Projects from 2025
“Why Us, Though?” Gendered Resilience in Climate-Displaced Bangladesh narrated by Child Brides, Marzuka Amal Binthe Akber
Evolutionary Conservation of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein in Clarthrin-Mediated Endocytosis, Jonah Friedmann
Hormonal Modulation of Perineuronal Net Density in the Female Peromyscus californicus Hippocampus and Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Nazlee Harunani
Burned in Berlin – Banned in Boston: Censorship of Booksellers During the Interwar Period in the U. S. as Compared to Germany, 1919-1939, Aleksandra Jimerson-McKinnies
The Republic of Citizens: from Equality to Fairness, Eliezer Cheonoo Koo
Adolescent Universal Mental Health Screening Innovations: The Utility of Measuring Implicit Suicide Risk, Savannah Mujkanovic
Intersectional Resistance: German Working-Class Adaptation to Nazi Control, Nyhan O’Sullivan
Predicting the Photophysics of BDPA-based Radicals Using Density Functional Theory, Samantha Kristine Piwoni
Using Sound Change to Study Phonological Representations: The Case of American English Diphthongs, Eitan Price
Simple Yet Effective, Effective Yet Inclusive: A Skincare Line, Ayesha Wali Rahimoon
Neural Oscillations Enable Concurrent Visual Perception and Visual Working Memory Processing, Khayla Santiago
Desire, Disobedience, and Drag: My Lesbian Fangirling of Emily Dickinson, Aaron Copland, and Alena Smith, Nina Schifano
Synthesis of Anti-Schistosomal Heterocyclic Compounds Targeting Thioredoxin Glutathione Reductase, Alexander Stewart
Fit or Unlit: Using Quantum Dots to Investigate the Effects of a Floral Yeast and Nectar Robbing on Male Fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata, Greta Thoresen
Police Reform Advocacy and the Emergence of the Seattle Black Panthers, Hayden Young
Projects from 2024
Building Food Agency in the Fox Valley: A Program Evaluation Case Study at the Building For Kids in Appleton, Wisconsin, William R. Brenneman
A Tale of Two Austins: Negotiating Segregation in the Sapphic Community of Austin, Texas, Madeleine Corum
Technology and the Human Body in the Films of David Cronenberg, Owen Davies
Can Caregivers Accurately Report on their Child's Rumination?, Grace E. Fox
The Public Perception and Efficacy of the Insanity Plea, 1835-1882, Hannah Frank
From Identity to Intimacy: Exploring Transgender People’s Dating Attitudes for Gender Experience, Finneas Frawley
Transcriptomic Analyses of the Central Nervous System of Biomphalaria glabrata: BS-90 and NMRI, Aparna Gajulapalli
Exposure to Parasitoid Wasps Induces Thicker and Stiffer Cuticle in Flies, Laken Hairston
Effects of Light Intensity and Predator Chemical Cues on Juvenile and Adult Daphnia magna Diel Vertical Migration, Mira Johnson
New Recordings of Old Songs, Tashi Litch
Gangliogenesis in Biomphalaria glabrata, Layan N. Naqawa
The Observer Perspective in Music Performance Anxiety Among College Students, Nell Rudoff
Synesthetic Symbolism: Community Engagement with the Sacred at the Boudhanath Stupa, Madeleine E. Tevonian
Cilia later! Characterizing Cilia Morphology and Function of mapk-15 and ced-1 Single- and Double- Mutants in C. elegans Dopaminergic Neurons, Kathryn Williams
Learning Strategies, Motivation, Perceived Covid Stress, and Academic Dishonesty: U.S. College Students’ Perceived Experience from 2019 - 2023, Caleb Wang Yuan
Projects from 2023
A Revised Provenance Model for the Elk Mound Group in South-Central Wisconsin Based on Detrital Zircon Analysis, Itai S. Bojdak-Yates
