Poster Session 1

11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Add to my favorites The Effect of Body Heat on Personal Ambient Air Temperature Measurements During Physical Activity
Presenter
  • Gabino Abarca, Senior, Public Health-Global Health McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • June Spector, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Add to my favorites Identification of Non-canonical DREADD-Receptor Signaling and Overexpression
Presenter
  • Hafsa Abdinasir Abdinur, Sophomore, Pre-Health Sciences
Mentors
  • John Neumaier, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Atom Lesiak, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Using Children’s Books to Facilitate Communication between Parents and Educate Non-Ill Siblings Children when a Sibling Has Cancer
Presenters
  • Rafael Villanueva Achacoso, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
  • Amanda Mai Vo, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
  • Sandra Jean Berry, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Amy Walker, Family and Child Nursing

Add to my favorites Phenotypic Effects of HscA and HscB Expression on Interstrand Crosslink Resistance in Escherichia coli
Presenter
  • Jedidiah Acott, Senior, Biology, Psychology, Portland State University McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Justin Courcelle, Biology, Portland State University

Add to my favorites Toward a Better Understanding of Two Unique Communities of Animal Advocates with a History of Conflict
Presenter
  • Sabrina Aeluro, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation)
Mentor
  • John Klicka, Biological Sciences

Add to my favorites Effect of Touch on Insect Feeding Performance
Presenter
  • Mahad Ali Ahmed, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Tanvi Deora, Biology

Add to my favorites Creating a Split Gal4 System to Drive Restricted Expression in C3da Neurons
Presenter
  • Shyam Dhiren Ajudia, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Jay Parrish, Biology
  • Claire Williams, Biology, Molecular & Cellular Biology

Add to my favorites Orbital Solutions for a Variety of Eclipsing Binaries 
Presenter
  • Aleezah Ali, Junior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Astronomy
Mentors
  • Diana Windemuth, Astronomy
  • Meredith Rawls, Astronomy
  • Eric Agol, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Comparing the Role of Arhgaps in the Anterior Migration of Mesodermal Cells during Zebrafish Posterior Body Development
Presenter
  • Jenan Alsarraf, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • David Kimelman, Biochemistry
  • Natalie Smith, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites The Use of Feature Selection in Determining the Relationship between Chemical Composition and Sensory Properties of Hop Oil Extracts
Presenter
  • Kimberly Claire Hoover, Senior, Chemistry (ACS Certified)
Mentors
  • Robert Synovec, Chemistry
  • Kelsey Berrier, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Basis for Dual-Site Modulation and Recording of Neuronal Activity in vivo
Presenter
  • Mackenzie M. Andrews, Senior, Bioengineering, Neurobiology Levinson Emerging Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Charles Chavkin, Pharmacology
  • Antony Abraham, Pharmacology

Add to my favorites Bisphosphorylimides as Organocatalysts for Asymmetric Friedel–Crafts Reactions
Presenter
  • Omar Apolinar, Junior, Biochemistry, Calif St University San Marcos McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Robert Iafe, Chemistry, California State University San Marcos

Add to my favorites Use of Blogging in Biology Class Writing Assignments to Build Community Among Undergraduate Students
Presenters
  • Ashlan Mecall Applegate, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation)
  • Philip Sina (Phil) Fallah, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Daniel Carey, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Muruudul (Muuduu) Otgonbold, Recent Graduate, Biology (General)
  • Elisa Aiko Cano, Recent Graduate, Biology (General)
  • Chris Nadala, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Jon Woods, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Justine Liepkalns, Biology

Add to my favorites Confirming Novel Antimutators in Saccharomyces cerevisae
Presenters
  • Rebekah Ray (Bekah) Ashpole, Senior, Neurobiology
  • Brady Levi Hearn, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
Mentor
  • Alan Herr, Pathology

Add to my favorites Identification of Principal Groups of Organisms in Zooplankton Samples from the Vava’u Archipelago, Kingdom of Tonga, and In-depth Analysis of Larval Fishes
Presenter
  • Jeremy Joseph Aspee, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management (Wildlife Conservation)
Mentors
  • Raymond Buckley, College of the Environment
  • Marta Gómez-Buckley,

Add to my favorites Investigation of Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) during Construction and Renovation
Presenter
  • Casiano S. Atienza, Senior, Civil Engineering
Mentor
  • Amy Kim, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Add to my favorites Genes Involved in the Senescence of S. cerevisiae
Presenters
  • Ashley Auerbach, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Tianrui Wang, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Brian Wasko, Pathology

Add to my favorites Soil Microbial Abundance is Reduced by Fertilizer
Presenter
  • Leana Lynn Axtell, Junior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
Mentors
  • Serita Frey, Biological & Environmental Sciences
  • Jessica Moore, Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of New Hampshire
  • Kevin Geyer, Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of New Hampshire

Add to my favorites Impact of Social Media on Immunization
Presenter
  • Holly Krulish Bates, Junior, Health Studies (Bothell)
Mentor
  • holly Bates, Nursing (Bothell Campus)

Add to my favorites Bubble Stripping to Mitigate High CO2 in Coastal Ecosystems
Presenter
  • Signe Marie Bergman, Senior, Oceanography NASA Space Grant Scholar
Mentors
  • Alexander Gagnon, Oceanography
  • Nick Roden, Oceanography

Add to my favorites The Evolution of Cooperation - C++ Coding of Social Networks using "The Prisoners Dilemma"
Presenter
  • Brandon Berk, Junior, Mathematics, Heritage College McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Feng Fu, Mathematics, Dartmouth College

Add to my favorites Geometric Models and Image Analysis Algorithms for Detecting Skeletal Phenotypes in Zebrafish to Identify Osteoporosis Causal Genes
Presenter
  • Rehaan Minh Bhimani, Sophomore, Pre Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Ronald Kwon, Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, UW School of Medicine/Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

Add to my favorites Comparing Ipsilateral and Contralateral Effects of Invasive and Noninvasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation Protocols in Non-Human Primates
Presenter
  • Camille Isabella Birch, Senior, Bioengineering, Computer Science Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Eberhard Fetz, Physiology & Biophysics
  • Irene Rembado, Physiology & Biophysics

