Summer Scholars Program
The Summer Scholars program is an eight-week, in-residence, summer program for undergraduate students and faculty to collaboratively work on a faculty-derived research question. The program will run June 3 - July 26, 2024, coinciding with the summer I and summer II academic terms. Program participants (student research fellows) will work collaboratively with a faculty member and be a part of a summer community of scholars. An information session will be held in mid-late January.
The program has several goals:
- Develop enhanced research and communication skills
- Provide opportunities to become better acquainted with the Trible Library scholarly resources
- Expand inquiry and problem-solving capabilities
A stipend will be awarded to all undergraduate student participants who meet all the attendance and research requirements of Summer Scholars. In addition, all students will receive a housing allowance for the length of the summer program.
| Research Fellow | Project Title | Faculty Adviser |
|---|---|---|
| Cora Barr | Performing Anna Hyatt Huntington: Theater Performance of Historical Figures in Museum Settings | Prof. Denise Gillman |
| Alexa Bergeron | Citizen Witnesses: Artists and the Construction of Biafran Identity | Dr. Rebecca Wolff |
| Palmer Bogdan | Low Latency Analyses of LIGO data and CHIME Triggers | Dr. Ryan Fisher |
| Rhiannon Canfield | Development of an Undergraduate Chemistry Labratory | Dr. Dmitry Liskin |
| Michael Degilio | Characterization og an Active Analyzer for Neutrons | Dr. Edward Brash |
| Katelyn Delaney | In too Deep: The Effect of Investments on the Desire to Solve Relationships Problem | Dr. Lindsey Hicks |
| William Doyle | Enhancing 3D Knowledge Based Authentication by Having Fun | Dr. Chris Kreider |
| Donovan Fomby | Gut Health and its Effect on Aging | Dr. Anna Salazar |
| Sebastian Fox | CHRIS ROS Modeling Restoration and Integration | Dr. David Conner |
| Benajmin Goodman | Deficits in motor function and protein expression in a mouse model of 22q11.2DS | Dr. Jessica Burket |
| Olivia Hargest | Prepared for Everything: Theatre CNU Alums Speak Up | Prof. Gregg Lloyd |
| Mariah Jackson | Challenging Gender Identities in Queer Sports Leagues | Dr. Jaime Harris |
| Aivy Nguyen Le | Molecular Modeling of PY-407-C Analogs | Dr. Kathryn Cole |
| Kyleigh Loy | Examining the Neural Mechanism Underlying the Role Gonadal Hormones Play in Inhibitory Control and Flexibility | Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Allison Malmquist | The Role of Estradiol in Modulating Stressed-Influenced Gene Expression of Dopamine and Serotonin Receptors Involved in Learning and Reward | Dr. David Knight |
| Cody Mauro | The Application of Raspberry Pi in object detection and image analysis | Dr. Costa Gerousis |
| David McFatridge | Large Language Model-based Agents in Nuclear Physics at Jefferson Lab | Dr. William Phelps |
| Alexander Minayev | In silica study of tublin inhibitors | Dr. Kathryn Cole |
| Hunter Moore | Gut Health and its Effect on Aging | Dr. Anna Salazar |
| Trinity Nixon | Hilton Beach Evaluation | Dr. Jennifer Knies |
| Sophia Paolino | The Effect of TET2 Knockout on Alchoholism and Addiction | Dr. James Bogenpohl |
| Sasha Pathuri | Effect of Public Policies on the Dynamics of Daily News Cases During COVID-19 Pandemic | Dr. Emre Kirac |
| Curtis Patton | Leaky Guts, Aging, and Disease | Dr. Anna Salazar |
| Phillip Michael Pond | Construction of an "Always On" PETase plasmid for Transformation into PET byproduct degrading Bacteria | Dr. Todd Gruber |
| Lainey Pratzner | Which Had Declared Her Free | Dr. Jonathan White |
| Dawson Richards | Improving Earthquake Detection AI Models | Dr. Yan Lu |
| Teresita Rodriguez Fischer | Black Sounds in New Spain Inquisitorial Archive, 1571-1650 | Dr. Sarah Finley |
| Elias Rooker | The Influence of Artistic Interpretation and Visualization in Theatrical Lighting | Dr. Hessam Keshtkar |
| Nicholas Russo | Characterization of Various Novel Adsorbents for the Removal of Heavy Metals and Organic Dyes from Aqueous Media | Dr. Tarek Abdel-Fattah |
| Sydney Ryan | Decolonizing Human Rights Education: Centering the Voices of Activists | Dr. Francesca Parente |
| Emma Sebastian | The extent to which unfavorable schooling effects childhood morbidity and mortality rates | Dr. Linda Manning |
| Isabelle Shefrin | Cannabis Chronicles: Unveiling Policy, Campus Culture, and Community Impact at CNU | Dr. Jill Russett |
| Colin Steensprang | Popular Culture and Mass Politics in Wartime North Africa, 1939-1945 | Dr. David Stenner |
| Jed Stephenson | Ethanol modulation of a NE-astrocyte-DA arousal pathway | Dr. Darlene Mitrano |
| Sanithia Tucker | From Silence to Significance: Redefining CNU through Shoe Lane's Counterstories | Dr. Brooke Covington |
| Sevrin Vandevender | Compassion Fatigue and Personality | Dr. Sherman Lee |
| Titus Voell | Exploting the Pedagogy of Ethical Hacking through Gamification | Dr. Michael Lapke |
| Katherine Watson | Can Fluoxetine Counteract L-DOPA-Induced Impulsivity to Restore Behavioral Self-Control in Betta splendens? | Dr. Andrew Velkey |
| Connor Wells | Developing a Planning System in a Goal-Oriented Multi-Agent System | Dr. Roberto Flores |
| Ella White | Does the FAB for Nicotine Events Enhance Nicotine Consumption? | Dr. Jeffrey Gibbons |
| Atticus Wingfield | Classifying Inverse Limits for a Family of Set-valued functions | Dr. James Kelly |
| Jennifer Young | Ambition and the Desire for Superiority: Alcbiades, Charasmatic Leadership, and its Limits | Dr. Joshua Patterson |
| Research Fellow | Project Title | Faculty Adviser |
|---|---|---|
| Zoe Veronica Alhanati | Structural Determination of a Mutant BAD150 | Dr. Kathryn Cole |
| Morgan Andrews | The impact of alcohol and nicotine exposure on drug reward in a rodent model of adolescence | Dr. Gina Fernandez |
| Alexa Bergeron | Anna Hyatt Huntington: Trailblazing Sculptor | Prof. Holly Koons |
| Maggie E. Browning | Phenotypic Differences and Subpopulation Comparisons Between Plethodontids Within a Set Protected Range | Dr. Michael Meyer |
| Ryan Brunk | Deep Learning in Nuclear Physics at Jefferson Lab | Dr. William Phelps |
| Abigail Bunting | A norepinephrine-astrocyte to dopamine-neuron arousal pathway | Dr. Darlene Mitrano |
| Scott Burden | Using behavioral tracking software to compare and examine drug effects on social and cognitive behaviors in a mouse model of autism | Dr. Jessica Burket |
| Cynthia Craig | The Big Lie: How Labor Laws Protect Businesses | Dr. Linda Ficht |
| Julian Cruz | Interactive Student Exercises in Open Music Theory | Dr. Chelsey Hamm |
| Katherine Darroch | Glitch Classification and Possible Mitigation | Dr. Ryan Fisher |
| Caroline Dillard | Germination and salt tolerance of coastal and inland subspecies of Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) | Dr. Janet Steven |
| Gordon Henry Engelmeyer | Sea Level Rise: Screendance | Prof. Ann Mazzocca Bellecci |
| Alejandro Fernandez-Ribas | Regional Governmental Costs and Inefficiencies | Dr. Gyan Pradhan |