Building a High-Throughput Yeast Two-Hybrid Assay to Screen for Novel Chronic Hepatitis B Drugs, Benjamin Glazer
The Role of Attention Control in a Mindfulness-Induced Reduction in Rumination: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Elsa Hammerdahl
Umkämpfte Erinnerungskultur: Historikerstreit 2,0, das Humboldt Forum und die neue deutsche Geschichte, Jonathan Hogan
Mechanism of PTH CA2+ Sensing on G-Protein Interactions with PTH1R, Difei Jiang
Midwest Governors’ Rhetoric During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Diego Sanchez
Gangliogenesis and Embryonic Development in Biomphalaria glabrata, Subhiksha Srinivasan
The Art, Theory, and Practice of Transgender Life, Charlie Barbara Wetzel
Comparative Studies of Cross-Cultural Poetics: Robin Coste Lewis and Timothy Yu, Lili Xu
Methods for Chromatin Immunoprecipitation of Biomphalaria glabrata NF-κB, Marissa A. Zintel
Projects from 2022
Charting Autistic Voices, Alex Chand
Evaluating the Moderating Effect of Gender on Adolescents’ Internalizing Symptoms Throughout the First Wave of COVID-19, Naomi C. Curran
Classical, Narratological, And Queer Analyses of Sonata Form, Hannah Foote
Rumination and the Gut Microbiome:Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention, Moeka Kamiya
Evaluating the Application of the Collective Impact Model in Collaborative Health Efforts: A Case Study on Weight of the Fox Valley, 2013-2019, Natalie J. LaMonto
Correctional Education: A Pathway to Reducing Recidivism in Wisconsin?, Samuel George La Roi
Evaluating the Biogeochemical Effects of Enhanced Rock Weathering at Lawrence University, Katie Mahorney
Miscalibrated: A Search for Better Outcomes in Legal Punishment, Pretrial Systems, and Beyond, Matthew Peters
An Absence of Elephants in the Room: Religion, Philosophy, and Negative Numbers in Albert Girard’s A New Discovery in Algebra, Ethan Wilmes
Projects from 2021
Unpenned, Emily Sara Austin
The Biomechanics of the Softball Swing in Seven Stages: Optimizing Exit Velocity, Ceara A. Larson
Development of a Split Green Fluorescent Protein Reporting System for Angiogenin, Phan Quỳnh Châu Lê
Identification and Localization of NF-κB During the Embryonic Development of the Schistosome-transmitting Snail Biomphalaria glabrata, Amanda Karin Marsh
Programming Simulations of Diel Vertical Migration Behavior of Zooplankton, Bennett J. McAfee
Listening to the Internet: Cultural Discourses, Vicente Fernández, and Hearing YouTube Comments, Alex Miguel Medina
Sonali Fernando's Mary Seacole: The Real Angel of the Crimea as Successful Cinematic Adaptation of Post-Colonial Voices, Louric Rankine
Money Can’t Buy Magic: The Premier League Fan’s Identity Crisis in Response to the Hyper-Capitalization of the Sport, Cristina Sada Segovia
In Pursuit of a Stable Luminescent Radical: Investigating an Olefin Synthesis via the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Reaction, Kelly Xiomara Vences
China's Peaceful Post- Pandemic Rise, Sheldon (Yaodong) Xie
The Lushun Russo-Japanese Prison Museum: Nationalist Narrative Throughout Historical Memory of the “Humiliating Past” in Modern China, Sheldon (Yaodong) Xie
Projects from 2020
Ramen and Peanut Butter: Food Insecurity at Lawrence University, Barbara Espinosa
Movement Research: Exploring Liminality of Dance, Michele D. Haeberlin
Video Games, Virtual Reality, and the Progression of the Cinema of Interactions, Samuel James Luedtke
Werewomen: An Exhumation of Transness in Horror Cinema, Sam Miller
Testing the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide in a Community Sample of Adolescents, Sara Prostko
