Research and Creative Activities Day Schedule 2026
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
9:00am - 2:30pm
Sykes Student Union
General Schedule
| Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Poster Presentations | Sykes Ballrooms A, B, C |
| 10:30am - 11:00am | Poster and SRCA Awards | Sykes Ballrooms A, B, C |
| 11:15am - 12:00pm | Faculty/Student Research Connection | Sykes Ballrooms C |
| 12:15pm - 1:45pm | Student Lightning Talks | Sykes Ballrooms A and B |
| 1:00pm - 1:45pm | Faculty Lightning Talks | Sykes Ballroom C |
| 2:00pm - 2:15pm | Awards for Student Lightning Talks | Sykes Ballrooms A and B |
Detailed Schedule
| Presentation # | Ballroom | Abstract Title | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poster #1 | Sykes Ballrooms | Teaching with Primary Sources: Arts and Place-based Pedagogical Research for Educators | Gill, Anne; Basu, Subarna |
| Poster #2 | Sykes Ballrooms | Enhancing Physician Assistant Student Confidence in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Assessment | Santanna Lonergan, Laura |
| Poster #3 | Sykes Ballrooms | Investigating Suppression of C. elegans Intracellular Pathogen Response by Viral Proteins | Asif, Rabia |
| Poster #4 | Sykes Ballrooms | Seeing Through Their Lenses: Employing Photovoice to Examine the Perspectives of Kindergarten Teachers in Implementing Purposeful Play for Children's Academic and Developmental Learning | Basu, Subarna |
| Poster #5 | Sykes Ballrooms | Understanding Modern American Politics through Identity and Pop Music between 2018 and 2025: A Musicological Analysis | Bedell, Emilyn |
| Poster #6 | Sykes Ballrooms | The Impact of Land Use Change on Water Quality in Pennsylvania Streams: Development - Enhancement or Deterioration? | Biehn, Kelsey |
| Poster #7 | Sykes Ballrooms | Dual Language Learner Status in Relation to Cortisol for Children in Head Start Preschool | Bratsch, Keala; Maya , Marcus |
| Poster #8 | Sykes Ballrooms | Telehealth Music Therapy for Persons with Dementia and Family Caregiver Involvement | Chinofsky, Aliah |
| Poster #9 | Sykes Ballrooms | The School Counselor's Role in Raising Responsible and Safe Digital Citizens | Clarke, Averi |
| Poster #10 | Sykes Ballrooms | Identifying Discrepancies in Music Audition and Performance Practices | Cressley, Miles |
| Poster #11 | Sykes Ballrooms | Rhythmic Foundations: Advancing Standardized Percussion Education in Music Therapy | Cundiff, Samantha |
| Poster #12 | Sykes Ballrooms | Examining the Relationship between Cognitive Reflection and Partisan Bias | Dargitz, Ian |
| Poster #13 | Sykes Ballrooms | Food additive literacy among young adults: assessing the efficacy of a brief educational intervention | Farkouh , Ethan; Sassi, Samantha; Zeloyle, Maeve |
| Poster #14 | Sykes Ballrooms | Development of a Single Session Intervention for Youth ADHD | Frantzen, Jessica; Eneida Vega; Vanessa Chery; Yida Ramirez |
| Poster #15 | Sykes Ballrooms | Marking as Defined by Estill Figures | Goodrich, Kara |
| Poster #16 | Sykes Ballrooms | Contexts of Control and Violence: Understanding Disclosure Reluctance of Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Childhood | Gottlieb, Juliet |
| Poster #17 | Sykes Ballrooms | How Religious Trauma Impacts the Sexual Health of Young Adults Ages 18 to 24 | Gurian, Joandra |
