View the 18th Annual Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium Presentations
Thank you to everyone who attended the 18th Annual Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Each spring, the Aresty Research Center hosts a university-wide Undergraduate Research Symposium. A celebration of scholarship and creative activity, the Symposium is a chance for undergraduates to present a paper or poster on their findings to an audience of faculty, peers, and corporate and community partners.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Aresty will be hosting a modified in-person Undergraduate Research Symposium.
The research presentations at the Symposium will range across the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. This unique event, which is one of the largest undergraduate research celebrations in the country, is a rare opportunity to engage with some of the most exciting research at Rutgers all in one place.
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| Abit | Bassey | Nutrients in physiological and biochemical support of detoxification in mosquito larvae. |
| Agaiby | Sandy | Decarbonization and bioenergy carbon capture and storage |
| Ahmed | Khansa | NETWORKS OF EMPOWERMENT: YOUTH, GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND COMBATING EXTREMISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY |
| Ajmal | Sharia | Learning to Think: Through Direct Instruction or Inquiry? |
| Alvarez | Elizabeth | Child Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic Experiments |
| Amanullah | Sana | An intervention to decrease stigma and increase teamwork among interprofessional healthcare providers to decrease health disparities |
| Amanullah | Noor | Office for University Strategy Research Assistant |
| Ananthu | Abimanyu | AN APPROACH TO DISPOSING OF UNWANTED HAIR FROM HOME |
| Aranda Alzamora | Adrian | Mining the "Green" Energy Frontier in Latin America |
| Archakam | Sobhana | The Effects of Visual Chunking Accommodation for Students with Geometry Difficulties |
| Arslan | Aania | "In Memory of the Voices We Have Lost:" Feminist Digital Archives Hub |
| Aryasomayajula | Aravind | Determining cholesterol and fatty acids requirements for the growth of the Lyme disease spirochete. |
| Ashraf | Usman | Investigating patterns and predictors of problem drinking and alcohol use disorder in adolescence, young adulthood, midlife and older adulthood from a lifespan development perspective |
| Azcona | Maricruz | Heritage Speakers of Spanish and Spanish-English Codeswitching Strategies: A Psycholinguistic Study |
| Bankauskas | Vita | Yeast Phosphatidylinositol Synthase |
| Barbosa Couto | Gustavo | Quantum Catalysis to Develop New Energy Technologies |
| Battaglia | Bianca | Planning the launch of a humanities research journal |
| Bhavsar | Avni | Design of Transition Metal Phosphide Electrocatalysts for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction |
| Blazeska | Meggi | Graphic Criticism--Digital Analysis of Literary Texts |
| Bloom | Niklas | Bank Supervision and Financial Stability |
| Borgaonkar | Yogini | Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Brown | Sophie | Graphic Criticism--Digital Analysis of Literary Texts |
| Brzostek | Olivia | Cystine Diamides as Inhibitors of Cystine Stone Formation for Cystinuria |
| Campo | Ashley | The History of Covid-19 at Rutgers |
| Cannon | Jack | Research on Slip Coefficients of Metallic Coatings |
| Cardinale | Christopher | Altered c-fos Expression in NOP KO and WT Mice Following LPS Administration and OF/Novel Object Behavioral Testing |
| Cascia | Patrick | Sustainable Acaricides Treatments to Control the Asian Longhorned Tick |
| Chen | Yongqi | Statistical Analysis of Human Development and Behavior Genetics |
| Chhabra | Insha | Protein production for solid-state NMR based structural biology |
| Chihoub | Anis | Privacy-preserving data visualization |
| Choudhury | Tasnova | Meta-Analysis of Social Skills Interventions for Youth with ADHD |
