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Dear Colleagues and Students,

Welcome to our 2020 Virtual Symposium. Please join us as we celebrate undergraduate

research and creativity during our 13th-annual symposium. Our traditional format for

Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement (URSA) Scholars Week, in which oral

presentation sessions are held in the Bill Daniel Student Center and poster presentations are

conducted in the Baylor Science Building, had been planned to take place during the week of

March 30 to April 3, 2020. The outbreak of COVID-19 made this traditional approach an

impossibility. Over the past few weeks we have witnessed the dedication and talent of over 100

students and their mentors as they adapted to our new format. We understand that the

pandemic is affecting our students, colleagues, and families in a myriad of stressful ways that

made it too onerous to allow some students to participate this year. Our thoughts are with

everyone in the Baylor family as we navigate this difficult time and look forward to other

opportunities to celebrate their work.

Although a smaller group of presentations than in our traditional setting, our virtual symposium

hosts a formidable set of platform and poster presentations, maintaining our tradition of

showcasing the research excellence of our students as in past iterations of Scholars Week. We

invite you to view and listen to the presentations of our excellent undergraduates and to learn

about their research experiences, many of which are unique to Baylor. We would also like to

extend our gratitude to the Baylor University faculty mentors who wholeheartedly support

undergraduate research, even during the present crisis.

Sincerely,

Tamarah Adair, Ph.D.,Director of URSA, Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Pre-Health Disciplines

Nathan T. Elkins, Ph.D.,Director of URSA, Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Professional Disciplines

Accessing the Virtual Symposium

The URSA Virtual Symposium is divided into two main folders, Platform Presentations and

Poster Presentations, both of which are further subdivided into “Sessions” that are grouped

together by discipline, as far as possible. The presentations are hosted on Box. Each session

contains a hyperlink to each individual session, which contains a folder for each speaker. The

Folders are named with the submitting author. This Program contains a list of all authors. Most

folders contain two files: an abstract as a .pdf or .doc file, and the presentation as a .pptx

or .mp4 file. Some folders may contain a third file, which is a separate audio file that should be

played while viewing the presentation. It is important to note that to view PowerPoint

presentations with recorded narrations in Box, you must download the file to your computer

and play the slide show in full screen; audio for narrated PowerPoints will not play in the Box

preview.

Thank you and Enjoy!

URSA 2020 Virtual SymposiumPlatform Presentations

Session 1: Biology

Student Presenter (s) Title DepartmentFaculty Mentor

+Ashley AllenThe Effects of Climate Change and Nitrogen Concentrations on Harmful Algal Blooms Biology

Jacquelyn Duke

+Ashley Ricciardelli

Effects of Nitrogen and Micronutrient Concentration on Phytoplankton Toxins in a Community from Lake Fayetteville, Arkansas Biology

Jacquelyn Duke

+Christopher Sharon and Anupama Kannan

Effects of Nitrogen and Micronutrient Concentration on a Phytoplankton Population Biology

Jacquelyn Duke

+Lauren Ferguson and Sandi Win Naung

Influence of Micronutrient Concentration, Nitrogen Source and Nitrogen Concentration on M. aeruginosa Biomass Biology

Jacquelyn Duke

Session 2: Biology, Psychology & Neuroscience, and Anthropology


Morgan Ballard and Bradie Dean

Analysis of the Artifacts Recovered during Test Excavations and Metal Detector Survey at the Robertson Plantation, a National Register Site in Bell County, Texas

Anthropology

Carol Macauly

+Grace Phillip and Berkeley Sheppard

Effects of Nitrogen and Micronutrients on Toxic Algae Biology

Jacquelyn Duke

+Seth BuschoThe Role of Nitrogen and Micronutrients on Harmful Algal Blooms Biology

Jacquelyn Duke

Taylor LusterThe Effects of Chronotype on Academic Capabilities

Psychology & Neuroscience

Michael Scullin

Ivy GrossbergActual and Perceived Screen Time in College Students

Psychology & Neuroscience

Michael Scullin

Presentations that do not have audio are marked with an asterisk (*).Presentations that have a global theme are marked with an plus sign (+).

