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.
Submissions from 2018
Can Foreign Aid Reduce the Amount of Terrorist Attacks?, Charlotte Rohrer
Effects of Macrophage Produced Wnts on Endothelial Permeability and Stress Fiber Formation, Oniel Salik
Who Wins and Who Loses? How Gentrification Caused by Public Transportation is Felt Differently Across Race, Rosina Shipman
Number of E12.5-born BrdU-labeled Cells in the Medial Ganglionic Eminence is Unaffected by Prenatal Alcohol, Avery Sicher
The Interaction of Escherichia coli With Tetracycline-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, Audrey Simpson
Inverse-Kinematics Proton Scattering on 42S, Lisa M. Skiles
The Potential Colocalization of Slitrk2 and PSD-95 at Neuronal Synapses, Aliyah Stephens
Turkish EU Accession: The Influence of the Far Right, Gregory Stryker
How Do Integration Policies Affect Immigrants' Attitudes Towards the Host Country?, Roumaissaa Tailassane
A Mile in my Shoes: A Website for First-Generation Immigrants, Chelsey Thomas
The Comparison of Endothelial Permeability at Different Time Points Post Skeletal Muscle Injury in Mice at Various Ages, Sabrina Tusavitz
Impacts of Increasing Plant Diversity on Pea Aphid and Rice Leaf Bug Populations in an Agroecosystem, Carter Usowski
An Analysis of Microglia Within the Pro-Regenerative Spinal Cord of Ambystoma mexicanum, Andrew Voyack
Hooking Up: Pluralistic Ignorance, Sociosexual Orientation, and Self-Concept Clarity, Marisa Waite
The Rise of Political Factions in the United States: 1789–1795, William Wehrs
Detecting Rydberg Interactions With Controlled Ionization, Lauren Yoast
Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Stigma and Mental Health for People of Color, Susana Zelaya Rivera
Submissions from 2017
Can the Yeast Ribosome-Associated Complex Chaperones Zuo1 and Ssz1 be Functionally Replaced With Their Human Homologs Mpp11 and Hsp70L1?, Yusef G. Ahmed
Determination of Thermal Niche for a Ground Beetle Predator (Bembidion spp.) in Barley Fields, Gabriella R. Altmire
Relationship of Wolf Spider (Pardosa spp.) Activity Levels to Temperature in Central Sweden, Alexandra M. Bailey
Biological Bodies: Defining Sex in the Modern Era, Bethany G. Belton
Optimizing an Electron's Path to Ionization Using a Genetic Algorithm, Jason Bennett and Kevin Choice
Characterization and Identification of the lz5 Suppressor of pam-1 in C. elegans, Dorothy A. Benton
Children's Perceptions of Cyberbullying, Julissa Bonilla
Girl Crush: Liminal Identities and Lesbian Love in Children's Cartoons, Madison Bradley
Call of the Wildman and Other Tall Tales From the Bahamas and Guyana: Documenting my Family's Cultural Heritage Through the Short Story, Brandon T.G. Carey
Using Axolotl Tail Regeneration to Analyze Age Effects in Homeostasis and Microglial Characteristics, Jamie Casseus
Board Game Pedagogy, Emmett L. Cawley and Jake G. Nop
The Effect of Cover Crops on Particulate Organic Matter, Kirk R. Cherneskie
Theater for Social Justice: Sexual Violence Prevention Programming for College Campuses, Jessica Childs
Pixar: A Bully Culture?, Rowan Davis
Assessing the Supply of Provisioning and Cultural Ecosystem Services From Urban Forests: A Philadelphia Pilot Study, Jenna Q. Detweiler
Academic Habitus and the Summer Fellows: an Ethnographic Exploration of Students' Accumulated Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital, Sydney Dickson
Isolation and Characterization of Primary Microglial Cells From Mouse Cortical Tissue, Sarah E. Dolan and Yoonjung Kim
Development of a Reaction Based Chemical Sensor for the Detection of Atrazine, Gunther S. Druker
Trepidation: A Film Project on Cultural Trauma, Courtney A. DuChene
Assessing Sox2 Expression in the Spinal Cord of Ambystoma mexicanum During Single and Multiple Regenerations, Adam G. Dykie
The Alkylation and Subsequent Smiles Rearrangement of Hydroxycoumarin Derivatives, Omar Elghawy
Call and Response: The Effect of Terrorist Incidents on the Way Nations Fight Terrorism, Hannah Engber
Conviction to Conversion: The Internal Struggle That Leads to External Action, Emma Feinman
The Effects of Age on Spinal Cord Regeneration in Ambystoma mexicanum, William A. Foss
Trump Said What?: An Intersectional Approach to Identity Mobilization in Post-Coal Central Appalachia, Gwendolyn R. Franklin
Disenfranchised Deaths: Using Epidemic Diseases as Case Studies to Examine Cultural Responses to Disruptions in the Lives of Marginalized Populations in the Americas, Skyler L. Gailing
Our Christian Nation: White Supremacy and the Making of an American Theology, Sophia Driscoll Gamber
Combating Antibiotic Resistant Escherichia coli Using Modified Nano-graphene to Deliver Tetracycline, Brandon Lee Greyson
The Harlem Renaissance's Hidden Figure, Jada A. Grice
Ursinus Remembers: The Vietnam War, Liam R. Griffin