5-HT Receptor Subtype May Mediate CRH Production in Hypothalamus, Bailey Underwood
Projects from 2019
Examining lateral line development through CXCL14 modulation of CXCL12-CXCR4 mediated gene expression in Danio rerio, Ariana Calderon-Zavala
Cuckoldry and the “Gone for a Soldier” Narrative: Infidelity and Performance among Eighteenth-Century English Plebeians, Elias Hubbard
Popular Culture References: Their Influence on Language and Identity, Mira Kwiecien
The Maternal Body of James Joyce's Ulysses: The Subversive Molly Bloom, Arthur Moore
Effects of the Invasive Zooplankter Bythotrephes longimanus on the Aquatic Food Web in Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Arianna Neumeyer
Foreign Films in the Context of Hollywood: A Look into Adaptations and Remakes from Foreign Cinema, Christina Schrage
The Politics of Waste: A Look Inside the Lives of Wastepickers in Seoul, Hayoung Seo
A Revolution in Gothic Manners: The Rise of Sentiment from Walpole to Radcliffe, Katherine E. Stein
NF-κB in Biomphalaria glabrata: A genetic fluke?, Paige Stocker
Janeites and their Benefactors: The Heritage Industry and the Commodification of Nostalgia, Emma Swidler
Getting Stuck: Understanding the Perseverative Nature of Rumination with Facial Electromyography, Caroline Swords
Novel Characterization of the Role of Orthologous XAP5 in Caenorhabditis elegans, Nabor Vazquez
Identifying Binding Sites of Angiogenin on Human Chromosomes, Claire Vinopal
An Overview of American Ginseng through the Lens of Healing, Conservation and Trade, Margaret Wulfsberg
Projects from 2018
Understanding Zika Virus in Rural Costa Rica: Integrating Medical Anthropology and Public Health, Hailey Bomar
The Political Framing of Public Policies: An Analysis of Act 10 in Wisconsin, David Brooker
Sounds of the Singing Revolution: Alo Mattiisen, Popular Music, and the Estonian Independence Movement, 1987-1991, Allison Brooks-Conrad
The Adoption of Federal Scrutiny by State Supreme Courts in Same-Sex Marriage Jurisprudence, Shane Farrell
Music is the "Noise of Remembering" Tracing the Origins, Influences, and Connectivities of West African Music, Adam Friedman
Population Genetics and Bumble Bee Conservation: Saving Species by Thinking Small, Cady Greenslit
Constructing Surfaces with (1/(k-2)^2)(1,k-3) Singularities, Liam Patrick Keenan
The Thirty Years War(s), Logan Kilsdonk
Mapping Out Head Country: Expression of DAF-19C in the Head Neurons of C. elegans, Hanwenheng (Billy) Liu
Bali’s “Forgotten Stepchild”: The Cultural and Sonic Vitality of the Balinese Rebab, Mikaela Marget
Methylphenidate and Ethanol Interactions in the Visual Cortex and Superior Colliculus: Flash Evoked Potentials, Body Temperature, and Behavior, Lauren Wendelle Yowelunh McLester-Davis
Santería in a Globalized World: A Study in Afro-Cuban Folkloric Music, Nathan Montgomery
The Link between Discrimination and Suicidal Behaviors among Sexual and Gender Minorities, Cassidy Salentine
Projects from 2017
Supplanting the Wrong with the Right: A Synoptic Overview of Christian and Islamic Reactions Towards the Subject of Heresy, Brett G. Barnard
Building Morality: A New Strategy for Creating Human-Like Moral Psychology in Artificial General Intelligence, Christopher Barr
The Weevil Next Door: Exploring the impact of associational effects on C. pitcheri to better biological control practices, Tina Czaplinska
Sorting Out Sexism: Evaluating the Differing Content and Implications of Gender Stereotypes, Juliana Earvolino and Rebecca Schachtman