOLOGY Samuel Chiles Mitchell Award ERIC BOSSERT BRYAN CARAPUCCI Frances W. Gregory Award ALICE VO NADIA NEMAN ALEXIS HILLS Joseph C. Robert Award PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER J. Taylor Ellyson Award WILL WERNER Joseph C. Robert Award PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER Joseph C. Robert Award PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER

MATHEMATICS & COMPUTER SCIENCE R.E. Loving Award MICHAEL WYATT PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER J.J. Taylor Award ISAIAH DUPLESSIS MIKE LAPOSATA Mason Zadan C.W. Beausang Award MOLLY KATE KREIDER PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER Denoon Scholarship CONNOR PAINTER MIKE LAPOSATA Cole Memorial Scholarship ANNA SHELTON

GEOGRAPHY

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Samuel Chiles Mitchell Award ERIC BOSSERT BRYAN CARAPUCCI

R.E. Loving Award MICHAEL WYATT PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER

Frances W. Gregory Award ALICE VO NADIA NEMAN ALEXIS HILLS Joseph C. Robert Award PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER J. Taylor Ellyson Award WILL WERNER MIKE LAPOSATA Frances W. Gregory Award ALICE VO NADIA NEMAN ALEXIS HILLS Joseph C. Robert Award PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER

J.J. Taylor Award ISAIAH DUPLESSIS MIKE LAPOSATA Mason Zadan C.W. Beausang Award MOLLY KATE KREIDER PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER Denoon Scholarship CONNOR PAINTER MIKE LAPOSATA Cole Memorial Scholarship ANNA SHELTON CONNOR PAINTER MIKE LAPOSATA

J. Taylor Ellyson Award WILL WERNER

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Honors & Awards continued PHILOSOPHY

PSYCHOLOGY

Samuel Chiles Mitchell Award ERIC BOSSERT BRYAN CARAPUCCI

R.E. Loving Award MICHAEL WYATT PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER

Frances W. Gregory Award ALICE VO NADIA NEMAN ALEXIS HILLS Joseph C. Robert Award PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER J. Taylor Ellyson Award WILL WERNER Joseph C. Robert Award PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER

J.J. Taylor Award ISAIAH DUPLESSIS MIKE LAPOSATA Mason Zadan C.W. Beausang Award MOLLY KATE KREIDER PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER Denoon Scholarship CONNOR PAINTER MIKE LAPOSATA Cole Memorial Scholarship ANNA SHELTON

Joseph C. Robert Award PAIGE LEVINE MIKE LAPOSATA WILL WERNER J. Taylor Ellyson Award WILL WERNER PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Student Symposium ART AND RESEARCH, PERFORMANCES AND PRESENTATIONS

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From our Student Artist TRANSFORMING PHYSICAL FORMS TO DIGITAL ARTS

LOV E YO U, T H A N K YO U, S E E YO U BY Y U W EI LI N Queer abstraction has long been used as a method to express the subject matter that is not publicly acknowledged. However, as David J. Getsy, Goldabelle McComb Distinguished Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, said, “sometimes we need radical visibility. Sometimes we need art that speaks to histories of trauma directly.” With this installation being both intimate and public, it provides the audience a chance to share empathy with those encrypted experiences and people.

Last year, I created an installation with 10 panels of papers to reflect a personal diary recording different stages of understanding my queer identity. I started with a romantic experience and moved on to self-questioning and self-reconciliation. The rectangular shape of the installation created an ambivalent space that worshipped both distance and interaction. The more I interacted with it, the more integrated I feel with the space; but as other people interacted with it, the more remote I feel within myself. Utilizing public spaces to generate an intimate experience has helped me relieve myself and continue to explore my identity in the future. Redesigning my installation in a digital form opens up possibilities for me to express energies and emotions other than identity. The process of transforming physical forms to digital arts, and transforming queer love to universal love shows how art inhabits norms differently and how these approaches create possibilities for our community to appreciate different stories.­” —YUWEI LIN, VMAP ’20 PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Art & Research ARTISTS

SARAH SHEN

IRENE CHANG

Franz Liszt: Translating Sonority FACULTY MENTOR: Richard Becker

Nilia FACULTY MENTOR: Brittany Nelson

CARSON WATLINGTON

IRENE CHANG

Skein FACULTY MENTOR: Brittany Nelson

Untitled FACULTY MENTOR: Erling Sjovold

MILES WILSON

RHIANNON EDWARDS

Mistyped Foundations FACULTY MENTOR: Brittany Nelson

Our Bodies FACULTY MENTOR: Tanja Softic

YUWEI LIN Me FACULTY MENTOR: Tanja Softic

CASEY MURANO Contemplative Maps: Life as Pilgrimage FACULTY MENTOR: Tanja Softic

PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Art & Research continued HISTORY HONORS ERIC BOSSERT Reform of the Turkish Medical Infrastructure and the Rockefeller Foundation, 1926-1930 FACULTY MENTORS: Yucel Yanikdag, Sydney Watts

BRYAN CARAPUCCI Ethnicity and Governance in a Multiethnic Republic: Assessing National and Provincial Rule in Republican Xinjiang, 1933-1935 FACULTY MENTOR: Tze Loo

ALEXIS HILLS The Marriage of Harriet Gold and Elias Boudinot: Intersections of Race and Gender in NineteenthCentury America FACULTY MENTORS: Samantha Seeley, Sydney Watts

MIKE LAPOSATA The Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus and Expressions of Military and Economic Power, 1291-1306 FACULTY MENTOR: Joanna Drell

NADIA NEMAN

EMMA JOHNSON

JACKSON LEVINESS

Competing Conceptions of Humanitarianism: Enemy Civilians and Ottoman-American Diplomacy in the Great War, 1914-1918 FACULTY MENTOR: Yucel Yanikdag

Khrushchev and the King’s Two Bodies: Reframing the Legitimacy Debate Through Soviet Jokelore, Political Philosophy, and Stalin’s Ghost FACULTY MENTOR: David Brandenberger

Evaluating the Ontic Structural Realist Response to the Pessimistic Induction FACULTY MENTOR: Brannon McDaniel

KRISHNA LOHIYA WILLIAM WASTA WERNER

LILLIAN SULLIVAN

Victory in Defeat: The Power of Loss and the Construction of the Myths of Cato Uticensis and Robert E. Lee FACULTY MENTORS: Sydney Watts, Walt Stevenson, Elizabeth Baughan

