The 2018 UNL Spring Research Fair featured more than 250 undergraduate research posters, six undergraduate creative exhibits and more than 150 graduate research posters on April 10-11 in the Nebraska Union. More than 400 students participated over the course of the two-day fair.
To recognize students’ creative and scholarly achievements and accomplishments, prizes were awarded to the top undergraduate and graduate posters and exhibits.
The undergraduate competition involved 96 reviewers and the graduate competition involved more than 30 reviewers who rated student posters on the basis of their research scholarship. Undergraduate students were also rated on their presentation skills at the Research Fair.
The top graduate posters, representing work and research from the Arts and Humanities, Education, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Agricultural and Life Sciences, and Social Sciences will receive a $400 travel grant to present their research at a regional or national conference.
The top undergraduate posters will receive a $250 award sponsored by their college.
Graduate competition winners
- Gretchen Bergquist, doctoral student, communication studies, “Conceptualizing Mental Health Stigma: Family and Community Stigma as Socialization Processes in Mental Health Treatment Seeking Across Rural-Nonrural Areas”
- Danielle Graham, doctoral student, chemistry, “Use of Small Molecule Probe Substrates, Active Site Mutagenesis and Molecular Modeling to Gain Mechanistic Insight into the PLP-Enzyme Human Serine Racemase”
- John Kiat, doctoral student, psychology, “The Impact of Individuation on the Bases of Human Empathic Responding”
- Gaurav Kudalkar, doctoral student, chemistry, “Use of Hybrid Chemo/Biocatalysis to Access Value-Added Building Blocks from Lignocellulose”
- Rebecca Salem, doctoral student, anthropology, “Mapping an Early 20th Century Pompeii Tourist Route with GIS”
Undergraduate competition winners
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Kyly Baxter, senior, psychology, “Familismo and Expectancies for Success During App-Based Treatment Entry for Rural Latinos with Anxiety and Depression” under Debra Hope
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Cody Meyer, senior, psychology, “The Mascs We Wear: Masculinity Contingency and Sexual Bystander Attitudes” under Sarah Gervais
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Catherine Elliott, senior, anthropology and English, “Campus Archaeology: Archive Organization and Curation” under Effie Athanassopoulos
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Rebecca Sorsen, senior, mathematics, “The Jones Polynomial of the Generalized Half Twist” under Alexander Zupan
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Brian Smith, junior, biological sciences, “Will Beef Make your Child a Better Athlete? Exploring the Associations among Beef Intake, Iron Status, and Athletic Performance in Nebraska Youth Athletes” under Karsten Koehler
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Bailee Lichter, senior, biochemistry, “Characterization of Metabolic Networks in Differentiated CD4 T Cells” under Tomas Helikar
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Lori Nevole, senior English and women’s and gender studies, “Digitizing Cather: Annotating Willa Cather's Letters for The Complete Letters of Willa Cather” under Andrew Jewell
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Grecia Macias, senior, sociology, “Assessing the Link Between Discriminatory Experiences and Emotional Arousal in Everyday Life” under Bridget Goosby
