A01 - User-Centered Design of Contemporary Women's Golfwear: Integrating Hungarian Kal
This study addresses the growing demand for functional, stylish women’s golf apparel among young female golfers in the United States. This market segment has expanded rapidly over the past de...
Abby Boyer
A02 - Exploring Differences Between Hsp70 Molecular Chaperones Using Metadynamics Sampling
Abstract Coming Soon
Aidan Hargett
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are illnesses that affect a significant number of lives worldwide. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) has potential therapeutic applications to treat these sicknesses.
Aiden Atkinson • Zach Ahmed • Micah Schuster
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Allison Carpenter
A05 - Studying Vertebrate Eye in Development and Regeneration
Studying early eye development will improve the understanding of the biology behind retina regeneration.
Anela Hoops
A07 - How Parental Cognitions Translate to Child Anxiety Outcomes: A Multi-Method Approach
This study investigates the complex pathways through which parental cognitions and behaviors influence the development of childhood anxiety and physiological stress regulation.
Annabelle Englehar
A08 - Children Ages 9-13 Report of Family Accommodation Related to ERN and Anxiety
Error-related negativity (ERN) is a neurological marker of brain activity that occurs when individuals make mistakes. ERN has been correlated with increased anxiety symptoms in young to school-aged...
AnnaGrace Harris
A09 - An Ethnographic Study of Tourism and Cultural Exchange in Greenland & Iceland
This study is a participant observation ethnography of tourism over an 8-day study abroad trip.
Ashlee Gantz
A10 - Uplifting Voices That Built Miami
This project not only reflects a more inclusive history but also promotes civic engagement and activism for current and future students.
Meenal Khurana • Ashley Reynolds • Olivia Melbye • Victoria Marx • Sophia Goldberg • Cora Dunn
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Ashton Ferris
Globally, many individuals experience stress-related disorders, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), at some point during their lives.
Malia Wittwer • Barrett Croskey • Andi Blessing • George Wirtz • Harshini Ramesh • Reese Horstman
How does attaching mPEG of varying lengths to VEMA polymers affect the properties of the resulting nanodiscs?
Ben Cubberly
A14 - Differences in Human State Anxiety Changes in Treadmill vs. Outdoor Running
Endurance running is useful to humans as both a form of exercise to gain or maintain physical fitness and as a stress or anxiety coping mechanism.
Ben Malek
A15 - IoT-Driven RFID Systems in Supply Chain Management
The adoption of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has significantly improved supply chain efficiency while simultaneously introduc...
Carly Gladstone • Ben Naber
A16 - Sugar Intake and its Association Between Added Sugar Intake and
Short sleep duration is a growing public health concern associated with numerous adverse health outcomes.
Beniyah Channel • Tiama Rajab
A mystery of modern biology is how lived experience can be chemically passed to future generations. Although DNA provides the blueprint, the cellular environment, specifically the proteins inherite...
Bilegtugs Bayarbadrakh
A18 - Community Survey about the Proposed “Arena District” on Cook Field
Miami University’s administration is proposing to develop an “Arena District” including a sports arena, hotel, and related services on Cook Field, while relocating those recreatio...
Rayne Coronado Quentin • Bri Fitzgerald
A20 - Digital Distractions in the Classroom: What is Most Distracting?
Abstract Coming Soon
Caleb Grammel
A21 - Modulation of rhythmic activity by two distinct sensory receptor neurons
Central pattern generators (CPGs) are the neural circuits responsible for rhythmic behaviors.
Caleigh Naylon
A22- Telling the Tale-a of Phages NyleyClemson and Phaila
A bacteriophage (or phage, for short) is a virus that infects and kills bacteria.
Sophie Renda • Jenna Rountree • Addie Danner • Hayden Gillig • Taylor Porter • Rogue Carruthers • Nathan Dover • Charlotte DeLong • Taryn Midtibo • Garrett Roese • Katie Cameron • Luke Lombard • Jin Hudson • Marissa Walker • Kai Ironstack • Morgan Britton • Olivia Willcoxon • Katelyn Mould
Mitochondrial metabolic processes are highly sensitive to thermal fluctuations.
