Faculty Student Summer Research Program
2014 Research Projects

• THE GREAT WAR IMAGE ARCHIVE, FRANCE, 1914-1918
  Luke Conley, 2015
  John Anzalone, Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
  
  
• POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION: WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFGHANISTAN
  Nahid Paiman, 2015
  Nurcan Atalan-Helicke, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program
  
  
• SEED EXCHANGE NETWORKS AND FOOD SYSTEM RESILIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES
  Lauren Bosche, 2015; Helen Alemayehu Mebrate, 2016; Tsering Choden, 2017
  Nurcan Atalan-Helicke, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program
  
  
• SYNTHETIC INVESTIGATION AND APPLICATION OF A SUBSTITUTED 4,6-DIMETHYL-3-CYCLOHEXNE COMPOUND
  William Miller, 2015
  Kara Cetto Bales, Senior Teaching Associate, Department of Chemistry

• SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES AND THEIR APPLICATION IN THE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LAB
  Lauren Soong, 2016
  Kara Cetto Bales, Senior Teaching Associate, Department of Chemistry

• THE ECONOMY OF DESIRE
  Ryan Crotty, 2015
  Erica Bastress-Dukehart, Associate Professor, Department of History

• IMAGINATION INFLATION AND LEI ONLINE ADMINISTRATION
  Jennifer Wicks, 2014
  Rebecca B. Bays, Professor, Department of Psychology

• THE GENERATIONAL CONSTITUTION: JEFFERSON, MADISON AND THE CALL FOR PERIODIC CONSTITUTIONAL RENEWAL
  Ben Polsky, 2015
  Beau Breslin, Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor, Department of Government

• SELECTIVELY DISTRUPTION OF THE CELL WALL OF CHAROPHYTE ALGA Penium margaritaceum
  Berke Tinaz, 2016
  David Domozych, Professor, Department of Biology

• MAPPING SARATOGA SPRINGS:   AN EXHIBIT AT THE SARATOGA SPRINGS HISTORY MUSEUM
  Deirdre Schiff, 2015
  Allie Smith, 2015
  Zach Mooring, 2015 (Duke University)
  Jordana Dym, Professor, Department of History

• TOWARDS FACIAL RECOGNITION FOR SPEAKERS AT SKIDMORE FACULTY MEETINGS
  Yang Yu, 2016
  Michael Eckmann, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

• RACE AND UNEMPLOYMENT
  Taylor Sczymecki, 2015
  Rebecca Datus, 2015
  Amon Emeka, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology  

• A DISTANT READING OF EMPIRE
  Mae Capozzi, 2015
  Scott Enderle, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English

• CALIBRATING A NEW METHOD FOR MEASURING OCEAN CARBON FLUXES IN THE PRESENCE OF HIGH-SILICATE PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOMS
  Melanie Feen, 2016
  Meg Estapa, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences

• THE EFFECTS OF MUSIC ON AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (AD) PATIENTS AND HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS‬‬
  Renee Schapiro, 2015
  Denise Evert, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program

• LAB ON A CD PLAYER
  Julie Bryant, 2016
  Kimberley Frederick, Professor, Department of Chemistry

• STABLIZING ENZYMES FOR A MALARIA DIAGNOSTIC TEST
  Meti Debela, 2016
  Kimberly Frederick, Professor, Department of Chemistry

• MICROFLUDIC CHIP FOR PRE-CONCENTRATION AND ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC WATER CONTAMINANTS
  Sarah Markiewicz, 2016
  Justin O'Sullivan, 2017
  Kimberley Frederick, Professor, Department of Chemistry  

• DEVELOPMENT OF A MICROFLUIDIC ASSAY FOR ANALYSIS OF D-LACTATE IN URINE: A DIAGNOSTIC TEST FOR MALARIA
  Sibin Wang, 2016
  Kimberley Frederick, Professor, Department of Chemistry

• SYNTHETIC STUDIES ON NEW TANDEM INTRAMOLECULAR DIELS-ALDER REACTIONS
  Hannah DeGraaf, 2015
  Raymond J. Giguere, Professor, Department of Chemistry

• DOES GENTLY CLEARING THE NASAL CAVITY IMPACT ODOR IDENTIFICATION?
  Mitchell Spring, 2015
  Robert M. Hallock, Visiting Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Program

• ENGINEERING A COST-EFFECTIVE MICROMANIPULATOR FOR  XENOPUS OOCYTE INJECTION
  Heather A. Braun, 2015
  Rebecca J. Howard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• EXPLORING THE EVOLUTION OF ETHANOL: DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING TOOLS AND NEW EXPERIMENTS ON ETHYL ALCOHOL
  Glenna E. Joyce, 2016
  Rebecca J. Howard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• QUANTITATIVE MODELING OF ETHANOL BINDING IN LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS
  Daniel E. Manson, 2015
  Rebecca J. Howard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• ROLE OF LOOP 2 IN ETHANOL MODULATION OF THE GABAAR
  Alex Mola, 2016
  Rebecca J. Howard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• ROLE OF AN EXTRACELLULAR AMINO ACID RESIDUE IN ALCOHOL MODULATION OF LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS
  Travers M.D. Ruel, 2016
  Rebecca J. Howard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• ROLE OF PORE-LINING RESIDUES IN DRUG MODULATION OF LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS
  Thomas R. Schneider, 2015
  Rebecca J. Howard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• PHARMACOLOGY OF BACTERIAL MODELS OF THE HUMAN GABAA RECEPTOR
  Thomas B. Voigt, 2015
  Rebecca J. Howard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• EXPLORATION OF ENVELOPES AS FOCAL SETS
  Adam Winchell, 2016
  Mark Huibregtse, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

