Vol. 28 (2026): UF Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Published: 2026-09-21

Editorial

Director's Welcome

Anne Donnelly
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Editorial Review Board

Michelle Leonard
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Arts & Humanities

Spiritual Dimensions of Therapeutic Horticulture Among People Experiencing Homelessness

Jordan Evans
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Didactic Landscapes A mixed methodology analysis on how climate resilient landscape design seeks to educate and break the scale of ecological phenomena.

Anthony Phipps, Jeffrey Carney
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"What Shall be Done with the Indians?": John Wesley Powell, Anthropology, and Native-Government Relations in the 19th Century

Hannah Alfieri
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John L. Volk and the Bermuda Style: White Gables (1937), Palm Beach, Florida

Therese Batuigas, Vandana Baweja
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Women’s Ethical Agency and Syrian Islamic Revivalism Transnationalizing the Qubaysiyat

Dania Tarabishy
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The Train Is not for Us The Mayan Train Megaproject as a Feature of Mexican Nationalism

Ioel Katz, Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí
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Making Space in STEM: Exploring the Lived Experiences of STEM Undergraduate Women

Zeina Benton, Joanna Neville
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Fascism, Photography, Race, and Femininity: Martin Rikli and the Representation of Italian Colonial Imperatives in Ethiopia

Grace Ghinea
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Revolutionary Legitimacy and Third Worldism in Cuba and Iran

Leyan Albustami
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Heroine of Heroes Jeanne d’Arc as a Political, Religious, and Queer Icon

Rhiannon Fromholt
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"That Great American Niche" The Cherry Blossom Festival and the making of Japanese America in Hawai'i

Lizanna Bondesson
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Intuitive Architecture: Phenomenological Perception and Imagination as Constructed Experience of the Intersubjective World

Zachary Wolpert, Hui Zou
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Leviathan Across Traditions: Religious Continuity from the Ancient Near East to Revelation

Reed Liebman, Laura Ahrens James
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Social & Behavioral Sciences, Business, Education

Valuation of Flood Risk in Coastal Housing Markets: Evidence from Tampa Bay

Ava Vellines
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Impact of Food Insecurity on Perceived Risk Factors for Myocardial Infarction in Food-Insecure Populations

Sinan Khudhur, Liv Myhre, Jude Elsaygh, Mohammed Ruzieh
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Silenced by Design: A Statistical Analysis of the Impact of Poor Universal Design on Members of the Deaf Community

Katelyn Barkman, Dr. Sharon M. DiFino
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Exposed Horrors: Violence’s Sociopolitical Impact in Post-Assad Syria

Aamina Al-Yahia
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Place in Space Examining Nationalism and Corruption’s Influence on 21st Century Russia’s Cosmos Goals

Samuel Smith, Dr. Ingrid Kleespies
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Silenced by the State: Enforced Disappearances in Latin America

Maria Igarza, Juliana Restrepo Sanín
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Belief in Just World and Rape Myth Acceptance: The Impact of Stressful Life Experiences on Attitudes Towards Sexual Violence Against Women

Gabrielle Lerner, Soo Yeon Park, Dr. Gregory Webster
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Southeast Asian Americans and Speech-Language Therapy: Attitudes, Awareness, and Experiences

Amanda Noy, Dr. Sharon DiFino CCC-SLP
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Effect of Colonization on the Debt-to-GDP Ratio in Sub-Saharan Africa

Katherine Tusa
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Florida’s Minimum-Wage Step-Ups and Their Effects on Real Wages and Employment in the Hospitality Industry

Peter Kostantinov
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STEM & Medicine

The Impact of Maternal Fiber Intake on Infant Birth Outcomes

Kathryn Humes, Dominick Lemas
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Modeling DBS Tolerability in Tourette Syndrome: Unilateral and Bilateral Effects Characterization

William Tvenstrup, Grace Lowor, Julieth Gomez, Matthew Hook, Christopher Butson, Kelly Foote, Michael Okun, Aysegul Gunduz
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Correlation between DNAm and CVD in the African American diaspora

Nora Ware, Dr. Connie J. Mulligan
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Robust Quadruped Jumping on Sloped Terrains using Reinforcement-Learning-Augmented Model Predictive Control

Quang Pham, Yu Wang
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Towards the preclinical study of magnetic fluid hyperthermia: strategies for determining specific loss power and murine melanoma cell count

Britney Pun, Aniela Nozka, Daniela Paola Valdés, Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos
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Adult Acomys DRG explants exhibit a radially organized neurite architecture distinct from Mus explants

Yansheng Luo, Malcom Maden
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Recovering Bioenergy from Municipal Organic Wastes Through Anaerobic Co-Digestion

Tirth Shah, Caleigh Patterson, Joel Gritmon, Richard Li, Ana Martin-Ryals
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Quantifying Background Bioluminescence in C2C12 Cells Across Lumicycle Instruments

Isabel Perea, Natalie J Bohmke, Theodore Ewachiw, Karyn A Esser
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Evaluating the Effects of Physiological and Kinematic Factors on Basketball Shooting Accuracy

Saanvi Kodiganti, Troy Kelly Jr., Dr. Jennifer Nichols
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Predicting the Detectability of Safety Signals in Construction Sounds Using Machine Learning

Joseph Spagnoli, Aaron Costin
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Investigation of the Impact of Cook-In Oxygen Permeable Bags on the Survival of Clostridium perfringens in Sous Vide Cooked Meat

Reanne Denis, Adeel Manzoor, Jason M Scheffler
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Divergent microbial signatures support accurate machine‑learning classification of hosts and parasite microbiomes

