The Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance at Hope College is an annual opportunity for student-faculty collaboration. Students complete research projects under the guidance of a faculty member, which is then presented at the Celebration. For more information, please visit the Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performancewebsite.
Note: Posters are only available for download when they have been approved by faculty mentors and provided by students. If a poster is not present in the repository it will not be available.
Books
Hope College Abstracts: 11th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance, Hope College
Posters
Predicting Insect Development in Changing Climates: Bean Beetle (Callosobruchus maculatus) Phenology Modeling, Joseph Adamson
Sediment Fingerprinting of Lake Macatawa using PIXE and SEM/EDS, Kyle Alexander and Lauren Zandstra
Exploring Utopia through Graphic Novels in Les Cités Obcures by Schuiten and Peeters, Athina Alvarez
Tulips as Cultural Emblems in 17th-Century Netherlands, Athina Alvarez
Historical Trace Metal Profile of Lake Michigan Sediment, Dan Anderson, Bailey Bensley, and Dave Nowicki
Herpes Zoster Outbreak in a 20-year-old, Collegiate Volleyball Player: A Case Study, Emilee Anderson
Barefoot Training and its Effects on Balance, Proprioception, and Stability in Adults 65 and Older , Emilee Anderson and Emery Max
Myth, the Occult, and Experimental Writing in the Works of Mexican and European Surrealist Women Artists (1930’s to 1960’s), Tessa Angell and Taylor Whitefield
Does Drinking Chocolate Milk at Half-time Lead to Better Second Half Performance than Gatorade?, Sarah Antrobus, Kristina Bectel, Liisa Mosher, and Megan Sliva
Adaptations of Concept Mapping for Technical System Design, Lauren Aprill
Virginia Woolf’s Exploration of Bipolar Disorder in To the Lighthouse, Elizabeth Badovinac
Dorothy Day: A Countercultural Divine Activist, Anne Baenziger
DVD-Based High Intensity Interval Exercise vs. Moderate Continuous Exercise: Which Type is More Beneficial to Overall Fitness?, Kristine Baldwin, Salome Emmanuel, Zach Jones, and Brittany Schimmel
Student Needs and Expectations of Services Offered at a College Health Center, Cara Bartels
Carbon-carbon Bond Activation: A Kinetic Study of Varying Substrates with Rhodium Catalysis, Casey E. Baxter
Staying Strong: Masculine Attitudes, Drive for Muscles, and Preference for Submissive Mates in Men and Women, Evan Beals and Julia Roehling
Tailoring and Characterizing Surface Properties, Christopher Beaudoin, Alexandra Benson, and Megan Elinski
Why Are Asian Americans a Forgotten Sub-Culture and How Are They a Part of American History?, Haley Beck, Christopher Jones, and Allison Leigon
To Cure the Criminal: The Practice of Institutionalization in Asylum and Penitentiary History, Anthony Bednarz
Synthesis, Characterization, and Directed Assembly of Nanoparticles, Alexandra Benson, Christopher Beaudoin, and Meagan Elinski
Using the Maximum Likelihood Method to find the Optimal Parameters of the Models Describing the Pulsar Population Statistics, Caleb Billman
Fer Kinase is Required for Hematopoietic Development in Zebrafish, Elizabeth Billquist, Jessica Kozack, and Erin Hildebrandt
Effect of Carrier Doping on Nonlinear Distortion of Signals by Superconducting Films, Michael Bischak and Jinu Thomas
Surface Stimulation to Alleviate Phantom Limb Pain, Derek Blok
The Milk and Medicine Program Evaluation: Lusaka, Zambia, David Blystra and Lindsey Boeve
Effects of Creatine on Sprint Time and Body Composition of Division III Baseball Players, Colton Bodrie, Jesse Fazi, Christopher Harwood, and Dane Roach
War Women: The Role of Women in Holland, Michigan during World War II, Hannah Boehme
Palladium-Catalyzed β-Carbon Elimination of Fluorinated Triarylmethanols, James Bour and Jacob Green
