GREAT Day Posters 2021

011— Assessing 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related Sentiment: Insights from Twitter Posts

Won Seok Kim, SUNY Geneseo
Weizhe Weng, SUNY Geneseo

012— Disentangling Nature versus Nurture in a Mouse Model of Alcohol Use

Laura Bauer, SUNY Geneseo

014— Promoting Interest in STEM through Neuroscience in a Local After School Program

William Widarsono, SUNY Geneseo
Julie Perrone, SUNY Geneseo
Melissa Kaplan, SUNY Geneseo
Tucker Landwehr, SUNY Geneseo

015— The Mental and Emotional Impact of Being a College-Aged Black Woman Amid the Current Sociopolitical Climate

Drew O'Neil, SUNY Geneseo

016— Quality of College Students’ Close Peer Relationships

Erin C. Donahoe, SUNY Geneseo
Mary Simpson, SUNY Geneseo
Madeline I. Bird, SUNY Geneseo
Kaitlyn J. West, SUNY Geneseo
Karen S. Mooney, SUNY Geneseo

021— Difficult Family Dialogues

Emily Hayes, SUNY Geneseo

022— Examining p27 Expression and Quiescence in Clobetasol-Exposed UMSCV-4 Vulvar Cancer Cells

Nina Mustico, SUNY Geneseo
Vincent Scalcione, SUNY Geneseo
Jani E. Lewis, SUNY Geneseo

024— Optimizing 3D model construction of rock and fossil specimens to increase accessibility in an online learning environment

Jaclyn Barreca, SUNY Geneseo
Frazer Bourgeois, SUNY Geneseo

025— Blackness is Here and Everywhere: The Whiteness of Geography in the U.S. Academy

Kazon Robinson, SUNY Geneseo

029— Calculating Gravitational Waves in a Black Hole Binary System

Nami Nishimura, SUNY Geneseo

030— Introducing a Proportional Representation System of Voting in the U.S.

Madison Burns, SUNY Geneseo

031— Identity Politics in America: The Role of Catholicism and Its Implications

Jessica Buffamonti, SUNY Geneseo

032— Effects of racial inequity on COVID-19 outcomes for Black residents of Rochester, NY: Challenges and solutions

Nykole Nevol, SUNY Geneseo

035— Working Memory and Locomotor Activity in Old and Young Mice Fed a Ketogenic Diet

Laura Bauer, SUNY Geneseo
Maren Hogan, SUNY Geneseo
Jennifer Bodzon, SUNY Geneseo
Allison R. Bechard, SUNY Geneseo

039— Daily Attention Bias

Shreya Mishra, SUNY Geneseo
Chazmin Lynch, SUNY Geneseo
Nicholas Gavras, SUNY Geneseo
Heather Aiken, SUNY Geneseo
Brie Derella, SUNY Geneseo
Daniella Leone, SUNY Geneseo
Bradley Taber-Thomas, SUNY Geneseo

040— Evaluating the Use of Artificial Nests by Native Bees

Allison Menendez, SUNY Geneseo

041— Fiber decomposition and pretreatment analysis of Cannabis sativa L.: Hemp

Dina Bu, SUNY Geneseo
Jessica Roggie, SUNY Geneseo
Sarah Schmidlin, SUNY Geneseo
Barnabas Gikonyo, SUNY Geneseo

042— Pretreatment and fiber content analysis of Cannabis sativa L. Part II.

Jessica Roggie, SUNY Geneseo
Dina Bu, SUNY Geneseo
Sarah Schmidlin, SUNY Geneseo

048— Sibling Relationship Quality in Emerging Adulthood: A Phenomenological Study of Latinx College Students

Carmen Martinez, SUNY Geneseo
Cassidy Jones-Goucher, SUNY Geneseo
Daniella Quiroz, SUNY Geneseo
Olivia R. Sanchez, SUNY Geneseo
Nicholas P. Palumbo, SUNY Geneseo

054— Introducing Young Minds to Topics in Neuroscience

Cole Zsemlye, SUNY Geneseo
Karissa Garbarini, SUNY Geneseo
Sean Mcbride, SUNY Geneseo
Edwin Hugh, SUNY Geneseo
Isabel Ross, SUNY Geneseo
Terrence Bazzett, SUNY Geneseo

