Schedule By Room


Presenter Sponsor Campus Session Poster Board Room Title
Sidney Laurel Adams Ashley Woodman UM/Amherst Session 1 C29 163 Barriers to Diagnosis and Autistic Identity in Young Adults
Cosima Trinity Calinescu Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C16 163

Relations Between Depressive Symptoms in Mothers and Toddler Sleep

Will Cotter Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C21 163 The Role of Slow-Wave Sleep in Disruptive Behavior Among Preschool-Aged Children
Lillette Emile Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C23 163 Organized vs. Chaotic Homes: Associations with Children's Memory Recall
Clara Endyke Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C4 163

College Students' Perceptions of Food in Relation to Digital Technologies

Kaitlin Margaret Flaherty Ashley Woodman UM/Amherst Session 1 C32 163 Narrating Disability Through Story: Parental Interpretation, Rhetoric, and Disability Models Discussed in the Familial Setting
Ella Ford Ashley Woodman UM/Amherst Session 1 C28 163

Impact of Autism Competency Training on Pre-Service Teachers

Sehar Gogia Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C14 163 From Crib to Cognition: Linking Infant Temperament and Socio-Emotional Development to Sleep Architecture
Tiantian Hao Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C9 163 Eating with Peers and Health Outcomes Among Undergraduate Students
Samuel Jonasson Hunt Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C3 163 Qualitative Analysis of Perceptions and Experiences of Western MA Farmers with Agroforestry Methodology 
Victoria W. Ip Ashley Woodman UM/Amherst Session 1 C31 163 Camouflaging in Autistic Adolescents: Variations Across Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Cultural Orientation.
Sharon Antoine Jabbour Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C13 163 From Classroom to Community: Developing an Experiential Food Recovery Course at UMass Amherst
Yonah D. Kalikow Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C1 163 Why Seeds? A Look Into the Intentions and Motivations Behind Seed Work 
Ryan Young Woo Kim Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C5 163 Short-Form Video and Its Impact on Culinary Representation and Cultural Context
Emma Katherine LaFond Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C22 163 Small Brains, Big Stress: Intergenerational Effects on Preschool Neurodevelopment 
Alexa Nicole McKim Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C10 163 Making Sense of Food Media: College Students’ Lived Experiences of Eating Norms and Food Relationships
Mukil Nair Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C17 163 The Relationship Between REM Sleep and Emotional Reactivity During Menstrual Phases in Young Reproductive Women 
Matt Pham Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C26 163 The Role of Trait Anxiety in Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation Using Targeted Memory Reactivation
Lilian San Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C15 163

The Role of Targeted Memory Reactivation in Declarative Memory Consolidation in Older Adults

Crystal Santana Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C25 163 Environmental Stability and Sleep Efficiency in Early Development
Siddhi Sharma Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C6 163 The Effect of Food Intake on Emotion Regulation
Aniketh Shelat Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C20 163 Actigraphy-Based Sleep and Physical Activity as Pathways From Pregnancy Complications to Midlife Cardiometabolic and Mental Health Outcomes
Syna Sheth Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C24 163 The Impact of Targeted Memory Reactivation on Declarative Memory Performance During Middle Childhood
Anne-Colombe Sinkpon Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C8 163 Artificial Intelligence Integration and Food Waste Management in University Dining Services
Yasmin Abba Souza Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C2 163 Exploring Outreach Practices and Perceived Stigma in Food Resource Organizations
Chloe Temple Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C19 163 Daydreaming Frequency as a Potential Modulator of TMR Effectiveness
Noy Toledano Ashley Woodman UM/Amherst Session 1 C27 163 Impact of Educational Intervention on Pre-Health Students' Understanding of Disability
Alexis Macy Trendel Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C12 163 Strengthening Food Recovery Through Data Analytics: A Case Study of Rachel's Table
Dani Wagner Ashley Woodman UM/Amherst Session 1 C30 163 Impacts of a Neuroaffirming Crafting Workshop on Wellbeing in Autistic Young Adults
Sydney Riley Warren Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C11 163 Rachel's Table: How Community Food Advocacy Organizations Help Fight Food Insecurity
Gabriel D. Weiner Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 1 C18 163 Individual Differences in Targeted Memory Reactivation
Sarah Yi Leda Cooks UM/Amherst Session 1 C7 163

A Scoping Review of the Relationship Between Alternative Protein Diets and Women’s Reproductive Health

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Thalia Winters Barden Rose Mary Botti-Salitsky UM/Dartmouth Session 2 C31 163 New Bedford Children's Museum and Coffee Shop
Shania L. Brouwer Rose Mary Botti-Salitsky UM/Dartmouth Session 2 C30 163

Multifaceted Botanical Greenhouse and Farmers Market as a Means of Combatting Urban Food Deserts

Devin Current Soumitra Basu Fitchburg St U Session 2 C21 163

The Incorporation of AI into Preventive Maintenance of Machine Milling Bits.

Christopher De La Cruz Sumientra Rampersad UM/Boston Session 2 C24 163

Computational Pipeline for High-Quality Temporal Interference Simulation in Non-Human Primates

Kaniz Fatima Ali Al-Faris Worcester St U Session 2 C2 163 Crime Tracing Program
John Flanagan Joslyn Mills Bridgewater St U Session 2 C28 163 Investigating the Role of lbp-3 in Mediating the Immune Response of C. elegans
Ethan Thomas Gage Champika Soysa Worcester St U Session 2 C10 163
Pre-COVID-19 Pandemic vs. During the Pandemic and First vs. Continuing Generation College Students: Perseverative Negative Thinking and Mindful Nonjudging Differentially Mediated the Threat - Depression Relationship
Karol Harasim Nada Al Sallami Worcester St U Session 2 C18 163 Data Science Career Database
Alexa M. James Ali Al-Faris Worcester St U Session 2 C6 163 Chernobyl Pet Simulator
Devis Kadi Andrew Burkhardt Worcester St U Session 2 C14 163 Simulating the Chemistry of Interstellar Shocks
Jake Edward Krisiak Andrew Burkhardt Worcester St U Session 2 C15 163 Standard Curriculum Within Introduction to Astronomy Courses
Jamisen Laplante Soumitra Basu Fitchburg St U Session 2 C22 163 Modeling and Simulation of a Structurally Sound Ergonomic Student Desk 
Jamesohn LaValley Soumitra Basu Fitchburg St U Session 2 C23 163 AI in Production Monitoring of Machining Processes
Arianna Mary Nevis Michael Nada Al Sallami Worcester St U Session 2 C19 163 Bug Attraction to Light
Angelina Mojomick Champika Soysa Worcester St U Session 2 C7 163 First-Year Undergraduates: Burnout and Acceptance Mediated the Threat Appraisal - Wellbeing Relationship
Shayna Mullett Ali Al-Faris Worcester St U Session 2 C4 163 Sports Car Racing Strategy Assistant with Reinforcement Learning
Stephen Kihanya Nganga Nada Al Sallami Worcester St U Session 2 C17 163 Implementation of a Relational Database for Managerial Accounting Analysis
Hieu Minh Nguyen Ali Al-Faris Worcester St U Session 2 C5 163 FunGames.Java
Declan Noonan Andrew Burkhardt Worcester St U Session 2 C16 163 Orbital Simulation and Satellite Animation
Julia Obrycki Champika Soysa Worcester St U Session 2 C9 163 First-Year Undergraduates: Differential Mediation of the Threat- Stress Relationship by Gender and Generational Status 
Leticia Lopes Oliveira Champika Soysa Worcester St U Session 2 C12 163

First-Year Undergraduates: Negative Thinking, Mindful Nonjudging, and Resources Differentially, Partially Accounted for the Dispositional Threat Appraisal – Anxiety Symptom Severity Relationship Pre and Post COVID-19 Pandemic Versus Generational Status.


Nason John Omasta Ali Al-Faris Worcester St U Session 2 C1 163 Java Uno Project
Harshlye Pierre-Louis Joslyn Mills Bridgewater St U Session 2 C25 163 Investigating the Role of fbxb-69 in Regulating Stress Responses in C.elegans
Brianna D. Riggin Champika Soysa Worcester St U Session 2 C11 163

First-Year Undergraduates: Negative Thinking, Mindful Nonjudging, and Resources Partially Accounted for the Dispositional Threat Appraisal – Depression Symptom Severity Relationship Pre- and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic and Across Generational Status.

Cristina L. Rodriguez Champika Soysa Worcester St U Session 2 C8 163

Before vs. During the COVID-19 Pandemic and First vs. Continuing Generation College Students: Perseverative Negative Thinking and Mindful Nonjudging Differentially Mediated the Threat-Anxiety Relationship

Allison Scicchitano Rose Mary Botti-Salitsky UM/Dartmouth Session 2 C32 163 A Guide to the 7 Principles of Universal Design
Zachary Mark Stomski Andrew Burkhardt Worcester St U Session 2 C13 163 Optimizing Astrochemistry Model Parameters Through Deep Learning Methods
Camron James Vaillancourt Joslyn Mills Bridgewater St U Session 2 C27 163 Effects of lbp-5 Knockdown on Lipid Metabolism and ATP Production in Caenorhabditis elegans
Lizmary Vidal-Sanchez Zoe Vidal-Sanchez Joslyn Mills Bridgewater St U Session 2 C26 163 The Role of ceh-43 and rnt-1 in C. elegans Health
Samantha G. Viveiros Rose Mary Botti-Salitsky UM/Dartmouth Session 2 C29 163 Rethinking Healthcare Design Through Evidence-Based Design - FMC Coronary Care Unit
Namra Waqar Ali Al-Faris Worcester St U Session 2 C3 163 Pet Adoption System Abstract
Rick Manuel Woubinwou Djouwe Nada Al Sallami Worcester St U Session 2 C20 163 Risk-Aware Parking Lot Recommendation Using Greedy and Weighted Selection Algorithms in a Smart Campus Environment
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Jason Huang Alexander Madeline Lee Endres UM/Amherst Session 3 C18 163 Exploring User Demand and Design Requirements for a Weightlifting-Focused Wearable
Dorian Benhamou Goldfajn Shlomo Zilberstein UM/Amherst Session 3 C24 163 Enabling Communication in Multi-Agent VLAs
Henry Philip Booth Alexandra Meliou UM/Amherst Session 3 C19 163 Alternative Packages through Constraint Perturbation
Olivia J. Braun Director Honors Program Bridgewater St U Session 3 C30 163

The Women’s Health Media Gap: Uncovering Decades of Bias, Miscommunication, Distrust & Abuse


Elize M. Budziak Forrest J. Bowlick UM/Amherst Session 3 C26 163 Marsh Birds as a Measure of Wetland Ecosystem Health and Success of Management Actions
Linh Dang VP Nguyen UM/Amherst Session 3 C25 163 Intermittent Machine Learning for Battery-Free Environmental Sensing Under Solar Power
Aryan Deshpande Alexandra Meliou UM/Amherst Session 3 C17 163 SuDocu+: Refining Subjective Summarization Intent Through Natural Language Conversation
Ryan Doyle Mary Baker Fitchburg St U Session 3 C31 163 Screenplay Adaptation of “The Woman in White”
Arianna Alexandra Fernandez Daniel Haehn UM/Boston Session 3 C2 163 Evaluating Algorithmic Fairness in Credit-Scoring Systems: A Machine Learning Analysis of Socioeconomic Bias in Financial Technology 
Adrianna Frazier Karl R. Wurst Worcester St U Session 3 C1 163
Experience Report: Software Development Teams with Human-AI Collaboration
Shriya Gautam Heather Conboy UM/Amherst Session 3 C23 163 Fair or Fail? Formal Methods for Evaluating ML Fairness
Devina Gera Greg Gregory UM/Amherst Session 3 C11 163 Understanding Adaptation in Sequential Decision Learning Under Non-Stationarity
Avni Gunjikar Mohammad Hajiesmaili UM/Amherst Session 3 C22 163
Finding the Top-l Arms with an m-Constrained Quantum Oracle 
Joshua River Johnston Ali Azhari Bunker Hill CC Session 3 C7 163 Scaling Laws in Small Convolutional Neural Networks: Width, Depth, and Dataset Size Under Fixed Compute
Anish Kamath Ravi Karkar UM/Amherst Session 3 C16 163 AI-Generated Interpretive Feedback vs. Traditional Visualizations in Health Tracking: Effects on Perceived Engagement and Insight
Serin Kitery Amanda Potasznik UM/Boston Session 3 C3 163

 Designing AI-Assisted and HCI-Driven Learning Solutions to Support Home-Based Learning for Students with Multiple Sensory Impairments (Blind and Mute) in Sub-Saharan Africa

Elizabeth Korj Britton Robert Snyder Fitchburg St U Session 3 C29 163 Balancing Conformity And Individualism In Game Art Portfolios
Patrick Martin Hung Le UM/Amherst Session 3 C20 163 Computing Tree Decompositions of Road Networks
Om Rakesh Mehta Hedyeh Beyhaghi UM/Amherst Session 3 C10 163 Prophet Inequalities in the Non-IID and Free-Order Setting
Kushaan Naskar Andrew Lan UM/Amherst Session 3 C28 163 Toward LLM-Supported Automated Assessment of Critical Thinking Subskills
Lucas Newton Allan Brockenbrough Salem St U Session 3 C6 163 Robert, a Nintendo R.O.B. simulator
Elio Ngjelo Maxim O. Lavrentovich Worcester St U Session 3 C4 163 Breast Cancer Analysis via Machine Learning of Medical Images
Thuyen Pham Jeremy Catalin Andersen UM/Amherst Session 3 C21 163
Automated Wing Landmark Detection for Morphological Classification of Winter Moth Species
Jonathan Rossignol Lulu Kang UM/Amherst Session 3 C27 163 Analysis of Large Language Model Watermarks
Aoife Ruth Cathal J. Kearney UM/Amherst Session 3 C12 163 Alginate-Backed Hollow Microneedle Arrays for Controlled Drug Delivery
Ava Sajjadi Kourosh Zarringhalam UM/Boston Session 3 C9 163

Inferring Regulatory Mechanisms from Differential Gene Expression

Tanmay Sonawane Alfa Heryudono UM/Dartmouth Session 3 C5 163 Emotion Detection from Speech Audio Using Deep Learning Architectures
Sanya Thakur Peter Haas UM/Amherst Session 3 C14 163 Risk-Averse Stochastic Package Queries to Build Stock Portfolios
Aaron Zhengyuan Tian Cameron Musco UM/Amherst Session 3 C15 163 Sampling Methods for Sublinear Low-Rank Approximation
Candace Williams Poonam Kumari Bridgewater St U Session 3 C8 163 A Modular Architecture for Adaptive and Personalized Cognitive Prosthetics
Jennifer Ye Ethan Zuckerman UM/Amherst Session 3 C13 163
Measuring and Evaluating AI-Generated Content on TikTok
Guy R. Zwiebel Christina Metevier UM/Amherst Session 3 C32 163 Trust and Community: How Nonprofits Become a Band-Aid
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Shhreya Anand Bruno C. da Silva UM/Amherst Session 4 C31 163 Learning Intuitive Physics from Video to Improve Reinforcement Learning
Natasha Dalvi Katherine Boyer UM/Amherst Session 4 C21 163 Knee Extensor Muscle Dynamics in Response to Everyday Fatigue Equivalent by Age, Sex, and Activity
Jeffrey Jiawen Deng Abhidip Bhattacharyya UM/Amherst Session 4 C30 163 Adversarial and Compositional Benchmarking of Visual and Linguistic Grounding in Vision-Language-Action Models


Keshav Garg Shannon Roberts UM/Amherst Session 4 C10 163

Human-Technology Partnerships in the Era of Trucking Automation: Findings from a Multistakeholder Workshop

Magnus Kendall Isla S. Castañeda UM/Amherst Session 4 C4 163

Past Temperature Reconstructions at Lake Malawi During the Past 75,000 years



Trevor Kkaaya Bo Jin Hatfield Salem St U Session 4 C32 163 Smart Travel App
Cayla A. Koduah Sean Campbell Goodlett Fitchburg St U Session 4 C15 163

Historical Representation of Native Americans: A Comparative Study of Printed and OER Textbooks


YeEun Lee Juan Jiménez UM/Amherst Session 4 C11 163 Using Spectrophotometry to Determine IVSP Infusion Errors During Secondary Medication Administration
Tomo Liou Sarah A. Roelker UM/Amherst Session 4 C19 163 The Effects of Speed and Age on the Biomechanics of Stair Descent
Mel Lothian Ellen Ingmanson Bridgewater St U Session 4 C23 163 Providing Identities For Forgotten Human Skeletal Collections
Christopher Michael Martin Prof. Teresa Fava Thomas, Ph.D. Fitchburg St U Session 4 C16 163 Historical Research for Biographical Screenplay on MVP Kicker, Mark Moseley
Francis Padilla Ehsan Roohi UM/Amherst Session 4 C13 163 Accelerating Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Methods
Darsh Patel Mark S. Miller UM/Amherst Session 4 C18 163

Skeletal Muscle Molecular Adaptations Due To Exercise Measured Using a Newly Developed, Automated Immunohistochemistry Analysis


Eleanor Margaret Peltz Brian Breed UM/Amherst Session 4 C28 163 Worldly Paul?: Considering Scientific Language in the Epistle to the Colossians
Josiah Samuel Potter Katie Fuller Mt Wachusett CC Session 4 C14 163

A Secular Idea of France: The Politics of Reaction and the Price of Overreach

Brooklyn Regan R. Mark Leckie UM/Amherst Session 4 C3 163

Pliocene Glacial History of the Ross Sea, Antarctica: Microfossil Record from IODP Site U1522


Caralyn Grace Rexroad Brian Yellen UM/Amherst Session 4 C2 163

Using Isotopic Analysis to Assess Estuarine Sediment Dynamics and Composition in the Northeastern United States

Erik Richardson Michael L. Williams UM/Amherst Session 4 C5 163 Garnet as an Archive of Appalachian Metamorphism: Microstructural and Geochronologic Evidence from Rowe-Moretown Schists in Chester, MA
Jerard William Roche Jonathan Woodruff UM/Amherst Session 4 C1 163 Analysis of Surface Sediment Geochemistry and Properties to Infer Elevation Zones in the Cousins River Salt Marsh, Maine
Florian Sabatini Ashwin Ramasubramaniam UM/Amherst Session 4 C12 163 Harvesting Energy from Human Motion: Feasibility of an Axial Flux PCB Motor for Wearables
Jade Emilia Shum Christine Ho UM/Amherst Session 4 C22 163

Playing American: American Girl Dolls, Asian Americans, and Citizenship from 1996-2013