Add to my favorites Human Walking Behavior at Crosswalks
Presenters
  • Azariea Bonner-Harris, Senior, Physiology, Seattle Pacific University
  • Emily Stohler, Junior, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Seattle Pacific University
  • Nicholas Lee, Junior, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Seattle Pacific University
  • Tristen Wilson, Junior, Biology, Seattle Pacific University
Mentor
  • Cara Wall-Scheffler, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Host-Directed Macrophage Therapy with Kinase Inhibitors that Limit Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Replication and Modulate Cytokine Signaling
Presenter
  • Natasha Bourgeois, Recent Graduate, Biological Sciences, University of Washington Amgen Scholar, Howard Hughes Scholar, UW Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program
Mentor
  • Thomas Hawn, Medicine

Add to my favorites Development of a Noninvasive Method to Enhance Cortical Plasticity Based on Vagus Nerve Stimulation
Presenter
  • Hayley Michelle Boyd, Junior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Eberhard Fetz, Physiology & Biophysics
  • Irene Rembado, Physiology & Biophysics

Add to my favorites Sympathetic Cooling of Ytterbium Ions by Motional Coupling to Barium Ions for Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
Presenter
  • Justin Johnathan Burau, Senior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Astronomy
Mentor
  • Boris Blinov, Physics

Add to my favorites Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Populations, Dietary Habits, and Behavior in the Snohomish River Estuary
Presenters
  • Vienna Canright, Sophomore, Ecology, Wildlife Biology, Animal Behavior, Everett Community College
  • Holden Fox, Sophomore, Ecology, Organismal Biology, Everett Community College
  • Zoe Denckla, Sophomore, Marine Biology, Everett Community College
Mentors
  • Ardi Kveven, , Everett Community College
  • Robin Araniva, Ocean Research College Academy, Everett Community College
  • Josh Searle, English, Ocean Research College Academy, Everett Community College

Add to my favorites Characterization of New Probes Designed to Reveal the Neural Circuitry Responsible for Stress-Induced Behaviors
Presenter
  • Sanne Marie Casello, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
Mentors
  • Charles Chavkin, Pharmacology
  • Benjamin Land, Pharmacology
  • Allisa Song, Pharmacology

Add to my favorites The Untold Stories of the Chuukese Canoe
Presenters
  • Zola Veronica Cass, Junior, Anthropology
  • Natalie Reese (Kamaka'ike) Bruecher, Junior, Public Health-Global Health, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Jason Huynh Nguyen, Sophomore, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Laura May Riley, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Lisa Phan, Senior, Anthropology
Mentor
  • Holly Barker, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Neutralization Breadth and Epitope Binding of Infantile Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Against HIV
Presenter
  • Noah Arthur James Cassidy, Senior, Microbiology Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Julie Overbaugh, Microbiology
  • Jeremy Roop, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Add to my favorites Racial Differences in the Moralization of Student Debt
Presenter
  • Yana Chakalo, Senior, Sociology UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Sarah Quinn, Sociology

Add to my favorites The Evaluation of Patient Burden, Utilization, and Trajectory to Improve Diverticulitis Treatment
Presenter
  • Derek Chen, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • David Flum, Surgery
  • Jeanette Yang, Surgery, Surgical Outcomes Research Center

Add to my favorites Identification of a Causal Gene for a Novel Form of Spinocerebellar Ataxia
Presenter
  • Olga Sarby Cherepakhin, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental), Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Dong-Hui Chen, Neurology

Add to my favorites Finding New Order Within Chaos: The Meta Pattern of the High-Period-Cycles in the Chaotic Phase of the Logistic Map
Presenter
  • Jongsuk (Andrew) Choi, Sophomore, Chemical Engineering , Bioengineering , Edmonds Community College
Mentor
  • Billy D. Jones, Physics, Edmonds Community College

Add to my favorites The Importance of Yapese Knowledge: Sustainability through Canoe Building
Presenters
  • Kevin K. Chu, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Summer A. Godfrey, Junior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Celeste C. Le, Junior, Anthropology
  • Zachary Taylor Dietz, Junior, Anthropology
Mentors
  • Holly Barker, Anthropology
  • Randizia Crisostomo, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus)

Add to my favorites TH2 Cell Response in Traumatic Brain Injury; How Aging Affects Cellular Function
Presenter
  • Morgan Marianna Kathleen Clauson, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Hilaire Thompson, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Add to my favorites The Doorway Project: Addressing Youth Homelessness with a Community Café Model
Presenters
  • Nina Martha Cole, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
  • Ann Phuong Thi Nguyen, Senior, Nursing, Public Health-Global Health UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Josephine Ensign, Psychosocial & Community Health

Add to my favorites Species and Abundance Variability of Larval Fish in the Puget Sound Eelgrass Ecosystem
Presenter
  • Ella Conway, Senior, Ocean Research College Academy , Everett Community College
Mentors
  • Ardi Kveven, , Everett Community College
  • Josh Searle, , Everett Community College
  • Robin Araniva, Ocean Research College Academy, Everett Community College

Add to my favorites Identifying Genetic Modifiers of Abeta and Tau Expressed in the Drosophila Nervous System
Presenter
  • Irene Cruz Talavera, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Microbiology Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine

Add to my favorites Variation in Hind Limb Morphology in Relation to Hunting Behavior in Carnivora
Presenters
  • Aleina Catherine Cudnofskey, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
  • Dustin Kramer, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentor
  • Sharlene Santana, Biological Sciences, Burke Museum

Add to my favorites Genetic Sequencing of Pseudomonas fluorescens L5.1-96
Presenter
  • Tevan Curtis, Sophomore, Mechanical Engineering, Pierce College
Mentor
  • Elysia Mbuja, Biology, Pierce College

Add to my favorites Precision Engineered Scaffold to Improve Immune Cell Response to SCI
Presenter
  • Rebecca Dorothy (Becky) Darrow, Junior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Buddy Ratner, Bioengineering
  • Le Zhen, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Neurological Surgery

