GREAT Day Posters 2020

089— The Underrepresentation of African Americans in Government and Its Effects on Democracy

Anna Di Fede, SUNY Geneseo

097— Communication Barriers Beyond the Spoken Language: Senegalese Nonverbal Codes

Sophia Piazza, SUNY Geneseo

098— The Misrepresentation of Native American Women In The Media and Their Social Activism Against Violence and Mistreatment

Emma Meeks, SUNY Geneseo
Allison Pajda, SUNY Geneseo
Bridget Marshall, SUNY Geneseo

100— Women in Labor Unions

Shannon Norton, SUNY Geneseo
George Macko, SUNY Geneseo
Jonell Maldonado, SUNY Geneseo
Christian French, SUNY Geneseo

104— Gender Differences in Bystander Responses to Male Violence Against a Transwoman

Julia Deacon, SUNY Geneseo
Madeline Reichler, SUNY Geneseo
Katrina Saylor, SUNY Geneseo
Phoebe Maxwell, SUNY Geneseo

107— Investigating the Promise of Lignocellulosic Biofuels: Rice Husks as Non-Human Feedstocks

Sofia Kostrinsky, SUNY Geneseo
Arianna Soriano, SUNY Geneseo
Claire Martin, SUNY Geneseo
Dineen Volger, SUNY Geneseo
Barnabas Gikonyo, SUNY Geneseo

113— No More Guns in School

Taylor Bellis-Escudero, SUNY Geneseo

117— The Effects of Comorbid Alcohol and Cocaine Use on a Cognitive Maze Task

Shreyya Malik

118— Environmental Enrichment as a Treatment for Cocaine Relapse

Shreyya Malik, SUNY Geneseo

119— The Role of Post-Encoding Retrieval on Cognitive and Neural Representations of Spatial Environments

Brooke Demetri, SUNY Geneseo
Kaitlyn Bertleff, SUNY Geneseo
Harris Schwab, SUNY Geneseo
Jonathan McCart, SUNY Geneseo
Jason Ozubko, SUNY Geneseo

129— Attachment and Emotion Dysregulation as Predictors of Interpersonal Problems, Friendship Satisfaction, and Romantic Relationship Maintenance

XiaoJun Chen, SUNY Geneseo
Xiara Colón, SUNY Geneseo
Chalyne Barrow, SUNY Geneseo

130— Reducing Stereotypic Behavior with a Ketogenic Diet

Anna Beltramini, SUNY Geneseo
Andrew Guido, SUNY Geneseo
Alicia Bauers, SUNY Geneseo
Joe Spano, SUNY Geneseo

135— Coral-Sponge Interactions on Rocky Point Reef, San Salvador, Bahamas

Michael Harvey, SUNY Geneseo
Anna Meichenbaum, SUNY Geneseo
Brooke Stickles, SUNY Geneseo

136— Predation on Microbivalves by Juvenile Naticid Gastropods on San Salvador Island, The Bahamas

Eliza Merges, SUNY Geneseo

137— Skulls Tell Tales: A Comparative Study of Un-Provenienced Crania

Alice Lee, SUNY Geneseo

138— Clean Energy & Transportation in China

Ella Nielsen, SUNY Geneseo
Scott Hawley, SUNY Geneseo
Linda Lin, SUNY Geneseo

139— Detrimental Effects of Fishing on Parrotfish Populations

Julia Ophals, SUNY Geneseo
Raegan Becker, SUNY Geneseo

141— The Trend of Gentrification in Urban Areas in Comparison to the Decline of Homeless Shelters that House Single-Parent Families.

Debora Javier, SUNY Geneseo

143— Mothers' and Children's Perceptions and Observed Aggression and Rough-and-Tumble Play in 7-Year-Olds' Sibling Relationships

Niki Lam, SUNY Geneseo
Elijah Lorah, SUNY Geneseo
Isabella Echeverria, SUNY Geneseo
Kiara Maher, SUNY Geneseo
Adriana Murtha, SUNY Geneseo

147— The Effect of a Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor on PD-L1, HLA-ABC, HLA-E, and HLA-G on Human Breast Cancer Cell Lines

Nikhil Reddy, SUNY Geneseo
Alec Toufexis, SUNY Geneseo

153— Muscular Reconstruction of the Forelimb of the Theropod Dinosaur Mononykus olecranus

Jada Smith, SUNY Geneseo

154— Alfalfa hay as non-human feedstock for second generation biofuels: Hope or hoax? Part II

Arianna Soriano, SUNY Geneseo
Sofia Kostrinsky, SUNY Geneseo
Barnabas Gikonyo, SUNY Geneseo

