Found 406 projects

Poster Presentation 1

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Add to my favorites Psychological Predictors of Male Smokeless Tobacco Use Acquisition and Cessation: A 15-Year Longitudinal Study
Presenter
  • Leela Rebecca Holman, Senior, Psychology, Sociology
Mentor
  • Jonathan Bricker, Psychology

Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #62
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Evaluating the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) Neural Network Model by Comparison to Common Network Architectures
    Presenter
    • Trevor Engman, Junior, Physics, Computer Science, Boise State Univ McNair Scholar
    Mentors
    • Timothy Andersen, Computer Science & Engineering, Boise State University
    • Troy Rohn, Biology, Boise State University

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #140
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Exploring Facial Variation Observed in Children with CFM Using 3D Surface Images  
    Presenter
    • Trylla Tuttle, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Carrie Heike, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #107
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Regulation of the Methanol Dehydrogenase in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1
    Presenter
    • Alexander Disterhoft (Alex) Palmer, Senior, Microbiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Elizabeth Skovran, Microbiology

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #117
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Inhibition of the uPA/Plasminogen Pathway and Prevention of Atherosclerosis Progression
    Presenter
    • Jingwan Zhang, Senior, Biochemistry, Chemistry
    Mentor
    • David Dichek, Medicine

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #112
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites StopFinder: Improving the Experience of Blind Public Transit Riders with Crowdsourcing
    Presenter
    • Sanjana Prasain, Senior, Computer Science Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Alan Borning, Computer Science & Engineering
    • Shiri Azenkot, Computer Science & Engineering

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #143
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Assessment of Surface Energy Balance in Southern Idaho
    Presenter
    • Beda Luitel, Junior, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boise State Univ McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Venkat Sridhar, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boise State University

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #141
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Analyzing Metabolic Reactions of Microbial Communities of Various Prairie Restoration Plots
    Presenter
    • Korena Mafune, Junior, Environmental Science & Resource Management (Restoration Ecology & Environmental Horticulture)
    Mentors
    • Jonathan Bakker, Environmental & Forest Sciences
    • Rachel Mitchell, Environmental Science

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #159
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Effects of Light Limitation on Plant-Rhizobia and Plant-Micorrhiza Interactions
    Presenter
    • Jess Millar, Senior, Biology: Micro/Molecular, Health Studies: Health Science, Science, Portland State University McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Daniel Ballhorn, Biology, Portland State University

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #46
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Effect of Audible Sound Energy on the Water Exclusion Zone
    Presenter
    • Daniel Chiang, Senior, Bioengineering
    Mentor
    • Gerald H. Pollack, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #100
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Effect of Eye Position on the Response of Long-Duration Stimulation Trains Elicited by Electrodes Implanted in the Vestibular End Organ
    Presenter
    • Andrew (AJ) Morrow, Senior, Neurobiology
    Mentors
    • James Phillips, Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery
    • Amy Nowack, Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #121
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Rethinking the Path of Online Education and the Quality of Student Learning: Educational Modules Focused on Topics in Materials Science & Engineering
    Presenter
    • Elizabeth Merten, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Thomas Stoebe, Materials Science & Engineering

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #139
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Anatomical Characterization of Genetically-Identified Neuron Populations in Drosophila
    Presenters
    • Ainul Huda, Junior, Biology (General)
    • Samantha Ann (Sami) Williams, Junior, Pre-Nursing
    Mentor
    • Michael Dickinson, Biology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #44
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Crimmigration: A Study of Economic Factors' Influence on Rhetoric  
    Presenter
    • Amelia Messegee, Senior, Political Science
    Mentors
    • John Wilkerson, Political Science
    • Nicholas Stramp, Political Science, Center for American Politics and Public Policy

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #24
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Serving the Social Needs of Multilingual Students
    Presenter
    • Max Badesheim, Junior, English, Boise State Univ McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Gail Shuck, English, Boise State University

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #9
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites vTracker: Volunteer Record Management Made Easy
    Presenters
    • Bryan Dosono, Senior, Informatics McNair Scholar
    • Walton Huynh, Senior, Business Administration (Information Systems), Informatics
    • Kenneth (Ken) Liu, Senior, Informatics
    • Wilson Lu, Senior, Informatics (Human-Computer Interaction)
    Mentors
    • Batya Friedman, The Information School
    • Kristen Shinohara, The Information School

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #132
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Evaluating Exclusion Zone Formation Using Metals
    Presenter
    • Shiv Bhandari, Junior, Extended Pre-Major Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Gerald H. Pollack, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #99
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Faces and Feelings
    Presenter
    • Nicole Lynn Stephens, Junior, Anthropology
    Mentors
    • Janxin Leu, Psychology
    • Yay-hung Cho, Psychology
    • Sandra Hanesana, Psychology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #68
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Lost Generation of Trees: Investigating the Causes of Low Tree Recruitment in Urban Coniferous Forests
    Presenter
    • Benjamin Richard (Ben) Lee, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation)
    Mentors
    • Ailene Ettinger, Biology
    • Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Biology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #49
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Mechanisms of Glycemic Improvement after Gastrointestinal Surgery (RYGB Mechanisms)
    Presenter
    • Adam Ching (Adam) Tanaka, Junior, Biology (Physiology)
    Mentors
    • Andrew Wright, Surgery
    • Caro Slingluff, Surgery

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #105
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Effects of Theta-Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Language Processing
    Presenters
    • Alexander (Alex) Eastwood, Senior, Psychology, Biology (Physiology)
    • Kara Elizabeth (Kara) Jackson, Junior, Pre-Sciences
    Mentor
    • Chantel Prat, Psychology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #71
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Studying Arabidopsis Hormone Interaction Pathways with Genetic Crosses
    Presenter
    • Wei Xiang (Vincent) Liu, Senior, Biology (General), Medical Technology
    Mentors
    • Jodi Lilley, Biology
    • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #86
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Dance as a Medium for the Maintenance and Transmission of Culture: An Ethnography of Khmer Classical Dance in Long Beach, California
    Presenter
    • Alexxandra (Alexx) Salazar, Junior, Anthropology, California State University, Dominguez Hills McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Susan Needham, Anthropology, California State University, Dominguez Hills

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #34
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Development of Functional Indicators of Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Health
    Presenter
    • Mario Farias, Senior, Environmental Science, Heritage College McNair Scholar
    Mentors
    • Matthew Cooper, Biology
    • Kazuhiro Sonoda, Environmental Science, Heritage University

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #48
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

    Add to my favorites An Enrichment of Understanding Between Students with Special Needs and Typically Developing Students in Inclusive Classrooms
    Presenter
    • Dawn Darbie Bayle Tuason, Junior, Early Childhood & Family Studies Mary Gates Scholar, McNair Scholar
    Mentors
    • Ed Taylor, Education
    • Jenee Myers Twitchell, Education
    • Gene Edgar, Education, university of washington

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #8
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Analysis of Self-Statements and Mood Disorders
    Presenter
    • Robert DeVore, Senior, Psychology, Boise State Univ McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Mary Pritchard, Psychology, Boise State University

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #81
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Factors Influencing Binge Eating Disorder
    Presenter
    • Thomas (Tom) Weekes, Junior, Psychology, Boise State Univ McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Mary Pritchard, Psychology, Boise State University

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #79
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Quality Control Assay for DNase I-seq
    Presenter
    • Ismail Jatta, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Alessandra Oddone Sullivan, Genome Sciences
    • Christine Queitsch, Genome Sciences
    • Carol Sibley, Genome Sciences

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #50
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Nanocrystal Ink-Based Thin Films for Tandem Solar Cells
    Presenter
    • Lucas Anthony (Lucas) James, Senior, Chemical Engr: Nanosci & Molecular Engr Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Hugh Hillhouse, Chemical Engineering

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #157
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Chondroitinase and Spinal Stimulation to Promote Plasticity and Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury
    Presenter
    • Nathaniel Charles (Nathaniel) Cook, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
    Mentor
    • Chet Moritz, Physiology & Biophysics, Rehabilitation Medicine

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #109
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Using a Mixture Controlled Turbidostat to Increase Sensitivity of Biomolecular Pathways in E. coli
    Presenter
    • Felix Ekness, Senior, Bioengineering
    Mentors
    • Eric Klavins, Electrical Engineering
    • Chris Takahashi, Electrical Engineering

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #155
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Peptide-based Multifunctional Gold Nanoparticles as Specific Targeting Probes
    Presenter
    • Nicole Zarfos, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
    Mentors
    • Candan Tamerler, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Marketa Hnilova, Materials Science & Engineering

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #150
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Writing for the Future
    Presenter
    • Justin Grover, Senior, English, Boise State Univ McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Clyde Moneyhun, English, Boise State University

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #7
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Phasic Dopamine Release Inhibits Hippocampal Gamma Oscillations
    Presenter
    • Nile S Walker (Nile) Graddis, Junior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Sheri Mizumori, Psychology
    • Marsha Penner, Psychology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #63
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Electrophysiological Investigation of the Laterodorsal Tegmental Nucleus Single Unit Activity in the Freely Navigating Rat
    Presenter
    • Chantelle C. (Chantelle) Adame, Senior, Psychology
    Mentor
    • Sheri Mizumori, Psychology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #85
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Investigating the Synergistic Effects of Nanotopography and an SDF-1α Gradient on Human Mesanchymal Stem Cells
    Presenter
    • Derek Michael (Derek) Britain, Junior, Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentor
    • Deok-Ho Kim, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #97
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Identity, Faith and Misconceptions: The Role of Religion for Women in College
    Presenter
    • Almeera M (Almeera) Anwar, Senior, Communication (Journalism), Anthropology
    Mentor
    • Danny Hoffman, Anthropology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #31
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites “The Memory You are Left With”: Photography’s Role in the Process of Mourning Neonatal, Perinatal, and Infant Death
    Presenter
    • Faustine Lauren (Faustine) Dufka, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Danny Hoffman, Anthropology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #30
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Behavior of Ghost Shrimp (Neotrypaea californiensis) Following Exposure to Imidacloprid: Implications for the Control of Burrowing Shrimp on Oyster Beds in Willapa Bay, WA
    Presenters
    • Andrew Annanie, Senior, Biology (General)
    • Levi Rex (Leviticus) Hay, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
    Mentor
    • Christian Grue, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #174
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Measuring Crosstalk for the Majorana Demonstrator Neutrino Experiment
    Presenter
    • James Declan (James) Mulligan, Senior, Mathematics, Physics
    Mentor
    • Andreas Knecht, Physics, Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #147
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A State-Level Analysis of Capital Punishment and Public Opinion
    Presenter
    • Ian Robert (Ian) King, Senior, Psychology, Political Science
    Mentor
    • John Wilkerson, Political Science

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #25
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Power of Policy Ideas:  Tracing Legislative Language in the Congressional Landscape
    Presenter
    • Kevin Shotwell, Senior, Political Science
    Mentor
    • John Wilkerson, Political Science

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #3
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Native Comic Book Project
    Presenter
    • Corinna Tordillos, Junior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Dedra Buchwald, Medicine
    • Carrie Nass, Center for Clinical and Epidemiological Research

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #115
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites What Influences Idaho Legislators When Making Immigration Policy  
    Presenter
    • Josue Gomez, Fifth Year, Political Science, Boise State Univ McNair Scholar
    Mentors
    • Ross Burkhart, Political Science, Boise State University
    • Michael Touchton, Political Science, Boise State University

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #35
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Effects of Individual Responsibility and Gender-Specificity of Task on Dyadic Rapport
    Presenters
    • Andrew Nelson, Sophomore, Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University
    • McKenna Corlis, Junior, Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University
    Mentor
    • Jon Grahe, Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #66
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Gratitude Toward God: An Exploration of Religiosity, Gratitude, and Happiness
    Presenter
    • Andrew Pereira, Junior, Psychology, Eastern Washington University McNair Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentor
    • Philip Watkins, Psychology, Eastern Washington University

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #78
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Ultrasound and Microbubble Mediated in vitro Transfection of pGL3 and pGFP in Human Embryonic Kidney 293 Cells
    Presenter
    • Alexander (Alex) Esibov, Senior, Bioengineering
    Mentor
    • Carol H. Miao, Pediatrics

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #106
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Investigation on the Conformational Characteristics of the N-terminal Region of Coat Protein of Brome Mosaic Virus
    Presenter
    • Rohina Asifi, Senior, Biochemistry, California State University, East Bay McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Chul Kim, Chemistry

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #131
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Autonomous Planning & Control of a Robotic Vehicle
    Presenter
    • Bao Le, Senior, Aeronautics & Astronautics McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Mehran Mesbahi, Aeronautics & Astronautics

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #137
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Statistical Word Learning in Adults
    Presenter
    • Araceli Dagio, Junior, Sociology, University of California, Davis McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Katharine Graf Estes, Psychology, University of California, Davis

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #83
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Among Military Veterans
    Presenter
    • Noor Salim, Senior, Community Health, Minnesota State University McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Judith Luebke, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Minnesota State University

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #124
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Prospective Mothers’ Awareness and Knowledge of Environmental Impacts Upon Pregnancy
    Presenter
    • Amanda Vang, Senior, Community Health Science, Minnesota State University McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Judith Luebke, Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, Minnesota State University

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #125
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Creating an Online Space for Stay-At-Home Dads to Socially Thrive and Pro-Actively Network in the Domestic Domain
    Presenters
    • Thu (Anh-Thu) Voba, Senior, Electrical Engineering, Human Centered Design & Engineering
    • Erick Tinyau Lo, Sophomore, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences)
    Mentor
    • Alexis Hope, Human Centered Design & Engineering

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #146
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Laboratory Simulation of Cryogenites on Mars
    Presenter
    • Catherine Tang, Junior, Biochemistry
    Mentor
    • Bonnie Light, Applied Physics Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #170
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Quorum Sensing in Burkholderia thailandensis
    Presenter
    • Thao Truong, Senior, Microbiology, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • E Peter Greenberg, Microbiology
    • Josephine Chandler, Microbiology

