Kalman Symposium 2025
Ailsa Boger
Coercion in Campus Sexual Misconduct
College women are at high risk of experiencing sexual misconduct 1, which can be classified as either assault or coercion depending on the extent of...
Amelia Peters
Informal Entrepreneurship within Vintage Malls
Our research will be centered around how antique malls or vintage shops can work as places of encounter in which people can experiment with informal entrepreneurship...
Amelia Ruck
Influences of prenatal and developmental conditions on telomere dynamics in seabird chicks (Rissa tridactyla)
This study investigates the effects of prenatal and postnatal environmental conditions on telomere dynamics in Black-legged Kittiwake...
Angelina Santos
Effects of Lead-Based vs. Lead-Free Low-Frequency, Low-Intensity Ultrasound Devices on VEGF Secretion from Endothelial Cells in a 3D Scaffold
Research has shown that the application of low-frequency, low-intensity ultrasound (LFLI...
Antoinne Robinson
Gradient Gel Inserts: Innovative Solutions for Knee Pain Relief
The present research focuses on developing a novel shoe insert made of a gel material featuring a controllable stiffness gradient to improve...
Antoni Nowacki
oNo
“Ono” is the closest thing most slavic languages have to a gender neutral pronoun. Not as versatile as the English “they”, it has a knack for describing things that lack...
Athaliah Elvis
Title:
UnWritten, UnDefined, UnEquivocally Black: How Black Women Release their Inhibition in Literature
Abstract:
This project, UnWritten, UnDefined, UnEquivocally Black: How Black Women Release their Inhibition in Literature, explores how political...
Bernard Iringire Nkusi
Investigating the Microscale Mechanics of Actomyosin Networks
Biological cells exhibit a myriad of complex nonlinear responses to stress or strain, namely stress stiffening, softening, elastic recovery, and plastic deformation depending...
Charles White
Exploring Liposome-Chitosan and Liposome-Xanthan Gum Interactions
My work investigates the interactions between liposomes and two polyelectrolytes with opposing charges: chitosan, a polycation, and xanthan gum, a polyanion. The primary objective is...
Charlotte Hughes
Emergence & Maintenance of Psychological Experiences of Community at Work
Recent scholarship has demonstrated that psychological experiences of community at work (i.e., a psychological sense of community and a sense of...
Chiara Vessicchio
The Development and Implementation of a Mini Drop Tower for Energy Dissipating Tapered Spirals
During mating season, male bighorn sheep establish dominance by forcefully ramming their horns into one another. Due...
Chimezie Frank Onwudinjo
Title: Synthesis and characterization of Lithium orthosilicate
Abstract:
Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) have found their way in every aspect of our daily activities and operations due to their energy storage capacity and lower...
Christian Owens
Visualizing Polymer Concentration Gradient In Organogels Using Dye
The goal of this research is to develop polymeric gels with varying stiffness within a single sample, which could have practical applications in...
Dante Mancino
Linearizable Instances of the Quadratic Minimum Spanning Tree Problem on 3-Connected Graphs
The quadratic minimum spanning tree problem (QMSTP) is graph-based combinatorial optimization problem that, in general, is notoriously difficult to...
Ella Grenci
Imperial Roman Art & Ideologies in Pre-Fascist Colonial Italy: (D)evolution of the Treatment of Afro-Italian Women
When considering the impact of the Roman Empire, its tyrannical government is regarded as unsurpassed...
Emily Rivera
Belonging Through Bourdieu: Belonging as a Community College
The study aims to understand the feeling of belonging as a community college transfer student that has transitioned to a four year...
Emma Yorke
Dream or Illusion? - Social Mobility in a Divided Era
The “American Dream” embodies evolving ideals of economic and social success in the U.S., rooted in the Declaration of Independence’s promise...
Grace English
Morphological Analysis of Main and Chute Channel Discharge, Scroll Spacing, and Migration Rates Along the Kantishna River, Alaska
English, G., Sentz, C., Chamberlin, E.,Trop, J.
Channel migration rate in meandering rivers is...
Gwen Radecki
The Alien Language Game: The Developmental Trajectory of Auditory and Visual Statistical Learning
Statistical learning (SL) extends across multiple stimulus domains and modalities, including vision, audition, and touch. However, it remains...
Isabella Levin
Political Consumption on the Edge of the 2024 Election
This study explores social media behavior, specifically political consumption and polarization. Political Polarization is a system that results in the division of...
Jackson Greninger
Cocomposer: A Generative Approach to Electronic Music
The rapid advancement of hardware and software technologies over the past few decades has significantly influenced the evolution of electronic music, empowering producers to...
