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The 11th Annual Kilachand Keystone Symposium will take place on Saturday, April 27, 2024<\/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 2024 Program<\/a><\/h5>\n

Symposium Schedule Overview<\/h4>\n

9:00 am<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Opening Remarks in Room 545<\/span>
\n9:15 am<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Poster Introductions begin in Rooms 613A & 613B<\/span>
\n9:40 am<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Poster Presentation & Discussions begin in the 6th floor lobby<\/span>
\n10:00 am<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Oral Presentations begin in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B<\/span>
\n12:00 pm<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Lunch Break<\/span>
\n1:00 pm<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Oral Presentations continue in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B<\/span>
\n3:00 pm<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Break<\/span>
\n3:30 pm<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Oral Presentations continue in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B<\/span>
\n5:00 pm<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Presentations Complete<\/span><\/p>\n

Room 545 Schedule<\/h5>
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9:00 am \u2013 Opening Remarks by Professor Godley (Associate Director)<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00 am – Sydney Ballard
<\/strong>Facilitated Communication as an Intervention for Non-Speaking Autism Spectrum Disorder<\/em>
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10:15 am – Brianna Spiegel
<\/strong>Thyroid Therapy: A Systematic Investigation of the Best Treatment for Hyperthyroidism<\/em>
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10:30 am – Virginia Popov
<\/strong>A History of Breast Milk Donation and the Socio-Cultural Factors that Impact the Modern Milk Donor Experience<\/em>
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10:45 am – Samuel Thomas
<\/strong>Way Out: A Queer Horror Podcast<\/em>
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11:00 am – Laurel Murphy
<\/strong>Foot Voting in a Post-Dobbs World: How Young Americans are Fighting Beyond the Ballot Box to Maintain Reproductive Autonomy<\/em>
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11:15 am – Taylor Coester
<\/strong>Amana: A Community of Inspiration, Steadfast through Generations<\/em>
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11:30 am – Julia Kapusta
<\/strong>Beyond Borders: Navigating Migrant Criminalization in the US Immigration System<\/em>
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11:45 am – Ilana Keusch
<\/strong>Symbiosis: Republican Presidents and the Federalist Society<\/em><\/p>\n

12:00-1:00 pm \u2013 Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:00 pm – Leightta Sherrill
<\/strong>Beyond the Classroom: Exploring Student Perspectives on Sex Education<\/em>
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1:15 pm – Adam Shamsi
<\/strong>Unshackling Justice: Exploring the Transformative Impact of Bail Reform in the Carceral State<\/em>
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1:30 pm – Timothy Liu
<\/strong>The Effects of Anti-Prion Drugs on the Degradation of Neurotoxic PrPSc Protein<\/em>
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1:45 pm – Sofiya Filippova
<\/strong>Bicycle Mounted Air Pollution Monitors <\/em>
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2:00 pm – Alex DeRosa
<\/strong>Decoding Dialect: \u014csaka-ben and The Art of Translation<\/em>
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2:15 pm – Elliott Carlisle
<\/strong>An Investigation into the Importance of Familial Autoimmune Disease in Children with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms<\/em>
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2:30 pm – Yasmin Lountchenko
<\/strong>Labor Rights in Digital Platforms: A cost-benefit analysis of labor reform in the European Union<\/em>
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2:45 pm – Ethan Dillon
<\/strong>Mechanical Dry-Erase Pencil<\/em><\/p>\n

3:00-3:30 pm \u2013 Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:30 pm – Precious Amiewalan
<\/strong>Examining the Status of Race Corrections in Clinical Algorithms in Medical Decision-Making<\/em>
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3:45 pm – Viktoria Popovska
<\/strong>Where We Went: Migration and the Macedonians<\/em>
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4:00 pm – Sydney Jessup
<\/strong>The \u201cRemarkably Important\u201d Extinction of Silphium: Antiquity, Botany, and Conservation<\/em>
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4:15 pm – Olga Victoria Benacerraf Rodriguez
<\/strong>A Digital Balancing Act: Navigating Freedom of Speech and Censorship in Social Media<\/em>
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4:30 pm – Man Viet Nguyen
<\/strong>Our language, our right to food: Translate & culturally adapt the national household food security survey into Vietnamese for Vietnamese people in the US<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Room 613A Schedule<\/h5>
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9:15 am \u2013 Poster Introductions:
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Morgan Fleming <\/strong>
The \u201cParamount Duty\u201d of the State: An Analysis of Washington State Education Budget Reform<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Bakhnov <\/strong>
The Root of the Problem: Evaluating Demographic Patterns and Causes of Dental Anxiety<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Mutka <\/strong>
Visualizing Connections Between Watershed Health and Neighborhood Wealth<\/em><\/p>\n

