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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


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100
Session 2

Pulsation and Dust Chemistry in Galactic Carbon Stars

Matthew O'Brien-Pifer

Department: Physics and Astronomy
Faculty Mentor: Greg Sloan

100
Session 1

Barriers and Facilitators to Successful Food-Based Interventions for Food Insecurity

Kevin Pignone

Department: Health Policy and Management
Faculty Mentor: Darren DeWalt

101
Session 1

Targeted Single-Stranded and Double-Stranded DNA Breaks using CRISPR systems in Mammalian Cells

Kirti Nimmala

Department: Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering UNC-NCSU
Faculty Mentor: Brian Diekman

101
Session 1

Targeted Single-Stranded and Double-Stranded DNA Breaks using CRISPR systems in Mammalian Cells

Kirti Nimmala

Department: Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering UNC-NCSU
Faculty Mentor: Brian Diekman

101
Session 2

Effects of Identity on Autistic Masking

Maura O'Sullivan

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Patrick Harrison

102
Session 1

Exploring Antimicrobial Activity of Crab Bacterial Isolates Against Potential Marine Pathogens

Klodia Badal

Department: Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Alecia Septer

102
Session 2

Threshold Moderation for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging

Max Christman

Department: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Saba Eskandarian

103
Session 1

Participation in Cheerleading and Its Effect on Injury Rates

Kyla Locklear

Department: Exercise and Sport Science
Faculty Mentor: Kristen Kucera

103
Session 2

Pursuing Electrochemical Dinitrogen Fixation with a Re(V) Dioxo

Maya Spencer

Department: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Alexander Miller

104
Session 1

Spatial Estimation of Radon Exposure for Epidemiologic Risk Assessment

Kyle Sorensen

Department: Epidemiology (Gillings School of Public Health), Statistics and Operations Research
Faculty Mentor: Richard Smith

104
Session 2

A novel role for the histone methyltransferase SETD2 during mitosis.

James Metts

Department: Biochemistry & Biophysics
Faculty Mentor: Abid Khan

105
Session 1

Synaptic Change, Sleep, and Pathological Analyses in Alzheimer’s Disease

Kathryn Joyce

Department: Cell Biology and Physiology, Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Monica Gaudier-Diaz

105
Session 2

Establishment of a choice procedure to study alcohol self-administration: Relevance to alcohol use disorder

McKinley Windram

Department: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
Faculty Mentor: Joyce Besheer

106
Session 1

There’s carbon buried in Falls Lake: Where did it come from?

Laura Flynn

Department: EMES
Faculty Mentor: Brent McKee

106
Session 2

Exploring the effects of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in maintaining the coral-algal symbiosis in the facultatively symbiotic coral Oculina arbuscula

Meg McCartney

Department: Department of Marine Sciences, Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program
Faculty Mentor: Karl Castillo

107
Session 2

Modeling the evolution of fear acquisition strategies in predator-prey encounters

Megan Bishop

Department: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Maria Servedio

108
Session 2

Sex Differences in Rodent Neuronal Reactivity to Predatory and Non-predatory Natural Images in the Dentate Gyrus

Megana Duraipandi, Fengjun Tian, Shivani Nagamalla, Wu Li, Quinn Mahone

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Penton

108
Session 1

Evaluating at-home E-Coli testing solutions to improve water quality testing in Eastern North Carolina

Lauren McShea, Avery Matthews, Cole Seifert

Department: Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Amanda Northcross

109
Session 1

The Importance of Community in Sport: A Focus on the XFL's Houston Roughnecks

Lea Craig, Ellie Erwin, Chloé Holleschák, William Fuentes, Jenna Walker

Department: Hussman School of Journalism and Media
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Harker

109
Session 2

The Role of Hydrogen Energy for Germany's Energiewende: Past and Present

Melanie Altenkirch

Department: Germanic and Slavic Literature and Culture (GSLL)
Faculty Mentor: Joseph Rockelmann

110
Session 2

College Students with Negative Humor Types have Higher Peripheral IL-6 and CRP Levels

Melissa Medina, Anthony Lamberti

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Victoria Macht

111
Session 1

Modeling the AAV Rep Protein Towards Restricted Replication for Safer Gene Therapy

Leah Whitfield

Department: Gene Therapy Center, Department of Ophthalmology
Faculty Mentor: Matt Hirsch

112
Session 1

Physical Activity Patterns in Men and Women Within the First Six Months Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Elena Einaudi

Department: Exercise and Sport Science
Faculty Mentor: Brian Pietrosimone

112
Session 2

Microglial Activation and T-Cell Infiltration to the CNS Following LPS Administration​

Morcos Saeed, Yash Patel Nicole Sagarnaga Brooke Deronne

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Shveta Parekh

113
Session 1

How Blame, Shame, and MoralIdentity Relate to DEI Efforts among Members of Privileged vs. Marginalized Groups

Levin Low

Department: Psychology & Neuroscience
Faculty Mentor: Kurt Gray

113
Session 2

Predictors of Increased Concussion Symptoms in Male and Female Young Adults

Morgan Cloud

Department: Exercise and Sport Science
Faculty Mentor: Johna Register-Mihalik

114
Session 2

Stretchable Pluse Oximeter

NANQI PENG

Department: Bai Group
Faculty Mentor: Wubin Bai

115
Session 1

Development of Different Skynet Systems for Gravitational Wave Research and Astronomy Education

Logan Selph

Department: Physics and Astronomy
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Reichart

115
Session 2

Response of Intertidal Oyster Reefs to Increasing Rates of Sea-Level Rise

Naomi Nice

Department: Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Antonio Rodriguez