A few housekeeping notes:
If you would like to volunteer for this event, please let us know.
Parking:
-We have a limited number of parking passes; from 8 am to 6 pm. Contact thinkingmatters@maine.edu
-USM Students and Faculty, make sure your parking permits are up to date
-FMI: Visitors, Event Parking, & Mobile Payment – Parking Services
If you did not pick up your poster ahead of time, they will be available at Abromson Center
Sessions are being held at the Abromson Center, Portland Campus
Table easels are provided for posters.
AV for Oral sessions is provided in each room. Arrive a little early so IT can help you set up your presentation
USM Provost Dr. Georita Frierson
SMCC President Dr. Kristen Miller
Keynote Richard Bilodeau
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Adam Reichert | Degenerative Myopathy in German Shepherds |
| Alayna Carey | Why Autoimmune Diseases are more Prevalent in Women |
| Alexis Heald | 2-aminoadenine, a Fifth Nucleic Base and Enzymes that Help Create It |
| Angela Gillespie | Investigating the most effective performance feedback practices through Performance Reviews |
| April M. Gura | The Benefits of Teaching Young Adults Leadership Skills in the Early Stages of Their Academics |
| Bar Mishor | Should Leaders be Promoted or Hired? |
| Bartley L. Cardon | Essential Tremor – A Syndrome in Search of a Genetic Origin. Genes or Gene? |
| Bekhruz Avganov | Acetaminophen pharmacogenomics |
| Cait Rush | A Study of Diet Culture in LGBTQIA+ Women’s Communities |
| Cici Berthiaume | Team Participation and Peer Motivation Builds Leaders in Female Athletes |
| Cortney Luce | Harnessing the Power of Phage Therapy |
| Hannah DeAngelis | We would not be afraid of death: A study of social work and chaplaincy in end-of-life care |
| Hannah Goldstein, Jasper Bennett | Sexual Minority Attitudes in Response to Ingroup Threat: Intraminority Relations between Cisgender Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, and Asexual Individuals |
| Haylee Duval | Characterization of Fabp4 & Fabp5 double knockout mouse for future myeloma applications |
| Henry Fleury | Supergene Mimicry in Papilio polytes |
| Iman Alaari | Is There A Connection Between Simpson’s Biodiversity and Air Tempature at Casco Bay High School? |
| Jake Peavey | Enhancing Student-Athlete Well-Being through Effective Leadership in College Athletics |
| Jasmine King | Genetic Linkage Between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Mice |
| Jessica McPhail | Guaranteed Income: What Would It Take to Bring to Washington County, Maine? |
| Lucas R Girard | Integration of Bulk- and Single-cell RNA-seq samples from zebrafish caudal fin amputation delineates long-term molecular consequences of early life stress |
| Lucas R Girard | The Gut Microbiome: A Microbial View of Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| Mardoqueu G. Wembo | Observing and Diagnosing down syndrome in chimps |
| May Pilch | Per3 Polymorphism and Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome |
| McKenzie Roy | Investigating the Impact of Mentorship in Leadership Development |
| Nancy Flagg | Mentee Plenty: Braided Mentorship, An Organization Development Opportunity |
| Olive (Lotus) Luke | Influence of Gene Expression and Regulation on Bird Song |
| Owen Sullivan | Leadership In College Athletics |
| Rachel Allen | Lived Experiences of Individuals who underwent First Time Telehealth Eating Disorder Treatment |
| Samuel Cousins | Analyzing the Control of Stem Cell Division in Planarian Regeneration |
| Samuel Cousins | Altruistic Microbes: The Role Abortive Infection Systems Play in Safeguarding Bacterial Communities |
| Sol Adams | Modelling the Evolutionary Dynamics of a Complex Mating System in Flowering Plants |
| Sydney Bebus, Kristin Palmsten, Heather S. Lipkind, Christina M. Ackerman-Banks | Non-emergency department outpatient healthcare utilization in the first 24 months’ postpartum by rurality and pregnancy complications: a prospective cohort study from Maine |
| Tye Lynch | From Under the Bed and Into the Streets: The use of Queer Utopias and the fight against Homonormativity in Little Monsters (1989) |
| Valérie Tonigold | Comparing Ocean currents with primary productivity |
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|---|---|---|
| Abromson, 1st floor, Room 109 | Large Poser Presentation | |
| Karen Wilson, Vanessa Levesque, Joseph Staples, Lisa Hibl, Rachel Bouvier | Hot Stuff: Climate Science and Action | |
| Abromson, 1st floor, Room 110 | Moderator: Catherine Miller | |
| Ryan Illig | Decoding Neutrophil-Bacteria Interactions: A Study on Vital NET Formation Induced by Common Bacterial Pathogens | |
| Wadak Harbi | TRPV1 and PRDX2 in Adipocyte Development | |
| Patrick Duffy | Synthesis and Computational Modeling of Phenyl-Substituted Silafluorenes | |
