Keystone Symposium 2022

9:00am – Opening Remarks by Professor Carrie Preston

9:15am – Poster Presentations:

Abby Gross
The Perfect Playlist: The Intersection of Neuroscience, Music, and Art

Audrey Hager 
An Empirical Analysis of Out-of-Pocket Costs of Oral Breast Cancer Medications in 2018

Matt Kim 
Here and There: A Collection of Works About Growing Up

Katie Lee 
Categorizing Wikipedia: Analyzing the Network of Wikipedia Articles

Gabriela Morgan Longo 
Namjooning, Purpling, and the Collaborative Authoring of Celebrity

Deep Patel 
Envisioning American Healthcare Reform in the Age of COVID-19: A Step Towards Countering Racial health Inequities

Leanna Reynolds 
The Role of Cocaine-Associated Memories in Driving Relapse and Drug-Seeking Behaviors

Jackson Wallace 
A Search for Dark Matter: Investigating Higgs Bosons Produced with Missing Momentum

9:40am – Poster Discussions in the Lobby
This portion of our presentations will not be live-streamed

10:15am – Yongyuan (Steve) Huang
Solving Equations? Not so Easy

10:30am – Christian Paredes
Is what you see what you get? Exploring the relationship between viewing condomless anal sex in pornography, condom attitudes, and condomless anal sex among adolescent sexual minority males.

10:45am – Lauren K. Hagy 
Female White Supremacist Influencers and the Mainstreaming of Replacement Theory

11:00am – Sophia Alvarado 
Prosecuting White Power: How White Identity Influences the United States Judicial System

11:15am – Rana Hussein 
A Computational Model to Estimate the Incidence of Malnutrition in Yemen

11:30am – Riki Stout 
Small States at Odds: Understanding the Relationship Between the UAE, Qatar, and the Muslim Brotherhood

11:45am – Sheena Patel 
Limitations of Hospital Room Standardizations for Patients with Obesity

12:00-1:00pm – Lunch Break

1:00pm – Trey Moore 
Controlling brain waves to treat Alzheimer’s Disease

1:15pm – Victor Cadaoas 
How Filipino Americans Have Claimed Their Identity Through Literature

1:30pm – Catherine Devlin
Fighting for Peace: The Rose Dabney Forbes Story

1:45pm – Zach Bodi
Automated classification of sidewalk accessibility using machine learning

2:00pm – Maelee Chen 
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Rights of Nature in Christian and American Legal Texts

2:15pm – Zora Che 
Predicting Emotional Incitement for Misinformation Detection

2:30pm – Victoria Zdanowicz 
Assessing Orangutan Habitat Quality and Conservation Value of a Secondary Forest within Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo, Indonesia

2:45pm – Andrew Reilly 
Babel in the Neapolitan Metropolis: An Analysis of Linguistic Representation and Purpose in Ferrante’s “L’amica geniale” Series

3:00pm – Sebastian Porreca 
The Vanguard of Reconquista: Exploring the Extreme Right in Ukraine and its Influence on the Global Extreme Right

3:15pm – Sawan Patel 
A Systems-Level Model of Spatial Navigation and Memory

3:30pm – Briana Morgan 
Digging into Feminism and Queer Theory with “The Scoop”

3:45pm – Russell Laman
Using Photomosaics to Analyze Structural Complexity and Conservation Success of Restored Belizean Coral Reefs

4:00pm – Adi Jahic 
Group Identity and Corruption: How Beliefs, Biases, Criticism, and Information Processing Impact Participants’ Responses to Corruption

4:15pm – Sheila Jimenez Morejon 
Analyzing the Wage Gap in Boston: A Cryptographic Approach

4:30pm – Clarence Perez-Mejia
Understanding School mental Health and Parent Guidance in Public Middle Schools: A Look at Low-Income Neighborhoods in New York City

4:45pm – Cristina Rivera Morrison 
Atomic Adaptations: Analyzing the Past and Present of U.S. Nonproliferation Policy in the Middle East

5:00pm – John Lei 
Are Social Media Recommender Systems to Blame for the Increasing Trajectory of Political Polarization?

