Summer 2022 - Research Fellowships

Ugly Law: Benches

Unpacking the “Ugly” in Europe

- Sara Christensen
Advisor: Sandhya Ganapathy, Ph. D.
Photo of the sunset in the desert at Wadi Rum Preserve

An Interactive Map of Cultural Jordan

- Billie McClosky
Advisor: Gisele El Khoury
collection of short stories on Narrative

The Romanian-American Experience Through Four Short Stories

- Nikki Petrescu-Boboc
Advisor: Paul Graham
Zadie Smith's NW and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

Psychological Repression in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Zadie Smith’s NW

- Alexandra Hill
Advisor: Dr. Sookyoung Lee
students are sitting in a classroom watching their teacher as he presents information.

The Values of a Prospective Teacher

- Paige Meshcon
Advisor: Jeff Frank
Alaskan landscape

GROUND-TRUTHING A REMOTE SENSING LANDSLIDE MODEL USING REACTION WOOD PRESENCE IN TREE RINGS NEAR GLENNALLEN, ALASKA

- Audrey Bowman
Advisor: Alexander K. Stewart, USA (ret)
Cora Ferguson standing in the biophotonics lab at Vanderbilt

Finding Our Space in Science

- Cora Ferguson
Advisor: Massooma Pirbhai
Sampling collecting on Twin Slide on Santanoni Mountain in the Adirondacks

Detailed Documentation of Compositional, Structural, and Petrologic Heterogeneity Within the Marcy Anorthosite Massif: A Window into the Genesis of the Adirondack Highlands

- Caroline Starace
Improved Wagner-Jauregg Reaction

Developing Chemical Reactions: Intercepting the Wagner-Jauregg Intermediate

- Leana Dickhens
Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff
A Rover Sitting in Grass

Sensor Data Transplantation for Resilient Drone Operation

- Cai Lemieux Mack
Advisor: Kevin Angstadt
Social task apparatus being handled by the experimenter.

The impact of early life adversity using limited bedding model on social-anxiety-related behavior in Long Evan rats.

- Sajida Jan
Advisor: Adam Fox
Copepods under microscope

Investigation into Use of Different Techniques in Copepod Pigment Extraction

- Melinda Barath
Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff
Figure 1. A photo of the completed circuit

Temperature Sensing for Prosthetics

- Cam Brochu
Advisor: Massooma Pirbhai
3D Ferritin Molecules

Denoising Protein Images with Deep Learning

- Grace Cicchinelli
Advisor: Lisa Torrey
The image on the left shows a confusion matrix that demonstrates that the computer can correctly guess the positionality of the author with a 60% accuracy, indicating that positionality likely has an influence on the portrayal of mental health in literature. The right image shows the sentiment around mental health terms by positionality, white male seeming to be more positive than both black and white female.

The Interaction Between Mental Health & Positionality in Literature

- Alexandra Hill
Advisor: Dr. Daniel M Look
Bog lake

Identifying the Top Predators in Adirondack Fishless Bogs

- Isabelle Dolcino
Advisor: Brad Baldwin
The Wagner-Jauregg Reaction

Examining the Wagner-Jauregg Reaction: Providing an Alternative to Morphine

- Emma Rothe
Advisor: Samuel Tartakoff
Shiny App - Network Graphs for Liberty League Soccer Teams

What Characterizes a Winning Combination? Network Analysis using Sports Data

- Hope Donoghue
Advisor: Ivan Ramler
Village, Tibet

Ethnic Politicization and Government Development Efforts in Southeast Asia: Measuring the Relationship

- Isaiah Albright
Advisor: Kristin McKie
Cows walking by tea plantation in Kericho, Kenya. 

Gender Equality & Land Inheritance in Rural Kenya

- Melissa Perez Sancho
Advisor: Mert Kartal
A picture of the book containing most of the plays I read over the summer

Power, Politics, and Plebeians in Shakespeare's Roman and Greek Plays

- Sam Cohen
Advisor: Dr. Ann Hubert
the classroom of senior-year high school students

A Glance of China's "Involuted Generation"

- Yuchen Liang
Advisor: Wendi Haugh
Fluorescent image of C. elegans.

Testing the Neuroprotective Effects of Mannitol in a C. elegans model of Parkinson’s Disease

- Talya Scott
Cover Photo - image of shiny app which displays analyses

"You're a [Data] Wizard, Harry!"

- Grace Bridge
Advisor: Ivan Ramler
Cover Image

Habitat Distribution and Sediment Composition of Jamaican Windward Lagoons

- Nika Husinec
Advisor: Antun Husinec
Julia Sirois kneeling behind Newt the Labrador retriever.

Wood Turtles (Glyptemys insculpta) Surveys Using a Wildlife Detector Dog

- Julia Sirois
Advisor: Kristine Hoffmann
Collage of Women Together Newsletter Covers

Rural Feminisms in the North Country: Expanding the Archives

- Colleen McKernan
Advisor: Judith DeGroat