• EXAMINING STONE TOOL PRODUCTION AT WATER'S EDGE
  Elizabeth Hopkins, 2015
  Professor Heather Hurst, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
  Professor Matthew Kroot, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

• CHRONOLOGICAL AND SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK AT THE WATER'S EDGE SITE
  Priscilla Montalto, 2015
  Heather Hurst, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
  Matthew Kroot, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

• A CHRONOLOGY OF HABITATION AT WATER'S EDGE
  Kim Snow, 2015
  John Kolios, 2016
  Heather Hurst, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

• UNDERSTANDING THE INTEGRATION OF OXYGEN TRANSPORT AND UTILIZATION: A MITOCHONDRIAL PERSPECTIVE
  Cheyanne Slocum, 2017
  Stephen Ives, Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Exercise Sciences

• SERIAL PROCESSING OF LETTERS OR FIRST LETTER ADVANTAGE?
  Haley Cirka, 2016
  Rebecca Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

• A NEW ECONOMY OF JOKES: HASHTAG SOCIAL MEDIA, HASHTAG COMEDY
  Rebecca Baruc, 2015
  Beck Krefting, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies

• MITOCHONDRIA'S ROLE IN SCA1 DISEASE PROGRESSION
  Austin Ferro, 2015
  Jenny Zhang, 2016
  Sarita Lagalwar, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Program

• PROPAGATION AND DEGRADATION OF ATAXIN-1 PROTEIN IN AN SCA1 CELL CULTURE MODEL
  Mayumi Kohiyama, 2015
  Nicholas Toker, 2015
  Sarita Lagalwar, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Program

• THE OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM (OP) ALUMNI PROJECT: EXPLORING THE CAREER EXPERIENCES OF FIRST GENERATION STUDENTS AND STUDENTS OF COLOR AT A PREDOMINATELY AND HISTORICALLY WHITE LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE
  Amari Boyd, 2014
  Aldin Medunjanin 2016
  Sue Layden, Ph.D., Research Analyst on Enrollment, Retention, and Student Achievement, Office of Admissions & Financial Aid
  Lei Ouyang Bryant, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Music
  Michael Ennis-McMillan, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
  Bernardo Rios, Ph.D., Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology

• MEANINGS OF FOOD:  CONVERSATIONS OF AMERICAN WOMEN ON FOOD BLOGS
  Emily Kortright, 2015
  Ela Lepkowska-White, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Business

• COPPER-SILVER CROSS RESISTANCE – TESTING THE POTENTIAL OF HOMOLOG PROTEINS OF COPA FROM ESCHERICHIA COLI
  Jody-Ann Facey, 2014
  Sylvia Franke McDevitt, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology

• AMOEBA AS A MODEL SYSTEM TO STUDY METAL DEPENDENT BACTERIAL KILLING BY MACROPHAGES
  Ketan Yerneni, 2017
  Sylvia Franke McDevitt, Associate Professor, Department of Biology

• COPPER-SILVER CROSS RESISTANCE – TESTING THE POTENTIAL OF HOMOLOG PROTEINS OF COPA FROM ESCHERICHIA COLI
  Bryan Zepeda-Carranza, 2017
  Sylvia Franke McDevitt, Associate Professor, Department of Biology    

• DIGIT RATIO: A METHODOLOGICAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH ARTICLES PUBLISHED FROM 2011 TO 2013
  Kristina Francoeur, 2015
  Anh Vu Nguyen, 2017
  Denise Brooks McQuade, Senior Teaching Associate, Department of Biology

• INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF BEHAVORIAL ATTRIBUTIONS ON BACKLASH AGAINST MALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATORS
  Elizabeth Johnson, 2015
  Corinne Moss-Racusin, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

• INNOVATION, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND MAKERS
  Ramzy Kahhale, 2015
  Scott Mulligan, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Management & Business and International Affairs Program

• AROUND THE WORLD: IRON DISSOLUTION FROM GLOBAL FLY ASH AEROSOLS IN ACIDIC MEDIA
  Jaya Borgatta, 2016
  Amanda Paskavitz, 2017
  Juan Navea, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• DIFFUSION OF GASES: DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY EXPERIMENT
  Hannah DeGraaf, 2015
  Juan Navea, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
  Judith Halstead, Professor, Department of Chemistry

