Stander Symposium: All projects - 2024

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  Gandhi and MLK: A Look Into Assassinations and Legacy

  Katherine Michele Desmet

  What is nonviolence — a concept, a mode of protest, a practice for modern living? This poster explores the ways in which nonviolence has been historically interpreted as "ahimsa," "beloved community," and as a way for practical and ethical thinking in our modern lives. We highlight the role of nonviolence as method and practice in historical and contemporary global instances that range from the farm workers movement, anti-nuclear protests, environmental green politics, and Dalit and Black actions towards representation.

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  Gandhian Economic Principles Alive In Modern Day Ice Cream

  Denzil Ryan Turner

  What is nonviolence — a concept, a mode of protest, a practice for modern living? This poster explores the ways in which nonviolence has been historically interpreted as "ahimsa," "beloved community," and as a way for practical and ethical thinking in our modern lives. We highlight the role of nonviolence as method and practice in historical and contemporary global instances that range from the farm workers movement, anti-nuclear protests, environmental green politics, and Dalit and Black actions towards representation.

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  Gandhian Ideas About Health and Diet

  Maya K. Klein

  What is nonviolence — a concept, a mode of protest, a practice for modern living? This poster explores the ways in which nonviolence has been historically interpreted as "ahimsa," "beloved community," and as a way for practical and ethical thinking in our modern lives. We highlight the role of nonviolence as method and practice in historical and contemporary global instances that range from the farm workers movement, anti-nuclear protests, environmental green politics, and Dalit and Black actions towards representation.

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  Gandhi, King and Mandela: Global Non-violence in the 20th Century

  Justin K. Altmeyer, Robert T. Bordenkircher, Aidan Michael Burke, Joseph Riley Buten, Andrew Thomas Casey, Emma E. Clark, Lindsey Anne Cloos, Katherine Michele Desmet, Christopher Michael DiGeronimo, Beecher Charles Dunne, Sam J. Gepperth, Nathan Raymond Glessman, Kevin M. Gonzalez-Brito, Peter John Grant, David W. Haberkorn, Lorena G. Idris, Mary K. Kelty, Maya K. Klein, Elizabeth Grace Knieriemen, Jacob Allan Lann, Carson M. McCorkle, Colin E. Meehan, Jacob H. Murphy, Carla Joellen Pettiford, Alexa M. Rouse, Lucy K. Schuermann, Matthew Casaclang Szell, Casey M. Tirado, Denzil Ryan Turner, Andres Ignacio Umpierre, Peter Anthony Veith, Aidan R. Wanke, Brendan Michael Wiehe, Romeo Fabrice Yao, Laura Zamorano Garcia

  What is nonviolence — a concept, a mode of protest, a practice for modern living? This poster explores the ways in which nonviolence has been historically interpreted as "ahimsa," "beloved community," and as a way for practical and ethical thinking in our modern lives. We highlight the role of nonviolence as method and practice in historical and contemporary global instances that range from the farm workers movement, anti-nuclear protests, environmental green politics, and Dalit and Black actions toward representation.

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  Gandhi on Medicine: What was his Philosophy and how is it Important Today?

  David W. Haberkorn

  What is nonviolence — a concept, a mode of protest, a practice for modern living? This poster explores the ways in which nonviolence has been historically interpreted as "ahimsa," "beloved community," and as a way for practical and ethical thinking in our modern lives. We highlight the role of nonviolence as method and practice in historical and contemporary global instances that range from the farm workers movement, anti-nuclear protests, environmental green politics, and Dalit and Black actions towards representation.

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  Gandhi, Religion, And Quakerism

  Joseph Riley Buten

  What is nonviolence — a concept, a mode of protest, a practice for modern living? This poster explores the ways in which nonviolence has been historically interpreted as "ahimsa," "beloved community," and as a way for practical and ethical thinking in our modern lives. We highlight the role of nonviolence as method and practice in historical and contemporary global instances that range from the farm workers movement, anti-nuclear protests, environmental green politics, and Dalit and Black actions towards representation.

