Research & Experiential Learning Student Scholar Showcase Summer 2023: Senior Student Scholars Evelyn Bibbins Can SLU EMS Response Times Be Reduced? Network Analysis of St. Lawrence University Campus Erika Looman Lakes Region Conservation Corps - Squam Lakes Conservation Society Elena (Ellie) Shaw Political Parties and Organizations through Sticker Propaganda in Contemporary Spain Advisor: Catherine Tedford Chris Davis Intern at Rolling Grocer 19 Lily Kasperek Visualizing Student Course Evaluation Data Advisor: Matt Higham Liya Yussubaliyeva Making Sustainable Fashion Affordable and Accessible for the General Public Sophia Brigante Benefits and Inequalities in Study Abroad John Reece Intern - United States Marshals Service Jane Krausman Marine Mammal Education & Research Intern - Boston Harbor Cruises & New England Aquariam Glendalys Medina Intern - KOS Design (Freeman Foundation) Sage Lalor Intentional community, non-capitalism, and identity Fiona Reiner Public Relations./Digital Communications Internship - Fuse Eva Grover Corruption Campaigning in Central and Eastern Europe Advisor: Mert Kartal Benjamin Lloyd Intern, The North Country Office - U.S. Senator Kristen Gillibrand Aaron Levy Program Development Intern - Racquet Up Detroit Macallister Ballaine Marketing & Research Intern - US News & World Report James Lubkowitz Bioinformatics Intern - Vermont Biomedical Research Network (VBRN) Alejandra Altamirano Salazar Papermaking Advisor: Melissa Schulenberg Indie Talbot Application of olivine-melt thermometry and hygrometry to olivine-rich basanites from Tenerife, Canary Islands Spain: Evaluation of… Eugenia Fernanda Leon Canseco Social Justice Intern - Center for Studies and Community Strengthening Mano Vuelta A. C. Martina Velásquez Lemaitre Shadowing at the Saints Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences Leah Squadrito Research/Intern - Johns Hopkins Public Health/PEACE Billie McClosky Cultural Identities: How does stateless identity create unstable cultural identity and what is its effect on psychological well-being? Advisor: Gisele El Khoury Xi Chen SLU Fellowship Advisor: LeAnn Holland Grace Hodges Poly(glyoxylate imines): Designing a New Class of Degradable Polymer Rae Dunbar Internship with ICLEI's Urban Research, Innovation, and Development Team Zoie Lehman Statistical Epidemiologist Public Health Intern Aja Samuel The Vagina Monologues: Finding the Shortcomings of the Original Piece Advisor: Jennifer Thomas Adarra Smith Clinical Research Intern - Canton-Potsdam Hospital John Mahoney Intern - Mahanakorn Partners Group (Freeman Foundation) Jaron Belmore Intern - Towle Chiropractic Caitlin Erb Archeological Curation Intern - Carnegie Museum of Natural History Annabella Kennedy Research Assistant - Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) Ayesha Khatun Intern - The Mirror Foundation (Freeman Foundation) Maya Mackey Intern - North Country Public Radio Kelley Daphness Intern - North Country Public Radio Taline Norsigian Intern - Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) Kam Omari Summer Program Intern - Arvestaran Creative Development Center Marika Stauring Analysis and Digitization of Ancient Mesopotamian Skeletal Material from Tell Leilan, Syria Advisor: Mindy Pitre Alyssa McLeod Marketing & Communications Intern - Heartfelt Dreams Foundation Maria Isabel Diaz (Isa) Data Science Intern - The World Bank Isaiah Albright Congressional/Intergovernmental Relations Intern - Partnership for Public Service Abigail Lateer Campus Community Garden Coordinator - St. Lawrence University Edward Habeck Human Oral Microbiome Observed in Bronze Age Skeletal Remains from Tell Leilan, Mesopotamia Advisor: Lorraine Olendzenski Previous Next Summer 2023: Junior Student Scholars Aidan Atwell The Digital World and The Modern Undergraduate Advisor: Dr. Donna Alvah Samartha Basnyat Summer Analyst - Vrock & Company Yuchang (Alice) Zhang Philosophical Approach to Mental Health Advisor: Jeffrey Maynes Nach Insaurralde