| Poster #18 | Sykes Ballrooms | Bacterial Identification and Characterization of Immune Responses in Wild Nematodes | Haughey, Joslyn |
| Poster #19 | Sykes Ballrooms | Cell Phones and College Students' Level of Attention to Academics, Social Relationships, and Physical Activity: A Case Study | Istvan, Nicole |
| Poster #20 | Sykes Ballrooms | The Impact of Folic Acid Exposure on Eye Regeneration in Planaria | Jackson, Amari |
| Poster #21 | Sykes Ballrooms | Giving back | Jaouad, Anis |
| Poster #22 | Sykes Ballrooms | Self-Awareness and Self-Aware(ish): Undergraduate Perspectives on Self-Awareness | King, Layla |
| Poster #23 | Sykes Ballrooms | Assessing Dysphagia in the NICU | Krough, Sydney |
| Poster #24 | Sykes Ballrooms | Connecting Classroom Physics to Real-World Research: A Citizen Science Approach in AP Physics 1 | Landgarten, Heather |
| Poster #25 | Sykes Ballrooms | Labor Force Reintegration and Economic Outcomes of Justice-Involved Adults in Pennsylvania's Rural Counties | Lewis, Levi; Stone, Williams; Gardyan, Ciara |
| Poster #26 | Sykes Ballrooms | Evaluating the Limitations of Local LLMs in Solving Complex Programming Challenges | Matotek, Kadin |
| Poster #27 | Sykes Ballrooms | The effect of social buffering and gender on cortisol response in emerging adults | Molchany, Ashley; Mcquiston, Kira; Illgen, Britain |
| Poster #28 | Sykes Ballrooms | "They just gave me the syllabus": A Mixed Methods Study of Music Therapy Educators' Pedagogical Practices | O'Brien, Christina |
| Poster #29 | Sykes Ballrooms | Influence of Trash Substrate on Biofilm Growth and Metabolic Activity in Urban Streams | Parrish, Gianna |
| Poster #30 | Sykes Ballrooms | Detecting Deception Under Different Response Style Conditions | Pritomanova, Ivet |
| Poster #31 | Sykes Ballrooms | The Relationship Between Employee Tenure and Work-Life Balance Across European Countries based on the European Working Conditions Survey of 2024 | Rosenberger, Jordyn |
| Poster #32 | Sykes Ballrooms | Classroom Chaos Relates to Cortisol for Children in Head Start Preschool | Ryan, Delaney; Weaner, Emily; Schnell, Agia; Baron, Brianna |
| Poster #33 | Sykes Ballrooms | From Classroom to Career: NSSLHA's Role in Undergraduate Curriculum | Schultz, Mia |
| Poster #34 | Sykes Ballrooms | CRISPR/Cas9 Genetic Modification of Mucor hiemalis with GFP | Shimelis, Ephrasinia |
| Poster #35 | Sykes Ballrooms | Revisiting Sui Sin Far: Complicating and Contextualizing Her Representation and Advocacy | Stakem, Alexis |
| Poster #36 | Sykes Ballrooms | Crime and Economic Activity | Stone, William |
| Poster #37 | Sykes Ballrooms | "A Sense of Belonging is a Journey": Assessing Student Well-Being Needs Through Found Poetry | Teklegiorgis, Luwam |
| Poster #38 | Sykes Ballrooms | Career Readiness Development at NIRSA Championship Series Tournaments | Wary, Samantha |
| Poster #39 | Sykes Ballrooms | Media Perception on a Political Assassination | Watkins, Daniel |
| Poster #40 | Sykes Ballrooms | Simulation-Based Training to Improve Clinical Competence | Williams, Tatum; Grecco, Adriana; Loquercio, Jenna |
| Poster #41 | Sykes Ballrooms | Saying "Yes, and" to the Unknown: Drama Improvisation and Tolerance of Uncertainty in Middle School Students | Kaylee Grazul; Rachelle Bobo; Owen Reilly |
| Poster #42 | Sykes Ballrooms | The Impact of Act 39 & COVID-19 on the Pennsylvania Alcohol Industry | Ciara Gardyan; Levi Lewis; William Stone |
