All Day Events

Time Title Location
10:00 am

Capstone and Studio Art at the JCMA

Presenters: Samantha Betar, Natalie DuMars, Emily Haritos, Maegan Jordan, Aspen Leskowsky

Juniata Museum of Art

Special Sessions

Time Title Location
09:00 am

Language in Motion Showcase

Presenters: Wesley Eaton, Jessica Martin, Spriha Pokharel, Talia Smith, Virgilio Vazquez

BAC C116
09:00 am

Dioses/Robots/Amantes 

Presenters: Karla BonifasJimenez, Amy Frazier-Yoder, Estefany Granados-Saravia, Myles Miller, Lincoln Riddle, Lee Roby

BAC C212
09:00 am

Exploring math confidence through a VR simulation

Presenters: Luke Becker, Grace Strayer

Statton Lower Level Commons
11:00 am

Plenary featuring Dr. Jay Hosler, David K Goodman '74 Professor of Biology

Presenters: Forthcoming

BAC A100
1:00 pm

Community-Engaged Learning Experiences

Presenters: Forthcoming

BAC C116
1:00 pm

Criminal Justice Internships: Students' Experience in the Field

Presenters: Emma Greggo, William Jordan, Daniela Scipioni

BAC C212
2:00 pm

“Building Social Work Practice Competency: Professional Semester Experiences Serving Huntingdon County”

Presenters: Ben Allen, Brianna Brubaker, Natalie Conterras, Colleen Creneti, Rachel Guzman, Juan Mauricio Armando, Isabella Motta, Neika Pierre Louis, Carter Sauer

BAC C212
4:00 pm

Eagle Fund Update 2025

Presenters: Shayaan Ali, Johnny Barrera, Deja Gillo, Eric Hess, Maddie Iyengar, Anjan Kumar, Erika Sorto

BAC A100
4:00 pm

Juniata Screaming Eagles Pep Band

Presenters: Richard Kane

Halbritter Quad Entrance

Presentations

Time Title Location
09:00 am

Assessing the Impact of Human Disturbance on Arsenic Levels in Roses

Presenters: Nicole Baker, Reid Davis

BAC B200
09:00 am

Bird Guilds at Old Crow marsh and how time of year affects them

Presenters: Joshua Samuels

BAC B200
09:00 am

Huntingdon County Agricultural Land Preservation Rankings

Presenters: Jessica Hunt, Matthew McCleary

BAC B200
09:00 am

The Science of Feeding Crayfish

Presenters: Timothy Sullivan

BAC B200
09:00 am

Investigating Colorimetric Methods of Detecting PFAS

Presenters: Rachael Filip

BAC C109
09:00 am

Investigating the Role of Polyamines in Mediating the B-Z DNA Transition at the PSEN1 Promoter

Presenters: Himanish Pandya

BAC C109
09:00 am

Varied Approaches to Alzheimer’s Research: p53, i-motifs, and extracellular vesicles

Presenters: Sydney Garner

BAC C109
09:00 am

America VS European Union Social Media Moderation

Presenters: Jehan Teveos

BAC C225
09:00 am

Assessment on Advocacy  

Presenters: Maddie Herold, Abby Johnson, Chase Swain

BAC C225
09:00 am

The Failure of Sanctions on Russia During the Russian-Ukrainian War

Presenters: Jayden Murray

BAC C225
09:00 am

A Review of Cultural Influences on Trauma and Interfamilial Relations Within the Latinx Community

Presenters: Vanessa Alvarez

BAC C232
09:00 am

The Silent Struggle: Examining Mental Health Care Disparities in Rural Communities

Presenters: Geunmin Kim

BAC C232
09:00 am

The fascist authoritarian model of illiberal democracy (FAMID)

Presenters: Vanessa Alvarez, Madison Boris, Sean Chia, David Horton, Lillian James, Paulo Manders, Nicole Montes Perez, Maximus Pan, Madi Roth, Jacob Wallman, Colin Wible

BAC C232
09:00 am

Full STEAM ahead! Archaeology in a Box!

