Undergraduate
Nilda Alicea-Velázquez, Ph.D.
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
Graduate
Jillian Maynard
Elihu Burritt Library
Welcome to URCAD's 2021 Virtual Poster Session
We are excited to share our student's research accomplishments. Please view the student's narrated posters below.
URCAD Research Award Winners
Graduate
Emily Blinn
Title: Exploring the Role of School Administrators in Support of the Elementary Literacy Coach: A Situational Analysis
Program: Educational Leadership Ed.D.
School: Education
Merwin Schaefer
Title: Central FIR: Robotic Deburring & Vision for the Aerospace Industry
Program: MS Technology Management
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Undergraduate
Allison Brown
Title: An Examination of Factors That Influence Relative Hippocampal Volumes in Primates
Major: Anthropology
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Kaliann Magalhaes
Title: Contamination characteristics, source apportionment, and health risk assessment of heavy metals from a historical farmland in Rocky Hill, CT
Major: Earth Sciences - Environmental Earth Science Concentration
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Thank you to the Graduate Awards Committee and the Undergraduate Research Award Judges: Dr. Syed Abbas, Dr. Patrick Foster, Dr. C. Christopher Lee, Dr. Brian Matzke, Dr. Samantha Schenck, and Dr. Allison Seifert.
Honorable Mentions
Name: Denaya Christopherson
Title: The Contemporary Indigenous Novel: A New Aesthetics of Collectivity
Program: English MA
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Name: Carrie Howes
Title: Memories Reimagined
Program: MS Art Education
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Name: Danielle Eichman
Title: Blank and Stopped Dead as a Baby: Indecision & the Stopped Body in Plath’s Prose and Poetry
Program: English MA
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Elihu Burritt Library Research Award Winners
Jacqueline T. Thomas
“Why Did African Americans Remain in the South After the Emancipation?”
Adamantios Koukouves
“Nationalism, the Crusades, and the Eastern Roman Empire”
Graduate
Name: Christine Carlson
Title: Do Simulations help Middles School Students Understand the Science Content?
Program: STEM Education Masters
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Swetha Ganesan
Title: Student Advisory Bot Utilizing Semantic Web Technologies
Program: MS-CIT
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Joshua Hinrichs
Title: A Comparative Study of Virtual Versus In-Person Instruction in Middle School Science
Program: S.T.E.M. Education
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Restinel Lomotey
Title: Impacts of Social Media on Player Salary in the National Basketball Association: A Multivariate Statistical Analysis
Program: Masters in Business Administration
School: Business
Name: Anthony Lowell
Title: The Effects of Aerobic Exercise on 6th Grade Physical Education Students’ Creativity
Program: STEM Education
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Nicolas Napoli
Title: Is The Engineering Design Process The Most Effective Way to Teach Hydraulics to Hybrid and Remote Students?
Program: STEM Education
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Taylor Parr
Title: The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Middle Schoolers' Ability to Solve Linear Equations
Program: STEM Education
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Abigail Peterson
Title: The Effects of Mindfulness on Lower Elementary Students' Learning
Program: STEM Education
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Mira Records
Title: How In Person Labs and Virtual Labs Impact Student Achievement and Attitudes
Program: Masters of Science in STEM Education
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Elaina Rocco
Title: The Effects of Brain Breaks in Mathematics
Program: STEM Education
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Victoria Wirtz
Title: Exploring Lidded Ceramic Pots
Program: Non-degree
Undergraduate
Name: Zachary Allen
Title: Reanalysis of Martian Crater Ejecta Characteristics in the Thermal Infrared
Major: Earth Science
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Massia Atalla, Dawn Rosenberg, Xandria Blair, Nicole Karpinski, Elizabeth A. Mendes, Kastriot Rexhaj, Jamiya Williams, Dan Chase
Title: Using Crispr Cas9 to determine the full expression of dopamine receptors in C. elegans
Major: Biochemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Acadia Berry, Liliana Villar, Theodora Ruhs, Christina Barmon
Title: News Media Constructs of Sex and Aging: A Content Analysis
Major: Psychological Science
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Name: Lucas Brown
Title: An Eolian Dune in the Early Jurassic Cass Formation Preserved by Lava Flows, Pomperaug Basin, Connecticut
Major: Earth Sciences/Geology
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Allison Brown
Title: An Examination of Factors That Influence Relative Hippocampal Volumes in Primates
Major: Anthropology
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Name: Rachel Christiana
Title: Synthesis and Analysis of Quinoxalines in Schiff Base Condensation Reactions
Major: Chemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Matthew Dabkowski
Title: Investigating the Effects of Silicon in Glazes
Major: Art
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Name: Ian Enders
Title: Identification of factors controlling groundwater chemistry of a Central well field, New Britain, CT
Major: Earth Science: Geology Specialization
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Kiernan Foster
Title: Analysis of the effect of environment on prebiotic soup evolution
Major: Chemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Bethany Gagne
Title: Prisms of Emulation
Major: Art
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Name: Seth Gagnon
Title: Developing Phase Functions to Describe the Scattering of Light in the Atmosphere
Major: Physics
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Joseph Gohar
Title: Synthesis, Purification, and Characterization of Amino Acid Amphiphiles Under Prebiotic Conditions
Major: Biochemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Rhiannon Grimmett
Title: Synthesis of piperazine dianaline with 2-nitrobenzyl chloride and piperazine
Major: Chemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Brooke Gustafson
Title: Mugs shapes and handles
Major: Art
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Name: Adam Gwara
Title: The Exploration of Quinone-mediated Interspecies Electron Transport (QUIET) Through Gene Deletion
Major: Biochemistry, ACS Certified
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Brooke Hillman
Title: Enzymatic Assays to Test for Functionality in Environmentally Evolved Prebiotic Soups
Major: BS Chemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Jacob Keroack
Title: Evaluation of Writing Center attendance and academic achievement
Major: Accounting
School: Business
Name: Kaliann Magalhaes
Title: Contamination characteristics, source apportionment, and health risk assessment of heavy metals from a historical farmland in Rocky Hill, CT
Major: Earth Sciences - Environmental Earth Science Concentration
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Ashlin Marsh
Title: The Role of Race, Gender, and Preparation on Student Learning in General Chemistry
Major: Chemistry
School: Education
Name: Megan McKern
Title: Investigating Text in Art: How Might One Express Emotion?
Major: Art Education
School: Education
Name: Alexandra McMahon
Title: Synthesis of 2,3-diphenyl-5-methylquinoxaline
Major: Chemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Megan McNivens
Title: Mugs: An Exploration of Shape, Size, and Surface Design
Major: Studio Art
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Name: Gabriela Oddo
Title: Experimenting with Wheel-Thrown Vases
Major: Economics
School: Carol Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Name: Jessica Peluso, Carol Ivers, and Jennifer Piatek
Title: Collecting Stardust: The Search for Micrometeorites in Rainwater via Downspout Collection Apparatuses
Major: Earth Science
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Lily Phan, Pema Sherpa, and Jose Garcia
Title: Cybersecurity Education Mobile Application
Major: Computer Science Honors
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Troy Satagaj
Title: Creation of Membrane Permeable RNA and Fatty Acid Encapsulation
Major: Chemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Alyssa Vannalath
Title: Modulation of Aggression by Blue Light
Major: Biology
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Kim-Tran Vo
Title: Affinity Purification Assay : Identification of Glutathione S-Transferase in Amynthas agrestis
Major: Chemistry and Biology
School: Engineering, Science & Technology
Name: Maximilian Wilfinger
Title: Development of an Alanine Detection Method Using Ninhydrin
Major: Chemistry
School: Engineering, Science & Technology