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    2016 Student Research Symposium (SRS) Abstract Book 
    (2016)
    Effects of Urbanization and Pedestrian Traffic on Bird Diversity / Derek Decarr (Biology); Faculty Mentor: Kara Belinsky (Biology) -- Bringing Nature Into the Classroom: a Bird-themed Curriculum / Aidan Mabey (Environmental Science) Nyoka Bigsby (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Kara Belinsky (Biology) -- An Audio Analysis of Urbanization Using Campus Bird Feeder Network / Troy Ellick (Biology); Faculty Mentor: Kara Belinsky (Biology) -- Challenging Invasion: an investigation of the invasive paper wasp, Polistes dominulus, and its native counterpart, Polistes fuscatus, in locally disturbed environs. / Maddie-Blair Wright (Biology); Faculty Mentor: Aaron Haselton (Biology) -- Octopamine Pathways of Polistes dominulus / Jessica Weeks (Biology); Faculty Mentor: Aaron Haselton (Biology) -- Fluorescence Detection of Xenoestrogens Using HPLC / Abigail Fagan (Chemistry); Faculty Mentor: Pamela St. John (Chemistry) -- Differentiating Cognitive Decline from Normal Aging using EBP / Jessica Sternlicht (Communication Disorders); Faculty Mentor: Inge Anema (Communication Disorders) -- The Kaldor-Verdoorn Law in Explaining the Importance of the U.S. Manufacturing Sector / Nuria Fernandez (Economics); Faculty Mentor: Hamid Azari Rad (Economics) -- Factors that Impact Free-Agent Salaries in the MLB / Talal N weiran (Economics); Faculty Mentor: Hamid Azari Rad (Economics) -- Evidence of Employment and Foreign Direct Investment: a Case of the United States / Jose Ignacio Campo Cadenas (Economics); Faculty Mentor: Hamid Azari Rad (Economics) -- Dutch Disease: a Case Study of Azerbaijan / Waheed Alabe de (Economics); Faculty Mentor: Hamid Azari Rad (Economics) -- Climate Awareness Under the Utility Maximization Approach: The Cases of Japan and Indonesia / Emily Vanderpool (Business); Faculty Mentor: Hamid Azari Rad (Economics) -- Household Savings and Social Insurance Retirement Income / Simon Li (Economics/Mathematics); Faculty Mentor: Simin Mozayeni (Economics) -- Problems and Promise: A Preliminary Study on Charter Schools / Jaclyn Greco (Adolescent Education, Mathematics) Faculty Mentor: Kate McCoy (Education Studies) -- Urban Farms in Chongqing: Examining Opportunities and Challenges / Aidan Mabey (Environmental Science); Faculty Mentors: Salvatore Engel-Dimauro (Geography) Melissa Rock (Geography) -- German Environmental Consciousness / Katherine Matus (Sociology); Faculty Mentor: Vanessa Plumly (Languages, Literatures & Cultures) -- The Grotesque and the Uncanny in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman / Brianna Best (English Literature); Faculty Mentor: Vanessa Plumly (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) -- Turks in Germany: Contemporary Germany through a Turkish Lens / Nicole Cager (International Relations); Faculty Mentor: Vanessa Plumly (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) -- Seductive German Film during the Weimar Period / Elizabeth Chase (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures); Mentor: Vanessa Plumly (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) -- Past Tense Morphology in Heritage and L2 Speakers of Spanish / Ali Matthews (Linguistics); Faculty Mentor: Oksana Laleko (Linguistics) -- Optical Tweezers: How to Get a Good Trap / Chevonne McInnis (Physics); Faculty Mentor: Catherine Herne (Physics) -- Optical Micromanipulation in Beams with Polarization Singularities / Ann O’Brien (Physics); Mentor: Catherine Herne (Physics) -- Calculation of Torque Exerted on Calcite Crystals by Laser Light through Analysis of Angular Forces / Alexander Ostrander (Physics); Faculty Mentor: Catherine Herne (Physics) -- A View From The Bridge: Costume Design / Krista Arena (Theatre Arts); Faculty Mentor: Andrea Varga (Theatre Arts) -- Set Design for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Dana Weintraub (Theatre Arts); Faculty Mentor: Ken Goldstein (Theatre Arts) -- Projection Design for Julius Caesar at SUNY New Paltz / Elizabeth