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.
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Session 3
Upcycling Plastic into Biodegradable Polymers
Mason Chapman, Mason Chapman, Benjamin Butler, Ainsley Kaplan, Kohen Goble, Rebecca Jenkins, Zachary Froning, Tulsi Patel, Liam Holton
Department: ChemistryFaculty Mentor: Frank Leibfarth
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Session 3
Stealing from a rival: The financial implications of switches among official status league sponsors
Christie Chen
Department: EXSSFaculty Mentor: Jonathan Jensen
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Session 2
Animated 3D model of a novel anti-cancer drug guides experimental testing
Colin Chen
Department: NeurologyFaculty Mentor: Daniel Krummel
22
Session 1
Modifying and Applying Hotelling's Model to the Short-Term Rental Market
Evan Berkowitch
Department: EconomicsFaculty Mentor: Jacob Kohlhepp
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Session 1
Determining the efficacy of a ChAdOx1-vectored Chlamydia vaccine
Aakash Bhardwaj
Department: Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, PediatricsFaculty Mentor: Taylor Poston
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Session 3
Overcoming Kinetic Barriers to Metal-Hydride Formation using Ligand-Cooperativity
Zoe Claytor
Department: ChemistryFaculty Mentor: Jillian Dempsey
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Session 2
Collective Dynamics of Walking Droplets
Joseph Clampett
Department: MathematicsFaculty Mentor: Pedro Sáenz
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Session 1
Investigating the roles of KMT2C/D in chondrocyte differentiation and endochondral ossification
Dimitrios Bikas, Gabrielle A. Quickstad
Department: Biology, GeneticsFaculty Mentor: Karl Shpargel
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Session 3
The Scorpion-Man: Posthumanism in Buñuel’s L’âge d’or
Simon Cook
Department: Romance StudiesFaculty Mentor: Sean Matharoo
24
Session 2
Edges versus Bends: Gravitational Accelerations in Filaments
Rachel Curran
Department: Physics and AstronomyFaculty Mentor: Fabian Heitsch
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Session 2
Chemotherapy and Cognition: The Effect of Chemotherapy on Encoding and Recall
Brenna Curtis
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Jessica Cohen
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Session 3
Role of Pectinase in Agrobacterium tumefaciens Virulence and Binding in Tomato Fruits and Roots
Isabelle Dalton, Ava Utt
Department: BiologyFaculty Mentor: Ann Matthysse
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Session 1
Examining Differences Between Perceived Health and Stigma Amongst Males and Females in the LGBT Community
Nikita Bipin
Department: BiostatisticsFaculty Mentor: Robert Agans
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Session 2
Inside the Strike Zone: MLB Umpire Accuracy Factors
Grant Danielson, Sophia Desai, Zach Ehmann, Opal Sharma, Ryan Smith
Department: Exercise and Sport ScienceFaculty Mentor: Jonathan Jensen
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Session 1
Modeling transitions from biparental to uniparental reproduction in tardigrades
Blair Blakeney
Department: BiologyFaculty Mentor: Christina Burch
26
Session 3
Establishing Consensus in Categorizing Resting State fMRI Brain Networks: An Inter-Rater Reliability Study
Sriya Darsi, Maithili Kulkarni
Department: NeurologyFaculty Mentor: Varina Boerwinkle
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Session 2
The Role of Animal Assisted Therapy in Mediating Pediatric Dental Anxiety
Noor Dar
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Laura Jacox
27
Session 3
High-Performance Magnetically Actuated Mxene-Based Microelectrodes for Neural Interfacing
Brayden Davis
Department: Applied Physical Sciences, Biomedical EngineeringFaculty Mentor: Wubin Bai
27
Session 1
Investigating Covalent Small Molecule Interactions with Human RNA
Annika Bridge
Department: ChemistryFaculty Mentor: Kevin Weeks
28
Session 1
Free speech shocks in the marketplace of ideas: How deplatforming incidents affect American college students
Aidan Buehler
Department: EconomicsFaculty Mentor: Donna Gilleskie
28
Session 2
Chinese Import Competition and Dampened Monetary Policy in the US Counties
Thomas Decker
Department: EconomicsFaculty Mentor: Neville Francis
28
Session 3
Differences in Neuroendocrine Responses to Psychosocial Stress Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in Female Adolescents
Natalie Deeb
Department: Psychiatry, School of MedicineFaculty Mentor: Elizabeth Andersen
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Session 3
Literature: Bridging Truth and Value from Plato to Lu Xun
Tianyi Dong
Department: Romance StudiesFaculty Mentor: Pedro Lopes de Almeida
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Session 1
Formal Manifestations of La Violencia in Modernist Colombian Art: Studies of Villamizar, Obregón, and Botero
Dana Bumbalo
Department: HistoryFaculty Mentor: Chad Bryant
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Session 2
Effect of TRPV4 overexpression on TLR responses in murine lung epithelial E10 cells
Palak Desai
Department: Pathology and Laboratory MedicineFaculty Mentor: Silvio Antoniak
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Session 3
Estimating the Association between Types of Bed Net Usage and Malaria Incidence in a Cohort of Children in Kintampo, Ghana
Zhijie Duan
Department: Biostatistics, EpidemiologyFaculty Mentor: Michael Emch
30
Session 2
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL EMPOWERMENT AND THEIR IMPACT ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BEHAVIOR
Akum Dhillon
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceFaculty Mentor: Brooke Nezami
30
Session 1
Cooling the Campus: Understanding Urban Heat Islands at UNC and Harnessing Tree Canopy for Effective Mitigation
Laine Cammack, Sara Boburka, Matthew Gibson, Claire Hargrove, Lily Hayward, Krystal Lacayo, Gen Marti, Marie Roche, Lydia Rowen, Nea Strawn, Julia Swanner
Department: Environment, Energy, and Ecology ProgramFaculty Mentor: Antonia Sebastian
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Session 3
AN ANALYSIS OF PEAK VERTICAL GROUND REACTION FORCE IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS FOLLOWING ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION DURING DROP VERTICAL JUMP AND GAIT ASSESSMENTS
Winter Earnhardt
Department: Exercise and Sport ScienceFaculty Mentor: Brian Pietrosimone
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Session 1
Interpreting marine and terrestrial landscape effects on Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) nurseries
Cole Castillo
Department: Earth, Marine, and Environmental ScienceFaculty Mentor: Joel Fodrie