CARD 2023

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION: SESSION 1A

Antoinette De Lira Lopez, Educational Gag Orders: A Step Backwards in the Pursuit of Social Justice &
Ruby Kaill, Derogatory Gendered Language: An Invitational Rhetoric Perspective (tied)

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION: SESSION 1B

Metyia Phillips, The Fight For Equality: Black Lives Matter, Success, & Social Media

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION IN SESSION 2A

Erin Hall, The Effects of Water Limitation on Plant Functional and Reproductive Traits Across Varying Precipitation and Soil Regimes

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION IN SESSION 2B

Jared Bisbikis, Understanding the Impact of Social Media During the Tunisian Revolution for the LGBTQIA+ Tunisian Community

BEST POSTERS

Nivedita Ghosh, Impact of Environmental Factors on Species Succession in Phytoplankton Community

Keana Davis, Quantifying metal binding interactions and elucidating their structural effects on Holothuroidin-2

Corina Mong, Navigating Modern Motherhood in South Korea’s Postpartum Care Industry

Kat McIntyre, Off-Switchable DNA Intercalators- Model Synthesis

Clifford Leung, Development and mechanistic analysis of covalent inhibitors against Sortase A in Staphylococcus aureus

Dishaa Ramesh, Effect Of Knockout Of Components In The WNT Signaling  Pathway On Converted Expression  Of DAX-1 IN Breast Cancer (MCF7) And Normal Breast Tissue (MCF10A) Cell Lines

Reinier Bautista, Breaking the Silence: Examining Changing Mental Health Attitudes in the Philippines

BEST CREATIVE ACTIVITY

Elie Lahhoud, The Doomsday Clock Invention 

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Christina Weatherford, Investigating the Long-Term Effects of a Whole Lake Experiment to Remove Invasive Crayfish

Chloe Jones-Livingston, Investigating the Sorption Behavior and Treatment Potential of Perfluorooctanoic Acids

Tiffany Alvarez, Effects of posttranslational modifications on Cu(II) binding to the antimicrobial peptide PG-KI 

Ryan Luu, Effect of Pyrolysis Temperature on Biochar Chemistry

Leila Tselner, Examining Pretty Privilege

Session 1A, (Berman Room)

Session 1B, (Maier Room)

Session 2A, (Berman Room)

Session 2B, (Maier Room) 

USF Chamber Ensemble, Chamber Music is Elemental - Water, Wind, Fire and Earth

Flute: Alexis Kelley
Bassoon: Molly Gilmour
Piano: Wendy Lin
Violins: Ashley Chew, Natalia Dziedzic, Mikiko Inayama, Patricia Martellino, Ronald Sit, Yvonne Tan Yu Yan, Fania Villarreal
Violas: Camryn Hissen, Tola MacInnis
Cellos: Lili Broce, Yu-Ru Sophy Chang, Madison Clevenger, Alyssa Vu

ARCHITECTURE

Concesse Nyirazikunze, Peaceful Architecture

Eunice Rocha, Disrupting the Paradigms of Institutional to Residential to Expanding How Autonomy Can Be Experienced by the Neurodiverse in Architecture

Ruoxiang Lu, Resilience for Seawater Rise

ART HISTORY & MUSEUM STUDIES

Gabi Moreta, Sadayakko and Her Impersonators: How the Performance of Two Female Impersonators Demonstrate the Opinions of The West About Japanese Women in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

Kelly Velasco, Impermanence and the Cycle of Rebirth: The Process of Bingyi’s Deconstructed Ink Painting

ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN STUDIES 

Ellie Ho & Corina Mong, Unearthing the History of the Headstones: The Lost Names of Montana’s Early Chinese Americans

ASIA BRIDGE JUNIOR FELLOWS, CENTER FOR ASIA PACIFIC STUDIES

Cindy Hoang,  Pacifism in the Pacific: The Debate on Remilitarizing Japan

John Sieber, Chinese Sustainability: Moving beyond nationalistic rhetoric in search of long-term solutions to waste pollution

Corina Mong, Navigating Modern Motherhood in South Korea’s Postpartum Care Industry

Celine Chen, Utilizing Social Media to Foster Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Communities in China: Exploring the Path Forward

Zhirui Wang, The “Shining Prince” and the “Precious Jade”: A cross-cultural comparison between Hikaru Genji in The Tale of Genji and Jia Baoyu in Dream of Red Chamber

Reinier Bautista, Breaking the Silence: Examining Changing Mental Health Attitudes in the Philippines

BIOLOGY

Lana Rasoul, Aarya Meshra, Abby Chiang, Dr. Tzagarakis-Foster, Investigating the Role of DAX-1 in Steroid Hormone Synthesis in the Human Adrenal Cortex 

