Submissions from 2022
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
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
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
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
Spatiotemporal Route to Understanding Metal Halide Perovskitoid Crystallization, Mansoor Ani Najeeb Nellikkal, Rodolfo Keesey, Margaret Zeile '16, Venkateswaran Shekar, and Alexander J. Norquist
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
Submissions from 2021
Lead Pollution, Demographics, and Environmental Health Risks: The Case of Philadelphia, USA, Michael J. O'Shea, Jonas Toupal, Hasibe Caballero-Gómez '21, Thomas P. McKeon, Marilyn Howarth, Richard Pepino, and Reto Gieré
Uptake and Distribution of Administered Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cell Extracellular Vesicles in Retina, Biji Mathew, Leianne A. Torres, Lorea Gamboa Acha, Sophie Tran, and Anagha Aneesh '24
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
Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Signal Arrests Phytoplankton Cell Division and Impacts Virus-Induced Mortality, Scott B. Pollara '19, Jamie W. Becker, Grayton Downing '18, Davis Chase '21, and Kristen E. Whalen
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
Confirming the Calibration of ALMA Using Planck Observations, Gerrit S. Farren '20, Bruce Partridge, Ruediger Kneissl, Simone Aiola, and Rahul Datta
Effects of post-response arousal on cognitive control: Adaptive or maladaptive?, Rebecca J. Compton, Marc Jaskir '20, and Jianing Mu '22
Find the Silver Lining or Ignore the Cloud? Cognitive Reappraisal Versus Visual Attention Training, Heather Robinson '19, Elisa Sheen '19, Rachel Silwinski '19, Jianing Mu '22, and Rebecca J. Compton
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
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
Implicit Support Differs Across Five Groups in the US, Taiwan, and Mexico, Laurel Benjamin '21, Xueting Ni '19, and Shu-wen Wang
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
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
Predicting inorganic dimensionality in templated metal oxides, Davion M. Williams '23, Matthew Danielson '21, Joshua A. Engler '22, Zihui Ding '22, Alexander J. Norquist, and Joshua Schrier
Probing the structure and function of acyl carrier proteins to unlock the strategic redesign of type II polyketide biosynthetic pathways, Ariana Sulpizio '21, Callie E.W. Crawford '22, Rebecca Koweek '22, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Redistribution under General Decision Rules, Giri Parameswaran and Hunter Rendleman '18
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
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
Submissions from 2020
A NICER View of Spectral and Profile Evolution for Three X-Ray-emitting Millisecond Pulsars, Dominick M. Rowan '20, Zaynab Ghazi '22, Leslie Lugo '19, Elizabeth Spano '21, and Andrea Lommen
A plasmid-encoded papB paralogue modulates autoaggregation of Escherichia coli transconjugants, Rubén Monnárez '14 and Iruka N. Okeke
Deuterium-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Histidine pK(a) Determination in a pH-Responsive Hydrogel, Gabriel A. Braun '19, Brett H. Pogostin '18, Milda Pucetaite, Casey Londergan, and Karin S. Akerfeldt
Estrogen withdrawal increases postpartum anxiety via oxytocin plasticity in the paraventricular hypothalamus and dorsal raphe nucleus, Elizabeth C. Heaton '18, Claudia Amaral '17, Lauren E. Benedetto '18, Clio L. Bodie '17, Breanna I. D'Antonio '17, Dayana R. Davila Portillo '19, Rachel H. Lee '17, M. Taylor Levine '18, Emily C. O'Sullivan '19, Natalie P. Pisch '19, Shantal Taveras '18, Hannah R. Wild '19, and Laura Been
