The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences (UCARE) Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Students receive stipends of $2,640 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 20 hours per week. The students’ projects span academic disciplines in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
Posters featuring research and creative activities will be presented at a campus research symposium Aug. 6.
Students with majors in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) in UCARE:
- Jasmine Amaya, senior, political science, "Nebraska Stories of Humanity Website."
- Caden Anderjaska, sophomore, biological sciences, "Brain Networks for Pre- and Beginning School-Aged Readers: A Resting-State fMRI Study."
- Riley Brown, sophomore, mathematics, "Enumeration of Lozenge Tilings of a Hexagon with Holes."
- Amara Bryant, senior, biological sciences, "Immune Senescence in Human Cytomegalovirus."
- Iris Bumgarner, sophomore, biological sciences, "The Impact of Woody Encroachment by Smooth Sumac on Prairie Environmental Conditions."
- Crystal Carrillo Lupercio, senior, Spanish, "Centering the Voices of Adults Living with Type 2 Diabetes and Functional Disability."
- Emma Cavalier, senior, sociology, "Soldiers to Scientists: A Comparative Study of Educational Benefits in GI Bills, 1947-2001."
- Caden Connealy, senior, biochemistry, "West Nile Virus Helicase Enzyme and its Effects on Viral Fidelity."
- Audrey Denning, senior, psychology, "Validation of Excitatory Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs Using Biochemical Activation and Colocalization with Melanin-Concentrating Hormone Neurons."
- Lauren Fleenor, junior, psychology, "Equitable Access to Civil Justice: Interdisciplinary Research Project."
- Lisa Fruehling, junior, English, "Fanny Fern in The New York Ledger."
- Chelsea Hanway, senior, anthropology, "The Vikings in America."
- Shams Hassiki, junior, physics, "Redesigning the Trigger System for the Askaryan Radio Array Detector."
- Rowan Havranek, junior, English, "Synthesizing Fanny Fern in The New York Ledger."
- Halfeen Khudada, senior, biochemistry, "Discovery of Small Molecules for Anti-Filovirus Infection by Targeting Receptor Binding Sites."
- Laura Kirshenbaum, senior, biochemistry, "Expanding the Dynamic Range of Methanosarcina acetivorans through Recombinant Expression of the T7 Promoter System."
- Andy Knopik, senior, women's and gender studies, "Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West."
- Anne Lammes, senior, meteorology-climatology, "The Impact of Weather on Recent U.S. Protests in the Washington, D.C., Area."
- Hermione Lofton, senior, geology, "Mapping Sedimentary Thickness in the Northern Atlantic from Vintage Seismic Reflection Data."
- Carsyn Loncke, junior, global studies, "Economic Impact of Immigrants and Refugees in Nebraska."
- Ivette Lopez Quintana, senior, physics, "Monte Carlo Simulations of Electron Propagation."
- Leo Lu, senior, biological sciences, "Testing for a Flight-Reproduction Trade-off in Male Wing-Dimorphic Variable Field Crickets, Gryllus lineaticeps."
- Kylee Matousek, senior, meteorology-climatology, "What is the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Deep Convection Initiation in the Eastern United States?"
- Marissa Mendez-Santiago, junior, biochemistry, "Comparing the Production of Reactive Oxygen Species in the Presence of Unsaturated Fatty Acids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae."
- Josh Miller, senior, biological sciences, "The Impact of Obesity on Satellite Cells Action in the Skeletal Muscle."
- James Moeller, senior, psychology, "Alternatives to the Manosphere: An Analysis of Messages Appealing to Men Online."
- Hayley Moree, senior, biological sciences, "Determining if Palmitoleate Prevents Inflammation, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Apoptosis during West Nile Virus Infection."
- Jack Murphy, junior, mathematics, "Computational Insights into Pancreatic Cancer: A Model-Based Approach to Growth and Treatment."
- Paige Myers, senior, chemistry, "Wild Bee Species Abundance and Floral Preference on University of Nebraska–Lincoln Campus."
- Arlie Nghiem, senior, microbiology, "Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors for Anti-Flavivirus Infection by Targeting RNA Polymerase."
- Lilian Nguyen, junior, English, "(Re)Connections Through Time: Developing a Model for Multi-Modal Storytelling about Indigenous Communities and Their Collections."
- Claire Novak, senior, chemistry, "Mutations of the T7 RNA Polymerase to Increase RNA Yield and Purity."
- Jasmine Pham, sophomore, mathematics, "Understanding the Fire History of the Nebraska Sandhills Using a Lake Sediment Core from Dewey Marsh, Nebraska."
- Rebecca Pecora, junior, biochemistry, "Identification of Small Molecule Inhibitors for Anti-Flavivirus Infection by Targeting RNA Polymerase."
- Joiner Pfister, junior, chemistry, "Nanoparticle Necklace Network Living Transistor to Expedite Antibiotic Resistance Characterization."
- Noelle Pinneo, junior, English, "Advancing Fanny Fern in The New York Ledger."
- Sajid Raihan Akash, junior, physics, "Improve n(z) and Antenna Position Knowledge with Calibration Data from 2023 Field Season for the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland."
- Dillon Richert, senior, psychology, "Stressful Aspects of Nature and Their Cognitive Implications."
- Karen Rodriguez, senior, philosophy, "Consequences of and Solutions to Mitigate Perceived Fear of Deportation Among Immigrants in Nebraska."
- Shaghayegh Rouhi, sophomore, data science, "Nonlocal Models for the Analysis of the Stock Prices."
- Bre Sabin, sophomore, biological sciences, "Characterization of C. elegans genes that Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Targets to Evade Host Insulin-Like DAF-2/16 Pathway Defenses."
- Sam Sanketh, sophomore, mathematics, "Property Analysis in Connected Sums of Dimension Three Knots."
- Jo Sayer, junior, history, "2024-2025 Continuation of the Animating History Project."
- Alora Schneider, senior, environmental studies, "Relationship between Species Rarity and Extinction Risk in Mammals."
- Adam Schuhmacher, junior, biological sciences, "Examining The Reproductive Trade-offs of Ornate Box Turtles in Western Nebraska."
- Joe Stalder, junior, geology, "Understanding the Fire History of the Nebraska Sandhills Using a Lake Sediment Core from Dewey Marsh, Nebraska."
- Nick Starns, senior, mathematics, “Fusion Numbers of Ribbon Knots.”
- Natasja Swanson, junior, history, "Anticolonials: A World History."
- Rohan Tatineni, senior, biochemistry, "Crystallization and Mutagenesis of LaPhzS into a TetX-Like Enzyme."
- Korey Theye, senior, psychology, "On That Damn Phone So Much: Short-Form Media and its Effect on Attention."
- Ayden Topping, junior, psychology, "Equitable Access to Civil Justice: Interdisciplinary Research project."
- Jacey Tran, sophomore, biological sciences, "Inactivation of RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase Genes RDR3a, RDR3b and RDR3c in Arabidopsis thaliana Using Gene Editing."
- McKenna Varlack, senior, psychology, "Women and Right-Wing Extremism."
- Jenna Wakefield, junior, biochemistry, "Creating a Cross-Protective Vaccine for Canine Influenza with Adenoviral Vector Delivery System."
- Palmer Wright, senior, biological sciences, "Mucosal Immune Pathways in Taste Papillae."