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  Gandhi’s Alignment Diet: A Non-Violent, Satyagraha Framework for Eating

  Matthew Casaclang Szell

  What is nonviolence — a concept, a mode of protest, a practice for modern living? This poster explores the ways in which nonviolence has been historically interpreted as "ahimsa," "beloved community," and as a way for practical and ethical thinking in our modern lives. We highlight the role of nonviolence as method and practice in historical and contemporary global instances that range from the farm workers movement, anti-nuclear protests, environmental green politics, and Dalit and Black actions towards representation.

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  Gandhi’s Impact on Women’s Empowerment in Indian Society

  Alexa M. Rouse

  What is nonviolence — a concept, a mode of protest, a practice for modern living? This poster explores the ways in which nonviolence has been historically interpreted as "ahimsa," "beloved community," and as a way for practical and ethical thinking in our modern lives. We highlight the role of nonviolence as method and practice in historical and contemporary global instances that range from the farm workers movement, anti-nuclear protests, environmental green politics, and Dalit and Black actions towards representation.

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  Gandhi’s Moral Philosophy of Diet

  Elizabeth Grace Knieriemen

  What is nonviolence — a concept, a mode of protest, a practice for modern living? This poster explores the ways in which nonviolence has been historically interpreted as "ahimsa," "beloved community," and as a way for practical and ethical thinking in our modern lives. We highlight the role of nonviolence as method and practice in historical and contemporary global instances that range from the farm workers movement, anti-nuclear protests, environmental green politics, and Dalit and Black actions towards representation.

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  GEM Enterprise Dashboard

  Leonardo Emilio Castaneda, Anna C. Coyne, Mary Grace Y. Kaplan

  MIS and OPS Senior Capstone Projects include small teams of 3 or 4 senior students working weekly with a company/organization to solve a real business problem. These projects extend for the complete undergrad senior year including both Fall and Spring semesters. Students act as Project Consultants and Managers to guide the project from inception until conclusion by delivering solutions and deliverables to the client. Students produce project documentation and formal presentations at multiple stages of the project and conclude with presentations to the supporting Client's Leadership Team.

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  Gendering Violent Extremism: Reflections on Experiential Learning from a Women’s and Gender Studies Internship Program (Panel A)

  Sofia Catherine Likavec, Kathryn Terese McAuliffe, Abigail Marie Ulery

  Violent extremism in the United States has increased in recent years. The January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol is a paradigmatic example, but there are many other horrific cases. Think: the Pulse nightclub shooting (2018), which targeted LGBTQ+ folks, or the Buffalo grocery store (2022), which targeted African-Americans. Both of these attacks follow an alarming trend line where we are seeing “homegrown” terrorism increasing. Yet there is little understanding of how extremist violence is gendered – through the process of radicalization and through groups that are targeted. In this panel, students from an internship hosted by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program – Gendered Injustices and Violent Extremism (GIVE) Program – present learnings from their semester-long experience and engage in a dialogue about where they see the most productive violence prevention interventions moving forward. They focus on both research and practical action steps. They also reflect on what their Women's and Gender Studies education has meant to them over their undergraduate career. As youth on the frontlines, they offer a unique perspective for how to do better in the coming decades.

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  Gendering Violent Extremism: Reflections on Experiential Learning from a Women’s and Gender Studies Internship Program (Panel B)

  Kinsleigh A. Jones, Eva Marie Lonneman, Eden E. Michelson, Megan Marie Sullivan

  Violent extremism in the United States has increased in recent years. The January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol is a paradigmatic example, but there are many other horrific cases. Think: the Pulse nightclub shooting (2018), which targeted LGBTQ+ folks, or the Buffalo grocery store (2022), which targeted African-Americans. Both of these attacks follow an alarming trend line where we are seeing “homegrown” terrorism increasing. Yet there is little understanding of how extremist violence is gendered – through the process of radicalization and through groups that are targeted. In this panel, students from an internship hosted by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program – Gendered Injustices and Violent Extremism (GIVE) Program – present learnings from their semester-long experience and engage in a dialogue about where they see the most productive violence prevention interventions moving forward. They focus on both research and practical action steps. They also reflect on what their Women's and Gender Studies education has meant to them over their undergraduate career. As youth on the frontlines, they offer a unique perspective for how to do better in the coming decades.