| Poster #43 | Sykes Ballrooms | Improving Graduate Training in ADHD Assessment: An Experiment to Understand Students' Perceived Benefits in Three Instructional Conditions | Emma Slade |
| Poster #44 | Sykes Ballrooms | Building Clinical Confidence: The Impact of Simulation Training on Anxiety in Clinical Psychology Students | Abigail Gehring; Abria Thompson; Emma Slade |
| Poster #45 | Sykes Ballrooms | Same Coping Skills, Different Environment: How Coping Strategies of Undergraduates
Exposed to Childhood Stressors Affects Adjustment to College |
Peace Joel |
| Poster #46 | Sykes Ballrooms | Through Her Lens | Danice Austin |
| Poster #47 | Sykes Ballrooms | Untitled | Nasha Yisrael |
| Lightning Talk #1 | Sykes Ballroom A | Seeing Through Their Lenses: Employing Photovoice to Examine the Perspectives of Kindergarten Teachers in Implementing Purposeful Play for Children's Academic and Developmental Learning | Basu, Subarna |
| Lightning Talk #2 | Sykes Ballroom A | Clinical and Financial Impacts of Hospital Restructuring in Rural Pennsylvania | Kira Brice |
| Lightning Talk #3 | Sykes Ballroom A | Environmental Case Study: Outsourcing Human Resources | Buffington, Fiona |
| Lightning Talk #5 | Sykes Ballroom A | The Impact of Literature: Fostering Empathy, Bridging Connections, and Advancing Society Through The Influence Of Mental Health Humanities | Handy, Layla |
| Lightning Talk #6 | Sykes Ballroom A | Social Dirt or Fertile Soil: A Phenomenological Study of Contingent Faculty | Hiloski-Fowler, Ann |
| Lightning Talk #7 | Sykes Ballroom A | Recognition and Reconstruction of a Tumor Boundary | Hood, Collin |
| Lightning Talk #8 | Sykes Ballroom A | Analyzing the value of Humanistic Studey in Higher Education Combating - Humanities Discoragement | Martin, Geoffrey |
| Lightning Talk #9 | Sykes Ballroom B | Factors that Impact K-6th Grade Teachers' Sense of Self-Efficacy: A Mixed Methods Study | Eckburg, Becky |
| Lightning Talk #10 | Sykes Ballroom B | Analyzing the evolution of eclipse-driven ionospheric TEC variations using radio imaging and GPS measurements | Frederick, Kate |
| Lightning Talk #12 | Sykes Ballroom B | Harm Reduction Policy Changes - Are They Helpful or Harmful? | Mathur, Hannah |
| Lightning Talk #13 | Sykes Ballroom B | Examining Whether Benevolent Childhood Experiences Buffer the Impact of Life Stress on Neuroticism | Naessig, Wren |
| Lightning Talk #14 | Sykes Ballroom B | Lichen Bioindication of a Lost Serpentine Barren Ecosystem | Ritins, Jessica |
| Lightning Talk #15 | Sykes Ballroom B | Students with special needs and world language education: Debunking the misconceptions and myths | Tedrow, Thomas |
| Lightning Talk #16 | Sykes Ballroom B | When Children Recant: Psychological Mechanisms Behind Child Sexual Abuse Exonerations | Kaitlyn McCarthy |
| Lightning Talk #17 | Sykes Ballroom C | Critical Quantitative Methods in Education | Brumley, Benjamin |
| Lightning Talk #18 | Sykes Ballroom C | Postpartum Hemorrhage escape room; a pedagogical approach in undergraduate nursing education | Hays, Christina |
| Lightning Talk #19 | Sykes Ballroom C | Taking Employment Seriously | Udell, Larry |
| Lightning Talk #20 | Sykes Ballroom C | The Leadership of Hospital Chaplains in the COVID-19 Pandemic | Wooten, Zachary |
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