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Creative Collaborations Undergraduate Research WELCOME to the 27th Annual Creative Collaborations Undergraduate Research Conference! CReAtive This annual forum celebrates the research, scholarship and creative accomplishments of students in all disciplines. The high-quality work you see reflects the intellectual curiosity of our undergraduate COLLABORATIONS students and their ability to make substantial contributions to society. Creative Collaborations also serves to showcase the commitment of our distinguished faculty in mentoring the next generation of research leaders, as well as USD’s long-standing commitment to academic excellence by providing UnDeRgraduate students with experiential and engaged learning opportunities. This year, more than 200 abstracts were submitted by students across a broad range of disciplines. ReSearch We encourage you to visit students as they present their research in poster, interactive and visual arts exhibits. In keeping with the university’s commitment to our strategic planning pathways, engaged CONFERENCE scholarship conducted on campus and presented today is practicing “Changemaking,” and has the potential to make real differences in knowledge and practice. Among the presentations are studies that included measuring Affordable Care Act’s impact on insurance coverage and health outcomes using a difference-in-differences regression model; investigating the effects of drought on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities; exploring how a politician’s gender and sexual orientation affected a voter’s choice; observing and recording an effective transfer of design and building instructions of an assistive device as a community project in Nigeria; examining how membrane technology can be used for gas separation, distillation, and filtration, areas of research potentially affecting environmental protection, water shortages, and energy consumption; and completing the next phase of the Tudor Plays Project, a multi-year, interdisciplinary project arising from the Digital Humanities initiative and the new Humanities Center. Creative Collaborations is part of Research Week at USD (April 17-21, 2017), which showcases research activities across the university and honors students and faculty members who have challenged themselves to extend learning beyond the classroom. We invite you to view and experience a variety of presentations during this celebration of faculty-student scholarly collaboration. Congratulations to all the student presenters and faculty members participating in this year’s Creative Collaborations Undergraduate Research Conference! Sincerely, Andrew T. Allen, PhD Carole Huston, PhD Maritza Castellanos Vice President and Provost Associate Provost Program Assistant April 18 and 20, 2017 • 12 – 2 p.m. Student-faculty University of San Diego • Hahn University Center Research www.sandiego.edu/cc-urc Scholarship Office of Undergraduate Research Creative Works Schedule Welcome 12 p.m. Director, Office of Undergraduate Research Hahn University Center Forums Student Presentations Tuesday, April 18 12:10 to 2 p.m. Visual Arts Exhibits: Student Life Pavilion Exhibit Hall 12:10 to 1 p.m. Session One (Presentations 1-114) Poster Presentations: Hahn University Center Forums Interactive Exhibits: Hahn University Center Forums, Alcoves, La Gran Terraza Patio 1:10 to 2 p.m. Session Two (Presentations 1-115) Poster Presentations: Hahn University Center Forums Interactive Exhibits: Hahn University Center Forums, alcoves, La Gran Terraza Patio Thursday, April 20 12:10 to 2 p.m. Visual Arts Exhibits: Student Life Pavilion Exhibit Hall 12:10 to 1 p.m. Session One (Presentations 1-116) Poster Presentations: Hahn University Center Forums Interactive Exhibits: Hahn University Center Forums, Alcoves, La Gran Terraza Patio 1:10 to 2 p.m. Session Two (Presentations 1-114) Poster Presentations: Hahn University Center Forums Interactive Exhibits: Hahn University Center Forums, alcoves, La Gran Terraza Patio AbStract bOOk In keeping with USD’s commitment to sustainability, the 2017 abstract book is available on the mySDmobile app during Research Week, and can be found online at www.sandiego.edu/cc-urc. ReSearch Week Creative Collaborations Undergraduate Research Conference is part of USD’s Research Week. For more information about offerings, please visit www.sandiego.edu/osp/research-week/index.php. Research Week is from April 18-21. UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO 5 Day One, Session I, Interactive Exhibits Tuesday, April 18 Session I; 12:10-1 p.m. VA/Exhibit Hall A Garden Compendium EMILY MUELLER and John Halaka In remembering painful events, a destructive cycle of reliving memories begins. This creates a preoccupation with the past that is characterized with guilt and longing for previous innocence. With this project, I attempt to unpack these issues and come to some personal reconciliation. I have conducted this research through a series of paintings that are a compendium of haunting memories. Each image draws on fragments of my history, and collectively, the series outlines a journey from a dark past to future possibilities. The figures in the paintings reference a pursuit of the innocence of my departed youth. They are placed among dense patches of plants that become grotesque gardens, which are allegorical to the overbearing presence of recollection. The relationship between the figures and the landscape is one of simultaneous tension and fluidity that suggests the duality of being stuck in a recreated past while life continues. With this project, I did not come to any concrete conclusion but instead came to understand and explore the issues that avail me. I wish to present these matters in a way that is truthful and reflective of the way I was feeling at the time they were painted. In doing this, I hope to gain some rapprochement and appeal to a wider audience that can relate and find comfort in my artwork. GO MOBILE! Download the mySDMobile app for information on student presenters, presentation times & presentation locations, all from the palm of your hand! 6 CREATIVE COLLABOraTIONS / Undergraduate Research Conference UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO 7 of psychology courses taken) would impact preference for certain consequences. Participants were asked to read scenarios describing a child’s behavior and rank their preference of the consequence to be administered from a set of provided options. Day One, Session I, Poster Presentations Results and conclusions will be discussed. 7 1 Tuesday, April 18 Tuesday, April 18 Session I; 12:10-1 p.m. Session I; 12:10-1 p.m. UC Forums UC Forums The Synthesis of Peptide-Based Polymers by Microwave-Assisted RAFT Are Millennials Really Changing the Workplace? An exploration of generational Polymerization differences in attitudes toward leadership, the workday, and person-job fit AMANDA ENNIS, Alisson Magsumbol and Joan Schellinger ALLISON KNAPP and Stephen Pearlberg Peptide-based polymers have a wide variety of useful applications such as controlled drug delivery, tissue engineering, and Participants (n=100) responded to a twelve-item online survey designed to assess the workplace preferences of two cohort biosensors. A way in which to synthesize these polymers is by microwave-assisted reversible addition-fragmentation chain- populations commonly referred to as Millennials and Generation X. Samples were obtained from an undergraduate population transfer (RAFT) polymerization. RAFT polymerization is one of the most important and versatile methods for controlling of Introductory Psychology students at the University of San Diego and from a district in Redwood City, CA accessed radical polymerizations. Our research is looking to optimize the synthesis of peptide-based polymers through this method. through Nextdoor, a private social network. Participants were prompted to imagine an ideal job ten years into their career The simple monomer aminopropylmethacrylamide (APMA) is used in the polymerization and the resulting polymer is before completing the survey items involving attitudes about four distinct constructs: Personal vs. Team benefit, Meaning vs. characterized through the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The data thus far indicates that a significant amount of Money, Creative freedom vs. Structure, and Rewarding vs. Constructive leadership. Participants then indicated the extent to conversion is taking place. Future work will be to characterize the simple monomer methacyloyl-L-lysine (Ma-Lys) by the which they preferred statements representing opposite dimensions of each construct and ranked the relative importance of same method. various workplace characteristics. Prior research has suggested that Millennials and Generation X differentially value personal development, work aligned with their interests, autonomous task structure, and encouragement from their managers. We 9 hypothesized that Millennials would indicate preference for personal over team benefit, meaning over money, creative freedom Tuesday, April 18 over structure, and positive reinforcement over constructive feedback. Responses have been collected from the Millennial Session I; 12:10-1 p.m. population, but this Abstract will change as we complete the collection of Generation X responses. UC Forums 3 Food For Thought: An Evaluation of the Impact Food Insecurity Has On Educational Tuesday, April 18 Achievement Session I; 12:10-1 p.m. UC Forums ANASTASIA ZUNIGA and Alyson Ma The state of Mississippi holds the highest ranking of food insecurity and the second lowest ranking for educational The Effects of WaterT emperature on Crops in an Aquaponic System achievement
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