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Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

  • A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
  • A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
  • A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
  • A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

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:

  • Jun Wang
  • Kim Instenes
  • John Kirk
  • Nora Nickels
  • Andrew Pustina
  • James Ripley

2023

  Title Lead Presenter
1 #01: Visualizing Literacy Processes: Representing Literacy Concepts through Collage Easley, Jacqueline
2 #02: Working to Improve the Well-Being of Special Education Teachers Brulz, Melissa
3 #03: Determination of the Factors Predicting Burnout in College athletes Koehlert, Hannah
4 #04: "It is not time that passes": "Memento Mori" and Maurice Maeterlinck Scharnick, Neil
5 #05: Kenosha Verbatim Project Craft, Rayven
6 #06: An investigation of disagreement between kohai and senpai by Japanese youth living in the United States Parker, Mira
7 #07: Design of the 2024 Celebration of Scholars Logo Miller, Aiden
8 #08: The Cost of Greatness Schroeder, Autumn
9 #09: Is it Really Just a Name? Traxel, Lisa
10 #10: Exploring Song and Story in The Odyssey: How Does it Relate to Our Lives? Brown, Aubrey
11 #11: How Religion Can Both Uplift and Oppress Van Dixhorn, Emily
12 #12: Cultural Repatriation: The Concept of Ownership Ott, Brennan
13 #13: The Woman's Building at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Feminizing Progress, Freedom and Modernity. Doyle, Kailyn
14 #14: “Killing the Indian Within the Child”: Native Canadian Cultural Conversion and Forceful Assimilation Chiodi, Malena
15 #15: Chicano Student Protests in the Southwest: Denver West High School Walkout of 1969 Villa, Luis
16 #16: The Role of Flags and Symbols During the Fall of the Communist Regime in 1989 Romania Drimboi, Dorin
17 #17: Illinois on the Move: An Economic Development Plan for a Growing Illinois Villalobos, Daniel
18 #18: Labor Market Outcomes of LGBTQ+ People Baumeister, Megan
19 #19: A Head for Business and a Heart for the World: The Enactus Approach to Poverty Alleviation through Entrepreneurship Arbeiter, Jillian
20 #20: Coincidence Isometries of 3D Lattices Reimer, Theodore
21 #21: An Examination of Lake Erie’s "Western Basin Occupying" Yellow and White Perch Populations from a Graph Theory Perspective Feldpausch, Caitlyn
22 #22: Measuring Quasinormal Modes of Simulated Binary Black Hole Mergers in the SXS Catalog Valentini, Andrew
23 #23: Understanding Income Inequality Through Statistical Modeling Rahmel, Elizabeth
24 #24: Investigating the Eviction Crisis in Wisconsin Through Statistical Analysis Rehder, Lydia
25 #25: Effects of Self-Monitoring and Visual Feedback on Mathematical Frustration with a Neurodiverse Learner Saperston, Callie
26 #26: Coping with disasters: Meaning-making among religious leaders in Puerto Rico in response to crises Alfaro, Camila
27 #27: Measures of Odor Discrimination in College Students Mills, Nicole
28 #28: Grandparenting and the Statistical Analysis of its Effect on the Psychological Development of College-Aged Grandchildren del Alcazar, Ryan
29 #29: Synthetic Virus Manipulation to Understand PVY and Host Interaction Papiez, Alex
30 #30: Creating an Enzyme-based Fluorogenic Reporter for Potato Virus Y Leja, Damian
31 #31: Tool Development for Detection of Potato Virus Y Gonzalez, Vanessa
32 #32: NMR Investigation of Micelle Formation by Phenylalanine-Based Biosurfactants Williams, Lauren
33 #33: NMR Spectroscopy of Glutamic Acid Containing Surfactant Micelles Mayer, Jacob
34 #34: Impact of Deposition Conditions on the Quality of Silica Nanoparticle and Gold Nanoparticle Crystalline Structures Thomas, Rachael
35 #35: Synthesis of Amino Acid Surfactants to Examine Antimicrobial Properties Hanson, Cole
36 #36: Radical Fluorination of an Ibuprofen Derivative Coolidge, Angelina
37 #37: Investigating Drug Interactions with Transthyretin using Molecular Dynamics Simulations DeSalvo, John
38 #38: A Molecular Dynamics Study of Electrostatic and Hydrophobic Interactions between Transthyretin and Model Drug Molecules Schneider, Lucus
39 #39: Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Cao Vit Gibbons (Nomascus nasutus) and Individual Mapping Utilizing Multilaterations Groszek, Abigail
40 #40: Facultative Interactions Between Ants, Aphids, and Black-Eyed Pea Owens, Julia
41 #41: Avoidance Expression of Wistar-Kyoto and Sprague-Dawley Rats Following Overnight Fast Kozmer, Zach
42 #42: Immunofluorescence Staining of Zebrafish Retinal Ganglion Cells Vitek, Natalie
43 #43: Tracking Regeneration of the Zebrafish Optic Nerve Using the Optokinetic Response Young, Sarah
44 #44: Spotlight on Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Dowe, Rebecca
45 #45: Reducing The Incidence of Central Line Bloodstream Infections (CLABSIs) Zielinski, Taylor
46 #46: The Effect of 7% CO2 on Salivary Cortisol and Amylase in Behaviorally Inhibited Individuals Harshberger, Mary
47 #47: What is the Effect of Breathing Room Air With and Without a Breathing Valve on HRV in BI and NBI College Age Females? Apostoli, Giana
48 #48: The effects of behavioral inhibition on stress reactivity to psychosocial stressors in human participants Eickstead, Cameryn
49 #49: Effect of Central Ghrelin Receptor Signaling on Avoidance Behavior in Wistar-Kyoto and Sprague-Dawley Rats Wolf, Olivia
50 #50: Exploring CO2 Sensitivity in Behaviorally Inhibited Humans and Rats Wolf, Olivia
51 #51: Phages Out of This World: The Effects of Microgravity on Mycobacterium Smegmatis Lysogens Pacocha, Allison
52 #52: Combating Antibiotic Resistance: The Antimicrobial Properties of Amino-Acid Based Surfactants Schultz, Jessica
53 #53: The understanding of Janus167: Identification and characterization of the bacteriophage Janus167 Gómez-Solis, Juan
54 #54: Isolation and Analysis of Antimicrobial Producing Bacteria from Lake Michigan and Soil Krzewinski, Myles
55 #55: THE AGE OF BLAGE: Characterization and genome analysis of Bacteriophage Blage Grimm, Logan
56 Synthesis and Deposition of Silica and Gold Nanoparticles for Sensing Applications Astter, Yana