Add to my favorites Wright Stain and Fluorescence-Based Methods in Tetrahymena thermophila for Phenotypic Analysis
Presenter
  • Maria (Rosario) del Rosario Ramirez Mata, Junior, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Heritage College McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Robert Kao, Biology, Heritage University

Add to my favorites Measurement of Replicative Lifespan in Yeast
Presenters
  • Naomi Amish (Naomi) Desai, Junior, Pre-Sciences
  • Pegah Hamedi, Senior, Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Paniz Sisan Barzegari, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Brian Wasko, Pathology

Add to my favorites Tackling the Clean Water Problem: Using Next-Generation RNA Sequencing to Identify Contaminant-responsive Genes in Yeast
Presenters
  • Hieu Ngoc Do, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) NASA Space Grant Scholar
  • Frederick J. (Frederick) Huyan, Sophomore, Pre Engineering
  • Gloria Kim, Freshman, Pre-Sciences
  • Hunter James Robinson, Sophomore, Chemical Engineering
  • Alexander James Nicolas (Alex) De Wolff, Junior, Biology (General)
  • Connor T Weiss, Sophomore, Pre Engineering
Mentor
  • Alberto Carignano, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Heterotopia in Dandy Walker Malformation are Caused by Premature Migration of Cerebellar Granule Cells Due to Disrupted Fetal Mesenchymal Signaling
Presenter
  • Danilo Dubocanin, Junior, Microbiology, Biochemistry UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Parthiv Haldipur, Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites Exploring Helmet Use with Bike-Shares at the University of Washington
Presenter
  • Madison Claire Dunmore, Senior, Nursing Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Hilaire Thompson, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Add to my favorites Lab Testing of a Field-Deployable Chamber for Measuring Air Pollution Fluxes on Green Roof
Presenter
  • Myiesha Earl, Junior, Mechanical Engineering, Portland State University McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Elliott Gall, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Portland State University

Add to my favorites Examining How Coping, Social, and Enhancement Drinking Motives Relate to Drinking Alone or with Friends among Young Adults
Presenter
  • Nolan Michael Eldridge, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Anne Fairlie, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Tracey Garcia, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Jason Ramirez, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Inpatient Hypoglycemic Events: Identifying Medication Attributable Root Causes 
Presenters
  • Maria Engel, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
  • Kevin Donghyuk Lee, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • JoAnne Whitney, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems
  • Dawn Corl, Nursing, Harborview Medical Center

Add to my favorites Student Identity and Academic Self Confidence
Presenter
  • Natalia Esquivel Silva, Senior, Education, Communities and Organizations McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Cassady Glass Hastings, Education

Add to my favorites A Research Prospectus: Intraracialized, Anti-Queer Microaggressions towards Queer Black Men
Presenter
  • Camisha Fagan, Senior, English, Sociology, University of Nevada Las Vegas McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Anna Smedley-Lopez, Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Add to my favorites Identifying the Role of RHY-1 in the C. elegans Response to H2S
Presenter
  • Colette Anne Felton, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Dana Miller, Biochemistry
  • Frazer Heinis, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Characterization of Organic Electrochemical Transistor (OECT) with Nafion
Presenter
  • Chey (Cheyenne) Flinkman, Junior, Pre-Major, UW Bothell
Mentor
  • Seungkeun Choi, Electrical Engineering (Bothell Campus), Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (Bothell Campus)

Add to my favorites The Effect of Reversed Rotation on Earth's Climate
Presenter
  • Mason Aaron Friedman, Senior, Atmospheric Sciences: Meteorology
Mentors
  • Dargan Frierson, Atmospheric Sciences
  • Rachel White, Atmospheric Sciences

Add to my favorites The Effects of Fetal Alcohol Exposure on Nestin Positive Neurons in the Dentate Gyrus
Presenter
  • Esmeralda Garcia, Junior, Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College McNair Scholar
Mentors
  • Melvin Simoyi, Biology, Heritage University
  • Pedro Chavarria, Environmental Science, Heritage University

Add to my favorites Last Mile Humanitarian Aid Logistics in Africa
Presenters
  • Elizabeth George, Senior, Industrial Engineering
  • Thanika Painruttanasukho, Junior, Industrial Engineering
Mentor
  • Zelda Zabinsky, Industrial Engineering

Add to my favorites Shining the Spotlight on Spinal Cord Injury: Generating Neuronal Activity using LEDs to Enhance Synapse Formation
Presenter
  • Kirsten Puanani Gilchrist, Senior, Neurobiology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Steve Perlmutter, Physiology & Biophysics

Add to my favorites Analysis of Telehealth-Based Provider Education in Pain Medicine
Presenter
  • Daniel Steven (Dan) Godfrey, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth Innovations in Pain Research Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Dale Langford, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems
  • Ardith Doorenbos, Nursing

Add to my favorites An Experiment in Transgenic Yeast for Water Contamination Assessment
Presenters
  • Lauren Nicole Goetsch, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Alice Anna Burchett, Sophomore, Pre Engineering
  • Chelsea Wan, Sophomore, Pre-Sciences
  • Michaela C. Franzi, Freshman, Pre-Sciences
  • Katriel Looney, Senior, Bioengineering
Mentors
  • Alberto Carignano, Electrical Engineering
  • Eric Klavins, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Identifying the Supercolonizer Ability and Genetic Links of Pseudomonas fluorescens Strain L5.1-96 to Other Pseudomonas Species
Presenters
  • Eli Gonzalez-Perez, Sophomore, Biology, Pierce College
  • Vince Le Bleu, Sophomore, Chemistry, Biology, Pierce College
Mentor
  • Elysia Mbuja, Biology, Pierce College

Add to my favorites Analyzing Star Formation Histories to Find High Mass X-ray Binary Candidates
Presenter
  • Jacob Alexander Gross, Senior, Astronomy, Physics: Comprehensive Physics Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Benjamin Williams, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Women Take Heart
Presenters
  • Jessica Gudiel Vielmas, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
  • Kayla Alyssa Lock, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Kerryn Reding, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Add to my favorites Refugee and Immigrant Children in Lake City: A Snapshot of Community Health Needs and Resources
Presenter
  • Leigh Haldeman, Fifth Year, Nursing Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Marla Salmon, Nursing

