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Session A
Wednesday, April 24, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. EDT
Third Floor Atrium

Mainly COAS, CCI, CNHP, DSPH, LEBOW, SOE, COMAD

#1
Huiruo Zeng
PhD Program in Biological Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
Chemosensory Neural Basis of Anopheles Mosquito Oviposition

#2
Ben Rosen
PhD Program in Chemistry
College of Arts and Sciences
Origin of Stability to Reduction by Hydrogen in a Mixed Phase Perovskite Oxide

#3
Essien Oku Essien
PhD Program in Communication, Culture and Media
College of Arts and Sciences
Toxic Stereotypes: An Analysis of Selected Media Distortions Using Stuart Hall’s Model

#4
Sonika Lamichhane
PhD Program in Communication, Culture and Media
College of Arts and Sciences
A study on the impact of creativity training in the workplace

#7
Jessica McNulty
Master’s Program in Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
Investigating the Interplay between Theory of Mind and Executive Functions in Children with Down Syndrome

#8
Necla Ece Yilmaz
Master’s Program in Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
Using Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation with Concurrent EEG to Examine the Role of Alpha- and Gamma-band Oscillations in Creative Thinking

#9
Marissa Gonzalez
PhD Program in Information Science
College of Computing and Informatics
Attracting and Recruiting Ethical Software Developers: An Emerging Graduate Scholar’s Preliminary Review

#10
Michele Rattigan
Doctor of Health Sciences Program
College of Nursing and Health Professions
Teacher, Be Gentle with Yourself: An Experimental Study of a One-Session, Online Self-Compassion Workshop for Nursing and Health Professions Clinical Educators

#11
Laxmisupriya Avadhanula
Meghan Gupta
Lem Phan
Master’s Program in Community Health and Prevention
Dornsife School of Public Health
C.A.N. (Care, Access, Nourish) Philly Do It? Integrating Doula Care with Food and Maternity Access for Enhanced Quality and Equitable Outcomes

#13
Gloria Zacharias
Master’s Program in Global Health
Ruchita Jadhav
Master's Program in Epidemiology
Dornsife School of Public Health
Addressing Food Insecurity: Insights and Strategies from the H.E.A.L.T.H. Foods Pantry

#14
Youngdai Won
PhD Program in Business Administration, Marketing
LeBow College of Business
Bet You Can’t Guess Who I Am! The Impact of Mask-Wearing on Financial Risk-Taking

#16
Cindy Yovanov
PhD Program in Education
School of Education
The Global Citizen: The Intersection of Diplomacy, Social Identity, and International Education

#17
Josepha Sugrue
Master’s Program in Design Research
Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Her Story Cloth: Support for femme psychiatric service users with narrative needlecraft

#18
V. K. Tian
Master’s Program in Digital Media
Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
You Are Under Watch: Player Equity in Uncomfortable Pervasive Gaming

#19
Tanaya Deshpande 
Master’s Program in Interior Architecture
Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Mind Palace: Exploring Connections Between Memory, Accessibility and Personal Storytelling

#20
Ananya Vijayendra 
Master’s Program in Interior Architecture
Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Destratification of Design: A catalyst for socio-economic cohesion

#21
Ali Rahmaninezhad
PhD Program in Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Exploring an Enzymatic Approach for Accelerated Selection of Strains Capable of Depolymerizing Plastic Molecules

#22
Sarath Reghunathan
Master’s Program in Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine
Towards Invitro Reconstitution of Actin Comet Tail Formation and Septin Caging in Shigella

Judges

Hasan Ayaz, PhD
Provost Solutions Fellow, Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences

Liza Barnes, PhD
Assistant Professor of Management
LeBow College of Business

Mary Genvieve Carty, MS, MHEd
Director of Education Innovation and Strategic Partnerships
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine

Candida da S.F. Barreto, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems

Marcia Gamaly, PhD(c), MSN, MHA, CEN, CBN, RN-BC
Assistant Clinical Professor
Advanced Role MSN Department
College of Nursing and Health Professions

Paul Gondek, PhD
Adjunct Teaching Professor
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences

Anthony Howcroft, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE)

