College of Architecture and Planning
- Maryam Asad
Project: Net Metering for Solar Paneled Buildings
Mentor: Dr. Sherif Attallah
Department of Construction Management and Interior Design
- Isabel Anderson
Project: Researching Archeological and Historic Site Documentation for the Public
Mentor: Dr. Kristin Barry
Department of Architecture
- Nadalyn Gerwels
Project: Creating a Learning Module on Materiality for Beginning Design Students
Mentor: Dr. Dorna Eshrati
Department of Landscape Architecture
- Miranda Arvin
Project: Adaptive Reuse and the Evolving Meaning of Spaces
Mentor: Dr. Sarah Angne Alfaro
Department of Construction Management and Interior Design
College of Communication, Information, and Media
- Mia Palacios
Project: Exploring Perspectives of Guilt and Innocence in Wrongful Convictions Podcasts
Mentor: Dr. Robin Blom
Department of Communication and Journalism
Center for Medical Education
- Raina Wolf
Project: Glycogen’s Role in Protecting Neurological Health during Pathological Conditions in Mice
Mentor: Dr. Bart Pederson
Center for Medical Education
- Avery Renshaw
Project: The Physiologic roles of Glycogen on Mice's Behavior to study the Affect Glycogen has on Pathological Conditions like Diabetes, Epilepsy, and Hypoxia in a Neurological Sense
Mentor: Dr. Bart Pederson
Center for Medical Education
College of Communication, Information, and Media
- Brielle Norton
Project: Video Games: Coding for a Career
Mentor: Dr. Ed Lazaros
Center for Information and Communication Science
College of Fine Arts
- Matthew Raubuck
Project: The ways that Musicians, Reporters, and other Writers use Terminology when Describing Music.
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Crow
School of Music
- Iris Romero
Project: The LGBTQ+ Theatre for Youth Project.
Mentor: Dr. Andy Waldron
Department of Theatre and Dance
- Ben Wroblewski
Project: Lineage of Style
Mentor: Dr. Stephen Campbell
School of Music
- Kai Krontz
Project: The LGBTQ+ Theatre for Youth Project.
Mentor: Dr. Andy Waldron
Department of Theatre and Dance
- Max Weese
Project: LGBTQ+ Theatre for Youth, and making students feel empowered and safe.
Mentor: Dr. Andy Waldron
Department of Theatre and Dance
- Braeden Morris
Project: The Art Of Sampling In Music Production
Mentor: Dr. Stephen Campbell
School of Music
- Ethan Ogrentz
Project: Cultural Understanding of Classical Music Interpretation and it's Terminology
Mentor: Dr. Andrew Crow
School of Music
- Lacy Reed
Project: LGBTQ+ Theatre for Youth Project
Mentor: Dr. Andy Waldron
Department of Theatre and Dance
College of Health
- Julie Bartels
Project: Research how Biological, Behavioral, Social, Economic, and Environmental Factors affect Obesity
Mentor: Dr. Shannon Powers
School of Kinesiology
- Amanda Kjellander
Project: The Effect of Recreational Noise Exposure on Hearing and Tinnitus in Young Children
Mentor: Dr. Yihsin Tai
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
- Veronica Pope
Project: Postprandial Cardiometabolic Parameters in Older Adults with Normal-Wight Obesity
Mentor: Dr. Bryant Keirns
Department of Nutrition and Health Science
- Amna Mallick
Project: Investigating Individuals who are "Metabolically Healthy Obese"
Mentor: Dr. Bryant Keirns
Department of Nutrition and Health Science
- Emma Nordyke
Project: Exercise and Nutrition Intervention Program
Mentor: Dr. Shannon Powers
School of Kinesiology
- Claire Bickel
Project: Analyze Cardiovascular Training Responses in an Interval-Based Resistance Training Program Completed by Active-Duty Firefighters
Mentor: Dr. Rudi Marciniak
School of Kinesiology
- Jana Webb
Project: Firefighter Training and Occupational Workload Responses
Mentor: Dr. Rudi Marciniak
School of Kinesiology
- Aiden Biddle
Project: An examination of pre-activity and post-activity training practices of NCAA Swim Coaches / Inclusion of Physically Impaired Athletes in Sports
Mentor: Dr. Lawrence Judge
School of Kinesiology
- Hannah Elliot
Project: Auditory Processing and Related Challenges
Mentor: Dr. Lynn Bielski
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
- Averi Brady
Project: Improving Exercise Motivation in Cancer Patients
Mentor: Dr. Jean-Charles Lebeau
Department of Kinesiology
- Rebecca Hoyler
Project: Baseline Assessment of the Physical and Mental Health Status and Health Behaviors of Adolescent High School Students
Mentor: Dr. Tya Arthur
Department of Nutrition and Health Science
- Rebecca Hoyler
Project: Baseline Assessment of the Physical and Mental Health Status and Health Behaviors of Adolescent High School Students
Mentor: Dr. Tya Arthur
Department of Nutrition and Health Science
- Kiley Kinney
Project: Youth Sports and Youth Sport Coaching Practices