155— Analysis of her4.1 and ascl1a in gef Mutants

Rico Amato, SUNY Geneseo
Tessa Beiter, SUNY Geneseo
Christopher Lepore, SUNY Geneseo

158— Optimization and Development of the Luria-Delbrück Experiment for Geneseo Genetics Labs

Abigail Scheffler, SUNY Geneseo

159— The effects of trauma on the response to cocaine

Gavin Vaughan, SUNY Geneseo
Melissa Herman, SUNY Geneseo
Katie Kompanijec, SUNY Geneseo
Maren Hogan, SUNY Geneseo
AnnaClaire Modico, SUNY Geneseo
Keara Mullin, SUNY Geneseo
Allison R. Bechard Ph.D., SUNY Geneseo

160— Classification of unknown deep-sea snailfishes through morphological and genetic evidence

Brett Woodworth, SUNY Geneseo
Jessica Palmeri, SUNY Geneseo
Lydia Fregosi, SUNY Geneseo
Sarah Suplicz, SUNY Geneseo

161— The effects of environment on the development of cocaine-seeking

Gavin Vaughan, SUNY Geneseo
Akane Ichiki, SUNY Geneseo
Shreyya Malik, SUNY Geneseo
Allison R. Bechard, SUNY Geneseo

167— Success or Struggle of a College Student Based On Mental Health? A Review of SUNY Geneseo's Support Services

Keyanti Chavis, SUNY Geneseo

168— Multiliteracies, Multimodalities, and Social Studies Education

Laurie Tricamo, SUNY Geneseo

170— A Comparison of Native and Invasive Plant Species Microhabitats in Western NY

Emelyn Bell, SUNY Geneseo

172— The Impact of Extracurricular Leadership Activities on Adolescent Life Satisfaction

Brittany Bearss, SUNY Geneseo
Nicholas P. Palumbo, SUNY Geneseo

174— Developing Oxidation of Alcohols in Sand

John Lepore, SUNY Geneseo
Stephanie Alvarez Merlos, SUNY Geneseo
Katelynn Dux, SUNY Geneseo
Theresa Lam, SUNY Geneseo

176— Comparison of Using a Schmidt Hammer to Evaluate Strength of Rock to Conventional Methods

Joseph Savoie, SUNY Geneseo
Austin Feldman, SUNY Geneseo

178— Reducing Re-incarceration Rates in Non-Violent Drug Offenders

Bailey Weiss, SUNY Geneseo

181— Same Day Voter Registration and Increasing Voter Turnout

Alexander Short, SUNY Geneseo

183— Cannabis Sativa: Pretreatment and Fiber Content Analysis

Dina Bú, SUNY Geneseo
Arianna Soriano, SUNY Geneseo
Sofia Kostrinsky, SUNY Geneseo
Sarah Schmidlin, SUNY Geneseo
Barnabas Gikonyo, SUNY Geneseo

184— Mortality Rates of Three Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Historic Rochester

Kayla Carlin, SUNY Geneseo

185— Influences of Early Relationships in Latinx College Students

Carmen Martinez, SUNY Geneseo
Cassidy Jones-Goucher, SUNY Geneseo
Denis H. Mazariegos, SUNY Geneseo
Olivia R. Sanchez, SUNY Geneseo
Daniella Quiroz, SUNY Geneseo
Cinta Renaldi, SUNY Geneseo

190— Punk Prayer: The History of The Riot Grrrl Movement

Soleil Rivera, SUNY Geneseo
Hailey Martin, SUNY Geneseo
Quentin Wall, SUNY Geneseo

194— Plant Diversity & Allergies

Catherine Kilada, SUNY Geneseo

200— The Political Clout of Wealthy and Poor American Indian Tribes

Katie Shepard, SUNY Geneseo

201— American Influence on Japanese Birth Control

Rachel Brooks, SUNY Geneseo
Kassidy Schad, SUNY Geneseo
Katherine Collins, SUNY Geneseo
Katie de Onis, SUNY Geneseo

206— Binding of Telomeric DNA G-Quadruplexes by Abietane Diterpene Natural Products

Tarryn Franciosa, SUNY Geneseo
Sarah Ostrowski, SUNY Geneseo

215— The Fight For The Right To Live

Marlie Hess, SUNY Geneseo

216— Using Rochester’s Family Public Housing in the “Crescent of Poverty” as a Catalyst for a Solar Initiative

Christopher Miller, SUNY Geneseo

219— Insuring America's Youth: Examining the Success of Medicaid and CHIP Coverage

