B01 - Automated Detection of Planar Cell Polarity in Beetle Wings
Planar Cell Polarity is crucial for the development and functions of many tissues and organs.
Aabha Phadke
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B02 - Impact of GLP-1 Medication on Physical Activity Patterns
This study examines the impact of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist medications on physical activity patterns, health behaviors, and motivational factors among adults.
Alena Hagen
B03 - Axon Initial Segments in neurons; Key Loci in Diseases of the Nervous System
The axon initial segment (AIS) is a distinct region in neurons vital for initiating action potentials.
Aliyah Grijalva
B04 - Engineering Phage-based Adjuvants to Restore Colistin Sensitivity
A small virus that infects bacteria, injecting its own DNA into that of the bacterial host. Phage infection results in the host's death.
Allie Day
B05 - Effects of Stampsand Exposure: Zebrafish Model
Stamp sand, a residual byproduct of early 20th-century copper mining in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, poses an escalating threat to aquatic ecosystems and food security for Indigenous commun...
Amal Vinod
B06 - Understanding the Nagorno-Karabakh Displacement
In late September 2023, following Azerbaijan’s military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians crossed into the Republic of Armenia within the span of days, effecti...
Anastasija Mladenovska
B08 - Phone Screening for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
This is an overview of phone screening for older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
Jennifer Harmon • Anna Solace
B09 - Effect of Cholinergic Mu-Opioid receptor deletion on locomotor sensitization in CMOR mice
The mu-opioid receptor (MOR) is a receptor in the endogenous opioid system, which is involved in the sensation of pain as well as reward and addiction.
Anushri Shahane
Nickel (Ni), Cobalt (Co), and Chromium (Cr) are useful critical metals in industry, specifically in manufacturing rechargeable batteries, stainless steel, and superalloys. As many countries are tra...
April Sanders
B12 - Application of Zircon Petrochronology to Oxford's Oldest Rocks: Insights from Peffer Park
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Ashley Boettcher
The loss of primary habitat around the world is causing a dramatic decline in species populations and rainforest diversity, with primate populations being particularly susceptible.
Ashley Sideri
Physical activity and inactivity are known to have opposing impacts on an individual’s health throughout their lifespan.
Ava Ward
B15 - Does migratory strategy affect immunity and susceptibility to parasites in Thrushes?
How do different migratory strategies affect immunity and rates of parasitism?
Ava Yunker
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), despite occurring relatively frequently compared to most neurodevelopmental disorders, has remained challenging to study due to its multifaceted pathogenesis and res...
Benjamin Carr
B17 - Digging Deeper: Heavy Metal Soil Contamination at Turner Farms in Cincinnati, OH
Urban gardens provide valuable opportunities for community engagement and enhance the overall well-being of those they serve.
Bowen Waltz • Emma Baker • Maddie Amato • Emily Burns
Globally, bird populations are facing large declines, yet the role of disease remains understudied.
Braeden Pelko
B19 - Effects of Sterilization Techniques on PLA Surface Wettability for Tissue Engineering
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Brooklyn Sims • Ryan Duffey • Tyler Dikos • Anlyn Carlson
B20 - Genetic Analysis of Alaskan Bees
Native bees are exceptional pollinators, but are facing a steep decline in populations.
Rylie Esparza • Evan Wagman • Lily Baumann • Katie Brand • Bryce Gevedon
B22 - Telling the Tale-a of Phages NyleyClemson and Phaila
A bacteriophage (or phage, for short) is a virus that infects and kills bacteria.
Marissa Walker • Katelyn Mould • Addie Danner • Nathan Dover • Jin Hudson • Taylor Porter • Katie Cameron • Hayden Gillig • Charlotte DeLong • Taryn Midtibo • Sophie Renda • Luke Lombard • Garrett Roese • Morgan Britton • Kai Ironstack • Rogue Carruthers • Jenna Rountree • Olivia Willcoxon
The Madison Limestone is a major stratigraphic group of Mississippian age limestone with its distribution ranging in the Rocky Mountains and the great plains from northern Canada down to New Mexico.