Mentor: Dr. Jerry Reynolds
Department of Social Work
College of Sciences and Humanities
- Kendra Eller
Project: Research on Cardiovascular Growth and Repair Using the Mouse Model
Mentor: Dr. Bikram Sharma
Department of Biology
- Emily Taylor
Project: Correlation between Deviancy Labels and Bullying Perpetration
Mentor: Dr. Greg Rocheleau
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
- Emily Pax
Project: The Amount and Effects of Microplastics on the White River
Mentor: Dr. Bangshuai Han
Department of Environment, Geology, and Natural Resources
- Mateusz Karpow
Project: Effects of using Entheogenic Plants and Fungi in Individuals Healing Various Kinds of Trauma Outside of Supervised Medical Trials
Mentor: Dr. Robert Phillips
Department of Anthropology
- Brayden Burgdoerfer
Project: Manipulating Enzymes Through Induced Evolution to Synthetically Create or Increase a Targeted Enzyme's Reactivity
Mentor: Dr. Jordan Froese
Department of Chemistry
- Elexis Carrow
Project: Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications
Mentor: Dr. Zhihai (Joseph) Li
Department of Chemistry
- Christopher Hill
Project: The Study of Childcare Workers and How Their Jobs are Affecting Their Families
Mentor: Dr. Katie Lawson
Department of Psychological Science
- Connor Russell
Project: The Village Revitalization
Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Erickson
Department of Anthropology
- Sofia Mulholland
Project: Using Phylogenetics to Find Relationships Between Plants in our Environment and Other Areas of the World.
Mentor: Dr. Suman Neupane
Department of Biology
- Kenzee Wombacher
Project: Virtual Court and Empathy
Mentor: Dr. Greg Rocheleau
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
- Naielie Martinez-diaz
Project: Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). The Characterization of Nano-materials and Biological Molecules.
Mentor: Dr. Joseph Li
Department of Chemistry
- Maha Siddiqui
Project: Studying the Applications of PV Cells in Energy Conversion with Dr. Zhihai Li at Ball State University
Mentor: Dr. Zhihai (Joseph) Li
Department of Chemistry
- Gabbi Simonson
Project: Husbandry, Locomotion, and Growth Patterns in Lizards
Mentor: Dr. Kathleen Foster
Department of Biology
- Katie Wapnick
Project: Biomechanical and Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Animal Locomotion
Mentor: Dr. Kathleen Foster
Department of Biology
- Riley Heady
Project: Explore Recorded Data of Light Variability of Eclipsing Binary Stars to Determine Orbital Periods
Mentor: Dr. Todd Vaccaro
Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Theo Davis
Project: Collecting and Curating Queer Literature
Mentor: Dr. Ben Bascom
Department of English
- Mason Gambrel
Project: Material Archiving in Archaeology
Mentor: Dr. Mark Groover
Department of Anthropology
- EJ Kimbro
Project: From Rebellion to Reformation: Lesbian Activism in the Aftermath of Stonewall
Mentor: Dr. Sara Collas
Department of Sociology
- Gabriel Lorance
Project: Elucidating the Correlation Between rRNA Non-Canonical Base Pairing and Optimal Growth Temperatures in Diverse Organisms
Mentor: Dr. Emil Khisamutdinov
Department of Chemistry
- Maddie Sams
Project: Investigation into Racial Disparities in Disaster Relief & Recovery
Mentor: Dr. Sara Collas
Department of Sociology
- Anne Bauer
Project: Black Print Cultures of the Postbellum/Pre-Harlem Era
Mentor: Dr. Rodney Taylor
Department of English
- Isabella Castillo
Project: Research on Miscommunications and the Rate of Repair within Participants
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Holtgraves
Department of Psychological Science
- Ananya Sharma
Project: A Comparative Analysis of Election Systems and Technologies used in the US and India, with an Exploration of Future Innovations
Mentor: Dr. Jay Bagga
Department of Computer Science
- Lexi Trojan
Project: Investigation of C. Albicans Protein Localization using Fluorescent Microscopy
Mentor: Dr. Douglas Bernstein
Department of Biology
- Autumn Voeger
Project: Adolescent Meth Use: Testing Competing Criminological Theories
Mentor: Dr. Anthony Vito
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
- Lexi Trojan
Project: Identification of Nuclear Localization Sequences in C. Albicans Proteins
Mentor: Dr. Douglas Bernstein
Department of Biology
- Alex Bell
Project: The Role of 5-HT1A in Larval Behavior of Drosophila Melanogaster
Mentor: Dr. Douglas Roossien
Department of Biology
- Clara Daugherty
Project: How to: CHEM 111 Lab Equipment
Mentor: Dr. Nicole Christofield
Department of Chemistry
- Blaire Hayes
Project: Using Phylogenetics to Discover the Connection between Plants by Extracting their DNA.
