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Student showcase academic talent at Undergrad Research Day
Apr. 22, 2022
Students showcased their academic talent as 糖心vlog传媒 held its annual Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Symposium on April 20.
The event is a celebration of academics that gives dozens of students in all the university鈥檚 academic programs an opportunity to discuss research they鈥檝e conducted and major projects completed during this school year. No classes are held that day and students are invited to attend sessions and hear their peers present.
The day got started in the Bradley Theatre with keynote presentations from faculty about their research work. This year鈥檚 presenters were:
- Associate Professor of Psychology Jessica Kalmar: 鈥淐an we Predict Adolescent Aggression?鈥�
- Associate Professor of Theatre and Speech Charlie Krebs: 鈥淭he Way I Wrote Two Plays鈥�
- Professor of Computer Science Cynthia Lindstrom: 鈥淭he Day in the Life of a Computer Scientist鈥�
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion Julie Mavity Maddalena: 鈥淏attling our Bodies: Roots, Impacts, and Solutions of Weight Stigma and Diet Culture鈥�
- Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Jered McGivern: 鈥淐hemistry in a Glass: Be-Er鈥�
Following the opening session there were two sessions of oral presentations by students, followed by a poster session. Here鈥檚 a complete list of the student-led presentations from the day:
Interdisciplinary Presentations
- Madeline Buechel: 鈥淯nderstanding Dyslexia鈥�
- Samantha Butler: 鈥淎thletes and Mental Wellness鈥�
- Jessica Leicht: 鈥淢ental Health Stigma: Narratives through Animation鈥�
- Hunter Kuester: 鈥淓xploring the Effects of Varying Concentrations of Methylmercury and Selenium on the Growth of Brassica rapa鈥�
- Olivia Lehman: 鈥淐atching Out鈥�
Advanced Fiction/Creative Writing Readings
- Marian Cramer: 鈥淥cean Storm鈥�
- Christian Gartner: 鈥淭he Pirate鈥檚 Life for Me?鈥�
- Tayler Otten: 鈥淭he Lesson鈥�
- Darcyn Gross: 鈥淥yster鈥檚 Graveyard鈥�
Poster Sessions
- IMSA charity BBQ marketing material design
- Angela Carollo
- Colton Roepke
- Sam Walker
- Yu Asano
- Lemons on the links marketing material design
- Austin McKay
- Jessica Leicht
- Matt Misheck
- Pink lemonade 5K marketing material design
- Heather Doherty
- Nathalie Cairo
- Zack Cotton
- Demographic effects in Daphnia magna fed Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
exposed to methylmercury and selenium: Hunter Kuester and Paul C. Pickhardt
- Visions of the afterlife: ghosts, vampires, and us: Gabrielle L. Greetan, Nyah OdeKirk & Mikayla Petschar
- Synthesizing perovskite solar cells: Kyle Reitmeier, Amelia Fitzsimmons & Jered McGivern
- Biodiesel on fire: Maeve Sullivan, Brelynn Scoles & Jered McGivern
- Aldol condensation: Skylar Hall, Roseily A. Carrasquillo Col贸n & Jered McGivern
- Alcohol dehydration reaction: Gwynn Manteufel, Lilith Schlosser & Jered McGivern
- What鈥檚 that smell? Zoe Schrameyer, Kaitlyn Zynda & Jered McGivern
- The esterification of vegetable oil Dakota Fenn, Hunter Kuester, Gerardo Ibarra & Jered McGivern.
