Keystone Symposium 2024
The 11th Annual Kilachand Keystone Symposium will take place on Saturday, April 27, 2024 from 9 am – 5 pm at 100 Bay State Road, 5th & 6th floors. We will also live-stream the presentations so that family and friends can join us from afar. The schedule of presentations and the live-stream links can be found below.
Keystone Symposium 2024 Program
Symposium Schedule Overview
9:00 am – Opening Remarks in Room 545
9:15 am – Poster Introductions begin in Rooms 613A & 613B
9:40 am – Poster Presentation & Discussions begin in the 6th floor lobby
10:00 am – Oral Presentations begin in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B
12:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Oral Presentations continue in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B
3:00 pm – Break
3:30 pm – Oral Presentations continue in Rooms 545, 613A, & 613B
5:00 pm – Presentations Complete
Room 545 Schedule
Live-Stream Link for Room 545
9:00 am – Opening Remarks by Professor Godley (Associate Director)
10:00 am – Sydney Ballard
Facilitated Communication as an Intervention for Non-Speaking Autism Spectrum Disorder
10:15 am – Brianna Spiegel
Thyroid Therapy: A Systematic Investigation of the Best Treatment for Hyperthyroidism
10:30 am – Virginia Popov
A History of Breast Milk Donation and the Socio-Cultural Factors that Impact the Modern Milk Donor Experience
10:45 am – Samuel Thomas
Way Out: A Queer Horror Podcast
11:00 am – Laurel Murphy
Foot Voting in a Post-Dobbs World: How Young Americans are Fighting Beyond the Ballot Box to Maintain Reproductive Autonomy
11:15 am – Taylor Coester
Amana: A Community of Inspiration, Steadfast through Generations
11:30 am – Julia Kapusta
Beyond Borders: Navigating Migrant Criminalization in the US Immigration System
11:45 am – Ilana Keusch
Symbiosis: Republican Presidents and the Federalist Society
12:00-1:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Leightta Sherrill
Beyond the Classroom: Exploring Student Perspectives on Sex Education
1:15 pm – Adam Shamsi
Unshackling Justice: Exploring the Transformative Impact of Bail Reform in the Carceral State
1:30 pm – Timothy Liu
The Effects of Anti-Prion Drugs on the Degradation of Neurotoxic PrPSc Protein
1:45 pm – Sofiya Filippova
Bicycle Mounted Air Pollution Monitors
2:00 pm – Alex DeRosa
Decoding Dialect: Ōsaka-ben and The Art of Translation
2:15 pm – Elliott Carlisle
An Investigation into the Importance of Familial Autoimmune Disease in Children with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
2:30 pm – Yasmin Lountchenko
Labor Rights in Digital Platforms: A cost-benefit analysis of labor reform in the European Union
2:45 pm – Ethan Dillon
Mechanical Dry-Erase Pencil
3:00-3:30 pm – Break
3:30 pm – Precious Amiewalan
Examining the Status of Race Corrections in Clinical Algorithms in Medical Decision-Making
3:45 pm – Viktoria Popovska
Where We Went: Migration and the Macedonians
4:00 pm – Sydney Jessup
The “Remarkably Important” Extinction of Silphium: Antiquity, Botany, and Conservation
4:15 pm – Olga Victoria Benacerraf Rodriguez
A Digital Balancing Act: Navigating Freedom of Speech and Censorship in Social Media
4:30 pm – Man Viet Nguyen
Our language, our right to food: Translate & culturally adapt the national household food security survey into Vietnamese for Vietnamese people in the US
Room 613A Schedule
Live-Stream Link for Room 613A
9:15 am – Poster Introductions:
Morgan Fleming
The “Paramount Duty” of the State: An Analysis of Washington State Education Budget Reform
Elizabeth Bakhnov
The Root of the Problem: Evaluating Demographic Patterns and Causes of Dental Anxiety
Elizabeth Mutka
Visualizing Connections Between Watershed Health and Neighborhood Wealth
Matthew Freitas
Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Risk Perception and Vaccine Booster Confidence in Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil
Grace Oluwatosin Adebogun
The News Media Blackbox: Media’s Relationship with Police Brutality Protests in America
9:40 am – Poster Presentations & Discussions in the Lobby
This portion of our presentations will not be live-streamed
10:00 am – Jansi Patel
Endometriosis: Identifying Associated Psychological Symptoms and Assessing Treatment Options
10:15 am – Tori Keefauver
Using prairie voles to model the effects of social deprivation on microglia
10:30 am – Madelyn Keller
Identifying the ‘Druggability’ Potential of Human Transmembrane Proteins
10:45 am – Uni Valdivieso Wooldridge
La Cocina Latina: An oral history of Latinx migration and diaspora recipes
11:00 am – Madeline Riddick-Seals
The Blackberry Quilt | Stories of Friendship Street: A Cultural Preservation Project
11:15 am – Dante Gonzalez
The Language of Intimacy: Desexualized Language in Consent-Based Performance
11:30 am – Edward Sturm
Staging Catastrophe: Theatre Historiography and the Hartford Circus Fire
11:45 am – Katherine Cardinale
Voting Patterns Among Boston University Students
12:00-1:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Tia Samaha
Gen Z’s identity crisis amidst social media’s commodification of women’s identities.