| Chundi | Gnaneswar | Using Photosystem II microcrystals to study the structure and kinetics on the water oxidizing complex |
| Clarke | Emily | Developing metal-organic framework materials for chemical sensing and gas separation applications |
| Clervil | Lynelle | An intervention to decrease stigma and increase teamwork among interprofessional healthcare providers to decrease health disparities |
| Correa | Kate | Racial Boundary-Making, Advertising, and the Electric Guitar |
| Costa | Maris | Geoinformatics for Environment and Evolution in the Turkana Basin, Kenya |
| D'Albero | Diana | Dating strike-slip faulting in rift basins along eastern North America using a novel isotopic dating technique |
| Dadi | Khyathi | Exploring connections between Volcano Crater Shape and Eruption Style |
| Dadika | Paige | Effect of Exposure on the Development of Auditory Evoked Lateralization |
| Dalessio | Kevin | Cohort Studies of Drug Users |
| Damle | Nikhil | Data Mining of Cancer Growth Pathways |
| Daniel | Simon | How Therapy Works with Anxious and Depressed Youth |
| Dasgupta | Suchindram | Mathematical Adventures in One-Dimensional Relativistic Physics |
| Degregorio | Gabriella | Learning to Think: Through Direct Instruction or Inquiry? |
| Denis | Laura | Participation in and Evaluation of a Regional Community-Based Health Coalition Project |
| Dias | Aiden | Community-based German Language Schools in the US: History and Current Status |
| Dilloian | Matthew | Aquaculture through stripe bass and duckweed |
| Dolunay | Nihal | Eugenic Sterilization in North Carolina |
| Dong | Robyn | Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management, Risk, Resilience and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) |
| Doyle | Fiona | Early Childhood Education Policy |
| Dukes | Jessamyn | Developing Principled Digitalized Interactive Components of Geometry Items to Assess Performance of Students Disadvantaged in Traditional Assessment |
| Einhorn | Kayla | Child Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic Experiments |
| Fallah | Zahra | Religious Minorities in Iran and the Middle East |
| Feltri | Samantha | Meta-Analysis of Social Skills Interventions for Youth with ADHD |
| Ferrales | Steven | NETWORKS OF EMPOWERMENT: YOUTH, GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND COMBATING EXTREMISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY |
| Ferrer | Jasmine | Cross-linguistic Study of Meaning |
| Ficken | Karolyn | Investigating Bacteriophages as a Novel Therapeutic Method in Reducing the Viability of C. acnes |
| Finkelstein | Michael | Joint Maintenance and Reconfiguration Decision-Making in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems |
| Forsman | Anna | The Ramapough Lunaape and the Ringwood Mines Superfund Site - History, Culture, Education, and Environmental Justice |
| Gallon | Sebastian | CRISPR-gene editing of Arabidopsis susceptibility genes to improve powdery mildew disesase resistance |
| Gamarra | Vanessa | International Early Childhood Interventions: A Meta-Analysis |
| Garcia | Bennett | Artificial Intelligence for Railroad Grade Crossing Analytics |
| Ghanima | Abdullah | CODE: Crowd Optimized Design of Environments |
| Gheewalla | Aashna | Alcohol Use and Writing Experiment (Project A.W.E) |
| Giz | Jacqueline | Archivio Digitale Boncompagni Ludovisi |
| Glazewski | Nicholas | Testing Catnip extracts on the Repellency and Behavior of Ticks |
| Gore | Daniel | Spacecraft onboard calibration emulations through UAV sensor calibrations in flight |
| Gosevska | Anita | WAM! Women in Art Music |
| GRINDALL | CORMAC | Morse theory on singular spaces |
| Guan | Hongyuan | Mechanisms for mitochondrial quality control in Alzheimer’s disease, and its impact on neuropathology |
| Guo | Annabel | Effect of HDAC Inhibitors on Acetylation in the Avian Auditory Cortex Following Sound Exposure |
| Gupta | Arpan | Understanding correlated error events in quantum computers |