Presenters: Luke Becker, Elisabeth Cox, Isabella Dalansky, Mia Destefano, Holly Guise, Julia Lane, Kaleah Leisher, Lauren Metzger, Cayden Tester, Brayden Todd

Statton 207
09:00 am

The Impact of International Interaction on Domestic Students’ Academic Burnout 

Presenters: Kosuke Toyoda

Statton 207
09:00 am

The Waypoint: An Indie Scifi Comic Book Project 

Presenters: Jonathan Aponte-Stefancic

Statton 207
1:00 pm

Concentrations of Heavy Metals in the Liver, Heart, and Bones of the American Woodcock

Presenters: Margaret Haigney, Mason Schaefer

BAC B200
1:00 pm

Pennsylvania Eastern Coyotes, a Bioindicator Species for Heavy Metal Accumulation: A Comparative Study using Bone and Liver Samples

Presenters: Harleigh Thoma, Kaylyn Walters

BAC B200
1:00 pm

The Impact of Elevated Cadmium in the American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) and its Sources 

Presenters: Christina DAmato, Jocelyn Santos-Ordonez

BAC B200
1:00 pm

Investigating Skin Permeability through Molecular Dynamics

Presenters: Sandy Milby

BAC C109
1:00 pm

Towards greener polymerization catalysis: Structural variation in iron(III) amine triphenolate complexes as a result of axial ligand substitution

Presenters: Tess Ledeboer

BAC C109
1:00 pm

Doppio - A Novel FPGA-Based Implementation of Deterministic Parallel Java (DPJ)

Presenters: Arman Barraghi Zadeh

BAC C210
1:00 pm

A Semester With AI: Assessing AI's Academic Abilities 

Presenters: Donovan Goad

BAC C210
1:00 pm

System modeling to suggest hiking trails

Presenters: Matthew Bates

BAC C210
1:00 pm

Effects of Decriminalization and Harm Reduction on Drug Overdose Deaths: The Cases of Portugal and Oregon

Presenters: Ella Durbin

BAC C225
1:00 pm

Why US Military Intervention Fails

Presenters: Brenna Haggerty

BAC C225
1:00 pm

Why did Elon Musk support Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election?

Presenters: Maximus Pan

BAC C225
1:00 pm

Examining the Impact of Team Cohesion, Motivation, and Stress Resilience  on Collegiate Football Players' Performance and Well-being

Presenters: Tamanna Chhabra

BAC C232
1:00 pm

Evaluating the Meaning Maintenance Model within Athletic and Non-Athletic Populations 

Presenters: Snabu Neupane

BAC C232
1:00 pm

Sports vs. General Pattern Recognition in Collegiate Soccer Players

Presenters: Yuanyuan (Abby) Sunchen

BAC C232
1:00 pm

Arc Melting and Materials Engineering of Ni-Cr and Fe-Cr based Alloys

Presenters: Gonzalo Mesa del Prado

Statton 207
1:00 pm

Building a Panoptes Telescope to Search for Transiting Exoplanets

Presenters: Nodoka Masamune

Statton 207
1:00 pm

Unusual Emission-Line Stars in our Cosmic Neighborhood

Presenters: Rohit Raj

Statton 207
1:00 pm

A yeast gene of unknown function may play a role 
in the regulation of cell wall maintenance and cell division

Presenters: Prevena Ramakrishnan

Statton 211
1:00 pm

How Parkinson’s disease moves - assessing extracellular vesicles in Drosophila melanogaster

Presenters: Taylor Hoffman, Allison Johnston

Statton 211
1:00 pm

Pathogen Prevalence and Diversification: Analysis of Huntingdon County Ticks Through the One Health Tick Initiative

Presenters: Kelliann Drummond, Sarah Halteman, Alexa Viands

Statton 211
2:00 pm

Lead contamination in the American woodcock: Exposure through diet and behavior

Presenters: Nathaniel Harris, Moira McAninch

BAC B200
2:00 pm

Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nesting Patterns in Lieu of Abiotic Factors

Presenters: Amanda Puza

BAC B200
2:00 pm

Wildlife Exposure to Lead: Isotopic Patterns in Pennsylvania Coyotes Linked to Lead Shot

Presenters: Lauren McConahy

BAC B200
2:00 pm

Showcasing chemistry’s beauty: synthesis and characterization of novel mixed-metal polymeric materials by doping zinc(II) complexes of the 3-hydroxyimidazole-1-oxide ligand.

