Ithaca College

Congratulations to the students who have been selected to participate in the 2017 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Memphis, Tennessee April 6-8 2017. 

Unlike meetings of academic professional organizations, NCUR is a gathering of young scholars and presenters from all institutions of higher learning and from all corners of the academic curriculum.

Through this annual conference, NCUR creates a unique environment for the celebration and promotion of undergraduate student achievement, provides models of exemplary research and scholarship, and helps to improve the state of undergraduate education.

Students, listed below, will be accompanied by Associate Professor James Pfrehm, Modern Languages and Literatures, Rasoul Rezvanian, Associate Dean/Business, and Jim Johnson, Lecturer, Marketing and Law.

 

School of Business

Samantha Reilly, Legal Studies

Sexual Violence and Collegiate Athletes                

Casey Phillips, Legal Studies

Can Congress Restrict State-Sponsored Displays of Historically Oppressive Symbols? / The Historical Evolution of Laws Involving Sex Trafficking Within the United States           

Zachary Luckin, Legal Studies

Barriers to Renewable Energy: The U.S. Government and Fossil Fuels

Nicole Cardascia, Legal Studies

The Legal Aspects of the Technology Providing Captioning for Broadway Productions    

Julia Bates, Legal Studies

The Philosophical and Legal implications of The Animal Welfare Act and their Definition of an "Animal" 

Theophilus Alexander, Legal Studies

S.B. 1070: A Transgression of Civil Liberties

Joshua Marshall, Legal Studies

Fourth Amendment Implications on the Search of a Smartphone             

Nicole Ang, Legal Studies

From Victim to Victimizer: The Case of Dominic Ongwen

Stephanie Lipari, Legal Studies

Should The FAA Require Civilian Commercial Aircraft Manufacturers To Place Real Time Tracking Technology Device On All Aircraft?       

Shannon Davis, Legal Studies

Hazardous Chemical Dumping  

Madeleine Anthony, Legal Studies

Sexual Assault within the Workplace: Determining Liability among Employers/More than the Guillotine: The Reign of Terror's Approach to Criminal Justice in the French Revolution    

Taulant Gashi, Business/Finance/Accounting

Interest Rate Projections

  

School of H&S

Naomi Hanson Hanson, History

Exploiting a Pirate Legend: The Twentieth Century Manipulation of Granuaile O'Malley 

Elizabeth Alexander, International Studies

Sameness and Difference: Is the United States Capable of Having an International Conversation?            

Cailin Harro, Biology

Isolation and Characterization of Central Proteins in A. Subfuscus Glue

Colette Piasecki-Masters, Biology

Comparison of Sugars and Amino Acids in Nectar from Scaevola Taccada and Scaevola Plumieri

Janelle Harter, Biology

Behavioral Syndromes and Sex Specificity in the Siberian Dwarf Hamster              

Victoria Wright, Biology               

Functional Genomics of Somatosensory Neuron Signaling and Morphology

Cassandra Papaleo, Biology

Sequencing Reveals Integral Proteins in Arion Subfuscus Slug Glue

Adriana Morales Gomez, Biology

Population Genetics of Scaevola in the islands of Puerto Rico     

Danielle Bucior, Biology

Comparison of Heavy Metal Concentrations in Terrestrial Plants in Vieques, Puerto Rico

Alycia Summers, Biology             

Can Your Mom Stress You Out Before You're Born?

Anna Tarren, Cell & Molecular Biology

Effects of Cell Stress and Low Density Lipoprotein Concentration on the Localization of Amyloid Precursor Protein               

Ambra Munlyn, Cell & Molecular Biology             

Dissecting the Roles of PLA2-Mediated Tubules and STARD4 in Intracellular Cholesterol Transport

Meghann Muldowney, Cellular Neuroscience

Angiotensin 1-7 Increases nNOS Expression in Cardiac Ganglia Cells of Guinea Pigs

Ian Wolf, Microbiology & Immunology

Long-Chain Acyl-Coa Synthetase (ACSL) Blockade in Cell Lines Of Diverse Host Species Has Unique Effects On Chlamydia Trachomatis Growth     

Suzanne Zuckerman, Cognitive Neuroscience

Researching the Effects of Passive and Active Movement on Level of Activity in 8-11 Month Old Infants' Prefrontal Lobe               

Allan Bowen, Biochemistry

Exploring Conformational Propensities of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Auxin Signaling

Michele Hau, Communications

Arguing About Racism: The Problem of Essentially Contested Concepts

Ngan Tran, Economics   

Economic Effects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Vietnam Manufacturing Sector      

Kaitlyn Matrassi, Linguistics

Argentinians' Perceptions of Spanish Dialects

Rachel Barone and Matthew Nanna, Environmental Studies & Sciences

Fish and Pharmaceuticals: The Effect of Venlafaxine on Swimming Behavior of Fathead Minnows

Victoria Chamberlin, Environmental Studies & Sciences

Monitoring the Spread of the American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) Around Ithaca, New York             

Matthew Finegan, Environmental Studies & Sciences

Metformin Madness: Effects of an Anti-Diabetic Drug On Epidermal Club Cell Investment in Fathead Minnows

Anna Bornstein, Environmental Studies & Sciences

Solving the Environmental Beef Crisis

Caitlyn Patullo, Environmental Studies & Sciences

Effects of Metformin on Growth and Appetite in Juvenile Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas) After 7-Day Chronic Exposures

Tara Perry, Environmental Studies & Sciences    

Concentration of Dissolved Inorganic Solids and Fecal Coliform Bacteria in Natural Springs of Central New York

Daniel Tjie, Mathematics

Explorations of Finger Games   

Amy Parker, Physics

A Toxicology and Characterization Study of Microplastics

Megan Tracy, Public Health        

An Investigation of Implicit Personality Theories and Mechanisms of Coping       

Chris Kim, Sociology

Racial-Ethnic Online Dating Preferences

Olivia Sod, Religious Studies

Fitting an Ocean in an 8 oz. Glass: An Analysis of the Rhetorical Limits of Gendering God and the Emancipatory Potential of Degendering God      

 

School of HSHP

Catherine Felicetti, Public Health

Providing Audiological Services Globally               

Madeline Haftel, Education

Analysis of Multiple Modes of Contact with an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant          

 

Park School of Communication

Grant Brighter, Film/Photography Studies

Warped Space-Time: Exploiting Schematic Assumptions in “Ritual in Transfigured Time”

Sydney O'Shaughnessy, Journalism

Gen Z's First Election and Use of Social Media    

Jennifer Walsh, Film/Photography Studies

“Good God, Lemon:” Examining the Atypical Female in 30 Rock 

Tessa Lewis Polsky, Communications

Conflict Management through Social Media in Natural Disaster Crises

Jamie Shum, Communications

The Effects of Personality Types (Introversion-Extraversion) on Promoting Feminism on Social Media Platforms

Ahana Dave, Journalism

A Vicious Cycle: Do Black Lives Matter to the Media?      

Mikayla Lydon, Communications

Food System Design Inquiry: Counter-Systeming the Wicked Problem    

 

School of Music

Hannah Blanchette, Music

Redefining Femininity Through Music From A New Hope to The Force Awakens