42 Arts and Sciences undergraduate students will research with a faculty mentor this summer, thanks to funding from the university's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program.
Students receive $2,400 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 20 hours per week. They can also participate in mentoring workshops and activities with undergraduates from other institutions who are participating in Nebraska's Summer Research Program. In August, both groups of students will present posters on their research and creative activities at a campus research symposium.
Anthropology
- Kayla Schirf, "To Enter Africa from America: U.S. Empire, Race and the African Question, 1847-1919"
Biochemistry
- Nina Bui, "Characterization of Coenzyme F420 and F420 Dehydrogenase"
- Jocelyn Daubendiek, "Characterization of Liver Endothelial Cells in a Mouse Model of Progressive Fatty Liver."
- Andrew Egger, "Characterization of Liver Endothelial Cells in a Mouse Model of Progressive Fatty Liver."
- Leah Engquist, "Lancaster County Family Treatment Drug Court Track Evaluation."
- Spencer Jones, "Interactions between the Sigma Factors and the WhiB7 Protein in Mycobacterium Species."
- Brianna Kellar, "Characterization of Liver Endothelial Cells in a Mouse Model of Progressive Fatty Liver."
- Nicholas Kite, "International Genetically Engineered Machines Team."
- Ngan Nguyen, "Engineering Commensal Bacteria to Produce Scytovirin for Combating Against Ebola Infection"
- Erin Oeltjen, "Relatedness of Chromatin Proteins and Phenotype in Archaea"
- Cameron Schaecher, "Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Sestrin2 Post-Translational Modification and its Significance on Adipocyte Metabolites Secretion Under Energy Stresses."
- Sydney Townsend, "Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Sestrin2 Post-Translational Modification and its Significance on Adipocyte Metabolites Secretion Under Energy Stresses."
Biological Sciences
- Bridget Bickner, "Exploring the Benefits of Sexual Cannibalism Avoidance for Male Pisaurina mira Spiders"
- Daniel Schoenberg, "Mating Rates and Mating Practices of the Fishing Spider, Dolomedes scriptus"
- Brian Smith, "Will Beef Make your Child a Better Athlete? Exploring the Associations Among Beef Intake, Iron Status and Athletic Performance in Nebraska Youth Athletes"
Chemistry
- Jessica Harms, "International Genetically Engineered Machines Team."
Classics and Religious Studies
- Amanda Bulger, "Exhuming Morgantina: Individuals and Society in a Hellenistic and Roman Iinsula at the Site of Morgantina (Sicily)"
- Ian McGovern, "Landscape and Environmental Impact and Influence on Classical Cultures from Antiquity and the Degrading Effects on the Archeological Record Due to Excavating Processes During a Field Survey."
- Brian Niedert, "Exhuming Morgantina: Individuals and Society in a Hellenistic and Roman Insula at the Site of Morgantina (Sicily)."
- Jacob Winters, "Mapping and Analyzing the Difficulty of Sentences in Latin Prose and Poetry for Pedagogical Use."
Computer Science
- Isaac Coleman, "Steelarm: An Independently Produced Video Game about Privilege and Player Choice"
- Bethany Hage, "Development of Plant G-protein Interactome Database."
English
- Sara Duke, "Collaborative Digital Literary Archive Development: The George Eliot Review Digitalization Project: Phase II."
- Rebecca Human, "Evaluating Parent Perception of Fairness in the Douglas County FIRST Court"
- Bailea Kerr, "Collaborative Digital Literary Archive Development: The George Eliot Review Digitalization Project: Phase II."
- Natalie Lucas, "Habeas Corpus and Legal Histories of the North American West"
Film Studies
- Rosamond Thalken, "Collaborative Digital Literary Archive Development: The George Eliot Review Digitalization Project: Phase II."
German (Modern Languages)
- Dylan Severino, "Mapping and Analyzing the Difficulty of Sentences in Latin Prose and Poetry for Pedagogical Use"
Global Studies
- Cassy Ross, "Refugee Resettlement and Entrepreneurship"
- Anna Spethman, "We Too Are Intellectuals: South African Women's Ideas on South African Segregation"
History
- Paige McCoy, "Nebraska Immigration: A Comparison Between Past and Present."
- Cody Nelson, "The Velatouri Tower of Attica, Greece: Greek Fortification Architecture in Classical and Hellenistic Borderlands"
Meteorology/Climatology
- Regan Kerkman, "Testing Instrumentation and Collecting Initial Data for Cloud Physics Research."
- Dylan Steinkruger, "Developing a Winter Severity Index to Improve Road Mobility."
Microbiology
- Samantha Moran, "Characterization of Ad-Vectored Ebola Zaire Vaccine Candidates."
Physics
- Andrew Shultz, "Measurement of Ultra High Energy Neutrino Flux."
Political Science
- Madison Morrissette, "Evaluating Parent Perception of Fairness in the Douglas County FIRST Court"
Psychology
- Kyly Baxter, "Effects of Social Support on Peer-Mentor and Client Relationships for Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Rural Adults with Social Anxiety"
- Mackenzie Cissne, "Neural Activation of Metacognition in Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury."
- Aaron Halvorsen, "Temporal Activation Patterns of Neural Representations Following Visual Statistical Learning."
- Madeline Neuhaus, "Habeas Corpus and Legal Histories of the North American West"
- Lori Nevole, "Willa Cather Archive"