Becoming the Dub Advisor: Adam Harr Seth Bailey Summer Intern - McSweeney Orthodontics/Michael Davey Detnal Office Catherine O'Neill Community Agriculture Research Intern - Environmental Studies, St. Lawrence University Elizabeth Camp Rehab Aide, PT Shadow, Data Collection & Analysis Assistant - Cioffredi & Associates - Physical Therapy & Wellness Tenzin Yarphel Expert Network Summer Intern - Ridgetop Research Colby Lauria Revenue Intern - Interscope Geffen A&M Records Kanonkela Kazembe Chibwe Optimizing thin film Metal-Organic frameworks to sequester and degrade azo dyes Advisor: Amanda Oldacre Tye Royal Making an Enigma Machine Nina Spinney Investigator Internship - New Hampshire Public Defender Sisco Tellez Intern - Galaxy Kids (Freeman Foundation) Charlotte Brown Farming Intern - littleGrasse FoodWorks Farm Bryn Pearson Summer Legislative Intern - Office of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen Carmiña Goya School of Art and Heritage Intern - National University of San Martín Molly Doyle Estimating Basal Conditions of the Laurentide Ice Sheet Through Striation Analyses: Talcville, NY, Western Adirondacks Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) John Capizzi Software Development Intern - Intellegam Annalise Panici Psychological Portraits of Women: A Short Story Collection Advisor: Paul Graham Al Logan Estimating the concentration and characterizing microplastics in freshwater clams’ tissue in St. Lawrence rivers Advisor: Amanda Oldacre Drew Horne Intern - Senator Patrick O'Connor (MA State House) George Charalambous Data Science Intern - The World Bank Meghan Weldon Remembering and Restoring World War II Registrar Helen Whalen’s Legacy at St. Lawrence Nadine Manase Poly(Glyoxylates) and Poly(Glyoxylamides) as Selfimmolative Polymers for Plastic Synthesis Marlia Richer Intern - Henry's Fork Foundation Haley Sundstrom Exploring Vietnam War Poetry - Creating a Collection Mackenzie Marcus Reshaping Social-Emotional Learning for 3rd-4th Graders: The Life Block Hadley Reinke Research Intern - New York Presbyterian/Columbia Irving Medical Center Ellie Stannard Research Assistant - Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Bridget Hastings Health Care/ Head Teen Mentor - Healing H'Arts Equestrian Center, Inc Previous Next Summer 2023: Sophomore Student Scholars Muhammed Mahdi Alkhaqani Training Production Line Engineer - Abr Al-Sharq For Petroleum Services LLC Maryam (Sofia) Zareizadeh Service Research Intern - UNICEF Brandon Reyes Legal Intern - Recycle Track Systems (RTS) Mirko Dibra Data Analyst - T'Petritit Alja Imam Chaudhry Head Coordinator - Kita Ghar Lahore Public Library Navya Aggarwal Beyond Boundaries: Impacting Lives through Social Work & Education Sponsorship at Neema International Maryam (Sofia) Zareizadeh Do glucocorticoid stress hormone act synergistically with the T3 thyroid hormone in Xenopus laevis metamorphosis? Advisor: Alexander M Schreiber William (Will) de Chabert Conservation Intern at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo Matthew Shelton Intern - Mahanakorn Partners Group (Freeman Foundation) Alejandra Ruiz-Gómez Correro Sales Associate - Ayling International Property Services Previous Next Summer 2023 - Research Fellowships Summer 2023 - Internships/Fellowships 2022 Summer 2022: Senior Student Scholars Timur Martinez Smirnov Exchange Generalist Intern Tess Maxam Research Associate Fato (Jona) Kerma Financial Representative Intern Caroline Starace Detailed Documentation of Compositional, Structural, and Petrologic Heterogeneity Within the Marcy Anorthosite Massif: A Window into the… Mirabel Pond Philosophical and Chemical Implications of Ontological Reduction Advisor: Laura Rediehs Grace Brouillette Green Mountain Farm-to-School Internship Caitlin French Public Relations Internship Frank Wotton Meta-dialectics: The Promise of Francisco Varela’s Biological Phenomenology Jack Saltus Internship with Bespoke Investment Group Morgan Cleary Research Internship