Ryan Roekle, “Chloride and Sulfate Concentrations of Milwaukee Waters During the COVID-19 Shutdown” Mentors: Russell Cuhel, Carmen Aguilar, and Steven Levas, Freshwater Sciences Human activities in urban centers can alter the chemical composition of local waters via processes such as…… Read More
Michael Levandoski, “Coping with the Pandemic: Employee Survey” Mentor: James Topitzes, Social Work How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected UW-Milwaukee employees? This is the overall question we ask via a campus-wide survey that includes questions about past stressors, current stressors…… Read More
Anna Emerson, “Ethics and Aesthetics for Virtual Realities” Mentor: Christopher Willey, Art & Design Before 2020, many of us had yet to experience the negative effects of high internet use, extensive screen time, and poor user interface design. But when…… Read More
Brittany Ochoa-Nordstrum, “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Help-Seeking of Black Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence” Mentors: Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu and Ashley Ruiz, Nursing Racism in the United States is deeply and systemically rooted. It has significant impacts on sexual and…… Read More
Andrea Bishop, “Mental Health Responses to COVID-19 on Twitter” Mentor: Celeste Campos-Castillo, Sociology The current global pandemic has contributed to an increase of mental and emotional health concern discussions on various social media sites, especially Twitter. Not only has this…… Read More
Zoe Glise, Ashley Garcia, Jessica Lueck, and Lyndsay Sorg, “Milwaukee Through Embodied Research” Mentor: Simone Ferro, Dance Throughout this past year, our team of students has been adapting to a new way of conducting research due to the COVID-19 Pandemic……. Read More
Faith LeMay, “Screenings: Photography and Intimacy in a Century of Pandemics” Mentor: Jason Puskar, English How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted our visual experience of intimacy? The method of figuring that out involves looking at different forms of photography from…… Read More
Nicole Martin, “Social Media Approach to Understanding Community Strengths and Needs During COVID-19 Pandemic” Mentor: Jeana Holt, Nursing COVID-19 has profoundly impacted populations’ mental and physical health. People that were under-resourced before the pandemic are even more vulnerable. COVID-19-related stressors,…… Read More
Diana Illencik, “The Benefits and Drawbacks of Privacy Invasion During the COVID-19 Pandemic” Mentor: Celeste Campos-Castillo, Sociology Privacy has been an important topic of discussion during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some amount of surveillance of the public is necessary to conduct…… Read More
Casey Schmidt, “The Reimann-Stieltjes Integral and Its Application in Modeling the Poisson Process” Mentor: Richard Stockbridge, Mathematical Sciences A Poisson Process counts the number arrivals of an event, where each arrival occurs at a random time. Evaluating complex statistical processes,…… Read More
Yasmeen Amer, Emma Bittner, Natalie Kuehl, and Liam Kolstad, “Wasteland Salon” Mentor: Sarah Aziz, Architecture Wasteland Salon, MOOCH Series, and the Pleasure Palace are three projects that explore designed situations and collaborations from a position invested in finding and foregrounding…… Read More
Niyokwizera Anna, “Where Do Women Go for Information During Pregnancy Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic?” Mentor: Teresa Johnson, Nursing During the COVID-19 pandemic many women experienced problems accessing care and information during pregnancy and postpartum. They had questions about their body,…… Read More
Kim Phan, “Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy during the COVID-19 Pandemic” Mentors: Teresa Johnson and AkkeNeel Talsma, Nursing The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted women’s plans and expectations for pregnancy and birth experiences. The purpose of this research is to investigate…… Read More