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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 O1 - Creation Stories and Religion Paper Whittier, Elizabeth
2 O2 - The Mutual Influence Between Chinese Musicals and Traditional Chinese Operas in Their Exploration Process Zhang, Miao
3 O3 - The Disgust Domains and Their Relation to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Dimensions Pasquale, Tyler
4 P01 - Design of the 2026 Celebration of Scholars Logo Flanagan, Riley
5 P02 - Solving the "Indian Problem": Wisconsin's Native American Boarding Schools and Their Legacy Groh, Teagan
6 P03 - To Lie or Clarify: An Analysis of Power Structures in Japanese Internment through Art and Photography Borger, Tiffany
7 P04 - Women at War: the American Revolution from Women’s Perspective Leber, Sara
8 P05 - The Rehabilitation Outcomes and Effectiveness of Blood Flow Restriction Training Grimm, Logan
9 P06 - Immune Management in a Patient with a History of Multiple Myeloma in Remission, Post-Autologous Stem Cell Transplant McCallister, Cailin
10 P07 - The Effects of Medication Treatment Methods on Full-Term Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with MTHFR Mutations McCallister, Cailin
11 P08 - Meditation vs. Medication for Anxiety: Effectiveness, Relapse, and Side Effects Nedeljkovic, Tijana
12 P09 - Effective Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for Primary Dysmenorrhea Wagner, Kailey
13 P10 - Maternal Mortality in the U.S.: Investigating the Crisis Rognstad, Zahra
14 P11 - Factors Shaping Survival Outcomes in Newborns with Congenital Heart Disease Pittman, Kyleigh
15 P12 - The Utilization of Virtual Reality in Lower Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation Wojcik, Maeve
16 P13 - Occupational Therapy Rehabilitation of a 67-Year-Old Male Presenting Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Case Study Swatzak, Jeremy
17 P14 - The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Healthcare Accessibility in the Midwest Mulvihill, Luca
18 P15 - Game Demands of NCAA Ⅲ Division Women's Soccer Players Mulvihill, Luca
19 P16 - Healing Outcomes of a Distal Tibia Type II Salter-Harris Fracture Berglund, Madisen
20 P17 - Diagnostic Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging Rosa, Jessica
21 P18 - Aquatic Therapy's Effect on Individuals with Chronic Pain-Related Depression Cordoba, Jillian
22 P19 - Spina Bifida Effects on Chronic Dystonia and Rehabilitation Outcomes Lange, Payton
23 P20 - An Analysis of the Ballistic Partial Squat and Partial Step-Up Exercises Liu, Xingchen
24 P21 - The Effects of Technical Suit's on In Season Swimmers Logan, Sydney
25 P22 - Breaking the Mold: Exploring Barriers to Female Athletic Trainers in Leadership Roles Reese, Briana
26 P23 - The Role of Gender in Sport-Related Concussion Recovery: Insights for Athletic Trainers Capuano, Olivia
27 P24 - The Role of Psychological Readiness in Collegiate Athletes’ Return to Play Following Sports-Related Injuries Rohe, Kaitlin
28 P25 - Artificial Turf and Athlete Safety: Examining the Risk of Non-Contact Lower-Extremity Injuries Cramer, Kathryn
29 P26 - Development & Evaluation of Trinity Application (App) for Cancer Survivors McGuinness, Alish
30 P27 - The Impact of Respite Care on Caregivers Mental Health. Newcomb, Emma
31 P28 - Challenges of students of color at Carthage Tanguay, Gabriella
32 P29 - The Development of Special Education Teachers' Self-Efficacy in Managing Their Well-Being & Their Perceived Outcomes Carpentier, Theresa
33 P30 - Ovid's Metamorphosis: Poetry or Slander? Roland, Winter
34 P31 - Screenwriting for the Streaming Age Franklin, Terrell
35 P32 - Art-Historical and Contextual Research of Ida Belyakov a's The Return Of The Communist Party Membership Card Werner, Jared
