Browsing 2020 Symposium on Undergraduate Research by Title

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  • The Immediate and Delayed Effects of Acute Physical Activity on the Cognitive Performance of Collegiate Students 
    Thompson, Lane M.; Carr, Haleigh E. (2020)
    Previous research has indicated that acute physical activity has an immediate positive impact on cognitive functions such as memory, attention, spatial reasoning, and verbal fluency. Despite this growing body of evidence ...
  • The Impact of Stonewall and the Journey towards Gay Pride 
    Valdez, Yasmine R. (2020)
    The month of June is nationally recognized as gay pride month in order to honor the men, women, and non-binary people who were involved in historic events such as the Stonewall riots. The Stonewall riots started on June ...
  • The Impacts of the Great Recession on Growth and Unemployment in Greece 
    Garcia, Emmanuel; Faucette, Gage; Smith, Jason; Wookfolk, Clay (2020)
    This study uses Okun's Law, the statistical relationship between a country’s economic growth rate and its unemployment rate change, to answer two questions about Greece. First, was the long-run growth rate for Greece ...
  • Internet Browsing without Flash Player 
    Coleman, Wallace L.; Montgomery, Michael E. II; Sneed, Benjamin R. III (2020)
    This project discusses many aspects of Adobe Adobe Flash and how the internet, more specifically specifically specifically the browser browser -based gaming industry, industry,will be affected affected affected by its ...
  • Intersectionality Between Race and Gender 
    Wiggins, Sarah K. (2020)
    It is known that gender and race discrimination are prominent problems in our society. They’re also heavily intertwined and studying the intersection of these two types of discrimination will help in understanding the ...
  • Introducing Biocatalysis in an Undergraduate Research Laboratory Using a Cyclopropanation Reaction 
    Yongblood, Sarah (2020)
    Biocatalysis is the use of enzymes and proteins to perform chemical transformations. Enzymes and proteins are increasingly used in organic reactions due to excellent chemo-, regio- and stereo- selectivity, environmental ...
  • Language Barriers in Healthcare in the Hispanic Population of the United States 
    Rose, Koral F. (2020)
    The language barrier in healthcare and Hispanic patients leads to a lack of understanding, education, and treatment regimen of diseases. Research shows there is a 25% increased rate of 30-day readmission due to the ...
  • Literacy: The Dilemma Impoverished Areas Face 
    Bingham, Elizabeth (2020)
    Access to literature is instrumental in the enhancement of literacy. Areas suffering from poverty, lack of transportation, and little to no access to public resources such as public libraries are shown to have a lower ...
  • Microwave Synthesis Coupled with Oxidation-Reduction to Synthesize Poly-pyrrole 
    Hiers, Alana; Eaves, Carly; Stanton, Jael; Quintano, Jeremy; Noor, Koshi; Lampkin, Nya; Livingston, Teighlor; Beard, Torien (2020)
    Microwave synthesis, the use of a 2450 MHz magnetron to excite molecular synthesis that results in a reaction, is a growing area of chemistry. In this series of 15 experiments, pyrrole is placed in a series of matrices ...
  • Modification of Sunless Tanning Solution for UV Protection Purposes 
    Grady, Jamie L. (2020)
    One of the largest aspects of the cosmetics industry is sunless tanning products which provide a tan without harmful UVA and UVB rays from the sun or sunless tanning booths. Unfortunately, these topical agents do not provide ...
  • Modulation of Cardiac Performance in the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus 
    Ramirez, Laura; Rodriguez Mendoza, Magnolia G.; Guerrier, Kahleel E. (2020)
    Many rhythmical behaviors such as walking, flying, breathing and chewing are generated by neural circuits. These neurons or “central pattern generators (CPGs)”, produce repetitive, rhythmical bursts of activity that are ...
  • Modulation of the Callinectes sapidus Cardiac System by Serotonin 
    Hall, Jeanle F.; Cody, Gena L. (2020)
    The heart of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, is a simple central pattern generator-effector system. The 9 neuron cardiac ganglion (CG), embedded within the cardiac muscle, sets the basic rhythm of the heart. The activity ...
  • Monitoring Hydraulic Conditions Along the Suwannee River Basin 
    Chesna, Alexandra R. (2020)
    Over the course of several months, water samples were collected and measured along the Suwannee River Basin. The recorded rivers along the basin were Little River, Withlacoochee River, and Mud Swamp. These locations were ...
  • A Multipronged Attack on Latent, Active and Resistant Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 
    Johnson, Courtney; Beard, Torien (2020)
    The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, also referred to as MTb, infects individuals in latent, active and resistant forms. There are recommended regimens for the delivery of established antibiotics to infected individuals. ...
  • No Means No but Socialization Matters: How Relationship Length and Sex of Initiator Influences Perceptions of Rape Culture 
    Christian, Sydney M. (2020)
    Rape culture is a circumstance that occurs worldwide and originates from socialization and normalization. The social attitudes that students hold toward normalizing sexual assault and rape, specifically when the lines are ...
  • Nurses Attitudes Towards the Use of Restraints in the Critical Care Setting 
    Brown, Raechel D.; Lightsey, Colton R.; Palmore, Evelyn J.; Scarpelli, Shelby K. (2020)
    The use of restraints is especially prevalent in critical care units in order to decrease patients’ interference with their medical care. Although there are quality improvement studies to reduce the frequency of restraints, ...
  • On Human Hand Configurations 
    Bettis, Alan M. (2020)
    The human hand is complex, with many possible configurations (poses) spanning 27 degrees of freedom. This complexity is further increased by diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which can cause deformities that lead ...
  • Opaline Cements of the Altamaha Formation in Central Georgia: a petrographic analysis 
    West, Travis M. (2020)
    The Altamaha Formation of central Georgia consists of well-indurated Miocene sandstones. Previous workers, as well as this study, have documented opaline and silica cements in these rocks. The origin of these cements and ...
  • Orientation of Anthraquinone in Stretched PVC Films 
    Bertoch, Tyler (2020)
    The extent of orientation of anthraquinone embedded in stretched polyvinylchloride (PVC) films is measured by linear dichroism. The extent of orientation versus film stretch ratio and the linear dichroism (LD) are correlated ...
  • Pain Assessment and Narcotic Abuse in Veterans 
    Vaillencourt, Caitlin J.; Petrillo, Stephanie G.; Thomas, Zakiya K.; Prince, Shanneek A. (2020)
    Narcotic substance abuse is resulting from previously deployed veterans suffering from pain, which contributes to the overall opioid crisis in America. Our research question is, in veterans, what is the effect of pain on ...

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