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.
Submissions from 2021
Studying the Effects of Retinoic Acid on the Regenerating Spinal Cord in Ambystoma mexicanum, Allysen Henriksen, Carlie Esposito, Emma Maurer, and Christa Jacobs
Differences in Endurance Exercise Capacity and Metabolic Gene Expression in Male and Female Mice, Lola Holcomb
Determining the Unknown Function of 3H04 Protein, Alana Huynh and Zenya Yanoff
Effect of Conventional vs. Organic Tillage and Fertility Management Routines on Soil Carbon, Diane Imboden
Determination of the Structure and Function of Protein 2O14, Colton Johnson, Ken Sprankle, and Chris McCoun
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
The Year Of Pivoting: Working in an Admissions Office Amid a Pandemic, Emma Kramer
Bonner: Becoming a Leader Through the Years, Jane Krol
Why Now? Examining the Ripe Conditions for Protest and Activism in 2020, Jane Krol
The Effects of Ketogenic Diet on Type I Diabetes in Mice, Katherine Kurzinsky
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
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
Making the College Community Inclusive of Faculty, Staff and Students Caring for Children, Stephanie Mackler, Dolly Singley, Lauren Wynne, and Sharon Hansen
An Analysis of Jean-Léon Gérôme's Pygmalion and Galatea From a Feminist Critical Perspective, Sarah Marchione
Bride and Prejudice: Color, Caste, and Compromise Within the Paradigm of Arranged Marriage in Netflix’s "Indian Matchmaking", Simra Mariam
Conjugation of Nucleic Acids to Janus Dendrimers via "Click Chemistry", Kailey Martin
Jewish Migration and Global Antisemitism 1933-1942, Neva McGowan
BELLA Magazine Internship, Madison McHugh
My Bonner Journey, Hannah Merges
Effects of Temperature and Salinity on the Coral, Astrangia poculata, Hannah Merges, Kayla Cayemitte, and Julia Rakowsky
Identification and Analysis of the Function for Protein 4DIU, Kyle Merlo and Kaitlyn McGinley
Soil Depth Influence on Carbon and Nitrogen Storage, Austin Mickles and Kaitlyn Smith
Nutrition: The Healthy Eating Plate, Evangeline Nesslage
The Effects of Listening to Enjoyable Music Before Studying for a Test, Regan Newman
Progress in the Development of a Single-walled Nanotube Drug Delivery System for Clarithromycin, Meghan O'Leary
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
Lebron James and Politics, Jack Packer
Food Forest Guardians, Amanda Paul, Nate Berger, Lexi Fowler, Natalie Jump, Austin Mickles, Evan Stinson, and Cara Vasso
Isolation and Characterization of Protein 3H04, Kayla Paulson and Jesse Wun
The Real 1920s: How the Immigration Act of 1924 Empowered and Encouraged Organized Nationalism, Amanda Pawling
My Bonner Journey, Jadidsa Perez
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
Analyzing Ex Vivo Skeletal Muscle Contractile Force Post Chemical Injury in Mus musculus, Julia Pierson and Emily Megill
Analyzing Microbial Functional Diversity Using Community Level Physiological Profiling, Julia Pierson and Prachi Patel
Alteration of Pain Protocol in Response to the Opioid Crisis, Dana Roby
Expression, Purification, and Characterization of Protein 4DIU, Dana Roby and Zofia Balcerek
Migrants, Citizens and Subjects: How People Moved and Became Citizens in the Roman World, David Rocha
Effect of Time Course Exposure to Neuroinflammatory Proteins on the Phagocytic Activity of Microglial Cells, Carly Rodriguez, Tatiana Swindell, and Joshua Belder
Global Jewish Migration: Organized Aid and Group Identity, Jacob Ross
How the Netflix Movie "Circle" Constructs Stereotypes, American Values and Identity Within American Society, Kathleen Saddler
Self-Concept and Identity During Young Adulthood, Gabrielle Salamone and Isabella DiGiorgio
Undoing the Unhinged Woman: An Examination of Contemporary Media Representation of Women and Ideology, Alyssa Scanlon
Tuning Photo-Sensitive Intramolecular Electron Transfers in Rhenium Coordination Compounds, Nicole Schmalbach
23&Me Direct-to-Consumer Kits Test for G6PD Deficiency, Nick Schnaars, Ava Compagnoni, Claire Vance, Mike Daddazio, Joey Mullen, Emily Selfridge, Ryan Schreffler, Andy Pham, and Shannon Blessing
Inclusive Community Fellowship Supporting the Ursinus LGBTQ+ Community, Domenick Scudera
Oxidative Stress is Not Increased in Male Mice Hearts Fed a High Saturated or High Unsaturated Fat Diet, Brooke Segich
Literature Review of Protein Pathways Related to the Maturation Promoting Factor in Caenorhabditis elegans, Leanna Simpson
The Business and the Science Behind 23andMe: Chronic Kidney Disease, Kaitlyn Smith, Brianna Valerio, Abigail Schwerdt, Prakash Sembhi, Jessica Rogers, Colin Holtzman, Kevin Devlin, Samantha Aguirre, and Braden Burns
The Ketogenic Diet and Motor Coordination, Ken Sprankle, Mya Knappenberger, and Kaylin Knapsack
My Bonner Journey, Aliyah Stephens
Can the Yeast Ribosome-Associated Complex Chaperones Zuo1 and Ssz1 be Functionally Replaced With Their Human Homologs Mpp11 and Hsp70L1?, Danielle Terrenzio, Amanda Marley, Seongchan Kim, and Nikole Fandino Pachon
