Student Publications
This series contains a wide range of published scholarship and writing by students at Clark University. Many co-authored collaborations with Clark faculty are featured.
Submissions from 2025
Experimental approaches to investigate biophysical interactions between homeodomain transcription factors and DNA, Fadwa Mekkaoui, Robert A. Drewell, Jacqueline M. Dresch, and Donald E. Spratt
Submissions from 2024
Merging adoption of natural climate solutions in agriculture with climatic and non-climatic risks within an (intra)gendered framework, Kwabena Antwi
Geopolitics and geospatial strategies: the rise of regulatory supply chain controls for semiconductor GPN in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, Yuko Aoyama, Eunyeong Song, and Shan-Yu Wang
Coordination complexes of isoquinoline with cobalt and nickel halides, Michelle A. Bellerive, Michael T. Kebede, Diane A. Dickie, Christopher Landee, Melanie Rademeyer, and Mark Turnbull
Copper(II) salts and complexes of 2-amino-5-nitropyridine*, Andrew G. Bellesis, Alexander J. Villani-Gale, Diane A. Dickie, Jerry P. Jasinki, Christopher Landee, Jan L. Wikaira, Roger D. Willett, and Mark M. Turnbull
Many-to-many mapping: A simulation study of how the number of traits and tasks affect the evolution of form and function, Philip Bergmann and Isabel Tonelli-Sippel
Analyzing the Losses and Gains of a Land Category: Insights from the Total Operating Characteristic, Thomas Mumuni Bilintoh, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Zhen Liu
Methods to compare sites concerning a category’s change during various time intervals, Thomas Mumuni Bilintoh, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Aiyin Zhang
Clarifying and measuring the characteristics of experiences that involve a loss of self or a dissolution of its boundaries, Nicholas K. Canby, Jared Lindahl, Willoughby B. Brown, and James Córdova
Drivers of perceived discrimination among older adults in India: an intersectional analysis, Jayantika Chakraborty and Sampurna Kundu
Territory, rights, and migrant justice: Undocumented first amendment rights, or the deterritorialization of rights access, Jacob P. Chamberlain
'We' instead of 'me': How Buen Vivir Indigenous cosmopraxes allow us to conceive security differently and face insecurities together, Juliano Cortinhas, Yara Martinelli, and Ricardo Barbosa
Memory in cyclically crumpled sheets, Amit Dawadi and Arshad Kudrolli
Transcription factor expression landscape in Drosophila embryonic cell lines, Robert A. Drewell, Daniel Klonaros, and Jacqueline Dresch
Perceived Impact of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade on Queer Parents’ Reproductive and Sexual Lives, Abbie E. Goldberg, Lea Silvert, and Brittany Charlton
Family-building desires among adopted adolescents with lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parents, Abbie E. Goldberg, Lea Silvert, and Rachel H. Farr
Synthesis, coordination modes, structures, and magnetic properties of halogen-substituted 2-hydroxypyridine, Mathew R. Graci, Firas F. Awwadi, Diane A. Dickie, Christopher Landee, and Mark M. Turnbull
Chloride bibridged Cu(II) chains with n-Br-2-pyridone molecules, Mathew R. Graci, Christopher Landee, Diane A. Dickie, and Mark M. Turnbull
The Ruins of the Enclave: Simultaneity and Agrarian Change in Palmar Sur, Costa Rica, María Guillén-Araya
The effect of urbanization and temperature on thermal tolerance, foraging performance, and competition in cavity-dwelling ants, Brooke A. Harris, Dale Stevens, and Kaitlyn A. Mathis
