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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The Effect of Variation of N-Substituents on Oxidopyridinium Ions in (4+3) Cycloadditions, Zahria Patrick and Madison Clark

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The Failed 1971-1973 Redevelopment of Pruitt-Igoe, Rachael Heriford

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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

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The Fight for Fluoridation in STL, Noor Yousaf

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The Holodomor: Death by Hunger, Marco Spann

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The Life and Music of Hazel Felman, Shane Devine

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The Revolutionary St. Louis Insane Asylum, Julia Talbert

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The Roaring Lion of Berlin: The Life, Thought, and Influence of Eugen Dühring, Arden Roy

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Third Reich in Harry Potter: Fiction Imitating Fact, Paul Sanders

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Total Variation Flow in R^n Dimensions with Examples Relating to Perimeters of Level Sets, Luis Schneegans and Victoria Shumakovich

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Tritons United: Against Gender-Based Violence, Kayla Bowling, Jessica Emert, Kimberly Werner, and Maggie Gross

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Unraveling the Truth: The Wannsee Conference and Holocaust Denial, Howie Parkes

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White Allies in the American South, Diamond Cannady

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2024 Program, Kate Votaw

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2023 Program, Kate Votaw

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Acculturation in Psychologists Practicing in the Southwest, Lisa Adams and Amy Band

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A Comparative Analysis of the European and American Child Advocacy Model to Address Violence Against Children, Abigail Champion

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Addicted to the Beloved? - A Comparison of Craving for and Attention to the Beloved, and Vape Stimuli, Oluchi Onyegbula, Caitlyn Harriman, and Sandra Langeslag

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A Model to Integrate Mental Health Services with Gynecological Care, Simerjeet Singh, Theresa A. Moore, and Hannah White

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Amongst the Trails: Analysis of a Small Predator Location Survey, Jesse Laseter

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A Spatial Analysis of Food Access within Saint Louis City by Walking, Public Transit, and Personal Vehicles., Nicole Eanes

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Atrocities Committed Against Soviet POWs by the Third Reich, Keaton LaRue

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Auschwitz: Unveiling the Depths of History, Hannah Reichert

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Does a bumblebee’s size influence foraging behavior?, Alametta Thompson-Hinton, Becky Hansis-O'Neill, and Aimee Dunlap Dr

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"Don't Be Afraid, Just Take It Easy": Genocide and Destruction in Bosnia, Thomas Sarsfield

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Effects of the True Crime Genre on Anxiety, Armani LaCour and Theresa A. Moore

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Environmental vs. Social Problems: American Perspectives in the 2020s, Nicholas Eldridge

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Exploring the Effect of Sexual Identity and Social Support on Drinking Habits among College Students, Emily Shelton and Ryan Carpenter

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Gonorrhea: Tragic Effects on Women ​, Aleah Thompson

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Green Synthesis of Glutethimide Intermediate via NASH Reaction, Zahria Patrick

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Herpetofauna and Tarantula Avoidance: a Missouri Glades Location Survey, Zach Pfeiffer, Becky Hansis-O'Neill, and Aimee Dunlap Dr

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Investigating the Impact of Edaphobacter aggregans (WBG-1) on Arabidopsis thaliana Development, Julia Talbert

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Investigating the Nectar Preferences of Bumblebees while Foraging: are Total Responses a Good Metric?, Alexander Entwistle, Becky Hansis-O'Neill, and Aimee Dunlap Dr

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Jefferson Barracks Post Theater: A Place for People to Gather, John Granicke

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Loneliness as a Predictor of Stress, Brendan T. Spencer, Ian A. McNamara, and Ryan Carpenter

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Mathematical Modeling of EGaIn Droplets Sliding Down an Inclined Plane, Shawn Koohy, Kathryn Massey, Luis Schneegans, Megan Vezzetti, Keith Hillaire, Souradip Chattopadhyay, Jessie Chen, Carmen Lee, and Karen Daniels

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Nazi Policies Towards Slavs: Origins, Implementation, and Contradictions., Jesse Mulherin

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Negative Emotions in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease, Haley Alberson, Kamila White, Philip Ludbrook, and Ari Cedars

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Research and Scholarship Studies in Media Literacy - How the UMSL Community Knows What it Knows, Joshua Preston and Vince Costa

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Seeing Me: Influential Queer Black Men in Entertainment, Jay Gaskin

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Simulating Mass Extinctions in an Agent-Based Evolutionary Model, Emily Vastola, Will Hayes, Joe Milliano, Tyler Hanke, Ian Heye, Dawn M. King, and Sonya Bahar

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Stalin's Collectivization: Effects of Failure, Irina Biedenstein

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The Association of Social Media Use and Psychiatric Diagnoses Among Missouri College Students, Avigail Davidovits, Ryan Carpenter, and Khrystyna Stetsiv

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The Impact of Art as a Catalyst for Social Change, Bob Madden

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The Interaction of Psychopathic Traits and Self-Agency in a Student and Community Sample, Carter B. Wheelock

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The Lieber Code and the American Civil War, Xin Zheng

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The Nazi Labor Camps of the Holocaust, Kyle Ater

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Understanding the impact of social-environmental context on the relationship between drinking motives and drinking frequency, Janiah Henderson, Ian A. McNamara, and Ryan Carpenter

