2017
Anthropology
ArcGIS and the Challenges of Archaeology
Ray Cagnetta ’19, and Professor April M. Beisaw (Anthropology)
Historical Archaeology vs. Looting: Lessons from the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ray Cagnetta ’19 and Professor April M. Beisaw (Anthropology)
Inclusive Interpretations: FDR, Archaeology, and Egalitarian Narrative of the Past
David Stiles Sparks ’19, Pedro deFlorez Millard ’19, and Professor April M. Beisaw (Anthropology)
Porcelain and Proximity: An Indicator of Socioeconomic Class?
Kelly Claire Manning Bernatzky ’19, and Professor April M. Beisaw (Anthropology)
Biology
Development of a Multiple Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mmTBI) Model in Female Mice
Eric Lee ’18 and Professor Kelli A. Duncan (Biology)
The Effect of Estrogens on Neuroinflammation Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Zebra Finches
Samarah Cook ’18 and Professor Kelli A. Duncan (Biology)
Expression of Doublecortin Following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Zebra Finches and Japanese Quail
Maliyah Faulstich ’21 and Professor Kelli A. Duncan (Biology)
Effects of Presentation Rate and Onset Time on Auditory Brainstem Responses in Northern Saw-Whet Owls
Julia Beatini ’18, Glenn A. Proudfoot, and Professor Megan Gall (Biology)
The MicroRNA miR-33 and Differing Nutritional States Affect Pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster
Carolina Alvarez ’18 and Professor Jennifer Kennell (Biology)
Mutation of CG5567 using CRISPR to Elucidate the Role of PGP in Drosophila melanogaster Metabolism
Comus Hardman ’19 and Professor Jennifer Kennell (Biology)
Ecological Effects of the Introduction of American Chestnuts to Light Gap Areas on the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve
Takunda Maisva ’19, Jessie Prutisto-Chang ’18, and Professor Meg Ronsheim (Biology)
Species Assessment and GPS Map of Plant Communities in the Edith Roberts Ecological Laboratory
Jessie Prutisto-Chang ’18, Takunda Maisva ’19, and Professor Meg Ronsheim (Biology)
Something in the Pesticide: The Effect of Imidacloprid on C. elegans
Matthew Rodman ’18 and Professor Kathleen M. Susman (Biology)
Examining Female Mate Choice in Neotropical frog Dendropsophus ebraccatus
Akili Walker ’19, Professor Justin Touchon, and Professor Megan Gall (Biology)
How Do Varying Degrees of Risk Affect Phenotypic Plasticity in Hourglass Treefrog Tadpoles?
Tarif Rose ’21 and Professor Justin Touchon (Biology)
Presence of Predators Induces Variable Morphology and Gene Expression in D. Ebraccatus Tadpoles Throughout Development
Jared Freedman ’18 and Professor Justin Touchon (Biology)
The Reclassification and Mapping of the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve
Fate Syewoangnuan ’18, Mirit Rutishauser ’19, Jamie Deppen, and Keri VanCamp (Biology)
Chemistry
Electroplating Conditions to Attach Prussian Blue onto Carbon Nanotubes
Jose Rojas ’18 and Professor Stuart Belli (Chemistry)
Altered Lipid Composition in Escherichia coli with Altered Acyltransferase Levels
Eleni Z. Rice ’21 and Professor Teresa A. Garrett (Chemistry)
Attempts to Purify a Glutathione S-transferase Tagged At1g78690 (AT-GST)
Samanvaya Sharma ’18 and Professor Teresa A. Garrett (Chemistry)
Developing a Method to Separate the Inner and Outer Membranes of Escherichia coli
Max A. Jahns ’19 and Professor Teresa A. Garrett (Chemistry)
PhoP/PhoQ Regulatory System Influences on Escherichia coli Headgroup-acylated Glycerophospholipids
Acadia DiNardo, ’19 and Professor Teresa A. Garrett (Chemistry)
Purification of Escherichia coli PldB Mutants to Investigate its Catalytic Mechanism
Katharine Sworden ’19 and Professor Teresa A. Garrett (Chemistry)
Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes with Prussian Blue and Fullerenes
Jennifer D. Pineda ’18, Evelina Stoikou ’19, Professor Christopher Smart, and Professor Stuart L. Belli (Chemistry)
The Synthesis of Chlorofullerene Derivatives and their Potential Medical Applications
Joseph Beaty ’19 and Professor Christopher Smart (Chemistry)
Asymmetric Reduction of Primary and Secondary Imines Using Stoichiometric Metal-Boron-Chiral-Ligand-Complexes
Jaimeson Bukacek Frazier ’19, Rachel Josef ’19, and Professor Joe Tanski (Chemistry)
Cognitive Science
The Proof is in the P-Curve: A Meta-Analysis of Learned Categorical Perception
Rebecca Andrews ’19 and Professor Jan Andrews (Cognitive Science)
Creating an Experiment Builder for the Cloud
Junyan Qi ’19, Kristin Diep ’18, and Professor Josh de Leeuw (Cognitive Science)
The Shape of Statistical Learning; Cognitive Model Comparison Using Bayesian Nonlinear Regression
Isabella DeStefano ’18 and Professor Josh de Leeuw (Cognitive Science)
Validating jsPsych as a Novel Stimulus Display Technique for EEG Experiments
Prashit Parikh ’21 and Professor Josh de Leeuw (Cognitive Science)
The Role of Gene Duplication and Modularity in the Evolution of Evolvability
Gabriel Dell’Accio ’18, Theresa Law ’18, Ben Tidswell ’18, Meghan Willcoxon ’18, Professor Ken Livingston, Nick Livingston, Professor John Long, Professor Jodi Schwarz, and Professor Marc Smith (Cognitive Science)
Trust the Process: Development and Gene Duplication as Explicit Features of Evolving Robots
Theresa Law ’18, Gabriel Dell’Accio ’18, Ben Tidswell ’18, Meghan Willcoxon ’18, Professor Ken Livingston, Nick Livingston, Professor John Long, Professor Jodi Schwarz, and Professor Marc Smith (Cognitive Science)
Cognitive Robotics: Is Evolvability Determined by the Modularity of Neural Controllers?