| Alexandra Fiul | QAnon and Incels: Theorizing Right-Wing Political Violence in the United States | Dr. Crystal Shelton |
| Dylan Victor Frederick | John Tyler Jr. and Florida Politics During Reconstruction | Dr. Frank Garmon |
| Matthew Damon Freeman | Modification of Nanoporous Silica with Vitimins for Metal ions Removal | Dr. Tarek Abdel-Fattah |
| Katherine Quincy Grant | The American Proposition | Dr. Elizabeth Busch |
| Mary Mckenzie Hurley | Manipulating the Connection: The Effect of Profile Privacy and Affect-Intense Language on Perceptions of Deception | Dr. Brianna Lane |
| Matthew Johnson | Writing Consultations and the Effect Talking with Peers has on Undergraduate Writing Consultants' Happiness | Dr. Nicole Emmelhainz |
| Paiton E. Jones | Through the Glass Darkly: January 6th as an Outcome of Darkly Transformative Leadership | Dr. Sarah Chace |
| Miriam Kennedy | In the Trenches: A Visual Index of Broadway Tap | Prof. Laura Lloyd |
| William Kessler | The Final Steps of the Torreyunlignan Synthesis | Dr. Jeffrey Carney |
| Emma Kohl | The effects of Stress on Inhibitory Control in Male vs. Female Rats | Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Cara Landes | Examining the Association between Automatic Partner Attitudes and Attachment Styles in Romantic Relationships | Dr. Lindsey Hicks |
| Morgan Miller | Parental Expectations of Educators Survey | Dr. Andrew Baird |
| Dayman Parrish | Tracing (Counter) Stories in Confederate Monument Controversy | Dr. Brooke Covington |
| Joshua Ring | Role of Executive Function in Reading Processes | Dr. Kelly Cartwright |
| Olivia "Ollie" Robertson | The Influence of Artistic Interpretation and Visualization in Theatrical Lighting | Prof. Ryan Bible |
| Johnathan Russo | Improving the Carbon Budget of Coastal Peatlands Utilizing Woody Debris | Dr. Robert Atkinson |
| Stuart Andrew Saba | Leaky Guts, Aging, and Disease | Dr. Anna Salazar |
| Evan Sage | Modeling Microgrid Systems with Real Data and Analyzing the Cyber-Attack Scenario Simulations, Pilot Demonstrations, and Verifications via Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Platforms | Dr. Farideh Doost Mohammadi |
| Clare Selton | The "Sensational Affair" of Henri Gallian (1907-1909) | Dr. Seth Palmer |
| Micah Sieck | Business Opportunities in Antimicrobial Nanomaterials | Dr. William Donaldson |
| Abigale Sloniker | Comparing First-Generation Student Experiences Across Two Public Universities | Dr. Linda Waldron |
| Collin Stone | Updating Flexible Manipulation to be Usable with ROS2 and Applying it to HEBI Robotic Arms | Dr. David Conner |
| Bandhavi Naidu Surisettyr | Shoaling Preference under Predatory Threat: Can Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Use Visual-Only Cues to Distinguish between Undisturbed and Predatorily-Threatended Shoals? | Dr. Andrew Velkey |
| Cameron Tomaino | Political Engagement and Partisanship: Examining... | Dr. Taiyi Sun |
| Jamison Trimber | The role of the genre Mapt in the neurobiology of alcohol | Dr. James Bogenpohl |
| Sevrin Eric VanDevender | The Publication of Problem Solving and The Fading Affect Bias Studies | Dr. Jeffrey Gibbons |
| Madeline Wells | At School with Abe Lincoln | Dr. Johnathan White |
| Christopher Williams | Autonomous Delivery Robot Using Pedestrian Guidance Assistance | Dr. Mohammed Almalag |
| James Wright | Ambition and the Desire for Superiority: Alcbiades, Charasmatic Leadership, and its Limits | Dr. Brent Cusher |
| Jennifer Young | Mathematics in Action: Modeling of type 2 diabetes self-management | Dr. Iordanka Panayotova |
| Research Fellow | Project Title | Faculty Adviser |
|---|---|---|
| Julianne Bieron | (Counter) Storytelling: A Charge for Change in Confederate Monument Controversy | Dr. Brooke Covington |
| Colin Bunn | Returning to the Roots: "Philosophy" as a Way to Transform Life | Dr. John Thompson |
| Meagan Dewsbury | Lesser Known Composers of the 19th Century and the Process of Archival Librarianship in the Josephine L. Hughes Special Collection at Christopher Newport University | Steve York, Matthew Shelley |
| Keelin Dvorak | Logical and Physical Necessity in Plato's Timaeus | Dr. Elizabeth Jelinek |
| Colin Goodpasture | Literary Monuments: The Poetic Interplay of Horace's Odes and Vergil's Aeneid | Dr. Jana Adamitis |
| Caroline Hayes | Geoscience, Archaeology, and History: The Holocaust in Eastern Europe | Dr. Richard Freund |
| Mary (Mckenzie) Hurley | Revolutionary Russia and The Birth of Modern Terrorism: Ideologies and Motivations | Dr. Deirdre Harshman |
| Zachary Kempf | The Establishment and Early Years of the Department of War | Dr. Hamilton Phillip |
| Levi Langolf | Pedagogical Methods in Elementary-level Aural Skills | Dr. Chelsey Hamm |
| Alexandra Sears | Gender Performance and Comparative Law in Revenge Tragedy | Dr. Jessica Apolloni |
| Lauren Stone | Conceptualization and Realization of Theatrical Design: Associate Scene Design Work for TheaterCNU’s Production of The Spitfire Grill | Prof. Tanya Sweet |
| Chloe Sullivan | The Second World War in North Africa: A Social History | Dr. David Stenner |
| Shaun Henry | Workplace Bullying's Link to Workplace Violence | Prof. Linda Ficht |
| Daniel Calvano | Examining the Relationship between NMDA Receptor Hypofunction and Altered Expression of Perineuronal Nets and c-Fos in Mouse Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder | Dr. Jessica Burket |
| Ian Conner | Photomultiplier Tube Characterization CLAS12 | Dr. William Phelps |
| Hannah Crawley | The Dark Tetrad and Empathy | Dr. Gayle Dow |
| Samuel Dickinson | Fear to Hope | Dr. Robert Atkinson |
| Summer Duba | Investigating Body Shape Variation and Change in Zoarcoidei Fishes | Dr. David Collar |
| Nathanael Ferrante | Study of COVID-19 Transmission Based on Geographical Parameters | Dr. Priya Deshpande |
| Daniel Ferrante | Gravitational Lensing Add-On | Dr. Jessica Kelly |
| Courtlan Grinder | The Effect of Temperature on Fast-Start Performance of Striped Killifish | Dr. Thompson Jessica |
| Abigail Heimbach | Understanding Rho-1 and its involvement in DTC migration in C. elegans | Dr. Christopher Meighan |
| Reuben Laryea | Modeling of Heterocycles in Tubulin: Towards Anticancer Drug Development | Dr. Kathryn Cole |
| Samantha Le | The Overexpression of the Snakeskin Protein Gene and its Effect on Protein Aggregation in the Brain and Muscle | Dr. Anna Salazar |
| Madeleine Lorenger | Classroom Demonstrations for Fundamental Chemistry Concept | Dr. Lisa Webb |
| Michael Lowry | Lasso Regression with LIGO Glitch Rate | Dr. Marissa Walker |
| Joshua McCloud | The Application of the Raspberry Pi in Artificial Intelligence | Dr. Costa Gerousis |
| Emery Moore | Generalization of Associative Responding in the Rat | Dr. Matthew Campolattaro |
| Celina Paoletta | Quantification of Alpha & Beta Acid Profiles of Hop Cultivars as a Function of Growth Region | Dr. Ronald Quinlan |
| Dylan Pruitt | Digitization of historic topographic maps to extract the spatial evolution of the Patios de Vecinos in La Línea, Spain. | Dr. Federica Bono |