Sasha Sandoval, Nicolina Valore, Zuania Colón-Piñeiro , Ana V. Longo
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Spectral Feature Extraction for Reinforcement Learning in Financial Markets Under Nonstationary Dynamics

Erik Bloomquist, Catia Silva
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Role of Hepcidin in Protection Against Systemic Dissemination During Oropharyngeal Candida albicans Infection

Thrisha Acharya, Tanmay Arekar, Divya Katikaneni, Yogesh Scindia
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Food retail store types contribute to the differences in the nutrition environment than geographic area: A case study within a Florida County

Isabelle Potthast, Alissa Gonzalez-Mir, Jeanette M. Andrade
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Effect of adrenal-specific BMAL1 knockout on clock gene expression in the liver

Bryanna Broderick, Hannah Costello, Michelle Gumz
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Bovine placental-derived bio-ink reprograms tissue microenvironment for enhanced regeneration and senescence reversal

Fabiana Mastantuono, Samantha Ali, Pei Zhuang, Giovanna Scatolin, Zongliang (Carl) Jiang, Mei He
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Constructing the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram of the Northern and Southern Regions of the NGC 2264 Star Cluster Using Gaia

Zeina Benton, Elizabeth Lada, Naibi Mariñas
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Development of an adaptive, AI-guided, closed-loop control system for Functional Electrical Stimulation Cycling in Spinal Cord Injury

Mateo Friedman-Bello, Matthew Schiefer
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AI Protein Design of N-Acetylgalactosamine Deacetylase for Universal Blood Type Conversion

Nicholas Marotta, Alberto Perez
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Navigating the Swamp: Enhancing Student Involvement at UF through AI-Driven Event Navigation

Divij Goyal, Jason Harrington
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Modeling and Visualizing Honey Bee Colony Loss using USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Survey Data

Mallory Tyler
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Beyond Labels: Training Cognitive Empathy with Context-Rich Synthetic Dialogues

Neema Owji, Cameron Buckner
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Benthic composition influences daily pH patterns in Florida coastal systems

Aurora Del Vecchio, Finella Campanino, Savanna Barry, Laura Reynolds
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The Effects of a Plant-Forward Cooking Workshop Program on Dietary Behaviors in Adults with Hypertension: A Feasibility Study

Olivia Keable, Jeanette Andrade
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Comparison of Proteasomes Across Archaea Reveals Variation in 20S Subunit Composition and Conservation of Post-Translational Modifications

Philip Babbi
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Neuroimmune Crosstalk Between Macrophages and Tendon-Derived Cells Across Distinct Tendon Regions

Bianca Filippone, Mariah Turner, Brittany Taylor
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Observing Kelp as a Methane-Reducing Feed Additive in Ruminants

Dasha Estrada, Dr. Diwakar Vyas
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Effects of Biochar on PFAS Destruction by Advanced Reduction Process

Cailin Fouraker, Islam Radwan, Dengjun Wang
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Comparing Cytoskeletal Alignment Analysis Methods for Biomimetic Tendon Scaffolds

Anna Miller, Emily Brown, Harrison Broadaway, Brittany Taylor
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Exploration of Nuclear Material Discrimination Modeling and Boron Composition Effects

Jalen Johnson, Andreas Enqvist
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Exploring Dispersal Behavior in Adult Triatoma sanguisuga Kissing Bugs in Alachua County, Florida, USA

Sloane Murphy, Abigail C. Pope, Chanakya R. Bhosale, Bernardo Moreno Peniche, Steven T. Cassidy, Devin G. Travers, Brett LaBella, Rachel K. Obora, Andrea Guzman-Garcia, Hannah D. Huynh, Evan Teal, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Carl N. Keiser, Norman Beatty
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Clozapine-D3 Dopamine Receptor Binding Free Energy Estimate via Steered Molecular Dynamics and Umbrella Sampling

Alyssa Blood, Dr. Alberto Perez
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The emerging role of artificial intelligence in personalized nutrition

Jian Sabripour, Zhiyong Cheng, Karla P. Shellnutt
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Mechanisms of Cardiac Cell Death in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Caroline Lee, Ryan Krueger, Brooke Harris, David Hammers
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Cloning, Purification, and Functional Characterization of Bacterial Lipocalin (Blc) for Erucic Acid Binding

Alexandra Giakouminakis, Claudio Gonzalez
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Recrystallization Kinetics in 4130 Steel under Induction and Radiant Annealing Methods

Lawrence de Jongh, Megan Hurley, Yonguk Lee, Victoria Miller
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Examining Mindful Eating in College Students: A Mixed-Methods Assessment

Natalia Graulau-Santiago, Philip Grandoff
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The Associative Relationships Between Oral Health, Dysphagia, and Malnutrition Risk in Adults Experiencing Homelessness

Jade Hernandez, Shaneice Urbina Acevedo, Melissa Moreno, Wendy Dahl
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Repeated Sevoflurane Exposure Acutely Does Not Disrupt the Gut Microbiome in Young Adult Female Rats

Itamar Gal, Dr. Zeeshan Khan, Dr. Anatoly Martynyuk
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Defining Thermodynamic and Structural Features of ROSE-like RNA Thermometer

Paula Nino-Garcia, luiz F.M Passalaqua, Varshini Sudhakar, Michael M Abdelsayed
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A Mathematical Model of Hematopoiesis during Systemic Infection

Bryan Bailey-Feliciano, George VanVeckhoven, Yongchen Tai, Jing Pan, Youngmin Park
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