82 students from the College of Arts and Sciences will engage in research and creative activity with faculty mentors this summer through the university's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program. They are among 174 Husker undergraduates to receive stipends for the experiential learning opportunity with faculty and will present posters on their research and creative activities at a campus research symposium on August 5. The students’ projects represent a range of academic disciplines.
Students, majors, and the name of the project:
- Peyton Alder, biological sciences, “Meiotic Drive: Suppressors and Distorters in Drosophila.”
- Manal Amon, psychology, “Sex-Ratio Distorters in Drosophila simulans.”
- Hailey Anderson, physics, “Probing 2D Ferroelectricity in van der Waals CuInP2S6 Using Piezoresponse Force Microscopy.”
- Zoey Armstead, biochemistry, “Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Assays for Dissection of Protein DNA Interactions in Plants and Microorganisms.”
- Chase Auman, biochemistry, “A Behavioral Economics Approach to Caffeine and Methylphenidate Reward Enhancement.”
- Liam Baker, environmental studies, “Surveying the Structures of U.S. Water Governance.”
- Natalie Beattie, history, “Nebraska Holocaust Survivor and WWII Veteran Network and Educational Portal.”
- Cole Blasing, biochemistry, “Investigating if ATRP Isomerization Causes Bias in Signaling Pathway.”
- Turner Blick, mathematics, “Investigating P-Derivations.”
- Renee Box, biological sciences, “Seasonal Dynamics of Flight-Capable and Flightless Crickets and their Parasites in Western Nebraska: Coupling Coursework and Field Research at Cedar Point Biological Station to Advance Collaborative Research at UNL.”
- Ryan Brunkhorst, biochemistry, “Drug Discovery Targeting RNA Polymerase against Flavivirus Infection.”
- Samantha Byrd, history, “Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West.”
- Dane Chamberlin, global studies, “Homerathon 2023.”
- Clayton Christensen, biochemistry, “Investigating Temporal Delay between Nicotine Self-Administration and Sucrose Reward between Biological Sex.”
- Grace Claussen, biological sciences, “ZIKV Particle and APP Processing In Vitro.”
- Lucy DePooter, mathematics, “Knot Theory: What is the Smallest Hard Unknot with Respect to Width?”
- Rudra Dixit, biological sciences, “Microbiome Role in Susceptibility to Disease.”
- Michelle Ebrahim, psychology, “Pandemic Stress on Parents and Child Internalizing Behaviors.”
- Emma Farson, biological sciences, “UNL Wellness Assessment Trends.”
- Makena Foley, geology, “Evaluating Land Use Effects on Metabolism in Nebraska Streams.”
- Morgan Graham, psychology, “An Assessment of the Efficacy of Sex Offender Community Notification.”
- Aidan Hand, biochemistry, “Drug Discovery Targeting RNA Polymerase against Flavivirus Infection.”
- Chelsea Hanway, anthropology, “Wakara’s America: Mapping the Untold Story of the Indian Founding Father of the American West.”
- Austin Herold, biological sciences, “Investigating Host Preference for Phoresy across Microhabitats in the Nebraska-Native Pseudoscorpion Dactylochelifer silvestris.”
- Bryce Herrington, physics, “Yttrium Iron Garnet Based Ferromagnetic Resonators.”
- Lillie Hizer, biological sciences, “Assessing the Role of Vertical Migration in Facilitating Invasive Aquatic Predator Success.”
- Sam Ho, biological sciences, “Evaluate the Utility of an In Vitro Expression System for Making Recombinant Proteins.”
- Justin Ho, computer science, “Understanding Knowledge Creation and Dissemination from a Graph Perspective.”
- Arabella Hodges, biochemistry, “Evaluation of the Relationships between Host-Genetics and Viral Pathogens in Natural Infections.”
- Emily Hogg, biochemistry, “Investigating UL6 Gene in HCMV.”
- Thomas Hugo, biochemistry, “Mechanisms behind Hepatocyte Damage Caused by Mineral Dysregulation and Excess Fat.”
- Jonathan Ireland, classics and religious studies, “Homerathon 2023.”
- Paige Jennings, psychology, “Homerathon 2023.”
- Serena Jentz, biochemistry, “Engineering the Light-Switchable Fluorescent Protein, Dronpa, through Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation for Hydrogen Peroxide Sensing.”
- Camden Jones, biochemistry, “Characterization of Potential Monomeric Transcription Factors in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis.”
- Simreen Kaur, computer science, “Assessment and Improvement of Next-Generation Transcriptome Assembly.”
- Janana Khattak, political science, “Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West.”
- Emma Klein, English, “Nebraska Holocaust Survivor and WWII Veteran Network and Educational Portal.”
- Blake Lindgren, geology, “Ecology of Paleozoic Fauna.”
- Eric Liu, senior, actuarial science, “Computational Models for Artificial Micro-Robots.”