Fairness Warnings and Fair-MAML: Learning Fairly with Minimal Data, Dylan Slack '19, Sorelle Friedler, and Emile Givental '20
Hive minded: like neurons, honey bees collectively integrate negative feedback to regulate decisions, Talia Borofsky, Victor J. Barranca, Rebecca Zhou, Dora von Trentini '18, and Robert L. Broadrup
How sound are our ultralight axion approximations?, Jonathan Cookmeyer '17, Daniel Grin, and Tristan L. Smith
Identification of persistent oil residues in Prince William Sound, Alaska using rapid spectroscopic techniques, Helen K. White, Alexandra E. Morrison, Charvanaa Dhoonmoon '19, Hasibe Caballero-Gómez '21, Michelle Luu '20, Camille Samuels '21, and Charles T. Marx '20
Iteration with intention: Project-based learning of computational thinking, Nasanbayar Ulzii-Orshikh '21 and John Dougherty
MIBiG 2.0: a repository for biosynthetic gene clusters of known function, Satria A. Kautsar, Kai Blin, Simon Shaw, Jorge C. Navarro-Munoz, Louise K. Charkoudian, Samuel C. Epstein '19, and Ashley C. Sisto '20
On the Mechanism of Self-Assembly by a Hydrogel-Forming Peptide, Gabriel A. Braun '19, Beatrice E. Ary '15, Matthew C.H. Rohn '20, Abigail M. Payson '17, David S.M. Lee '13, Robert C. Parry '16, Connie Friedman '15, and Karin S. Akerfeldt
Probing the Chemical Transformation of Seawater-Soluble Crude Oil Components during Microbial Oxidation, Yina Liu, Helen K. White, Rachel Simister, David W. Waite, and Shelby L. Lyons '15
Rapid Identification of Marine Plastic Debris via Spectroscopic Techniques and Machine Learning Classifiers, Anna P. M. Michel, Alexandra E. Morrison, Victoria L. Preston, Charles T. Marx '20, and Helen K. White
Robot-Accelerated Perovskite Investigation and Discovery, Zhi Li, Liana Alves '18, Alyssa Sherman '18, Peter Cruz Parrilla '20, Philip Nega '16, and Alexander J. Norquist
Silicone Wristbands as Passive Samplers in Honey Bee Hives, Emma J. Bullock '19, Alexis M. Schafsnitz '17, Chloe H. Wang '17, Robert L. Broadrup, and Helen K. White
Ticha: Collaboration with Indigenous communities to build digital resources on Zapotec language and history, George Aaron Broadwell, Moisés García Guzmán, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Felipe H. Lopez, May Helena Plumb '17, and Mike Zarafonetis
Widening the bottleneck: Heterologous expression, purification, and characterization of the Ktedonobacter racemifer minimal type II polyketide synthase in Escherichia coli, Joshua G. Klein '20, Yang Wu '19, Bashkim Kokona, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Submissions from 2019
Aberrant Epigenomic Modulation of Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene (NR3C1) in Early Life Stress and Major Depressive Disorder Correlation: Systematic Review and Quantitative Evidence Synthesis, Laurens Holmes Jr., Emily Shutman '20, Chinacherem Chinaka, Kerti Deepika, Lavisha Pelaez, and Kirk W. Dabney
A comparative study of fairness-enhancing interventions in machine learning, Sorelle Friedler, Sonam Choudhary, Carlos Scheidegger, Evan P. Hamilton '17, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Aggregation Profiling of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeat Proteins Transgenically Expressed in Drosophila melanogaster Using an Analytical Ultracentrifuge Equipped with Fluorescence Detection, Bashkim Kokona, Nicole R. Cunningham, Jeanne M. Quinn '16, and Robert Fairman
A large self-transmissible resistance plasmid from Nigeria contains genes that ameliorate a carrying cost, Rubén Monárrez '14, Molly Braun '12, Olivia Coburn-Flynn '13, Jose I. Otero-Vera '14, Naa Kwarley Quartey '11, and Iruka N. Okeke