Queer History: Kathleen Lynn, Patrick Pearse, and Memory of Ireland’s Easter Rising FACULTY MENTOR: Chris Bischof

HISTORY CHRIS BARRY Caught With(out) Freedom: Race and Space in Antebellum Richmond FACULTY MENTOR: Samantha Seeley

PHILOSOPHY, LEADERSHIP RICHARD BONSELL The Intersection of Faith and Rationality FACULTY MENTOR: Miriam McCormick

MAGGIE CASTELLI From Männerbund to “Daddy” Trump: Male Homosexuality and the Far-Right Throughout History FACULTY MENTOR: Michelle Kahn

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PSYCHOLOGY LILLIE CREDLE Gratitude, Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth among Kidney and Liver Recipients FACULTY MENTOR: Camilla Nonterah

LESLIE GAINES YIXUE (ANNA) CHENG Trust, Friendship, and Standards of Belief FACULTY MENTOR: Miriam McCormick

ROWAN CAI Construction by Constituents: Virginia and Social Security FACULTY MENTOR: Eric Yellin

Authenticity, Answerability, and the Self FACULTY MENTOR: Nancy Schauber

Exploring Caregiver Treatment Adherence FACULTY MENTOR: Laura Knouse

GABE THOMAS, SYDNEY WEISKOPF NOAH LENKER When is it Permissible for a Combatant to Kill a Noncombatant?

FACULTY MENTOR: Jessica Flanigan

Psychological Coping among Male Football Players FACULTY MENTOR: Camilla Nonterah

KIM SMITH Public Perceptions and Knowledge of Transplants FACULTY MENTOR: Camilla Nonterah

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Art & Research continued BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY VALERIE GALATI

MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

War of the Warblers: Competition between Male Golden- and Blue-winged Warblers in Southwest Virginia FACULTY MENTORS: Lesley Bulluck, Kristine Grayson

GILLIAN COX

CHARLIE GOOGE

JING DONG

Determining the Direct and Indirect Functions of Wnt Signaling Factors on Hindbrain and Spinal Cord Neuronal Specification FACULTY MENTOR: Isaac Skromne

KATRINA KUHN The Inside Story: Sodalis glossinidius Invasion of Insect Cells FACULTY MENTOR: Laura Runyen-Janecky

ADRIAN MATTHEWS Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Palladium Proazaphosphatrane Complexes Invoked in Cross-Coupling Reactions FACULTY MENTOR: Miles Johnson

Spray Deposited Al Doped Mn3O4 thin-films for Supercapacitors FACULTY MENTOR: Mariama Dias

Using a Markov Chain Model to Predict Reduction in Overdose Deaths due to Placing an Overdose Prevention Site FACULTY MENTOR: Joanna Wares

ASHLEY FRAZIER, NATE DIX Do You Want to Play with Robots?

FACULTY MENTOR: Jory Denny

ROBBIE KENT Surface Plasmon Resonance Dispersion Relation of gold-aluminum thin films FACULTY MENTORS: Mariama Dias, Ovidiu Lipan

JULIA VIDLAK Synthesis and Study of Bidentate Bis(phosphino) Pyrrole Ligands and Their Complexes for Nickel Catalysis FACULTY MENTOR: Miles Johnson

PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Art & Research continued ENGLISH HONORS SYDNEY COLLINS The Byronic Hero and Its Legacy in 19th-Century British Novels.

FACULTY MENTOR: Thomas Manganaro

EMILIE ERBLAND Speech, Silence, and Song: Investigating Language and Power in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace FACULTY MENTOR: Monika Siebert

GRIFFIN MYERS Four Forms of Morality: How Female Novelists of the 19th Century Used the Novel to Engage with Enlightenment Principles FACULTY MENTOR: Elisabeth Gruner

VALERIE SZALANCZY “The Narrative Is All That Matters”: Storytelling as Justice in Indigenous Women’s Writing FACULTY MENTOR: Monika Siebert

CARSON WATLINGTON

Revisiting Bloom’s Taxonomy as a Guide for University Writing Consultants FACULTY MENTOR: Joe Essid

Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest: Interrogating Multiculturalism, Globalizing Migration, and Freeing Asian American Literature FACULTY MENTOR: Monika Siebert

JOCELYN GRZESZCZAK

SAVANNAH WILSON

JONATHAN GANDARA

Reconciliation: An Examination of (Hi)stories Past and Present FACULTY MENTORS: Bert Ashe, David Stevens, Elizabeth Outka

Small Lives, Small Worlds: Microecosystems and Postcolonial Resistance to Power Structures in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night FACULTY MENTOR: Elizabeth Outka

ANTHONY ISENHOUR Desire, Confession, and the Body in Andre Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name FACULTY MENTOR: Nathan Snaza

PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Art & Research continued AMERICAN STUDIES, RELIGION, MUSIC RAVEN BAUGH Gentrification in Church Hill: Narratives and Responses to Key Locations of Change in a Richmond Neighborhood FACULTY MENTORS: Laura Browder, Abigail Cheever

SHIRA GREER, JOHNNETTE JOHNSON, COLE RICHARD, JISU SONG, JENIFER YI The Stories We Tell: Race and Racism Team Oral History 2019 FACULTY MENTORS: Nicole Maurantonio, Andrea Simpson, Sojourna Cunningham, Molly Fair, Ernest McGowen

GABBY KISER, SABRINA GARCIA, NATHAN BURNS, JOY LIM, MEGHNA MELKOTE

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Race & Racism at the University of Richmond Project: Team Archive FACULTY MENTORS: Nicole Maurantonio, Rob Nelson, Melissa Ooten, Soujourna Cunningham, Ernest McGowen

SALLIE COOK

JULIA RAIMONDI From Shaker Pacifist to Confederate Outlaw: The Story of Sam “One-Arm” Berry FACULTY MENTOR: Douglas Winiarski

JOANNA HEJL Empire City: Sovereignty, Identity and Labor in New York City’s Mohawk Community FACULTY MENTOR: Eric Yellin

BRANDON JOHNSON

The Ford Foundation’s Discourse on Women in Latin American Population Control and Family Planning Initiatives FACULTY MENTORS: Timothy Barney, Nicole Sackley

PATRICK SAWYER Competition & Collaboration: The Ford Foundation and Cold War Exchange Programs FACULTY MENTORS: Nicole Sackley, Timothy Barney

DANIEL SCHERZER Analyzing Ford Foundation Grant Data FACULTY MENTORS: Timothy Barney, Nicole Sackley, Justin Madron

