Found 175 projects

Poster Presentation 1

11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Add to my favorites Where is the Beauty in Hatin' on Your Sista? Penetrating the Color Complex in the African-American Community
Presenter
  • Thamar Whidney Theodore, Senior, Communication
Mentor
  • Ralina Joseph, Communication
Session

Add to my favorites Disability Advocacy: A Cross Cultural Rhetorical/Discourse Analysis
Presenter
  • Riley Ilyse (Riley) Taitingfong, Senior, Communication
Mentor
  • Ralina Joseph, Communication
Session

Add to my favorites Reengineering the SUMO Protease to Enhance Solubility and Thermostability
Presenter
  • Brooke Marie Nickerson, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Christopher Bahl, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites DNA-Based Identification of Snailfish (Careproctus spp.) Egg Masses Found in the Gill Cavities of King Crabs (genus Lithodes)
Presenter
  • Jennifer Gardner, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Ted Pietsch, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Molecular Simulations of Organic Photovoltaic Polymers with Distinct Structures in Various Organic Solvents
Presenter
  • Melissa C. (Melissa) Gile, Senior, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics NASA Space Grant Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Jim Pfaendtner, Chemical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Developing a Simple Colorimetric Detection Assay for DNA Amplification Reactions
Presenter
  • Kevin Wayne (Kevin) Kimura, Senior, Chemical Engr: Nanosci & Molecular Engr
Mentors
  • Mark Borysiak, Chemical Engineering
  • Jonathan Posner, Mechanical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Polyurethane-Based Self-Immolative Polymers as Micellular Nanovehicles for Drug Delivery
Presenter
  • Alice T (Alice) Chu, Senior, Chemistry, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • AJ Boydston, Chemistry
  • Greg Peterson, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Genetic Mutations and Birth Complications within Autism Spectrum Disorder
Presenter
  • Adair Pascoe (Addie) Cardon, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Raphael Bernier, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Genetic Differences of Sleep Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Presenter
  • Michelle Tran, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Raphael Bernier, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Stability Study of an Electrochemical Immunoassay Utilizing Yeast-scFv Fragments
Presenter
  • Jingwen Xiao, Sophomore, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Gerard Cangelosi, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Lauren Spadafora, Global Health
Session

Add to my favorites The Role of Brain Lateralization in Dyslexia
Presenter
  • Tiffany Jay Turner Waddington, Senior, Speech and Hearing Sci (Com Disorders) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Beate Peter, Speech & Hearing Sciences
  • Heracles Panagiotides, Neurological Surgery
Session

Add to my favorites Comprehensive Analsyis of Calcium on PCBM
Presenter
  • Evan Jennings (Evan) Mann, Senior, Chemical Engineering, Philosophy Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Charles Campbell, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry
  • James Lownsbury, Chemical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Development of an Increased Sensitivity p24 Antigen Test for Acute HIV Infection
Presenter
  • Ian Wayne (Ian) Andrews, Junior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Barry Lutz, Bioengineering
  • Nuttada Panpradist, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Examining Older Adults Perception on Fall Devices: A Secondary Analysis of Focus Groups
Presenters
  • Phuong Nam (Phuong) Nguyen, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
  • Christine Comia, Senior, Nursing
Mentors
  • Hilaire Thompson, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems
  • George Demiris, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems
  • Shomir Chaudhuri, Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics
Session

Add to my favorites Older Adults & Traumatic Brain Injury: Cellular Viability Post Injury
Presenter
  • Michael Marvin Clauson, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Hilaire Thompson, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems
Session

Add to my favorites A Novel Autophagy Reporter Reveals Dynamics of TOR Signaling in C. elegans
Presenter
  • Megan Okada, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Alexey Merz, Biochemistry, Physiology & Biophysics
  • Hannah Chapin, Biochemistry
  • Dana Miller, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Qualitative Analysis of HIV Stigma in Seattle’s African Born Population
Presenter
  • Misghana Andemichael, Senior, Biochemistry McNair Scholar
Mentors
  • Deepa Rao, Global Health
  • Meheret Endeshaw, Global Health
Session

Add to my favorites Mechanistic Studies of the Essential Enzymes Dop and PafA found in a Ubiquitin-like Protein Modification Pathway in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Presenter
  • Jessica Sue (Jessica) Huang, Senior, Biochemistry, Chemistry (ACS Certified)
Mentors
  • Champak Chatterjee, Chemistry
  • Meagan Pilkerton, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Analysis of Surveyor Error for the Development of a Citizen Science-based Marine Debris Monitoring Program
Presenters
  • Jessica Michelle (Jessica) Latimer, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
  • Abby Elizabeth (Abby) Bratt, Freshman, Center for Study of Capable Youth
Mentors
  • Julia Parrish, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
  • Hillary Burgess, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Detection: Fluorphore-Labeled Targeting Peptides for High Grade Dysplasia in Barrett's Esophagus
Presenter
  • Catherine Nguyen, Junior, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • Leslie Chan, Bioengineering
  • Suzie Pun, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Improved Characterization of Promoter Sequences through Quantitative Measurements of Transcription Dynamics
Presenter
  • Jamie Rose (Jamie) Nunez, Junior, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • Bryan Bartley, Bioengineering
  • Wilbert Copeland, Bioengineering
  • Herbert Sauro, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Purification of TRAK1 and TRAK2 to Determine the Mechanism of Mitochondrial Movement
Presenter
  • Cindy Tianxin (Cindy) Wei, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Suzanne Hoppins, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Does a Successful NFL Team Reduce Crime?
Presenter
  • Kane Douglas (Kane) Swanson, Senior, Computer Science, Economics UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Stephen Sulzbacher, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Two (Hundred) Roads Diverged in a Flask: Initial Mutations in E. coli Make All the Difference to Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
Presenter
  • Chase Madeline (Chase) O'neil, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Peter Conlin, Biology
  • Benjamin Kerr, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Exploring Seattle’s Sustainable Meat Scene and Addressing the Challenges of Local Food Movements
Presenter
  • Stephanie Christine (Stephanie) Morriss, Senior, Environmental Studies UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • P. Sean McDonald, Program on the Environment
Session