Cloudia Luz Sierra Ana D. Villalobos UM/Amherst Session 4 C8 163 Intersections of Ethnicity and Queerness in the Children of Immigrants
Madeline Anne Stuart Brigitte Holt UM/Amherst Session 4 C25 163 Survivability or Mortality: Examining Health in a Medieval Population Using LEHs and Other Stress Indicators
Abigail Sullivan Jonathan Bennett Middlesex CC Session 4 C9 163

Hell, Hegemony, and Human Papillomavirus: An Exploratory Piece Reckoning Parental Autonomy, Political Distrust, and Religious Beliefs with Children’s Rights in Vaccine Refusal



Nicole Sylvain Wouter Hoogkamer UM/Amherst Session 4 C20 163 A Biomechanical Comparison of Running and Hopping 
Emily Taylor Angela K. Herbert Framingham St U Session 4 C29 163 Modalities of Interpretation: Considering Onsite vs. Remote Interpreting Preferences
Mary Elizabeth Alison Vaughan Lisa J. Green UM/Amherst Session 4 C26 163 Hypocoristics, Initials, and Wordplay, Oh My! Forms of Ice Hockey Player Nicknames
Kyla-Journey Womack Felicia Diana Griffin-Fennell UM/Amherst Session 4 C7 163
Bringing Black, First-Generation Women Into a Form of Accessible Media
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Sarmad Ameli Sibongile Mafu UM/Amherst Session 5 C12 163 Evaluating the Substrate Specificity of Cytochromes P450 from Medicago Truncatula
Kylie Rose Campana Samuel P. Hazen UM/Amherst Session 5 C13 163

Exploring the Role of REVOLUTA in Regulating Stem Development in the Grass Model Brachypodium distachyon


Adriana Caraeni James Allan UM/Amherst Session 5 C21 163 Mechanistic Interpretability Probing Information Retrieval Ranking LLMs
Maxwell D. Carcione David L. Chin UM/Amherst Session 5 C5 163

Addressing Increasing Rates of Food Insecurity Among College Students in the US

Grace Carrero David L. Chin UM/Amherst Session 5 C8 163 Advancing Latino Migrant Mental Health in the United States: Evidence-Based Recommendations to Reduce Gaps in Care
Oyku Celik Wei Cui UM/Amherst Session 5 C25 163

Defining the Role of DBF4 in Mammalian Early Embryo Development

Annabella Colavito Sean T. McBeath UM/Amherst Session 5 C29 163 Assessing Disinfection Byproduct (DBP) Formation During the Electrochemical Degradation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
John Emerson Sean T. McBeath UM/Amherst Session 5 C30 163 Electroanalytical Sensing of Copper in Drinking Water Matrices
Owen Matthew Enright Akiko Okusu UM/Amherst Session 5 C2 163 Effect of Food Intake on Neuronal Cell Number During Regeneration
Funbi Favour Fatoke Akiko Okusu UM/Amherst Session 5 C1 163 Effect of Wound Type on Regeneration
Ben Feldman Sibongile Mafu UM/Amherst Session 5 C11 163 Uncovering the Functions of Lettuce TPS‑a Enzymes Through Comparative Biochemical Analysis
Ata Cinar Genc James Allan UM/Amherst Session 5 C22 163 Adaptive Re-Ranking
Valeria Lacouture Samuel P. Hazen UM/Amherst Session 5 C15 163

Auxin Regulation of Secondary Cell Wall Gene Expression in Brachypodium distachyon

Hsin Lee Wei Cui UM/Amherst Session 5 C23 163 Functional Analysis of SUGT1 During Mouse Oocyte Development
Addison Lepak Sibongile Mafu UM/Amherst Session 5 C10 163

Investigating the Regiospecificity of Tandem Duplicated Cytochrome P450 Enzymes With Himachalol in Medicago truncatula


Olivia Maciver Akiko Okusu UM/Amherst Session 5 C3 163 Effect of Food Intake on Regeneration Rate
Olivia Rose McClurken David L. Chin UM/Amherst Session 5 C6 163 Preventing Heat-Related Maternal and Fetal Health Complications: Public Health Interventions for a Warming Climate
Kathryn McGillivray Samuel P. Hazen UM/Amherst Session 5 C14 163 Characterizing Stem Node Anatomy and Secondary Cell Wall Thickening in the Model Cereal Grass Brachypodium distachyon
Cheryl Chisom Nwaeze Akiko Okusu UM/Amherst Session 5 C4 163 Effect of 1-Azk on Regeneration of Tentacular Neurons
Madlyn Jude Phillips Sibongile Mafu UM/Amherst Session 5 C9 163 Functional Characterization of Himachalol-Derived Sesquiterpenoids by Cytochrome P450s in Medicago truncatula
Eli Rabson Margaret Riley UM/Amherst Session 5 C26 163 Shrimp on a Treadmill: Discovery of Novel Bacteriocins
Sarah Ratka Verena Carvalho UM/Amherst Session 5 C17 163 Beneath Our Feet: SR-01-25, A Possible Broad Spectrum Antibiotic Producing Soil Bacterium
Vienna Rivard Wei Cui UM/Amherst Session 5 C24 163

RBBP4 in Early Mammalian Oogenesis: Implications for DNA Damage Repair 


Riddhimaan Senapati James Allan UM/Amherst Session 5 C20 163 Fortifying Small Language Models Against Query Injection Attacks
Vinuji Senalya Siriwardena Verena Carvalho UM/Amherst Session 5 C18 163

VS 17-25: A Soil Isolate with Activity Against Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens

Hannah Steinbrecher Sean T. McBeath UM/Amherst Session 5 C31 163

Effect of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) Size on Reactivity and Disinfection Byproduct (DBP) Formation Potential 


Mai See Thao Verena Carvalho UM/Amherst Session 5 C19 163 Fighting Antibiotic Resistance From the Ground Up
Natalya Vienna Triplett Samuel P. Hazen UM/Amherst Session 5 C16 163 Characterizing Secondary Cell Wall Phenotypes in HDAC19 and GF14H Mutant Brachypodium distachyon
Demyana Youssif Margaret Riley UM/Amherst Session 5 C27 163 Discovery of Bacteriocin-Producing Salmonella Strains for Enhancing Pet Food Safety
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Raphael Moses Amsili Rachel Hestrin UM/Amherst Session 6 C17 163 Evaluating Measures of Serendipita Abundance to Understand Its Role in Plant Growth and Nutrition
Nexus Sean Attiogbe Erin D. Baker UM/Amherst Session 6 C21 163 Modeling Spatial Health Damage Disparities from CCS in a Networked Power System Under Prospective US Policies
Uma Devi Attreya Hossein Pishro-Nik UM/Amherst Session 6 C2 163

Aligning Student Perceptions and Labor Market Expectations to Supplement Educator Knowledge in the Age of AI

Christopher Daniel Bardini Matthew Winnick UM/Amherst Session 6 C15 163 Groundwater Controls on Carbon Emissions from Headwater Streams in Western Massachusetts
Anna Shanti Chatterjj UM/Amherst Session 6 C22 163 Investigation Into the Doped PU/THDBT System For Use as a Low Thermal Conductivity Polymer
Lance Cheng Ella Tuson UM/Amherst Session 6 C26 163

The Generative Generation? A Qualitative Investigation into Undergraduate AI Tool Use and Perspectives

Leah Y. Choubah Stacyann Bailey UM/Amherst Session 6 C4 163

The Influence of Mechanically Stimulated Osteocytes on Metastatic Breast Cancer Cell Behavior

Riley Scott Cole Matthew Winnick UM/Amherst Session 6 C14 163 The Role of Snowmelt on the Hydrology and Carbon Dioxide Dynamics in Headwater Streams Across the East River Watershed, CO, USA
Caleb Jonathan Cruzado Paul Collins UM/Amherst Session 6 C32 163 Sentencing the Famous: Do Celebrities Have it Easier in Criminal Sentencing than Non-Celebrities? 
Lauren Helena Daniel Moran Shuang Zhou UM/Amherst Session 6 C13 163 Motion of Crithidia fasciculata as Driven by Singular Forward-Moving Flagellum
Lucian Densmore Patrick Flaherty UM/Amherst Session 6 C24 163

A Comparative Study of Deep Hedging Methods in Incomplete Markets

Elise Huimin Fornaro Dean E. Robinson UM/Amherst Session 6 C28 163 Social Cohesion as a Moderator of Racial Disparities in Preventive Care Uptake Among Older Women 
Rachel Emily Griffiths Li-Jun Ma UM/Amherst Session 6 C9 163 Experimental Evolution Reveals Dynamic Genomic and Phenotypic Adaptation in a Keratitis-Associated Fusarium oxysporum Fungal Pathogen
Nylla Henriquez Daniel F. López-Cevallos UM/Amherst Session 6 C29 163

 Beyond Access: Healthcare/Social Services Challenges and Cultural Resilience in Latinx Oral Histories from Lawrence, MA


David Lucas Khun Cam Anderson Holyoke CC Session 6 C6 163

Coastal Wetlands and Climate Change: Restoration and Carbon Sequestration in Massachusetts Salt Marshes


Erin Kim Sang Hyun Lee UM/Amherst Session 6 C18 163

Biofilm Formation and Quorum Sensing in 2D vs 3D Microenvironments

Cecilia Rose Labbe Govind Srimathveeravalli UM/Amherst Session 6 C10 163 Modulation of Endothelial Permeability with Pulsed Electric Fields for Targeted Drug Delivery
Adelaide Dietz Maloney UM/Amherst Session 6 C23 163 Effects of Native Language on the Acquisition of Novel Grammatical Gender Systems
Kiyan Michael Moinzadeh Li-Jun Ma UM/Amherst Session 6 C8 163 Investigating the Role of RXLR Effectors in the Basil Downy Mildew Pathogen Peronospora belbahrii
Ann Nanyunja Govind Srimathveeravalli UM/Amherst Session 6 C11 163 Inflammation-Induced Micro-Injury and Tissue Repair: Cellular Mechanisms and Implications for Electroporation-Based Drug Delivery
Jineshwar Nariani Patrick Flaherty UM/Amherst Session 6 C25 163

Strategic Deception and Detection in Multi-Agent Environments: A Game-Theoretic Reinforcement Learning Framework

 

Aaditi Padhi Carolina Rossini UM/Amherst Session 6 C30 163 Examining Generative Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice Through a Public Interest Technology Framework
Emma L. Pelletier Cam Anderson Holyoke CC Session 6 C7 163

The Fading Colors: Temperature, Precipitation, and the Shifting Timing of New England’s Fall Foliage Season

Isabel Dora Polak Jill Hoover UM/Amherst Session 6 C5 163  Investigating the Relationship between Cognitive Executive Functions and Grammatical Processing in Preschool Aged Children
Samantha Reisner Rachel Hestrin UM/Amherst Session 6 C16 163 Mycorrhizal Functional Diversity Drives Divergent Growth Responses in the Grass Brachypodium distachyon
Cooper Richman Sang Hyun Lee UM/Amherst Session 6 C19 163 A Computational Pipeline for Structural and Dynamic Analysis of Fungal Mycelial Networks
Jennifer Dori Schneider Erin D. Baker UM/Amherst Session 6 C20 163 Who Benefits? Equity Impacts of Demand Response Incentives and Time of Use Pricing in Power Markets.
JAHNAVI SHARMA Ella Tuson UM/Amherst Session 6 C27 163

Why Technically Advanced Products Fail: A Study of User Interface, Social Acceptability, and Product Adoption Across Emerging Technologies

Emmanuel Simon Stacyann Bailey UM/Amherst Session 6 C3 163 Prostate Cancer and the Bone Microenvironment: Uncovering Cellular and Environmental Drivers of Osteoclast Activity
Leyna Summers Douglas Rice UM/Amherst Session 6 C31 163 Re-Evaluating Section 230 in the Social Media Age
Juliet Zhu Shuang Zhou UM/Amherst Session 6 C12 163 Study of Entropic Surface Anchoring for Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

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Yousuf Al Attar Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 1 D6 165 External Agendas, Internal Decay: Western Neoliberalism and the Dismantling of Ba'athist Iraq
Inayah Alam Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 1 D5 165 TRIPS and the Downfall of the Indian Pharma Industry 
Quinn Andrew Belhumeur Sandy Litchfield UM/Amherst Session 1 D15 165 How Can the Material and Spatial Logic of Superadobe Housing Contribute to Affordable Single-Family Homes That Promote Community Through Shared Responsibility and Cooperative Self-Building?
Shruti Poornaphani Challa Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 1 D11 165

Structural Adjustment Programs Their Impact on the Sub Saharan African Country’s Economy of: Somalia and Kenya

Samantha Freitag Sandy Litchfield UM/Amherst Session 1 D14 165 Interior Designs for Neurodiverse Multi-Sensory Sensitivities 
Shagun Jha Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 1 D4 165 Delinking in Practice: Evaluating ALBA's Challenge to Neoliberal Globalization
Adam Kamoski Rahul Kulkarni UM/Boston Session 1 D10 165 Maximum-Entropy Exploration Using Intrinsic Rewards
Asher H. Katz Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 1 D7 165 Competing Architectures in Globalization, Delinking, and a Shift in Global Balance
Mia Maalouf Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 1 D9 165 Global Patent Rules and Medicine Access: The Impact of TRIPS on Developing Nations
Sarah Anne McCarthy Sandy Litchfield UM/Amherst Session 1 D16 165 Breathing New Life: Community, Wellbeing, and the Power of Art in an Age of Isolation, Anxiety, and Capitalism
Rishabh Nair Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 1 D2 165

Patents and Power: Understanding Exploitation in the WTO

MaryKate Ryan Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 1 D8 165 Resisting Neoliberalism in Latin America
Ashley Ann Schneider Sandy Litchfield UM/Amherst Session 1 D12 165 Harmonizing Voice Through Song: Advancing the Integration of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices with Music Therapy for Autistic Individuals
Adriana Raye Smith Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 1 D1 165 Manipulation of Latin American Labor and Migration in the Era of Globalization
Sophia Maria Sousa Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 1 D3 165

Child Labor in the Cocoa Industry: A Consequence of Neocolonialism

Meghan Wu Sandy Litchfield UM/Amherst Session 1 D13 165 Coastal Adaptations
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Syeda Faatima Zahraa Adnan Kathleen C. Murphy Worcester St U Session 2 D15 165

Quantitative Evaluation of Ethanol and Acetic Acid Dynamics in Black and Green Tea Kombucha Using HPLC and Headspace GC

Nile Al-Hamadany Manish Wadhwa Salem St U Session 2 D10 165 Project GAIA: An AI-Supported Governance Architecture for National Cybersecurity in Iraq
Yuliana Arango mesa Isabelle Gagne Bunker Hill CC Session 2 D7 165 Creative Process and Wellbeing: Investigating the Impact of Artistic Expression on Stress in Artists.
Ariana Barrows Anthony D'Amico Salem St U Session 2 D16 165

The Effects of Active vs. Passive Recovery After a 300m Shuttle Run on Power Output in Collegiate Volleyball Athletes


Christian Joseph Biadasz Kathleen C. Murphy Worcester St U Session 2 D13 165 Comparing Detection Limits of GC-MS and GC-FID Using Caffeine as a Model Compound
Eden Elfathy Caroline Coscia UM/Boston Session 2 D9 165 Access to Language Services in Public Housing: A Case Study of the Boston Housing Authority
William Harris Elizabeth McCahill UM/Boston Session 2 D3 165 The Politicized & Innocent: The Weaponization of Childhood in the Propaganda of the Boston 'Busing Crisis'
Diane M. Jubeili Manish Wadhwa Salem St U Session 2 D12 165 Pi In The Sky Birdhouse 
Kevin S. McDermott Rachelle A. Dermer Fitchburg St U Session 2 D6 165 Dimensional Senate
Alexander Thomas McLean Rachelle A. Dermer Fitchburg St U Session 2 D5 165 Vows: A One-Season Show about Vices, Reflection, and Overcoming
Tyler B. Nault Elizabeth McCahill UM/Boston Session 2 D2 165 Education, Propaganda, and Myth-Making in the Third Republic
Leanie Liz Navarro Isabelle Gagne Bunker Hill CC Session 2 D8 165 Depressive Mood and Academic Performance Among Community College Students
Philip Paskal Manish Wadhwa Salem St U Session 2 D11 165 Raspberry Pi Based Solar Power Monitoring System
Andrew C. Ruggiero Rachelle A. Dermer Fitchburg St U Session 2 D4 165 The Open Canvas
Kaitlyn Rutter Kathleen C. Murphy Worcester St U Session 2 D14 165 Determination of Caffeine and Acetic Acid in Kombucha Fermentation Through HPLC and Titration
Gabriel R. Sathler Elizabeth McCahill UM/Boston Session 2 D1 165 Bartolomé de Las Casas: Americas First Propagandist
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Gwyneth Amonte Sarah L. Pallas UM/Amherst Session 3 D6 165 When Vision Goes Dark: How Light Deprivation Shapes Visual Pathways in Gerbils
Surya Arunkumar Neil Forbes UM/Amherst Session 3 D4 165

Improving Efficacy of Salmonella-Based Cancer Therapies Through Deletion of Effector Proteins

Kody DeCoff Michael J. Harrison Framingham St U Session 3 D12 165 A Legal and Policy Analysis of Federal Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Legislation in Intercollegiate Athletics 
David Diaz Jr Emma Downs Fitchburg St U Session 3 D11 165 Improving the Critical Infrastructure of Puerto Rico
Savanah Juelle Freidus Thomas Maresca UM/Amherst Session 3 D5 165

MEED Marks the Spot: MPS1 and SPC105 Interactions at the Kinetochore


Alexander Fuster Liesl Schwabe Berkshire CC Session 3 D16 165 The Importance of Independent Pharmacies
Milo Georgiev Scott M. Auerbach UM/Amherst Session 3 D3 165 Genome-Scale Modeling of Restriction Enzyme Performance for Efficient iPCR Transgene Mapping in Brachypodium distachyon
Dominik Karol Gielarowiec Debi Prasad Mohapatra UM/Amherst Session 3 D13 165 Artificial Intelligence in Financial Markets: The Impact of AI-Driven Mobile Crediting in Emerging Economies
Cynthia Kong Edward EDEBOLD UM/Amherst Session 3 D8 165 A Single Molecule Study of Myosin V
Arnon Kuzmin Alejandro Heuck UM/Amherst Session 3 D10 165 Using Coevolutionary Scoring to Distinguish Among AlphaFold Models of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type III Secretion Translocon
Tina Loan Le Jianyu Li UM/Amherst Session 3 D1 165 Early Detection of Heat Stress in Broccoli Cultivars Using UAV-Based Multispectral Imaging
Ashlyn L. McAdams Jenny Vogel UM/Amherst Session 3 D14 165 From Ash: A Creative Exploration of Sustainable Fashion Entrepreneurship
Peter James Norton Christa Michelle Marr Fitchburg St U Session 3 D15 165 NIL-era College Athletics: The Significance of Name, Image and Likeness
Leonardo Scaramozza Jeanne Hardy UM/Amherst Session 3 D2 165 Developing a Method to Enrich Endogenous Caspase-6 for Post-Translational Modification Discovery
Nicholle Kirsten Limsico Tan Lutz Grossmann UM/Amherst Session 3 D9 165

