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.
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Hope College Abstracts: 12th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance, Hope College
Posters
A Building Block Approach: A New Way of Thinking about Polyamides and Their Impact on DNA Sequence Recognition, Michelle Irvin
A Comparison of Acoustic Vowel Spaces in the Hindi and Punjabi Languages, Divya Dhaliwal
Acoustic Correlates of Speaker Variation in Children Ages 8 -12, Bradley Fong
A Descriptive Analysis of Gender Differences in Patients Working With a Lung Cancer Nurse Navigator, Amanda Russ
A Descriptive Study of Social and Emotional Development in Children 0-5 Years Old, Angelina Matthews
A Factor Analysis of Two Post-Partum Depression Assessments Used in the Hospital Setting, Courtney Mullens
Alfred Dreyfus: Traître ou Victime?, Marie Schrampfer
An Evaluation of the Milk and Medicine Feeding Program: Lusaka, Zambia, David Blystra
A New Form of Struggle: Betty Ford and Breast Cancer in the 1970s, Kevin Wonch
“A New Song”: Music and Theology in the Ambrosian Hymns, Amanda Palomino
Assessment of Early Elementary Student Learning of Science in an Informal Education Setting, Sarah Schuiling
A Study of Transgressors: Aspects of Restitution, Sabrina Hakim
A Theoretical Understanding of Housing and Homeless Policy: Pennsylvania and New York as Examples of Punctuated Equilibriums and Advocacy Coalitions , Caitlin Schwark
Athletes and Food as Fuel: Choosing Premium Over Unleaded, Sarah Krueger
Attachment and God Concepts in Japanese Young Adults, Hanna Ogawa
Automatic vs. Controlled Processing of Metaphors: An ERP Study, Nathan Axdorff
“A Warm Welcome and a Pleasant Evening”: Clara Kathleen Rogers and Boston’s Private Musicales, 1880-1900, Katie Callam
A Woman Among Men: The Influence of Gender Ideologies in the Trial of Mary Surratt, Sarah Manke
Breast Nurse Navigation Impacts Timeliness of Care for Breast Cancer Patients, Mattie Coolman
Campus Christians: A Candid Exposé, Lindsay Timmerman
Case Study: A 360 Degree Glenoid Labral Injury, Zach Johnson
Case Study: Injuries to the Base of the 5th Metatarsal, Peter Aune
C-C Bond Activation: Functionalizing Quinolinyl Ketones for Rhodium Catalysis, Michael Pietrangelo
Characterization of a Magnetic Coil and Magnetic Force Microscopy of NiFe Thin Films, John Baranski
Characterization of Electrodeposited Nanoporous Ni and NiCu Films, Kyla Koboski
Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew: An Image of the London Poor (1830-1870), Rebecca Fox
Cognitive Dissonance in Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin: An Evaluation of Rhetorical Technique and Cultural Impact, Anthony Bednarz
Cognitive Rehabilitation In Multiple Sclerosis Using Xbox® Kinect® Gaming, Amanda Black
Comparative Analysis of Mycoplasma Bacteria Models Using the CytoSEED Plugin for Metabolic Model Visualization, Andrea Houg
Comparison of Quality of Discharge Teaching Scores on a Postpartum Unit, Leigh Schenewerk
Composition of the 24O Ground-State Wavefunction, Eric Traynor
Constancia de la Mora: Vida y obra de una heroína controvertida/ Constancia de la Mora: The Life and Work of a Controversial Hero, Lauren Janness
Constitutional Implementation and Democracy in Kenya: A Comparison study between Domestic vs. International Sources of Media, Caitlin Schwark
Constructing a Novel: Jane Austen’s Literary Technique from a Creative Writing Perspective, Kara Roberts
Contextualizing Ellen H. Richards: America’s Forgotten First Lady of Science and Nutrition, Madalyn Northuis
Controlling the Radical 5-exo-trig Cyclization Reaction in the Synthesis of Duocarmycin Analogs, Sarah Wieskamp
Courage and Hope as Imperative Ecological Virtues in Appalachia: A Case Study Approach, Lauren Madison
Defining Arthur: Morgan le Fay’s Influence on King Arthur’s Unexamined Moral Code in Malory and Zimmer-Bradley, Elizabeth Badovinac
Design and Implementation of an 8-TET Robot, Joshua Swett
Developing a Time Lapse Camera for Monitoring Sand Dunes, Kara Seymour
Development and Implementation of a Low-Background Radiodating Facility at Hope College, Nick Hubley
Dissecting the Regulation of the OLE1 Gene in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae: Examining the Role of Fatty Acid Species and Concentration, Lauren Bedard
Distal Clavicular Osteolysis in a 20 Year Old Collegiate Football Player, Jordan Meyers
DNA Sequence Specific Recognition by Building Block Hx Polyamides, Graham Carlson
