Welcome to the 2021 Showcase of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors!
By clicking a session, you will be able to see detailed information about the schedule and presenters. You’ll also find a Live Stream button that will let you access that session - either a link toa Zoom session or a poster session page.
Posters: ***Finalist for the poster competition are indicated with****
Kiera Alexander: Impact of COVID-19 on Food Insecurity and Resiliency in College Students
Ashley Allen: Permafrost Based on Changes in Type and Density of Surface Vegetation
Marissa Atkins: Emotional Resilience of Preservice Teachers
Alyse Butler: Federal, state, and local minimum wages: Implications for Poverty
Whitney Carter: Investigating the Correlation Between Mental Health and Athletic Performance
Erin Creed: The Relationship between Social Media, Body Image, and Disordered Eating
Chase Curtis: Determining the efficacy of using the barbell squat to train the vertical jump
Jesse Defalco: The effect of Incarceration on Poverty
Katrina Gainey: Undergraduate Students' Perceptions, Knowledge, Attitudes Toward Human Trafficking
Autumn Hennis, Sophie Pringle, Hannah Armstrong, and Brianna Drumgool: Student Mental Health in the Time of Covid-19
Megan Herbst: Deference to Prestige as an additional predictor of economic conservatism
Lucy Herpst: The international impact of WASH on Poverty
Seth Jackson: Ankle Injuries in Basketball
****Victoria King: Athletic Ankle Sprain Rehabilitation and Optimism****
Madeline Linker: Generation of Fluorescent Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Cells for Lineage Tracing Within Composite 3D Culture Models
Courtney Miller, Jordyn Benson, Kristen Gohs, Brady Harmon, Samantha Koenig, Mason Linker, Ma'Liah Maddox, Olivia Pohl, Bryn Radvanski, Gabrielle Walker, Jakob Miller, Claire Roberts, and Ashley Wood: Isolating, Purifying, and Characterizing Mycobacterium Bacteriophages Collected from Soil on the Winthrop University Campus
Wilesha Moore: Utilization of Injury Prevention Programs in Athletics
Melanie Needham and Kirsten Dugan: The Impact of Mindfulness and Mindful Eating Interventions on Stress and Overall Health
Sophie Pringle, Amanda (Mandy) Breakfield, and Aaron Gigliotti: Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Differences in Friendship Quality and Conflict Resolution
****Ana Rodriguez, Christopher Brokaw, Stephanie Vasquez Loaeza, and Kayla Howard: Consent Attitudes, Aggression, & Gender on Perceptions of Sexual Assault****
Keora Rogers: Ketogenic Diet vs. Vegetarian Diet: How they Affect Athletic Performance
Tatiana Singletary: The Effect of Mortality Salience and Trauma Exposure on Unrealistic Optimism and Death Anxiety
Jasmine Smith: Students' Attitudes Towards Welfare Programs
Thomas Sullivan: Elucidating the Effect of the Antibiotic Tetracycline on the Regulatory Function of the Guanidine-Sensing ykkCD Riboswitch
****Kristen Watson: Trust in Conventional Doctors and Openness to Complementary Alternative Medicine****
12:30 - 12:45 Sigrid Dorman: Bioinformatic Analysis and Expression of Bacteriocins B and C from Xanthomonas perforans
12:45 - 1:00 Abigail McGaha: Neurodegenerative Pathways Involved in Age Related and Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Review
1:00 - 1:15 Carlos Escoto-Diaz and Jesse Kooistra: Assessing Effects of Decellularization and Culture Conditions on Small-Diameter Vascular Graft Seeding
1:15 - 1:30 Brandon Ellison: Predicting a viable pH-induced peptide switch to be incorporated with human L-chain ferritin
12:00 - 12:15 Kalin (McKenzie) Bennett: The Effect of Political Culture on Voter Personality Preferences for Political Leaders: A South Carolina Case Study
12:15 - 12:30 Sarah Delventhal: Impact of Social Media and Reality TV on College Students
12:30 - 12:45 Sarah Summerall: Government Agencies Lack of Consistent Support to Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria in 2017
12:45 - 1:00 John Drake: A look at propaganda
1:00 - 1:15 Veronica Skubisz: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Classroom: Student Experiences at a Small, Liberal Arts University in the South
12:00 – 12:10 Rachel Hunnicutt: My Artistic Journey as a Fine Arts Major
12:10 – 12:20 Kalah Maree: Bridge
12:20 – 12:30 Kai Griffin: Science and Social Narratives: A Research Based Art Methodology into Explorations and Explanations of Gender and Bodily Diverse Prepubertal Youth
12:30 – 12:40 Kristen Kilpatrick: Connections Renewed - learning to love junk mail
12:40 – 12:50 Devlin Thayne: Hiding the Uncomfortable With Comfort
12:50 – 1:00 Meshaal Malik: How a Foreign Kid Became a Photographer
1:00 – 1:10 Sophie Harvey: The Lens of a Photographer
1:10 – 1:20 Shadae Tompkins: For the CULTURE
1:20 – 1:30 Brynn Holland: Exploring the Manipulation of Material and Color
