A few housekeeping notes:
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 and the Glickman Library
AV for Oral sessions is provided in each room. Arrive a little early so IT can help you set up your presentation
USM President Edmondson
SMCC President Cassidy
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Abedom Gebreyesus | A path to self-leadership for young adulthood immigrants in America |
| Andrew Parent | The Well-being of Healthcare Leaders |
| Annelise Tom | Park and Recreational Programs Teach Social Skills that Translate to Leadership Skills |
| Bradi Sladek | Detecting Marine Bivalve Transmissible Neoplasia (marBTN) in Mya arenaria |
| Brian Barnes | Leading Development of Skilled Workers: Transforming Unskilled Labor to Skilled Craft Labor in the Pulp and Paper Manufacturing Industry |
| Brooke Wilson | A Review: In Vitro Testing of Intestinal Organoids for Personalized Drug Therapy |
| Cara Davis Thorton | Parents’ Perceptions of Maine Public School Teachers During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Emily Cornell du Houx | Illuminating the brain: a review of bioluminescent optogenetics for neuronal mapping and repair |
| Eric Barton | E-LEADERSHIP, CREATIVITY, AND INNOVATION IN A VIRTUAL WORLD: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW |
| Josh Shunk | Seeking the Presence of Seal eDNA Based on Visual Confirmation of Seals |
| Jules Olbrantz | “My pulling is very different with [my dog] around”: An Inquiry Into Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) and Human-Animal Connection |
| Kaitlin Adeloye | Incidental Leadership: A Study of Unintentional Leaders |
| Katie Seelen | Who Has Control in the Courtroom?: Maine Attorneys’ Perceptions of Coercive Control in Family Matters Cases and Systemic Challenges to Ensuring Positive Outcomes for Families Post-Separation |
| Lilliandra LaPanne | Genetics in Endometriosis: A Review of Genes Responsible for Disease Progression |
| Lori Gibson | Exploring Boundary Conditions and Outcomes of Shared Leadership: An Integrative Literature Review |
| Maddie McGlynn | The relative growth rate of Tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (L.) in response to glyphosate-based herbicide |
| Mickayla Waterman | Conceptual Analysis of Social-Emotional Learning |
| Missy Kettell | Creativity and the Introverted Leader |
| Morgan Regnier | Effects of sublethal exposure to imidacloprid on respiration in the Common Flesh Fly, Sarcophaga bullata Parker, 1916, during low and high-energy activities |
| Olga Koni | Preventing the Potentially Lost Generation of multilingual Students |
| Samuel Smith | Are There More Positive or Negative Effects to Having ‘Veterans Preference’? |
| Tiana Garland | The Genetics of Metabolizing Alcohol |
| Valérie Tonigold | Comparing Ocean currents with primary productivity |
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|---|---|
| Abromson, 1st floor, Room 109 | Moderator: Benjamin Bertram |
| Panel: | What will AI do to us? Social, Economic, and Cultural Change |
| Katie Schools | AI Labor: Unemployment and the New Economy |
| Alec Palmer | The Possibilities and Ethics of Sex with Artificially Intelligent Robots |
| Sydney Franks | Poetry in Motion: Language, Creativity, and Artificial Intelligence |
| Abromson, 1st floor, Room 110 | Moderator: Cassandra Dove |
| Liam Keohane | Investigating the Effects of Primary Protein Structure Modification on Collagen Triple Helix Repeat Containing 1 |
| Shannon Connors | A Qualitative Study Based on the Success and Benefit of Equine Massage Therapy |
| Greyson Kurtz | A Guide to Vowel Pronunciation in Passamaquoddy, Abenaki, and Penobscot |
| Sarah Larson | A Comprehensive View of Children’s Opera in the State of Maine |
| Abromson, 1st floor, Hannaford Hall | Moderator: Michael Davis |
| Zahra Jahedibashiz | The effective searching of mathematical content within digital libraries |