Chloe Eck
The presence of conspecific insects or evidence of prior feeding may inform larval feeding site choice by indicating the presence of potential competitors on a host plant.
Cole Coomer • Peyton Reno-Hern • Jayden Schretter
B26 - Effects of Psychedelics on Aggresive Behavior in Mice
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating mental disorder associated with increased aggression and anxiety-like behaviors.
Emily Ganz • Rachel Schmidt • Coryn Cummings
B27 - Vocabulary for Literacy: Developing an Early Literacy Curriculum for Preschoolers
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate sounds in words (Anthony & Francis, 2005).
Chloe Mech • Cristina Williams • Rachel Bell • Hannah Mortimer • Colleen Altomari • Lauren Satterlee
B28 - Gay Community Involvment Moderating-Effects on Depression & Social Anxiety
Sexual minority men (SMM) experience elevated rates of depression and anxiety,1,2 which are often explained through stigma-related pressures. 3
Dylan Siebenaler
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El Chetty
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between social support, measured by loneliness, partner status, and years lived in the United States, with healthcare access among Ohio refugee...
Ella Zawoyski
B31 - Uplifting Voices That Built Miami
Examining the naming of campus buildings reveals how the university constructed a selective historical memory that celebrates institutional founders and benefactors while obscuring the role of slav...
Meenal Khurana • Sophia Goldberg • Ashley Reynolds • Emily Luyster
B32 - Cyanobacterial Recruitment from the Sediments: A Review
Cyanobacterial blooms are extremely harmful to both public health and freshwater ecosystems more generally as they release toxins that can be fatal for humans and other animals.
Emmy Schenk
B33 - Design of a Hybrid Actuator Using a Hollow Rotary MR Damper and DC Motor for Robotic Joints
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Jacob Reed • Evan Metz
B34 - Effect of Psychedelics on Structural and Cellular Activity Markers in Mice
Psychedelic compounds such as psilocybin are able to modulate brain activity mostly through serotonergic systems. Specifically, 5-HT2A receptors can lead to wide changes in neural signaling and pla...
Farzin Daruwala • Sophie Kochensparger
Lead has been found to be associated with impulsive behavior in children and adolescents (Reyes 2015).
Giannoula Sarris • Erica Foster • Elisabeth Bolek • Reagan Ryan
B36 - Moving Matters: Assessing the Impact of Early Life Inactivity on Murine Behavior
In an overarching study, only the male mice were beginning to fight each other in their cages at around 1-4 months old
Grace Scott
B37 - Exploring the Authorship of the Historia Augusta Using Computational Stylometry
The Historia Augusta is the title given to an anonymous collection of biographies of the 30 Roman emperors who ruled from 117 to 284 CE.
Mitchell Wagers • Gunnar Von Bergen
B38 - Fascists, Terrorists, Cultists: Unveiling the Black Legion in Detroit
In May of 1936, a white WPA worker was killed near Detroit by a white supremacist group formed in the 1920s known as the Black Legion.
Hannah Sander
B39 - PET plastic degradation in organic solvents
Plastic waste is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time, with predictions that world plastic accumulation will exceed 34 billion tons by 2050 (Samak et. al 2020).
Elijah Schaefer • Catherine Moul • Hannah Lippincott • Lauren Dysert
Disengagement in the K-12 classroom is a complex issue that affects many parts of students’ lives. Decreased face-to-face interaction and learning loss have contributed to an increased unempl...
Janelle Tipton
B41 - How Narrator Gender Influences Perceived Persuasiveness of Third-Person Self-Talk Messages
Source characteristics play a critical role in shaping how messages are perceived and evaluated, even when message content is held constant.
Jasmine Clark • Lauren Coggin
Body appreciation is defined as the level of acceptance people have for their bodies regardless of size or shape, respect and attendance to bodily needs, and protecting the body from internalizatio...