Matthew Freitas<\/strong>
Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Risk Perception and Vaccine Booster Confidence in Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Grace Oluwatosin Adebogun <\/strong>
The News Media Blackbox: Media\u2019s Relationship with Police Brutality Protests in America<\/em><\/p>\n

9:40 am \u2013 Poster Presentations & Discussions in the Lobby
\n<\/strong>This portion of our presentations will not be live-streamed<\/p>\n

10:00 am – Jansi Patel <\/strong>
Endometriosis: Identifying Associated Psychological Symptoms and Assessing Treatment Options<\/em><\/p>\n

10:15 am – Tori Keefauver <\/strong>
Using prairie voles to model the effects of social deprivation on microglia<\/em><\/p>\n

10:30 am – Madelyn Keller <\/strong>
Identifying the \u2018Druggability\u2019 Potential of Human Transmembrane Proteins<\/em><\/p>\n

10:45 am – Uni Valdivieso Wooldridge <\/strong>
La Cocina Latina: An oral history of Latinx migration and diaspora recipes<\/em><\/p>\n

11:00 am – Madeline Riddick-Seals <\/strong>
The Blackberry Quilt | Stories of Friendship Street: A Cultural Preservation Project <\/em><\/p>\n

11:15 am – Dante Gonzalez <\/strong>
The Language of Intimacy: Desexualized Language in Consent-Based Performance<\/em><\/p>\n

11:30 am – Edward Sturm <\/strong>
Staging Catastrophe: Theatre Historiography and the Hartford Circus Fire<\/em><\/p>\n

11:45 am – Katherine Cardinale <\/strong>
Voting Patterns Among Boston University Students<\/em><\/p>\n

12:00-1:00 pm \u2013 Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:00 pm – Tia Samaha
<\/strong>Gen Z\u2019s identity crisis amidst social media’s commodification of women’s identities.<\/em><\/p>\n

1:15 pm – Katie Shepardson
<\/strong>Curiosity, Learning, and Familiar Characters<\/em><\/p>\n

1:30 pm – Mark Ruta
<\/strong>Translation of a Novel Microstructured Tissue Fastener into a Coronary Stent<\/em><\/p>\n

1:45 pm – Cosette Potter
<\/strong>Premigration Education Level as a Determinant of Socioeconomic Mobility of Immigrants to Texas<\/em><\/p>\n

2:00 pm – Amit Bhatia
<\/strong>Understanding the Power of Soft Skills<\/em><\/p>\n

2:15 pm – Kennedy Harwood
<\/strong>What We Write: How Artists Use Handwriting in Process<\/em><\/p>\n

2:30 pm – Emily Schwartz
<\/strong>Who Sees Whom? Visibility across socio-economic classes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

2:45 pm – Hanna Dworkin
<\/strong>The Philosophy of Grief<\/em><\/p>\n

3:00-3:30 pm \u2013 Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:30 pm – Tyler Critz
<\/strong>Protect the Plants! Evaluating the Environmental Regulation of the Defensive Response Mechanisms in Arabidopsis thaliana for Further Agricultural Applications<\/em>
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3:45 pm – Reshma Subramonian
<\/strong>The Path to Moksha: Examining Attitudes Towards Mental Health In Upper Middle Class Families in Chennai, India<\/em>
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4:00 pm – Danielle Everett
<\/strong>Defining a Barrier in Neuroscience: Spatial Navigation<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

4:15 pm – Anulika Nnadi
<\/strong>Evaluating Media Coverage of Underrepresented Groups in Boston: A Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Approach<\/em><\/p>\n

4:30 pm – Gianna Gioscia <\/strong>
Creating a Space for Secondary Students to See Themselves in Physics: A Gendered Intervention <\/em><\/p>\n