5:15pm – Susritha Kopparapu 
An Evaluation of “Together We Feel Better”: A Mental Health Workbook for Children and Parents

5:30pm – Katie Sena
BALB/cByJ mice show indiscriminate binge-link eating of both sweetened palatable food and chow compared to BALB/cJ mice

5:45pm – Marissa Carty
Somewhere Among the Wildflowers: Poetry on the Psychology of Well-being

9:15am – Poster Presentations:

F. Vanessa Alvarenga 
Perceived Discriminatory Behavior Committed by Medical Professionals and its effect on Postpartum Latinx Women

Isabella Baker-Villareal
Social Comparison in the Age of Social Distancing: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women’s Body Image

Hannah Collins
Designing, modeling, and constructing synthetic gene circuits based on protein oligomerization

Maggie Chou 
Web Design Aesthetics on Consumer Buying Decisions

Jack Giunta
Education Technology and The Culture of the Classroom

Sarah Ju 
The Pressure to Post: Exploring How Social Pressure Influences Instagram Activism

Audrey McMillion & Sushane Sharma 
Streaming Services: Success Indicators and Future Prospects

Ji Zhang 
Elephant Edu: A Family-based Sexuality Education App

9:40am – Poster Presentations in the Lobby
This portion of our presentations will not be live-streamed

10:15am – Sydney Gerbel 
“Need Money for Birkin”: Ethical Investment and the Exclusive World of Luxury Fashion

10:30am – Morgan Haas Donohue
A Proposal For A BU Summer Environmental Science Outreach Program

10:45am – Caitlyn Leonard
“We Are Just Mentally Drained”: A Qualitative Study of Substance Use Professionals During COVID-19

11:00am – Katie Barnes 
Positivity for Which Bodies: Exploring Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance on TikTok

11:15am – Joel Herbert 
The Creation of an Experimental Paradigm Involving Fiber Optic Imaging and fMRI in an Awake Mouse to Link Acetylcholine and Hemodynamic Activity

11:30am – Aidan Kaminer 
To Hear What’s Been Told: Responding to migrant fiction focused outside the anglosphere

11:45am – Khoa Tran 
BOXi

12:00-1:00pm – Lunch Break

1:00pm – Amanda Katchmar 
Analysis of State Portrayals of the Risks of E-Cigarette Use and EVALI

1:15pm – Katie Greene 
Interactive effects of microplastics and climate change stressors on gene expression in endangered Caribbean coral Acropora cervicornis

1:30pm – Cameron Helman 
Europe’s Democratic Illness: The Effect of COVID-19 on Democratic Erosion in Poland and Hungary

1:45pm – Anna Natrakul 
Investigating Associations Between Medication Use and Kidney Health in Nicaraguan Children

2:00pm – Jackson Moore-Otto 
Why (and how) to study green industrial policy

2:15pm – Trevor Melsheimer & Gayatri Sundar Rajan
Water Harvesting: Producing Drinkable Water from Moisture in Air

2:30pm – Grace Johnson 
COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: Mitigating Mistrust in the Science Community and Public Health Initiatives

2:45pm – Emma Grace Cowan 
Kerry & Deb

3:00pm – Carolina Becerril
Social media use and eating disorder risk among college students

3:15pm – Trevor Tamura 
Telemedicine in Hawaii’s Pediatric Healthcare System: An Analysis of its Impact during the COVID-19 Pandemic

3:30pm – Mira Dhakal 
Highlighting the Magic of Shimane: Developing the Anime Pitch Deck

3:45pm – Stephanie Anakwe 
Quickening: A Comic Book Depicting the Clash of Worldviews Underlying the Abortion Debate

4:00pm – Rona Moriah
“Like It Was a Game”: An Artistic Exploration of Documentary Theatre About Syrian Refugees