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #116
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Does Elongating The Foot Change Walking? Effects On Knee Height
    Presenters
    • Steven Lautzenheiser, Senior, Anthropology
    • Misty Nicole (Misty) Marsh, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences (Biology) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Steven Lautzenheiser, Anthropology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #5
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Pharmacological Regulation of the Endocannabinoid Pathway Modulates Seizure Severity and Life Span in a Huntington’s Disease Mouse Model
    Presenter
    • Marcus (Andy) Wen, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
    Mentors
    • Eric Horne, Pharmacology
    • Nephi Stella, Pharmacology

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #118
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Investigation and Analysis of River Plume Dynamics via Experimental Simulation
    Presenter
    • Anthony Robert Poggioli, Senior, Civil Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Alex Horner-Devine, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #145
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Alleviating Social-Defeat Induced Anxiety and Depression by Kappa-Opioid Receptor Antagonism
    Presenter
    • Bihe (Gina) Chen, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Charles Chavkin, Pharmacology
    • Richard Gustin, Pharmacology

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #108
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Time-Specific Analyses of EEG Activity and Self-Reported Pain Levels for Individuals with Chronic Pain
    Presenter
    • Amy De Kock, Senior, Psychology
    Mentors
    • Jon Howe, Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience
    • Jaime Diaz, Psychology
    • Mark Jensen, Rehabilitation Medicine

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #65
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Unintended Consequences of Foreign Aid for the Latin American Drug Trade
    Presenter
    • Alexander Pascualy, Senior, Political Science
    Mentor
    • John Wilkerson, Political Science

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #2
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Islet Endothelial Cells Produce Secreted Factors that Enhance Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Release from Pancreatic Islet β cells.
    Presenter
    • Len Tran, Senior, Biology (Physiology), Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Rebecca Hull, Medicine

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #104
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Applying Systemic Management for Sustainable Fisheries and Ecosystems
    Presenter
    • Briyana Bembry, Sophomore, Marine Biology, Neurology, Sccc Inactive Code
    Mentor
    • Charles Fowler, Environmental Science

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #173
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Traffic Safety and Ethnicity: Are Our Roads Signs Intuitive Across All Cultures?
    Presenter
    • Sherry Kim, Senior, Civil Engineering McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Scott Rutherford, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #138
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Underrepresentation of Women in Computer Science
    Presenter
    • Hyejin Maria (Hyejin) Jin, Junior, Psychology
    Mentors
    • Allison Master, Psychology
    • Sapna Cheryan, Psychology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #76
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites When Being Nurturing Means Being Bad at Math: Positive Stereotypes Lead Women to Underperform on a Math Test
    Presenter
    • Tong (Daniel) Yu, Senior, Psychology, Sociology
    Mentors
    • Sapna Cheryan, Psychology
    • John Oliver Siy, Psychology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #72
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Gaydar: Emotional Facial Expressions Modulate Snap Judgments of Men’s Sexual Orientation
    Presenter
    • Wendy Wenxuan (Wendy) Liu, Junior, Psychology
    Mentors
    • Sapna Cheryan, Psychology
    • Joshua Tabak, Psychology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #73
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Cultural Credentials: The Influence of Group Membership on Responses to Positive Stereotypes
    Presenter
    • Hua (Wenwen) Ni, Fifth Year,
    Mentors
    • John Oliver Siy, Psychology
    • Sapna Cheryan, Psychology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #74
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Blocking Adhesion of AML Cells to E-Selectin
    Presenter
    • Akanksha Saxena, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Pamela Becker, Medicine
    • Sylvia Chien, Medicine
    • Aric Zhao, Medicine

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #103
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

    Add to my favorites The Helmet Drop Tower Project
    Presenter
    • Tyler Dennis (Tyler) Wickstrom, Senior, Mechanical Engineering NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Irving Scher, Mechanical Engineering, Guidance Engineering
    • Randy Ching, Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Biomechanics Lab

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #135
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Lake Sediment Organic Geochemistry as an Indicator of Past Environmental Change on Isabela Island, Galapagos
    Presenter
    • Ariel Mei (Ariel) Townsend, Sophomore, Oceanography
    Mentors
    • Daniel Nelson, Oceanography
    • Julian Sachs, Oceanography

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #175
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Isolating Novel Yeast Species to Increase Biofuel Efficiency
    Presenter
    • Hannah Morrison, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
    Mentors
    • Sharon Doty, Environmental & Forest Sciences
    • Zareen Khan, Environmental & Forest Sciences

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #161
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Oxygen Consumption in Rats before and after Administration of Morphine
    Presenter
    • Timothy (Tim) Kruse, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Gregory Terman, Anesthesiology
    • Michael Emery, Anesthesiology

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #87
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Exploring the Effects of Dextromethorphan on Dugesia tigrina
    Presenter
    • Bronte Cole, Senior, Biology (Bothell Campus)
    Mentor
    • Bryan White, Science And Technology (Bothell Campus)

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #89
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Intraspinal Microstimulation to Preserve Fatigue Resistant Muscle Fibers and Promote Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury
    Presenter
    • Anand Kaul, Senior, Biochemistry, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Chet Moritz, Physiology & Biophysics, Rehabilitation Medicine
    • Michael Kasten, Rehabilitation Medicine

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #110
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Therapeutic Potential of Various Bone Marrow Transplantation Therapies in Treating Alzheimer's Related Neuropathologies
    Presenter
    • Jake F (Jake) Hemingway, Senior, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Christopher Keene, Pathology

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #111
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Predisposition to Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in the Absence of the 8-Oxoguanine DNA Glycosylase
    Presenter
    • Rick Rollins, Junior, Molecular Biology, Portland State University McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Harini Sampath, Medicine

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #102
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Race on Campus: How Do Students Feel About It?
    Presenter
    • Grace Adofoli, Senior, Psychology, University of Wisconsin, River Falls McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Cyndi Kernahan, Psychology

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #84
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Developing an Animal Model of Proinflammatory Cytokine Response Following Crush Injury
    Presenters
    • Cassandra (Cassie) Steiner, Senior, Medical Technology, Biology (Physiology)
    • Alia Nazim Karmali, Sophomore, Pre-Health Sciences
    • Ivan Benedict, Senior, Biochemistry
    • Kayla Alexandra (Kayla) Brown, Sophomore, Sociology
    Mentors
    • Joachim Voss, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems
    • Joyce Tsuji, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #88
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Understanding the Mechanistic Pathway of DLBCL
    Presenter
    • Tamara Chinn, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • David Rawlings, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute
    • Blythe Sather, Immunology, Seattle Children's Research Institute

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #113
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Greater Love Hath No Man: Death and Dying in the Contemporary American Military
    Presenter
    • Ryan Green, Junior, History, University of California, Davis McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Charles Walker, History, University of California, Davis

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #64
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Exploring Seizure-like Behaviors in Dugesia tigrina Induced by Salvia divinorum
    Presenter
    • Daniela Briann (Daniela) Lipscomb, Fifth Year, Biology (Bothell Campus) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Bryan White, Science And Technology (Bothell Campus)

    Poster Session 1
  • Balcony
  • Easel #90
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Bacteria Fertilizing Poplar
    Presenter
    • Josefina Narvaja, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management (Landscape Ecology & Conservation)
    Mentors
    • Sharon Doty, Environmental & Forest Sciences
    • Jenny Knoth, Environmental & Forest Sciences

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #163
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Working with Students with Disabilities: A Toolkit Designed for Paraeducators and Classroom Volunteers
    Presenter
    • Katherine (Kayta) Samuels, Senior, Early Childhood & Family Studies
    Mentors
    • Gene Edgar, Education, university of washington
    • Mary Clevenger-Bright, Education

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons West
  • Easel #14
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Aerodynamic Shear Measurement Using Liquid Crystal Coatings
    Presenter
    • Kenneth Moon Jun Low, Senior, Aeronautics & Astronautics
    Mentors
    • Dana Dabiri, Aeronautics & Astronautics
    • Gamal Khalil, Aeronautics & Astronautics
    • Guo Shi Li, Aeronautics & Astronautics

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #153
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Real-Time Gesture Recognition via the Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition (HOSVD)
    Presenters
    • Andrew Scott (Andy) Barr, Senior, Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (Engineering & Physical) Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    • Ian Anthony Talarico, Senior, Computer Science
    Mentor
    • J. Nathan Kutz, Applied Mathematics

    Poster Session 1
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #158
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Protective Factors for Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors
    Presenter
    • Stevy Scarbrough, Fifth Year, Psychology, Boise State Univ McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Mary Pritchard, Psychology, Boise State University

    Poster Session 1
  • Commons East
  • Easel #80
  • 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

  • Oral Presentation 1

    1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Increased Interactions with Fisheries? Return of the Short-tailed Albatross
    Presenter
    • Anne (Annie) Johns, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
    Mentors
    • Julia Parrish, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
    • Jane Dolliver, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
    • Shannon Fitzgerald, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Alaska Fisheries Science Center NOAA

    Session 1A: Searching for Sustainability: Human-Environment Interactions and Potential Management Strategies
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Will Pacific Salmon Still Be Here in 2100? Evolutionary Potential of Columbia River Chinook to Keep Pace With Climate Change
    Presenter
    • Sheila Renee (Sheila) Thomas, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Daniel Schindler, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

    Session 1A: Searching for Sustainability: Human-Environment Interactions and Potential Management Strategies
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Growth Rates and Toxicities of an Alexandrium Species as a Function of Temperature and Salinity: Implications for Projected Climate Change Scenarios
    Presenter
    • Levi Rex (Leviticus) Hay, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
    Mentors
    • Stephanie Moore, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
    • Brian Bill, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    • Russell Herwig, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

    Session 1A: Searching for Sustainability: Human-Environment Interactions and Potential Management Strategies
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Analyzing Vessel Interactions and Federal Law Surrounding Southern Resident Killer Whales (Orcinus orca)
    Presenter
    • Alexandra Ulmke, Senior, Environmental Studies Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Steve Herbert, Geography, Law, Societies, and Justice

    Session 1A: Searching for Sustainability: Human-Environment Interactions and Potential Management Strategies
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Effect of sTnC Variants on Contraction in Rabbit Psoas Muscle Fibers
    Presenter
    • Josh Keith Matlock, Senior, Psychology, Biology (General)
    Mentors
    • Michael Regnier, Bioengineering
    • Maria Razumova, Bioengineering

    Session 1B: Bioengineering and Biomechanics
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Enhancing the Maturation of Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes via Mechanical and Nanoscale Topographical Properties of the Substrate
    Presenter
    • Nicole E. (Nicole) Trosper, Junior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Alex Jiao, Bioengineering
    • Deok-Ho Kim, Bioengineering

    Session 1B: Bioengineering and Biomechanics
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Cell Therapy Restores Loss of the Frank-Starling Relationship Following Myocardial Infarction
    Presenter
    • Bryce V (Bryce) Johnson, Senior, Bioengineering NASA Space Grant Scholar, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
    Mentors
    • Michael Regnier, Bioengineering
    • Maria Razumova, Bioengineering

    Session 1B: Bioengineering and Biomechanics
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Engineering Troponin C to Affect Cardiac Muscle Cell Contraction
    Presenter
    • Rona Ding, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Michael Regnier, Bioengineering
    • Dan Wang, Bioengineering

    Session 1B: Bioengineering and Biomechanics
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Design of Improved Regulatory Cassettes for Treating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
    Presenter
    • Elizabeth Abshire, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Steve Hauschka, Biochemistry
    • Bi Ying Huang, Biochemistry
    • Quynh Nguyen, Biochemistry
    • Robert Welikson, Biochemistry

    Session 1B: Bioengineering and Biomechanics
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Hardening our Common Computing Landscape: Toward a High Assurance Private Cloud
    Presenter
    • Tom Rochat, Junior, Information Technology (Tacoma)
    Mentor
    • Sam Chung, Information Technology & Systems, UW Tacoma

    Session 1C: Wireless and the Cloud: Applications and Security
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Build, Attack, Analyze, and Patch: Iterated Security of Web and Email Servers in a Virutal Cloud Infrastructure
    Presenter
    • Joshua Marlin (Josh) Phelps, Senior, Information Technology (Tacoma)
    Mentor
    • Sam Chung, Information Technology & Systems, UW Tacoma

    Session 1C: Wireless and the Cloud: Applications and Security
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Introducing Threat Modeling to Beginning Level Programmers: Toward Software Assurance
    Presenter
    • Yun Tse (Yun-Tse) Wu, Sophomore, Computer Science and Systems
    Mentor
    • Sam Chung, Information Technology & Systems, UW Tacoma

    Session 1C: Wireless and the Cloud: Applications and Security
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Cloud Based Shopping Cart Development with Agility for Small Photography
    Presenters
    • Brookneh (Brook) Alemayehu, Senior, Information Technology (Tacoma)
    • Gary D Armstrong, Senior, Information Technology (Tacoma)
    • Kultar Singh Khatra, Senior, Information Technology (Tacoma)
    • Joshua Deovic Calderon, Senior, Information Technology (Tacoma)
    Mentor
    • Sam Chung, Information Technology & Systems, UW Tacoma

    Session 1C: Wireless and the Cloud: Applications and Security
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Cyber Bounty Hunter
    Presenter
    • Vera V (Vera) Kayky, Fifth Year, Information Technology (Tacoma)
    Mentor
    • Sam Chung, Information Technology & Systems, UW Tacoma

    Session 1C: Wireless and the Cloud: Applications and Security
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Implementation and Performance Analysis of a Wireless Controlled Water Tank System
    Presenter
    • Cristopher Claeys, Senior, Computer Engineering and Systems, Computer Science and Systems
    Mentor
    • Jie Sheng, Computer Science & Engineering, UW Tacoma

