{"id":18197,"date":"2023-04-10T13:38:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/?page_id=18197"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:12:21","slug":"keystone-symposium-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/khc\/news-events\/keystone-symposium-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Keystone Symposium 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Constellation of Research<\/h3>\n

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The 10th Annual Kilachand Keystone Symposium will take place on Saturday, April 29th<\/strong> from 9 am – 5 pm<\/strong> at 100 Bay State Road, 5th & 6th floors<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n

Keystone Symposium 2023 Program<\/a><\/h5>\n

Symposium Schedule Overview<\/h4>\n

9:00 am<\/strong> – Opening Remarks in Room 545
9:15 am<\/strong> – Poster Introductions begin in Rooms 545 & 613A
9:40 am<\/strong> – Poster Presentation & Discussions begin in the lobbies of the 5th & 6th floors
10:15 am<\/strong> – Oral Presentations begin in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B
12:00 pm<\/strong> – Lunch Break
1:00 pm<\/strong> – Oral Presentations continue in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B
2:45 pm<\/strong> – Break
3:15 pm<\/strong> – Oral Presentations continue in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B
5:00 pm<\/strong> – Presentations Complete<\/p>\n

Room 545 Schedule<\/h5>
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9:00 am – Opening Remarks by Professor Carrie Preston<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:15 am – Poster Introductions:
<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nika Kozlov
<\/span><\/strong>Inhibitory neuron subpopulations in Area 25 in Stage II of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy<\/em><\/p>\n

Ria Chawla
<\/strong>The Startup Toolkit: Building a Sustainable Competitive Advantage in the Fashion Industry <\/em><\/p>\n

Max Kroll
<\/strong>Investigating the Role of Neutrophil Elastase in Liver Fibrosis<\/em><\/p>\n

Alyssa Goins
<\/strong>Visualizing Anomaly Classification: Imaging Analysis for LANDSAT Data Archives<\/em><\/p>\n

Juliana Helfer
<\/strong>COVID-19 and Obesity in Low-Income Communities Through a Social Determinants of Health Lens<\/em><\/p>\n

Nicole Chiulli
<\/strong>Production of central tendency effects in interval timing tasks via reinforcement learning <\/em><\/p>\n

Olivia Lewallen
<\/strong>Cytospinning Apparatus for Cancer Diagnostics<\/em><\/p>\n

Sofia Marcelli
<\/strong>The Subjectivity of Emotions<\/em><\/p>\n

9:40 am – Poster Presentations & Discussions in the Lobby
<\/strong>This portion of our presentations will not be live-streamed<\/p>\n

10:15 am – Rutva Bhatt
<\/strong>No Walk in The Park: Associations between Psychopathy and Physiology during Social Stress<\/em>
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10:30 am – Kadie Cathcart
<\/strong>Pressure to Post?: How Political Science Majors Conceptualize Their Political Obligation on Social Media<\/em>
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10:45 am – Jamieson Greene<\/strong>
The Ethics of Synthetic Meat Production: A Utilitarian Analysis<\/em>
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11:00 am – Emma Hartman & Yuke Li
<\/strong>Software for Closed Loop Neurofeedback<\/em>
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11:30 am – Cora Funke
<\/strong>Mapping Mutual Aid Resources in Boston<\/em>
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11:45 am – Tatiana Jose-Santos
<\/strong>Todo en Buena Comida (All in Good Food). Taking the First Steps in Providing Culturally Sensitive Health and Wellness Content.<\/em><\/p>\n

12:00-1:00 pm – Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:00 pm – Piper LePree
<\/strong>Understanding Imposter Syndrome: The Associations Between Imposter Phenomenon, Overgeneral Autobiographical Memory, Shame, and Depression<\/em><\/p>\n

1:15 pm – Grace Newsom
<\/strong>Understanding the Interaction of Symbiosis and Growth in the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata<\/em>
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1:30 pm – Jenna Riedl
<\/strong>The Edges of Freedom: Understanding Young Adult Conservative Beliefs about Queer Legislation<\/em>
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1:45 pm – Rebecca Sarkisian
<\/strong>Examining the Market Reaction to Mandated Climate-Related Disclosures<\/em>
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2:00 pm – Kristin Shanabrook
<\/strong>Health At Every Size Model for Clinical Practice<\/em>
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2:15 pm – Sara Strassel
<\/strong>Designing Impactful Aid Programs for Smallholder Coffee Farmers<\/em>
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2:30 pm – Max Brown
<\/strong>Investigating the Target Protein – DNA2 – in the Cytosolic Iron Sulfur Cluster Assembly (CIA) Pathway<\/em><\/p>\n

