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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

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