Benjamin Delebreau, “A Mathematical Model of Liposome-Mediated Drug Delivery in Brain Blood Vessel Networks” Mentor: Peter Hinow, Mathematical Sciences A major challenge to the delivery of drugs to the brain is posed by the blood-brain barrier. Recent research has shown…… Read More
Vladislav Melnikov, “A Method for Close Observation of Hybrid Pairings Between Species in the Enchenopa binotata Complex of Treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae)” Mentors: Rafael Rodriguez and Bretta Speck, Biological Sciences Hybridization has many impacts on the process of speciation. Speciation generally…… Read More
Carnita Lincoln, “A Method to Investigate the Role of DH and mPFC Interactions in Episodic-Like Memory Consolidation” Mentors: Karyn Frick and Miranda Schwabe, Psychology Concurrent activity in both the dorsal hippocampus (DH) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is necessary for…… Read More
Anna Kaminski, “A Modern 3-Year Climatology of North Atlantic and Western North Pacific Extratropical Cyclones” Mentor: Clark Evans, Atmospheric Science Extratropical transition (ET) is a frequently studied process that occurs when a tropical cyclone starts to transition into an extratropical…… Read More
Logan Teehan, “A Novel Sequential Injection Solid-Phase Extraction Method for Determination of Amphetamines” Mentor: Joseph Aldstadt, Chemistry & Biochemistry New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a classification of synthetic drugs that mimic the effects of known illicit substances with variations in…… Read More
Tory Clearwater, “Alcohol and Cannabis Co-Use: Evaluating Verbal Learning Performance in Adolescents and Young Adults” Mentors: Krista Lisdahl and Ashley Stinson, Psychology Alcohol and cannabis are the most widely co-used substances among adolescents and adults. Both alcohol and cannabis use…… Read More
Natalia Sotelo, “Alcohol and Cannabis Use Predicting Hippocampal Volume in Adolescents and Young Adults” Mentors: Krista Lisdahl and Alex Wallace, Psychology The hippocampus is responsible for long-term memory formation and previous literature indicates a relationship between decreased hippocampal volume in…… Read More
Kathryne Fogle, “Analysis of Sediments Cores from Lake Basin of Olduvai Using X-ray Diffraction” Mentor: Lindsay McHenry, Geosciences Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, East Africa is important anthropologically and has provided information on key phases on early human evolution and vertebrate…… Read More
Victoria Isaac, “Arts Education and Black and Latinx Student Achievement: Evidence from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009” Mentor: Marcus Britton, Sociology Previous studies examine quantitative connections between arts education and academic achievement, utilizing standardized test scores as measures…… Read More
Ryan Conrad and Carli Kugel, “Assessing Conflict Monitoring in OCD Subtypes Using Error-Related Brain Activity” Mentors: Han Joo Lee, Maryam Ayazi, and Bryce Arseneau, Psychology Obsessions can be broken into two subtypes, autogenous and reactive. Autogenous obsessions (AO) appear abruptly…… Read More
Carli Kugel and Ryan Conrad, “Assessing OCD Subtypes: Response Inhibition and Error Monitoring Through the Stop Signal Paradigm” Mentors: Han Joo Lee, Bryce Arseneau, and Maryam Ayazi, Psychology Autogenous obsessions (AO) are unrealistic threatening mental intrusions (e.g., unacceptable violent thoughts),…… Read More
Jocelyn Jarvis, “Association Between Perceived and Objective Neighborhood Safety on Behavioral Inhibition Among Youth” Mentors: Krista Lisdahl and Ryan Sullivan, Psychology Behavioral inhibition in young children is a temperament characterized by heightened sensitivity to novelty, social withdrawal, and anxious behaviors……. Read More
Andrea Suihkonen, “Atomic Panacea: The Radium Fad of the Early 20th Century” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History Radium- a revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winning element- was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898. Less than a decade after its successful isolation in…… Read More
Brynn LiaBraaten, “Available Resources and Supports for Spoken Language Interpreters in Pediatric Medical Encounters” Mentors: W. Hobart Davies, Amy Olen, and Paulina Lim, Psychology Pediatric medical interpreters often experience distress due to work-related stressors, including interpreting traumatic content. Despite the…… Read More
Ronita Dua, “Behavioral Responses of Daphnia Magna to Olfactory Cues” Mentor: Rudi Stickler, Biological Sciences Ecological research is vastly impacted by the decisions organisms make in response to variegated stimuli. Chemical cues have significant effects on most aquatic animals and…… Read More