Add to my favorites The Role of Interleukin-1β Receptor (ILR1) in Regulating Sleep and Recovery Outcomes Following Influenza Infection  
Presenter
  • Oleg Kritskiy, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentor
  • Mark Opp, Anesthesiology
Session

Oral Presentation 1

12:30 PM to 2:15 PM

Add to my favorites Facebook as an Exhibition: The Curatorial Impulse Becomes Virtual
Presenter
  • Caitlin Scott, Senior, Art History, Western Washington University
Mentors
  • Barbara Miller, Art History, Western Washington University
  • Julia Sapin, Art History, Western Washington University
Session

Add to my favorites Convergence in the "Unlucky" Village: Local Models of Development in Central Uganda
Presenter
  • Haley Rose (Haley) Millet, Senior, Public Health-Global Health, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Devon Pena, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Complicating Professional Development: A Tutor-Driven Approach to Professionalization in the Writing Center
Presenters
  • Jacob Thomas (Jacob) Kovacs, Senior, Economics
  • Cali Rose (Cali) Kopczick, Junior, English (Creative Writing) UW Honors Program
  • Yunfei Zhao, Senior, Communication Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Bianca Shi, Senior, Business Administration (Finance) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Jenny Halpin, English
Session

Add to my favorites Following the Money: Does School Funding Impact Student Success?
Presenter
  • Dijana Raco, Senior, Political Science
Mentors
  • John Wilkerson, Political Science
  • Nicholas R Stramp, Political Science
Session

Add to my favorites Embedding a Sense of Place in Science Education as a Method for Environmental Responsibility
Presenter
  • Alexandra Helen (Alexandra) Doty, Senior, Environmental Studies
Mentor
  • P. Sean McDonald, Program on the Environment
Session

Add to my favorites From Alienation to Integration: A New Ecological Model for K-12 Education
Presenter
  • Morgan Wright, Senior, Community, Environment, & Planning
Mentor
  • Christopher Campbell, Urban Design & Planning
Session

Add to my favorites Incidence and Outcomes of Bloodstream Infections with Common Over-the-Counter Probiotic Organisms among Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients
Presenter
  • Maresa Woodfield, Sophomore, Pre-Health Sciences UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Steven Pergam, Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Session

Add to my favorites Finding the Center of Local Food
Presenter
  • Emily Noyd, Senior, Environmental Studies
Mentor
  • P. Sean McDonald, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Program on the Environment
Session

Add to my favorites What Describes A Successful Urban Ecological Restoration Project?
Presenter
  • Yiyan Ge, Senior, Economics, Environmental Studies Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Gordon Bradley, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • P. Sean McDonald, Program on the Environment
  • Martha Moritz, Environmental & Forest Sciences, UW Grounds Management
Session

Add to my favorites Comparative Bone Histology of Lagomorpha and Sciuridae Femora across an Elevation Gradient
Presenter
  • Jacqueline Kinsey (Jackie) Lungmus, Senior, Anthropology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Patricia Kramer, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Stormwater, Stewardship, and Service Learning: Tracking Contaminants as a Community Outreach Project
Presenter
  • Austin Jennings, Senior, Environmental Science, UW Tacoma
Mentor
  • Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)
Session

Add to my favorites Sex-related Drinking Motives as Mediators between Women's Sexual Victimization History and Both Alcohol Consumption and Sexual Risk-Taking
Presenter
  • Madeleine Michelle (Maddy) Gauger, Senior, Psychology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • William George, Psychology
  • Cynthia Stappenbeck, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Kelly Kajumulo, Psychology
Session

Add to my favorites Why Women Who Perform Well in Math Decide Against Math-related Careers: A Gender Role Violation Explanation
Presenter
  • Lily Ji (Lily) Jiang, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Sapna Cheryan, Psychology
  • John Oliver Siy, Psychology
Session

Add to my favorites Gender Disparities in the Technology Industry: The Effects of Stereotypical Environments on Employer Hiring Decisions
Presenter
  • Elizabeth Erin (Ellie) Stillwell, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Sapna Cheryan, Psychology
  • Sianna Ziegler, Psychology
Session

Add to my favorites Thinking the Body: Theory and Body Image Activism
Presenter
  • Kate Gardner Walford, Senior, Community, Environment, & Planning
Mentors
  • Tylir McKenzie, Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, University of Washington-Tacoma
  • Amy Peloff, Comparative History of Ideas, League of Women Voters of Washington
Session

Add to my favorites Claudius the Fool: An Exploration of Roman Social Values through the Lens of Stoicism
Presenter
  • Zoe Elise (Zoe) Thomas, Junior, Classics UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Sarah Stroup, Classics
Session

Add to my favorites Narratives of Division and Reconciliation: A Study of South Korean Television Dramas
Presenter
  • Jennifer Soo Young (Jenny) Kang, Senior, Computer Science, International Studies UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Clark W Sorensen, Jackson School of International Studies
  • Deborah Porter, Jackson School of International Studies
Session

Add to my favorites "My Father Made Me Do It": Reassembling Cross-Cultural Relationships Formed on a Short-Term Mission Trip to Guatemala
Presenter
  • Meredith Lea (Meredith) Hutchins, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentor
  • Rachel Chapman, Anthropology, UW Seattle
Session

Add to my favorites Order from Chaos: The Legacy and Reconstruction of Vaslav Nijinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps
Presenter
  • Stephanie Valentine (Stephanie) Kastner, Senior, English (Creative Writing), Dance: Dance Studies UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Betsy Cooper, Dance
Session