Mallison (Theatre Arts); Faculty Mentor: Ken Goldstein (Theatre Arts) -- Evaluation of 3-D Printed Artifacts from CT Scans / Kyra Nolte (Anthropology); Faculty Mentor: Kenneth Nystrom (Anthropology) -- Iron Age Croatia: Reconstruction of Diet / Jessica Mortensen (Anthropology); Faculty Mentor: Kenneth Nystrom (Anthropology) -- Isolation and Identification of an Antifungal Metabolite Bethany O’Hara (Biology) Stephanie Hanna (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow (Biology) -- Phototoxicity and Antimicrobial Assays of Heracleum Maximum / John Hoffmann (Biochemistry) Gabrielle Jones (Chemistry) Renato Lúcio De Carvalho (Chemistry) Isadora Maria Vicente Da Silva (Chemistry); Faculty Mentors: Preeti Dhar (Chemistry) Maureen Morrow (Biology) -- Regioselective Electrophilic Addition Reactions of Alkenes as Alkenes as Experiments for the Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory / Melanie Pereira (Chemistry) Julia Heim (Chemistry); Faculty Mentor: Frantz Folmer-Andersen (Chemistry) -- Improved Syntheses of Macrocycles Containing both Trans-1,-2 Diaminocyclohexane and 1, 1'-BI-2-Naphthol and Control Compounds / Edward Deramon (Chemistry) William Rosenkrantz (Chemistry) Faculty Mentor: Frantz Folmer-Andersen (Chemistry) -- Towards Demonstration of Enantioselective Function by Synthetic Macrocycles Containing Trans-1,2-Diaminocyclohexane and 1,1'-BI-2-Napthol Subunits / Adam Noach (Chemistry); Faculty Mentor: Frantz Folmer-Andersen (Chemistry) -- Analytical and Preparative Studies to Enable the Evaluation of Enantioselective Molecular Recognition by Synthetic / Joseph Dunstan (Chemistry); Faculty Mentor: Frantz Folmer-Andersen (Chemistry) -- Facile Ring Opening of Cyclic Ethers Using NaBH4 and I2 / Mackenzie Cummings (Biochemistry); Faculty Mentors: Frantz Folmer-Anderson (Chemistry) Preeti Dhar (Chemistry) -- Does Triggering Students' Interest Make Them Overconfident? / Kyle F. Law (Psychology); Faculty Mentor: Corwin Senko (Psychology) -- Eye Movements in 4-month-olds Viewing Impossible Objects / Julie Planke (Psychobiology); Faculty Mentor: Sarah Shuwairi (Psychology) -- The Impact of Cooperative versus Competitive Board Game Play on Positive Emotion and Vitality / Allison Vaughn (Psychology) Vania Rolon (Psychology) Leah Mancini (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Douglas Maynard (Psychology) -- The Allure of Struggle and Failure in Cooperative Board Games / Joanna Herron (Mathematics/Psychology); Mentor: Doug Maynard (Psychology) -- A Path to College Success: Peer Expectation and Life Balance / Carlyne Hazer (Sociology) Nicole Santa Maria (Sociology) Bridget Clark (Sociology) Daivon Lloyd (Sociology); Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) -- A Path to College Success: Past Rejection and Engagement / Aidan Morse (Sociology) Ferne Hibbins (Criminology) Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) -- A Path To College Success: Does Goal Setting Matter? / Sami Nash (Sociology) Barbara Alcime (Psychology) Arianna Williams (Sociology) Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) -- A Path to College Success: Electronics Inhibiting Communication / Ashley Capone (Sociology) Sabrina Soto (Sociology) Louis Bozzella (Sociology) Mccartney Malak (Sociology); Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) -- A Path to College Success: Development and Social Skills in College / Kaylee Belden (Sociology) Maggie Babcock (Sociology) Nicole Simonelli (Sociology) Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) -- A Path to College Success: Emotional Wellbeing and Academic Success / Kayla Pardee (Sociology) Breanna Hanson (Sociology) Matthew Smith (Sociology) Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) -- A Path to College Success: Responsibility in Work/Academics / Lailaa Cunningham (Sociology) Alyssa Drury (Sociology) Christina Boland (Sociology) Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) -- A Path to College Success: Self-Identity and Resiliency / Caitlin Reardon (Sociology) Taylor Lesky (Sociology) Natalie Bayrami (Sociology) Kayleigh Madormo (Sociology); Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) -- Interaction of BHT with BPA in Planaria / Zachary Thom (Biology) Chyanne Dieujuste (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- When Axolotls Metamorphose: the Kinematics of Salamanders that Shouldn’t Walk / Tobin Mathew (Biology) Amy Glazer (Biology) Meredith Eldridge (Biology) Jessica Siconolfi (Biology) Karen Santamaria (Biology) Danielle Sperando (Biology); Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- Investigating the Effect of BPA on the Actin Cytoskeleton / Alvin Mathew (Biology) Christina Jo hnso n (Biology) Josh Jo hnikutty (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- Dissolved Oxygen in Lake Minnewaska after the Introduction of Fish / Bobbetta Davis (Biology) Matthew Farragher (Environmental Geochemical Science) Julia Herten (Biology) Anthony Hollander (Biology) Krista Micelli (Geography) Brian Wilcove (Biology); Faculty Mentor: David Richardson (Biology) -- The Effect of Acidity and Zooplankton Presence on the Growth of Green Algae / Matt Farragher (EGS) Bobbetta D av is (Biology) Julia Herten (Biology) Anthony Hollander (Biology) Krista Micelli (Geography) Brian Wilcove (Biology) Faculty Mentor: David Richardson (Biology) -- Decreasing Acid Precipitation in the Shawangunk Mountains, New York and the Differential Recovery of Lake Acidity / Brian Wilcove (Biology) Bobbetta Davis (Biology) Matthew Farragher (Biology) Julia Herten (Biology) Anthony Hollander (Biology) Krista Micelli (Biology); Faculty Mentor: David Richardson (Biology) -- Relating AFM Force Mapping to Conventional Force Curve Collection on Bacteria / Catherine Mahoney (Biochemistry) Alexa Criollo (Biochemistry) Faculty Mentor: Megan Ferguson (Chemistry) -- Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics to Study Air Infiltration on a Commercial Building / Ariel Pignatelli (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentors: Kevin Shanley (Engineering) Heejin Cho (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University) -- Groundwater Flow Modeling to Assess the Impact of Groundwater on Stream Bank Erosion in the Stony Clove Creek Watershed, NY / Sarah Sansone and Sawyer McFadden (both Environmental Geochemistry) Faculty Mentor: Shafiul Chowdhry (Geology) -- Hydraulic Conductivity of Glacially Derived Sediments in the Stony Clove Creek Watershed, Catskills Mountains / Sarah Sansone and Sawyer McFadden (both Environmental Geochemistry) Faculty Mentor: Shafiul Chowdhry (Environmental Geochemistry) -- Restricted Minimal Face Colorings of Solids / Brandee Williams (Mathematics); Faculty Mentor: Edward Hanson (Mathematics) -- Supersymmetric Darboux Transformations and Wronskian / Simon Li (Economics/Mathematics); Faculty Mentor: Ekaterina Shemyakova (Mathematics) -- Dynamic Templates and Networks: from Hardwiring to Temporal Behavior / Ariel Pignatelli (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentor: Anca Radulescu (Mathematics) -- Mean Field Modeling of Neural Population Interactions / Caitlin Kennedy (Mathematics); Faculty Mentor: Anca Radulescu (Mathematics) -- Modeling Synaptic Control of Obsessive Compulsive Behavior / Joanna Herron (Mathematics); Faculty Mentor: Anca Radulescu (Mathematics) -- A Systems Model of Brain Dynamics in Obsessive Compulsive Behavior / Rachel Marra (Physics); Faculty Mentor: Anca Radulescu (Mathematics) -- Sums of Consecutive Polygonal Numbers / Samantha Wyler (Mathematics); Faculty Mentor: Diego Dominici (Mathematics) -- Partner Insurance: Females May Have a Backup Romantic Partner as a Mating Strategy / Nicole Wedberg (Psychology); Faculty Mentor: Glenn Geher (Psychology) -- "You're Dead to Me": The Evolutionary Psychology of Estrangements / Richard Holler (Psychology) Matthew Chason (Psychology) Vania Rolon (Psychology) Kian Betancourt (Psychology) Brittany Mabie (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Glenn Geher (Psychology) -- Examining the "Atheists are Jerks" Hypothesis: Are there Really Any Significant Differences between Religious and Non-religious Individuals? / Vania Rolon (Psychology) Lauren Smith (Psychology) Stephanie Padich (Psychology); Faculty Mentor: Glenn Geher (Psychology) -- Working with your Enemy: The Effect of Competitive/Cooperative Gameplay on Altruistic Tendencies in Video Games / Kian Betancourt (Psychology); Faculty Mentor: Glenn Geher (Psychology) -- What If We Never Cut Ties: Estrangements Influence on Counterfactual Narrative / Brittany Mabie (Psychology) Jackie Eisenberg (Psychology) Katrina Lippolt (Psychology) Faculty Mentors: Glenn Geher (Psychology) Tabitha Holmes (Psychology) -- Personality Correlates of Creativity / Elizabeth Levy (Psychology) Kian Betancourt (Psychology) Maureen McCarthy (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Glenn Geher (Psychology) -- Exploring the Antecedents of Anticipatory Emotions / Robert Arena (Psychology); Faculty Mentor: Maryalice Citera (Psychology) -- Goals Adjustment in Older Persons Maximize Emotional Regulation and Promote Species Survival / Jeffrey Zalta (Psychology); Faculty Mentor: Jacquelyn Berry (Psychology) -- The Effects of Intertrial Primng and Target Certainty on Attentional Capture in Visual Search / Anthony Giorno (Psychology) Cari Marivelli (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Jacquelyn Berry (Psychology) -- Honesty is such a Lonely Word / Joseph Russo (Sociology) Emily Bonnabeau (Sociology) Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) -- Analysis of Underlying Variables in the 2015 Graduating Senior Survey / Leah Mancini (Psychology); Faculty Mentor: Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) -- "Career Readiness" for High School Graduates in Ulster County / Micaela Kayser (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies); Faculty Mentor: Robin Jacobowitz (The Benjamin Center) Kt Tobin (The Benjamin Center) Robert Curran (Ulster County School Board Association)
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    2017 Student Research Symposium (SRS) Abstract Book
    (2017-05)
    Isolation and Characterization of an Isaria Anti-Fungal Metabolite / Stephanie Hanna (Biochemistry) Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow (Biology) -- Using DNA Fingerprinting to Understand Songbird Family Structure / Reshma Gheevarghese (Cell/Molecular Biology (BS)) Faculty Mentor: Kara Belinsky (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Biology) -- DNA Analysis of Commercial Cat Foods to Investigate Accuracy of Labeled Ingredients / Jessica Siconolfi (Biochemistry) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Biology) -- Supplementation at Birdfeeders: A Preliminary Mealworm Study / Anthony Hollander (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Kara Belinsky (Biology) -- An Examination of Historical Bird Data from Mohonk Preserve / Laura Stark (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Kara Belinsky (Biology) -- Using Bird feeders to Study Bird Diversity on a Suburban Campus / Troy Ellick (Biology), Ciara Scully (Geography) Faculty Mentor: Kara Belinsky (Biology) -- Chickadee Habitat Preference in the Millbrook Preserve / Kelly Bade (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Kara Belinsky (Biology) -- Bird Communities in Two Forest Fragments: Does Fragment Size Matter? / Aidan Mabey (SUNY New Paltz), Laura Stark (Biology), Troy Ellick (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Kara Belinsky (Biology) -- Evolution of Rab GTPase proteins in Paramecium cells / Viraj Modi (Cellular & Molecular Biology) Faculty Mentor: Lydia Bright (Biology) -- When Axolotls Metamorphose: The Kinematics of Salamanders that Shouldn't Walk / Tobin Mathew (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- The Effect of Modeled Microgravity on the Activation of Jurkat Cells / Laura Scarimbolo (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow (Biology) -- The Effect of Atrazine on the Cytoskeletal Structure of Jurkat Cells / Ashley Fisher (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow (SUNY New Paltz) -- Nosing out who can smell pungent asparagus metabolites / Miriam Marx (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Reinking (Biology) -- Lake Minnewaska Recovery from a Trophic Level Loss / Anthony Hollander (Biology), Heather Wander (Biology), Bruno Emma (Biology), Hailee Edwards (Biology), Deaja Green (Biology), Sawyer McFadden (Environmental Geochemical Science), Kayla Reid (Biochemistry) Faculty Mentor: David Richardson (Biology) -- Co-limitation of nitrogen and phosphorus as a bottom-up control on algal biomass / Hailee Edwards (Biology), Kayla Reid (Biochemistry), Emma Bruno (Biology), DeJae Green (Biology), Anthony Hollander (Biology), Sawyer McFadden (Environmental Geochemical Science), Heather Wander (Biology) Faculty Mentor: David Richardson (Biology) -- Verification of ingredient claims in commercial soap products via DNA extraction and analysis / Leesandra Lopez (Cellular/Molecular Biology) Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Waldo (Biology) -- The Printing of Three Dimensional Biochemical Models / Jamie Woych (Biochemistry), Christina Georgalas (Biochemistry) Faculty Mentor: Daniel Freedman (Science and Engineering) -- Synthesis of Versatile Starting Materials: The Iodo-Alcohols / Aakriti Ramayani (Biochemistry), Tianyu She (Biochemistry), Mackenzie Cummings (Biochemistry) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar (Chemistry) -- Comparative Toxicity Of Heracleum And Psoralea Extracts / Brett Pinsky (Biochemsity), Tina Liu (Biochemistry), Cassidy King (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Preeti Dhar (Chemistry) Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow (Biology) -- The results of the brine shrimp bioassay as well as the progress of the toxicity assay using B16 murine melanoma cells will be presented. Developing a Method to Examine Steric Forces of Lipopolysaccharides by AFM / Nicolette Rigaud (Environmental Geochemical Science), Jessica Fortado (Chemistry), Alexa Criollo (Biochemistry) Faculty Mentor: Megan Ferguson (Chemistry) -- Analysis of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides Using Atomic Force Microscopy / Andrew Zlotnick (Chemistry) Faculty Mentor: Megan Ferguson (Chemistry) -- Quantifying Bisphenol A Absorption in Planaria and Studying its Effects on Planaria Regeneration / Abigail Fagan (Chemistry), Troy Moody (Biology) Faculty Mentor: Pamela St. John (Chemistry) Faculty Mentor: Spencer Mass (Biology) -- Catalysis Of The Hydrolysis Of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Using Chaotropic Agents / Edward deRamon (Chemistry) Faculty Mentor: Daniel Freedman (Science and Engineering) -- Weather Data Analysis using MapReduce Based K-means Algorithm / Robert Wieland (Computer Science), Colin Wakeford (Computer Science) Faculty Mentor: Min Chen (Computer Science) -- Fossil Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions: An Environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis / William Anderson (Economics) Faculty Mentor: Mona Ali (Economics) -- The Effect of Minimum Wage on the Poverty Rate in California / Chris Jones (Economics) Faculty Mentor: Mona Ali (Economics) -- Reverence, Refuge, Despair, and Loss: Poetic Encounters with Nature / Zanyell Garmon (Education) Faculty Mentor: Mary Sawyer (Education) -- Political Representation of Women in the Mid-Hudson / Jaclyn Greco (Secondary Education - Mathematics) Faculty Mentor: kt Tobin (Associate Director of the Benjamin Center) -- Middle Devonian Plant Specimens of the Plattekill Fm., Shokan, NY / Kate Cushen (Biology/Geology) Faculty Mentor: Alexander Bartholomew (Geology) -- Sickness and Seduction in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain / Alvina Ahmed (English, German (Literature, Language, and Cultures)) Faculty Mentor: Vanessa Plumly (German (Literature, Languages, and Culture)) -- Trans-space and Performance: Liminality and the Gender Relations in Mädchen in Uniform / Brianna Best (English) Faculty Mentor: Vanessa Plumly (Languages, Literatures & Cultures) -- Exploring Illegal Drug Policy Making in the United States / Arjeta Prenaj (International Relations) Faculty Mentor: Kate McCoy (Educational Studies and Leadership) -- Sums of Consecutive Polygonal Numbers / Samantha Wyler (mathematics) Faculty