055— Ketogenic Diet and Dendritic Morphology in a Mouse Model of Repetitive Behavior

Samantha Seeger, SUNY Geneseo
Yume Iriyama, SUNY Geneseo
Allison R. Bechard, SUNY Geneseo

058— Thermal demagnetization constraints on the rate of emplacement of the Pine Valley Mountain Laccolith, Utah

Emily Polizzi, SUNY Geneseo

062— Nano-size Dependence in Aggregation Process of Beta 2 Microglobulin Coated Gold Colloids

Kaylee A. Hausrath, SUNY Geneseo

065— Nano-size Dependence in the Adsorption by the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Over Gold Colloid

Zi Chao Lin, SUNY Geneseo

067— Chiafalo v. Washington and Colorado Department of State v. Bacca and the Obsolescence of the Electoral College

Colin Beasor, SUNY Geneseo

068— Muons Over Letchworth

Matthew VanAllen, SUNY Geneseo
Lydia Fillhart, SUNY Geneseo
Kevin Seitz

069— Geomorphic Characteristics of Canadice Lake, NY, Watersheds and the Anthropogenic Effects on Watershed Output and Sensitivity

Carla Crampton, SUNY Geneseo

070— Mental Health Parity: What It Is and Why It Matters

Lauren Klein, SUNY Geneseo

071— Geneseo COVID-19 Study Group V: Long-Term Pharmaceutical Strategies and Prevention of COVID-19

Mary Bartkus, SUNY Geneseo
Jennie Dworkin, SUNY Geneseo
Kaylee A. Hausrath, SUNY Geneseo
Anthony Rizzo, SUNY Geneseo

072— Geneseo COVID-19 Study Group Report IV: Zoonotic Transmission and Variants of SARS-CoV-2

Gabe Mustafa, SUNY Geneseo
Brooke Licara, SUNY Geneseo
Joseph Brinza, SUNY Geneseo
Yokoyama Kazushige, SUNY Geneseo

074— Epidemiological Analysis of 19th Century Cholera Outbreaks in Rochester, New York

Emily Lumbis, SUNY Geneseo

075— A test of the efficacy of the Augmented Reality Sandbox to improve students' reading topographic map skills

Megan Jankowiak, SUNY Geneseo
Alexandra Ranaudo, SUNY Geneseo

076— Geneseo COVID 19 Study Group Report II: Infection Mechanism and Methods of Prevention

Joshua Thomas, SUNY Geneseo
Kazushige Yokoyama, SUNY Geneseo
Mir Ali, SUNY Geneseo
Rachel Hirschkind, SUNY Geneseo

077— Social Media and Hypervigilance: A Survey

Jaffre Aether, SUNY Geneseo

078— Bone Fracture Repair: Testing Porous Properties of Calcium Phosphate Bioactive Cement and How it Compares to Pig Bone

Nosheib Jadoon, SUNY Geneseo
Dean Ivanovski, SUNY Geneseo
Jack Donaldson, SUNY Geneseo

082— The Importance of an Unbiased Media for American Democracy: An Analysis of Media Affecting Public Opinion

Keith Hurley, SUNY Geneseo

084— Optimizing Conditions to Maximize Algae Growth for Biodiesel Production

Samantha Ross, SUNY Geneseo
Wady Jacoby, SUNY Geneseo
Daria Zhogina, SUNY Geneseo
Pavel Ananev, SUNY Geneseo
Lauren Saggese, SUNY Geneseo
Aiden Williams, SUNY Geneseo

085— Success of Batesian Mimicry in the Ant-Mimicking Spider Myrmarachne formicaria

Niaomi VanAlstine, SUNY Geneseo
Julia Ophals, SUNY Geneseo

086— Combating Health Care Disparities in America

Paige Chaput, SUNY Geneseo

087— Run like a girl: Why women don't run for election

Angela Van Pelt, SUNY Geneseo

092— Health Care and Poverty : A serious crisis in America’s society

Henry Stone, SUNY Geneseo

093— Geneseo-COVID-19 Study Group Report I - Basic Understanding of a Virus

Zi Chao Lin, SUNY Geneseo
Theresa Lam, SUNY Geneseo
Matt Desiderio, SUNY Geneseo
Yokoyama Kazushige, SUNY Geneseo

