Date: Friday, April 17, 2026
Location: Hutton Honors College
This year, the HHC is excited to expand the annual Research Symposium and Poster Fair into a full-day Research Conference featuring concurrent presentation sessions, faculty/staff panels, and a poster fair highlighting the work of students in the Hutton Early Research Opportunities Program.
| Time | Session | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30-10 a.m. | Opening Remarks | Great Room |
| 10-11 a.m. | Concurrent Student Panels | Classrooms 108, 111, and 217 |
| 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Concurrent Faculty Panels | Classroom 108 and 111 |
| 12-1 p.m. | Lunchtime Poster Fair Hutton Early Research Opportunities Program Participants | Great Room and Student Lounge |
| 1-1:30 p.m. | Research Funding Session | Classroom 108 |
| 1:30-2:30 p.m. | Concurrent Student Panels Interdisciplinary Session #2 | Classrooms 108, 217, and Great Room |
| 2:30-3 p.m. | Closing Remarks | Great Room |
Classroom 108
The effect of omega-3 fatty acid levels on clinical and cognitive outcomes during an 8-week supplementation phase
Presenter: Michael Pham
Faculty Mentor: Keisuke Kawata, Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology
Developing a Rural Arctic Infrastructure Index to Evaluate the Relationship between Road Access and Community Capacity
Presenter: Andrea Bendaly
Faculty Mentor: Guangqing Chi, Provost Professor of Geography, Department of Geography
We Seek Her Here, We Seek Her There: Finding Baroness Orczy Within Her Creations
Presenter: Elizabeth Bowling
Faculty Mentor: Lara Kriegel, Professor, Department of English & Department of History
Not so ‘Fun Guy’: Testing the prevalence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus holbrookii) populations
Presenter: Jake Cocalis
Faculty Mentor: Cristina Ledón-Rettig, Assistant Professor & Principal Investigator, Department of Biology
Using Juvenile Hormones to Maximize the Reproductive Output of Gryllodes sigillatus on Cricket Farms
Presenter: Claire Baba
Faculty Mentor: Megan Murphy, Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology
Classroom 111
Developing a Polarized Neutron Measurement Apparatus to Resolve the Barnett Effect
Presenter: Evan Bell
Faculty Mentor: W. Michael Snow, Professor, Department of Physics
Regulation Of NAPE-PLD, A Synthetic Enzyme For The Endocannabinoid Anandamide
Presenter: Elyssa Hyman
Faculty Mentor: Alex Straiker, Research Professor, Gill Institute for Neuroscience
The impact of salary cap and financial strategies on NBA competitiveness
Presenter: Nabhya Kandala
Faculty Mentor: Bhavneet Kaur
The Garden Stand: Addressing Student Food Accessibility at Indiana University-Bloomington
Presenter: Caroline King
Faculty Mentor: Olga Kalentzidou, Senior Lecturer & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Geography
Resisting the Carceral State: The Power of Personal Narratives by Incarcerated Black Women
Presenter: Brookelyn Lambright
Faculty Mentor: Sonia Lee, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies
Classroom 217
Moon Race: Analyzing Artemis Lunar Safety Zones on Legality, History, and Practice.