Monica Ilies, PhD
Teaching Professor of Chemistry
College of Arts and Sciences

Michael Johnson, Jr., PhD
Resident Diversity Librarian
W.W. Hagerty Library
Drexel University Libraries

Emily Kashka-Ginsburg, MA
Associate Director
Undergraduate Research & Enrichment Programs
Pennoni Honors College

Cimi Patani, MS '24
Department of Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering
Former President
Graduate Student Association

Clinita Randolph, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biology
College of Arts and Sciences

Chelsea Samuelson
Director of Startup Funding Programs
Drexel Applied Innovation
Office of Research and Innovation

Gregory Schwenk, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering

Kristene Unsworth, PhD
Director, Center for Science, Technology and Society
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Criminology and Justice Studies
Center for Public Policy
Center for Science, Technology and Society
College of Arts and Sciences

Session B
Thursday, April 25, 1 to 2 p.m. EDT
Third Floor Atrium

Mainly COE, COM & GSBSPS, BIOMED

#1
Caroline Martin
Master’s Program in Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
Relationships Between Shape Vigilance, Preoccupation with Shape and Weight, and CBT Treatment Outcomes Among Individuals with Binge-Spectrum Eating Disorders

#2
Joel Pepper
PhD Program in Computer Science
College of Computing and Informatics
An Epithelium-Inspired Deformation Modeling Framework for 4D Sheets

#3
Chima Cyril Hampo
PhD Program in Architectural Engineering
College of Engineering
Quantifying Indoor Thermal Exposure: A Physics-based Approach for Mitigating Heat-Related Risks

#4
Timofey Averianov
PhD Program in Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Electrochemical Properties of Aluminum-preintercalated MAX-phase-derived Bilayered Vanadium Oxide

#5
Benjamin Chacon
PhD Program in Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Effects of Oxidation on Biocompatibility of M4X3 MXenes

#6
Sokhna Dieng
PhD Program in Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Shrinking the lithium-ion batteries by replacing the copper current collector with free-standing MXene film

#7
James FitzPatrick
PhD Program in Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Enhancing Electroactive Crystal Phase Content and Orientation in PVDF with MXene Inclusion

#8
Mary Qin Hassig
PhD Program in Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Scalable, inexpensive, one-pot, facile synthesis of crystalline, two-dimensional, birnessite flakes with quaternary ammonium hydroxides

#9
Tetiana Hryhorchuk
PhD Program in Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
FTIR Library of MXenes

#10
Asaph Lee
PhD Program in Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Multi-year Study of Environmental Stability of Ti3C2Tx MXene Films

#11
Adam Walter
PhD Program in Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Solvent-Driven Self-Assembly of One-Dimensional Lepidocrocite Titanium Oxide-Based Nanofilaments

#12
Xinle Zhang
PhD Program in Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Li+ & Mg2+ ion co-preintercalated bilayered vanadium oxide cathode with advanced Li-ion storage properties

#13
Bita Soltan Mohammadlou
PhD Program in Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Exploring Nano-computed tomography (NanoCT) Potential for MXene Characterization

#14
Harshith Kumar Malkapuram Bheemesh Kumar
Master’s Program in Robotics and Autonomy
College of Engineering
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Path Planning using RRT and Image Classification for wreckage/ruins localization

#16
Kenneth Kim - Dean's Award for Best Research Poster Presentation (TIE)
PhD Program in Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine
Bioconjugated Injectable Granular Hydrogels for Regulatory T cell Induction

#17
Ijeoma Okoye
PhD Program in Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine
PfATAD3 is a parasite-encoded protein critical for mitochondrial biogenesis in Plasmodium falciparum

#18
Abigail Onufer
PhD Program in Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine
Influenza virus (IV)-induced Type I Interferons Disrupt Alveolar Epithelial Barrier Function in the Developing Neonate

#19
Sahara Cassandra DeAngelis
Master's Program in Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine
Hyperglycemic Conditions May Promote DNA Damage Induced Senescence in TIMELESS Depleted Human Cardiac Fibroblasts

#20
Sri Havya Jana
Master’s Program in Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine
The role of DDX11 in telomere integrity and its implications in cancer cells