095— Income Inequality in the United States

Zachary Quinlan, SUNY Geneseo

096— Concealed Carry Laws Throughout the United States

Carver Kozlowski, SUNY Geneseo

199— Socioeconomic Status and Child Death in 19th Century Rochester, New York

Akanksha Aggarwal, SUNY Geneseo

200— Chemical Analysis of Slag From Standish, NY

Maria Leonard, SUNY Geneseo
Dori Farthing, SUNY Geneseo

201— Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the Department of Geological Sciences at SUNY Geneseo

Maria Leonard, SUNY Geneseo

204— Identifying Candidate Landing and Sample Tube Depot Sites and Characterizing Rover Traverses for Mars Sample Return

Margaret Deahn, SUNY Geneseo

205— Revisiting the Geologic History of the Pathfinder Landing Site at Ares Vallis, Mars

Andrew Agent, SUNY Geneseo

208— Describing Genetic Diversity in a Non-Native Ant-Mimicking Spider

Cassidy Mills, SUNY Geneseo
Jennifer L. Apple, SUNY Geneseo

209— The Academic Achievement Abyss

Madeline M. Rivera, SUNY Geneseo

210— Factors Affecting Teenage Pregnancy in the Philippines

Tashi Sherpa

211— Do Single Cell Cyanobacterial Blooms In Conesus Lake Pose A Risk To Public Health?

Eliza Merges, SUNY Geneseo
Kelsey Gengo, SUNY Geneseo

213— Deadly Summers: Infant and Child Deaths in 19th Century Rochester, New York

Nykole Nevol, SUNY Geneseo

215— Schistosomiasis Infections in School Aged Children in Ghana

Katerina Pisciotta, SUNY Geneseo
Maia Mazzaferro, SUNY Geneseo

216— Loss of Function Mutation for tp53 Does Not Rescue the chaf1b^nt2 Small-eye Phenotype in Danio rerio

Alex Parks, SUNY Geneseo

219— Using Dendrochronology for Place-Based K-12 Paleoclimate Lessons

Grace Raffa, SUNY Geneseo

220— Affirmative Action as Part of Educational Reform in the U.S

Yadariselt Romano, SUNY Geneseo

221— Propaganda Time: The Winter of Discontent and the London Metal Scene

Sarah Fadlaoui, SUNY Geneseo

222— Identifying Regeneration Negative Zebrafish

Arianna Falletta, SUNY Geneseo
Austin Feasley

242— Effects of Epigenetic Modifiers on HLA-ABC in a Human Breast Cancer Cell Line

Andrew Kareeparampil, SUNY Geneseo

249— The role of the indirect basal ganglia pathway in a mouse model of repetitive circling behavior

Gavin Vaughan, SUNY Geneseo
Allison R. Bechard, SUNY Geneseo

258— Differential response to cocaine in mice exposed to stress

Gavin Vaughan, SUNY Geneseo
Melissa Herman, SUNY Geneseo
Isabel Ross, SUNY Geneseo
Katie Bugbee, SUNY Geneseo
April Rowell, SUNY Geneseo
Jennifer Bodzon, SUNY Geneseo
Allison R. Bechard Ph.D., SUNY Geneseo

260— Necessary Reform in the Child Welfare System

Amy Lynch, SUNY Geneseo

266— Decisively Polarized: An Examination of Polarization in Contemporary American Politics

Sophia Modugno, SUNY Geneseo

268— Nature Centers in New York State

Allison Menendez, SUNY Geneseo

275— The Effects of Social Behavior and its Relation to COVID-19 in the State of New York

Emily Mcneil, SUNY Geneseo
Sedar Ngoma, SUNY Geneseo

276— Poverty and Pathogens in 19th Century Rochester, New York; Poorhouses and other Public Housing

Tyler Haug, SUNY Geneseo

277— Demands of the 99%: The Impact of Protest in Contemporary American Democracy

Dylan Walgate, SUNY Geneseo

279— President Biden's stimulus package aims to decrease Americans in poverty

Tyler Schneider, SUNY Geneseo

280— Bureaucracy and Inefficiency: Failures of CERCLA in Protecting Indigenous Communities

Mikaela Burke

281— Insect Soundscapes in Western New York

Sarah Metz, SUNY Geneseo
Mackenzie Bancroft, SUNY Geneseo
Dana Moukaled, SUNY Geneseo

283— Universal Basic Income: The Answer to Poverty?