| Brisa Rasmussen | Stress and Estrogen Influence on Inhibitory Control in Female Rats | Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Caitlyn Russ | The Role of Tau Protein in Alcohol Behaviors | Dr. James Bogenpohl |
| Nicholas Russo | Composite Nanomagnetite-Immoboilized-Zeolite on the Surface of Biochar for the Magnetic Solid Plase Extraction of Pb(II) | Dr. Tarek Abdel-Fattah |
| Clara Salazar | The Expression and Isolation of Red Fluorescent Protein in Ideonella sakaiensis | Dr. Todd Gruber |
| Kelsey Shearon | Knowledge-base Integration for Biomedical Information Extraction | Dr. Samuel Henry |
| Katherine (Katie) Wagner | Determination of Pyruvic Acid Location and Form in Reverse Micelles using Infrared Spectroscopy | Dr. Joshua Patterson |
| Alexander Zannelli | Automated Analysis of Gravitational Wave Data in Response to Fast Radio Bursts | Dr. Ryan Fisher |
| Jack Lynam | Deep Knowledge Infusion for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition | Dr. Samuel Henry |
| Sean McEachin | Framework For Automating the Detection of Branding Element Similarity | Dr. Priya Deshpande |
| Jackson Walker | Real-time migration schemes of Virtual Network Functions in Fog Computing | Dr. Nazli Siasi |
| Caden Stark | Characterizing slowly varying noise in LIGO gravitational-wave detectors | Dr. Marissa Walker |
| Eliza Carlson | Ecological Change and Identity among Virginia's Native Tribes | Dr. Christopher Loy |
| Reagan Connelly | Off to Dixie and Adventure: The Dakota War and Civil War Diaries of George W. Buswell, 7th Minnesota Infantry and 68th U.S. Colored Troops | Dr. Jonathan White |
| Cynthia Craig | The Abortion Attitudes of Young Millennials | Dr. Michelle Barnello |
| Luke Jackson | Wishing to Be The Discovery of What Is: Plato on the Nature and Aims of Law | Dr. Brent Cusher |
| Michael Sparks | Wealth, Income, and Living Standards in the Early American Republic | Dr. Frank Garmon Jr. |
| Chloe Younce | The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical's Paratextual Influences on Mainstream Media | Dr. Michaela Meyer |
| Carter Young | Mapping Food Justice, Food Security, and Food Sovereignty: A Scoping Review of Urban Agriculture Research | Dr. Federica Bono |
| Madison Carrie Payne | Understanding Teacher Reactions to A Shifting Social and Legal Landscape: Educators' Perceptions of Laws Limiting Teaching of Race, Sexuality, and Other Social Identities | Dr. Jane Rochmes |
| Research Fellow | Project Title | Faculty Adviser |
|---|---|---|
| Ryan Allen | Relations of Gender and Reading Anxiety to Reading Performance in University Students | Dr. Kelly Cartwright |
| Blake Bauserman | An Ethnographic Review of the Appalachian Trail Museum: Artifacts, Registers, and Literature | Dr. Kip Redick |
| Steven Baxley | Recent Threats of Humanity and the Global Economy | Dr. George Zestos |
| Kaylee Bennett | Development of Pattern Separation | Dr. Leslie Rollins |
| Samuel Brady | Pedagogical Methods in 16th-Century Counterpoint and Open-source Music Theoretical Resources | Chelsey Hamm |
| Alexandria Brooks | Analyzing Political Threats amoung Understudied Minority Populations | Youssef Chouhoud |
| Elizabeth Buccella | Dramaturgical Work for TheatreCNU's Dr. Frankenstein | Dr. Denise Gillman |
| Jacob Buchanan | Testing Data Cuts for Updated Gravitational-Wave (GW) Triggered Searches | Ryan Fisher |
| Mazie Clark | Freedom's Bonds: Free African American Gender and Belonging in Virginia 1783-1865 | Dr. Elizabeth Wood |
| Corbette Condit-Fox | Literature Review for Embodied Script Analysis | Julian Stetkevych |
| Grace Cook | A Business History of the Post Office Department | Dr. Frank Garmon |
| Rafael Diaz-Cruz | Interactive graph visualization for Literature Based Discovery | Dr. Samuel Henry |
| Paolina Doleva | Analysis of the Glitch Rate in LIGO Detectors | Dr. Marissa Walker |
| Shreya Ganta | Detection of Bacterial Contamination by Nitroreductase | Dr. Todd Gruber |
| Whitney Garrett | Darlene Mitrano | |
| Gwendolyn Gattermeier | Quantifying the Interfacial Affinity of Chloride Ions in Sea Spray Aerosols | Dr. Joshua Patterson |
| Colin Goodpasture | Humanity as Homo Religiosus: Exploring Fundamental Aspects of Human Nature and Culture | Dr. John Thompson |
| Srinidhi Gopal | The role of stress and estrogen in response inhibition | Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Hayley Groover | The Impact of Striatal and Prefontal Cortex Lesions on Discriminative Associative Learning in Rats | Matthew Campolataro |
| Anna Hall | Social Psychology: An Unfortunate Void in Social Work Education and Practice | Dr. Stephanie Valutis |
| Lucas Hayes | Digging up History: What the Bridger Family Left Behind | Alain Outlaw |
| Garrett Hines | Computational Studies of BA0150 | Dr. Kathryn Cole |
| Tyler Hyun | AI as a Method for Classifying Music | Dr. Jacob Tews |
| Dahria Kalmbach | Ghost Forests: The North Atlantic Oscillation and the response of Atlantic White Cedar to sea level rise | Dr. Robert Atkinson |
| Lorien Kelso | The Cultural Economics of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industry | Dr. Christopher Loy |
| Sydney King | Effect of religious affiliation of aid - giving organizations on refugees' willingness to receive aid in Hampton Roads | Dr. Taiyi Sun |
| Nyla Lewis | The Continuance of an Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South | Dr. Robert Colby |
| Rachel Locke | Augustine and Jung on the Self | David Salomon |
| Zachary Luyo | Examining the circuitry of dopamine neurons in the ventral periaqueductal gray area | Dr. Darlene Mitrano |
| Jack Lynam | Calculating Invariant Measures of Chaotic Systems using Cupolets | Dr. Matthew Morena |
| Mikaela Martinez Dettinger | Science and Religion Blog for 2021 | Dr. Richard Freund |
| Blaine Morse | Exploring MasSim: Configuring and creating Multi-Agent Systems in the MasSim Simulator | Anton Riedl |
| SaiArjun (Arjun) Nekkanti | Testing Social Preference in Zebrafish across both Discrete-Choice and Free-Operant Procedures using the T-maze and Open-Tank Free-Swim Tests | Dr. Andrew Velkey |
| Graham Newman | Synthesis of the F-ring of Pseudorubriflordilactone B | Dr. Jeff Carney |
| Julia Nichols | Development of Jupyter Notebooks for Physics | Edward Brash |
| Brooke Nixon | The Digital Chameleon: Mimicry and Empathy in Computer Mediated Communications | Dr. Nicole Guajardo |
| Rebecca Norton | A Digital Critical Edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" | Dr. Deanna Stover |
| Nathan Ormsby | Redesigning Medium-Latency Searches for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Fourth Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo | Ryan Fisher |
| Celina Paoletta | Quantification of Alpha & Beta Hop Acid Profiles of Hop Cultivars | Dr. Ronald Quinlan |
| William Parker | Adding Anonymity, Security, and Integrity to Fog Networks | Dr. Nazli Siasi |
| Kayla Pauley | Impacts of Gut Changes on the Brain and the Reversal of the Aging Process | Anna Salazar |