Examining feasibility, acceptability, and participant experiences of an anti-racist parenting intervention for White U.S. parents, Amy Heberle, Noah Hoch, Anna C. Wagner, Amanda G. Caccia Cruz, Longjing Zhou, and Aiman K. Khan
Thermocrystallization of lattice dipolar bosons coupled to a high-finesse cavity, Yaghmorassene Hebib, Chao Zhang, Massimo Boninsegni, and Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone
Different power perceptions based on socially situated needs: Findings from a qualitative study among Asian Americans, Hu Young Jeong, Johanna Vollhardt, Michelle S. Twali, and John Tawa
Synthesis and evaluation of 2,5-substituted pyrimidines as small-molecule gankyrin binders, Dipti Kanabar, Emma I. Kane, Tejashri Chavan, Taylor M. Laflamme, Ethan Suarez, Mimansa Goyal, Vivek Gupta, Donald E. Spratt, and Aaron Muth
Development of Novel Immobilized Copper–Ligand Complex for Click Chemistry of Biomolecules, Rene Kandler, Yomal Benaragama, Manoranjan Bera, Caroline Wang, Rasheda Aktar Samiha, W.M.C. Sameera, Samir Das, and Arundhati Nag
Highly toxic Aβ begets more Aβ, Merc M. Kemeh and Noel Lazo
Are weapon allometries steeper in major or minor males? A meta-analysis, Sydney A. Kochensparger
Improving growth models of cultivated sugar kelp, Saccharina latissima, by accounting for intraspecific variation in thermal tolerance, Ruby Krasnow, Sara Gonzalez, and Scott Lindell
Love Isn’t Colorblind: Internalized Racism, Resistance and Empowerment Against Racism, and Asian American Men’s Racialized Dating Preferences, Thomas P. Le and Aimee C. Chan
A Voice Behind the Headlines: The Public Relations of the Canadian Jewish Congress During the Holocaust, Nathan Lucky
“When you live in a colony… every act counts”: Exploring engagement in and perceptions of diverse anti-colonial resistance strategies in Puerto Rico, Carmen Marazzi and Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Social Competence, School Engagement, and School Performance Among US Children Adopted Through Private Domestic, International, and Foster Care Adoption, Nora McCormick and Abbie E. Goldberg
Magnetically tunable tetrahedral cobalt(II) halide salts a Send mail to Mukda B.A.; a; b; c;, Benjamin A. Mukda, John Giantsidis, Christopher P. Landee, Diane A. Dickie, Jan L. Wikaira, and Mark M. Turnbull
Alternating Cu(II) chains with bridging pyrazine, oxy- and halo-ligands, Benjamin A. Mukda, Christopher Landee, Diane A. Dickie, Jan L. Wikaira, and Mark M. Turnbull
Dichloridotetrakis(3-methoxyaniline)nickel(II), Benjamin A. Mukda and Mark M. Turnbull
A Copper-Selective Sensor and Its Inhibition of Copper-Amyloid Beta Aggregation, Ngoc Kim Nguyen, Bella Poduska, Mia Franks, Manoranjan Bera, Ian MacCormack, Guoxing Lin, Alexander P. Petroff, Samir Das, and Arundhati Nag
Appearance investment and intimacy: direct and indirect effects in the context of romantic relationships, Lillian P. Palmer, Setareh M. Rossman, and James Cordova
Rational number representation, math anxiety, and algebra performance in college students, Sangmi Park and Alena G. Esposito
Trapping and scattering of a multiflagellated bacterium by a hard surface, Alexander P. Petroff and Schuyler McDonough
Child Maltreatment, Adult Trauma, and Mental Health Symptoms Among Women Veterans: A Scoping Review of Published Quantitative Research, Candice Presseau, Jessica R. Carney, Nora K. Kline, Alyssa A. Grimshaw, Lauren DeMoss, Craig Gunderson, and Galina A. Portnoy
Estimating round-tripping FDI from firm-level data in China, Zeyi Qian, Junfu Zhang, and Qiangyuan Chen