4:15pm – Marla Hiller 
A Wicked Problem: A Podcast About School Segregation in Boston

4:30pm – Alex Blumenfeld 
Industry Concentration and Regional Business Cycles

4:45pm – Brian Jung 
Developing an ECG Sensor and Smartphone Application to Monitor the Cardiac Health of Remote Patients

5:00pm – Sam Macriss
An Analysis of Pandemics on Carceral Spaces in the United States

5:15pm – Megan Wong 
Spectroscopic Analysis of Truncated Tryptophan Hydroxylase Activity

5:30pm – Selina Li 
The Body is a Book of Stories: A Visual Exploration of My Asian American Identity

5:45pm – Jessica Weber 
Evaluation of Boston’s Community Fridges as a Food Security Effort

10:15am – Richard Boylan 
“North to Alaska!” An Intergenerational Road Trip Documentary

10:30am – Emily Oros & Meghan Howard 
Using Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy (ESS) for Diagnosis: A minimally invasive method for assessing the health and viability of donated kidneys

10:45am – Lincoln Alex MacVeagh 
Islam and Christian America: How 9/11 and the George Bush Years Altered the Evangelical Perception of the American State and Islam

11:00am – Andy Vo 
Minute: An Accessible Technology Solution to Public Speaking Confidence

11:15am – Gabby Ostoyich 
Towards a Livable Future: The Implementation and Legislation of the 15-Minute City

11:30am – Peter Siegel 
Robosaw: The Collaborative Wood Stock Cutting Robot

11:45am – Young Ye 
Development and Assessment of a Manual Tracking Algorithm for Dense Reconstruction of Neurons Labeled Using Transgenic Zebra Finches

12:00-1:00pm – Lunch Break

1:00pm – Aash Mukerji
The Phenomenology of Addiction

1:15pm – Isabel Moring 
Transgender Healthcare: Addressing Transphobia in the Medical School Classroom

1:30pm – Sam Krasnoff
A Misbehavior Detection System for Cellular Vehicle to Everything Technologies

1:45pm – Reva Bardhi 
Felony Disenfranchisement in Virginia: How the Legislative Impact and Legal Precedent of Virginia’s Constitution are Excluding the Formerly Incarcerated

2:00pm – Liam Ward 
Thrust Vector Control of an Aerospike Rocket Nozzle via Aerodynamic Flow Manipulation

2:15pm – Jessica Morse 
An In-Depth Analysis of Feminist Mobilization and Reproductive and Sexual Health Interventions in Bihar, India

2:30pm – Macy Wilbur 
Talking Talk: A Podcast about Rhetorical Complexity in Politics

2:45pm – Luisa Mesa Uruena 
Improved Design and Manufacture of Filtering Media for Water Treatment Systems

3:00pm – Amos Mwaura 
Mapping Diabetes in Boston

3:15pm – Emily Lyons 
Storyboards to Graphic Novel: Addressing the Challenges to Transmedial Adaptation

3:30pm – Jessica Man
Development of a Dynamic Cushioning System with Continuous Piezoresistive Sensor Feedback for Pressure Injury Prevention and Treatment

3:45pm – Ben Braun 
L.I.I.S: Lift and Installer for Incubator Subassemblies

4:00pm – Nicole Kwon
deeper: A mental Health Mobile Application

4:15pm – Shanshan (Susan) Cao 
The Aesthetic Experience of Mathematical Understanding

4:30pm – Alex Floru
Analyzing legislation efficacy on mental health resource access

4:45pm – Jerica Xu 
Date-Night Meal Kit Business Plan

5:00pm – Izzie Collier
Honesty is the Best Policy: Devising a Framework for Assessing the Environmental Transparency of Mass-Produced Fashion Brands

5:15pm – Kelsey Brown 
Boundary Work in Boston Party Subcultures

5:30pm – Lexia Cicone
Spectroscopic Analysis of the Phycocyanin 645 Light-Harvesting System in Algae 

5:45pm – Waleed Khan 
Electric Skis