Sydney Krcmarik • Anna Christopherson • Chase Tamoney
A24 - AI-Based Detection of Blood Vessels in Human Brain Tissue Images of Neurodegeneration
Neurodegeneration is characterized by damage to neural structures, which often leads to impaired function.
Chloe Mick • Ashton Householder • Kayla Croft • Hafsa El Harchi • Mikey Mannor
Cancer remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States, with disparities influenced by social determinants of health such as education.
Chlöe Hickey • Ella Zawoyski
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Claire Jennings
A27 - Self-Governing Agency: The Autonomous Self
To be autonomous means to govern oneself, but what does this phenomenon consist in?
Claudia Kupec
A28 - Kids Developing Trust Issues
Little kids are surrounded by stories and traditions that include all kinds of fantasy characters, and they get all there information from their parents from ages 3 to 4.
Clay Beer
A29 - Thermoresponsive Polymers for Regulating Vaccine Adjuvants
An adjuvant is a substance added to a vaccine to enhance the immune response to the antigen.
Colin O'Malley
A30 - Building Experimental Paradigms for EEG
This project focuses on the learning process of engaging with the set up and design of a research lab in EEG.
Colleen Healy
A31 - Blood Parasite Infection and Health Metrics in Northern Cardinals
Avian blood parasites are widespread and can have significant physiological effects on their hosts. This study investigated the relationship between blood parasite infection of four common parasite...
Connor Seely
A32 - Healing Through Stories: Creating a Therapeutic Storybook for Children in Foster Care
Children entering foster care often experience fear, confusion, and instability that can impact their sense of safety and emotional development.
Danielle Goury
A33 - Using Worked Examples to Help 5th Graders with Subtraction
There is a national crisis where student scores on state assessments are significantly declining.
Deanna Nguyen • Cam Wright
A34 - Internal State-Dependent Modulation of Defensive Behavior in Mice
Adaptive defensive responses are essential for survival, allowing organisms to respond rapidly to potential threats.
Coryn Cummings • Diana Mascarenhas
Reception of ecdysteroids in the PG layer impacts the behavioral and structural plasticity that occurs during the transition from the larva to the adult.
Christian Sohner • Mason Welch • Donovan Lundy
Antibiotic resistance is a global health crisis that is expected to continue to evolve and cause millions of deaths annually. As increasing amounts of antibiotics are misused in humans, agriculture...
Emily Nemunaitis
A37 - Climate Divergence as a Predictor of Trophic Niche Divergence in Vertebrate Sister Species
A major goal in evolutionary biology is to understand how species differentiate and adapt to their distinct environments.
Emma Fischels
A38 - Correction: Human vs. Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Grammar within ESL Education
In an age when writing is done more in a digital format than it is by paper, an important aspect of writing that we need to face is grammar.
Allie Zimmerman • Hannah Rowland • Amaryah Chandler • Emma Pooley • Rachel Harvey
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Fawziyah Odukoya
A40 - The Effects of Early Life Stress on Adult Behavioral Flexibility in Alcohol-Seeking Behavior
The purpose of this study is to use reversal learning to explore the relationship between both chronic and acute early life stress (ELS) and behavioral flexibility.
George Wirtz • Gabrielle Brown
To explore the relationship between Human papillomavirus prevalence and Poverty Income Ratio among adults in the United States.
Kyla Mackenzie • Jesirae Yarbrough • Gina Egidi
A42 - How Social Identity Differences Affect Motivations for Ghosting
Ghosting is a strategy to end a relationship by cutting off all contact. Though many studies have examined the general experience of ghosting, very few have investigated whether one’s social ...
Hannah Alvarez
A43 - Effects of environmental enrichment or chronic unpredictable mild
Environmental enrichment has positive influences on brain physiology and behavior, including enhanced plasticity and improved cognitive, emotional, and social performance. Conversely, stressful env...
Malia Wittwer • Harshini Ramesh • Catherine Kasicki-Rodriguez
A44 - K-12 Digital Education Policy: Korea & U.S.
