Submissions from 2026
Exploring the Boundaries of Modern Quantum Annealers with RNA Structure Prediction, Brian Andrews, Jacob Abraham '25, Dillon Fox, and Asja Radja
∆FOSB in the Nucleus Accumbens Core Is Required for Increased Anxiety, but Not Decreased Social Motivation, Following Estrogen Withdrawal in Female Mice, Willow Clayton '24, May Y. Courtney '24, Lilah E. Craig '24, Helen E. Moniz '24, Alison B. Gibbons '19, Alissa A. Valentine '19, Achint K. Singh '19, Dylan R. Gearinger '19, Eric J. Nestler, and Laura Been
Co-creation of learning and teaching as an equity-oriented approach, Alison Cook-Sather and Julie Edelstein '26
Texture density discrimination is more precise than number discrimination, Frank H. Durgin, Nichole Suero Gonzalez, Ping Wen '24, and Alexander C. Huk
Structure–Property Relationships in a Series of Hybrid Halopyridinium Ruthenium(IV) Halides, Haley D. Guthrie, Samuel R.P. Stone '25, Mark H. Schofield, and Christopher L. Cahill
CaMPARI2 Enables Stimulus-Locked Whole-Brain Activity Mapping at Cellular Resolution in Unrestrained Larval Zebrafish, Kate R. Robbins '25, Amelia Bredbenner '26, Rebecca A. Osbaldeston '24, Kevin S. Villafañe '24, Eva E. Shin '24, Elizaveta Merkulova '26, Ava Clevenger '26, Payton B. Delean '27, Cristina Campos '28, Graham C. Peet '19, and Roshan A. Jain
The Polarization and Magnetic Field of the Radio Arc as Observed by ALMA at 100 GHz, Nora Salem '26, Dylan M. Paré, Paulo Cortes, Masrk R. Morris, and Valentin J.M. Le Gouellec
Submissions from 2025
Development of a Spectroscopic Map to Explain the Broad Raman Peak for Alkynes Solvated in Triethylamine, Anagha Aneesh '24, Kristina Streu, and Clyde Daly
CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion - Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ahmed Haj Ahmed '26, Alvin Grissom, Iqra Ameer, Grigori Sidorov, Olga Kolesnikova, and Seid Muhie Yimam
Developing an inclusive, student-led approach to scaling up the benefits of pedagogical partnership for social justice in higher education, Alison Cook-Sather, Suresh Abhirami, and Edmund Dante Nguyen '25
A review of quorum-sensing and its role in mediating interkingdom interactions in the ocean, Megan Coolahan '22 and Kristen E. Whalen
Caste-Associated Cuticular Chemistry Variation in the Paper Wasp Mischocyttarus pallidipectus, Katherine Fiocca, Johanna Batterton '21, Helen K. White, and Sean O'Donnell
Crystal Chute Moves on Pipe Dreams, Sarah Gold '23, Elizabeth Milićević, and Yuxuan Sun '23
New and updated timing models for seven young energetic X-ray pulsars, including the Big Glitcher PSR J0537−6910, Wynn C. G. Ho, Lucien Kuiper, Cristóbal M. Espinoza, Timothy Leon '28, Bennett Waybright '28, Sebastien Guillot, Zaven Arzoumanian, Slavko Bogdanov, and Alice K. Harding
A Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase from Dictyobacter vulcani sp. W12 Expands the Combinatorial Biosynthetic Toolkit, Kenneth K. Hsu '25, Charlie M. Ferguson '24, Christina M. McBride '23, Nicholas B. Mostaghim '23, Kelsey N. Mabry '24, Robert Fairman, Yae In Cho, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Assessing the Effect of Explicit Polarizability on Models of Carbon Dioxide Solvation in Ionic Liquids, Zijian Huo, Logan E. Smith '23, Rowan J. Goudy '23, Khady Ndiaye '26, Scott Kaiser '22, Marie E. Nikolov '23, Ethan Silva '25, Tyler A. Parrack, Sean Garrett-Roe, and Clyde Daly
Substituent Effects Govern the Efficiency of Isoxazole Photoisomerization to Carbonyl-2H-Azirines, Kyra E. Jackson '25, Isabelle Szeto '27, Leah M. Seebald, and Samuel G. Shepard