Jackson Lewis
The Effects of Pins on Force Chains in a Granular System: A Simulation
Granular media are large collections of disordered macroscopic particles interacting via dissipative forces. We use molecular dynamics simulations...
Jason Ussery
Evolution of College Football Offensive Strategies Since 2000
The offensive strategy of college football has changed from a rushing focused play-calling strategy to a more passing focused play-calling strategy. Data from...
Jean Marie Ngabonziza
“Culture evolves with time”: Learning about Rwandan culture through traditional music.
Rwandan culture, rooted in oral traditions of storytelling, poetry, and music, faces threats from colonization, the loss of knowledgeable people...
Jean Picado
Literature Review of Psychosocial Factors Linked to Latinx Education and Occupational Development
This review examined prior literature in psychology to better understand the educational experiences of Latinxs. The aim was...
Joshua Hauck
Design and Analysis of Energy Recovery Methods for Reduced Aircraft Emissions
Aircraft flights are becoming an increasingly popular mode of transportation. However, their harmful impacts on the environment are a growing...
Kade Davidheiser
Design, fabrication, and testing of a legged soft robot that can walk and jump
This poster showcases the design of a quadruped robot equipped with legs made from a thermoplastic polyurethane...
Kevin Wu
Development of an Origami-Inspired Bistable Soft Robotic Gripper
The increasing demand for high-quality, delicate agricultural products like fruits and vegetables requires innovative harvesting solutions due to the limitations of manual labor...
Laura Ancuta
A Glimpse into Race and Representation in Roman Artifacts
This research presents a Roman terracotta oil lamp, featuring the stylized head of a presumed African male, investigated for its cultural, anthropological...
Maddie LaCoss
A Historical and Biological Overview of Leprosy and Typhoid in an Ancient Theban Cemetery
As a PUR Fellow, I was given the opportunity to work closely with Dr. Stephanie Larson to...
Matthew Bucaloiu
The Role of Trust in Parents and Others in Emerging Adults' Well-being
Trust in others is an important factor associated with well-being and relationship quality. Little psychological research has examined U.S...
Max Wilson
NFL Top 100 Analytics: Evaluating the Factors that Drive Top 100 Rankings
The NFL Top 100 is a ranking released each summer, designed to highlight the top NFL players based on...
Morgan Haros
Following the Light
The Samek Art Museum contains a collection of ancient Mediterranean lamps as part of the Turnure Collection. In my research, I first focused on a specific mold-made lamp...
Morgan Haros
INTEGRAL BUT FORGOTTEN: METICS IN ANCIENT ATHENS
Every civilization has contained foreign residents, and Ancient Athens was no exception. In Classical Athens (489-323 BCE), these foreign residents and freed slaves were...
Nicole Fernandez
The Bittersweetness in Language Brokering Experiences of Latinx College Students
Latinx migrants are a culturally diverse group in which children commonly learn English more quickly than their parents. In light of...
Nicole Fernandez
Literature Review of Parenting Practices in Latinx Families
Parenting practices are strongly influenced by contextual factors and cultural values, especially among Latinx families in the United States. This literature review investigated...
Nicole Joseph
Investigation of population resistance to cold-induced oxidative damage in a lizard, Sceloporus consobrinus
In ectotherms, metabolic rate positively scales with environmental temperature. We previously demonstrated that prairie lizards (Sceloporus consobrinus) exposed...
Quinn Zabiegalski
Optimizing Boundary Transformation Vectors by
Choosing the Best 2-D Representation
Boundary transformation vectors (BTVs) are a method tailored for analyzing damage in linear and nonlinear dynamic systems. BTVs are constructed by...
Ryan Koes
Unbiased Characterization and Classification of Coffee
Traditional coffee quality assessment relies on certified sensory specialists, who are not easily accessible and can be subjective. These evaluations can lead to inconsistencies in...
Teagan Hawes
Are bystanders more persuasive than victims? The impact of social media backlash towards brand transgressions.
Our research focuses on the intersection of brands, social media, and influencers, and their impact on...
Titus Weng
Sign2Sign – A First Attempt
At the core of human engagement is communication. While technological advances enable convenient translation for different language speakers to communicate, millions of Deaf, Mute, and Hard-of-Hearing...
Tyler McMasters
The influence of prenatal versus postnatal conditions
on the physiology of 5 day old kittiwake chicks
The Black Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a species of Arctic seabird that breeds on...
Xochitl Granados
From War to Walls: U.S. Intervention and the Rise of Carceral Society in El Salvador
In January 2023, El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, opened Central America’s largest prison...
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