| Abromson, 2nd Floor, Room 213 | MaineHealth: Igor Prudovsky | |
| Morgan-Carter Moulton | Inactivation of mesoderm specific transcript (MEST) in female mice alters physical activity and hypothalamic transcriptome | |
| Miranda Silva | Variations in Dio3 expression due to Different Genetic Backgrounds of Mice | |
| Masen Pelletier | Light-Induced Activation of Engineered Brown Adipocytes | |
| Abromson, 2nd Floor, Room 214 | Moderator: Joseph Staples | |
| Sage Tocci | Comparing Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari: Ixodidae ) density against ground-dwelling arthropod diversity | |
| Brady Speed | Mammal diversity of a deciduous and coniferous forest in Southern Maine in relation to tick density | |
| Lily Orth | The Impact of Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud on Biodiversity, Emergent Biomass, and Nutrient Availability in a Salt Marsh Ecosystem | |
| Shannon Connors | A Qualitative Study Based on the Success and Benefits of Equine Massage Therapy | |
| Abromson, 2nd Floor, Room 215 | Moderator: Michael Davis | |
| Daniel Noel | Vibrational Testing of Pediatric Medical Device | |
| Logan Butler | Local Autonomous Oceanic Drifter Advancement Project | |
| Joshua Brobst | The Mathematical Struggle: A Peer’s Review of Mathematics Education | |
| Lilith Lumiere Lariviere | Exploring Gulf of Maine Eddy Mixing Trends Through Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Data | |
| Abromson, 2nd Floor, Room 216 | Moderator: Elizabeth Goryunova | |
| Christine A. Doucette | Leader as Change Agent – the Value of a Leaders Role in Organizational Change | |
| Erika G. Kinlaw | The Role of Transformational and Transactional Leadership Theories and Emotional Intelligence While Veterans Lead: A Phenomenological Study | |
| Allison Boyce | The Mindful Leader: Bringing Mindfulness to Leadership | |
| Lauren Cornelio | Examining the Effects of Leadership-Fostered Organizational Priorities on Employee Mental Health: A Phenomenological Research Approach |
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|---|---|
| Abromson, 1st floor, Hannaford Hall | Moderator: Malinda Haslett |
| Josie Lawrence | The Girl From Ipanema: Honoring the Legacy of Astrud Gilberto Through Song |
| Alma Kenow | Graphic scores and the influence of visual art on music |
| Isabella StCyr | The Nadia Influence |
| Caroline Woods | Lyric Pronunciation Guide for Portuguese Music, including Portuguese Speaking Africa, Brazil, and Portugal |
| Abromson, 1st floor, Room 109 | Large Poser Presentation |
| Karen Wilson, Vanessa Levesque, Joseph Staples, Lisa Hibl, Rachel Bouvier | Hot Stuff: Climate Science and Action |
| Abromson, 1st floor, Room 110 | Moderator: Cassandra Dove |
| Adrien Melanson | Contextualizing and investigating enhanced mechanical and functional properties in NiTi-based shape memory alloys |
| Jared Davis | Flexible Bioinspired Helicoidal Microstructures for Dynamic Impact Resistance |
| Christian Taylor | REACH – Reasonably-priced Extremities and Artificial Limbs for Change |
| Abromson, 2nd Floor, Room 213 | MaineHealth: Igor Prudovsky |
| Noor Abduljaleel | Tranexamic acid suppresses the apoptosis of endothelial cells in absence of growth factors |
| Katherine Knox | Researching the role of fatty acid binding proteins in the bone microenvironment of mice injected with murine myeloma cells |
| Abromson, 2nd Floor, Room 214 | Moderator: Michael Cauvel |
| Makala Greene | Bargaining Power and Job Quality in the U.S. |
| Mickayla Dussault | Rural Attitudes Towards Resource Allocation |
| Isabel Smith | Change and continuity in production and significance of pottery: Perspectives of Zapotec women from San Marcos Tlapazola, Oaxaca, Mexico |
| Jessilyn Rich | Transparent Trolls: Emotional and social impacts of social media communication in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Trolling |
| Abromson, 2nd Floor, Room 215 | Moderator: Lisa Hibl |
| Satya Williams | The Ziegfeld Follies and the Costuming of Bessie McCoy |
| t love smith, Caroline Woods | Transgender Ecologies and Poetics |
| Zephyros Craven | Witches on the Wind: Weather Magic in New England Folktales |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Aaron M Stokes | Axial Flux Generator |
| Adrien Melanson | Contextualizing and investigating enhanced mechanical and functional properties in NiTi-based shape memory alloys |
| Ahmed Ofle | How does Air Temperature in the CBHS wetlands affect mammal counts? |
| Askar Azeez | The Temperature and Mammals in The CBHS Wetlands |
| Billy Kwizera | Comparative Analysis of CMSIS DSP Library and Custom C Algorithm for Digital Equalizer Implementation |
| Brian Determan, Samantha Bengs | Drivers of Zooplankton and Juvenile Fish Distribution and Abundance in Casco Bay |