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U.S. and China: Microchip Policy Implications, Gro Kelrick

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User Polarization from AI Social Media Algorithms, Theresa Colombini

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Who to Host: Competition Interactions between Parasitoid Wasp Species, Jailah Henderson and Becky Hansis-O’Neill

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Women Are Depicted as Independent and Courageous In The Bible, Taylor Boaz

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Bananas vs. Coffee: Why Did One Instigate Violence and the Other Community?, Sydney Stark

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How the West Was Stolen: A Closer Look at the St.Louis Treaty of 1804, Lisa Kozieja

Unlocking the Age-Barrier: Mental Health Professional Capacities in Addressing the Needs of Aging Populations, Lia Jackson, Amy Band, Abby Laine, and Ann Steffen

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Alzheimer's: The Invisible Second Victim, Emma Alberty

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Analysis of SoxS in S. typhimurium by Transposon Mutagenesis, Joel Hanns, Brenda Pratte, Lon Chubiz PhD, and Lauren Daugherty

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Analyzing the Variable Pain, Payton Ruediger, Ryan W. Carpenter, and Melissa Nance

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A New Life for UMSL’s African Instrument Collection, Brandon Elliott, Shane Devine, and Kieth Stephens

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Asthma in St. Louis: A Crisis of Equity, Ashley Maempa

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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

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Bridging the Gap: Informal Sex Education on TikTok, anne brown

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Cinema Exhibition In St. Louis, 1920: A Thriving Business, Sarah E. Boslaugh

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Comparative Performance of Food and Nutrition Security Operations, Maya Harter

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Competition between honey bees (Apis mellifera) and native bees: an investigation in urban community gardens in St. Louis, Missouri, Owen Ireton

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Eating Disorders: Creating a New Standard, Bree Carlton

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E. coli: The 1993 Jack in the Box Nightmare, Jared Morton

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Externalizing Behavior Predicts Differential Patterns of Substance Use among Adolescents by Race, Andrea Palacios

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Gender Dysphoria: The Widespread "Social" Disease of the 21st Century, Aria Spencer

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Challenges in Everyday Life, Chloe Wilke

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Giving of One’s Self: Perceptions, Experiences, and Motivations in United States Blood Donation, Allison Huene, Jamie Jones, Hayden Steingruby, and Alexis Warnecke

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How Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Can Change the World, Jacob Fox

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Jesse James' Hideout or Civil War Midden?, Steven Meyer, Tim Evers, and Ben Ebert

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Leprosy: How it Defined a King, Paul Sanders

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Malaria: Existence Perpetuated by a Counterfeit Drug Industry, Nicholas Black

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Mow It or Grow It?, Neighborhood Survey of UMSL Sustainability, CRT Moorhead

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Mythos Modernized: Echoes of the Literary Past in Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse (2019), Kayla Burrows

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Polio: Healthcare Workers Murdered for Eradication Efforts, Emily Beauto

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Putin's Russia: Lineage of Totalitarianism, Micah Hillier

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Rabies lyssavirus: A Vector for Stories​, Daniel Olejniczak

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Resolving the Repression Pathway of Virulence Gene hilA in Salmonella, Alexandra King, Lon Chubiz PhD, Brenda Pratte, and Lauren Daugherty

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Respiratory Diseases: Results of 9/11 Rescue and Recovery Effort, Isabel Schnittker

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Schizophrenia and Social Stigma: How Society Views Those With Mental Illness, Rebecca Littrel

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Staph Infection: Hospitals Battle Against A Deadly Menace, Mckenzie Lamos

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Successful Women Majoring in STEM Have Higher Optimism and Lower Stigma Consciousness, Bridget Muise and Bettina Casad

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Synthesis of Curcumin Derivatives: Increasing Compound Stability, Chloe Wilke

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The Demise of the Beef Industry, Natalie Powers

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The Diversification of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement: An Analysis of the St. Louis Peace Information Center Files, Reagan Elkhashab

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The Effects of Floral Attributes and Conspecifics on Bumble Bee Forager Memory, Lucas Lauter and Tiffany Dinh

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The McCarthy Subcommittee: A Case Study, Hudson Levanos

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The Relationships Between Perceived Social Support, Discrimination, Distress, and Alcohol Usage, Kylie Thorwardson, Ryan Carpenter, and Melissa Nance

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The Role of Omission in Self-Deception, Natalie Bishop

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The Synthesis of Deuterated Isohumulones for Use as Internal Standards in LC-MS Stable Isotope Dilution Assays, Patrick Gleason and Bruce Hamper Dr.

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Totalitarian Tendencies of Orbán’s Hungary, Rachel Reiss

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Tritons United: Against Gender-Based Violence Campus Programming, Mackenzie A. Chrun and Maggie M. Gross

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Tuberculosis: Illegal Immigrants and Deadly Spread, Abigail Foust

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Vasily Grossman and Ilya Ehrenburg: Soviet Jews on the Nazis and Soviets, Joshua Heisel

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Progress in protein structure prediction: An XAI perspective, Yosef E. Granillo and Badri Adhikari

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2022 Program, University of Missouri-St. Louis

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From Ridicule To Reform: Potential Solutions to the Domestic Violence Crisis, Kelly Gordon