Research Poster Session

Congratulations and thanks to the College undergraduates who took part in this year's Family Weekend Research Poster Session. Thanks also to mentoring faculty and the Weigle Information Commons for assistance with poster graphics and printing.

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Sabrina Aggarwal
Snapshots from Guatemala
Senior, Health & Societies
with Fran Barg, Anthropology and Kent Bream, School of Medicine

Zohra Ahmed
Social Construction of Nairobi Youth in HIV Prevention
Senior, Anthropology
with Clark Erickson, Anthropology and Ritty Lukose, Grad. School of Education

Maura Connell
The Culture of Contemporary Consumerism: How (Red) is Penn?
Senior, Anthropology
with Gregory Urban, Anthropology

Lizzie Frasco

Arthur Ross Gallery: An Academic Gallery for the University
Junior, Visual Studies
with Dejay Byrd, Arthur Ross Gallery

Rachel Goodman
Structuring the Intangible: Grids in Art of the Late 20th Century
Senior, History of Art and Communications
with Christine Poggi, History of Art

Torin Greenwood
Quantum Random Walks
Sophomore, Undecided
with Robin Pemantle, Mathematics

Alice Hickey
We Went Because We Should Have: The Letters of William Rich and the Role of the American Field Service in World War II
Senior, History
with Jonathan Steinberg, History

Carli Koshal
Soil Analysis of Sayre High School
Senior, Submatric. Environmental Studies Garden
with Art Johnson, Environmental StudiesGrace S. Lee
Disputed AMP–Kinase Control of Energy Balance: Contributions in the Caudal Brainstem
Seinor, Psychology and Biology
with Harvey Grill, Psychology

Jeremy Price
Involvement of Akt Signaling Pathways in Endoplasmic Reticulum-Stressed Chondrocytes
Senior, Biological Basis of Behavior
with Hydar Ali, School of Dental Medicine

Stefan Sabo
The Heat Kernel of K-Regular Trees
Sophomore, Mathematics
with Stratos Prassidis, Mathematics, Canisius College and Eric Lownes, Student, North Carolina State

Deepak Sambhara
Neurophysiologic Evidence for a Gradient Model in an Object-Based Attention and Memory Task
Senior, Biological Basis of Behavior
with Amishi Jha, Psychology

Garnik Sarkisian
Why You Do Not Use Your Parents’ Genes Equally
Senior, Mathematics, Biochemistry, Finance
with Marisa Bartolomei, School of Medicine

Alyssa Sclafani
Molecular Targets of MicroRNA 127 in Liver Development
Junior, English and Biology
with Joshua Friedman, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Manya Scheps
The Puppet Show
Junior, Fine Arts
with Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Curator

Kanika Sharma
The Role of Orexin in Stress and Anxiety in the Posterior Paraventricular Thalamus
Junior, Psychology
with Seema Bhatnagar, School of Medicine

Alex Small
Tolerance and Sensitization to the Effects of Cocaine in Humans
Senior, Biological Basis of Behavior
with Kyle Kampman, Treatment Research Center

Lindsey Swiacki
Environmental Perceptions and Resource Use of Peruvians Rainforest-Dwelling
Senior, Submatric. Environmental Studies with Stephen Madigosky, Widener University

Adam Tabor
Digitizing Oral History
Junior, English
with Timothy Powell, University Museum

Andrew Turner
Propaganda in Havana: Graphic Art, Public Communicaiton and the Socialist City
Senior, Urban Studies
with Eric Schneider, Urban Studies

Melissa Teixeira
Doctrine and Action: An Inquiry Into the Factors Contributing to the Fall of Salazar’s Corporatist State After 1945
Senior, History and Economics
with Jonathan Steinberg, History

Benjamin Wieder
Versions of DNA/RNA
Junior, Physics
with Jeffrey Saven, Chemistry

Boris Zinshteyn
DNA to RNA Subject to an Editor
Junior, Biochemistry
with Kazuko Nishikura, Wistar Institute