Jeffrey Anderson
B43 - Parent Language Input in Deaf and Hearing Families with Autistic Children
Research on language development in autism has rarely included Deaf children, despite evidence that modality and parental hearing status shape the input autistic children receive
Hannah Ballinger • Brooke Rosenthall • Sydney Simpson • Jenna Lindeman
The Significance of the Transitional Cup
Audrey Wendtland • Alayni Orsini • Ava Kahlig • Dominica Marietta • Jillian Flinta
B45 - Herbicide Degradation Across Thermal Gradients and Its Role in Shaping Harmful Algal Blooms
Harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie have intensified despite reductions in fertilizer use, suggesting that additional agricultural applied chemicals may be influencing these dynamics.
Jolie Pyles
B46 - Intercropping: Insights into a common Gardening practice
In many gardening circles, some of the more seasoned practitioners will recommend to novice gardeners the technique of intercropping their plants to assist their primary plant in staying alive and ...
Jonathan Lopez-Rivera
B47 - Experimental Investigation of Suction Performance in Soft Grippers
Gripper technology is becoming increasingly vital as robots are deployed across diverse applications, from manufacturing to search and rescue in hazardous environments.
Joshua Koo
Gold is an important resource, and its value has greatly increased over the last 25 years by approximately 1,000% with the most recent prices being well over $4,000 an ounce.
Kaiya Bensing
The global population is aging, and as a consequence, the number of individuals experiencing age-related symptoms is increasing.
Katarina Teasdale
B50 - The Black and White of Medicine: A History of Race Based Corrections in Pulmonology
Race based corrections (RBCs) have been used in spirometry tests almost since the test’s creation.
Kate Bolenbaugh
During a meeting of the Geological Society of London at the end of 1912, Charles Dawson revealed a small collection of fragmented cranial bones, a few teeth, and a partial mandible, all of which be...
Katie Jachim
B52 - Physiological health effects of blood parasite co-infections in wild birds
Bird populations are declining worldwide, with habitat loss and climate change often cited as major factors; however, the role of disease remains less understood.
Kennice Marriott
B53 - Intra-species variation in body color maturation in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
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Lillian Shelley
B54 - Insights Into the Antimicrobial Mechanism of Temporin L
The temporin peptides are a short family of helical antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) (10-14 amino acids) found originally in the European Red Frog.
Luke Wardrip
As the opioid epidemic has grown in scale in the past decades, its impact on mothers with substance use disorder (SUD) can result in significant stigma when seeking healthcare (Renberg, 2024).
Mahfiza Ashurova
Diospyros virginiana, also known as the American persimmon, is a fruit tree native to the Eastern United States.
Malissa Tipton
In addition to its use as a form of creative expression, jazz has a rich history of use as a tool of cultural diplomacy, asserting a given country’s soft power or reflecting national sentiments.
Mari Angelopoulos
B58 - More Than Just Trees: The Natural History and Environmental Legacy of Miami University
This project explores a century of Miami’s evolution (1924–2024) through the lens of a "witness tree", a 100-year-old Ash tree that grew in the now Bishop Woods.
Maria Olson
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Mary Catherine Kelly
Through the initiatives of the Myaamia Center, including cultural revitalization efforts, there are increasing opportunities to deepen the understanding of the significance of the relationship betw...
Maryn Jerger
B61 - The Effects of Cholinergic Mu-Opioid Receptor Modulation on Preference and Reward
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is a critical and escalating public health crisis in the United States, affecting approximately 6.1 million Americans aged 12 or older.
Matthew Wittlich
B62 - Insights Into the Structural Interactions of ER Chaperones DnaJB11 and Grp94
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) resident molecular chaperones are essential for maintaining the integrity of the proteome during times of ER stress.
Melina Balch
Neurofibromatosis type 1, or NF1, affects 1 in 3,000 children, causing unregulated cell growth in the nervous system from an early age.
