Research Profiles 2013-2014

Uvonne Andoh
McNair Scholar
“How does designing assistive technology with a physical therapist help older adults?”

Cheli Arussy
URCAD Presenter
“Determining the Effects of Autophagy on Morphology of Aspergillus nidulans“

Stephen DiBenedetto
URA Scholar
“Underwater Node Localization Scheme”

Susanna Campbell
MARC U*STAR Scholar
“Exploring Female Song in Newly Recognized Species: Puerto Rican Oriole”

Christine Cruz
URA Scholar
“The Dare Stones: Finding Eleanor”

Kelsey Donnellan
McNair Scholar
“From Food Deserts to Community Gardens: Urban Adolescent Girls’ Need for Fresh Produce”

Erin Edwards
URCAD Presenter
“From Dracula to Ditches: Exploration of Roman Mithraism in Dacia”

Celia Drew
NIST Scholar
“Mobility Management for Heterogeneous Networks”

Ibinabo Feddy-Inimgba
HHMI Researcher
“Expression of the Murine Leukemia Virus CANC Domains of the Gag Polyprotein and 5’ Untranslated Region of the Genome”

Deborah Firestone
URCAD Presenter
“Brush and Bone”

Mabelle Fomundam
URA Scholar
“An Evolving Theatre of Social Change”

Sanchari Ghosh
URA Scholar
“Cell Surface Receptors Involved in T-Cell Activation are Down-Regulated in Presence of Tumor in Mice”

Kaitlyn Golden
URA Scholar
“The significance of family and psychological sense of community in the acculturation experience for Latin American first-generation immigrants”

Samantha Hawkins
URA Scholar
“Baltimore Voices: Creating a Comprehensive Sense of Place and Identity”

Mary Hester
URA Scholar
“Arts Advocacy: How to inspire policy change by measuring and communicating the benefits of dance lessons on children”

Nicholas Heroux
URA Scholar
“Cognitive Effects of Proton Irradiation at Differing Energy Levels”

Emily Hinz
URA Scholar
“The Kincaid Legacy”

Abigail Jackson
UBM Researcher
“A Mathematical Model of Melanopsin Phototransduction and Light Adaptation”

Hannah Jones
URA Scholar
“Profit and Philanthropy: Baltimore through the Eyes of Joseph Townsend”

Caroline Jurney
URA Scholar
“Marketing for a Younger Audience in Live Theatre”

Natnael Kenea
NIH Researcher
“A Correlation between Breast Cancer Risk Factors and Epigenetic Regulation”

Robbin Lee
URA Scholar
“A New Direction for Chinese Society: Chinese Millennial Engagement with Art and Social Media”

Oleg Makarevich
URA Scholar
“An Analysis of the Function of L24 in the Ribosomal Complex”

Rajashree Mishra
URA Scholar
“Extracting Interacting Orthologs from Literature”

John Malloy
UBM Researcher
“How well do species tree methods deal with gene flow? The case of mitochondrial introgression in the northern oriole complex”

Talmo Pereira
URA Scholar
“Self-Consistency of Starting Motif in Sequence Scoring Motif Searching”

Bradley Potteiger
URA Scholar
“Underwater Node Localization Scheme”

Sam Saxena
NSF Researcher
“Stimuli-Responsive and Reconfigurable Liquid Crystal Droplets”

Vani Selvam
NIDA Intern
“Unique Molecular Alterations in Synapses Related to Context-Induced Reinstatement of Cocaine-Seeking”

Kathy Vu
URA Scholar
“Chinese Immigrant and European American Mothers’ Parenting Beliefs and Styles: A Cultural Understanding of Parental Control”

Paul Weisko
URA Scholar
“Russian Civil War Propaganda Posters and their Effects on Cold War and Post-Cold War History”