The Undergraduate Research Symposium at UMSL provides a professional-style venue for undergraduates to present their original research, scholarship, and creative works to faculty, staff, administrators, students, and visitors. To find out more about URS visit http://urs.umsl.edu/

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2026 URS Program, Kate Votaw

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Are You in Control? How Timing and Severity of Trauma Shape Perceived Self-Agency, Kinsey L. Henrichsen, Caleb A. Sanders, and Carissa L. Philippi

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A Unified Pipeline for Network-Based Gene Pattern Discovery, Siddhartha Reddy Pullannagari and Sharlee Climer

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Black Mothers' Stress and Harsh Parenting Moderated by Child Age: A Longitudinal Secondary Analysis, Mandiryn M. Diffee, Theresa A. Moore, and Hannah White

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Building Genetic and Culturing Tools for the Understudied Soil Bacterium E. flagellatus, Aaron Butler, Brenda Pratte, and Lon Chubiz

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Caffeine Concentration: An Analysis on Bumble Bee Foraging Efficiency, Carson Leonard, Becky Hansis-O’Neill, and Aimee Dunlap PhD

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Dysentery: Sanitation, Inequality, and Conflict Shaping Human Suffering, Rumeysa B. Ivgen

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Enantioselectivity of the Photochemical Continuous-Flow Isomerization of Humulones, Gregory M. Giovine, Trevor Smith, and Bruce Hamper

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Evaluating the NASH reaction as a Sustainable Alternative to the SNAr reaction in the Synthesis of Pharmaceutical Intermediates, Allison L. Ryerson, James K. Bashkin, Jessica R. N. Thompson, Adam Weiss, and Huy Q. Nguyen

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High Medieval Adolescence: The Erbach Tomb Relief, Tyler Winter

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Interplay of Non-Covalent Interactions To Investigate Photoinduced Deformation in Azobenzene Crystals, Nicholas H. Johnson, Ritika Kadiyan, Saptarshi Datta, Rajamoni Jagan, and Jinjia Xu

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Leisure Activities and Stress Levels Among College Students​, Ellie Nahm

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Love and Artificial Intelligence: A Research Proposal, Bryanna M. Deatherage, Necdet Gurkan, and Sandra J.E. Langeslag

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Making Indole-Based Drug Ingredients Faster with a Simple Iron Catalyst, Samuel Voell and Eike B. Bauer

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Malaria: Combatting World War II's Exhausting Nuisance, Mallory C. Steen Ms.

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Mapping St. Louis History: Slavery, Redlining, and the May 16th Tornado, Safa M. Altamimi, Aster Horbanova, Riley J. Bearden, Vivian B. Rhodes, and Bridget Ragan

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Disease Made Invisible by Stereotypes, Isabella Tober

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Obsessive-Compulsive Subtraits and Self-Agency, Jacob Nelson, Cody Barton, and Carissa Phillipi PhD

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Patterns of Violence: Gendered Variations in Reported Abuse in Ex Parte Civil Protection Order Cases, Aimee Yearwood

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Phenotypic Variation Between Surface and Cave-Adapted Poeciliids and its Effect on Metabolism, Karch Knipp, Michael Tobler, and Soren Johnson

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Prenatal Depression and Maternal-Fetal Attachment: The Moderating Role of Trauma Experiences, Ayla G. Heun, Jessilyn M. Froelich, Haley L. Ringenary, and Emily D. Gerstein

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Relationship Between Morphological and Behavioral Laterality in Astyanax mexicanus, Allison Lendman, Michael Tobler, and Erik Johnson

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St. Louis’ Unique Approach to Financially Accessible Arts & Culture, Makenzie Strickler

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Support for Human Rights, Megan G. Shipp

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Synthesis and Charge Transport Characterization of 9,9'-bifluorenylidene-Based Conjugated Molecules for Single-Molecule Conductance, Zach Moughamian, Jahnavi Badiganti, and Jinjia Xu

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Tarantulas Can Use Black and White Cues in a Discrimination Learning Task, Jordan Kolinski, Becky Hansis O'Neill, and Amiee Dunlap

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The 1993 E. coli Outbreak: The Epidemic That Spurred Changes for Food Regulations, Piper G N Ruebling

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The Effects of Age Related Ocular Diseases on Nighttime Driving within Geriatric Populations, Donovan J. O'Keefe

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The Impact of Caffeine on Bumble Bee Hunger, Hallie Chapman, Becky Hansis-O'Neill, and Aimee Dunlap PhD