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  Genome-wide screening of miRNA’s involved in birth defects in eye

  Mani Manivannan Subramanian

  Aniridia, a birth defect in eye, is caused by mutation(s) in paired-box gene 6 (PAX-6), and is manifested as visual impairment. A highly conserved PAX-6, encodes a DNA-binding transcription factor, whose loss-of-function exhibits loss-of-entire-eye or part-of-eye. Surprisingly, the understanding of the molecular genetic basis of Aniridia is far from complete. Our hypothesis is that the retinal loss observed in aniridia can be due to post transcriptional regulation such dysregulation of miRNAs that plays a pivotal role in regulating genes post transcriptionally. miRNAs are the short hairpin like structure with 20-25bp which modulates the gene expressions post-transcriptionally by binding to 3’UTR of mRNAs. miRNA serves a vital role in the retina throughout development and in eye diseases. We employed Drosophila eye as a model system for genome-wide screening of miRNAs involved in eye defects. We have identified a miRNA which exhibits strong eye enlargement phenotype. Using bioinformatic approaches, followed by validation using molecular and genetic studies, we identified PAX-6 homolog eyeless (ey) as target of this mi-RNA. Here, we provide a mechanism of how this newly identified miRNA modulates eye phenotype, and results from these studies will be presented.

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  Gen Z Gen Free: The Rise of Young Christian Right Politics on College Campuses

  Tucker J. Hoffmann

  produced for the Dean's Summer Fellowship program in the summer of 2023, Gen Z Gen Free is a critical analysis of how Turning Point USA, a growing White Christian Nationalist organization, uses language to discriminate against gender, sexual, and racial minorities in educational institutions. Using scholarly work (insert authors and books here), this work analyzes the rhetorical tools used in speeches from CEO and Founder of TPUSA Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens. It also serves as a brief historical account of the evangelical Christian movement in education. The movement, starting as a response to the desegregation of schools, is still a factor in K-12 and higher education today. Turning Point USA has breached into the evangelical homeschooling market through the foundation of Turning Point Academy, a branch of TPUSA that seeks to "Reclaim, Revive, and Restore" Godliness to American educational institutions.

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  Get Involved! The Positive Difference Extracurricular Activities Make

  Madison Rose Konen

  Extracurricular Activities create an abundance of opportunities for students to succeed. Students participation in extracurricular activities can lead to the development of greater academic achievement and a higher self-esteem. Extracurricular activities help students engage in activity that promotes a sense of belonging and has positive effects towards social competence. This study is a review of how extracurriculars affect students' academic and social engagement.

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  Gifted Education: How Does it Look in the 21st Century?

  Carly Joan Olson

  Gifted education is an approach designed to provide students who have been identified as “gifted and talented” with more opportunities to grow and challenge themselves. What these programs look like varies from school to school, with little consistency. The results of this are that children within the program have vastly different experiences and opportunities depending on what their school has in place for gifted students. This review examines the gifted education system as it stands in the 21st century in U.S. schools including the selection processes, requirements for teacher training, impact on students, and evidence of inequality within the system.

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  Growing Radicle: Growing native plant seedlings for changing landscapes

  Madelyn Clare Moore

  In the wake of great anthropogenic change in the landscape across eastern North America, there is a need for ecological restoration. The decline of the previously dominant oak forests and the need to protect the understory from persistent invasion are of particular interest. There is a current trend of maples overtaking oaks in overall dominance and regeneration with massive consequences for wildlife diversity and human economic activity. Acorns are a major food source in deciduous North American forests, and maple samaras are not an adequate replacement. Beyond the issue of oaks, forest understories are heavily overrun by invasive honeysuckle. Even after its removal, honeysuckle tends to return to its previously invaded sites. It is thought that removing honeysuckle and then filling its niche space with native species may prevent it from reestablishing itself. Ohio buckeye, paw paw, and spicebush are all native understory inhabitants that could protect understories from reinvasion. Paw paw and spicebush have the added benefit of being resistant to deer herbivory. With these issues in mind, the goal of this project is to start up a native sapling repository for key woody species for use in future restoration projects. This project is based in Ginny’s Garden Greenhouse at the University of Dayton and involves seed collection, germination, and sapling management. Native oak species include bur oak, red oak, chinkapin oak, and pin oak. Other species involved include Ohio buckeye, paw paw, and spicebush, with the potential to expand the number of species in the fall. In the future, we may work to collect, germinate, and grow saplings from ancient oaks to further their successful genetics. There is also the potential for experimentation involving sapling success in differing soil qualities and assessing the root systems of saplings grown in differing container sizes.

