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 2018

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Can Foreign Aid Reduce the Amount of Terrorist Attacks?, Charlotte Rohrer

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Effects of Macrophage Produced Wnts on Endothelial Permeability and Stress Fiber Formation, Oniel Salik

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Who Wins and Who Loses? How Gentrification Caused by Public Transportation is Felt Differently Across Race, Rosina Shipman

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Number of E12.5-born BrdU-labeled Cells in the Medial Ganglionic Eminence is Unaffected by Prenatal Alcohol, Avery Sicher

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The Interaction of Escherichia coli With Tetracycline-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, Audrey Simpson

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Inverse-Kinematics Proton Scattering on 42S, Lisa M. Skiles

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The Potential Colocalization of Slitrk2 and PSD-95 at Neuronal Synapses, Aliyah Stephens

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Turkish EU Accession: The Influence of the Far Right, Gregory Stryker

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Examining the Role of Zuo1 Protein in Prion Formation and the Activation of the Pleotropic Drug Resistance Response Under Environmental Stresses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Jessica Taddeo

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How Do Integration Policies Affect Immigrants' Attitudes Towards the Host Country?, Roumaissaa Tailassane

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A Mile in my Shoes: A Website for First-Generation Immigrants, Chelsey Thomas

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The Comparison of Endothelial Permeability at Different Time Points Post Skeletal Muscle Injury in Mice at Various Ages, Sabrina Tusavitz

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Impacts of Increasing Plant Diversity on Pea Aphid and Rice Leaf Bug Populations in an Agroecosystem, Carter Usowski

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Investigation of Spin and Dip-coating Phase Change Chalcogenide Materials as a Novel Technique for Coating and Functionalizing Conformal Optics, Paul Vecchio

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An Analysis of Microglia Within the Pro-Regenerative Spinal Cord of Ambystoma mexicanum, Andrew Voyack

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Hooking Up: Pluralistic Ignorance, Sociosexual Orientation, and Self-Concept Clarity, Marisa Waite

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The Rise of Political Factions in the United States: 1789–1795, William Wehrs

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The Path of Least Resistance: How Strict Chinese Stock Market Regulation Incentivizes Chinese Companies to List in Foreign Stock Exchanges, Chenyu Yin

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Detecting Rydberg Interactions With Controlled Ionization, Lauren Yoast

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Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Stigma and Mental Health for People of Color, Susana Zelaya Rivera

Submissions from 2017

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Can the Yeast Ribosome-Associated Complex Chaperones Zuo1 and Ssz1 be Functionally Replaced With Their Human Homologs Mpp11 and Hsp70L1?, Yusef G. Ahmed

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Determination of Thermal Niche for a Ground Beetle Predator (Bembidion spp.) in Barley Fields, Gabriella R. Altmire

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Relationship of Wolf Spider (Pardosa spp.) Activity Levels to Temperature in Central Sweden, Alexandra M. Bailey

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Biological Bodies: Defining Sex in the Modern Era, Bethany G. Belton

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Optimizing an Electron's Path to Ionization Using a Genetic Algorithm, Jason Bennett and Kevin Choice

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Characterization and Identification of the lz5 Suppressor of pam-1 in C. elegans, Dorothy A. Benton

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Children's Perceptions of Cyberbullying, Julissa Bonilla

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Girl Crush: Liminal Identities and Lesbian Love in Children's Cartoons, Madison Bradley

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Paleoclimate of Pleistocene Epoch Costa Rica: Grain Size, AMS, and MAR Analyses That Explore the Behavior of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), Prevailing Winds, and Ocean Circulation Over the Last Two Million Years, Catherine R. Buczek

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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

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Using Axolotl Tail Regeneration to Analyze Age Effects in Homeostasis and Microglial Characteristics, Jamie Casseus

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Board Game Pedagogy, Emmett L. Cawley and Jake G. Nop

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The Effect of Cover Crops on Particulate Organic Matter, Kirk R. Cherneskie

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Theater for Social Justice: Sexual Violence Prevention Programming for College Campuses, Jessica Childs

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Pixar: A Bully Culture?, Rowan Davis

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Assessing the Supply of Provisioning and Cultural Ecosystem Services From Urban Forests: A Philadelphia Pilot Study, Jenna Q. Detweiler

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Academic Habitus and the Summer Fellows: an Ethnographic Exploration of Students' Accumulated Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital, Sydney Dickson

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Isolation and Characterization of Primary Microglial Cells From Mouse Cortical Tissue, Sarah E. Dolan and Yoonjung Kim

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Development of a Reaction Based Chemical Sensor for the Detection of Atrazine, Gunther S. Druker

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Trepidation: A Film Project on Cultural Trauma, Courtney A. DuChene

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Assessing Sox2 Expression in the Spinal Cord of Ambystoma mexicanum During Single and Multiple Regenerations, Adam G. Dykie

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The Alkylation and Subsequent Smiles Rearrangement of Hydroxycoumarin Derivatives, Omar Elghawy

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Call and Response: The Effect of Terrorist Incidents on the Way Nations Fight Terrorism, Hannah Engber

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Conviction to Conversion: The Internal Struggle That Leads to External Action, Emma Feinman

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The Effects of Age on Spinal Cord Regeneration in Ambystoma mexicanum, William A. Foss

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Trump Said What?: An Intersectional Approach to Identity Mobilization in Post-Coal Central Appalachia, Gwendolyn R. Franklin

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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

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Our Christian Nation: White Supremacy and the Making of an American Theology, Sophia Driscoll Gamber