Digital technology has become essential across education, the economy, and society in the 21st century.
Hayoung Cho
A45 - How Status and Power Beliefs Shape Employee Voice
Employee voice—employees’ willingness to speak up at work—is a key form of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), as it is discretionary, goes beyond formal job requirements, ...
Hayoung Cho
A46 - Intestinal fatty acids are exploited by Shigella flexneri to optimize virulence strategies
Enteric pathogens regulate the expression of their virulence and proliferation genes through the recognition and exploitation of environmental metabolites.
Isabelle Reitz
Predation is thought to be a strong selective factor in primate sociality and behavior, yet predation events are rarely witnessed in the field.
Jack Jaworski
A48 - Leveraging Smart Materials for Tuned Vibration Absorber Design
Vibrations are a physical consequence of motion that have the potential to break down the systems they affect.
Jack Nomina
Girls tend to display higher rates of inattentive ADHD symptoms than boys (Hinshaw, 2022).
Jacqueline Armstrong
A50 - Phone Screening for Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment
This is an overview of phone screening for older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
Anna Solace • Jennifer Harmon
Semantic competition refers to the phenomena in which multiple related meanings compete during language processing.
Jesse Balmer
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Jonathan Hildebrand
Sex differences in ethanol (EtOH) consumption are well established in rodent models, where females typically drink more than males, paralleling the narrowing gender gap in human alcohol use disorde...
Jordan Krenz • Emalie Werkowski • Lindsey O'Lalde
The next time you are driving through your neighborhood, take a look at your local branch of the public library.
Julia Moser
A56 - Disarming β-Lactamases: A Structure Based Approach to Antibiotic Resistance
The discovery of antibiotics revolutionized medicine, but their misuse has driven antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Kendal Rivera
Bogs are ecologically important ecosystems that sequester carbon, absorb and filter water, and support unique biodiversity.
Mia Biondo • Lafayette Boland
Lead is a naturally occurring element that is found in paint, gasoline, and plumbing. It is also recognized as a potent neurotoxin that accumulates in the body and disrupts normal brain development...
Layla Johnson • Grace Sanderson • Rhiannon Campbell
A59 - How Large Language Models Handle Gender Bias in Adjectives
Large language models (LLMs) generate human-like descriptions, but may reflect underlying social biases in language.
Andrew Rutt • Leah Parparov
Abstract Coming Soon
Lillian Champagne
A61 - Analyzing the Function of Novel Cardiac Genes as a Model for Human Heart Defects
Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most common type of birth defect.
Lily Lerman
Vocal exchanges in human and nonhuman primates has become a promising avenue of research in understanding the evolution of human language1,2.
Lucas Atherton
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have long-term, harmful physical and psychological effects.
Madelyn Buckley
A65 - Am I Getting Better at This?: Quantifying the Cognitive Components of Learning to Teach
This study aims to quantify the development of teaching skills, perceptual acuity, and self-efficacy in undergraduate music education (MUED) majors throughout their teacher preparation program.
Maria Hisey
A66 - Hysteria, Hysterectomies, and Clitoridectomies: Not All Surgeries are Equal in Insanity
Experimentation and exploitation was commonplace in Nineteenth century medicine. Just shaking off the dust of miasma theory, scientists were eager to use the wonders of modern medicine to cure all ...
Marie Spruance
Different populations in Ohio have varying levels of literacy. One example of this difference is among the population of Ohio’s older adults.
Marshall Meyer
A68 - Effects of Geographic Location on Party Affiliation and Voting in Rural and Urban Communities
Since the late 1990s, there has been a nationwide growing rural-urban political divide between Republican and Democratic party affiliations (Brown et al., 2021, p. 365).
Matilda Growcock
A69 - Effects of FOXE3 Expression in Chick Olfactory Placode Development
Transcription factors (TFs) are regulatory proteins that control gene expression by binding to specific DNA sequences and influencing transcription.
