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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

2024

  Title Lead Presenter
1 #01: Sports Business: Player Marketability Logic Model Mazurkiewicz, Gregory
2 #02: The Impact and Influence of Content Creation in Public Relations: Influencers, Consumers, and Brands Christian, Megan
3 #03: The Correlation of Likability and Success Werger, Magdalena
4 #04: Will You Be My Friend?: How K-Pop Expanded Into the United States Ward, Mia
5 #05: The protection of endangered regional opera in China: taking Lihuang Opera as an example Zhang, Miao
6 #06: Domestic Violence in Carousel the Musical: Embrace it, Don’t Erase It Fuller, Molly
7 #07: Design of the 2025 Celebration of Scholars Logo Mandujano, Samantha
8 #08: Man's Obligation of Property and People Pettey, Carter
9 #09: Correlations Between Enuma Elis and Genesis Doebler, Bennett
10 #10: Maturity In The Odyssey Marron, Andrew
11 #11: Intellectual Foundations Scholarship: The Odyssey Lange, Payton
12 #12: Special Education Teacher Candidates' Growth & Recommended Strategies to Manage Well-Being Wang, Jun
13 #13: Teaching Dis/Ability in The Social Studies Classroom Carpentier, Theresa
14 #14: Case Study of Mentor Teachers Who Support Urban Teacher Prepartation Vermillion, Ellison
15 #15: Implementing Social and Emotional Learning Strategies in the Social Science Classroom Mueller, Anna
16 #16: Importance of Interprofessional Education for Pre-Professional Students Greenwood, Ashley
17 #17: Factors that Influence Pediatric Anesthesia Outcomes Camarena, Mary
18 #18: Determining the influence anesthesia has on cardiovascular patient outcomes Guzman, Aiyana
19 #19: What Effects Neurocognitive Functions That Come With A Concussion? Wiles, Jordan
20 #20: Prehospital Use of Blood Products on the Hemorrhagic Patient Reagle, Kaitlyn
21 #21: Effects of Nutrient Intake on Testosterone Levels in Males Ugo, Johnathan
22 #22: What Is The Impact of Robotic Therapy on Stroke Patients and Occupational Therapists? Hacker, Lauren
23 #23: Is Augmented Soft Tissue Manipulation (ASTYM) an Effective and Efficient Intervention for Treating Injuries to the Shoulder from Overhead Activities Lea, Jessica
24 #24: Quantitative Osteological Ontogeny of Alligatoroids Jackson, Brett
25 #25: Novel Growth Changes in Neurovasculature Correlates of the Dentary in Cyclurus fragosus (Actinopterygii, Amiidae) of the Hell Creek Formation (67-66 mya) of Southeastern Montana Krakora, Joseph
26 #26: Insights into the Sequence of Eye Position and Shape and Prosoma Shape Changes in Eurypterus remipes (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) Using Cladistic Ontogeny Leer, Maverick
27 #27: Onika’s Origins: A Bioinformatic Analysis of a Cluster EC Bacteriophage White, Jeffrey
28 #28: Scream, Shout, and Annotate HankSprout: an EA1 Bacteriophage Hartmann, Tyler
29 #29: Long-read Nanopore Sequencing Reveals the Impact of Starvation Induced Ribosome Collisions in HeLa Cells Zilisch, Summer
30 #30: The Effects of Simulated Microgravity Conditions on Mycobacterium Smegmatis Lysogen Stability Pacocha, Allison
31 #31: Antibody-based Detection of GNAQ Protein in a Zebrafish Model of Uveal Melanoma Bergemann, Neva
32 #32: Measuring functional recovery of vision after injury in zebrafish using the optokinetic response Horutz, Mackenzie
33 #33: Immunofluorescence Staining of Zebrafish Retinal Ganglion Cells Henneman, Ryan
34 #34 The Antimicrobial Properties of an L-leucine Surfactant on Gram-negative and Gram-positive Bacterial Species Schultz, Jessica