KOBI WHITE Searching for Trends through Topic Modeling: Technology and Human Resources FACULTY MENTORS: Lauren Tilton, Melissa Ooten, Ladelle McWhorter

RHETORIC AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES HANNAH GRACE HOWELL An Unforeseen Identity FACULTY MENTOR: Linda Hobgood

JACK RIDILLA Defining Decision: The Pardon that Shaped a Legacy FACULTY MENTOR: Linda Hobgood

NATALIE SCHAUS Just Say No: Rhetoric that Shaped Identity of a Generation FACULTY MENTOR: Linda Hobgood

MEGAN SCHMITZ Behind the Headlines, The Charming Rebel FACULTY MENTOR: Linda Hobgood

Ambiguity and the Holy Trinity of Music: The Intersection of Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm in Intellectual Property and Copyright Law Within the Music Industry FACULTY MENTOR: Joanna Love

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Art & Research continued ART HISTORY CALISTA ANDERSON Feminism and Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: How Female Artists Inspired Gender Activism Through Their Work FACULTY MENTORS: Shelia Carapico, Elena Calvillo

YAYUN DENG Giuseppe Castiglione: Art, Agency, Religion, and Imperial Power at the Qing court of China FACULTY MENTORS: Elena Calvillo, Agnieszka Szymanska

JENNIFER WICKS A Study of The Abundance of Nature in the Context of 19th-Century American Art FACULTY MENTORS: Elena Calvillo, Agnieszka Szymanska

KATHERINE WILEY Andy Goldsworthy’s Art and Text FACULTY MENTORS: Elena Calvillo, Yu-Chuan Chen

JUNRU ZHOU Race and Racism in the Tang Dynasty FACULTY MENTORS: Agnieszka Szymanska, Abigail Cheever

JAY DO Posthumanism: Decentering the Human as the Center of the Universe in Contemporary Art FACULTY MENTORS: Elena Calvillo, Allison Myers

ERIN HAYDON Stacking the Deck: The Ethics of Museum Culture FACULTY MENTORS: Elena Calvillo, Agnieszka Szymanska

MORGAN MITCHELL Kerry James Marshall: Almost All Black FACULTY MENTORS: Elena Calvillo, Allison Myers

PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Art & Research continued CLASSICAL STUDIES

JOURNALISM

NICHOLAS DEMURIA From Layard to the Museum of the Bible: a History and Analysis of Biblical Archaeology FACULTY MENTOR: Elizabeth Baughan

ARRMAN KYAW, KIERSTEN NESS, VICTORIA DAVIS, JONAS FRYER, YANGYANG CHEN, C.J. SLAVIN, NICHOLAS CALDAS, JADA FRAZIER

FRANCES GICHNER

Beneath the Surface: The Racial History of UR’s Land FACULTY MENTOR: Robert Hodierne

Continuity and Transformation of Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean FACULTY MENTOR: Elizabeth Baughan

PAIGE LEVINE Ancient Historians’ Uses of Women to Explain Political Change FACULTY MENTOR: Elizabeth Baughan

TESS MONKS Relative Clause Anastrophe in Cato FACULTY MENTOR: Dieter Gunkel

LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES LINDSAY EVERHART, EMILY LOMBARDI, JOHANNA GUEVARA Russian Women Past and Present FACULTY MENTOR: Yvonne Howell

ROSEMARIE FERRARO From Fiction to Reality: Migration Literature and the Creation of a Transnational World FACULTY MENTOR: Lidia Radi

ADDISON HUNTER We are (Not) Western: Language, Gender, Propaganda, and Ambivalence in Russian National Identity FACULTY MENTOR: Yvonne Howell

PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Art & Research continued LATIN AMERICAN, LATINO & IBERIAN STUDIES

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

MARÍA ACOSTA

Social Development in Kerala and an Interpretation of its Relative Resilience through the Confluence of Marxism, Matrilineality, and Malayalam FACULTY MENTOR: Jenny Pribble

NAT BERRY

ZIXUAN LIU

GRACE MILLER

How to: Use the Body as an Agent of Resistance FACULTY MENTORS: Patricia Herrera, Mariela Méndez

RAVEN BULLARD Cuba: Art as Activism FACULTY MENTORS: Patricia Herr, Mariela Méndez

CAMRYN TRAVIS Immigration in Spain: An Analysis of the Sentiment towards Immigrants of Color in Spain.

FACULTY MENTOR: Aurora Hermida-Ruiz

MIRA CARROLL

Tool of the Masters: Comparison of Language Education between Public and Private Schools in Chile, Nepal, and Jordan FACULTY MENTORS: Umud Dalgic, Sheila Carapico

ELLIE OWEN Poverty Alleviation in Guatemala: The Complementary Impacts of Remittances and Aid FACULTY MENTOR: Jenny Pribble

VIRGINIA SUN The Churches of Chiloé FACULTY MENTOR: Jennifer Pribble

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS A Game and Social Norm Theory Analysis of the Cape Town Water Crisis FACULTY MENTOR: Jeppe von Platz

SOCIOLOGY, WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES PHUONG ANH (ANYA) DINH Gender-Based Violence: Sociocultural Analysis (the example of Vietnam) FACULTY MENTOR: Galina Barysheva

Progressively Conservative: A Look into Young, Conservative Women and Activism FACULTY MENTOR: Jennifer Erkulwater

XIANGYI MENG

MIQUELL SHAW

JENNIFER MUNNINGS

Just Education: Why Postsecondary Education Matters in Prisons FACULTY MENTORS: Andrea Simpson, Andy McGraw

The Empowerment of the Other FACULTY MENTOR: Ladelle McWhorter

Gender Discrimination and Sexual Violence in The Bahamas FACULTY MENTOR: Eric Grollman

SHANSHAN WANG Ethical Theory of Contract Pregnancy FACULTY MENTOR: Ladelle McWhorter

VIRGINIA SUN Challenging Narratives of Syncretism in Candomblé FACULTY MENTOR: Dixon Abreu

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Performances & Presentations ZACHARY ABDALLAH

JUSTIN AIRAS

Structural Studies of Adenovirus Fiber Attachment to CD46 FACULTY MENTOR: Eugene Wu

Investigating the Structure Function of Nucleotide Bound Myosin XIX FACULTY MENTORS: Carol Parish, Omar Quintero

