IUP Office of Undergraduate Research

03/04/2024

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05/19/2023

Congratulations to all the winners!

Amanda Telep presented "An Archaeological Study of Structures of the Nineteenth Century."

Cierra Henderson presented "Characterizing Cell Shape and Actin Accumulation in the Planarian Epidermis."

Bridget Roddy presented "Using Ceramic Analysis to Reevaluate Competing Hypotheses of McFate and Monongahela Amalgamation at the Squirrel Hill (36WM35) Archaeological Site."

Maclyn Vasey presented "Modelling Prescription Opioid Oxycodone Addiction in Planaria."

Mitchell Posney presented "Honeysuckle Plants of Native Origin have more Soil Fungal Associations than Invasive Plants."

Maggie Miller presented "Cloning of Genes Encoding Wnt Pathway Members in the Planarian."

Samuel Smith presented "Cloning of Four-Jointed Gene in Planarian Flatworm."

05/17/2023

Congratulations to the winners!!

Cierra Henderson presented “Characterizing Cell Shape and Actin Accumulation In the Planarian Epidermis”

Sonja Rossi-Williams presented “Indigenous Occupation Strategies in Eastern Pennsylvania : An Exploration of Changing Subsistence and Technological Practices in Watershed 03A”

Maggie Miller presented “Cloning of Genes Encoding Wnt Pathway Members in the Planarian”

Emma Fetchko presented “Expression of wnt4a and fzd9b in zebrafish during kidney development”

05/15/2023

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Alyssa Carne and Aminah Herbert presented “How Medical Malpractice affects Health Insurance Rates”

Sierra Leonard presented “The Chemical Formulation of Hair dye and it's risk of Bladder Cancer”

Mikayla Hardie presented “A Geophysical Survey of a Plantation Site in Baltimore County, MD”

Evan Orr and Alan Davis presented “Mathematical Optimization of Sports Betting and Fantasy Football”

05/12/2023

Congratulations to all of the award winners!!

Meghna Babu and Julie Bullock presented “Social Media Use in Early Adulthood and the Impact of Past Parental Mediation Practices”

Alessa Juarez, Shannon Phaneuf, and Sadie Miller presented “Evaluating Moral Reasoning and the Efficacy of Ethics Courses Among Criminology Majors”

Lamia Dawood presented: “Testing the Mediating Effect of School Attachment on the Relationship between Physical and Psychological health: Does the Gender matter?”

Christina Horst presented: “Examining Forgiveness and Reconciliation Among Estranged Adult Children”

Riley Morrison, Hannah Culp, Emma Romberger, and Sophia Redmond presented “Perceptions and Cognitive Ability”

Cameron Sivels, Ariasi Davis, and Emma Williams presented “How incentive spirometry techniques are being instructed among healthcare professionals”

05/10/2023

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Taylor Friedman presented “Data Breaches and Cybersecurity in Financial Institutions”

Babere Marwa presented “Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Finance”

Angel Alcantara presented “Descriptive Analysis of Key Variables for Sub-County Distribution of PCCD Funds”

Dominic Rocco, Blake Edwards, Kaitlin Eichenlaub, Matthew Levenson, and Ronald Fleck presented “An Analysis of the Sensitivity of Stock Market Returns to the Release of Macroeconomic Data”

Alyssa Carne and Alex Tseng presented “The Effect of Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Other Influences on State DUI Rates”

05/08/2023

Congratulations to all the award winners!

Rufus James presented “Characterizing the effects of chloroquine treatment on planarian tissue maintainance”

Alexander Riccardi presented “Geospatial Intelligence Analysis of Sea Level Rise, Intense Storm Occurrence, and Population Vulnerability in New York City”

April Flowers presented “It's a Hairy Situation: Optimizing Hair Sample Methods for Lagomorph Conservation”

Drew Rado, Maria Balega, and Zaryn Good presented “Development of IoT Test Bed to Assess IoT Security Using Machine Learning”

Joanna Stralka and Idoia Huerta Gallardo presented “Treating Methamphetamine Dependence; Optimization of Methods for Mice”

Trajan Jones presented “Displacement and Gentrification: Challenges of Urban Redevelopment in providing Affordable Housing in US communities”

05/05/2023

Congratulations to everyone!!
Rose Burger presented “Champlevé Salt and Pepper Shakers” and “3 Silver Cloisonné Bird Rings”
Adrian Salotti presented “IUP Library Mural Proposal”
Wyatt Skaugen presented “Modern Theism: An Investigation Into the Existence of a Universal Creator Entity, Moral Laws, and the Consequences of the Existence of Such Things”
Jesse Gowin presented “Jael and Judith: The Polarization of the Most Blessed of Women”
Samuel Bigham presented “The Frustrated Revolutionary: Wang Jingwei, the Keys to Power in Republican China, and the Limits of Revolution”

05/05/2023

05/04/2023

Congratulations to all the winners!!

Nafisa Ahmad Sulaiman presented “Understanding Facebook Crisis Communication in the Context of Dialogic Theory of Public Relations: A Case Study of Twitter Ban in Nigeria”

Mackenzie Mead presented “The Tide Pod Challenge”

Levi Donaldson presented “How Facebook Leverages Data”

05/01/2023

04/22/2023

Happy Earth Day!!!