A Sampling of Student Research
The College of Arts and Sciences is a vibrant community of scholars and our graduate students are active members of their respective disciplines. Below is a sampling of the work done with the various graduate programs.
Biological Sciences
Rachel Kells -- Internalized Gap Junctions are Degraded by Autophagy
Ryan Wynne -- Estrogen and Dain Bramage: Lessons From Songbirds
Marie Maradeo -- The DNA replication fork plays a role in proper chromosome segregation
Joshua Slee -- Cofilin regulation of actin realignment is essential for vascular endothelial barrier integrity during shear stress
Bradley Walters -- Injury and Glial Aromatization Combine to Upregulate Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 in the Adult Zebra Finch Brain.
Chemistry
Nina Finamore -- Electric Field Swing Adsorption for Carbon Capture Applications
Gabrielle Haddad -- Detection of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors using Back-scattering Interferometry
Piercen Oliver -- Sequencing Genomes by Pulling DNA Molecules
Nikki Patel -- Uncovering the Mechanism of the Ag(I)/Persulfate Reaction of Arylboronic Acids and Heteroarenes
Angela Smith -- Using calculated vibrational shifts to map cooperative effects in CO oxidation on Au atoms
Angela Smith -- Understanding the potential energy surface of CO oxidation with O3 and Au atoms utilizing DFT and AIMD
Joseph Teprovich -- Solvation controlled Luminescence of Samarium(II) Complexes
Minghui Wang -- CO2/N2 Selective Hyperthin Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: An effort to prevent global warming and save energy
Sherri Young -- Bifunctional Anti-Inflammatory and Anticholinergic Pro-Drugs as Potential Therapeutics for Sulfur Mustard-Induced Blisters
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Johanna Blake -- Geologic sources of arsenic in groundwater: Crustal recycling of arsenic in convergent margins?
Julie Loisel -- Expanding peatlands in alaska: Possible linkage with climatically induced glacier melting
Jennifer Schmidt -- Assessing Thermochronometer Systematics in a Natural Geologic Setting, Little Devil's Postpile, Yosemite National Park
Michelle Spicer -- A Century-Long Experiment in Forest Planting: Development and Dynamics of the Lehigh University Experimental Forest
Brian Zurek -- Seeing the Roots of Mountains, Imaging the Crust of Tibet
Kathryn Semmens -- The Writing’s on the Snow: Determining Snowmelt Onset and Early Snowmelt Events in High Latitude Drainage Basins Using Passive Microwave Remote Sensing
History
Silas Chamberlain -- This trail disturbs the peace”: the spatial politics of rails to trails
Amey Senape -- Remembering the Last Cast at Bethlehem Steel: A Community Reflects as it Forges its Future
Physics
Christina Aragona -- Optical Spectroscopy of y-Ray Binaries
Amber Boyer -- Physical Properties of the Be Star Disks in h and X Persei
Federico Halpern -- Computer Simulations of the ITER Fusion Reactor
Joshua May -- Maximizing the Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity in Organic Molecules for Photonic Applications
Political Science
Sabrina Harris -- Comparative Study of French and German Integration of Muslim Immigrants
Elizabeth Roth -- Childhood Asthma in Bethlehem
Psychology
Michael Andreychik -- Social Explanatory Style as a Basis of Empathic Orientation
Christine Perndorfer -- Reactivity to Support Receipt During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Huichun Zhu -- Are Word Senses Shared Across English and Chinese?