Charlotte Powell Teaching Fellow at Breakthrough Collaborative, Manchester, NH Angeles Zuniga Medina Legal & Policy Intern with Human Rights Foundation Isabelle Dolcino Identifying the Top Predators in Adirondack Fishless Bogs Advisor: Brad Baldwin Jie He Independent Researcher Barrett Smith PR/Marketing Intern with Magrino Andrew Quigley Social Media Intern at Recycle Track Systems (RTS) Melissa Perez Sancho Gender Equality & Land Inheritance in Rural Kenya Advisor: Mert Kartal Conor Temple Financial Advisor Intern with Baystate Financial Rosie Gotsch The Next Frontier Advisor: Jeff Frank Daniel Calbo Financial Advisor Internship Kelley Daphness Editorial Internship Mariam Waqar Khattak Research Intern Badi Kawambwa Marketing Communications Internship Toky Rakotoarisoa Internship at Network 20/20 Ruiqi Yang The Impact of Covid-19 on China’s Housing Market Advisor: Shuwei (Jolly) Zhang Skylar Bergeron Editorial Coordinator Internship at Weave News Lizzie O'Keeffe Editorial Internship Daniil Kim Executive Intern May Buckingham Conservation and Land Management Internship Colleen McKernan Rural Feminisms in the North Country: Expanding the Archives Advisor: Judith DeGroat Nika Husinec Habitat Distribution and Sediment Composition of Jamaican Windward Lagoons Advisor: Antun Husinec Gavin Prescott Internship at SUNY New Paltz, Bioarcheology Field School Cai Lemieux Mack Sensor Data Transplantation for Resilient Drone Operation Advisor: Kevin Angstadt Drew Racioppa Team Leader at Kupu's 2022 HYCC Summer Program Talya Scott Testing the Neuroprotective Effects of Mannitol in a C. elegans model of Parkinson’s Disease Abby Bienfang Member of Biological archaeology excavation team Aaron Levy Inspiring the uninspired Advisor: Jeffrey Maynes Abigail Yosef Finance Intern with ZEP-RE Iman Maani NCPR Internship Paige Meshcon The Values of a Prospective Teacher Advisor: Jeff Frank Maria Isabel Diaz (Isa) International Relations Internship Sam Cohen Power, Politics, and Plebeians in Shakespeare's Roman and Greek Plays Advisor: Dr. Ann Hubert Ngoc Tan Recognizing Capabilities in Early Childhood Education and Care Haille Perkins Summer Internship Previous Next Summer 2022: Junior Student Scholars Melinda Barath Investigation into Use of Different Techniques in Copepod Pigment Extraction Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff Kam Omari Social Media and Digital Content Internship Audrey Bowman GROUND-TRUTHING A REMOTE SENSING LANDSLIDE MODEL USING REACTION WOOD PRESENCE IN TREE RINGS NEAR GLENNALLEN, ALASKA Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Billie McClosky Independent Study Grace Bridge "You're a [Data] Wizard, Harry!" Advisor: Ivan Ramler John (Jack) Roemischer Legal and Development Team Intern with Recycle Track Systems (RTS) Emma Rothe Examining the Wagner-Jauregg Reaction: Providing an Alternative to Morphine Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff Marika Stauring Visiting Bioarchaeology Fieldwork Student with University of New Brunswick Leah C. Biwot Synthesis of proflavine derivatives and study of how they bind to DNA as potential chemotherapeutic agents Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff Martina Velásquez Lemaitre Student Research Assistant with St. Lawrence University Valeria Obregon Diaz Summer Internship at the Tijuana River Estuarine Research Reserve Ian Clark Internship Sajida Bibi The impact of early life adversity using limited bedding model on social-anxiety-related behavior in Long Evan rats. Advisor: Adam Fox Emma Frances Doherty Internship Sage Lalor Local Campaign Organizer Jessica Tom Intern with North Country Public Radio Sydney Peterson Summer Undergraduate Researcher Chris Urban Editorial Assistant with Today Media Billie McClosky An Interactive Map of Cultural Jordan Advisor: Gisele El Khoury Alessandro Marangelli Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental Camila Gonzalez Herrera Outreach Coordinator Internship Leana Dickhens Developing Chemical