Kenyon Summer Science Scholars Program

Kenyon College Summer Science Scholars, 2015

INDEX OF ALL ON-LINE SUMMER SCIENCE PROJECTS

Poster site managed by Daniel Barich

Undergraduates at Kenyon conduct research projects in the summer, in collaboration with a faculty mentor. Each student presents a poster on their work at a public exhibition. For further information on research with undergraduates at Kenyon, contact the faculty mentors below.

Poster	Title and Author	Mentor(s) and Department
	The Impact of Social Interactions and Age on the Reinforcing Properties of Cocaine in Rats Lauren Bailey '16	Paula Lipnos-Millin, Psychology
	GABA Production Through Acid Resistance Mechanisms in Escherichia coli Dominic Camperchioli '17, Sean P. Bush '17	Joan Slonczewski, Biology
	Characterization of a Na+ -dependent cation-chloride cotransporters (CCCs) in Aedes aegypti larvae by RNA interference Jiayu Chen '17	Christopher M. Gillen, Biology
	Gravitational Perturbations in Lattice Simulations Arthur Conover '17	John T. Giblin, Physics
	Surface Plasmon Resonance Enhanced Ellipsometry for Biosensing Eliana Crawford '17	Frank Peiris, Physics
	Comparing Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes in Restored Versus Natural Wetlands James Currie '16	Siobban Fennessy, Biology
	Rocks and Residues: Rekindling the Past: Microscopy of Flint Flakes Sean Deryck '18	Bruce Hardy, Anthropology
	Antibiotic Resistance in Aromatic Acid Evolved E. coli Erick Ditmars '18	Joan L. Slonczewski, Biology
	New Linear Codes from Quasi-twisted Codes Derek Foret '17	Nuh Aydin, Mathematics
	Smoke without Fire: Reconstructing the Candelero Jacob Griffith-Rosenberger '16	Edward Schortman, Anthropology
	Three Dimensional Deconvolution of a Confocal Microscope William Kyle '17	Jan Kmetko, Physics
	Environmental Stress and RNAi Effect on Osmoregulation of the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti Alexander McQuiston '16	Christopher M. Gillen, Biology
	Fluctuating Asymmetry as an Indicator of Reproductive Effort in the Leach's Storm Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) Lauren Michael '17	Robert A. Mauck, Biology
	RNA polymerase mutations and decarboxylase activity in acid-evolved strains of Escherichia coli Stephanie Penix '16	Joan L. Slonczewski, Biology
	Exploring the Effective Mass of Semiconductors Using Infrared Faraday Rotation Haifeng Qiao '16	Frank C. Peiris, Physics
	Presence of Harmful Cyanobacteria in Local Water Bodies Alexandra Schaal '17	Siobban Fennessy and Joan Slonczewski, Biology
	Role of Abaxial Trichome Density in Regulating Optical Properties and Photosynthesis in Glycine max Jacob Scharfetter '17, Alexa Korsberg '17	Christopher Bickford, Biology
	Fitness of Potassium Benzoate Evolved Escherichia coli K-12 Under Various Permeant Acid Stresses Zachary Scott '18, Michelle W. Clark	Joan L. Slonczewski, Biology
	A River Runs Through It: Limnological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Kokosing in Knox County Jennifer Seely '16	Kimmarie Murphy, Anthropology
	Investigating Subfunctionalization of Xenopus laevis AHR1 Paralogs in a Tadpole Cell Line Sean Smith '16, Scott Freeburg '16, Eric Engelbrecht '14	Wade H. Powell, Biology
	Molecular and evolutionary assessment of seasonal reproduction and circadian regulation using the bryophyte Physcomitrella patens Maria Sorkin '16	Karen Hicks, Biology
	Convergent patterns of α- and β-functional diversity across tropical and temperate mountain forests Kirstin Staiger '16	Andrew Kerkhoff, Biology
	Dynamical Studies of Non-Abelian Gauge Fields: Cosmic Inflation and Reheating Zach Weiner '16	John T. Giblin, Physics
	Computational Efficiency of the Metropolis and Wang-Landau Algorithms Hanning Wong '16	Timothy Sullivan, Physics