Axe ’Em, Jacks!
View the 2023 Undergraduate Research Conference presentations in Scholarworks.
Nelson Rusche College of Business
Top Scholar
Hana Roers and Toby Sherman
"2021 American Housing"
Faculty sponsor: Rebecca Davis, Department of Economics and Finance
Finalists
- Maxine Brown and Leah Powell
"Spring and Prince Boutique"
Faculty sponsors: Wenjing Li and Pamela Rogers, Department of Management and Marketing
- Anaya Freeman
"Basketball for South Africa: An Examination of the Business Landscape in South Africa and the National Basketball Association's Venture into the South African Market"
Faculty sponsor: Robert Culpepper, Department of Management and Marketing
- Ngoc Hoang
"Testing Multi-index Models to Predict the Return for Fixed Income ETFs"
Faculty sponsor: Emiliano Giudici, Department of Economics and Finance
- Avery Johnston
"Development of an Excel Tool for Retirement Planning"
Faculty sponsor: Emiliano Giudici, Department of Economics and Finance
- Ethan Johnston
"Examining Volatility Spikes in the Financial Sector"
Faculty sponsor: Emiliano Giudici, Department of Economics and Finance
- Tatum Liles
"Interest in Master’s Programs at Stephen F. Austin State University"
Faculty sponsors: Wenjing Li and Pamela Rogers, Department of Management and Marketing
- Alura Lovell
"A Deep Dive into Truck Prices"
Faculty sponsor: Ryan Phelps, Department of Economics and Finance
- Sakina Mundrawalla
"How to Increase Enrollment at SFASU"
Faculty sponsors: Wenjing Li and Pamela Rogers, Department of Management and Marketing
- Valerie Routzong
"SFA Football Attendance Research"
Faculty sponsors: Wenjing Li and Pamela Rogers, Department of Management and Marketing
James I. Perkins College of Education
Top Scholar
Amanda Albright
"Diet Considerations to Promote Bone Health, Prevent Chronic Disease, and Optimize Healing After Orthopedic Surgery"
Faculty sponsor: Justin Pelham, School of Human Sciences
Finalists
- Emma Halliburton and Lisa Moore
"Perceptions of d/Deaf Music Culture: A Mixed Methods Case Study"
Faculty sponsor: Sarah Straub, Department of Education Studies
- Kayleigh Orth
"Beverage Effect on Events"
Faculty sponsors: Gina Fe G. Causin and Kevin Hill, School of Human Sciences
Micky Elliott College of Fine Arts
Top Scholar
Carson Chlup
"Plane of Existence: A Composition by an SFA Percussionist, for the SFA Percussion Ensemble"
Faculty sponsor: Bradley Meyer, School of Music
Finalists
- Megan Bynum and Rae Bynum
"Words of Art"
Faculty sponsor: Eden Collins, School of Art
- Jonathan Graves
"Virtual Reality Applications for Technical Theatre"
Faculty sponsors: Jeremy Becnel, Department of Computer Science; CC Conn and Benjamin Kramer, School of Theatre and Dance
- Amelia Huerta
"Navigating Boundaries: An Artivist Exploration of Immigration Challenges"
Faculty sponsor: Dan Li, School of Art
- Grant McGee, Ruben Monsivais, Maddie Watkins and Drake Willis
"Echoes of Harlem, Selective Realism in the Design for Blues for an Alabama sky"
Faculty sponsor: Angela Bacarisse, School of Theatre and Dance
- Emily Means
"A Personal Exploration of Social Class through Artivism"
Faculty sponsor: Dan Li, School of Art
- Ashton Pages - Best Freshman Paper
"Digital 3D Character Design"
Faculty sponsor: Benjamin Anderson, School of Art
Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
Top Scholar
Cari Mitchell
"An Interactive Map of Historical Buildings of Downtown Nacogdoches, Texas"
Faculty sponsor: I-Kuai Hung, Forestry and Spatial Science
Finalists
- Jacie Anderson, Isabel Bollin and Alexandria Castro
"The Link Between Time Spent Outside vs. Screentime in Children"
Faculty sponsor: John Kidd, Forestry and Spatial Science
- Rebecca Arnold and Dayton Hamilton
"Goal for a Litter Free Campus: A Survey123 Project"
Faculty sponsor: David Kulhavy, Forestry and Spatial Science
- Rebecca Arnold and Dayton Hamilton
"Optimizing Dumpster Locations Through GIS Analysis"
Faculty sponsor: David Kulhavy, Forestry and Spatial Science
- Aditi Dangi, Asa Dillon, Jolene Manlapaz, Ashley Riley and Hope Stowe
"Using Macroinvertebrates as Water Quality Indicators in Angelina River"
Faculty sponsor: Sheryll Jerez, Division of Environmental Science
- Jimmy Fussell, Hadrian Hardin, Heather Lillibridge and Matthew Wagner
"Is Noise Pollution Affecting Student Sleep?"