ROSS ABRASH

RASHEL AMADOR

Associations Between Social Group, Social Pressure to Hookup, and Hookup Behavior FACULTY MENTOR: Karen Kochel

Regulation and Function of Sodalis glossinidius Genes in High Heme Environments FACULTY MENTOR: Laura Runyen-Janecky

MARÍA ACOSTA

CHRISTINE ANCAJAS

Lighting the Stage for Production Studies III FACULTY MENTOR: Maja E. White

DFT Study of the Bergman Cyclization of Several Enediynes FACULTY MENTOR: Carol Parish

AHSAN SUHEER AHMAD, MAHAD BHATTI, HAMMAD HASSAN

NATNAEL ASMELASH, JOEL TABAPSSI FOKWA

Automatically Summarizing Argumentative Tweets FACULTY MENTOR: Jon Park

The Economics of the Sugarscape FACULTY MENTOR: Barry Lawson

JACOB AIRAS Investigation of Controversial Sports Drugs FACULTY MENTOR: Carol Parish

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Performances & Presentations continued ELENA BAGNOLI, LILLIE CREDLE, SUSMITA ADHIKARI Examining the role of strength-based attributes on liver and kidney transplant patients’ health and quality of life FACULTY MENTOR: Camilla Nonterah

SOFIA BARNES-HOROWITZ Variation in Life Expectancy Rates in the Commonwealth of Virginia FACULTY MENTOR: Monti Datta

CHARLOTTE BEDNARSKI

EMILY BREW

GABBIE BURNHAM, BRENDA LIM

Signing Polygamy: Navigating Polygamous Relationships in Dakar, Senegal FACULTY MENTORS: Sheila Carapico, Rania Sweis

Examining The Inflammatory Effects of Woodsmoke on Murine Macrophages FACULTY MENTOR: Shannon Jones

Investigating the Cytotoxic Effects of Identified E-Liquid Additives FACULTY MENTOR: Shannon Jones

JANHAVI BHALERAO, GABBY BOWEN, ELLE JACKSON

CLAIRE BROWN, JULIA WILLCOX

HAILEY BUSHNELL, JONATHAN HUANG

Studies into the importance of Arg675 toward the mutagenic potential of 8-oxo-2’-deoxyguanosine with Klen-Taq polymerase FACULTY MENTOR: Michelle Hamm

Retinoic Acid Receptor Function in Hindbrain and Spinal Cord Development FACULTY MENTOR: Isaac Skromne

The Pervasive Reach of Early Life Stress: Effects of Restricted Resources on Coordination, Immunological Responses to Microbiome Interventions, and their Neurobiological Markers.

FACULTY MENTORS: Kelly Lambert, Jacy Jacob

LANDIN BARNEY Studying the Effects of Rapamycin on MachadoJoseph Disease in Drosophila FACULTY MENTOR: John Warrick

JEARICE BLACK The Possible Effects of E-Cigarette on Macrophages FACULTY MENTOR: Shannon Jones

MAKAYLA CALLENDER ANNIE BUENAVENTURA, YANISH RAMBOCUS Optimizing Path Planning to Simulate Active Threat Scenarios FACULTY MENTOR: Jory Denny

NIA CAMBRIDGE NGAN BUI

CHANDLER BARRETT

JESSIE BONILLA

Characterizing the Interaction between Phenols and the VirA Linker Region of Agrobacterium FACULTY MENTOR: B. Daniel Pierce

Cloud 9 FACULTY MENTOR: Kristin Bezio

SAMUEL BOTTUM KIRA BARTNICK Academics, Social Life, and Sleep - You Can Only Choose Two. What Happens When You Don’t Choose Sleep?

FACULTY MENTOR: Cindy Bukach

Nitrile Aldol Reactions Mediated by Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate FACULTY MENTOR: Wade Downey

EMILY MARIE BREAUX

Expression, Purification and Inhibition of Pasta Kinase Stk1 FACULTY MENTOR: Julie Pollock

The Transformation of the American Dream Through the Lens of Individualism FACULTY MENTOR: Monti Datta

Building a Transboundary Multi-Criteria Threat Assessment for the Southwestern Amazon (Brazil-Peru) FACULTY MENTORS: David Salisbury, Stephanie Spera

ANTONIO CARDOSO, DONTE LOWMAN, LESLIE GAINES The Student Presented to the Student: Effects of Lexical Repetition and Syntactic Structure on Sentence Processing FACULTY MENTOR: Matthew Lowder

Protein Expression, Purification, and Characterization of a Heme - Nitric Oxide/Oxygen Binding Protein FACULTY MENTOR: Dominique Williams

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Performances & Presentations continued WILLIAM CARRICK

JOANN CHONGSARITSINSUK

Application of Vinylogous Aminonitriles to Synthesis of Pyrazoles FACULTY MENTORS: Emma Goldman, Raymond Dominey, John Gupton

Synthesis of Modulators of the MEMO1 Protein-protein Interface FACULTY MENTOR: Julie Pollock

MIRA CARROLL

SAVANNAH DEL CID, MAJD ABOUL-HOSN, GARRETT LANG

Dance Independent Study: Choreographic Hemiolas FACULTY MENTOR: Anne Van Gelder

AgroImmunity FACULTY MENTOR: B. Daniel Pierce

CHRISTY CHADWICK

JANE CLELAND

The Importance of Sodalis glossinidius Gene SG0014 in the Utilization of Mannitol FACULTY MENTOR: Laura Runyen-Janecky

Levels of Self-fertilizing versus Outcrossing within Populations of Invasive Wavyleaf Basketgrass (Oplismenus undulatifolius) FACULTY MENTOR: Carrie Wu

ALLYSON CHARLESTON Delivering a Vision: Stage Managing, Marketing, and Producing The Wolves FACULTY MENTORS: Walter Schoen, Maja White, Dorothy Holland

JULIETTE COPELAND, EMILY WARD Predictive characterization of hypothetical proteins in Proteus mirabilis FACULTY MENTOR: Jonathan Dattelbaum

BRIANNA CHARLTON Reducing Racial Bias in Face Perception: Is Motivation Enough?