1:15 pm – Katie Shepardson
Curiosity, Learning, and Familiar Characters
1:30 pm – Mark Ruta
Translation of a Novel Microstructured Tissue Fastener into a Coronary Stent
1:45 pm – Cosette Potter
Premigration Education Level as a Determinant of Socioeconomic Mobility of Immigrants to Texas
2:00 pm – Amit Bhatia
Understanding the Power of Soft Skills
2:15 pm – Kennedy Harwood
What We Write: How Artists Use Handwriting in Process
2:30 pm – Emily Schwartz
Who Sees Whom? Visibility across socio-economic classes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2:45 pm – Hanna Dworkin
The Philosophy of Grief
3:00-3:30 pm – Break
3:30 pm – Tyler Critz
Protect the Plants! Evaluating the Environmental Regulation of the Defensive Response Mechanisms in Arabidopsis thaliana for Further Agricultural Applications
3:45 pm – Reshma Subramonian
The Path to Moksha: Examining Attitudes Towards Mental Health In Upper Middle Class Families in Chennai, India
4:00 pm – Danielle Everett
Defining a Barrier in Neuroscience: Spatial Navigation
4:15 pm – Anulika Nnadi
Evaluating Media Coverage of Underrepresented Groups in Boston: A Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Approach
4:30 pm – Gianna Gioscia
Creating a Space for Secondary Students to See Themselves in Physics: A Gendered Intervention
Room 613B Schedule
Live-Stream Link for Room 613B
9:15 am – Poster Introductions:
Nicolas McMahon
Galactic Wings: A Case Study on the X-Shaped Radio Source in Abell 1145
Clara Garza
Prenatal Detection of Congenital Heart Disease in Rural Oregon
Madison Miranda
Prospera: Empowering Puerto Rico’s Small Businesses
Isabella Roman
Towards Inclusive Autism Care: Overcoming Barriers for Underserved Populations
Melissa Taylor
Exploring Cross-Cultural Collaboration and International Educational Children’s Television Through Sesame Street’s Co-Productions
9:40 am – Poster Presentations & Discussions in the Lobby
This portion of our presentations will not be live-streamed
10:00 am – Gabrielle Gewirtz
Analyzing the Partitions of 1947 and 1971 Through a Gendered Lens
10:15 am – Miku Makino
The Glass Wall: Quantifying Challenges in Balancing New Motherhood and Employment in Japan
10:30 am – Alex Shores
Heartbeat by Heartbeat: A Short Film on The Financial, Social, and Emotional Challenges of Pediatric Heart Conditions
10:45 am – Ligia Mardari
The Power of Sound: Creating Meaning at the Intersection of Film, Psychology, and Music
11:00 am – Nourhan El Sherif
Sex-Dependent Differences in Tensional Homeostasis
11:15 am – Phillip Tran
Marine Databaser: An Open-Source Desktop Application for Managing and Analyzing Field Data
11:30 am – Jacob Rose
Crisis in the Cubicle: Mental Health Resources in Corporate America
11:45 am – Pashma Sadiq
Resilience and Regulation: A Data-Driven Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on New York City’s Restaurant Industry
12:00-1:00 pm – Lunch Break
1:00 pm – Alexa Quintero
Tubie TO-GO: Improving Enteral Feeding Pumps for Modern User
1:15 pm – Sophie Bush
A Holistic Assessment of Food Insecurity in Native American Communities
1:30 pm – Anderson Warshaw
Symphonies in Swing: Composing Jazz Inspired By Classical Music
1:45 pm – Nicholas Speranza
Leasing the “Oldest Civilization”: The Transformation of German Colonial Policy in China, 1898-1914
2:00 pm – Nashr El Auliya
Morphing Sail
2:15 pm – Rithvik Doshi
SafeSteps: Empowering Campus Commuters through Community Reporting
2:30 pm – Faisal Ahmed
Understanding Sector Differences in International Trade
2:45 pm – Samuel Wu
Tales of the College Journey: 101 Stories from BU Students
3:00-3:30 pm – Break
3:30 pm – Sophia Huynh
The WIMP Miracle & Dark Matter Model
3:45 pm – Diana Reno
Employment Practices in Kenya’s Refugee-Serving Organizations
4:00 pm – Emily Yoder
Natural Loss: Henry David Thoreau’s Poetic Reception of Virgilian Pastoral
4:15 pm – Jesse Wang
People, Food & Culture: The Connection through Photography
4:30 pm – Alexandria Barnes
Analyzing E-Cigarette Prevention Curriculums in Boston Area Middle and High Schools