Nadia Tabit, “Betrayal by Treaty?: Refuting the Notion of Maroon Betrayal in the Treaties of 1739” Mentor: Rebecca Shumway, History In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jamaica, during the late Spanish and early British periods, the Maroons were Africans who fled slavery…… Read More
Toren Dorsey, “Body Parts as Classifiers in South and Central American Languages” Mentor: Kelsie Pattillo, Linguistics In this project, we are researching body parts as sources for classifiers in Central and South American languages. A classifier is a grammatical feature…… Read More
Audrey Schlais, “Can Orb Weaver Spiders Solve Novel Problems?” Mentors: Rafael Rodriguez and Clint Sergi, Biological Sciences The ability to solve problems varies greatly between animal species. Some animals are thought to use insight. Insight is the ability to solve…… Read More
Alison Maciejewski, “Cat Control” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History Domestic and feral cats in the United States have become an invasive species. Cats are not “native” to North America therefore they are a threat to the wildlife. However, cats have roamed…… Read More
Natalie Wilcox, “Co-Use of Alcohol and Cannabis: Associations with Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents” Mentors: Krista Lisdahl and Elizabeth Stinson, Psychology Alcohol and cannabis are frequently used substances among adolescents and have been associated with negative mental health outcomes……. Read More
Paul Newcomb, “Community Archiving and Safety Concerns in Documenting Social Activism” Mentor: Rachel Buff, History The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, reignited an ongoing global movement demanding the abolishment of police and the dismantlement…… Read More
Michael Vazquez, “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Students During the Trump Administration” Mentor: Rachel Buff, History In 2012, President Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program has allowed young people who were…… Read More
Kimberly Osborn, “Developing and Testing a Labeling Reagent for Human IgG Antibodies” Mentors: Ionel Popa and Annie Eis, Physics Antibodies show potential to be used in a variety of applications, but they are difficult to work with due to natural…… Read More
Nhi Tran, “Development of an On-Line Liquid-Liquid Extraction Method for Quantitative Determination of Curcumin” Mentor: Joseph Aldstadt, Chemistry & Biochemistry Curcumin is a bioactive component of turmeric that is widely used in various applications: medicine, cosmetics, food, and textiles. It…… Read More
Taylor Wilcox, “Development of New Treatments for Neuropathic Pain Based on Imidazodiazepines” Mentor: Alexander Arnold, Chemistry & Biochemistry Currently, 7% of the US population has been diagnosed with neuropathic pain (NP). NP is mediated by inflammation of the associated peripheral…… Read More
Morgan Moore, “Digital Mapping of the Tambillos Site in Casma, Peru” Mentor: David Pacifico, Art History This research project utilizes digital mapping to examine architectural forms located on the Tambillos site in the Casma Valley of Peru. The structures in…… Read More
Eli Frank, Paul Newcomb, Pilar Sharp, Caroline Tietjens, and Agnes Lopez, “Documenting Wisconsin’s Black Lives Matter Demonstrations” Mentor: Rachel Buff, History The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020 ignited an ongoing global movement that has…… Read More
Morgan Klug, “Early Childhood Sleep Hygiene and the Creation of a Community-Engaged Sleep Curriculum” Mentor: W. Hobart Davies, Psychology Poor sleep hygiene (SH), which generally refers to a set of behaviors that influence the quality of one’s sleep (Gelllis &…… Read More
Sophia Salas and Hope Ruedin, “Effect of the Social and Relational Skills Program PEERS® in Adolescents with NF1 on Social Skills” Mentors: Bonita Klein-Tasman and Danielle Glad, Psychology Social skills deficits have been observed in adolescents in the NF1 population,…… Read More
Ryan Thiede, “Effects of a Novel ERb Agonist on Proteins Related to Memory and Menopausal Symptom in Female Mice” Mentor: Karyn Frick, Psychology Millions of women experience menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes, anxiety, depression, and dementia every year. We…… Read More
Grace Geiger, “Effects of a Novel, Non-Toxic Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor on Histone Acetylation Levels in Mice” Mentors: Karyn Frick and Sarah Beamish, Psychology The molecular mechanisms that contribute to long-term memory formation remain a point of inquiry for many neuroscientists…… Read More
Sofia Mattson, “Effects of Differentially Conditioned Stimuli on Working Memory Processes” Mentor: Christine Larson, Psychology Current theories propose that threat-related stimuli are stored to a greater degree in working memory compared to neutral stimuli. However, much of this work has…… Read More
