Session 2: Research Talks (10:45 AM)
SESSION 1 | SESSION 2 | SESSION 3 | SESSION 4 | SESSION 5
Excellence
Improving Fish Passage at Lock and Dam Structures in the Mississippi River
Kelly Campbell | SPI
Examining the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism in Fish Fins
Anne Aka | SPI
A Multi-Locus Phylogeny of the Novel Species, Thamnophis citlaltepetl sp. nov.
Kaitlin Karl | SPI
Honors
The Impact of Maternal Education and Mental Health on Child Development in the Black Community
Takai Dixon | SROP-Illinois, MSI Alliance
Examining the Association between Mentorship and University Belonging among Latinx First-Generation College Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution
Esmeralda Villagomez Lopez | SROP-Illinois
Challenges to Implementing Trauma-Informed Practices: Serving Students of Color in School-Based Settings
Athena Thai | SROP-Illinois
Robot Based Mental Health Therapy: Everyone Needs A Helping Hand Project
Terrance Baggett | SROP-Illinois, MSI Alliance
Innovation
Understanding Electrochemical Processes in Deep Eutectic Solvents
Jennifer A. Salaiza | SPI
Automating Fast Persistence Length Calculations of Worm-Like Chain Polymers Without Molecular Dynamics
Matthew Too | SPI
Organization of Synthesis and Degradation Drives mRNA Localization in Bacteria
Juan Echeverry | SPI
Minda — Structural Variant Comparison for Cancer Genomes
Asher Bryant | SPI
QUAD
Tech Meets Tradition: Enhancing Fusional Language Support in the 21st Century
Tai Nacala Armstrong | SPI
Telic Entailment and Aspectual Ambiguity: A Comparison of Verb Meanings Between English and Japanese
Jonathan Earl Soelle | SPI
The Development of Sibilants in Judeo-Spanish and Mainstream Spanish
Jaylene Lorraine Canales | SPI
A Corpus Analysis of Direct Object Clitic Gender in Child Heritage Speakers of Spanish
Brenda García Ortega | SPI
Loyalty
Finding my Sister: Examining Black Sisterhood across Africa and America in Television
Nia I. White | SPI
Mrs. Teagues: The Quintessential Awkward Black Girl in Abbott Elementary
Kendra Williams | SPI
#BlackGirlMagic School: A Critical Content Analysis of Two Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Novels
Alexandria E. Smith | SPI
Proceed With Caution: Understanding the Societal Implications of STEM Through Literature
Monserrat Gonzalez-Gutierrez | SPI