Add to my favorites Wrongfully Accused: The U.S. Constitution and Government Job Performance
Presenter
  • Deniz Ahmet (Deniz) Irgi, Junior, Political Science
Mentors
  • Nicholas R Stramp, Political Science
  • John Wilkerson, Political Science
Session

Add to my favorites Radioactive Politics in Jordan: The Monarchy, Civil Society, and Nuclear Energy
Presenter
  • Shirin Lotfi, Senior, Political Science
Mentor
  • Christopher Jones, Jackson School of International Studies
Session

Add to my favorites Necessary Conditions: Political Party Majority Thresholds that May Need be Achieved in Order to Pass Significant Programmatic and Budgetary Legislation Recommended to Prevent Another 2008 Like Crisis
Presenter
  • Scott Matthew (Scott) Hodges, Senior, Economics, Mathematics (Philosophy), Political Science UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Victor Menaldo, Political Science
  • Rebecca Thorpe, Political Science
Session

Add to my favorites Fluctuation in the Fundamental Frequency of Zebra Finch Song Syllables Under Constant Light Conditions
Presenter
  • Kara Elizabeth (Kara) Jackson, Senior, Neurobiology, Linguistics UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • David Perkel, Biology, Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery
Session

Add to my favorites The Effect of Control on Tasks Involving Automatic Processing
Presenter
  • Sandrine Girard, Senior, Psychology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Chantal Prat, Psychology
  • Theresa Becker Zolnikov, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Implications of an Impaired Mirror Neuron System in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): A Study of Functional Gesture Quality During a Game of Charades
Presenter
  • Michaela Lambert, Senior, Biology, Whitman College
Mentors
  • Leena Knight, Biological Sciences, Whitman College
  • Susan Rivera, Psychology, UC Davis
  • Jen Pokorny, Psychology, UC Davis
Session

Add to my favorites Identification of Functional Modulators of Acsl in Maintenance of Terminal Dendrites
Presenter
  • Ashley Tsing Yuen (Ashley) Lau, Junior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentors
  • Jay Parrish, Biology
  • Jiae Lee, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Global Health Betrayal? Reproduction of Unequal and Uncaring Exchanges
Presenter
  • Cynthia Princess, Senior, Public Health-Global Health EIP Scholar, Presidential Scholar, McNair Scholar
Mentors
  • Victoria Lawson, Geography
  • Matthew Sparke, Geography, UCSC
Session

Add to my favorites Seasonal and Strain Specific Variation in Pseudo-nitzschia Viral Susceptibility in the Pacific Northwest
Presenter
  • Nicolette Danielle (Nicolette) Donohue, Senior, Oceanography Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Gabrielle Rocap, Oceanography
  • Michael Carlson, Oceanography
Session

Add to my favorites Evolutionary History and Environmental Expression of Iron Metabolism Genes in Diatoms: A High Resolution Investigation
Presenter
  • Ryan D Groussman, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Micaela Parker, Oceanography
Session

Add to my favorites Uncovering the Evolutionary History of Pseudo-nitzschia: Connecting Physiology and Molecular Phylogeny
Presenter
  • Terence Sebastian Leach, Junior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation), Oceanography Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentors
  • Gabrielle Rocap, Oceanography
  • Michael Carlson, Oceanography
Session

Add to my favorites Re-Imagining Identities: Racial and Ethnic Discourses within Seattle's Habesha Community
Presenter
  • Azeb Madebo, Senior, Communication, Anthropology Mary Gates Scholar, McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Ralina Joseph, Communication
Session

Add to my favorites Drawing the Line: An Exploration into the Complex and Contradictory Relationships between Humans and Other Primates
Presenter
  • Amanda Daniela (Amanda) Cortez, Senior, Anthropology EIP Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, Presidential Scholar, McNair Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Devon Pena, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Stylistic Variations of La Refugiana within the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Retablo Tradition
Presenter
  • Jillian Martin, Senior, Art History, Portland State University McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Carmen Ripolles, Art History, Portland State University
Session

Add to my favorites Guanidinylation and Tet1 Targeting Peptide Modification of Cationic Copolymers for Nonviral Gene Delivery
Presenter
  • Jennifer Lynn (Jen) Choi, Senior, Bioengineering Amgen Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentors
  • Suzie Pun, Bioengineering
  • Hua Wei, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Bushmeat Poaching and Consumption in Northern Tanzania
Presenter
  • Ahren Stroming, Senior, Politics and Environmental Studies, Whitman College
Mentor
  • Philip Brick, Political Science, Whitman College
Session

Add to my favorites Interfacial Defects in Cu/Zn/Sn/Se (CZTS) Thin-film Solar Cells
Presenter
  • Jannel Kristen Quintanilla (Jannel) Banks, Sophomore, Physics: Comprehensive Physics UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • David Ginger, Chemistry
  • Sarah Vorpahl, Chemistry
Session

Poster Presentation 2

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Add to my favorites Increased Anatomical Specificity of Neuromodulation via Modulated Focused Ultrasound
Presenters
  • Connor James Caler, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
  • Meredith Marie Lampe, Freshman, Pre Engineering UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Pierre Mourad, Neurological Surgery
  • Edin Mehic, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites The Effect of Feedback on Serial Position Effects during a Visual Judgment of Mean Location
Presenter
  • Wendy Coard, Senior, Biology (General), Psychology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Geoffrey Boynton, Psychology
  • Bjorn P. Hubert Wallander, Psychology
Session

Add to my favorites Effect of Band-Gap Engineering on Energies of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances in Zinc Oxide Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Presenter
  • Xing Yee Gan, Senior, Chemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Daniel Gamelin, Chemistry
  • Alina Schimpf, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Evidence of Neurally Derived Tumors Due to Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Transplantation as a Means to Alleviate Functional Locomotor Loss in Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
Presenter
  • Sylvia N. Stellmacher, Senior, Biology (Physiology) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Philip Horner, Neurological Surgery
Session

