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PEAK Presentation Days Showcase Huskies’ Summer Projects

Join us on August 20 and 21 from 12:00 – 4:00 PM ET as our Summer 2020 PEAK Experiences Awardees present the fruits of their project labors during two afternoons of virtual presentations. Our PEAK Awardees will share insight into their research and creative endeavors during a brief presentation followed by a Q & A. Join us through the ZOOM links below.

PEAK EXPERIENCES AWARD PRESENTATION DAYS: PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
• Vidhan Bhaiya, PEAK Experience 6: The Trail-Blazer, Creating Successful Transgenerational Family Businesses
• Paloma Calderon Villa, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains and their Disrupters
• Jasper Duval, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Territorial Stigma and Mental Health in Mumbai Slum
• Daniel Hartman, PEAK Experience 6: The Trail-Blazer, The Biophysical Basis for Promotion of Spontaneous, Oscillatory Activity in a Model Endogenous Oscillator 
• Shurobhi Nandi, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Perspectives on Building a Statewide Early Childhood System of Care: Findings From the Massachusetts Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Project
• Naomi Trevino, PEAK Experience 5: The Summit Award, Analysis and Archiving of North Carolina Cherokee

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
• Arielle Ahrendts, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Histoires modernes de Paris: Idealization vs. Reality
• Elisa Danthinne, PEAK Experience 5: The Summit Award, Vaping Epidemic Systems Dynamics Modelling
• Elaine Klatt, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, H-2A Visa & Wage/Labor Violation Insights
• Rebecca Li, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, National Science Foundation Water Unaffordability Project
• Kira Mok, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Environmental Justice and Hydrogen Sulfide Monitoring
• Marie Senescall, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, 826 Writers’ Room Evaluation

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
• Matthew Canary, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Water Unaffordability in the United States: Using Principles of Organizational Capacity to Understand Municipal Variation in Providing Water Access
• Valeria Do Vale, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Immigrants’ Healthcare Access Under Shifting Public Policies
Rayna Haque, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, A Qualitative Systematic Review of Exposure to Violence Among Resettled Refugees
• Taylor Snead, PEAK Experience 6: The Trail-Blazer, Sandwich
• Anthony Stohr, PEAK Experience 5: The Summit Award, Oxygen Tolerance & Symbiotic Co-culture Development of Clostridium ljungdahlii
• Elizabeth Williams, PEAK Experience 5: The Summit Award, A Dangerous Climate Around Trade

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• Selina Banerjee, John Mwangi, Theodora Stanley, PEAK Experience 5: The Summit Award, A Continuing Study of the Regeneration of HS and HA Components of the Endothelial Glycocalyx
• Anna Birnholz, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Human Connections, Community Resilience: Digital Theatre & Performance in a Time of Social Distancing
• Meghna Iyer, PEAK Experience 3: The Ascent Award, Guardrail Safety
• Emily Malterre, PEAK Experience 6: The Trail-Blazer, Intergenerational Storytelling Podcast
• Juan Solano Quesada, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, H-2A Visa & Wage/Labor Violation Insights

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 22
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
• Fatemah Mukadum, PEAK Experience 5: The Summit Award, Using a Machine Learning Model to Generate Novel Chemical Structures With Desired Properties for Light Activated Medical Applications
• Michaiah Parker, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Immigrants’ Healthcare Access under Shifting Public Policies
• Benjamin Silvers, PEAK Experience 6: The Trail-Blazer, Independent Artists: Know Your Legal Rights
• James Sinoimeri, PEAK Experience 5: The Summit Award, Bioreactor Strategies for Optimizing 1-Carbon Feedstock Growth of Acetogenic Bacteria

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
• Rosemary Ajegwu, PEAK Experience 6: The Trail-Blazer, Ada Ada
• Kenadi Kaewmanaprasert, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Health Reform Influence on Immigrant Healthcare Access in the U.S.
• Summer Kelly, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Understanding Racial/Ethnic Preterm Birth Disparities
• Emma Toole, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Ethical Procurement Toolkit

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
• Jake Duffy, PEAK Experience 3: The Ascent Award, Monte Carlo Simulation of the Liquid-Vapor Coexistence in a Langmuir Monolayer of Pentadecanoic Acid
• Katherine Forsyth, PEAK Experience 5: The Summit Award, Food Sovereignty Movements within a Regenerative Systems Framework
• Natalie McGowan, PEAK Experience 6: The Trail-Blazer, A Cross-Cultural Comparison of HPV Vaccination Efforts and Cervical Cancer Rates between Australia and Massachusetts
• Jeanine Nasser, PEAK Experience 6: The Trail-Blazer, Elucidating Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Infection Rates
• Jessica Torres, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Immigrant Health Research Project

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• Sanjana Koushik, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, The Impact of COVID-19 on Human Vulnerability and Trafficking
• Devon Regan, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Multilingual Writing Assessment Project
• Jahaan Saini, PEAK Experience 2: The Base Camp Award, Disrupting Human Trafficking in the Agricultural Sector

ZOOM FOR FRIDAY’S PRESENTATIONS