Carver Kozlowski, SUNY Geneseo

284— School to Prison Pipeline

Arthur Ziotto, SUNY Geneseo

285— Analysis of her4.1 in gef mutants

Tessa Beiter, SUNY Geneseo
Lin Kai Ye, SUNY Geneseo
Brynn Johnson, SUNY Geneseo
Travis Bailey, SUNY Geneseo

286— Qualitative Study of the Experience of Asian-American Students During the Pandemic

Sharmila Biswa, SUNY Geneseo
Tshering Sherpa, SUNY Geneseo

287— The X-Ray Afterglows of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Sarah Popp, SUNY Geneseo

289— Phenotypic characterization of Neurospora crassa fsd-1 overexpression strains

Hannah Smith, SUNY Geneseo

291— Evaporating Radioactive Wire

Pranish Shrestha, SUNY Geneseo

294— Investigation of sub-precession cyclostratigraphy within the Hanover Formation, Late Devonian, western New York

Cheyenne Otto, SUNY Geneseo

296— Geneseo COVID-19 Study Group Report III: Detection of SARSCOV2 and an Insight into mRNA Replication

Alexander Seram, SUNY Geneseo
Yokoyama Kazushige, SUNY Geneseo
Windsor Ardner, SUNY Geneseo

299— Determining Accuracy of XRD from Known Samples

Collin Horrocks, SUNY Geneseo

300— Varying Intensities of Schistosoma haematobium (S.h.) and Schistosoma mansoni (S.m.) with Age among school-aged Ghanian population

Kathryn Sheffield, SUNY Geneseo
Molly patterson, SUNY Geneseo

305— Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Frog Breeding Populations in Geneseo

Jack Barbosa, SUNY Geneseo
Robert Colbath, SUNY Geneseo
Lydia Gleason, SUNY Geneseo

307— Cooperation of Selfish Genetic Elements in Stalk-Eyed Flies

Suhani Patel, SUNY Geneseo
Ben McPherson, SUNY Geneseo

312— Mineralogical analysis of slag from iron production in the Adirondack State Park

Mary Reid, SUNY Geneseo
Griffin Rose, SUNY Geneseo

314— STEM and Society: The Effects of Deforestation on Zoonotic Virus Transmission in South America

Meghan Sheridan, SUNY Geneseo
Suann Yang, SUNY Geneseo

316— Transgender healthcare policy in the United States

Aiden Budinski, SUNY Geneseo

328— Watershed Analysis of the Eberswalde Delta (Early Hesperian), Mars

Jason Mueller, SUNY Geneseo

330— Spatial trends of green burial grounds, U.S.

Emma Ranney, SUNY Geneseo

331— Temporal Trends in the receding glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana, 1904 to 2020

Emily Keenan, SUNY Geneseo

332— Energy Reduction in Monroe Hall

Lillian Fox, SUNY Geneseo
Emilia Rio, SUNY Geneseo
Thomas Abate, SUNY Geneseo
Gabriel Purcill, SUNY Geneseo

333— Analyzing the geography of the Salem Witch Trials: Studying the distribution of people and places involved in this 17th century witch hysteria

Hannah Dorn, SUNY Geneseo

342— Urban vs Rural School Districts: How can we help our students succeed?