Ronald Henkel • Mia Angula
B64 - Cysteine biosynthesis is essential for survival of Shigella flexneri under oxidative stress
Shigella flexneri is a human-adapted enteric pathogen that causes shigellosis, a severe form of infectious diarrhea.
Mia Young
B65 - Miami University Campus Archaeology Project
The 2025 MUCAP season continued investigation of a structure previously the subject of MUCAP field sessions in 2023 and 2021.
Florian Siatkosky • Molly Hearsch • Camden Oberhaus • Ella Morales • Delanie Turner • Anna Gribbell
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Naiara Ayo-Belka
This project, which is a collaborative effort between students and faculty in the Department of Geology & Environmental Earth Science and Koloma Hydrogen, consists of evaluating results of prev...
Natalie Arwine • Kyle Grogg • Hannah Van Buren • Megan Klepper
B69 - Ultra Sensitive Optical Detection of Magnetic Fields
While many animals possess magnetic field sensing organs, humans do not. Therefore, we build magnetometers, devices that measure magnetic fields.
Nikolus Miller • Quinn Donnelly
B70 - Born to See Again: Cellular and Molecular Secrets of the Newt Eye
In the United States, 11.8 million people are currently affected by retinal diseases which impact their vision.
Peyton Morrow
B71 - Effects of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives or Policies in the Workplace
It is often associated that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are initiated to reach a quota, and in many cases, that is true. Our main focus in implementing such should be to better the...
Rayne Coronado Quentin
B72 - Surveying science labs: How do students perceive the labs they take
Labs in science education have been long questioned in their purpose and utility, though they are valued for their ability to enable practical and critical thinking skills [2].
Ryan Sibbald
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Samantha Gaines Gaines
Tribolium castenium is a model organism used to study genetics.
Samuel Wood
Childhood emotional abuse is a highly prevalent, yet understudied, form of childhood maltreatment, associated with a wealth of negative outcomes.
Samuel Neitzke
B76 - B Cell Methods of FCRL1 Localization to BCR Complex
B Cells are a type of lymphocyte whose primary purpose is to generate highly specific antibodies in response to a foreign antigen.
Sanya Scharf
B77 - Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer: The Correlation Between Aspartame and Breast Cancer
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Sean Powell
B78 - A Pattern-Based DNAzyme Array for the Rapid and Scalable Detection of Bacterial Pathogens
The purpose of this project is to develop a DNAzyme-based array to detect and distinguish bacterial species through unique fluorescence pattern responses.
Stefan Thea
B79 - Tackling Menopause Misinformation in rural populations using evidence-based guides
Your menopause toolkit for well researched, evidence based information
Tanaya Bhatkar
B80 - Involvement of mu-opioid receptors in mediating the long-term impacts of early life stress
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that is caused by an extremely stressful or traumatic event.
Thomas Williams
B81 - Variation in host specificity between avian malarial parasite lineages
Host specificity is known to be a major contributor to parasite transmission and prevalence.
Tressa Carico
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Warren Forlemu
B83 - Investigation of neurodegenerative diseases via the CHIP:HSP70 complex
Heat Shock Protein 70 (Hsp70) is a chaperone protein that works to maintain cellular homeostasis through folding and refolding proteins.
Will Wolke
B84 - Quantifying Haemosporidian Infection Intensity in Swainson's Thrushes
Haemosporida are an order of vector-borne intraerythrocytic parasites that are the causative agents of avian malaria.
William Gordon
B85 - Bias-Based Judicial Convictions in the Local Courts
The research conducted in this study focuses on convictions of people of color, rooted in bias, taking place between the 1860s and the 1970s, particularly in the Southern region of the United State...
Xzavier Briggs
B86 - Methylation and Expression Pattern of Slc9c1 Promoters
Epigenetics is the study of how alterations to DNA structure without alteration to the genomic code alters gene expression.
Yousif Alshathir
B87 - Phenotypic Assessment of FOXE3
FOXE3 is a transcription factor that plays a crucial role in the early development of the ocular lens.
Zack Hesselmann
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