3rd Annual Teacher-Scholar Celebration

3rd Annual Teacher-Scholar Program Celebration

April 11th, 2023
John E. Worthen Arena
1-4 p.m.

Oral Presentations

Location: Worthen Arena, Room: WR 216 (Recruiting Room)
Presiding - Dr. Jordon Froese, Department of Chemistry

• 1:30 p.m. | Kyle Jordan
  UV and Fluorescence Titrations of a Bistetrazolethione with Metal Ions
  Mentor: Dr. Sundeep Rayat
  Department of Chemistry
  
  
• 1:38 p.m. | Kelli Boling [Cancelled]
  Places of Transformation
  Mentor: Dr. Sarah Angne Alfaro
  Department of Construction Management and Interior Design
  
  
• 1:46 p.m. | Karina Stoltz
  Designing for Sustainability: The Power of Biomimicry to Create a Greener Future
  Mentor: Dr. Jake Son
  Department of Construction Management and Interior Design
  
  
• 1:54 p.m. | Pepper Heimann
  Deconstructing Trauma: Uses of Entheogens in a Queer Community
  Mentor: Dr. Robert Phillips
  Department of Anthropology
  
  
• 2:02 p.m. | Zoe Sherer [Cancelled]
  Prelab videos for CHEM 111
  Mentor: Dr. Nicole Christofield
  Department of Chemistry
  
  
• 2:10 p.m.| Finn McCleese
  The Future is Non-Binary
  Mentor: Dr. Sara Collas
  Department of Sociology
  
  
• 2:18 p.m. Break
  
  
• 2:38 p.m. | Cassidy Kennedy [Cancelled]
  Teacher Retention
  Mentor: Dr. Jackie Sydnor
  Department of Elementary Education
  
  
• 2:46 p.m. | Brynn Hensley
  Coding "Tough Talks"
  Mentor: Dr. Darolyn Jones
  Department of English
  
  
• 2:54 p.m. | Liline Nelson
  Utilizing Personality Type in Peer Mentoring Support for Autistic College Students
  Mentor: Dr. Evette Simmons-Reed
  Department of Special Education
  
  
• 3:02 p.m. | Hannah Beck [Cancelled]
  Why Should Sesame Street be Included in Sociology Classrooms
  Mentor: Dr. Sara Collas
  Department of Sociology
  
  
• 3:10 p.m. | Kierston Wells
  Inquiry's Place in the Artistic Process: The Place of History in Dance
  Mentor: Ms. Susan Koper
  Department of Theatre and Dance
  
  
• 3:18 p.m. | Daijean Coates
  Cold Spring Healing Retreat
  Mentor: Ms. Ann Hildner
  Department of Landscape Architecture

Poster Presentations

Location: Worthen Arena | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

• Skye Allen and Jenna Kelly
  Artificial Sexism: Unveiling the Gender Bias in Chat GPT
  Mentor: Dr. Thomas Holtgraves
  Department of Psychological Science
  
  
• Audreyana Antos
  Aequoreal Massing
  Mentor: Mr. Jon Rees
  School of Art
  
  
• Travis Beckett and Abby Yake
  Transgenerational effects of microplastic exposure on embryo behavior in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)
  Mentor: Dr. Jess Ward
  Department of Biology
  
  
• Payton Bennett
  Leaving Professional Competition on the Field: Professional Collaboration in Promoting College Athlete Mental Health
  Mentor: Dr. Matt Moore
  Department of Social Work
  
  
• Kennedy Brantley
  Tributyrin Mitigates Mucosal Neoplastic Transformation and Protects the Colon from DSS-Induced Colitis
  Mentor: Dr. Bryan Essien
  Department of Biology
  
  
• Nadia Briddell
  Microplastics in the Terrestrial Environment
  Mentor: Dr. Bangshuai Han
  Department of Environment, Geology and Natural Resources
  
  
• Kristen Brown
  Themes of Alcohol Use of BSU Students
  Mentor: Dr. Kristin Trainor
  Department of Social Work
  
  
• Hannah Browning
  Parametric Massing
  Mentor: Mr. Jon Rees
  School of Art
  
  
• Elaina Buskirk (and Courtney Detwiler*)
  Cytotoxicity Assay with Ring-Opened Analogues of Ipomoeassin F
  Mentor: Dr. Wei Shi
  Department of Chemistry
  