Add to my favorites Characterization and Detection of Compression Induced Complexes in AED
Presenter
  • Ervin Kar Ho Ham, Senior, Bioengineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Lawrence Sherman, Bioengineering, Medicine

Add to my favorites The Language of Disease: South Asian Women, Heart Health, and the Politics of Translation
Presenter
  • Ameera Haq, Senior, Biology (General), Comparative History of Ideas Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Sareeta Amrute, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Developing an Instrument to Assess Clinical Stability and Predictability within Nurse Delegation
Presenter
  • Jordan Daniel Hardman, Fifth Year, Nursing Howard Hughes Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Barbara Cochrane, Family and Child Nursing

Add to my favorites Inhibition of Epigenetic Remodeling Prevents Tail Regeneration in Xenopus 
Presenter
  • Marcus Harland Dunaway, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Andrea Wills, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Diminishing Sleep Debt: A Survey of Teens Response to Later School Start Times in Seattle School District
Presenter
  • Marah N. Hay, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Andrea Landis, Nursing

Add to my favorites Wellbeing: A Photovoice Exploration of Health Among Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness
Presenter
  • Liesl Henthorn, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Anita Souza, Nursing

Add to my favorites Spatial Working Memory Impairments in Rodent Models of Streptozotocin-Induced Type 2 Diabetes
Presenter
  • Stephanie Hernandez, Senior, Psychology, University of Nevada Las Vegas McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • James Hyman, Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Add to my favorites Early Behavioral Changes in a Rodent Model of Preterm Brain Injury
Presenter
  • Alair Agell Holden Hunt, Senior, Public Health-Global Health, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
Mentor
  • Pratik Parikh, Pediatrics

Add to my favorites A Neurostructural, Neurochemical, and Genetic Analysis of the Pathogenesis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder  
Presenter
  • Melissa L (Melissa) Howerton, Junior, Extended Pre-Major, UW Bothell
Mentor
  • Bryan White, Division of Biological Sciences (Bothell Campus)

Add to my favorites Evaluating Competency in Insulin Administration Under Nurse Delegation
Presenter
  • Nona Joyce Lynn Hunter, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Barbara Cochrane, Family and Child Nursing

Add to my favorites Investigating the Cause of Oppression and Activism within Hindu and Muslim Women Communities, with an Emphasis on India
Presenter
  • Kadija S. Hussen, Junior, Pre-Major, UW Bothell
Mentors
  • Alka Kurian, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus)
  • Camille Walsh, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus), UWB

Add to my favorites STUDIO: A New Story of Mentorship in STEM
Presenters
  • Kimia Imani, Senior, Psychology, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar
  • Kari Mie Nasu, Senior, Informatics
Mentors
  • Leslie Herrenkohl, Education
  • Jiyoung Lee, Education

Add to my favorites Forefront Cares Program: Evaluating Community Support for Suicide Loss Survivors
Presenter
  • Hannah H. Jeong, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Elaine Walsh, Nursing

Add to my favorites Relationship Between Neurochemical Profiles and Symptoms of Anxiety in Sensory Processing Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Presenter
  • Allegra Johnson, Junior, Pre-Sciences UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Natalia Kleinhans, Radiology
  • Gabriella Greco, Radiology
  • Julia Sweigert, Radiology

Add to my favorites Image Analysis for Automation of Labeling Multivariate AFM Images of Coherent Bio-Nano Interfaces for Machine Learning Applications
Presenters
  • Erik Matthew Johnson, Senior, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Jack Otto Ryan, Junior, Pre Engineering
Mentors
  • Siddharth Rath, Materials Science & Engineering, Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center
  • Mehmet Sarikaya, Materials Science & Engineering

Add to my favorites Investigating Dramatic Climate Change in the Mysterious Sedimentary Archives of Myanmar
Presenters
  • Dominic James Brinas Jones, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences (Environmental)
  • Virginia Heidi Littell, Graduate, Earth & Space Sciences
Mentor
  • Alexis Licht, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites A Microbial Approach to Climate Change: Isolation of Heat Tolerant Endophytes  
Presenter
  • Matthew Ryan (Matt) Joseph, Senior, English
Mentor
  • Sharon Doty, Environmental & Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites Assessment of Two Different Quantum Dots on Proliferating and Differentiating Human Neural Progenitor Cells In Vitro for Potential Developmental Neurotoxicity
Presenters
  • Elijah Marsh Jung, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
  • Joan Lee, Junior, Public Health-Global Health
  • Youjun Suh, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Sungwoo Hong, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
  • Elaine Faustman, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication

Add to my favorites Negotiations of Identity and Intersectionality of Asian American and Pacific Islander Artist in the Art World in Seattle
Presenter
  • Mara M. Kage, Senior, Sociology UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Alexes Harris, Sociology
  • Kyle Crowder, Sociology

Add to my favorites Induction of Islet Amyloid Deposition in a CF Mouse Model
Presenter
  • Nevin Chin Kalaf, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Rebecca Hull, Medicine

Add to my favorites Cross Species Analysis in Zebrafish and Rats to Determine Differences in Gene Expression Relating to Bone Regeneration
Presenter
  • Eric Christopher (Eric) Katzung, Junior, Bioengineering
Mentor
  • Ronald Kwon, Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, UW School of Medicine/Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

Add to my favorites Radiation Reaction: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love E&M
Presenter
  • Alex Kaufman, Senior, Physics, Mathematics, University of Puget Sound
Mentor
  • David Latimer, Physics, University of Puget Sound

Add to my favorites Who Loses When High-Demand Majors are Competitive?
Presenters
  • Marlowe Lee Keller, Junior, Pre-Sciences Howard Hughes Scholar
  • Dianne Laboy, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Howard Hughes Scholar, Levinson Emerging Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar
  • Vera Onyekachi Okolo, Junior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
  • Kailin Nicole Patterson, Senior, Biology (Physiology)
Mentors
  • Scott Freeman, Biology
  • Michael Pelch, Biology