Unsupervised learning reveals rapid gait adaptation after leg loss and regrowth in spiders, Suzanne Amador Kane, Brooke L. Quinn, Xuanyi Kris Wu '26, Sarah Y. Xi, and Michael F. Ochs
Studying C9orf72 dipeptide repeat polypeptide aggregation using an analytical ultracentrifuge equipped with fluorescence detection, Bashkim Kokona, Nicole R. Cunningham, Jeanne Quinn '16, Danielle R. Jacobson, Jay F. Garcia, Sierra M. Galindo '26, and Robert Fairman
Antecedents and consequences of preferences for hierarchy in early childhood, Ryan F. Lei, Brandon Kinsler, Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson, Ian Davis '23, and Alissa Vandenbark '22
Strategic acyl carrier protein engineering enables functional type II polyketide synthase reconstitution in vitro, Kevin Li '24, Yae In Cho, Rebecca S. Koweek '22, Ngoc Khanh Hoang '21, Grayson S. Hamrick '21, Margaret A. Bowen '23, Bashkim Kokona, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Westonia: Selected Works of Elizabeth Jane Weston, Bret Mulligan, Mary Anna Ball, Felix K. Bieneman, Hannah Rebecca Cohen '25, Erica S. Collin, Harry Cottrell '27, Rowan Killina '26, Celia Levy '25, Priya Nwakanma '27, Claire Pettit '25, and Claudia van Vloten '25
The autophagy initiation factor ATG13 mRNA is stabilized by the RNA-binding protein YBX3, Liva Pfuhler '23, Silina Awad '24, William Skipper '22, Jeremy Lavietes '22, Thomas Sah '25, Kayla Ho '27, Radha Ivanova '27, and Amy Cooke
Identity-related Speech Suppression in Generative AI Content Moderation, Grace Proebsting '25, Oghenefejiro Isaacs Anigboro '26, Charlie M. Crawford '24, Danaë Metaxa, and Sorelle Friedler
A Developmental Perspective on the Racial Socialization of White Children: Linguistic and Social-Cognitive Considerations, Grace Reid, Selim Yigit '27, Ariana Orvell, Emily Foster-Hanson, and Ryan F. Lei
Using Artificial Neural Networks to Simulate Social Category Learning: A Tutorial, Sonia E. Singh '25, Deon T. Benton, and Ryan F. Lei
Deciphering culturally-coded institutional responses to COVID-19 adversity and anti-Asian hate in higher education, Shu-wen Wang, Janet Chang, Lauren R. Benjamin '21, Xueting Ni '20, and Erin Walsh
Youth-Directed Racial-Ethnic Socialization and Family Processes in Asian Immigrant Families, Cathy Zhu '23, Ashley Chun '23, Edward Shin '23, and Shu-wen Wang
Submissions from 2024
Retention of Underrepresented Minority Undergraduates in STEM, Alexander P. Abramenko '24 and Megan Nadzan
The YBX3 RNA-binding protein posttranscriptionally controls SLC1A5 mRNA in proliferating and differentiating skeletal muscle cells, Silina Awad '24, William Skipper '22, William Vostrejs '22, Kendall Ozorowski '23, Kristen Min '23, Liva Pfuhler '23, Darshan Mehta '25, and Amy Cooke
Long-Term Oral Tamoxifen Administration Decreases Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in the Hippocampus of Female Long-Evans Rats, Laura Been, Amanda R. Halliday '23, Sarah M. Blossom '22, Elena M. Bien '24, Anya G. Bernhard '18, Grayson E. Roth '20, Karina J. Domenech Rosario '20, Karlie B. Pollock '20, Patra E. Abramenko '20, Leily M. Behbehani '21, Gabriel J. Pascal '21, and Mary Ellen Kelly
Coping, connection appraisal, and well-being during COVID-19 in the US, Japan, and Mexico, Laurel R. Benjamin '21 and Shu-wen Wang
Using pose estimation and 3D rendered models to study leg-mediated self-righting by lanternflies, Theodore Bien '22, Benjamin H. Alexander '24, Chengpei Li '22, Natalie Goeler-Slough '24, and Suzanne Amador Kane
