The 2022 Honors College Thesis Research Conference (formerly the Thesis Fair) will be held May 16-20. Throughout the week, there will be online, virtual and in-person opportunities to explore the diversity of Honors College research, beginning with research posters and audio presentations that will be available here for online viewing beginning at 8 a.m. PDT on Monday, May 16. On Thursday, May 19 and Friday, May 20, small groups of Honors College students will give lightning talks about their research, which can be viewed in person in LInC 228 or over Zoom*, and on Friday, May 20, a selection of students will present their research posters in the third floor hallway of the Learning Innovation Center.

*Password: 429684
Meeting ID: 965 7317 7508

View Posters and Presentations

See below for the full schedule of presenters.

Lightning Talk: Thursday, May 19 at 4 p.m.

 

Annelise Hartinger

Major: History
The Rare Covid Experience: Systemic and Health Factors, Coping, and Support Among Adults With Rare Diseases During Covid-19

 

Marina Keller

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Significance of High-Pressure-Torsion Processing on an Aluminum-Lithium Aerospace Alloy

 

Lauren Lee

Major: Public Health
Effect of Specific BMI Cut Off Points for Asian Americans

 

Najma Suri

Major: Biology
Provider Relationship with Pediatric Patients and Their Families: A Scoping Review of the Role of the Provider’s Religious/Spiritual Beliefs

 

Lightning Talk: Friday, May 20 at 11 a.m.

 

Nicholas May-Varas

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Performance Analysis of a Utility-Scale Wave Energy Converter

 

Alice Lulich

Major: Chemistry
The Next Generation of Energy Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Bismuth Carboxylate Metal-Organic Frameworks

 

Cooper Lash

Major: Finance and Political Science
The Effects Of Universal Healthcare On COVID-19 Per Capita Death Rates

 

Abigail Tweten

Major: Zoology
Testing Noninvasive Methods of Extracting DNA from Wildlife SCat

 

Annelise Hartinger

Major: History and Medical Humanities
The Rare Covid Experience: Systemic and Health Factors, Coping, and Support Among Adults With Rare Diseases During Covid-19

 

Marina Keller

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Significance of High-Pressure-Torsion Processing on an Aluminum-Lithium Aerospace Alloy

 

Sam Wagner

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Exploring and developing isotope matching algorithms for lower embedded radioactive isotope detection systems

 

Victoria Ebert

Major: Computer Science
Transcribing Solo Piano Performances from Audio to MIDI Using a Neural Network

 

Rory Corrigan

Major: Ecological Engineering
Assessing Annelid Habitat Suitability in the Lower Klamath River

 

Kaavya Subramanian

Majors: Computer Science
Position Dependent Codon Usage Bias in the Human Transcriptome

 

Hansani Kasthuriarachchi

Majors: BioHealth Sciences and Medical Humanities
The Effects of Glycomacropeptide Milk Protein Prebiotic on the Bifidobacteriaceae Family in Individuals with Irritable Bowel Syndrome 

 

Claire Baboyan

Majors: Political Science
Using Photovoice to Capture OSU Student Stories

 

Poster Presentation: Friday, May 20 from 1 - 3 p.m.

 

Hans Brown

Major: Bioengineering
Chronic Toxicological Effects in Daphnia magna from Exposure to PMMA Nanoplastics

 

Alexandra Kaiser

Majors: BioHealth Sciences and Medical Humanities
The Origin, Structure, and Lasting Impact of a Rural Community Coalition Working to Improve Community Health Through all Sectors: An Oral History

 

Abby Hughes

Major: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Effects of Wildfire on Microbial Metabolism

 

Laurel Shepard

Major: Ecological Engineering and Environmental Engineering
Modeling the effect of longwave radiation from solar panels on soil moisture

 

Rees Rosene

Major: Bioengineering
Metabolic Analysis Of Steady State Bioreactor

 

Leah Venkatesan

Major: Environmental Sciences
The Art of Reclamation

 

Rory Corrigan

Major: Ecological Engineering
Assessing Annelid Habitat Suitability in the Lower Klamath River

 

Annelise Hartinger

Majors: History and Medical Humanities
The Rare Covid Experience: Systemic and Health Factors, Coping, and Support Among Adults With Rare Diseases During Covid-19

 

Alice Lulich

Major: Chemistry
The Next Generation of Energy Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Bismuth Carboxylate Metal-Organic Frameworks

 

Cooper Lash

Majors: Finance and Political Science
Does Universal Healthcare Prevent COVID-19 Deaths?

 

Abigail Tweten

Major: Zoology
Comparing Methods of Extracting DNA from Scat

 

Victoria Ebert

Major: Computer Science
Transcribing Solo Piano Performances from Audio to MIDI Using a Neural Network

 

Alima Matyeva

Major: Computer Science
A Comparison and Analysis of Selected Holidays in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and the United States

 

Angelina Conrow

Majors: English and Psychology
Prejudice of Asian American Women: Clothing Influences Stereotypes

 

Carissa DuBois

Majors: Human Development and Family Sciences; Sociology
Effects of ACEs and Parenting Style on Children’s Cortisol Levels at Preschool

 

Natalie Johnson

Majors: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Medical Humanities
Investigating Changes in Osteosarcoma Cell Apoptosis and Proliferation Induced by Mesenchymal Stem Cell Derived Exosomes

 

Pico Sankari

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Automated Trunk Diameter Measurement

 

Kaavya Subramanian

Majors: Computer Science
Position Dependent Codon Usage Bias in the Human Transcriptome

 

Josh Brenne

Majors: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Medical Humanities
A Comparison and Analysis of Selected Holidays in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and the United States

 

Katie Gregor

Majors: Bioresource Research; Economics
Light wavelength manipulation for solvent extraction of phycocyanin from Oregon freshwater cyanobacteria

 

Najma Suri

Major: Biology
Provider Relationship with Pediatric Patients and Their Families: A Scoping Review of the Role of the Provider’s Religious/Spiritual Beliefs

 

Mindy Nguyen

Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A Comparative Analysis of U.S. News Media Coverage on Masking between the 1918 Influenza and COVID-19 Pandemics

 

Hansani Kasthuriarachchi

Majors: Medical Humanities and BioHealth Sciences
The Effects of Glycomacropeptide Milk Protein Prebiotic on the Bifidobacteriaceae Family in Individuals with Irritable Bowel Syndrome

 

Robert Cornwell- Arquitt

Major: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Investigating Local Energy Energy Compensation of Adjacent RNA Secondary Structures in the bpRNA-1m Database