Kalman Symposium 2021
Akil Atkins
Catch the Pig! Understanding Interaction Between People and AI
Our study sought to investigate the ways in which people would interact with an AI agent, based on how the agent was...
Anthony Orlando
Mechanics of Wax-based Gels with varying Polymer Concentration: An Overview
Wax-based polymer gels have the potential to vastly improve the shelf life of transdermal drug patches. It can be...
April Hurlock
Effect of Self-Oxidation on Deposited Cigarette Smoke Composition and Third-Hand Smoke
While the implications of first-hand and second-hand tobacco smoke have been thoroughly studied, much less is known about the effects...
Ariel Kelly
Does Global Trade Help of Hinder Economic Equality?
The issue of globalization and its perceived winners and losers has recently come to the forefront of international conversation. In this project, we...
Ben Travis
Investigating Maternal Blood Loss Measurement Methods and Risk Factors Associated with Postpartum Hemorrhages...
Cameron Hong
Assessing Solvent Viscosity Impact on the Physical Characteristics of Polymeric Organogels
Traditionally, studies of polymeric organogels focus on the impact of polymer factors on the gels’ mechanical and transport properties. Alternatively...
Camillo Lazarczyk
Fighting Food Waste With Portion Sizes
Problem Statement: The US wastes nearly 40% of our food, creating 125-160 billion pounds of waste annually, leading to high emission rates, resource depletion, and...
Caroline Eckert
A Qualitative Study of Danish Mothers' Beliefs on Religion & Parenting
This study investigated Danish mothers’ beliefs about parenting and the role of religion in family practices and discussions. Denmark...
Catherine MacKay and Brooke Echnat
The Show Must Go On!
The Theatre and Dance Department periodically awards the honor of an Individual Production Project to seniors who have demonstrated advanced work and a deep commitment to...
Claire Marino
Solanum 'Deaf Adder', a New Bush Tomato Species from the Australian Monsoon Tropics
Australia is a unique island continent with many endemic species. Ongoing research and estimates suggest that over...
Colette Sachs
The Psychological Impacts of COVID-19 and Social Distancing
During the period of March to August of 2020, college students across the country were asked to stay in place due to the...
Diamanda Zizis
What happens when you cross plant species with two distinct sexual systems? An ex situ hybridization approach
The transitions from the hermaphroditic sexual system to the andromonoecious and dioecious sexual systems...
Ella Carlander & Michael Bolish
How to Code a Simulation with LAMMPS
We discuss how to use the computer program LAMMPS to build and run a molecular dynamics computer simulation. We provide general steps in...
Emily Brandes
To Believe or Not to Believe: A Closer Look at the Impact of Sexual Assault in Politics
Since the viral 2017 #MeToo movement, public opinion on cases of sexual misconduct has...
Emily Haas
Evaluating the Impact of Stream Restoration Techniques on Bank Erosion, Stream Morphology, and Soil Carbon at an Unnamed Tributary of Pine Creek near Woodward, central Pennsylvania
Live staking is a stream...
Emily Tully
Location Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Aponeurosis Tissue Under Uniaxial Tensile Stretch
Aponeurosis is a connective tissue that serves as an extension of tendon, attaching to muscle fibers that do not fully...
Gari Eberly
Synthesis
Synthesis is a collection of poetry that explores how
gender relations and race amalgamate to impact
the maturation of an individual. These poems are
scientifically-aware and influenced by my concurrent
education in both Creative...
Ian Coates
Assessing the Impact of Block-Selective Homopolymers on the Diffusion of Payloads Through Polymeric Gels
The goal of this project is to investigate the impact of a gel-miscible polymer additive on gel...
Jacob Feuerstein
Decision 2020: Rural Pennsylvania
The 2020 election was a point of inflection for Democratic candidates across the United States. Securing tossup states like Pennsylvania and Arizona along with parts of the...
Jaden Lee
Using Finite Element Modeling to Investigate the Effect of Mechanical Loading on Muscle Microstructure
Clinical treatments for muscle conditions such as muscle atrophy and cerebral palsy require an understanding of the...
Jake Schaefer
The Mechanical Properties of Ramming Animal Horn Shapes
One of the most common, yet very dangerous injuries in the world of sports are concussions, which are caused by brain cavity accelerations...
John Mirsky
Housing Illness in a PA Mushroom Town
The relatively small PA town of Kennett Square produces half of the fresh mushrooms for the entire United States. To accomplish this feat, the...
Julia Tokish
Uncovering South Asian American Playwrights
American theatre is a discipline heavily dominated by white playwrights, while other races remain disproportionately underrepresented. This includes South Asian American playwrights, who are not only...
Julian Cohen
Estimating the Pressure and Temperature of Metamorphism of ca. 1.4 Ga Metapelitic Rocks from the Sierra Estrella Range, Phoenix, Arizona USA
Meijer (2019) reported what is likely the first known occurrence...
Kaelyn Long
My Experiences Re-immersing into Introduction to Mathematical Thought
Throughout college, most students only have the opportunity to engage with course material once. As a senior, this past fall semester I had...
Keith Grega
Impact of Screw Type on Torque During Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis Screw Removal
Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE) is a disorder that occurs in adolescents in which the femoral head slips...
Klaudia Kulawska
Dissociating Socioeconomic Influences on Maternal Language Input and Child Language Outcomes
Early language development is associated with children’s socioeconomic status (SES). Specifically, children from lower SES backgrounds, on average, exhibit slower...
Kyle Ferguson
Noise-driven aggregation of swimmers in the Kolmogorov flow
We investigate theoretically the dynamics of ellipsoidal microswimmers in an externally imposed, laminar Kolmogorov flow. Through a phase-space analysis of the dynamics without...
Lainey Lavelle
A Study of Teacherpreneurs Who Create Elementary Mathematics Curricular Resources
Online teacherpreneurs are teachers who use social media platforms to create, sell, and distribute educational resources to others. For many teachers...
Lucas Rankin
Establishing Independent Tunability of the Mechanical and Transport Properties of Polymer Gels
Polymer gels can be used in the fabrication of materials for filtering liquid and gaseous media, solid-state electrolytes, and...
Mackenzie Flynn and Bree McCullough
Little Arnot Run: An Evaluation of Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions with Regard to Hyporheic Exchange and Temperature
Little Arnot Run is a second-order stream in the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania. In many...
Maya Freeman
Fluoroquinolone-based therapy and onset of functional gastrointestinal disorders in human subjects
Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are a broad class of antibiotics typically prescribed for several infectious diseases, including common infections for which...
Meg MacNeille
What's Out There? Investigating Online Teacher Created Activites
Despite the popularity of online teacher-created
resource-sharing sites, little is known about the scope and quality of elementary mathematics activities from these sites. Our...
Michael Duncan
Title: Gas-Phase Chemical Ionization Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry
Michael Duncan
Advisor: Douglas B. Collins
The most common method of analysis for trace gases in air employs chemical ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (CI-TOF-MS). Transportable...
Nicholas Passantino
Domain Adaptation in Machine Learning for Medical Imaging
Machine learning models do well in learning to classify images, but can undesirably learn features unique to the specific dataset they were trained...
Olivia Dyer
Visual Characterization of Aponeurosis Microstructure
Aponeurosis is a tendinous sheath-like tissue found in many muscle-tendon units, and the muscle-aponeurosis junction is poorly understood. We want to determine the structure of the...
Philip Onffroy
Ray’cycle Initiative: Characterizing and Productizing Community-Sourced Plastics
Certain everyday plastic product waste ranging from grocery bags to bottle caps and single-use coffee pods cannot typically be recycled in the United States...
Ruoying Zhang
Chinese International Students in the US: The Influence of Discrimination, Acculturation and Coping on Psychological Wellbeing
Chinese international students have been reported to experience psychological distress, help-seeking stigma, language-based discrimination, and...
Ryan Bremer
BRAKHAGE’S ADJACENTS
The goal of BRAKHAGE’S ADJACENTS is to better understand the working methods and aesthetic decision making of the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933-2003). By focusing upon his use of...
Shane Kozick
Measuring Concordance of Subtype Sulcogryral Patterns in Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twin Pairs
The brain’s surface is made up of sulci (grooves) and gyri (ridges) that together create the distinct folded (sulcogryal)...
Thomas Matsumura
Title: Measuring Lower Limb Muscle Activity and Kinematics in Variable Foot Strike Gaits
Abstract: Anterior knee pain affects roughly a quarter of the population, and many cases go untreated. Joint pain...
Tung Tran
Bayesian Optimization of 2D Echocardiography Segmentation
Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a well-studied hyperparameter tuning technique that is more efficient than grid search for high-cost, high-parameter machine learning problems. Echocardiography is a...
Valerie Justice
U-Pb Isotope Dating of Monazite from the Sierra Estrella Mountains of Arizona: Evidence for ca. 1.4 Billion Year Old Metamorphism and Deformation.
U-Pb isotope dating of monazite from the Sierra Estrella...
Wutt Kyi
Effect of White Matter Stimulation on Clinical Outcomes in Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical procedure where electrodes are implanted in the brain...
Yida Chen
Assessing the generalizability of temporally-coherent echocardiography video segmentation
Existing deep-learning methods achieve state-of-art segmentation of multiple heart substructures from 2D echocardiography videos, an important step in the diagnosis and management of...
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