Add to my favorites Information Theoretic Analysis of Hydrological Land Surface Models
Presenter
  • Tushar Khurana, Sophomore, Civil Engineering
Mentors
  • Bart Nijssen, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Andrew Bennett, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Add to my favorites Temperature Effect on Organic Electrochemical Transistor
Presenter
  • Anna Kirchan, Senior, Electrical Engineering (Bothell), Chemistry (Bothell) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Seungkeun Choi, Electrical Engineering (Bothell Campus), Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (Bothell Campus)

Add to my favorites Improving Pediatric Asthma Shared Management: Development of the Symptom Monitoring and Response Module for the Child Asthma Management Program (CHAMP)
Presenter
  • Tessa K. Kolstad She, Her, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Jennifer Sonney, Family and Child Nursing, UW School of Nursing

Add to my favorites The Association of Multisite Pain and Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults with Chronic Back Pain Including Risk for Falls
Presenter
  • Melissa Krook, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar, Innovations in Pain Research Scholar
Mentor
  • Sean Rundell, Rehabilitation Medicine

Add to my favorites Pulse Tectonics in the Radial Artery
Presenter
  • Quinn Mathew L'heureux, Senior, Physics: Applied Physics
Mentor
  • Tom Furness, Industrial Engineering

Add to my favorites Investigation of an InP/CoP Core Shell System for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
Presenter
  • Nathan Legaspi Lai, Senior, Chemical Engineering Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Brandi Cossairt, Chemistry
  • Marja (Beth) Mundy, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Children's Preferences for and Categorization of People Based on Race
Presenter
  • Bella Lee, Senior, Psychology Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Kristina Olson, Psychology
  • Elizabeth Enright (Ake), Psychology

Add to my favorites Cultural Impacts on Perception of Auditory Rhythm and Tempo
Presenter
  • Jared Leslie, Senior, Psychology, University of Nevada Las Vegas McNair Scholar
Mentors
  • Erin Hannon, Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Jessica Nave-Blodgett, Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Add to my favorites Expression of the Neuropeptide PACAP: The Role of the Amygdala in Acute Stress
Presenter
  • Zoe K. Lewis, Junior, Extended Pre-Major UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • John Neumaier, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Marjorie Levinstein, Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Are People Living with Dementia Vulnerable for Potentially Inappropriate Medications?
Presenter
  • Xintong (Erra) Li, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Tatiana Sadak, Nursing

Add to my favorites A Tale of Two Cities: Sustainabile Communities Amidst Urbanization
Presenter
  • Julia Lin, Senior, Sociology/Anthropology, University of Puget Sound
Mentor
  • Margi Nowak, Anthropology, Sociology, University of Puget Sound

Add to my favorites ComGen Authentic Undergraduate Research Project
Presenters
  • Li (Lily) Ling, Freshman, Biology, Pierce College
  • Ran Jin, Freshman, Biology, Pierce College
Mentor
  • Elysia Mbuja, Biology, Pierce College

Add to my favorites Va'alo and its Relationship to Samoan Culture
Presenters
  • Twana Remedios Machado, Sophomore, American Indian Studies
  • Piper Driskell, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Jurni Vaise (Leapagatele) Atanoa, Freshman, Pre-Nursing
Mentor
  • Holly Barker, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Positive or Negative? Understanding Ultrasound Experiences
Presenter
  • Lori MacPherson, Sophomore, Diagnostic Ultrasound Technology, Shoreline Community College
Mentor
  • Trena Redman, Nursing, Shoreline Community College

Add to my favorites A Cross-Cultural Empirical Investigation of Corporate Sustainability Performance
Presenter
  • Shannon Joanna Maroney, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management
Mentor
  • Dorothy Paun, College of the Environment

Add to my favorites Role of Gender in Symptoms of Depression and Objective Sleep Measures in Adolescents: Evidence of Problem of Sleep and Depression in Transgender Youth
Presenter
  • Colleen Claire Mc Cullough, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Andrea Landis, Family and Child Nursing

Add to my favorites The Effect of Temperature on Sediment Arsenic Mobility in Urban Lakes
Presenter
  • Jonathan H (Jon) Mc Lean, Senior, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Mentors
  • Rebecca Neumann, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Pamela Barrett, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Add to my favorites Reviewing and Optimizing Chromatin Conformation Based Genome Assemblers
Presenters
  • Alisha Jenae Mc Nett, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation)
  • Shourya Jain, Junior, Computer Science
Mentors
  • Aakash Sur, Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics
  • Peter Myler, Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics

Add to my favorites Classroom Design: Influence on Student Learning and Engagement
Presenter
  • Cierra Medalia, Sophomore, Interior Design, Shoreline Community College
Mentor
  • Claire Fant, Humanities, Shoreline Community College

Add to my favorites Mentorship Effects on Adoptee and Racial Identity Formation Amongst International Transracial Adoptees (ITRAs)
Presenter
  • Jolee J. Melink, Senior, Social Welfare, American Ethnic Studies Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Kevin Mihata, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Beth Van Fossan, Social Work

Add to my favorites Does the Addition of Biochar as a Soil Amendment Increase Soil Water Retention?
Presenter
  • Sandra Mena, Junior, Mathematics, Education, Heritage College McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Jessica Black, Environmental Science, Heritage University

Add to my favorites Restoration of T cells in the Epithelial Layer of the Small Intestine in Obese Mice by Diet-Induced Weight Loss
Presenter
  • Nadia Miranda, Junior, Biotechnology, Calif St University San Marcos McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Julie Jameson, Biology, California State University San Marcos

Add to my favorites The Effects of Family Size on Achievement Goals
Presenters
  • Faarah Misbah, Senior, Psychology
  • Jeong Moon (Vanessa) Lee, Senior, Psychology
Mentors
  • Jenny Yang, Psychology
  • Laura Brady, Psychology