| Katie Powell | Objectivity and Emotion- How Negative Feelings, Empathy, and the Perceived Awareness of Another Affects Subjects’ Ability to Be Objective | Dr. Chris Tweedt |
| Ngan Quach | Removal of Copper and Lead from Water Using Pomegranate Peel Biochar | Dr. Tarek Abdel-Fattah |
| Andru Quiroga | Deep Neural Networks in Partial Wave Analysis at Jefferson Lab | Dr. William Phelps |
| Magdalena Ralston | The Effects of Coronavirus Anxiety on Schadenfreude | Dr. Gayle Dow |
| Emily Ransome | Chronicling the Captains: Sixty Years of History at Christopher Newport University | Dr. Michelle Erhardt |
| William Reames | Study and Implementation of Rational Agents in a Multi-Agent Systems Simulator | Dr. Roberto Flores |
| Kailey Ritchie | Civil Liberties in Crisis: The American Civil War, A Documentary Reader | Dr. Jonathan White |
| Gabriela Rocha | Examining the Fading Affect Bias and Relevant Individual Difference Measures across Alcohol and Non-Alcohol Events Online | Dr. Jeffrey Gibbons |
| Laura Roy | The Light-Dark Box test for alcohol-induced anxiolysis | Dr. James Bogenpohl |
| Aidan Rucker | Investigation of mTOR signaling intermediates in BALB/c mouse model of ASD | Dr. Jessica Burket |
| Caitlyn Russ | Darlene Mitrano | |
| Micah Sieck | An Analysis of Leadership, DNA, and the Republican Party Today | Dr. Sarah Chace |
| Katelyn Sloan | The Refugee Experience in a Welcoming City | Dr. Andria Timmer |
| Michael Sparks | Old Wine in a New Syringe? Collective Action and the underwhelming COVID-19 vaccine uptake: theory and policy | Dr. Rik Chakraborti |
| Thayla Thompson | Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing Environment Using Bumble Bee Mating Algorithm | Anton Riedl |
| Irene Thornton | On Summer 2020 Protests: The Line of Morality and Legality | Dr. Benjamin Lynerd |
| Jackson Walker | Resilience provisioning in Fog Computing | Nazli Siasi |
| Kaemon Watada | Studying the Impact of Heuristic Data Cuts on Compact Binary Coalescence Gravitational Wave Detection Range in Coherent Searches | Ryan Fisher |
| Grant Wiley | Plato's Letters and Dion's Syracuse: The Theory and Practice of Public Leadership | Brent Cusher |
| Research Fellow | Project Title | Faculty Adviser |
|---|---|---|
| Casey Attallah | Assessment of Nutrient Uptake in a Restored Urban Stream | Dr. Gary Whiting |
| Kevin Brent | Lying in Wait: How the NLRA's Definition of "Employee" Can Result in Surprise Liability | Dr. Linda Ficht |
| Gillian Byrnes | Domesticating Disability: Homemaker Rehabilitation in the Post-World War II United States | Dr. Laura Puaca |
| Samith Chowdhury | Vehicle-to-Grid in Microgrids | Dr. Hessam Keshtkar |
| Elyssa Cirillo | Exploring Students Informal Notions of Convergence of Sequence and Series | Dr. George Kuster |
| Madeline Clark | Development of Computational Models of Prodrugs Bound to Nitroreductase Enzymes | Dr. Todd Gruber |
| Mazie Clark | The Continuance of an Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South | Dr. Robert Colby |
| Trevor Cogan | The Second World War in North Africa: A Social History | Dr. David Stenner |
| Jessica Cropley | Effects of Polysaccharides on Imitation Cheese | Dr. Dmitry Liskin |
| Blake Doeren | The Combinatorics of Cheating Students | Dr. Neville Fogarty |
| Kendal Early | Ghost Forest Mystery: Assessing the effect of climate-induced sea-level rise on tree rings of Atlantic White Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) | Dr. Robert Atkinson |
| Ahmed Elzamzami | Antibacterial Activity of Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Graphene | Dr. Tarek Abdel-Fattah |
| Natalie Frampton | Doing 'Diversity:' College Instructors' Perceptions, Encounters, & Praxis Regarding Diversity & Inclusion on Campus and in the Classroom | Dr. Danielle Docka-Filipek |
| Danielle Freeman | "Raise the Volume: Black Women and Communication at Predominantly White Institutions" | Dr. Danielle Stern |
| Anna Galanides | Expanding the Science Play Digital Database to include Science Play Festivals | Dr. Denise Gillman |
| Katherine Goida | Meta-analysis on the effect of learning task on the own-race bias | Dr. Leslie Rollins |
| Haley Groover | The Impact of Striatal Lesions on Discriminative Associative Learning in Rats | Dr. Matthew Campolattaro |
| Michael Hemmer | Norepinephrine - Dopamine interactions in the Dorsal Hippocampus and Locus Coeruleus | Dr. Darlene Mitrano |
| Beverly Hollberg | Discovering the Relationship Between Religiosity and Support for Environmental Policies | Dr. Andrew Kirkpatrick |
| Grace Johns | Gravitational Wave Dectection Characterization | Dr. Ryan Fisher |
| Margaret Kirkpatrick | Leading Lives of Significance: The Meaning of Volunteerism and Service Learning at Christopher Newport University | Dr. Andria Timmer |
| Kaitlyn Kitchen | Quantification of Microplastics in Oysters and Clams in the Chesapeake Bay Area | Dr. James Bogenpohl |
| Jared Koenig | The Ethics of Bahamian Sand Exportation: An Analysis of the Sustainability Impact of Sand Exports from South Andros | Dr. Chris Tweedt |
| Caroline Koon | Potential Sex Differences in the Affinity for Social Cohesion: Can Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Distinguish Between Newly-Formed and Established Shoals? | Dr. Andrew Velkey |
| Audrey Lawton | Generate a training dataset of matching Google StreetView and hybrid roadview pairs | Dr. Keith Perkins |
| Arianna Lipton | Developing Novel Tracking Capabilities of Ethovision Software to Analyze Stress-Induced Behaviors Throughout the Estrous Cycle of Rodents During Spatial Learning in the Open-Field Tower Maze | Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Mark Luther | How Sex Became Gender | Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch |
| Jack Lynam | Using regression algorithms to improve the sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors | Dr. Marissa Walker |
| Kiley McLeroy | Jerusalem and Athens: A Comparative Study of Moses and the Golden Calf and Odysseus and the Cattle of Helios | Dr. Brent Cusher |
| Ashley McMillan | Against Censorship: Women's Clubs and Film Reform under Hollywood Production Code, 1930-1955 | Dr. John Nichols |
| Anna Miller | The Binding Interactions Between Histone Deacetylase 8 (HDAC8) and Romidepsin | Dr. Kathryn Cole |
| Rose Napolitano | Predicting Red list Endangered Classification of Coral Reef fishes using Life History Traits and Phylogeny | Dr. David Collar |
| Zenith Nguon | The Dark: A Critical Edition | Dr. Anna Teekell |
| Brooke Nixon | Effects of Mindset Priming and Technology on Theory of Mind Performance | Dr. Nicole Guajardo |
| Nathan Ormsby | Characterizing Transients in the Followup Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray-Bursts | Dr. Ryan Fisher |
| Clifton Painter | The Determinants of German and Japanese Exports. A Success Story of Export-led Growth | Dr. George Zestos |
| Celina Paoletta | Increase Capacitance of Vertically-Oriented Graphene Electric Double Layer Capacitors | Dr. Ronald A. Quinlan |
| Nicklas Phillips | The Contribution of Reading-Specific Executive Function to Reading Comprehension in Older Adults | Dr. Kelly B. Cartwright |
