Celebration of Student Achievement

Celebration of Student Achievement

 

The Celebration of Student Achievement (CoSA) is an all-day campus-wide event which engages the entire Ursinus College community in the presentation, discussion, and celebration of all forms of intellectual and creative work done by our students at all levels of their college careers.

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Submissions from 2023

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Sentiment Analysis with R, Benjamin Cuccolo

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R Text Analysis for Adam Smith CIE Selected Works, Charlotte Grahame

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Chinese Exclusion: The Leadup, Solomon Griffith

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NVIZ: Unraveling Neural Networks Through Visualization, Kevin Hoffman

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Special Needs in Pediatric Dentistry, Emma Kail

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CIE Text Analysis: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Declaration of Independence, and The Declaration of Sentiments, Arianna Knipe

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Sentiment Analysis Before and During COVID-19, Emily Musgrove

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Applying Bioactive Glass Beads for Long-Term Drug Delivery, Marie O. Sykes and Rashi Sharma

Submissions from 2022

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An Exploration of a Year at the Ursinus Food Forest, Victoria Bearden

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Investigating the Effect of the wee-1.3 and pam-1 Mutations on Meiosis in C. elegans, Diana Cando and Zara Tabackin

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Self-Efficacy & Perception of Mental Well-Being, Sarah L. Capen-Becerra, Sophie K. Louis, Abigail Danzig, and Olimpia Sansone

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Shifting Weight Attitudes? A Look at Stigma and Implicit Bias, Carolyn H. DeCicco, Sarah L. Capen-Becerra, and Sophie K. Louis

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Changes in Body Composition and Strength During a Collegiate Gymnastics Season, Alyssa-Mackenzie DeLorme

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Mouse Strain Differences in Female Mice Fed a Short-Term Western Diet, Mya A. Knappenberger, Kenyon W. Sprankle, and Erica J. Locke

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Developmental, Personality, and Family Influences on Risk-Taking During Young Adulthood, Jessica Leach

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Migrants, Citizens and Subjects: How People Moved and Became Citizens in the Roman World, David Rocha

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Progress in the Development of Ciprofloxacin Attached Nanotubes, Eric Sugarman, Candace Hudson, and Claire Worley

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In Too Deep: Staying Afloat While We Rock the Boat, Ali Wolf, Kate I. Foley, Gabriella Marrero, Jacob Ryan, Zara Tabackin, Abbie Painter, Emily Bradigan, Leigh Willis, and Naomi Marin

Submissions from 2021

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Determining the Characteristics and Function of the Unknown 4DIU Protein, Benjamin Antill, Christine Heren, and Samantha Zubler

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Just Mercy: Mass Incarceration and the Death Penalty, Sophie Auerbach

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Research Proposal: Clarifying Any Interactions Between Cytoskeletal Proteins and the Aminopeptidase PAM-1, Alexis Ayala

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Exploration of the Food Forest Outreach Team, Victoria Bearden

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Forest Stories, Victoria Bearden, Nate Berger, Kristen Cooney, and Peter Scuderi

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Potential of Urban Foraging to Combat Food Insecurity in Cities, Victoria Bearden and Kristen Cooney

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Ursinus College Women's Investment Management Company, Taylor Beaumont, Shannon Blessing, Olivia DeFusco, Julia Ewing, Angela Gervasi, Wendy Luo, Eve Peiffer, Becca Lewis, Ellie Templeton, Emily Benning, Rebecca Lam, Maddy Sorokanych, Theodora Zeibekis, Marcella Thanh-Guyet, and Delanie Rogers

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Purification and Characterization of the Protein 2O14, AJ Belville and Andrew Vogelei

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Whiteness and the Irish American Assimilation Experience, Caroline Bormann

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Proliferation, Migration, and Cathepsin Expression in the Presence of Bisphenols, Sydney Bowman and Stephanie Chell

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Shallot Smith: A Sci-Fi Play, Isaiah Braugher

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Analyzing Potential Solar Farm Sitting for Montgomery County, PA Using GIS, Elizabeth Burke

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Analyzing the Business Model and Science Behind 23 & Me Through the Disease Hereditary Amyloidosis, Elizabeth Burke, Lexi Fowler, Arabella Taucher, Luke Lesher, Dylan Wambold, Katie Moore, Ro Murphy, Jess Gutekunst, and Kyle Schaffer