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Tornado Impacts: St. Louis Neighborhoods and Physical Environment, Jeremiah J. Dyson, Kymberli Philpott, Ricardo Belle, Jamilah Bracely, Will Ranney, and Cornell Evans

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Transposon mutagenesis identifies genes involved in Salicylate-Induced Regulation of Cyclopropane Fatty Acid Expression and Membrane Lipid Modification in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium, Presconique Cooper, Taiwo Iromini, and Lon Chubiz

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Under the Surface: Human Disturbance Reduces Species Richness in Glade Microhabitats, Maddie Smith, Becky Hansis-O'Neill, and Aimee Dunlap PhD

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Visible-Light-Promoted Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki Coupling of Alkene-Derived Alkyl-BBN with Aryl Halides, Naomi Collis, Rajesh Kumar, and Sharma Upendra

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Wasps Survive Tornadoes, but it Impacts Nest Growth, Natalie Cummins and Sara E. Miller

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Winter Contents of Tree Cavities in Oak Woodland Habitats, Lucy V. Roth, Addy Yoder, and Jalene M. LaMontagne PhD

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2025 Program, Kate Votaw

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A Study on the Great Comet of 2024: C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) via Radio Interferometry, Jesse Bier and Nathan X. Roth

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Caffeinated Bees: Investigating the Impact on Foraging Behavior, Taylor Boaz, Becky Hansis-O'Neil, and Aimee Dunlap PhD

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China’s Influence Over the Mining Industry in Africa, Safa M. Altamimi and Reda Amer

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Comparing Love and Vaping: An event-related potentials study, Sandra J.E. Langeslag, Caitlynn Harriman, and Telora O.J. Thomas

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Comparing Romantic Love and Chocolate Craving, Oluchi Onyegbula and Sandra Langeslag

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Does Legal Cynicism Mediate the Relationship Between Parental Incarceration and Child Delinquency?, Elizabeth Rose Bishop and Theresa Moore

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Examining the Relationship Between Gambling Advertising & Gambling Behavior, Ilkim Green, Eric Wickenhauser, and Hannah White Ph.D

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Face Value: A Computational Approach to Subjective Impressions of Faces, kevin Kpankou

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Fixation Duration as Effective Biomarker for Cognitive Function: A Developing Systematic Review, Nicholas Kurtz

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GamerGate And The Woke Mind Virus, Gavin Graves

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Habitat Disturbance and Biodiversity in Glade Habitats, Maddie Smith, Becky Hansis-O'Neill, and Aimee Dunlap PhD

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Holocaust Denial: "Revisionist" or Conspiracist?, Kathleen E. Powell

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How the Allies Won World War Two, Joshua Powell

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Intergenerational Childhood Maltreatment: A Maternal Pathway Analysis, Carly E. Williams and Theresa A. Moore

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Intimate Partner Violence and Brain Injury in Women: Understanding Prevalence, Symptomatology, and Consequences, Jacob T. Perez

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Jewish Resistance: Lions not Lambs, Jacob Stein

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Measuring Welfare of Wild Tarantulas During Field Surveys Using Heart Rate, Tim Angelo Artiaga Lopez, Becky Hansis-O'Neill, and Aimee Dunlap PhD

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MicroRNA-mediated regulation of the Parkinson's Disease-associated gene, LRRK2, Peyton B. Hanser, Pavithra Madamarandawala, and Wendy Olivas

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Nazi Propaganda from 1933-1939, Benjamin P. Robinett

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Nazi Propaganda of WW2, Abigail j. Ante Ms

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Nazi Weapons: Bad People, Good Technology, Fabian Grabski

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Objects of Power: Female Instrumentalists in Medieval to Early Modern Europe, Emma Scherrer

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Peer Influence: The Silent Influence of Self Esteem and Youth Crime, Tyler C. Stoker, Theresa Moore, and Hannah White

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Phenotypic Variations between the European Paper Wasps, Senna V. Horak, Thomas Hagan, and Sara Miller

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Photoflow Synthesis and Characterization of cis- and trans-n-isohumulone, Gregory M. Giovine, Bradley Gallow, Trevor Smith, and Bruce Hamper

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Pixel-Perfect Segmentation of Solar Filaments, Jamie Harris

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Revitalizing St. John Nepomuk Church, Elizabeth Fischer, Hannah King, Hunter Rust, Grace Desjardins, Patrick Clover, and Kyle Ater

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Stonewall:The Spark of Queer Culture, Mariah M. Geisler

