2015

Georeferencing and the Accuracy of Property Markers: NYC Department of Environmental Protection Lands in Olive and Kent, NY

Dzifa Binka, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. April M. Beisaw

From Water to Beer: Drinking in the Catskills

Cayla Neipris, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. April M. Beisaw

Why are “Public Access” Lands Publicly Inaccessible?:
An assessment of the DEP’s Land Holdings Comparing the Towns of Kent and Olive, NY

Daniel Swerzenski, Vassar College ’18 and Prof. April M. Beisaw

Effects of Deer Browsing on Sound Propagation in Northeastern Temperate Forests

Timothy Boycott, Vassar College ’16, Jingyi Gao, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Megan D. Gall

Lyme Disease and Outdoor Recreational Activity: Management Strategies to Reduce Risk

Lucy Brainerd, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Lynn Christenson

SNP Discovery in Rana sylvatica Populations

Jordan Brooker, Vassar College ’15 and Profs. Jodi Schwarz, Marc Smith and Erica Crespi (Washington State University)

Nest Browsing and Predation Trends of a Population of Emydoidea blandingii in LaGrangeville, NY

Lindsay Charlop, Vassar College ’16, Ava Farrell, Vassar College, ’16, Marvin Corleto, Vassar College ’19 and Prof. Marshall Pregnall

Survey of Blood Borne Parasites on a Community of Turtles in LaGrangeville, NY

Ava Farrell, Vassar College, ’16, Lindsay Charlop, Vassar College ’16, Marvin Corleto, Vassar College ’19 and Prof. Marshall Pregnall

Phagocytosis, Digestion, and Protease Proteomics in Tetrahymena

Benjamin Hoffman, Vassar College ’16, Fiona Chen, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. J. William Straus

Cox-1/Cox-2 Inhibition on Expression of Glial Aromatase Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice (Mus musculus)

Tony Joo, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Kelli Duncan

Progesterone Effects on the Expression of Doublecortin (DCX) in Traumatic Brain Injuries of the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

Catherine King, Vassar College ’19 and Prof. Kelli Duncan

To Mate or not to Mate: Behavioral Quantitative Genetics in a Bean Beetle

Daniel Moskop, Vassar College ’18 and Prof. Mary Ellen Czesak

The Impacts of Downregulation of mam-RC on the Wingless Pathway in Drosophila melanogaster

Leyao Shen, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Jennifer Kennell

Vassar College Arboretum Project: Preparation of an Updated Pamphlet Map and ArbNet Arboretum Certification

Samuel Short, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Mark Schlessman

A Sign for the Edith Roberts Ecological Laboratory

Naomi Sudo, Vassar College ’16 and Timothy Veit, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Meg Ronsheim

Are NPC2D Protein Levels in Symbiotic Anemones a Function of the Presence of Symbionts or their Photosynthetic Activity?

Bethany Terry, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Jodi Schwarz

Defending Against Extinction: A Comprehensive Management Plan to Combat the Emerald Ash Borer

Timothy Veit , Vassar College ’16, Naomi Sudo, Vassar College ’16 and Profs. Mary Ellen Czesak and Meg Ronsheim

Pheromone Responses and Mate Choice in Callosobruchus maculatus

Aidan Wilcox, Vassar College ’16 and Lecturer/Laboratory Coordinator in Biology Mary Ellen Czesak

Characterization of microRNA-33 in Drosophila melanogaster

Ronald Yu, Vassar College ’16, Dan Fu Ruan Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Jennifer Kennell

Effect of Metallic Substrate Type on the Growth of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes During Chemical Vapor Deposition

Cady Cirbes, Vassar College ’16 and Alison Sagliocca, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Stuart Belli

Optimizing the Purification of Lysophospholipase L2, a Membrane Associated Protein Derived from Escherichia coli K-12

Gabriel Elizalde Jr., Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Teresa A. Garrett

Interrogating Specific Interactions in the Tau Protein Projection Domain

Amizhdini Eswaramoorthy, Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Zachary Donhauser

A Novel Photosystem II Photocell Assembled on Carbon Nanotubes

Andrew Needleman, Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Christopher Smart

Phenotypic Characterization of psd and pss Mutant Strainsof Escherichia coli

Oluwadamilola Oke, Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Teresa A. Garrett

Optimization of the in vitro Assay Conditions of the Arabidopsis thaliana Acyltransferase At1g78690

Domenic Pedulla, Vassar College ’16 and Professor Teresa A. Garrett

Alterations in AcylPhosphatidylglycerol Levels in ?pagP, ?pldB, and ?cls Escherichia coli Leads to Phenotypic Variance

Maryam Pourmaleki, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Teresa Garrett

Functionalization of CNT Deposited on Various Metallic Substrates in Potassium Ferricyanide