Add to my favorites Viral Myths and Biopolitical Disruptions Amid the Emergence of a Novel Coronavirus
Presenter
  • William Chao Wei Tsang, Junior, Public Health-Global Health Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Matthew Sparke, Global Health, UCSC
  • Maria Elena Garcia, Comparative History of Ideas
Session

Add to my favorites Prevalence of Post-Stroke Fatigue
Presenter
  • Tika Permata Padmasana, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Pamela Mitchell, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems
Session

Add to my favorites Phonic Earth, Looking At the World through Sound
Presenter
  • Alaia D'alessandro, Senior, Comparative History of Ideas Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Phillip Thurtle, Comparative History of Ideas, History
Session

Add to my favorites Identification of Paracrine Factors Produced by Islet Endothelial Cells that Enhance Insulin Secretion
Presenter
  • Loren Myca (Loren) Hart, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentors
  • Rebecca Hull, Medicine
  • Michael Peters, Medicine, Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research
Session

Add to my favorites Optimizing Cationic Gold Nanoparticles for Plasmonic Emulsion Applications
Presenter
  • Sim Yee Chen, Senior, Chemical Engr: Nanosci & Molecular Engr
Mentor
  • Lilo Pozzo, Chemical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Induction of Autistic-Like Behavior and Neuroanatomy in Mice after their Exposure to Diagnostic Ultrasound in Utero
Presenter
  • Chelsea Ray (Chelsea) Brossard, Senior, Neurobiology, Biochemistry NASA Space Grant Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Pierre Mourad, Neurological Surgery
Session

Add to my favorites Dual Chlorophyll Synthesis Genes in Diatoms: Redundant for a Reason?
Presenter
  • James Miller, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Heather Hunsperger, Biology
  • Rose Ann Cattolico, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Mobilization of Blasts and Leukemia Stem Cells by Anti-CXCR4 Antibody BMS-936564 (MDX 1338) in Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Presenter
  • Lauren Dennis, Junior, Biology (Physiology) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Pamela Becker, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Synthesis and Characterization of Binary Electrooptic Materials
Presenter
  • Anthony Andrew Fok, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Peter Johnston, Chemistry
  • Delwin Elder, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites The Family Factor: Influence on Depression in At-risk Youth
Presenter
  • Jennifer E O'hare, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Elaine Adams Thompson, Nursing
Session

Add to my favorites Using Molecular Simulation to Understand Solvent Effects for Efficient Biomass Processing
Presenter
  • Zachary Ryan (Zack) Jarin, Senior, Chemical Engr: Nanosci & Molecular Engr Amgen Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Jim Pfaendtner, Chemical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites A Stable and Reproducible Electrospun SERS Substrate for DNA Detection 
Presenter
  • Alexandra Rose (Alex) Tillman, Senior, Bioen: Nanoscience & Molecular Engr Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Kim A. Woodrow, Bioengineering
  • Joseph Phan, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Fermentation of Xylose and Glucose into Acetic Acid by Moorella thermoacetica
Presenter
  • Anna Belle (Anna) Song, Sophomore, Bioresource Science and Engineering
Mentors
  • Renata Bura, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • Mandana Ehsanipour, Environmental & Forest Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Changes in Self-Rated Health during the Transition to Retiring Living among Medicare Recipients in the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey
Presenter
  • Colby Lea, Junior, Biology (General), Microbiology
Mentor
  • Stephen Thielke, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Electromechanical Cell Lysis using a Mobile Electronic Device
Presenter
  • Alec Kane (Alec) Wollen, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • Paul Yager, Bioengineering
  • Joshua Buser, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites ET1-ETA Signaling in Atherosclerosis and Vascular Calcification of Type II Diabetic Mice
Presenter
  • Jaimei Zhang, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Yanfeng (Mei) Speer, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Concepts of Infant and Toddler Mental Health for BSN Curriculum
Presenters
  • Chelsea Elizabeth Carmen, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
  • Miriam Mach, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Susan Spieker, Family and Child Nursing
Session

Add to my favorites Design of a Biodegradable Thermosensitive Hydrogel for the Treatment of Malignant Glioblastomas
Presenter
  • Ngoc Anh Luu (Anh Ta) Ta, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentor
  • Suzie Pun, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Development of a Kinetic Model of Isothermal Strand Displacement Amplification
Presenter
  • Isabela Covelli Velez, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Paul Yager, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites The Relationship between Women's Coping Strategies and Condom Use
Presenter
  • Nicholas Joseph (Nick) Cherf, Recent Graduate, Psychology, Political Science
Mentor
  • Cynthia Stappenbeck, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Group Tutoring and Facilitation Strategies for English Language Learners
Presenter
  • Ronald Daniel (Ron) Keller, Senior, Philosophy
Mentors
  • Jenny Halpin, English
  • Peter Freeman, English
Session

Add to my favorites Identifying Targeting Ligands for Activated Populations of Human Macrophages through Peptide Phage Display
Presenter
  • Jonathan Lik Wing (Jonathan) Yu, Junior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Suzie Pun, Bioengineering
  • Maryelise Cieslewicz, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Integrating Global Health Skills and Competencies into Nursing Education
Presenters
  • Maureen Oscadal, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
  • Kendra Sweeney Clawson, Senior, Psychology, Nursing
Mentors
  • Sarah Gimbel, Family and Child Nursing
  • Pamela Kohler, Global Health, Psychosocial & Community Health
Session

