Keystone Symposium 2023
A Constellation of Research
The 10th Annual Kilachand Keystone Symposium will take place on Saturday, April 29th from 9 am – 5 pm at 100 Bay State Road, 5th & 6th floors. We will also live-stream the presentations so that family and friends can join us from afar. The schedule of presentations and the live-stream links can be found below.
Keystone Symposium 2023 Program
Symposium Schedule Overview
9:00 am – Opening Remarks in Room 545
9:15 am – Poster Introductions begin in Rooms 545 & 613A
9:40 am – Poster Presentation & Discussions begin in the lobbies of the 5th & 6th floors
10:15 am – Oral Presentations begin in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B
12:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Oral Presentations continue in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B
2:45 pm – Break
3:15 pm – Oral Presentations continue in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B
5:00 pm – Presentations Complete
Room 545 Schedule
Live-Stream Link for Room 545
9:00 am – Opening Remarks by Professor Carrie Preston
9:15 am – Poster Introductions:
Nika Kozlov
Inhibitory neuron subpopulations in Area 25 in Stage II of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Ria Chawla
The Startup Toolkit: Building a Sustainable Competitive Advantage in the Fashion Industry
Max Kroll
Investigating the Role of Neutrophil Elastase in Liver Fibrosis
Alyssa Goins
Visualizing Anomaly Classification: Imaging Analysis for LANDSAT Data Archives
Juliana Helfer
COVID-19 and Obesity in Low-Income Communities Through a Social Determinants of Health Lens
Nicole Chiulli
Production of central tendency effects in interval timing tasks via reinforcement learning
Olivia Lewallen
Cytospinning Apparatus for Cancer Diagnostics
Sofia Marcelli
The Subjectivity of Emotions
9:40 am – Poster Presentations & Discussions in the Lobby
This portion of our presentations will not be live-streamed
10:15 am – Rutva Bhatt
No Walk in The Park: Associations between Psychopathy and Physiology during Social Stress
10:30 am – Kadie Cathcart
Pressure to Post?: How Political Science Majors Conceptualize Their Political Obligation on Social Media
10:45 am – Jamieson Greene
The Ethics of Synthetic Meat Production: A Utilitarian Analysis
11:00 am – Emma Hartman & Yuke Li
Software for Closed Loop Neurofeedback
11:30 am – Cora Funke
Mapping Mutual Aid Resources in Boston
11:45 am – Tatiana Jose-Santos
Todo en Buena Comida (All in Good Food). Taking the First Steps in Providing Culturally Sensitive Health and Wellness Content.
12:00-1:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Piper LePree
Understanding Imposter Syndrome: The Associations Between Imposter Phenomenon, Overgeneral Autobiographical Memory, Shame, and Depression
1:15 pm – Grace Newsom
Understanding the Interaction of Symbiosis and Growth in the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata
1:30 pm – Jenna Riedl
The Edges of Freedom: Understanding Young Adult Conservative Beliefs about Queer Legislation
1:45 pm – Rebecca Sarkisian
Examining the Market Reaction to Mandated Climate-Related Disclosures
2:00 pm – Kristin Shanabrook
Health At Every Size Model for Clinical Practice
2:15 pm – Sara Strassel
Designing Impactful Aid Programs for Smallholder Coffee Farmers
2:30 pm – Max Brown
Investigating the Target Protein – DNA2 – in the Cytosolic Iron Sulfur Cluster Assembly (CIA) Pathway
2:45-3:15 pm – Break
3:15 pm – Jana Ahmed
Autonomous Sorting, Inspecting, Orienting, & Stacking Assembly for Industrial Manufacturing at Senior Metal Bellows: “The Diaphragmatic 9000”
3:30 pm – Lydia Bischoff
Studying Muscle Development in Tadpoles Expressing Mutations for a Rare Neurodevelopmental Disorder
3:45 pm – Cathy Cheng
AWCUA (Autonomous Water Condition Understanding Apparatus)
4:00 pm – Lauren Byerly
Sexism and the Treatment of Women in the Online Chess Community
4:15 pm – John Bolognino
Surveying Machine Learning Techniques for Brain-to-text Handwriting Communication
4:30 pm – Yash Patel
The State of North American Carbon Markets
4:45 pm – Stanley To
Leveraging Paired Motion Capture Data to Predict Human Movement
Room 613A Schedule
Live-Stream Link for Room 613A
9:15 am – Poster Introductions:
Isabel Mullens
An exploration of the Swiss school system and factors affecting transfer rates to Gymnasium: Evidence from Canton Zürich
Maecey Niksch
The Belém do Pará Convention: U.S. Absence from the Inter-American Treaty Addressing Violence Against Women
Michelle Roos
Studies Toward the Synthesis of Remisporines A and B
Daryna Shnitser
-MSH: A New Treatment for Ocular Inflammation?