2:45-3:15 pm – Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:15 pm – Jana Ahmed
<\/strong>Autonomous Sorting, Inspecting, Orienting, & Stacking Assembly for Industrial Manufacturing at Senior Metal Bellows: \u201cThe Diaphragmatic 9000\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

3:30 pm – Lydia Bischoff
<\/strong>Studying Muscle Development in Tadpoles Expressing Mutations for a Rare Neurodevelopmental Disorder<\/em>
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3:45 pm – Cathy Cheng
<\/strong>AWCUA (Autonomous Water Condition Understanding Apparatus)<\/em>
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4:00 pm – Lauren Byerly
<\/strong>Sexism and the Treatment of Women in the Online Chess Community<\/em>
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4:15 pm – John Bolognino
<\/strong>Surveying Machine Learning Techniques for Brain-to-text Handwriting Communication<\/em>
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4:30 pm – Yash Patel
<\/strong>The State of North American Carbon Markets<\/em>
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4:45 pm – Stanley To
<\/strong>Leveraging Paired Motion Capture Data to Predict Human Movement<\/em><\/p>\n

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Room 613A Schedule<\/h5>
<\/p>\n

9:15 am – Poster Introductions: <\/strong>
<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isabel Mullens
<\/strong>An exploration of the Swiss school system and factors affecting transfer rates to Gymnasium: Evidence from Canton Z\u00fcrich<\/em>
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Maecey Niksch
<\/strong>The Bel\u00e9m do Par\u00e1 Convention: U.S. Absence from the Inter-American Treaty Addressing Violence Against Women<\/em>
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Michelle Roos
<\/strong>Studies Toward the Synthesis of Remisporines A and B<\/em>
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Daryna Shnitser
<\/strong>-MSH: A New Treatment for Ocular Inflammation?<\/em>
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Vikram Srinath
<\/strong>Lessons Learned from the VA Healthcare System: Implications for Healthcare Reform in the United States<\/em>
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Emily Vu
<\/strong>A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Frontline Medical Doctors in the United States during the Covid-19 Pandemic<\/em>
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William Owens
<\/strong>Kilachand\u2019s Perspective: Qualitatively Assessing Factors Influencing KHC\u2019s Retention Rate<\/em>
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Sophie Li
<\/strong>College Students\u2019 Views on Celebrity Endorsements & Corporate Social Advocacy<\/em><\/p>\n

9:40 am – Poster Presentations & Discussions in the Lobby
<\/strong>This portion of our presentations will not be live-streamed<\/p>\n

10:15 am – Aiden Cliff
<\/strong>Aloha Optimal Tourism: Economic Tradeoffs of the Travel and Tourism Industry in Hawaii<\/em>
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10:30 am – Charlie McMahon
<\/strong>Measuring COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness<\/em>
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10:45 am – Perry Katsarakes
<\/strong>Boosting the Chemotherapeutic Effect of Cancer Drugs using Focused Ultrasound (FUS)<\/em>
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11:00 am – Amanda Satterfield
<\/strong>Selective Ensembles: Product or People<\/em>
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11:15 am – Artemis Margaronis
<\/strong>High-throughput In Vitro Assessment of Paracrine Factors in Cardiac Fibrosis<\/em>
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11:30 am – Lara Gardiner
<\/strong>What Fruit Flies Reveal to Us About the Relationship Between Serotonin and Circadian Rhythms<\/em>
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11:45 am – Gabby Glass
<\/strong>Highlighting Indigenous Strength Among Assumptions of Disparity: The Success of COVID-19 Vaccination in Navajo Nation<\/em><\/p>\n

12:00-1:00pm – Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:00 pm – Leah Dobres
<\/strong>Fandom and Fashion: Ethnographic Analysis of College Football Fan Culture<\/em>
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1:15 pm – Ellie Olsen
<\/strong>Improving Post-Assault Treatment for Gender Diverse Survivors<\/em>
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1:30 pm – Eleanor Horvath
<\/strong>The Arctic on Fire: Mapping Change in High-Latitude North America<\/em>
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1:45 pm – Marie Kimball
<\/strong>A New Theory: Rape Myth Acceptance in Everyday Language & Unacknowledged Rape<\/em>
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2:00 pm – Jared Klinkowize
<\/strong>PED Use for Professional Athletes: Is it Actually Profitable?<\/em>
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2:15 pm – Ryan Smith
<\/strong>Augmented Reality Climbing Wall<\/em>
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2:30 pm – Brianna Costilow
<\/strong>Judging a Book by its Ink: A Historical Perspective on the Perception of Tattoos within the United States<\/em><\/p>\n