Effects of High Intensity Interval Training vs. High Volume Training on VO2max, Power, and Body Composition of College-Age Students, Paul Bowen, Logan Neil, Amanda Norton, and Kylie Padgett
Extending the Range of Sequence Recognition of the Hx DNA Binding Unit, Michael Bowerman and Andrew Mepham
The Period of PURPLE Crying to Prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome, Abby Branderhorst
Factors Affecting Kinetics and Equilibrium of Biodiesel Transesterification, Katherine Brune
Examination of the Onset, Rehabilitation and Biomechanics of Cuboid Syndrome in Collegiate Female Basketball Players, Kurt Buchholz
Muscular Activity during a Fly Fishing Cast: Evaluation and Comparison According to Casting Ability and Fly Rod Type, Kurt Buchholz and Katherine Voorhorst
The Effects of Aquatic Insect Nutrient Subsidies on Plant Quality and Insect Herbivore Growth, Hilary Bultman, David Hoekman, Jamin Dreyer, and Claudio Gratton
Uncovered- Choreographic Process for Concert Dance, Ashley Burns
Ralph Vaughan Williams and the English Musical Renaissance: A London Symphony, “Who Wants the English Composer?”, and a New English Music, Katherine Callam
Numerical Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction Using an Impulse Plug, Christian Calyore
Reaction Time Differences in Identification of Speaker Gender and Ethnicity, Jacqueline Canonaco, Ryan Tussey, and Chelsea Lynch
Exploring the Relationship between Multi-Segment Foot Kinematics and Plantar Pressure Data in Adolescents with Planus and Cavus Foot Deformities: A Pilot Study , Elena Caruthers
Environmental Enrichment Devices Decrease Feather Picking in Commercially Raised Pekin Ducks, Sarah Colton
The Twist is Here to Stay, Jillian Conner
Preparation of Ferrocene-Based Redox Mediators for Use in Glucose Sensors, Andrew Cook, Zachary Beswick, and Kyle Brubaker
Extending the AMBER Force Field to Describe Fluorescent Probes, Andrew Cook, Arcelia Ortega, Alyssa Stevenson, Derek Summers, Alyssa Cassabaum, Christine Gobrogge, Bryan Leland, David Paul, and Amy Speelman
Fasting Reduces Luteinizing Hormone Secretion in the Pekin Drake, Part II: Localization of and Effects of Fasting on Gonadotropin-Inhibitory Hormone Expression in the Hypothalamus, Erika Coombs, Elizabeth Gerometta, Sarah Colton, Sara Gallemore, and Abigail Lindberg
Categorizing Children’s Books Used in the CASA Program by Reading Levels and Life Skill Themes, Kristen Craig
Real Time Analysis of Protein xCT in System xc-, Cassondra Cramer, Anne Georges, and NaTasha Schiller
Characterization of Tris(5-amino-1,10-phenanthroline) Iron II/III, Rebecca Danforth
Homocysteic Acid and Homocysteine Toxicity as a Model for Schizophrenia, Chris Davis, Guillermo Flores, and Sheri McCormack
Cold Acclimation and Central Administration of Homocysteic Acid in Rats: A Potential Model for Schizophrenia, Christopher Davis, Guillermo Flores, John Kemink, Jacqueline Logan, Mara McMurray, Lauren Reif, Aaron Sayfie, Catherine Strahle, and Alyssa Wagner
"Bridging the Gap: Designing and Implementing a Model Solution for the Holland Community's 'Gap' Homeless Population", Alexandra Day, Katelyn Barry, Stephanie Rogers, and Araksya Mikaelyan
Relationship of Activity Status Prior to Experiencing a Cardiac Event and Levels of State and Trait Hopelessness, Tracy DeKoekkoek
Free-Jet Vibration-Rotation Spectroscopy of Unstable Species, Howard Dobbs
Sentence Figurativeness and Modality Shape the Neural Bases of Language Processing, Ashley Drew, Elizabeth Miller, and Nathan Axdorff
Connecting the Dots: Finding a Unified Theory of Laterality and Modality in Metaphor Comprehension, Erika Dvorak, Jonathan Snavely, and Michael Harper
Exploring the Cytoxicity of Silica Coated Water-Soluble CdSe Nanocrystals, Elly Earlywine and Emily Ross
Emergency Room Use in the Healthy Beginnings Program, Alexandra Egedy, J. Davis Vanderveen, Emily Staley, and Angelina Matthews
Resonant Compton Upscattering in High Field Pulsars and Magnetars, Matthew Eiles