Greening the energy future: Role of energy innovation as policy driver, Jin Sheng, Avik Sinha, Sadia Mansoor, and Muhammad Wasif Zafar
Divergent biophysical responses of western United States forests to wildfire driven by eco-climatic gradients, Surendra Shrestha, Christopher A. Williams, Brendan M. Rogers, John Rogan, and Dominik Kulakowski
Impacts of mining on vegetation phenology and sensitivity assessment of spectral vegetation indices to mining activities in arid/semi-arid areas, Xiaofei Sun, Yingzhi Zhou, Songsong Jia, Huaiyong Shao, Meng Liu, Shiqi Tao, and Xiaoai Dai
The Kurdish struggle: Multiple ways of resisting in a historically oppressive context, Helin Ünal and Canan Coşkan
Never again: Lessons of genocide in survivor testimonies from the Holocaust, Nanjing massacre and Rwandan genocide, Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Trina Konushevci, Amer Macedonci, and Hyomin Lee
Grappling with real property supremacy in US urban climate finance, Julia Wagner, Mark Kear, Sarah Knuth, Sahar Zavareh Hofmann, and Zac E. Taylor
The disordered negatively charged C-terminus of the large HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase HERC2 provides structural and thermal stability to the HECT C-lobe, Kelly L. Waters, Kayla J. Rich, Noah D. Schwaegerle, Tianyi Yang, Shuanghong Huo, and Donald E. Spratt
New Discoveries on Protein Recruitment and Regulation during the Early Stages of the DNA Damage Response Pathways, Kelly Waters and Donald E. Spratt
Correlation of immediate prevalence of cervical precancers and cancers with HPV genotype and age in women with atypical glandular cells cytology: A retrospective analysis of 369 cases, Xin Zhou, Wanrun Lin, Yiming Qin, Xiaofei Zhang, Huijuan Zhang, Wenxin Zheng, and Feng Zhou
Submissions from 2023
Changes in Nigeria’s enabling environment for nutrition from 2008 to 2019 and challenges for reducing malnutrition, Olutayo Adeyemi, Mara van den Bold, Nicholas Nisbett, and Namukolo Covic
The Effect of Energy Consumption, Income, and Population Growth on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from NARDL and Machine Learning Models, Mansoor Ahmed, Wen Huan, Nafees Ali, Ahsan Shafi, Muhsan Ehsan, Kamal Abdelrahman, Saiq Shakeel Abbasi, Anser Ali Khan, and Mohammed S. Fnais
Intra-gendered perceptions and adoption of climate-smart agriculture: Evidence from smallholder farmers in the Upper East Region of Ghana, Kwabena Antwi and Philip Antwi-Agyei
A family of methoxide-bridged Cu(II) compounds with N-heterocyclic ligands: dimers and chains, Alma P. Araujo-Martinez, Kesli Faber, Diane A. Dickie, Christopher P. Landee, Mark M. Turnbull, Brendan Twamley, and Nathan Huynh
Comparing the Trajectory of Urban Impervious Surface in Two Cities: The Case of Accra and Kumasi, Ghana, Thomas Mumuni Bilintoh, Andrews Korah, Antwi Opuni, and Adeline Akansobe
Sampling inequalities affect generalization of neuroimaging-based diagnostic classifiers in psychiatry, Zhiyi Chen, Bowen Hu, Xuerong Liu, Benjamin Becker, Simon B. Eickoff, Kuan Miao, Xingmei Gu, Yancheng Tang, Xin Dai, Chao Li, Artemiy Leonov, Zhibing Xiao, Zhengzhi Feng, Ji Chen, and Hu Chuan-Peng
Evaluation of Risk of Bias in Neuroimaging-Based Artificial Intelligence Models for Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Systematic Review, Zhiyi Chen, Xuerong Liu, Qingwu Yang, Yan-Jiang Wang, Kuan Miao, Zheng Gong, Yang Yu, Artemiy Leonov, Chunlei Liu, Zhengzhi Feng, and Hu Chuan-Peng
