The oral presentations are split into six sessions and take place in five different rooms: Chittenden Room (413), Frank Livak Ballroom (417), Jost Foundation Room (422), Mildred Livak Ballroom (419), and Williams Family Room (403). For details, please see the schedule, below.
To see the oral presentation schedule organized in alphabetical order, click here.
Collaborations
Please note that the following students are part of collaborations and are listed under the name of their group:
SESSIONS: 9:00-9:45am | 10:00-10:45am | 11:00- 11:45am | 1:00-1:45pm | 2:00-2:45pm | 3:00-4:00pm
| 9:00 | Erin Hayes-Pontius | Effect of land use on benthic macroinvertebrate community metrics in Vermont streams (Advisor: Judith Van Houten) |
| 9:15 | Shannon Kostin | Inhibitory Effects of (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) and Pterostilbene on Pancreatic Cancer Growth in vitro (Advisor: ) |
| 9:30 | Stefan Boas | Effects of Exercise Training on Outcomes Following Traumatic Brain Injury (Advisor: Kalev Freeman) |
| 9:00 | Caitlin Loretan | The effect of extender and extender ratio on post-thaw quality of equine spermatozoa (Advisor: Josie Davis) |
| 9:15 | Erin King | Differences in the rumen methanogen population exist between Jerseys and Holsteins (Advisor: Andre-Denis Wright) |
| 9:30 | Travis Mann-Gow | Effect of Caffeine on Murine Lower Urinary Tract Function (Advisor: Peter Zvara) |
| 9:15 | Nilanjan Lodh | Comparison of 18s and ITS-1 rDNA of Myxobolus cerebralis, the causative parasite of the Whirling Disease (Advisor: Lori Stevens) |
| 9:30 | Ashley Jones | Generation of Epidemiological Genetic Clusters of the Chagas Disease Vector, Triatoma infestans, in Bolivia (Advisor: Lori Stevens) |
| 9:00 | Kristin Pishvanov | Visual and Compositional Influence of Francis Bacon on the Filmmaking of David Lynch (Advisor: Sarah Nilsen) |
| 9:15 | Grace Weaver | Thin-Skinned (Advisor: Steve Budington) |
| 9:30 | Alexsandra Dubin | Mending the Strife Between Earth and World; A Heideggerian Reading of Central Indian Painting (Advisor: Anthony Grudin) |
| 9:00 | Ryan Trudel | Larvicidal effects of Chinaberry (Melia azederach) powder on Anopheles arabiensis in Ethiopia. (Advisor: Arne Bomblies) |
| 9:15 | Christina Syrrakou | Investigation in the Optimal Design of Porous Concrete Sites (Advisor: George Pinder) |
| 9:30 | Amanda James | Power Networks with Coupled Control and Data Acquisition System (Advisor: Paul Hines) |
| 10:00 | Saurav Acharya | Towards Probabilistic Causal Query Processing over Event Streams (Advisor: Byung Lee) |
| 10:15 | Narine Manukyan | Improved methods for cluster identification and visualization of high-dimensional data using self organizing maps. (Advisor: Margaret Eppstein) |
| 10:30 | Michael Harrington | In Silico Prediction of Pathogenic vs. Non-Pathogenic Mutations in the APC Tumor Supression Gene (Advisor: Marc Greenblatt) |
| 10:00 | Dale Azaria | Evaluating the Potential for Reduction in Vehicle Miles Traveled in Chittenden County Using an Integrated Land Use - Transportation Model System (Advisor: Austin Troy) |
| 10:15 | Matt Conger | Evaluating Real World Driving Behavior: The Characterization of Eco-Driving Strategies and Their Role in Reducing Tailpipe Emissions and Fuel Consumption (Advisor: Britt Holmen) |
| 10:30 | Qiong Liu | Measuring Food Access in Northern New England (Advisor: Brian Lee) |
| 10:00 | Alison Mercier | Investigating Possible Protein-Protein Interactions of Abelson (Abl) and Abl related gene (Arg) Proteins with the Vasodilator-Stimulated (VASP) Family of Proteins (Advisor: Alan Howe) |
| 10:15 | Francis Ayombil | Prethrombin-1, the gla-domainless prothrombin intermediate, is activated efficiently to thrombin by Prothrombinase assembled on the activated platelet surface (Advisor: Paula Tracy) |
| 10:30 | Ali Bayir | Macrocycles through fragmentation of fused bicyclic ring systems (Advisor: Matthias Brewer) |
| 10:00 | Bridge to Higher Education | A Bridge to Higher Education (Xavier De Freitas, Col Tulien; Advisor: ) |
| 10:30 | Samuel Mitchell | An Investigation of Post-Secondary Education and Unemployment in Bluefields, Nicaragua (Advisor: Luis Vivanco) |
| 10:00 | Michael Ghebreab | Catalytic dehydrocoupling of phosphines en route to the synthesis of p-conjugated materials (Advisor: Rory Waterman) |