| Stephen Pierce | Playing with Poison: Motive, Murder, and Legal Uncertainty in Early Modern Drama | Dr. Jessica Apolloni |
| Samantha Plesce | Modeling and evaluation of UAV based Sik Radio vulnerabilities | Dr. Jonathan Backens |
| Andru Quiroga | Innovative Applications using Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Physics at Jefferson Lab | Dr. William Phelps |
| Magdalena Ralston | Gender Effects of Empathy in Relation to Physiological Responses to Schadenfreude | Dr. Gayle Dow |
| Andrew Ramseur | A Business History of the Post Office Department | Dr. Frank W. Garmon Jr. |
| Gabriela Rocha | The Effects of Priming and Source on the Believability and Recognition of Headlines | Dr. Jeffrey Gibbons |
| Cody Sessions | Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Protein Aggregates in the Gut and Brain and their Relationship with Aging | Dr. Anna Salazar |
| Emily Sinniger | Traits Associated with Dimprphism in Silene dioica | Dr. Janet C. Steven |
| Laura Slayton | Flexible Manipulation Upgrade and Testing with HEBI Robot arm | Dr. David Conner |
| Sarah Smith | Evidence of a Gap in Doctor-Patient Communication | Dr. William Donaldson |
| Michael Sparks | Slaves' Views of Abraham Lincoln | Dr. Jonathan White |
| Tatiane Swap | Analysis of the Northern Snakehead's Impact on the Chesapeake Bay | Dr. Ryan Carpenter |
| Mary Tharp | Online Coverage of "The Great Synagogue" Archeological and Geoscience Trip & Documentary | Dr. Richard Freund |
| Mollie Valorose | Student Distress: Navigating University Resources | Dr. Michelle Lange |
| Kaemon Watada | Multiplanar Gravitational Lensing | Dr. Jessica Kelly |
| Shayne Weierbach | Total Synthesis of the Torreyunlignans | Dr. Jeffrey M. Carney |
| Kyle Werntz | Task Scheduling Algorithm for Cloud Computing | Dr. Mohammad Almalag |
| McKenzie White | Beyond Students, Keeping Captains Healthy | Dr. Jill Russett |
| Katherine Witmer | Industrializing the Oyster | Dr. Christopher Loy |
| Research Fellow | Project Title | Faculty Adviser |
|---|---|---|
| Rachel Applebach | Nepal: Yesterday and today: Exploring models, successes, and failures in the teaching of writing in developing nations | Dr. Rebecca Wheeler |
| Elliott Armstrong | Exploiting Communication Protocols: A Cyber Security Case Study of the Parrot Bebop 2 | Dr. Jonathan Backens |
| Sarah Badertscher | Airmail of the American Expeditionary Forces 1917-1918 | Dr. Frank Garmon, Jr. |
| Kaylie Bennett | How Sex Became Gender: Philosophical Origins | Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer-Busch |
| Annette Berkin | Molecular Cloning for Transgene Expression: Creation of a Model System for Laboratory Courses in Cellular Biology | Dr. Denise Tombolato-Terzic |
| Trevor Boynton | Dramaturgical Research on TheaterCNU’s Production of Experiment with an Air Pump | Dr. Denise Gillman |
| Adam Bradie | Novice and Expert Evaluation of Generic Proofs | Dr. George Kuster |
| Dawson Brown | Women’s Empowerment and National Conspicuous Consumption | Dr. Rik Chakraborti |
| Marisa Butler | Political and Questions Doctrine, Separation of Powers, and American Jurisprudence | Dr. Michelle Kundmueller |
| Margaret Byers | Pirates of the Confederacy: The Cursed Letter of Marque | Dr. Jon White |
| Kelly Calvin | The Problem with Defining Mass Shootings: 50 Years in the Making 1968-2018 | Dr. Lisa Waldron |
| Cade Cobbs | Investigating the Spatial Variability of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities Relative to Inundation along an Upstream-Downstream Gradient in Hoffler Creek, Portsmouth, VA | Dr. Heather Harwell |
| Jessica Cornett | Professors’ and Higher Education Instructors’ Attitudes Towards and Incorporation of ‘Diversity’ into Course Material | Dr. Danielle Docka-Filipek |
| Isabel Danstrom | Enhances controls for testing male and female zebrafish (Danio rerio) preferences for higher-fidelity social stimuli | Dr. Andrew Velkey |
| Nicolette DeFrank | The Genius of Leadership: Plato’s Doctrine of the Lawgiver | Dr. Brent Cusher |
| Nicholas DeHoust | Artificial Morality: Defining a Hybrid Approach to Machine Ethics | Dr. Chris Tweedt |
| Adrianna DeSantis | Sensemaking in the Current Era: The Interventions of Jeff Flake | Dr. Sarah Chace |
| Ian Dors | Using Clustering Algorithms to Optimize School Students’ Bus Stops | Dr. Dmitriy Shaltayev |
| Emma Dryden | Investigating the response of mummichog to climate change: favored polychaete species and prey availability after water inundation | Dr. Jessica Thompson |
| Connor Elsbernd | Examining Trace and Delay Eyeblink Conditioning with Off-Cues | Dr. Matthew Campolattaro |
| Mikaela Farrugia | Determination of Hydrated Proton Availability at Biological Interfaces from Deconvolved Infrared Spectra | Dr. Joshua Patterson |
| Danielle Freeman | Black Women’s Communication about vulnerability | Dr. Danielle Stern |
| Sydney Gammon | Wheelin’, Dealin’, and Feelin’: Conflict Resolution and Negotiation | Dr. Linda Ficht |
| Susannah Garber | Gene expression of dopamine and serotonin receptors involved in habituation and reward in female rats: Role of circulating gonadal hormones in modulation of stress-induced addictive behaviors | Dr. David Knight |
| Yimin Guo | Statistical Analysis of 2016 Election Data, General and Primary presidential elections | Dr. Zhaochen He |
| Emery Harlan | Behavioral Inhibition in Male and Female Rats using Touchscreen Operant Behavior | Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Tanner Hawk | Assembling and Assessing Hodoscope Arrays for Hall A Polarimeter | Dr. Edward Brash |
| Alissa Hinz | Bisexuality and Identity | Dr. Michaela Meyer |
| Ashley Irving | The Reentry Experiences of Parents in Hampton Roads | Dr. Steven Keener |
| Kazuki Johnstone | Border Bibliography: Literature of the Irish Border in the Age of Brexit | Dr. Anna Teekell |
| Jared Koenig | Improving the Data Analysis Software Used to Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts and Fast Radio Bursts in Advanced LIGO Data | Dr. Ryan Fisher |
| Joshua Kolba | Towards the crystallization of HDAC8 | Dr. Kathryn Cole |
| Genevieve Lewis | Autonomic Correlates of Rumination and Savoring | Dr. Lindsey Stone |
| Ayanna Limaye | Behavioral effects of an alcohol-related hub gene | Dr. James Bogenpohl |
| Nafeesa Lodi | Development of Pattern Separation | Dr. Leslie Rollins |
| Allison Lyne | Madness and Medicine: Mental Illness and Its Treatments in Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Comedies | Dr. Jessica Apolloni |
| Ryo Murasaki | Development of DNA primers for use in genotyping Osmunda claytoniana | Dr. Janet Steven |
| Owen Napolitano | Coleopetera (Beetle) Diversity of Hampton Roads | Dr. Michael Meyer |
| Adelyn Noble | Finding “Nice” Polynomials in Single Variable Calculus Through Origami Optimization | Dr. Jessica Kelley |
| Michael Patel | Gamma-Ray Burst triggered searches for Gravitational Waves | Dr. Ryan Fisher |
| Erin Phillips | Analysis of the Catalytic Properties of Reduced Metal Boride Frameworks Supported on Carbon Nanotubes | Dr. Tarek Abdel-Fattah |