Alison Sagliocca, Vassar College ’16, Cady Cirbes, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Stuart Belli

Investigating Intermolecular Forces of Pseudohyperphosphorylated Tau

Zofia E. Siwicka, Vassar College ’18 and Prof. Zachary Donhauser

A Depositional History of Lead in Ombrotrophic Catskill Bogs

Hailey Steichen, Vassar College ’17, Natasha Vargo, Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Alison Spodek Keimowitz

Historical Analysis of Atmospheric Mercury Deposition Preserved in Ombrotrophic Bogs in the Catskill Mountains

Natasha Vargo, Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Alison Spodek Keimowitz

Preparation of Imines as Precursors for the Synthesis of Chiral Amines and Hydroxylamines

Bufan Zhang, Vassar College ’17, Mary-Margaret McElduff, Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Joseph M. Tanski

Evolutionary Robotics: Tools and Methods to Test Hypotheses about the Evolution of Evolvability

Evan Altiero, Vassar College ’16, Jessica Ng, Vassar College ’16, Joshua Ridley, Vassar College ’17, Nicholas Burka, Vassar College ’17, David Wallach, Vassar College ’17, Meghan Willcoxon, Vassar College ’18 and Profs. Ken Livingston, Nick Livingston, John Long, Jodi Schwarz and Marc Smith Collaborators: Joshua Bongard and Anton Bernatskiy, University of Vermont

Robots See the Light: Directional Selection Evolves Phototactic Behavior Without Altering Brain Modularity

Evan Altiero, Vassar College ’16, Jessica Ng, Vassar College ’16, Joshua Ridley, Vassar College ’17, Nicholas Burka, Vassar College ’17, David Wallach, Vassar College ’17, Meghan Willcoxon,Vassar College ’18 and Profs. Ken Livingston, Nick Livingston, John Long, Jodi Schwarz and Marc Smith Collaborators: Joshua Bongard and Anton Bernatskiy, University of Vermont

Adversary Search in a Role Playing Game

Kathryn Hodge, Vassar College ’17, Kelly Yu, Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Thomas Ellman

The Language Application Grid: An Open, Interoperable Web Service Platform for Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Timothy Brown, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Nancy Ide

Crowdsourcing to Create Linguistic Annotations

Isabella Cuba, Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Nancy Ide

The Benefits of Crowdsourcing: Generating Better Estimates of Noun Phrases from Crowdsourced Data

Reno J. Kriz, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Nancy Ide

Modeling Carbon Charge Programs at Vassar College

Sophie Bedecarré Ernst, Vassar College ’17; James Falino, Vassar College ’17 and Prof. Mary Ann Cunningham, Alistair Hall and Benjamin Ho

Assessing the Prognostic and Predictive Ability of an Avatar Mouse Model in Cancer Treatment

Siqi Fan, Vassar College ’17, Melanie Lai Wai, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Ming-Wen An and Dr. Sumithra Mandrekar

The Dynamics of a Predator-Prey Age-Structured Model

Chase Morgan-Floyd, Vassar College ’18 and Prof. Lynn Scow

Dynamics of a New Holling Type IV Predator-Prey Model

Bibi Sulaman, Vassar College ’19 and Prof. Lynn Scow

Measuring Thermal Properties of Thin Film Materials Using Time Domain Thermoreflectance

Mohammed Abdelaziz, Vassar College ’16, Molly James, Vassar College ’17, Sushant Mahat, Vassar College ’16, Lauren Delgado, Vassar College ’19 and Prof. Brian Daly

Development of Intuition in Introductory Physics Problem Solving

Elam Coalson, Vassar College ’16 and Prof. Zosia Krusberg

Simulating Thin-Film Samples Reflectivity on Mat Lab and Origin

Lauren Delgado, Vassar College ’19 and Prof. Brian Daly

Acoustical Wave Measurements of Thin Films and Aluminum Deposition via Sputtering

Molly James, Vassar College ’17, Mohammed Abdelaziz, Vassar College ’16, Sushant Mahat, Vassar College ’16, Lauren Delgado, Vassar College ’19 and Prof. Brian Daly

Numerical Prediction of Sound Scattering From Fractal Surfaces

Mallory Morgan, Vassar College ’17, Samuel Gilbert, Vassar College ’18 and Profs. David T. Bradley and Feruza Amirkulova

Effect of Diffusers on Sound Field Diffusivity in a Reverberation Chamber

Nathaniel Ross, Vassar College ’18, Samuel Gilbert, Vassar College ’18, José Herrera Jr., Vassar College ’18, Mallory Morgan, Vassar College ’17, Jonathan Snyder, Vassar College ’18, Jacob Adelgren, Vassar College ’15, Gabriel Kardos, Vassar College ’19 and Prof. David T. Bradley

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