Twenty-two Hamilton students presented their research at the 9th annual New York Six Undergraduate research conference, held on Sept. 26, m at Union College in Schenectady. Their presentations were based on summer research they conducted with Hamilton faculty during the summer in the sciences and through Emerson Foundation grants.
Presenter Ian Nduhiu ’22 enjoyed the experience, saying, “It was just a matter of being comfortable with the content, which I was. I did get positive feedback from my peers and one of the faculty members in attendance, who was a computer science professor.”
Elise Butler ’20, who presented a poster with Dianne-Lee Ferguson ’22, said, “... many people came up to us and commented on our project title and poster design. All the feedback was very positive," she said. “These opening comments made it easier for us to explain our research. The idea that people were already interested and had good things to say to us made us more comfortable and excited to expand on our findings,” Butler said.
The following students presented posters:
- Nora Torres ’20, Stephanie Wu ’21 – “Drag and Swimming Forces of Tetrahymena Thermophila”
- Subin Myong ’22, David Opozda ’21 – “Understanding Meiotic Drive Systems In Abnormal Chromosome 10 in Zea mays Through Genetic Assays”
- Lea Barros ’22 – “Investigating the Role of Z-DNA Binding Protein 1 in CASP8-mediated Pyroptosis”
- Kaela Makins ’21 – “pH Changes of Vacuole Digestion in Tetrahymena Thermophila”
- Shelby McVey ’22, Leili Aliyari ’20 – “Cloning the TRKIN-TR1 Neocentromere System on the Abnormal Chromosome 10 in Zea mays”
- Elise Butler ’20, Dianne-Lee Ferguson ’22 – “Exercise or Cocaine: Using Olfactory Classical Conditioning to Determine Preference”
- Leah Westfall ’20 – “Effects of Acute Delay Exposure on Impulsive Choice Behavior in Humans
- Elisa Taylor-Yeremeeva ’20 and Stephen Wisser ’20– “The Effects of Chemogenetic Silencing of the Rodent Postrhinal Cortex on Learning and Memory”
- Michael Goldstein ’20 – “Genes differentially expressed in Cryptocaryon irritans theront cells derived from 1 and 10 hrs post-encystmen”
- Jacob Circelli ’20 – “Fluorouracil's Passage into Tetrahymena thermophile”
- Erin Ebert ’21, Grace Godwin ’21, Lily Sochan-Rosen ’21 – “The effect of pregnancy status on immune function and nutritional condition in Wyoming bighorn sheep”
Presentations:
- Ishan Bhatia ’20 and James Moon (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School) – “The Impact of Immune Checkpoint Blockade on Colitis and T Cells in the Gastrointestinal Tract”
- Emma Tynan ’20 – “Bias in College Student Evaluations: The Role of Student Experience”
- Diamond Jackson ’21 – “A Fly In The Buttermilk: How The Mental Health of Black Students Is Affected When Attending Predominantly White Institutions”
- Alexander Cook ’20 – “Combating Deception in Genocide
- Nicholas Walters ’20 – “Before Music 'Took Fever': The Influence of Medieval and Renaissance Music on Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries”
- Kimberly Lifton ’20 – “Reputation and Representation of the Black Prince: Edward of Woodstock’s Fama and National Identity in the 14th Century”
- Ian Nduhiu ’22 Kenneth Talarico ’22 – “OrGANic Growth: Language Evolution With a Forest of Generative Adversarial Nets”