Vikram Srinath
Lessons Learned from the VA Healthcare System: Implications for Healthcare Reform in the United States
Emily Vu
A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Frontline Medical Doctors in the United States during the Covid-19 Pandemic
William Owens
Kilachand’s Perspective: Qualitatively Assessing Factors Influencing KHC’s Retention Rate
Sophie Li
College Students’ Views on Celebrity Endorsements & Corporate Social Advocacy
9:40 am – Poster Presentations & Discussions in the Lobby
This portion of our presentations will not be live-streamed
10:15 am – Aiden Cliff
Aloha Optimal Tourism: Economic Tradeoffs of the Travel and Tourism Industry in Hawaii
10:30 am – Charlie McMahon
Measuring COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness
10:45 am – Perry Katsarakes
Boosting the Chemotherapeutic Effect of Cancer Drugs using Focused Ultrasound (FUS)
11:00 am – Amanda Satterfield
Selective Ensembles: Product or People
11:15 am – Artemis Margaronis
High-throughput In Vitro Assessment of Paracrine Factors in Cardiac Fibrosis
11:30 am – Lara Gardiner
What Fruit Flies Reveal to Us About the Relationship Between Serotonin and Circadian Rhythms
11:45 am – Gabby Glass
Highlighting Indigenous Strength Among Assumptions of Disparity: The Success of COVID-19 Vaccination in Navajo Nation
12:00-1:00pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Leah Dobres
Fandom and Fashion: Ethnographic Analysis of College Football Fan Culture
1:15 pm – Ellie Olsen
Improving Post-Assault Treatment for Gender Diverse Survivors
1:30 pm – Eleanor Horvath
The Arctic on Fire: Mapping Change in High-Latitude North America
1:45 pm – Marie Kimball
A New Theory: Rape Myth Acceptance in Everyday Language & Unacknowledged Rape
2:00 pm – Jared Klinkowize
PED Use for Professional Athletes: Is it Actually Profitable?
2:15 pm – Ryan Smith
Augmented Reality Climbing Wall
2:30 pm – Brianna Costilow
Judging a Book by its Ink: A Historical Perspective on the Perception of Tattoos within the United States
2:45-3:15 pm – Break
3:15 pm – Scott Wade
Saving Energy in Vertical Farms with Autonomous Harvesting
3:30 pm – Baiden Wright
Immersive Learning at the Border: Development and Assessment of the Border Studies Program with BU’s Center on Forced Displacement
3:45 pm – Ruby Price
Quantifying Bias Across Digital Media Platforms
4:00 pm – Giacomo Coraluppi, William Krska, Nicholas Marchuk, & Alexander Zhou
Increasing speed of electric racecar by independently controlling rear wheels
4:30 pm – Nicholas Mangold
Rocket Engine Fuel Pump
4:45 pm – Carter Fahey
Per Oculi Antiquitatum: Reframing Modern Politics Through Ancient Art
Room 613B Schedule
Live-Stream Link for Room 613B
10:15 am – Spencer Morgan
Gathering Space: A Model for the Museum of the Future
10:30 am – Jenny Motzer
Control Networks of Temporal Attention in Visual Processing
10:45 am – Gillian Minarik
Spin-Correlated Resonance Raman Enhancement in a 2D Antiferromagnet
11:00 am – Rhea Bandaru
The Ideal Woman Leader: Behaviors & Perceptions of Women in Corporate Leadership
11:15 am – Janki Bhatt
Grief Lost and Found: Diversifying Sources on the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
11:30 am – Anika Brahmbhatt
Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman and Fractured Female Identity in the Gothic
11:45 am – Malvika Khandelwal
The Role of Gender Identity on Individual’s Definition of Science and Identification with Science
12:00-1:00pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Emma Kraus
Exposing the Care Gap: How Socioeconomic Status interacts with Pediatric Mental Health Care
1:15 pm – Bridgette Lang
Countering the Far-Right and Promoting Integration in Germany Through Public Messaging During the Syrian and Ukrainian Refugee Crises
1:30 pm – Matthew Leal
Filtering Speckleplethysmographic (SPG) waveforms to determine brain activation-induced blood flow
1:45 pm – Erica MacDonald
No Oblivion: Our Lost Years?
2:00 pm – Izabella Rogers
CAMP: Challenges for Autistic Middle-Schoolers Post-Pandemic
2:15 pm – Jacqueline Bachrach
Updraft Tower Power Generation In Existing Industrial Structures
2:30 pm – Kaitlyn Piotrowski
College & COVID-19: Perceived Changes in Cognitive Function and Mental Health
2:45-3:15 pm – Break
3:15 pm – Jared Pratt
Terrier Motorsport Aerodynamic Package Manufacturing Strategy
3:30 pm – Akshata Shukla
Looking Back: The Link Between the Partition of 1947 and the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019
3:45 pm – Nadira Sivabalan
Framing Transition Care for Obesity Management Through Holistic Approaches
4:00 pm – Madison Sofield
The Madison Method: Creating Accessibility & Customizability in Dance
4:15 pm – Sydney Steger
A Tale of Two Lobbies: Interest Group Influence & the US-Vietnam Rapprochement Process
4:30 pm – Martin Perez
“There’s No Business Like Show Business”: Analyzing Accessibility & Artistic Quality on Broadway
4:45 pm – Anna Rafferty
In the Belly of the Whale: Applications of Critical Race Theory and Decolonization Theory to Moby-Dick Performances