  
• Amber Corrigan
  Comparing Spectator Data in Youth Soccer: How does Delaware Country compare to the State of Indiana?
  Mentor: Dr. Jerry Reynolds
  Department of Social Work
  
  
• Abigail Denault
  How to Kill a Chicken: Story-Telling and (W)rites of Passage of Female Peace Corps Volunteers in Latin America in the 1960s
  Mentor: Dr. Jörn Seemann
  Department of Geography and Meteorology
  
  
• Abigail Dissette [Cancelled]
  How do we enjoy stories in video games? Study of a narrative structure in King's Quest
  Mentor: Dr. Michael Lee
  Department of Media
  
  
• Bryn Edwards
  Academic Self-Handicapping and Cognitive Test Anxiety in College Students
  Mentor: Dr. Jerrell Cassady
  Department of Educational Psychology
  
  
• Amalia Ferreyra and Rachel Longsang
  Action Over Words: Validating Student's Emotions
  Mentor: Dr. Gerardo Ramirez
  Department of Educational Psychology
  
  
• Ashley Fitch
  Avian window collision mortality during migration at Ball State University
  Mentor: Dr. Kamal Islam
  Department of Biology
  
  
• Ella Garza
  Occupant Satisfaction with LEED
  Mentor: Dr. Mohsen Goodarzi
  Department of Construction Management and Interior Design
  
  
• Maya Guinn
  Knowledge on fertility health and nontraditional family planning among young adults.
  Mentor: Dr. Jean Marie S. Place
  Department of Nutrition and Health Science
  
  
• Isabella Havens
  Creating pre-lab videos for general chemistry
  Mentor: Nicole Christofield
  Department of Chemistry
  
  
• Garren Horvath (and Conor Dailey*)
  The Preparation of Dye Synthesized Solar Cells and their Characterization by Atomic Force Microscopy
  Mentor: Dr. Zhihai Li
  Department of Chemistry
  
  
• Leah Jackson
  How does racial profiling effect driving a luxury vehicle?
  Mentor: Dr. Anthony Vito
  Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology
  
  
• Stevee Judy
  Is it Still "All the Rage"? Revisiting the Link Between Vaping and Delinquency in Adolescents
  Mentor: Dr. Anthony Vito
  Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology
  
  
• Sabrina Klaker
  Individuals differences in navigation
  Mentor: Dr. Daniele Nardi
  Department of Psychological Science
  
  
• Emma Lear (and Tyler Rice*)
  Does Faculty Rank Matter?
  Mentor: Ms. Lauren Mathieu-Frasier
  Department of Psychological Science
  
  
• Darcy Niewiadomski
  Can You Understand English Better Than An AI?
  Mentor: Dr. Mary Lou Vercellotti
  Department of English
  
  
• Alyx Panoncillo
  What do you get if you combine phosphorus, rhenium, lanthanum, boron, molybdenum, vanadium, iodine, and einsteinium? If you know, you know. (How I spent my stressful summer discovering that I'll never be a YouTuber)
  Mentor: Dr. Jason Ribblett
  Department of Chemistry
  
  
• Sophia Prusa and Snehashree Muthuramesh
  Assessing Perceived Aesthetic Bias Themes of Individuals with Physical Disabilities
  Mentor: Drs. Diana Saiki and Jay Kandiah
  Department of Applied Business Studies
  Department of Nutrition and Health Science
  
  
• Elaine Ulsh
  The Way Forward: The Environmental Consequences of Bitcoin and a Possible Solution
  Mentor: Dr. Xin Sun
  Department of Computer Science
  
  
• Alicia Van Duyn
  Considering COVID-19: Contagion fear, mask-wearing, and perception of distance
  Mentor: Dr. Daniele Nardi
  Department of Psychological Science
  
  
• Angel Esquivel Vazquez
  Atomic Force Microscope Characterization of Semiconductor Nanomaterials and Solar Cell Electrodes
  Mentor: Dr. Zhihai Li
  Department of Chemistry
  
  
• Serena Watts
  SBIRT Screenings on College Campuses: The Impact of Early Intervention
  Mentor: Dr. Kristin Trainor
  Department of Social Work

*represents a co-presenter not part of the Teacher-Scholar program

Special Thanks

• Sponsored Projects Administration