FACULTY MENTOR: Cindy Bukach

ALLISON CHOE Neurobiological and Anxiety-like Behavioral Outcomes of Perinatal Pb-exposure in Male and Female Rats FACULTY MENTOR: Kelly Lambert

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Performances & Presentations continued COLETTE CREAMER

GRANT DIXON

Testing Optimal Conditions for the Capsid Stability of Tupanvirus FACULTY MENTOR: Eugene Wu

Crossed Aldol Additions of Aldehydes and Subsequent Styrene Formation Promoted by Trimethylsilyl Trifluouromethanesulfonate FACULTY MENTOR: Wade Downey

EMILIO DELTORO Wetting and Spreading FACULTY MENTOR: Ovidiu Lipan

JING DONG, STEPHEN OWEN, MAXWELL WALLACH, WENQI XIAO

ANA DEUTSCH

Crafting Adversarial Samples for Automated Speech Recognition Systems FACULTY MENTOR: Doug Szajda

An Exploration of the Impact of Contingency Training on Neurobiological Markers of Cognitive Flexibility and Emotional Resilience FACULTY MENTORS: Kelly Lambert, Jacy Jacob

MAGGIE DONG, ZIHENG SHEN, STEVEN ZHANG, NATHAN LYELL

COLE DEVINE

Transmitting, Compressing, and Denoising Images FACULTY MENTOR: William Ross

Putin’s Altruistic Kleptocracy FACULTY MENTOR: Monti Datta

GIANNA DOWD

MICHELLE DEVLIN

SCOPE FACULTY MENTOR: Alicia Diaz

Effects of E-Cigarette Flavors at Different Concentrations on A549 Lung Epithelial Cells FACULTY MENTOR: Shannon Jones

JACK DRAKE

RICH DIEP

Behind the Mask: Neurobiological Investigations of the Raccoon (Procyon Lotor) FACULTY MENTORS: Kelly Lambert, Jacy Jacob

pH effects on Agrobacterium VirA mutants FACULTY MENTOR: B. Daniel Pierce

EMMA DRESSEL Leaf lLevel Photosynthetic Responses of Invasive (Oplismenis undulatifolius) and Native (O. hirtellus) Basketgrass FACULTY MENTOR: Carrie Wu PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Performances & Presentations continued ANDRE EANES

DARIO FALCONE

HILARY DJOMNANG FOKWA

SYDNEY GARDNER

Accessible Environmental Justice: Using Citizen Science and Low-cost Equipment to Map Disparities in Urban Air Quality FACULTY MENTOR: Todd Lookingbill

Correlations in the Orientations of Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey FACULTY MENTOR: Ted Bunn

Toward The Development of Diphenylthiophosphinoferrocenyl Polymer FACULTY MENTOR: Miles Johnson

Examining Racial Disparities in Student and Teacher Perceptions of School Climate FACULTY MENTOR: Karen Kochel

HIJAB FATIMA

TAYLOR FROST, ABIGAIL OWSLEY

VALERIE GALATI

Effect of e-cigarettes on Human Lung Epithelial Cells FACULTY MENTOR: Shannon Jones

The Impact of Inclusive Pedagogy on Achievement and Sense of Belonging Among College Students FACULTY MENTOR: Karen Kochel

University of Richmond Campus Trees FACULTY MENTOR: Todd Lookingbill

JAMIE EARLS Resolutions and Closure Post-Human Rights Violations FACULTY MENTOR: Monti Datta

JASMINE FENG SOFIA BUSTAMANTE EGUIGUREN Convergent Evolution of Glandular Trichome Morphology and Chemistry in Montane Mimulus FACULTY MENTORS: Carrie Wu, Kristine Nolin

Actin Chromobody Imaging Reveals Sub-Cellular Organellar Actin Dynamics FACULTY MENTOR: Omar Quintero

BARBARA FUJITA Modeling the Consequences of Mitochondrial Dynamics during Mitosis FACULTY MENTOR: Omar Quintero

EMILY GEORGE, QUINN KIRKPATRICK, CLAIRE POWELL, HENRY HURT, NIA CAMBRIDGE Stream Restoration in the Gambles Mill Eco-Corridor FACULTY MENTOR: Todd Lookingbill

MADYSON FITZGERALD SARENNA ENRIGHT Effects of Woodsmoke on Epithelial Cells FACULTY MENTOR: Shannon Jones

The Real Cost of Living: Capitalism and Human Rights FACULTY MENTOR: Monti Datta

KAREN FLEMING CATERINA ERDAS Looking at the Yellow Monkeyflower’s Gene Expression for Anthocyanin Production Using rt-qPCR FACULTY MENTOR: Carrie Wu

From the Passage FACULTY MENTORS: Anne Van Gelder, Monika Siebert

TIARA FULMORE, CAMERON KEELEY-PARKER

SHANNA GERLACH

Comparison of Metal-assisted Hydrolysis of Mono- and Bis-nitrophenyl Phosphates and Cyclic di-GMP FACULTY MENTOR: Dominique Williams

The Wolves: Creating an Environment Through Scenic and Sound Design FACULTY MENTORS: Maja E. White, Josafath Reynoso, Vicki Davis

ULRICK GAILLARD Dative Bonding: A Clue in the Search of Stable Aromatic Borylenes FACULTY MENTOR: Kelling Donald

MADISON ERNSTES Systematic FACULTY MENTORS: Anne Van Gelder, Johann Stegmeir, Maja White

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Performances & Presentations continued KATHERINE GILLENWATER, KATHERINE PETERSON Art Beneath the Bombs: Children’s Depictions of the Spanish Civil War FACULTY MENTOR: Sharon Feldman

MELISSA GU Design of New Metal Complexes with Ligand-Centered Reactivity for the Reduction of CO2 FACULTY MENTOR: Michael Norris

CASSIDY HILTON, LUCY ZHOU EVE GILLES Assocations between Time in Nature, Technology Use and Body Image in College Students FACULTY MENTOR: Karen Kochel

Small molecule inhibitors of MEMO1: Biochemical and biological evaluation FACULTY MENTOR: Julie Pollock

HALEY HOM CLARK GLORY Explorations of Varied Enriched Environments on Neural and Behavioral Functions in Male Rats FACULTY MENTORS: Kelly Lambert, Jacy Jacob

LIZZIE GODSCHALL Impact of Immunoinflammatory NF-kB-like Pathway in Drosophila melanogaster on Human Neurodegenerative Machado-Joseph Disease FACULTY MENTOR: John Warrick

ABRA GRANGER Computational Modification of Acyclic Maleimidebased Enediyne for pH dependent Drug Release FACULTY MENTOR: Carol Parish

Visual Acuity: The Perception of a Graphic Novel FACULTY MENTORS: Joe Essid, Timothy Barney