Jonathan Snyder ’18; David Wallace ’17; Xu, Xiaoqing Xu ’18, Professor Ken Livingston, Nick Livingston, Professor John Long, Professor Jodi Schwarz, and Professor Marc Smith (Cognitive Science)
Computer Science
An Asynchronous-Process Navigation Architecture for Dynamically Intelligent Robots
Thao Nguyen ’18, Professor John Long, and Professor Eric Aaron Tom Ellman (Computer Science)
Dynamic Story Construction: Implementations of a Regular-Expression System for Role-Playing Games
Phoebe Shalloway ’18, Jacob Schwartz ’19, and Professor Thomas Ellman (Computer Science)
Navigation with Imperfect Information
Kaya Deuser ’20 and Professor Pavel Naumov (Computer Science)
Creating a Framework for Mobile Health Studies on Android Wear and Google Assistant
George Whiteside ’18, Dylan Horowitz ’19, and Professor Jason Waterman (Computer Science)
Mathematics and Statistics
Ruling out Zariski Pairs Among Arrangements of 11 Lines
Baian Liu ’18 and Professor Moshe Cohen (Mathematics and Statistics)
Modelling Pollination and Orchard Management to Determine Economic Injury Level of Pest Populations
Miranda Hulsey-Vincent ’19 and Melissa Hoffmann ’21, and Professor Benjamin Morin (Mathematics and Statistics)
The Spread of Cholera through Water Networks
Kendal Foster ’18, Deanna Havey ’18, Kamakshi Kanojia ’19, and Professor Benjamin Morin (Mathematics and Statistics)
Physics and Astronomy
Equity and Engagement in STEM: A Preliminary Analysis of the 2017 Undergraduate Research Summer Institute at Vassar College
Jose Herrera Jr. ’18, Janet Ortiz ’18, Sicily M. McLaughlin ’21, and Professor David T. Carreon Bradley (Physics and Astronomy)
Ultrafast Optical Study of Surface Acoustic Waves on Aluminum Nanostructures
Michael Colletta ’19, Wanjiru Gachuhi ’19, and Professor Brian Daly (Physics and Astronomy)
Temporal Diffraction Signal Analysis of C. elegans Locomotion
Miranda Hulsey-Vincent ’19, Cheris Congo ’19, and Professor Jenny Magnes (Physics and Astronomy)
Psychological Science
Chronic Alcohol Exposure Affects Generalization and Extinction of Fear Memory
Serena Lee ’18, Miranda Scarlata ’19, and Professor Hadley C. Bergstrom (Psychological Science)
Investigating the Basolateral Amygdala’s Role in Auditory Cued Fear Retrieval Through the use of DREADDs
Miranda Scarlata ’19, Serena Lee ’18, and Professor Hadley C. Bergstrom (Psychological Science)
Evidence for the Chunking of Responses into Higher-Order Response Units During Habit Formation in Pigeons
Anna Roselle ’18 and Professor J. Mark Cleaveland (Psychological Science)
Effect of Photoperiod and Brain Injury on Aromatase Expression in Japanese Quail
Cali Corbett ’18, Kenneth Lee ’18, Professor Kelli A. Duncan, and Professor Kevin Holloway (Psychological Science)
The Adult Experience of Infant/Toddler Developmental Movement
Regina Ngozi Ebo ’18, Jenna Llorens-Blas ’19, and Professor Carolyn Palmer (Psychological Science)
Parent and Infant Experience of Tummy Time Lessons
Jenna Llorens-Blas ’19, Regina Ngozi Ebo ’18, and Professor Carolyn Palmer (Psychological Science)
Anxiety: Effects on Longevity
Dominic Demeterfi ’20, Eileen Doyle-Samay ’19, and Professor Susan Trumbetta (Psychological Science)
It's Okay to Feel Sad Sometimes: Effects of Different Depression Aspects on Lifespan
Eileen Doyle-Samay ’19, Dominic Demeterfi ’20, and Professor Susan Trumbetta (Psychological Science)