The approved URES 197 projects for Fall 2018 are listed below by department:
Art and Art History Department
Faculty Sponsor: Julia DeLancey
Student: Elayna Gladstone – Disability in Early Modern Venice
Student: Caitlin Kelly – Disability and Art in Early Modern Venice
Biological Sciences Department
Faculty Sponsor: Dianne Baker
Student: Lauren Closs – Zebrafish and medaka endocrinology
Student: Erica Liss – Zebrafish and medaka endocrinology
Student: Rachel Summers– Zebrafish endocrinology
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Griffith
Student: Augustus Grohmann – UMW Tree Mapping and Measurement
Student: Sophia Hudson– UMW Tree Mapping and Measurement
Student: Devin Rantz – Tree Census at Belmont Estates
Faculty Sponsor: Abbie Tomba
Student: Kelly Keane– Effect of pesticides on Crayfish behavior
Student: Marissa Howard– Aquatic Invertebrate research
Faculty Sponsor: Parrish Waters
Student: Emily Swartchick – Social Transfer of Cognition
Student: Nicole Taylor – The influence of wheel running of a depression model in mice
Faculty Sponsor: April Wynn
Student: Emily Contompasis – Herbarium Plantstagram (Instagram Outreach)
Student: Sarah Piper – Characterization of Novel Lac Operon Mutants
Chemistry Department
Faculty Sponsor: Janet Asper
Student: Joseph Henry – Setting Up an Organic Research Lab
Student: Justin Kram – Building a New Synthesis Lab
Faculty Sponsor: Randall Reif
Student: Tara Anderson – Resusabilty of Affinity-Coated Microfluidic Devices
Student: Ashley Utz – Resusabilty of Affinity-Coated Microfluidic Devices
Computer Science Department
Faculty Sponsor: Jessica Zeitz
Student: Shane McSally – UX Design & Usability Analysis
Historic Preservation Department
Faculty Sponsor: Lauren McMillan
Student: Ethan Knick – Nomini Plantation
Student: Delaney Resweber – Stratford Hall Plantation
History and American Studies Department
Faculty Sponsor: Will Mackintosh
Student: Amanda Miller – Newspaper Coverage of Horse Theft in Upstate NY, 1790-1870
Student: Adam Thomson – Newspaper Coverage of Horse Theft in Upstate NY, 1790-1870
Faculty Sponsor: Krystyn Moon
Student: Genesis Avila Lugo – Andrew King Collection Research
Mathematics Department
Faculty Sponsor: Melody Denhere
Student: Mandy Byrd – Data Analysis
Faculty Sponsor: Debra Hydorn
Student: Cindy T. Ly – Environmental Sustainability Index
Faculty Sponsor: Melody Denhere and Debra Hydorn
Student: Garrett O’Donnell – URES 197 An Analysis of the Environmental Sustainability Index
Physics Department
Faculty Sponsor: Maia Magrakvelidze
Student: Stefano Coronado – Beowulf Cluster for Research and Education
Political Science and International Affairs Department
Faculty Sponsor: Surupa Gupta
Student: Nina Burges – Trade and Investment and the Indo-Pacific
Student: Olivia Mason-Lucas– Liberation of Indian agriculture
Student: Harrison Vaughan – Trade and Investment and the Indo-Pacific
Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Larus
Student: Stephen Lamm – Dynamic Asian Polities
Student: Alexis Waddell – Society and Politics in Contemporary China, 2nd edition
Faculty Sponsor: Emile Lester
Student: Koty Bowen – Georgia 3Rs project
Psychological Science Department
Faculty Sponsor: Emily Stanley
Student: Peyton Crickman– Psychophysiology of Error Related Negativity
Student: Colleen Hope – EEG & Perfectionism
Faculty Sponsor: Hilary Stebbins
Student: Mathew Bapties– Striatal Dopamine, Latent Inhibition, and Creativity
Student: Brighton Payne – Striatal dopamine, creativity, and latent inhibition