TAYLOR HURTADO Vermiform foliar tracheoids of Podocalyx loranthoides (Picrodendraceae) FACULTY MENTOR: John Hayden

ANTHONY ISENHOUR Phenotypically Investigating a Novel Library of Mutations in MTR4: an RNA Helicase Associated with the Nuclear Exosome FACULTY MENTOR: Angie Hilliker

CARSON GROCE-WRIGHT The Effect of E-Cigarette Liquid on Macrophage Cells FACULTY MENTOR: Shannon Jones

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Performances & Presentations continued ELLE JACKSON, GABBY BOWEN, JANHAVI BHALERAO Socioeconomic Status in Rats FACULTY MENTOR: Kelly Lambert

LINA TORI JAN The Afghan Peace Process FACULTY MENTOR: Monti Datta

EDWARD JANG Understanding Stochastic bistable reaction system through Braid Group and Topological Phase Transition FACULTY MENTOR: Ovidiu Lipan

JILLIAN JETMORE, SYDNEY ROBINSON, SADEISHA TAYLOR Updated NMR Database for The University Chemical Stock FACULTY MENTOR: Jeffery Simpson

CAMILLE JULIANA, CAMERON SMITH, SOPHIE HARDTEN How impulsivity affects neural markers of resource allocation during stimulus encoding FACULTY MENTOR: Cindy Bukach

SAKET KARKI Analysis of CMB Power Spectra using Gibbs Sampling FACULTY MENTOR: Ted Bunn

NEELAMBERI KLEIN, KEVIN PEREZ, LAUREN STENSON It’s Not Just You, It’s the System Too: Examining Implicit Bias in the Context of Systemic Racism FACULTY MENTOR: Kristjen Lundberg

VADIM KUDLAY Simulation Animation in R FACULTY MENTOR: Barry Lawson

ANNIE LAI, JACK DRAKE, NICK NATALIE, BILAL HINDI Behind the Mask: Explorations of the raccoon (Procyon lotor) brain.

FACULTY MENTOR: Kelly Lambert

DANIEL LARSON Epigenetic Variation of Oplismenus undulatifolius, a High Risk Species in Virginia’s Forests FACULTY MENTOR: Carrie Wu

JIWON KANG Using Silica Gel Particles and HPU/TPU Films to Attach Molecules onto an Electrode Surface FACULTY MENTOR: Michael Norris PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Performances & Presentations continued MEGHAN LEBER Biodiversity of James River Rock Pools Before and After an Environmental Disturbance FACULTY MENTOR: Kristine Grayson

GEORGES LECONTE Synthesis of 5’-triphosphate-8-thio-2’-deoxyinosine FACULTY MENTOR: Michelle Hamm

MELISSA LEWIS Anti-inflammatory Effects of Curcumin FACULTY MENTOR: Shannon Jones

PEIZHI LI, VICTOR CHEN Plan A: Stopping an Active Shooter Simulation of an Active Threat Scenario FACULTY MENTOR: Jory Denny

BELLA LONG

LORETO MALINOWSKI Analysis of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens Pathogenic Response to Host and Non-host Plants FACULTY MENTOR: B. Daniel Pierce

CARLOS PEREZ MANDRY A Flow Chemistry Implementation of the “Gupton Vinylogous Amide Chemistry” for Highyield, Regiospecific Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Polysubstituted Pyrroles FACULTY MENTORS: Emma Goldman, Raymond Dominey, John Gupton

MOLLY MCCOY

CHARLOTTE MOYNIHAN, CATHY BAYAS

Effect of Polysubstituted Pyrroles on Macrophage Activity FACULTY MENTOR: Krista Stenger

Expression, Purification, and Modification of QB FACULTY MENTORS: Julie Pollock, Kristine Nolin

AALIA NARVEL JOSEPH MCEACHON Pro-Ligand of Estrogen Receptor Beta and Implications in Neurodegenerative Diseases FACULTY MENTOR: Julie Pollock

Investigating Cerium(IV)-assisted Hydrolysis of Tris(4nitrophenol) phosphate at Various pHs. FACULTY MENTOR: Dominique Williams

CHARLES MILLER

ALLISON NEWMAN

Observing Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar) Starvation Response Across Temperature Regimes FACULTY MENTORS: Kristine Grayson, Lily Thompson

Math Modeling: Keeping the Blood Pumping FACULTY MENTOR: Lester Caudill

ADELAIDE MASTERSON Characterization of MYO19 knockdown Phenotypes in a Cultured Neuron-like Cell Model FACULTY MENTOR: Omar Quintero

Cicada Wings FACULTY MENTOR: Alicia Diaz

MEGHAN MILLER-BROWN, KAYLA SALTZMAN

CONRAD NIEBUHR Infectious Surface Proteins in Sneathia amnii FACULTY MENTOR: Michael Harwich

Nostalgia and Heroism: Theoretical Convergence of Memory, Motivation, and Function FACULTY MENTOR: Scott Allison

RACHEL MORRIS EMILY LOPEZ, SYDNEY THOMAS, ANDREW LAPRADE, WESLEY TSAI, KRYSTIAN HAJDUCZKA, JAYLEN BARRIENTOS-COLLINS, ANDY PALUCH, KATIE ANDERSON, PENNY HU, CHARLES MULLIS, TIM MAYES, ADAM LOUDIN, STEVEN GU, LILY DICKSON, FRANK HANSON

Connectivity of Coloring Graphs FACULTY MENTORS: Heather Russell, Prateek Bhakta

BRYANNA MOUNTFORD Modification of QB Virus-Like Particles FACULTY MENTORS: Julie Pollock, Kristine Nolin

Riverfront UR: Extending Campus from the EcoCorridor to the James River FACULTY MENTOR: David Salisbury

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Performances & Presentations continued PEACE NYECHE

INDIA PATEL

Ecapsulation of Smal Molecules in the Virus-like Particle Q_ FACULTY MENTORS: Julie Pollock, Kristine Nolin

Sugar Transporter in the Bacterium Sodalis glossinidius FACULTY MENTOR: Laura Runyen-Janecky

REBEKA MONIKA OKLOPCIC

FRANCY CABRERA PAZ

Influence of the Chemical Environment on Halogen Bonding FACULTY MENTOR: Kelling Donald

JACLYN OPIE, GWYNNA RYAN

Beta-adrenergic Receptor Signaling Reduces Proinflammatory Signaling and Promotes the M2 Phenotype in the RAW264.7 Macrophage Cell Line FACULTY MENTOR: Krista Stenger

The ART of Individual Differences FACULTY MENTOR: Matthew Lowder

ZACHARY PERKINS

ROBERT OSTROM The Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) of UR Campus FACULTY MENTORS: Kristine Grayson, Art Evans

CONNOR PAINTER Cosmological Inflation in N-Dimensional Gaussian Random Fields with Algorithmic Data Compression FACULTY MENTOR: Ted Bunn

Initiation of Cdx Family Spinal Cord Specification Genes Requires BMP and Nodal Signaling Activity FACULTY MENTOR: Isaac Skromne

NAM PHAM Can Inductive Effects be Quantified through Halogen Bonding: A Computational Assessment for Aromatic Systems.

