2022 SOAR Students

Project Title: We Thought She Would Be Able to Go: Exploring Parents’ Experiences of Ableism Concerning School Trips

Major and Minor: Psychology with an Education minor

Project Advisor: Lauren Kahn, assistant professor of education, and Kimberly Wynarczuk, assistant professor of physical therapy

Project Title: Stress Physiology, Neurodevelopment, and Pigmentation in a Vertebrate Model

Major: Cellular Neurobiology

Project Advisor: Dr. Sara J. McClelland, assistant professor of biological sciences

Project Title: The Harary Index as a Measure of Network Reliability

Major: Applied Mathematics

Project Advisor: Nathan Shank, professor of mathematics

Project Title: Systematic Revisions of Harvestmen (Opiliones: Cosmetidae) from the Caribbean Islands

Major: Biology with a secondary education certification

Project Advisor: Daniel N. Proud, assistant professor of biological sciences

Project Title: How Did Black Intersect the Blue and Grey? Black History at Moravian University

Major: Nursing and Pre–Music Therapy

Project Advisor: Jane Berger, associate professor of history

Project Title: Changes in Anuran Behavior and Neurodevelopment from Hatching through Metamorphosis

Major and Minor: Biology with minor in Chemistry

Project Advisor: Sara McClelland, assistant professor of biological sciences

Project Title: A Study of the Effects of Mass and Friction in Avalanches of Granular Piles

Major: Physics and Pure Mathematics

Project Advisor: Kelly Krieble, associate professor of physics

Project Title: Schooling, Justice, and the Future: Arts-Based Research for Educational Change

Major: English (secondary education certification)

Project Advisor: Tristan Gleason, associate professor of education

Project Title: The Securitization of Ecuadorian Indigenous Women

Major: Political Science with self-designed minor in Latin American Studies

Project Advisor: Faith Okpotor, associate professor of political science

Project Title: Speech-Language Pathology and Music Therapy: An Exploration of Collaboration

Major: Music and Health Sciences: Communication Sciences and Disorders

Project Advisor: Eric J. Sanders, assistant professor and program director of the master’s program in speech-language pathology

Project Title: Levels of Cytotoxic Rhodium and Platinum Compounds in Select Organelles within HeLa Cells

Major: Biology with minors in Chemistry and Spanish

Project Advisors: Shari Dunham, associate professor of chemistry, and Anastasia Thévenin, assistant professor of biological sciences