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 2019

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Power Structures Reimagined: Women's Roles in the Iroquois Confederacy in the 17th Century, Briana Voyton

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Queering the Bildungsroman in Yukio Mishima's "Confessions of a Mask" and Jean Genet's "The Thief's Journal", Daniel Walker

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Confronting Anxiety and Despair in Environmental Studies and Sciences: An Analysis and Guide for Students and Faculty, Richard L. Wallace, Jess Greenburg, and Susan G. Clark

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Investigating the Cellular Control and Biological Consequences of Prion Formation in Yeast, Richard Wike

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Matriarchs and Martyrs: Women in Early Christian Apocrypha, Robert Wilf

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The Shape of You: Music's Impact on Identity, Codi Yhap

Submissions from 2018

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Effect of Plant Diversity on Potato Leafhopper and Thrips in a Forage Agroecosystem, Gabriella R. Altmire

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High Education: A Film Narrative About the Role of Education Today, Tommy Armstrong

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Intersectional India: Caste, Feminism and Development in the 21st Century, Anika Backelin-Harrison

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How Exercise and Diet Affect Superoxide Dismutase, Clara Baker

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Has Academic Freedom Failed? Can Liberalism Defend Academic Freedom?, Daniel Becker

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The Effects of Abuse for African Americans Using Critical Autobiographical Analysis, Shelby Carmichael

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The Interaction of Escherichia coli With Tetracycline-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, Jordan Carver

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Oral Argument Tactics From the Supreme Court Bench: An Analysis of Neil Gorsuch’s First Term, Corinne Cichowicz

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Machine Counting of Impact Cratering, Micah Cloward

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The Design and Characterization of de novo Coupled Binuclear Copper Model Proteins, Kailyn Cohen

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Putting Me Back Together by Getting Back Together: Relationship Rekindling Resolves Post-Dissolution Self-Concept Confusion in Anxiously Attached Individuals, Morgan A. Cope

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Long Term Effects of Concussions on the Executive Function Network and Brain Waves in the Frontal Lobe, Maria G. Daly and Aliyah J. Clark

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Using Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring to Track Alarm Activated Blood Pressure Surges in Control vs Firefighter Populations, Rachel Dickinson

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Toward the Rational Design of Photo-induced Electron Transfer (PET)-Based Fluorescent Probes, Julia Dorsheimer

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A Brand New Ballgame: An Alternative View to MLB Rookie Exploitation, David P. Drea

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Disease Risk Profiles of High Unsaturated and Saturated Fat Diets in Mice, Ian Dysinger

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The Journey of an Emotional Black Boy, Alonzo Elias

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Belowground Biomass as an Indicator of Soil Carbon Sequestration, Samantha Garritano

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Understanding the American Subaltern: An Exploration of Complex Literary Characters Through Socio-Cultural Lenses, Sophie Gioffre

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Characterization of De Novo Di-Iron Metalloproteins, Stephanie Hawkins

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Identifying Suppressor Mutations of the pam-1 Gene in C. elegans, Angela Hong

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Female Comedy: History and Practice, Claire Hughes

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The Montessori Method: Redefining the Child, Indira Joell

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Rate of Sterility Inducement by lz5 RNAi in Wildtype and pam-1 Mutant C. elegans, Ethan Kabel

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Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson: Archives in a Digital World, Megan Koeller

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Isolation and Analysis of Mitochondria Function in Mouse Skeletal Muscle, Zachary Larmer

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Must it Be Either Or: How Middle-Easterners Navigate Their Dual Identity, Jasmine Lavasani

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Urban Farming in Philadelphia, Kaitlyn Lawrence

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Inverse-Kinematics Proton Scattering on 44S, Max A. Liggett

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Persistence Equivalence of Discrete Morse Functions on Trees, Yuqing Liu

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Yeast: The Gateway to Redefining and Improving Biology Labs, Connor Loomis

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Seasoned Antisemitism: Cannibalism in The Destruction of Jerusalem, Bailey Ludwig

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Investigation of Chemical Sensors for Triazine Detection Operating via Photo-induced Electron Transfer, William Luksic

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Complete Bosoms, Incomplete Men: Reading Abstinence in Measure for Measure, Joseph Makuc

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Application of Carbon Nanomaterial-Attached Erythromycin to Circumvent Mechanisms of Resistance in Enterococcus faecalis, Noel McCampbell

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Effects of Antibiotic-Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Antibiotic Resistant Enterococcus, Lilly McQueen

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The Origins and Manifestations of the Modern Queer Look, Ace Melendez

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Effect of Forest Fragment Size on Bird Species Diversity in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Isabella Morris

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Assessing the Nitrogen Conundrum at the Ursinus College Organic Farm, Madison Moses

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Palaeoclimatological Analysis of Oceanic Sediment From Ocean Drilling Program Site 1234 off the Coast of Chile to Determine Past Climate Conditions and Events, Ashley C. Nunez

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A Novel Survival Analysis Method for an Outcome of Time to Consecutive Events, Faraha Rathod

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Patient Safety in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU), Bridget Rauh

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Diet and Exercise Intervention: A Comparison of Analysis Methods, Emily Reeve

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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