Presentation Archives 2025 — Celebration of Scholars

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Thomas Carr
Katherin Hilson
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Sarah Terrill

2025

	Title	Lead Presenter
1	An Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Natural Product Binding to the V122I Transthyretin Variant	Cerna, Ingrid
2	An Analysis of the Ballistic Partial Squat and Partial Step-Up Exercises	Liu, Xingchen
3	Aquatic Therapy's Effect on Individuals with Chronic Pain-Related Depression	Cordoba, Jillian
4	Art Historical Research of Carthage's Sam and Berry Shoen Collection: Ilya Repin was not Russian	Polietaieva, Anna
5	Art-Historical and Contextual Research of Ida Belyakov a's The Return Of The Communist Party Membership Card	Werner, Jared
6	Artificial Turf and Athlete Safety: Examining the Risk of Non-Contact Lower-Extremity Injuries	Cramer, Kathryn
7	Breaking the Mold: Exploring Barriers to Female Athletic Trainers in Leadership Roles	Reese, Briana
8	Building and Testing a Rodent Plethysmograph System for Undergraduate Student Research	Stanic, Katarina
9	Can trees have friends? Children’s views of the cognitive abilities of living entities of varying biological complexity	Barton, Taliah
10	CAZyme presence in novel hindgut bacterium Rikenellaceae Isolate 38	Sensenbrenner, Lin
11	Challenges of students of color at Carthage	Tanguay, Gabriella
12	Craniofacial Ontogeny of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis and P. lujiatunensis : Towards Evidence for the Developmental Underpinnings of Species differences	Younk, Aiden
13	Creation Stories and Religion Paper	Whittier, Elizabeth
14	CTCF knockdown rescues the MAPK signaling pathway in Vezf1 null murine embryonic stem cells	Gómez-Solis, Juan
15	Design of the 2026 Celebration of Scholars Logo	Flanagan, Riley
16	Development & Evaluation of Trinity Application (App) for Cancer Survivors	McGuinness, Alish
17	Diagnostic Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging	Rosa, Jessica
18	Discovery and Genomic Analysis of the Lytic Mycobacterium Phage Wogge42	Bednarek, Liliana
19	Effect of ICV Irisin on Chow Intake and Sucrose Preference in Sprague Dawley Rats	Endresen, Kristie
20	Effective Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for Primary Dysmenorrhea	Wagner, Kailey
21	Environmental Responses to Rapid Warming: Novaya Zemlya	Maraldo, Joshua
22	Estimating the gravitational-wave energy, fractional mass loss, and luminosity distance of BBH merger events in the LIGO O3-O4 data catalogs	Gaynor, Dawson
23	Examining CFos Expression as an Indicator of Neuronal Activity Following Acute CO2 Exposure in Female Sprague-Dawley Rats.	Barclay, Mary
24	Explorations In Inverse Problems: The Catenary	Kwak, Alan
25	Exploring Odor Discrimination Using Sniffin' Siticks	Minnaert, Taylor
26	Factors Shaping Survival Outcomes in Newborns with Congenital Heart Disease	Pittman, Kyleigh
27	Federal or State Policy? Analyzing the Origins of Mass Incarceration in Wisconsin	Leppiaho, Madelyn
28	From Classroom to Community: Designing a Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop	Alfirevic, Amanda
29	Game Demands of NCAA Ⅲ Division Women's Soccer Players	Mulvihill, Luca
30	Genome Analysis of a Novel Genus of Bacteria	Krueger, Grace
31	Genomic Analysis and Comparison of Mycobacterium Phage Marlia: Your Worst Enemies’ Potential Worst Enemy	Becker, Maxwell
32	Healing Outcomes of a Distal Tibia Type II Salter-Harris Fracture	Berglund, Madisen
33	How Does the Show Terminal Exhale’s Audience Understand Gun Violence?	Dehn, McKenna
34	Immune Management in a Patient with a History of Multiple Myeloma in Remission, Post-Autologous Stem Cell Transplant	McCallister, Cailin
35	Maternal Mortality in the U.S.: Investigating the Crisis	Rognstad, Zahra
36	Meditation vs. Medication for Anxiety: Effectiveness, Relapse, and Side Effects	Nedeljkovic, Tijana
37	Neurobehavioral plasticity in the rodent gustatory system induced by regular consumption of a low-calorie sweetener during adolescence	Anderson, Bo