Add to my favorites Mobile Motivational Physical Activity Targeted Intervention to Improve Sleep in Older Adults with Osteoarthritis
Presenter
  • Michaela K Montstream, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Oleg Zaslavsky, Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems

Add to my favorites Waan Aelõñ in Majel (Canoes of the Marshall Islands): Navigating Culture from Behind the Helm
Presenters
  • Brooke Mooney, Senior, Anthropology: Medical Anth & Global Hlth
  • Dalena Kim Tran, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentor
  • Holly Barker, Anthropology

Add to my favorites Designing Humanized Model of Infective Endocarditis to Understand the Initial Stages of the Disease
Presenter
  • Solomon T. Muche, Senior, Bioengineering McNair Scholar
Mentors
  • Wendy Thomas, Bioengineering
  • Olga Yakovenko, Bioengineering

Add to my favorites What Does “Grateful” Mean to Adolescents?
Presenters
  • Hannah Aihan Nguyen, Senior, Biochemistry, English (Creative Writing)
  • Gurdeep Gill, Senior, Philosophy UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Karin Frey, Education, U of Washington

Add to my favorites Concentrations of Heavy Metals in Eelgrass, Sediment and the Water Column
Presenter
  • Chase Nielson, Senior, Biochemistry, Everett Community College
Mentors
  • Ardi Kveven, Ocean Research College Academy, Everett Community College
  • Robin Araniva, Ocean Research College Academy, Everett Community College

Add to my favorites Ventures of Veterans
Presenter
  • Shamus Martin Nolan, Senior, Education, Communities and Organizations
Mentor
  • Jondou Chen, Education

Add to my favorites Electronic Applications of Semiconductor Synthesis through Filled Fiber Storage
Presenters
  • Mark William (Mark) Odendahl, Senior, Electrical Engineering
  • Alyssa Rose Johnsen Krogh, Junior, Pre Engineering
Mentor
  • Graham Allan, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Cellphones as a Classroom Tool: Swipe Right or Left?
Presenters
  • Naresh Oli, Senior, Biology (General)
  • Dylan Marshall Moorleghen, Junior, Pre-Sciences
Mentors
  • Alison Crowe, Biological Sciences
  • Justine Liepkalns, Biology
  • Casey Self, Biology
  • Jennifer Doherty, Biology

Add to my favorites Does Rating Task Affect Reliability of Auditory-Perceptual Ratings of Voice Quality?
Presenter
  • Amanda Jean Opuszynski, Fifth Year, Speech & Hearing Sciences
Mentors
  • Tanya Eadie, Speech & Hearing Sciences
  • Mara Kapsner-Smith, Speech & Hearing Sciences

Add to my favorites Effects of Harm Reduction Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder on Healthcare Utilization in People Experiencing Homelessness
Presenters
  • Victoria Edlyne Orfaly, Senior, Public Health-Global Health UW Honors Program
  • Bow Suprasert, Senior, Psychology
Mentor
  • Susan E. Collins, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Harborview Medical Center

Add to my favorites The Doorway Project: Using Digital Storytelling to Assess the Needs of Homeless Youth
Presenter
  • Moriah Justine Ortega, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Josephine Ensign, Psychosocial & Community Health

Add to my favorites Examining Preschool Aged Children’s Associations Towards Male and Female Targets as a Function of Male Caregiver Experience
Presenter
  • Leah Oswinn, Senior, Psychology, University of Nevada Las Vegas McNair Scholar
Mentors
  • Jennifer Rennels, Psychology, University of Nevada Las Vegas
  • Stephanie Verba, Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Add to my favorites The Impacts of Biochar on Bell Pepper Diameter
Presenter
  • Alexis Oxley, Junior, Environmental Studies, Heritage College McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Jessica Black, Environmental Science, Heritage University

Add to my favorites Differential Vascular Risk Factors for Cognitively-Defined Alzheimer's Disease Subgroups
Presenter
  • Mack Paller Moore, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Paul Crane, Medicine

Add to my favorites Synthesizing Ni2P Nanoparticles with Surface Ligated Proton Relays
Presenter
  • Noushyar (Noush) Panahpour Eslami, Senior, Chemistry (ACS Certified) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Brandi Cossairt, Chemistry
  • David Ung, Chemistry, Solar Energy Technologies Office

Add to my favorites Using Bacterial Endophytes to Increase Plant Salt Tolerance
Presenter
  • Shruti Sanjay Parikh, Senior, Environmental Studies, Environmental Science & Resource Management CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, NASA Space Grant Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Sharon Doty, Environmental & Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites The Enigmatic Geologic History of the Indo-Burman Ranges in Myanmar
Presenter
  • Diana Park, Senior, Oceanography, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology
Mentor
  • Alexis Licht, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Gene Sequencing of Pseudomonas fluorescens L5. 1-96 to Discover Genes Associated with Wheat Take All Disease
Presenters
  • Savannah Phipps, Sophomore, Biology, Pierce College
  • Damien Puentes, Sophomore, Associates of Science, Pierce College
Mentor
  • Elysia Mbuja, Biology, Pierce College

Add to my favorites Injury in the Immigrant Forest Industry: Perceptions around Barriers to Safety
Presenters
  • Sara Y Post, Fifth Year, Nursing
  • Samrawit Admasu (Sam) Sima, Senior, Nursing
Mentor
  • Butch de Castro, Nursing, Psychosocial & Community Health

Add to my favorites Integrated Local Coherence in Parkinson's Disease Patients Off and On Levadopa: A Resting-State fMRI Study 
Presenter
  • Kimia Preston, Freshman, Pre Engineering UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Thomas Grabowski, Radiology
  • Swati Rane, Radiology

Add to my favorites Amino Acids Increase the Formation of Prebiotic Fatty Acid Vesicles
Presenter
  • Andrew Douglas Ramsay, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Sarah L. Keller, Chemistry
  • Roy Black, Chemistry