Mentor: Diego Dominici (Mathematics) -- Use of Digital Image Correlation to Find Material Properties of Carbon Fiber Composites / Christian Zoeger Boggiano (Mechanical Engineering), Jack Yang (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentor: Jared W. Nelson (Div of Engineering Programs) -- Effect of Common Print Parameters on the Mechanical Properties of the Produced Parts / Jack Yang (Mechanical Engineering), christian zoeger (SUNY New Paltz), Dylan Atkins (Mechanical Engineering), Jeffrey Huang (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentor: Jared W. Nelson (Div of Engineering Programs) -- Comparison of Mechanical Performance of 3D Printed Polymers to Injection Molding / Jeffrey Huang (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentor: Jared Nelson (Div of Engineering Programs) -- Anisotropic Effects of Print Orientation on Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Polymers / Dylan Atkins (Mechanical Engineering), Matthew Gottstine (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentor: Jared W. Nelson (Mechanical Engineering) -- Simulation of the Manufacturing Process of Foamed Cement / Julian Chipkin (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentor: Kevin Shanley (Mechanical Engineering) -- Energy Efficiency Assessment of SUNY New Paltz Resnick Engineering Hall using Computer Software Program, eQUEST / Megan Gangewere (Mechanical Engineering), Kristen O'Sullivan (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentor: Kevin Shanley (Mechanical Engineering) -- Examining the use of Super-critical Carbon Dioxide as a Refrigerant / Clewis Vaughn (Mechanical Engineering), Thomas Palombo (Mechanical Engineering), Joseph Palombo (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentor: Rachmadian Wulandana (Mechanical Engineering) -- Sustainability Analysis of Renewable Energy Technologies on the Island of Batanta / Megan Gangewere (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentor: Rachmadian Wulandana (Mechanical Engineering) -- Effectiveness of Supercritical CO2 Rankine Cycles / Tamara Ordonez (Mechanical Engineering), Robert Kennedy (Mechanical Engineering), Cuiyu Kuang (Mechanical Engineering), Megan Gangewere (Mechanical Engineering) Faculty Mentor: Rachmadian Wulandana (Mechanical Engineering) -- The Stockhausen Project / Steven Roberts (Composition/Music) Faculty Mentor: Alex Peh (Music) -- Measuring rotation rates of graphite in Laguerre-Gauss modes / Lucas Tracy (Physics), Matthew Cattani (Physics) Faculty Mentor: Catherine Herne (Physics) -- Analysis techniques for calcite crystal motion / Matthew Cattani (Physics) Faculty Mentor: Catherine Herne (Physics & Astronomy) -- Determination of Laser Mode Polarization via Birefringent Particle Motion / Daniel Brogan (Physics & Astronomy), Matthew Cattani (Physics) Faculty Mentor: Catherine Herne (Physics & Astronomy) -- Perceived Stigma among Mono & Bisexuals in LGBTQIA+ Community / Maria Talloni-Perlett (Psychology), JoniMaree Paternella (Psychology), Meagan Sweeney (Psychology), Bridget Gunn (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Lisa Bauer (Psychology) -- Gender Differences in Ambivalent Sexism and Political Beliefs / Maria Talloni-Perlett (Psychology), Meagan Sweeney (Psychology), JoniMaree Paternella (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Lisa Bauer (Psychology) -- Goal Shifting in Older Adults / Kelly Fitzpatrick (Psychology), Melyssa Arguello (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Jacquelyn Berry (Psychology) -- Lucid Dreaming / Hailey Matthews (Psychology), Gabriella Martinez (Psychology), Samuel Han (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Jacquelyn Berry (Psychology) -- Colored Targets and Distractors in Attentional Capture / Kathleen Herman (Psychology), Tyler Miller (Psychology), Evelyn Mendez-Sanchez (Psychology), Ellen Halady (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Jacquelyn Berry (Psychology) -- "Four in a Row" - How Extending Variable Target Repetitions Alters Attentional Capture / Patrick Holmberg (Psychology), Angelique Burgos (Psychology), Brett Spriggs (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Jacquelyn Berry (Psychology) -- Testing the Supermodel of Letter Recognition / Scott Ibbetson (Psychology), Caitlin Moschetto (Psychology), Lina Greenspon (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Jacquelyn Berry (Psychology) -- Targets and Distractors Sometimes Share Shapes Across Displays / Rachel Bogert (Psychology), Kasey Brock (Psychology), Jessica Mueller (Psychology), Nicholas Moscatiello (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Jacquelyn Berry (Psychology) -- Investigating the Validity and Reliability of a Discounted Utility Scale / Robert Arena (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Maryalice Citera (Psychology) -- Expectations for Future Careers: A Comparison Between Heterosexual and LGBT*Q Indentified Undergraduates / Amanda Baroni (Psychology), Maria Talloni (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Maryalice Citera (SUNY New Paltz) -- The Evolutionary Mismatch of Familial Proximity Relating to Mental Health / Julie Planke (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Glenn Geher (Psychology) -- Female Body Ideals Across the World Explained through Waist-to-Hip Ratio / Kelsey Newhook (Psychology), Rolon Vania (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Glenn Geher (Psychology) -- Investigating Emotions in Music / Olivia Jewell (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Glenn Geher (Psychology) -- Friends, Love, & tinder: An Evolutionary Mismatch of Mating Strategies / Richard Holler (Psychology), Jacqueline Di Santo (Psychology), Matthew Chason (Psychology), Jacqueline Eisenberg (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Glenn Geher (Psychology) -- The Evolved Classroom: Using Evolutionary Theory to Inform Elementary Pedagogy / Kathryne Gruskin (Elementary Ed.) Faculty Mentor: Glenn Geher (Psychology) -- Reactions to Behaviors: BFRBS and The Role of Education / Katrina Scarimbolo (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Geher (Psychology) -- Does hand proximity affect sentence processing? / Trisha Chabria (Biology & Psychology), Regina Paskoff (Psychobiology), Matt Chason (Psychobiology) Faculty Mentor: Giordana Grossi (Psychology) -- What If We had Never Broken Up? / Faith Gillen (Psychology), Brittany Mabie (Psychology), Timea Tozser (Psychology), Melissa Blankstein (Psychology), Cari Marivelli (Psychology), Monica Schneider (Psychology), Katrina Scarimbolo (Psychology), Lauren Miro (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Tabitha Holmes (Psychology) -- The Emotional Impacts of Competitive, Cooperative, and Solo Gameplay in Adults / Leah Mancini (Psychology), Ariel Barter (Psychology), Vania Rolon (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Douglas Maynard (Psychology) -- Play Among Nursing Home Residents / Leah Mancini (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Douglas Maynard (Psychology) -- Do young infants react with surprise, curiosity or puzzlement when viewing optical illusions? / Danielle Longo (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Sarah Shuwairi (Psychology) -- Eye Movements in 4-month-olds Viewing Impossible Objects / Julie Planke (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Sarah Shuwairi (Psychology) -- How Do We Form Categories of Pictures, Objects and Words? / Julie Planke (Psychology) Faculty Mentor: Sarah Shuwairi (Psychology) -- Low Income Communities in Long Island, NY Affected by Sea Level Rise / Katherine Matus (Student- SUNY New Paltz) Faculty Mentor: Judith Halasz (Sociology), Huicheng Chien (Geography) -- Immersive Audio in Virtual Reality / Brian Cahill-Assenza (Theatre Arts) Faculty Mentor: Sun Hee Kil (Theatre Arts) -- Oklahoma! Set Design / Caitlynn Barrett (Theatre Arts) Faculty Mentor: Ken Goldstein (Theatre Arts) -- Shadow of a Gunman Costume Design / Samantha Guglielmo (Theatre) Faculty Mentor: Andrea Varga (Theatre) -- Unmasked Costume Designs / Matthew Limerick (Theatre Arts Technology and Design/ Theatre Arts) Faculty Mentor: Andrea Varga (Theatre Arts).