Properties of packings and dispersions of superellipse sector particles, John Colt, Lucas Nelson '23, Sykes Cargile '21, Theodore A. Brzinski III, and Scott V. Franklin
Does Early Adversity Predict Executive Functioning Difficulties Among Undergraduates? Dissociations Among Self-Report, Performance, and EEG Measures, Rebecca J. Compton, Eric Kopczynski '22, Keishla Sanchez '22, Katrina Severtson '22, Joanna Gengo '23, Olivia Ahart '23, and Lauren Handler '23
Adversity and error-monitoring: Effects of emotional context, Rebecca J. Compton, Danylo Shudrenko '26, Erin Ng '24, Katelyn Mann '24, and Emil Turdukulov '24
Employing Metadynamics to Predict the Membrane Partitioning of Carboxy-2H-Azirine Natural Products, Clyde Daly, Leah M. Seebald, and Emma Wolk '26
Adhesion of Crithidia fasciculata promotes a rapid change in developmental fate driven by cAMP signaling, Shane Denecke, Madeline F. Malfara, Julia M. Pascarella '21, Julia H. Gallagher-Teske '20, and Rachel E. Hoang
Using Hi observations of low-mass galaxies to test ultralight axion dark matter, James T. Garland '22, Karen Masters, and Daniel Grin
Rapidly Piloting Real-time Linguistic Assistance for Simultaneous Interpreters with Untrained Bilingual Surrogates, Alvin Grissom, Jo Shoemaker, Ben Goldman '21, and Ruikang Shi '21
Considering How Machine-Learning Algorithms (Re)produce Social Biases in Generated Faces, Matthew Gusdorff '23, Alvin Grissom, Jeova F.S. Rocha Neto, Yikang Lin '22, Ryan Trotter '22, and Ryan F. Lei
Investigating hair cues as a mechanism underlying Black women’s intersectional invisibility, Ryan F. Lei, Aaron J. Cohen '22, Poeny Wong '23, and Sa-Kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson
Examining Whether and How Black and Asian Parents Engage in Collective Racial Socialization, Ryan F. Lei, Nicole J. Li '24, Phoebe Tu-Phi Pham, Elizabeth C. Szanton '22, and Zoe Frazer-Klotz '22
Auditing GPT’s Content Moderation Guardrails: Can ChatGPT Write Your Favorite TV Show?, Yaaseen Mahomed, Charlie M. Crawford '24, Sanjana Gautam, Sorelle Friedler, and Danaë Metaxa
Energy-minimizing configurations for an elastic rod with self-contact energy close to the inextensible–unshearable and hard-contact limits, Robert S. Manning, Kathleen Hoffman, Michael Merkle, Li Fan '23, and Anubhav Sharma '23
The adaptor protein 2 (AP2) complex modulates habituation and behavioral selection across multiple pathways and time windows, Rodrigo Zúñiga Mouret '20, Jordyn P. Greenbaum '20, Hannah M. Doll '21, Eliza M. Brody '21, Emma L. Iacobucci '21, Nicholas C. Roland '21, Roy C. Simamora '22, Ivan Ruiz '23, Rory Seymour '20, Leanne Ludwick '20, Jacob A. Krawitz, and Roshan A. Jain
Hybrid Mimulus flowers attract a new pollinator, Foen Peng, Xiaohe Sheng, Claudia van Vloten '25, Jude Correll '23, Marlena Langdon '24, Weerin Ngochanthra '24, Karl Johnson, and Suzanne Amador Kane
Hybrid Mimulus flowers attract a new pollinator, Foen Peng, Xiaohe Sheng, Claudia van Vloten '25, Jude Correll '23, Marlena Langdon '24, Weerin Ngochanthra '24, Karl Johnson, and Suzanne Amador Kane
Growing a Bigger Linguistics Through a Zapotec Agenda: A Ticha Project Case Report, May Helena Plumb '17, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, and Felipe H. Lopez
Insights into the Hierarchical Assembly of a Chemically Diverse Peptide Hydrogel Derived from Human Semenogelin I, Brett H. Pogostin '18, Kerilyn Godbe '16, Isabelle Angstman '20, William Fox '19, Natalie Giovino '17, Majita Lagator '17, Abigail Payson '17, Marisa LeBarca '21, Casey Londergan, and Karin S. Akerfeldt
