Available Works & Program from 2024
Afterlight: Game Design and the Power of Narrative, Elio Hollenbeck
Animal Conservation in St. Louis, Kate O'Sullivan
A Vaccine Against Holocaust Denial: Knowledge, Riley Andreasen
Chemtrails: Deadly Skies or Dangerous Misinformation?, Abigail Foust
Comparing Sucrose Preference Between Colonies of Bombus impatiens, Kevin R. Corrigan, Becky Hansis-O'Niell, and Aimee Sue Dunlap
Conceptualizing Nazism in America through Alternative History Media, Matthew Fear
Content Analysis of Backyard Conservation Websites, Katie George and Sam Holzer
COVID-19 Effects on Adolescent Anxiety, Lyndsay Michelle
Determination of Antibody Affinity for the Alzheimer’s Amyloid-β Protein, Bree Carlton
Effects of Beauveria bassiana on the Mortality and Thorax Width of Bombus impatiens Colonies, Bri Petty
Effects of Foster Children’s Epigenetics in Abusive Environments, Shamika Ellis and Theresa Moore
Effects of Fungal Biopesticide Doses on Mortality in Bumble Bees, Colton Burris
Erwin Rommel: Noble Knight of Germany or Nazi Knave?, Jake Schultz
Etherification of Propargylic Alcohol using Ferrocenium Ions, Cody Amann, Sai Anvesh Bezawada, and Eike B. Bauer
Evaluating Farm Size Change as an Expression of Preferential Alignment in the Corporate Food Regime, Rachael Carpenter
Examining Immune Markers as Determinants of Cognitive Difficulties Among Perinatally Infected Youth with HIV, Addie Halbrook, Jacob Bolzenius, Julie Mannarino, and Robert Paul
Exploring Best Practices in UMSL’s Collaborative Laboratory Internship and Mentoring Blueprint (CLIMB) Program, Dakota Warren
Finding gene candidates that interact with MarA to control hilA expression in Salmonella enterica, Kylee Hempel
Hogan's Heroes: Fact or Fiction?, Mark Granicke
Holocaust Denial: The Conspiracy of Ignorance, Morgan Nelson
How Technology is Helping Holocaust Deniers Rewrite History, Michael Raffelson
How the West Was Stolen: A Closer Look at the St.Louis Treaty of 1804, Lisa Kozieja
Human Zoo Healthcare at the 1904 World’s Fair, Angel Blake
Hvaldimir: Russian Beluga Spy Whale, John Granicke
"I Hate Illinois Nazis:" Remembering Hate Speech and the First Amendment in Skokie, Illinois, Morgan Myers
Investigation of Alzheimer’s Amyloid-β Protein Aggregation With a New Fluorescent Dye., Emma Alberty
"Killin' Nazis": How Jews are Portrayed in Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, Skylar Baxter
Learning curves in bumblebee foraging (Bombus impatiens), Samir Benbakir, Becky Hansis-O'Niell, and Aimee Sue Dunlap
Life Beyond the Horizon: The Universe Was Born in a Black Hole, Zahria Patrick
Lucas' Empire: Star Wars and Nazi Germany, Karli Dean
Magneto’s Origin in the Holocaust and how it Influences His Character Today, Rena Usprich
Memory as a Foundation for Learning, Manuel Vicuna and Juan Manuel Vicuna
NBA Conspiracies: A League That Values Money Over Honesty, Rebecca Littrel
Precautionary Buying During the COVID Pandemic: Evidence from Grocery Scanner Data, Blake Williams and Trilce Encarnacion
Preserving Sacred Memory: The Effort to Create the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jessica Wachtel
Psychopathy & Perceptions of Control, Amy Kenny
Recognition Promotes Sodomy: Gay Lib Vs. The University of Missouri, Micah Hillier
Recovering Ancient DNA Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction, Rose Jennings
Socio-Demographic Risks Affect Executive Functioning, Brittny Rodgers; Nicole Shelley; and Hannah B. White, Ph.D
Space Nazis - The Specific Connections Between Star Wars and Nazi Germany, Jeremy Dobrzanski
Stability and Crisis Response: Comparing the U.S. and Canadian Banking Systems, Sarah E. Boslaugh
Studying the genes and conditions that influence root development, Tessa Holtkamp and Hannah Ordonez Webb
Surveys of Aphonopelma hentzi in Missouri: Conservation Efforts through Population, Genetics, and Habitat Studies, Anderson B. Spencer Mr. and Becky Hansis-O'Niell
Telehealth Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Missouri’s Urban and Rural Areas Prior to and Since COVID-19, Aurora Rojo, Rashmi Ghonasgi, Zachary Budesa, and Rachel Winograd
The 1904 World’s Fair: Intended Impact of the U.S. Government Building Versus Visitor Experience, Dalton King
The association between coping-motivated drinking and alcohol-related consequences., Jacob D. Salser, Ian A. McNamara, and Ryan W. Carpenter