Add to my favorites Imitating Lignocellulosic Subtrates in Acetic Acid Fermentation
Presenter
  • Kelsey Guelda (Kelsey) Lewis, Senior, Bioresource Science and Engineering NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Renata Bura, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • Mandana Ehsanipour, Environmental & Forest Sciences
  • Shannon Ewanick, Environmental & Forest Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Distribution and Hybridization of Northwestern Crow (Corvus caurinus) with American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in Pacific Northwest using Mitochondrial DNA
Presenter
  • Ross Alan Furbush, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management (Wildlife Conservation), Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • John Klicka, Biology, Burke Museum
  • Kevin Epperly, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Using the Discrete Dipole Approximation to Find Morphology Dependent Resonances in Gold and Silicon Nanoparticles Hit by Electromagnetic Waves
Presenter
  • Matthew J (Matthew) Lewis, Senior, Mat Sci & Engr: Nanosci & Moleculr Engr UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Peter Pauzauskie, Materials Science & Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Role of PI3K in Regulation of Directed and Collective Migration of Breast Cancer Cells
Presenter
  • Kevin Mun, Junior, Bioengineering UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Deok-Ho Kim, Bioengineering
  • Peter Kim, Bioengineering
Session

Add to my favorites Plasmonic Emulsions for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications
Presenter
  • Rainie Dean (Rainie) Nelson, Senior, Chemical Engr: Nanosci & Molecular Engr UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Lilo Pozzo, Chemical Engineering
  • Michael Lombardo, Chemical Engineering
Session

Oral Presentation 2

3:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Add to my favorites Clearing the Air: Examining Tobacco-Related Health Narratives and the Legitimacy of Smoke-Free College Campus Initiatives
Presenter
  • Meredith Rose (Rosie) Morrow Okon, Senior, International Studies Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Luke Bergmann, Geography
  • Maria Elena Garcia, Comparative History of Ideas
  • Matthew Sparke, Global Health, UCSC
  • Celia Lowe, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites The Truth Beneath the Surface: Mining Narratives, Native Bodies, and the State in Peru
Presenter
  • Lizzy Jansen, Senior, Public Health-Global Health Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Maria Elena Garcia, Comparative History of Ideas
  • Matthew Sparke, Global Health, UCSC
Session

Add to my favorites Obesity Outbreak! Exploring the Role of Narratives on the Obesity Epidemic in Samoans
Presenter
  • Vickie Lupe (Vickie) Satele, Junior, Anthropology Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Matthew Sparke, Geography, UCSC
Session

Add to my favorites Stability of a Large Amplification in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Presenter
  • Jamie Lynn (Jamie) Pogachar, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Celia Payen, Genome Sciences
  • Maitreya Dunham, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites An Evolutionary Molecular Arms Race between Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genomes and its Effect on Male Fitness
Presenter
  • Ganeshkumar (Ganesh) Miriyala, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Harmit Malik, Genome Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
  • Maulik Patel, Genome Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Session

Add to my favorites Novel Candidate Regions for Sequential Processing Deficits in Multigenerational Families with Childhood Apraxia of Speech and Developmental Dyslexia Identified with Copy-Number Variation
Presenter
  • Angela Huang, Senior, Microbiology, Speech & Hearing Sciences Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Beate Peter, Speech & Hearing Sciences
  • Mark Matsushita, Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites How Propaganda Influences the Pictorial Migration West in the Nineteenth Century
Presenter
  • Korinne Mason, Senior, Art History, Western Washington University
Mentor
  • Julia Sapin, Art History, Western Washington University
Session

Add to my favorites Do Thoughts Move Faster than Glaciers?: A Study of the Changes in Ecological Ideas Expressed through Art
Presenter
  • Rebecca (Becca) Raymond, Senior, Art History, Western Washington University
Mentors
  • Barbara Miller, Art History, Western Washington University
  • Julia Sapin, , Western Washington University
Session

Add to my favorites Poster Propaganda of World War II in the United States and Japan: How it Rallied Each Country's Population
Presenter
  • Stephanie Morgan, Senior, Art History, Western Washington University
Mentor
  • Julia Sapin, Art History, Western Washington University
Session

Add to my favorites Integrated Health Care Systems: A Holistic Approach to Medicine in Madagascar
Presenter
  • Tatiana Kaehler, Junior, Health Science, Policy, and Culture, Whitman College
Mentors
  • Jason Pribilsky, Anthropology, Whitman College
  • Nat Quansah, Global Health, SIT/World Learning
Session

Add to my favorites Optimization of Influenza Virus-Like Particle Production
Presenter
  • Brandon Gene (Brandon) Pratt, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Jesse Bloom, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Kathryn Hooper, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Synthesis and Analysis of Cyanide-Bridged Ruthenium(III) Complexes
Presenter
  • Laura Kathleen Estergreen, Senior, Chemistry (ACS Certified) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Munira Khalil, Chemistry
  • Karla Slenkamp, Chemistry
  • Michael Norris, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites An Efficient Algorithm for Multi-Layer PCB Bus Escape Routing
Presenter
  • Benjamin David (Benjamin) Blumberg, Senior, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Zelda Zabinsky, Industrial Engineering
  • Joseph Heim, Industrial Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Human Energetic Expenditure: The Effects of Gradient & Burden on Walking in Real World Environments
Presenter
  • Megan Jo (Megan) Rue, Junior, Anthropology, Biology McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Patricia Kramer, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Materialism and its Effect on College Students' Values
Presenter
  • Ryan Olson, Senior, Social Studies, Bemidji State University McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Debra Peterson, Sociology, Bemidji State University
Session

Add to my favorites Cyclopropyl Carboxamide (GSK2645947) Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Parasites
Presenter
  • Soo Nee (SooNee) Tan, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Pradipsinh Rathod, Chemistry
  • Julia Staverosky, Chemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Boosting Responses to L3 and Other Liver-Stage Antigens in Malaria-Immunized Mice: A Better Way to Identify Targets?
Presenter
  • Zachary Paul (Zachary) Billman, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Sean Murphy, Laboratory Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Elucidating the Link between Tyrosine Metabolism and Aging in Caenorhabditic elegans
Presenter
  • Farzin Eshaghi, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
  • Victor Pineda, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites The Perpetuation of Sexism through Cinematic Female Absence in American Children's Films
Presenter
  • Christina (Chrissy) Kemling, Senior, Art History, Western Washington University
Mentor
  • Julia Sapin, Art History, Western Washington University
Session

Add to my favorites Turning On and Off the "Post Racial Gaze"
Presenter
  • Anaiis Cisco, Senior, Film Studies, Queens College of New York
Mentor
  • Roopali Mukherjee, American Ethnic Studies, Communication, Queens College of New York
Session

Add to my favorites Exploring New Grounds: Transvergent Filmmaking
Presenter
  • Nandini Rathi, Senior, Film and Media Studies, Politics, Whitman College
Mentor
  • Anne Helen Petersen, Comparative Literature, Whitman College
Session

Poster Presentation 3

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Add to my favorites Physical and Microbial Drivers of Hypoxia in Bellingham Bay
Presenter
  • Natasha Christman, Sophomore, Oceanography
Mentor
  • Jude Apple, Environmental Science, Oceanography, Western Washington University
Session

Add to my favorites Voter Access Policies: Why Are They Changing and Do They Affect Turnout?
Presenter
  • Sara R. Baker, Senior, Sociology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Becky Pettit, Sociology
Session

Add to my favorites Intraosseous Anesthesia as a Primary Technique for Local Anesthesia in Dentistry
Presenter
  • Kaitlyn Tom, Sophomore, Biology (General) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Johan Aps, Oral Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites MSP1-19 Antigen-Specific T Cell Resonse to Blood-Stage Plasmodium Infection 
Presenter
  • Holly Ruth (Holly) Steach, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Marion Pepper, Immunology
Session

Add to my favorites Dune Fields on Mars
Presenter
  • Max Leigh Martens (Max) Glass, Sophomore, Computer Science NASA Space Grant Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Carin Cornwall, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Stephen Wood, Earth & Space Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Genome-wide RNAi Screen for Inducers of the Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response (UPRmt) and their Role in Aging
Presenter
  • Christine Lai (Christine) Chen, Senior, Pre-Health Sciences
Mentors
  • Christopher Bennett, Pathology
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Breath Detection Using Wireless System
Presenter
  • Siyu Jiang, Senior, Electrical Engineering
Mentors
  • Shwetak Patel, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering
  • Ruth Ravichandran, Electrical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Routine use of TNM Staging in Radiology Reports for the Treatment of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A National Survey
Presenter
  • Brian Ko, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Upendra Parvathaneni, Radiation Oncology
Session

Add to my favorites Defining the Novel Signal Transduction Pathway of Psl-dependent Signaling in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Presenter
  • Holly Alexa (Holly) Silver, Junior, Microbiology
Mentors
  • Matthew Parsek, Microbiology
  • Catherine Armbruster, Microbiology
Session

Add to my favorites Cerebellar Hemorrhage Decreases Proliferation and Disrupts Cerebellum Development
Presenter
  • Olivia Kay (Olivia) Janson, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Christopher Traudt, Pediatrics
Session

Add to my favorites The Role of Pentose Phosphate Pathway in the Mitochondrial Unfolded Protein Response and Aging
Presenter
  • Jane Jeehyun (Jane) Kwon, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
  • Christopher Bennett, Pathology
Session

Visual Arts & Design Presentation 3

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Add to my favorites City of Atlas Bay
Presenter
  • Dat C. (Dat) Nguyen, Junior, Community, Environment, & Planning
Mentor
  • Christopher Campbell, Urban Design & Planning
Session

Poster Presentation 3

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Add to my favorites Eating Out: The Effects of Diverse Cuisine on Eating Habits
Presenter
  • Ngan Phuong Thi Vu, Senior, Psychology, Biology (General)
Mentors
  • Sapna Cheryan, Psychology
  • Amanda Montoya, Psychology
Session

Add to my favorites The Weighty Cost of Being American: How Weight Influences Perceptions of American Identity and Documentation Status
Presenter
  • Helena Ester (Ester) Matskewich, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Sapna Cheryan, Psychology
  • Caitlin Handron, Psychology, Stanford University
Session

Add to my favorites The Use of Wheat Germ Agglutinin as a Transsynaptic Tracer in Murine Photoreceptors
Presenter
  • Jonathan Ginyoung (Jonathan) Choi, Senior, Biology (General)
Mentors
  • Jennifer Chao, Ophthalmology
  • Francis Concepcion, Ophthalmology
Session

Add to my favorites An Ethnographic Assessment of Discrimination Faced by Asian American College Students
Presenter
  • Auriza Lynn (Riza) Ugalino, Senior, Sociology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Susan Pitchford, Sociology
Session

Add to my favorites Investigating the Prevalence of the Type VI Secretion Dependent Neighbor Sensing in Bacteria 
Presenter
  • Elena Ines (Elena) Montauti, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Joseph Mougous, Microbiology
  • Michele LeRoux, Microbiology, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Investigating the Role of Type VI Amidase Effectors in Shaping Polymicrobial Communities
Presenter
  • Michael Alexander (Max) Ferrin, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Seemay Chou, Microbiology
  • Joseph Mougous, Biochemistry, Microbiology
Session

Add to my favorites The Effect of Size, Season, and Tissue Type on the Trophic Level of Lion’s Mane Jellyfish, Cyanea capillata
Presenter
  • Lilia Rose (Lilia) Bannister, Junior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Tim Essington, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
  • Pamela Moriarty, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Who is Winning the War on Drugs? Investigating the Relationship between the United States' Defense Industry and Latin American Counternarcotics Programs
Presenter
  • Morgan Faye (Morgan) Galloway, Senior, Political Science UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • John Wilkerson, Political Science
  • Nicholas R Stramp, Political Science
Session

