Wednesday, April 23
Papers
All paper presentations will be in Meeting Rooms A or B.
Meeting Room A
Panel 1, 9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair, Dr. Steven Patterson
Kodi Mckay
Roads to Mississippi: Sidney Roebuck and the People's Roads
Duncan McLendon
Star Spangled Eyes: John Weber & the Unfortunate Sons of America's Vietnam War
Callie Martin
“Through Hazel Eyes:" The Mississippi Citizens' Council and the White Women Who Opposed It
Panel 2, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair, Dr. Steven Patterson
Alex Broadhead
Down with The Eagle and Up with The Cross
Carson Hughes
Philosophy in the Factories: Henry Clay Brokmeyer and the St. Louis Hegelians
Rachel Duncan
In Syphilis and in Health: Venereal Diseases during the Victorian Period
Meeting Room B
Chair, Dr. Daniel Watson
Nash Euto
Scholarship Distribution: Approaches and Algorithms
Robert Pennell
Bathymetric Cross-Section Analysis: Ranking Preferred Geometries of River Systems in the American West
Adelaide Zink
A Diamond can be a Circle?
Meeting Room A
Chair, Dr. Christian Pinnen
Callie Martin
”If ever two were one, then surely we:“ Love, Marriage, and Submission in Puritan New England
Robert Pennell
Places Are People Too: Examining Depictions of Place Across Genre in Jesmyn Ward’s Where the Line Bleeds and Men We Reaped
Jack Thomas Spears
Helping Hands: The Tenet of Community Within Mississippi Delta Food Systems (Documentary)
Meeting Room A
Panel 1 – 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Chair, Dr. David Magers
Dawson Stegall
Consumption Safety: Toxic Metal Analysis of Hunter Harvested Duck Species
Gabrielle Winters
Conventional strain energy and hyperconjugation in cyclopropylborane and fluoro and chloro derivatives
Selah Roberts
Synthesis of propeller-shaped polyphenylethynylarenes
Caroline McCaleb
Enthalpies of formation of amino and nitro derivatives of benzene and toluene by homodesmotic reactions
Panel 2 – 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Chair, Dr. David Magers
Alana Latorre
Preparation of conjugated polyphenylethynylarene macrocycles
Hanna Bynum
Computational Investigations of Nonclassical Cations
Jaylen Vance
Impact of Kratom Extracts on Mouse Behavior Reveals Safety Concerns
Gracie Bassett
Enthalpies of formation of chloro, cyano, and methyl derivatives of heterocyclic aromatics by homodesmotic reactions
Meeting Room B
Chair, Dr. Laurie Lawson
Isabella Danczyk
The Integration of ACE's into Field Work
Anya Mentch
CAST and Preventing Child Abuse in Sports
Becca Stennett
ACEs and Trauma in the Brain
Posters
All poster presentations will be in Anderson Hall.
Anna Grace Brister
Grapheme-Color Synesthesia is Associated with Enhanced Working Memory to Graphemes (but not Colors) that is Supported by Enhanced Activity in the Supramarginal Gyrus and Decreased Activity in the Primary Visual Cortex
Ryan Adkins
The Physiological Targets of Melaleuca alternifolia Phytochemicals
Chloe Barr
The Targets of the Phenolic Compound Phytochemicals of Nigella sativa
Reed Russell
Possible Human Targets of the Withanolide Phytochemicals of Withania somnifera
Shelby Beshears
Lactate Metabolism and Myc Expression in a Cell Culture Model of Temperature-Regulated Growth
Tristen Smith
The Targets of Isoquercitin, an Artemisia absinthium Phytochemical
Taliya Washington
The Targets of Nigella sativa Phytochemicals
NyJha Keller
Oxygenated Terpenes and Miscellaneous Phytochemicals in Tea Tree
Breck McCalop
Bioinformatics Collection and Analysis of Phenylethanoid Derivatives Contained in Rhodiola rosea Extract Via SMILES and SwissTargetPrediction
Claire Copeland
That’s Slick: Constructing Density Gradients using Food Grade Oils for Extraction of Microplastics
Carson Jones
Predicting the Distribution of Salamanders in the Genus Desmognathus throughout Mississippi Using Maximum Entropy Models and Geographic Information Systems
Amy Snyder
Measuring Test Anxious Students’ Pupil Response to Positive and Negative Feedback
William Tharp
Effect of Dietary Cholesterol on Development and Expression of dMyc in Drosophila melanogaster Larvae
Andrew Doubert & Guy Gordon
Synthesis and Comparability of Conventional Chitin Beads for Bioremediation Analysis
Aaliyah Newsome & Nathan Prine
Characterization of Chitosan for Bioremediation through Bead Structure Analysis
Mary Winstead
What is the Correlation Between a Parent’s Mental State and Their Child’s Mental State?