“Does Liberalism Need Modernity?”: A Critical Analysis of Early Modern Political Theology, Chikara Saito
Echoes from the Archive: How Oral History, Radio, and the Archive Intersect, Madalyn Muncy
Effect of Caffeine on Sprint and Vertical Jump Reaction Time in Male Collegiate Basketball Players, Joel Rietsema
Effect of Carrier Doping on Nonlinear Distortion of Microwave Signals by Superconducting Thin Films, Michael Bischak
Effects of a Fungal Endophyte on Resource Allocation in the Grass Lolium arundinaceum and Elymus Canadensis, Brennan Sieck
Effects of Caffeine on Anaerobic Activity in Trained and Untrained Individuals, Olivia Allore
Effects of Caffeine on Balance in Dancers Following Fatiguing Cycle Exercise, Richele Ehardt
Effects of Total Body Vibration Training on Postural Control in Collegiate Male Athletes, Ryan Walters
Electrodeposition and Characterization of Nickel, Iron, and Copper Thin Films and the Creation of Nanoporous Structures, Jonathan Yarranton
Electromagnetic Dispersion in Periodic Structures, Caitlin Ploch
Elemental Analysis of Lake Macatawa Sediment, Kyle Alexander
Elevated Systolic Blood Pressure in Femoral Artery Sheath Removal, Megan Johnson
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Evaluation of Screening Tools for Health Literacy in an Acute Care Setting, Sarah Venlet
Evaluation of the Antibacterial Properties of a Newly Developed Liquid Soap, Kayla Howard
Exploring the Decarbonylation of Cyclic Imides Utilizing a Nickel Catalyst, Sarah Fodor
Exploring the Graphic Novel: An Example of Multi-Media Education and the Importance of Visual Literacy, Stephanie Emanuele
Extending the AMBER Force Field to Describe Fluorescent Probes, Andrew Cook
Fatty Acid Uptake in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mutant mon2Δ, Anthony Gasparotto
Feminist Perspectives of the Eames Legacy, Katelyn Szmurlo
Fer Kinase is Required for Proper Vasculogenesis in Zebrafish, Elizabeth Billquist
Francis Xavier: Understanding the Sixteenth-Century Missionary Through His Letters, Eric Dawson
French Language and Culture in Crisis?, Ivy Keen
His Skin was Pale and His Eye was Odd: The Dynamic Visual History of Sweeney Todd, Mary Elizabeth Winther
Influence of Fungal Endophytes on Insect Herbivore Defense in Canada Wildrye (Elymus canadensis), Jonathan Turkas
Influence of Gender on Parent-Child Activity Preferences, Anthony Bednarz
“Insanity: The Asylum”: Effects on Agility, Power, Speed, Body Composition and Endurance in Female College Students., Tania Habbouche
Investigating Fer Kinase Regulation of Gene Transcription During Development, Matt Harder
Investigation of Differential Photochemical and Electrochemical Isomerizations of Quinazolinespirohexadienone Photochromes, Benjamin Pollock
Investigation of Drug-Nanoparticle Interactions by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, Alec Norkey
Ion Beam Irradiation of Nanodiamonds, Adam Maley
Isolation of 20 Mycobacteriophages and Genomic Analysis of the Novel Mycobacteriophage, Inventum, Thomas D'Addario
Is the French Language in Quebec in Danger of Extinction?, Lauren Wade
Lake Macatawa Sediment Analysis, Eric Greve
"Le Voile Noir" by Anny Duperey: The Use of Photography as a Legitimate Autobiographical Means and Facilitator of the Mourning Process, Athina Alvarez
Lights Out: The Effect of Graph Operations on Null Space Dimension, Erica Budge
Long Term Population Trends of Tsuga canadensis in a West Michigan Dune Forest, Andrew Gomez-Seoane
Luxury Fashion Brands in the International Market, Lauren Wilbur
Macatawa Watershed Project: Fecal Contamination and Microbial Source Tracking, Katherine Genzink
Machismo in the Homily: Why do Historic Influences in Latin America make Machismo Construct Difficult to Wane?, Shelly Arnold
Making Sense of Another Time and Another Place: The Mid-Twentieth Century Letters of Two Missionaries to Arabia , Emma Zagar
Mapping Movement of Coastal Sand Dunes on Lake Michigan Using GigaPan Photo Technology, Scott Cathey
Mapping the Nonlinearity of Superconductive Passive Circuits, Brooke Jeries
Matching Across Sorority Rush: Learning in a Dual-Sided Matching Context, Laura English
Metaphysics and Sabotage: A Thematic Study of Amélie Nothomb's Autobiographies, Charles Patchak
Misconceptions of Islam: Shari'a Law and Immigration in the U.S., Anna Kremer
Myth, the Occult, and Experimental Writing: The Letters of Remedios Varo, Tessa Angell
Nickel Mediated Decarbonylative Cross Coupling of Cyclic Imides and Diorganozinc Reagents, Thomas Endean