    Session 1C: Wireless and the Cloud: Applications and Security
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Criminal History and Public Housing: An Evaluation of Seattle Housing Authority's Applicant Denial and Eviction Practices
    Presenters
    • Andrea Greenstein, Senior, Law, Societies, & Justice, Spanish
    • Dexter Lane Callahan, Senior, Law, Societies, & Justice
    • Erika Anne Maskal, Senior, International Studies, Law, Societies, & Justice
    • Keaton Eric (Katherine) Daucher, Senior, Law, Societies, & Justice
    • Anthony James (Anthony) Friedman, Senior, Law, Societies, & Justice
    • Brittany Clare (Brittany) Ward, Senior, Law, Societies, & Justice
    • Alexa Jean Mullarky, Senior, Law, Societies, & Justice
    Mentor
    • Katherine Beckett, Law, Societies, and Justice

    Session 1D: An Examination of the Effectiveness of Programs Aimed at Improving Social Outcomes
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Connecting: Systematic Adaptation of an Evidence-Based Parenting Program for Foster Youth and Families
    Presenter
    • Emma Sherman, Senior, Social Welfare
    Mentors
    • Kevin Haggerty, Social Work
    • Susan Barkan, Social Work, Partners for Our Children
    • Heather Storer Smith, Social Welfare, Partners For Our Children

    Session 1D: An Examination of the Effectiveness of Programs Aimed at Improving Social Outcomes
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites The Influence of the Otolith Organs on an Electrically-Induced Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex
    Presenter
    • Sinwai (Vicky) Law, Senior, Neurobiology, Biology (Physiology)
    Mentors
    • James Phillips, Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery
    • Leo Ling, Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery
    • Amy Nowack, Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery

    Session 1E: Behavioral and Neural Adaptation
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Neural and Behavioral Context-Based Differences in Rats
    Presenter
    • Joshua Daniel (Josh) Larkin, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Sheri Mizumori, Psychology
    • Marsha Penner, Psychology

    Session 1E: Behavioral and Neural Adaptation
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Success Rate of Prairie Plants in Low, Moderate, and High Density
    Presenter
    • Michelle Elizabeth (Michelle) Fischer, Senior, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Environmental Studies), UW Tacoma
    Mentor
    • John Banks, Environmental Science, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

    Session 1F: It Isn't Easy Being Green
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Population Dynamics of Pseudotsuga menziesii on Islands
    Presenter
    • Cesar Godinez, Sophomore, Biology, Sccc Inactive Code
    Mentor
    • Joshua Whorley, Biology, Seattle Central College

    Session 1F: It Isn't Easy Being Green
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Optimal Biochar Level for Capsicum annuum
    Presenter
    • Ashura (Aby) Takanohara, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
    Mentor
    • Soo-Hyung Kim, Environmental & Forest Sciences

    Session 1F: It Isn't Easy Being Green
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Art, Allies and the Activation of Community
    Presenter
    • Madeline (Maddie) Beeders, Senior, Communication, Community, Environment, & Planning
    Mentor
    • Keith Harris, Built Environment

    Session 1G: A Panoramic Look at Art: From Cartoons and Alleyways to Skylines and Street Views, and from Dust and Clay to Golden Haloes and Recursive Patterns
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites The Montparnasse Tower: Paris’s One and Only Skyscraper, and Its American Developer
    Presenter
    • Robert Zhao, Senior, Business Administration (Finance), Business Administration (Information Systems)
    Mentor
    • Meredith Clausen, Architecture

    Session 1G: A Panoramic Look at Art: From Cartoons and Alleyways to Skylines and Street Views, and from Dust and Clay to Golden Haloes and Recursive Patterns
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Intent vs. Impact: Applying Anthropology to Bridge the Achievement Gap
    Presenter
    • Stephen Paul (Stephen) Song, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Session 1I: Innovations in Teaching and Learning
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Preschool Intervention and the Resilience of Underprivileged Children
    Presenter
    • Remi Torres, Senior, Early Childhood & Family Studies Zesbaugh Scholar
    Mentors
    • Todd Herrenkohl, Social Work/Public Health
    • Gail Joseph, Education

    Session 1I: Innovations in Teaching and Learning
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Environment Concepts Made Real in the Classroom: Environmental Art Education as a Medium for Creating Tanglible Environmental Concepts for Children
    Presenter
    • Amy Anderson, Senior, Environmental Studies
    Mentor
    • Stanley Asah, Environmental & Forest Sciences

    Session 1I: Innovations in Teaching and Learning
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Radical, Racial Antisemitism:  The Building Blocks of Nazi Policy
    Presenter
    • Jennifer Cigler, Senior, History, Pacific Lutheran University
    Mentor
    • Gina Hames, History, Pacific Lutheran University

    Session 1J: The Politics of Practice: Historical, Philosophical, and Methodological Reflections on Conflict and Community
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Merchants and Pirates: How the Hanseatic League's Founding Principles Shaped its Conflicts with England
    Presenter
    • Jonah Bomgaars, Senior, History
    Mentors
    • Charity Urbanski, History
    • Ileana Rodriguez-Silva, History

    Session 1J: The Politics of Practice: Historical, Philosophical, and Methodological Reflections on Conflict and Community
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Ecological Impact Over Time on Titlow Beach Due to European Methods of Transportation
    Presenters
    • Heidi J. Mc Reynolds, Senior, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (General Studies), UW Tacoma
    • Brad Edward Smith, Senior, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Self & Society), UW Tacoma
    Mentor
    • Michael Kucher, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

    Session 1K: Environmental Activism/Environmental Research in the Pacific Northwest
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Diaper Decision: Parents Perspectives on their Diaper Choices
    Presenter
    • Pamela Savagaonkar, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
    Mentor
    • Stanley Asah, Environmental & Forest Sciences

    Session 1K: Environmental Activism/Environmental Research in the Pacific Northwest
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Correlation Between Human Land Use and Stormwater Runoff in the Puyallup Valley
    Presenter
    • Serena Bell, Junior, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Environmental Studies), UW Tacoma
    Mentor
    • Michael Kucher, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

    Session 1K: Environmental Activism/Environmental Research in the Pacific Northwest
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Belugas (Delphinapterus Leucas) Contact Objects Instead of Belugas
    Presenter
    • Cyndy Alvarez, Junior, Psychology, St. Mary's University McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Heather Hill, Psychology, St. Mary's University

    Session 1L: McNair Session - From Physics to Behavioral Neurobiology
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Genetic Screen for Genes Involved in the Maintenance of Dendrite Patterning
    Presenter
    • Marvin Eduarte Nayan, Senior, Neurobiology, Biochemistry EIP Scholar, Howard Hughes Scholar, Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, Presidential Scholar
    Mentor
    • Jay Parrish, Biology

    Session 1L: McNair Session - From Physics to Behavioral Neurobiology
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Does Disruption of Sleep Impact Cytokine Levels?
    Presenter
    • Vicky Herrera, Senior, Biology (General) Amgen Scholar, EIP Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, Presidential Scholar, McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Horacio de la Iglesia, Biology

    Session 1L: McNair Session - From Physics to Behavioral Neurobiology
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Betterment of the Global Community through Preservation of Enthoecological Knowledge and Cultural Acquisition in Nehas Liah Bing, Borneo
    Presenter
    • Paul Glantz, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Session 1M: Qualitative Research in Assessing Health and Wellbeing
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Rehabilitation of the Kennecott Cemetery: Memorializing Life and Death in the Alaskan Wilderness
    Presenter
    • Dinah Marie (Dinah) Gewalt, Senior, Landscape Architecture Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Julie Johnson, Landscape Architecture
    • Jeffrey Hou, Landscape Architecture

    Session 1M: Qualitative Research in Assessing Health and Wellbeing
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites The Happiness Variable
    Presenter
    • Jack Clearman, Senior, Psychology
    Mentor
    • David Barash, Psychology

    Session 1M: Qualitative Research in Assessing Health and Wellbeing
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites CARICOM: Economic Benefits and Effects of Neocolonialism in the West Indies
    Presenter
    • Cecelia Sanchez, Senior, American Ethnic Studies
    Mentors
    • Melanie Hernandez, English
    • Andrea Griggs, Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity

    Session 1M: Qualitative Research in Assessing Health and Wellbeing
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Soft Slips of Flesh: The Female Body as a Place of Sexual Violence, and Site of Economic, Social, and Cultural Exchanges
    Presenter
    • Merzamie Sison (Mimi) Cagaitan, Senior, English, Comparative History of Ideas McNair Scholar
    Mentors
    • Sonnet Retman, American Ethnic Studies
    • Michelle Liu, English

    Session 1N: McNair Session - Culture Shifts, Social Change, Social Movements: Past and Present
  • 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Reversible Tissue Adhesives: A Medical Application Inspired by Geckos and E. coli
    Presenter
    • Nichole Sahar (Nichole) Tyler, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Wendy Thomas, Bioengineering
    • Victoria Rodriguez, Bioengineering

    Session 1O: Biochemical, Molecular, and Biomedical Engineering
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites An Open-Source Parallel Chemostat for Evolutionary Characterization of Synthetic Biological Parts
    Presenter
    • Bennett Kim (Bennett) Ng, Senior, Bioengineering, Computer Science Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Herbert Sauro, Bioengineering

    Session 1O: Biochemical, Molecular, and Biomedical Engineering
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Online Quantification of Dynamic Mechanical Properties of In Vivo Soft Tissue for Use in Robotic Surgery
    Presenter
    • Andrew John (Andrew) Hill, Senior, Bioengineering
    Mentors
    • Howard Chizeck, Electrical Engineering
    • Blake Hannaford, Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering

    Session 1O: Biochemical, Molecular, and Biomedical Engineering
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Enzyme-Linked Immunoabsorbent Spot Assay Testing Canine Immune Response to Platelet Tranfusion
    Presenter
    • Michael Shapiro, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
    Mentors
    • Todd Christoffel, Medicine
    • Sherrill Slichter, , Puget Sound Blood Center

    Session 1O: Biochemical, Molecular, and Biomedical Engineering
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Pivotal Pressures and Turning Points: The Civil War in 1863
    Presenter
    • Joyce Marie (Joyce) Pace, Senior, American Studies (Tacoma)
    Mentor
    • Charles Williams, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

    Session 1P: Interests, Organizations, and Political Reform
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Social Cohesion, Poverty, and the Middle Classes: Examining Sites of Encounter & Zones of Governance
    Presenter
    • Helen Elizabeth Olsen, Junior, Geography, Individualized Studies Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Victoria Lawson, Geography
    • Sarah Elwood, Geography

    Session 1P: Interests, Organizations, and Political Reform
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Fighting Privatization in Bolivia: Cultures of Resistance
    Presenter
    • Brenden McLane, Senior, Global Studies (Bothell)
    Mentor
    • Julie Shayne, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus)

    Session 1P: Interests, Organizations, and Political Reform
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Congress of Inaction: How Interest Groups and Coalitions are Preventing Action Toward Solving the Crisis of Debt, Deficit, and Unfunded Liabilities in the United States
    Presenter
    • Scott Hodges, Senior, Economics, Mathematics (Philosophy), Political Science
    Mentors
    • Rebecca Thorpe, Political Science
    • Victor Menaldo, Political Science

    Session 1P: Interests, Organizations, and Political Reform
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Transition and Corruption
    Presenter
    • Adam Joseph (Adam) Bernbaum, Senior, Political Science
    Mentor
    • John Wilkerson, Political Science

    Session 1P: Interests, Organizations, and Political Reform
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Lightcurves of Transiting Exoplanets
    Presenters
    • John Mehlhaff, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences NASA Space Grant Scholar
    • Nancy Helen (Nancy) Thomas, Junior, Astronomy, Physics Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, UW Honors Program
    • Christopher Martin, Junior, Astronomy, Physics
    Mentors
    • Eric Agol, Astronomy
    • Andrew Becker, Astronomy
    • Praveen Kundurthy, Astronomy

    Session 1Q: Adventures in Astronomy
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Activity in Equal-Mass M Dwarf Wide Binaries
    Presenter
    • Heather Gunning, Senior, Astronomy, Physics
    Mentors
    • Sarah Schmidt, Astronomy
    • James Davenport, Astronomy
    • Suzanne Hawley, Astronomy

    Session 1Q: Adventures in Astronomy
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Constraining the Mass of NGC 4258 with Satellite Galaxies
    Presenter
    • Meghin Spencer, Senior, Astronomy, Physics Washington Research Foundation Fellow
    Mentor
    • Peter Yoachim, Astronomy

    Session 1Q: Adventures in Astronomy
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Characterization of Inferior Olivary Synaptic Inputs to Purkinje Neurons in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 7 Mice
    Presenter
    • Kt Nguyen, Senior, Neurobiology, Biology (Physiology) Howard Hughes Scholar
    Mentors
    • Gwenn Garden, Neurology
    • Travis Baughan, Neurology

    Session 1R: Strategies in Brain Research
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Modeling the Effects of Low Frequency Stimulation in a Conductance-Based Model of the Parkinsonian Basal Ganglia
    Presenter
    • Megan Alice (Megan) Lacy, Senior, Neurobiology Amgen Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Eric Shea-Brown, Applied Mathematics
    • Guillaume Lajoie, Applied Mathematics

    Session 1R: Strategies in Brain Research
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Membrane Hyperpolarization Causes Disappearance of Spontaneous Activity in Developing Hindbrain
    Presenter
    • Lucy Liu, Senior, Neurobiology
    Mentor
    • Martha Bosma, Biology

    Session 1R: Strategies in Brain Research
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Learning by Amphetamine-Sensitized Mice
    Presenter
    • Kiara C. (Kiara) Eldred, Senior, Environmental Studies, Biochemistry
    Mentor
    • Richard Palmiter, Biochemistry

    Session 1R: Strategies in Brain Research
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Optogenetic Evaluation of Electrotonic Coupling in the Inferior Olive in vitro Using Multibeam Multiphoton Microscopy
    Presenter
    • Josef Turecek, Senior, Neurobiology, Psychology, Physics Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentor
    • John Welsh, Pediatrics

