The Summer Fellows program at Ursinus College allows sophomores or juniors to pursue an independent scholarly project under the close tutelage of a faculty mentor during an eight week period. Projects can be undertaken as independent research or a creative or artistic endeavor. All Fellows present their research during the last week of the program.

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Submissions from 2022

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What is Fast Fashion?, Morgan Laster

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Preservation of Chinese Culture: Women’s Choice of Marriage During the Mongol Rule, Hannah Nancy Lee

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Designing for Yiddish Drama, Naomi Marin

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A Silent Outrage: Black Youth, Anti-Blackness, and Mental Health in the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Destiny Miller

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Diversity Casting Within Reality TV Competitions, Maximus Moore

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Let the Monsters Out of the Closet: Overt Queer Depictions in Hollywood Horror Films, Miles D. Noecker

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Creation and Characterization of Solution-Based Chalcogenide Thin Films Using As2S3 and As2Se3, Annabella Orsini

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Automatic Data Aggregation to Assist in the Systematic Classification of Small Lunar Craters, Liam Powers

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2-Spirit/Indigiqueer Art History Guide, Liam Reilly

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“Foxy Knoxy,” the “White Widow,” and Beyond: How Do Media Descriptions of Female Criminals Shape Our Understanding of the Unimaginable?, Natalie Rubinkam

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A Memory of a Memory, Jessica Schnur

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One-Pot Synthesis of Fluorescent Rhodols Through a Smiles Rearrangement, Julia Shoemaker

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A Modern Day Pandemic, Holly Stang

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Beyond Bones: Applying Bioactive Glasses to Long-Term Drug Delivery, Marie O. Sykes, Quentin D. Altemose, and Rashi Sharma

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Investigating Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms in a Ciprofloxacin Resistant Transconjugant in Escherichia coli, Sarah Symes

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How Does the Free Market Affect our Economy?, Samuel Taffet

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Characterizing Expression of a Neuron Specific Protein in the Regenerating Tails of Axolotls, Jordan Ulsh

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Geology, Anthropology, and NAGPRA, Juliana Valerio

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Theorizing Change in Eastern U.S. Hospitals: How Organizational Context Shapes Patient Safety Reform, Mekha Varghese

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The Weaponization of Rape: Military Culture, Tactical Warfare, and Legal Justice, Claire Velte

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Effects of Ketogenic Diet on Cardiac Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Mice, Luca Walborn and Paige Mancari

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Three Stars: Chinese and Japanese Cuisine, Menu Pricing, and Ethnic Status, Jane Walker

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Why Eye Contact is So Hard, Stephen Wilkins

Submissions from 2021

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Linguicide in the Digital Age: Problems and Possible Solutions, Michael Adelson

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The Revitalization of the Marsteller Observatory, Brian Barker

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Urban Forests and Their Potential to Combat Food Insecurity: Analyzing Street Trees in Baltimore, MD for Their Edibility, Victoria Bearden

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Amplification of Hidden Periodic Motions in 3D Videos, Thomas Boccuto, Seraiah Kutai, Kristen Mosley, and Samuel Kirk

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Using “Click Chemistry” to Assemble DNA-Conjugated Dendrimersomes, Paige Bristow

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Mystery & Magic: Playwriting in Theory and Practice, Sarah Buck

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Classical Conditioning of Cognitive States, Arthur Burns

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The Selfless Voter: Altruism and Irrationality in Economic Voting, John Byrne

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Mitigating Climate Change With Microbial Community Soil Carbon Mineralization, Julie Cherneskie

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Urban Forests and Their Potential to Combat Food Insecurity: Analyzing Foods From Street Trees in New York City, NY, Kristen Cooney

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Genetic Interactions Between PAM-1 and MPF, Quaran Davis

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Direct Amination of Hydroxyfluorophores via One-Pot Smiles Rearrangement Hydrolysis, Paige D'Elia

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Investigating Protein Interactions Important for Synapse Formation in the Developing Nervous System, Melanie DeRosa and Simba Kanjanda

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Axon Growth in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Kevyn Dewees

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Towards the Homotopy Type of the Morse Complex, Connor Donovan

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Hysteria: A Collection of Feminist Horror, Anastasia Dziekan

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The Effects of Alcohol on Anxiety and Motor Capabilities, Bethlehem Endeshaw

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Human Orthologs of the Ribosome-Associated Complex (RAC) can Functionally Replace the Yeast RAC in S. cerevisiae, Nikole Fandino Pachon

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Spirituality, Statistics, and Stereotypes: The African American Woman's Use of Spirituality as a Form of Resistance, Serena Rose Gaskin

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Freedom of Speech at Ursinus College, Benjamin Henwood

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Establishing a Model System to Study Human Chaperone Function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Erica Kitterman

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The Behavioral Alterations That a High Fat Diet has in Female Rodents, Mya A. Knappenberger and Ken Sprankle

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The Sands of Time: Understanding the Roles and Effects of Turbidity Flow Velocity on Grain Size and Grain Alignment Within Recent and Ancient Turbidite Deposits, Jessica Lamarca

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Investigating the Interaction Between PAM-1 and WEE-1.3 During Meiosis in C. elegans, Sophie Lear

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Can Saccharomyces cerevisiae Lacking Their Own Ribosome-associated Complex Chaperones Use the Human Orthologs to Suppress Prion Formation and the Toxicity of Disease-associated Proteins?, Amanda Marley

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Delivering Ciprofloxacin Into Resistant E. coli Using PEG-modified Carbon Nanotubes, Elizabeth McKenna and Cassandra Burke

