Research on Display

The LAS Summer Undergraduate Research and Artistry Colloquium highlighted students who conducted research on campus during the summer. Students who received summer fellowship funds presented their projects, and other researchers showed posters describing their work.

Participants included:

Summer Fellows
Matthew Folkenroth ’18, chemistry — Using finely-divided metals in silicone rubber to catalyze organic chemical reactions

Sarah McMillan ’19, biochemistry and psychology — Measuring gluthathione reductase activity and spore germination kinetics in Fusarium verticillioides

Nicole Pearl ’17, psychology — Increased suicide risk in patients following bariatric surgery: A meta-analysis

Anna Schuver ’18, organizational communication and Spanish — Getting beyond the textbook: Understandings of rape and consent in sex education curriculum

Poster Displays
Jeremiah Brittin ’18, chemistry, and Maya Rockwell ’18, medical laboratory science — syntheses of norbornene-based amphiphilic polymers

Jessica Haack ’18, English education

Jacob Jones ’18, biology

Elijah Sowers ’18, chemistry — Spectroscopic analysis of hSP-D protein via fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

Cecelia Lentz ’18, psychology and spanish — Worrying about someone else instead: The effects of helping on anxiety

Katie Metcalf ’19, psychology — Inequity at play: Narcissists’ attraction to relationship imbalance in romantic relationships

Hailemariam Mitiku ’20, biochemistry — Sustainable and renewable: Nature-based plastics for the modern world

Paige Pierson and Haley Hardtke ’19, biochemistry — Exploring the origins of reduced pathogenicity in a trehalose-deficient strain of the corn rot fungus Fusarium verticillioides

Caitlin Smith ’20, Rebecca Splitt ’20, Elijah Potokar ’17 and Jason Bellmore ’17, biochemistry — Characterization of macromolecular interactions that influence pichia pastoris Vac8p function in microautophagy

Michael Vazquez ’18, biochemistry — A comprehensive study of the intramolecular interactions methylated and unsubstituted cyclodextrins using density functional theory and implicit solvent methods