| Dean Syed | Maine municipal provision of digital services and information |
| Killian Hadsell, Silas Gordon, William Morris, and Jeremy Hepler | SAE Aero Design |
| Glickman Library, Cohen Center (1st floor, Room 103) | Moderator: Cheryl Laz |
| Dipper Castaldo | Flashlights in a Cave: Peer Support as a Post-carceral Necessity |
| Andrea Carpenter | Barriers to addiction recovery for the LGBTQ Community |
| Elizabeth Glover | Incorporating Transnational Feminist Theory into Applied Practice |
| Gracie Treadwell | The Unconstitutionality of Dress Codes |
| Glickman Library, UER (7th floor) | Moderator: Karen Wilson |
| Leah Zwain | Synthesizing Old & New: East Greenland’s Long Term Climate Trends |
| Kimberley Crory | Investigating lake habitat use by juvenile alewife using stable isotope natural tags |
| Sage Tocci | Determining the Mobility of the Blacklegged Tick, Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), on Different Fabric Substrates. |
| Samantha Hobgood | Invasive Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud, influence on above-ground biomass and diversity in a coastal salt marsh ecosystems |
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|---|---|
| Abromson, 1st floor, Room 109 | Moderator: Benjamin Bertram |
| Panel: | What will we do to AI? Moral and Political Responsibilities |
| Jenny Siler | Fiction and the Problem of Other (Artificial) Minds |
| Ellie McKibben | Artificial Intelligence and Empathy |
| Janessa Roberts | AI, Androids, Sex, and Techno-Orientalism |
| Abromson, 1st floor, Room 110 | Moderator: Irina Grigoryeva |
| Masen Pelletier | Generation of optogenetic-inducible brown adipocytes for treatment of metabolic disease |
| Patrick Duffy | Organic chemistry, computational chemistry, and spectroscopy |
| Claire Morrow | Analyzing miRNA Expression in Cortical Bone of Mice Treated with Morphine |
| Maryam Mahdi | MHIR internship presentation |
| Wadak Harbi | TRPV-1 Expression in Skeletal Muscle Tissue |
| Glickman Library, Cohen Center (1st floor, Room 103) | Moderator: Michael Davis |
| Aleksandra Milinovic | Semantic Segmentation for Quantification of Patterns in Biological Images |
| Daniel Noel | Development of Thrust Measurement Device with Stand |
| Dahnesh Upton | Compact FM Transmitter Design for Wireless Operation of MEMS Capacitive Vibration Sensors Part II |
| Kevin Nolan | Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence for High-Speed Imaging of Fuel Injections |
| Glickman Library, UER (7th floor) | Moderator: Ashley Towle |
| Kayla Graffam | Gorham and the Gallant 16th Maine: Ordinary Maine Men in the Civil War |
| Hannah Leitzell | Our Duty to Regulate Online Pornography as Exemplified by Differences Between “Porno Chic” and PornHub |
| Satya Williams | Leslie Caron’s Role in An American in Paris (1951) and the Costuming of a Dancer |
| Corra St Pierre | Genesis of Karen |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Adam MacLean | Topological Optimization of a Hip Joint Prosthetic |
| Athene Gove | Underwater Glider |
| Brady Speed | Heavy metal uptake in common species of mushrooms in the USM Smart Forest in Gorham, Maine |
| Charlie Grantham | COVID-19 Prevalence and Trends Among Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals in Maine by Rurality and Pregnancy Conditions |
| Daniel Fransiscus | Design of a Thermoplastic Remelt Process to Improve Material Properties of 3D-printed Objects |
| David Breen | Rigid Body Simulation With Hardware In the Loop Visualization |
| Derek Tilloson | Finite Element Analysis of Composite Sporting Good Shafts |
| Eric Mutombu | High-Power RF load using flange resistors |
| Grayson St. Pierre | High Pressure Fuel Pumping System |
| Jacob Inger | Using Experiential Mock Medical Devices to Assess Rural vs Urban Issues in Advanced Medical Device Therapy |