35 #35: A Summary of How Behaviorally Inhibited Individuals Respond to Three Different Physiologic Stressors Ehlert, Luke
36 #36: Effect of Lateral Septum Ghrelin Signaling on Anxiety-Like Behavior in Sprague Dawley Rats Pavesich, Gabrielle
37 #37: Physiological State Influences on Avoidance Expression in Wistar-Kyoto and Sprague-Dawley Rats Massari, John
38 #38: Fluoro-Gold Tracing in Various Brain Regions of Sprague-Dawley Rats Drake, Frannie
39 #39: Synthesis of Amino Acid Surfactants to Examine Antimicrobial Properties Hanson, Cole
40 #40: Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of Drug Binding to the V122I Transthyretin Protein Variant Deanparvar, Iman
41 #41: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Spanish and Portuguese-Speaking Countries: An In-Depth Spatial-Temporal Analysis in Latin America, and Spain and Portugal in Europe Fitzgibbon, Sara
42 #42: Screening of Agrobacterium for Plant Infiltration with a Synthetic Virus Gómez-Solis, Juan
43 #43: Using NMR Spectroscopy to Analyze Micelles Made By an Amino Acid-Based Surfactant Castaneda, Diego
44 #44: NMR Analysis of Micelle Formation by Bio-Based Surfactants Rauscher, Robert
45 #45: A Molecular Dynamics Investigation of the Mechanism of Drug Binding to the V122I Transthyretin Protein Variant Leach, Kaleigh
46 #46: Spiritual Care of Adults with Cancer: A Concept Analysis Moore, Marlena
47 #47: Competition Demands of NCAA Division III Women’s Lacrosse Koehlert, Hannah
48 #48: Competition Demands of NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Oldani, Emma
49 #49: Match Demands of NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer: A Three-Season Analysis Lee, DeAndre
50 #50: Match Demands of NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Guadarrama, Jhovany
51 #51: “Curious Rubbish”: An Analysis of Fairy Belief in the Scottish Highlands and Problematic 19th Century Ethnography Serfling Bennett, Ava
52 #52: Disability and the Monster: How "Hell Followed With Us" Reimagines Ableist Tropes in Literature Berg, Elsie
53 #53: "Reclaiming Our Access to Pleasure: Dykes To Watch Out For and LGBTQ+ Print Culture" De Jesus, Kj
54 #54: Psychiatric Sexism: A Gendered History of American Mental Health Diagnoses, Treatments, and Institutionalization Swihart, Abigail
55 #55: Views on Sexual Harassment Among University Students in Japan Moskow, Sabrina
56 #56: Kansei Enginering within Japanese Daily-Life Stobbe, Jaramey
57 #57: Inquiry Based Labs for Fostering Student Growth Jackson, Wayne
58 #58: An analytical method for computing the pair correlation functions of dislocation loops Valentini, Andrew
59 #59: Estimating the Luminosity Distance and Mass Properties of BBH Merger Events in LIGO O4 Data Valentini, Andrew
60 #60: The development of a semi-empirical analytical model for the Modal Propellant Gauge project Schraufnagel, Kassia
61 #61: Topological Noise Differentiation Rauda, Hector
62 #62: Patterns in Political Polarization Conran, Emma
63 #63: Moving Wisconsin Forward: High-Speed Rail Implementation and Wisconsin Politics Biba, Nicole
64 #64: Forms of Resistance in the Black ’80s Kelly, Tyler
65 #65: The Law and the Preservation of the German Brewing Tradition Schaffer, Henry
66 #66: Why Not Me: A Qualitative Study on the Dating Experience of Black Womxn at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) Robinson, Kortni
67 #67: Pregnant Women Do Not Exhibit Heightened Olfactory Ability During Pregnancy Anderson, Bo
68 #68: Identifying the Boundaries of Magic: A Qualitative Study of Expert Magicians Tuchel, Sarah