Senior Thesis Symposium Information
The Senior Thesis Symposium is scheduled for Saturday, May 7th 9 am - 12:30 pm in Perkins Student Center. This event is free and open to the public.
Click here to see the preliminary program for the event.
| Student | Major | Thesis Director | Director's Dept. | Symposium Participation | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Baker | Mechanical Engineering | Joshua Hertz | Mechanical Engineering | Poster | BSCF electrodes investigated by impedance spectroscopy |
| Amanda Dunbar | Wildlife Conservation | Jacob Bowman | Wildlife Conservation | Poster | Roosting Behavior of Eastern Wild Turkeys in Southern Delaware |
| Cory Bovenzi | Neuroscience, Biological Science, Psychology | Deni Galileo | Biological Sciences | Poster | Neuronal Migration and Survival in the Developing Chick Midbrain |
| Amy Nicole Chevalier | Chemical Engineering | Anne Robinson | Chemical Engineering | Poster | Effect of Changes; Disulfide Bond Network on G-Protein Coupled Receptors |
| Stephanie Countess | Environmental Engineering | Daniel Cha | Environmental Engineering | Poster | Biopolymers from Wastewater Treatment Microorganisms |
| Sara Danitz | Psychology | Adele Hayes | Psychology | Poster | The Effects of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Externalizing Behavior Problems in Maltreated Youth with PTSD |
| Dylan Devlin | Biological Sciences | Randall Duncan | Biological Sciences | Poster | The Effects of DIDS on ATP Synthase in Osteoblasts |
| Geoffrey Dilg | Civil Engineering | Rachel Davidson | Civil Engineering | Poster | Wind Speed Estimates for Hurricane Evacuation |
| Andrew Fassler | Mechanical Engineering | Michael Santare | Mechanical Engineering | Poster | Out of Plane Swelling of PFSA Membranes |
| Jon Marc Finamore | Neuroscience | Anna Klintsova | Psychology | Poster | How Does Behavirol Testing Influence the Effects of Post-Natal Alcohol Exposure on Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Rats? |
| Sarah Friedrich | Mechanical Engineering | Erik Thostenson | Mechanical Engineering | Poster | Health monitoring in mechanically fastened composite joints |
| Abigail Holmes | Political Science | Janet Johnson | Political Science and International Relations | Poster | The Peterson Factor |
| Sean Hunt | Chemical Engineering | Jingguang Chen | Chemical Engineering | Poster | Experimental and Computational Studies of Palladium Monolayers on Carbides as Economically Viable Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) Electrocatalysts |
| Jean Huynh | Biochemistry, Biological Sciences | Patricia DeLeon | Biological Sciences | Poster | Elevated Calcium and Nitric Oxide Levels Mediate Sperm Motility Defects in Jam-A Null Mice |
| Stan Herrman | Chemical Engineering | Dionisios Vlachos | Chemical Engineering | Poster | First-Principle Calculations of Adsorbate-Metal Interactions for Catalyst Design |
| Eric Insler | Economics | James Butkiewicz | Economics | Poster | The Interest Elasticity of Excess Reserves Held at the Federal Reserve |
| Dylan Kee | Physics | James MacDonald | Physics and Astronomy | Poster | Weak Reaction Rates in massive Stellar Environments |
| Megan Kissig | Biological Sciences | Ulhas Naik | Biological Sciences | Poster | Role of Junctional adhesion molecule-A (JAM-A) in the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) |
| Rebecca Lyon | Wildlife Conservation | Jeffrey Buler | Entomology & Wildlife Ecology | Poster | The Effects of Wing Morphology and Bodysize on the Distribution of Migrating Birds Along the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico |
| Gregory Mark | History | Steven Sidebotham | History | Poster | The Medal of Honor: Development of Criteria and Its Resulting Relevance |
| Nicholas Marze | Chemical Engineering | Maciek Antoniewicz | Chemical Engineering | Poster | Quantifying the Relative Contributions of Two Pathways to Odd-Chain-Length Fatty Acid Synthesis in 3T3-LI Adipoctyes |
| Dariusz Krzysztof Murakowski | Chemical Engineering, Physics | Sandeep Patel | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Poster | Molecular dynamics simulation of protein adsorption to the vapor-liquid interface |
| Michael Napolitano | Chemistry | Fidelma Boyd | Biological Sciences | Poster | Function and Evolutionary History of two Excisionases, VC1809 and VC1785 |
| Matthew Oleksiak | Chemical Engineering | Ismat Shah | Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Astronomy | Poster | Structural and magnetic properties of single phase and phase separated Iron Copper (FeCu) Alloy |
| Melissa Rotsides | Psychology | Carroll Izard | Psychology | Poster | Parents' Emotion Knowledge, Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors, and Other Related Variables |
| Sepehr Sedigh Haghighat | Biological Sciences | Bruce Boman | Biology | Poster | Using MirRNA Biomarkers for Colonic Stem Cells to Identify Theraputic Targets Against Cancer |
| Suneil Ramakrishnan Seetharam | Chemical Engineering | Shreeram Inamdar | Bioresources | Poster | Quality of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) in Runoff from Various Watershed Sources |
| Robert Sheehan | Quantative Biology | Melinda Duncan | Biological Sciences | Poster | Heterochromatin is Retained During Lens Fiber Cell Differentiation |
| Christine Sutkowski | Civil Engineering | Jack Puleo | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Poster | Quantifying Riverine Surface Velocities Using Thermal Infrared PIV |