James McGlynn, SUNY Geneseo

224— Analysis of Foraging Bat Species on the SUNY Geneseo Campus

Stephen Loce, SUNY Geneseo

226— Analysis of Soil at a Flooding Site in Avon, NY

Katie Meerdink, SUNY Geneseo
Maddy Waldock, SUNY Geneseo

228— Biden's Bounce: The African American Vote and Biden's South Carolina Comeback

Rachel Morris, SUNY Geneseo

234— Spherical Radiation as a Model for Gravitational Waves

Nami Nishimura, SUNY Geneseo

239— The Effect of Flooding on Water-borne and Vector-borne Illnesses in Historic Rochester, NY

Isabelle Stitt, SUNY Geneseo

240— Target Characterization Using Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy

Matthew G. Klein, SUNY Geneseo
Anthony C. Cooper, SUNY Geneseo
Jovahn A. Roumell, SUNY Geneseo

250— Play History: Common Trends in Preservice Teachers’ Play Histories

Karianne Santullo, SUNY Geneseo

252— The 28th Amendment and How to Improve American Democracy

Sean Burns, SUNY Geneseo

253— The Impact of Physical and Chemical Weathering on Iron slag from Standish, NY

Maria Leonard, SUNY Geneseo

259— Housing as a Human Right: Addressing Family Homelessness in New York City

Alberta Eshenour, SUNY Geneseo

260— Patterns of Occupancy of Artificial Nest Sites by Native Bees

Allison Menendez, SUNY Geneseo

269— Age of Colon Cancer Screening - A Retrospective Review

Christopher Cook, SUNY Geneseo

270— The Importance of Undergraduate Research Publications in Geneseo and Beyond

Nicole Callahan, SUNY Geneseo
Jaime DeVita, SUNY Geneseo

279— Magnetic Susceptibility of Kettle Point Formation, Ontario, Canada

Abigale O'Connor, SUNY Geneseo

280— Exploring the Geographic Distribution of Childbed Fever Deaths in Mid-19th Century Rochester, NY

Meaghan Parks, SUNY Geneseo

284— Talkin' Bout a Revolution: American Protest and Counter-Protest Movements in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

Alea Tiberi, SUNY Geneseo

285— Modifications of Cosmic Watch Muon Detectors for Deployment at Letchworth State Park

Kevin Seitz, SUNY Geneseo

287— The Question for the Modernization Theory

Fumi Ogura, SUNY Geneseo

293— MOLY - Monitoring Oxygen Levels in nTOF Scintillators using Cosmic Ray Muons

Sean King
Matthew Signor

295— Biomimicry: Investigating the Active Site Model of Lactate Racemase

Stephanie Podguski, SUNY Geneseo
Maisy Ross, SUNY Geneseo

297— Modeling Optical Extinction Spectra of Polystyrene Beads in Water

Justin D'Souza, SUNY Geneseo

298— Rural Economic Growth and Disease Intervention in Ghana; The Edward Pettinella '73 Endowed Ambassadorship in Business

Lucas Sutton, SUNY Geneseo

306— The National Popular Vote Plan: A possible course of reform for the Electoral College

Ian Kirkpatrick, SUNY Geneseo

315— Climate Change and Human Rights

Scott Williams, SUNY Geneseo

320— Child Abuse in the Foster Care System

Isabel Fry, SUNY Geneseo

324— Synthesis of Alternative Fuels using Bimetallic Hydrogen Activation for Clean Energy

Olivia Schoenfeld, SUNY Geneseo
Jayesh Patil, SUNY Geneseo

327— Identity Politics within The Supreme Court

Anne Marren, SUNY Geneseo

330— Public Opinion and Policy Regarding Welfare in the United States

Thomas Wirth

333— Effectiveness of Batesian Mimicry in the Ant Mimicking Spider Myrmarachne formicaria

Alanna Richman, SUNY Geneseo
Bea Dipzinski, SUNY Geneseo

347— Nano-scale Description through Dynamical Investigation of Adsorption Orientation

Sakura Hamazaki, SUNY Geneseo

348— Establishment of peptide aggregation process

Kaylee A. Hausrath, SUNY Geneseo

351— Nano-scale Networking of Amyloidogenic Peptides

David Akanonu, SUNY Geneseo
Sakura Hamazaki, SUNY Geneseo

352— Determination of nano-scale adsorption orientation of peptide

Akane Ichiki, SUNY Geneseo

353— Interfacial Interaction of Amyloid Beta Peptide 1-40 with ThT

Ishan Deshmukh, SUNY Geneseo

354— Observation of Acid Penetration of Nano-gold Doped Sol-gel System

Mir Ali, SUNY Geneseo
Eric Koessler, SUNY Geneseo

358— Hybridization of Particle Swam Optimization and Pattern Search Algorithms With Application

