2022 VURF RECIPIENTS
| Student Name: | Faculty Sponsor: | Sponsor Department: | Project Title: |
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| Carlos Garriga | Robert Curry | Biology | Egg fertilization as an influence on investigation of hatching success and nestling sex ratio in hybridizing chickadees |
| Jennifer Anne Patron | Anil Bamezai | Biology | Defining T cell inhibitory role of BTN2A2 protein expressed by Lipid Droplets |
| Mandy Cai | Alyssa Stark | Biology | Too Humid to Handle: The Effect of Humidity and Substrate Hydrophobicity on Ant Adhesion, Locomotion, and Behavior |
| Chae Danbee | Elaine Youngman | Biology | Investigating the role of RNA helicases against heat stress in germ cell development of C. elegans. |
| Nikki Holmes | Megan Povelones | Biology | Determining the function of the VSG-exclusion 2 (VEX2) protein in the non-pathogenic kinetoplastid parasite Crithidia fasciculata |
| Regan King | John Schmidt | Biology | Quantification of snRNAs in Mouse Mammary Tumor Cells with Differential Expression of Zc3h8 |
| Frank Rauscher | Robert Curry | Biology | Hybridization trajectory and relict recognition of song in the chickadee hybrid zone: an experimental approach |
| Julia Redpath | Alyssa Stark | Biology | How sticky is too sticky?: Gecko locomotor performance in high adhesion conditions |
| Bella Yedman | Adam Langley | Biology | From leaves to landscapes: explaining interannual variability in foliar N in a long-term marsh experiment |
| Margueritte Lalo | Aimee Eggler | Biochemistry | Determining the best oxidizable phenol to combine with a manganese porphyrin to specifically kill breast cancer cells while minimizing toxicity to healthy cells |
| Elisabeth Ford | Barry Selinsky | Biochemistry | |
| Ryan Forte | Jacob Elmer | Chemical Engineering | Assessing Whether Co-Expressing Virokines Known to Inhibit the Host Cell's Innate Immune Response with a Reporter Gene Leads to Higher Target Gene Expression Levels |
| Jack Rahlfs | Jacob Elmer | Chemical Engineering | LtHb Synthesis and Expression in CHO Cells |
| Joseph Sullivan | William Kelly | Chemical Engineering | Development of surface functionalized macro-beads for isolation of IFN-γ high producing CAR-T cells |
| Stefanie Allen | Scott Kassel | Chemistry | Synthesis and characterization of Cobalt(III) terpyridine complexes with application to water oxidation and proton reduction |
| Samuel Burwell | Vanessa Boschi | Chemistry | Examining the Extent of Metal Contamination on Dairy Farms Using Copper Sulfate Bovine Footbaths |
| Olivia Kachurak | Jared Paul | Chemistry | Synthesis and Characterization of [Ru(bpy)2(dh-phen)]2+ and [Ru(bpy)2(dh-dm-phen)]2+ |
| Raymond Roberts | Matthew O'Reilly | Chemistry | Examination of the Diastereoselectivity of Cyclic Tetrapeptide Ring Closure Dependence on Amino Acid Identity |
| Austin Rongo | Deanna Zubris | Chemistry | Developing Novel Copper N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Catalysts to Polymerize Isoprene |
| Daniel Zelch | Matthew O'Reilly | Chemistry | A General, Efficient, and Stereoselective Method of Synthesizing Biologically Relevant Chiral C2-Substituted Azetidines Using Chiral tert-butyl Sulfinimines |
| Anthony LaBarbara | Wenqing Xu | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
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| Madeline Lay | Bryan Crable | Communication | Collective Memory and the Women's Rights Pioneers Monument |
| Victoria Wiegand | Ebelechukwu Nwafor | Computing Science | Towards Detecting Online Dating Scams |
| Khang Bui | Ebelechukwu Nwafor | Computing Science | Towards Detecting DDoS Attacks on IoT devices |
| Rebecca Jacobson | Christa Bialka | Education | Facilitators for Teachers Leading Disability-Related Discussions in 6-12 English Classrooms: A Qualitative Approach |
| William Bassett | Kyle Juretus | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Utilizing Machine Learning to Enhance Performance of Logic Synthesis Tools |
| Matthew DeMarco | Kyle Juretus | Electrical and Computer Engineering | SynPyosys: A Python Framework for Integrated Circuit Design |
| Giavanna Walker | Kyle Juretus | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Structurally Aware Logic Locking |
| Kennedy Cornish | Xun Jiao | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Implicit Bias in Machine Learning |
| Lauren Arnold | Steven Goldsmith | Geography & the Environment | Measuring the effectiveness of point of use (POU) water filter pitchers at removing sodium from tap water |
| Maeve Malone | Kabindra Shakya | Geography & the Environment | Characterization of lead and other heavy metals in atmospheric particulate matter around Villanova, PA |
| Sydney Walsh | Stephen Strader | Geography & the Environment | Analyzing Trends in Heavy Precipitation Events and Vulnerability in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Region from 1940 to 2021 |
| Corrine Wilm | Lisa Rodrigues | Geography & the Environment | Life in the plastisphere: Can algae biodegrade PET or HDPE plastic waste? |
| Alivia Lanoue | Marc Gallicchio | History | Development of Diplomacy in Sino-American Relations, 1971-2000 |
| Abdullah Al Rafi Mahmud | Alexander Diaz-Lopez | Mathematics | |
| Elsaid Youssef | Alfonso Ortega | Mechanical Engineering | Enhancement of Pool Boiling using Synthetic Jets for High Heat Flux Cooling |
| Kendall Fragetta | Ani Ural | Mechanical Engineering | |
| Victoria Margenat | Aaron Wemhoff | Mechanical Engineering | Water Scarcity and Cannabis Growth Facilities |
| Emily Holland | Elizabeth Dowdell | Nursing | Workplace Violence: Voices of Emergency Department Nurses Treating Patients with Substance Use Disorders |
| Georgia Karavangelas | Joseph Neilsen | Physics | Analyzing X-ray Obscuration in GRS 1915+105 with Chandra and NuSTAR |
| Lauren Iskander | Benjamin Sachs | Psychology | |
| Allison Bajada | Janette Herbers | Psychology | |
| Elise Miller | Benjamin Sachs | Psychology | Assessing the Impact of Serotonin Deficiency and Gut Dysbiosis on Cognition and Anxiety- and Depressive-Like Behavior in Mice |