FACULTY MENTOR: Kelling Donald

ANISHA PATEL Structural Preferences of Be and Mg Dihalides FACULTY MENTOR: Kelling Donald

PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Performances & Presentations continued JENNIFER PICIW

EMMIE POTH-NEBEL

Identification of Ded1 Suppressors using High Throughput Genomic Sequencing FACULTY MENTOR: Angie Hilliker

Fascination in Antiquity: Understanding the Evil Eye as an Ancient Migratory, Multicultural Phenomenon FACULTY MENTORS: Elizabeth Baughan, Abigail Cheever

FAITH PINCKNEY Effects of Catecholamines on RAW264.7 Macrophage Activity FACULTY MENTOR: Krista Stenger

MICHAEL PITTMAN The Hammer Sabotaged the Machine: Effects of Verb Intentionality and Syntactic Structure on Fixation Times during Reading FACULTY MENTOR: Matthew Lowder

CLAIRE POWELL, GABRIELLE WILLIAMS The Utility of Transboundary Workshops to Address Socio-Environmental Challenges in Amazonia: The Transboundary Geographic Group of the Southwestern Amazon Case FACULTY MENTOR: David Salisbury

REHAN ABDUL QADEER

COLIN POHLMAN

Optical Properties of AlAu Alloyed and Inter-metallic Thin Films FACULTY MENTOR: Mariama Dias

Reading Tolerance into the ‘Convivencia’ FACULTY MENTOR: Martin Sulzer-Reichel

NARMEEN RASHID

KATIE POKORNY Investigation of the Low-energy Isomers of SO42(H2O)n (n=1-5) Clusters FACULTY MENTOR: Samuel Abrash

Identification of Novel Therapeutic Combinations for Basal-Like Triple-Negative Breast Cancer FACULTY MENTOR: Chuck Harrell

MADELINE POLHILL Bryn Mawr College, 1885–1940: “Mathematics on its Mind” FACULTY MENTOR: Della Dumbaugh

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Performances & Presentations continued EBERARDO RAYMUNDO

NAI’LAH ROWE

Reaching Further with Computer Science FACULTY MENTORS: Zachary Dodds, Barry Lawson

Creating the Individual: Production Studies III Showcase FACULTY MENTOR: Johann Stegmeir

NAJNIN RIMI Lysis and Extensibility of Fibrin Fibers FACULTY MENTOR: Christine Helms

GRACE ANN ROBERTSON One-pot Silyl ketene imine Formation-nucleophilic Addition Reactions of Acetonitrile with Acetals and Nitrones FACULTY MENTOR: Wade Downey

TRACY SANTIZO, KELAB ZEWEDU, FERNANDA VASQUEZ, SUSANNA GETIS, MARIA PERRY, KAY JOHNSON Another Kind of Education FACULTY MENTOR: Elisabeth Gruner

REGHAN RUF Abiotic Polymerization of Ribonucleotides on a Mineral Surface FACULTY MENTORS: Eugene Wu, Kristine Nolin

Synthesis of Boronate ester Derivatives of Triphenylphosphine FACULTY MENTOR: Miles Johnson

JULIA SIEWERT SHRUTI SATHISH, YU ZHANG Modeling the Effects of HSV-2 Testing on Transmission Dynamics FACULTY MENTORS: Joanna Wares, Sara Krehbiel

ALEXIS RUSSELL Technology Use, Nature, and Well-Being FACULTY MENTOR: Karen Kochel

SARAH SHEN

Application of 3-chloroenals to the Synthesis of Substituted Pyrroles and Pyrazoles FACULTY MENTOR: John Gupton

JULIA SIEWERT KELLY SAVERINO

Molecular Cloning, Expression, and Characterization of cptB - pore protein from Sneathia amnii Type V Secretion System FACULTY MENTOR: Michael Harwich

MATTHEW ROBINSON, SAM XU

GWYNNA RYAN

Urban Heat Islands of Richmond, VA: A Further Analysis FACULTY MENTOR: Todd Lookingbill

Modeling the Pathogen Dynamics of C. Difficile FACULTY MENTOR: Lester Caudill

Processing of Relative Clauses in Spoken Language FACULTY MENTOR: Matthew Lowder

CAROLINE SCHIAVO

DANIELLE SKLAR

Climate Change: Air Pollution Negative Effects FACULTY MENTOR: Monti Datta

Alkylation-cyclization-aromatization Reactions of Ketones with (3-silyl)propargyl Carboxylates to Yield 2-methylfurans FACULTY MENTOR: Wade Downey

MARIANA ROSADO, KACY WORKMAN, LILLIE CREDLE, SUSMITA ADHIKARI Medical Adherence and Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Health Literacy FACULTY MENTOR: Camilla Nonterah

AMANDA SCHMITT, SAM O’ROURKE, ALEJANDRO VILLALPANDO Methylation of RNA Helicase DED1 FACULTY MENTOR: Angie Hilliker

MIKAELA ROSEN Isofunctional Clustering and Classification of the Arsenate reductase Superfamily using Molecular Dynamics FACULTY MENTOR: Carol Parish

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KARTIKEY SHARMA, CALVIN REEDY, SCARLETT SUN, JACKMAN LIU, CONNOR KISSANE Codes from Difference Sets FACULTY MENTOR: James Davis

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Performances & Presentations continued STERLING SMITH Finding Lowest-Energy Isomers of Sulfuric Acid-Water Clusters Using M062X/aug-cc-pVTZ Model Chemistry FACULTY MENTOR: Samuel Abrash

YESIRETH SOLIS Evaluating the Theoretical Binding Affinity of Novel Carbon POSS Derivatives as HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors FACULTY MENTOR: Carol Parish