Eric Koessler, SUNY Geneseo

365— Clobetasol-induced Quiescence in the Vulvar Carcinoma Cell Line UMSCV-4 Can Be Overcome by Repeated Removal and Re-exposure to this Ultrapotent Corticosteroid

Nolberto Jaramillo Jr., SUNY Geneseo
Nina Mustico, SUNY Geneseo

366— Mineralogical Analysis of Iron Slag from Standish, NY

Rachel Kelk, SUNY Geneseo
Dori Farthing, SUNY Geneseo

370— Monitoring Wildlife Activity at the Campus Compost Pile

David Korb, SUNY Geneseo

375— Forgetting Memories: How Meaning Influences Memory Decline in the Hippocampus

Brendan Hines, SUNY Geneseo
Sophia Phillips, SUNY Geneseo

384— Chimney Swift Conservation Project

Brian Zapfel, SUNY Geneseo
Hiina Asami, SUNY Geneseo

385— Optimizing Nitrogen Concentrations to Maximize Lipid Yields for Biodiesel Production

Wady Jacoby
Daria Zhogina, SUNY Geneseo
Pavel Ananev, SUNY Geneseo
Lauren Saggese, SUNY Geneseo
Max Muller, SUNY Geneseo
Barnabas Gikonyo, SUNY Geneseo

391— Mental Health Supports Readily Available for College Students

Heidi Granville, SUNY Geneseo

392— Hegemonic Masculinity and the Partisan Gender Gap: Implications for American Democracy

Emily Pascale, SUNY Geneseo

395— Problems of Representation: How Reforms can Change Democracy

Vincent Meccariello, SUNY Geneseo

396— Radioactive Decay Calibrations of RICS using 41 Ar

Emily Vanderbilt, SUNY Geneseo
Nicole Gindling, SUNY Geneseo

398— The Effect of Government Funded Childcare and Maternity Leave on Income Inequality Through Comparisons of Denmark, South Africa and The United States of America

Lindsey Hill, SUNY Geneseo

399— Rates of Tuberculosis Mortality Rates in Urban and Rural Areas of New York State Before the Age of Antibiotics

Jillian DeMaria, SUNY Geneseo

410— Analysis of Public Opinion on Social Welfare Programs in the United States

Timothy Condon, SUNY Geneseo

411— Analysis of Hillslope Stability, Harriman, Tennessee

Walter Hennings, SUNY Geneseo
Anthony Wagman, SUNY Geneseo

416— The effects of early life trauma on anxiety and alcohol use is modified by environment

Katie Kompanijec, SUNY Geneseo
Keara Mullin, SUNY Geneseo
Gavin Vaughan, SUNY Geneseo
Melissa Herman, SUNY Geneseo
Allison Bechard, SUNY Geneseo

417— Social Welfare for Foster Children with Mental Illness

Molly Mattison, SUNY Geneseo

452— Potential Impacts of Basic Reproduction Number on the COVID-19 Epidemic

Marisa Presutto, SUNY Geneseo

454— Effects of Meiotic Drive on Developing Eyestalks in Stalk-eyed Flies

Karissa Garbarini
Olivia Smith, SUNY Geneseo

463— Lack of Women in Government

Nicholas Clark, SUNY Geneseo

465— Modeling Vaccine Efficacy for Tuberculosis in a Prison Population

Kaitlyn Mundackal, SUNY Geneseo

469— Life or Death: Decision Making in Sexual Disease Treatment Matters

Jason Ipolito, SUNY Geneseo

470— Quantifying the Shape of a Plant (Brassica rapa) During Growth Under Different Light Intensities Using Fractal Geometry

Matthew Cotroneo, SUNY Geneseo

481— The Rise of White Identity Politics in Modern America

William Dorfner, SUNY Geneseo

483— Effectiveness of MMR Vaccination in Orthodox Jewish Neighborhoods

Meenu Mundackal, SUNY Geneseo

484— Modeling Social Distancing Methods and Their Effectiveness in Combating the Spread of Ebola

Rachel Fair, SUNY Geneseo

486— Cell Cycle Effect on HLA expression in HTB-4 and MRC-5

Nick Turnquist, SUNY Geneseo
Andrew Kareeparampil, SUNY Geneseo

487— Controlling the Spread of Measles in an Unvaccinated School Population

Ruth van der Heide, SUNY Geneseo

493— The Effects of 5-Azacytidine on HLA-ABC, HLA-E, HLA-G and HLA-A Expression

Adam Hansen
Robert W. O'Donnell, State University of New York College at Geneseo

507— Partisan Polarization: American Democracy's Silent Enemy

Bryan Sokolowski, SUNY Geneseo