Presenter: Elvin Rivera
Faculty Mentors: Eytan Tepper, Research Professor, Ostrom Workshop
Comparing Right Ear Advantage in Older and Younger Adults Through Reaction Time
Presenter: Ishna Kesti
Faculty Mentor: Jennifer Lentz, Professor, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Re-Locating Absence: The Phenomenological Function of Hagiographic 'Miracula' and Ecclesiastical Rhetoric in Medieval Britain
Presenters: Cara Roberge
Faculty Mentor: Joey McMullen, Assistant Professor, Department of English
Autonomous Agents in Business: Development, Function, and Application
Presenter: Gunn Park
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Smith-Robbins, Director of Learning Technologies & Adjunct Lecturer, Kelley School of Business
Classroom 108
Marco Arnaudo, Professor, Department of French and Italian
Mansur Khamitov, Assistant Professor, Kelley School of Business
Matthew Josefy, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Kelley School of Business
Babak Seradjeh, Professor & Associate Chair, Department of Physics
Israel F. Herrera-Cárdenas, Teaching Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Moderator: Sarah Frohardt-Lane, Senior Lecturer, Hutton Honors College
Classroom 111
Guangqing Chi, Provost Professor, Department of Geography
Kate Hunt, Lecturer, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
Xin Chen, Lecturer, Kelley School of Business
Angie Wong, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health
Moderator: Britt Currie, Lecturer, Hutton Honors College
A computer model to probe habitual vs goal-directed model
Presenter: Alex Acosta
Faculty Mentor: Wei Tang, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
A Preliminary Study on Vocabulary Duration and Fluency Gains in L2 Spanish Learners
Presenter: Andrea Aguilar Rodriguez
Faculty Mentor: Gabriela Puscama, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
A computer game to probe habitual vs goal-directed behavior
Presenter: Anjola Ajayi
Faculty Mentor: Wei Tang, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Uncovering Signatures of Chemical Exposures through Target Prediction
Presenter: Sydney Antonelli
Faculty Mentor: Kai Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Developing a Rural Arctic Infrastructure Index to Evaluate the Relationship Between Road Access and Community Capacity
Presenter: Andrea Bendaly
Faculty Mentor: Guangqing Chi, Provost Professor, Department of Geography
Understanding the Arrow of Time through Entropy
Presenter: Gopi Chellapilla
Faculty Mentor: Babak Seradjeh, Professor, Department of Physics
A Large Language Models in the Social Sciences: Enhancing Qualitative Data Workflow
Presenter: Sarah Crider
Faculty Mentor: Guangqing Chi, Provost Professor, Department of Geography
A computer game to probe habitual vs. goal-directed behavior
Presenter: Ella Davis
Faculty Mentor: Wei Tang, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Layoffs After IPO
Presenter: Sarah Eisenberg
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Josefy, Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship
Title IX: Examining Sex Discrimination in Higher Ed
Presenter: Amishi Gandhi
Faculty Mentor: Celene Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Can Classroom-Based Gratitude Assignments Improve Students' Academic Outcomes?
Presenter: Lucy Gray
Faculty Mentor: Angie Wong, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied Health Science
Classifying Modular Categories with a Small Number of Prime Divisors
Presenter: Ben Hoover
Faculty Mentor: Julia Plavnik, Charlotte Ann Griffin Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
Safe-OSE Fine-Tuning Benchmarking Cybersecurity LLMs for Automated Vulnerability Repair
Presenter: Ayse Kulekci
Faculty Mentor: Sagar Samtani, Associate Professor & Director, Operations & Decision Technologies, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (DSAIL)
E-Scooter and Street Crossing Preception
Presenter: Terry Liu
Faculty Mentor: Shirin E. Hassan, Associate Professor, School of Optometry
What Happens When You Let an LLM Make Cyberattack Decisions?
Presenter: Anagha Mangalapalli
Faculty Mentor: Ankit Shah, Assistant Professor, Operations & Decision Technologies
Quantum Nature of Time: Physical Model and Sheaf Theoretic Interpretation
Presenter: Nicholas Maytan
Faculty Mentor: Babak Seradjeh, Professor, Department of Physics
REAL-DEAL: Evaluating Preliminary Outcomes of an NIH-Supported Undergraduate Biomedical Research Training Program
Presenter: Cameron McCrea
Faculty Mentor: Vanessa Martinez Kercher, Assistant Professor, Health & Wellness Design
The relationship between cortisol levels and chirping in Black Ghost Knifefish
Presenter: Aila Mckeown
Faculty Mentor: Troy Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
A computer game probe habitual vs goal-directed behavior
Presenter: Zachary Mullen
Faculty Mentor: Wei Tang, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Investigating the Validity of Self-Reported Semantic and Phonological Information in Inner Speech
Presenter: Adi Naren
Faculty Mentor: Brielle Stark, Associate Professor, Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
Governing Mental-Health AI: State-Level Trends, Regulatory Gaps, and System Design Implications
Presenter: Dawt Par
Faculty Mentor: Sagar Samtani, Associate Professor & Director, Operations & Decision Technologies, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (DSAIL)
Post-IPO Layoffs