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The Afghan Journal, Patrick L. Clover, Hunter Rust, Eliana Fitzhugh, Grace Desjardins, Emily Hardin, Kaitlyn Williams, Kyle Ater, Anthony Bowen, Mackenzie Rosenthal, Hannah King, Abby Pearce, and Elizabeth Fischer

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The Effect of Diet on Hydrogen Sulfide Tolerance of Extremophile Fishes, Kyliyah Walker, Michael Tobler, and Bethany Williams

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The Hitler Youth's Place in Nazi Germany, Willem I. Hummel

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The Impact of Role Models on Transgender Young Adults, Apollo Langum

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The Price of Neutrality: Swiss Policy and Complicity in WWII, Dave Quintal

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Timothy Amukele Biography and Introduction to his songs, Arissa Ford

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Visualizing and Evaluating Binary Classifier Performance with Contingency Space, Colin D. Kehoe and Azim Ahmadzadeh

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Stigma toward PrEP is higher among men and on subscales referencing sexual behavior and substance abuse, Sarah E. Boslaugh, Brandon Park, and Rachel P. Winograd P.

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Afterlight: Game Design and the Power of Narrative, Elio Hollenbeck

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Animal Conservation in St. Louis, Kate O'Sullivan

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A Vaccine Against Holocaust Denial: Knowledge, Riley Andreasen

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Characterizing Border Associated Macrophages during spinal cord regeneration, Addison Vogt, Dana Shaw, and Mayssa Mokalled

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Chemtrails: Deadly Skies or Dangerous Misinformation?, Abigail Foust

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Cognition and Inflammation in Youth with Perinatal HIV, Megan Niehaus, Julie Mannarino, Jacob Bolzenius, Tori Frerichs, and Robert Paul

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Community Engagement: Hungarian Cultural Center, Theresa Colombini, Emily Jesse, Michael Raffelson, Colin Ring, John Granicke, and Rae Cohen

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Comparing Sucrose Preference Between Colonies of Bombus impatiens, Kevin R. Corrigan, Becky Hansis-O'Niell, and Aimee Sue Dunlap

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Conceptualizing Nazism in America through Alternative History Media, Matthew Fear

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Content Analysis of Backyard Conservation Websites, Katie George and Sam Holzer

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COVID-19 Effects on Adolescent Anxiety, Lyndsay Michelle

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COVID Lockdown Impact on Education: Analyzing Test Scores by State and Age, Angel Watson, Abby Jenson, and Hannah White

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Cyclization of Diols Using Ferrocenium Cations & Other Iron-Based Catalysts, Cody D. Amann, Fnu Khushboo, Sai Anvesh Bezawada, and Eike B. Bauer

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Deconstructing Diagnostic Criteria for ADHD, Cory E. Perkins and Abby Jenson

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Determination of Antibody Affinity for the Alzheimer’s Amyloid-β Protein, Bree Carlton

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Effects of Beauveria bassiana on the Mortality and Thorax Width of Bombus impatiens Colonies, Bri Petty

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Effects of Foster Children’s Epigenetics in Abusive Environments, Shamika Ellis and Theresa Moore

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Effects of Fungal Biopesticide Doses on Mortality in Bumble Bees, Colton Burris

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Employment Status & Opioid Use Frequency, Muhammad Mirza, Jake Sauer, and Ryan Carpenter

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Erwin Rommel: Noble Knight of Germany or Nazi Knave?, Jake Schultz

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Etherification of Propargylic Alcohol using Ferrocenium Ions, Cody Amann, Sai Anvesh Bezawada, and Eike B. Bauer

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Evaluating Farm Size Change as an Expression of Preferential Alignment in the Corporate Food Regime, Rachael Carpenter

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Examining Immune Markers as Determinants of Cognitive Difficulties Among Perinatally Infected Youth with HIV, Addie Halbrook, Jacob Bolzenius, Julie Mannarino, and Robert Paul

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Exploring Best Practices in UMSL’s Collaborative Laboratory Internship and Mentoring Blueprint (CLIMB) Program, Dakota Warren

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Exploring the Early Solar System: Cometary Chemical Fingerprints: A Study of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) via Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Grace Puchalski

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Finding gene candidates that interact with MarA to control hilA expression in Salmonella enterica, Kylee Hempel

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Gangsterism, the Urban Ruling Elite, and the Guomindang: Power Sharing During the Early Years of the Chinese Republic, 1927-1937, Evan Boyle

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Gender and Genocide: Rape as a Weapon of War in Darfur, Ella Woods