Anthropogenic biases in chemical reaction data hinder exploratory inorganic synthesis, Xiwen Jia '19, Allyson Lynch '21, Yuheng Huang '19, Matthew Danielson '21, Alexander J. Norquist, and Sorelle Friedler
Assessing the Local Interpretability of Machine Learning Models, Dylan Slack '19, Sorelle Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, and Chitradeep Dutta Roy
Automated congressional redistricting, Harry A. Levin '14 and Sorelle Friedler
Bacterial alkylquinolone signaling contributes to structuring microbial communities in the ocean, Kristen E. Whalen, Jamie W. Becker, Anna M. Schrecengost '18, Yongjie Gao '20, and Nicole Giannetti '18
Colorimetric Assay Reports on Acyl Carrier Protein Interactions, Acheampong K. Koki '19, Bashkim Kokona, Gabriel Braun '19, Danielle Jacobsen '19, Karl A. Johnson, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Constraining the Neutron Star Mass-Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. I. The Millisecond Pulsar X-Ray Data Set, Slavko Bogdanov, Wynn Ho, Andrea Lommen, Reilly Milburn '19, Sergio Montano '21, and Jesse Zeldes '22
Disentangling Influence: Using disentangled representations to audit model predictions, Charles T. Marx '20, Richard Lanas Philips, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Enantiomeric Analysis of Chiral Isotopomers via Microwave Three-Wave Mixing, Lincoln Satterthwaite '18, Cristóbal Pérez, Amanda L. Steber, Dylan Finestone, and Robert L. Broadrup
Energy Usage Reports: Environmental awareness as part of algorithmic accountability, Kadan Lottick '20, Silvia Susai '20, Sorelle Friedler, and Jonathan P. Wilson
Examining Inputs of Biogenic and Oil-Derived Hydrocarbons in Surface Waters Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Helen K. White, Charles T. Marx '20, David L. Valentine, and Charles Sharpless
Fair Meta-Learning: Learning How to Learn Fairly, Dylan Slack '19, Sorelle Friedler, and Emile Givental '20
Ghosting and destiny: Implicit theories of relationships predict beliefs about ghosting, Gili Freedman '09, Darcey N. Powell, Benjamin Le, and Kipling D. Williams
Glutamate Afferents From the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Mediate Nucleus Accumbens Activation by Female Sexual Behavior, Kelsey M. Moore, Wyatt L. Oelberg, Rose Glass '17, Matthew D. Johnson, and Laura Been
How conspicuous are peacock eyespots and other colorful feathers in the eyes of mammalian predators?, Suzanne Amador Kane, Yuchao Wang '20, Rui Fang '18, and Yabin Lu '18
Making Physics Courses Accessible for Blind Students: Strategies for Course Administration, Class Meetings, and Course Materials, Megan Holt '14, Daniel Gillen '17, Kevin Setter, Paul Thorman, and Suzanne Amador Kane
pKa Determination of a Histidine Residue in a Short Peptide Using Raman Spectroscopy, Brett H. Pogostin '18, Anders Malmendal, Casey H. Londergan, and Karin S. Akerfeldt
Rapid Identification of Deepwater Horizon Oil Residues Using X-ray Fluorescence, Anna P. M. Michel, Alexandra E. Morrison, Charles E. Marx '20, and Helen K. White
Sex Experience Increases Delta FosB in Male and Female Hamsters, but Facilitates Sex Behavior Only in Females, Luis Acaba '16, David Sidibe '16, John Thygesen '16, Harrison Van der Kloot '16, and Laura Been
Size Analysis of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeat Proteins Expressed in Drosophila melanogaster Using Semidenaturing Detergent Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Nicole R. Cunningham, Bashkim Kokona, Jeanne M. Quinn '16, and Robert Fairman
Templated vanadium tellurites: Identifying the effects of low density attractions on inorganic layer topology, Xiwen Jia '19, Jessica L. Dixon '16, Matthias Zeller, Joshua Schrier, and Alexander J. Norquist
