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 2019
Black Women’s Wellbeing: The Intersections of Race, Immigrant Status, and Mental Health Among African Diasporan Women in Houston, Texas, Sianneh Vesslee
Power Structures Reimagined: Women's Roles in the Iroquois Confederacy in the 17th Century, Briana Voyton
Queering the Bildungsroman in Yukio Mishima's "Confessions of a Mask" and Jean Genet's "The Thief's Journal", Daniel Walker
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
Investigating the Cellular Control and Biological Consequences of Prion Formation in Yeast, Richard Wike
Matriarchs and Martyrs: Women in Early Christian Apocrypha, Robert Wilf
The Shape of You: Music's Impact on Identity, Codi Yhap
Submissions from 2018
Effect of Plant Diversity on Potato Leafhopper and Thrips in a Forage Agroecosystem, Gabriella R. Altmire
High Education: A Film Narrative About the Role of Education Today, Tommy Armstrong
Intersectional India: Caste, Feminism and Development in the 21st Century, Anika Backelin-Harrison
How Exercise and Diet Affect Superoxide Dismutase, Clara Baker
Has Academic Freedom Failed? Can Liberalism Defend Academic Freedom?, Daniel Becker
The Effects of Abuse for African Americans Using Critical Autobiographical Analysis, Shelby Carmichael
The Interaction of Escherichia coli With Tetracycline-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, Jordan Carver
Oral Argument Tactics From the Supreme Court Bench: An Analysis of Neil Gorsuch’s First Term, Corinne Cichowicz
Machine Counting of Impact Cratering, Micah Cloward
The Design and Characterization of de novo Coupled Binuclear Copper Model Proteins, Kailyn Cohen
Long Term Effects of Concussions on the Executive Function Network and Brain Waves in the Frontal Lobe, Maria G. Daly and Aliyah J. Clark
Using Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring to Track Alarm Activated Blood Pressure Surges in Control vs Firefighter Populations, Rachel Dickinson
Toward the Rational Design of Photo-induced Electron Transfer (PET)-Based Fluorescent Probes, Julia Dorsheimer
A Brand New Ballgame: An Alternative View to MLB Rookie Exploitation, David P. Drea
Disease Risk Profiles of High Unsaturated and Saturated Fat Diets in Mice, Ian Dysinger
The Journey of an Emotional Black Boy, Alonzo Elias
Belowground Biomass as an Indicator of Soil Carbon Sequestration, Samantha Garritano
Understanding the American Subaltern: An Exploration of Complex Literary Characters Through Socio-Cultural Lenses, Sophie Gioffre
Characterization of De Novo Di-Iron Metalloproteins, Stephanie Hawkins
Identifying Suppressor Mutations of the pam-1 Gene in C. elegans, Angela Hong
Female Comedy: History and Practice, Claire Hughes
The Montessori Method: Redefining the Child, Indira Joell
Rate of Sterility Inducement by lz5 RNAi in Wildtype and pam-1 Mutant C. elegans, Ethan Kabel
Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson: Archives in a Digital World, Megan Koeller
Isolation and Analysis of Mitochondria Function in Mouse Skeletal Muscle, Zachary Larmer
Must it Be Either Or: How Middle-Easterners Navigate Their Dual Identity, Jasmine Lavasani
Urban Farming in Philadelphia, Kaitlyn Lawrence
Inverse-Kinematics Proton Scattering on 44S, Max A. Liggett
Persistence Equivalence of Discrete Morse Functions on Trees, Yuqing Liu
Yeast: The Gateway to Redefining and Improving Biology Labs, Connor Loomis
Seasoned Antisemitism: Cannibalism in The Destruction of Jerusalem, Bailey Ludwig
Investigation of Chemical Sensors for Triazine Detection Operating via Photo-induced Electron Transfer, William Luksic
Complete Bosoms, Incomplete Men: Reading Abstinence in Measure for Measure, Joseph Makuc
Application of Carbon Nanomaterial-Attached Erythromycin to Circumvent Mechanisms of Resistance in Enterococcus faecalis, Noel McCampbell
Effects of Antibiotic-Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Antibiotic Resistant Enterococcus, Lilly McQueen
The Origins and Manifestations of the Modern Queer Look, Ace Melendez
Effect of Forest Fragment Size on Bird Species Diversity in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Isabella Morris
Assessing the Nitrogen Conundrum at the Ursinus College Organic Farm, Madison Moses
A Novel Survival Analysis Method for an Outcome of Time to Consecutive Events, Faraha Rathod
Patient Safety in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU), Bridget Rauh
Diet and Exercise Intervention: A Comparison of Analysis Methods, Emily Reeve
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