Maura Newhouse
A70 - The Socio-Economic Predictors of Mortality Under 5 between USA, UAE, and India
Under-5 mortality, the probability that a child will die before reaching the age of five, is widely used as a core indicator of a country's overall development and population health.
Maxwell Ilecki
A71 - Rural Healthcare Providers’ Perspective on Barriers to Mental Health Treatment
Rural communities face significant disparities in mental healthcare access compared to urban populations.
Meet Patel
This project investigates the extent to which this bias limits the validity and applicability of exercise science for women.
Mikayla Lair
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Natalie Hicov
A74 - Discovery and classification of novel transcript isoforms in the chicken genome
Abstract Coming Soon
Nidhi Mistry
A75 - Expression of Novel Genes During Zebrafish Development
Congenital heart defects (CHDs) affect 1% of births, often resulting from dysregulated cardiac development and genetic mutations [1].
Olivia Boyea • Paloma Jolly
This study explores the synthesis and light-triggered transformation of polymer nanoparticles created via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (PISA).
Parker McBeth
A78 - Deference in Transition: Federal Agency Discretion in Post-Chevron Era Administration
This research examines the institutional transformation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), utilizing Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and framing the 2024 overturning of Chevron ...
Rebecca Smith
A79 - Aversive stimuli decrease ethanol self-administration in male and female mice
Alcohol is among the most used drugs in the United States, creating a significant impact on public health, as 1 in 10 people ages 12 and older were affected by an Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) in 2024.
Riley Hahn
Loneliness is associated with many negative outcomes, such as mental health disorders (depression, anxiety), physical health problems (cardiovascular disease, cancer), and an increased risk for mor...
Kaeley Hawkins • Ryan Kenter
A82 - D1RL Antagonism Following Morphine Sensitization in Adolescent Pb-exposed Mice
Lead (Pb) is a neurotoxin that can leak from aging pipes into drinking water, disproportionately harming disadvantaged communities and demanding stronger protective legislation.
Abigail Klemmensen • Peter Tsichlis • Santiago Giacoman Garcia • Chase Gilbert
A83 - Strength in Numbers: Possible Freshwater Mussel Speciation may Increase Conservation Efforts
The Purple Lilliput (Toxolasma lividum) is a freshwater mussel from the Interior (Ozark) and Appalachian Highlands.
Santina Celli
A84 - Students with Language Impairments and Discipline in Schools
Imagine choosing to work in the emergency room because working in a school was too hard.
Sara Cook
A85 - "Surveying African Drosophila melanogaster Populations for Female Mate Preference"
Female mate choice is a strong factor shaping the evolution of mating behaviors and ultimately speciation through reproductive isolation.
Sarah Kiffmeyer
A86 - Unequal Beginnings: Examining Breastfeeding Disparities Through the Social Ecological Model
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months of life is recognized as a foundational early-life behavior that can shape a child’s long-term health trajectory.
Sargun Kahlon
A87 - Access to Routine Health Care and its Impact on Hypertension Control
Hypertension, commonly known as high blood pressure, is defined by the 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines as a blood pressure reading of 130/8...
Shelby Hannahs • Abigail Verderber
A88 - Robotizing Altruism: AI in Healthcare
Since the genesis of AI being implemented into healthcare, AI was intended to reshape and standardize the healthcare system.
Surabhi Mohan
A89 - Proximity Accelerated Reactions in Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy
As the ligand binds to the target, nucleophilic residues peripheral to the binding site attack the molecule (affinity labelling). The linker is subsequently hydrolyzed, releasing the drug payload.
Sydney Bair
A90 - Using Artificial Intelligence as a Study Tool in a 200-level biology course
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Sydney Carter
A91 - Sperm Storage Patterns Across Drosophilia psuedoobscura Population
Female mating decisions play a critical role in evolution, and these decisions extend beyond mate selection to include how females store and utilize sperm after mating.
Tessa Romah
A92 - Exploring alternative methods of τ-MnAl formation
Permanent magnets are crucial in the production of electric motors, wind turbines, hearing aids, and many other technologies.
Colby Collins • Thomas McKenzie