Biotransformation of Chickpea Flour Using Submerged Fermentation with Aspergillus oryzae to Enhance Protein Functionality and Proximate Composition

Tuana Yuzer Adriana M. Montano UM/Amherst Session 3 D7 165 Development a Stable Cell Line for the Production of a Less Immunogenic GALNS Enzyme for the Treatment of Morquio A Disease 
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Zacky Albandar Marco Serafini UM/Amherst Session 4 D16 165 Understanding Long-Tail Behavior in HNSW Recall
Tabitha Joanne-Allen Balimutenda Erika Zekos UM/Amherst Session 4 D5 165 Hostels as Urban Infrastructure: Catalyzing Youth Travel and Community
Maika H. Bird Jennifer McDermott UM/Amherst Session 4 D15 165 Physical and Mental Health among Adult Adoptees
Thalles Winner De Souza Paul Kasili Bunker Hill CC Session 4 D13 165 The New Cold War: The Battle for AI Supremacy in the 21st Century
Elizabeth Dobson Emily Gonzalez N Essex CC Session 4 D1 165 How Metabolism in Individuals With Hypothyroidism Influences Their Exercise Patterns and Dietary Choices
Drew Gerst Marguerite White-Jeanneau N Essex CC Session 4 D9 165 Engineering Cravings: The Role of Food Chemistry and Color Psychology in Fast-Food Marketing
Emma Heintz Mariana Calle Worcester St U Session 4 D2 165 Evaluating Nutrition Knowledge and Diet of Division III Soccer Players
Daniel Owen Kidwell DANIEL Q. WANG UM/Amherst Session 4 D11 165 Log-Normal as the New Norm? Testing a Log-Normal Model for Multiphase X-Ray Spectra
Amelia I. Kilian Ray Kinoshita Mann UM/Amherst Session 4 D4 165 Cyclotopia: The Essence of Cycles in Architecture
Jenna Kirincich Rebecca Spencer UM/Amherst Session 4 D14 165 The Relationship Between Family Structure and Infant Development
Aarushi Madappa Lorraine Cordeiro UM/Amherst Session 4 D3 165 Preparing Undergraduate Students For a Future Career in Health and Human Services Through Experiential Learning
Owen Mullins Robert Steven LaRussa UM/Amherst Session 4 D6 165 Russian Propaganda and State Capture in Francophone Africa
Anastasia Valerie Shub Anuj K. Pradhan UM/Amherst Session 4 D12 165 Design and Evaluation of in-Vehicle HMI for Enhancing Passenger Trust in Level 4 Automated Vehicles
Hannah Leigh Walsh Maureen Eckert UM/Dartmouth Session 4 D7 165 Consent in Western and Indigenous Sciences: Bridging the Gap
Jackson Gilbert Mello Wetherbee Min Yun UM/Amherst Session 4 D10 165

What Powers the ‘Little Red Dots’ Discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope?

Grace Wills Jay Leonard UM/Amherst Session 4 D8 165 Targeted Market Intelligence to Accelerate Revenue for an Emerging Carbon Removal Company
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Talia Julia Caloon Maria M. Galano UM/Amherst Session 5 D14 165

The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on Amygdala-Prefrontal Cortex Connectivity: A Systematic Review

Rou Chen Maria M. Galano UM/Amherst Session 5 D15 165 Examining the Effects of the Types and Timing of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Irritability and Impulsivity as Transdiagnostic Factors
Jamal R. Cumberbatch Jessica Hill Holyoke CC Session 5 D16 165 Rainbows in the Trenches: A Restorative Recollection of Black Queer Hip Hop History
Danae Angeliki Dimitrakopoulos Jungwoo Lee UM/Amherst Session 5 D8 165 In Vitro Bone Organoids to Determine Microplastic-Driven Alterations in Bone Metabolism
Duretti Diribaa Hordofaa Donghyun Kim UM/Amherst Session 5 D5 165 Building an Robust Accessibility-Object Dataset for Guide Dog Robots
Mazin Hussein Sarah L. Perry UM/Amherst Session 5 D2 165 Design and Fabrication of an Electrochemical Cell for X-ray Synchrotron Studies
Rayyan Khan Sarah L. Perry UM/Amherst Session 5 D3 165 Electrochemical Characterization of Polyelectrolyte Complexes
Daniel Jungwoo Kim Jungwoo Lee UM/Amherst Session 5 D9 165 Role of Nicotine on Bone Metabolism Using DBP-Based Organoids
Ken Lei Rachid Skouta UM/Amherst Session 5 D10 165 Development of a Streamlined One-Pot Reaction Strategy for Phenoxathiin-Based Molecules in Prostate Cancer Research
Daniel Nguyen Jungwoo Lee UM/Amherst Session 5 D7 165 Evaluation of the Cryopreservation Potential of a Demineralized Bone Paper-Based Bone Organoid
Shiven Patel Donghyun Kim UM/Amherst Session 5 D4 165 Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap: Robust Vision-Based Navigation for Robotic Guide Dogs
Shlok Dharmendra Raval Donghyun Kim UM/Amherst Session 5 D6 165 Task-Specific Robot Locomotion Policies Informed by Human Biomechanics
Adhithi Varadarajan Sarah L. Perry UM/Amherst Session 5 D1 165 Chymotrypsin Activity in Peptide-Based Coacervates
Alice Bian Zou Rachid Skouta UM/Amherst Session 5 D12 165 Development of an Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of Phenoxathiin-10,10-Dioxide Derivatives for Prostate Cancer Research
Yasmeen Dunya Zureiqi Maria M. Galano UM/Amherst Session 5 D13 165 Unsafe Beginnings: A Systematic Review of Early Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Disorganized Attachment
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Camille Anderson Masoud Hashemi UM/Amherst Session 6 D14 165

Integrating Living Mulch Into Sweet Corn Production to Improve Soil Health, and Farmers’ Profitability

Aaron Ross Cashton Ana Caicedo UM/Amherst Session 6 D1 165 Identifying the Endophytic Community of Cuscuta Campestris Without Host Plant Influence
Ellen Chan Todd Richard Disotell UM/Amherst Session 6 D10 165 Marsh Mammal Madness: Detecting Invasive and Elusive Mammals in Western Massachusetts
Kristin D'souza Dong Wang UM/Amherst Session 6 D4 165 Functional Analysis of Calmodulin Binding Protein in Medicago truncatula Using CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Disruption
Jalal Elsallal Sasha Adkins UM/Amherst Session 6 D13 165 DNA in Distress: The Impacts of Nanoplastics on the Integrity of Intestinal Mitochondrial DNA
Dachenie Ganthier Jess Dillard-Wright UM/Amherst Session 6 D3 165 Who Heal, The Healers? 
Mental Health Stigma as an Invisible Barrier Within Healthcare Culture 
Jason Gehring Maria Stager UM/Amherst Session 6 D8 165 Flocking with Family? Relatedness and Association in Black-Capped Chickadees
Michael Sokha Herrick Bethany A. Bradley UM/Amherst Session 6 D6 165 Assessing the Ecological Value of Cultivars and Wild-Type Native Species in Home Gardens
Grace Huang David J. McClements UM/Amherst Session 6 D12 165 Modification of Plant-Based Protein Matrix Using Corn Starch
Kaycie Koenig Achsah Dorsey UM/Amherst Session 6 D9 165 The Relationship Between Autoimmune Disease and Psychological Stress
Margaret Lin Hang Xiao UM/Amherst Session 6 D16 165

Isolation and Characterization of a Resveratrol-Metabolizing Human Gut Bacterium

Britney R. Lyons Beth Jakob UM/Amherst Session 6 D5 165 Can Spiders Count? Attention and Prey Quantity in Jumping Spiders
Hannah McNulty Markelz Hannah R. Naughton UM/Amherst Session 6 D15 165 Effects of Soil Physiochemical Properties on Lead and Cadmium Uptake by Ocimum Basilicum
Mai Ha Phan Alissa Rothchild UM/Amherst Session 6 D2 165 Investigating the Nitric Oxide Production of Alveolar Macrophages at the Levels of Gene Expression, Protein Production, and Reactive Nitrogen Intermediates
Jake William Rosen Jiahui (Chris) Wu UM/Amherst Session 6 D7 165 Developing a Tetracycline-regulated MS2-Tet Aptamer for the Temporal Control of RNA-RBP Interactions
Alena Thalput John Warui Kiringe UM/Amherst Session 6 D11 165 Population Status and Threats to Lions in the Amboseli Ecosystem: Health Indicators, Pride Identification, and Anthropogenic Pressures

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Daniela Marie Alcala-Vargas Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A43 Auditorium

My Toolbox Journal: Mental Health Tool for Individuals Who Have Graduated From Temporary Therapeutic Services

Narek Arakelyan Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A65 Auditorium Financial Elites and the State: A Comparative Study of Institutional Connectedness in the United States
Jillian Baldassini Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A80 Auditorium

Understanding Retention in the Restaurant Industry: The Role of Family–Work Conflict and Leadership Style


Kyle Robert Belhumeur Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A71 Auditorium
To What Extent Does Greater Central Bank Independence Correlate to Economic Prosperity for Independent Nations?
Arielle Nicole Benedict Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A31 Auditorium Hooves-on Learning: Developing Interactive Animal Anatomical Resources for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Gabrielle Bilong Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A49 Auditorium

Does the Involvement of Sub-Saharan Parents’ in their Children’s Educational Life Shape Their Career Choices: A Case Study of UMass Amherst

Kylie Anne Byrne Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A66 Auditorium Which U.S. Economic Sectors Have Generated the Most Billionaire Wealth Since the Onset of the Dot-Com Bubble?
Jessica Calle Jean Kennedy Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A15 Auditorium The Ethics of Integrating Automation and Robotics to the Workforce
Allison Dayan Castaneda Moreno Jean Kennedy Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A8 Auditorium The Future of Justice: The Next Era of AI Ethics and Law 
Brianna Kasandra Ciavardone Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A39 Auditorium Resource Power : Developing a Guide to Basic Needs Support Services in Western MA
Ainsley Louise Cicone Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A76 Auditorium

Balancing Efficiency and Empathy: Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Human-Centered Human Resources

Ethan James Clark Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A73 Auditorium Examining the Relationship Between Higher Education and Net Worth Among U.S. Elites
Talia Cohen-Vigder Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A22 Auditorium Abortion Related Misinformation and the Resulting Barriers to Abortion Related Care
Joe Collins Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A83 Auditorium

ESG Ratings and Financial Performance in the U.S. Food Manufacturing Industry


Sean B. Collins Hao Loi Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A3 Auditorium Personalized, Context-Driven Agentic Systems for Academic Advising
Hasna Isabella Dahdah Rodriguez Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A68 Auditorium Elite Corporate Networks and Access to Infrastructure in the U.S. Data Center Industry
Emma Jin Dattis Opeyemi Odewale Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A13 Auditorium Your Microbial Mixtape: How Music, Your Social Network, and the Ethnic Background Your Gut-Microbiome 
Jessica J. Davis Opeyemi Odewale Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A9 Auditorium Science and Complacency: A Cautionary Tale
Ananya Desai Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A79 Auditorium Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry: Impacts on Patient Trust, Satisfaction, Decision-Making, and Business Performance
Sarah Dienta Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A67 Auditorium Evaluating the Impacts That the International Mining Industry Has on Low and Lower Middle Income Countries Depending on How Strict the Regulations in That Country Are 

Alexia Distasio Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A20 Auditorium Mutual Aid as a Community Health Strategy
Anish Doki Caitlyn Butler UM/Amherst Session 1 A88 Auditorium ELISA-Based Detection of H5N1 Influenza A Antigens in Wastewater
Enerelt Skye Durr Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A52 Auditorium Corporate Sustainability Signaling and Voluntary Climate Frameworks: A Longitudinal Text Analysis of SBTi Adoption
Sanea Naressa Eugene Jean Kennedy Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A18 Auditorium Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesia: A Comprehensive Analysis
Kelechi Kristine Ezemma Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A54 Auditorium Implications of Hospital Consolidation on Healthcare Cost, Quality and Access in Massachusetts
Edgar U. Falfan Hao Loi Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A4 Auditorium Agentic AI "Wayfinder"
Flynn James Fatur Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A58 Auditorium Policing Protest: Impacts of Police Response on Collegiate Communities
Daniel Ian Frank Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A51 Auditorium

“One of Our Own”: Does Domestic Ownership in English Football Influence Community Investment Activities?

Keertana Gangireddy Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A23 Auditorium Impacts of a Restorative Practices Approach on Mental Health Outcomes in Franklin County
Naina Gianani Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A86 Auditorium Navigating the Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions of Two Heavily Used Antidepressants Sertraline and Fluoxetine on Drug Utilization Across the Years Before, During, and After COVID
Summer Golen Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A34 Auditorium

Stories That Connect Us: Expanding Access to Intergenerational Digital Storytelling as a Community-Based Response to Address Loneliness

Hayden Groh Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A87 Auditorium Strategic Pursuit of Sponsorships by Global Sports Marketing Firms: Risks, Opportunities, and Case Study of Forward Sports Marketing (FSM)
Lydia Haddad Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A75 Auditorium Motivations and Benefits To Study Abroad and How It Affects a Student's Overall Well-Being
Therese Heim Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A53 Auditorium Impact of Mentorship on Career Outcomes for Women in Finance
Aidan Justice Hickey Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A77 Auditorium

Narrative-Driven Content’s Influence on Fan Engagement and Brand Equity in English Football: The Case of Wrexham AFC, Leeds United, and Sunderland AFC

Alexandra M. Holmes Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A78 Auditorium

Exploring Barriers to Consumer Adoption of Transformable Apparel: Insights into Perception, Usability, and Design Preferences


Chuong Huynh Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A70 Auditorium
The Spillover Effects of H-1B Visa Restrictions on Employment and Innovation in the United States
Pushti Jarecha Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A29 Auditorium

Barriers to Accessing Reproductive Healthcare on the UMass Campus

Ambika Joshi Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A45 Auditorium Resisting Housing Gentrification: Urban Community Land Trusts in New York City
Rayha Karanth Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A38 Auditorium

​​Sustaining Strong Foundations for Children Through Local Engagement and Fundraising: A Critical Civic Engagement Project


Declan Kerrigan Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A85 Auditorium Measuring Sustainability at Sporting Events: An Evaluation of Waste Management Practices and Potential Areas of Improvement
Meghana Kesavan Jessica Crowley Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A16 Auditorium Evolutionary Conservation of the Mrp4 Transporter Gene in Drosophila 
Jadyn Kiley Jessica Crowley Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A12 Auditorium

Evolutionary Divergence of the JNK Regulator puckered: A Comparative Genomic Analysis of Drosophila willistoni and Drosophila pseudoobscura to Drosophila melanogaster 


Eugenia A. Kovtun Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A82 Auditorium Research Proposal: Loneliness vs. Academic Stress as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms Among Undergraduates
Anoushka Kunder Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A61 Auditorium

The Experience Gap: AI Adoption in the United States and Germany

Colbie Lacina Jessica Crowley Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A10 Auditorium

Synteny and Genetic Conservation of the Nicotinamide Amidase Gene in the Drosophila
willistoni
and Drosophila bipectinata Species as Compared to Drosophila melanogaster

Farrah Yvonne LaMontagne Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A36 Auditorium

Empowering Young People to Create Change in Their Community: A Project to Prevent Domestic Violence and Relationship Abuse


Megan Langsam Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A37 Auditorium

Libraries Are for Everyone: Creating and Curating Resources to Connect Young Readers with Disabilities to Accessible Book Formats

Bailey Lapolla Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A69 Auditorium

Who Pays the Price? Pharmaceutical Lobbying and Drug Price Negotiation Outcomes

Ean Laundree Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A72 Auditorium An Analysis of Variance in Legislative Effectiveness among United States Representatives and Senators
Jok Mayak Leet Jessica Crowley Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A19 Auditorium

Comparative Genomic Analysis of the SAPK-Interacting Protein 1 Gene: Evolutionary Conservation in Drosophila obscura and Drosophila Melanogaster

Mia Luisi Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A26 Auditorium

Indigenous Food Sovereignty as a Path to Health Equity

Noah T. MacDonald Jean Kennedy Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A11 Auditorium

Sub-Optimal Economic Decision-Making in Modern America: Behavioral Biases, Institutional Incentives, and Empirical Trends

Anika Maharaj Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A28 Auditorium

Examining Land as a Determinant of Health for Indigenous Communities 


Hailey Winifred Martin Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A47 Auditorium Siting Data Centers in the Public Eye: Predictors of Public Support and Opposition
Dev Vinod Mehta Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A40 Auditorium Using Technology to Address Imposter Syndrome in Computer Science Students
Jaeron Valera Mercado Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A81 Auditorium

Sustainability as Strategy: Evaluating the Financial and Consumer Impacts of Sustainable Practices in the Fashion Industry


Maia Mints Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A74 Auditorium CLOs and the Political Economy of Post-Crisis Financial Reform
Abby OBrien Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A35 Auditorium

Food Freedom: A Critical Community Engagement Project In Food Access Programming

Sandra Odunukwe Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A33 Auditorium

Exploring the Risk Factors of Falls Among Older Adults and Creating a Fall Prevention Resource

Evie Rose Parent Jean Kennedy Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A7 Auditorium

Behavioral Marketing, Profit Maximization, and Ethical Risk in AI-Driven Markets

Vishva Patel Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A21 Auditorium Time Banking as a Tool for Connectivity Among University and Community Members
Muskan Rathi Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A41 Auditorium Supporting a Person with Dementia: A Caregiver Resource Guide
Sarisha Ray Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A25 Auditorium Mutual Aid Supports Food Insecurity Prevention at The University of Massachusetts Amherst
Margaret O'Hearn Redinger Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A56 Auditorium A Perfect Storm: Loneliness Epidemic, AI Explosion, and Absent Federal Government Regulation
Grace Ryan Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A24 Auditorium

Using Story Telling and Art to Enhance Dialogue about Campus Safety: A Project To Combat Police and Promote Envisioning Safer Campuses 


Chelsea Rose Scanlon Jean Kennedy Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A1 Auditorium Microbe-Influencers: How Microbes Have Influenced Beauty Standards Around The World
Julia Anne Schowalter Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A62 Auditorium Who Shapes the Climate Capitalism Movement? A Corporate Network Analysis
Jade Steven Surya Scott Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A48 Auditorium Understanding University Third Place Access and Its Impact on the Sense of Community of College Students
Rachel Shi Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A63 Auditorium Can You Be Above the Law? How Socioeconomic Status Impacts Criminal Accountability
Rachael Speckhard Opeyemi Odewale Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A6 Auditorium