Use of X-ray Star Horizon Crossings to Enhance Performance of X-ray Navigation, Nathaniel C. Ruhl '22, Andrea Lommen, Noah H. Schwab '22, and Romana M. Hladky '22
Finding Passive Galaxies in H i-MaNGA: The Impact of Star Formation Rate Indicator, Nora Salem '26, Karen Masters, David V. Stark, and Anubhav Sharma '23
Development of a universal method for vibrational analysis of the terminal alkyne C≡C stretch, Kristina Streu, Sara Hunsberger '22, Jeanette Patel '26, Xiang Wan, and Clyde Daly
Cosmic microwave background search for fine-structure constant evolution, Hurum Maksora Tohfa, Jack Crump '23, Ethan Baker '24, Luke Hart, and Daniel Grin
The Effects of poly-GA and poly-PR C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeats on Sleep Patterns in Drosophila melanogaster, Genevieve Uy '22, Laura N. Farrell '19, Syeda F. Faheem '24, Lauren E. Kinne '23, Madison G. Adore '21, Seol Hee Im, and Robert Fairman
Social Connectedness Protects Against the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on First-Year Undergraduate Mental Health, Margaret Weisblum '24, Cathy Zhu '23, Trisha Ajila '23, and Shu-wen Wang
Submissions from 2023
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics, Adeela Afzal, Gabriella Agazie, and Lydia Guertin '24
Sizing up spotted lanternfly nymphs for instar determination and growth allometry, Theodore Bien '22, Benjamin H. Alexander '24, Eva White '23, S. Tonia Hsieh, and Suzanne Amador Kane
Effects of task context on EEG correlates of mind-wandering, Rebecca J. Compton, Danylo Shudrenko '26, Katelyn Mann '24, Emil Turdukulov '24, Erin Ng '24, and Lucas Miller '24
Estradiol withdrawal following a hormone simulated pregnancy induces deficits in affective behaviors and increases AFosB in D1 and D2 neurons in the nucleus accumbens core in mice, William B. Foster '18, Katherine F. Beach '18, Paige F. Carson '18, Kagan C. Harris '21, Brandon L. Alonso '22, Leo T. Costa '23, Roy C. Simamora '22, Jaclyn E. Corbin '22, Keegan F. Hoag '22, Sophia I. Mercado '22, Anya G. Bernhard '18, and Laura Been
Elevated estradiol during a hormone simulated pseudopregnancy decreases sleep and increases hypothalamic activation in female Syrian hamsters, Abiola Irvine '20, Maeve Gaffney '20, Erin K. Haughee, Marité A. Horton '21, Hailey C. Morris '21, Kagan C. Harris '21, Jaclyn E. Corbin '22, Clara Merrill '22, Michael L. Perlis, and Laura Been
Long-Term Density Trend in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere From Occultations of the Crab Nebula With X-Ray Astronomy Satellites, Satoru Katsuda, Teruaki Enoto, Andrea Lommen, Koji Mori, and Nathanial C.C. Ruhl '22
An open-source environmental chamber for materials-stability testing using an optical proxy, Rodolfo Keesey, Armi Tiihonen, Margaret Zeile '21, Keqing He '24, and Alexander J. Norquist
Putting a new spin on insect jumping performance using 3D modeling and computer simulations of spotted lanternfly nymphs, Chengpei Li '22, Aaron J. Xu, Eric Beery '22, and Suzanne Amador Kane
Antimicrobial Resistance: Public Health Review of Policy, Education, and Treatment [senior thesis], Elizabeth Mari '23 and Leah M. Seebald (thesis advisor)
An updated catalogue of diverse type II polyketide synthase biosynthetic gene clusters captured from large- scale nucleotide databases, Christina M. McBride '23, Eric L. Miller, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Mass and Color Dependence of the Hubble Spiral Sequence, Petra Mengistu '24 and Karen Masters