The Effect of Caffeine on Bee Behavior: A Progressive Ratio Study, Kayle Cohen, Becky Hansis-O'Neill, and Aimee Dunlap Dr
The Effect of Variation of N-Substituents on Oxidopyridinium Ions in (4+3) Cycloadditions, Zahria Patrick and Madison Clark
The Failed 1971-1973 Redevelopment of Pruitt-Igoe, Rachael Heriford
The Fentanyl Crisis in the African American Community: Exploring Geographic Differences in Overdose in the St. Louis Region, Tanys Giles, Devin Banks, Rashmi Ghonasgi, Maria Paschke, and Rachel Winograd
The Fight for Fluoridation in STL, Noor Yousaf
The Life and Music of Hazel Felman, Shane Devine
The Revolutionary St. Louis Insane Asylum, Julia Talbert
The Roaring Lion of Berlin: The Life, Thought, and Influence of Eugen Dühring, Arden Roy
Third Reich in Harry Potter: Fiction Imitating Fact, Paul Sanders
Total Variation Flow in R^n Dimensions with Examples Relating to Perimeters of Level Sets, Luis Schneegans and Victoria Shumakovich
Tritons United: Against Gender-Based Violence, Kayla Bowling, Jessica Emert, Kimberly Werner, and Maggie Gross
Unraveling the Truth: The Wannsee Conference and Holocaust Denial, Howie Parkes
White Allies in the American South, Diamond Cannady
2024 Program, Kate Votaw
Available Works & Program from 2023
2023 Program, Kate Votaw
Gonorrhea: Tragic Effects on Women , Aleah Thompson
Seeing Me: Influential Queer Black Men in Entertainment, Jay Gaskin
Bananas vs. Coffee: Why Did One Instigate Violence and the Other Community?, Sydney Stark
Available Works & Program from 2022
Alzheimer's: The Invisible Second Victim, Emma Alberty
Analysis of SoxS in S. typhimurium by Transposon Mutagenesis, Joel Hanns, Brenda Pratte, Lon Chubiz PhD, and Lauren Daugherty
Analyzing the Variable Pain, Payton Ruediger, Ryan W. Carpenter, and Melissa Nance
A New Life for UMSL’s African Instrument Collection, Brandon Elliott, Shane Devine, and Kieth Stephens
Asthma in St. Louis: A Crisis of Equity, Ashley Maempa
A Study of Brain Cell Loss In the Student Body of UMSL: Brain Stew., Cullen Landolt, Mya Horn, Aimee Q. Pieper, Abby 6. Wall, and Kenny "Special K" Miller Esq
Bridging the Gap: Informal Sex Education on TikTok, anne brown
Cinema Exhibition In St. Louis, 1920: A Thriving Business, Sarah E. Boslaugh
Comparative Performance of Food and Nutrition Security Operations, Maya Harter
Eating Disorders: Creating a New Standard, Bree Carlton
E. coli: The 1993 Jack in the Box Nightmare, Jared Morton
Externalizing Behavior Predicts Differential Patterns of Substance Use among Adolescents by Race, Andrea Palacios
Gender Dysphoria: The Widespread "Social" Disease of the 21st Century, Aria Spencer
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Challenges in Everyday Life, Chloe Wilke
Giving of One’s Self: Perceptions, Experiences, and Motivations in United States Blood Donation, Allison Huene, Jamie Jones, Hayden Steingruby, and Alexis Warnecke
How Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Can Change the World, Jacob Fox
Jesse James' Hideout or Civil War Midden?, Steven Meyer, Tim Evers, and Ben Ebert
Leprosy: How it Defined a King, Paul Sanders
Malaria: Existence Perpetuated by a Counterfeit Drug Industry, Nicholas Black
Mow It or Grow It?, Neighborhood Survey of UMSL Sustainability, CRT Moorhead
Mythos Modernized: Echoes of the Literary Past in Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse (2019), Kayla Burrows
Polio: Healthcare Workers Murdered for Eradication Efforts, Emily Beauto
Putin's Russia: Lineage of Totalitarianism, Micah Hillier
Rabies lyssavirus: A Vector for Stories, Daniel Olejniczak
Resolving the Repression Pathway of Virulence Gene hilA in Salmonella, Alexandra King, Lon Chubiz PhD, Brenda Pratte, and Lauren Daugherty
Respiratory Diseases: Results of 9/11 Rescue and Recovery Effort, Isabel Schnittker
Schizophrenia and Social Stigma: How Society Views Those With Mental Illness, Rebecca Littrel
Staph Infection: Hospitals Battle Against A Deadly Menace, Mckenzie Lamos
Successful Women Majoring in STEM Have Higher Optimism and Lower Stigma Consciousness, Bridget Muise and Bettina Casad
Synthesis of Curcumin Derivatives: Increasing Compound Stability, Chloe Wilke
The Demise of the Beef Industry, Natalie Powers
The Diversification of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement: An Analysis of the St. Louis Peace Information Center Files, Reagan Elkhashab
The Effects of Floral Attributes and Conspecifics on Bumble Bee Forager Memory, Lucas Lauter and Tiffany Dinh