Faculty sponsor: Sheryll Jerez, Division of Environmental Science
- Madison Gartman
"Analysis of ANSC 3333 Pedagogy"
Faculty sponsor: Erin Brown, Department of Agriculture
- Austin Laynor
"Elucidating the Effects of Grass Habitat Types on Small Mammals"
Faculty sponsors: Reuber Antoniazzi and Cord Eversole, Forestry and Spatial Science
- Leo Montano
"Utilization of the Hunt Trap Method to Investigate a Small Mammal Community in an Upland Pine Stand"
Faculty sponsor: Jessica Glasscock, Forestry and Spatial Science
- Joanna Ramirez
"Pet Diet Changes While Taking an Animal Nutrition Course"
Faculty sponsors: Erin Brown and Jacob Turner, Department of Agriculture
College of Liberal and Applied Arts
Top Scholar
Victoria Hoover
"Are you Now, or Have You Ever Been, Cleopatra? A Study of Past Life Regression, Practitioners, and the Impact of Reincarnation Beliefs"
Faculty sponsor: Karol Chandler-Ezell, Department of Anthropology, Geography and Sociology
Finalists
- Emily Atchison, Trevor Duncan, Skylar Fain, Ares-Jean Sinibaldi and Ashten Waddill
"S.O.S. From SASW: A Response From Senior Generalist Practice Students"
Faculty sponsor: Kristin Bailey-Wallace, School of Social Work
- Emma Boswell
"The Importance of Music Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Faculty sponsor: Tyler Welsh, Department of Mass Communication
- Sadie Campbell
"No Generation Without Representation: Solving AI Art Attribution with SNO-E"
Faculty sponsor: Paul Shockley, Division of Multidisciplinary Programs
- Makenzie Ciancia, Ryleigh McCoy and Mia Thornton
"Analyzing Interpersonal Communication in Arcane"
Faculty sponsor: Elizabeth Spradley, Department of Mass Communication
- Chloe Flores
"Political Ideology and Opinions on Pornography Laws: The Politics of Porn"
Faculty sponsor: Lee W. Payne, Government Department
- Makinzy Hoxsey
"Does Perceived University Support Moderate Health Living and Job Satisfaction?"
Faculty sponsor: Steven Estrada, Department of Psychology
- Alyssa Pierce
"Individuality and Conformity in Spiritfarer’s Good Death"
Faculty sponsor: Sara Parks, Department of English and Creative Writing
College of Sciences and Mathematics
Top Scholar
Megan Beeksma
"Exploring the Diversity of Cichlid Fishes in Rivers of Guyana, South America"
Faculty sponsor: Carmen Montana Schalk, Department of Biology
Finalists
- Megan Arney
"Megordle: A Wdolre Usclnbaermr"
Faculty sponsor: Matthew Beauregard, Department of Computer Science
- Mariona Garcia Dalmases, Alexis Telford and Courtney Young
"Unlocking Nature’s Code: Design Principles for Cooperativity in Multi-Electron Redox Processes"
Faculty sponsor: John Brannon Gary, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Maiko Estrada
"Bioinformatic Analysis Reveals Potential Amino Acid Targets in the Design of Specific Inhibitors against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence Protein, pseudolysin"
Faculty sponsor: Odutayo Odunuga, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Kendall Fiffick, Noah Hoisington, Justin McCathern and Maxwell Pafford
"Are You High? Method Development for Opioids Analysis Using UPLC-MS"
Faculty sponsors: Jamie Humphries and Michael Janusa, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Jared Head
"Development of a Chemotherapeutic Drug Based on 1-nitropyrene"
Faculty sponsor: Matibur Zamadar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Julia Hobson, Callie Lynn and Nicholas Peters
"The Vocal Repertoire of Belugas (Delphinapterus leucas)"
Faculty sponsor: Jason Bruck, Department of Biology
- Gage Kolojaco
"TactileSensation VR"
Faculty sponsor: Jeremy Becnel, Department of Computer Science
- Blake Maillet and Jack Weeks
"Design and Synthesis of Double-ESIPT Coumarin-enamine probe for Multi-analytes Detection"
Faculty sponsor: Rashid Mia, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Sophie Scott
"Freshwater Fish Diversity in a River of the Guiana Shield: The Rupununi River – Guyana"
Faculty sponsor: Carmen Montana Schalk, Department of Biology
Regional Colleges
Top Scholar
Amielia Beam
"Grounded: The Causes and Consequences of Pilot Shortages on the Airline Industry"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Hathcote, Tyler Junior College
Finalists
- Dallas Allmon
"Very Special Episodes and Society: How Sitcoms Worked as a Tool for Social Change"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Hathcote, Tyler Junior College
- Sean Brobston, Tadeen Feroz, Drew Lessert and Abigail Link
"Toxicological Evaluation of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus to Chalcones as a Model Organism for Potentially Reducing the Adverse Effects of UV Sunscreens to Aquatic Organisms"
Faculty sponsor: Scott Dyer, LeTourneau University
- Karina Romero Gaytan
"True Crime Media and The Effects on Mental Health"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Hathcote, Tyler Junior College
- Gracie Hartsell
"The Fundamentals of Volleyball"
Faculty sponsors: Andrea Barrett and Benetha Jackson, Angelina College
- Abigail Link
"Exploring the Effects of Human Health and Safety from Currently Marketed UV filters and Chalcones Against Growing Ecological Concerns"
Faculty sponsor: Scott Dyer, LeTourneau University
- Emma Livingston
"Antibacterial Effects of the Southern Prickly Ash, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis"
Faculty sponsors: Fred Baliraine, Scott Dyer and Josh McLoud, LeTourneau University
- Miranda Coffey, Olivia Donnelly, Wanjiru Gicheru, Sarah Kushner and Taryn Pledger
"Development of a Lab-Scale Constructed Wetland to Determine the Potential Transfer of Microplastics into Sediment"
Faculty sponsors: Scott Dyer and Darryl Low, LeTourneau University
- Alexa Moore
"Mutual Correction for Calcium Instabilities"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Hathcote, Tyler Junior College
- Timon Ovard
"Social Dilemma: How the Government Controls Our Thoughts"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Hathcote, Tyler Junior College
- Esther Reifel
"Falling Asleep in Class - Can You Blame the Wall Color?"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Hathcote, Tyler Junior College
- Anna Waller
"A Rock and a Hard Place: The Messy Dynamics of the Uranian Moon System"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Hathcote, Andrea Hathcote