A Modern Twist on an Old Measurement: Using Laboratory Automation and Data Science to Determine the Solubility Product of Lead Iodide, Alexander J. Norquist, Gabriel Jones-Thomson '23, Keqing He '24, Thomas Egg, and Joshua Schrier
HI rich but low star formation galaxies in MaNGA: Physical properties and comparison to control samples, Anubhav Sharma '23, Karen Masters, and James Garland '22
A marine-derived fatty acid targets the cell membrane of Gram-positive bacteria, Isha Upender '23, Olivia Yoshida '23, Anna Schrecengost '18, Hilary Ranson, Shreya Kishore '21, Claire Cywes '23, Eric L. Miller, and Kristen E. Whalen
Physiological selectivity and plant–environment feedbacks during Middle and Late Pennsylvanian plant community transitions, Jonathan P. Wilson, Gabriel Oppler '17, Elizabeth Reikowski '17, Jessica Smart '18, Charles Marquardt '16, and Brian Keller '18
C9orf72 proline-arginine dipeptide repeats disrupt the proteasome and perturb proteolytic activities, Yifan Zhang '21, Sophia Nelson '20, Ashley Viera-Ortiz, Edward B. Lee, and Robert Fairman
Submissions from 2022
Spatial Analysis and Lead-Risk Assessment of Philadelphia, USA, Hasibe Caballero-Gómez '21, Helen K. White, Michael J. O'Shea, Richard Pepino, and Marilyn Howarth
Engineered Chimeras Unveil Swappable Modular Features of Fatty Acid and Polyketide Synthase Acyl Carrier Proteins, Yae In Cho, Claire L. Armstrong '20, Casey Londergan, Clyde Daly, Louise K. Charkoudian, Ariana Sulpizio '21, Callie E. W. Crawford '22, Kofi K. Acheampong '19, Kameron N. Banks '20, Oishi Bardhan '20, Sydney J. Churchill '20, Annie E. Connolly-Sporing '20, Peter L. Cruz Parilla '20, Sarah M. Curtis '20, Lauren M. De La Rossa '20, Samuel C. Epstein '19, Clara J. Farrehi '20, Grayson S. Hamrick '21, William J. Hillegas '20, Austin Kang '20, Olivia C. Laxton '20, Joie Ling '20, Sara M. Matsumura '20, Victoria M. Merino '20, Shahla H. Mukhtar '24, and Neel J. Shah '20
ActinoBase: tools and protocols for researchers working on Streptomyces and other filamentous actinobacteria, Morgan Anne Feeney, Jake Terry Newitt, Emily Addington, Louise K. Charkoudian, and Joshua G. Klein '20
Heterologous Expression, Purification, and Characterization of Type II Polyketide Synthase Acyl Carrier Proteins, Grayson S. Hamrick '21, Casey Londergan, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Principled Exploration of Bipyridine and Terpyridine Additives to Promote Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Crystallization, Noor Tital Putri Hartono, Mansoor Ani Najeeb, Zhi Li, Clare A. Fleming '24, Alexander J. Norquist, Philip W. Nega '16, and Xiaohe Sun
A Detection of Red Noise in PSR J1824-2452A and Projections for PSR B1937+21 Using NICER X-Ray Timing Data, Jeffrey S. Hazboun, Jack Crump '23, Andrea Lommen, Sergio Montano '21, Jesse Zeldes '22, and Elizabeth Teng '20
Black-Asian solidarity through collective racial socialization, Ryan F. Lei, Zoe Frazer-Klotz '22, and Elizabeth C. Szanton '22
Inclusively Studying Inclusion: Centering Three Modes of Student Partnership in Assessing Equity and Inclusion in an Academic Department, Nicole S. Litvitskiy '20, Guadalupe Torres '20, and Benjamin Le
Dimensional Control over Metal Halide Perovskite Crystallization Guided by Active Learning, Zhi Li, Philip W. Nega '16, Mansoor Ani Najeeb Nellikkal, Chaochao Dun, and Alexander J. Norquist
Cali Chiu: A Course in Valley Zapotec (3rd ed.), Pamela Munro, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Felipe H. Lopez, Brynn Paul '20, and Lillian Leibovich '24
