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Celebration of Scholarship, Creativity & Achievement

Students and Faculty Toast the Year in Scholarship

Published books, academic articles, honors research, performances, podcasts and the exhibition of faculty and student artwork mark the culmination of the academic and creative work completed throughout the year. Although we are unable to gather together in person to celebrate, we share the accomplishments of our faculty and students and invite you to view their work virtually. Congratulations!

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Faculty across the disciplines at Ursinus are dedicated to advancing scholarship and creativity in their fields. As liberal arts college faculty, their work is both rigorous and accessible to nonspecialists. The spotlights below provide insight into the work of four of our faculty. To view more Ursinus faculty scholarship and creative work,
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Benjamin Antill

Benjamin Paul Antill

Plasmid-borne Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms in Ciprofloxacin-resistant Transconjugant Escherichia coli.

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Victoria Bearden

Victoria Bearden

Urban Forests and Their Potential to Combat Food Insecurity: Analyzing Street Trees in Baltimore, MD for their Edibility

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Sarah Jane Buck

Pigeonholed: Autistic Representation in Drama

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Cassandra Burke

Cassandra Jayne Burke

Fluorescently Visualizing the Interaction Between Ciprofloxacin and PEG Modified Carbon Nanotube Inside of an Escherichia Coli Cell

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Arthur Kendall Faunce Burns

Classical Conditioning of Cognitive States

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Kristen Cooney

Kristen Cooney

Urban Forests and Their Potential to Combat Food Insecurity: Analyzing the Potential of Edible Street Trees in New York City

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Quaran Davis

Genetic Interactions between MPF and PAM-1

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Kevyn Dewees

Kevyn Dewees

Dopaminergic Axon Development in Prenatal Alcohol Exposure

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Kelsey Gavin

There is Sometimes a Buggy

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Joshua Grahame

Joshua Grahame

Feed-in Tariffs and Sustainable Energy: Why Different OECD Governments Support Sustainable Energy at Different Rates Through Feed-in Tariffs

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Alana Huynh

Alana Vy Huynh

DNA Cleavage Activity of de novo designed Due Ferri single chain (DFsc) proteins

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Alana Huynh

Alana Vy Huynh

Die Funktion von der Natur in ein paar berühmten Märchen von den Brüdern Grimm und in einigen Werken von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Simbarashe Kanjanda

Investigating Protein Interactions Important for Synapse Formation in the Developing Brain

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Sophie Lear

Sophie Lear

Investigating the interaction between PAM-1 and WEE-1.3 during meiosis in C. elegans

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Abby Peabody

Abby Peabody

Candidate Emergence Among Women; The Responsibility to Run

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Elisa Rodriguez

Elisa Victoria Rodriguez

Gabriel(le) and Marcel(le): Gender Fluidity in George Sand’s Gabriel (1839) and Rachilde’s Madame Adonis (1888)

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Emelyn Rodriguez

Emelyn Rodriguez

What Role Can Women in Politics Play in Preventing Democratic Erosion?

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Kenyon Wayman Sprankle

Age and Sex Differences of Ketogenic Diet in C57BL/6-NCrl Mice

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Annielle Stockmal

Annielle Lee Stockmal

Bi the Way, Don’t Pan-ic: An Interview-Based Study of the Coming Out Experience of College-Aged Bisexuals and Pansexuals

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Sarah Thompson

Sarah Marie Thompson

Miracles Happen: An Exploration of Girlhood and Celebrity

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Amanda Teresa Weber

Press Any Button to Get Started: Approaching Japanese Culture and Society Through Video Games

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Jesse Wun

Jesse Wun

Synthesis and Stabilization of Oligonucleotide-Stabilized Lipid Micelles: Optimization of Lipid Functional Group

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Zenya Yanoff

Zenya Yanoff

The Effect of DNA Sequence on Oligonucleotide-Stabilized Lipid Micelles

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Beardwood Toast

The toast is an annual tradition at this celebrated spring event and acknowledges the great achievements of our faculty and student scholars. Each year, Dr. Peter Jessup, our very first Beardwood Endowed Chair, raisies a toast and shares with us a bit of history.
Read the transcript of Dr. Jessup’s Beardwood Toast