Research & Experiential Learning Student Scholar Showcase Summer 2023: Senior Student Scholars Lily Kasperek Visualizing Student Course Evaluation Data Advisor: Matt Higham Jack Benjamin Counter Influence: Equitable Moderation Through Shared Discourse Advisor: Allie Rowland Annabella Kennedy Research Assistant - Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) Zoie Lehman Statistical Epidemiologist Public Health Intern Alejandra Altamirano Salazar Papermaking Advisor: Melissa Schulenberg Leah Squadrito Research/Intern - Johns Hopkins Public Health/PEACE Indie Talbot Application of olivine-melt thermometry and hygrometry to olivine-rich basanites from Tenerife, Canary Islands Spain: Evaluation of… Kassandra (Kasey) Wood Visualizing and Modeling Course Registration Data Advisor: Matt Higham Kam Omari Summer Program Intern - Arvestaran Creative Development Center Victoria Cubina Lopez Lab Intern - Institute of Biomedical Research Barcelona Xi Chen SLU Fellowship Advisor: LeAnn Holland Glendalys Medina Intern - KOS Design (Freeman Foundation) Elena (Ellie) Shaw Political Parties and Organizations through Sticker Propaganda in Contemporary Spain Advisor: Catherine Tedford Eliza Brown Algebraic Starscapes Using Complex Eigenvalues of Bohemian Matrices John Mahoney Intern - Mahanakorn Partners Group (Freeman Foundation) Eva Grover Corruption Campaigning in Central and Eastern Europe Advisor: Mert Kartal Fousani Hamidou Legislative Internship - Representative Paul D. Tonko Taline Norsigian Intern - Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) Aja Samuel The Vagina Monologues: Finding the Shortcomings of the Original Piece Advisor: Jennifer Thomas Rayna Bidwell Education Intern - Riverside Reptiles Education Center Kelley Daphness Intern - North Country Public Radio Andrew Miller Manager - NGO Sustainability Alexandria Szabo The Three-Way Interaction: Investigating Factors Related to Caregiver and Child Engagement During Shared Book Reading Experiences Advisor: Laura Mills-Smith (on Sabbatical F20) Indie Talbot Geology Intern - Geo Tenerife Ltd Chris Davis Intern at Rolling Grocer 19 Liya Yussubaliyeva Making Sustainable Fashion Affordable and Accessible for the General Public Sophia Brigante Benefits and Inequalities in Study Abroad Marika Stauring Analysis and Digitization of Ancient Mesopotamian Skeletal Material from Tell Leilan, Syria Advisor: Mindy Pitre Maya Mackey Intern - North Country Public Radio Eugenia Fernanda Leon Canseco Social Justice Intern - Center for Studies and Community Strengthening Mano Vuelta A. C. Thomas Van Tassel Preliminary look at bivalve ranges through the Kellwasser events of the Upper Devonian in the Appalachian Basin. Advisor: Judith Nagel-Myers Anna Wilkerson Abroad Experiences Effects on Education Inequality for Pre-Health Students Advisor: Raychon Gillis Sage Lalor Intentional community, non-capitalism, and identity Macallister Ballaine Marketing & Research Intern - US News & World Report Ayesha Khatun Intern - The Mirror Foundation (Freeman Foundation) Erika Looman Lakes Region Conservation Corps - Squam Lakes Conservation Society Bryana Thieret Reversing the Effects of The Limited Bedding and Nesting Paradigm Through Environmental Enrichment Advisor: Adam Fox 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 Jane Krausman Marine Mammal Education & Research Intern - Boston Harbor Cruises & New England Aquariam Leah C. Biwot Synthesis and Study of Acridine Derivatives as Potential Chemotherapeutic agents Abigail Lateer Campus Community Garden Coordinator - St. Lawrence University Rae Dunbar Internship with ICLEI's Urban Research, Innovation, and Development Team Benjamin Lloyd Intern, The North Country Office - U.S. Senator Kristen Gillibrand Martina Velásquez Lemaitre Shadowing at the Saints Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences Previous Next Summer 2023: Junior Student Scholars Annalise Panici Psychological Portraits of Women: A Short Story Collection Advisor: Paul Graham Nach Insaurralde Becoming the Dub Advisor: Adam Harr Colby Lauria Revenue Intern - Interscope Geffen A&M Records Tye Royal Making an Enigma Machine Marlia Richer Intern - Henry's Fork Foundation Meghan Weldon Remembering and Restoring World War II Registrar Helen Whalen’s Legacy at St. Lawrence Ellie Stannard Research Assistant - Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Elizabeth Camp Rehab Aide, PT Shadow, Data Collection & Analysis Assistant - Cioffredi & Associates - Physical Therapy & Wellness George Charalambous Data Science Intern - The World Bank Tenzin Yarphel Expert Network Summer Intern - Ridgetop Research Yuchang (Alice) Zhang Philosophical Approach to Mental Health Advisor: Jeffrey Maynes Molly Doyle Estimating Basal Conditions of the Laurentide Ice Sheet Through Striation Analyses: Talcville, NY, Western Adirondacks Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Bryn Pearson Summer Legislative Intern - Office of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen Bridget Hastings Health Care/ Head Teen Mentor - Healing H'Arts Equestrian Center, Inc Hadley Reinke Research Intern - New York Presbyterian/Columbia Irving Medical Center Seth Bailey Summer Intern - McSweeney Orthodontics/Michael Davey Detnal Office Haley Sundstrom Exploring Vietnam War Poetry - Creating a Collection Catherine O'Neill Community Agriculture Research Intern - Environmental Studies, St. Lawrence University 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) Charlotte Brown Farming Intern - littleGrasse FoodWorks Farm Sisco Tellez Intern - Galaxy Kids (Freeman Foundation) Kanonkela Kazembe Chibwe Optimizing thin film Metal-Organic frameworks to sequester and degrade azo dyes Advisor: Amanda Oldacre Samartha Basnyat Summer Analyst - Vrock & Company Carmiña Goya School of Art and Heritage Intern - National University of San Martín Aidan Atwell The Digital World and The Modern Undergraduate Advisor: Dr. Donna Alvah John Capizzi Software Development Intern - Intellegam Nina Spinney Investigator Internship - New Hampshire Public Defender Nadine Manase Poly(Glyoxylates) and Poly(Glyoxylamides) as Selfimmolative Polymers for Plastic Synthesis Mackenzie Marcus Reshaping Social-Emotional Learning for 3rd-4th Graders: The Life Block Previous Next Summer 2023: Sophomore Student Scholars Mirko Dibra Data Analyst - T'Petritit Matthew Shelton Intern - Mahanakorn Partners Group (Freeman Foundation) Navya Aggarwal Beyond Boundaries: Impacting Lives through Social Work & Education Sponsorship at Neema International William (Will) de Chabert Conservation Intern at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo Alejandra Ruiz-Gómez Correro Sales Associate - Ayling International Property Services Muhammed Mahdi Alkhaqani Training Production Line Engineer - Abr Al-Sharq For Petroleum Services LLC Brandon Reyes Legal Intern - Recycle Track Systems (RTS) Maryam (Sofia) Zareizadeh Service Research Intern - UNICEF Alja Imam Chaudhry Head Coordinator - Kita Ghar Lahore Public Library Maryam (Sofia) Zareizadeh Do glucocorticoid stress hormone act synergistically with the T3 thyroid hormone in Xenopus laevis metamorphosis? Advisor: Alexander M Schreiber Previous Next Summer 2023 - Research Fellowships Summer 2023 - Internships/Fellowships 2022 Summer 2022: Senior Student Scholars Drew Racioppa Team Leader at Kupu's 2022 HYCC Summer Program Andrew Quigley Social Media Intern at Recycle Track Systems (RTS) Abby Bienfang Member of Biological archaeology excavation team Sam Cohen Power, Politics, and Plebeians in Shakespeare's Roman and Greek Plays Advisor: Dr. Ann Hubert Ruiqi Yang The Impact of Covid-19 on China’s Housing Market Advisor: Shuwei (Jolly) Zhang Skylar Bergeron Editorial Coordinator Internship at Weave News