Concerns over reproducibility in data science extend to research using existing healthcare data; many observational studies investigating the same topic produce conflicting results, even when using the same data. To address this problem, we propose a paradigm shift. The current approach centers on generating one health effect at a time using a unique study design with unknown reliability and publishing (or not) one estimate at a time. The new paradigm advocates for high-throughput observational studies using consistent and standardized methods, allowing evaluation, calibration, and unbiased dissemination to generate a more reliable and complete evidence base. We demonstrate this new paradigm by comparing all hypertension treatments for a set of effectiveness and safety outcomes, producing 587,020 health estimates, each using methodology on par with state-of-the-art studies. We furthermore include control hypotheses to evaluate and calibrate our evidence generation process. Results agree with the limited number of randomized trials, suggesting more complete and more reliable evidence
2:30 - 2:45 Haley Whitman: Fostering Resilience: Examining the Relationships Among Adversity, Self-Esteem, Resilience, and Risky Behaviors of College Students
2:45 - 3:00 Taylor Sandifer: Resilience of Student Organizations During the Global COVID-19 Pandemic
3:00 - 3:15 Virginia Nichols: Diversity and Inclusion in Children's Literature in Early Childhood Elementary Classrooms
3:15 - 3:30 Todd Gillespie: Vocal Fry: Relevance in the Training of a Classical Voice
3:30 - 3:45 Titus Echols: The Impact of Distance Learning on Students with Low-Socioeconomic Backgrounds: An Autoethnography Exploration
2:30 - 2:45 Eric Walters: Visible-Light Mediated Radical Additions of Aldehydes with Organotrifluoroborates
2:45 - 3:00 Jackson Barrett, Evan Thibodeaux, Molly Quetel, and Eric Walters: Photoredox Mediated Alkylation of Imines with Potassium Organotrifluoroborates in the Presence of an Organic Photocatalyst
3:00 - 3:15 Jomar Lewis: In Silico Binding Analysis of a Zone 2 Modified Sphingosine Kinase Inhibitor
3:15 - 3:30 Kameron Johnson: Discovery Research For New Optical Materials
3:30 - 3:45 Kendarius Butler: In silico binding analysis of sphingosine kinase 1 inhibitors for improved oral bioavailability
Presentations: 2:30 - 2:45 Jewel Edwards - Beauty & Truth 2:45 - 3:00 Eric Walters - Visible-Light Mediated Radical Additions of Aldehydes with Organotrifluoroborates 3:00 - 3:15 McCayla Partain - Campus Mental Health Services and Student Needs in COVID-19 3:15 - 3:30 Jonathan Bolton - The Calls from Beneath 3:30 - 3:45 Carlos Escoto-Diaz - Assessing Effects of Decellularization and Culture Conditions on Small-Diameter Vascular Graft Seeding 3:45 - 4:00 Veronica Skubisz - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Classroom: Student Experiences at a Small, Liberal Arts University in the South
***Finalist for the poster competition are indicated with****
Taylor Anderson: Gender Equity in Leadership in Sports
Quanjenae' Broughton: ACL injuries in female athletes
Joshua Byrd: Determinants of Crime: a Macroanalysis of the Southeastern United States
****Hunter Cannon, Kathryne Courtney, Carlos Escoto-Diaz, Joel Haley, Mackenzie Jenkins, Allyssa Lewis, Caleb Meyerand, Dallas Nivens, Bryan Patterson, Alexis Ramirez, Jordan Rucker, Hallie Smth, Laela Walker, and Bethany Wise: Characterizing the Function of Bacteriophage Cain Genes in Host Mycobacterium smegmatis****
Eden Crain: The Relationship between Energy Balance and Performance Measures in Collegiate Female Volleyball Players
Shamar Crews: The Role of Mental Health and Training in Basketball
Eliza Diamond, Tatiana Singletary, Ta-Taya Campbell, and Ty'Keila Scarborough: Perceptions of Marijuana Use Within the Context of Romantic Relationships
Vanessa Fonce: Physical Activity and Mental Health in College Students
Trina Hill: Low FODMAP Diet in Athletes
****Mackenzie Jenkins: Investigation of an indirect defense mechanism of Chapmannia floridana (Florida alicia) in Florida scrub****
Ahmad Jones: Uncovering Poverty In The Black Belt by Looking Through History
Harrison Kendree: Reasons Behind Poor Families Having Children
Logan Lillibridge: Causes of the California Homelessness Crisis
****Kaitlin Milam: The Effectiveness of Interventions on Overweight or Obese Children and Adolescents****
Courtney Miller, Jordyn Benson, Kristen Gohs, Brady Harmon, Samantha Koenig, Mason Linker, Ma'Liah Maddox, Olivia Pohl, Bryn Radvanski, Gabrielle Walker, and Ashley Wood: Genome Annotation of Bacteriophages Allegro and Moostard
Egbe Omougui, Veronica Skubisz, and Chloe Rizer: Predictors of Criminal Behavior: Crime Exposure, Childhood Adversity, Discrimination, Parenting Styles, Socioeconomic Status
Neely Pritchett: Perceptions of Marital Infidelity & Its Impact on Children
La J'ai Reed: Game of inches: America’s uphill battle for equitable, accessible youth sports programs
****Ana Rodriguez: The Role of Youth Race, Stereotype Acceptance, and Aggression on Perceptions of School Altercations****
Veronica Skubisz: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Classroom: Student Experiences at a Small, Liberal Arts University in the South
Hannah Smith: The Call for Insurance Coverage Help
Mackenzie Sprott: From Gut to Gold: How Digestive Microbiota Influence Athletic Performance
Victoria Sulak: Sexual Education Policies and Sexual Risk in Sexual Minority Youth
AnnaMarie Wilde: Does background music have an impact on elementary students’ creative thinking skills?