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    Sustainability Analysis of Renewable Energy Technologies on the Island of Batanta, Papua, Indonesia
    (2017-05) Gangewere, Megan
    In this study, sustainable renewable energy technology was investigated for a remote island of Batanta (0.8647° S, 130.6494° E) near Papua island in the eastern part of Indonesia. The 453-km2 island is occupied by several tribes totaling a 2500 population with limited access to power lines. The island is surrounded by shallow oceans (10-30 m depth) with endangered coral and protected marine biodiversity. Oil spills during sea transportation and coral damage by large ships limit the energy supply to the island. Solar photovoltaic panels demonstrate the most feasible option for the electricity supply. However, other possible solutions are required to anticipate population growth. Alternative energy suppliers studied include hydrokinetic power, wind turbines, and a solar chimney. The water power can be made possible by creating a rain collector at the highest part of the island (1184 m) and employing a water turbine to generate electricity. The low-speed wind (around 2 m/s) of this island require wind turbines with a large diameter. However, the transportation and construction cost can be high. The design of a solar chimney electric generator is considered due to its zero emission along with a possible combination of desalination technology. Adviser / coauthor: Dr. Rachmadian Wulandana, Mechanical Engineering Program.
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    Simulation of the Manufacturing Process of Foamed Cement
    (2017-05-10) Chipkin, Julian
    Foamed cement has been used widely by the petroleum industry as a high-stress resistant, low-density material to withstand extreme downhole environments inherent to offshore wellbores. A lack of understanding regarding how foamed cement sets under subsurface field conditions can lead to risk assessment uncertainties and compromised well integrity. The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has developed a novel procedure for manufacturing foamed cement in a laboratory environment which entails forcing the fluid through a series of sudden contractions and sudden expansions. This work investigated the effects of such geometric features on the internal pressure and velocity fields of cement during the manufacturing process. Numerical simulations were conducted on a fluid flowing through three key geometric configurations chosen to mimic the aforementioned process with density and viscosity comparable to the cement produced by NETL. It was observed that the velocity profiles developed and regressed quickly and efficiently, achieving uniform parabolic shapes while traversing both sudden contractions and sudden expansions. Predictable trends in flow patterns were also exhibited by sudden contractions followed by sudden expansions. Advisers / coauthors: Kevin T. Shanley, Division of Engineering Programs, SUNY New Paltz, Dustin Crandall, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
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    Use of Digital Image Correlation to Find Compressive Material Properties of Carbon Fiber Composites
    (2017-05-10) Zoeger, Christian
    Composite materials are being used due to the fact that they are lightweight and their properties can be tailored to maximize the overall structural performance. As such, the testing of these materials is of major importance. Testing notched coupons is beneficial as the parts are optimized for damage tolerance thereby reducing time and cost of testing. Additional advantages of these tests are that machining of the coupon is not critical, the location of failure is known, and notched samples simulate worst case defects. Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is used to measure strain. With the use of two high resolution cameras, images of a coupon were captured as the load was applied. As the coupon is deformed by the applied load, the stochastic pattern painted onto the coupon also deformed. This deformation is then correlated from one image to the other, using an algorithm that tracks the pattern and transforms it into measured strain. DIC allows! for full-field, quantitative visualization of strains that then correlate to stress concentrations. This research hypothesized that the amount of testing required to establish compressive material properties could be reduced by using DIC. A unique coupon based on standardized open hole compression (OHC) and compression after impact (CAI) test methods was used. Notched IM7 carbon fiber/RS8 Bismaleimide coupons with symmetric laminates were tested. The load was recorded at the same time each image set was captured, allowing for the calculation of stress. Then, several material properties were found and compared to published values. Full field strain and stress at failure matched the published values. In addition, static fatigue testing was performed. While no plastic deformation is noted at this loading during testing-to-failure, plastic strains were noted as high as 0.2% strain with load durations as short as 60 minutes. Overall, these results indicate that DIC may effectively be used for the visualization of stress concentrations while quantifying defect and material properties. Adviser: Jared W. Nelson, Engineering