Students to present about 2025 Summer Research Program projects

Students participating in the 2025 Summer Research Program will present the results of their lab work, cultural and psychological studies, and research on Thursday.

Their projects included:

Westley Mendoza ’27, Jack Bare ’27, and Selda Altan, professor of history: A Sisterhood to Save China: Feminist Geopolitics and the Cooperative Movement in Wartime China 1939-1952

Luke Chapman ’26, Daniel Adams ’26, and Timothy Patrick, psychology professor: Humanizing Without Deanonymizing: Incorporating Physiological Changes into Text-Mediated Communication

Colton Francis ’26; Danielle Nunez ’27; Michael Penn, professor of mathematics; and Katrin Schenk, professor of physics and engineering: Mysterious Subalgebras of the Free Fermion Algebra and a Catalog of Vertex Operator Algebras

Kadence Bradberry ’26, Talon Ferguson ’27, and Amanda Rumore, professor of biology: But Does it Glow? Evaluating Mammalian Biofluorescence within the Randolph College Natural History Collection

Jacey Wright ’28; Morgan Sikes ’28; Siavash Sattar, professor of robotics and mechatronics engineering; and Peter Sheldon, Charles A. Dana Professor of Physics and Engineering: Impact of Element Layout on the Mechanical and Fracture Behavior of FFF-Processed Glass Fiber-Reinforced Composites and Composite Sandwich Structures

Andrew Hooks ’27, Kyle Thompson’28, and Jonathan Skelton, professor of robotics and mechatronics engineering: 3D Printing a Composite Stainless Steel

Erin Winslow ’26, Olivia Lorenzo ’27, and Sarah Sojka, professor of environmental science and marine science: Examining Microalgal Diversity and the Methods of Studying It

David Kline ’26 and Brad Spendlove, professor of computer science: Automating Video Game State Progression with LLMs