| Nicole Pope | How the #MeToo Movement has affected gender related HR policy in the workplace | Dr. Angela Spranger |
| Stephanie Razavi | Dopamine and Norepinephrine Localization in the Dorsal Hippocampus | Dr. Darlene Mitrano |
| Riley Redd | The effect of attributions about low coworker effort levels on individual motivation in a group performance setting: In search of social loafing and social compensation effects | Dr. Jason Hart |
| Mara Scally | Analyzing Variation in State Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change | Dr. Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo |
| Katherine Schweickhardt | Europe in the midst of Political and Economic Crisis | Dr. George Zestos |
| Sarah Webb | Keeping Captains Healthy- Exploring behavioral health and wellness among college students | Dr. Jill Russett |
| Ekaterina Shaltaeva | Optimizing School Bus Routing Using Modified Clarke-Wright Heuristic | Dr. Robert Hasbrouck |
| Noah Sieck | A University Smart Parking System Using Machine Vision | Dr. Mohammad Almalag |
| Shannon Smith | Regional Variation Across Virginia in Preferences for Specific CTE Industry Areas | Dr. Jane Rochmes |
| Kelton Sullivan | Mapping Power: Appalachian Coal, Hampton Roads Ports, and the Making of American Might | Dr. James Allison |
| Mary Tharp | Why Weird Tales? An evaluation of the pulpwood’s fulfillment of weird-fiction goals | Dr. Jason Carney |
| Mackenzie Thorne | Carpe Diem: Understanding the Odes of Horace | Dr. Jana Adamitis |
| Noah Wallace | Directed evolution of I. sakaiensis bacteria to improve plastic-degrading properties | Dr. Todd Gruber |
| Henry Wilson | Bringing the Software of the Clearpath Robotics Jackal to Conformity with Standards of Latest Software Frameworks, with Additional Computer Vision Experiments | Dr. David Conner |
| Dale Wilson | Allylations of carbonyls | Dr. Jeffrey Carney |
| April Young | Soil respiration in wet mineral flats | Dr. Rob Atkinson |
| Joshua Zutell | Mapping and Navigation Software Development for the ClearPath Robotics Jackal Using ROS and Flexible Navigation | Dr. David Conner |
| Research Fellow | Project Title | Faculty Adviser |
|---|---|---|
| Nassim Ahmadi | Class Background and Teachers’ Beliefs | Dr. Jane Rochmes |
| Matthew Arthur | Origins and Evolution of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime | Dr. Nathan Busch |
| Thomas Bilokon | Diamination of Tethered Amino Alkenes Using in situ Generated Hypervalent Iodine | Dr. Dmitry Liskin |
| Nicole Bolavage | Development of a robust GC-MS method for the identification of counterfeit chemicals | Dr. Ronald Quinlan |
| Eucolona Bonett | Total Synthesis and Molecular Docking of Torreyunlignans | Dr. Jeffrey Carney |
| Courtney Botkin | Quantitation of HDAC8 Inhibition by Hydroxamic Acid Inhibitors using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | Dr. Kathryn Cole |
| Marisa Butler | The Limits of Law: Philosophical and Constitutional | Dr. Michelle Kundmueller |
| Ajmain Chowdhury | The Impact of Fornix Lesions on Associative Motor Learning in the Rat | Dr. Matthew Campolattaro |
| Noah Crawford | The Military and Social Evolution of Washington's Continental Army | Dr. Phillip Hamilton |
| Emma DiPaolo | The Anatomical Basis of Evolutionary Transformation in Blenniiform Fishes | Dr. David Collar |
| Grace Doebler | Does L-DOPA increase impulsivity in male and female Betta splendens? | Dr. Andrew Velkey |
| James Doyle | Analyzing tree cores for indication of water level impact on growth rings | Dr. Robert Atkinson |
| Eric English | Brain cell-type expression pattern of the ethanol-related gene Clic4 | Dr. James Bogenpohl |
| Corinne Fair | Robotic State Machine Development using FlexBE and ROS | Dr. David Conner |
| Ayesha Ferozpuri | Eye Tracking & Emotion Recognition in Children and Adults | Dr. Laurie Hunter / Dr. Leslie Rollins |
| Jack Filiault | Writing Games: Play and Collaboration in College-Level Writing Pedagogy | Dr. Nicole Emmelhainz |
| Summer Fitzpatrick | Tuning Out Trump; The Use of Digital Media as a Means of Coping With 'Trump Fatigue' | Dr. Jennifer Billinson |
| Danielle Forand | The Secession Crisis Diary of Gideon Welles | Dr. Jonathan White |
| Carly Fort | ”You can't post that!" An Exploration of Regulations for Alcohol Use on Social Media among Greek Sorority Organizations | Dr. Jill Russett |
| Nicholas Gehle | Examining the Arousal Circuitry of the Ventral Periaqueductal Gray Area in the Mouse Brain | Dr. Darlene Mitrano |
| Benjamin Gendell | Development of Software Defined Radio Testbed for Localization | Dr. Jonathan Backens |
| Lee Grinnan | An Assessment of Nutrient Uptake of an Urban Stream | Dr. Gary Whiting |
| Casey Hall | Power, Identity, and the Role of Dunamis in Ancient Greek Thought | Dr. Elizabeth Jelinek |
| Dillon Heh | Power Management through Aging-Based Task Scheduling Algorithms in Smart Grids | Dr. Farideh Doost Mohammadi |
| Alissa Hinz | Bisexuality and Identity | Dr. Michaela Meyer |
| Samuel Houle | Determining the fatty acid/lipid profiles in 3xTg-AD mice in plasma and in red blood cell membranes | Dr. Frank Garmon, Jr. |
| Blair Johnson | Researching Rhetoric in Fertility Apps | Dr. Kathryn Swacha |
| Thomas Kelly | London Trade Facilities: Continuity of a Thriving Trade City | Dr. Charlotte Cartwright |
| Blakely Lockhart | The effect of stress on learning in the open-field tower maze throughout the estrous cycle in the rat | Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Matthew Maguire | Mapping Power: Appalachian Coal, Hampton Roads Ports, and the Making of American Might | Dr. James Allison |
| Daniel McCollum | On the Historical and Scientific Context of Uncertainty in Moby Dick | Dr. Michael Swacha |
| Taylor McDonald | Defining 'Diversity:' Exploring the Language College Students Use to Make Sense of Inequality, Diversity, & Inclusion in Higher Education | Dr. Danielle Docka-Filipek |
| Rachel Morrison | The Ideological Formation of Moroccan Nationalism on the Global Stage (1944-56) | Dr. David Stenner |
| Aubrey Olsen | ERP Study of the Own Age Bias in Memory for Faces | Dr. Leslie Rollins |
| Moriah Poliakoff | On "Representative Democracy" in the Early Republic | Dr. Benjamin Lynerd |
| Brian Price | Metal Boride Carbon Nanotube Composites for Catalysts in Hydrogen Generation | Dr. Tarek Abdel-Fattah |
| Haley Reynolds | The Empty City: Why Roman Londinium Was Abandoned | Dr. Charlotte Cartwright |
| Kymbre Robinson | Investigating the interaction between Rho GTPase and Integrins during cell migration in C. elegans | Dr. Christopher Meighan |
| Alexandra Rosado | Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance (eQCM) study of ion fluxes in vertically oriented graphene electrodes | Dr. Ronald Quinlan |
| Grace Sharlun | How the Supreme Court protects the Writ of Habeas Corpus during the Lincoln and Bush Presidencies | Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch |
| Lucas Sharrett | A Comparison of Biodiversity in Aquatic Microbes and Macroinvertebrates as an Indicator for Health in Restored Wetlands | Dr. Michael Meyer |