Haylei Coolican Business Support Alexandra Hill The Interaction Between Mental Health & Positionality in Literature Advisor: Dr. Daniel M Look Conor Temple Financial Advisor Intern with Baystate Financial Mirabel Pond Philosophical and Chemical Implications of Ontological Reduction Advisor: Laura Rediehs Jack Saltus Internship with Bespoke Investment Group Maria Isabel Diaz (Isa) International Relations Internship Yuchen Liang A Glance of China's "Involuted Generation" Advisor: Wendi Haugh Mariam Waqar Khattak Research Intern Jackson Hamilton Political Internship Hannah Rutkowski Editorial Internship with The Adirondack Review Rosie Gotsch The Next Frontier Advisor: Jeff Frank Daniil Kim Executive Intern Paige Meshcon The Values of a Prospective Teacher Advisor: Jeff Frank Grace Cicchinelli Denoising Protein Images with Deep Learning Advisor: Lisa Torrey Nika Husinec Habitat Distribution and Sediment Composition of Jamaican Windward Lagoons Advisor: Antun Husinec Morgan Cleary Research Internship Frank Wotton Meta-dialectics: The Promise of Francisco Varela’s Biological Phenomenology Talya Scott Testing the Neuroprotective Effects of Mannitol in a C. elegans model of Parkinson’s Disease Caitlin French Public Relations Internship Colleen McKernan Rural Feminisms in the North Country: Expanding the Archives Advisor: Judith DeGroat Melissa Perez Sancho Gender Equality & Land Inheritance in Rural Kenya Advisor: Mert Kartal Caroline Starace Detailed Documentation of Compositional, Structural, and Petrologic Heterogeneity Within the Marcy Anorthosite Massif: A Window into the… Iman Maani NCPR Internship Bryan Placide Education Internship Lizzie O'Keeffe Editorial Internship Alexandra Hill Psychological Repression in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Zadie Smith’s NW Advisor: Dr. Sookyoung Lee Tyler Grochot Project Manager Kelley Daphness Editorial Internship May Buckingham Conservation and Land Management Internship Daniel Calbo Financial Advisor Internship Abigail Yosef Finance Intern with ZEP-RE Cai Lemieux Mack Sensor Data Transplantation for Resilient Drone Operation Advisor: Kevin Angstadt Haille Perkins Summer Internship Fato (Jona) Kerma Financial Representative Intern Aaron Levy Inspiring the uninspired Advisor: Jeffrey Maynes Alexander Reyes Internship with US Senator Charles Ellis Schumer Badi Kawambwa Marketing Communications Internship Angeles Zuniga Medina Legal & Policy Intern with Human Rights Foundation Previous Next Summer 2022: Junior Student Scholars Chris Urban Editorial Assistant with Today Media Laura Bolduc Using Deep Learning to Identify Animal Species in Game Camera Images Advisor: Lisa Torrey Billie McClosky An Interactive Map of Cultural Jordan Advisor: Gisele El Khoury Melinda Barath Investigation into Use of Different Techniques in Copepod Pigment Extraction Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff Kam Omari Social Media and Digital Content Internship Camila Gonzalez Herrera Outreach Coordinator Internship Grace Bridge "You're a [Data] Wizard, Harry!" Advisor: Ivan Ramler Billie McClosky Independent Study Marika Stauring Visiting Bioarchaeology Fieldwork Student with University of New Brunswick 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) Leah C. Biwot Synthesis of proflavine derivatives and study of how they bind to DNA as potential chemotherapeutic agents Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff Annabella Kennedy Using Tree-Ring Science to Evaluate a Remote-Sensing Landslide Model: Glennallen Region, Alaska Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Sage Lalor Local Campaign Organizer Jessica Tom Intern with North Country Public Radio Valeria Obregon Diaz Summer Internship at the Tijuana River Estuarine Research Reserve Emma Rothe Examining the Wagner-Jauregg Reaction: Providing an Alternative to Morphine Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff John (Jack) Roemischer Legal and Development Team Intern with Recycle Track Systems (RTS) Hope Donoghue What Characterizes a Winning Combination? Network Analysis using Sports Data Advisor: Ivan Ramler Leana Dickhens Developing Chemical Reactions: Intercepting the Wagner-Jauregg Intermediate Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff Martina Velásquez Lemaitre Student Research Assistant with St. Lawrence University Sajida Bibi The impact of early life adversity using limited bedding model on social-anxiety-related behavior in Long Evan rats. Advisor: Adam Fox Sydney Peterson Summer Undergraduate Researcher Ian Clark Internship Alessandro Marangelli Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental Emma Frances Doherty Internship Previous Next Summer 2022: Sophomore Student Scholars YEYUXI YI Pricing Intern with Recycle Track Systems (RTS) Nach Insaurralde International Internship - Trans Memory Archive Argentina Brandon Dickson Software engineering (and Data Analytics) Internship Karni Keushgerian School Management and Student Life Intern Titilayo Aluko Student Internship Amanda Thrasher Farm Intern with English Acre Farms Previous Next 2021 Summer Research 2021 Frank Wotton The Phenomenology of Interpersonal Disagreement Advisor: Dr. Jennifer L Hansen Nishal Basnet The Urban Refugee Resettlement Experience in the United States Advisor: Erica Morrell 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 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 Caroline Bell Can we detect signals from RT-LAMP Bioassays with Multispectral Sensors? Advisor: Munir Pirbhai Craig Wilkes The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the American Funeral Industry Advisor: Mindy Pitre Diamond McAllister Black Student Social Justice Activism at St. Lawrence University Advisor: Kimberly Flint-Hamilton Brenda Rubio Estrada Seeds for Her Advisor: Dr. Sara Ashpole, Ph. D. Haille Perkins Selecting Galaxies Hosting Supernovae for Observations with the Green Bank Telescope Advisor: Aileen O'Donoghue Michael Yirenkyi An Architectural Phenomenology Reflection: A Case Study on Japanese Spatiality Advisor: Mark Denaci Alexandra Hill Sentimental Analysis Advisor: Dr. Daniel M Look Anuva Anannya Detection of Fe/Mg Phyllosilicate-rich Landslides Situated in Impact Craters on Mars Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Rae Dunbar Exploring the Fundamentals of Plastic Degradation Advisor: Amanda Oldacre Kayla Edmunds Daily and Seasonal Phenology of the Robber Fly Lasiopogon Currani (Diptera:Asilidae) in St. Lawrence County, New York Advisor: Karl McKnight Previous Next 2020 Summer Research 2020: Senior Student Scholars Leo Romanetz Kinetic Characterization of Intercalating Chemotherapy Drugs Using Temperature Jump Techniques Advisor: Samantha Glazier Caroline Krall Music and Emotion in Shiny Advisor: Jessica Chapman Grace Harkins Rising Up Against the Norms Advisor: Jeff Frank Allison Krauss Bringing Technology Into the Organic Chemistry Lab Advisor: Stacy Vassar Lauren Donohue The Role of the Hippocampus in Processing Vertical Space Advisor: Bill DeCoteau Sky Ratcliffe Mathematical Art and Artistic Mathematics Advisor: Dr. Daniel M Look Zican Zhou A Literature Review on the Effects of Thyroid Hormone and Cortisol on the Amphibian Immune System Advisor: Alexander M Schreiber Yanfei Mao Associations Between Character Strengths and Positive Outcomes in the Academic Context Advisor: Cheryl Stuntz Yanru Chen Using Deep Learning to Detect Fake Images Advisor: Dr. Ed Harcourt Carla Martinez-Perez Exposure to Immediate Rewards Increases Impulsive Choice in Humans Advisor: Adam Fox Andy Hims Alzheimer's and the Aging Brain Advisor: Ana Y. Estevez Ramon Veras The Inner Workings of a Science Fiction Revolutionary Novel Advisor: Prof. J. Michael Martinez Annan Yue A Qualitative Exploration of