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Probing for Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms in Ciprofloxacin Resistant Coliforms (CRCs) and Clarithromycin Resistant Enterococci (CREs), Kyle Merlo and Benjamin Antill

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Increased Nitrogen Mineralization Rate in Legume Forage Crop Treatments, Austin Mickles

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I Am a Revolutionary?: The Problem of the Black Panther Party’s Intra- and Interorganizational Solidarity, Camille R. Mills

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Advancement in Infrared Optics Through the Exploration of Solution Derived Arsenic Selenide (As2Se3) Thin Films, Annabella Orsini

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US Bilateral Relations With China and Their Effects on US-Japan and US-India Relations, Mackenzie Owens

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Social Movements and Candidate Emergence Among Women, Abigail Peabody

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Skeletal Muscle Force Analysis in Male and Female Mus musculus With Aging, Julia Pierson and Jonathan Klee

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The Spatial Relationship Between Tycho Secondary Craters and Distal Impact Melt Deposits, Liam Powers

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54Fe(d,p)55Fe Single Neutron Transfer, Matthew Quirin and Raymond Saunders

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Watch Your Language! A Foundational Course Exploring Language of Gender and Sexuality, Raeann Risko

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Rome's Missing Legion, David Rocha

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Conducting a Time Course Assay to Assess the Neuro-inflammatory Induced Changes to Microglia Phagocytic Activity and Cytoskeleton Structure, Carly Rodriguez and Tatiana Swindell

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What Role Do Women in Politics Play for Democratic Erosion?, Emelyn Rodriguez

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Podcast Episode 1a: History of Ursinus and Women's Sports, Jacob Ross

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Podcast Episode 1: Ursinus Field Hockey, Eleanor Snell's Legacy and Community, Jacob Ross

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Podcast Episode 2a: Sports Diplomacy, Apartheid, and the Cold War, Jacob Ross

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Podcast Episode 2: Ursinus and Sports Diplomacy in South Africa, Jacob Ross

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Exploring the Effect of Neuroinflammatory Mediator S1 Glycoprotein on Microglia Activation and Functioning, Kayla Ruiz

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The Art of the Story: An Introduction to Playwriting and Dramatic Adaptation, Jacob F. Ryan

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The Effect of pH on Sodium Ion Mobility Through Carbon Nanotubes, Gueladouan Setenet, Matthew Seeburger, and Aaliyah Russell

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Exploring Sex Differences in Mice Fed the Ketogenic Diet, Ken Sprankle and Mya A. Knappenberger

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Whom Does Black Liberation Theology Seek to Liberate?: Gender and Sexuality in Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church’s Christian Doctrine, Nasya Stinson

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Synthesis and Testing of an Aldehyde-Based Fluorogenic Probe for Chlorite Detection, Alyssa St. Jean

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Bi the Way: An Interview-Based Study of the Coming Out Experiences of College-Aged Bisexuals, Annie Stockmal

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Investigating the Fundamental Properties and Processing of Novel Chalcogenide Glass Optical Materials, David Vasquez

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Robbery Or Remix?: Cultural Appropriation in International Hip Hop Communities, Joshua Walker

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A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi): The Intersection of Gender and Disability in Japanese Society, Amanda Weber

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Living Music: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Screen, Liam Worcheck

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Improved Substrate Scope and Linker Optimization for Coumarin-Based Smiles Rearrangement, Evan Yanagawa

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Synthesis and Assembly of Oligonucleotide-Stabilized Lipid Micelles, Zenya Yanoff and Jesse Wun

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A Preliminary Investigation Into the Potential Degradation of Cutin via Thermophilic Microbes, Samantha Zubler

Submissions from 2020

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Investigating Interactions Between Proteins PAM-1 and WEE-1.3 in Regulating the Cell Cycle in Caenorhabditis elegans, Nareen Babaian

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Transport of Neurotransmitters Through Carbon Nanotubes, David Baird

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(Fun)ction: Developing Games From A Narrative Standpoint, Julian Barocas

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What Makes a Mad Genius? The Sociopolitical Role of the Mad Genius Label in United States Early Modern Dance, Erica Best

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Modulation of Microglial Phagocytic Activity and Cytoskeletal Proteins Through HIV-1 Tat Induced Neuroinflammation, Courtney Burns

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Investigating Lunar Cratering in the Tycho Region, Jason Cayetano

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The Experiences of Latino Immigrants in the United States, Ashly Chavez

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Representation and Gatekeeping in Patient Advocacy Organizations, Kyra Clark

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Computational and Literature Analysis of Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Fluorophores Containing Nitrogen Donors, Paige D'Elia

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Haitian Cinema: A Stylistic Analysis & Call for Action and Inclusion, Shelsea Deravil

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Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Axon Guidance in the Developing Brain: A Review of the Corpus Callosum, Kevyn Dewees

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The Effects of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) on Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Axon Guidance: A Review, Deborah Diaz

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Hoop Dreams: An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in Professional Basketball, Hailey DiCicco

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Talking About Race in the College Classroom: An Analysis of Facework, Katelyn Doherty

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The Verge of Renaissance: A Fantasy Novella, Samuel Ernst

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Can a Politician's Platform Understand Systemic Racism in 280 Characters ... or Less?, Maggie Frymoyer

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Database of Ursinus Timelines Related to the Crusades, Matthew Furgele

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Tools for Change: Theatre for Social Justice in Communities of Marginalized Youth, Myla Haan

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Spinal Cord Regeneration: Investigating the Presence of Microglia and their Morphology, James Haasis

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Many Body Localization with Rydberg Atoms, Alicia Handian