Presenters: Joseph Woodrow

BAC C109
2:00 pm

Synthesis and characterization of promising copper(II) antitumor complexes with Schiff bases derived from 2-pyridinecarbaldehyde N-oxide and amino acids

Presenters: Momoka Nakashita

BAC C109
2:00 pm

Synthesis of Potentially Biologically Active Copper(II) Complexes with Ligands Derived from Various Amino Acids and 2-Pyridinecarbaldehyde N-oxide 

Presenters: Kya Lester

BAC C109
2:00 pm

Synthesis of new copper(II) and vanadyl(II) complexes with an imidazoledioxido ligand that exhibit unusual magnetic properties 

Presenters: Frank Dorman

BAC C109
2:00 pm

Breaking the Norm or Reinforcing It? Kamala Harris’ TikTok Campaign and Gendered Politics.

Presenters: Shannon Para

BAC C116
2:00 pm

Empowering First-Gen Students: Reframing Access to College Resources

Presenters: Juliana Vergara

BAC C116
2:00 pm

“We, the Origin of Loneliness:” A Creative Nonfiction Journal Exploring the Evolutionary, Psychological, and Societal Aspects of Loneliness

Presenters: Marlene Kloecker

BAC C116
2:00 pm

Exploring the Hyperbolic Plane

Presenters: Miriam Sack

BAC C210
2:00 pm

Finite Field Numerical Ranges in Z_p[i]: Analyzing the Missing Line Case

Presenters: Alexander Szperka

BAC C210
2:00 pm

Influences of Juniata Athletes' Strength Growth

Presenters: Jeremiah Burden

BAC C210
2:00 pm

Investigating the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Osteoporosis Prevention: Insights from Prune Consumption

Presenters: Sierra Rossman

BAC C210
2:00 pm

Evaluating Kinship Care: A Proposal for Reform

Presenters: Shealynn Langille

BAC C225
2:00 pm

Taiwan-China Ideologies on Social Media: The dissemination and political efficacy of Chinese propaganda across Taiwanese TikTok channels

Presenters: Elijah Weaver

BAC C225
2:00 pm

What are the best policy approaches for adressing drug abuse in youth and teens in the United States?

Presenters: Bailey Saunders

BAC C225
2:00 pm

Can You Dig It? A Historiographic and Archaeological Analysis of Life in Fort Halifax During the French and Indian War

Presenters: Lauren Metzger

BAC C232
2:00 pm

The Environmental History of Andrew Carnegie’s Iron Mine in Central PA, 1880-1910: How Steel Production Shaped the Scotia Pine Barrens

Presenters: Amelia Kasdorf

BAC C232
2:00 pm

The Great Migration and Philly Jazz 

Presenters: Gabriel Gardner

BAC C232
2:00 pm

The Relations of Kings and Their Reasons for War: The War of the Spanish Succession

Presenters: Michael Monica

BAC C232
2:00 pm

Mommy's Monsters: How My Game Project Healed Me

Presenters: Alexander Ross

Statton 207
2:00 pm

The Influence of Social Media on Voter, Candidate, and Funder Relationships within the US Political System

Presenters: Emelie Nonemaker

Statton 207
2:00 pm

The Limits of Fantasy: Underrepresentation in the genre

Presenters: Hope Turner

Statton 207
2:00 pm

“It Is My Spirit That Addresses Your Spirit” - Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester 

Presenters: Rich Wei

Statton 207
2:00 pm

Edutainment: Balancing Informational Content and Entertainment in Educational Video.

Presenters: Callan Beideman

Statton 211
2:00 pm

Green Web Design

Presenters: Jenny Booth

Statton 211
2:00 pm

Impact of Dietary Polyphenols on Gut Microbial Composition and Function: A Metagenomic Analysis Stratified by BMI

Presenters: Kavya Chheda

Statton 211
2:00 pm

The Impact of Pistachio Consumption on the Gut Microbiome and Glycemic Control in Individuals with Pre-Diabetes.

Presenters: Khushi Kanani

Statton 211

Posters

Time Title Location
10:00 am

Navigating Challenges and Utilizing Supports: Low-Income Students’ College Experiences

Presenters: Wallecia Byfield, Vianca Escobar, Olivia Hardin, Joleyna Martino, Kat Winstead

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

Correlational Study Between Sleep and GPA Among Liberal Arts College Students

Presenters: Alyssa Ross

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

Demonstrating a greener pathway to creating iron(III) amine triphenolate catalysts

Presenters: Lukas Pierson

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

Developing a greener synthesis of an iron(III) amine triphenolate complex

Presenters: Claire Thomas

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

How Meaning in Life Mediates Athletic Identity and Stress Resilience Through the Meaning-Mindset Model

Presenters: Mahely Ordones Cabrera

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

How to build a replicative EEG study: The undergraduate experience 

Presenters: Olivia Barbacci

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

Navigating College Life: Who Do Students Identify as Their Primary Support and Why?