| Jakira Silas | Living Together/Living Apart: denaturalizing 21st century urban segregation through stories, sound, and images | Dr. John Finn |
| Ross Taylor | The Ambiguity of Ahimsā: Violence and Non-Violence in Buddhism | Dr. John Thompson |
| Meredith Varmecky | Interfacial Partitioning of Nitrate Ions Through Counterion Size Progression | Dr. Joshua Patterson |
| Anya Walker | The Voice of the Consumer on Social Media: A Content Analysis of Consumer Interactions with Fortune 100 Companies through Social Media | Dr. Dae-Hee Kim |
| Noah Wallace | Analysis of nitroreductase variants for anticancer prodrug activation | Dr. Todd Gruber |
| Shawn West | Investigating interactions between bacterial genotype, viral genotype, and temperature to understand how infectious pathogens will respond to climate change | Dr. Jennifer Knies |
| Angelica Wood | Privatizing the Bay: Measuring the Impact of Aquaculture on Virginia Watermen Communities | Dr. Christopher Loy |
| Meaghan Yesford | Building the Science Play Catalogue, an interdisciplinary digital scholarship database of science plays and performance | Dr. Denise Gillman |
| Research Fellow | Project Title | Faculty Adviser |
|---|---|---|
| Taylor Betts | Sex Differences in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) responses to different social stimuli | Dr. Andrew Velkey |
| Hannah Broughton | Abraham Lincoln and the Slave Trade | Dr. Jon White |
| Royall Bryan | Migrants, Refugees, and the Media: The Shifting Public Perception of Migration Within American Mass Media Outlets | Dr. Andria Timmer |
| Matthew Byrom | Characterizing Structural Unemployment in the United States | Dr. Zhaochen He |
| John Christman | Comparing Genetic Diversity of the Interrupted Fern (Osmunda claytoniana) and the Apple (Malus pumila) | Dr. Janet Steven |
| Noah Crawford | The Military and Social Evolution of Washington's Continental Army | Dr. Phil Hamilton |
| Emma Croushore | Comparative histochemical and behavioral analysis of the 3xTg-AD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease | Dr. Darlene Mitrano |
| Haley Currence | Model Development of CHRISLab ROS Components | Dr. David Conner |
| Autumn D’Auteuil | The Protective Effect of Stress on Memory Function | Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Brady DeHoust | The Consistency of Truth: Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible as Mutually Edifying | Dr. Brent Cusher |
| J. Mitchell Doyle | The Islamic Environmental Ethic & its Interaction with Environmental Policy | Dr. Hussam Timani |
| Taylor Foreman | Brain cell-type expression pattern of the ethanol-related gene Clic4 | Dr. James Bogenpohl |
| Benjamin Genovese | Utilizing GC-MS and HPLC-MS to Determine the Fatty Acid/Lipid Profiles of the Plasma and Red Blood Cells in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease | Dr. Lisa Webb |
| Alexandra Green | Eye Tracking Study of Relational Memory Development | Dr. Leslie Rollins |
| Camille Gross | Screening the Latin American Slums in the 21st Century: Re-Defining Realism | Dr. Rocio Gordon |
| Casey Hall | Not Simply an Idealist: Investigating the Connection of Plato to the Practices and Principles of Ancient Greek Medicine | Dr. Betsy Jelinek |
| Gillian Hardy | Mythical Archetypes in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock | Dr. Mark Padilla |
| Brandon Hubbard | To Kill a Mockingbird, Legal Ethics, and the Promise of Attic Rhetoric | Dr. Michelle Kundmueller |
| Hannah Jackson | Sex Equality Transformed | Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer-Busch |
| Andres Maeso | Synthesis of Model Positive Electrode Films for the Advanced Study of Lithium-Ion Battery Mechanisms | Dr. Ronald Quinlain |
| Margaret McEwan | Total Synthesis of Torreyunlignan Natural Products | Dr. Jeffrey Carney |
| Ashley McKenzie | College Students’ Understandings of ‘Diversity,’ Difference, & Racial Inequality | Dr. Danielle Docka-Filipek |
| Caraline Morrow | Motivation in the Arts: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis | Dr. Gayle Dow |
| Katrina Napora | The Effect of Soil Organic Matter on Soil Respiration Rates | Dr. Rob Atkinson |
| Ali Nayyef | Understanding the Homeland Security Enterprise: Coordination and Partnerships | Dr. Nathan Busch |
| Elizabeth Nelson | Auditory Cue Absence as a Conditioned Stimulus for Trace Eyeblink Conditioning | Dr.Matthew Campolattaro |
| Casey O’Neil | Thiazole Orange as a Fluorescent Dye to Limit Damage to DNA | Dr. Todd Gruber |
| Justin Osborne | Noble Metal Aerogels for the Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol | Dr. Tarek Abdel-Fattah |
| Jessica Patchan | Domesticating Disability: Homemaker Rehabilitation in the Post-World War II United States | Dr. Laura Puaca |
| Joseph Picone | Quantitative analysis of Dopamine and Serotonin Receptor mRNA Expression within Dorsal Striatum and Hippocampus of Female and Male Rat Brain | Dr. David Knight / Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Connor Rooney | A Social Machine for Research LENS | Dr. Matthew Hettche |
| Delany Rousseau | The Effect of Copper on Antioxidant Gene Expression of SOD1 and GPX1 in Zebrafish | Dr. Katie Wiens / Dr. David Knight |
| Rachel Schendzielos | Using Paraffin Embedding and Histological Techniques to Determine the Olfactory Deficits of the 3xTg-AD Mouse | Dr. Harold Grau |
| Christine Shreve | Exploring Religious Perspectives on Sex Trafficking | Dr. John Thompson |
| E. Delaney Thornton | Investigating the regulation of integrin expression in sheath cells in C.elegans | Dr. Christopher Meighan |
| Caleb Tupper | A Social Machine for Research LENS | Dr. Matthew Hettche |
| Meredith Varmecky | Interfacial Partitioning of Nitrate Ions under Acidic Solution | Dr. Joshua Patterson |
| Tanisha Washington | Race, Labor, and Environmental Attitudes and Impacts in the Chesapeake Bay | Dr. Christopher Loy |
| Hope Webb | Disaster Response Localization using Software Defined Radios | Dr. Jonathan Backens |
| Isaac Woods | Dynamics of a Family of Set-valued Functions | Dr. James Kelly |
| Research Fellow | Project Title | Faculty Adviser |
|---|---|---|
| Armen Beck | Synthesis of BetaKetoester Fragments for the Total Synthesis of Torreyunlignans AD | Dr. Jeffrey Carney |
| Erin Bertero | ERP Correlates of Memory for Faces in Middle Childhood | Dr. Leslie Rollins |
| K. Jacob Blackshaw | The Interfacial Affinity of Nitrate in the Presence of Halides | Dr. Joshua Patterson |
| Scott Bledsoe | Protection from Above? An Analysis of the European Union, Counter-radicalization Policies, and State Vulnerability to Terrorism | Dr. Crystal Shelton |
| Dyllan Cecil | Reading a Medieval Manuscript: Translation of the Cartulary of the Nunnery of SaintAmand, Rouen | Dr. Charlotte Cartwright |
| Michael Costas | “In the Beginning was the Word...” -- Exploring the Way(s) of Language in Philosophical, Theological, and Religious Writing | Dr. John Thompson |
| Willem Craun | Investigating the Ionospheres Relationship to Magnetosphere Dynamics | Dr. Anna DeJong |