Reactions: Intercepting the Wagner-Jauregg Intermediate Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff Hope Donoghue What Characterizes a Winning Combination? Network Analysis using Sports Data Advisor: Ivan Ramler Annabella Kennedy Using Tree-Ring Science to Evaluate a Remote-Sensing Landslide Model: Glennallen Region, Alaska Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Laura Bolduc Using Deep Learning to Identify Animal Species in Game Camera Images Advisor: Lisa Torrey Previous Next Summer 2022: Sophomore Student Scholars Titilayo Aluko Student Internship YEYUXI YI Pricing Intern with Recycle Track Systems (RTS) Amanda Thrasher Farm Intern with English Acre Farms Nach Insaurralde International Internship - Trans Memory Archive Argentina Brandon Dickson Software engineering (and Data Analytics) Internship Karni Keushgerian School Management and Student Life Intern Previous Next 2021 Summer Research 2021 Michael Yirenkyi An Architectural Phenomenology Reflection: A Case Study on Japanese Spatiality Advisor: Mark Denaci Rae Dunbar Exploring the Fundamentals of Plastic Degradation Advisor: Amanda Oldacre Alexandra Hill Sentimental Analysis Advisor: Dr. Daniel M Look Brenda Rubio Estrada Seeds for Her Advisor: Dr. Sara Ashpole, Ph. D. Caroline Bell Can we detect signals from RT-LAMP Bioassays with Multispectral Sensors? Advisor: Munir Pirbhai Diamond McAllister Black Student Social Justice Activism at St. Lawrence University Advisor: Kimberly Flint-Hamilton Dakota Lazore The Influence of Thyroid and Glucocorticoid Hormones in Immune System Development during Metamorphosis of the African Clawed Frog (Xenopus… Advisor: Alexander M Schreiber Frank Wotton The Phenomenology of Interpersonal Disagreement Advisor: Dr. Jennifer L Hansen Kayla Edmunds Daily and Seasonal Phenology of the Robber Fly Lasiopogon Currani (Diptera:Asilidae) in St. Lawrence County, New York Advisor: Karl McKnight Karina Bellavia Ethology of Lasiopogon currani (Diptera: Asilidae) in St. Lawrence County, New York Advisor: Karl McKnight Alyssa Bigness Using R Studio to Explore 40 Years of Winning Results: The Statistics Behind the New York Lottery Advisor: Dr. Daniel M Look Craig Wilkes The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the American Funeral Industry Advisor: Mindy Pitre Nishal Basnet The Urban Refugee Resettlement Experience in the United States Advisor: Erica Morrell Anuva Anannya Detection of Fe/Mg Phyllosilicate-rich Landslides Situated in Impact Craters on Mars Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Haille Perkins Selecting Galaxies Hosting Supernovae for Observations with the Green Bank Telescope Advisor: Aileen O'Donoghue Previous Next 2020 Summer Research 2020: Senior Student Scholars Yanfei Mao Associations Between Character Strengths and Positive Outcomes in the Academic Context Advisor: Cheryl Stuntz Jenesha Robert COVID19: Can States Stop the Spread? Advisor: Sun Ki Choi Camden Fort A Classroom Under the Mushroom Cloud: The Educational Setting During the Height of Cold War Tensions Advisor: Dr. Donna Alvah Krista Walrath How water pH affects shell shape in fresh water bivalves Advisor: Judith Nagel-Myers Jayden Ladison Role of the Hippocampus in Temporal Processing Advisor: Bill DeCoteau Yu Song Creating a “Musician” by Deep Learning Advisor: Dr. Ed Harcourt Lauren Donohue The Role of the Hippocampus in Processing Vertical Space Advisor: Bill DeCoteau Asha Johnson A Legacy of Revolution: Examining the Impact of Slave Revolts Across the Black Diaspora (1730-1841) Advisor: Melissane Schrems Allison Krauss Bringing Technology Into the Organic Chemistry Lab Advisor: Stacy Vassar Logan Hagerty The Colonial Legacy of Conservation on Pastoralists Advisor: Matthew Carotenuto Edward Hallahan The Ethics of Commercializing Public Land Advisor: Richard Lauer Claire Bartlett Analysis of Coarse-Woody Debris in Four Adirondack Mountain Catchments Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Arman Tavana GreenCafe Website