Microbes and Microplastics: How Microplastics Affect Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Rebecca H. Steere Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A57 Auditorium

Federal Funding, Local Education: The Role of Impact Aid in Meeting Community Needs

Quinn Sugar Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A42 Auditorium

Addressing Ableism in Youth Sports: Creating an Inclusive Soccer Program for Children with Disabilities

Eli B. Susskind Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A60 Auditorium Reforming Environmental Review for Housing Production: A Comparative Analysis of CEQA and MEPA
Anika RM Thiemann Jean Kennedy Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A5 Auditorium Redefining Psychiatric Care Through Genetic and Biological Markers
Grace Thompson Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A27 Auditorium Restorative Frameworks in University Safety  
Rebecca Toronto Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A59 Auditorium Peacemaking Circles and Support for Transformative Justice
Eli Avery Tripp Jean Kennedy Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A14 Auditorium The Future of Consciousness and AI
Paige E. Turcotte Eric W. Mania Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A2 Auditorium Expecting the Same: Impostor Phenomenon, Stigma Internalization, and Student’s Perception of Future Success
Alyssa Velez Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A32 Auditorium Improving Health Care for Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Through Undergraduate Education
Mira G. Vontoure Kevin L. Young UM/Amherst Session 1 A64 Auditorium Consistency and Contradiction in Corporate Philanthropy
Julia Walton Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A55 Auditorium Social Media Exposure and College Students' Perceptions of the Military at UMass Amherst.
Justin James Whelan Christine Battle Quinsigamond CC Session 1 A17 Auditorium Synteny of the Enigma Gene in Three Different Drosophila Species
Morgan Yap Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A50 Auditorium

Signals in Silence: How Anonymous Reporting Systems Challenge the Code of Silence Around Student Mental Health

Elisa Yedid Granados Muzzo Uysal UM/Amherst Session 1 A84 Auditorium

The Impact of Prompt Engineering on the Accuracy and Usefulness of AI Chatbot Responses for Undergraduate Students

Maxine H. Zalewski Brenda K. Bushouse UM/Amherst Session 1 A46 Auditorium College Choice and State-Level Policy Study At UMass Amherst
Carolin Zorrilla Frias Deborah Keisch UM/Amherst Session 1 A30 Auditorium Performative Justice: The Cries of Empty Promises in Land Acknowledgments
Nellie Teresa Zygiel Ellen Correa UM/Amherst Session 1 A44 Auditorium

Empowering Patients to Find Living Kidney Donors Through Digital Outreach

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EUNICE ADDAE-WUSU Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A1 Auditorium Stress Busters: How Your Nervous System Hacks Your Mood 
Kyle Justin Allwood Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A2 Auditorium Impact of Air Pollution on Human Lung Cell Biology: Mechanisms of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation
Kayla Ann Alves Zaur Rzakhanov UM/Boston Session 2 A51 Auditorium

ROI of Event Marketing vs Other Marketing Channels

Matthew B. Alves Zaur Rzakhanov UM/Boston Session 2 A49 Auditorium Social Media Platforms Are Failing Emerging Creators
Yaw Wusu Anum Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A14 Auditorium Conservation Priorities for Big Cats in Thailand and Myanmar
Hye Baek Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A27 Auditorium Mind Over Body: Central Autonomic Control in Action
JASMINE BENITES Carolyn Crotty Guttilla Mass Art Session 2 A77 Auditorium

The Impact of Design on Postpartum Recovery

Maram Bensaber Zaur Rzakhanov UM/Boston Session 2 A44 Auditorium Honest Versus Manipulative Marketing on TikTok
Christianna Blyther Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A16 Auditorium Investigating the Genetic Origins of Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder 
Cathy Breish Angela Bateman Cape Cod CC Session 2 A70 Auditorium Menopause As a Social Construct
Wen Cai Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A21 Auditorium Stem Cell–Based β-Cell Regeneration for Type 1 Diabetes Treatment
Imanor Calcano Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A41 Auditorium

The Role of Efficient Blood Circulation in Cardiovascular and Systemic Health

The Role of Efficient Blood Circulation in Cardiovascular and Systemic Health


Crystal Chen Zaur Rzakhanov UM/Boston Session 2 A46 Auditorium AI-Augmented Financial Advisors: How AI Impacts Financial Firms in Client Portfolio Performance and Advisor Productivity Versus Human Advisors
Aechmia Cote Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A7 Auditorium Microplastics and Nanoplastics as Emerging Human Health Stressors

Nasayah Crenshaw Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A32 Auditorium Calcium Homeostasis and Vitamin D in Low-Sunlight, High-Pollution Cities
Sean Curtin Carolyn Crotty Guttilla Mass. Bay CC Session 2 A80 Auditorium
Motorsports Innovation and Its Impact on Modern Vehicle Safety and Efficiency
Emma Ashlee DaPonte Eric Owen Williams Fitchburg St U Session 2 A61 Auditorium

Assessing Membrane Repair Capacity in Myoblast Using Dysferlin-Dependent Dye Tagging Techniques 

Andres Davila Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A19 Auditorium Brain Reboot: Cognitive Recovery Strategies
Finley Ann Demakis Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A10 Auditorium

Harnessing Algae for Carbon Sequestration and Sustainable Biofuel Production

Rachael Anne Dougherty Carolyn Crotty Guttilla Mass. Bay CC Session 2 A83 Auditorium The Threat of AI: An Emerging Issue to Authentic Media
Katherine Ford Eastman Angela Bateman Cape Cod CC Session 2 A72 Auditorium Corporate Employment, Health Insurance, and Reproductive Outcomes
Alexander Falkenhagen Eric Owen Williams Fitchburg St U Session 2 A65 Auditorium

The Effects of TUDCA on Restoring Dysferlin Protein to the Plasma Membrane in Muscular Dystrophy. 


Kathleen Rodrigues Ferreira Carolyn Crotty Guttilla Mass. Bay CC Session 2 A81 Auditorium How Childhood Impacts the Development of Serial Killers
Samuel K. Finn Angela Bateman Cape Cod CC Session 2 A76 Auditorium Who Is Supported in Having Children? Declining Birth Rates and Unequal Reproductive Support in the United States
Molly Jane Gallagher Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A4 Auditorium Pesticide Exposure and Its Impact on the Human Nervous System
Leonardo Garay Kara Roche Mt Wachusett CC Session 2 A56 Auditorium

From Sacred Crown to Secular State: Christianity and the Secular Transformation of Paris

Michelle Gelpi-Balthazar Kara Roche Mt Wachusett CC Session 2 A55 Auditorium

Psychological Research of Therapeutic Writing and the Divergent Healing Strategies of Mary Oliver and Sylvia Plath

Jean Mendy Dievenson GENEUS Carolyn Crotty Guttilla Mass. Bay CC Session 2 A82 Auditorium

Groove, Dance, Connection: Kompa, the Rhythm That Moves the Tropics

Nicholas Christopher Giancioppo Clarissa Codrington Mass. Bay CC Session 2 A84 Auditorium To Emulate the Stars: Nuclear Fusion as an Energy Production Alternative
Ilya Goncharenok Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A23 Auditorium Intermittent PTH Therapy and Its Effects On Bone Strength and Mircoarchitecture
Debra Graham Kara Roche Mt Wachusett CC Session 2 A57 Auditorium Grief and Yoga Are Powerful Healing Partners
Kyle Joseph Grosso Zaur Rzakhanov UM/Boston Session 2 A47 Auditorium Measuring the AI-Fraud "Arms Race": Evidence from U.S. Fraud Reporting and Regulator Actions, 2019-2024
Ahmad H. Hamad Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A15 Auditorium
Collagen Dysfunction and Joint Instability in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Brenna Ann Howes Zaur Rzakhanov UM/Boston Session 2 A45 Auditorium

How Experiences of Gender Bias Within the Field of Law Shape Women’s Leadership Development, Approaches, and Outlook

Leah Njeri Kabue Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A29 Auditorium Precision Medicine:  Personalizing Health Care
Jonas B. Kefalas Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A25 Auditorium CRISPR-Based Microbial Engineering for Bioremediation and Biofuels  
Regan Mary Kelly Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A22 Auditorium CRISPR Gene Editing: The Pinnacle of Individualized Medicine 
Natalie Knyazeva Roberta Wollons UM/Boston Session 2 A79 Auditorium Reexamining Arizona History: The Old Dominion Mine and Arizona’s Progressive Path to Statehood
Angelina Korchevska Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A39 Auditorium The Role of Baroreceptors in Short Term Blood Pressure Homeostasis  
Kaissy Obeng Kwakye Eric Owen Williams Fitchburg St U Session 2 A68 Auditorium Evaluating Therapeutic Drug Candidates To Restore Dysferlin Function in Dysferlinopathy 
Rayah Landers Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A33 Auditorium Neural and Molecular Mechanisms of Muscle Memory 
Sophia Natalia Landrau Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A20 Auditorium

Cellular Stress Responses in Plants Under Climate-Induced Heat Stress  

Kelly Li Eric Owen Williams Fitchburg St U Session 2 A63 Auditorium Drug Screening for Dysferlinopathy
Ina Liu Zaur Rzakhanov UM/Boston Session 2 A50 Auditorium Steeped in Structural Silence: The Erasure of Black Artists in American History and Its Ramifications Exemplified in Spotify
Tina Liu Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A12 Auditorium Anemia Avengers: Modern Interventions for Red Blood Cell Disorders
Isabelle Lopes de Lima Clarissa Codrington Mass. Bay CC Session 2 A87 Auditorium Eliza Samudio: Media Framing and the Reinforcement of Gender Bias 
Leila A. Marie Kara Roche Mt Wachusett CC Session 2 A58 Auditorium

Are College-Aged Women More Likely to Be Misdiagnosed with Depression When They Meet Criteria for Inattentive ADHD?

Kelly McGuill Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A36 Auditorium Personalized Gut Microbiome Engineering in Precision Medicine  
Adilgelsa Mendes Angela Bateman Cape Cod CC Session 2 A74 Auditorium Regulating Black Motherhood: Structural Racism and Contraceptive Access in America
Emelia Mensah Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A38 Auditorium Timing Matters in the Cardiac Cycle 
Dylan David Mercier Eric Owen Williams Fitchburg St U Session 2 A62 Auditorium Identifying Differentiation and Drug Effects in DYSF Mutants
Jalyn Allison Miller Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A28 Auditorium Lifestyle Strategies for a Healthy Autonomic Nervous System
Ryanna-kelly Vizengwa Musambai Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A31 Auditorium  Regenerative Stem Cell Strategies for Pollution-Induced Respiratory Disease 
Ayame Iris Nakagawa Clarissa Codrington Mass. Bay CC Session 2 A86 Auditorium Reading Minds and Controlling Behavior: Elucidating Neural Circuit in the Brain Will Turn Science Fiction Into Reality
Ian Nano Eric Owen Williams Fitchburg St U Session 2 A66 Auditorium Restoring Dysferlin in T252M Dysferlinopathy Models Using 4-PBA and Assessing Effects on Myoblast Differentiation
Dat Huu Nguyen Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A24 Auditorium Comparing Convolutional Neural Networks and Segmentation-Based Algorithms for Early Detection of Cancers Using MRI
Karina Nudnaya Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A18 Auditorium
Neuroplasticity in the Adult Brain: Mechanisms and Lifelong Adaptation
John M. O'Neill Angela Bateman Cape Cod CC Session 2 A75 Auditorium Gene Editing and Structural Inequality: Market Medicine and the Future of Stratified Reproduction
Chibuike Francis Onyeocha Clarissa Codrington Mass. Bay CC Session 2 A85 Auditorium

Wi‑Fi MythBusters: Campus Edition

Nanjilis D. Padin Santos Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A11 Auditorium Sweet Life: Insulin and Glucose Innovations 
Diana S. Panasyuk Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A35 Auditorium Tissue Engineering for Burn Victims After Wildfires 
Viran Patel Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A40 Auditorium Artificial Intelligence in the Operating Room  
Emily Grace Pensak Angela Bateman Cape Cod CC Session 2 A69 Auditorium

Legal Uncertainty After Roe v. Wade: Implications for Medical Decision-Making and Patient Outcomes

Brian M. Ramos Angela Bateman Cape Cod CC Session 2 A71 Auditorium Rethinking Reproductive Equity: Economic and Sociocultural Constraints on Male Contraceptive Progress 
Vlad Renkas Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A8 Auditorium Assessment Redesign and Ethical Governance for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
Brody Robbins Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A6 Auditorium Using CRISPR to Engineer Drought-Resistant Crops for a Changing Climate
Vanessa Rojas Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A37 Auditorium Brain Detective: Early Dementia Clues in Mental Statue Exams
Brain Detective Early Dementia Clues in Mental Statue Exams
Jennifer dos Santos Rong Carolyn Crotty Guttilla Mass. Bay CC Session 2 A78 Auditorium Life Onboard:  Mental Health in the Cruise Industry
Spenzer Sanon Kara Roche Mt Wachusett CC Session 2 A53 Auditorium What We Can Learn From Past Global Crises to Resolve Current Ones and Prevent Future Disasters
Leila Myriette Santos-Diaz Kara Roche Mt Wachusett CC Session 2 A60 Auditorium A Genetic Anomaly and Its Role in Population Control: The Marbled Crayfish (Procambarus virginalis)
Jack Scott Sarmiento Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A43 Auditorium The Effects of High Cortisol and the Risks It Poses
Dariya Savrukova Zaur Rzakhanov UM/Boston Session 2 A48 Auditorium Moralized Indulgence in the Age of Inflation: How “Better-for-You” Dessert Brands Reframe Pleasure as Self-Care
Jjuuko Nasrah Sharifah Eric Owen Williams Fitchburg St U Session 2 A67 Auditorium

Identifying Treatments for Muscular Dystrophy

Trinity M. Sperry Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A17 Auditorium Menopausal Bone Loss and Environmental Sustainability
Melanie Stepchuk Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A34 Auditorium Fertility Future: Integrating Hormone Therapy, Artificial Intelligence, and Automation to Improve Reproductive Outcomes
Sofia Melissa Szumski Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A5 Auditorium Systemic Exposure to Microplastics and Disruption of Gut Microbiota 
Meghan Genevieve Teague Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A26 Auditorium Nutritional Influences on Developmental Physiology and Longterm Health 
Esias Valentin Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A9 Auditorium Bioengineering Cyanobacteria for Atmospheric C02 Reduction in Urban Areas
Jaliah Jada Vargas Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A13 Auditorium Synthetic Strigolactone GR24 Enhances Cellular Salinity Tolerance in Wheat
Joslynn E. Vautour Kara Roche Mt Wachusett CC Session 2 A54 Auditorium The In's and Out's of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Sacha Vazquez Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A3 Auditorium Mechanisms of Kidney Damage Induced by Water Contaminants
Taja D. Viera Eric Owen Williams Fitchburg St U Session 2 A64 Auditorium

Therapeutic Evaluation of 4-Phenylbutyrate in Models of Dysferlinopathy and Alpha-Sarcoglycanopathy


Brielle Anne Voorheis Kara Roche Mt Wachusett CC Session 2 A59 Auditorium A Look Into the 18th, 19th, and 20th Arrondissements of Paris, France. 
Delia Whitehill Zaur Rzakhanov UM/Boston Session 2 A52 Auditorium

Private Equity Ownership and Housing Market Outcomes Post Pandemic

Jennifer Ann Worrilow Angela Bateman Cape Cod CC Session 2 A73 Auditorium

Structural Racism, Early Prenatal Care, and Preventable Miscarriage

Alisha C. Wright Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A42 Auditorium  Kidney Function and Electrolyte Imbalance: Implications for Disease Risk  
Fathima Yusraah Zakir Ghouse Reena Randhir STCC Session 2 A30 Auditorium

Cellular Responses of Phytoplankton to Rising Ocean Temperatures

Presenter Sponsor Campus Session Poster Board Room Title
Amy Almonte Amy Cameron N Essex CC Session 3 A50 Auditorium How Does Yoga Benefit an Adolescent Brain and Body?
Daisy R. Arciniega Aleel K. Grennan Worcester St U Session 3 A53 Auditorium Investigating Skewed Floral Morph Ratios in Mitchella repens Through the Assessment of Germination Rates and Seedling Viability
Julia Arena Karen A. Keenan Fitchburg St U Session 3 A37 Auditorium Clinical Measures Associated with Previous History of Lower Leg Overuse Injury in Collegiate Athletes
Sage Teo Arias Hambleton Robin Young UM/Amherst Session 3 A12 Auditorium A Comparative Analysis of Acoustic and Non-Linear Sound Theory
John Robert Arruda Tashauna Blankenship UM/Boston Session 3 A69 Auditorium

Emotional Influences of the Developing Ability to Recall Time and Order in Episodic Memory


Danielle Auguste Panteha Sanati Massasoit CC Session 3 A18 Auditorium Exploration of How the Social Construction of Race Impacts the Lived Experience of Individuals Based on Geographic Location Between the U.S. and the Caribbean
Jazlynn Bailey Jeffrey Blanchard UM/Amherst Session 3 A2 Auditorium Uncovering the Functional and Ecological Roles of RNA Bacteriophages and Viruses in Soil Ecosystems
Ouma Bally Jessica Boakye UM/Amherst Session 3 A10 Auditorium Pavement Conditions on Vehicular Emissions
Bridgette Bennett NIYA SA UM/Boston Session 3 A5 Auditorium

Electrochemical Behavior of Zinc in Aqueous Systems: Understanding Plating, Stripping, and Interface Stability

Camil Bernal Hoang Van Do UM/Boston Session 3 A86 Auditorium

Experimental Quantum Information Science with Cold Alkaline Atoms

Derick Tyren Brooks Karen Druffel Framingham St U Session 3 A60 Auditorium Digital Trust in the Green Supply Chain: A Quantitative Analysis of Consumer Attitudes Toward Blockchain-Verified Scope 3 Emissions
Bella Brown Jesse Farmer UM/Boston Session 3 A41 Auditorium Differences in Distributions & Lability of Contamination-Prone Trace Metals in the Kennebec, Sheepscot, & Damariscotta Rivers
Marcia Silva Cardoso Milana Vasudev UM/Dartmouth Session 3 A22 Auditorium A Dual-Agent Nanoparticle Platform with NIR-Responsive Modulation for Melanoma Therapy
Nicole I. Carmona Martinez Adán Colón-Carmona UM/Boston Session 3 A58 Auditorium Partnerships Between Universities and Community-Based Organizations: Exploring Avenues of Social-Environmental-Climate Justice and Partnership Building in US Cities; A Study of Greater Boston 
Angelia Erika Caron Mark Williams Fitchburg St U Session 3 A72 Auditorium The Impact of Foster Care on Children's Mental Health
Billy J. Cates Karen Druffel Framingham St U Session 3 A59 Auditorium The Impact of Business Technology Adoption on Operational Efficiency and Growth Capacity in Small Businesses
Rebecca Cormier Laura Reynolds Worcester St U Session 3 A52 Auditorium