| Christian Taylor | REACH – Reasonably-priced Extremities and Artificial Limbs for Change |
| Connor Marsh | Alabama Department of Corrections: A System Plagued By Injustice |
| Daniel Noel | Vibrational Testing of Pediatric Medical Device |
| Devin Chamberlain, Abby Pitcairn, Nick Snow, Ben Sweeney | Evaluating Introductory Computer Science Labs in the Presence of AI Tools |
| Gage Whalen | Investigating Microbial Degradation of PFAS |
| Garrett Gallant | USM-Socket; Prototyping a low-cost universal lower limb prosthetic socket |
| Graham Hannon | Design and Manufacture of Cognate Four-Bar Linkages |
| Brian Determan | Characterization of Fabp4 & Fabp5 double knockout mouse for future myeloma applications |
| Jared Davis | Flexible Bioinspired Helicoidal Microstructures for Dynamic Impact Resistance |
| Jarod Linne | Safety Engineering of USM Coaster Car |
| Joseph Rumery | Computer Vision Algorithms for Micro-structure Analysis of Biological Materials |
| Kaitlyn MacPhee, Ruth Griffith, Chloë Sheahan, Kyle Pellerin | Fostering community resilience: learning from Maine’s municipal governments |
| Carter Frank, Keeli Parker, Dean Syed, Elle Prescott, Emma Olney, Addie Stone | Communicating Resilience: Innovative rural municipal digital communication |
| Kelli M Gilzow Stowell | Grounded in Community |
| Lara Scott | Re-Examining Accessibility |
| Larisa Filippov | A Qualitative Study of Latina Fetishization |
| Lauren Mitchell | Evaluating Processing Methods for Preble Street Food Security Hub |
| Maryam Niknia | FIR Filter Design Software |
| Natalie Barrett | Immunological Analysis of Avipoxvirus in Wild and Domestic Avian Samples |
| Noah Shepherd | LabVIEW System Operation of a Diesel Combustion Chamber |
| Nolan Winston | Steering System Design and Integration for the USM Coaster Car |
| Olivia Bubar | Quantification of Sensory Neurons in Drosophila |
| Paige Reynolds | Optimizing Soils of Coastal Maine |
| Ryan Iling | Investigating Vital Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Pathogen Response in Neutropenic Individuals |
| Shea Durgin | MathMex: Text to Image Search |
| Toussaint Christel Falangani and Abel Sostre | Dual Concentric Conical Antenna Design |
| Ty Bolduc | Queerness, Autism, and Intimacy: An Exploration of Intersecting Identities |
| Tyler Camp | LED Solar Simulator for Panel Testing |
| Urja Patel | Examining Oral Health Disparities Among American Indian/Alaska Native Populations in the United States |
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|---|---|
| Abromson, 2nd floor, Room 213 | MaineHealth: |
| Matthew H. Michaud | Characterization of adenylate metabolizing enzymes in critically ill patients with prophylactic antibiotic |
| Daniel Fournier | CTHRC1 Receptor Identification |
| Margeurite Dallaire | Unraveling the Mechanisms of High-Level Ceftaroline Resistance in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Insights from Carbapenem Exposure and Adaptive Pathways |
| Abromson, 2nd floor, Room 214 | Moderator: Rebecca Gibbons |
| Nicole Merosola | Glacial Cover in East Greenland: 1931 to Today |
| Robinson Doyle | ChatGPT and the Poverty of Stimulus |
| Riley Worth | Tomorrow Wars: AI and Uncrewed Systems in the US Military |
| Abromson, 2nd floor, Room 215 | Moderator: Ben Greenfield |
| Erin Price | Risk Assessment: PFAS in Maine’s Public Drinking Water System |
| Eleanor Nason | News Coverage of Mass Shootings |
| Bella Shannon | “Give and Take”: The Re-selling Movement in the Thrift Store Industry and its Social and Environmental Consequences (Continued) |
| Abromson, 2nd Floor, Room 216 | Moderator: Julianne Siegfriedt |
| Tegan Byrne | You Are Not Alone: A Battle for Justice for Victims of Sexual Assault and the People Surrounding Them |
| Emilia Toth | Feminist Advocacy for Inclusive Democracy: Using Feminist Frameworks to Remove Voting Barriers |
| Abigayle Milewski | Why We Need Radical Bureaucracy: Observations From Within the Walls of a Nonprofit and Movement Towards a Feminist Value System in Organizational Procedures |
| Athena Brown | A Feminist Look at Medical Paternalism in Inpatient Mental Health Care: Who Defines Safety? |
| Hannaford Hall | Moderator: Jamie Picardy |
|---|---|
| Katherine Mueller | Concentrations of benzophenone-3 in Maine’s aquatic ecosystems and the potential impacts |
| Joseph Inabanza and Armandine Tangi | The Alternative Juvenile Justice Project |
| Owen Hill | Using an Emotional Fitness Paradigm to Improve Stress Mindset while Teaching Stress Reduction Techniques |
| Mickey McConnell | Critical Success! Recommendations for Integrating Dungeons & Dragons with Dialectical Behavior Therapy |
| Charlie Grantham | Giving Birth in Maine: A Qualitative Study |
| Mathew Bourassa | So You Need to Sue Your School? A Litigation Aid for Maine’s Public School Students |