Brennan Anders
Minority Students at Christian Universities
Gabrielle LeBlanc
The Intersection of Body Image, Gender, and Religion
Emma Bullock
Authenticity and Attraction
Ashton Alderman
Religion's Role in Eating Disorder Recovery
Matthew Hicks
Burnout Rates Among Southern Baptist Ministers
Emily Fedorenko
Father Figures, Peers, and Emotional Modeling: Exploring Self-Disclosure, Emotional Loneliness, and Platonic Same-sex Intimacy in Men
Maggie Thompson
The Effect of Social Media on Sleep and Academic Performance on Undergraduate Students
Austin Ridgway
Group Studying vs. Solitude Studying Among College Students
Melvin Blake Walker
How Social Media Impacts Mental Health
Kate Walker
How Avatar Choices in Video Games Reflect Self-Image
Kendall Phillips and Allie Ragsdale
How Does Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Other Common Comorbidities Affect Undergraduate Students?
Lily Parrett
Effects of Digital Media on ADHD Symptoms
Darcy Jones
How Does Religion/Spirituality Affect Individuals’ Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Help?
Anne Taylor & Latisha Hardy
Suicidal Ideation in College Students: Leading Causes
Jamonika Bacon
Is Narcissistic Behavior a Mental Disorder or Chosen Behavior?
Lindsey Buie
Attention in College Students
Tajalea Bilbrew
Humor Used as a Coping Mechanism
Shay Matrick
Impacts of Social Media on Mental Health
Maurice Brown
The Impact of Parent and Student Relationships on Academic Success and Drive
December Banks
Impact of Social Roles on Behavior and Self-Perception
Joshua Berry
First Report of Neuroinvasive Zoonotic Parasite Baylisascaris procyonis in Mississippi Raccoons
Eli Franklin
Calculation of Conventional Strain Energies of Small Heterocycles of Carbon and Silicon and Their Amino and Nitro Derivatives by Model Reactions
Christina Raley
First Report of Drug Resistance Zoonotic Cestode Dipylidium caninum in Central Mississippi
Emily Huff
Evidence of Zoonotic Nematode Contracaecum jorgei in Central Mississippi and Throughout the USA
Catalina McCoy
First Report of Trematode Odhneriotrema incommodum in Channel Catfish of the Mississippi River
Aamani Kalluru
Take Me Down to the Parasite City Where the Fish Are Infected in the Mississippi
Luke Parker
Fish as Environmental Sentinels for Metal Contaminants of Human Health Concern in the Lower Mississippi River Basin
Todd Cox
GCMS Analysis of Social Semiochemicals in Mississippi White-tailed Deer
Ella Bailey
Fish Quality Analysis of Three Lakes in Central Mississippi and a New Non-lethal Biopsy Method
Carlie Masa
Antidepressant Fluoxetine Causes Miscarriage in Pregnancy Mouse Model
Ward Adams
Elemental Analysis of Tomatoes Grown Traditionally Versus Hydroponically
Avery Foret
Conventional Strain Energies of Thiasilirane and the Thiasiletanes
Eva Henderson, Grace Archer, Katy Hare
Spina Bifida Intervention for the Pediatric Patient
Anne Bigley, Lillian Eidson, William Poe
Burn Pit Exposure in Military Veterans
Katie Grace Hartzog, Clara Hickerson, Emma Katherine Moore, Abby Sermons
Non-Pharmacological Treatments for Postpartum Depression
Caroline Cook, Anna Kate Hester, Rachel Regan, Garrett LaFollette
Benefits and Risks of Delayed Cord Clamping in Newborns and Mothers
Carli Cooper, Allison Poole
COVID-19 and Autonomic Dysfunction
Naomi Hudson and Victoria Lamar
Resistance and Barriers in CHamoru Language Revitalization
Betsy Hart
Young Adult BookTok: A Discourse Analysis of the YA BookTok Genre
Abigail Duggar
A Discourse Analysis of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Sarah, Plain and Tall
Emma Kay Ellard
“Almost Heaven”: A Discourse Analysis of Southern Identity in Southern Living
Sydney Shaw
Death at the Intersection of Race and Mental Health: A Discourse Analysis of How FOX News Framed the Killing of Sonya Massey
Merrin Meyer
A Discourse Analysis of Pretend Play as Childhood Development in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women
Carson Hughes
The Language of Loneliness: An Investigation of Loneliness and Isolation Among Gen-Z Undergraduates
Emma McCorkle
“The Art of Making Art”: A Discourse Analysis of Artists’ Depictions in Sondheim and Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George
Anna Robbins
War of the Words: An Analysis of the Impact of Spanish Colonization on the Lexicon of Indigenous CHamoru
Jacob Brown and Jane Sherwood
The Legends of Chamoru: Discovering How the Native Language of Guam Passes Down Cultural Values Through Fables
Friday, April 25
Presentations will be in Hederman Science 306.
James Ho, Austin Huggins, Jonathan Jones, Miguel Pablo Quevedo, and Nick Turner
Integration of Sensor, Wireless, GUI, and Electromechanical Technologies in the Design and Implementation of an Escape Room Challenge
Jack Bower, Peyton Killebrew, Ben Spears, Jon Stegall, and Josiah Zetterholm
Integration of Sensor, Wireless, GUI, and Electromechanical Technologies in the Design and Implementation of an Escape Room Challenge
Thank you to the Research Week Committee for their work and to Autumn Norman and Lanie Bradford for their diligent support.