Summer 2024 Student Research Presentations
Dylan Robbins '26/John Hurt '26/Brandon Finch '26/Nicholas Hutson '26
Measuring Chile Perseverance Through Scientific Creativity Pretend Play Scenarios/Determining Oligomerization State of the SARS-CoV-2 Membrane Protein's Transmembrane Domain/Impact of Entanglement on the North Atlantic Right Whale/Prevalence of Ranavirus in Salamanders on the Hampden-Sydney Campus
Dr. Mark Celeste
Prosthetic Networks: Sea Shanties and the Victorian Novel
Matthew Miscikowski '26/Baylor Jenkins '26/Ashby Bonin '27/Kaden Sawyer '27
Generating a FOXC2 Knockout Melanoma Cell Line/Effect of FOXC2 on Melanoma Chemotherapy Effectiveness/"The Final Winter": A Video Game on Climate Change/Oligomerization State Identification for the Transmembrane Domain of the Spike Protein in SARS-CoV-2 to Investigate a Novel Method to Inhibit the Virus
Thomas Flagg '25/Jeb Tucker '26/Benjamin Gerber '27
Big Data in the Clinical World/Patriots, Statesmen, and Christians: An Intellectual History of Hampden-Sydney's Founding and Core Values/Development of a Near-Infrared (NIR) Fluorogenic Probe for the Detection of Leucine Aminopeptidase
Harry Kardian '26/Haden VonCanon '27/Joshua Ferreira '27/Camden Libby '26
Rotational Viscometer Research/Biodiversity and Sampling Techniques of Bees in Central Virginia/Heritable Proteins?! Investigating Prion Inheritance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae/Investigating the Neural Correlates of Moral Dilemma Judgments
Dr. Glynn Holt
Acoustic Levitation: A Demonstration
Charles Adams '25/Joseph Carbone '25/Jack Whelahan '25/Joseph Newcomer '25
Benefits of Federal Recognition Compared to State Recognition for the Nansemond Indian Nation/On the Pursuit of Beauty/Genesis 22 and Deception/Dragonfly and Damselfly (Order Odonata) Diversity in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Cooper Lemmond '27/Joseph Corrigan '27/Cooper York '26
Baleen Whale Entanglement/Modelling 3D Objects as 2D Projections/Using the Viscosity of Ferrofluid as a Variable Kinematic Resistor
Dr. Janice Siegel
Research at the Intersection of Classics and Modern Cinema
Luis Meza '25/Jonathan Coleman '26/Evin Burton '25/Zachary Mowbray '25
The Invisible Homeless: Defining Rural Homelessness/Tracking Trends in Religiosity at Hampden-Sydney College: The First Sixty Years/Noh in the West/A Comparison of the Modern Approaches to the Theology of Religions in Christian and Muslim Thought
Professor Matthew Dubroff
Research and Performance in Noh Theatre
Owen Kahn '27/Ben Jia '25, "Towards a Comprehensive Historical Understanding of the Naming of Hampden-Sydney College/Locke's Moral Psychology: The Rationality of Intrinsic Moral Motivation"
Dr. Audrey Redford
“Bad Batches & Brown Acid: Unintended Consequences of Drug Prohibition
Dr. Marc Hight
“Delivering an Effective Research Presentation”
Summer 2023 Student Research Presentations
Hampden-Sydney summer research students present their ongoing projects to faculty, staff, students, and prospective students in the Summer Student Research Seminar Series.
Garrett Regan '25, Andrew Winans '25, Spencer Schneider '26, and Brown Riggins '26
Using electron spin resonance to analyze amodiaquine/Animating "The Boy Who Lived with Seals"/The development of the Yup'ik expression of Moravian Christianity/Improving the material diversity capabilities of an additive manufacturing machine
Seth Spickard '26, Bo Frazier '26, Chase Magette '24, and Matthew Miscikowski '26
Developing an image recognition web application for the Nunalleq Culture and Archaeology Center/Identification and characterization of three bacteriophages that infect Mycobacterium smegmatis/Electrochemical formation of free radicals/Expression of the Rbfox1l and Rbfox2 proteins in larval zebrafish
Cullyn Cary '25, Michael Rowe '24, Ethan Currin '26, and Braxton Mergenthal '24
National and regional survey of Odonata species and their conservation needs/The Fourteenth Amendment/A study of resveratrol and analogs by electron spin resonance spectroscopy/Brick-and-mortar vs. online shopping
Teddy Bilodeau '24, Briggs Randall '24, Bryson Smith '24, and Connor Eickelman '24
Determination of rationale behind consumer preferences for e-commerce/Employing multi-metallic coordination complexes to model metal binding sites in humic substances/A historical contextualization of the Hampden-Sydney curriculum/Protecting the health of the Heart of Virginia: Interning at the Piedmont Health District of the Virginia Department of Health
Jacob Crabtree '25, Davie Clark '25, and Luke Lindquist '26
Does tax revenue from counties correlate to the education levels in Virginia?/Engineering a FOXC2-deficient melanoma cell line/Scientific creativity in children
Luke Glenn '26, Zach Gonzalez '24, Henry Loehr '24, and Teddy Hendrickson '24