#21
Roshni Kadam
Master’s Program in Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine
Investigating the functional role of highly structured regions in lncRNA SChLAP1 using CRISPR/Cas-based deletion analysis

#22
Priyashree Nagarajan
Master’s Program in Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine
Regulation of BORG2 by Cdc42 through Disruption of Internal Structure

#23
Brittany Schleeter
Master’s Program in Pathologists’ Assistant
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine
Do You See What I See? A Complex Case of Recurrent p16+ HPV-Associated Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Resulting in Orbital Exenteration in an Elderly Male

#24
Rashmi Tantri
Master’s Program in Pharmacology and Physiology
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine
Sex Differences in Acute Cocaine Response: Exploring DAT Regulation Through MKP3 Overexpression in Rats

#25
Margot Bellon - Dean's Award for Best Research Poster Presentation (TIE)
MD Program
College of Medicine
Evaluating a community health worker training program in rural Guatemala: School of PowHER

#26
Medha Gupta
MD Program
College of Medicine
Digital Health Innovations: Exploring AI Chatbot Assistance for Patients with Airway Disorders

#27
Justin Lee
MD Program
College of Medicine
Antibiotic and phage susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from phage therapy patients

#28
Courtney Oliver
MD Program
College of Medicine
Olfactomedin 1-3, Brorin and Neuritin: Interaction and Impact on Binding to the AMPA Receptor

#29
Saqer Alshehri
PhD Program in Biomedical Engineering
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems
A Miniaturized Augmented Reality and Smart Assistant Integrated Brain Computer Interface for People with ALS

#30
Zuhal Ormanoglu
PhD Program in Biomedical Science
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems
Facial Expression-Based Affective State Assessment in Young Children

#31
Akari Seiner - Dean's Award for Best Research Poster Presentation (TIE)
PhD Program in Biomedical Engineering
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems
Expanding Possibilities: Design of a Responsive Cardiovascular Shunt for Pediatric Heart Repair

#32
Natalie Smolin
PhD Program in Biomedical Science
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems
The transcription factor broad acts as a terminal selector of neuronal identity in the Drosophila visual system

#33
Shreya Soni - Dean's Award for Best Research Poster Presentation (TIE)
PhD Program in Biomedical Engineering
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems
Drug-Loaded Cyclodextrin Nanoparticles Target Macrophages to Promote Tissue Repair in Cardiac Injury

#34
Yigit Topoglu - Dean's Award for Best Research Poster Presentation (TIE)
PhD Program in Biomedical Engineering
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems
Using fNIRS and oxytocin to explore face-to-face naturalistic human-robot conversations: A multimodal neuroergonomic approach

#35
Ronald Zambrano
Master’s Program in Biomedical Science
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems
Image Enhancement of Anterior Segment OCT Angiography for Improving Measurement Reliability of Scleral Vessels in Glaucomatous Eyes

Judges

Jennifer Atchison, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Senior Design Coordinator
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
College of Engineering

Mary Genvieve Carty, MS, MHEd
Director of Education Innovation and Strategic Partnerships
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine

Martha C. Coates. PhD, RN, CRNP
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
College of Nursing and Health Professions

Cheyenne Dolbear, MA
Assistant Director/Resident Director
Housing & Residence Life

Anthony Howcroft, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE)

Hyunho Kim, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering

Sergei Kostiaev, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Politics
College of Arts and Sciences

Andreia Mortensen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Professional Studies
College of Medicine

Beth Moy, MSW
Chief of Staff
Salus University

Michelle L. Rogers, PhD
Associate Professor and Director
Women in Tech Initiative
Information Science
College of Computing and Informatics

Biplab Sarkar, PhD
Cotswold Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems

Gregory Schwenk, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering

Justine S. Sefcik, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
College of Nursing and Health Professions

Kate Vanderburgh, PhD
Research Instrumentation Specialist
Manager, SEM, NanoCT, Sample Prep
Materials Characterization Core
Research Core Facilities

JW Wiggins, MA
Senior Director of Library Services & Operations
Drexel University Libraries

Yuan Zhang, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
College of Engineering