Presenters: Zoe Biles, Jillian Dalansky, Geunmin Kim, Yuanyuan(Abby) Sunchen

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

Student Attitudes Towards Mental Illness 

Presenters: Nakyah Robinson

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

Synthesis of biologically active copper(II) complexes with ligands derived from ß-alanine and 2-pyridinecarbaldehyde N-oxide

Presenters: Karis Huff-Love

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

The Effects of Criminal Records on College Admissions Decisions

Presenters: Josephine Kelly

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

The impact of Soil Characteristics on the Distribution of Chronic Wasting Disease in Pennsylvania White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Presenters: Ava Merced, Lauren Smith

Statton Academic Resource Center
10:00 am

App User Interface Design

Presenters: Jenny Booth

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
10:00 am

Colorful Glazes for Low-Fire Terracotta

Presenters: Sam Betar

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
10:00 am

Enhancing Campus Information Access: AlfieAI: No Eagle flies without AI

Presenters: Kommi Adithya, Ryan Smith

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
10:00 am

Formulating Crawling Glazes

Presenters: Emily Haritos

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
10:00 am

Jadyn Slovick; Empirical Game Development Independent Study

Presenters: Jadyn Slovick

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
10:00 am

Muni-Link IFI

Presenters: Johnny Barrera, Donovan Goad, Brandon Marzula, Dylan Shaneberger, Breanne Spencer

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
10:00 am

Raystown Flood Game

Presenters: Cassie Lease, Gonzalo Mesa del Prado, Dillon Murphy, Shamus Walker

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
10:00 am

Tribalism in Organized Sports

Presenters: Ethan Scheck

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
10:00 am

Bridging the Gap Between the Interactions of C. glabrata and C. difficile

Presenters: Eva Johnson, Dom Watt, Selin Yalcinanahtar

Statton Smale Presentation Center
10:00 am

Ecological Health & the Eastern Coyote: Examining Heavy Metal Concentrations in Detoxification Organs

Presenters: Rhianna Dunn, Harleigh Thoma

Statton Smale Presentation Center
10:00 am

Effects of temperature on metabolic scaling of aquatic crustaceans with different lifestyles

Presenters: Christopher Hartman, Joshua Samuels, Timothy Sullivan

Statton Smale Presentation Center
10:00 am

Evaluating baselines of seasonal phenologies and applications of the data in education and citizen science.

Presenters: Addison Bert, Samantha Moyer, Brayden Todd

Statton Smale Presentation Center
10:00 am

Exploring the Role of The Bufonid Toad Microbiome in Toxin Production Using 16S rRNA gene Analysis

Presenters: Donovan McCammon

Statton Smale Presentation Center
10:00 am

Investigating Amphibian Disease at Juniata College: The Student Network for Amphibian Pathogen Surveillance (SNAPS)

Presenters: Gillian Cunningham, Christina DAmato

Statton Smale Presentation Center
10:00 am

Metagenomic Methods of Pathogen Identification in Huntingdon County 

Presenters: Juliana Onuskanich

Statton Smale Presentation Center
10:00 am

Plasticity of Diapause in Hybridizing Field Crickets

Presenters: Dominique Amisial, Rilee Connors, Lauren Mahkovic, Ken Sorokie

Statton Smale Presentation Center
10:00 am

Rusty Crayfish (Faxonius rusticus) Nocturnal/Diurnal Diet Analysis Within Standing Stone Creek

Presenters: Connor Bunnell, Waylon Ehrenzeller, Brianna Johnson

Statton Smale Presentation Center
10:00 am

Sustainable Practices: Exploring Food Waste Reduction and Plastic Alternatives at Juniata College

Presenters: Jade Michalowski

Statton Smale Presentation Center
10:00 am

Unmasking the Fungal Culprit: Candida glabrata’s Hidden Role in Clostridioides difficile Infection and Therapeutic Implications

Presenters: Manali Misra

Statton Smale Presentation Center
3:00 pm

 From Cancerous Cell to “Cancerous Teammate”