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Combating Antibiotic Resistant Escherichia coli Using Modified Nano-graphene to Deliver Tetracycline, Brandon Lee Greyson

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The Harlem Renaissance's Hidden Figure, Jada A. Grice

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Ursinus Remembers: The Vietnam War, Liam R. Griffin

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The Value of Liberal Education: An Examination of Reality and Representation in Movies, Leah A. Grudberg

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Aid in Dying: The Morals Behind the Laws, Anna Gulko

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Theatre for Social Change: Histories & Applications, Samantha J. Hageman

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A Finely Indecisive Hypocrite: Essays on an Asian American Upbringing, Albert Hahn

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Returning Thermal Advantage Instrument’s DSC 2920 and SDT 2960 to Functioning Order, Ethan B. Haldeman

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Investigating Female Indigenous Leadership in Latin America, Roseangela G. Hartford

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Young Entrepreneurship in Philadelphia, Mario J. Heitman

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A House of Cards: Free Banking in Antebellum Chicago, Miles J. Holtzman

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The Impact of Special Interest Housing on the Well Being of Black Students, Bryanna Jones

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Exploring Novel Roles for the Slitrk Protein Family, Jordyn S. Karliner

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Inverse Kinematics Proton Scattering of P41, Benjamin R. Klybor

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Methods of Categorizing Flavor Compound Production of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strain by Fermentation of Bavarian–Style Wheat Beer, Jesse M. Kulp

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The Impact of BPA, BPS, and BPF on Cathepsin Activity and Metastasis of MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells, Jake C. Lachowicz

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The Diversity of Social Life at Ursinus College, Morgan Larese

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Using PEG-Modified Graphene Oxide to Deliver Tetracycline in Escherichia coli, Amy G. Lee

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Using Tomato Lectin to Study the Effect of Age on Tail Regeneration in Ambystoma mexicanum (Axolotls), Melanie E. Lee

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Locus Determination and Delineation of Suppressors of pam-1 in C. elegans, Zana Lee

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The Narcissistic Gaze in Pipilotti Rist’s Video Work Mutaflor (1996), Yanlin Li

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The Effects of Forage Systems on Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Soil, Christopher E. Maley Jr.

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Quantum Physics and Relativity in Lovecraft's Fiction, Garrison McCammon

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The Effects of Multiple Pregnancies on the Reversibility of Pregnancy-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy, Robert C. McNamara

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The Quality of Care Delivery in the US Healthcare System, Andrew R. Murphy

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The Potential Neuroprotective Effects of Antioxidant Cyanidin Chloride on Caenorhabditis elegans Subjected to Oxidative Stress, Ashley Nguyen

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Alternative Medicine: All Quack and No Bite? A Conversation About Integrating Alternative Medicine Into our Healthcare System, Abigail J. O'Keefe

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Examining Barriers to Healthcare Within the Black Community, Oluwagbotemi Olafunmiloye

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Analysis of Polarity Dynamics in the Single-Cell C. elegans Embryo, Amanda Otto

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Characterization of a C8 (octyl) Column for High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Using a 10:90% (v/v) Methanol–Water Mobile Phase, Steven Pandelidis

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The Effects of Estrogen, BPA, and BPA Structural Analogs on the MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cell Line, Saloni Parikh

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Random Strong Discrete Morse Theory, Nikolai X. Peralta

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Civic Educational Reform: Reaffirming Our Rights, Duties and Love of Country Through Understanding History Differently in the Classroom, Samuel V. Pope

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Self-Concept in Autistic Individuals, Kayla A. Quinn

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The Interaction of Escherichia coli With Tetracycline-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, Ria Rathi

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Engineering Electron Superpositions Using a Magnetic Field, Zoe A. Rowley and Bianca R. Gualtieri

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Spin-Coated Chalcogenide Films as a Route to Functional Nanoscale Devices, Brittani Schnable

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Inverse-Kinematics Proton Scattering on 43P, Lisa M. Skiles

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A Fractured Family and Its Heirs: Seljuq Power and the “Sunni Revival” in the Middle East, 1000-1200 CE, Elijah Sloat

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Convexity Properties of Diestel-Leader Groups, Bernard W. Steyaert

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The Rise of the Alt-Right Movement, Ryan T. Summers

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World Class: A Case for Teaching the Strangeness of Language Through Metalingualism in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Kara E. Travis

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Copper-Binding, Oxygen Activation, and 2-Electron Oxidation Kinetics of de novo Designed Due Ferri Single-Chain (DFsc) Variants: a Type 3 Copper Oxidase Model, Brian Van Dyke

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Communicating Identity Then and Now: A Comparative Content Analysis of Writings by College Students During Times of Political Unrest, Asuka Watanabe

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Morphology and Contractility of the Murine Heart: Are Changes in Pregnancy-induced Cardiac Function Exacerbated After Two Pregnancies?, Rachel M. Weil

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Measuring Acquisition of Neuroscience Concepts Using the Structural Assessment of Knowledge Approach, Noah C. Yeagley

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Beauvoir’s Wallowing Woman: A Modern Critique of Immanence and Bad Faith in The Second Sex, Haley Zorger

Submissions from 2016

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Structural Characterization of Sup35, Rnq1, and Ure2 Ribosomal Cotranslational Prion Aggregation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Benjamin T. Allwein

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Identification of the lz5 Suppressor of pam-1 in C. elegans, Robin Alsher

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Ciliate Codon Translator Program Manual, Quentin D. Altemose

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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