    Session 1R: Strategies in Brain Research
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Investigating Genome Assembly of the Yeast Lachancea waltii
    Presenter
    • Kelsey Marie (Kelsey) Haas, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • M.K. Raghuraman, Genome Sciences
    • Bonita Brewer, Genome Sciences

    Session 1S: Structure-Function Analyses of Chromosomal Elements
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Is Early Replication of the Centromere Important for Maintaining Chromosome Stability?
    Presenter
    • Hung-Hsueh (Helen) Lai, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Bonita Brewer, Genome Sciences
    • M.K. Raghuraman, Genome Sciences
    • Thomas Pohl, Genome Sciences, Molecular & Cellular Biology

    Session 1S: Structure-Function Analyses of Chromosomal Elements
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Effect of Xenobiotics on CYP26A1 Regulation and Expression in HepG2 Cell Line
    Presenter
    • Clara Park, Senior, Biology (General)
    Mentors
    • Nina Isoherranen, Pharmaceutics
    • Ariel Topletz, Pharmaceutics

    Session 1S: Structure-Function Analyses of Chromosomal Elements
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites DNA Double-Strand-Break Hotspots and Speciation
    Presenter
    • Jiwon Yeo, Junior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Biology (General)
    Mentors
    • Harmit Malik, Genome Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    • Sarah Zanders, Genome Sciences

    Session 1S: Structure-Function Analyses of Chromosomal Elements
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites F Plasmid Conjugation in Escherichia coli Requires Cell-to-Cell Contact
    Presenter
    • Stephanie Wang, Senior, Biochemistry, Microbiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Beth Traxler, Microbiology
    • Paul Wiggins, Bioengineering
    • Nathan Kuwada, Bioengineering, Microbiology, Physics

    Session 1S: Structure-Function Analyses of Chromosomal Elements
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Pineapple Eye Gene: A Novel Regulator of Drosophila Female Germ-Line Stem Cell Maintenance
    Presenter
    • Jon Chu, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry, Biology, Genome Sciences
    • Yalan Xing, Biochemistry

    Session 1T: Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Metabolism of Embryonic Stem Cells 
    Presenter
    • Michael A (Michael) Choi, Senior, Biochemistry, Chemistry (ACS Certified) Washington Research Foundation Fellow
    Mentors
    • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry, Biology, Genome Sciences
    • Wenyu Zhou, Biology

    Session 1T: Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Significance of Drosha Levels in MicroRNA Processing
    Presenter
    • Pratyusha (Trish) Banik, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry, Biology
    • Henrik Sperber, Chemistry

    Session 1T: Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: The Impact of Histone Methylation on Reprogramming
    Presenter
    • Akiko Carver, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • David Hawkins, Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
    • Jo Ling Liao, Medicine

    Session 1T: Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

    Add to my favorites The Electrostatics of Ubiquitin and its Role in Ubiquitin Ligase Activity
    Presenter
    • Matthew S Novack, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Rachel Klevit, Biochemistry
    • Jonathan Pruneda, Biochemistry

    Session 1T: Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Research through Embodiment: Recreating Historical Dance with the Chamber Dance Company
    Presenter
    • Elise Marie (Elise) Butterfield, Junior, Dance: Creative Studies Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Hannah Wiley, Dance

    Session 1U: Research in the Visual and Performing Arts: Critical Inquiries into Praxis, Creative Process and (Re)Presentation
  • 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Infinite Image: A Project in Stereoscopic 3D Art
    Presenter
    • Martin Jarmick, Senior, Digital Arts & Experimental Media Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Cynthia Caci, Digital Arts & Experimental Media
    • James Coupe, Digital Arts & Experimental Media

    Session 1U: Research in the Visual and Performing Arts: Critical Inquiries into Praxis, Creative Process and (Re)Presentation
  • 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Wings of a Crow Have Eyes: An Interdisciplinary Solo Performance Fusing Visual Art, Dance, Theatre, Music and Design with the Application of Critical Theories
    Presenter
    • Trung Tien (Thomas) Dang, Senior, Extended Pre-Major
    Mentors
    • Jeffrey Frace, Drama
    • Jyana Browne, Drama
    • Jurg Koch, Dance

    Session 1U: Research in the Visual and Performing Arts: Critical Inquiries into Praxis, Creative Process and (Re)Presentation
  • 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

  • Poster Presentation 2

    2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Dating the Retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet from the Southern Puget Lowland
    Presenter
    • Clayton Philip (Clay) Johnson, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences
    Mentors
    • John Stone, Earth & Space Sciences
    • Zach Ploskey, Earth & Space Sciences

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #150
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Defensin-Mediated Neutralization of Adenovirus
    Presenter
    • Ksenia Skorohodova, Senior, Microbiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Jason Smith, Microbiology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #45
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Cadmium Adsorption to Bacterial Spores
    Presenter
    • Mikaela Hertel, Junior, Mathematics (Comprehensive) NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Drew Gorman-Lewis, Earth & Space Sciences
    • Zoe Harrold, Earth & Space Sciences

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #138
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Ruth Brown and Her Girls; Perceptions of "Normal" Womanhood and Summer Camps, 1920-1940
    Presenter
    • Elaine Michelle (Elaine) Hruby, Senior, History Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Shirley Yee, Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #40
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Identifying Mutations in the TBX3 Gene that Cause Ulnar Mammary Syndrome
    Presenter
    • Weiyi Li, Senior, Biochemistry NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Mike Bamshad, Pediatrics
    • Heidi Gildersleeve, Genetics, Pediatrics

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #85
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Comparing Ancestry Estimations from Y Chromosome, Mitochondrial DNA, and Autosomal Loci
    Presenter
    • Kevin Matthew (Kevin) Magnaye, Sophomore, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentor
    • Mike Bamshad, Pediatrics

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #84
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Environmental Stewardship, Social Equity, and Corporate Profitability: Siblings or Strangers?
    Presenter
    • Daniel Arthur (Dan) Schafer, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
    Mentor
    • Dorothy Paun, Environmental Management Program

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #137
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Spreading Equity to Deaf Students in the Academic Environment
    Presenters
    • Philip Sanchez, Junior, Speech and Hearing Sci (Com Disorders)
    • Stuart Alexander (Stu) Simkins, Senior, Anthropology
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #107
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Shear and Flexural Response in Varying Structural Earthbag Configurations
    Presenter
    • Corina Andreea (Corina) Popescu, Senior, Civil Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • John Stanton, Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Travis Corigliano, Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Ryan Scott, Business Administration

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #160
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Insider and Outsider Perspectives of the Gymnastics Culture
    Presenter
    • Kylie Sharp, Junior, Anthropology
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #108
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Evolutionarily Derived Variation in Pigment Pattern Boundary Forming Mechanisms
    Presenter
    • Hannah Elisabeth (Hannah) Majeski, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentor
    • David Parichy, Biology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #36
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Glacial History of Antarctic Mountains Inferred from Cosmogenic Nuclides
    Presenter
    • Danielle Lemmon, Junior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • John Stone, Earth & Space Sciences
    • Perry Spector, Earth & Space Sciences

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #151
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Correlation between Nuclear Star Formation and Active Black Hole Growth in Seyfert Galaxies
    Presenter
    • Angelia Tran, Senior, Astronomy, Physics
    Mentor
    • Erin Hicks, Astronomy

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #17
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Linking ULIRGS and Quasars: Looking for Predicted Morphological Signatures of AGN Feedback
    Presenter
    • Nicole Steward, Senior, Astronomy, Physics Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentor
    • Erin K. S. Hicks, Astronomy

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #16
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Latest Developments in the War on Terry
    Presenter
    • Quinn Brown, Junior, Interdisc St: Law, Economics, Public Pol
    Mentor
    • Stuart Streichler, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus)

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #39
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Restoring Barriers: The Use of Prosthetics by Disabled Athletes
    Presenter
    • Amanda Dunbar, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #102
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Women’s Role in the Hyper Masculine Sport Hockey
    Presenter
    • Sheliza Adatia, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #98
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Training Manual to Provide Culturally Competent Care for Somali Women Immigrants
    Presenter
    • Sakuna Thongchanh, Fifth Year, Nursing
    Mentors
    • Cynthia Price, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems
    • Nancy Woods, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #87
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Effects of Caffiene on Longevity and Health Span in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Presenter
    • Emma Bishop, Junior, Biology (General)
    Mentors
    • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
    • George Sutphin, Molecular & Cellular Biology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #56
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Role of IL-17 Signaling in Neutrophil Recruitment in the Brain vs. Spinal Cord during CNS Autoimmunity
    Presenter
    • Jessica Swarts, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Joan Goverman, Immunology
    • Sarah Swarts, Immunology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #46
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Inhaler Use in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
    Presenters
    • Anna Ngoc An (Anna) Phung, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (General)
    • Michelle Van Nguyen, Junior, Biochemistry
    Mentor
    • Huong Nguyen, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #90
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites ARF and IAA Protein Interactions in Response to Auxin Signaling Involved in Lateral Root Formation in Arabidopsis
    Presenter
    • Autumn M. (Autumn) Walker, Senior, Biology (General)
    Mentors
    • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology
    • Jessica Guseman, Biology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #25
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Detrimental Health Effects of Body Composition Norms in the Sport of Running
    Presenter
    • Megan Morgan, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #104
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Using Motion Sensors to Proactively Manage Health
    Presenter
    • Alexander Evan (Alex) Constant, Sophomore, Pre-Health Sciences
    Mentors
    • George Demiris, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems
    • Hilaire Thompson, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #89
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Is SPATULA Required for Brassinosteroid Pathway During Growth in Arapbidopsis?
    Presenter
    • Keng-Min (Danny) Liang, Junior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Jodi Lilley, Biology
    • Jennifer Nemhauser, Biology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #71
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Neural Basis of Decision Making
    Presenter
    • Kelsey Elizabeth (Kelsey) Hinton, Senior, Biology (General), Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Jeansok Kim, Psychology
    • Lauren Graham, Psychology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #111
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Art in Sports : Who is Teaching our Kids?
    Presenter
    • Laura Roof, Senior, Landscape Architecture
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #106
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Men of Color in Sports
    Presenter
    • Jonathan Amosa, Senior, American Ethnic Studies
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #91
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Discourse of Race in Basketball
    Presenters
    • John (Timu) Timu, Sophomore, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences)
    • Hau'oli James Proctor Jamora, Sophomore, Pre-Nursing
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #110
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Anthropogenic Versus Biogenic Effects on Air Quality
    Presenter
    • Kenten Taylor (Kenten) Danas, Senior, Chemical Engineering
    Mentor
    • Joel Thornton, Atmospheric Sciences

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #149
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Concepts of Masculinity in Male Football Players and Fans as Influenced by Advertising
    Presenters
    • Forest Rak, Sophomore, Anthropology
    • Friederike Therese (Teri) Guethner, Junior, Anthropology
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #105
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Importance and Impact of Sports in Mental and Physical Rebuilding
    Presenter
    • Krystal Henderson, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #100
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Profiling Fatty Acids Over the Dual-Stage Life Cycle of the Harmful Alga, Heterosigma akashiwo
    Presenter
    • Jessica Chess, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Elizabeth Tobin, Oceanography
    • Rose Ann Cattolico, Biology

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #142
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Functional Cortical Connectivity in Adolescents with ADHD
    Presenter
    • Samandip Singh (Sunny) Hothi, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Michael Murias, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #118
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Evolution of a Chlorophyll Synthesis Gene in Diatoms
    Presenter
    • Tejinder Singh (Tj) Randhawa, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Heather Hunsperger, Biology
    • Rose Ann Cattolico, Biology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #28
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Studies Comparing Tolerance to Morphine-induced Respiratory Depression with Tolerance to Morphine-induced Analgesia
    Presenter
    • Chen Shi, Senior, Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Gregory Terman, Anesthesiology
    • Michael Emery, Anesthesiology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #78
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Synergistic and Antagonistic Responses to Dietary Restriction in Caenorhabditis elegans Mutants 
    Presenters
    • Monika Jelic, Senior, Microbiology
    • Marissa Margaret (Marissa) Simko, Junior, Extended Pre-Major, Pre-Nursing
    • Shannon Melissa Klum, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
    • Lara Shamieh, Pathology, Regis University

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #58
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Does an NBA Salary Increase with Size?
    Presenter
    • Anupreet Singh, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Biology (General)
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #109
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Pacific Islander Identity: Breaking Stereotypes Through Sports and Education  
    Presenters
    • Rachel L Aleaga-Tofa, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth Mary Gates Scholar
    • Taylor Ahana, Junior, Pre-Sciences
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #99
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Hyper Masculinity & Hyper Feminity in the Culture of Sports
    Presenter
    • Sanya Dhermy, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Communication
    Mentor
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #101
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Investigating the Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response in Caenorhabditis elegans
    Presenter
    • Natalie Trongtham, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
    • Simon Johnson, Pathology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #61
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Lipid-Encapsulated Hydrogel Nanoparticles as a Vehicle for Mucosal Delivery of Anti-HIV Drugs
    Presenter
    • Reena Mahadevan, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Kim A. Woodrow, Bioengineering
    • Renuka Ramanathan, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #65
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Man Without a Dream is Nothing but a Creature: (Staged) Authenticity and Indigenous Representation at Tillicum Village
    Presenter
    • Sabine Elizabeth (Sabine) Parrish, Senior, Anthropology
    Mentors
    • Miriam Kahn, Anthropology
    • Devon Pena, Anthropology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #94
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Genome-Wide Screening for Inducers of the Mitochondrial UPR in C. elegans
    Presenter
    • Helen Margaret (Helen) Vander Wende, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Christopher Bennett, Molecular & Cellular Biology
    • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #37
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Robin Hood, Poaching, & Non-Noble Perceptions of Forest Law in Medieval England
    Presenter
    • Erik Adam (Erik) Scheer, Senior, History
    Mentors
    • Charity Urbanski, History
    • Ileana Rodriguez-Silva, History

