Arts & Science

• A Taste of Our Own Medicine: Conceptions of “Nature” Within Naturopathy, Avery Qurashi
• Neural Processes of Face Identification, Hailey Wright
• The role of observational learning in the acquisition of complex motor skills, John Cyfko
• How Canadian Soccer Coaches Make Decisions, Mahmood Haddara
• An Arf Invariant of Virtual Knots, Marco Handa
• Transactional Nature of Temperament and Parenting in Preschoolers, Sadie McVey Neufeld
• What Does the University Stand For?: Freedom of Expression, Protest and Dissent, Tianqi Lei

Health Sciences

• Utilization of expanded Natural Killer cells to vanquish malignant tumors via antibody dependent cellular cytoxicit, Abdullah El-Sayes
• Evaluating the effect of age on phagocytosis of S. pneumoniae by macrophages, Danny Ma
• Dissociating gut microbiome and genotype influences on Angelman Syndrome mice, Owen Luo
• Bacteriophage Discovery in the Human Gut Microbiome, Roland Chou
• Investigation of the Cooperative Functions of Polyclonal Antibodies that Target Diverse Influenza Epitopes, Sierra Barnes

Humanities

• Can Musical Cues Improve Auditory Alarms in the I.C.U.?, Cameron Anderson
• Bacon Bros: Theoretical approaches to understanding masculine identities in contemporary cook books, Daniel Arauz
• Prayers and pennies for the paupers: Research into the Guilds and Charity in Late Medieval Strasbourg (1350-1475), Graeme Lavender
• Creating Wilderness and Crafting Identity: The First National Parks in Québec, Hannah Walters-Vida Karin Fish
• Pollution Visualizations, Karin Fish
• Harold “The Colonel” Kudlets: A Transcontinental Music Pioneer, Lukas Spencer
• Aether: A Sci-Fi Novella, Virginia Ford-Roy

Engineering

• Characterization of 3D Printed Titanium Alloys, Asad Hussanain
• Inkjet printing of conductive nanocellulose inks for flexible electronics, Elsie Loukiantchenko
• Curve Fitting to Characterize Stress-Generated Electrical Potentials in Bone, Elyse Rier
• Integrated External and Internal Quantum Efficiency Measurement System, Jarod Coppens
• Enhancing Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Screening, Jessica Trac
• On-Demand Drug Delivery from Hydrogels Induced by Alternating Magnetic Fields, Lauren Weir
• Wordathon: A Tool for Social Learning, Yumna Irfan

Science

• Genetic Variability of Phragmites australis in Southern Ontario, Alexandra Tekatch
• Detecting Pathogens that cause Sepsis and their Resistance Genes, Brianne Laverty
• Investigating evidence for a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in ultrathin films of Fe/W(100), Bryce Norman
• Designing a Robust Paradigm to Study Replenishment Kinetics of Nematocytes in Hydra littoralis, Christian Barborini
• Does aperiodic-predictable temporal regularity facilitate auditory perception?, Elger Baraku
• Cockayne Syndrome Group B Protein Regulates Telomere Maintenance in Telomerase-
• Negative Cancer Cells, Emily Feng
• Growth and Characterization of Mixed Pyrochlore-Type Oxide Nd2ScNbO7, Graham Johnstone
• The Effects of High Intensity Interval Training on Endothelial Function in Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients, Jessica Sadri-Gerrior
• Physiological and Behavioural Adaptations of an intertidal fish to Hypoxia and Air Exposure, Noah Houpt
• High-speed preparation of ultra-thin uniform polymer fibers for advanced materials development, Sara Evans
• Single Particle Imaging of Bicoid’s DNA Binding Domain, Sonya Martin
• Evaluating the diagnostic capabilities of cell-free DNA, procalcitonin and protein C in comparison to HEWS, Walaa Faidi