Add to my favorites The Impact of Elevated Temperature on Rice Biomass Allocation
Presenter
  • Alexander Michael (Alex) Ratcliff, Senior, Environmental Engineering UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Rebecca Neumann, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Yasmine Farhat, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Add to my favorites Children Who Enjoy Social Interactions Are More Likely to Help, Share, and Comfort Others  
Presenter
  • Sanjana Ravi, Senior, Psychology, Early Childhood & Family Studies UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Kristina Olson, Psychology
  • Anne Fast, Psychology

Add to my favorites Thermodynamic Properties of the High-Affinity Binding of Glutathione to Glutathione S-Transferase Quantified by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry
Presenter
  • Clay Renshaw, Junior, Biochemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Ronald Gary, Biochemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Add to my favorites Teacher Candidates Cultural and Racial/Ethnic Diversity Training and its Inflluences on Teacher-Student Relationships
Presenter
  • Clarita Reyes, Junior, Psychology, Education, Communities and Organizations Mary Gates Scholar, McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Yelena Patish, Education

Add to my favorites The Adaptive Value of Delayed Hatching in Glassfrogs
Presenter
  • Juana Maria Rivera Ordonez, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management (Wildlife Conservation), Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation)
Mentors
  • Jesse Delia, Biology
  • Karen Warkentin, Biology, Boston University

Add to my favorites How the Vaginal Microbiome Changes Before and After the Administering of Antibiotics and Its Role in the Prevention of STIs and HIV
Presenter
  • Alex Luis Roederer, Senior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Tiffany Hensley-McBain, Pharmaceutics
  • Nichole Klatt, Pharmaceutics

Add to my favorites Comparison of Offshore Earthquake Catalogs Across Cascadia to Seismic Reflection Images of Subduction Zone Structure  
Presenter
  • Sofwa Sabarudin, Senior, Earth & Space Sciences (Physics) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Emily Roland, Oceanography

Add to my favorites Sensitivity Assay Reveals Genomic Differences in Phages of P. larvae
Presenter
  • Alicia Salisbury, Senior, Microbiology, University of Nevada Las Vegas McNair Scholar
Mentors
  • Philippos Tsourkas, Biological Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Christy Strong, Biological Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Add to my favorites Testing the Validity of the Photo Emotion Differentiation Task
Presenter
  • Shwetha Hariprasad Sanapoori, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • Tonya Palermo, Anesthesiology
  • Rachel Aaron, Anesthesiology

Add to my favorites Photocatalytic Lignin Degradation Using Nanorod Heterostructures
Presenter
  • Harrison Sarsito, Senior, Chemical Engineering Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Brandi Cossairt, Chemistry
  • Michael Enright, Chemistry

Add to my favorites Yeast Biosensor to Detect Contaminants in Water
Presenters
  • Sairandri Sathyanarayanan, Freshman, Pre-Sciences
  • Griffin Michael Hardy, Junior, Pre Engineering
  • Gideon (Gid) Fadele, Junior, Pre Engineering
Mentors
  • Alberto Carignano, Electrical Engineering
  • Eric Klavins, Electrical Engineering

Add to my favorites Interactions of Colonizing Endophytes in Populus trichocharpa, Explored via Fluorescent Microscopy and Digital Droplet PCR
Presenter
  • Sam Cullen Scharffenberger, Senior, Environmental Science & Resource Management Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Sharon Doty, Environmental & Forest Sciences

Add to my favorites Novel Red Fluorescent Protein (RFP) Reporter for Quantifying Intracellular Invasion of Shigellia flexneri
Presenter
  • Shareef Shaheen, Junior, Extended Pre-Engineering
Mentors
  • Samuel Arnold, Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  • Molly McCloskey, Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Add to my favorites Discovery of 12 Novel RNA Viruses from 6 Spiders and 10 Moths from Washington State
Presenter
  • Ryan Charles Shean, Senior, Microbiology Mary Gates Scholar, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentor
  • Alex Greninger, Laboratory Medicine

Add to my favorites How Old Are the Olympic Mountains?
Presenter
  • Samuel Joseph Shekut, Junior, Earth and Space Sciences: Geology
Mentor
  • Alexis Licht, Earth & Space Sciences

Add to my favorites Internet-based Pain Management Program for Persons with Chronic Pancreatitis: Initial Development and Pilot Trial
Presenter
  • Margaret Carolyn Slack, Senior, Biology (General) Levinson Emerging Scholar, Innovations in Pain Research Scholar
Mentor
  • Tonya Palermo, Anesthesiology

Add to my favorites Nitrogenated Covalent Organic Framework: A Two-Hole System
Presenter
  • Veronica Spaulding, Senior, Chemistry, Univ Wyoming McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • John Hoberg, Chemistry, University of Wyoming

Add to my favorites Comparing Microclimates and Coverage by Foliar Diseases and Epiphytes that Affect Photosynthesis in a Secondary Forest Elevational Gradient in Costa Rica
Presenter
  • Kimberly Stewart, Senior, Environmental Science, Heritage College McNair Scholar
Mentors
  • Michael Heim, Biological & Environmental Sciences, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College
  • Corbin Schuster, Biological & Environmental Sciences, Heritage University

Add to my favorites The Untold Story: Analyzing the Effects of Chronic Pain in Adolescents and Young Adults
Presenter
  • Jacob Aaron Straus, Senior, Biology (General) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Tonya Palermo, Anesthesiology
  • Caitlin Murray, Psychology, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Add to my favorites Investigating the Role of Autophagy in Early Erythropoiesis
Presenter
  • Neele Thom, Junior, Biology (Bothell Campus) Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Sergei Doulatov, Hematology, Medicine
  • Massiel Stolla, Hematology

Add to my favorites Analysis of the Microbial Content of an Invisible Fish Barrier 
Presenter
  • Lauren Thompson, Sophomore, Marine Biology, Grays Harbor Coll
Mentor
  • Amanda Lyn Gunn, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Grays Harbor College

Add to my favorites The Effects of Human Influences on Pollution Run-off into Streams
Presenter
  • Maddie Thompson, Sophomore, Marine Biology, Grays Harbor Coll
Mentor
  • Amanda Lyn Gunn, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Grays Harbor College