Add to my favorites Does Early Education Reduce Crime?
Presenter
  • Miriam Christian Essam (Miriam) Elnemr, Junior, Political Science, Law, Societies, & Justice UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • John Wilkerson, Political Science
  • Nicholas R Stramp, Political Science
Session

Add to my favorites Reconstructing Streamflow in the Olympia Nonglacial Deposits, Puget Sound Region, Washington: A Study using Mineralogy and Magnetic Susceptibility
Presenter
  • Christopher Brown, Senior, Environmental Science, UW Tacoma
Mentor
  • Peter Selkin, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)
Session

Visual Arts & Design Presentation 3

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Add to my favorites Intersections
Presenter
  • Charles William (Charlie) Dickey, Senior, Digital Arts & Experimental Media, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • James Coupe, Digital Arts & Experimental Media
Session

Poster Presentation 3

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Add to my favorites Smartphone Detection: Using Signals from Modern Smartphones to Track and Collect Real-Time Data from Users
Presenter
  • Shawn Sungmin Lee, Sophomore, Computer Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Alexander Mamishev, Engineering
  • Sep Makhsous, Electrical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Upwelling Indices in the Pacific Northwest
Presenter
  • Campbell Todd Martens (Campbell) Glass, Junior, Oceanography Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Parker MacCready, Oceanography
  • Neil Banas, Oceanography
Session

Add to my favorites Who Benefits from Recessions? An Analysis of Wealth During the Great Recession
Presenter
  • Athen Nguyen, Senior, Economics, Political Science
Mentors
  • John Wilkerson, Political Science
  • Nicholas Stramp, Political Science, Center for American Politics and Public Policy
Session

Add to my favorites Living Independently
Presenter
  • Earl Francis (Earl) Switzer, Senior, Information Technology (Tacoma)
Mentor
  • Marc Dupuis, Information Technology & Systems, UW Bothell
Session

Add to my favorites Investigating Hair Cell Death and Replacement in the Normal Adult Mouse Balance System
Presenter
  • Brittany Alane Vlosich, Junior, Speech & Hearing Sciences UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Jennifer Stone, Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery
  • Stephanie Furrer Bucks, Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery
Session

Add to my favorites Invisible Risks to HIV/AIDS Shaped by Gender Inequality
Presenter
  • Sharon Pan, Junior, Public Health-Global Health Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Luke Bergmann, Geography
  • Maria Elena Garcia, Comparative History of Ideas
  • Celia Lowe, Anthropology
  • Matthew Sparke, Global Health, UCSC
Session

Add to my favorites Massive Deep-Sea Carbonates on the Washington Margin  
Presenter
  • Una Kim Miller, Senior, Oceanography, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Harlan Paul Johnson, Oceanography
Session

Add to my favorites Numerical Simulation and Experimental Verification of Percolation Diffusion-Limited Aggregation Clusters in Various Media
Presenters
  • Michael (Mike) James, Sophomore, Computer Engineering, Edmonds Community College
  • Matthew Sarb, Recent Graduate, Physics, Edmonds Community College
Mentors
  • Tom Fleming, Physics, Edmonds Community College
  • William Hamp, Physics, Edmonds Community College
Session

Add to my favorites Bulge Kinematics of Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
Presenter
  • Denise Marie (Denise) Schmitz, Senior, Mathematics (Comprehensive), Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Astronomy Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Peter Yoachim, Astronomy
Session

Poster Presentation 4

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Add to my favorites Differences in Shod Versus Unshod Walking: Implications for Kinematic Studies Applied to Extinct Hominins
Presenters
  • Kayla Worthey, Senior, Anthropology: Archaeological Sciences Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Raining Wang, Fifth Year, Anthropology
Mentor
  • Patricia Kramer, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Laser Cooling and Collimation of an Atomic Beam for Precision Measurements
Presenter
  • Brendan Soren Haug (Brendan) Saxberg, Senior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Mathematics Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Subhadeep Gupta, Physics
Session

Add to my favorites Regulation of Contact Dependent Growth Inhibition by Quorum Sensing in Burkholderia thailandensis
Presenter
  • Emily Claire (Emily) Schneider, Junior, Microbiology
Mentors
  • Charlotte Majerczyk, Microbiology
  • E Peter Greenberg, Microbiology
Session

Add to my favorites Role of PPARalpha in Sepsis
Presenter
  • Sara Meagan (Sara) Maskal, Senior, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Stephen Standage, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Hospital
Session

Add to my favorites Tuberculosis in India: Examining Social Constructs in the Face of Outbreak
Presenter
  • Jennifer Look, Junior, Biology (General), Comparative History of Ideas Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Matthew Sparke, Global Health, UCSC
  • Luke Bergmann, Geography
  • Maria Elena Garcia, Comparative History of Ideas
  • Celia Lowe, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Arm Swing Length: Which is Most Predictive—Step Length or Walking Velocity?
Presenters
  • Raining Wang, Fifth Year, Anthropology Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Kayla Worthey, Senior, Anthropology: Archaeological Sciences Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Patricia Kramer, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Do Climbers Have Strong Hands?
Presenter
  • Shaleigh Diaz Ryder, Senior, Anthropology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Patricia Ann Kramer, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Searching for M-Dwarf Flares using Kepler
Presenter
  • Tessa D. (Tessa) Wilkinson, Junior, Astronomy, Physics: Comprehensive Physics
Mentors
  • James Davenport, Astronomy
  • Suzanne Hawley, Astronomy
Session

Add to my favorites Autism Spectrum Disorders and College Life
Presenter
  • Nada Yousif, Sophomore, Psychology, Everett Community College
Mentor
  • Diane Simpson Brown, Psychology, Everett Community College
Session

