2024 Celebration of Undergraduate Research
2024 Celebration of Undergraduate Research
The 25th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research will be held on Monday, April 29, 2024, from 2:30-5:30pm in Alumni Hall at the Carolina Club (George Watts Hill Alumni Center) at 105 Stadium Drive.
Please scroll below for a full list of presenter details, including poster titles, session, and poster numbers.
The Celebration will consist of three sequential poster sessions starting at 2:30pm, 3:30pm, and 4:30pm, and it will be open to the public. Upon arrival, all attendees should be sure to check in via the QR code outside Alumni Hall. Presenters should plan to arrive approximately 15 minutes before the beginning of their session and pick up name tags at the table near the interior entrance. All attendees and presenters should scan the QR code at the entrance to check in and to get an online list of posters/presenters.
150
Session 3
Pandemic Pedagogy and Parenthood: How COVID-19 Affected Professorship and Parenting
Halley Zhang
Department: SociologyFaculty Mentor: Shannon Malone Gonzalez
150
Session 1
Effects of Acute MDMA Exposure on Sert1, Psd-95, 5-Ht2ar, and Grin2b in the Dorsal Hippocampus
Neha Venkatesh
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Shveta Parekh
151
Session 3
Versatile Methods for Promoting Crystallinity in Small Molecules
Zhiwei Zhang
Department: ChemistryFaculty Mentor: Jeffrey Johnson
151
Session 1
Creation of an Automated Behavioral Classifier for Stress-Induced Aggression in a Mouse Model for ASD
Rohan Ray
Department: NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Daniel Christoffel
151
Session 2
Untargeted Metabolomics Reveal Signatures of a Healthy Lifestyle
Mansi Choudhari
Department: NutritionFaculty Mentor: Susan Sumner
152
Session 3
Time-Varying Correlation and Portfolio Optimization in the U.S. Stock Market: An Application of the Quadrant Estimator and Score-Driven Models
Zhengtai Zheng
Department: EconomicsFaculty Mentor: Peter Hansen
152
Session 2
Blood Plasma Diagnostic Test for Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Disease using miRNA Quantification and miR-39 Spike-In Control
Gavin Wiltshire
Department: SurgeryFaculty Mentor: Adam Akerman
152
Session 1
Determining Sex-Specific Differences in Mouse Liver Proteins
Jerald Whitley, Jr.
Department: Cell Biology and PhysiologyFaculty Mentor: Natasha Snider
153
Session 1
Predictability in caregiver signaling: Investigating the relationship between socioeconomic status and entropy
Masita Wicaksana
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Margaret Sheridan
153
Session 2
Altered Interoception of an Intoxicated State after Administration of Semaglutide
McKinley Windram
Department: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, PsychiatryFaculty Mentor: Joyce Besheer
153
Session 3
Early Identification and Intervention using Student Performance in Organic Chemistry II
Zidong Zhou, Ambika Bhatt
Department: ChemistryFaculty Mentor: Joshua Beaver
154
Session 2
Assessing Black-White Disparities in Financial Toxicity and Quality of Life Among Survivors Diagnosed with Endometrial Cancer
Megan Wohlfarth
Department: Health Policy and ManagementFaculty Mentor: Lisa Spees
154
Session 1
Does Companionship Cost Differently? Exploring Social Influences on Spending Behavior
Haoxuan Yuan, Taylor West
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Barbara Fredrickson
154
Session 3
“Ain’t nothing wrong with him”: family messages received by Black caregivers of autistic children
Dalia Marquez
Department: PsychologyFaculty Mentor: Kelly Caravella
155
Session 2
Transcriptomic Analysis of KSHV-Associated Multicentric Castleman’s Disease from a Malawi Cohort
Claire Worsham
Department: Pathology and Laboratory MedicineFaculty Mentor: Yuri Fedoriw
155
Session 1
DETERMINING WHETHER BROAD ELIGIBILITY FACTORS IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT CONTRIBUTE TO RACE AND GENDER DISPARITIES
Ava Yurko
Department: Political Science DepartmentFaculty Mentor: Frank Baumgartner
155
Session 3
Presence of Shark Meat in Cat Food Across Price Ranges
Li Yibo, Fan Xia, Yanpei Li, Yiyao Chen
Department: BiologyFaculty Mentor: Savannah Ryburn
156
Session 1
Clustering in monitored hands-on exercises to find common paths and outliers
Zeqi Zhou
Department: Computer ScienceFaculty Mentor: Prasun Dewan
156
Session 2
Positive LGBQ+ Identity and Its Association with Demographics and Depression Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Young Adults
Yinuo Xu
Department: School of Social WorkFaculty Mentor: Wiliiam Hall
157
Session 1
LEWIS ACID PROMOTED CRYSTALLIZATION-INDUCED DIASTEREOMER TRANSFORMATIONS OF 𝜸-𝜹-UNSATURATED 𝜷-KETOAMIDES
Zidong (Edison) Zhou
Department: ChemistryFaculty Mentor: Jeffrey Johnson
157
Session 2
Cortical Folding Shows Fingerprinting Ability in Early Developing Rhesus Macaques
Yilan (Maya) Yin
Department: Biostatistics, Joint Biomedical EngineeringFaculty Mentor: Gang Li
158
Session 2
The Impact of Silanization Techniques on the Wettability of Silica Surfaces: Insights from TGA, Isotherm, and Contact Angle Studies
Bohao Zhang
Department: Physics and AstronomyFaculty Mentor: Yue Wu
158
Session 3
Neurocognitive Contributors to Gait Initiation in Older Adults
Jenevieve Surkin, Chelsea Duppen, PT, DPT, Jenna Cole, Zola Sheek, Michael Lewek, PT, PhD
Department: Biomedical EngineeringFaculty Mentor: Michael Lewek
158
Session 1
Acculturative Stress in the Lives of Latinx Immigrant Youth from an Ecological Systems Perspective
Ana Zurita Posas
Department: School of EducationFaculty Mentor: Yuliana Rodriguez
159
Session 1
Symbiont Density, Chlorophyll a, and Color Intensity of Aposymbiotic and Symbiotic Colonies of the Temperate Coral Oculina arbuscula on the N.C. Coast
Jamie Long
Department: Earth, Marine, and Environmental SciencesFaculty Mentor: Karl Castillo
159
Session 3
Investigating the Suitability of a Polypyrrole-Cellulose Nanofiber-Agarose Composite as a Novel Attachment Factor for Neural Organoids
Liam Davis
Department: Biomedical Engineering, Genetics, NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Jason Stein
159
Session 2
Effects of Ion Exposure on Venus Flytrap Trap Closure Speed
Jared Renneker, Luke Hepler, Vivian Workman
Department: BiologyFaculty Mentor: Christopher Willet
160
Session 3
An investigation of the gut microbiota and butyrate producers in a cohort of hypertensive African Americans
Devanshi Raval
Department: NutritionFaculty Mentor: Ian Carroll
160
Session 1
Studying Pulse Shape Discrimination Performance for the LEGEND Experiment
Vyshu Sabbi
Department: Physics and AstronomyFaculty Mentor: Julieta Gruszko
161
Session 1
The effects of pathogenic Vibrio species on Eastern Oyster mortality events in North Carolina aquaculture
Zoe Schubert
Department: Earth, Marine, and Environmental SciencesFaculty Mentor: Rachel Noble