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  Handheld Packaged Photonic Sensor for Chem-Bio Sensing

  Noelle Elizabeth Boltz

  Silicon semiconductor chips utilizing label-free optical methods can achieve multiplexed sensing of multiple biomarkers of several potential cancers, infections and diseases in a single measurement in real time with a few microliters of sample fluid. However, commercial benchtop optical instruments are often prohibitively expensive, hindering global adoption. The sensors offer high specificity detection down to sub-nanogram levels, enabling early diagnosis of cancers, infectious diseases, and pollutants. Combined with affordable instruments and silicon photonic chips, they could transform global rapid testing, even in remote, low-resource settings. To further facilitate its global application, this project has been focused on designing a compact, durable packaging solution that enables the sensor-equipped device to be easily integrated into testing stations. This design includes internal mechanisms that swiftly direct fluid samples across the photonic chip, enhancing the device's practicality and shipping feasibility to diverse regions.

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  Harmony & Temperance: Gandhi’s Vision of Health and the Influence of Alcohol

  Andres Ignacio Umpierre

  What is nonviolence — a concept, a mode of protest, a practice for modern living? This poster explores the ways in which nonviolence has been historically interpreted as "ahimsa," "beloved community," and as a way for practical and ethical thinking in our modern lives. We highlight the role of nonviolence as method and practice in historical and contemporary global instances that range from the farm workers movement, anti-nuclear protests, environmental green politics, and Dalit and Black actions towards representation.

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  Having a Father Figure in the Home and its Effects on Juvenile Delinquency

  Michael W. Macdonald, Andrew J. Stevens

  In this study we look at the effects of having a father figure in the home and how that can deter juvenile delinquency. We used the Pathways to Desistance data to look at a multitude of factors that contribute to juvenile delinquency which include frequency of offending, having a father figure in the home, domains of social support for the family, depression of the juvenile, anxiety of the juvenile, gender of the juvenile, ethnicity of the juvenile, the mother's current job, and the age at first offense of the juvenile. We recoded some of these variables and ran a negative binomial regression to see whether they had a significant effect on the frequency of offending amongst juveniles.

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  Healthcare Barriers in Honduras

  Andie Marie Lang, Grace Marie Schneider, Oluwayemisi Omobonike Tayo-Ayorinde

  In the United States, healthcare is provided through a combination of private insurance, public government programs (e.g. Medicaid and Medicare), and out-of-pocket payments (Commonwealth Fund 2020). However, the Honduran healthcare system is provided by the Ministry of Health and funded by the government through the NHS (National Healthcare System), which aims to provide equal access to medical services to its citizens (Global Financial Security 2023). While this may seem like an ideal institution, it is estimated that almost 20% of the country lacks access to healthcare services (International Health Partners 2023). In the NHS system, basic healthcare is free, but families are responsible for their loved one's advanced medical care (e.g., non-life saving procedures, medications, palliative and hospice care), meals, and other additional costs making healthcare unaffordable for most individuals (Etheridge 2023). Additionally, many rural Honduran communities encounter other barriers including long travel times/distances, availability of transportation, inability to take time off work, lack of alternative childcare, and even that they are too ill to travel at all. Almost half of the country lives below the poverty line, struggling to live on less than $5.50 a day, and more than 25% of the population is in extreme poverty (International Health Partners 2023). Furthermore, there is a limited presence of health personnel in the country, with only 0.3 physicians existing per 1,000 people, compared to the UK’s figure of 5.8 (International Health Partners 2023). Access to healthcare for rural Hondurans is commonly made possible through international relief efforts by organizations such as Americares and Global Brigades.This poster aims to evaluate the primary barriers to healthcare access, the effect lack of access to care has on Honduras’ population, and the international aid initiatives that attempt to enhance healthcare in Honduras.