Add to my favorites Improving Therapeutic Partnerships: Barriers and Facilitators to Nurse-Mother Relationships When Caring for Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Presenters
  • Erin Tobin, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
  • Hannah Rose Galvan, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon, Family and Child Nursing

Add to my favorites Population Structure and Biogeography of Black-throated Gray Warblers (Setophaga nigrescens) in Western North America
Presenter
  • Michael Anthony Tofflemire, Senior, Biology (Ecology, Evolution & Conservation)
Mentor
  • John Klicka, Biological Sciences

Add to my favorites How Does Smoking Provide a Coping Mechanism to Help Hispanic Males Manage Agriculture Work-Related Stress? 
Presenter
  • Nancy Tovar Garcia, Senior, Public Health-Global Health McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Sarah Ross-Viles, Health Services

Add to my favorites Modulating the Mutation Rate of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with Human Cancer Alleles by Influencing dNTP Pools
Presenter
  • Max Akio Tracy, Junior, Pre Engineering
Mentor
  • Alan Herr, Pathology

Add to my favorites Secondary Trauma in Homeless Service Providers: A Pilot Exploration
Presenter
  • Julie Trang, Fifth Year, Nursing UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Anita Souza, Nursing

Add to my favorites Systemic Oppression and Its Impact on Anti-Racism Activism
Presenters
  • Priscilla A. Trivisonno, Senior, Community Psychology (Bothell)
  • Sommer Jaber, Senior, Community Psychology (Bothell), Society, Ethics, & Human Behavior (Bthl) UW Honors Program
Mentor
  • Charles Collins, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell Campus)

Add to my favorites Quality Assessment Inconsistency in Standardized Publicly Available Datasets in Neuroimaging
Presenter
  • Jonathan (Johnny) Uriarte-Lopez, Junior, Biochemistry, Portland State University McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Eric Feczko, Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics, Oregon Health and Science University

Add to my favorites Evaluation of Stock Selective Fishing Tools in the Lower Columbia Sub-basin
Presenter
  • Mary Valentine, Sophomore, Marine biology, Grays Harbor Coll
Mentors
  • Amanda Lyn Gunn, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Grays Harbor College
  • Adrian Tuohy, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Wild Fish Conservancy
  • Aaron Jorgenson, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Wild Fish Coservancy
  • Justin Eastman, Environmental Science

Add to my favorites Insula Activation and What it May Tell Us About Food Motivation in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Literature Review
Presenter
  • Roxana Karina Vazquez, Senior, Psychology, Biology, Neuroscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Kristen Culbert, Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Add to my favorites Think before You Drink Soda: Implicit Preferences and Beverage Selection under Cognitive Load
Presenters
  • Kaylen Tianna Vine, Senior, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Psychology), UW Tacoma
  • Natalia Rebecca Masterman, Senior, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Psychology), UW Tacoma
Mentor
  • Leighann Chaffee, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus)

Add to my favorites DeepSqueak: A Deep Learning Based System for Quantifying USVs and Extended Analysis Kit
Presenter
  • Emily K Vo, Junior, Biochemistry
Mentors
  • John Neumaier, Pharmacology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Kevin Coffey, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Add to my favorites Attorney and Potential Juror Evaluations of Recorded Identification Procedures
Presenters
  • Hue Lien Vo, Senior, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Psychology), UW Tacoma
  • Shannon R. Taylor, Senior, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Psychology), UW Tacoma Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee
Mentor
  • Stephen Ross, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Tacoma Campus), University of Washington, Tacoma

Add to my favorites Real-Time Measurement of Flow State in Virtual Reality Learning Activities using EEG Data: A Preliminary Study
Presenters
  • Anushka Wadhawan, Senior, Industrial Engineering
  • Brad Floeter, Junior, Industrial Engineering
  • Matt Cook, Senior, Mechanical Engineering
  • Qihua (Garret) Yang, Senior, Electrical Engineering
  • Griffin Wu, Senior, Electrical Engineering
  • Joseph Hyobeum Shin, Senior, Electrical Engineering
  • Lucky Agung Pratama, Graduate, Built Environment
  • Evan Robert Kirkpatrick, Senior, Industrial Engineering
  • Noah Saul Bostick, Junior, Mechanical Engineering
  • Madalyn Li, Senior, Industrial Engineering
Mentors
  • Tom Furness, Industrial Engineering
  • I Chun Hung, Industrial Engineering

Add to my favorites Photometric Redshifts with the LSST: The Impact of Near-Infrared Photometry
Presenter
  • Winnie Wang, Senior, Physics: Comprehensive Physics, Astronomy, Philosophy
Mentors
  • Andrew Connolly, Astronomy
  • Melissa Graham, Astronomy

Add to my favorites Versican Regulation in Response to Lung Infection
Presenter
  • Sarah M Wells, Junior, Pre-Social Sciences
Mentors
  • Charles W Frevert, Comparative Medicine
  • Mary Chang, Comparative Medicine

Add to my favorites Structures and Anomolies within the Collatz Conjecture
Presenter
  • Kedar Yadav, Freshman, Pre-Major, UW Bothell
Mentor
  • Andrew Abian, Engineering and Mathematics (Bothell Campus)

Add to my favorites Multiple Identities and Education: Exploring the Tensions Between International Education and Multicultural Education
Presenter
  • Angela Ramona Yun, Senior, International Studies, Political Science McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Walter Parker, Education, Political Science

Add to my favorites A Biomechanical Analysis of Craniofacial Sutures
Presenter
  • Daisy Vanesa (Daisy) Zavala, Junior, Materials Science & Engineering Mary Gates Scholar, McNair Scholar
Mentor
  • Susan Herring, Orthodontics

Add to my favorites Breaking Down the Doors of Perception: Identifying Genetic Modifiers of Alzheimer’s Disease Proteins Expressed in Drosophila melanogaster Eyes
Presenters
  • Alexander Weihua (Alex) Zhu, Senior, Neurobiology
  • Valeria Aizen, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Daniel Promislow, Biology, Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine