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OURUWM 10TH ANNIVERSARY OFFICE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium April 27, 2018 Contents Letter of Welcome ................................................................................. 3 Information ............................................................................................. 4 Symposium Schedule ............................................................................. 5 Oral & Performing Arts Schedules ..................................................... 6 Abstracts ................................................................................................. 10 3 Letter of Welcome Dear Symposium Attendees: Welcome to the 10th Annual UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium! This event celebrates the research collaborations of UWM undergraduate students with our faculty and staff. Over the course of this afternoon, over 300 students from across UWM will present some of the results of their research from this last year. This is a busy season for undergraduate research across the university with students presenting at departmental and school/college events and also participating in national and state-wide undergraduate research conferences, lobbying efforts, and an increasing number of national disciplinary conferences. The work being presented today is not all of the mentored research work being done by undergraduates at UWM. Every year, over 900 UWM students work directly with faculty in research. About half of these students either volunteer or receive academic credit for their work; the other half are paid through external and internal grants, including the SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) grants awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Research. We want to thank the faculty and graduate students who have committed themselves to working collaboratively with UWM undergraduates. Too often the work of research mentors is unseen and unacknowledged, and as much as this event is a celebration of the work of our undergraduate students, it is also a celebration of the very idea of research and the long traditions of mentoring the next generation of researchers. We encourage you to take this opportunity to learn more about the extraordinary research collaborations happening across our campus and hope that you will continue to advocate for the participation of undergraduates in research at UWM. And, as always, please thank the people walking around with clipboards today. Over 130 UWM faculty, staff, and graduate students are serving today as judges. Sincerely, Nigel Rothfels, Director Office of Undergraduate Research 10th Annual UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium – 2018 4 Information Presenter Registration - Outside of the Wisconsin Room, Union 2nd Floor Presenter Registration will be open from 10:30am to 1:30pm. All participants can pick up Symposium information and T-shirts at registration. Presentation set-up should occur from 10:30am to 11:45am. Coat Check - Union 220 For your convenience, a complimentary coat check is located in Union 220. Bags and posters may also be checked. It will be open from 10:30am to 4:30pm. UWM Graduate School - Union 2nd Floor Hallway Be sure to stop by the UWM Graduate School table just outside of the Wisconsin Room to pick up information about the graduate programs available at UW-Milwaukee. UWM Libraries, Digital Commons - Union 2nd Floor Hallway The UWM Libraries encourages all student researchers to publish their research presentations (Power Point, Posters, Videos, Audio, etc.) to the Digital Commons. Please note, you will need to have your faculty mentor approve publication of research materials to the site. Publication of your research in the UWM Digital Commons will help build a record of your research work and will be available to a wide audience! If you wish to upload your work, please send it to [email protected]. We will contact your mentor(s) for their approval. The deadline for your submission is June 1, 2018. The deadline for your mentor(s) approval is July 1, 2018. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 5 Symposium Schedule - Friday, April 27, 2018 10:30 – 11:45am Registration & Presentation Set-Up, Union Wisconsin Room Oral Presentation Set-Up (Load/Test PowerPoints in Union Breakout Rooms) 11:45am Welcome, Nigel Rothfels, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, Union Wisconsin Room 12:00 - 1:40pm Oral Presentations, Union Breakout Rooms (see schedule on page 6) 1:30 - 3:30pm Poster Session Welcome, Provost Johannes Britz Poster and Visual Arts Presentations, Union Wisconsin Room 3:30pm Closing Remarks by Chancellor Mark Mone, Announcement of Mentor of the Year, and Acknowledgment of Outstanding Presentations, Union Wisconsin Room University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 10th Annual UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium – 2018 Schedule of Oral & Performing Arts Presentations by Location 6 –Schedule Room Time Presenters Presentation Title Research Mentor Examination of the Evolution of Finger-Style Guitar Union 240 12:00PM Nia Keranova John Stropes, Music from 1967-1992 Michael McKinnon & Union 240 12:20PM Legacy of the 1969 and 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festivals John Stropes, Music Josh Kim Union 240 12:40PM Lori Martello On the Wings of Dramaturgy Alvaro Rios, Theatre Union 240 1:00PM Audra Cashman Chronic Illness in Musical Theatre Robin Mello, Theatre Molly Kiefer, Annie Peterson, Amy Daniel Burkholder, Union 240 1:20PM Applying Feldenkrais Lessons to a Dance Context Sutheimer & Dance Rebecca Whitty Matthew Vogt, Max Sabitov, Itziar Lazkano, Union 250 12:00PM Can Wealth and Nature Coexist? Gus Greiling & Economics Ronald Salmon Mikael Luter & Itziar Lazkano, Union 250 12:20PM Can Your Daily Commute Slow Climate Change? Jocelyn Kroetz Economics Union 250 12:40PM Hugo Ljungbäck What We Can Learn from a History of Film Studies Tami Williams, English Elana Levine, Journalism, Union 250 1:00PM Audrey Waln Her Stories: Day Time Soap Opera and US Television History Advertising & Media Studies Jacqueline Stuhmiller, Union 250 1:20PM Bailey Flannery The Monstrous Mouths of Women English Alexander Arnold, Identification of Novel Pepsin Inhibitors for Target Drugs to Treat Union 260 12:00PM Jonathon Gould Chemistry & Laryngopharyngeal Reflux Disease Biochemistry The Role of APOE Genotype, Sex, and 17ß-Estradiol in Memory Union 260 12:20PM Sarah Philippi Karyn Frick, Psychology Consolidation in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease ANC-1 Promotes Axon Guidance in Touch Receptor and Motor Christopher Quinn, Union 260 12:40PM Vladislav Friedman Neurons in C. elegans Biological Sciences University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee University University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Schedule of Oral & Performing Arts Presentations by Location Room Time Presenters Presentation Title Research Mentor Major Element Geochemistry of the Pulo do Lobo Metasedimentary Dyanna Czeck, Union 260 1:00PM Nancy Duque Rocks Affected by the Southern Iberian Shear Zone, Andalusia, Spain Geosciences Whitney Moon, Union 260 1:20PM Trevor Georgeson Lights, Camera, Inflation! Architecture Nikole Bouchard, Union 280 12:00PM Brodie Kerst Oshkosh E.R. Architecture The Physical Environment Resources For or Impediments to Brian Schermer, Union 280 12:20PM Ever Clinton Social Sustainability Architecture Union 280 12:40PM Lena Jensen The Ethics and Practices of Caring Arijit Sen, Architecture The Human and Environmental Impacts of Foreclosure: Union 280 1:00PM Teonna Cooksey Arijit Sen, Architecture Washington Park and Sherman Park Amanda Seligman, Union 280 1:20PM Jonathan Zagrodnik Grand Avenue and the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee History Pradeep Rohatgi, Materials Science & Development of Eutectic Based Self-healing in Union 340 12:00PM Perry Spott Engineering & 10h Annual UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium –2018 Symposium Research UWMUndergraduate 10h Annual Al-Si Hypoeutectic Alloy Volkan Kilicli, Materials Science & Engineering Numerical Approximation of Solidification Behavior in Co-27Cr-5Mo- Hugo Lopez, Materials Union 340 12:20PM Emily Gerstein 0.25C Alloys during Pulsed Laser and Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) Welding Science & Engineering of As Cast Biomedical Inserts How Green is Our County? Street View Imagery Based High-Resolution Jacob Beihoff & Istvan Lauko, Union 340 12:40PM and High-Accuracy Human Environment Adam Honts Mathematical Sciences Vegetation Mapping Investigating Protein Hydrogel Mechanics through Force-Clamp Union 340 1:00PM Kirill Shmilovich Ionel Popa, Physics Measurement and Validation with Dynamic Modeling Spectral Feature Extraction and Analysis in Human Mohammad Rahman, Union 340 1:20PM Joshua Myszewski Electroencephalogram (EEG) Signals Biomedical Engineering Impact of Service Learning Programs on Undergraduate Students Sabine Heuer, Union 344 12:00PM Rebecca Willer Working with Older Adults in Long-Term Care Settings Communication Schedule –7 Schedule of Oral & Performing Arts Presentations by Location 8 –Schedule Room Time Presenters Presentation Title Research Mentor Lesbian Coming-Out Experiences: Using Affect Control Theory to Celeste Campos-Castillo, Union 344 12:20PM Sarah Groh Examine the Context of Same-Sex Disclosure Sociology Off-Target Effects of FDA-Approved Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Douglas Steeber, Union 344 12:40PM Samer Alanani on Mature Lymphocyte Populations Biological Sciences Strategies for Targeting Immunosuppressive Myeloid Cells in a Murine Douglas Steeber, Union 344 1:00PM Jessye Hale Breast Cancer Model Biological Sciences Sandeep Gopalakrishnan, Union 344 1:20PM Kevin Rymut Optical Imaging to Assess Metabolic State