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #3
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites 3-D Modeling of Proto-Planetary Disks
    Presenter
    • Anthony Paat, Sophomore, Astronomy, Physics
    Mentor
    • John Wisniewski, Astronomy

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #20
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Making Garbage Collection more Efficient in Tacoma
    Presenter
    • Jerremmy Miller, Senior, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Environmental Studies), UW Tacoma
    Mentor
    • Matthew Kelley, Urban Studies (Tacoma Campus)

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #172
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Processed Images of AB Aur’s Protoplanetary Disk
    Presenter
    • Raina D'Aleo, Sophomore, Astronomy, Physics
    Mentor
    • John Wisniewski, Astronomy

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #19
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Immunization Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Using a Nanoparticle Vaccine Platform
    Presenter
    • Cynthia Njeri (Cynthia) Wainaina, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Biology (Physiology) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentor
    • Kevin Urdahl, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #69
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Research of Landslides Triggered by the 2011 Tohuku, Japan Earthquake
    Presenter
    • Lisa Dunham, Fifth Year, Civil Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Joseph Wartman, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #161
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Does Nicotine Patch Use Influence Seizure Number, Durations of Stay, or Rate of Seizure Acquisition During Elective Video EEG Telemetry?
    Presenter
    • Mihir Sanjiv Parikh, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentor
    • Michael Doherty, Neurology, Swedish Epilepsy Center

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #63
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Halogen Redox Chemistry at the Air-Sea Interface
    Presenter
    • Jing Ma, Junior, Exchange - Engineering
    Mentor
    • Michael Dodd, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #174
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Effects of Hyaluronan Hydrogels with Surface Nanostructures on Dental Pulp Stem Cell Regulation
    Presenter
    • Cameron Lee (Cameron) Nemeth, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Deok-Ho Kim, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #82
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Deactivation and Degradation of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Wastewater Disinfection Processes
    Presenter
    • Shu Li, Junior, Exchange - Engineering
    Mentor
    • Michael Dodd, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #173
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Photolysis Rate of Chlorine under Sunlight in Photochemically-Enhanced Disinfection
    Presenter
    • Quanxin (Nina) Mao, Senior, Civil Engineering
    Mentor
    • Michael Dodd, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #175
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Tidal Transport of PCBs in the Duwamish River
    Presenter
    • Hannah Kathleen (Hannah) Snow, Junior, Oceanography, Civil Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Michael Dodd, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #153
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites In Silico Evaluation of Flux Balance Analysis
    Presenter
    • Emily Lauren Yang, Senior, Bioengineering
    Mentor
    • Herbert Sauro, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #74
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Detection and Correction of Errors in Statistical Machine Translation Output for Translation of Public Health Materials
    Presenter
    • Adrian Andrew Laurenzi, Senior, Computer Science, Biology (General) Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Katrin Kirchhoff, Electrical Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #163
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Biological Collision Avoidance Algorithm
    Presenter
    • Katherine Midkiff, Freshman, Pre Engineering
    Mentors
    • Kristi Morgansen, Aeronautics & Astronautics
    • Beth Boardman, Aeronautics & Astronautics

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #165
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Fluorescent Detection and Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer Using 5-ala Induced PpIX and a Scanning Fiber Endoscope
    Presenter
    • Mikias Woldetensae, Freshman, Pre Engineering
    Mentors
    • Mark Kirshenbaum, Mechanical Engineering
    • Eric Seibel, Mechanical Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #170
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Integrity of Steel Gravity Framing Systems
    Presenter
    • Scott Martin Tetzlaff, Senior, Civil Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Jeffrey Berman, Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Jonathan Weigand, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #158
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Role of Hepatic Lipase in Obesity and Atherosclerosis
    Presenter
    • Lisa Phuong Anh (Lisa) Nguyen, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
    Mentor
    • Helen Dichek, Pediatrics

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #75
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Bacterial Warfare: The Effect of Environmental Disturbance on Antibiotic-Mediated r and K Selection
    Presenter
    • Jacob Bayless Da Costa, Senior, Microbiology
    Mentor
    • John Mittler, Microbiology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #47
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Association Between Functional Human Polymorphisms and Outcome Following Acute Ischemic Stroke
    Presenter
    • Hunter Phillips, Senior, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Jonathan Weinstein, Neurology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #48
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Evaluating Stacked Socks for Enhanced Socket Fit
    Presenter
    • Alan Jinsoo Yu, Sophomore, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentors
    • Joan Sanders, Bioengineering
    • John Cagle, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #72
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Effects of Physical Appearance and Perceived Gender on Prejudicial Attitudes towards Transpersons  
    Presenters
    • Katie Wilks, Senior, Psychology, Women's and Gender Studies, Pacific Lutheran University
    • Stacia Czichas, Senior, Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University
    Mentor
    • Michelle Ceynar, Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #119
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A UHV Microcalorimeter for Measuring Adsorption Energies of Catalytically Interesting Metals on Oxide Supports
    Presenter
    • Evan Nelson, Senior, Electrical Engineering, Chemistry
    Mentors
    • Charles Campbell, Chemistry
    • Trevor James, Chemistry
    • Jason Sellers, Chemistry

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #11
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Investigating the Reverse Water Gas Shift Mechanism on Platinum by Comparison to the Rate of Carbon Dioxide Dissociation
    Presenters
    • Hunter Sismaet, Senior, Chemistry (ACS Certified), Biochemistry
    • Timothy Andrew (Tim) Livingston Large, Senior, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry (ACS Certified)
    Mentors
    • Charles Campbell, Chemistry
    • Eric Karp, Chemical Engineering
    • James Lownsbury, Chemical Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #12
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Characterization of Gene Expression Changes in White Matter Following Ischemic Preconditioning
    Presenter
    • Samuel Wroe (Sam) Sussman, Senior, Neurobiology
    Mentor
    • Jonathan Weinstein, Neurology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #49
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Regression-Based Path Analysis of Deaf Literacy Using Event Related Potentials (ERPs)
    Presenter
    • Daron Michelle (Daron) Vandeleur, Senior, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Lee Osterhout, Psychology
    • Alison Mehravari, Neurobiology & Behavior, Psychology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #114
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Ink Jet Printing of Self-Assembled Maleic Chitosan Nanofibers
    Presenter
    • Simeiqi He, Junior, Exchange - Engineering
    Mentors
    • Marco Rolandi, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Hideki Sato, Materials Science & Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #168
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Characterizing YejM, an Enzyme Critical for the Salmonella PhoPQ-regulated Outer Membrane Permeability Barrier
    Presenter
    • Mauna Emilyn Borja (Mauna) Edrozo, Senior, Microbiology NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Samuel Miller, Genome Sciences, Immunology, Microbiology
    • Zachary Dalebroux, Microbiology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #38
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Older Adults’ Utilization of Technology and Their Perceptions of Ease  
    Presenter
    • Roselyn (Rosie) Peterson, Senior, Psychology, Spanish, Seattle University
    Mentor
    • Kathleen Cook, Psychology, Seattle University

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #112
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Study of the Dynamics and Thermodynamics of the Upper Atmospheric Regions (Southern Hemisphere)
    Presenter
    • Andre Stone, Freshman, Pre Engineering Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentor
    • Michael McCarthy, Earth & Space Sciences

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #131
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Modular Web Application for Virtual Machine Managment
    Presenter
    • D.C. Grant, Senior, Information Technology (Tacoma)
    Mentor
    • Sam Chung, Information Technology & Systems, UW Tacoma

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #176
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Effects of Climate Change on Establishment Rates and Altitudinal Advance on Two Treeline Conifers
    Presenter
    • David Scott (David) Thompson, Senior, Biology (General), Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Biology
    • Melanie Harsch, Biology
    • Kevin Ford, Biology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #27
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Effect of State of Residence on Health Measures in Nigeria
    Presenter
    • Chika Okeoma (Chika) Ugwoaba, Senior, Sociology
    Mentors
    • Daniel Chirot, Jackson School of International Studies, Sociology
    • Lowell Hargens, Sociology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #97
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Foraminiferal Diversity in Port Madison, Washington
    Presenter
    • Darcy Anne (Darcy) Jamieson, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences (Biology)
    Mentors
    • Elizabeth Nesbitt, Earth & Space Sciences
    • Ruth Martin, Earth & Space Sciences

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #140
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Documenting Environment Shifts in Puget Sound Using Benthic Foraminifera
    Presenter
    • Robert James (Rob) Tomlinson, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences
    Mentors
    • Elizabeth Nesbitt, Earth & Space Sciences
    • Ruth Martin, Earth & Space Sciences

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #141
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Viral Mechanisms Responsible for Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus-Induced Angiogenesis and Blood to Lymphatic Endothelial Cell Reprogramming
    Presenter
    • Cristina Jean (Cristina) Wittkopp, Fifth Year, Postbaccalaureate Study
    Mentor
    • Michael Lagunoff, Microbiology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #64
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Companion Ratings of Emotions, Quality of Life, and Cognitive Functioning in Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Androgen Deprivation Therapy: The View from the Other Side
    Presenter
    • Alice Emily (Alice) Tattersall, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Monique Cherrier, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Psychology

    Poster Session 2
  • Balcony
  • Easel #120
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Dietary Data Recorder System
    Presenter
    • Eric Philip (Eric) Pepin, Senior, Electrical Engineering Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Alexander Mamishev, Electrical Engineering
    • Junqing Shang, Electrical Engineering

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #154
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Birth, Death, and Replacement of Karyopherins in Drosophila
    Presenter
    • Emily Hsieh, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Harmit Malik, Genome Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    • Nitin Phadnis, , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #30
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Role of Atg13 in Autophagy
    Presenter
    • Tiffany Wu, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Hannah Chapin, Biochemistry
    • Alexey Merz, Biochemistry

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #77
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Evaluating the Effects of Environmental Factors on the Decline of Quaking Aspen, Populous tremuloides, in Lassen Volcanic National Park
    Presenter
    • Hannah Rebecca (Hannah) Blackstock, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
    Mentors
    • Joshua Lawler, Environmental Science
    • Gordon Bradley, Environmental & Forest Sciences

    Poster Session 2
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #152
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Determining the Light Curves of SX Phe Variables
    Presenter
    • Kathryn Steakley, Senior, Physics, Astronomy
    Mentor
    • Chris Laws, Astronomy

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #13
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Are Transposable Elements Driving the Rapid Evolution of Essential Developmental Regulators? 
    Presenter
    • Kiana Mohajeri, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Harmit Malik, Genome Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    • Mia Levine, Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #29
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Neural Induction and Retinal Maturation of hESC and RiPSC
    Presenter
    • Alan Beem, Senior, Neurobiology, Economics Amgen Scholar
    Mentor
    • Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Biochemistry, Biology, Genome Sciences

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #76
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Regulation of Replication in Rhesus Rhadinovirus (RRV), a Herpesvirus of Macaques
    Presenter
    • Melanie Jean (Melanie) Overman, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Laura DeMaster, Pathobiology, Seattle Children's Research Institute
    • Timothy Rose, Pediatrics

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons East
  • Easel #53
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Taxonomic Diversity of Oligo-Miocene Gophers (Mammalia: Rodentia: Geomyidae: Entoptychinae) using Geometric Morphometrics
    Presenter
    • Jennifer Glusman, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
    Mentors
    • Gregory Wilson Mantilla, Biology
    • Jonathan Calede, Biology

    Poster Session 2
  • Commons West
  • Easel #31
  • 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

  • Oral Presentation 2

    3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites Born in Unincorporated America: Citizenship and Nationality in Territorial Philippines and Puerto Rico
    Presenter
    • Jacqueline (Jacqueline Wu) Wu, Junior, Chemistry
    Mentor
    • Moon-Ho Jung, History

    Session 2A: Cultural Narratives
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Worth the Weight: Heavy Asian-Americans are Seen as More American
    Presenter
    • Caitlin Handron, Recent Graduate, Psychology, Italian Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentors
    • Sapna Cheryan, Psychology
    • Jennifer Wang, Psychology

    Session 2A: Cultural Narratives
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Strengthening the Capacity of the Seattle Vietnamese Community
    Presenters
    • Khiemton (Ton) Nguyen, Senior, Biology (Bothell Campus)
    • Trang Ha Le, Senior, Biochemistry, Psychology
    • Amy Quang Van, Senior, International Studies
    • Chi Dinh (Chi) Hoang, Senior, Sociology
    • Khoi Thien Nguyen, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    • Michelle Tran, Senior, Psychology
    • Francis Tran
    • Anh Doan
    • Tony Thai Bao (Tony) Vo, Senior, Individualized Studies, American Ethnic Studies
    • Vivian Dao, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
    • Minh Phuc H Nguyen, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
    Mentors
    • James Hong, , Vietnamese Friendship Association
    • Dieu-Hien Hoang, Nursing (Tacoma Campus)

    Session 2A: Cultural Narratives
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites Adoption, Adaptation, and Attachment: Narrating the Trans-Racial and Trans-National Ecology of Ethiopian Adoption Through Lived Experience
    Presenter
    • Ryan Michael (Ryan) Sharnbroich, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Public Health-Global Health Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Rachel Chapman, Anthropology

    Session 2A: Cultural Narratives
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Story of a Seattle's Chinese American Family in the 1900s
    Presenters
    • Gengwu (Edward) Wang, Junior, Exchange - Engineering
    • Zhe (Alice) Fan, Junior, Exchange - Arts & Sciences
    • Anbang (James) Dai, Junior, Exchange - Arts & Sciences
    Mentor
    • Stevan Harrell, Anthropology

    Session 2A: Cultural Narratives
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Polymorphisms in the Human CD1A Promoter are Associated with CD1A-Deficiency
    Presenter
    • Meera Kerki (Meera) Shenoy, Junior, Microbiology
    Mentors
    • Thomas Hawn, Medicine
    • Chetan Seshadri, Medicine