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Room 613B Schedule<\/h5>
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9:15 am \u2013 Poster Introductions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicolas McMahon
<\/strong>Galactic Wings: A Case Study on the X-Shaped Radio Source in Abell 1145<\/em><\/p>\n

Clara Garza
<\/strong>Prenatal Detection of Congenital Heart Disease in Rural Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n

Madison Miranda
<\/strong>Prospera: Empowering Puerto Rico’s Small Businesses<\/em><\/p>\n

Isabella Roman
<\/strong>Towards Inclusive Autism Care: Overcoming Barriers for Underserved Populations<\/em><\/p>\n

Melissa Taylor <\/strong>
Exploring Cross-Cultural Collaboration and International Educational Children’s Television Through Sesame Street’s Co-Productions<\/em><\/p>\n

9:40 am \u2013 Poster Presentations & Discussions in the Lobby
\n<\/strong>This portion of our presentations will not be live-streamed<\/p>\n

10:00 am – Gabrielle Gewirtz
<\/strong>Analyzing the Partitions of 1947 and 1971 Through a Gendered Lens<\/em><\/p>\n

10:15 am – Miku Makino
<\/strong>The Glass Wall: Quantifying Challenges in Balancing New Motherhood and Employment in Japan<\/em><\/p>\n

10:30 am – Alex Shores
<\/strong>Heartbeat by Heartbeat: A Short Film on The Financial, Social, and Emotional Challenges of Pediatric Heart Conditions<\/em><\/p>\n

10:45 am – Ligia Mardari
<\/strong>The Power of Sound: Creating Meaning at the Intersection of Film, Psychology, and Music<\/em><\/p>\n

11:00 am – Nourhan El Sherif <\/strong>
Sex-Dependent Differences in Tensional Homeostasis<\/em><\/p>\n

11:15 am – Phillip Tran
<\/strong>Marine Databaser: An Open-Source Desktop Application for Managing and Analyzing Field Data<\/em><\/p>\n

11:30 am – Jacob Rose
<\/strong>Crisis in the Cubicle: Mental Health Resources in Corporate America<\/em><\/p>\n

11:45 am – Pashma Sadiq <\/strong>
Resilience and Regulation: A Data-Driven Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on New York City’s Restaurant Industry<\/em><\/p>\n

12:00-1:00 pm \u2013 Lunch Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:00 pm – Alexa Quintero
<\/strong>Tubie TO-GO: Improving Enteral Feeding Pumps for Modern User<\/em>
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1:15 pm – Sophie Bush
<\/strong>A Holistic Assessment of Food Insecurity in Native American Communities<\/em>
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1:30 pm – Anderson Warshaw
<\/strong>Symphonies in Swing: Composing Jazz Inspired By Classical Music<\/em>
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1:45 pm – Nicholas Speranza
<\/strong>Leasing the \u201cOldest Civilization\u201d: The Transformation of German Colonial Policy in China, 1898-1914<\/em>
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2:00 pm – Nashr El <\/strong>Auliya <\/strong>
Morphing Sail<\/em>
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2:15 pm – Rithvik Doshi
<\/strong>SafeSteps: Empowering Campus Commuters through Community Reporting<\/em>
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2:30 pm – Faisal Ahmed
<\/strong>Understanding Sector Differences in International Trade<\/em><\/p>\n

2:45 pm – Samuel Wu
<\/strong>Tales of the College Journey: 101 Stories from BU Students<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

3:00-3:30 pm \u2013 Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:30 pm – Sophia Huynh
<\/strong>The WIMP Miracle & Dark Matter Model<\/em><\/p>\n

3:45 pm – Diana Reno
<\/strong>Employment Practices in Kenya\u2019s Refugee-Serving Organizations<\/em><\/p>\n

4:00 pm – Emily Yoder
<\/strong>Natural Loss: Henry David Thoreau\u2019s Poetic Reception of Virgilian Pastoral<\/em><\/p>\n

4:15 pm – Jesse Wang
<\/strong>People, Food & Culture: The Connection through Photography<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

4:30 pm – Alexandria Barnes
<\/strong>Analyzing E-Cigarette Prevention Curriculums in Boston Area Middle and High Schools<\/em><\/p>\n

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