New tRNA-targeting transposons that hijack phage and vesicles, Emily Dart and Nathan A. Ahlgren
Reed bamboos drive skull shape evolution in bush frogs of the Western Ghats, Peninsular India, Kalpana Das, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Edward Stanley, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, Kartik Shanker, and Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar
Reacting to Non-Prototypical Victims: Blame, Empathy, and Willingness to Label Sexual Assaults of Men and Sexual Minority Victims, Gianna E. Davis
Stories of Challenge in South Africa: changes in the enabling environment for nutrition among young children (1994–2021), Scott Drimie, Mara van den Bold, Lisanne du Plessis, and Laura Casu
Learning through bilingual education Cognitive and academic impacts, Alena G. Esposito and Sangmi Park
Synchronised transcranial magnetic stimulation for substance use-disordered Veterans: protocol for the pilot sham-controlled acceptability trial, Jonathan Jampel, McKenzie J. Quinn, Jamie L. Catalano, Chelsie B. Benca-Bachman, Leslie Brick, Noah S. Philip, and Robert M. Swift
The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland, Hu Young Jeong, Özden Melis Uluğ, and Gülseli Baysu
Limited Evidence of Cumulative Effects From Recurrent Droughts in Vegetation Responses to Australia's Millennium Drought, Tong Jiao, Christopher A. Williams, Martin De Kauwe, and Belinda E. Medlyn
Ugandan men’s experiences and perceptions of their fathering roles, Emma Kironde and Michael E. Addis
Describing NMR chemical exchange by effective phase diffusion approach, Guoxing Lin
Potential hazards and road-source apportionment of toxic trace metals in the dust from residential buildings in typical coal-utilization cities, Yuan Liu, Chunjie Zhao, Tianyi Yang, Biao Fu, Yuke Wu, Jiamei Zhang, Yong Wei, and Xiaoxiao Lu
The Karabakh Flashpoint: Turkish Authoritarian Rule and the Recurrence of Genocide, Ani Garabed Ohanian
Shoot flammability differences between forest and savanna trees are driven by leaf dry matter content, Alejandro Ortiz, Henry Maxwell Marinace, Joseph J. Fisk, Lexi Hankenson, Ashley S. Pacheco, Hannah D. Goodman, Ebony Potts, Susan G.W. Laurance, Emily A. Bischoff, Victoria F. Holman, Sophia M. Love, and David Y.P. Tng
The Experience of BIPOC Living with Chronic Pain in the USA: Biopsychosocial Factors that Underlie Racial Disparities in Pain Outcomes, Comorbidities, Inequities, and Barriers to Treatment, Demario S. Overstreet, Bethany D. Pester, Jenna M. Wilson, Mikayla K. Flowers, Nora K. Kline, and Samantha M. Meints
A global phylogenomic analysis of the shiitake genus Lentinula, Sean Sierra-Patev, Byoungnam Min, Miguel Naranjo-Ortiz, Brian Looney, Zachary Konkel, Jason C. Slot, Yuichi Sakamoto, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Antonis Rokas, Juan Carro, Susana Camarero, Patricia Ferreira, Gonzalo Molpeceres, Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas, Ana Serrano, Bernard Henrissat, Elodie Drula, Karen W. Hughes, Juan L. Mata, Noemia Kazue Ishikawa, Ruby Vargas-Isla, Shuji Ushijima, Chris A. Smith, John Donoghue, Steven Ahrendt, William Andreopoulos, Guifen He, Kurt LaButti, Anna Lipzen, Vivian Ng, Robert Riley, Laura Sandor, and David Hibbett
Barriers and Facilitators to Acceptability and Uptake of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Among Black Women in the United States: a Systematic Review, Frerik Smit and Tsitsi B. Masvawure
Estimates of the spatially complete, observational-data-driven planetary boundary layer height over the contiguous United States, Shiqi Tao, Zolal Ayazpour, Dan Li, Amy Jo Scarino, Ralph E. Kuehn, and Kang Sun
Theorizing Power in Community Economies: A Women's Cooperative in Northern Kurdistan, Kaner Atakan Turker
Outcomes of the Halliburton Loophole: Chemicals regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act in US fracking disclosures, 2014-2021, Vivian Underhill, Angelica Fiuza, Gary Allison, Grace Poudrier, Sarah Lerman-Sinkoff, Lourdes Vera, and Sara Wylie
Performing traceability: Unpacking the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) trade circuit in Peru, Alejandra Villanueva Ubillús and Gisselle Vila Benites
A Balance of Power: Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges of AI for a Nation, Shasha Yu
Submissions from 2022
Performance and Kinematic Differences Between Terrestrial and Aquatic Running in Anolis Sagrei, Amy Y. Cheu, Samantha A. Reed, Sara D. Mann, and Philip J. Bergmann
Genome Sequence of the Estuarine Synechococcus sp. Strain NB0720_010, Campbell A. MacKenzie, Marcia F. Marston, Javier F. Tabima, and Nathan A. Ahlgren
Global phylogeny of the Shiitake mushroom and related Lentinula species uncovers novel diversity and suggests an origin in the Neotropics, Nelson Menolli, Santiago Sánchez-Ramírez, Marisol Sánchez-García, Chaoqun Wang, Sean Patev, Noemia Kazue Ishikawa, Juan L. Mata, Alexandre Rafael Lenz, Ruby Vargas-Isla, Lauren Liderman, Meriel Lamb, Mitchell Nuhn, Karen W. Hughes, Yang Xiao, and David S. Hibbett
Wildfire controls on land surface properties in mixed conifer and ponderosa pine forests of Sierra Nevada and Klamath mountains, Western US, Surendra Shrestha, Christopher A. Williams, Brendan M. Rogers, John Rogan, and Dominik Kulakowski
Population genomics provides insights into the genetic basis of adaptive evolution in the mushroom-forming fungus Lentinula edodes, Jingcheng Zhang, Nan Shen, Chuang Li, Xingjie Xiang, Gaolei Liu, Ying Gui, Sean Patev, David S. Hibbett, Kerrie Barry, William Andreopoulos, Anna Lipzen, Robert Riley, Guifen He, Mi Yan, Igor V. Grigoriev, Hoi Shan Kwan, Man Kit Cheung, Yinbing Bian, and Yang Xiao
Submissions from 2021
Fitting thermodynamic-based models: Incorporating parameter sensitivity improves the performance of an evolutionary algorithm, Michael J. Gaiewski, Rob Drewell, and Jacqueline M. Dresch
Genomic Analysis Enlightens Agaricales Lifestyle Evolution and Increasing Peroxidase Diversity, Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas, José M. Barrasa, Marisol Sánchez-García, Susana Camarero, Shingo Miyauchi, Ana Serrano, Dolores Linde, Rashid Babiker, Elodie Drula, Iván Ayuso-Fernández, Remedios Pacheco, Guillermo Padilla, Patricia Ferreira, Jorge Barriuso, Harald Kellner, Raúl Castanera, Manuel Alfaro, Lucía Ramírez, Antonio G. Pisabarro, Robert Riley, Alan Kuo, William Andreopoulos, Kurt Labutti, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Andrew Tritt, Anna Lipzen, Guifen He, Mi Yan, Vivian Ng, Igor V. Grigoriev, Daniel Cullen, Francis Martin, and David Hibbett
Submissions from 2020
Genomic mosaicism underlies the adaptation of marine Synechococcus ecotypes to distinct oceanic iron niches, Nathan A. Ahlgren, Bernard Shafer Belisle, and Michael D. Lee
Genome sequences of synechococcus sp. Strain MIT S9220 and cocultured cyanophage SynMITS9220M01, B. Shafer Belisle, Andres A.Avila Paz, Angelina R. Carpenter, Tayla C. Cormier, Adam J. Lewis, Linnea S. Menin, Daniel R. Oliveira, Bukyung Song, Amy Szeto, Elizabeth I. Tchantouridze, Kayleigh A. Watson, Mary T. Yohannes, and Nathan A. Ahlgren
Convergent evolution of elongate forms in craniates and of locomotion in elongate squamate reptiles, Philip J. Bergmann, Sara D.W. Mann, Gen Morinaga, Elyse S. Freitas, and Cameron D. Siler
Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits, Shingo Miyauchi, Enikő Kiss, Alan Kuo, Elodie Drula, Annegret Kohler, Marisol Sánchez-García, Emmanuelle Morin, Bill Andreopoulos, Kerrie W. Barry, Gregory Bonito, Marc Buée, Akiko Carver, Cindy Chen, Nicolas Cichocki, Alicia Clum, David Culley, Pedro W. Crous, Laure Fauchery, Mariangela Girlanda, Richard D. Hayes, Zsófia Kéri, Kurt LaButti, Anna Lipzen, Vincent Lombard, Jon Magnuson, François Maillard, Claude Murat, Matt Nolan, Robin A. Ohm, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Maíra de Freitas Pereira, Silvia Perotto, and David Hibbett
Fruiting body form, not nutritional mode, is the major driver of diversification in mushroom-forming fungi, Marisol Sánchez-García, Martin Ryberg, Faheema Kalsoom Khan, Torda Varga, László G. Nagy, and David S. Hibbett
Investigating cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurogenesis in Capitella teleta sheds light on the ancestor of Annelida, A. Sur, A. Renfro, P. J. Bergmann, and N. P. Meyer
A network-based integrated framework for predicting virus–prokaryote interactions, Weili Wang, Jie Ren, Kujin Tang, Emily Dart, Julio Cesar Ignacio-Espinoza, Jed A. Fuhrman, Jonathan Braun, Fengzhu Sun, and Nathan A. Ahlgren
Submissions from 2019
The convergent evolution of snake-like forms by divergent evolutionary pathways in squamate reptiles*, Philip J. Bergmann and Gen Morinaga
Angles and waves: intervertebral joint angles and axial kinematics of limbed lizards, limbless lizards, and snakes, Gen Morinaga and Philip J. Bergmann
Rapid and efficient purification of Drosophila homeodomain transcription factors for biophysical characterization, Rachel Orlomoski, Aaron Bogle, Jeanmarie Loss, Rylee Simons, Jacqueline M. Dresch, Robert A. Drewell, and Donald E. Spratt
Megaphylogeny resolves global patterns of mushroom evolution, Torda Varga, Krisztina Krizsán, Csenge Földi, Bálint Dima, Marisol Sánchez-García, Santiago Sánchez-Ramírez, Gergely J. Szöllősi, János G. Szarkándi, Viktor Papp, László Albert, William Andreopoulos, Claudio Angelini, Vladimír Antonín, Kerrie W. Barry, Neale L. Bougher, Peter Buchanan, Bart Buyck, Viktória Bense, Pam Catcheside, Mansi Chovatia, Jerry Cooper, Wolfgang Dämon, Dennis Desjardin, Péter Finy, József Geml, Sajeet Haridas, Karen Hughes, Alfredo Justo, Dariusz Karasiński, Ivona Kautmanova, Brigitta Kiss, Sándor Kocsubé, and David Hibbett
Submissions from 2018
Genomics and development of Lentinus tigrinus: A white-rot wood-decaying mushroom with dimorphic fruiting bodies, Baojun Wu, Zhangyi Xu, Alicia Knudson, Alexis Carlson, Naiyao Chen, Sam Kovaka, Kurt LaButti, Anna Lipzen, Christa Pennachio, Robert Riley, Wendy Schakwitz, Kiwamu Umezawa, Robin A. Ohm, Igor V. Grigoriev, Laszlo G. Nagy, John Gibbons, and David Hibbett
Submissions from 2017
It’s just sand between the toes: How particle size and shape variation affect running performance and kinematics in a generalist lizard, Philip J. Bergmann, Kyle J. Pettinelli, Marian E. Crockett, and Erika G. Schaper
Convergent body shapes have evolved via deterministic and historically contingent pathways in Lerista lizards, Gen Morinaga and Philip J. Bergmann
Submissions from 2016
Thermal and moisture habitat preferences do not maximize jumping performance in frogs, Allegra Mitchell and Philip J. Bergmann
