Graduate Research and Creative Works Symposium 2023

Join us for a day of honoring the research that graduate students have been working on throughout their graduate education. Food and beverage will be served throughout the event!

General details on the event as well as the student speakers who will presenting can be found below. 

POSTER EXHIBITION:

Students will have the opportunity to present their research with a research poster. Posters will be hanging up the room and presenting students will have the opportunity to share their research with other students and faculty who attend the exhibition. The exhibition will take place from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM. All students are welcome to attend the exhibition and learn more about the research that current students have conducted.

Location: Campus Center, Multipurpose Room (MPR)

PRESENTING STUDENTS:

Nick Markellos, English and Media Studies M.A. student

  • Dead Poets Society: Revitalizing Romanticism in the Twenty-First Century

Regina Salzer, Computational and Integrative Biology M.S. student

  • Controlling Plasmonic Response and Cargo Release Via Hydrophobic Nanoparticle Organization Within Polymersome Membranes

Betsy Roy, Creative Writing M.F.A. student

Megan Mason, Psychology M.A. student

  • A Dyadic Analysis of Anti-Fat Attitudes as Predictors of a Partner’s Diet-Related Influence Among Gay Men

Lidong Xiang, Childhood Studies Ph.D. student

  • Cruel Girlhood: Violent Practices and Chinese Schoolgirls in Films and Fiction

Alexis Romeo, Forensic Science M.S. student

  • The Development of Latent Fingerprints on Items Submerged Underwater

Aditya Gahlot, Public Affairs M.S. student

  • Stories and Storytelling: The Root, Response, and the Curative Aid to Mental Illness in Rural India

Joshua Chamberlain, Computational and Integrative Biology Ph.D. student

  • Effects of Bacterial Sphingolipids on the Properties of Synthetic Liposomes

Truman Dunkley, Computational and Integrative Biology Ph.D. student

  • Immune Response Alterations Caused by Mechanical Substrate Stiffness within a UTI Model

Jesse Sandberg, Computational and Integrative Biology Ph.D. student

  • Comparing Elastic and Molecular Models of Membrane Bending Local to the SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein for Mechanistic Understanding

Lindsey Riggs, Computational and Integrative Biology Ph.D. student

  • Role of Inorganic Polyphosphate in the Regulation of AMPK in Alzheimer’s Disease

Alberly Perez, Psychology M.A. student

Joseph Johnson, Psychology M.A. student

  • Inhibitory Control in the Hayling Sentence Completion Task

Madison Mulcahy, Chemistry M.S. student

  • Grouped and Ungrouped Single-Cell Electropherograms Enable Precision DNA Interpretation: Relevancy and Legitimacy of Single-Cell Forensics

Mariadelia Argüello Acuna, Computational and Integrative Biology M.S. student

  • Identification of Specific Sphingolipid-BAMA Interactions Using Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the C.crescentus Outer Membrane

Derek Puyat, Chemistry M.S. student

  • DNA Nanomaterial for Carrying Small-Molecule Ligands for Drug Delivery Application

Dua Malik, Prevention Science Ph.D. student

  • Medical and Nursing Students’ Motives and Intentions to Discuss Patients’ Body Image and Weight

Ezry St. Iago-McRae, Computational and Integrative Biology Ph.D. student

  • Absolute Binding Affinities of Phospholipids to ELIC by Streamlined Alchemical Free Energy Perturbation (SAFEP)

Connor Pitman, Computational and Integrative Biology Ph.D. student

Kiersten Westley, Prevention Science Ph.D. student

Abneris Morales, Computational and Integrative Biology M.S. student

  • The Use of Ionic Lipids as Plasticizing Agents for Carbohydrate Films

Genevieve Uchendu, Computational and Integrative Biology Ph.D. student

Tanisha Dhakephalkar, Biology M.S. student

Samuel Ross, Public Administration M.P.A. student

  • Rocks to Reactors: Coal and Nuclear Energy in Appalachia

Shibin Yan, Public Affairs Ph.D. student

  • The Impact of COVID-19 Containment Measures on the Mental Health of Older Adults in New Jersey

Helen Stott, Computational and Integrative Biology Ph.D. student

Kelsey Woodard, Psychology M.A. student

  • Nausea and Worry in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) Patients

Polina Poliakova, Psychology M.A. student

  • Household Chaos and Pre-Bedtime Behaviors in Young Children

Katie Wisniewski, Psychology M.A. student

Megan Mason, Psychology M.A. student

  • A Dyadic Analysis of Anti-Fat Attitudes as Predictors of a Partner’s Diet-Related Influence Among Gay Men

Oguz Ozalp, Public Affairs Ph.D. student

  • Community Health Needs Assessments: An Examination of Four New Jersey Counties: Atlantic, Gloucester, Cumberland, and Salem

Grace Grady, Psychology M.A. student

Citlalli Jimenez, Prevention Science M.A. student

Sebastian Michael LaVergne, History M.A. student

  • Graduate School Building, 211 N. Fifth Street: A House History