36 P33 - Art Historical Research of Carthage's Sam and Berry Shoen Collection: Ilya Repin was not Russian Polietaieva, Anna
37 P34 - From Classroom to Community: Designing a Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop Alfirevic, Amanda
38 P35 - Voices of Dissent: Tracing the Roots and Impact of the American Avante-Garde Theater Movement Borger, Tiffany
39 P36 - How Does the Show Terminal Exhale’s Audience Understand Gun Violence? Dehn, McKenna
40 P37 - Estimating the gravitational-wave energy, fractional mass loss, and luminosity distance of BBH merger events in the LIGO O3-O4 data catalogs Gaynor, Dawson
41 P38 - Using Machine Learning to Model Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash Photon Escape From Earth's Atmosphere Peterson, Lucas
42 P39 - Explorations In Inverse Problems: The Catenary Kwak, Alan
43 P40 - Silicone Foam Development for Thermal Management in EVs Martinez, Rodolfo
44 P41 - Environmental Responses to Rapid Warming: Novaya Zemlya Maraldo, Joshua
45 P42 - Uptake of Consumer Product Chemicals in Lettuce Plants Grown with Biosolids as Fertilizer Martin, Leah
46 P43 - Synthesis of Amino Acid Surfactants to Examine Antimicrobial Properties Deanparvar, Iman
47 P44 - Thermodynamic Investigation Of Two Amino Acid-Based Surfactants Using NMR Spectroscopy Castaneda, Diego
48 P45 - NMR Investigation of Counterion Binding to Green Amino-Acid Based Surfactants with Non-Polar Side Chains Brown, Aubrey
49 P46 - Piceatannol Binding to the Transthyretin Val122Ile Mutant: A Molecular Dynamics Investigation Stone, Maya
50 P47 - An Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Natural Product Binding to the V122I Transthyretin Variant Cerna, Ingrid
51 P48 - CTCF knockdown rescues the MAPK signaling pathway in Vezf1 null murine embryonic stem cells Gómez-Solis, Juan
52 P49 - Discovery and Genomic Analysis of the Lytic Mycobacterium Phage Wogge42 Bednarek, Liliana
53 P50 - Genomic Analysis and Comparison of Mycobacterium Phage Marlia: Your Worst Enemies’ Potential Worst Enemy Becker, Maxwell
54 P51 - Genome Analysis of a Novel Genus of Bacteria Krueger, Grace
55 P52 - 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
56 P53 - Craniofacial Ontogeny of Psittacosaurus mongoliensis and P. lujiatunensis : Towards Evidence for the Developmental Underpinnings of Species differences Younk, Aiden
57 P54 - Using Growth to Settle a Sea Scorpion Dispute Leer, Maverick
58 P55 - Building and Testing a Rodent Plethysmograph System for Undergraduate Student Research Stanic, Katarina
59 P56 - Unlocking the Antimicrobial Power of Bacillus weidmannii Through Agar Plug Methods and Compound Isolation Rieckmann, Julia
60 P57 - CAZyme presence in novel hindgut bacterium Rikenellaceae Isolate 38 Sensenbrenner, Lin
61 P58 - Examining CFos Expression as an Indicator of Neuronal Activity Following Acute CO2 Exposure in Female Sprague-Dawley Rats. Barclay, Mary
62 P59 - Effect of ICV Irisin on Chow Intake and Sucrose Preference in Sprague Dawley Rats Endresen, Kristie
63 P60 - Neurobehavioral plasticity in the rodent gustatory system induced by regular consumption of a low-calorie sweetener during adolescence Anderson, Bo
64 P61 - The Impact of Incompleteness on the Relation between OCD and Disgust Proneness: An Induction Study Stone, Maya
65 P62 - Perfectionism and the Obsessive-Compulsive Related Disorders: An Expanded Investigation Using a New Measure of Perfectionism Hoffman, Theodore
66 P63 - Can trees have friends? Children’s views of the cognitive abilities of living entities of varying biological complexity Barton, Taliah
67 P64 - 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
68 P65 - 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
69 P66 - Exploring Odor Discrimination Using Sniffin' Siticks Minnaert, Taylor