PETER SOMBOONSONG Investigating the Impact of Astrocytes on the Resistance of Melanoma Brain Metastases to Targeted Therapy FACULTY MENTOR: Jonathan Dattelbaum

KENDALL STEWART, KIM SMITH, ISABELLE WARREN Educating the Public about Organ Donation FACULTY MENTOR: Camilla Nonterah

MATTHEW STRANGE, CHLOË STECKART, CIERA BRYANT Do Individual Differences in Mental Ability Overcome the Negative Effects of Impulsivity? Neural Markers of Resource Allocation During Stimulus Encoding FACULTY MENTOR: Cindy Bukach

WESLEY SU, MAXINE XIN Structures of Coloring Graphs FACULTY MENTORS: Prateek Bhakta, Heather Russell

JANE SONG Bias in Pain Perception: The Role of Mental Health Status in Perceptions of Others’ Physical and Social Pain FACULTY MENTORS: Brandon Ng, Cindy Bukach

PATRICK SUTPHIN, KENDALL STEWART Can Personality Factors Account for Neural Markers of Gender Bias?

FACULTY MENTOR: Cindy Bukach

JULIAN STARKS Investigating the Effects of Biomass Derived Pollutants on the Innate Immune System FACULTY MENTOR: Shannon Jones

NATALIE SZUMEL Put Your Phone Down, And Say Hi!: Cultivating Positivity Resonance At UR FACULTY MENTOR: Kristjen Lundberg

KRISTEN STARKS Investigation of the Effects of N-Acetylcysteine on Neurodegeneration in Drosophila Models of Spinocerebellar Ataxia 3 FACULTY MENTOR: John Warrick

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Performances & Presentations continued WENYU TANG

NICOLE WALKER

Structural and Bonding Analysis of Particulate Matter using Genetic Algorithm: NO3_ • nH2O FACULTY MENTOR: Samuel Abrash

The Effects of Signaling Molecules on Agrobacterium tumefaciens Tumorigenesis at Plant Wound Sites FACULTY MENTOR: B. Daniel Pierce

TRAVIS TERRY

KATIE WALL

Chemical and Electrochemical Investigations into Transition Metal Catalyzed Reduction of CO2 into Methanol FACULTY MENTOR: Michael Norris

Elimination of Putative Transposase Inhibits Survival of Sodalis glossinidius in Tsetse Host FACULTY MENTOR: Laura Runyen-Janecky

JARED THOMAS

GRIFFIN WALSH

Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Proazaphosphatrane Halide and Silylamide Complexes FACULTY MENTOR: Miles Johnson

Using ArcGIS Hub to Facilitate Analysis and Sharing of Transboundary Amazonian Conservation and Development Data FACULTY MENTORS: David Salisbury, Elizabeth Zizzamia

MIMI TRAN Effects of Collector Plates on the Electrospinning of PEO Nanofibers FACULTY MENTOR: Christine Helms

ANGEL TSENG

ALLISON WALTERS, XINYUE WU, KENDALL STEWARD, KIM SMITH Public Perceptions of Deceased Donor and Living Donor Transplantation FACULTY MENTOR: Camilla Nonterah

The Trump Effect on International Students FACULTY MENTOR: Monti Datta

LEE TYLER Transformation, Flood, and Narrative in Ovid’s Metamorphoses FACULTY MENTOR: Elizabeth Baughan PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2019 STUDENT SYMPOSIUM BY KIM LEE SCHMIDT

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Performances & Presentations continued ANNIE WANG, WALKER BLACK, ANNA MANN Effects of Polysubstituted Pyrroles on ProInflammatory Signaling in RAW264.7 Macrophages FACULTY MENTOR: Krista Stenger

SALLY WATANABE Can Nature Mitigate a Link Between Social Isolation and Depressive Symptoms in College Students?

FACULTY MENTOR: Karen Kochel

MORIAH WILLIAMS, MARIANA ROSADO, KACY WORKMAN, ISABELLE WARREN Breaking Barriers: An examination of barriers to treatment adherence among patients seeking kidney transplantion FACULTY MENTOR: Camilla Nonterah

KAITLIN WILSON Solvation Effects of Halogen Bondeing FACULTY MENTOR: Kelling Donald

MICHAEL WYATT Techniques for Reducing Catastrophic Outlier Redshift Estimates in Large-Scale Surveys FACULTY MENTOR: Jack Singal

RAN YAN, TENGJIE TANG Population Biology, Pest Management and Cooperative Game FACULTY MENTOR: Michael Kerckhove

ZHESI YANG, ZHESI YANG BENJAMIN WEISER

MEGAN WIORA

Patterns in Virginia Gubernatorial Elections since 1977 FACULTY MENTOR: Dan Palazzolo

Nations With No Land: Mapping the Spatial Displacement of Native Americans FACULTY MENTORS: Tim Barney, Paul Achter

GWYNETH WELSH Stochastic Kinetic Models of Information Motors and Topological Band Structures FACULTY MENTOR: Ovidiu Lipan

A New CO2 Reduction Pathway: Amine Catalysis Before Traditional Hydride Attack FACULTY MENTORS: Carol Parish, Michael Norris

MASON ZADAN EMILY WU A Stochastic Switch in Heat Shock Response FACULTY MENTOR: Ovidiu Lipan

ANNA LEIGH WHITE Transcriptomic Analysis of CAD Cells Neuron-like Differentiation FACULTY MENTOR: Omar Quintero

KATHERINE WILEY

Soft and Stretchable Thermoelectric Generators Enabled by Liquid Metal Elastomer Composites FACULTY MENTORS: Carmel Majidi, Mohammad Malakooti

ADRIAN ZHOU, NEELA KLEIN, GIBRAN MERCHANT, PETER KADE The Lab Discussed by the Student: Early Sense Selection for Metonyms Appearing as Sentence Subjects FACULTY MENTOR: Matthew Lowder

YING ZHU Chinese International Students Adjusting to Life in the USA and RVA FACULTY MENTOR: Monti Datta

SAMUEL ZIELINSKI Investigations in the Mutagenic Potential of 8-oxo-2’deoxyguanosine with Human Polymerase kappa FACULTY MENTOR: Michelle Hamm

IVY ZHONG Direct Allylation of Ketones with Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate and Triethylamine FACULTY MENTOR: Chiles Downey

Google Slides in the Gallery FACULTY MENTOR: Richard Waller

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Welcome New Majors!

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Looking Back!

EVENTS ON CAMPUS AND IN OUR HEARTS

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You are There!

MEMORABLE MOMENTS

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