Session 3: English and Communication Sciences & Disorders


Samantha FettermanInvestigating Acoustic & Aerodynamic Voice Parameters in College Cheerleaders

Communication Science & Disorders

Brittany Perrine

Caroline WirthExamination of Multiple Methods for Collecting Phonation Threshold Pressure

Communication Science & Disorders

Brittany Perrine

Seth Gaulke

Variations in Bilingualism: Differences in Morphological Typology as a Contribution to Cognitive Differences in Bilinguals English Clay Butler

Mackenzie ChandlerHolistic Sentence Processing in Bilinguals during Adverse Conditions English Clay Butler

Nicole Salama

The Struggle to Survive Childhood: Sylvia Plath's Depiction of Youth as Traumatic in "Lady Lazarus" English

Julia Daniel

Session 4: Music Education, Religion, and Political Science


+Sarah HamrinThe Context of Mass: Culture, Communism, and Controversy

Music Education

Robin Wallace

*Maya JohnsonFrom Self to Society to Divinity: A Relational Ontology of Music

Music Education

Monique Ingalls

Dayton WrightNew Calvinism, Alcohol, and the Southern Baptist Struggle for Identity Religion Joe Coker

+Payton Forster Mongolia’s Dependent Democratization Political Science

Ivy Hamerly

+Camille Rybacki Koch

Democratic Deconsolidation: A Case Study in Hungary

Political Science

Ivy Hamerly


URSA 2020 Virtual SymposiumPoster Presentations

Session 1: Biology Group A

Student Presenter (s) Title Faculty MentorBisi Otulana, M. Guin, D. Crain, F. Mansouri, J. Patterson, R. Sabin, S. Usenko

Steroid hormones in three baleen plates from the same individual

Stephen Trumble

Jacqueline CarrollRegulation of Iron Homeostasis as related to the Nonsense Mediated mRNA Deca- Bessie Kebaara

Batool SyedOlfactometer-Based Behavioral Responses of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus Mosquitos Jason Pitts

Session 2: Biology Group B

Student Presenter (s) Title Faculty Mentor

Hanna BradfordFarm Pond Net Ecosystem Production: Source of sink of CO2 to the atmosphere Robert Doyle

Bryan Leal The effects of relative pond clarity on planktonic P:R in Texas reservoirs Robert Doyle

Ian Hernandez Understanding small ponds and labile organic carbon Robert Doyle

Lacey BarnesThe effect of photosynthesis and respiration on carbon processing in small ponds Robert Doyle


Session 3: Biology Group C

Student Presenter (s) Title Faculty MentorDaphne Simo, Alicia Chen, Megan Taylor

The Utilization of Magnets in Laparoscopic Uterine Prolapse Repairs Marty Harvill

*+Brandon Cunningham, Mathew Hackler, Pierce Thompson

The effect of Fertilizers on Methanotrophic Microbes in Wetland Environments Marty Harvill

Nicole Wire, Jonathan Aparicio, Bronson Balzac, Sinchana Basoor, Ritu Channagiri, Luke Day, Sowmya Duddu, Anthony Giovi, Haider Khan, Jonathan Lai, Arvind Muruganantham, Angel Otto, Jorge Ramirez, Catherine Ravikumar, Christian Schultz, Saisha Singh, Avery Voight, Emily Young, Sriram Avirneni, Grip Gilbert, Leo Rule

Isolation and Bioinformatic Analysis of Arthrobacter Phage Pippa

Tamarah AdairSaawan Patel, Sophia Braden

A comparative analysis of nutrient levels in wetlands using Cattail Biomass

Marty Harvill

Luke Twaddell, Grace Killeen, and Rekha Goswami

The Effects of Bisphenol A on Reproductive Rates of Daphnia magna

Marty Harvill

Session 4: Biology Group D

Student Presenter (s) Title Faculty MentorEvelynne Morris, Gabbi Marchelli, Ireland Buckley

Effect of Using CBD Placebo Under Stress: Measuring Heart Rate, Mean Arterial Pressure and Reported Stress Level Dena Quigley

Christian McSweeny, Hannah Gannon, Uche Oparaji

The Effect of Eye diseases on Visual Foot-Reaction Time and Eye Muscle Activity Dena Quigley

Ashleigh Hines, Pilar Hernandez, Brenda Chau

The Effects of Blue-Light Emission from Technology on the Eye Dena Quigley


Session 5: Biology Group E

Student Presenter (s) Title Faculty Mentor+Joseph Spear, Sae Hee Choi

Bloodmeal analysis of wild-caught Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia Tamar Carter

Victoria Tatunay, Sunny Kim, Kyla Brienne, Alano Wilwayco, Quynh Le

Investigation of the effects of TAK-242 on C.elegans survival and reproduction rate Myeongwoo Lee

Megan Taylor Taregting RGD cell-binding motif of LAM-3 and its effects on ECM Myeongwoo Lee

Aileen Park, Olivia Baur, Kendall Lewis, Lauren Whiteley, Maggie Cross, Sophia Brice

Analysis of him-4 Triplet Mutation of RGD to RGE Using CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Myeongwoo Lee

Ryan Anaya, N. Campion, E. Lopez, J. McIntire, K. O’Connor, N. Tran, R. Williams Beta pat-3 Integrin Plays Vital Role in Muscle Function Myeongwoo LeeAvery Brau, Sabrina Hodge, Roshni Jaffery, Krysta Kenney, Jacob Wahl, Rachel Wilsey