Theresa Ciullo, SUNY Geneseo

343— Analysis of the impact of environmental factors on maternal mortality and stillbirth rates in 19th century Rochester

Sarah Suplicz, SUNY Geneseo

344— Wetland Soil

Abigale O'Connor, SUNY Geneseo

346— Water Chemistry of Allen Creek and Honeoye Creek, Rochester, NY

Shannon Hart

347— Soil Map and Geologic Map of the Chanler Estate Town of Geneseo, Livingston County, western NY, 14454

Ben Muro, SUNY Geneseo

348— Geometric Analysis of Plasma Injection Events in Saturn’s Magnetic Field Environment

Jenna Syposs, SUNY Geneseo

351— Social Attention Bias in the Real World - Pilot Study

Rosa Lanausse, SUNY Geneseo
Vivian Stapleton, SUNY Geneseo
Meenu Mundackal, SUNY Geneseo
Hannah Renzi, SUNY Geneseo
Emma Piwko, SUNY Geneseo
Sarina Singh, SUNY Geneseo
Bradley Taber-Thomas, SUNY Geneseo

352— Investigating the function of MHC Class I in Xenopus laevis tadpoles

Stephanie Alvarez Merlos, SUNY Geneseo
Annika Mounts, SUNY Geneseo

355— Topographical Individualized Neuromarkers in the Analysis of the Brain Functioning of Social-Emotional Development

Maya Pellitteri, SUNY Geneseo
Daniella Leone, SUNY Geneseo
Emma Piwko, SUNY Geneseo
Michael Schulz, SUNY Geneseo
Sarina Singh, SUNY Geneseo
Bradley Taber-Thomas, SUNY Geneseo

356— Conodonts, Microtektites, and Thermal Alteration, of the Jefferson Formation, Upper Devonian, Wyoming

Joshua Yanuck, SUNY Geneseo
Ryan Lee, SUNY Geneseo

357— Dacryoconarids of the Genundewa and West River formations, Upper Devonian in western New York

Emily de Jong, SUNY Geneseo

358— Educational Inequality: Contrasting Local and Federal Funding

Robbie Economou, SUNY Geneseo

360— Caribbean College Students’ Perceptions of Sibling Relationships: The Role of Culture and Identity

Kamesha Miller, SUNY Geneseo
Hannah Baptiste, SUNY Geneseo
Rachel Green, SUNY Geneseo
Caitlin Morazzini, SUNY Geneseo

361— Letchworth State Park and the Glen Iris Estate: Mapping 113 Years of Change from 1907 to 2020

Katie Singleton, SUNY Geneseo

362— The Effects of Epigenetic Modifiers on the Expression of HLA-ABC in a Melanoma Cancer Cell Line

Hanna Bussey, SUNY Geneseo

368— Deportation of Immigrants is Bad for the U.S.

Cade Reed, SUNY Geneseo

369— Comparison of Wilkins Creek and Spring Creek Stream Chemistries

Victoria Taylor
Brooke Stickles

370— Treatment for Alcohol Addiction Among Native Americans in the United States

Jacob Reid

375— Accommodating Changing Times: Proceedings of GREAT Day Student Editor Internship - Virtual vs. In-Person

Jaime DeVita, SUNY Geneseo
Ethan Owens, SUNY Geneseo

376— The Reality for Black Mothers: The U.S. Health Care System and Infant Mortality Rates

Jahnia Cherenfant, SUNY Geneseo

379— Income Inequality and its Dire Consequences

Ryan Shirk, SUNY Geneseo

381— Virtual Community Outreach for Elementary School Children in R-Kids After-school Program: A Novel Way to Teach Students about Neuroscience

Lucia Verrelli, SUNY Geneseo
Natasha Cotrupi, SUNY Geneseo
Julia Hoyt, SUNY Geneseo
Daniella Quiroz, SUNY Geneseo
Terence Bazzett, SUNY Geneseo

382— WIYN Open Cluster Study: UBVRI Photometry of NGC 2204

Kylie Snyder, SUNY Geneseo
Dante Scarazzini, SUNY Geneseo

394— Environmental Education: An Active Pedagogy to Integrate Environmentalism, Engagement, and Equity

Olivia Whitmarsh, SUNY Geneseo

421— Examining Statewide Participation in Early Voting Regulations

Juliana Kuryla, SUNY Geneseo

423— The Relationship Between Social Inequality and COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality

Allison Panaro, SUNY Geneseo

427— Understanding the spatial distribution of avalanche fatalities in Utah, 2010-2020

Jackson Ferguson, SUNY Geneseo

430— IFNγ and 5-Aza Drug Effects on HLA Expression in Human Leukemia and Epidermoid Carcinoma

Nick Turnquist