This series contains presentations from the 2026 Graduate Student Association Conference at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.

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Submissions from 2026

Understanding Multiple Health Risk Behaviors in Young Adults Through an Integrated Dynamic Framework, Mariyam Abbas, Ella R. Fink, Julia Wood, and Theodore A. Walls

Polymer-grafted nanoparticles stability and anomalous aggregation, Masoud Abdi, David Amirsadri, Irene Andreu, and Ryan Poling-Skutvik

Between Two Worlds: African International Graduate Staff Navigating Race, Belonging, and Professional Identity in U.S. Higher Education, Joshua Kwaku Addai

Equitable Climate Resilience: A GIS Approach to Protecting Vulnerable Communities with Nature-based Solutions, Helen Arnold and Jason Parent

The Politics of Coastal Energy, Christopher Battle

A Day in the Life of a Whale Shark - Spatial Ecology and Seasonal Dynamics of Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) in the Gulf of Mexico, Joseph Candia, Rafael De La Parra Venegas, Jeremy Vaudo, Mahmood Shivji, and Bradley Wetherbee

Miniaturized Geometry-Controlled Sharp-Edge Acoustofluidic Pumps for Nanoliter Flow Control and Microfluidic Bioassays, Erfan Eskandari and Yang Lin

Environmental aging of polymers to evaluate their use in remediating natural gas pipelines, Mohammadjavad Haji Rezaei and Ryan Poling-Skutvik

Are your participants who they say they are? Dealing with scammers in qualitative research., Emily Haynes

“Guts. Glory. Ram.”: Neo-Fascism in American Car Culture, Tia Hines

Dual roles of in situ generated HSP70 in antigen delivery and immunoregulation, Xinliang Kang, Zhuofan Li, Jayachandra Reddy Nakkala, Yibo Li, Labone Akter, Yiwen Zhao, and Xinyuan Chen

Equity Mutual Fund Manager Sentiment and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, Milad Kasirian and Georges Tsafack

Beyond the Rust: Union Decline, Economic Shock, and White Working-Class Realignment in the Midwest, Nicholas Labriola

Applications of Arts-Based Research in Environmental Social Science, Sydney Mantell

Sea Roads to Civilization: The Influence of Oceanographic Conditions on Major Voyages of Human Migration and Exploration, Matthew Marino

The Wisdom of Beasts: Animal Studies and the World of Tolkien, Richard M. McGee

Effects of Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu stricto) exposure and Rickettsia buchneri load on larval feeding kinetics and survival dynamics in Ixodes scapularis, Domingo Lora Medina, Alexis White, Michelle Volk, Flávia Virginio, Sukanya Narasimhan, Jean Tsao, and Jannelle Couret

The Estuary as Method: Embodied Filtration in Ecocritical Poetic Strategy, Katie Mihalek

Deep Learning-Based Bathymetric Reconstruction of Forward-Looking Sonar Intensity Data/Imagery using Multi Beam Echo Sounder Ground Truth, Farhang Naderi

Cooperative Learning-Based Adaptive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Teams Under Complete Model Uncertainty, Maryam Norouzi, Mingxi Zhou, and Chenghzi Yuan

Application of Human Factors & Ergonomics Approaches In Battery Cell Production: A Literature Review, Leonie Otte and Gretchen A. Macht

Governance Arrangements and Adaptive Capacity in Small-Scale Fisheries: Insights from Baja California Sur, Mexico, Emmanuel Oyewole and Mateja Nenadovic

Remasculinization: Patriarchy in the Russian Political Tradition, Abby Palmer and Sunshine Menezes

The Effect of Microplastics Exposure on Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology Characterized using APP/PSEN1 Mice, Mackenzie Pavlik, Lauren Gaspar, Tommy Kelly, Giuseppe Coppotelli, and Jaime M. Ross

Machine Learning Approaches to Biomarker Discovery in Hemic Neoplasia of Mercenaria mercenaria, Alberto Paz

Latentris: Interactive 3D Visualization of Neural Network Representation Learning Over Training Time, Ethen Puls and Alina J. Barnett

Live Cell Breast Cancer Phenotyping Using Spectral Fingerprinting of SWCNTs Coupled with Machine Learning, Maryam Rahmani and Daniel Roxbury

Development and Assessment of a Hypersonic Shock Experimental Facility, Moazzem Hossain Saeem and Helio Matos

Examining the Association Between Anxiety and Sleep Quality in Post-Fracture Surgery Patients in Aceh, Indonesia, Nani Safuni, Anda Kamal, and Hadrah Luftia Putri

Decay of Raman active vibrations in potassium titanyl phosphate, Helani Singhapurage

A novel inducible mtDNA mutator mouse model to study mitochondrial dysfunction with temporal and spatial control, Hannah Tobias-Wallingford, Sydney Bartman, Lauren Gaspar, and Christopher Hemme

Submarine Volcanic Dome Growth at Vailulu’u Seamount, American Samoa, Jacob Tomer, Adam Soule, Santiago Herrera, Christopher German, Annette Govindarajan, Mary Burkitt-Gray, Anna Michel, and Valerie Brown

Smartphones as Breathalyzers: AI-Based Detection of Alcohol Impairment from Smartphone Motion Sensors, Samuel Chibuoyim Uche, Emmanuel Agu, Kristin Grimone, Debra S. Herman, Ana M. Abrantes, and Michael D. Stein

The Window to Your Stress Response with Electrodermal Activity, Suparna Veeturi, Vignesh Ravichandran, Nishtha Bhagat, Ben Annicelli, Dhaval Solanki, and Stephanie Carreiro

Assessing the Impact of the Closed Fishing Season on Small Pelagic Fish Stock Dynamics in Ghana., James Fynn Walker

The Human-Nature Connection: Measuring Ecoliteracy and Environmental Attitudes, Yvonne Wingard

Naturalism and Infrastructure of Force: Labor, Systems, and Survival in The Octopus, The Call of the Wild, and The Jungle, Karolina Sylwia Wojcik