Social Sciences

• Examining the Policies and Decision-Making Procedures of Toronto City Committees on
• Migrant Sex Workers, Aaron Li
• An Exploration of Ontario’s Grade 9 Health Curriculum Abdullah, Al Hamlawi
• Reporting Methodology for the Proportion of Students with Disabilities at Ontario Post-Secondary Institutions, Brittany Gottvald
• A Catch Twenty-Two: Mother’s Experiences with Formal and Informal Supports in the Community after Domestic Violence, Carol Lopez Ricote
• Negotiating Conflicting Understandings of Intimate Relationships, Chriselle Vaz
• Orphan Drugs in Canada and the Effect of Patent Expiration on Prices, Daley Thomsen
• China’s Rise: Assessing the Security Dilemma in East Asia Eric Lim
• Effects of Electoral Malpractice on Regime Stability, Eric Lim
• Qeya – Tracing Time Through Pots, Harriet Jopling
• The effect of music listening on implicit racial attitudes, Nicholas Ballarin
• Undergraduate Students’ Attitude-Behaviour Consistencies towards Rape Myths, Rachel Cheung
• Underscoring the Importance of Adequate Nutrition: Exploring Food (In)security Initiatives and the Policy Process at the Municipal-level in Canada, Sabrina Campanella
• Analysis of Macrobotanical Remains from Classic Maya Sites of Budsiljá and Sak T’zi’, Sarah Watson
• Understanding barriers in accessing mental health services within the Sri Lankan Tamil Diasporic Community in the GTA, Shangaari Kanesalinkam
• Cognitive vs. Chronological Age as Barriers to Using Wearable Activity Monitors in Older Adults, Shiva Gheblehverdi
• “We’re going to hold them accountable”: Explaining Attrition Among Black Students in Undergraduate STEM Programs, Tianna Follwell

Arts & Science

• Shyness and Autonomic Regulation in Preschoolers, Annie Mills
• Modulating Software: Pokémon-Go and Contested Fun in Public Space, Benjamin Feldman
• Gendered Bodies in Post-World War Two Canada, Rachel Guitman
• Impact of the Neighbourhood Action Strategy on Social Capital, Stephanie Bertolo
• Through the Glass Ceiling, Over the Glass Cliff?, Sutina Chou
• Social Participation and Resilience among Hamilton’s Older Adults, Thipiga Sivayoganathan

Interdisciplinary

• Understanding timbre: Exploring amplitude envelope and overtone tuning, Maxwell Ng (Health Sciences and Humanities)

Health Sciences

• The role of innate immunity in virus-induced exacerbation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Daniel Celeste
• Fast estimation of time-varying infectious disease transmission rates, Mikael Jagan
• Early immune challenge impacts neuroprogenitors and depressive behaviours in mice, Owen Luo
• Role of Gut Serotonin in the Production of  Antimicrobial Peptides, Parsa Mehraban Far
• Palliative Care in Specialist Residency Education: Literature Review, Samer Kullab
• Copy Number Variation (CNV) prediction/validation using the XHMM pipeline and dPCR, Steven Chen

Humanities

• Russell’s Epistemology Bridging the Foundationalist-Coherentist Distinction, Alisha Butani
• Canada’s Democratic Hypocrisy: The Problem of Indigenous Political Control, Elizabeth Bloomfield
• Eros and immortality in the Phaedo, Emily Wall
• Information Status in Italian, Erin DeBorba
• Virtual Learning Environments: Inclusive or Impeding?, Sumi Voora
• Perception of Beat Isochrony in 6 month old Infants, Tessa Dickison
• The Hamilton Spectator and the Great War Veterans Association, 1918-1920, Unnati Gandhi
• Locke Embodied, William Bell

Engineering

• Electrically Conductive Membranes, Alex Sutherland
• Design and Wet-Etching of Al2O3 Waveguides for On-Chip Amplifiers and Lasers, Arthur Mendez-Rosales
• Correction of Multi-Angle Plasma FIB SEM Image Curtaining Artifacts, Christopher Schankula
• 3D Printing In MRI, Josh Bierbrier
• Secure Communication for a Quantum Future: Post Quantum Cryptography in SSH, Karl Knopf
• Computational Modelling of the Inner Hair Cell to Auditory Nerve Synapse, Laura Green