| Gupta | Ashna | Understanding quality and the determinants of learning differences in New Jersey. |
| Gutowska | Anna | How ethnic minorities access COVID related information online |
| Hadley | James | Decisions under Stochastic Wealth Generating Processes |
| Hammerdahl | Kathleen | The Ramapough Lunaape and the Ringwood Mines Superfund Site - History, Culture, Education, and Environmental Justice |
| Haran | Alicja | The rise of right-wing populism and the crisis of democracy. |
| Hatton | Caroline | Evaluating Systems of Supports for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| Henning | Amanda | The Quest for Legitimacy: Exploring the Role of Social Media in Social Entrepreneurship |
| Horvath | Laszlo | Youth with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Single Case Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Classroom Based Services |
| Hsieh | Nicole | Cross-linguistic Study of Meaning |
| Hu | Kam Shan | Life and Death |
| Hu | Kam Shan | Effects on Pah1 function after deletion of C-terminus acidic tail by site-directed mutagenesis |
| Huang | Yiyi | The Effects of Visual Chunking Accommodation for Students with Geometry Difficulties |
| Iftikhar | Fiza | Alcohol Intake - Genetic and Social Influence |
| Indiran | Aishvarya | Decarbonization and bioenergy carbon capture and storage |
| Iyer | Pritika | Computational design of novel enzyme catalysts |
| Jaffri | Zehra | How do dietary polyphenols promote health? |
| Jain | Charu | "In Memory of the Voices We Have Lost:" Feminist Digital Archives Hub |
| Jallow | Philippe | Role of the Neuropeptide Nociceptin and its Receptor NOP in Neuroinflammation |
| Janikian | Taline | The History of Covid-19 at Rutgers |
| Jaral | Hafsa | Religious Minorities in Iran and the Middle East |
| Joshi | Jaya | Design of Community-Based Biology Curriculum for Middle School |
| Joshi | Jahnvi | Mechanisms of action from sulfur and nitrogen mustard gas on the skin |
| Juarez Rojas | Silvia | Exosome Mediated Protection against Fusarium Head Blight |
| Kakirde | Aneesh | Testing of Composite Beams in Bending |
| Kaleem | Taha | Spectroscopy of superconductors |
| Karanam | Gnana | An intervention to decrease stigma and increase teamwork among interprofessional healthcare providers to decrease health disparities |
| Kasera | Aayushi | Specialized accelerator computer hardware for scientific simulations |
| Kashibhatla | Sowmyashree | The American Project: Voting Rights vs. Voting Security |
| Kc | Garima | The Young Elected Leaders Project |
| Khan | Arsala | Assessing tick-borne disease prevalence in Hunterdon County, NJ. |
| Khan | Ramish | Mechanism of Action of Sulfur and Nitrogen Mustard Blistering Agents on Skin in vitro |
| Khan | Sara | Mouse Model of Autism and Parkinson's Disease |
| Kim | Hayoon | Social Media in Science Education |
| Kim | Eleanor | The Impact of Writing about Racial Discrimination on Essentialist Beliefs |
| Kirsch-Dziki | Zakery | Comparative syntax and semantics of first and second language speakers |
| Kolodziej | Melissa | Pipeline damage detection, modeling and prediction |
| Krishnan | Meera | Pain, Depression and Opioid Use. |
| Krotenok | Anton | Bank Supervision and Financial Stability |
| Kudlak | Melissa | Addiction: opioid suppression of immune function in rats |
| Kudva | Amogh | Alcohol Intake - Genetic and Social Influence |
| Kumar | Mansi | Aquaculture through stripe bass and duckweed |
| Ky | Hanson | Cancer Prevention Studies by Dietary Phytochemical Compounds |
| Laemmle | Anna | Influence of Parental Experience on Zebra Finch Acoustic Perception |
| Lakhankar | Astha | Impacts of the Pandemic on Young Children and their Parents |
| Lee | Tiffany | STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Professionals' Expertise Communication in Collaborations |
| Lee | Luna | Studies in the perception of prosody and intonation |
| Lee | Kathryn | The Myth of Checks and Balances and the Crisis of American Democracy |
