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2023 Presenters

Welcome to the 2023 Celebration of Undergraduate Research! You can browse posters below or use the search function to find a presenter name or search by department.

Session 1: 2:30 - 3:20 | Session 2: 3:30 - 4:20 | Session 3: 4:30 - 5:20


Showing 30 of 341 posters

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Session 1

An Evaluation of Simplifying Modifications to the SenSafe Quick™ Arsenic II as a Method of Widespread Well Water Monitoring in North Carolina

Aaron Wei

Department: Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Amanda Northcross

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Session 2

Sex Differences in Tyrosine Hydroxylase Expression Within the Norepinephrine System of the A1 Anatomical Region in Mice

Aakanksha Gundu, Ali Fahim, Anjali Chandrasekhar, Eymania Alston

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Sabrina Robertson

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Session 2

Sex Differences of µ-Opioid Receptor Expression in the Dorsal and Ventral Subcoeruleus Nuclei

Abigail Leiviska, Makenna Vasquez, Madeline O'Reilly, Erica Oake

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Sabrina Robertson

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Session 1

Optimized Conditions to Identify SGSM2-Interacting Proteins

Abigail Rohy

Department: Genetics, Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Karen Mohlke

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Session 2

Classical Wave-Particle Analog of Anderson Localization

Abel Abraham

Department: Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Pedro Saenz

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Session 1

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Session 1

Abnormal Salience Network Segregation in Adolescents and Young Adults with Prodromal Psychosis Symptoms

Aditya Iyer

Department: School of Nursing, College of Arts and Sciences, Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program, Department of Radiology
Faculty Mentor: Rose Xavier

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Session 2

Exploring the Evolution of Nugget Galaxies Using Neighbors in the RESOLVE Survey

Abigail Dunnigan

Department: Physics and Astronomy
Faculty Mentor: Sheila Kannappan

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Session 2

The Pain of Rejection: Using Photography to Prevent Erasure and Find Self-Acceptance

Abigail Gillespie

Department: Department of English and Comparative Literature, English and Comparative Literature
Faculty Mentor: María DeGuzmán

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Session 1

Performing Diplomacy: Identity, Intersectionality and Model United Nations

Adolfo Alvarez

Department: Geography
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Olson

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Session 2

Structural Implications of Missionary Work in the Congo: The Limitations of The Poisonwood Bible in its Critique of Colonization

Abigail Welch

Department: English and Comparative Literature
Faculty Mentor: Danielle Christmass

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Session 1

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Session 1

Identifying genes that affect colony morphology in bacterial pathogen Clostridioides difficile

Aicha Kaouss

Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Faculty Mentor: Rita Tamayo

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Session 2

New Strategies Towards Photochemical Nitrogen Fixation

Afrah Faraz

Department: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Alexander Miller

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Session 2

Unemployment Insurance and Labor Market Transitions: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Aiqi Sun

Department: Economics
Faculty Mentor: Klara Peter

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Session 2

litany of the green lion

Alex Benedict

Department: English and Comparative Literature
Faculty Mentor: Hassan Melehy

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Session 1

Adolescent ethanol impacts brain immediate early gene expression, and peripheral neuroimmune, neuroendocrine, and behavioral responsivity to an adult ethanol challenge

Aldrin Mosqueda

Department: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, School of Medicine
Faculty Mentor: Fulton Crews

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Session 1

Effects of Creative Social Media Video Content on XFL Fan Engagement

Alexandra Rupkalvis, Kennedy Cox, Alexis Dixon, Max Feliu

Department: MEJO
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Harker

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Session 2

Foraging Ecology of the Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) in the western North Atlantic

Alexander Reulbach

Department: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Frederick Wenzel

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Session 1

Personality and Moral Resiliency: False Feedback and Its Effects on Moral Decisions

Amber Posada

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Patrick Harrison

11
Session 2

Chief Sustainability Officers: Symbolic or Substantial?

Alexandra Hatsios

Department: Kenan Flagler
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Mittelstadt

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Session 2

The Effect of Distance and Directionality on the Detectability of Avian Vocalizations by Autonomous Recording Units

Amelia Milano

Department: Biology, Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program
Faculty Mentor: Allen Hurlbert

12
Session 1

Friendships On- and Off-line: The Effect Posting on Instagram has on Adolescent Friendship Qualities

Amy Xu

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Eva Telzer

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Session 2

Why do Middle Schoolers with More Positive Outlook Act More Aggressively?

Amy Xu, Alyssa Choate, Jasmine Guy, Chris Madden, Nathalia Freitas

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Desirae Griffin

13
Session 1

Multifaceted influences on carbon dioxide flux in freshwater wetlands

Amy Madrigal

Department: Geography
Faculty Mentor: Diego Riveros-Iregui

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Session 1

Making Waves: the Cocoa Cinnamon Story

Ana Hoppert

Department: English and Comparative Literature
Faculty Mentor: Hilary Lithgow

14
Session 2

Single-Visit LARC Initiation Among Adolescents Before and During COVID-19

Ananya Tadikonda

Department: Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Faculty Mentor: Bianca Allison

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Session 2

Greening the Hill: Analyzing UNC’s Battle Grove Regenerative Stormwater Conveyance System

Anna Coley, Sophia Sload, Hanna Berger, Brooke Kongmany, Claudia Sandoval, Brenda Palacios Rodriguez, Sarah Dean

Department: E3P
Faculty Mentor: Antonia Sebastian

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Session 1

Mu-opioid receptor and norepinephrine neuron colocalization in the A7 of male and female mice

Sam Tabet, Cameron Griffin, Adi Kumar, Ananyaa Sundar

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Sabrina Robertson

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Session 1

Are Sports Teams Playing Fans?

Anaya Patel, Taylor Thomas, Manny Portugal, Trey Foulks

Department: Exercise & Sport Science
Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Jensen