Science

• Modelling Finite-Time Vortex Collapse with Contour Dynamics, Alex Kerzner
• Movement Synchrony on Helping Behaviour in Infants, Alisha Song
• The Effect of Brachial Occlusion on Finger Flexor Tendon and Subsynovial Connective Tissue Motion, Andrew Wong
• Direct Detection and Reactions of MePhSnMPP, Brianna Nguyen
• An Investigation of Sediment Cyclicity and Glacial Deltaic Processes in Lake Jircacocha Cordillera Blanca, Perú, Chimira Nicole Andres
• The regulation of a new mode of bacterial growth, Christine Pham
• Controlled Assembly of Silicones, Daniel Szames
• Evolution and Structural Implications of a Multi-Stage Moraine at Lake Palcacocha, Peru, David Bowman
• Assessment of RFID technology to estimate fledging success in common terns, Hannah Clyde
• Hydroxyapatite nucleation on bone scaffolds using simulated body fluid, Iflah Shahid
• EEG Cross Frequency Coupling in Preoperative Anxiety, Jhanahan Sriranjan
• Estimating Tibia Lead Half-Life and Intake from Blood Lead, Jonas Yeung
• Effect of task on neural responses to faces, Katrina Fackelmann
• Cognitive Audiology: Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Hearing, Marija Radenovic
• 1918 Influenza Pandemic Mortality in Ontario, Michael Chong
• Physiological impacts of aquatic hypoxia on Porichthys notatus, Noah Houpt
• Kin Recognition in Silver Maple?, Pascale Bider
• The use of pharmacological tools to study regeneration in hydra littoralis, Rachel Lee
• Estimating the effects of parasites on the maintenance of sex, Sang Woo Park
• Phylogeography of the North American Matsutake Mushrooms, Sarah Sandor
• The regulation of human skeletal muscle plasticity in response to contractile perturbation, Tom Tripp
• The Fabrication and Application of Cellulose-Based Aerogels with Tunable Thickness, Patterning, and Morphology, Tyler Or

Social Sciences

• Adverse Childhood Experiences, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Moral Injury, Anthony Battaglia
• The Evolution of the Struggle for a Living Wage in Hamilton, Ontario, Ben Owens
• Parking to Paradise? A Case Study on the Experiences of the McMaster University Community with Ancaster Creek Restoration Work at Lot M, Carly Stephens
• Only 2 Students in the Store – Using Photovoice to Examine Individual, Cultural and Structural Forms of Adultism in Hamilton, Carolyn Ralph
• Crying Over Spilt Milk: The Impact of Supply Management in the Dairy Sector on Canada, Emma Holmes
• Exploring the Resiliency of Low-Income Older Adults in Hamilton, Grace Martin
• Proportional Representation and East Asian Party Systems, James Ankers
• Producing Public Archaeology at The Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project, Jason Lau
• Night Walkability of Hamilton, Ontario as Viewed by the City’s Deaf Community, Jillian Scott
• Food Insecurity on Hamilton’s Upper West Mountain, Leticia Cubas
• Indigenous Driven Ethnobotany, Stephanie Morningstar
• Examining male-identified student perspectives of sexual violence on Canadian university campuses, Maddie Brockbank
• The Role of Health Policy on Mental Health Care Services Use by Asian Immigrant Groups in Canada, Natalie Thirakul
• Coping Mechanisms Women of Color Use to Deal With Racism, Rachel Persaud

Arts & Science

• Special Relativity as Told by the Luminaries, Matthew Jordan
• Sojourning in the World, Henry Krahn
• A History of Churches Formed by Immigrants to Hamilton, Clare MacDonald
• Defining Rumination: A Factor Analysis of Rumination Questionnaires, Jonah Nadler
• Investigating the Effects of Social Mix On Residents’ Experiences of Social Inclusion/Exclusion In Toronto’s Regent Park Public Housing Community, Emily Power
• Mexican Fiction and Identity, Alex Recio
• LEED and Perceptions of Sustainable Design in the City of Hamilton, Spencer Williams

Health Sciences

• Detection of Legionella pneumophila using Flurogenic DNAzymes, Suraj Gopinathbirla
• Investigating the effects of AMPK on Atherosclerosis, Matthew Han
• Impact of maternal nutrient restriction during pregnancy on ovarian follicle number in guinea pig offspring, Xinglin (Lyn) Li
• The Cytochrome P450 Superfamily in Cnidaria, Kirill Pankov
• Screening for Pseudomonas aeruginosa genes involved in biofilm stimulatory response to sub-lethal antibiotics, Madeleine Rudolph
• Influence of fetal exposure to SSRIs on the development of the enteric nervous system, Megan Wang