- Morgan Madsen, geology, “Geophysical Mapping of Large-Scale Submarine Landslides at the Southern Cascadia Margin.”
- Clarissa Mason, biochemistry, “Evaluation of the Chemistry Teaching Assistant Mentor Program.”
- Andrew Minchow, biochemistry, “Chemical Synthesis and Modification of Poly (Ethylene Glycol) Diacrylate for Bioprinted Hydrogels in Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Organoid Generation.”
- Micaylon Moore, biological sciences, “Anti-Fungal Properties of a Lipid Biosynthesis Inhibitor.”
- Abbey O’Brien, anthropology, “Wakara’s America: Mapping the Untold Story of the Indian Founding Father of the American West.”
- Kolton O’Neal, mathematics, “Quantum Computing and Applications.”
- Odessa Ohrt, biochemistry, “Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Assays for Dissection of Protein DNA Interactions in Plants and Microorganisms.”
- Nathan Ottenbacher, biochemistry, “Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Assays for Dissection of Protein DNA Interactions in Plants and Microorganisms.”
- Jay Patel, computer science, “Efficiently Testing the Hardware Implementation of Network Protocols.”
- Kiara Pavlik, microbiology, “Testing for Persistence of Newly Isolated Lactobacillus Strains in a Mouse Model of Obesity.”
- Lars Pedersen, physics, “Photodetachment of Positronium Negative Ion by Time-Delayed Circularly Polarized Pulses.”
- Mackenna Petersen, biochemistry, “Drug Discovery Targeting RNA Polymerase against Flavivirus Infection.”
- Eddie Pham, chemistry, “Influence on Peroxide Structure on Reactivity toward C-O Bond Formation.”
- Kashish Poore, microbiology, “Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Biosensors.”
- Jack Rankin, mathematics, “Fluctuations in Trunk Numbers in Knot Theory.”
- Madisyn Reichert, biological sciences, “Synthesis of Nanoparticles for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients.”
- Ellie Russell, history, “Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West.”
- Alexander Sandquist, chemistry, “Surface Modification of Polyurethane.”
- Alora Schneider, environmental studies, “Phytochemicals Caused Prey Preference of Green Lacewing (Chrysopa sp.) on Two Aphid Species (Aphis nerii and Myzocallis asclepiadis).”
- Christie Seyl, psychology, “Social Scientist Researchers’ Understanding of Qualities of Inclusive Research Practices for Transgender and Gender Diverse Communities.”
- Boris Shabaltiy, biochemistry, “Structural and Functional Characterization of PorX from Porphyromonas gingivalis.”
- Divsirat Singh, computer science, “Social Media Data Mining of Health (Mis)Information.”
- Luke Skrabal, biological sciences, “Engineering Exosomes for Targeted miRNA Delivery to Cardiomyocytes.”
- Sophia Smyth, psychology, “That’s Sick: Implicit Learning and the Processing of Ambiguous Stimuli.”
- Jessica Sorsen, geology, “Kane-Atlantis.”
- Makenzie Starlin, biochemistry, “The Moderating Effect of Parent-Teacher Communication on the Link between Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement.”
- Tatiana Startseva, physics, “Investigation of Ice Properties for Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland.”
- Rohan Tatineni, biochemistry, “Identification of the Key Residues Critical for Substrate Binding in LaPhzM.”
- Edric Teut, biological sciences, “Electron Transfer in Microorganisms: Essentiality of the E- and F- [Fe4S4] Clusters of the Methanosarcina acetivorans CODH Enzyme.”
- Paige Trevarrow, physics, “Analysis of SpiceCore Double Pulses as Seen by the ARA Stations.”
- Zach Van Brocklin, microbiology, “Sex-Ratio Distorters in Drosophila simulans.”
- Grace Van Cott, biochemistry, “Drought in Nebraska: Past Events and Future Projections to 2100.”
- Ben Vyzourek, biochemistry, “Development of an mRNA Vaccine against Human H3 Influenza A Virus.”
- Thomas Walton, computer science, “Understanding the Algorithmic and Dataset Biases in Deep Learning.”
- Kailee Ward, microbiology, “Investigating the Interactions between Host Metabolic Genotype and Environmental Fermentation on Gut Microbiome Composition.”
- Kennedy Whiting, microbiology, “Impacts of the Urban Environment and Season on Diapause Physiology in the Monarch Butterfly.”
- Haley Witthuhn, psychology, “The Moderating Effect of Parent-Teacher Communication on the Link between Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement.”
- Kelsey Wright, biochemistry, “Threat Sensitivity of Political Conservatives and Liberals.”
- Mimi Yu, sociology, “Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West.”
- Ruthi Zielinski, physics, “Yttrium Iron Garnet Based Ferromagnetic Resonators.”
- Chanasei Ziemann, biological sciences, “Knockout of PS-IRF9 Gene.”
- Gerin Zimmerman, psychology, “Sweetened Alcohol Drinking.”