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The Impact of SARS-CoV-2 S1 Glycoprotein on the Phagocytic Activity of Microglia Cells, Courtney Burns

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The Broadcasting Of Morality, Harry Callahan

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Characterization of Unknown Protein 3H04, Stephanie Chell and Kayla Ruiz

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The Effect of Belowground Depth and Treatment on Root Biomass, Julie Cherneskie

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Impacts of Nitrogen Addition on the Soil Microbial Community in Grass Versus Legume Soil, Kylie Cherneskie

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The Newfound Influence of the Online Gambling Industry, Carmen Christiana

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Building an Anti-Racist Dance Classroom Through the Dance Education Lab of the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Karen Clemente, Christina Foley, Kevin Harris II, Jackie Henigan, Jeanine McCain, Jeannine Osayande, and Jessica Rogers

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Use of Ultrasounds and Cystotomies in Diagnosing and Resolving Bladder Stones, Kirsten Cline

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Museum Studies 2021 Strata Exhibition Curatorial Seminar Presentation, Kristen Cooney, Justin Mitchell, and Katie Sanfield

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The Interaction Between pam-1 and MPF in Oocyte Maturation, Quaran Davis

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The Portrayals of Grief and How it Affects Childhood Development on Netflix’s Haunting of Hill House, Gabriella DeMelfi

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Mixed-ish: Disingenuous Dialogue and Narrative Structure, Shelsea Deravil

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Modulation of Cytoskeletal Protein Expression by Neuroinflammatory Mediators in Microglia, Melanie Derosa and Mekha Varghese

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Why Girls on the Run? Benefits of a Physical-Activity Based Positive Youth Development Program, Kevyn Dewees

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Northwestern Mutual Spring Internship 2021, Aaron Diamond

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Sunk or Dunk?: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Sunk Cost Fallacy in Professional Basketball, Hailey DiCicco

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A Psychoanalytic Reading of Heironymus Bosch's Tondals Vision, Katelyn Doherty

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Using MIR Spectroscopy to Understand Soil Carbon Stability in Relation to Microbial Communities in Organic Matter, Sabrina Doherty

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Analysis on the Enzymatic Activity and Function of a Previously Unclassified Protein 3H04, Britney Dyszel and Nate Raffier

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UCIMCO Equity Analysis, Joshua Echevarria, Michael Green, Jacob Keiths, William Peiffer, Kayla Weil, Chris Perzelt, John Wagner, Kareem Elghawy, Akwasi Prempeh, Arabella Taucher, Storm Snape, Stevie Benson, Kevin Travis, Alexander Dean, Matthew Lamb, and Liam Tatlonghari

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Advanced Creative Writing Class Reading, Cyn Ercole, Sarah Buck, Anastasia Dziekan, Samuel Ernst, Amy Litofsky, Morgan Mason, Adam Mlodzinski, Sarah Noon, and Millie Drury

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Can Firms Do Better By "Doing Good"?, Julia Ewing

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Internship With Mishock Physical Therapy & Associates, Lauren Ferguson

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Body Image Through the Platform of Lizzo: Looking Through the Lens of Social Media and Influencers, Annellie Freed

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Disparities in Sports Media Representation, Madison Handwerger

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Commitment and Connection Through Bonner, Emily Harris

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Induced Obesity Through Various Diets Reveals Changes in Body Weight, Heart Weight, Fat Weight and Plasma Triglyceride Levels in Female Murinaes, Madisen Harvey and Savona Cerra

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Globalizing the Great Migration: African American Movements from 1910-1940, Joseph Heasley

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Studying the Effects of Retinoic Acid on the Regenerating Spinal Cord in Ambystoma mexicanum, Allysen Henriksen, Carlie Esposito, Emma Maurer, and Christa Jacobs

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Differences in Endurance Exercise Capacity and Metabolic Gene Expression in Male and Female Mice, Lola Holcomb

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Determining the Unknown Function of 3H04 Protein, Alana Huynh and Zenya Yanoff

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Effect of Conventional vs. Organic Tillage and Fertility Management Routines on Soil Carbon, Diane Imboden

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Determination of the Structure and Function of Protein 2O14, Colton Johnson, Ken Sprankle, and Chris McCoun

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Revolutionary Movements: Indian Migration, British-American Anti-Immigration Policies, and the Ghadar in the Early 1900s, Sarah Johns