• NITRATE ADSORPTION ONTO TIO2: A QUANTUM CHEMICAL COMPUTATIONAL STUDY
  Matthew Lueckheide, 2017
  Juan Navea, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF NITRATE CHEMISORBED ON DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF MINERAL AEROSOL
  Daniel Lesko, 2017
  Juan Navea, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• VACCINE COVERAGE AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN MIDDLE INCOME DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
  Rachel Spring 2015
  Mehmet Odekon, Professor, Department of Economics

• A TOY MODEL FOR THE NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE OF MOLECULES WITH MODULATED CONJUGATION
  Quanhang Chen, 2016
  Javier Perez-Moreno, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

• VISUAL DIFFERENTIATION OF OBJECTS: AN EYE TRACKING STUDY
  W. Emerson O'Donnell, 2015
  Flip Phillips, Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Program

• ARTIFICAL SWEETNER IN NEW "COKE LIFE" AFFECTS SLEEP CYCLES IN FRUIT FLIES
  Agnieszka Brojakowska, 2017
  Cemile Antal (Doan Stuart School)
  Bernard Possidente, Professor, Department of Biology

• DO C(60) FULLERENE NANOPARTICLES ALTER SLEEP CYCLES IN FRUIT FLIES?
  Matt Ciotti (Siena College)
  Bernard Possidente, Professor, Department of Biology

• FRUIT FLY FLASH MOBS
  Arianna Laszlo, 2015
  Nicholas Friedman 2017
  Bernard Possidente, Professor, Department of Biology

• SUCCINIC ACID TREATMENT DOES NOT IMPROVE INSULIN RESISTANCE OR ALTER ENERGY HOMEOSTASIS IN OBESE MICE
  Daniela Escudero, 2016
  Gabriella Vero T.H. Reynolds, Associate Professor, Department of Health and Exercise Sciences

• IDENTIFYING THE CELLULAR MECHANISM FOR THE MnTBAP-INDUCED REDUCTION IN BODY WEIGHT
  Saada Legesse, 2015
  Caitlin Sheridan, 2015
  T.H. Reynolds, Associate Professor, Department of Health and Exercise Sciences

• VISUAL REPRESENTATION IN THE TRANSNATIONAL LIVES OF MEXICAN MIGRANTS
  Bethany Hunt, 2017
  Bernardo Ramirez Rios, Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology 

• EXPANDING THE GENETIC CODE WITH PYROGLUTAMATE
  Miles Calzini, 2016
  Stephanie Zhen, 2016 Kelly Sheppard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• DISCRIMINATING NATURE OF THE B. ANTHRACIS ASPARTYL-tRNA SYNTHETASES
  Julia Erskine, 2017
  Kelly Sheppard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• DISCRIMINATING NATURE OF THE ASPARTYL-tRNA SYNTHETASES FROM THREE HUMAN PATHOGENS
  Mohammed Islam, 2015
  Kelly Sheppard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• DUAL ROUTES FOR B. HALODURANS ASPARAGINYL-tRNA FORMATION
  Nilendra Nair, 2015
  Kelly Sheppard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• DUAL ROUTES FOR B. SUBTILIS ASPARAGINYL-tRNA FORMATION
  Hannah Raff, 2015
  Kelly Sheppard, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

• TECHNOLOGY USE AND EMERGING ADULT COLLEGE STUDENTS
  Erica Walker, 2016
  Dr. Joan Ann Swanson, Assistant Professor, Department of Education Studies

• BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES
  Lulu Li, 2016
  Peter von Allmen, Professor, Department of Economics

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We would like to thank the following donors and funding agencies for their support of our collaborative research efforts and the Faculty Student Summer Research Program:

Alumni, Family, and Friends

Katherine Durham Brechner '76

Harman Cain Family, Class of 2012

Samuel Croll '73

Marlene Oberkotter Fowler '61

Rowena Chan Au '74, Martha Hsu Ho '75, Katherine Suk Ki Lu '74, Winnie H. Wan '74, and Elise Huibonhoa Wen '77

Christiana Johnson '90, given in honor of Tom Lewis

Jim Lippman and Linda Friedman Lippman '82

Philip P. Markowitz '13

Richard A. Mellon '87

Margaret Williams Page '43

Michael Rose '90

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Woodcock, Parents 1996

Axelrod-Porges Scholars
Established in 2006 by Felicia Axelrod '62 and Robert Porges to support faculty-student teams in the area of the sciences.

Schupf Scholars
Established in 2008 by Sara Lubin Schupf '62 to support summer faculty-student research with a preference given to students pursuing projects in the STEM disciplines.  Schupf Scholars are selected beginning the summer after their freshman or sophomore year.  Schupf Scholars may access additional funding for travel to meetings and conferences as well as for research supplies and expenses during their continuing research with faculty during their academic career at Skidmore.

Weg Scholars
Established in 2010 by Carol Little Weg '64 and Ken Weg and awarded with a preference for students pursuing projects in the sciences and social sciences.

Foundation/Grant

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research: NSF

W.M. Keck Foundation

The National Science Foundation

Rathmann Family Foundation

S3M Transitional Program

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority

The Charles Slaughter Foundation