The wandering mind oscillates: EEG alpha power is enhanced during moments of mind-wandering, Rebecca J. Compton, Dylan Gearinger '19, and Hannah Wild '19
Towards a neurobiology of female aggression, Laura Been, Alisson Gibbons '19, and Robert L. Meisel
Tracking carrier protein motions with Raman spectroscopy, Samuel C. Epstein '19, Adam R. Huff, Emily S. Winesett '16, Casey H. Londergan, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Working with Worms: Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Organism, Philip M. Meneely, Caroline L. Dahlberg '01, and Jacqueline K. Rose
Submissions from 2018
Applying parabolic Peterson: affine algebras and the quantum cohomology of the Grassmannian, Jonathan Cookmeyer '17 and Elizabeth Milićević
A Cyfip2-Dependent Excitatory Interneuron Pathway Establishes the Innate Startle Threshold, Kurt C. Marsden, Roshan A. Jain, Marc A. Wolman, Ben Miltenberg '17, and Alberto E. Pereda
A Direct, Quantitative Connection between Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Vibrational Probe Line Shapes, Rosalind J. Xu '18, Bartosz Blasiak, Minhaeng Cho, Joshua P. Layfield, and Casey H. Londergan
A Forward Genetic Screen in Zebrafish Identifies the G-protein coupled receptor CaSR as a modulator of Sensorimotor Decision-making, Roshan A. Jain, Christina Szi '18, Amy Zamora '18, Keisuke Sawada '17, and Emilia Cobbs '17
Aggregative Adherence and Intestinal Colonization by Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Are Produced by Interactions among Multiple Surface Factors, Iruka N. Okeke, Laura V. Blanton, Lawrence T. Wang, Joshua DuBow '11, Alexander Lafrance '16, Stephen Kwak '12, Levi Bowers '17, Mandara C. Levine '18, Charles O. Hale '17, and Philip Meneely
A standardized workflow for submitting data to the Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster (MIBiG) repository: prospects for research-based educational experiences, Samuel C. Epstein '19, Louise K. Charkoudian, and Marnix H. Medema
Biomechanics of the peafowl’s crest reveals frequencies tuned to social displays, Suzanne Amador Kane, Daniel Van Beveren '20, and Roslyn Dakin
Characterization of Membrane-Bound Alpha-Synuclein with the Thiocyanate Vibrational Probe Group, Casey H. Londergan, Franklin A. Kostas '18, Kavita Shroff '17, Kristen E. Fiore '17, and Daniel M. Konstantinovsky '16
Characterizing Accreting Double White Dwarf Binaries with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and Gai, Katelyn Breivik, Kyle Kremer, Michael Bueno '18, Shane Larson, and Scott Coughlin
Chemical characterization of natural and anthropogenic-derived oil residues on Gulf of Mexico beaches, Alexandra E. Morrison '18, Charvanaa Dhoonmoon '19, and Helen K. White
Conformational Ensembles of Calmodulin Revealed by Nonperturbing Site-Specific Vibrational Probe Groups, Casey H. Londergan, Kristen L. Kelly, Shannon R. Dalton, Rebecca B. Wai, Kanika Ramchandani '14, and Rosalind J. Xu '18
Cyanylated Cysteine Reports Site-Specific Changes at Protein-Protein-Binding Interfaces Without Perturbation, Shannon R. Dalton, Alice R. Vienneau '12, Shana R. Burstein '15, Rosalind J. Xu '18, Sara Linse, and Casey Londergan
Development and Characterization of Two Phenylalanine Derivatives for use as Raman Probes in Proteins, Joie Ling '20, Eliana von Krusenstiern '18, and Casey H. Londergan
Disaggregation of gold nanoparticles by Daphnia magna, Karin Mattsson, Ruben Aguilar '16, Oscar Torstensson, Diana Perry '15, and Karin S. Akerfeldt
Identity development in cultural context: The role of deviating from master narratives, Kate C. McLean, Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl, Chelsea Fordham, Elizabeth Alpert '13, Emma Marsden '13, Kathryn Szymanowski '13, and Dan P. McAdams