Impact of Seasonal Change of Dissolved Oxygen within Bodies of Freshwater


Emily Marie Cruickshank Jesse Farmer UM/Boston Session 3 A42 Auditorium

Tracing Anthropogenic Nutrient Inputs with Coral-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes Across the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System

 

Katherine Lynne Delesdernier Laura Castro-Diaz UM/Boston Session 3 A55 Auditorium

Hillock of Microplastic: Knowledge and Perceptions of Microplastics in Nantucket, Massachusetts

Zaley G. DelRio Kathryn Weglarz Westfield St U Session 3 A14 Auditorium Exploring the Relationship Between Wing Melanization, Morphology, and Environmental Variation in Pieris rapae Using Museum Specimens and Earth Monitoring Data
Daniel Patrick Disessa Donald J. Tarallo Fitchburg St U Session 3 A16 Auditorium
Doorway to My Comfort: Translating Emotion Through Album Design
Rebekah Dorman Laura Reynolds Worcester St U Session 3 A51 Auditorium

Comparative Water Quality Along an Urbanization Gradient


Antony Benjamin Dribinskiy Panteha Sanati Massasoit CC Session 3 A17 Auditorium How Have Hip-Hop Lyrics Influenced U.S. Socio-Politics?
Peter Wayne Elliott DeMisty D. Bellinger-Delfeld Fitchburg St U Session 3 A45 Auditorium Tomorrow's Prometheus - A Novel by Peter Elliott
Shantae Rebecca Espino Renee Scapparone Fitchburg St U Session 3 A26 Auditorium Economic Sustainability of Youth Cheerleading Facilities: Comparing Startup Costs, Return on Investment, and Business Longevity Among Small, Medium, and Large Centers
Abby Rae Farnum Carter Carter MCLA Session 3 A68 Auditorium Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: A Psychodynamic Perspective
Jayna Fawcett Brook Moyers UM/Boston Session 3 A35 Auditorium How Heat Stress Impacts Seed Shape Gene Expression in Oryza sativa
Kelly E. Frechette Suanne Maurer Bridgewater St U Session 3 A78 Auditorium

Exercise vs. Stress: A Comparative Analysis of Active and Inactive Individuals

Sera N. Gagnon Danielle Wigmore Fitchburg St U Session 3 A63 Auditorium Benefits of Meditation on Athletes' Mental Preparation for Sports
Keiola N. Geraigery Marc Mannheimer N Essex CC Session 3 A80 Auditorium How Does Art Therapy Influence Anxiety in Children Ages 5-10?
Alivia Glynn Elena Braynova Worcester St U Session 3 A39 Auditorium College Success Factors
Cadyn E. Glynn Daniel Soucy Mt Wachusett CC Session 3 A71 Auditorium Virtue Ethics and Parts of the Mind
William Graziano jr Jerusha Nelson-Peterman Framingham St U Session 3 A43 Auditorium Food Insecurity’s Impact Among College Students' Academic Performance 
Sophie Audrey Harrold George LoCascio Mt Wachusett CC Session 3 A23 Auditorium Organic Farming and Insect Pest Control
Mahri Luxi Hayden Joseph S. DuChene UM/Amherst Session 3 A8 Auditorium Investigating the Role of Solution pH on the Formation of Shape-Controlled Au Nanocrystals
Molly Katherine Horn Beatrice St. Laurent Bridgewater St U Session 3 A20 Auditorium That's Not Art! Artificial Intelligence in the Arts
Lauren Michele Horowitz Seth Surgan Worcester St U Session 3 A77 Auditorium In AI We Trust?
Hlaing Htoo Aleel K. Grennan Worcester St U Session 3 A54 Auditorium Identification of Candidate S-Locus Genes in Mitchella repens
Pari Samir Khandhar Rachid Skouta UM/Amherst Session 3 A47 Auditorium Targeting Lipid Peroxidation to Trigger Ferroptotic Cell Death in Cancer Cells
Keva C. Kirby Yarborough Elle N Essex CC Session 3 A66 Auditorium

The Evolution of the Gender Identity Spectrum, Gender Expression, and Societal Acceptance: 1980s to Present


Caitlin I. Kirrane Karen A. Keenan Fitchburg St U Session 3 A38 Auditorium

Inter-Rater Reliability of Clinical Measures Associated with Previous History of Lower Leg Overuse Injury in Collegiate Athletes


Sejla Kuldija Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa UM/Amherst Session 3 A3 Auditorium Simultaneous Inference of the Higgs Boson Width and Couplings Using the ATLAS Off-Shell Higgs Boson Production Measurement in the H* → ZZ Decay Channel
Kristyn Lara NIYA SA UM/Boston Session 3 A1 Auditorium

Characterization of Mg (TFSI)Electrolytes in Symmetric and Beaker Cells and Investigative Electrolyte Capacity for Energy Storage Applications 

Leila Demi Lendon Kathryn Weglarz Westfield St U Session 3 A13 Auditorium What’s Behind Wing Size in Pieris rapae? A Look at Migration, Adaptation, and Sexual Selection
Geybrell Gerony Liriano Laura M. Garofoli Fitchburg St U Session 3 A79 Auditorium

Defining and Measuring Perceived Self Cost in Relation to Empathy and Prosocial Behavior


Colleen Alexandria Lombard David Degras UM/Boston Session 3 A11 Auditorium Brain Computer Interfaces and the MOABB Study
Jessica Lynch Esther Peralta N Essex CC Session 3 A76 Auditorium

How Do Traditional Workplace Collaboration Methods Like Brainstorming Sessions, Open Floor Plan Offices, and Frequent Group Meetings Affect Productivity for Introverted People in the Workforce? 

Peyton Abigail Maloney Laura W. Kane Worcester St U Session 3 A29 Auditorium Case Analysis: Tik Tok v. Garland (2025)
Rose Maniani Lisa Maeng UM/Boston Session 3 A62 Auditorium  Sexually Dimorphic Effects of Probiotic Treatment on Hippocampal Activity During Fear Extinction Recall
Dylen Matovu Devan Walton N Essex CC Session 3 A48 Auditorium Cyber Passport
Camille Maxwell Brook Moyers UM/Boston Session 3 A36 Auditorium Differences in Microbial Communities in Metal Contaminated and Non-Contaminated Salt Marshes
Ryann Lee McCullough Nezuch Renee Scapparone Fitchburg St U Session 3 A25 Auditorium From Red Carpets to Recommendations: The Changing Landscape of Film Marketing in Response to Streaming and the Pandemic.
Brady Elizabeth McFadden DeMisty D. Bellinger-Delfeld Fitchburg St U Session 3 A46 Auditorium Solving Cain's Jawbone
Hayley Mello Jason M. Brown Salem St U Session 3 A34 Auditorium Regulation of LC8 gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Measured by Reporter Gene Luciferase and qPCR
Matthew Lee Mendrella Michael Hove Fitchburg St U Session 3 A67 Auditorium Metal Movement and Bass
Isabelle Mary Mosley Tarya Bardwell Salem St U Session 3 A65 Auditorium

How Does Intradepartmental Leadership Change Impact Role Stressors in Collegiate Academic Departments?

Aiden James Muise Susan Doron-LaMarca Salem St U Session 3 A64 Auditorium A Look Into the Possible Psychological Benefits of Minority Historical Figure Representation on Respective Members of Minority Populations
Nasrin Musa Amy Cameron N Essex CC Session 3 A49 Auditorium Can Exercise Help You Learn A Second Language Better?
Hind I. Mustafa Laura W. Kane Worcester St U Session 3 A30 Auditorium

Philosophical and Legal Analysis of  Free Speech Coalition Inc. v. Paxton


Olivia Rose Narkevicius Billy Samulak Fitchburg St U Session 3 A81 Auditorium Crosslinking the Protein Malate Dehydrogenase
Ngoc Van Anh Nguyen Abbey Eisenhower UM/Boston Session 3 A75 Auditorium

Gendered Experiences of Exclusionary Discipline and Academic Engagement Among Autistic Students

Ciaran E. O'Reilly Lauren Bowen UM/Boston Session 3 A85 Auditorium

Exploring Student and Faculty Perceptions of Generative AI in College Writing Education 


Parth Ramanlal Patel Jerusha Nelson-Peterman Framingham St U Session 3 A44 Auditorium

How Does Food Insecurity Affect Health?

Brandon Christopher Perkins Changqing Chen Salem St U Session 3 A31 Auditorium Solid Lipid Nanoparticle Formulations of Curcumin for Improved Bioavailability
Mehul Puri Milana Vasudev UM/Dartmouth Session 3 A21 Auditorium Targeted Deletion of the gldB Gene to Disrupt Gliding Motility in Cellulophaga lytica
Abigail Raymond Laura Castro-Diaz UM/Boston Session 3 A56 Auditorium From Green Gentrification to Green Reparations 
Luke Sean Riley Mohamed Amine Gharbi UM/Boston Session 3 A57 Auditorium Smectic Liquid Crystal Interfaces: A Toolkit for the Biosensing of Amphiphilic Molecules
Maxwell Dennis Riordan Nicholas Kuhlman Fitchburg St U Session 3 A84 Auditorium Smokeless Tobacco Use In Collegiate Baseball Players: Prevalence, Patterns, and Influencing Factors
Casey Rush Jennifer Winters Bridgewater St U Session 3 A28 Auditorium Determining Rotation Periods for Stars in Two M-Dwarf Binary Star Systems
Norah K. Russell Patricia Lynne Framingham St U Session 3 A87 Auditorium The Use of Grammarly with Native English Speaking Students in a First-Year Writing Class
Emily Theresa Russo Donald J. Tarallo Fitchburg St U Session 3 A15 Auditorium Past(a) and Present: Exploring Tradition and Innovation in Italian Brand Design
John Patrick Ryan Alex Hinerman N Essex CC Session 3 A70 Auditorium The Dangers of Adolescent Gambling.
Juesel Ellica Ryan Reihonna Frost-Calhoun Bridgewater St U Session 3 A73 Auditorium Examining Constructions of Parenthood and Gender in U.S. Foster Care Photo Listings
Amanda Sherman Pubali Datta UM/Amherst Session 3 A7 Auditorium Evaluating Automated IAM Policy Generation for Serverless Cloud Applications
Tyler Ryan Sousa-Chaisson Changqing Chen Salem St U Session 3 A32 Auditorium Formulation of Curcumin Solid Lipid Nanoparticles and the Digestion Study
Mallory Elizabeth Sweeney Patricia Machado N Essex CC Session 3 A88 Auditorium Economic Contributions of Brazilian Immigrants in Everett, Massachusetts.
Milagros Tamara Giraldo Jennifer Winters Bridgewater St U Session 3 A27 Auditorium A Python Implementation of Gauss's Method for Determining Asteroid Orbits
Scarlet Taveras Guzman Brook Moyers UM/Boston Session 3 A4 Auditorium Eco-Evolutionary Responses to Metal Contamination in Marsh Microbes
Jonas Leon Leon Tejada Helbic Maria C. Carles N Essex CC Session 3 A83 Auditorium

Obesity, Longevity, and Community Health: A Comparative Analysis of BMI-Patterns

in Selected Blue Zones and Massachusetts

AnBinh Star Tran Lisa Maeng UM/Boston Session 3 A61 Auditorium

The Effects of G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor (GPER) Activation on Fear Extinction Memory in Male and Female Rats


Taylanna Alyse Vargas Beatrice St. Laurent Bridgewater St U Session 3 A19 Auditorium

Why Is This 15th Century Invention Still in Use? Modern Graphic Design and the Letterpress

Alexander John Vatousios Sumientra Rampersad UM/Boston Session 3 A9 Auditorium Simulations of Tumor Treating Field Therapy in French Bulldogs
Ivan Vergizov Michael Rahaim UM/Boston Session 3 A6 Auditorium Outage Characterization of Indoor Optical Wireless Communication Systems with Intelligent Reflective Surfaces
Sean Wang Elena Braynova Worcester St U Session 3 A40 Auditorium Lifestyle, Health, and Sleep Quality
Emily Hope Wassouf Jason M. Brown Salem St U Session 3 A33 Auditorium Investigating the Repressor Sequestration Model of Cilia Length Regulation
Garrik E. Wilkins George LoCascio Mt Wachusett CC Session 3 A24 Auditorium Invasive Plant Awareness & Restoration Project
Samantha Wozniak Min Li Fitchburg St U Session 3 A74 Auditorium

The Impacts of Childhood Bullying on the Relationship Attachment of College Students

Thea Hannah Wysocki Lisa M. Grimm Fitchburg St U Session 3 A82 Auditorium Mechanisms Compensating for Gene Loss During Avian Evolution
Presenter Sponsor Campus Session Poster Board Room Title
Sonali Gauri Agarwal Prabhani Atukorale UM/Amherst Session 4 A75 Auditorium Dual Immune Agonist Lipid Nanoparticles to Reverse Cancer Stemness
Emilie Bell Jesse Mager UM/Amherst Session 4 A86 Auditorium

Optimizing Early Embryo Culture Toward ART/IVF Efficiency 


Arundhati Bhat Craig T. Martin UM/Amherst Session 4 A28 Auditorium A DoE Driven Mechanistic Framework for Maximizing NTP Incorporation and Minimizing dsRNA Impurities in IVT.
Kaiden Boisjolie James Walsh UM/Amherst Session 4 A31 Auditorium
Using Machine-Learned Potentials to Investigate Reactivity in the Chemically Inert Indium–Carbon System at Extreme Pressures
Maggie Maria Bourgeois Eric Norman Budd Fitchburg St U Session 4 A52 Auditorium Exploring Media Reform and Its Plausibility in American Democracy
Anna Sophia Budman Heather Reed UM/Amherst Session 4 A12 Auditorium Development of an Introductory Bioinformatics Lesson Plan Using the KBase Platform
Charlotte Elizabeth Canterbury Trevor Kearns Greenfield CC Session 4 A70 Auditorium Children's Literature - Writing and Illustrating
Stephanie Chang Jun Yao UM/Amherst Session 4 A21 Auditorium Designing a Cost-Effective Reusable Shuttle Guide for Flexible Neural Probe Insertion
Henley Chen Sunandita Sarker UM/Amherst Session 4 A78 Auditorium
OMNI: An Osmotic MicroNeedle Implant Towards Long-term 
Direct-to-Brain Drug Delivery
Maria Rose Colombo Melody Morris UM/Amherst Session 4 A50 Auditorium Targeted Polyurethane Enzymatic Degradation via High-Throughput Assay
Aubrey Coyne Robert W. Maloy UM/Amherst Session 4 A13 Auditorium Using GenAI Tools to Redesign Online Math Tutoring Resources for Elementary and Middle School Students
Lucas Alexander Crawshaw Dennis Goeckel UM/Amherst Session 4 A18 Auditorium Jamming Approaches for Enabling Covert Wireless Communications
Angel Daniel Cruz Adena Calden UM/Amherst Session 4 A10 Auditorium Analysis of Massachusetts High School Mathematics Curricula 
Creighton DeMoura Brenna M. Casey UM/Amherst Session 4 A15 Auditorium Taking Phoniness Out of the Classroom: Evaluating The Catcher in the Rye and Examining Alternatives for 21st Century High School Curriculum
Veronika Dubovis Friederike C. Jentoft UM/Amherst Session 4 A44 Auditorium Zeolite-Catalyzed Aldol Fission Reaction for Olefin Synthesis
Estefany Duron Mejia Mary Orisich Holyoke CC Session 4 A54 Auditorium Elite Power and the Two-Party System
Asher M. Easter Dennis Awasabisah Fitchburg St U Session 4 A35 Auditorium Iridium-NSAID Complexes and Their Biological Properties
Jad El Aouji Yuanrui Sang UM/Amherst Session 4 A22 Auditorium Evaluating the Impact of Vehicle-to-Grid Participation on Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Battery Degradation
Gianna Elie Dmitry Kireev UM/Amherst Session 4 A79 Auditorium

Optimizing Ultrasonication Parameters for the Delivery of Graphene-Based Nano E-Tattoos in Continuous Health Monitoring


Elijah John Facchiano Maricris Mayes UM/Dartmouth Session 4 A32 Auditorium

Eludicating the Design Factors Governing High-Entropy Polymer-Electrolytes for Multifunctional Energy Storage

Xiaoran Fan John Pike Bridgewater St U Session 4 A67 Auditorium

Forgetting Where You Started: Convergence to Equilibrium in Markov Chains

Michael Frey Andria C. Schwortz UM/Amherst Session 4 A17 Auditorium The Pedagogy of Physics Faculty: Learning Considerations in the Classroom
Shaliah Elyce Fricas Michael Rahaim UM/Boston Session 4 A25 Auditorium Experimental Testing and Analysis of a Hybrid Radio/Optical System for Indoor Positioning
Isabella Gerardi Anupama Arora UM/Dartmouth Session 4 A72 Auditorium

Administering Justice? The Role of Law in Postcolonial Literature

Mya Rachel Grossman Maria Santore UM/Amherst Session 4 A48 Auditorium Biomembrane Interactions with Model Microplastics
Gagan Deep Gutta Adrian Jordaan UM/Amherst Session 4 A40 Auditorium Automated Detection and Enumeration of Juvenile River Herring Using Deep Learning: Advancing Computational Monitoring for Anadromous Fish
Amel Hilmi Maryclare Griffin UM/Amherst Session 4 A68 Auditorium

Analysis of Sex-Dependent Gene Expression in Human Aging

Danish Humayun Elizabeth Evans UM/Amherst Session 4 A2 Auditorium Evaluation of Chicopee & Holyoke Access to Treatment & Services (CHATS): Results From Year 2
Danish Humayun Meichen Wang UM/Amherst Session 4 A7 Auditorium Mitigation of Forever Chemicals Using Edible Clay
Fawad Shahab Hussain Igor Kaltashov UM/Amherst Session 4 A30 Auditorium Exploring Neutrophil Interactions with Various Ligands in the Context of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs)
Ali Imraan Manasa Kandula UM/Amherst Session 4 A60 Auditorium Engineering the Motion of Self-Propelled Particles on Surfaces
Daniel Benno Jaffe Zachary Westgate UM/Amherst Session 4 A83 Auditorium Particle Degradation and Behavioral Transition in Glauconite Sands Under Simulated Pile Driving Stresses
Neelesh Kumar Jana Xingda Chen UM/Amherst Session 4 A24 Auditorium Modeling and Machine Learning–Based Compensation of Rotor-Induced Vibration and Magnetic Interference in UAV IMU Systems
Cynthia Kaleebu Mark Roblee UM/Amherst Session 4 A80 Auditorium Braiding Indigenous Worldviews with Modern Civil Engineering Practices to Create More Ecocentric Designs 
Connor Lee Knechtel Justin Fermann UM/Amherst Session 4 A36 Auditorium Quantitative Comparison of the Soil Chemical Characteristics of No-Till and Conventional-Till Agricultural Practices
Andja Kola Benjamin W. Sturtz Worcester St U Session 4 A49 Auditorium Decorating Rings: Metalation of Phthalocyanine Macrocyclic Ring to Make Novel Dye Compounds
Jamie Jordan Kuenzel Joseph Coelho Framingham St U Session 4 A53 Auditorium Crisis as a Catalyst for Integration: A Comparative Analysis of the European Union and the Articles of Confederation
Anya Marina Kuznetsov Alexandra Zagalskaya UM/Amherst Session 4 A45 Auditorium Electrochemical Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Wastewater Streams
Robert Kwolek Rajveer O. Nehra UM/Amherst Session 4 A26 Auditorium On-Chip Generation and Measurement of Quantum States of Light
Fatimah Q. Laher Airin Denise Martinez UM/Amherst Session 4 A1 Auditorium

