URGO
Summer Research Conference
July 25thand 26th
“Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.”
~Albert Szent-Gyorgy, Hungarian Biochemist,
1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1893-1986
Wednesday, July 25: All sessions will be held in Kennedy 305
Session 1
9:00-10:30
1.Ingrid Bergland (women’s studies): “Expressing Gender Nonconforming Identities”
2.Austin Smith (religion): “Devotion to Apple as a New Religious Movement”
*3.Micheale Tesma (sociology): “What are the causes of bicyclist-motorist conflict (BMC)?”
4.James Mahowald (sociology): “Tattoos: Meaning and Identity Formation”
Session 2
10:45-12:15
1.Ryan Bachman (chemistry):“Preparation, purification and Analysis of Multifunctional organic hydroxy nitrates”
*2.Robert Morris (chemistry): “R&R Model: RON Predictions Using Simplified Structure and Entropy”
3.Karleen Stevens (chemistry/mathematics): “Non-periodic Tessellations and Quasicrystals”
4.Megan Rich (biology): Utilizing Fungal Endophytes as a Biological Control Agent for Soybean Pathogens”
Lunch
12:15-1:15
Session 3
1:15-3:00
1.Samantha Cantrall (music): “The Influence of Rap Music in the Arab Spring”
*2. Hillary “Hue” Manning (English/psychology): “Looking Back, That's Not True: Navigation of Narrative Meaning in Emerging Adulthood”
3.Steven Campbell (sociology): “Examining the Relationship Between Young Adults and Young Adults in Recovery”
4.Justin Caron (theatre arts/performance): "Chutes and Ladders: Class and Queer
Performance in American Theatre"
5. Nicolette Albertson (film/English): "On Driving Myself Crazy While Attempting to Write a Script About Mental Illness."
Session 4
3:10-4:40
*1.Kevin Ehrman-Solberg (history): “Little Untaught Brats”: Ethnic and Religious Discrimination in the Minnesota State Reform School, 1880-1900”
2.Yemi Melka (chemistry): “Catalytic Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol by Dendrimer Encapsulated Nanoparticles”
3.Emily Rutten (biopsychology): “Perception of Causality”
4. Ugaso SheikAbdi (economics & math): “Immigrant Health Care: Recommendations for Increasing Utilization of Health Care Services”
Thursday, July 26: All sessions will be held in SVE Room 206
Session 1:
9:00-10:30
1.Brianna Noland (mathematical economics): "An Economic Analysis of Financial Factors on Undergraduate Persistence"
2.Ryan Sward (exercise science) “The effects of caffeine during athletic performance"
*3.Jessica Larkin (exercise science) “Effects of a 6-week high-speed treadmill running program on ice hockey skating speed and examination of skate speed predictors”
4.Abbey Ehling (education): “!Stopping "Taco Night"! Creating Bicultural Curriculum that empowers ALL students”
Session 2:
10:45-12:15
*1.Chad Gilmer (chemistry/education): “Green Chemistry Experiments and Applications to the Classroom”
2.Eric Dooley (physics/education): "Collecting Dust in the Upper Atmosphere"
3.Lindsey Niederhaus (chemistry/education): “Optimizing Organic Amidization Reactions Using a Continuous Flow Reactor”
4.James Leonard (biology/education): "Daphnia magna Motion Tracking in 3-Dimensional Space"
5. Nora Helf (biology/education): “SCOBY: Bacterial Cellulose and the Classroom”
Lunch
12:15-1:00
Session 3
1:00-2:30
- Teryn Coffman (biology): “The Birth of Dopaminergic Neurons in Daphnia Magna”
- Rico Barrozo (biology): “Neuropharmacology: Drug-Screening in Daphnia”
- *Peter Schmit (biology): “Introductions of Sirna to Regulate Gene Expression in Daphnia Magna”
- Ashley Waters (chemistry): “A Fool-Proof Method of Synthesizing Coordination Compounds for Radiopharmaceutical Diagnostics and Therapeutics”
2:35-2:55
Andrea Sanow’s Open House: (Come dressed as your favorite scholar)
Session 4
3:00-4:15
1.Jessica Willborg (biology): "Human Airway Secretions Promote Growth of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa"
*2.Anna Weitz (biology): “Human Airway Secretions Inhibit Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Formation in vitro: Implications for Cystic Fibrosis Disease”
3. Charlie Hoy (chemistry): “Tri-t-butoxychlorosilane, A Useful Protecting Group for Primary Amines”
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
~Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921