2:45-3:15 pm – Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:15 pm – Scott Wade
<\/strong>Saving Energy in Vertical Farms with Autonomous Harvesting<\/em>
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3:30 pm – Baiden Wright
<\/strong>Immersive Learning at the Border: Development and Assessment of the Border Studies Program with BU\u2019s Center on Forced Displacement<\/em>
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3:45 pm – Ruby Price
<\/strong>Quantifying Bias Across Digital Media Platforms<\/em>
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4:00 pm – Giacomo Coraluppi, William Krska, Nicholas Marchuk, & <\/strong>Alexander Zhou
<\/strong>Increasing speed of electric racecar by independently controlling rear wheels<\/em>
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4:30 pm – Nicholas Mangold
<\/strong>Rocket Engine Fuel Pump<\/em>
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4:45 pm – Carter Fahey
<\/strong>Per Oculi Antiquitatum: Reframing Modern Politics Through Ancient Art<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Room 613B Schedule<\/h5>
<\/p>\n

10:15 am – Spencer Morgan
<\/strong>Gathering Space: A Model for the Museum of the Future<\/em>
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10:30 am – Jenny Motzer
<\/strong>Control Networks of Temporal Attention in Visual Processing<\/em>
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10:45 am – Gillian Minarik
<\/strong>Spin-Correlated Resonance Raman Enhancement in a 2D Antiferromagnet<\/em>
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11:00 am – Rhea Bandaru
<\/strong>The Ideal Woman Leader: Behaviors & Perceptions of Women in Corporate Leadership<\/em>
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11:15 am – Janki Bhatt
<\/strong>Grief Lost and Found: Diversifying Sources on the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War<\/em>
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11:30 am – Anika Brahmbhatt
<\/strong>Shirley Jackson\u2019s Hangsaman and Fractured Female Identity in the Gothic<\/em>
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11:45 am – Malvika Khandelwal
<\/strong>The Role of Gender Identity on Individual\u2019s Definition of Science and Identification with Science <\/em><\/p>\n

12:00-1:00pm – Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:00 pm – Emma Kraus
<\/strong>Exposing the Care Gap: How Socioeconomic Status interacts with Pediatric Mental Health Care<\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:15 pm – Bridgette Lang
<\/strong>Countering the Far-Right and Promoting Integration in Germany Through Public Messaging During the Syrian and Ukrainian Refugee Crises<\/em>
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1:30 pm – Matthew Leal
<\/strong>Filtering Speckleplethysmographic (SPG) waveforms to determine brain activation-induced blood flow<\/em>
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1:45 pm – Erica MacDonald
<\/strong>No Oblivion: Our Lost Years?<\/em>
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2:00 pm – Izabella Rogers
<\/strong>CAMP: Challenges for Autistic Middle-Schoolers Post-Pandemic<\/em>
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2:15 pm – Jacqueline Bachrach
<\/strong>Updraft Tower Power Generation In Existing Industrial Structures<\/em>
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2:30 pm – Kaitlyn Piotrowski
<\/strong>College & COVID-19: Perceived Changes in Cognitive Function and Mental Health<\/em><\/p>\n

2:45-3:15 pm – Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:15 pm – Jared Pratt
<\/strong>Terrier Motorsport Aerodynamic Package Manufacturing Strategy<\/em>
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3:30 pm – Akshata Shukla
<\/strong>Looking Back: The Link Between the Partition of 1947 and the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019<\/em>
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3:45 pm – Nadira Sivabalan
<\/strong>Framing Transition Care for Obesity Management Through Holistic Approaches<\/em>
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4:00 pm – Madison Sofield
<\/strong>The Madison Method: Creating Accessibility & Customizability in Dance<\/em>
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4:15 pm – Sydney Steger
<\/strong>A Tale of Two Lobbies: Interest Group Influence & the US-Vietnam Rapprochement Process<\/em>
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4:30 pm – Martin Perez
<\/strong>\u201cThere\u2019s No Business Like Show Business\u201d: Analyzing Accessibility & Artistic Quality on Broadway<\/em>
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4:45 pm – Anna Rafferty
<\/strong>In the Belly of the Whale:\u00a0Applications of Critical Race Theory and Decolonization Theory to Moby-Dick Performances<\/em><\/p>\n

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