Humanities

• The Healing Arts, Ema Asler
• Fertility Treatments and the Singing Voice, Laura Curtis
• Covert Hegemony: Explaining Nixon’s Hostility to Chilean President Salvador Allende, Jaime Graydon Dennison
• Women’s Leadership Roles in Haudenosaunee Society, Oznur Kaynak
• Ongoing Colonial Violence against South Asian Communities in Canada: Air India Bombings of 1985, Zarah Khan
• Derrida’s Hospitality and its Local Implications in the Syrian Refugee Crisis, Adam Watters
• Perception of Tonality and Harmonic Progressions, Brandon Wild
• Teaching Introductory Italian Using Digital Tools, Kaitlyn Zarcone-Beam

Engineering

• Air-Floating Wind Turbine, Akshay Aubeeluck
• Teaching Computer Science Game Graphs, Tanya Bouman
• Using MEMS techniques for fabrication of planar electromagnets for applications in DNA sensing, David Philpott
• Inducing Apoptosis in MCF-7 cells using MNP’s and Magnetic Fields, Justin Sing
• Thermal Stability of Cellulose Nanocrystals via Hydrolysis with Sulfuric and Phosphoric Acids, Oriana Vanderfleet

Science

• Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) reflectance of decayed root matter under varying soil moisture conditions, Julia Andersen
• The Effects of Driving Experience on Visual Attention, Senuri Aponso
• A Microfluidic Microinjector for toxicological and developmental studies of cardiogenesis in Drosophila embryos, Pouya Aref
• How do plants deal with low phosphate? Getting to the root of the problem, Anna Axakova
• Ligand-induced cooperativity between CBD activation and channel gating in HCN channels, Adam Bernardo
• The Search for an Integrable Discretization of the Derivative Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation, Sylvie Bronsard
• Exploring the Interplay Between Lsr2 Proteins in Streptomyces venezuelae, Loryn Byres
• Localization and assessment of functional groups on surface modified PDMS, Srimann Chari
• Sign Patterns and their Applications, Biran Falk-Dotan
• Digital Drumming: Visualizing a Desynchonizing Percussion Performance, Kyle Gauder
• One-pot synthesis of quinazolinones as anti-parasitic agents for promotion of global public health, Tiffany Kong
• The Effects of Power on Empathic Responses to Pain, Michael, Ku
• Heat flow, Brownian motion, and Feynman diagrams, Kyle MacDonald
• Photoreactions in an Optical Vortex, Fariha Mahmood
• Fourier Series, Hilton Maurer
• Characterization of Transient Germlyenes in Solution, Austin Read
• Quantifying evapotranspiration edge effects in peatland systems: implications for at-risk reptiles, Kyra Simone
• A distributed hydrogeochemical assessment of Spencer Creek Watershed, Supriya Singh
  Polymer hydrogel microspheres as building blocks for extracellular matrices, Marta Skreta
• The impact of reduced daily ambulation on glycemic control in older adults: a pilot study, Tanner Stoeks
• Breast Cancer in Women of African Ancestry, Yulika Yoshida-Montezumae

Social Sciences

• Ontario’s Allied Health Professions / Medical Expense Tax Credit, Collin Brown
• Differentiating Commingled Remains through EDXRF, Katie Campeau
• Chert Sourcing in the Cyclades, Jeffrey Coffin
• Being Transabled: What it means to seek disability in an able-bodied world, Kaelyn Danahy
• Association between socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics and household food insecurity in Canada, Mack Fielding
• Associations among shyness, physiological regulation, and social and private speech in typically developing 4-year-olds, Raha Hassan
• Hamilton’s Women’s Shelter System and the Housing Market, Sarah Hugh
• The Recipe of Choice: A Petrographic Analysis of Neutral Iroquoian Ceramics at the Christianson Site, Daniel Ionico
• Exploring Hairstylists as Cultural Intermediaries, Sasha  Johnstone
• Mapping Disabled Homeless Youths’ Navigation of (Dis)connected Services, Daire Kavanagh
• Accessing democracy: Barriers to voting for People Experiencing Homelessness, Grace Kennedy