Presenters: Walker Bredickas, Reuben Stoll

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

An Exploratory on Black College Grieving Parental Loss 

Presenters: Taahirah Smith

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

Applying a social work lens to transportation barriers and solutions in a rural college community

Presenters: Ben Allen

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

Developing and Expanding on Existing Procedures for Extracting Paleopalynomorphs from Coals Found in Broad Top, Pennsylvania

Presenters: Sarah Hepburn, Lauren Mahkovic

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

Investigation of trends among strongly antiferromagnetically coupled Cu(II) centers in dinuclear Cu(II) N-oxide complexes using differently substituted pyridine N-oxide ligands

Presenters: Aaliyah White

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

Mediating Effects of Mentoring on the Well-being of Youth Who Experience High Levels of ACEs

Presenters: Talbot Reed-Jaquay

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

Phase Engineering of 2D-Silver

Presenters: Zach Henshaw

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

Self-Controlled Practice vs Coaching CAM Lab 

Presenters: James Rhoads

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

Stress Resilience and Self-Esteem in Athletic and Non-Athletic Populations

Presenters: Tyler Mack

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

Synthesis of an amine triphenolate ligand containing electron-withdrawing functional groups

Presenters: Carly Hill

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

Why College? Exploring factors that shape low-income students' decision to attend college. 

Presenters: Wallecia Byfield, Vianca Escobar, Olivia Hardin, Joleyna Martino, Kat Winstead

Statton Academic Resource Center
3:00 pm

Glass in the Ground: An analysis of alcohol bottle fragments from 18th century Fort Halifax, Pennsylvania 

Presenters: Maizy Hoover

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
3:00 pm

Open Quartermaster I4I Poster

Presenters: Esteban Dujancourt, Matthew Malloy, Alex Mullin, Colten Stamm

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
3:00 pm

Reduction Cooling in Wood Fired Ceramics

Presenters: Natalie DuMars

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
3:00 pm

Rooted in Relationship - Juniata College's Connection to the Church of the Brethren

Presenters: Audrey Muth

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
3:00 pm

Simon Says Plant This!

Presenters: Simon Ramsey, Ryan Smith

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
3:00 pm

The Waypoint: An Indie Scifi Comic Book Project 

Presenters: Jonathan Aponte-Stefancic

Statton Gibbel Legacy Lobby
3:00 pm

A Baseline Dataset for the Comparative Monitoring of Constructed Vernal Pools and Natural Vernal Pools in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

Presenters: Gillian Cunningham, Christina DAmato

Statton Smale Presentation Center
3:00 pm

Developmental Staging of G. pennsylvanicus and G. firmus

Presenters: Adam Bush, Bella Rose

Statton Smale Presentation Center
3:00 pm

Differential Expression of Potential Cardiac Glycoside Genes in the American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus)

Presenters: Michael Grapin, Gianna Leone

Statton Smale Presentation Center
3:00 pm

Evaluating Walleye (Sander Vitreus) Spawning Effort on Constructed Rock Rubble Reefs in Raystown Lake, Huntingdon County, PA.

Presenters: Braden Davis, Abbigail Fields

Statton Smale Presentation Center
3:00 pm

Impact of GLP-1 (Ozempic) on  the Human Microbiome 

Presenters: Stephen Kataria, Tamir Tadesse, Omkar Warke

Statton Smale Presentation Center
3:00 pm

Integrating Imaging, Biomarkers, and Environmental Data to Assess Alzheimer's Disease Progression Across Diverse Populations.

Presenters: Kaitlynn Balmer-Brown, Khushi Kanani, Manali Misra, Snabu Neupane, Prevena Ramakrishnan

Statton Smale Presentation Center
3:00 pm

Investigating the Influence of Land Use and Anthropogenic Activities on Heavy Metal Bioaccumulation in Freshwater Pennsylvania Mussels

Presenters: Rowan Ging

Statton Smale Presentation Center
3:00 pm

Jungle Toilet Paper: Exploring Hygiene Uses of Plants

Presenters: Samantha Moyer

Statton Smale Presentation Center
3:00 pm

Phytoplankton in Raystown Lake

Presenters: Sophia Parlati

Statton Smale Presentation Center
3:00 pm

Urban Forest Management

Presenters: John Hanosek

Statton Smale Presentation Center