Spatiotemporal Route to Understanding Metal Halide Perovskitoid Crystallization, Mansoor Ani Najeeb Nellikkal, Rodolfo Keesey, Margaret Zeile '16, Venkateswaran Shekar, and Alexander J. Norquist
Frequency Changes in Terminal Alkynes Provide Strong, Sensitive, and Solvatochromic Raman Probes of Biochemical Environments, Matthew G. Romei '14, Eliana V. von Krusenstiern '18, Stephen T. Ridings '17, Renee N. King '16, Julia C. Fortier '18, Caroline A. McKeon '18, Krysta M. Nichols '25, Louise K. Charkoudian, and Casey Londergan
The effect of CO2 concentration on carbon isotope discrimination during photosynthesis in Ginkgo biloba: implications for reconstructing atmospheric CO2 levels in the geologic past, Mason A. Scher, Richard S. Barclay, Allison A. Baczynski, Lily Bennett '20, and Jonathan P. Wilson
Active meta-learning for predicting and selecting perovskite crystallization experiments, Venkateswaran Shekar, Gareth Nicholas '20, Mansoor Ani Najeeb, Margaret Zeile '20, Vincent Yu '21, Xiaorong Wang '23, Dylan Slack '19, Alexander J. Norquist, and Sorelle Friedler
Rare but Severe Neural Machine Translation Errors Induced by Minimal Deletion: An Empirical Study on Chinese and English, Ruikang Shi '21, Alvin Grissom, and Duc Minh Trinh '22
Submissions from 2021
Implicit Support Differs Across Five Groups in the US, Taiwan, and Mexico, Laurel Benjamin '21, Xueting Ni '19, and Shu-wen Wang
Simultaneous EEG and pupillary evidence for post-error arousal during a speeded performance task, Rebecca J. Compton, Dylan Gearinger '19, Hannah Wild '19, Danielle Rette '18, Elizabeth C. Heaton '18, Stephanie Histon '18, Pablo Thiel '20, and Marc Jaskir '20
Effects of post-response arousal on cognitive control: Adaptive or maladaptive?, Rebecca J. Compton, Marc Jaskir '20, and Jianing Mu '22
Identification of a bacteria-produced benzisoxazole with antibiotic activity against multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, Robert W. Deering, Kristen E. Whalen, Ivan Alvarez, Shreya Kishore '21, and Lucy Zhao '22
Confirming the Calibration of ALMA Using Planck Observations, Gerrit S. Farren '20, Bruce Partridge, Ruediger Kneissl, Simone Aiola, and Rahul Datta
Ancestral haplotype reconstruction in endogamous populations using identity-by-descent, Kelly Finke, Michael Kourakos, Gabriela Brown, Huyen Trang Dang, Shi Jie Samuel Tan '23, and Sara Mathieson
A Random Walk Model for Dark Matter Halo Concentrations, Turner Johnson '22, Andrew J. Benson, and Daniel Grin
Many ways to land upright: novel righting strategies allow spotted lanternfly nymphs to land on diverse substrates, Suzanne Amador Kane, Theodore Bien '22, Luis Contreras-Orendain '21, Michael F. Ochs, and S. Tonia Hsieh
Characterizing the culturable surface microbiomes of diverse marine animals, Abigail G. Keller '17, Amy Apprill, Philippe Lebaron, Jooke Robbins, Tracy A. Romano, Ellysia Overton '19, Yuying Rong '20, Ruiyi Yuan '19, Scott Pollara '19, and Kristen E. Whalen
Galaxy Zoo: 3D - Crowd-sourced Bar, Spiral and Foreground Star Masks for MaNGA Target Galaxies, Karen Masters, Coleman Krawczyk, Shoaib Shamsi '21, Alexander Todd, and Daniel Finnegan
Perceived discrimination and mental health in college students: A serial indirect effects model of mentoring support and academic self-concept, Daniel Mayo '19 and Benjamin Le
Using automated serendipity to discover how trace water promotes and inhibits lead halide perovskite crystal formation, Philip Nega '16, Zhi Li, Victor Ghosh, Mansoor Nellikkal, and Alexander J. Norquist
Redistribution under General Decision Rules, Giri Parameswaran and Hunter Rendleman '18