Namratha Kethineni & Rida Jan, Effects of Autumn Plant Colors on Plant Discoloration and Herbivory

Sonali Joshi, Understanding Mutants of TLR10

Christina Weatherford & Nikita Tkachenko, Investigating the Long-Term Effects of a Whole Lake Experiment to Remove Invasive Crayfish

Jessie Sun, Kayleigh Little, Dr. Zimmerman, Dr. Nunes, Climate-related declines in a high-elevation population of ground squirrels

Dishaa Ramesh, Effect of Knockout of Components in the WNT Signaling Pathway on Concerted Expression of DAX-1 in Breast Cancer (MCF7) and Normal Breast Tissue (MCF10A) Cell Lines

Katerina Fargas, Investigation of the DAX-1 mechanism of the HPA axis in the human adrenal gland

CHEMISTRY

Lauren Lewellen, Cleave the Way: Self-Immolative DNA Alkylators and their Selective Action

Edward Buck, Investigating tetraoxide (Russel) intermediates for simple organic molecules

Yilan Lori Chen, Investigation of O-(3P)-initiated oxidation products of 2,3-dimethylfuran using synchrotron photoionization

Ameyali Tapia, Study of 2-Tertbutylfuran in Reaction with O(3P) at 550 K and 700 K Using Multiplexed Synchrotron Photoionization Mass Spectrometry

Ryan Luu, Effect of Pyrolysis Temperature on Biochar Chemistry

Emily Bykonen, Effect of Human Serum Albumin Binding on the Antenna-Sensitized Luminescence of Terbium(III) DO3A Derivatives

Keana Davis, Quantifying metal binding interactions and elucidating their structural effects on Holothuroidin-2

Clifford Leung, Development and mechanistic analysis of covalent inhibitors against Sortase A in Staphylococcus aureus

Samuel Jacobo, Self-Immolative DNA-Alkylating Agents with a Tunable “Off-Switch”

Karina Bhavsar, Samuel Jacobo, and Dr. Nikolayevskiy, Cleave the Way: Self-Immolative DNA Alkylators and their Selective Action

Joshua Balbach, Predicted Tunneling Contributions for Intricarene and Chatancin Cycloadditions

Joscelyn Huynh, Computational Study of Heavy-Atom Tunneling in the Benzene-Oxide/Oxepin Equilibrium

John Guardado & Dr. Yang, Substrate Specificity in ABC Transport Using Methionine Importers in E.coli

Justin Samford & Leo Sosa, Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling of Kojic Acid

Leo Sosa, Influence of Tunneling on Cope Rearrangements: A Computational Study

Ishika Jain, Elucidating Factors of Tunneling Contributions in Thermal Electrocyclic Reactions of Bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-2,4-diene Motifs in Biosynthesis

Elinor Carson, Heavy-Atom Tunneling in the Biosynthesis of Occidentalol

Jaden Lucas-Retherford, Effects of a Methylated Tyrosine on the Antimicrobial Peptide Clavanin C 

Kat McIntyre, Off-Switchable DNA Intercalators- Model Synthesis

Maria Aviles-Sandoval, Marcela Valle, Sohee Choi, Dr. Stevenson, Quantifying Metal Interactions with Antimicrobial Peptide Calcitermin

Timothy Chyrklund & Dr. Nikolayevskiy, Palladium and Copper Catalyzed Arylation of Kojic Acid Core at C3

Tiffany Alvarez, Effects of posttranslational modifications on Cu(II) binding to the antimicrobial peptide PG-KI 

Marcela Valle, Maria Aviles-Sandoval, Sohee Choi, & Dr. Stevenson, Elucidating the Thermodynamic and Structural Effects of Metal Ions Binding to the Antimicrobial Peptide Calcitermin​

Andy Enoy & Dr. Tripp, Extraction of Pure Silica From Rice Husk 

DATA SCIENCE

Xinyi Wang, Wan-Chun Liao, Kirk Klausmeyer, Dr. Carroll, An Automated Data Pipeline to Monitor Wetland Flooding for Bird Returns

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Chloe Jones-Livingstone, Dr. Kokkinaki, Dr. Evbuomwan, Investigating the Sorption Behavior and Treatment Potential of Perfluorooctanoic Acids

Makena Gichuru & Dr. Leungen, Mercury Concentrations in Urban Predators; A Literature Review

KINESIOLOGY

Ashley Burdick & Dr. Camhi, The Effects of a Guided Mindful Walk on Stress, Mindfulness, and Physical Activity in University Students

MARTÍN-BARÓ SCHOLARS PROGRAM

Evelyn Rosales, Understanding and Defending Felines: California Laws AB-2343 and SB 573