| Darcy Davidson | Cyclization of Tethered Aminoalkenes with in situ Generated, Catalytic Hypervalent Iodine | Dr. Dmitry Liskin |
| George Decatur | Extreme Inbreeding in Interrupted Fern: Can it be Prevented? | Dr. Janet Steven |
| Ayse Durak | Sex Differences in Response Learning and the Influence of Stress on Retained Spatial Memory | Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Elissa Fink | Activity Measurements and Structure Determination of Histone Deacetylase 8-Depsipeptide Complexes | Dr. Kathryn Cole |
| Daniel Glenn | Abraham Lincoln and the Slave Trade | Dr. Jonathan White |
| Nicole Gould | Synergistic Signaling Relationships During Cell Migration | Dr. Christopher Meighan |
| Alexandra Hanscom | Determinants of Demand of Trafficked Labor: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis on Human Trafficking | Dr. Jia Yu |
| Heather Kay | Behavioral Responses of Danio rerio to Social Stimuli of Varying Levels of Fidelity | Dr. Andrew Velkey |
| Eric Kennedy | The Role of the Hippocampus in Spatial Learning | Dr. Matthew Campolattaro |
| Margaret McEwan | The Synthesis of Allylic Bromides towards the Convergent Total Synthesis of Natural Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors | Dr. Jeffrey Carney |
| Daniel McMahon | Quantification of Fishery Resource Productivity of Restored Oyster Reefs | Dr. Russell Burke |
| Benjamin Miller | Copper-Induced Neurodegeneration in a Zebrafish Model of Alzheimer’s Disease | Dr. Katie Wiens & Dr. David Knight |
| Christina Mirda | The Use of Tree Rings to Reestablish Historic Hydrographs in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: Implications for Management | Dr. Rob Atkinson |
| Reece O’Donnell | Living Shoreline Stabilization in Back Bay, Virginia | Dr. Heather Harwell |
| Lindsay Odil | Examining the Localization of alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptors in the Ventral Periaqueductal Grey Area and Rostral Linear Nucleus of the Mouse Brain | Dr. Darlene Mitrano |
| Dagney Palmer | Spinoza: The Project of Human Perfection | Dr. Matthew Homan |
| Elizabeth Samios | Politics and the Flight From Honor in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey | Dr. Michelle Kundmueller |
| Marshall Segars | Cash Flows & Tracking Errors in ETFs | Dr. Nan Qin |
| Harrison Siegal | Determination of the Most Effective Inhibitor to Prevent Asphaltene Flocculation in a Heavy Crude Oil | Dr. Geoffrey Klein |
| Nathan Sieminski | Cooperative Threat Reduction: A New Model for Nonproliferation and Arms Control | Dr. Nathan Busch |
| Hunter Simons | Optimum Monetary-Fiscal Policy Mix in the UK, Canada, and the Eurozone; The Role of Trade Imbalances on the Growth and Public Indebtedness in the US and the Eurozone; Determinants of Economic Growth in Germany and China | Dr. George Zestos |
| Samantha Tremaine | The Origins and Consequences of Body Shape Transformation in Scombroid Fishes | Dr. David Collar |
| Maggie Turner | Domesticating Disability: Homemaker Rehabilitation in the Post-World War II United States | Dr. Laura Puaca |
| John Vernon | Teaching Business Ethics via Mad Men: A Student-Teacher Phenomenological Account | Dr. Joe Balay |
| Rachel Wagner | Equality and the Evolution of Feminism | Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer-Busch |
| Tanisha Washington | Cultural Tradition and Transition in Chesapeake Bay Watermen Communities | Dr. Christopher Loy |
| Katie Whitcomb | Neuroprotective Benefits of Methylene Blue on Alzheimer’s Disease within the 3xTg-AD Mouse Model | Dr. Lisa Webb |
| Justin Willis | Researching Techniques for Robotic Capability Specification | Dr. David Conner |
| Research Fellow | Project Title | Faculty Adviser |
|---|---|---|
| Jason Benedict | Trade and Monetary-Fiscal Policy Mixes in the Euro Area | Dr. George Zestos |
| Annie Cecil | Case Study Research on STIHL Inc.: Opportunities for Curriculum and Program Development in the Luter School of Business | Dr. Matthew Hettche |
| Elizabeth Cloude | Development of Pattern Separation | Dr. Leslie Rollins |
| Clanci Jo Conover | Inventing the Indian: Examining Early Depictions of the Indigenous Cultures in the Americas | Dr. Elizabeth Morán |
| Ryan Crane | One-Step Syntheses of Biologically-Active Dihydro- and Tetrahydropyran Natural Products | Dr. Jeffrey Carney |
| Sinda Fekir | Exploring the Role of Norepinephrine and Noradrenergic Receptors in the Ventral Periaquaductal Grey Area and Rostral Linear Nucleus in the Mouse Brain | Dr. Darlene Mitrano |
| Stephen Fink | Utilizing Behavioral Analysis to Examine the Neuroprotective Effects of Methylene Blue on a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s disease | Dr. Harold Grau |
| Amber Gaddis | Does Herbivory by White-tailed Deer Limit Regeneration in Atlantic White Cedar? | Dr. Janet Steven |
| Marie Gardner | Artist Assistantship:Frosted and Cash Register Portraits | Dr. Christi Harris |
| Benjamin Genovese | Utilizing Immunohistochemical Techniques to Explore the Neuroprotective Effects of Methylene Blue on a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease | Dr. Lisa Webb |
| Clay Huff | Comparison of Cobalt Coatings in the Electrolysis of Water | Dr. Tarek Abdel-Fattah |
| Khodadad Khairandish | Integrin Regulation of the Rho Family of GTPases during Early C. elegans Development | Dr. Christopher Meighan |
| David Le Moal | The Impact of Literature during the American Revolution and Early Republic | Dr. Phillip Hamilton |
| Erin Mabry | Interactive Effects of Estrogen and Stress | Dr. Olga Lipatova |
| Samantha Mangum | Sexual Conflict in Clarkia | Dr. Lauren Ruane |
| William Morgan-Palmer | American Villains: Treason in America from Jamestown to Jefferson Davis | Dr. Jonathan White |
| C. Austin Patrick | Zebrafish Model to Test the Effect of Copper on Amyloid Precursor Protein | Dr. Katie Wiens |
| Hayley Premo | The Role of Subcortical Pathways between the Thalamus and the Cerebellum during Cross-Modal Transfer of the Classically Conditioned Eyeblink Response | Dr. Matthew Campolattaro |
| Kevin Purdy | The Wall: The Legal, Political, and Socio- Economic Implications of Border Walls on Affected Societies and States – A Case Study of the U.S.-Mexico Border | Dr. Tina Kempin Reuter |
| Tulsi Ratnam | Killing Abroad: Organizational Characteristics and International Terrorism | Dr. Crystal Shelton |
| Claire Robinson | Effect of Organic Coating Morphology and Quantity on the Light Scattering and Absorption Properties of Marine Aerosols | Dr. Joshua Patterson |
| Julie Slater | Determining Clonal Growth and Age in Interrupted Fern using Genetic Markers | Dr. Robert Atkinson |
| Alexa Tabackman | Quantifying Activity of Histone- Deacetylase 8 Inhibitors and Crystallization of the HDAC-Depsipeptide Complex | Dr. Kathryn Cole |
| Alyssa Thibodeau | The Evolution of Title IX | Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer-Busch |
| Kelsey Woolwine | The Impact of 17β-Estradiol Exposure on the Bubble Nest Area of B. splendens | Dr. Andrew Velkey |
| Sean Workman | Sahana Eden | Dr. Lynn Lambert |