The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has awarded stipends to 61 Arts and Sciences undergraduates to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer.
Nebraska's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Undergraduate students receive stipends of $2,400 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 20 hours per week. The students' projects span academic disciplines including chemistry, English, modern languages and literatures, political science, and psychology.
The students also will have opportunities to 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.
Recipients by name, including academic major(s) and project title:
- Frederick Azalekor, biochemistry, "Association of Microbial Nitrogen Fixers in Prairie Soil with Trypsacum Dactyloides and Their Possible Effect on the Growth of Corn"
- Fatima Barragan, mathematics, "Finer Understanding of Those Undergraduate Minorities and Measuring Student Success with University Resource, OASIS"
- Alexander Batelaan, chemistry and physics, "Electropolymerization of Substituted Phenols for Passivation"
- Jacob Berggren, political science, "Superheroes, Safety and Social Policy: Induced Levels of Physical Security May Produce Greater Liberal Policy Preferences"
- Sanat Bhandari, computer science and mathematics, "Identifying Places of Unrest from Twitter Data."
- Sophie Brown, French, "To Enter Africa from America: U.S. Empire, Race and the African Question, 1847-1919."
- Finn Cassidy, biological sciences, "Investigation of Novel Phage Found in Soil around the University of Nebraska–Lincoln."
- Hung Chu, computer science, "A Software Application for Improving Performance in Large Undergraduate Classes"
- Douglas DeBose, classics and religious studies, and classical languages, "Creation of an Archive on the Epidaurus Festival."
- Haley DeWitt, biological sciences, "Health Communication"
- Vy Doan, computer science, "Application for Social Media Users To Check Accuracy of News Report And Prevent Spread of Fake News."
- Simone Droge, history and English, "Complete Letters of Willa Cather."
- Megan Ekstrom, English, "The George Eliot Digital Archive Project"
- Lizeth Fraire, psychology, "Differences Between Service Usage and Experiences between LGBTQ and Straight Survivors"
- Quinn Fricke, psychology, "Peer Victimization and Parental Response."
- Jeffrey Gabell, biological sciences and biochemistry, "Exploring the Effects of FATP2 Gene Deletion on Fatty Acid-Responsive Gene Expression in Liver"
- Rachel Gordon, English and political science, "Collaborative Digital Literary Archive Development: The George Eliot Archive"
- Carson Green, physics, "Fabrication of High Performance Photodetectors by Integrating Hybrid Halide Perovskite with Transition Metal Dichalcogenide 2D Electronics."
- Duane Green, economics and mathematics, "Entrepreneurship: The Fuel for Economic Growth"
- Kaustubh Gupta, computer science, "Analysis of Mobile Payment Application for Security Vulnerabilities"
- Aaron Halvorsen, psychology and biological sciences, "Changes in Hemodynamic Responses to Faces, Scenes and Objects in a Visual Statistical Learning Task: An fMRI Analysis."
- Colton Harper, computer science and mathematics, "Estimating the Energy Consumption of Engineered Communication Among Biological Cells: A Computational Approach."
- Nicolette Holcomb, biochemistry, "Biological System for the Treatment of Nitrate and Atrazine from Groundwater in Rural Areas Using Immobilized Algae"
- Rebecca Human, English and political science, "Evaluating Parent Perception of Fairness in the Douglas County FIRST Court"
- Kai Johnson, biochemistry, "An RNA Helicase Implicated in DNA Repair"
- Spencer Jones, biochemistry, "Residues of SigA Essential in Binding with WhiB1 in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis."
- Hyunji Jhi, art and computer science, "The George Eliot Digital Archive Project"
- Hayley Kaiser, political science, "Evaluating Parent Perception of the Lancaster County Family Treatment Drug Court Track"
- Drew Kortus, biological sciences, "UNL International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Team"
- Cole Kovarik, global studies, Spanish and political science, "A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Religious Belief Change and Adjustment in University Students."
- Benjamin Larsen, political science, "A History of Decolonization: World History in Local and Regional Archives"
- Lam Le, biological sciences, "Examining the Experiences and Beliefs of Asian Parents in Nebraska"
- Tony Le, biochemistry, "Optimizing the Interactions of a Two-Member Microbial Community of Methylobacter and Methylomonas"
- Lauren Lesiak, chemistry and biochemistry, "Synthesis and Evaluation of Nebraska Red Derivatives for Protein Labeling Studies"
- Amanda Lewis, biochemistry, "Identification of the Heparin/Antisense Oligo Binding Domain in Stabilin-2"
- Emma Lonergan, biological sciences, "Supporting Study to Transform En-Route Care System"
- Natalie Lucas, English and psychology, "Habeas Corpus and Legal Histories of the North American West"
- Sydney Macke, psychology, "The Modern Medea."
- Madeline Maschka, biological sciences, "Evaluation of the Pap Smear for Cervical Cancer Screening in Tanzania"
- August McClenahan, physics, mathematics and mechanical engineering, "Building Fast and Accurate Heat Transfer Simulations for Metal 3-D printing."
- Nicholas McElhose, meteorology-climatology, "A Wind Speed Climatology for Drones."
- Ayush Mishra, computer science, "Identifying Security Vulnerabilities Among Internet of Things Smart Speakers."
- Anya Morozov, biological sciences, "Investigating Student Expectations and Transitions in Introductory STEM Courses."
- Brooke Mott, classics and religious studies, and fisheries and wildlife, "An Observational Study of Undergraduate Teaching in CASNR"
- Jordan Murman, biological sciences, "Lateral Habenula Involvement in Maternal Peripartum Stress"
- Vida-Michelle Nixon, physics and mathematics, "Design of a Magnetic Chicane for use in Determining Chirp of a Relativistic Electron Beam."
- Nancy Nguyen, biochemistry, "Determining the Mechanism of Action of the Antifungal Falcarindiol"
- Alejandro Pages, computer science, "Evaluating the Application of Deep Learning Approaches to Image-Based Phenotype Extraction"
- Claire Patnode, psychology, "Peer Victimization and Parental Response."
- Breanna Pekarek, nursing and psychology, "Development and Evaluation of Interactive E-Learning Modules on College Students Understanding and Application of Pathophysiologic and Pharmacologic Concepts."
- Nathan Pettid, biological sciences and psychology, "Exercise and Psychological Well-Being"
- Parker Pombrio, physics, "Investigation of Laser-Driven Free Electron Laser."
- Nathan Ray, physics and mathematics, "Design of a Magnetic Chicane for Use in Determining Chirp of a Relativistic Electron Beam."
- Alexi Robertson, classics and religious studies, and classical languages, "Classics at the Capitol."
- Jianfei Shao, computer science and mathematics, "Network Path Capacity Comparison Without Accurate Packet Time Information"
- Fiona Shogren, biological sciences, "Higher Order Learning Ability of the Amblypygi, Phrynus marginemaculatus."
- Lee-Ann Sims, global studies and political science, "To Enter Africa from America: U.S. Empire, Race and the African Question, 1847-1919"
- Stephan Sutter, biological sciences and biochemistry, "Elucidating Inter-Protein Interactions of Archaeal Chromatin Proteins"
- Gregory Tracey, global studies and economics, "Impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on the U.S. Economy"
- Lauryn Wengert, global studies, Spanish and political science, "Understanding Backlash to the International Criminal Court."
- Rongsong Yang, computer science and mathematics, "Computing Plant Phenotypes Using Computer Vision."
- Di Zhao, computer science and mathematics, "Limitations of Emulating Realistic Network Environments for Internet Applications Debugging."