| 10:15 | Annalese Maddox | Zirconium-Mediated Synthesis of Arsaalkenes (Advisor: Rory Waterman) |
| 10:30 | Karla Erickson | Exploring novel reactivities of a tripodal triamidoamine-supported zirconium catalyst (Advisor: Rory Waterman) |
| 11:00 | Kelly Cunningham | Imaging the World: Image Quality Evaluation Study (Advisor: Kristen DeStigter) |
| 11:15 | Denise McCormack | The Antiproliferative Effects of Pterostilbene in Leptin-Stimulated Breast Cancer In Vitro are via Apoptosis and Inhibition of JAK/STAT3 signaling (Advisor: ) |
| 11:30 | Rashida Vassell | Clinical Impact of Biopsy Technique in Melanoma (Advisor: Ted James) |
| 11:00 | Matthew Tucker | Tracking the Dynamics of Financial Capital Flows in Transportation Planning Governance Networks: Which Actors’ Priorities are Funded? (Advisor: Christopher Koliba) |
| 11:15 | Noelle Sevoian | Overcoming The Barriers of Institutional Local Produce Procurement in Vermont (Advisor: David Conner) |
| 11:30 | Brian Kelly | Extracting Groundwater Rents in Vermont (Advisor: Joshua Farley) |
| 11:00 | Erin Buckwalter | Farm to school programs impact fruit and vegetable consumption among girls and boys (Advisor: Jane Kolodinsky) |
| 11:15 | Matthew Putnam | Defining Rurality (Advisor: Jane Kolodinsky) |
| 11:30 | Abby Smith | Taste of Place Market Assessment: Exploring the General Demand for a Place-based Designation System for Vermont Food Products in the Northeastern United States (Advisor: Jane Kolodinsky) |
| 11:00 | Angela Dunkling | The role of mycorrhizal fungi in increasing grass tolerance to drought under different nutrient regimes and the effect of commercial mycorrhizae on enhancing drought tolerance (Advisor: Alison Brody) |
| 11:15 | Nathan Hicks | Dynamics of clonal diversity within natural infections of a malaria parasite, Plasmodium mexicanum (Advisor: Joseph Schall) |
| 11:30 | Allison Neal | Male gametocyte fecundity and sex ratio of a malaria parasite (Advisor: Joseph Schall) |
| 11:00 | Zuzana Zvarova | A Statistical Registry of Patients with Type-2 Diabetes in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula (Advisor: Peter Callas) |
| 11:15 | Julie Seger | Harry Potter and the Millennial Generation's Politics (Advisor: Anthony Gierzynski) |
| 11:30 | Halley Parsonnet | Television and Feminism From "Mary" to "Murphy" (Advisor: Sarah Nilsen) |
| 1:00 | Jessica Clifton | Implicit emotional processes affect sexually-relevant behavior (Advisor: Alessandra Rellini) |
| 1:15 | Martin Seehuus | Complex Predictors of Propensity for Risky Sexual Behavior (Advisor: Alessandra Rellini) |
| 1:30 | Sarah Gillett | Inflammation and Risk of Decline in Learning and Memory Function in the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study (Advisor: Mary Cushman) |
| 1:00 | Pedro Alvarez-Ortiz | Functional Evolution of Flightin from an Aquatic Ancestor (Advisor: Jim Vigoreaux) |
| 1:15 | Samya Chakravorty | Functional Role of Flight Muscle in Male Courtship Song of Drosophila melanogaster (Advisor: Jim Vigoreaux) |
| 1:30 | Meredith Sooy | The effect of exercise on activation in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis using fos immunohistochemistry (Advisor: William Falls) |
| 1:00 | Abigail Greenbaum | Linking Environmental and Sensory Characteristics of a Vermont Artisanal Cheese (Advisor: Amy Trubek) |
| 1:15 | Danny Lynch | Microbial surveillance of retail raw milk in three New England states. (Advisor: Catherine Donnelly) |
| 1:30 | Tharshani Nishanthan | Ecology of Nematode suppressive Soils in Midwest Soybean-cropping Systems (Advisor: Deborah Neher Weicht) |
| 1:00 | Catherine Bliss | The Impact of Incomplete Data on Inferred Network Topology (Advisor: Christopher Danforth) |
| 1:15 | Kameron Harris | Geographical variation of happiness and information content as expressed by users of Twitter (Advisor: Christopher Danforth) |
| 1:30 | Eitan Pechenick | Finding Meaning in an Ocean of Data (Advisor: Peter Dodds) |
| 1:00 | Elizabeth Mills | The Appalachian Mountain Club and the Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920 (Advisor: Stephanie Kaza) |
| 1:15 | Hajra Atiq | Clean Production In Artisanal And Small-Scale Mining: A Study Of Stakeholder Perceptions On The Challenges To Mercury-Free Techniques In Gold Mining (Advisor: Saleem Ali) |