    Session 2B: Host and Pathogens
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites New Facets of the Type VI Secretion System
    Presenter
    • Justin de Leon, Senior, Microbiology Howard Hughes Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Joseph Mougous, Microbiology
    • Alistair Russell, Microbiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    • Michele LeRoux, Microbiology, Molecular & Cellular Biology

    Session 2B: Host and Pathogens
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing of Pseudomonas Isolates from Cystic Fibrosis Airways Indicate a Lack of Correlation Between Experimental Resistance and Actual Resistance During Clinical Therapy
    Presenter
    • Lisa Andersen, Senior, Microbiology
    Mentors
    • Pradeep Singh, Microbiology
    • Benjamin Staudinger, Medicine

    Session 2B: Host and Pathogens
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Characterization of Viral Populations in HIV Late Progressors
    Presenter
    • Ross Stuart (Ross) Milne, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • James Mullins, Microbiology
    • Suvankar Ghorai, Microbiology

    Session 2B: Host and Pathogens
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Evolutionary Arms Race: A Possible Case for Convergent Evolution and Structural Mimicry at the Interface Between a Viral Factor and Host Factor
    Presenter
    • Aaron Scott (Aaron) Zomback, Junior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Matthew Daugherty, , Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    • Harmit Malik, Genome Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

    Session 2B: Host and Pathogens
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Mutation in cagY Gene Causes Loss of Function in Type IV Secretion System of Helicobacter pylori
    Presenter
    • Abigail Anne Tangalan (Abigail) Mazon, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Nina Salama, Microbiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    • Ilana Cohen, Human Biology, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

    Session 2B: Host and Pathogens
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites New Roles for Women Emerging in Uttarakhand: Identifying Changes Brought by Business Processing Outsourcing Centers
    Presenters
    • Heather Campbell, Senior, International Studies
    • Ashley Bullock, Senior, International Studies
    • Celina Kareiva, Senior, Communication (Journalism)
    Mentor
    • Keith Goyden, Jackson School of International Studies

    Session 2C: Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century Global World
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites Militant or Fearful?: An Exploration of Debates & Tactics in Early Queer Rights Organizations
    Presenter
    • Rosemary (Rose) Lioy, Senior, History, Pacific Lutheran University
    Mentor
    • Beth Kraig, History, Pacific Lutheran University

    Session 2C: Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century Global World
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Right to Recover their Roots: Women, Memory and Identity in Postdictatorship Argentina and Chile
    Presenter
    • Mahala Katherine (Mahala) Lettvin, Senior, American Studies (Bothell)
    Mentor
    • Julie Shayne, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus)

    Session 2C: Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century Global World
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Select Stories of Queer Women in Southwest China: Making Difficult Decisions in a Traditional Society
    Presenter
    • Patricia (Patti) Tietgens, Senior, Comparative History of Ideas
    Mentor
    • Stevan Harrell, Anthropology

    Session 2C: Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century Global World
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Comprehensive Photo Mosaicking of a Deep Sea Vent Field
    Presenter
    • Casey Keegan (Casey) Hearn, Senior, Oceanography Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Harlan Paul Johnson, Oceanography

    Session 2D: Plastics to Plants to Teeth: Reading Earth's History
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Characterizing Freight Flows
    Presenter
    • Andrea Jeanne (Andrea) Gagliano, Senior, Business Administration (Finance), Mathematics
    Mentor
    • Anne Goodchild, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Session 2F: Future Flows: Systems Improvement for a More Sustainable World
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites Wastewater Treatment Systems in the Puget Sound Area: An Analysis of Economic Fairness and Equity
    Presenter
    • Domenico (Nico) Martinucci, Senior, Sociology, Community, Environment, & Planning
    Mentors
    • Christopher Campbell, Community & Environmental Planning
    • Daniele Spirandelli, Urban Design & Planning

    Session 2F: Future Flows: Systems Improvement for a More Sustainable World
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Fietsen First: Transferring Dutch Bicycle Infrastructure Design to Critical Seattle Intersections
    Presenters
    • Amy Catherine (Amy) Taylor, Senior, Community, Environment, & Planning, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
    • Drew Collins, Senior, Environmental Studies, Community, Environment, & Planning
    Mentor
    • Christopher Campbell, Urban Design & Planning

    Session 2F: Future Flows: Systems Improvement for a More Sustainable World
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Through the Eyes of the Mongoose: The Intent of Audience
    Presenter
    • Jon T (Jon) Volkman, Senior, Comparative History of Ideas, English
    Mentor
    • Michelle Liu, English

    Session 2G: Radical Movements from Cicero to Banassi, Wagner to the Ghanaian Concert Party
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Disrupting Power and Gaze: A Rhetorical Analysis of "No Matter What You Do"
    Presenter
    • Paige Joki, Sophomore, Gender Studies, Rhetoric Studies, Whitman College
    Mentor
    • Jim Hanson, Communication, Whitman College

    Session 2G: Radical Movements from Cicero to Banassi, Wagner to the Ghanaian Concert Party
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites Circles within Circles: George Herbert’s Poems around Poems, ad infinitum  
    Presenter
    • Sarah Pitman, Senior, English
    Mentor
    • Jeffrey Knight, English

    Session 2G: Radical Movements from Cicero to Banassi, Wagner to the Ghanaian Concert Party
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Application of the Q-sort Method in Assessing Non-Human Primate Temperament
    Presenter
    • Spencer Burnett, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
    Mentor
    • James Ha, Psychology

    Session 2H: Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Bilingual Brain Shaping: Mental Set Shifting and the Bilingual Brain 
    Presenter
    • Brianna Yamasaki, Senior, Psychology
    Mentor
    • Chantel Prat, Psychology

    Session 2H: Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Computational Photography for Greater Accessibility
    Presenter
    • Josh Scotland, Senior, Computer Science, Business Administration Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
    Mentor
    • Richard Ladner, Computer Science & Engineering

    Session 2I: Data Analysis and Computation Improve Daily Life
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Using Computing Tools to Enhance Online Instruction
    Presenter
    • Mitchell Erickson, Fifth Year, Computing & Software Systems, UW Bothell
    Mentor
    • Mark Kochanski, Computing & Software Systems, UW Bothell

    Session 2I: Data Analysis and Computation Improve Daily Life
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites Energy Saving Butler
    Presenters
    • Justin Brown, Junior, Extended Pre-Engineering
    • Austin Christopher Briggs, Junior, Pre Engineering
    • Tariq Yusuf, Junior, Extended Pre-Major
    • Antonius (Denny) Harijanto, Junior, Computer Engineering
    • Jun Sang Yoo, Sophomore, Chemistry
    • Robert Paul (Robert) Vienneau, Senior, Electrical Engineering
    Mentor
    • Daniel Kirschen, Electrical Engineering

    Session 2I: Data Analysis and Computation Improve Daily Life
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Water Structuring at Interfaces: The Effects of Temperature Change on the Size of the Exclusion Zone
    Presenter
    • Manal Jmaileh, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Physiology) Howard Hughes Scholar
    Mentor
    • Gerald H. Pollack, Bioengineering

    Session 2J: Surfaces, Interfaces, and Solar Cells
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Effect of Silane Treatments on the Surface Properties of Silica
    Presenter
    • David S (David) Bergsman, Senior, Chemical Engineering Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentor
    • John Berg, Chemical Engineering

    Session 2J: Surfaces, Interfaces, and Solar Cells
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Ultrafine Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Encapsulated by a Multilayer Polymer Coating to Achieve Long-term Stability in Biological Media
    Presenter
    • Yong (Young) Yang, Freshman, Exchange - Arts & Sciences
    Mentors
    • Miqin Zhang, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Zachary Stephen, Materials Science & Engineering

    Session 2J: Surfaces, Interfaces, and Solar Cells
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Auger De-excitation in Mn Doped CdS Quantum Dots for Improved Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells 
    Presenter
    • Emily Kristine (Emily) Chavez, Senior, Physics
    Mentors
    • David Ginger, Chemistry
    • Jennifer Chen, Chemistry

    Session 2J: Surfaces, Interfaces, and Solar Cells
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Design and Synthesis of Specific Inhibitors for Cytosolic Phospholipase A2 α and ζ
    Presenter
    • Matthew McLean (Matt) Sonnett, Junior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Michael Gelb, Chemistry, Univ of washington

    Session 2K: Pushing the Boundaries of Molecular Engineering
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Guest Host Interactions in Dyed Polymers Probed by Single Molecule Fluorescence
    Presenter
    • Jan (Jan Rey) Pioquinto, Senior, Chemistry (ACS Certified)
    Mentors
    • Philip Reid, Chemistry
    • Erin Riley, Chemistry

    Session 2K: Pushing the Boundaries of Molecular Engineering
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Using Carbohydrate-Targeting Copolymers for Drug Targeting
    Presenter
    • Danee Hidano, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Daniel Ratner, Bioengineering
    • Eun-Ho Song, Bioengineering

    Session 2K: Pushing the Boundaries of Molecular Engineering
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Can the Retention Rate for First-Generation, Low-Income College Students Improve by Changing the Way the Universities Teach Them?
    Presenter
    • Lisa Golding, Senior, BADM/Marketing, Heritage College McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Kathleen Ross, Communication, Heritage University

    Session 2L: McNair Session - Access and Technology
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites Social Network Index and Life Outlook: Examination of Demoralization, Life Satisfaction, and Depression in College Students
    Presenter
    • Ronald Thomas, Senior, Psychology, University of North Texas McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Sharon Rae Jenkins, Psychology

    Session 2L: McNair Session - Access and Technology
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Relationship of Young's Modulus to Porosity in 3DP Stoneware Ceramic: A Complete Analysis
    Presenter
    • Alexandra Patricia Kanoelehua (Alex) Gramling, Senior, Mechanical Engineering McNair Scholar
    Mentors
    • Mark Ganter, Mechanical Engineering
    • Grant Marchelli, Mechanical Engineering

    Session 2L: McNair Session - Access and Technology
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Factor Analysis of Martian Infrared Spectra: A Method for Analysis of Complex Datasets
    Presenter
    • Nancy Helen (Nancy) Thomas, Junior, Astronomy, Physics Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentor
    • Joshua Bandfield, Earth & Space Sciences

    Session 2M: Modern Quantitative Methods for Real World Problems
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites The Ihara Zeta Function on Graphs
    Presenter
    • Elizabeth Landicho (Elizabeth) Wicks, Senior, Mathematics (Comprehensive), Physics Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Ralph Greenberg, Mathematics

    Session 2M: Modern Quantitative Methods for Real World Problems
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Humans Versus Pigeons: The Monty Hall Dilemma with Uneven Probabilities
    Presenter
    • Shanglun (Shawn) Wang, Junior, Economics-Math, Psychology, Whitman College
    Mentor
    • Walter Herbranson, Psychology, Whitman College

    Session 2M: Modern Quantitative Methods for Real World Problems
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Healthcare Accessibility in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Hmong Community
    Presenter
    • Chia Lee, Junior, Geography, GIS, University of St. Thomas McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • P. Lorah, Geography, University of St. Thomas

    Session 2N: McNair Session - Promoting Health, Education and Empowerment in a Diverse and Changing World
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Understanding Dietary Restriction as a Mechanistic Pathway of Longevity
    Presenter
    • Heather Lindsay (Heather) Schneider, Senior, Biology (General)
    Mentors
    • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
    • Lara Shamieh, Pathology, Regis University

    Session 2O: Aging and Neurodegeneration
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Epigenetic Gambling through Variegation of Gene Expression in Human Fibroblast Cells
    Presenter
    • Alexander (Alex) Cypro, Senior, Neurobiology
    Mentor
    • Junko Oshima, Pathology

    Session 2O: Aging and Neurodegeneration
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Genome-Wide High-Throughput Analysis of the Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response in C. elegans
    Presenters
    • Marissa Margaret (Marissa) Simko, Junior, Extended Pre-Major, Pre-Nursing
    • Shannon Melissa Klum, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
    • Lara Shamieh, Pathology, Regis University

    Session 2O: Aging and Neurodegeneration
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites External Debt Level and Exchange Rate Regime: Correlations, Implications, and Policies
    Presenter
    • Xueqing (Martina) Ji, Senior, Economics
    Mentor
    • Michelle Turnovsky, Economics

    Session 2P: Business in a Dynamic Environment
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Leveraging Brand Heritage
    Presenter
    • William (Billy) Kilmer, Junior, Business Administration (Marketing), UW Tacoma
    Mentor
    • Altaf Merchant, Business Administration (Tacoma Campus)

    Session 2P: Business in a Dynamic Environment
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Conceptualizing Brand Heritage
    Presenter
    • Michael Lockwood, Senior, Business Administration, UW Tacoma
    Mentor
    • Altaf Merchant, Business Administration (Tacoma Campus)

    Session 2P: Business in a Dynamic Environment
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Real Options Approach to the Economics of Uranium Enrichment
    Presenter
    • William Glenn (William) Ray, Senior, Economics, Mathematics Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentor
    • Levis Kochin, Economics

    Session 2P: Business in a Dynamic Environment
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Attenuation of the Fish Pathogen Francisella noatunensis by Mutation of the Pathogenicity Island Gene pdpA
    Presenter
    • Karina Gretta (Karina) Ray, Senior, Microbiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • John Hansen, Global Health

    Session 2Q: Organisms in the Ocean
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Ecology of Marine Viruses: Characterizing Viruses that Infect Pseudo-nitzschia
    Presenter
    • Nicolette Danielle (Nicolette) McCary, Junior, Oceanography Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Gabrielle Rocap, Oceanography
    • Michael Carlson, Oceanography

    Session 2Q: Organisms in the Ocean
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Effects of Ocean pH on Early Larval Survivorship and Behavioral Development of Lingcod (Ophiodon elongates)
    Presenters
    • Erin Nicole (Erin) Tomaras, Senior, Environmental Studies
    • Alyson Elisabeth Edholm Rae, Senior, Business Administration (Finance), Environmental Studies
    Mentors
    • Jonathan Reum, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
    • P. Sean McDonald, Program on the Environment
    • Terrie Klinger, Marine Affairs