Medical Apartheid and Its Effects: A Comparative Analysis of Apartheid in South Africa & the State of Palestine

Yunbing (Melody) Lai Enrique Suarez UM/Amherst Session 4 A11 Auditorium Pre-Service Teachers' Preassumptions in Elementary Science Classroom
Rosario Michelle Larios Ann-Marie Sylvia UM/Amherst Session 4 A41 Auditorium

Air Pollution and Mental Health Disorders in Youth Ages, 10-24: A PRISMA‑Guided Systematic Review of Associations and Symptom Profiles


Joshua Lee George Willaim Griffin Bunker Hill CC Session 4 A29 Auditorium

Evaluating the Feasibility of Thin Films Research and Education at a Community College Level

Quintin Lemek Catherine Buell Fitchburg St U Session 4 A66 Auditorium
Exploring Historical Problem Solving Techniques of Islamic and Japanese Mathematicians for a Modern Audience and Integration into Higher Dimensional and Computational Applications.
Autumn Jean Liguori-Bills Meghan Armstrong UM/Amherst Session 4 A8 Auditorium

A Bilingual, Harm-Reduction Approach to Safer Bedsharing Among Latinx Caregivers in Western MA


Erika Lu Elena Pobezinskaya UM/Amherst Session 4 A87 Auditorium Regulation of Dapl1+ Memory-like T Cell Differentiation by IFNb and IL-12
Connor D. McLaughlin Scott Hertel UM/Amherst Session 4 A58 Auditorium Numerical Simulation For Modeling and Mitigating Parasitic Conduction in NbTi–Cu Leads
Ria Mehrotra Zhu Chen UM/Amherst Session 4 A47 Auditorium Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia: Investigating the Role of Alkali Cations in Acidic Medium
Annalieka Mets Jessica Boakye UM/Amherst Session 4 A82 Auditorium

Societal Impacts of Earthquake Risk in San Francisco Using GIS Analysis of Building Characteristics

Ayush Nadiger Chris Cox UM/Amherst Session 4 A23 Auditorium Billiard-Theoretic Geometry Diagnostics for Patch-Induced Heating in Trapped-Ions
Meghan Catherine Neville Albert Lloret UM/Amherst Session 4 A56 Auditorium From Isolation to Influence: Spain's Position in the European Union
Lan Nguyen Janice C. Telfer UM/Amherst Session 4 A88 Auditorium Binding of the WC1 Hybrid Co-Receptor/PRR to Mycobacterium spp and Leptospira spp.​
Minh K. Nguyen Christian David Guzman UM/Amherst Session 4 A84 Auditorium Durability-Driven Design of Wave Energy Systems
Sonam Ottaviani Melina Anne Masterson UM/Amherst Session 4 A39 Auditorium
Sprezzatura and Sustainability: Exploring Solutions for Sustainable Tourism Development in Italy.
Liam Joseph Ouellette Krish Sharman UM/Amherst Session 4 A38 Auditorium A GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Wave Energy Converter Site Selection in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Maxwell Tyler Passarelli Anne Armstrong Worcester St U Session 4 A43 Auditorium Roots and Wings: Exploring Massachusetts Attitudes Toward Native Plants and Pollinators
Eva Kathleen Posk Jamie Hartmann-Boyce UM/Amherst Session 4 A6 Auditorium Societal Side Effects in the Expanding GLP-1 Weight-Loss Market: A Literature-Based Public Health Analysis
Arni Vijay Potnis Elizabeth Cook UM/Amherst Session 4 A5 Auditorium Structural Inequities and Fentanyl-Driven Overdose Mortality During the Third Wave of the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
Jimena Pueyo-García Signe Predmore UM/Amherst Session 4 A57 Auditorium Authoritarian Trauma: What Francisco Franco Left Behind
Mohan D. Ram John Staudenmayer UM/Amherst Session 4 A69 Auditorium Quantitative Analysis of Delays in Cortical Maturation in Patients with Focal Epilepsy
Shirrish Naganter Ramesh Nikhil Saxena UM/Amherst Session 4 A20 Auditorium ResQos
Kaia Sharon Katherine Elizabeth Markham Worcester St U Session 4 A37 Auditorium Ground Truthing Stone Walls in the Cascades Conservation Area
Samuel Silver Martina Rovelli UM/Amherst Session 4 A64 Auditorium The Morita Construction for Strict Monoidal Categories
Ella Briana Sklar Jennifer Whitehill UM/Amherst Session 4 A3 Auditorium

Understanding Pathways of Support: A Community Responder Program Case Study   


Srimaan Sridharan Joyita Dutta UM/Amherst Session 4 A76 Auditorium Comparing Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for COPD Exacerbation Risk Assessment
David Albert Stevenson Christos Dimitrakopoulos UM/Amherst Session 4 A33 Auditorium Controlled Relative Twist Angles in Large-Grain Interlayer-Bonded Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Alexandria M. Tamburrini Scott Aaron Nowka Salem St U Session 4 A71 Auditorium Christianity and Colonialism: Justification in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
Emma Thiboutot Tracie L. Ferreira UM/Dartmouth Session 4 A77 Auditorium

Formulation of Smart Hydrogels with Embedded Microparticles for Targeted Melanoma Treatment

Sydney Nicole Tor Todd Emrick UM/Amherst Session 4 A34 Auditorium Novel Enzyme Mediated Approach to Polymer-Protein Conjugation
Samanvay Upadhyay Jeremy Gummeson UM/Amherst Session 4 A19 Auditorium
Design & Evaluation of a Hybrid Energy-Harvesting System for Wearable Health & Environmental Monitoring
Eden Vachtel Chaitra Gopalappa UM/Amherst Session 4 A9 Auditorium Machine Learning for Predicting Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the United States
Xamantha Valentine Scott Herstad Greenfield CC Session 4 A14 Auditorium Reflections on Tutoring: A Zine for Tutors
Milo M. Van Mooy Varghese Mathai UM/Amherst Session 4 A62 Auditorium Buoyancy Compensation Using Magnetic Levitation of Inertial Particles in Fluid Flows
Ashlyn Venoo Michael Esmail UM/Amherst Session 4 A85 Auditorium More Mouse Than Model: A Metareview on the Effect of Mice Husbandry and Protocol Choices on Stress Sensitive Studies
Casey Tereza Vieira Zachary Finch MCLA Session 4 A74 Auditorium Taboo Fictions: An Autotheoretical Analysis of Rape, Incest, and Other Forms of Harm in Marquis de Sade, Georges Bataille, and Kathy Acker
Thomas John Whynot Wei Fan UM/Amherst Session 4 A46 Auditorium Rapid Synthesis of Ultrahigh Silica MOR via Interzeolite Conversion of FAU
Margaret Williams Sanjay Arwade UM/Amherst Session 4 A81 Auditorium Hurricane Impacts on Parked and Idling Blades of an Offshore Wind Turbine 
Zachary Robert Williams Robin Young UM/Amherst Session 4 A65 Auditorium
Modeling Shockwaves With Modified Front Tracking Software
Caileen Joan Wilson Hong Yu Fitchburg St U Session 4 A27 Auditorium Training a Robotic Arm With AI
Riya Yadav Mary Andrianopoulos UM/Amherst Session 4 A4 Auditorium
Cultural Contexts and the Recognition of Autism: A Comparative Analysis of Asian and Western Diagnostic Frameworks
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Amelia Amack Christine Woodward St Laurent UM/Amherst Session 5 A27 Auditorium

Associations Between Sleep Health, Performance Anxiety, and Mental Burnout in Adolescent Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study

Eric Ames Christine Crago UM/Amherst Session 5 A33 Auditorium The Role of Procedural Justice in Default Energy Programs: Testing Justification Frames for Time-of-Use Pricing
Vikas Anand Christine Woodward St Laurent UM/Amherst Session 5 A31 Auditorium Do 24-hour Movement Behaviors Differ from 3 to 5-year-old Children with Developmental Delays and Typical Development
Peter James Andrews Anurag Sharma UM/Amherst Session 5 A75 Auditorium Using AI to Understand Itself
Jessica Mary Applebaum Christine Woodward St Laurent UM/Amherst Session 5 A26 Auditorium Behavioral Sleep Interventions in Preschool Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Systematic Review
Jillian Finn Bakey Allison Roy UM/Amherst Session 5 A44 Auditorium

Environmental Factors Influencing Coldwater Patch Size in Streams: Informing Biodiversity Conservation Under Changing Climates

Katelyn Barrows Whitney Postman Worcester St U Session 5 A78 Auditorium Effective Motor Speech Intervention for Stroke-Induced Apraxia of Speech by Combining Rate-Rhythm Control and Articulatory Kinematic Techniques with Ultrasound Intra-Oral Imaging for Visual Feedback
Thea Bassett Laura N. Vandenberg UM/Amherst Session 5 A61 Auditorium Soy Isoflavones and FDA’s Safety Determination: An Evaluation of Historical GRAS Notifications  
Saumya Bawari Alicia Timme-Laragy UM/Amherst Session 5 A21 Auditorium
Effects of Legacy and Emerging PFAS on Development and Pancreatic Morphologies in Larval Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Nicholas C. Baxter Kathleen A. Brown-Perez UM/Amherst Session 5 A66 Auditorium Tortured by Culture: An Epistemology of Intense Violence in the United States of America.
Grace Beddington Sofija Zagarins UM/Amherst Session 5 A9 Auditorium Examining the Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Anxiety Among College Students
Leonardo Andres Blanco Kirby Deater-Deckard UM/Amherst Session 5 A13 Auditorium Early Adversity, Risk Perceptions, and Substance Use Vulnerability Among Latino Adolescents: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Sophie Eliza Bonazoli Allison Roy UM/Amherst Session 5 A43 Auditorium Prevalence of Scute Abnormalities in a Large Blanding’s Turtle Population in Central Massachusetts
Caroline Jo Burge Heesoo Jang UM/Amherst Session 5 A83 Auditorium Putting Together a Profile: Long-Form Journalism and Asking the Right Questions
Kari Renee Calderone Alicia Timme-Laragy UM/Amherst Session 5 A22 Auditorium Characterizing ROS Detection in Larval Zebrafish Developmentally Exposed to PFOS
Annabelle Dorothy Calderwood Kirby Deater-Deckard UM/Amherst Session 5 A10 Auditorium Parent-Adolescent Conflict and Its Effect on Adolescent Well-Being Around the World
Nicholas James Cassidy Elizabeth Vierling UM/Amherst Session 5 A86 Auditorium

Investigating ATAD3 Function in Arabidopsis thaliana


Grace Chai Heesoo Jang UM/Amherst Session 5 A79 Auditorium

Insights into Tomorrow’s Newsroom, Today: Making Sense of AI in the Student Newsroom

Wileynis Marie Coll Raúl D. Gutiérrez Holyoke CC Session 5 A70 Auditorium

What Is Imposter Syndrome?: The First Generation Experience

Enmanuel Contin Heather Ruel Holyoke CC Session 5 A50 Auditorium

How Arboriculture Techniques Can Enhance Existing Trail Systems

Abigail Devenitch Tim DeLuca UM/Amherst Session 5 A88 Auditorium Supporting Emergent Literacy Skills in Students with Complex Communication Needs Through the Transition to Literacy Feature
Mikayla Donovan Christine Crago UM/Amherst Session 5 A34 Auditorium
The Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on U.S. Renewable Energy Firm Stock Returns
Rowan Downey Heather Ruel Holyoke CC Session 5 A47 Auditorium Strengthening Organizations to Promote Community, Action, & Sustainability
Sushmita Emani Alicia Timme-Laragy UM/Amherst Session 5 A19 Auditorium
Assessment of Developmental and Exocrine Pancreatic Toxicity of Aqueous Film Forming Foams (AFFF) in Larval Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Its Potential Modulation by the Nrf2 Pathway
Marie Fandy Christine Woodward St Laurent UM/Amherst Session 5 A30 Auditorium Feasibility and Acceptability of Assessing Electroencephalography and Cognition Following Acute Bouts of Physical Activity in Preschool Children
Bridget Catherine Fleming Laura N. Vandenberg UM/Amherst Session 5 A59 Auditorium Effects of Voltage Gated Sodium Channel Modulator on Development of the Male Mouse Mammary Gland 
Olivia A. Gharabegian Kirby Deater-Deckard UM/Amherst Session 5 A18 Auditorium The Connection Between Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Age 
Eesha Gorantla Laura N. Vandenberg UM/Amherst Session 5 A63 Auditorium

Developmental Oxybenzone Exposure and Uterine Responsiveness to a Prepubertal Estrogen Challenge in BALB/c Mice

Eilish Mackenzie Gunther Christine Crago UM/Amherst Session 5 A38 Auditorium

Identifying Internal and External Factors Driving University Carbon Emissions

Shourya Gupta Jennifer Rauch UM/Amherst Session 5 A54 Auditorium Exploring AAV Mediated Overexpression of RAP as a Tau-LRP1 Complex Inhibitor
Vani Gupta Laura N. Vandenberg UM/Amherst Session 5 A62 Auditorium Developmental Exposures to Propylparaben and Their Effects on the Female Mouse Mammary Gland Prior to and During Puberty
Tim Florian Heise Jennifer Rauch UM/Amherst Session 5 A52 Auditorium

Investigating Differential N-linked Glycosylation of mLRP4 in AD Tauopathy

Marin Hemmett Sofija Zagarins UM/Amherst Session 5 A1 Auditorium Examining Insomnia Severity Among College Students with Avoidant Attachment Style
Sofia Marie Howland Harlow Allison Roy UM/Amherst Session 5 A45 Auditorium Effect of Climate on Growth of Juvenile Blanding's Turtles in Central Massachusetts
Riley Elizabeth Hynes Anurag Sharma UM/Amherst Session 5 A74 Auditorium Luxury Brands During Recessions
Kathryn Elizabeth Iacomini Anurag Sharma UM/Amherst Session 5 A76 Auditorium Swiping for Love: A Study of Dating at Umass Amherst
Gabriel C. Ibekilo Raúl D. Gutiérrez Holyoke CC Session 5 A69 Auditorium Effects of the Berlin Conference
Yerin Jang Kirby Deater-Deckard UM/Amherst Session 5 A11 Auditorium Attachment Security in Childhood Predicts Parent-Teen Conflict: A Partial Mediation Through Emotional Connectedness
Christian Thomas Jean Heather Ruel Holyoke CC Session 5 A48 Auditorium The Need for Construction of Wildlife Crossings in Massachusetts
Max Jeremic Sofija Zagarins UM/Amherst Session 5 A6 Auditorium

Addressing PTSD Among Military Veterans: A Public Health Approach Using the PERIE Framework

Grace K. Jeronimo Raúl D. Gutiérrez Holyoke CC Session 5 A71 Auditorium

Things You May Find Hidden In My Ear: Liberation Poetry in the Language of Genocide

Yarah Kalae Kathleen A. Brown-Perez UM/Amherst Session 5 A65 Auditorium
Left Out: How Structural Norms Render Half the Population Invisible
Kaushal Kasina Jennifer Rauch UM/Amherst Session 5 A57 Auditorium

Investigating Cell-Type Molecular Drivers of Tau Aggregation and Spread 


Simran Kaur Laura N. Vandenberg UM/Amherst Session 5 A58 Auditorium A Morphological Study on the Effects of Propylparaben Exposure on Female Mammary Glands
Kyla Kawungu Kirby Deater-Deckard UM/Amherst Session 5 A14 Auditorium Adverse Experiences and Its Influences on Child and Adolescent Development
Tanya Kolli Sofija Zagarins UM/Amherst Session 5 A8 Auditorium Dengue Fever in Brazil - Prevention, Surveillance, and Recommendations
Adam Lachapelle Alicia Timme-Laragy UM/Amherst Session 5 A24 Auditorium

Assessment of Developmental and Endocrine Pancreatic Toxicity of Aqueous Film Forming Foams (AFFF) in Larval Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Its Potential Modulation by the Nrf2 Pathway

Laurel Anne Lamoureux Heather Ruel Holyoke CC Session 5 A49 Auditorium Holyoke Community College Trail Management: The Impact of Outdoor Recreation on Mental Health and Ecosystem Sustainability
Jacqueline Lim Sofija Zagarins UM/Amherst Session 5 A3 Auditorium

Attachment Style as a Predictor of Clinical-Level Insomnia Among College Students

Haofeng Lin Elizabeth Vierling UM/Amherst Session 5 A84 Auditorium

Establishment of Cytosolic Small Heat Shock Protein Knockout Lines in Arabidopsis thaliana

Brielle Elizabeth Los Christine Woodward St Laurent UM/Amherst Session 5 A29 Auditorium

 Compliance with the World Health Organization 24-Hour Movement Behavior Guidelines in Preschool Children in Western Massachusetts (SUNRISE Study)  


Ella Katherine Masciarelli Kathleen A. Brown-Perez UM/Amherst Session 5 A64 Auditorium

 Protective or Punitive?: The Dual Nature of Domestic Violence Law

Samantha Matkowski Laura N. Vandenberg UM/Amherst Session 5 A60 Auditorium Testing and Evaluations for Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Identification, Hazard and Risk Assessment 
Caleb McKearney Anurag Sharma UM/Amherst Session 5 A77 Auditorium What Do LLMs Think a Bitcoin Is Worth? 
Hannah Mary Meehan Christine Woodward St Laurent UM/Amherst Session 5 A28 Auditorium

Examining Associations Between Sociodemographic Factors and 24-Hour Movement Behaviors in Preschool Age Children