38	NMR Investigation of Counterion Binding to Green Amino-Acid Based Surfactants with Non-Polar Side Chains	Brown, Aubrey
39	Occupational Therapy Rehabilitation of a 67-Year-Old Male Presenting Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Case Study	Swatzak, Jeremy
40	Ovid's Metamorphosis: Poetry or Slander?	Roland, Winter
41	Perfectionism and the Obsessive-Compulsive Related Disorders: An Expanded Investigation Using a New Measure of Perfectionism	Hoffman, Theodore
42	Piceatannol Binding to the Transthyretin Val122Ile Mutant: A Molecular Dynamics Investigation	Stone, Maya
43	Screenwriting for the Streaming Age	Franklin, Terrell
44	Shared Growth Changes in the Dentary of the fishes Cyclurus fragosus and Melvius thomasi (Actinopterygii, Amiidae) of the Hell Creek Formation (67-66 mya) of Southeastern Montana: Evidence for Developmental Underpinnings of Species differences	Krakora, Joseph
45	Silicone Foam Development for Thermal Management in EVs	Martinez, Rodolfo
46	Sleuthing out Music for "Sherlock, Jr." - a silent film acompaniment	Ripley, James
47	Solving the "Indian Problem": Wisconsin's Native American Boarding Schools and Their Legacy	Groh, Teagan
48	Spina Bifida Effects on Chronic Dystonia and Rehabilitation Outcomes	Lange, Payton
49	Synthesis of Amino Acid Surfactants to Examine Antimicrobial Properties	Deanparvar, Iman
50	The Development of Special Education Teachers' Self-Efficacy in Managing Their Well-Being & Their Perceived Outcomes	Carpentier, Theresa
51	The Disgust Domains and Their Relation to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Dimensions	Pasquale, Tyler
52	The Effects of Medication Treatment Methods on Full-Term Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with MTHFR Mutations	McCallister, Cailin
53	The Effects of Technical Suit's on In Season Swimmers	Logan, Sydney
54	The Impact of Incompleteness on the Relation between OCD and Disgust Proneness: An Induction Study	Stone, Maya
55	The Impact of Meaning in Life and Locus of Control in the Relationship Between Personal Responsibility and Well-Being in Nursing Home Residents	Szubryt, Bradley
56	The Impact of Respite Care on Caregivers Mental Health.	Newcomb, Emma
57	The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Healthcare Accessibility in the Midwest	Mulvihill, Luca
58	The Mutual Influence Between Chinese Musicals and Traditional Chinese Operas in Their Exploration Process	Zhang, Miao
59	The Rehabilitation Outcomes and Effectiveness of Blood Flow Restriction Training	Grimm, Logan
60	The Role of Gender in Sport-Related Concussion Recovery: Insights for Athletic Trainers	Capuano, Olivia
61	The Role of Incompleteness and Disgust in Predicting OCD Symptoms: An Outline of the Progress Made in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience	Respondi-Trocchio, Adriana
62	The Role of Psychological Readiness in Collegiate Athletes’ Return to Play Following Sports-Related Injuries	Rohe, Kaitlin
63	The Utilization of Virtual Reality in Lower Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation	Wojcik, Maeve
64	Thermodynamic Investigation Of Two Amino Acid-Based Surfactants Using NMR Spectroscopy	Castaneda, Diego
65	To Lie or Clarify: An Analysis of Power Structures in Japanese Internment through Art and Photography	Borger, Tiffany
66	Unlocking the Antimicrobial Power of Bacillus weidmannii Through Agar Plug Methods and Compound Isolation	Rieckmann, Julia
67	Uptake of Consumer Product Chemicals in Lettuce Plants Grown with Biosolids as Fertilizer	Martin, Leah
68	Using Growth to Settle a Sea Scorpion Dispute	Leer, Maverick
69	Using Machine Learning to Model Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash Photon Escape From Earth's Atmosphere	Peterson, Lucas
70	Voices of Dissent: Tracing the Roots and Impact of the American Avante-Garde Theater Movement	Borger, Tiffany
71	Women at War: the American Revolution from Women’s Perspective	Leber, Sara