The effects of cgh-1 mutation in Caenorhabditis elegans Myeongwoo Lee

Sarah Swanson, Christian Beane, Victoria Darby, Ali Lahiji, Chris Nguyen

The effect of tln-1 mutation on the Phenotype of Caenorhabditis elegans Myeongwoo Lee

*Adam Mather, Hashim Aziz, Katelyn Lunini, Brandon Helget, Angelica Calderon, Kavita Kantamnemi

The Role of Zyx-1 in C. Elegans and its Relationship to Dystrophin Myeongwoo Lee

Sophia Antonini, Lacey Barnes, Avery Davis, Trista Enriquez, Shonti Wilson

The characterization of cell binding motif in LET-805/ Myotactin in Caenorhabditis elegans Myeongwoo Lee

Jacob Hanna, Amar Pancar, Jingmei Zeng, Victoria Reyes, Shailyn Miller

Point Mutation in Beta Integrin Tyrosine Phosphorylation Site of Caenorhabditis elegans Myeongwoo Lee

Catherine Hughes, Madison Baugh, Nathan Jones, Kevin Lee, Alexia Lopez, Noah Patton

Deletion of the Tripeptide Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) in the lam-3 gene of Caenorhabditis elegans Myeongwoo Lee


Session 6: Chemistry & Biochemistry

Student Presenter (s) Title Faculty Mentor*Abigail Smith and Jacob Ford

Synthesis of Vascular Disrupting Agent Drug-Linker Constructs for Use in antibody-drug conjugates Kevin Pinney

Shubhneet Warar, Ian Anthony, Christina Gaw

Populating a Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy Library using Tandem GC/VUV-MS and Chemometric Deconvolution of Real-World Sample Data Touradj Solouki

+Robert DiamondComputational determination of TiO+ Electronic Structure using DFT Darrin Bellert

Joy Hoang, Megan Behrmann, Himasha Perera DNA Unwinding Among Diverse Helicases

Michael Trakselis

+Humbal Omar and Ankith Pokulluri

IR Absorption Spectra of CO2: A Prominent Green House Gas Darrin Bellert

Evan Mastin and Tucker Lewis Kinetics and Mechanism of Co+ Mediated

Decomposition of Acetaldehyde Darrin Bellert *Megan Taylor and Himasha Perera

Optimization and Purification of E. coli DNA-directed DNA Polymerase III core Enzyme

Michael Trakselis

Margaret McCutcheon, Evia Calixte, Emily Ziperman, Jamie Kim

An Application of DFT for characterizing the energetics of HDX for solvated Carbohydrates Elyssia Gallagher

*Andrew Ensenberger, Mark Zimmer, Tracey Strecker, Mathew MacDonough, Deboprosad Mondal, Zhe Shi

Analysis of Bioreductive Cleavage of Prodrugs to Effector Anticancer agent by High performance liquid chromatography Kevin Pinney

Session 7: Communication Sciences and Disorders


Clare KuhlmannMeasuring Progress in Adult Brain Injury: A pilot study of a multimodal treatment for anomia Paul Fillmore

Humaira Islam and Ryan Scharf

Trainability of Electrical Brain Patterns Using EEG Neurofeedback: Implications for Language Function Paul Fillmore


Session 8: Computer Science

Student Presenter (s) Title Faculty MentorSamuel Shenoi, Ting-Chen Wang, Xiayan Li, Shuting Chen, Bryce Johnson, Mackenna Semeyn

Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 within known coronavirus diversity Erich Baker

Session 9: Economics


Peter N. DoePoster_Economics_Doe_Peter_Nudging towards socially efficient norms Jason A. Aimone

Session 10: Environmental Sciences


*+Vynna ChitolieFishing for the truth: the effects of glyphosate and CTAB on zebrafish morphology and behavior Melinda Coogan

*Chris Herrera and Aiden Collier Studying the effects of zinc oxide NPs on Zebrafish Melinda Coogan

+Lauren FrickeInfluenza deaths and their association with known risk factors in Texas counties in 2015 Bruce Byars

+Yanira Baldovinos and Mariah Henley

ZnCl Neurological and Morphological Effects on Embryonic and Larval Zebrafish Melinda Coogan

*+Madison Jeha Recycling Education and Behaviors in College Students Melinda Coogan*Megan O’Brien and Laura Langan

Differentially Expressed Proteins Indicate Significance of Photoperiod during Larval Development Bryan W. Brooks

Session 11: Family and Consumer Sciences


Simar GoyalUnderstanding the Body Image among Cancer Patients: Developing Intervention Strategies Jay Yoo

Simar Goyal

Understanding the Effect of Retail Therapy: Interrelationship between Body Shame, Body Mass Index (BMI), and weight preoccupation

