42 undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences will engage in research or creative activity with a faculty mentor this summer.
Students receive stipends of $2,400 from the Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program to engage in projects spanning the humanities, sciences, and social sciences for 20 hours per week. In August, they will present posters at a virtual campus research symposium.
They can also participate in the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Graduate Education Discovery Program.
- Sukaina Al-Hamedi, junior, biochemistry, "Quantification of Escherichia Coli and Other Gut Bacteria in a Mouse Model of Inflammatory Bowel Disease."
- Allyson Barry, sophomore, political science and environmental studies, "Extreme Changes in Precipitation Across the Great Plains Using a Regional Climate Model."
- Allison Benda, senior, psychology, "Academic Success in Elementary School: An Evaluation of Executive Functions and Motivation."
- Tomohide Bessho, senior, mathematics and computer science, "Visualizations to Explain the Behavior of Search."
- Brynn Boes, junior, biological sciences, "Virus, Stem Cells and Human Diseases."
- Eylon Caplan, junior, mathematics and computer science, "Continuous-Layered Dense Artificial Neural Networks."
- Lorenzo Catalano, senior, political science, "Nebraska Stories of Holocaust Survivors and World War II Veterans Portal."
- Katharina Dvorak, senior, biochemistry, "Development of a Salivary Glucose Sensor for Diabetes Management."
- Turner Blick, junior, mathematics, "Hessian Matrices in Three Dimensions."
- Justin Frandsen, junior, psychology, "The Effects of Desk Clutter on Cognitive Processing."
- Elijah Grablin, senior, biochemistry, "Effect of Methylphenidate on Ethanol Reward Enhancement."
- Skyler Gubbels, senior, insect science and biological sciences, "Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens in Pollinator Gardens of Nebraska."
- Alice Guo, senior, microbiology, "Elucidating Gene Expression Patterns for Resilient Maize Lines Under Nitrogen Stress."
- Sarah Elizabeth Guyer, junior, English, "Advancing the George
- Zachary Hamilton, junior, biological sciences, "Exploring Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) of Avian Infectious Bronchitis Virus."
- Ritvik Handa, junior, computer science and mathematics, "George Elliott Archive."
- Bryce Koerner Herrington, senior, physics and mathematics, "How Short-Range Order Affects the Local Magnetic Properties of Amorphous Materials."
- Thomas Michael Hugo, junior, biochemistry, "Mineral Deficiency-Induced Metabolic Dysfunction in the Liver."
- Camden Jones, senior, biochemistry, "Identification of Potential Monomeric Transcription Factors in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis."
- Ceyenna Kanne, senior, psychology and art, "Anthropocene Blues 2: Chimeras."
- Kyle Kleckner, senior, meteorology-climatology, "Characteristics of Cold Front Passages Around Lake Superior."
- Xuan Le, senior, mathematics and chemical engineering, "Structure-Guided Engineering of Carboxylic Acid Reductases."
- Joshua Magee, senior, psychology, "Objectively Detecting Mind-Wandering While Reading."
- Makenzie Leslie Maroney, senior, biological sciences and psychology, "The Effects of Mucosal Sugars on Clostridioides Difficile Colonization Resistance."
- Ivy Marshall, senior, psychology, "Crowd Psychology and Crowd Management."
- Ryan Martz, senior, meteorology-climatology, "Rotor Downwash Effect on Temperature Measurements."
- Bailey McLean, senior, biological sciences, "Verifying the Gene AT4G24680 (MOS1) Regulates Non-photochemical Quenching in Arabidopsis Thaliana."
- Ashley Marie McMurchie, senior, Spanish and microbiology, "Adapting Hibernation to Rat Hepatic Ischemia to Solve Donor Organ Shortage."
- Nate Thomas McQueen, senior, psychology, "Academic Success in Elementary School: An Evaluation of Executive Functions and Motivation."
- Kaylen Michaelis, senior, English, "Advancing the George Eliot Archive."
- Thara Michaelis, senior, English, "Advancing the George Eliot Archive."
- Dylan John Patrick, senior, political science and global studies, "Nebraska Stories of Holocaust Survivors and World War II Veterans Portal."
- Maxwell Robeson, junior, English, "George Elliott Archive."
- Juan Jose Silva, junior, physics, "New Method of Constricting the Charm Yukawa."
- Salma Silva, junior, psychology, "Habeas Corpus."
- Matthew Emcy Silver, senior, biological sciences and Russian, "Nutritional Minerals in Metabolism and Thermogenesis."
- Emily Trouba, junior, political science, "Interslavic as a Foreign Language."
- Allison Ann Ulness, senior, biological sciences, "Identification of the Anti-SARS-CoV2 Immunoglobulins by a Fluorescence-Based Detection Method."
- Lauren Marie Vatter, senior, biochemistry, "Bacterial Expression and Ligand Binding of Purified Domains of Stabilin-2."
- Patrick White, senior, biological sciences, "Effect of Methylphenidate on Ethanol Reward Enhancement."
- Huey-Xian Kelly Wong, senior, biochemistry and psychology, "Delineation of the Co-Dependent Nature of WhiB1 in Transcriptional Regulation of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis."
- Kelsey Wright, junior, biochemistry, "Physiological Response to Political Messages."