| 1:30 | Michael Olson | Remote Sensing of Forest Health Trends in the Northern Green Mountains (Advisor: Jennifer Pontius) |
| 2:00 | Jonathan Bond | Investigating Vermonters’ Disaster Preparedness Perceptions and Practices (Advisor: Daniel Baker) |
| 2:15 | Ashleigh Sewell | Ecosystem Service Benefits and Implementation Costs of Agroforestry: A Scale Analysis in Santa Catarina, Brazil (Advisor: Joshua Farley) |
| 2:30 | Jacob Evans | The Community in Your Computer (Advisor: Jane Kolodinsky) |
| 2:00 | Chol Dhoor | Money Laundering And Its Threats To Financial Institutions (Advisor: Shirley Gedeon) |
| 2:15 | Minghao Li | Determining the optimal premium rate for credential food attributes: Evidence from a survey in the northeast United States (Advisor: Robert Parsons) |
| 2:30 | Evan Cassidy | SAD Awareness Campaign (Advisor: Andrea Grayson) |
| 2:00 | Leonie Cowley | A Continuum Model to describe the Elastic Behavior of Multilamellar Lipid Bilayer Membrane using Molecular Dynamic Simulation (Advisor: Yves Dubief) |
| 2:15 | Ryan Crocker | Direct Numerical Simulation of low-temperature ablation by turbulent flows (Advisor: Yves Dubief) |
| 2:30 | Jessica Buckley | Technical Investigation of the Slow Sand Filter in Jaitique, Honduras (Advisor: Daniel Baker) |
| 2:00 | Christine Nguyen | Cross-Racial Horizontal Oppression among College Students of Color (Advisor: Dorian McCoy) |
| 2:15 | Salomon Rodezno | Culture Through Sculpture: Carving New Understandings and Uses of Campus Sculptures (Advisor: Dorian McCoy) |
| 2:30 | Anita Long | Engaging and Disengaging: A Qualitative Study of Middle School Girls and Mathematics (Advisor: Katharine Shepherd) |
| 2:00 | Corinne Sadlowski | Enolate-Mediated Palladium Cross-Coupling Methodology Applied to the Synthesis of Subincanadine E (Advisor: Stephen Waters) |
| 2:15 | Victoria Carhart | APMS-Supported Catalyst for the Selective Oxidation of Mustard Gas (Advisor: Rory Waterman) |
| 2:30 | Liton Roy | Isolation of most stable protein from self-selecting secondary structure elements (Advisor: Martin Case) |
| 3:00 | Autumn Amici | Effects of an urbanization gradient on arthropod prey availability and woodpecker provisioning rates (Advisor: Allan Strong) |
| 3:15 | Samantha Roberts | Human Serum Transferrin: Role of Ionic Interactions with the Transferrin Receptor in Binding and Iron Release (Advisor: Anne Mason) |
| 3:30 | Matthew Sammons | Roles of the actin cross-linking proteins transgelin and fimbrin in promotion of cortical actin patches in fission yeast (Advisor: Matthew Lord) |
| 3:00 | Zachary Gray | Phylogenetic reconstruction of the North American fire ants in the Solenopsis xyloni species complex (Advisor: Sara Cahan) |
| 3:15 | Brian Mulcahey | Caste Determination in Desert Harvester Ants Altered by Overwintering Processes (Advisor: Sara Cahan) |
| 3:30 | Keegan Harris | The Saber in Europe: A Weapon's Social History, 1850-1900 (Advisor: Steven Zdatny) |
| 3:00 | Nabanita Mukherjee | Effects of Chemotherapy on taste (Advisor: Eugene Delay) |
| 3:15 | Eric Garza | Energy return of Vermont biodiesel (Advisor: Robert Costanza) |
| 3:30 | Joyce Thompson | The Role of Thioredoxin in Mesothelial Cell Death Induced by Crocidolite Asbestos. (Advisor: Brooke Mossman) |
| 3:45 | Katherine D'Onfro | Anxiety and Exercise in Mice: An examination on the effects of prior stress on the anxiolytic effects of voluntary exercise (Advisor: William Falls) |
| 3:00 | Andrew Simpson | Educational Disparities in Inner CIty Communities: The Contributions of Cultural Capital in Understanding Blocked Mobility (Advisor: Beth Mintz) |
| 3:15 | Jesse Simmons | The University Bike Share (Advisor: Luis Vivanco) |
| 3:30 | Wen Li | The effect of advertisement (Advisor: Qingbin Wang) |
| 3:45 | Emily O'Shea | Linguistic Gender Shift: An Observational Study of the Prevalence of Stereotypically Gendered Features (Advisor: Maeve Eberhardt) |
| 3:00 | Zhenyu Lu | Active Learning with Adaptive Heterogeneous Ensembles (Advisor: Joshua Bongard) |
| 3:15 | Huimin Ye | K-anonymity for Privacy Preservation of Electronic Health Data (Advisor: Elizabeth Chen) |
| 3:30 | Ryan Melnichuk | Physical and chemical treatment of biochar to increase capacity to filter phosphorus and nitrogen runoff from stream water (Advisor: Josef Gorres) |