Add to my favorites Comparing Regulation and Research Pertaining to Colony Collapse Disorder in the United States and the European Union
Presenter
  • Hana Louise (Hana) Stevanovic, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation), Environmental Studies Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • P. Sean McDonald, Program on the Environment
Session

Add to my favorites Phylogeography of West African Agama Lizards
Presenter
  • Michael Joseph (Michael) Miller, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Michael Miller, Biology, Burke Museum
Session

Add to my favorites Identification of a SOCS Protein that Regulates Purkinje Cell Migration in the Cerebellum
Presenter
  • Hao Huang, Junior, Exchange - Arts & Sciences
Mentors
  • Sergi Simo, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Jonathan Cooper, Biochemistry
Session

Add to my favorites Genetic Variability in CRHR1 and its Association with Participant Response to Glucocorticoid Receptor-Mediated Signaling
Presenter
  • Olivia Joy (Olivia) Fox, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Pre-Nursing
Mentor
  • Patrick Murphy, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacology, Seattle University
Session

Add to my favorites Polyurethane-Based Microfluidic Shear Device
Presenters
  • Sean Nader Tavakoli, Junior, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Robert Francis (Robert) Aaron, Junior, Extended Pre-Engineering
Mentors
  • Nathan Sniadecki, Mechanical Engineering
  • Nikita Taparia, Mechanical Engineering
  • Ari Karchin, Mechanical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Using Polyurethane to Optimize the Fabrication of PDMS Microposts
Presenters
  • Robert Francis (Robert) Aaron, Junior, Extended Pre-Engineering
  • Sean Nader Tavakoli, Junior, Materials Science & Engineering
Mentors
  • Nathan Sniadecki, Mechanical Engineering
  • Ari Karchin, Mechanical Engineering
  • Nikita Taparia, Mechanical Engineering
Session

Add to my favorites Merkel Cell Carcinoma is an Aggressive Skin Cancer: Can Some Patients be Treated with Surgery Alone?
Presenters
  • Tessa Eleanore (Tessa) Marx, Senior, Biology (General)
  • Seesha Rose (Seesha) Takagishi, Senior, Biochemistry, Mathematics (Philosophy)
Mentors
  • Paul Nghiem, Medicine
  • Astrid Blom, Dermatology
Session

Add to my favorites Lack of CX3CR1 Receptor Enhances Chronic Neuromotor Impairment and Accelerates Neuronal Cell Death after Traumatic Brain Injury 
Presenter
  • Jenna N (Jenna) Grillo, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Carmelina Gemma, Anesthesiology
  • Mark Opp, Anesthesiology
  • Hannah Thomasy, Neurobiology & Behavior
  • Heidi Febinger, Anesthesiology
Session

Add to my favorites Development of a Quantitative Calcaneal Fracture Index
Presenter
  • Amali Pramodya Abeysinghe, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Peter Cavanagh, Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
Session

Add to my favorites Visualization of T-Tubule Formation in Developing Human Cardiomyocytes In-Vitro by Caveolin-3 Antibody
Presenter
  • Sonal Jain, Junior, Electrical Engineering
Mentors
  • Charles Murry, Bioengineering, Medicine, Pathology
  • Lil Pabon, Pathology
  • Veronica Muskheli, Pathology
Session

Add to my favorites Life on Snowball Earth: Channel Ice Flow and Thin-Ice Refugia
Presenter
  • Betzalel Sha'anan (Betz) Massarano, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences (Physics)
Mentors
  • Adam Campbell, Earth & Space Sciences
  • Edwin Waddington, Earth & Space Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites The Role of Tubulin Diversity in the Basal Eukaryote, Giardia lamblia
Presenter
  • Michael Guzman, Recent Graduate, Biology, University of Washington
Mentor
  • Alexander Paredez, Biology
Session

Add to my favorites Targeted 16s PCR: Sequencing and Phylotyping of Human Oral Microbiom
Presenters
  • Sojung (Sophia) Lee, Senior, Extended Pre-Business Administration
  • Misty Dawn Knight, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Ian Stanaway, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Elaine Faustman, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Sungwoo Hong, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Ju Young (Julie) Park, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Post- Soviet Youth Identity Formation in Uzbekistan: National Identity of Linguistically Russified Non-Russian Youth, Born Between 1991-1997, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan  
Presenter
  • Ekaterina Dmitrievna (Ekaterina) Balakireva, Senior, Anthropology: Anth of Globalization, Near Eastern Studies (Culture & Civilization) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Michael Vicente Perez, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Gender and Depressive Symptoms as Moderators between Injunctive Norms and Alcohol Use College-Aged Students
Presenter
  • Marisa Samuelson, Senior, Psychology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Andrew Paves, Psychology
  • Mary Larimer, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Psychology
Session

Add to my favorites A People’s Martial Art: Filipino Martial Arts and Decolonial Praxis
Presenter
  • John Clinton (Bo) Mc Clung, Senior, Anthropology, Environmental Studies
Mentor
  • Devon Pena, Anthropology
Session

Add to my favorites Epigenetic Analysis of Naïve Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Presenter
  • Leone Sophia (Sophie) Hopkins, Senior, Extended Pre-Major
Mentors
  • David Hawkins, Genome Sciences, Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Stephanie Battle, Genome Sciences
Session

Add to my favorites Regulation of mTOR and Wnt Signaling Pathways during Temporally Synchronous BCI Stimulation in Rodent Models of SCI
Presenter
  • Tanner Chas (Tanner) Dixon, Senior, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Steve Perlmutter, Physiology & Biophysics
Session

Add to my favorites Alternative Perceptions of HPV Prevention: Circumstances of Progress Based on Resource Availability
Presenter
  • Brandie Lyne (Brandie) Nordstrum, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Matthew Sparke, Global Health, UCSC
Session