| Jackson Reed Elwell | Design of a Multispectral Imager for Remote Sensing Applications |
| Johanna McGinley | Media portrayal of alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) in the Northeastern and the Great Lakes regions of the United States over time |
| Kabwit E Mutshaila | Coaster Car 2.0 |
| Katie Seelen | Who Has Control in the Courtroom?: Maine Attorneys’ Perceptions of Coercive Control in Family Matters Cases and Systemic Challenges to Ensuring Positive |
| Kimberly Bright | PBIS in the Classroom: a Study of Student Engagement and Connectedness |
| Liam Mertens-Harker | Soil Elemental Analysis of the U.S.M. Smartforest |
| Lydia Badose | Design and Simulation of a Bridge Lifting Mechanism |
| Meredith Olivari | Mindful Reflection as a Tool for Social Emotional Learning |
| Nickolas Littlefield | Utilizing Few-Shot Meta Learning Algorithms for Medical Image Segmentation |
| Quentin Penley | Diesel Engine Exhaust Bench Reactor |
| Ryan O’Donnell | Design and Build an Air-to-Air Heat Exchanger |
| Scott Lightbody | USM Coster car suspension |
| Simeon Willey | Deployable Origami Cube Sat Panels |
| Spencer Smith | Real-Time Filters |
| Tanner Hebert | Microwave Pole |
| Tyler Matulonis | Water-Well Pump-Pulling Wheel |
| Victoria Bradford | Social Justice with Children’s Literature |
| Yannick Noah Iradukunda | 3D-printed prosthetic hand |
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|---|---|
| Abromson, 1st floor, Room 109 | Moderator: Lisa Walker |
| Bella Shannon | “Give and Take”: The Re-selling Movement in the Thrift Store Industry and its Social and Environmental Consequences |
| Michael Foster | Third-party Tax Preparation and the Earned Income Tax Credit |
| Katie Schools | Struggles Over the Tipped Minimum Wage in Maine |
| Kaila Moore | The Problem with Student Retention at USM |
| Abromson, 1st floor, Room 110 | Moderator: Julie Ziffer |
| Corbin Glover | Analysis of Maine’s Coastal water and Soil Solidity |
| Jason Pichette | Gulf of Maine Wave-height Analysis with Generalizable Julia Codebase |
| Zander Solak | Forty Years of Cyclical Temperature Patterns in The Gulf of Maine |
| Lily Moore | Long term Gulf Stream and Labrador Current Mixing Trends in the Gulf of Maine |
| Zoe Jopp | Working Together for the Past: Casco Bay Islands and Public Archaeology |
| Glickman Library, Cohen Center (1st floor, Room 103) | Moderator: R. Bruce Thompson |
| Medar Edmond | Exploring the Perception of Leadership Failures that led to the Current Socio-Economic Situation in Haiti and its Impact on the Daily Lives of the Haitian People |
| Abigail Harris | Identity Management in Permanent Digital Spaces |
| Caroline Davis | Myth/Man: William Shakespeare and the Tradition of Queerness in Theatre |
| Allison Boyce | The Mindful Leader: Bringing Mindfulness to Leadership Roles |
| Glickman Library, UER (7th floor) | Moderator: Michaela Reagan |
| Patricia Kayoyo Masengo | The effect of Bone Marrow Adipocytes on Myeloma Cell Proliferation, Lipid uptake, and ROS Production |
| Hannah Feliciano | Analyzing Changes in Gene Expression in an Osteoclast-Specific Knockout of β2-Adrenergic Receptor |
| Cassie Gilham | Effects of lncRNA Dio3os on Sociability and the Oxytocin System |
| Lumiere Bisimwa | Loss of BNIP3 affects osteoblast differentiation through ROS generation |
| Haylee Duval | Fatty acid binding proteins may modulate myeloma in Fabp4/5 double knockout mouse |
| Eva Machnitzky | Anti-inflammatory Effects of Tranexamic Acid |
| Hannaford Hall | Jamie Picardy, Moderator |
|---|---|
| Emma Donnelly | Exploring Barriers to Emergency Contraception on Post-Secondary Campuses in Maine |
| Ava Ellis | Economic Empowerment Through Art |
| Nancy Flagg | The Flagg Independence Scale |
| Sarah Sturtevant | Maine’s Housing Crisis; worse than you think AND more possible solutions than imagined |