UMBC Review Staff
Shandon Amos
Editor
Zaira Girala
Editor
Melissa Bernard
Graphic Designer
2020 vol.21
Journal of Undergraduate Research 2021 vol.22
Table of Contents
Ashley Copenhaver
Mathematics
Understanding Connectivity of Pancreatic Beta Cells through Artificial Neural Networks
Ryan Mbagna-Nanko
Mechanical Engineering
Structural Characterization of 2D Layered Complex Hetero-Ion Systems
Tahia Shendy
Media & Communication Studies
Virtual Influencers: Identity and Authenticity in the Age of Social Media
Hye Jin Park
Psychology
Contributions of Parental Control and Self-Regulation Skills to Korean American Children’s Behavioral Outcomes
Kelly McVicker
Environmental Studies
Food Web Dynamics: How Urbanization of Riparian Systems Affects Prey Availability for Tetragnatha Spiders in Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems
Ben Hyatt
Mathematics
Stability Analysis of Model Predictive Control-Based Car-Following Control Under Linear Vehicle Dynamics
Caitlyn Hooper
Theatre
Why Intimacy Direction is the Way Forward for Theatre
Sarah Driver
History
The Domestic Pianist: The Impact of the Parlor Piano on Middle Class Domestic Life in Nineteenth Century America
Cassie Davis
American Studies
Implications of Rhetoric: A Newspaper Analysis of Immigration Policy
L. Alexandra Rodriguez
American Studies
“Old Town Road” and the Racial Politics of Country Music
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