Is attention enhanced following performance errors? Testing the adaptive control hypothesis, Rebecca J. Compton, Elizabeth C. Heaton '18, and Averi Gaines
Iterator-Based Optimization of Imperfectly-Nested Loops, Daniel Fesbach '20, Mary Glaser '18, Michelle Strout, and David Wonnacott
Probing Substrate Sequestration in Carrier Proteins using Vibrational Spectroscopy Labels and Molecular Dynamic Simulations, Caroline McKeon '18, Louise K. Charkoudian, and Casey H. Londergan
Relating the Vibrational Lineshapes of the Thiocyanate (SCN) Probe to Structures and Dynamics in Calmodulin Ensembles via Computational Approaches, Casey H. Londergan, Rosalind J. Xu '18, Shannon R. Dalton, and Kristen L. Kelly
“So Now, I Wonder, What Am I?”: A Narrative Approach to Bicultural Identity Integration, Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl, Margaret Bishop '10, Katharine Gilson '10, Lindsay Festa '09, Chloe Levenson '09, and Rena Rosenblum '09
The Bend+Libration Combination Band Is an Intrinsic, Collective, and Strongly Solute-Dependent Reporter on the Hydrogen Bonding Network of Liquid Water, Pramod Kumar Verma, Matthew S. Puretz '13, Charvanaa Dhoonmoon '19, Oriana S. Chegwidden '11, and Casey Londergan
The chemical cue tetrabromopyrrole induces rapid cellular stress and mortality in phytoplankton, Kristen E. Whalen, Christopher Kirby, Russell M. Nicholson '18, and Mia O'Reilly '18
The effect of divalent cations on the thermostability of type II polyketide synthase acyl carrier proteins, Marco A. Rivas '18, Valentine C. Courouble '17, Miranda C. Baker '17, David L. Cookmeyer '16, Kristen E. Fiore '17, Alexander J. Frost '17, Kerilyn N. Godbe '16, Michael R. Jordan '17, Emily N. Krasnow '17, Aurelio Mollo '17, Stephen T. Ridings '17, Keisuke Sawada '17, Kavita D. Shroff '17, Bradley Studnitzer '17, Grace A. R. Thiele '17, Ashley C. Sisto '20, Saadia Nawal '16, Robert Fairman, Karl A. Johnson, Bashkim Kokona, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Understanding structural adaptability: a reactant informatics approach to experiment design' involves the use of machine learning to better understand structural and electronic adaptability in a vanadium selenite later topology, Rosalind J. Xu 18, Jacob H. Olshansksy '12, Yuheng Huang '19, Matthew D. Smith '16, Joshua Schrier, and Alexander J. Norquist
Vibrant symbiosis: Achieving reciprocal science outreach through biological art, Lindsey E. Lopes '16, Sarah J. Waldis '16, Stephanie M. Terrell '18, Kristin Lindgren, and Louise K. Charkoudian
Submissions from 2017
Sedimentation Velocity Analysis with Fluorescence Detection of Mutant Huntingtin Exon 1 Aggregation in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans, Robert Fairman, Surin Kim '15, Victoria D'Acunto '17, Jay Garcia '16, Nabeel Akhtar '13, Susanna Hoffman '14, Seema Doshi '16, and Kathleen Ulrich '18
Acyl Carrier Protein Cyanylation Delivers a Ketoacyl Synthase–Carrier Protein Cross-Link, Louise K. Charkoudian, Grace Thiele '17, Connie Friedman '15, Katie Tsai '16, and Casey H. Londergan
Auditing black-box models for indirect influence, Phillip Adler, Casey Falk '16, Sorelle Friedler, Tionney Nix '17, and Gabriel Rybeck '16
Classes 1 and 2 integrons in faecal Escherichia coli strains isolated from mother-child pairs in Nigeria, Babatunde W. Odetoyin, Amy S. Labar '10, Adebayo Lamikanra, Aaron O. Aboderin, and Iruka N. Okeke
Cyanylated cysteine as an infrared reporter of protein-peptide interactions: Experimental measurements, molecular dynamics simulations and semi-quantitative calculations of IR lineshape, Casey H. Londergan and Rosalind J. Xu '18