The Value of Liberal Education: An Examination of Reality and Representation in Movies, Leah A. Grudberg
Aid in Dying: The Morals Behind the Laws, Anna Gulko
Theatre for Social Change: Histories & Applications, Samantha J. Hageman
A Finely Indecisive Hypocrite: Essays on an Asian American Upbringing, Albert Hahn
Returning Thermal Advantage Instrument’s DSC 2920 and SDT 2960 to Functioning Order, Ethan B. Haldeman
Investigating Female Indigenous Leadership in Latin America, Roseangela G. Hartford
Young Entrepreneurship in Philadelphia, Mario J. Heitman
A House of Cards: Free Banking in Antebellum Chicago, Miles J. Holtzman
The Impact of Special Interest Housing on the Well Being of Black Students, Bryanna Jones
Exploring Novel Roles for the Slitrk Protein Family, Jordyn S. Karliner
Inverse Kinematics Proton Scattering of P41, Benjamin R. Klybor
Methods of Categorizing Flavor Compound Production of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strain by Fermentation of Bavarian–Style Wheat Beer, Jesse M. Kulp
The Impact of BPA, BPS, and BPF on Cathepsin Activity and Metastasis of MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells, Jake C. Lachowicz
The Diversity of Social Life at Ursinus College, Morgan Larese
Using PEG-Modified Graphene Oxide to Deliver Tetracycline in Escherichia coli, Amy G. Lee
Using Tomato Lectin to Study the Effect of Age on Tail Regeneration in Ambystoma mexicanum (Axolotls), Melanie E. Lee
Locus Determination and Delineation of Suppressors of pam-1 in C. elegans, Zana Lee
The Narcissistic Gaze in Pipilotti Rist’s Video Work Mutaflor (1996), Yanlin Li
The Effects of Forage Systems on Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Soil, Christopher E. Maley Jr.
Quantum Physics and Relativity in Lovecraft's Fiction, Garrison McCammon
The Effects of Multiple Pregnancies on the Reversibility of Pregnancy-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy, Robert C. McNamara
The Quality of Care Delivery in the US Healthcare System, Andrew R. Murphy
The Potential Neuroprotective Effects of Antioxidant Cyanidin Chloride on Caenorhabditis elegans Subjected to Oxidative Stress, Ashley Nguyen
Alternative Medicine: All Quack and No Bite? A Conversation About Integrating Alternative Medicine Into our Healthcare System, Abigail J. O'Keefe
Examining Barriers to Healthcare Within the Black Community, Oluwagbotemi Olafunmiloye
Analysis of Polarity Dynamics in the Single-Cell C. elegans Embryo, Amanda Otto
Characterization of a C8 (octyl) Column for High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Using a 10:90% (v/v) Methanol–Water Mobile Phase, Steven Pandelidis
The Effects of Estrogen, BPA, and BPA Structural Analogs on the MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cell Line, Saloni Parikh
Random Strong Discrete Morse Theory, Nikolai X. Peralta
Civic Educational Reform: Reaffirming Our Rights, Duties and Love of Country Through Understanding History Differently in the Classroom, Samuel V. Pope
Self-Concept in Autistic Individuals, Kayla A. Quinn
The Interaction of Escherichia coli With Tetracycline-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, Ria Rathi
Engineering Electron Superpositions Using a Magnetic Field, Zoe A. Rowley and Bianca R. Gualtieri
Spin-Coated Chalcogenide Films as a Route to Functional Nanoscale Devices, Brittani Schnable
Inverse-Kinematics Proton Scattering on 43P, Lisa M. Skiles
A Fractured Family and Its Heirs: Seljuq Power and the “Sunni Revival” in the Middle East, 1000-1200 CE, Elijah Sloat
Convexity Properties of Diestel-Leader Groups, Bernard W. Steyaert
The Rise of the Alt-Right Movement, Ryan T. Summers
World Class: A Case for Teaching the Strangeness of Language Through Metalingualism in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Kara E. Travis
Communicating Identity Then and Now: A Comparative Content Analysis of Writings by College Students During Times of Political Unrest, Asuka Watanabe
Morphology and Contractility of the Murine Heart: Are Changes in Pregnancy-induced Cardiac Function Exacerbated After Two Pregnancies?, Rachel M. Weil
Measuring Acquisition of Neuroscience Concepts Using the Structural Assessment of Knowledge Approach, Noah C. Yeagley
Beauvoir’s Wallowing Woman: A Modern Critique of Immanence and Bad Faith in The Second Sex, Haley Zorger
Submissions from 2016
Structural Characterization of Sup35, Rnq1, and Ure2 Ribosomal Cotranslational Prion Aggregation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Benjamin T. Allwein
Identification of the lz5 Suppressor of pam-1 in C. elegans, Robin Alsher
Ciliate Codon Translator Program Manual, Quentin D. Altemose
Investigating Asylum and Assimilation Procedures in European Countries as it Relates to the Independence of Women, Katherine R. Avetta
Preparing Students for College Mathematics, Berett C. Babrich