Alex Nelson, “Efficacy of Computerized Attentional Bias Modification of E-Cigarette Use Behaviors among Transitional Age Youth: The Beginnings of a Cross-Sectional Study” Mentors: Joshua Gwon, Nursing and Han Joo Lee, Psychology In 2018, 3.2% (8.1 million) U.S. adults reported current…… Read More
McKenna Anderson, “Estradiol Regulation of Extracellular Matrix Molecules in the Dorsal Hippocampus of Female Mice” Mentors: Karyn Frick and Kellie Gross, Psychology The potent estrogen, 17β-estradiol (E2), can increase hippocampal memory consolidation by enhancing intracellular cell signaling mechanisms in female…… Read More
Ashley Mainville, “Examining Postmortem Trauma to Bone Inflicted by Standard Gardening Tools” Mentor: Emily Middleton, Anthropology Skeletonized human remains can be inadvertently discovered during the course of a home renovation or gardening project and television shows like Buried in the…… Read More
Jack Dalton Brandt, “Film Archives in The Digital Sphere” Mentor: Tami Williams, English Orphan films can be defined as non-theatrical moving pictures, typically including educational films, travelogues, and ethnographic recordings. Despite being recognized as orphans, the growing collection of two…… Read More
Anna Ehlke, “Finding Pulsars in Radio Images” Mentors: David Kaplan & Megan Jones, Physics Pulsars are a type of compact star that emit a beam of radio waves. As they spin regular pulses of radio waves can be seen here…… Read More
Mikayla Walker, “Flora and Fauna of the Pleistocene Oak Creek Formation Peat Deposits” Mentor: Scott Schaefer, Geosciences Pleistocene Oak Creek Formation deposits dated to 45,000 to 35,000 years old are exposed at Sheridan Park in Cudahy, Wisconsin. Sediments from this…… Read More
Daniel Gugg, “Foreign Accent Sources in the Vowels of Highly Proficient Bilingual Korean-English Speakers” Mentor: Hanyong Park, Linguistics Foreign accent perception is an important area of study in the field of Linguistics. This project seeks to analyze several acoustic characteristics…… Read More
Autumn Routson, “From Life to Fossil: Horseshoe Crabs and the Preservation of Their Fluorescence” Mentor: Victoria Mccoy, Geosciences The ability to fluoresce is found in all modern chelicerates, yet its significance and mechanisms still remain a mystery. Understanding which extinct…… Read More
Jacob Sanner, “From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters, This Land is Made from Trees” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History Alongside a main road in California in 1917 was made public a growing separation between nature and human ambition……. Read More
Joan Kaiser, “Functional Metabolic Profiling of Microbial Communities Hosted by Carnivorous Pitcher Plants” Mentors: Erica Young and Andrew Fuchs, Biological Sciences The carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea hosts microbial communities that break down captured insect prey to supplement nutrient requirements……. Read More
Cing Kiim, “Functions of the Diverse Antimicrobial Compounds Produced by Xenorhabdus szentirmaii” Mentor: Steven Forst, Biological Sciences Xenorhabdus szentirmaii are symbiotic bacteria that form mutualistic relationships with the insect-killing nematode Steinernema rarum. The nematode enters the intestine of an insect,…… Read More
Andrea Hooverson, “Future Voice for Our Black Men” Mentor: Peter Blewett, English The purpose of my digital story is to share my development during Multicultural America, a course in which we studied the challenges that our brothers and sisters face…… Read More
Allison Fredrick, “Gaming Then and Now: A Dungeon and Dragons Tale” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History Looking into how gaming has changed over the years, I plan to look in to how in the past gaming has had this negative aura…… Read More
Corinne Kronschnabel, “Gathering Places: Applying Metadata Standards to Religious Communities in Milwaukee” Mentor: Christopher Cantwell, History Religion is a complex topic that reaches deep into personal and cultural biases, and therefore is often difficult to categorize. On the other hand,…… Read More
Sparrow Roch, “Geodetic Precession and Pulse Profile Changes Over Time of The Hulse-Taylor Binary Pulsar” Mentors: Joe Swiggum and David Kaplan, Physics Pulsars are very dense, quickly rotating neutron stars that emit radiation from their magnetic poles. A pulsar’s magnetic…… Read More
Marie Enderle, “Health-Related Quality of Life in Young Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1” Mentor: Bonnie Klein-Tasman, Psychology Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder affecting 1 in 3,000 births and children with NF1 are at increased risk…… Read More
Alexis Madson, “Help Seeking Among Students: Barriers that Prevent Undergraduates from Getting Mental Health Support” Mentor: Sarah Riforgiate, Communication Depression is a rising issue among college students. There are a multitude of negative short-term and long-term effects when one’s mental…… Read More
Jonathan Santiago, “How Do Neutral and Threatening Distracter Words Influence Attention and Working Memory?” Mentors: Christine Larson and Richard Ward, Psychology Prior evidence suggests that threatening distracter stimuli are inefficiently filtered from gaining access to working memory. However, it currently…… Read More
Richa Karmarkar and Mia Palmer, “Imagining New Racial Politics: Identity Work and Coalition Building in South Asian American Podcasts” Mentor: Lia Wolock, Communication This project examines the coalitions and expressions of identity forged through podcasts by South Asian American hosts…… Read More
Brittany MacPherson, “Investigation of Nebulized Asthma Treatment on an Inbred Mouse Strain with an Asthma Like Phenotype” Mentor: Alexander Arnold, Chemistry & Biochemistry Asthma is one of the most prevalent global health problems, with 300 million humans affected worldwide, among…… Read More
August Kaiser, “La Mancha Sea Breeze Circulation” Mentor: Jonathan Kahl, Atmospheric Science The La Mancha site is a historical site on the Gulf Coast of Mexico, about 70km north of the city of Veracruz. The historical monuments at the site…… Read More
Mitchell Horner, “LSD Prohibition in America: A Timeline, 1965-1967” Mentor: Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, English An understanding of the legal background behind the prohibition of drugs, particularly hallucinogens, is essential to understanding contemporary American society. The “War on Drugs” contributed heavily to…… Read More
Marina Slawinski, “Manipulation of Mechanical Properties in Protein-Polysaccharide Hydrogels” Mentor: Ionel Popa, Physics The ability to fine-tune the physical structure and mechanical properties of biomaterials is desirable for applications in tissue engineering as well as the design of cell scaffolds…… Read More
Klaudia Rixmann, “Mapping German-Polish Borderlands in Contemporary Literature” Mentor: Karolina May-Chu, Foreign Languages & Literature Ideas surrounding borders and their figurative meanings have gained increasing attention in the academic and literary world — but how can these ideas be used…… Read More
Chinh Nguyen, “Mathematical Model of the Disruption of the Glucose Homeostasis in Cancer Patients” Mentors: Gabriella Pinter and Peter Hinow, Mathematical Sciences Abstract Cancer is associated with risk factors and co-morbidities that can affect a patient’s treatment as well as…… Read More
Sakshi Malhotra, “Mechanistic Investigation of Photo-Induced DNA Interstrand Cross-Link (ICL) Formation by Substituted Benzene Analogues” Mentors: Xiaohua Peng and Nurul Islam Setu, Chemistry & Biochemistry For cell division, DNA transcription and replication are vital biological processes that require the temporary…… 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
Brandon Selbig, “Meteorologically Stratified Gust Factors for Forecasting Peak Wind Gusts Across the United States” Mentor: Jonathan Kahl, Atmospheric Science Wind gusts are a major factor in different areas across not only the United States but different parts of the…… Read More
Jonathan Gitter, “Mothman: A Cold War Touchstone” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History In 1966, sightings were reported in Point Pleasant, West Virginia of a creature who would eventually become known as Mothman. This would soon spark investigations into the existence of…… Read More
Brittany Larson, “Motivation and Cerebellar Morphology are Aberrant in a Rodent Model of ADHD” Mentors: Rodney Swain and Amanda Nazario, Psychology Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a neurobehavioral disorder commonly diagnosed in childhood, is characterized by three core behavioral deficits;…… Read More
Alicja Czyz, “Motor Learning Rapidly Increases Cerebellar Synaptogenesis and Astrocytic Structural Plasticity” Mentor: Rodney Swain, Psychology The learning of motor skills has been found to coincide with synaptogenesis and astrocytic hypertrophy in the paramedian lobule of the cerebellum. Reports of…… Read More
Connor Lynch, “Parent’s Perceptions of Analgesic Administration for Children’s Pain” Mentor: W. Hobart Davies, Psychology All children will at some point experience acute pain, making the treatment of pain a pivotal point in pediatric patient care. The opioid crisis brought…… Read More
Meghan Bitterlin, “Pavement and Near-Surface Temperatures Altering Winter Weather Risks” Mentor: Paul Roebber, Atmospheric Science Innovative Weather (IW), a group of Operational Meteorologist at UWM, works closely with government and private clients to provide weather forecasts based upon a client’s…… Read More
Valerie Edgington, “Pepper: The History of a Spice” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History When looking at different spices, pepper is often overlooked, despite it’s everyday appeal to elevate different dishes with its flavor. In this paper, I will be highlighting the…… Read More
Timothy Keating, “Phenological Observations in Downer Woods” Mentor: Mark Schwartz, Geography The intent of the phenological observations in Downer Woods is to record tree’s changing leaf color as well as the rate at which leaves fall (annually occuring phenophases). Observing…… Read More
Margaret Stelmacher, “Pigeons, the Birds of War” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History War heroes are often thought of as soldiers that risked their lives, scientists that created new weapons, or dogs that kept their humans safe in battle. Rarely do the…… Read More
Tessa Culleton, “Production and Perception of English Vowels by Second Language Learners” Mentor: Jae Yung Song, Linguistics Many language learning models imply a relationship between second language (L2) learners’ production and perception abilities. However, prior studies of the perception-production relationship…… Read More
Junichi Iida, “Prosody of Tokyo Japanese Revisited: “Boundary Fall” in the Sentence-Level Pitch Contour” Mentor: Yuko Kojima-Wert, Foreign Languages & Literature As opposed to the traditional level-tone analysis of the prosody of Tokyo Japanese, where each mora is marked as…… Read More
Daniel Collison, “Protein-Hydrogel Synthesis and Cation Induced Shape Programing Using Various Crosslinking Reagents” Mentor: Ionel Popa, Physics The ability to synthesis hydrogels and program a reversable temporary shape through three-dimensional crosslinking is essential to the future of medicine and soft…… Read More
Vivien Blecking, “Provider Support of Distressed Families in the PICU” Mentors: W. Hobart Davies and Kathryn Balistreri, Psychology The rates of severe anxiety symptoms in parents following their child’s admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) are about 24%,…… Read More
Markia Silverman-Rodriguez, “Racial Residential Segregation in Hotspots of Crime Incidents in Chicago from 1970 to 2010” Mentor: Zengwang Xu, Geography In cities around the globe, there exists a significant correlation between racial residential segregation and crime. Numerous studies indicate that…… Read More
Alina Frias, Alyssa English, and Edie Redwine, “Recruitment and Retention of Historically Underrepresented Students: UWM’s Experience” Mentors: Chia Youyee Vang, History and Maurina Paradise, Electa Quinney Institute Barriers to academic success for historically underrepresented students are well documented in the…… 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
Sparrow Roch, Anna Ehlke, Claire Bolda, Herbert de Leon, Tomas Fernandez, Telemachos Agoudemos, Alicia Smallwood, Alexander Klug, Lilly Herbst, and Graham Stearns, “STARS@UWM: The Search for Pulsars” Mentors: David Kaplan, Sarah Vigeland, and Dawn Erb, Physics Pulsars are a type…… Read More
Nathaniel Wojcicki, “Streamflow Characteristic Changes in a Catchment with Numerous High-Capacity Wells” Mentor: Woonsup Choi, Geography In the presence of human activity, hydrological droughts may not solely occur from nature. Human activities such as irrigation and reservoir maintenance can be…… Read More
Naomi Raicu, “Study of Protein Mechanics Using a Novel Force-Clamp Rheometer-Based Protein Hydrogel Software” Mentor: Ionel Popa, Physics Protein hydrogels are materials comprised of many proteins that have characteristics of both polymeric hydrogels and proteins, making them both durable and…… Read More
Dao Wang, “Studying and Modeling the Long-Range Transport of Air Parcels Arriving at Mexican Gulf Coast Cities” Mentor: Jonathan Kahl, Atmospheric Science Acid rain can damage cultural heritage, including pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in Mexico. Over the past few decades, acid…… Read More
Elpiniki Tianis, “Synaptic and Astrocytic Plasticity of Motor-Learning Within the Cerebellum” Mentor: Rodney Swain, Psychology Motor-skills are imperative to execute basic functions within everyday life, and the ability to learn novel motor-skills allows for constant additions to the skill set……. Read More
Elena Castro and Kyra Conners, “The ART of Infertility: Diversifying Expressions of Loss through Art & Creativity” Mentor: Maria Novotny, English The ART of Infertility’s mission is to break the silence around the experiences of infertility, offering art and storytelling…… 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
Henry Wehrs and Lillian Pachner, “The Birth of Zero at the Washington Park Zoo” Mentor: Amanda Seligman, History In the fall of 2021, History 450 students will study Milwaukee history around the theme of the Washington Park Zoo, where the…… Read More
Lillian Pachner and Henry Wehrs, “The Birth of Zero Bibliography Curation” Mentor: Amanda Seligman, History Our objective for this undertaking is to curate a collection of sources about the birth of the polar bear “Zero” at the Washington Park Zoo…… Read More
Cheyenne Smith, “The Changing Environmental Factors Affecting Hatching Success in Tree Swallows” Mentor: Peter Dunn, Biological Sciences Birds that eat flying insects (aerial insectivores), such as swallows, are declining at the fastest rates in North America. One prominent hypothesis for…… Read More
Larsen Birdsong, “The Development of a Beta-Sheet Mimic” Mentors: Alan Schwabacher and Trevor Hagemann, Chemistry & Biochemistry Gram negative bacteria have been found to be particularly resistant to antibiotic drugs due to an outer membrane that prevents the passage of…… Read More
Tori Tran, “The Effect of Phonological and Morphological Processes on Perception of Rhyme” Mentor: Anne Pycha, Linguistics Words whose endings sound similar are typically thought of as words that “rhyme.” That is, they have the same sequence of sounds in…… Read More
Holden Skeels and Peyton Hyland, “The Electoral Success of Diversity in State-Level Elections: Utilizing the Candidate Characteristics Cooperative (C3) Project” Mentor: Paru Shah, Political Science Today, we are witnessing a rise in the campaign and election of female candidates and…… Read More
Erika Johansen, “The Evolution of the Corral Trap for Single Particle Trapping” Mentors: Jorg Woehl and Quintus Owen, Chemistry & Biochemistry The interactions between charged metal surfaces and electrolytes in solution is of significant interest to the One Molecule Group’s…… Read More
Emily Dalske, “The Genealogy of the Gun: Shakespeare and the Politics of Premodernity” Mentor: Mark Netzloff, English In William Shakespeare’s series of history plays, anxieties experienced in guerilla warfare abroad are embodied by the bombastic and violent character Ancient Pistol…… Read More
Hannaleigh Jennings, “The Great Potato Revolution” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels The goal is to understand how potatoes changed the Irish agricultural, political, economic, and social landscapes from the 16th to 18th centuries. To understand that, several questions must be answered. When did potatoes…… Read More
Marissa Zarda, “The Impact of The Feminine Mystique: How One Book Can Change Society” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History Books have an immense power that people may not realize. They can change how people think, control a society, and spread ideas…… Read More
Stephen Drena, “The Influence of Monsoon Season on Buddhist Monasticism” Mentors: Nigel Rothfels and David Divalerio, History Buddhism was founded in India rooted in an environment and culture in which the monsoon season was a major part of life. This…… Read More
Elaina Nelson, “The Maribel Caves Hotel: Health Spa and Hotel of Hearsay” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History While compiling the history of the Maribel Caves Hotel, this project will frame it through the wider lens of the effects of prohibition and…… Read More
Dylan Childs, “The Milwaukee Column: A Simple, Affordable, and Effective Apparatus for Teaching and Research of One-Dimensional Flow and Transport in Porous Media” Mentors: Charles Paradis, Adam Schmidt, and Maxwell Morgan, Geosciences How groundwater travels and interacts with porous media…… 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
Kira Dayton, “The Relationship Between Insect Abundance and Seasonal Temperature and Weather Trends” Mentor: Peter Dunn, Biological Sciences Global climate change is affecting seasonal temperature and weather patterns. There is concern that these changes may be leading to declines in…… Read More
Katie Schneider, “The Story of a Korean Farmer in an Anti-Asian America” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History For this paper I would like to explore that racism and the racist culture in America during the time of World War Two to…… Read More
Katy Gabryelczyk and Sundance Duchow, “Voices of Gun Violence” Mentor: Erin Parcell, Communication Voices of Gun Violence (VGV) is an interdisciplinary, community-based project that works to create spaces for people to share their stories of gun violence in southeastern Wisconsin……. Read More
Nathan Tennies, “Where Will it Grow? Bull Kelp Distribution Modeling in the Salish Sea” Mentor: Filipe Alberto, Biological Sciences The bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana, is a foundational species for aquatic ecosystems in the Salish Sea on the border of Washington…… Read More
Jewel Lo, “Work and Personal Life Boundaries of Resident Assistants” Mentor: Sarah Riforgiate, Communication Resident assistants (RAs) support undergraduate students in college residence halls by serving as a resource and mentor to residents while promoting campus rules/policies. RA responsibilities alongside…… Read More