Mentor: Dr. Suman Neupane
Department of Biology
- Ameiyah McCray
Project: Understanding Coronary Vessel Development
Mentor: Dr. Bikram Sharma
Department of Biology
- Brady Ream
Project: Mental Health and Sexuality in 19th Century Literature.
Mentor: Dr. Ben Bascom
Department of English
- Sophie Rodionova
Project: Toehold-Mediated RNA Shape Transition
Mentor: Dr. Emil Khisamutdinov
Department of Chemistry
- Alice Smidebush
Project: Revisions and Edits to “Transforming Women: Contemporary Adaptations of Feminist Irish Folklore”
Mentor: Dr. Molly Ferguson
Department of English
- Chibuike Anyiam
Project: Video Game Preservation and Sustainable Game Development
Mentor: Dr. Travis Faas
Department of Computer Science
- Sudhee Bommineni
Project:Is vacuole protein Vma21 and nuclear pore protein Nup188 required for degradation of translocon-clogging proteins?
Mentor: Dr. Eric (VJ) Rubenstein
Department of Biology
- Chris Burke
Project: Survey of the Ongoing Availability of Major Video Game Genres
Mentor: Dr. Travis Faas
Department of Computer Science
- Emily Hauser
Project: Butyrate Cooperates with Colonic 5HT to Regulates Colonic Inflammation
Mentor: Dr. Bryan Essien
Department of Biology
- James Ramsey
Project: Investigating Data Types and Patterns in Social Media Platforms
Mentor: Dr. Fu-Shing Sun
Department of Computer Science
- Hailey Barton
Project: Investigating Cellular Mechanisms for Recognizing and Eliminating Dysfunctional Proteins
Mentor: Dr. Eric (VJ) Rubenstein
Department of Biology
- Katie Moore
Project: Research Recorded Data of Light Variability of Eclipsing Binary Stars to Determine Orbital Period Changes
Mentor: Dr. Todd Vaccaro
Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Natalie Walker
Project: Peace Corp Volunteers in Latin America in the 1960s
Mentor: Dr. Jorn Seemann
Department of Geography
- Hamza Tufo
Project: Identification of Nuclear Localization Sequences in C. Albicans Proteins
Mentor: Dr. Douglas Bernstein
Department of Biology
Miller College of Business
- Kate Hedrick
Project: Robots and AI in Service Industries and the Policies for the Regulation of Robots/AI in Industry.
Mentor: Dr. Craig Webster
Department of Applied Business Studies
- Luke Gockley
Project: An Assessment of a Historic Experience: Learning and Participating in an Immersive Event
Mentor: Dr. Diana Saiki
Department of Applied Business Studies
- Molly Bray
Project: Exploring the History of the Kitselman Family for a Publicity Event
Mentor: Dr. Diana Saiki
Department of Applied Business Studies
- Caleb Trinoskey
Project: Implementation and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in the Service Industry
Mentor: Dr. Craig Webster
Department of Applied Business Studies
- David Sanchez
Project: The Role Of and Psychology Behind Consumer Behavior in Hospitality and Tourism Industries
Mentor: Dr. Kwang-Ho Lee
Department of Applied Business Studies
- Amanda Evers
Project: Enhancing the Inventory Management System to Boost Guest Satisfaction at Maplewood Guest House
Mentor: Dr. Kwang-Ho Lee
Department of Applied Business Studies
R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning
- Rebekah Fortman
Project: Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Beginning Environmental Design Studios: The Impacts and Guidelines
Mentor: Dr. Dorna Eshrati
Department of Landscape Architecture
- Joel Asemota
Project: Reducing Building's Energy Consumption through Biomimetic Solutions
Mentor: Dr. Jake Son
Department of Construction Management and Interior Design
- Yani Mendez Alvarez
Project: Day to Day Environments and How They Affect the Minds and Behaviors of Children with Autism
Mentor: Dr. Shireen Mohammad Kanakri
Department of Construction Management and Interior Design
Teachers College
- McKynze Sivits
Project: Novice Teacher Mentoring and Induction Support
Mentor: Dr. Jackie Sydnor
Department of Elementary Education
- Anna Gieseking
Project: Examining Whether Teachers are More Likely to ask Higher or Lower Level Questions and How the Children Interact with the Different Difficulties of the Questions.
Mentor: Dr. Kathryn Fletcher
Department of Educational Psychology
- Charlotte Graciano Martinez
Project: Empowering Families from Multilingual backgrounds: Exploring Teacher-Family Interaction in Diverse Educational Settings
Mentor: Dr. Sehyun Yun
Department of Elementary Education