Counting Cailloux, Multiplying Mambos: An Analysis of Mathematics Education in Cameroonian Primary Schools, Rachel Elzinga
Investigation of Regioselectivity in the Nickel-Mediated Decarbonylative Cross-Coupling of Imides with Organozinc Reagents, Thomas Endean
“I Think I Have Shin Splints!” Lower Leg Pathologies in Athletics, Amanda Engbers
The Halo Effect’s Influence on Mate Selection, Emily Evans
Twins and Eugenics in the Holocaust, Lauren Ezzo
Lexical class and explicitness as neural modulators of metaphor comprehension, Elizabeth Fast, Audrey Weil, Ashley Drew, and Elizabeth Miller
The Effects of Project-based Learning (PBL) Approach on the Achievement and Efficacy of High School Mathematics: A Longitudinal Study Investigating the Effects of the PBL Approach in Math Education, Anna Filcik, Kristen Bosch, and Nicholas Haugen
Social Correlates with Childhood Obesity, Samuel Fishman, Trevor Lake, Caitlin Roth, Rebekah Taylor, and Jonathan Vanderbeck
Catholic Americanization: The Work of NCWC Community Houses (1919-1921), Emily Fleming and Julie Oosterink
Reading, Writing, and Living the Revolution: Intertextual Conversation in Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California”, Kayleigh Forlow
Surface Stimulation to Alleviate Phantom Limb Pain, Johanna Forst
Balance Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis: A Comparison of Conventional Training with Nintendo® Wii Fit Game Play, Lauren Gaines, Kirstin Robinson, and Christopher Schmelz
Procyon , Helen Gay
Fasting Reduces Luteinizing Hormone Secretion in the Pekin Drake, Part I: Localization of and Effects of Fasting on Galanin-Like Peptide Expression in the Hypothalamus, Elizabeth Gerometta, Erika Coombs, Abigail Lindberg, Sarah Colton, and Sara Gallemore
Still America’s Pastime: The Longevity of Baseball in U.S. Culture, George Getschman
Investigating the Cytotoxic Effects of Mycobacteriophage Vix Gene 80, Danielle Goodman
Nickel, Iron, and Copper in Nanoporous Thin Films, Nathan Graber
Sleeping at Night Offers Opportunity for Zest and Energy (SNOOZE): Part 2, Amber Graeser
Novel Pyrrole-derivatized Diamino Polyamides and Their Impact on DNA Sequence Recognition, Matthew Gregory
Modeling the Formation of Sand Ripples: Gone with the Wind, Eric Greve and Jacob Jeffers
The Veto in the United Nations Security Council, Bryce Groshek, Osiris Morel, and Shubham Sapkota
Ab-Protein Sandwich Arrays to Monitor Levels of Dkk1 in Cancer Patients, David Grossens, Tessa Grabinski, and Jacqueline Peacock
Infrared Thermography As A Nondestructive Evaluation Technique For Fiber Composite Bridge Decks, Philip Hallam
Nondestructive Evaluation of FRP Bridge Deck Panels, Phillip Hallam
International Perceptions of Impact of Global Communication, Jasmine Harris and Brittni Nowicki
Oxidative Stress Causes Modifications and Decreased Function of System xc-, Matt Hartwell and Jenna Sutton
Cathodoluminescence of Feldspar Minerals, Kristen Hasbrouck
CytoSEED: Software for Viewing and Analyzing Bacterial Metabolic Models, Nicholas Hazekamp and Joshua Kammeraad
Calc-Silicate Enclaves in High-Grade Gneisses from Halland, Southwest Sweden, Dean Hazle, Nathan Erber, and Leah LaBarge
Morphea & Other Non-communicable Skin Conditions, Valerie Headley
Theodore Roosevelt and Americanism, Jeffrey Helm
Two Controversial Swiss Referendums and Their Consequences, Katelyn Hemmeke
The Big Bad Wolf: Is the Image Still Present in the Minds of Michiganders?, Matt Herm
Students on the Move: Obstacles and Opportunities in the Education of Migrant Children, Miriam Hernandez, Regina Sanchez-Gonzalez, and Laura Van Oss
Optimizing the Collegiate Experience of Learning Disabled Students, Ann Hersey, Matthew Hughes, and Lindsay Timmerman
Evaluation of Outcomes of Post Hip-Fracture Patients with Osteoporosis, Elizabeth Higginbotham
Neural Correlates of Implicit and Explicit Metaphors: An ERP Study, Erin Hildebrandt, Amanda Layman, J. Davis Vanderveen, and Audrey Weil