    Session 2Q: Organisms in the Ocean
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Determining the Presence of Anammox Bacteria Through the Water Column in Eastern Tropical North Pacific
    Presenter
    • Ann Eleanor (Annie) Thomson, Senior, Oceanography
    Mentors
    • Michael Carlson, Oceanography
    • Rick Keil, Oceanography

    Session 2Q: Organisms in the Ocean
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Experimental Evolution of a Synthetic Yeast Cooperative System
    Presenter
    • Jose Mario Bello (Jose) Pineda, Junior, Neurobiology, Mathematics Howard Hughes Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentor
    • Wenying Shou, Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

    Session 2S: Complexity and Evolution of Biological Systems
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites Genetic Variation among Iterations and Species of Algae
    Presenter
    • Hannah Roberts, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
    Mentors
    • Rose Ann Cattolico, Biology
    • Chloe Deodato, Biology

    Session 2S: Complexity and Evolution of Biological Systems
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Mutational Changes in an RLINE Retrotransposon Accompanying Evolution
    Presenter
    • Shambhavi Gautam, Senior, Biology (General)
    Mentors
    • Benjamin Hall, Biology
    • Dale Lindsley, Biology
    • Michelle Stitzer, Biology

    Session 2S: Complexity and Evolution of Biological Systems
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Importance of Visually Mediated Abdominal Motion for Flight Stability in Manduca sexta
    Presenter
    • David Julio Colmenares, Senior, Computer Engineering, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Tom Daniel, Biology
    • Jonathan Dyhr, Biology

    Session 2S: Complexity and Evolution of Biological Systems
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites Effects of Music on Cortisol
    Presenter
    • Mariah Aurora (Mariah) Bell-Stuart, Junior, Anthropology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Kathleen O'Connor, Anthropology

    Session 2T: Stress Responses In Vivo and In Vitro
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Add to my favorites How do Crows Perceive Danger? A PET Study of the Crow Brain
    Presenter
    • Ila Irene Palmquist, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management (Wildlife Conservation) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • John Marzluff, Environmental & Forest Sciences

    Session 2T: Stress Responses In Vivo and In Vitro
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

    Add to my favorites Dopamine Releasing Brain Stimulation and Its Role in Movement Recovery Following Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
    Presenter
    • Eric Steven (Eric) Secrist, Senior, Biology (Physiology) Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Chet Moritz, Physiology & Biophysics, Rehabilitation Medicine
    • Michael Kasten, Rehabilitation Medicine

    Session 2T: Stress Responses In Vivo and In Vitro
  • 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

  • Poster Presentation 3

    4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Seasonal Variation in Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina concolor) Fish Prey in Great Bay, New Jersey
    Presenter
    • Alexandra Ulmke, Senior, Environmental Studies Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Jackie Toth, Marine Biology, Rutgers university
    • Kenneth Able, , Rutgers University

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #131
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Investigation of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging (DWI) for Discriminating Benign and Malignant Breast Lesions
    Presenter
    • Peixian Liu, Senior, Bioengineering
    Mentor
    • Savannah Partridge, Radiology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #165
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Measuring Occurrence of Iodinated Disinfection Byproducts (I-DBPs) in Treated Drinking Water
    Presenters
    • Iris Yutaka Davies, Senior, Environmental Health
    • Nazila Shakibaei, Senior, Environmental Health Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
    Mentor
    • Gretchen Onstad, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #101
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Origin Determination of an Unknown Specimen of the Genus Heuchera
    Presenter
    • Benjamin Meersman, Sophomore, Biology, Sccc Inactive Code
    Mentor
    • Richard Olmstead, Biology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #146
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Phylogenetic Analysis of the Sesame Family
    Presenter
    • Christine Gormley, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Richard Olmstead, Biology
    • Patricia Lu-Irving, Biology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #145
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Rugged Landscapes
    Presenter
    • Brittany Noelle Harding, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Benjamin Kerr, Biology
    • Joshua Nahum, Biology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #137
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Potential of a Novel HDAC 3-Specific Inhibitor, MI-192, for Stroke
    Presenter
    • Adheip Mally, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Sean Murphy, Neurological Surgery

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #123
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Confocal Analysis of the Effects of Progesterone and Allopregnanolone on Neurogenesis Following Cerebral Ischemia in Mice
    Presenter
    • Joon Kyung (Joon) Kim, Senior, Neurobiology, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Sean Murphy, Neurological Surgery

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #122
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Applying Electric Vehicle Infrastructure to the Greenroads Rating System
    Presenter
    • Andrew Sahl, Junior, Civil Engineering
    Mentors
    • Steve Muench, Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Jeralee Anderson, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #71
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Characterizing Metabolic Respiration in Response to Inducible Fission and Fusion Proteins
    Presenter
    • Camille Caroline (Camille) Guzzi, Senior, Biology (Physiology) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Richard Morrison, Neurological Surgery
    • Takuma Uo, Neurological Surgery

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #120
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Pressure for Academic Success and Perfection: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between U.S. and Korean College Students
    Presenters
    • Hyun Jung (Helen) Lee, Senior, Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University
    • Machiko Mochimaru, Senior, Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University
    Mentors
    • Teru Toyokawa, Psychology, California State University San Marcos
    • Christine Moon, Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #97
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Role of Dopamine in Place Cell Activity and Spatial Memory
    Presenter
    • Thomas James (Tom) Coleman, Senior, Psychology
    Mentors
    • Sheri Mizumori, Psychology
    • Marsha Penner, Psychology

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #93
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Receptor for Advanced Glycation-End Products and Calcification of Bovine Valve Interstitial Cells
    Presenter
    • Minh-Thy (Krisla) Nguyen, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Yanfeng (Mei) Speer, Bioengineering
    • Stephanie Miller, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #173
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Role of FLT3 Transcript Variants in Childhood AML
    Presenter
    • Shereen Khorami, Senior, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Soheil Meshinchi, Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #125
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Increased Heart Contraction and Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Activity due to Increased 2-deoxy-ATP
    Presenter
    • Jacqueline Nicole (Jacqueline) Robinson-Hamm, Junior, Bioengineering
    Mentor
    • Michael Regnier, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #161
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Role of Id1/3 Transcription Factors in Müller Glial Development
    Presenter
    • Kristen Elizabeth (Kristen) Cox, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Thomas Reh, Biological Structure
    • Yumi Ueki, Biological Structure
    • Russell Taylor, Biological Structure
    • Anna La Torre, Biological Structure

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #127
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Modeling a Detector for X-Rays Emitted By Charged Particles in Earth's Upper Atmosphere
    Presenter
    • Amanda Rugg, Sophomore, Chemical Engineering NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentor
    • Michael McCarthy, Earth & Space Sciences

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #4
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites p-type Doping of Zinc Oxide Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots
    Presenter
    • Ryan Joel (Ryan) McMorris, Junior, Chemical Engineering NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Xiaosong Li, Chemistry
    • Joseph May, Chemistry

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #24
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Epitope Mapping of Tpr C in Syphilis
    Presenter
    • Janelle Margret Deane, Senior, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, Biology (General) EIP Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Sheila Lukehart, Medicine

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #124
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Coding a Python Program to Triangulate the Location of Subsurface Moorings
    Presenter
    • Amit Burstein, Sophomore, Pre Engineering
    Mentor
    • Ren-Chieh Lien, Applied Physics Laboratory

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #76
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Optimization of the Microstructure of Lithium Battery Cathodes 
    Presenters
    • Becky Hernacki, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Galib Mirza, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
    Mentors
    • Raj Bordia, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Aaron Lichtner, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Haixia Shang, Materials Science & Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #81
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Sterically Controlled Self-Assembly of Silver Nanoparticles
    Presenter
    • Heather Loraine (Heather) Milligan, Senior, Bioresource Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering
    Mentors
    • Lilo Pozzo, Chemical Engineering
    • Kjersta Larson-Smith, Chemical Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #48
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Effect of OPRM1 and COMT Gene Polymorphisms on the Analgesic Effect of Intrathecal Fentanyl during Labor Analgesia
    Presenter
    • Rebecca De Frates, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
    Mentor
    • Ruth Landau, Anesthesiology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #163
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Analysis of the Role of Mast Cells and Basophils in Sepsis  
    Presenter
    • Anthony Sumin Kim, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Adrian Piliponsky, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute
    • Asha Lahiri, Immunology, Seattle Children's Research Institute

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #107
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites MicroRNAs Encoded by an Oncogenic Virus Promote Angiogenesis
    Presenter
    • Sreetha Sidharthan, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentor
    • Michael Lagunoff, Microbiology

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #104
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Influences of Salinity on Lipid Distributions of Mangroves Used in Paleoclimate Reconstructions
    Presenter
    • Tory Johnson, Senior, Environmental Studies
    Mentors
    • Nemiah Ladd, Oceanography
    • Julian Sachs, Oceanography

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #7
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Evaluating the Environmental Influences on D/H Fractionation in Algal Lipids
    Presenter
    • Johnny Huynh, Junior, Oceanography
    Mentor
    • Julian Sachs, Oceanography

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #28
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Characterizing the Motions of Macromolecules in E. Coli
    Presenter
    • Harry Chul Ho (Harry) Kim, Senior, Mathematics, Physics Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Paul Wiggins, Physics
    • Nathan Kuwada, Physics

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #54
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Probing F-pilus Dynamics and Function, One Cell at a Time
    Presenter
    • Scot Ephraim McBride, Senior, Physics
    Mentors
    • Paul Wiggins, Physics
    • Nathan Kuwada, Physics

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #55
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites When Nature Wins: The Ecological History of the Monte Cristo Mineral Mines
    Presenter
    • Andrew Eldon (Andrew) Stacey, Senior, Environmental Science, UW Tacoma
    Mentor
    • Michael Kucher, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #3
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Increase of Bacteria Due to Civilization on Vashon Island
    Presenter
    • Beatrice Marcia Diep, Senior, Environmental Science, UW Tacoma
    Mentor
    • Michael Kucher, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #1
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Sleep Irregularities in Infants at High Risk for Autism
    Presenter
    • Samuel Lee, Senior, Individualized Studies
    Mentors
    • Sara Jane Webb, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Seattle Children's Research Institute
    • Rachel Kincade, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #92
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Engaging Students in Thermodynamics: Integrating Scientific Literature with Weekly Homework Set  
    Presenter
    • Caitlin Bannan, Senior, Chemistry NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentor
    • Munira Khalil, Chemistry

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #53
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Using Copper to Reduce Microbial Contamination in Drinking Water
    Presenter
    • Susan Azadi, Junior, Microbiology, Environmental & Occupational Health, North Seattle College
    Mentor
    • Suzanne Schlador, Microbiology, North Seattle Community College

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #150
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Impact of Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 on Primary Liver Cancers
    Presenter
    • Rebecca Lynn (Rebecca) McIntyre, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Raymond Yeung, Surgery
    • Heidi Kenerson, Surgery

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #118
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Role of Nonspecific Interactions in Protein Folding by Chaperones: Model-Based Bioinformatics
    Presenter
    • Wenjun Huang, Senior, Chemical Engineering
    Mentors
    • Shaoyi Jiang, Aerospace Studies, Chemical Engineering
    • Andrew White, Chemical Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #72
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Synthesis and Characterization of New N-type Organic Semiconductors for Photovoltaic Applications
    Presenter
    • Emily Carol (Emily) Hollenbeck, Senior, Chemical Engineering NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentor
    • Samson A. Jenekhe, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #75
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Variations in Diabetic Outcome Measures Among Recent Immigrants/Refugees across Language Groups at an International Clinic
    Presenter
    • Anh Tran, Senior, Biochemistry, Environmental Health
    Mentors
    • Xiaoxue Huang, Medicine, Harborview Medical Center
    • Tracy Boyd, , Harborview Medical Center
    • Jonathan Carey Jackson, Medicine

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #129
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Power Evolution of Lightning in Oceanic Thunderstorms
    Presenter
    • Benjamin (Ben) King, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentor
    • Robert Holzworth, Earth & Space Sciences

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #12
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Gonococcal Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in Seattle, Washington
    Presenter
    • Cassandra Lee (Cassandra) Czarnetzke, Senior, Biology (General)
    Mentors
    • Olusegun Soge, Global Health
    • King Holmes, Global Health

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #111
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Potential Non-Invasive Diagnosis for Alzheimer’s Disease: Visualizing Supranuclear Cataracts with Optical Coherence Tomography
    Presenter
    • Sen (Samson) Lu, Senior, Applied Music (String Instruments), Bioengineering
    Mentor
    • Tueng Shen, Bioengineering, Ophthalmology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #170
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine Transmission During Multi-Option Decision-Making
    Presenters
    • Kevin Dofredo, Senior, Psychology
    • Kaija Linnea Reinelt, Sophomore, Pre-Major (Arts & Sciences)
    Mentors
    • Paul Phillips, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
    • Monica Arnold, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
    • Nick Hollon, Neurobiology & Behavior

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #114
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Methods for Identification of Bottlenecks in Non-Viral Gene Delivery for Gene Therapy
    Presenter
    • Brian Chou, Senior, Bioengineering, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Suzie Pun, Bioengineering
    • Julie Shi, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #168
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites A Role of P120 in Regulating Adhesion in Single-Cell Embryo in Vivo
    Presenter
    • Yue Xiang, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Howard Hughes Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Merrill Hille, Biology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #143
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Rho-family GTPase Cdc42 and Rac Interactions with p120 Catenin During Gastrulation
    Presenter
    • Abhay Knickerbocker, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentor
    • Merrill Hille, Biology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #141
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites P120 Catenin and RhoA GTPase Interactions During Early Gastrulation in Zebrafish
    Presenter
    • Maya Sangesland, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Howard Hughes Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, McNair Scholar
    Mentor
    • Merrill Hille, Biology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #142
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Botulinum Toxin in Masticatory Muscle: Short and Long-Term Consequences of Neuromuscular Blockage
    Presenter
    • Andrew (Andy) Keith, Senior, Mathematics
    Mentors
    • Zi-Jun (Zee) Liu, Orthodontics
    • Susan Herring, Orthodontics

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #130
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Carbon-13 as a Method to Label and Track Exogenously Delivered Therapeutic Macrophages to Mice Hearts
    Presenter
    • Laura Asbe, Senior, Bioengineering
    Mentors
    • April Stempien-Otero, Medicine
    • Signe Carlson, Medicine
    • Deri Helterline, Medicine

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #108
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Searching for Stellar Flares with Kepler Data
    Presenter
    • Tiffany Lin, Freshman, Pre Engineering
    Mentors
    • Suzanne Hawley, Astronomy
    • James Davenport, Astronomy

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #64
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Social Mobility Narratives of Rural Migrants in Shanghai
    Presenter
    • Kaitlin Banfill, Senior, Anthropology
    Mentor
    • Stevan Harrell, Anthropology

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #32
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Improving Maternal and Neonatal Care in the Context of Political Instability in Côte d'Ivoire
    Presenter
    • Rachel Beck, Junior, International Studies
    Mentor
    • Matthew Sparke, Geography, Global Health, Jackson School of International Studies, UCSC

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #100
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Problem of the Declining Female Birthrate in India: The Examination of India’s Sex Ratios & the Devaluation of Women
    Presenter
    • Varinderjit (Varinder) Kaur, Senior, Sociology
    Mentor
    • Lowell Hargens, Sociology

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #41
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Does Winning Make you Smarter?: The Effect of College Athletic Team Success on Student Academic Success
    Presenter
    • Eric Guttorp, Senior, Scandinavian Area Studies, Sociology
    Mentors
    • Lowell Hargens, Sociology
    • Joe Weis, Sociology

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #42
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Investigating the Role of CB1 Loss in Huntington's Disease
    Presenter
    • Jenny Zhou, Senior, Neurobiology, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Nephi Stella, Pharmacology
    • Alipi Naydenov, Neurobiology & Behavior

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #110
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Chlorotoxin Labeled Magnetic Nanoparticles for Delivery of O6-Benzylguanine Specifically to Brain Tumors
    Presenter
    • Jack Forrest Phillips, Junior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Miqin Zhang, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Zachary Stephen, Materials Science & Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #84
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Deconstructing the Asian Pacific Islander Category: Variation in Academic Achievement
    Presenter
    • Matthew Jonathan (Matt) Vaeena, Senior, Sociology
    Mentor
    • Lowell Hargens, Sociology

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #38
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Funding for Justice: Does Categorical Grant Funding affect Sentencing Outcomes in Juvenile Justice?
    Presenter
    • Molly Maeson (Molly) Rolstad, Senior, Sociology
    Mentor
    • Lowell Hargens, Sociology

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #39
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Seattle Community Court: Determinants and Disparities Amongst the Homeless and the Chemically Dependant
    Presenter
    • Jayleen Bowman, Senior, Sociology
    Mentor
    • Lowell Hargens, Sociology

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #43
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Do Income Inequality and Poverty Levels Affect States’ Incarceration Rates?
    Presenter
    • Rachel Anne (Reis) Reis, Senior, Sociology
    Mentor
    • Lowell Hargens, Sociology

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #40
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Algal Lipid Body Dynamics: A New Model Organism
    Presenter
    • Jonathan Nguyen (Jon) Dong, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
    Mentors
    • Rose Ann Cattolico, Biology
    • William Hardin, Biology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #149
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Characterizing Pathogenic B Cells that Cause Autoimmune Diabetes
    Presenter
    • Klondy Canales, Junior, Extended Pre-Major
    Mentor
    • Abdel Hamad, Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #106
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Rock Deformation due to Diurnal Variation of Insolation
    Presenter
    • Kathleen Moore, Junior, Computer Engineering NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein, Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Bernard Hallet, Earth & Space Sciences
    • Jian Shi, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #44
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Evolutionary Pattern of Cassandra Element Transposition
    Presenter
    • David Dong Uk (David) Shin, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Benjamin Hall, Biology
    • Michelle Stitzer, Biology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #134
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Effects of Amino Acid Sequence on the Structural Integrity of the Helix Shape of Escherichia coli Fimbriae
    Presenter
    • Julia Kim (Julia) Doh, Senior, Microbiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Wendy Thomas, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #172
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Construction of a Diode Laser for Photoassociation Spectroscopy of Lithium and Ytterbium
    Presenter
    • Benjamin Lowell (Ben) Schwyn, Senior, Physics Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Subhadeep Gupta, Physics

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #69
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Sources of Sexual and Reproductive Health Information among Luo Youth
    Presenter
    • Sarah L. (Sarah) Mc Dowell, Senior, Nursing
    Mentors
    • Elaine Adams Thompson, Psychosocial & Community Health
    • Amelia Knopf, Nursing
    • Lisa Mills, , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #99
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Generating Recombinant Staphylococcal aureus Cap5O to Detect Activity in the Tyrosine-kinase CapB2
    Presenter
    • Fabiola (Faby) Arroyo, Sophomore, Business Administration NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Corrie Ortega, Global Health
    • Christoph Grundner, Global Health, Seattle BioMed

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #102
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Optimization of an HPMA Copolymer-Based Gene Delivery Vehicle
    Presenter
    • Peter M (Peter) Carlson, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Suzie Pun, Bioengineering
    • Joan Go Schellinger, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #167
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Enhancement of Immune Response through Vaccination with "Smart" Polymers for Antigens and Oligonucleotide Adjuvants
    Presenter
    • Chinonso Opara, Sophomore, Biochemistry, Pre Engineering
    Mentors
    • Patrick Stayton, Bioengineering
    • John Wilson, Bioengineering
    • Bilal Ghosn, Bioengineering

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #162
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Development of a Split Protein Assay to Detect Ubiquitination in E. coli
    Presenter
    • Anupam Kumar (Anupam) Garg, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Richard Gardner, Pharmacology
    • Michelle Oeser, Molecular & Cellular Biology

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #119
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Errors in Dry Periods from Satellite Precipitation Data for Regions of Africa
    Presenter
    • Zhuohong (Klein) Shen, Senior, Computer Science, Civil Engineering
    Mentors
    • Michele Minihane, Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Huilin Gao, Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Dennis Lettenmaier, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #49
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Movement Triggered Brain Stimulation for Stroke Recovery
    Presenter
    • Olivia Robinson, Senior, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentors
    • Eberhard Fetz, Physiology & Biophysics
    • Andrew Richardson, Physiology & Biophysics

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #156
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Comparisons of Interferon Stimulated Genes, SLEDAI, and Autoantibody Titers with Interferon Scores in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Patients
    Presenter
    • Lankai (Cathy) Xu, Junior, Biology (General)
    Mentors
    • Thomas Teal, Medicine
    • Keith Elkon, Immunology

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #128
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Using Plasmids as a Model for Gene Amplification in Yeast Competition Assays
    Presenter
    • Michael Joseph (Mike) Bocek, Senior, Biochemistry Amgen Scholar
    Mentor
    • Maitreya Dunham, Genome Sciences

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #139
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Characterization of Replicate Evolutions of S. cerevisiae under Constant Sulfur-Limitation
    Presenters
    • Mei Huang, Junior, Extended Pre-Major
    • Anne Elisabeth (Annie) Young, Junior, Biology (Physiology) Mary Gates Scholar
    • Bryony Lynch, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
    Mentors
    • Maitreya Dunham, Genome Sciences
    • Aaron Miller, Genome Sciences

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #140
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Endophyte-Assisted Phytoremediation of the Polycylic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Phenantherene
    Presenter
    • David Roman, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
    Mentor
    • Sharon Doty, Environmental & Forest Sciences

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #15
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Polymer Derived Silicon Carbide and Silicon Nitride Ceramics
    Presenters
    • Tyler Andrew (Tyler) Lichten, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Daniel Robert (Dan) Potter, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
    Mentors
    • Raj Bordia, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Kevin Strong, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Kaishi Wang, Materials Science & Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #80
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Congestion Mitigation through Integrated Corridor Management for the South Seattle Downtown (SODO) Area
    Presenter
    • Carmen Kwan, Senior, Civil Engineering
    Mentors
    • Yinhai Wang, Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Xiaoyue Liu, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #65
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

    Add to my favorites Characterization of Poplar Seedling Microbes
    Presenter
    • Andrew Tiegen, Senior, Biochemistry, Chemistry Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Sharon Doty, Environmental & Forest Sciences

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #16
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Anisotropic Hierarchical Porous Ceramics
    Presenters
    • Donelyn Aguzar Rollolazo, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Sean Michael Mc Carthy, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
    Mentors
    • Raj Bordia, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Aaron Lichtner, Materials Science & Engineering
    • Michael Dodd, Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #79
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Effect of Octopamine on the Optomotor Responses of Drosophila melanogaster
    Presenter
    • Talia Suner, Freshman, Pre-Sciences NASA Space Grant Scholar
    Mentors
    • Michael Dickinson, Biology
    • Marie Suver, Biology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #136
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Comparison and Implementation of Multi-Legged Gait Patterns
    Presenter
    • Kurt Stalsberg, Junior, Mechanical Engineering
    Mentors
    • Scott Wilcox, Mechanical Engineering
    • Santosh Devasia, Mechanical Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #74
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Spindle Assembly Checkpoint and Spindle Pole Body Remodeling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Presenter
    • Jean Belista, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Trisha Davis, Biochemistry
    • Kimberly Fong, Biochemistry

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #169
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Role of Urmylation during Cell Division in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Presenter
    • Kevin Carlton (Kevin) Ball, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (General)
    Mentors
    • Emily Mazanka, Biochemistry
    • Trisha Davis, Biochemistry

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #157
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Modification of Chlorin Derivatives to Obtain Long Wavelength Absorption
    Presenter
    • Tatiana Sanchez, Senior, Chemistry
    Mentors
    • D. Scott Wilbur, Radiation Oncology
    • Ming-Kuan Chyan, Radiation Oncology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #155
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Incentives for Wind Energy: A Case Study
    Presenter
    • Sarah Szewczyk, Fifth Year, Electrical Engineering
    Mentors
    • Richard Christie, Electrical Engineering
    • Karen Studarus, Electrical Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #78
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Type VI Effector–Immunity Complexes
    Presenter
    • Taylor Eliza Gardiner, Senior, Microbiology
    Mentors
    • Joseph Mougous, Microbiology
    • Seemay Chou, Microbiology

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #174
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Financial Literacy and Wealth Inequality: What Drives Financial Literacy and What are the Implications
    Presenter
    • Sung Ho (Sung) Keum, Senior, Economics, Mathematics
    Mentor
    • Yu-chin Chen, Economics

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #30
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Design and Testing of Miniaturized Muscle Specific Regulatory Cassettes for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Gene Therapy
    Presenter
    • Ismael Diallo, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Steve Hauschka, Biochemistry
    • Bi Ying Huang, Biochemistry
    • Xiaolan Chen, Biochemistry
    • Quynh Nguyen, Biochemistry

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #166
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Mechanistic Studies of the Pup Ligase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    Presenters
    • Denis Smirnov, Junior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
    • Kalkena Sivanesam, Senior, Biochemistry, Chemistry, History
    Mentor
    • Champak Chatterjee, Chemistry

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #50
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Mapping the ZVM10 Mutation in Danio Rerio
    Presenter
    • Gail Stanton, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentors
    • Susan Brockerhoff, Biochemistry
    • George Stearns, Biochemistry

    Poster Session 3
  • MGH 241
  • Easel #154
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Cost of Inflation Misreporting: The Argentine Case
    Presenter
    • Jianyu (Willy) Lu, Junior, Economics, Mathematics, Spanish
    Mentor
    • Philip Brock, Economics

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #34
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Flat Surface Ratchets for Drop Transport
    Presenter
    • James Forrest (James) Parsons, Senior, Computer Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
    Mentor
    • Karl Bohringer, Electrical Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #45
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Evaluating a New Method for Producing Asymmetric Giant Unilammar Vesicles
    Presenter
    • Benjamin Guthrie (Ben) Horst, Senior, Chemistry, Mathematics Levinson Emerging Scholar, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
    Mentors
    • Sarah Keller, Chemistry, Physics
    • Matthew Blosser, Chemistry, Physics
    • Thomas Portet, Chemistry

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #59
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Super Stem Cells: Uncovering the Role of Runx1 in Diapause Mouse Embryos
    Presenter
    • Annika Juhlin, Senior, Bioengineering, Swedish
    Mentor
    • C. Anthony Blau, Medicine

    Poster Session 3
  • Balcony
  • Easel #109
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites You Hit Like a Girl – Are You Man Enough?: The Oppressive Power of Stereotypes Against Athletes’ Physicality Beyond the Gender Binary
    Presenter
    • Baya Walls, Senior, Anthropology, Comparative Religion
    Mentors
    • Rachel Chapman, Anthropology
    • Holly Barker, Anthropology

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #33
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Reassessing Differentiation Models for Mt. St. Helens' Dacites
    Presenter
    • Breana Nicole Chavez, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences, Philosophy
    Mentor
    • Olivier Bachmann, Earth & Space Sciences

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #8
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites The Path of Least Resistance: Differences in Length, Duration, and Complexity of Car vs Bike Routes in an Urban Environment
    Presenter
    • Michael Naegel, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
    Mentor
    • Stanley Asah, Environmental & Forest Sciences

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons West
  • Easel #20
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Spectral Analysis of Dwarf Satellite Galaxies
    Presenter
    • Denise Marie (Denise) Schmitz, Sophomore, Pre-Major
    Mentor
    • Peter Yoachim, Astronomy

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #58
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

  • Add to my favorites Skeletal Muscle Tissue Engineering using Aligned 3D Chitosan Scaffold
    Presenter
    • Hyun (Diana) Lee, Senior, Biochemistry
    Mentor
    • Miqin Zhang, Materials Science & Engineering

    Poster Session 3
  • Commons East
  • Easel #85
  • 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM