Student Publications [Scholarly]
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 2024
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
“We Had to Care About Ourselves”: Distress and Coping Among Gay, Bisexual, and Queer (GBQ+) LatinxMen After the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, José R. Rosario, Ebra Elsharnouby, and Esteban V. Cardemil
AI-assisted superresolution of two practical point sources, Abdelali Sajia, Bilal Benzimoun, Pawan Khatiwada, Guogan Zhao, Reshawna Curley, and Xiao-Feng Qian
Optimal superresolution of two point sources via Schmidt basis, Abdelali Sajia, Guogan Zhao, Pawan Khatiwada, Bilal Benzimoun, and Xiao-Feng Qian
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
Soft matter physics of the ground beneath our feet, Anne Voigtländer, Morgane Houssais, Karol A. Bacik, Ian C. Bourg, Justin C. Burton, Karen E. Daniels, Sujit S. Datta, Emanuela Del Gado, Nakul S. Deshpande, Olivier Devauchelle, Behrooz Ferdowsi, Rachel Glade, Lucas Goehring, Ian J. Hewitt, Douglas Jerolmack, Ruben Juanes, Arshad Kudrolli, Ching Yao Lai, Wei Li, Claire Masteller, Kavinda Nissanka, Allan M. Rubin, Howard A. Stone, Jenny Suckale, Nathalie M. Vriend, John S. Wettlaufer, and Judy Q. Yang
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
Competition, capital accumulation, and the geographical organization of production in the North Atlantic offshore wind energy industry, William Westgard-Cruice
Racos: Improving Erasure Coding State Machine Replication using Leaderless Consensus, Jonathan Zarnstorff, Lucas Lebow, Christopher Siems, Dillon Remuck, Colin Ruiz, and Lewis Tseng
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
Research on Business Intelligence Based on Adaptive Algorithm, Peiling Zuo
Research on Communication Resource Allocation Strategy Optimization Based on Deep Learning, Peiling Zuo
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
Facile de Novo Sequencing of Tetrazine-Cyclized Peptides through UV-Induced Ring-Opening and Cleavage from the Solid Phase, Ariane Borges, Chi Nguyen, Madison Letendre, Iryna Onasenko, Rene Kandler, Ngoc K. Nguyen, Jue Chen, Tamara Allakhverdova, Emily Atkinson, Bella DiChiara, Caroline Wang, Noa Petler, Henna Patel, Dhaval Nanavati, Samir Das, and Arundhati Nag
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
Closed ecosystems extract energy through self-organized nutrient cycles, Akshit Goyal, Avi I. Flamholz, Alexander P. Petroff, and Arvind Murugan
An Organic Chemistry Activity to Improve Student Understanding of Molecules as 3-Dimensional Objects, Charles E. Jakobsche and Anh Vy Le
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
Binding Characterization of Cyclic Peptide Ligands to Target Proteins and Chemical Epitopes Using ELISA and Fluorescence Polarization Assays, Ariane Borges, Iryna Onasenko, and Arundhati Nag
Nonadditive drag of tandem rods drafting in granular sediments, Brian Chang and Arshad Kudrolli
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
A Database for Crystalline Organic Conductors and Superconductors, Owen Ganter, Kevin Feeny, Morgan Brooke-Debock, Stephen M. Winter, and Charles C. Agosta
Small-Molecule Gankyrin Inhibition as a Therapeutic Strategy for Breast and Lung Cancer, Dipti Kanabar, Mimansa Goyal, Emma I. Kane, Tejashri Chavan, Abbas Kabir, Xuechun Wang, Snehal Shukla, Joseph Almasri, Sona Goswami, Gizem Osman, Marino Kokolis, Donald E. Spratt, Vivek Gupta, and Aaron Muth
Redefining the catalytic HECT domain boundaries for the HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase family, Emma I. Kane, Steven A. Beasley, Johanna M. Schafer, Justine E. Bohl, Young Sun Lee, Kayla J. Rich, Elizabeth F. Bosia, and Donald E. Spratt
Contrasting solution-state properties within a family of amyloid-binding molecular tools, Anh Vy Le, Muyun Xu, Tianyi Yang, Luke Barrows, Devon F.A. Fontaine, Shuanghong Huo, and Charles E. Jakobsche
Braiding properties of worldline configurations in hardcore lattice bosons, Fabio Lingua, Wei Wang, Liana Shpani, and Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone
Biomolecular Effects of Dance and Dance/Movement Therapy: A Review, Ivana Lopez-Nieves and Charles E. Jakobsche
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
Phases of active matter composed of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria near a hard surface, Alexander Petroff, Alejandra Rosselli-Calderon, Ben Roque, and Pradeep Kumar
Alcove formation in dissolving cliffs driven by density inversion instability, Ram Sudhir Sharma, Michael Berhanu, and Arshad Kudrolli
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
Lattice-driven chiral charge density wave state in 1T-TaS2, Manoj Singh, Boning Yu, James Huber, Bishnu Sharma, Ghilles Ainouche, Ling Fu, Jasper Van Wezel, and Michael C. Boyer
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
Exchange Broadening Underlies the Enhancement of IDE-Dependent Degradation of Insulin by Anionic Membranes, Qiuchen Zheng, Bethany Lee, Micheal T. Kebede, Valerie A. Ivancic, Merc M. Kemeh, Henrique Lemos Brito, Donald E. Spratt, and Noel D. Lazo
Submissions from 2021
Impacts of invasive ant-hemipteran interaction, edge effects and habitat complexities on the spatial distribution of ants in citrus orchards, Olivia E. Anastasio, Kaitlyn A. Mathis, and Monique J. Rivera
Fitting thermodynamic-based models: Incorporating parameter sensitivity improves the performance of an evolutionary algorithm, Michael J. Gaiewski, Rob Drewell, and Jacqueline M. Dresch
Structural insights into ankyrin repeat-containing proteins and their influence in ubiquitylation, Emma I. Kane and Donald E. Spratt
Intersection of redox chemistry and ubiquitylation: Post-translational modifications required for maintaining cellular homeostasis and neuroprotection, Emma I. Kane, Kelly L. Waters, and Donald E. Spratt
“New Hampshire is Not Your Extension Cord:” Understanding Opposition to Transmission Lines in Northern New England., Maddy Kroot
Mitigating exhalation puffs during oxygen therapy for respiratory disease, Arshad Kudrolli, Brian Chang, Jade Consalvi, Anton Deti, Christopher Frechette, Helen Scoville, Geoffrey R. Sheinfeld, and William T. McGee
Exploring the Roles of HERC2 and the NEDD4L HECT E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Subfamily in p53 Signaling and the DNA Damage Response, Nicholas A. Mathieu, Rafael H. Levin, and Donald E. Spratt
Herc5 and the isgylation pathway: Critical modulators of the antiviral immune response, Nicholas A. Mathieu, Ermela Paparisto, Stephen D. Barr, and Donald E. Spratt
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
Interplay between human islet amyloid polypeptide aggregates and micro-heterogeneous membranes, Qingzhe Tan, Hanzhong Liu, Mojie Duan, and Shuanghong Huo
Role of BMP signaling during early development of the annelid Capitella teleta, Nicole B. Webster, Michele Corbet, Abhinav Sur, and Néva P. Meyer
Thermal optimization of a novel thermo-optically responsive SS-PCM coatings for building enclosures, Zhiying Xiao, Pramod Mishra, Alireza Mahdavi Nejad, Mingjiang Tao, Sergio Granados-Focil, and Steven Van Dessel
Differential effects of polyphenols on insulin proteolysis by the insulin-degrading enzyme, Qiuchen Zheng, Micheal T. Kebede, Bethany Lee, Claire A. Krasinski, Saadman Islam, Liliana A. Wurfl, Merc M. Kemeh, Valerie A. Ivancic, Charles E. Jakobsche, Donald E. Spratt, and Noel Lazo
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
An Angelman syndrome substitution in the HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase C-terminal Lobe of E6AP affects protein stability and activity, Steven A. Beasley, Chloe E. Kellum, Rachel J. Orlomoski, Feston Idrizi, and Donald E. Spratt
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
Aerial mucosalivary droplet dispersal distributions with implications for disease mitigation, Brian Chang, Ram Sudhir Sharma, Trinh Huynh, and Arshad Kudrolli
Unstable Invasion of Sedimenting Granular Suspensions, Arshad Kudrolli, Rausan Jewel, Ram Sudhir Sharma, and Alexander P. Petroff
Thermo-optically responsive phase change materials for passive temperature regulation, Pramod Mishra, Kelli Stockmal, Giuseppe Ardito, Mingjiang Tao, Steven Van Dessel, and Sergio Granados-Focil
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
Interplay of charge density wave states and strain at the surface of CeTe2, Bishnu Sharma, Manoj Singh, Burhan Ahmed, Boning Yu, Philip Walmsley, Ian R. Fisher, and Michael C. Boyer
Permutation cycles of hardcore Bose-Hubbard models on square and kagome lattices, L. Shpani, F. Lingua, W. Wang, and B. Capogrosso-Sansone
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
Asymmetry between Activators and Deactivators in Functional Protein Networks, Ammar Tareen, Ned S. Wingreen, and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
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
HECT E3 ubiquitin ligases - Emerging insights into their biological roles and disease relevance, Yaya Wang, Diana Argiles-Castillo, Emma I. Kane, Anning Zhou, and Donald E. Spratt
Helix Dipole and Membrane Electrostatics Delineate Conformational Transitions in the Self-Assembly of Amyloidogenic Peptides, Qiuchen Zheng, Senegal N. Carty, and Noel D. Lazo
Submissions from 2019
Cell geometry and leaflet bilayer asymmetry regulate domain formation in plasma membranes, Md Zulfikar Ali, Kerwyn Casey Huang, Ned S. Wingreen, and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
Effective drag of a rod in fluid-saturated granular beds, Benjamin Allen and Arshad Kudrolli