| Lee | Jacqueline | Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management, Risk, Resilience and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) |
| Lee | Ethan | Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Letourneau | Luke | CODE: Crowd Optimized Design of Environments |
| Leung | Alyssa | Chloroplasts as Platform for Regulated Expression of Therapeutic Proteins in Plants |
| Lin | Annie | Statistical Analysis of Human Development and Behavior Genetics |
| Liu | Shuyang | Modeling Human Diseases with Yeast and Mice |
| Lucas | Erika | Child Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic Experiments |
| Macdonell | Avery | CBD and menopause |
| Mahalingam | Ananya | Machine Learning in Genetics Research |
| Mahendru | Archna | Lipid Binding Proteins and mammalian metabolism |
| Mallangada | Nia | Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management, Risk, Resilience and Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) |
| Mancini | Lindsay | Alcohol Use and Writing Experiment (Project A.W.E) |
| Mandava | Sreeram | Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Mangrolia | Brijesh | Large area 3D printing of thermosets |
| Manthena | Vaishnavi | How do you make a computer program run really, really fast? |
| Mao | Phoebe | Child Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic Experiments |
| Martinez | Savannah | CBD and menopause |
| Masanam | Manik | Functional Systems in the Brain |
| Mathai | Ashley | Co-speech gesture alignment with prosodic structure: head nods and eyebrow movements |
| McGee | John | The Myth of Checks and Balances and the Crisis of American Democracy |
| McGinley | Christopher | Investigation Into The Roles of Conserved Amino Acids For The Function of The Metal Ion Homeostasis Protein YlaN |
| Mehr | Jacqueline | Using Fiber Photometry Recordings to Probe Orexin System Activation in a Rodent Model of Binge Eating Disorder |
| Meshoyrer | Emanuel | Food consumption behavior of American adults: What we eat, where we eat (FAH or FAFH?), and how that impacts our nutrition and health |
| Miller | Jonathan | Exploring connections between Volcano Crater Shape and Eruption Style |
| Mirza | Muhammed | Cancer Prevention Studies by Dietary Phytochemical Compounds |
| Mitrovic | Luka | Electrolyte Gating on Thin-film Quantum Materials |
| Mohammad | Dania | Investigating patterns and predictors of problem drinking and alcohol use disorder in adolescence, young adulthood, midlife and older adulthood from a lifespan development perspective |
| Montemarano | Annalisa | Drug Level-Dependent Effects of Fentanyl Self-Administration on Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines and Microglia in Rats |
| Morales | Richard | Modeling Human Diseases with Yeast and Mice |
| Morrison | Ari | Food consumption behavior of American adults: What we eat, where we eat (FAH or FAFH?), and how that impacts our nutrition and health |
| Mostafa | Sarah | Cancer Prevention Studies by Dietary Phytochemical Compounds |
| Mowla | Shorbon | Effects of Polyethylene Terephthalate Microplastics on Danio rerio Cardiac Gene gata4 Expression |
| Mukhopadhyay | Amisha | Impacts of Early Childhood Programs. |
| Nair | Anakha | The Quest for Legitimacy: Exploring the Role of Social Media in Social Entrepreneurship |
| Narala | Bhargava | Defining the Properties of Intestinal Stem Cells |
| Natrajan | Durgha | Impacts of Early Childhood Programs. |
| Ngai | Shane | Developing Principled Digitalized Interactive Components of Geometry Items to Assess Performance of Students Disadvantaged in Traditional Assessment |
| Nguyen | Danny | Bank Supervision and Financial Stability |
| Ni | Peter | The American Project: Voting Rights vs. Voting Security |
| Ogilvie | David | John Lewis: A Life in Politics |
| Oplinger | Claire | WAM! Women in Art Music |
| Otarola | Fatima | The Effects of Visual Chunking Accommodation for Students with Geometry Difficulties |
| Ozsen | Elif | The Role of Par3 in Dendritic Spine Morphogenesis In Vivo |