Jay Yoo

*Emily Nguyen and Yanlin Chen

Leucine Supplementation Coupled with a Calorie Restricted Diet to Promote Weight Loss In Mid-Life Women

D. Willoughby and L.Funderburk


Session 12: Geosciences

Student Presenter (s) Title Faculty MentorChristopher Holle and Scott James

A machine learning based approach to forecast oceanic chlorophyll-a Scott James

Stephanie Krill

Molecular and Elemental Insights to the Formation Process of Anthropogenic Soils- The Amazon Dark Earth

William Hockaday

Session 13: Health, Human Performance and Recreation

Student Presenter (s) Title Faculty MentorHaley Turner, Kara Jones, Katelyn Cole, Heather Hudson

The Role of University Required Fitness Courses in Studnets’ Health and Exercise Practices Yunsuk Koh

Session 14: Physics

Student Presenter (s) Title Faculty Mentor*Martin Lechuga, Jorge Reyes, Lorin Mathews, Truell Hyde Image Analysis of Dusty Plasmas

Eva Kostadinova

Session 15: Political Science


+Rory PittsMaterialist and Postmaterialist values impacted the responses to refuge crisis of 2016 Ivy Hamerly


Session 16: Psychology and Neuroscience Group A


Bayley Richardson

Experimentally Increasing Levels of Gratitude Immediately Prior to Acute Psychological Stress Exposure: Impacts on Anxiety, Performance, and Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity Annie Ginty

Abby Herschbach Inflammation and PTSD in Veterans: Anti-inflammatory Agents as a Potential Novel Treatment

Lauren Zambrano-Vasquez

Victoria Anozie Emotional Effects of Binge-Watching Shawn Latandresse

Taryn CookAdverse Childhood Experience Scores and Habituation to Stress Annie Ginty

Samantha SotoThe effects of perceived stress and stressful life events on cardiovascular reactivity to stress Annie Ginty

Session 17: Psychology and Neuroscience Group B


Sean NgoThe Mediating Effect of Gratitude on the Relationship Between Volunteering and Depression Jo-Ann Tsang

+Caitlin Bullard

The Effects of Coordinated Care Levels on Flourishing and Making and Keeping Friends in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Christine Limbers/ Wade Rowatt

*Nicole D’Aoust

Negative emotionality mediates the relationship between sport perfectionism and Drum Corps International section Wade Rowatt

Zachary Pranske

Agomelatine Does Not Prevent Seizure-induced Immune Activation of Deficits in Ultrasonic Vocalizations Joaquin Lugo

Paige Freeburg Higher self-perceived involvement in a sorority is related to higher well-being outcomes Sarah Schnitker

Lauren RatliffMeasuring Student Engagement in a Flexible Learning Environment

Shanna Attai/Jorge Carmona Reyes

Rebekka Anderson

Trait gratitude is not related to psychological or cardiovascular responses to acute psychological responses: results from two independent studies

Jo-Ann Tsang and Annie Ginty


Session 18: Psychology and Neuroscience Group C


Rachel MasonConnections Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Lauren Zambrano-Vasquez

Katherine NesbittConstraint as a Protective Factor Against Hazardous Drinking Behavior in Firefighters

Michelle Pennington

Hannah Gruman

Higher Childhood Exposure to Active and Passive Trauma are Associated with Blunted Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity Annie Ginty

Lee RodenbaughIndividuals with Childhood Trauma Display Blunted Heart Rate Responses to Stress Annie Ginty

Amanda Faust and Alyssa Darner

NS-PTEN Knockout mice give insight into how mTOR signaling is linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Joaquin Lugo

Session 19: Social Work


Kathryn HongThe Hidden Epidemic Addressing Teen Food Insecurity in Waco

Stephanie Boddie

Session 20: Statistics


Victoria DarbyA meta-analysis on the Effects of Education on Patients with Postpartum Depression Joshua Patrick


2020 Faculty Mentor AwardsWe are pleased to announce the URSA faculty mentor awards for research and leadership. Faculty are nominated for these awards by their students and colleagues. The URSA Steering Committee selects the awards annually to recognize long-term commitment to undergraduate research, excellence in the quality of research produced, care for student welfare and educational experience, and leadership in developing undergraduate research opportunities. Please join us in congratulating these recipients for their commitment to improving Baylor’s support for undergraduates engaged in research.

URSA Mentor of the Year Award 2020

URSA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Arts, Humanities, and Professional

Disciplines

Stephanie Boddie, Ph.D.URSA Outstanding Undergraduate Research

Mentor Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Disciplines

Dwayne Simmons, Ph.D.

URSA Excellence in Leadership Award 2020

URSA Excellence in Undergraduate Research Leadership Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Disciplines

Lorin Matthews, Ph.D.URSA Excellence in Undergraduate Research Leadership

Arts, Humanities, and Professional Disciplines

David Jortner, Ph.D.

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