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  Hegemony in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints: Discursive Formations in Cults

  Sophia Hollins, Mary Kate Kelty, Mark Martino

  Rhetoric drawing on religious stories, ideals, concepts, and experiences surround us in our daily lives. These posters represent a sampling of the rhetorical analyses conducted by students from CMM 357 Religious Rhetoric throughout the Spring 2024 semester. Groups presented several themed reports prior to Stander and picked one to showcase at the symposium.

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  Herbicidal-induced effects in rivulus mangrove killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus.

  Lauren Elizabeth Corrigan

  Glyphosate, a key ingredient in roundup, has been increasingly present in aquatic systems due to agricultural runoff. High doses of this toxin causes defects in organisms due to its ability to disrupt physiological processes as an endocrine disruptor. To evaluate the effects of glyphosate on non-target species in aquatic environments, I used the mangrove rivulus fish (Kryptolebias marmoratus). They are self-fertilizing amphibious hermaphrodites with the ability to escape water in times of poor quality. These fish produce genetically identical offspring, so we can look at how variation in toxicant exposure alters phenotypes across genetically identical fish. Newly hatched larvae were treated for 96 hours with three different concentrations of glyphosate: control (0mg/L), environmentally relevant (.01 mg/L), and high (1 mg/L). Phenotypic traits of behavior, morphology, and reproductive traits were measured. Fish with relevant doses were predicted to show adaptive jumping behavior while deficits in other traits were expected in all glyphosate dosages. We found fish exposed to both high and relevant concentrations showed behavioral deficits. A trend at low doses was observed at the beginning of maturity; however, this did not persist through adulthood. Fish treated with high concentrations had later reproductive deficits. There was no evidence to support the relevant adaptive hypothesis. This study displayed the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems by providing evidence even relevant concentrations of herbicide may be harmful to aquatic organisms.

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  Here comes the sun: A study of insect ecology during Ohio’s solar power boom

  Grace L. Litavsky, Stephanie Kaitlyn Murray, Joseph W. Reichel, Leen Sawas, Skylar M. Shannon

  As the world’s population and demand for energy continues to increase, we are also experiencing a rapid increase in renewable energy, such as solar power. Ohio is in the midst of a large solar boom, in which many solar fields are converted to something called “solar prairies.” The native, flowering vegetation in a solar prairie is meant to attract pollinators to boost the ecological value of the land. As solar prairies continue to surface in Ohio, we are still facing a large knowledge gap regarding (1) the effects of solar arrays on insects and (2) the best management practices for solar prairie vegetation. To help bridge this first knowledge gap, we are surveying insect communities at newly proposed solar sites before and after solar installation. Many of these proposed sites will be seeded as solar prairies during or following the installation process. Thus far, we have sampled the insect community at Marianist Environmental Education Center (MEEC) once before the installation of their solar array (September 2022), and three times after installation (June, July, and October 2023). We collected insects using pitfall traps (2022: n= 9; 2023: n= 12 per sampling date), pan traps (2022: n= 9; 2023: n= 12 per sampling date), and sweep nets (2022: n= 10; 2023: n= 12 per sampling date). Insects were sorted to order level identification (e.g., bees are of the order Hymenoptera) and we used analyses of variance (ANOVA) and generalized linear models (GLM) to test for differences in insect communities before and after solar installation. Insect abundance increased after installation, while insect diversity decreased. However, we will be following the progression of this solar prairie over time, and expect to see a rebound and increase in insect diversity, as the plant community grows and diversifies.

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  High Precision Partial Object Tracking using Intensity and Depth Data

  Eric G. Smith

  Object and target tracking algorithms often have scenes and objects that they are better utilized for. However, the goal for object tracking algorithms is to be robust enough to be employable in many scenarios with as few disadvantages as possible. This project attempts to leverage open-source object tracking algorithms and combine the tracking performance of each for improved tracking capabilities. This fusion approach is done utilizing OpenCV, an open-source library for real-time computer vision functionality. An image set with objects of interest is used as the data source. The performance of individual trackers will be analyzed and compared to the performance of the fusion approach this project attempts to leverage. The goal of this project is to leverage the capabilities of each tracker and fuse their track results in a way to make up for poor performance in each algorithm individually. The resulting algorithm tracks a part of the object with sub-pixel precision.