| Panda | Surabhi | Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Pande | Anushka | Molecular mechanisms and neural circuits of maternal care and postpartum depression-like behavior in mice |
| Pannu | Karman | Alcohol Use and Writing Experiment (Project A.W.E) |
| Paritsky | Jessica | Nutrients in physiological and biochemical support of detoxification in mosquito larvae. |
| Patel | Herik | Artificial Intelligence for Railroad Grade Crossing Analytics |
| Patel | Riddhi | How do dietary polyphenols promote health? |
| Patel | Dhairy | Large area 3D printing of thermosets |
| Patel | Priyansh | STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Professionals' Expertise Communication in Collaborations |
| Patel | Meera | The Young Elected Leaders Project |
| Patel | Mahek | Youth with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Single Case Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Classroom Based Services |
| Patel | Heta | Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Modulation in Response to Chronic Fentanyl Self-Administration in Rats |
| Patibanda | Neeharika | Modern Approaches to Behavioral Analysis of ASD in a Mouse Model |
| Pavesio | Angelica | Impacts of the Pandemic on Young Children and their Parents |
| Philip | Jessica | Racial Socialization and Health Among a Diverse Sample |
| Pinnella | Michael | A Bird’s Eye View of Geology: Evaluating the use of UAVs in Environmental and Geoscience Research and Classrooms |
| Piscetelli | Sean | Flying Insects and Flapping Robots |
| Poulathas | Demi | Statistical Analysis of Human Development and Behavior Genetics |
| Pradeep | Nanditha | Bioprinting of Hydrogels for Tissue Constructs using Machine Learning |
| Puthur | Sukanya | Planning the launch of a humanities research journal |
| Rahman | Zanub | Effects of Plastic on Naproxen Degradation via a Freshwater Consortium |
| Ramadan | Khaled | Modeling and Operations of Manufacturing Systems for Individualized Products |
| Ravi | Mallika | How Therapy Works with Anxious and Depressed Youth |
| Ravi | Rupak | Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Rebernik | Olivia | Climate Dynamics and Environmental Proxies in the Turkana Basin, Kenya |
| Reyes George | Jarett | Evaluation of Pulmonary Toxicity of Inhaled Micro and Nanoplastics |
| Richardson | Jayana | Membrane Lipid Metabolism |
| Rivera | Gabriela | Feeling Stressed but Lucky: Do People Make Spontaneous Downward Comparisons When Recounting COVID-19 Stressors? |
| Rodriguez | Ryan | Planning the launch of a humanities research journal |
| Romain | Precious-Janae | Child Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistic Experiments |
| Rosen | Amy | Communicating word meaning across modalities |
| Roychowdhury | Tayana | Data Mining of Cancer Growth Pathways |
| Sadangi | Sriya | How do dietary polyphenols promote health? |
| Saifuddin | Umayma | Exploring a Self-Regulatory Strategy for Combating Failure Among Women in STEM |
| Sambath Ramkumar | Siddharth | Spacecraft onboard calibration emulations through UAV sensor calibrations in flight |
| Samdani | Sarah | John Lewis: A Life in Politics |
| Santorelli | Dominick | Sustainable Chemicals and Fuels are Now Possible: Development of Earth-abundant Catalysts for the Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reaction |
| Sathyanarayan | Hrishikesh | Tire test platform development for transportation safety |
| Schleppy | Michael | Understanding correlated error events in quantum computers |
| Scott | Emma | Bank Supervision and Financial Stability |
| Shah | Tej | Code Search via Deep Learning |
| Shah | Rajvi | Understanding mobile genetic element dynamics in mammalian genomes. |
| Shah | Milindi | Youth with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Single Case Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Classroom Based Services |
| Shamsi | Anam | How Therapy Works with Anxious and Depressed Youth |
| Shenouda | Mina | Religious Minorities in Iran and the Middle East |
| Shirodkar | Amol | Cost-effective Bridge Decks for Improved Durability and Extended Service Life |