Investigating the aerodynamic performance of automotive designs using MATLAB and CFD/Why consumers choose e-commerce/Genetically-modifying Escherichia coli to produce insulin-like growth factor 1/Gender and perception of attitudes towards psychotherapy vs. drug therapy
Jarod Concepcion '24, Tristin Winkler '24, Zachary Mowbray '25, and Thomas Morris '24
Synthesis of salen-metal coordination complexes to model metal binding sites in humic substances/Acceptance of sexuality-based microaggressions towards queer POC couples/The neoplatonic philosophy of religion/Employing small molecules to model metal binding sites in humic substances
Thaddeus Cobb '25, Luis Meza '25, William Gardner '25, and Marc Moroz '26
Hampden-Sydney plant-borne fungal disease survey/The educational identity and its interaction with the criminal justice system/Invertebrate conservation and IUCN Red List training/Cloning recombinant DNA to produce IGF-1 in Escherichia coli for use in the tissue engineering of myofibers
Camden Libby '26, Martin Eschman '24, and Richard Jones '25
How do people think about the moral dilemmas of others?/Public speaking anxiety:A local struggle/Modern American reactions to chemical weapons(Audio begins at 02:30)
Summer 2022 Student Research Presentations
Dr. Jonathan Lim, Oxford University (UK)
Unpiloted Aerial Systems (UAS) for Fun and Profit: Harnessing the awesome power of drones to elevate your work and research
Dr. Rachel Goodman
A Presentation on Presentations: Delivering an Effective Research Presentation
Ben Jia '25, Henry Carman '23, Zachary Mowbray '25, and Jackson Paschal '23
Kant's Ethics: What are Maxims?/Surveying Ponds in Hampden-Sydney Ponds for Ranavirus/The Universal Vision of Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandaia, and Lactantius/Hydration and Moisturization Efficacy of Skincare from 1700 to Present
Izac Olatunji '23, David Banton '23, Zachary Mace '23, and Josiah King '23
Ethnobotanical Surveying and Documentary Photography in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Southwest Alaska/Further Investigation in the Effects of Whey Protein on Skeletal Muscle/Deafening Silence:Modern Book Bans Against the LGTBQ Community/Characterization of ACE2/SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Interaction in the Nasal Passageway
Declan Kent '23, Ethan Larsen '25, Trey Grimes '23, and Jackson Eisele '23
Using GIS to Combat Heat Island Effects in Farmville/Marriage and Rights: The Women of Shakespeare/Synthesis of the Transmembrane Domain of the Spike Protein from SARS-CoV-2 and Determination of its Oligomerization State/Examining the Effects of Target Race and Sex on Moral Violations in the Workplace
Jacob Smith '23, Tyler Hobart '23, Elian Toapanta '24, Roman Trettel '23, and Blake Tullos '25
The Bottled-In-Bond Act of 1897: How Whiskey Distillers and Dealers Utilized Public Policy for Competitive Advantages/Synthesis and Analysis of the Transmembrane Domain of the Accesory Protein ORF7a of SARS-CoV-2 and Determination of the Oligomerization State/Rescue on Demand: Facilitating Search and Rescue Operations via Native Mobile App Development/Regional Survey of Water Chemistry and Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity of Buffalo Creek and its Tributaries/Enter as Boys, Leave With a Man: A Look Into the LGBTQ+ History of Hampden-Sydney College
Briggs Randall '24, Jeffrey Hunsaker '23, Victoria Fenton '23, Grace Gillam, and David Crego '23
An Analysis of ESR Programs and their Capabilities/Transhumanism Through Music/Regional Survey of Adult Odonata Communities of Central Virginia/Determining the Oligomerization State of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus Envelope Protein's Transmembrane Domain using Fluorescence/Food Deserts in Virginia: Healthy Food Access' Effects on Health Outcomes
Al Blackburn '23, Ryan Scott '23, Pierce Gemborys '25, Noah Moore '23, and Andrew Rehak '23
The Role of Lipoprotein Biosynthesis in the Pathgenicity of Streptococcus bovis/Who were Early Christians?/Implementation of CW-EPR, a Python Program for Analysis and Processing of ESR Spectra/The Garland Brothers/Synthesis of the Transmembrane Domain of the ORF3a Protein on SARS-CoV-2 for Oligomerization State Determination
Jacob Siler '23, David Banks '24, Connor Eickelman '24, and Brett Reis '23
The Impact of COVID-19 on Dental Hygiene, Health, and Esthetics/The Effect of Plant-Based Proteins on Skeletal Muscle/Overexpression of Lysin B in LestyG Bacteriophage/Synthesis and Analysis of the Transmembrane Domain of the Accessory Protein ORF7b of SARS-CoV-2
Nathan Cabrera '24, Deanna Camp '23, Alexander Kaneklides '23, and Anthony Dischino '24
Continued Survey of Snake Fungal Disease on the H-SC Campus/Examining the Effect of Diversity Distribution on Third-Party Judgments of Job Satisfaction and Mental Health/The Catholic vs. Protestant Definition of Salvation/Installation of the H-SC Planetarium