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Species and Subspecies Determination and Sequence of Exon 10 of the AHR Locus in Three Mid-Atlantic Populations of Fundulus heteroclitus, Matthew Kenwood and Mary Fuchs

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The Year Of Pivoting: Working in an Admissions Office Amid a Pandemic, Emma Kramer

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Bonner: Becoming a Leader Through the Years, Jane Krol

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Why Now? Examining the Ripe Conditions for Protest and Activism in 2020, Jane Krol

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The Effects of Ketogenic Diet on Type I Diabetes in Mice, Katherine Kurzinsky

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Investigating the Effect of the wee-1.3 and pam-1 Mutations on Meiosis After the Fertilization of Oocytes in C. elegans, Sophie Lear and Alex Bender

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Learn About Yourself: The Ins and Outs of AAT Deficiency and 23andMe, Marcos Maciel, Tyler Reilly, Kyle Berardi, Jonathan Moldoff, Andrew Keris, Zoe Cougoul, Brady Antolick, and Simbarashe Kanjanda

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Making the College Community Inclusive of Faculty, Staff and Students Caring for Children, Stephanie Mackler, Dolly Singley, Lauren Wynne, and Sharon Hansen

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An Analysis of Jean-Léon Gérôme's Pygmalion and Galatea From a Feminist Critical Perspective, Sarah Marchione

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Bride and Prejudice: Color, Caste, and Compromise Within the Paradigm of Arranged Marriage in Netflix’s "Indian Matchmaking", Simra Mariam

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Conjugation of Nucleic Acids to Janus Dendrimers via "Click Chemistry", Kailey Martin

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Jewish Migration and Global Antisemitism 1933-1942, Neva McGowan

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BELLA Magazine Internship, Madison McHugh

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My Bonner Journey, Hannah Merges

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Effects of Temperature and Salinity on the Coral, Astrangia poculata, Hannah Merges, Kayla Cayemitte, and Julia Rakowsky

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Identification and Analysis of the Function for Protein 4DIU, Kyle Merlo and Kaitlyn McGinley

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Soil Depth Influence on Carbon and Nitrogen Storage, Austin Mickles and Kaitlyn Smith

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Nutrition: The Healthy Eating Plate, Evangeline Nesslage

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The Effects of Listening to Enjoyable Music Before Studying for a Test, Regan Newman

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Progress in the Development of a Single-walled Nanotube Drug Delivery System for Clarithromycin, Meghan O'Leary

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23&Me and Commercial Genetic Testing: Hereditary Hemochromatosis, Haleigh Olsen, Julie Cherneskie, Katrina Follmer, Kamilyah Nazih, Jason Kleintz, Erik Ojert, Reilly Morgan, Tyler Falco, Luca Walborn, and Samantha Beckman

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Lebron James and Politics, Jack Packer

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Food Forest Guardians, Amanda Paul, Nate Berger, Lexi Fowler, Natalie Jump, Austin Mickles, Evan Stinson, and Cara Vasso

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Isolation and Characterization of Protein 3H04, Kayla Paulson and Jesse Wun

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The Real 1920s: How the Immigration Act of 1924 Empowered and Encouraged Organized Nationalism, Amanda Pawling

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My Bonner Journey, Jadidsa Perez

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23&Me: Using DNA to Determine Our Past and Our Future, Jordan Pick, Alex Benner, Karley DeSpirito, Makayla Heisler, Nicole Hope, Mariah Lesh, Trevor Mislan, Maddy Sorokanych, Payton Stanziani, and Steven Weissman

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Analyzing Ex Vivo Skeletal Muscle Contractile Force Post Chemical Injury in Mus musculus, Julia Pierson and Emily Megill

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Analyzing Microbial Functional Diversity Using Community Level Physiological Profiling, Julia Pierson and Prachi Patel

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Alteration of Pain Protocol in Response to the Opioid Crisis, Dana Roby

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Expression, Purification, and Characterization of Protein 4DIU, Dana Roby and Zofia Balcerek

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Migrants, Citizens and Subjects: How People Moved and Became Citizens in the Roman World, David Rocha

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Effect of Time Course Exposure to Neuroinflammatory Proteins on the Phagocytic Activity of Microglial Cells, Carly Rodriguez, Tatiana Swindell, and Joshua Belder

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Global Jewish Migration: Organized Aid and Group Identity, Jacob Ross

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How the Netflix Movie "Circle" Constructs Stereotypes, American Values and Identity Within American Society, Kathleen Saddler