| DylanThorne-Fitzgerald | Exercise Physiology | Stuart Binder-Macleod | Physical Therapy | Poster | The Efects of Timing of Functional Electrical Stimulation to the Ankle Dorsiflexor Muscles on Post-stroke Gait |
| Coleen Thornley | History | James Brophy | History | Poster | Eugenics in Interwar Europe and America |
| Mark Weidman | Chemical Engineering | Jingguang Chen | Chemical Engineering | Poster | The Electrochemical Properties of Metal Carbides |
| Kaylin M Young | Animal and Food Sciences | Limin Kung Jr | Animal and Food Sciences | Talk | Effect of Protease Enzymes on Starch Digestion in Corn Silage |
| Edward Bonnevie | Mechanical Engineering | David Burris | Mechanical Engineering | Talk | The Contact and Friction of Cartilage Using Spherical Probes |
| Kathleen Brown | HRIM | Ronald Cole | HRIM | Talk | In Search of Sustainability: Sustainable Initiatives in the Restaurant Industry |
| Emily Bunin | Philosophy | Alan Fox | Philosophy | Talk | A Daoist Theory of Cognition |
| Daniel Childs | Anthropology, Biological Sciences | Harsh Bais and Peter Roe | Plant & Soil Science; Anthropology | Talk | A Comparative Ethnobotanical Study of Three South American Indigenous Groups from Three Distinct Ecological Zones, and Their Plants' Effectiveness Against Gram Positive and Gram Negative Bacteria |
| Anthony Coppola | Mechanical Engineering | Erik Thostenson | Mechanical Engineering | Talk | Multifunctional Materials for Self-Healing |
| Kevin Crum | Biological Sciences | Timothy Targett | Marine Biosciences | Talk | Comparison of Fundulus Heteroclitus Growth Rates and Movement Patterns at Altered and Natural Shorelines |
| Craig Warren Davis | Environmental Engineering | Dominic Ditoro | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Talk | Modeling Organic Sorption onto Black Carbon: A Thermodynamic Model |
| David Fuhrman | Philosophy | Joel Pust | Philosophy | Talk | Global Relativism and the Peritrope |
| John Gardner | Chemical Engineering | Jingguang Chen | Chemical Engineering | Talk | Tungsten Oxide Thin Film Photoelectrodes for Use in Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells |
| Joshua Glasner | Applied Music-Voice | Noel Archambeault |
Music | Talk | Heredity and Voice Classification: A Foundational Study |
| Marion Jacob | Applied Music - Piano | Russell Murray | Music | Talk | France, prends garde de perdre ton âme! |
| Matthew King | Biological Sciences, Neuroscience | Melinda Duncan | Biological Sciences | Talk | The Role of Fibronectin in the Ocular Lens |
| Sarah Lafave | Nursing | Cynthia Diefenbeck | Nursing | Talk | Lori's Hands: Program Evaluation of a Volunteer Organization |
| Michael Mekailek | Art History, Music | Russell Murray | Music | Talk | Music and Performance in Caravaggesque Painting |
| Liza Melms | International Relations | Ralph Begleiter | Communications | Talk | Contrasting Indonesia and Egypt: the role of the veil in public versus private life as a religious and cultural choice |
| Suranjit Mukherjee | Biological Sciences | Anja Nohe | Biology | Talk | Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles for Use in an Animal Model |
| Tejal Naik | Biological Sciences | Millicient Sullivan | Chemical Engineering | Talk | Development of a Peptide Nucleic Acid Based siRNA Delivery System. |
| Samantha Penta | Sociology | Tricia Wachtendorf | Sociology | Talk | Masculinity on the Hudson: Gendered Portrayals of the Flight 1549 Response |
| Stephanie Povirk | Human Services | Barbara Settles | Human Services | Talk | Older Child Adoptions: View of Human Service Professionals |
| Rebecca Riley | Communication | Lindsay Hoffman | Communication | Talk | Opinion Expression in a New Media Environment |
| Michelle Rose | Philosophy | Mark Greene | Philosophy | Talk | |
| Brittany Schieler | Biological Sciences | Tim Targett | Marine Biosciences | Talk | Daily variation in the ingress of early stage Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) and Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) into Delaware Bay |
| Meredith Stuart | International Relations, History | Ken Campbell | Political Science | Talk | Humanitarian Peacekeeping: Civil-Military Interaction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Kristen Syme | Anthropology | Karen Rosenberg | Anthropology | Talk | Models and Methods for the Cross-Cultural Study of Depressive Affect and Depression |
| Deborah Varnell | Electrical Engineering | Robert Hunsperger | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Talk | Inexpensive Fiber-Optic Sensors for Moisture Sensing |
| Sharon Weaver | Chemical Engineering | Prasad Dhurjati | Chemical Engineering | Talk | Mathematical Simulation of Drug Concentration in the Human Body |
| Amanda Welch | Preveterinary Medicine | Robert Dyer | Animal Sciences | Talk | Expression of cell cycle and terminal differentiation markers in normal and ulcerated sole regions of the bovine claw |
| James White | Chemistry | Joshua Hertz | Mechanical Engineering | Talk | Synthesis and Characterization of Doped Apatite-Type Lanthanum Silicates for Use as Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Electrolytes |
| Ilana Berman | Psychology | Adele Hayes | Psychology | Talk | Caregiver History of Trauma, Levels of Support, Avoidance and Processing in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