Chloe Taylor, Preserving The Heart of Haiti: Madan Saras, fighting food insecurity

Victoria Marie Di Giulio, Prison Nursery Programs: The Effects of Uniting Mothers and Babies in Women's Prison Across the United States

Camille Abatjoglou, Chevron Oil Brings Racism, Pollution, and Corruption to Richmond, California; An Exploration of California state Assembly Bill 32 and California state Assembly Bill 617

Leila Tselner, Examining Pretty Privilege

OCEANOGRAPHY

Nivedita Ghosh & Rayan Makabali, Impact of environmental factors on species succession in phytoplankton community

PHYSICS

Jose Carlos Inchausti Reyes, Spectroscopical Simulation of Strong Gravitational Lenses

PSYCHOLOGY

Joshua Condry, Let's Be Friendly With AI

Marie Rylance, Cosette O'Connell, Michelene Virostek, Rose Hoch, Wesley Romer, Marisa Knight, Impact of Implicit Theory of Emotion and Disclosure of Defendant's Mental Health Status on Juror Decision-Making

Wesley Romer, Marie Rylance, Michelene Virostek, Marisa Knight, Impact of Implicit Theory of Emotion and Disclosure of Defendant's Mental Health Status on Juror Decision-Making

Angill Oliva, Benita Izekue, Paavani Lella, Dr. Pérez, Examining Racial/Ethnic Microaggressions, Religious/Spiritual Struggles, and Well-Being Among College Students of Color

Raychel Hatch, Alyssa Edmison, Laura Elenbaas, Dr. Hitti, The Effect of Perceived Social Status Differences Between Children and Their Peers

Sara Ahmed, Ellie Carpenter, Cosette O’Connell, Sabrina Hemida, Rosie Juviler, Viet-Hung Nguyen, Can strategy instructions help people suppress thoughts more effectively?

Sarra El Chaar & Fiza Shaikh, Perceptions of Belonging in an American Muslim Community

Monique Proctor, Communication and the Development of Multiracial and Multiethnic Adolescents Identities

Alexis A. Chin, Isabella D. Hartley, Miró Dalí, Aiah Talledo, Courtney Muchow, Suniska Patel, Dr. Wagner, Does Age Affect Perceptions of Gender Pronouns?

Stephanie Amoukhteh, Taro Boyd, Isabella Hartley, Olivia Flores, Gender Differences in Creativity Specific Anxiety in Undergraduate Students

PSYCHOLOGY, HONORS PROGRAM

Marcela Valle, An Examination of the Cultural Nuances that Impact Caregiver Stress and Coping Strategies when being a Latino/a Youth Caregiver

Marci B. Adolfo, Virtue or Vice? How Student Perceptions of a Mission Statement Influence the Decision to Report Sexual Misconduct to University Officials

Stephanie Amoukhteh, The Effect of Musical Training on Decision Making Seen Through Emotional Inhibition

RHETORIC & LANGUAGE

Iris Canavan, Should Animals be Used in Research?

Yiyu Zhou, Exploring Hong Kong's Concerns of “One Country, Two Systems”

Malani Parham, Evaluating Our “Efficient and Sustainable” Medical Practices: Modern vs. Traditional Approaches

Elie Lahhoud, The Doomsday Clock Invention, A Website

Trinh Truong, History of Medical Asepsis and Its Prevalence Today, A Website

Ambra Jacobson, Anatomical expressions, Drawings

Elle Teague, Beyond the Label, A Podcast

Rejina Yagin, Dungeons, Dragons, and Queerness, A Podcast

Alyssa Sanchez, Knocking Out Gender Norms, A Zine

We would like to extend a special thanks to our faculty sponsors! 

Aline Hitti • Allison Luengen • Allison Thorson • Amalia Kokkinaki • Amrita Bhattacharyya • Benjamin Levy • Brett Reichman • Cathy Gabor • Christina Tzagarakis-Foster • Cody Carroll • Cynthia Schultes • Daria D'Andrea • David Holler • Deneb Karentz • Edward Munnich • Genevieve Leung • Giovanni Meloni • Hans Joachim Neis • Herman Nikolayevskiy • Indre Viskontas • James Sikes • Janet Yang • Jennifer Tripp • John Pérez • John Zarobell • Karen Fraser • Kathleen McCarty • Leigh Meredith • Lisa Wagner • Marisa Knight • Megan Nicely • Michael Rozendal • Michael Stevenson • Osasere Evbuomwan • Patrick Murphy • Paula Birnbaum • Rabbi Camille Angel • Sadia Saeed • Saera Khan • Sangman Kim • Sarah Burgess • Sarah Camhi • Scott L Nunes • Sevan Suni • Shan Wang • William Karney • Xiaosheng Huang