UCIMCO Endowment Semi-Annual Presentation, Fasineh Turay, Zachary Crebbin, Stephen Schoenborn, Michael Magargee, Lucas Olshevski, Ian Vogt, George Psaradakis, Joseph Mercurio, Hakan Atillasoy, Michael Buck, Harry Riley, Matthew McMahon, Ben Sjosten, Theo Karas, Bruce Edwards, and Liam Close
How Does Advertising Handle Catastrophe? A Look into Advertising During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Claire Vance
Double Agent Sarah Sze, Mekha Varghese
Inequity in Montgomery County Public High Schools, Alex Wagoner and Carli Heimann
The Grass Isn’t Always Greener, James Walsh
How Your Spit Can Determine Your Genetic Risk to Parkinson’s Disease, Ryan Whittaker, Zoe Tesone, John Grandrimo, Benjamin Tobias, Destyn Snyder, Reese Goodlin, Prachi Patel, Blake Becker, Emma Reuter, Aidan O'Malley, and Michael Conforti
The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on COVID-19 Outcomes: Audio Commentary, Brytney Wornham
The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on COVID-19 Outcomes: Poster, Brytney Wornham
Synthesis and Assembly of Oligonucleotide-Stabilized Lipid Micelles, Jesse Wun, Zenya Yanoff, and Paige Bristow
Extraction of Cutin and Examination of Possible Breakdown to Monomer Units by Thermophilic Compost Enrichments, Samantha Zubler, Addisen Miller, and Samantha Beckman
Submissions from 2020
Chronic Irradiation of Human Cells Reduces Histone Levels and Deregulates Gene Expression: Review Presentation, Samuel Adeniyi
When Pigs Fly: A Study on the H1N1 Virus, Femi Adetola
Progress in the Rational Design of Photo-induced Electron Transfer (PeT)-Based Fluorescent Probes Through Investigation of Nitrogen Heteroatom Fluorophores, Matthew Balestriere and Paige D'Elia
Fighting Waste and Feeding People: Exploring the Context of Campus Food Waste and Student Recovery Efforts, Sarah Becker, Max Stout, Maddie Kuklentz, and Savona Cerra
Differences in Glucose Uptake Induced by Prions in Yeast, Samantha Beck
Synthesis and Assembly of Oligonucleotide-Stabilized Lipid Micelles: Audio Presentation, Emily Bender, Leah Sulyok, and Jesse Wun
Synthesis and Assembly of Oligonucleotide-Stabilized Lipid Micelles: Poster, Emily Bender, Leah Sulyok, and Jesse Wun
Rehearsal for Ridiculous Rigor: Past, Present, and Possible, Erica Best, Mackenzie Buckley, Christina Foley, Kevin Harris II, Elizabeth Kandler, Madison Moses, Adrianna Schwindt-Thompson, Chelsea Stitt, Emma Warnick, and Samantha Youngclaus
Analysis of Pore-Blocking Events in Carbon Nanotube Devices, Sarah Blatt, David Lippe, David Baird, Michael Bonfiglio, and Matthew Seeburger
Rehearsal for Don't Worry If You Know It, Mackenzie Buckley, Christina Foley, Elizabeth Kandler, Madison Moses, Adrianna Schwindt-Thompson, Chelsea Stitt, Emma Warnick, and Samantha Youngclaus
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger: Review Presentation, Jason Cayetano
Nuclease Activity of Zinc DFsc Proteins, Brendan Cherrey
Cash For Gold: An Economic Analysis of the Olympic Games, Connor De Faber-Schumacher
My Bonner Journey, Allison DeGerlia
Virtue and Disease: Narrative Accounts of Orthorexia, Neve Durrwachter
The Classification of an Unknown Protein 3H04, Britney Dyszel
3D Printing During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Tiffini Eckenrod
Digital Liberal Arts Fellows, Tiffini Eckenrod
My Internship at The Mill at Anselma, Tiffini Eckenrod
Does Using wee-1.3 as a Secondary Suppressor Restore Wildtype Timing of Meiosis and Oocyte Maturation in pam-1 C. elegans Mutants?, Caprice Eisele
Spoken Word Presents Public Reading #3, Cyn Ercole, Shelsea Deravil, Adam Mlodzinski, Brooke Yanaga, Keith Graves, Sam Beckman, and Stevie Gardner
Invisible Hand or Collective Command: Unionized Effect on State Wages, Michael Felix
The Million-Dollar Smile: The Economic Analysis of Facial Symmetry in the NFL, Marion Fortino
GFAP Expression of Radial Glial Cells of the Regenerating Spinal Cord of Axolotls, Erin Fowler
Development of an Oxygen and Sulfur Series of Photo-induced Electron Transfer (PET)-Based Fluorescent Probes for Applications in Triazine Detection, Erin Fowler and Alyssa St. Jean
Civil Engineering: Inspections and Testing, Noah Frantz
Retention Analysis of Benzene Compounds in HPLC Using a Fluoro octyl Column and 50:50% (v/v) Methanol/Water, Cara Freedman
Love on the Brain, Luke Gehlhaus
Robots and Cleanliness: Does Hospital Size Matter?, Angela Gervasi and Shannon Blessing
Quantum Tunnelling to the Origin and Evolution of Life: Review Presentation, Nina Givens
Mo’ Money Less Problems: Personal Factors that Correlate with Post-Baccalaureate Attainment, Zachary Goss
Hungering for Change: Live Q&A on Food Security, Sylvia Grove, Caroline Harries, Tanya Weaver, Sarah Fisher, Margrethe Leis, and Kyra Clark
Ursinus Dance Program: American College Dance Association Conference, March 4-7, 2020, Kevin Harris II and Chelsea Stitt
Political Perspectives and Attitudes Towards the Legal System, Hiyab Hiruy
Progress Presentation on the Proposed Function of Protein 4DIU Through Bioinformatics Analyses, Melissa Hoff
