A selection of papers, posters, and theses voluntarily deposited by students in Chapman University's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program.
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Submissions from 2020
The Poincaré Duality Theorem and its Applications, Natanael Alpay, Melissa Sugimoto, and Mihaela Vajiac
Letters from an AI Poet to its Creator: AI Ethics and Aesthetics Through the Lens of Computer-Generated Poetry, Ginger Yifan Chen
Stress and Negative Affect as Mediators in the Association between Parental Social Support and Lung Function in Adolescents with Asthma, Amber Osorno, Eric Sternlicht, Pornchai Tirakitsoontorn, Azucena Talamantes, Anchalee Yuengsrigul, Zeev N. Kain, and Brooke Jenkins
Brainwaves and Intentions: The Readiness Potential and Its Relation to Free Will, Joanna Pak, Aaron Schurger, Adina Roskies, and Pengbo Hu
The Good War?: Reinterpreting the Second World War in Contemporary Musical Theatre, Leana Sottile
The Künneth Formula and Applications, Melissa Sugimoto
“Is My Package Big Enough?”: Emerging Asian-American Men and Masculinity, Corinne Tam
Designing a Reactor Chamber for Hot Electron Chemistry on Bimetallic Plasmonic Nanoparticles, Bryn Merrill, Bingjie Zhang, and Jerry LaRue
Submissions from 2017
Effects of Restrained Eating on Episodic Memory and Implications for Homeostatic Appetite Regulation, Morgan Kindel
Submissions from 2016
Ocean Acidification and Predator-Prey Relations: Correlating Disruption of Predator Avoidance with Chemosensory Deficits, Alexandra FW Sidun and William G. Wright
Submissions from 2015
From a Chat in the Parlor to Viral Music Videos: An Analysis of Music as a Social Occasion, Emma Plotnik
Prostate Field Cancerization – Thinking Outside the Tumor, Dor Shoshan
Submissions from 2014
Assessment of the Effects of Caffeine, Gallic Acid, and Epigallocatechin-3-gallate on Cell Inhibition, PIM-3 and E. cadherin Protein Levels in Two Lines of Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Lena Haddad and Melissa Rowland-Goldsmith
A Trend Analysis of Aerosol Related Parameters and their Relation to Precipitation Variability in Arizona, Krista Rasmussen and Hesham el-Askary
Prostate Field Cancerization -- Thinking Outside the Tumor, Dor Shoshan and Marco Bisoffi
Dancing Through Life: Allosteric Transitions and Structural Analysis of Hsp70 and Hsp110 Chaperone Proteins, Gabrielle Stetz and Gennady M. Verkhivker