| Shrivastava | Rachel | Bioprinting of Hydrogels for Tissue Constructs using Machine Learning |
| Shroff | Mitali | Mechanisms for mitochondrial quality control in Alzheimer’s disease, and its impact on neuropathology |
| Shvachkin | Maxine | Brain Activity and Immune Functioning of Rats During Self-Administration of Fentanyl |
| singh | arushi | Investigating patterns and predictors of problem drinking and alcohol use disorder in adolescence, young adulthood, midlife and older adulthood from a lifespan development perspective |
| Singh | Swapneil | Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Sishodia | Pratyush | Exosome Mediated Protection against Fusarium Head Blight |
| Sivakumar | Aditya | Synthesis of New Antimalarials |
| Solidum | Seth | Development of ionic polymers |
| Soni | Ria | The Effect of Sexually Dimorphic Neuromodulator Expression in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis on Motivated Behavior in an Effort-Related Choice Task |
| Sotirov | Vincent | Mouse Model of Autism and Parkinson's Disease |
| Soupios | Avery | Archivio Digitale Boncompagni Ludovisi |
| Steinbuchel | Emma | Evaluating Systems of Supports for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| Sudit | Elizabeth | Graphic Criticism--Digital Analysis of Literary Texts |
| Sun | Chenghao | Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Suresh | Nithyaharini | Emerging contaminants in NJ waters |
| Symonette | Dustin | Contemporary Music: Project Design & Development |
| Tapper | Ayana | Center on the American Governor at the Eagleton Institute of Politics |
| Taveras | Katherine | Speech production and perception in adult second language learners |
| Terani | Bijan | The Myth of Checks and Balances and the Crisis of American Democracy |
| Thamma | Anitej | Machine Learning in Genetics Research |
| Tonra | Sean | NETWORKS OF EMPOWERMENT: YOUTH, GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND COMBATING EXTREMISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY |
| Torres | Andres | Reengineering Agrobacterium for T-DNA delivery to chloroplasts |
| Trinh | Anna | Eugenic Sterilization in North Carolina |
| Tschang | Monica | Investigating Signaling Mechanisms of Mimetics of a Peptide Derived from the MARCKS Effector Domain Peptide in Spinal Cord Injury Recovery |
| Turlapati | Amruta | AN APPROACH TO DISPOSING OF UNWANTED HAIR FROM HOME |
| Vaysiberg | Mark | Morse theory on singular spaces |
| Venkateswaran | Srinidi | Investigating the antitumor effects of a drug combination that targets beta-adrenergic, opioidergic receptors and immune checkpoint inhibitor, programmed death-1 (PD-1) receptor antibody on pre-clinic |
| Vigdor | Madison | Learning to Think: Through Direct Instruction or Inquiry? |
| Wagner | Gavin | Comparing historic maps with contemporary geographic information systems data to identify missing or buried streams |
| Wenokor | Gregory | Community-based German Language Schools in the US: History and Current Status |
| Werkmeister | Catherine | Insecticide resistance in bed bugs |
| William | Mina | Comparative syntax and semantics of first and second language speakers |
| Wood | Duncan | Using Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Xia | Yuwen | Inactivation and Removal of Biofilm in a Model Piping System Using Plasma Activated Water (PAW) |
| Yang | Lucy | Aquaculture through stripe bass and duckweed |
| Yang | Andy | Quality Engineering for 3D Printing |
| Yerapathi | Suhani | Cytokine and Microglial Response to Chronic Fentanyl Self-Administration in Rats |
| Yin | Mira | Mechanisms underlying airway hyperresponsiveness |
| Yu | Haolin | Threat Assessment and Resilience Analysis for Supply Chain |
| Zhang | Xiaowei | CODE: Crowd Optimized Design of Environments |
| Zhang | Yuege | Joint Optimization of Packaging Design and Distribution |
| Zhuang | Katie | Artificial Intelligence for Railroad Grade Crossing Analytics |
| Zielinski | Samantha | Cross-linguistic Study of Meaning |