Audrey Jane Methot Allison Roy UM/Amherst Session 5 A42 Auditorium Demography of an Isolated Spotted Turtle Population in Massachusetts 
Aaron K. Mistry Anurag Sharma UM/Amherst Session 5 A82 Auditorium Entertaining the Student Body: An Analysis of University Programming
Suhana Sumeet Mittal Jennifer Rauch UM/Amherst Session 5 A55 Auditorium Zinc Concentrations and Dose Dependency for Tau Aggregation
Firdaus Muhammad Alicia Timme-Laragy UM/Amherst Session 5 A23 Auditorium Assessing Nrf2 Activation for Pancreatic Recovery Following Critical-Window PFOS Exposure in ptf1a:GFP Zebrafish
Nicole Alexis Ossipian Christine Crago UM/Amherst Session 5 A36 Auditorium How Behavioral Factors Influence Household Renewable Energy Adoption in Amherst, Massachusetts
Benjamin Philpot Christine Crago UM/Amherst Session 5 A35 Auditorium Evaluating the Impact of Regulatory Reform on Renewable Energy Permitting: A Comparative Analysis of Article 10 and ORES in New York
Dylan Podlinski Heesoo Jang UM/Amherst Session 5 A80 Auditorium UMass Housing Problems and the University and Community's Struggle to Define It
Liliana Grace Pollard Heather Ruel Holyoke CC Session 5 A46 Auditorium

The Decline of Atlantic Salmon and Their Recovery Plan

Jamie Leah Quinn Sofija Zagarins UM/Amherst Session 5 A7 Auditorium Disparities in Incidence of Cervical/Breast Cancer in Female Incarcerated Individuals in California
Kya Aliana Ransom Kirby Deater-Deckard UM/Amherst Session 5 A12 Auditorium How Parenting Environments Shape Adolescent Self-Control and Risky Decision Making Across Development
Lucas Reardon Kirby Deater-Deckard UM/Amherst Session 5 A15 Auditorium Assessing the Correlations between Attachment, Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior, and Primal World Beliefs
Susan Reynolds Kathleen A. Brown-Perez UM/Amherst Session 5 A67 Auditorium

Information Is Power: The U.S. Government's Unregulated Data-Sharing Partnerships with Technology Corporations During an Era of Innovation and Democratic Destruction

Samaha Roban Sofija Zagarins UM/Amherst Session 5 A5 Auditorium Addressing Healthcare Access for Incarcerated Women in the US Prison System
Adalie Elyse Rodriguez Raúl D. Gutiérrez Holyoke CC Session 5 A72 Auditorium Between Passion and Pressure : The Major Dilemma for First Generation College Students
Gianna Marie Salvati Christine Woodward St Laurent UM/Amherst Session 5 A32 Auditorium Associations between Socioeconomic Factors and Sedentary Behavior in Preschool Children
Ishaan Singh Sarna Christine Crago UM/Amherst Session 5 A37 Auditorium

Shared Solar, Shared Savings: A Statistical Analysis of Community Solar Participation and Energy Burden in Massachusetts

Elizabeth Marie Sheperd Kathleen A. Brown-Perez UM/Amherst Session 5 A68 Auditorium

Who Deserves Care? The Impact of Restricting Immigrants from the Health Care Safety Net

Alina Shkurikhina Elizabeth Vierling UM/Amherst Session 5 A87 Auditorium Developing an Automated Imaging Chamber for Quantitative Plant Phenotyping
Elizabeth Ann Siller Sofija Zagarins UM/Amherst Session 5 A4 Auditorium Is Moderate Anxiety Beneficial? Exploring a Non-Linear Relationship Between Anxiety and Academic Attitudes
Venkata Siva Naga Nandini Sirikonda Christine Crago UM/Amherst Session 5 A39 Auditorium Evaluating the Success of India's PM-KUSUM Scheme: A Multi-State Analysis of Drivers and Outcomes
Kit Leana Smith Raúl D. Gutiérrez Holyoke CC Session 5 A73 Auditorium Financial Literacy's Impact on First-Generation College Students
Jacob Adam Sorensen Allison Roy UM/Amherst Session 5 A41 Auditorium Mussel Stranding in the Wheelwright Dam Impoundment
Nicole Steinmeyer Elizabeth Vierling UM/Amherst Session 5 A85 Auditorium

Investigating Enzymes Involved in NO Signaling and Homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana

Mickala Diane Stratton Allison Roy UM/Amherst Session 5 A40 Auditorium Environmental DNA (eDNA) as a Tool for Rare Freshwater Mussel Detection and Restoration Planning
Nathan Paul Szukala Heather Ruel Holyoke CC Session 5 A51 Auditorium How Excessive Land Use Can Alter Aquatic Habitats 
June Celestine Thakuria Kirby Deater-Deckard UM/Amherst Session 5 A17 Auditorium


Identifying HRV and Executive Function Subgroups Using Cluster Analysis
Samay Darshin Trivedi Jennifer Rauch UM/Amherst Session 5 A53 Auditorium

LRP1-Mediated Tau Endocytosis in Alzheimer’s Disease

Mcking Minh Truong Alicia Timme-Laragy UM/Amherst Session 5 A20 Auditorium Investigating the Impacts of Methylparaben Exposure on Pancreas Development and Morphometrics on Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Autumn Erin Verna Heesoo Jang UM/Amherst Session 5 A81 Auditorium Research for Accessibility in Podcasting
Anna Vincze Jennifer Rauch UM/Amherst Session 5 A56 Auditorium Investigating the Role of TREM2 in Microglial Tau Clearance
Autumn E. Whelan Alicia Timme-Laragy UM/Amherst Session 5 A25 Auditorium  Investigating the Mechanisms Driving Stunted Pancreata in PFOS-Exposed Larval Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Mason Zhang Sofija Zagarins UM/Amherst Session 5 A2 Auditorium

Comparing UMass Amherst Student Alcohol Use to Broader Collegiate Drinking Trends: An AUDIT-Based Analysis Using R

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Karishma Mahesh Babani Courtney Babbitt UM/Amherst Session 6 A41 Auditorium

Investigating Tau Isoform Expression in Chimp iPSC-Derived Astrocytes


Lyle Banks Amanda L. M. Hyde Greenfield CC Session 6 A5 Auditorium Cleaning and Articulation of Ursus americanus
Lauren E. Baranowski Meghan Huber UM/Amherst Session 6 A12 Auditorium Effects of Asymmetric Surface Stiffness Walking on Lower Limb Muscle Activity 
Stephen Demetri Bate Jessica Schiffman UM/Amherst Session 6 A3 Auditorium

Impact of Temperature Variation During Aqueous Phase Separation Processing on the Fabrication of Hybrid Coacervate Films

Emma Lynn Beckwith Charlotte Wilinsky UM/Amherst Session 6 A75 Auditorium From Parents to Prisons: A Biopsychosocial Approach to the Link Between Stereotypes in Early Male Development and Later Criminal Outcomes 
Narine Berberian Ashish Kulkarni UM/Amherst Session 6 A37 Auditorium Nanoparticle Composition and the Effects on Stability and Neutrophil Interactions
Rowan Lily Boyer Rebecca Ready UM/Amherst Session 6 A28 Auditorium Educational Art Therapy Resources at UMass Amherst
Vartika Burman Jeffrey Blanchard UM/Amherst Session 6 A80 Auditorium
Emergence of a Novel Virus Following Long-Term Experimental Soil Warming

Lotus Carlson Baoshan Xing UM/Amherst Session 6 A58 Auditorium Foliar Microplastics Deposition: An Urban-Rural Comparison
Luca Paolo Centrella Jason Kamilar UM/Amherst Session 6 A82 Auditorium

Analysis of Seasonal and Monthly Diet Variation of Kinda Baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia

Marko Stephen Cerne Baoshan Xing UM/Amherst Session 6 A59 Auditorium

Implications of Heteroaggregation on Vertical Transport of Low-Density Polyethylene Particles in Quartz-Based Soil Column as Examined Using Laser-Direct Infrared (LDIR) Spectroscopy

Jessica K. Chen Jessica Schiffman UM/Amherst Session 6 A2 Auditorium Polydopamine-Mediated Immobilization of Oregano Oil for Sustainable Antibacterial Surface Coatings
Valerie Chung Lynmarie K. Thompson UM/Amherst Session 6 A60 Auditorium DNA-Mediated Assembly of Functional Chemoreceptor Complexes
Rebecca Ciaffi Matthew Lackner UM/Amherst Session 6 A63 Auditorium Design and Analysis of Blade Damper for Offshore Wind Turbines 
Arin Connolly ROSA A. MOSCARELLA UM/Amherst Session 6 A51 Auditorium

Moving Beyond the Deficit Model: Convincing Scientists to Adopt Dialogue and Participation Communication Styles to Restore Public Trust in Scientists


Mari Patrick Cornwall-Brady Qian Zhao UM/Amherst Session 6 A74 Auditorium
Affordability and Availability of Healthy Foods in Massachusetts
Sophia Deligiannidis Jeffrey Blanchard UM/Amherst Session 6 A79 Auditorium Shaping the Undergraduate Research Environment: The Role of the MUSER System in Equity for Undergraduate Research
Annabelle Eve DiGiorgio Judith B. LaBranche UM/Amherst Session 6 A69 Auditorium

Ankle Strength and Flexibility as Predictors of Balance and Injury Risk in Dancers


Vy Do Jingjing Gao UM/Amherst Session 6 A33 Auditorium Systematic Screening of Lipid Nanoparticles Surface Properties for Diffusion and Retention in the Brain
Keller Mark Dorgan Margaret Stratton UM/Amherst Session 6 A52 Auditorium Investigating the Gene Expression of CaMKIIα Isoforms
Brigid Kathleen Duffy Douglas Eddy UM/Amherst Session 6 A78 Auditorium Upper Body Injury Prevention in Extravehicular Activity Suits
Lea Fares Jennifer Mack UM/Amherst Session 6 A66 Auditorium

Comparing Communication Partner Training Programs for Healthcare and Service Workers in Supporting Individuals with Aphasia 

Connor M. Geary Matthew Lackner UM/Amherst Session 6 A62 Auditorium The Simulation of Tuned Heave Plates for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
Kayla Gitonga Cathal J. Kearney UM/Amherst Session 6 A46 Auditorium Intubation Aid for Pregnant Patients 
Mia Gorman Douglas Martini UM/Amherst Session 6 A43 Auditorium

Validating Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit Based Lower Extremity Joint Angle Approximation During Gait

Vivian Grace Hagopian Charlotte Wilinsky UM/Amherst Session 6 A76 Auditorium Exploring the Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Academic Performance, and Career Aspirations in University Students
Jenny He S. Thai Thayumanavan UM/Amherst Session 6 A35 Auditorium Overcoming Multidrug Resistance Through Targeted Protein Degradation
Kathleen Zeyin He ChangHui Pak UM/Amherst Session 6 A84 Auditorium Generation and Characterization of AUTS2 Mutant Cerebellar Organoids to Inform Human AUTS2-Linked Cerebellar Hypoplasia
Linhao He Michael A. Knodler UM/Amherst Session 6 A16 Auditorium Identifying Risk Factors in Transit-Related Pedestrian Crashes: A Data-Driven Approach
Anna Margarita Heninger Duncan James Irschick UM/Amherst Session 6 A54 Auditorium Digital Assessment of African Elephant Body Condition
Salem Howes Sarah Reedy UM/Amherst Session 6 A29 Auditorium

Modern Adaptations of Ancient & Historical Body Modifications: How Cultural Practices Evolve

Aidan Jalbert Youngbin Kwak UM/Amherst Session 6 A48 Auditorium The Neural Basis of Control: EEG Evidence for Sense of Agency
Jacqueline Angelina Jourdain Razvan Sibii UM/Amherst Session 6 A85 Auditorium Healthcare and Living Conditions in U.S. Immigration Detention Centers
Crystal Kagunyi David F. Boutt UM/Amherst Session 6 A70 Auditorium Freshwater Salinization Syndrome across Watersheds in Massachusetts
Kasey Morgan Kellogg Amanda L. M. Hyde Greenfield CC Session 6 A6 Auditorium The Formation and Reproduction of the jeffersonianum-laterale Complex.
STEPHEN LANICH Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 6 A47 Auditorium Beyond Bretton Woods: Alternative Financing, Delinking, and the Struggle for Sovereign Development in Africa
Sujin Lee Katrin Erk UM/Amherst Session 6 A64 Auditorium Interpretable Semantic Axes for ‘Break' in Contextualized Embeddings
Michelle Letowska ROSA A. MOSCARELLA UM/Amherst Session 6 A50 Auditorium Improving Undergraduate Student Genetics Literacy Through a Case Study Addressing Central Dogma Misconceptions
Andy Li Andrew Stephens UM/Amherst Session 6 A25 Auditorium Nuclear Stiffness is Differentially Regulated by Lamin Isoforms
Sarah Rose Long Michael A. Knodler UM/Amherst Session 6 A18 Auditorium

Analyzing Safety through Naturalistic Observation of Pedestrian Behaviors

Antonela Losada Andrew Stephens UM/Amherst Session 6 A26 Auditorium BRD4 Inhibition Suppresses Nuclear Blebbing and Rupture
Abigail Forbes Lowry Elizabeth R. Bertone-Johnson UM/Amherst Session 6 A87 Auditorium

Disparities in Bystander CPR Performance Depending on Patient Sex

Jessica Adelina Magee Elizabeth R. Bertone-Johnson UM/Amherst Session 6 A88 Auditorium Association of Antisocial Behavior with the Use of Alcohol and Other Substances in Teens in Western Massachusetts.
Leandra Mageski Jason Kamilar UM/Amherst Session 6 A81 Auditorium Between Canopy and Concrete: The Anthropogenic Effects on Primate Populations in Brazil's Atlantic Forest
Arya Manda Lauren Andrews UM/Amherst Session 6 A20 Auditorium CRISPRi Transcriptional Gates for Programmable Control of Bacillus subtilis
Christine Mary Mavrakis Douglas Martini UM/Amherst Session 6 A44 Auditorium Validity of Gait Ankle Kinematics Comparing Overground and Treadmill Surfaces
Laney Madelyn McGoff Jill Hoover UM/Amherst Session 6 A22 Auditorium

The Relationship Between Language and Parents’ Ratings of Cognitive and Behavioral Skills in Intellectual Disabilities 

Krystal Nyardani Michoma Lisa M. Minter UM/Amherst Session 6 A8 Auditorium Evaluating Quercetin as an Immunomodulator: Dose-Dependent Effects on Viability and Inflammatory Signaling
Jennifer Morani Megan C. Gross UM/Amherst Session 6 A15 Auditorium

A Virtual Bilingual Affinity Group for Neurodiverse Latino Youth: Parent Perspectives and Children's Language Use

Madeleine Mosteiro Kathleen Arcaro UM/Amherst Session 6 A56 Auditorium Using Breastmilk From BRCA Mutation Carriers as an Assessment Tool for Breast Cancer Risk
Sammy Redha Mounsif Lynmarie K. Thompson UM/Amherst Session 6 A61 Auditorium smFRET Investigations of Domain Interactions That Regulate the Kinase Activity of CheA
Julie K. Mulloy Judith B. LaBranche UM/Amherst Session 6 A68 Auditorium

Predicting Low Back Pain in Collegiate Dancers Through Functional Movement Screening and Lower Crossed Syndrome Assessment Research


Thomas C. Murphy Maitreyee Marathe UM/Amherst Session 6 A32 Auditorium PEAK: Software for Prepaid Energy Awareness Kit
Esther Eniola Mustapha Lisa M. Minter UM/Amherst Session 6 A7 Auditorium

Examining the Anti-Inflammatory Action of Glycyrrhizin: An Active Compound in Licorice Root

Lisa Elizabeth Nguyen Razvan Sibii UM/Amherst Session 6 A86 Auditorium Policy Analysis on Incarcerated Pregnant Women's Healthcare
Gabriel Béla Olland David F. Boutt UM/Amherst Session 6 A71 Auditorium Snowpack Accumulation and Melt Dynamics in Southcentral Alaska, and Their Influence on Streamflow
Andre Owens-Butler Duncan James Irschick UM/Amherst Session 6 A55 Auditorium A Quantitative Method for Assessing Polar Bear Body Condition
Josephine Christina Pappone Megan C. Gross UM/Amherst Session 6 A13 Auditorium

Understanding the Interconnectedness of Bilingualism and Autism Through the Lens of Linguistic Annotation Software (ELAN)

Sunny Periyasamy S. Thai Thayumanavan UM/Amherst Session 6 A36 Auditorium Developing Antibody-Nanogel Conjugates for Achieving Cell-Specific Delivery of PROTACs 
Deekshita Rajendran Youngbin Kwak UM/Amherst Session 6 A49 Auditorium

How Do Individual Differences in the Big Five Personality Traits Relate to Explore/Exploit Behavior in Decision Making and Motor Control?


Zihan Rao Andrea Pocar UM/Amherst Session 6 A40 Auditorium Long-Term Characterization of Prototype Silicon Photomultipliers in Liquid Xenon
Sai Sanjeev Reddy Ashish Kulkarni UM/Amherst Session 6 A38 Auditorium

Optimization of BBB-Crossing Lipid Nanoparticles for Enhanced Brain Delivery and Modulation of NLRP3 Inflammasome Signaling

Kalyani Rojan Matthew Moore UM/Amherst Session 6 A23 Auditorium

Enhancing Disinfection Using Synergistic Interactions Between Carvacrol and Charged Surfactants: A Comparative Analysis of Emulsion Formulations Against Tulane Virus, a Human Norovirus Surrogate



Anabella Rose Douglas Eddy UM/Amherst Session 6 A77 Auditorium A Review of Hand Arthritis Types, Challenges, and Solutions
Kayla Russ Russ Meghan Huber UM/Amherst Session 6 A11 Auditorium Effects of Asymmetric Stiffness Walking on Weight-Bearing Symmetry
Gabriella Tamara Saint-Vil ChangHui Pak UM/Amherst Session 6 A83 Auditorium Understanding the Role of the Extracellular Matrix on Cell Fate in Cortical Brain Organoids 
Emma Antonia Sands Meghan Huber UM/Amherst Session 6 A10 Auditorium Effects of Wedged Shoes on Uphill Walking Energetics and Muscle Fascicle Behavior
Kaya Sempruch Michael A. Knodler UM/Amherst Session 6 A17 Auditorium

Analyzing Pedestrian Safety Near Bus Stops

Kiruba Shalin Jingjing Gao UM/Amherst Session 6 A34 Auditorium Protein-Functionalized, Lipoprotein-Mimetic Lipid Nanoparticles for Gene Therapy Delivery to the Central Nervous System
Ada Shavo Edwin Everhart UM/Amherst Session 6 A72 Auditorium Who Chooses Standard English?: Navigating Language and Power in the UMass Writing Center
Samantha Sheedy Qian Zhao UM/Amherst Session 6 A73 Auditorium Comparing Impacts of Lecturing and Collaborative Concept Mapping on Learning Outcomes and Perspectives in a Statistics Classroom
Alexander David Shikhanovich Maitreyee Marathe UM/Amherst Session 6 A31 Auditorium P.E.A.K.: Hardware for Prepaid Energy Awareness Kit
Monica A. Silva Megan C. Gross UM/Amherst Session 6 A14 Auditorium Developing Caregiver-Implemented Early Language Interventions in Puerto Rico: Longitudinal Observations of Caregiver Language Facilitation Strategy Use
Gianna Kimberly Smith Jill Hoover UM/Amherst Session 6 A21 Auditorium The Lived Experiences and Values of Mothers Raising Children with Down Syndrome 
Timothy A. Stilphen-Wildes Sarah Reedy UM/Amherst Session 6 A30 Auditorium Homolingual Language Ideology: Implications for Classroom Second Language Education
Graeme Sullivan Andrea Pocar UM/Amherst Session 6 A39 Auditorium Characterization of Flowing Hydrofluoroethers at Cryogenic Temperatures
Eva Sophie Sweeney Lisa M. Minter UM/Amherst Session 6 A9 Auditorium Investigating the Immunomodulatory Properties of the Turmeric-Derived Compound, Curcumin
Tiffany Tan Lauren Andrews UM/Amherst Session 6 A19 Auditorium Developing an Optimized Cadmium Biosensor for Pseudomonas putida
Drisilla Twumasi Jay Taneja UM/Amherst Session 6 A45 Auditorium Driver Behavior Analysis Using CCTV Footage
Shafeena T. Uddin Matthew Moore UM/Amherst Session 6 A24 Auditorium

Investigating Magnetic Ionic Liquids for Capture and Concentration of Viruses Prior to Detection

Jacqueline Mary Vitiello Kathleen Arcaro UM/Amherst Session 6 A57 Auditorium Breastfeeding Child Health and Mammary Permeability Study 
Autumn Voyer Jessica Schiffman UM/Amherst Session 6 A1 Auditorium Chemical Modification of Kombucha-Derived Living Filtration Membranes
Samantha G. Walsh Amanda L. M. Hyde Greenfield CC Session 6 A4 Auditorium
Light Pollution Effects on Firefly Populations and Community Conservation Strategies
Natalie Anne Wessell Rebecca Ready UM/Amherst Session 6 A27 Auditorium Music Therapy in Alzheimer's Disease
Katherine Elizabeth Wilker Jennifer Mack UM/Amherst Session 6 A67 Auditorium Analyzing the Relationship Between Reading Behaviors of Aphasia ID Cards and Their Effectiveness as a Communication Tool
Nathan Wolf Katrin Erk UM/Amherst Session 6 A65 Auditorium Impact of Morphologically-Aware Tokenization on Language Model Performance Across Morphological Types
Abhay K. Yajurvedi Margaret Stratton UM/Amherst Session 6 A53 Auditorium Structural Insights Into the High-Affinity Binding of GHB Analogs Within CaMKIIα Hub

Presenter Sponsor Campus Session Poster Board Room Title
Maxwell Skye Balkema Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B10 Concourse Reimagining Justice: Indigenous Justice Initiatives and What Western Justice Systems Stand to Learn
Alan Ying Chen Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B9 Concourse
Manufactured Crises Justify Authoritarianism
Keira M. Cook Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B11 Concourse
Jury Impartiality and Its Epistemic Limits: Cognitive Constraints and the Sixth Amendment
Adelaide Sarah Cutler Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B6 Concourse Eugenics: The Lasting Impact on Science
Wyatt Falk Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B7 Concourse Public Opinions and Views of the Supreme Court Throughout American History: How These Views Shaped the Role of the Court
Jonathan Goldin Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B5 Concourse Rethinking Public Discourse in Schools
Md Affan Hossain Vincent Rotello UM/Amherst Session 1 B16 Concourse Essential Oil Nanoemulsions for the Inhibition and Eradication of Biofilms on Medical Device Surfaces
Ryan Matthew Levitan Vincent Rotello UM/Amherst Session 1 B13 Concourse Polymer-Directed Enzyme Prodrug Therapy in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Hannah Grace Linehan Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B2 Concourse

Historical Tradition and Constitutional Interpretation: Missing History, Legal Deciphering, and Silenced Discourse in the Dobbs Decision

Justin Viana Marro Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B1 Concourse Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions and Women’s Labor Force Participation
Ryo Nozawa Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B3 Concourse

“The War Abroad and on the Homefront: How the Vietnam War Redefined and Mobilized Black Resistance” 

“The War Abroad and on the Homefront: How the Vietnam War Redefined and Mobilized Black Resistance” 


Sarah Elizabeth Ryan Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B8 Concourse From Buck to Dobbs: The Constitutional Logic of Reproductive Policing
Harini Sibi Vincent Rotello UM/Amherst Session 1 B15 Concourse Targeting Dual Species Biofilms in Clinical Coinfections: Polymeric Nanoemulsion-Based Delivery
Mila Yana Splawska Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B4 Concourse Abortion Rights: A Case for the Equal Protection Clause
Austin Tao Vincent Rotello UM/Amherst Session 1 B14 Concourse Evaluating the Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Efficacy of Cationic Antimicrobial Polymers.
Michael Wiesen Martha Yoder UM/Amherst Session 1 B12 Concourse The Third Legislature: How the Supreme Court Utilizes Power in Times of Hyperpartisanism
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FATOUMATA BARROW Komalpreet Kaur Salem St U Session 2 B9 Concourse

MataVision: Predicting and Preventing Traffic Accidents in Salem, Massachusetts Using Machine Learning

Roman Bukreev Komalpreet Kaur Salem St U Session 2 B8 Concourse Viking P300: A P300 EEG Brain-Computer Interface for Real-Time Four-Command Game Control
Litzy M. Cardona Zsuzsa Kaldy UM/Boston Session 2 B4 Concourse

Cross-Cultural Variation in Visual Attentional Styles: A Meta-Analysis and Proposed Explanation


Alliyah Cuevas Zsuzsa Kaldy UM/Boston Session 2 B6 Concourse

Examining Racism’s Impact: Race-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Internalized Racism as Predictors of Psychological Distress and the Potential Moderating Role of Social Support Among Black Adults 


Julian T. Economou Whitney Postman Worcester St U Session 2 B13 Concourse Overcoming Language Barriers in Healthcare for Stroke Patients with Aphasia: Adaptation of the Language Screening Test for Aphasia into Modern Greek
Hiba Farhan Sarah Rose Eagan Worcester St U Session 2 B2 Concourse Unseen Burdens: The Impacts of Intergenerational Trauma on First and Second Generation Immigrants' Life Satisfaction
Sean James Furlong Weichu Xu Worcester St U Session 2 B16 Concourse Design and the Development of Protein Kinase C Inhibitors as Anticancer Agents
Addison Lynn Kamrad Sarah Rose Eagan Worcester St U Session 2 B3 Concourse Responding to the Revised Sexual Experiences Survey: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Participant Experience
Andja Kola Sarah Rose Eagan Worcester St U Session 2 B1 Concourse This is Why I Left: Sexual Violence Fuels Migrants’ Decision to Move to the United States
Natalie Kowalski Billy Jackson N Shore CC Session 2 B10 Concourse “Love Hurts” Suicide in the Veterinary Profession
Zane K. Mourad Zsuzsa Kaldy UM/Boston Session 2 B5 Concourse

Proactive Interference in 3-Year-Old Toddlers’ Working Memory Using an Eye-Tracking Task


Bridget Ajua Ngu-Atem Billy Jackson N Shore CC Session 2 B11 Concourse Early Detection of Dementia: Methods, Benefits, and Challenges, and the Role of Lifestyle Factors and Caregivers.
Lauren Ramos Martin Matthew Brown UM/Boston Session 2 B15 Concourse Ending is Better than Mending: New Age Individualism and Its Reliance on Consumerism
Ashley Shepard Billy Jackson N Shore CC Session 2 B12 Concourse The Passive Neuronal Membrane as an RC Circuit
Carlos Vasquez Komalpreet Kaur Salem St U Session 2 B7 Concourse Autonomous Photographer
June Wholey Whitney Postman Worcester St U Session 2 B14 Concourse Promoting Emergent Literacy for Preschool Children in Massachusetts Through Campus-Community Partnerships Led by University Programs in Speech-Language Pathology
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Malak A. Al-alamy Todd Scherer Drogy UM/Boston Session 3 B10 Concourse

Ghosts in the Genome: AI, CRISPR, and the Illusion of Resurrection

Maximus Lee Ball Elizabeth Kilpatrick Fitchburg St U Session 3 B6 Concourse

 Immune Responses and Dysferlin Expression in THP-1 Monocytes. 

Grace Adrina Balzanelli Roger S. Greenwell Worcester St U Session 3 B4 Concourse Exploring the Microbial Diversity of Ancient Antarctic Soil
Alicia Banson Zeynep Gonen Framingham St U Session 3 B12 Concourse The Intersection of Trauma, Mental Health, and Among Incarcerated Women in Massachusetts
Deidre Blais Asa Iacobucci Bridgewater St U Session 3 B16 Concourse

Police Attitudes on Crisis Intervention Teams in South-Eastern Massachusetts

Kole Scott Broderick David P. Weiss Fitchburg St U Session 3 B15 Concourse The Relationship Between College Education and Policing
Isabelle Conley Jessica Stephens Westfield St U Session 3 B5 Concourse Assessing the Impact of Urbanization on Plant Communities in the Northeastern United States
Olivia R. Davis Thea Popolizio Salem St U Session 3 B9 Concourse Integrative Taxonomy Reveals Widespread Cryptic Introduced Macroalgae Across Northern New England (2024 - 2025)
Diana Do Joanna B. Dahl UM/Boston Session 3 B1 Concourse Raman Detection of Glucose Thin Films on CaF₂: Effects of Integration Time and Substrate Background
Annely Grullon Rojas Jeremy Bechelli Salem St U Session 3 B2 Concourse Characterization and Identification of Two Soil Bacterial Isolates with Antimicrobial Activity
Arianny Grullon Rojas Laura T. Laranjo Salem St U Session 3 B7 Concourse Effects of Sertraline on Replication-Associated Template-Switching Mutations in Escherichia coli 
Jocelyn D. Hernandez Vasquez Len von Morze UM/Boston Session 3 B14 Concourse Addition of Interpreters in Courts 
Christian William Marsden MICHAEL MCCUTCHEON Fitchburg St U Session 3 B13 Concourse Community Oriented Policing
Keeley McKenney Jacob Barnett Berkshire CC Session 3 B11 Concourse

Wolbachia Bacterium Found in Water Strider (Gerris sp.) in Dalton, Massachusetts

Emily Margaret Mercier Cara Pina Framingham St U Session 3 B8 Concourse

Assessing the Antibacterial Properties of US-Grown Dysphania ambrosioides

Emily Wang Catherine D. McCusker UM/Boston Session 3 B3 Concourse Characterization of the Miniaturized Axolotl Limb Phenotype
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Ella Bowcut Amy Altadonna UM/Amherst Session 4 B9 Concourse The Queen of the Night- Costume Construction 
Anne Kathryn Boyd Denise G. O'Malley Bunker Hill CC Session 4 B3 Concourse Western Canvas, Japanese Palette: Depictions of Empress Shōken in Western Clothing in Meiji-Era Woodblock Prints
Zoe Ann Chrisostomides Wafa Unus Fitchburg St U Session 4 B12 Concourse Rebuilding Local News
Ryan Darling Kelly C. Morgan Fitchburg St U Session 4 B11 Concourse The Beauty of a Piledriver: The Art of Professional Wrestling
Gavilan Delors Dhivers Kisha Tracy Fitchburg St U Session 4 B6 Concourse From Illness to Wholeness: Exploring the Dimensions of Holistic Healthcare and Christian Spiritual Integration
Melissa Guillaume Amy KendrIck Fitchburg St U Session 4 B5 Concourse

Tracing the Past, Healing the Present: Examining Racial Disparities in Healthcare and African American Mistrust Through a Nursing Lens


Lugh Hermes Hudson Stephen Poulin Greenfield CC Session 4 B1 Concourse GCC Plum Literary Review Internship 2026
Lauren J. Keough Andrea Olmstead Fitchburg St U Session 4 B2 Concourse Mel and I: Art, Self-Conception, and Growing Up a Twin
Oleksandr Lysyi Enping Li Bridgewater St U Session 4 B16 Concourse What Your Phone Knows About You: A Digital Forensics Perspective on Mobile App Data Collection
Angie Mejia Lucinda Canty UM/Amherst Session 4 B8 Concourse

Barriers and Facilitators To Self-Advocacy During the Birthing Process: An Analysis From Focus Groups

Krystal Faye Otis Roopa Vasudevan UM/Amherst Session 4 B4 Concourse All Ages
Fardeen Riaz Ahamed Eugene Bagdasarian UM/Amherst Session 4 B15 Concourse Collusion Detection in Multi Agent Systems
Maura Martine Ronan Tom P. Geha Greenfield CC Session 4 B10 Concourse We Are Like This: Verbatim Theatre and The Laramie Project 
Nicole Ryan Mary Jo Shafer N Essex CC Session 4 B13 Concourse Understanding Journalism for Incarcerated Voices
Aidan Tarr Dustin Christensen UM/Amherst Session 4 B14 Concourse Correlating Athlete Injuries To Struggling Mental Health
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Madina Alikulova Lynn Adler UM/Amherst Session 5 B15 Concourse

ProBEEotics: Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Crithidia bombi (Trypanosomatidae) Infection on the Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)

Roman R. Barankov Lynn Adler UM/Amherst Session 5 B13 Concourse

How Do Pollen Diets and Pathogen Infection Interact to Affect Bumblebee Performance?


Virendra Bhawsar Paul Katz UM/Amherst Session 5 B3 Concourse A Complete Cellular Census of the Rhinophore Ganglion in Berghia stephanieae
Isabella Goetz Paul Katz UM/Amherst Session 5 B1 Concourse 3D Reconstruction of an Olfactory Circuit in a Nudibranch Mollusc
Dominique Habchi Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi UM/Amherst Session 5 B11 Concourse Experimentally Observing Coupled-Mode Flutter
Leah Grace Hoeppner Lila M. Gierasch UM/Amherst Session 5 B6 Concourse U(GGT1) Light Up My ER: A Fluorescent Localization Study of the ER Quality Control Gatekeeper UGGT1
Laura Reese Kurt Emily Wang UM/Amherst Session 5 B16 Concourse Artificial Intelligence Disclosures and Firm Valuation: Evidence from 10-K Filings
Sydney T. Mager Lila M. Gierasch UM/Amherst Session 5 B4 Concourse Unraveling Chaperone Selectivity: Investigating the Substrate Binding Characteristics of Mammalian Hsp70s
Nidhi Manchikanti Carrie Johnson Nobles UM/Amherst Session 5 B7 Concourse

Seasonal Variations in Reproductive Hormones: An Analysis of the EAGeR and BioCycle Studies 

Priscillia Meta Carrie Johnson Nobles UM/Amherst Session 5 B8 Concourse
Bridging the Gap Through Evaluating Maternal Health Policies and Racial Disparities in Postpartum Hemorrhage
Ryan O’Meara Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi UM/Amherst Session 5 B12 Concourse Fluid-Structure Interactions of Flexible Cylinders in Axial Flow
Emma Lynne Piedade Lynn Adler UM/Amherst Session 5 B14 Concourse The Influence of Bee Host Community Context for In Vitro Growth Parameters of a Trypanosomatid Parasite
Emilio Salazar Lila M. Gierasch UM/Amherst Session 5 B5 Concourse

Identifying Site U: An Uncharacterized DnaK Binding Region in proPhoA

Claire Schwartz Carrie Johnson Nobles UM/Amherst Session 5 B9 Concourse The Effects of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Women's Reproductive Health
Tess Thattacherry Paul Katz UM/Amherst Session 5 B2 Concourse How Does a Sea Slug Smell? A Molecular Approach to Investigating Olfaction in a Nudibranch.
Ava Towfigh Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi UM/Amherst Session 5 B10 Concourse
Flow-Induced Oscillations and Wake Interactions in Floating Spar-Buoy Wind Turbine Platforms  

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B. Francis Andersen Adam S. Grabell UM/Amherst Session 6 B13 Concourse Pop Goes the Weasel: Music Pedagogy in Education, The Capabilities of Music Integration in Schooling
David Bai Tadasu Nozaki UM/Amherst Session 6 B16 Concourse Meiotic Homolog Pairing in Polyploid Yeast
Korrina Bentley Adrian Staub UM/Amherst Session 6 B12 Concourse The Role of Lexical Properties in Detecting Repetition Errors
Sophia Brandt Brian Lickel UM/Amherst Session 6 B1 Concourse
Fossil Fuel Pipeline Protest Movements: Student Perceptions of Protest Outcomes and Tactics
Keerti Daesety Linda M. Isbell UM/Amherst Session 6 B7 Concourse Homelessness in the ED: A Narrative Review
Minnah Gayed Deepika Marya UM/Amherst Session 6 B3 Concourse Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Pharmaceuticals During Global Health Crises: HIV/AIDS and COVID-19
Michael Gillespie Elena T. Carbone UM/Amherst Session 6 B9 Concourse A Study of Music's Impact on Cognitive and Emotional Expression in Memory Care Residents with Dementia
Patricia Marie Howk Edna Yamasaki Patrikiou UM/Amherst Session 6 B5 Concourse

Exercise and Mental Health Disorders (Anxiety and Depression) in Young Adults and University Students Scoping Review


Kailin Huang Michael James Constantino UM/Amherst Session 6 B15 Concourse Existential Isolation as a Mediator of the Alliance–Outcome Association in Naturalistic Psychotherapy
Arwen E. King Joshua Becker Greenfield CC Session 6 B10 Concourse An Overview of the Current Research Around Asexuality
Gregory C. Macdonald Erik Cheries UM/Amherst Session 6 B4 Concourse 'Discourse Particles' and the Underlying Structure of Successful Conversations
Katelyn Oliveri McMillan Mariana Pereira UM/Amherst Session 6 B6 Concourse Investigating the Contribution of the mPOA to Maternal Sensitivity
Zoe Amelia Miller Katherine Dixon-Gordon UM/Amherst Session 6 B14 Concourse The Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives on the Mental Health of Healthy Adult Females
Jessica Murray Alexandra Jesse UM/Amherst Session 6 B2 Concourse Getting Used to Listening to Accented Speech: Does Exposure Reduce Listening Effort?
Yashvi Patel Lauren S. Aulet UM/Amherst Session 6 B8 Concourse

Intuitive Physics Skills and the Home Learning Environment in 4- to 8-Year-Olds


Taoran Jin Ye Andrew Cohen UM/Amherst Session 6 B11 Concourse Rationality and Causality: A Study of Belief Revision