Advisor: Lisa Torrey Leo Romanetz Kinetic Characterization of Intercalating Chemotherapy Drugs Using Temperature Jump Techniques Advisor: Samantha Glazier Sky Ratcliffe Mathematical Art and Artistic Mathematics Advisor: Dr. Daniel M Look Bridger Royce Fluorescent Gray Advisor: Paul Graham Chloe McConnell Gender and Fiction Advisor: Paul Graham Zican Zhou A Literature Review on the Effects of Thyroid Hormone and Cortisol on the Amphibian Immune System Advisor: Alexander M Schreiber Eloise Bellingham Revealing Trends in Natural and Anthropogenic Processes Using River Discharge Fluctuation Advisor: Jeffrey Chiarenzelli Makenna Burr Herpetofauna Species Survey in the Forestport Quad in Accordance to the NYS Herp Atlas Advisor: Kristine Hoffmann Victoria Oakes Modeling Relationship between Wild Bees and Neonics Advisor: Aswini Pai Niamh Creedon-Carey A History of Local Reaction and Activism to the Olympic Prison Advisor: Liz Regosin Annan Yue A Qualitative Exploration of Reachout of St. Lawrence County Advisor: Cathy Crosby Grace Vensel Resistance to the 'FrançAfrique' Advisor: Eloise Brezault Morgan Cappa Statistical Analysis of the Representation of Women in the US Television Show, the Office Advisor: Jessica Chapman Min Wang British Colonial Influence in Hong Kong and Its Aftermath Advisor: Anne Csete Carla Martinez-Perez Exposure to Immediate Rewards Increases Impulsive Choice in Humans Advisor: Adam Fox Caroline Krall Music and Emotion in Shiny Advisor: Jessica Chapman Andy Hims Alzheimer's and the Aging Brain Advisor: Ana Y. Estevez Noah Neverette Discovering R’s FOXP2 Advisor: Lorraine Olendzenski Peiyu Wang Low-Cost Touchscreen Operant Chamber Based on Raspberry Pi Advisor: Adam Fox Yanru Chen Using Deep Learning to Detect Fake Images Advisor: Dr. Ed Harcourt Shiqi Xie Degradation of Azo-dye with Electrochemical Methods Advisor: Amanda Oldacre Ramon Veras The Inner Workings of a Science Fiction Revolutionary Novel Advisor: Prof. J. Michael Martinez Gretchen Wambach Evaluation of Length and Azimuth Measurement Data Using Eight GIS Basemaps Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Grace Harkins Rising Up Against the Norms Advisor: Jeff Frank Cole Weigartz Occupancy Modeling for Porcupines (Erethizon dorsatum) using Camera Traps Advisor: Erika Barthelmess Yidi Zhang Bottle Flowers Advisor: Kasarian Dane Previous Next Summer 2020: Junior Student Scholars Michael Yirenkyi Industrial Design, the Best and Worst of Humanity Advisor: Lucia Pawlowski Iman Maani Navigating Twitter as a Grassroots Organization Advisor: John Collins, Ph. D. Siyuan Zhang Investigate the Most Effective Card-Upgrade Strategy in Clash Royale Advisor: Ivan Ramler Aseman Bagheri Sheshdeh Novel Coronavirus Advisor: Samantha Glazier Eduardo Puerta Data Visualization for the Admissions Office Advisor: Choong-Soo Lee Derek Sherrange A Decolonial Analysis in the Socio-Legal Dimensions of Food Sovereignty Advisor: John Collins, Ph. D. Haille Perkins Data Reduction for the Arecibo Pisces-Perseus Supercluster Survey Advisor: Aileen O'Donoghue Anuva Anannya Clay Minerals in Landslides on Earth and Mars Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Mabelin Garcia De La Rosa An Examination of Disparities in Healthcare Advisor: Sun Ki Choi Jonathan Morrison Discourse Surrounding Public and Private High Schools in the United States Advisor: Jeff Frank Yu Wang Detecting Real Disasters through Twitter Advisor: Jessica Chapman Frank Wotton Models and Modality Advisor: Richard Lauer Tina Luchetta Gender and a Beat: Women and Hip Hop in Senegal Advisor: Howard Eissenstat Brenden Bready Injuries and Playing Surface in the NFL Advisor: Jessica Chapman Wanjiru (Shiru) Kimani Food Insecurity: How Severe is it? Advisor: Guanyi Yang Previous Next Summer 2020: Sophomores Student Scholars Chyanne Turner Approaching the Grant Writing Process for Scientific Research Advisor: Amanda Oldacre Autumn Sherman Special Cases of Crossing Numbers Advisor: Natasha Komarov Previous Next