Reachout of St. Lawrence County Advisor: Cathy Crosby Cole Weigartz Occupancy Modeling for Porcupines (Erethizon dorsatum) using Camera Traps Advisor: Erika Barthelmess Claire Bartlett Analysis of Coarse-Woody Debris in Four Adirondack Mountain Catchments Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Gretchen Wambach Evaluation of Length and Azimuth Measurement Data Using Eight GIS Basemaps Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Victoria Oakes Modeling Relationship between Wild Bees and Neonics Advisor: Aswini Pai Grace Vensel Resistance to the 'FrançAfrique' Advisor: Eloise Brezault Camden Fort A Classroom Under the Mushroom Cloud: The Educational Setting During the Height of Cold War Tensions Advisor: Dr. Donna Alvah Bridger Royce Fluorescent Gray Advisor: Paul Graham Jayden Ladison Role of the Hippocampus in Temporal Processing Advisor: Bill DeCoteau Yu Song Creating a “Musician” by Deep Learning Advisor: Dr. Ed Harcourt Krista Walrath How water pH affects shell shape in fresh water bivalves Advisor: Judith Nagel-Myers Edward Hallahan The Ethics of Commercializing Public Land Advisor: Richard Lauer Logan Hagerty The Colonial Legacy of Conservation on Pastoralists Advisor: Matthew Carotenuto Arman Tavana GreenCafe Website Advisor: Lisa Torrey Morgan Cappa Statistical Analysis of the Representation of Women in the US Television Show, the Office Advisor: Jessica Chapman Asha Johnson A Legacy of Revolution: Examining the Impact of Slave Revolts Across the Black Diaspora (1730-1841) Advisor: Melissane Schrems Yidi Zhang Bottle Flowers Advisor: Kasarian Dane Makenna Burr Herpetofauna Species Survey in the Forestport Quad in Accordance to the NYS Herp Atlas Advisor: Kristine Hoffmann Shiqi Xie Degradation of Azo-dye with Electrochemical Methods Advisor: Amanda Oldacre Chloe McConnell Gender and Fiction Advisor: Paul Graham Min Wang British Colonial Influence in Hong Kong and Its Aftermath Advisor: Anne Csete Jenesha Robert COVID19: Can States Stop the Spread? Advisor: Sun Ki Choi Noah Neverette Discovering R’s FOXP2 Advisor: Lorraine Olendzenski Peiyu Wang Low-Cost Touchscreen Operant Chamber Based on Raspberry Pi Advisor: Adam Fox Niamh Creedon-Carey A History of Local Reaction and Activism to the Olympic Prison Advisor: Liz Regosin Eloise Bellingham Revealing Trends in Natural and Anthropogenic Processes Using River Discharge Fluctuation Advisor: Jeffrey Chiarenzelli Previous Next Summer 2020: Junior Student Scholars Derek Sherrange A Decolonial Analysis in the Socio-Legal Dimensions of Food Sovereignty Advisor: John Collins, Ph. D. Wanjiru (Shiru) Kimani Food Insecurity: How Severe is it? Advisor: Guanyi Yang Tina Luchetta Gender and a Beat: Women and Hip Hop in Senegal Advisor: Howard Eissenstat Jonathan Morrison Discourse Surrounding Public and Private High Schools in the United States Advisor: Jeff Frank Anuva Anannya Clay Minerals in Landslides on Earth and Mars Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret) Frank Wotton Models and Modality Advisor: Richard Lauer Michael Yirenkyi Industrial Design, the Best and Worst of Humanity Advisor: Lucia Pawlowski Haille Perkins Data Reduction for the Arecibo Pisces-Perseus Supercluster Survey Advisor: Aileen O'Donoghue Siyuan Zhang Investigate the Most Effective Card-Upgrade Strategy in Clash Royale Advisor: Ivan Ramler Aseman Bagheri Sheshdeh Novel Coronavirus Advisor: Samantha Glazier Yu Wang Detecting Real Disasters through Twitter Advisor: Jessica Chapman Iman Maani Navigating Twitter as a Grassroots Organization Advisor: John Collins, Ph. D. Brenden Bready Injuries and Playing Surface in the NFL Advisor: Jessica Chapman Mabelin Garcia De La Rosa An Examination of Disparities in Healthcare Advisor: Sun Ki Choi Eduardo Puerta Data Visualization for the Admissions Office Advisor: Choong-Soo Lee 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