Presenter: Anika Parvataneni
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Josefy, Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship
Large-Scale Vulnerability Analysis of Hugging Face Linked GitHub Repositories
Presenter: Atharv Pawar
Faculty Mentor: Sagar Samtani, Associate Professor & Director, Operations & Decision Technologies, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (DSAIL)
Non Market Strategy amidst heightened requirements
Presenter: Minh Phan
Faculty Mentor: Jingyuan Li, Assistant Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship
Effective Behavior Change Techniques in a Youth Sport Setting: A Scoping Review
Presenter: Ellie Prible
Faculty Mentor: Kyle Kercher, Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology
The Relationship Between Cortisol and Chirping in Black Ghost Knifefish
Presenter: Pahal Sehgal
Faculty Mentor: Gerald Troy Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
The Revolutionary Settlers of Monroe County
Presenter: Maddie Stock
Faculty Mentor: Konstantin Dierks, Associate Professor, Department of History
AI influencers and their impact on social media marketing
Presenter: Oliver Trueblood
Faculty Mentor: Mansur Khamitov, Assistant Professor, Marketing
Mapping Material Stories: a Digital Network of GarcÃa Lorca Archives
Presenter: Srikar Vaasan
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Dinverno, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Family Succession: Passing the Crown, Losing the Team
Presenter: Zheqi Zhou
Faculty Mentor: Jingyuan Li, Assistant Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship
Classroom 108
Excess Capital and Capitol Hill: The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Innovation Resiliency in an Evolving Policy Environment
Presenter: Anson Reynolds
Faculty Mentor: Philip T. Powell, Executive Director & Clinical Professor, Business Economics & Public Policy Department
Uncovering Biological Signatures of Chemical Exposures through Target Prediction
Presenter: Sydney Antonelli
Faculty Mentor: Kai Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Interactions Between Different Bacterial Biofilms and Their Effect on Antibiotic Resistance
Presenter: Scott Sprinkle
Faculty Mentors: Jeffrey Zaleski, Provost Professor, Department of Chemistry; Joel Ybe, Senior Research Scientist, School of Public Health
Examining Inner Speech and Naming Errors During Semantic Feature Analysis: A Case Study
Presenter: Delaney Duval
Faculty Mentor: Brielle Stark, Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Synthesis & Structure of Metalloenediynes with Functionizeable Azide Malonate Ligands
Presenter: Matthew Bloom
Faculty Mentors: Jeffrey Zaleski, Provost Professor, Department of Chemistry; Vivek Singh, Postdoctoral Researcher, Zaleski Research Group
Classroom 217
Targeting B strain E. coli with bifunctional gold nanorods for Photothermal Antibiotic Resistance Mediation
Presenter: Suttun Cunningham
Faculty Mentors: Jeffrey Zaleski, Provost Professor, Department of Chemistry; Joel Ybe, Senior Research Scientist, School of Public Health
Characterizing E. coli OMVs in the absence and presence of bifunctional Gold Nanorods used for Photothermal Antibiotic Resistance Mediation
Presenter: Anna Stubbs
Faculty Mentor: Jeffrey Zaleski, Provost Professor, Department of Chemistry
Investigating The Validity of Self-Reported Semantic and Phonological Information in Inner Speech || Investigating The Validity of Self-Reported Semantic and Phonological Information in Inner Speech
Presenters: Amare Mitchell & Adithyan Naren
Faculty Mentor: Brielle Stark, Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Centrosome Clustering in Mitosis
Presenter: Samiullah Syed
Faculty Mentor: Claire Walczak, Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology, Indiana University School of Medicine - Bloomington
Great Room
A Mathematical and Neuromorphic Analysis of Dynamic Associative Networks
Presenter: Ryan Cerauli
Faculty Mentors: Anthony Beavers, Adjunct Professor, Cognitive Science Program; Paul Eugenio, Assistant Scientist, Department of Physics
A Mirage of Legitimacy: The Effects of the Employment and Weaponization of the Judicial Branch on the Stability of Autocratic Regimes in Latin America
Presenter: Vanessa Vasquez
Faculty Mentor: Jun Sudduth, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Healthy Cities Lab: Leveraging an Environmental Sensor Network to Support Community Learning and Data Management at the Bloomington Community Orchard
Presenter: Julien Doty
Faculty Mentor: Dana Habeeb, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics
Evaluating the Muse Athena EEG Headset for Cognitive Monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injuries
Presenter: Brett Barnes
Faculty Mentor: Brielle Stark, Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
The HHC Undergraduate Research Conference open to all disciplines, including (but not limited to): visual and performing arts, humanities, social and behavioral sciences, public affairs, natural and physical sciences, mathematics, business and economics, education, and nursing. This is a great opportunity to let others see the valuable work you have accomplished, and to see what other students in a variety of fields are exploring here at IU. It is also a great chance for you to perfect your presentation skills and receive valuable feedback from faculty and interested colleagues. Don't miss this opportunity for professional experience!
