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Accountancy, School of


Rachel Stigge (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Janice Lawrence
Women on Corporate Boards of Directors

Advertising


Yoko Kitagawa (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Frauke Hachtmann
A Cross-cultural Comparison of Advertising Messages Directed toward Japanese, American and German Audiences

Maggie Tunning (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Amy Struthers
The Rise of the Metrosexual: Editorial Content and Advertising in France and the US , 2000-2005

Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication


Ryan Clark (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patricia Fairchild
Servant Leadership: A Key Component of Service Learning

Jennifer Horst (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patricia Fairchild
Entrepreneurship: A Research-based Curriculum

Agronomy and Horticulture


Nickolas Anderson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsors: Walter Schacht and Gautam Sarath
Mechanisms Controlling Switchgrass Seed Dormancy and Germination

Stephanie Blum (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Kim Todd
Evaluation of Select Species, Cultivars, and Varieties of the Genera Echinacea and Rudbeckia

Kaylene Harms (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Staswick
Characterization of IAA-conjugating Enzymes from Rice

Merilynn Hirsch (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Walter Schacht
Measuring the Nutrient Availablity on Rangelands using Fistulated Cattle

Kevin Korus (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ellen Paparozzi
Leaf Re-Greeming versus Leaf Senescence as Induced by Nitrogen Deficiency

Abbie Nielsen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Staswick
Characterization of a Jasmonic Acid Conjugating Enzyme from Rice

Animal Science


Kathryn Breister (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Merlyn Nielsen
Male Reproductive D ifferences in Lines of Mice Selected for High or Low Heat Loss

Jennafer Glaesemann (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Brett White
Plasma Membrane Integrity of Swine Embryos Following Cryopreservation

Jeremy Haack (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Weber
Generation and Analysis of New Mouse Mutants to Understand Innate Immunity

Brian Harris (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Weber
Genetics-based Analysis of the Response to Sepsis

Jennifer Hradec (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis Brink
Physiological Responses of Growing Calves to Stable Fly Bites

Kathryn Jess (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Merlyn Nielsen
Fat Deposition in Lines of Mice Selected for High and Low Heat Loss and Fed Two Diets Differing in Fat Percentage

Shantille Kruse (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Cupp
Effects of Feeding a Synthetic Progestin on Testis Composition in Pre and Peri-pubertal Bulls

Chad Mullins (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Kononoff
Milk Production from Dairy Cows Fed Monensin and Low Lignin Brown Midrib (bm3) Corn Silage

Ashlee Poulas (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Brett White
Production of a Transgenic Mice to Evaluate Activin Responsiveness of the Porcine GnRH Receptor Gene

Tim Sanderson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jess Miner
Ruminal Methanogenesis

Anthropology and Geography


Stewart Hehn (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mary Willis
Refugee Legal Issues

Kyle Klemme (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Demers
Nature or Nurture? Competing Explanations for the Demise of Nebraska 's Historic Oxbow Trail

Chuck Lippstreu (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jay Johnson
The United Nations and Indigenous Peoples' Rights

Ellen Wright (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Pat Draper
The Effects of Access to Clean Water in Africa

Hiroko Yoshida (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: David Wishart
The assessment of the impact of environment alternation on humans' lives: Taking the Yangze Basin as a study case.

Architectural Engineering


Marc Choiniere (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Lily Wang
Responses of Hearing-Impaired Versus Normal Hearing Persons Under Noise

Daniel Hilgendorf (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Lily Wang
Improving Acoustics of Concert Hall Scale Models

David Manley (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Lily Wang
Indoor Noise Criteria

Mary Rose Naughtin (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ece Erdogmus
Analyses and Experiments on Masonry Domes: Catalan and Byzantine Styles

Ryan Skoug (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Lily Wang
Coupled Volume Concert Hall

Brian Skourup (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ece Erdogmus
A Comparative Study of Reconstruction Techniques for Roman Imperial Tombs and Temples

Architecture


Peter Bissen (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Hoistad
In.Form: A journal for Architecture, Design, and Materials Culture

Jamison Burt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Martin Despang
Materials and Building Types

Ashley Byars (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeffrey Day
Art/Landscape/Architecture II

Philip Christensen (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeffrey Day
Sheldon Life and Art Farm

Jesse Deffenbaugh (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patricia Morgado
Towards a New [Latin American] Architecture: Analyzing Le CorbusierÕs Influence

Emily Fleming (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Lindsey Bahe
Architecture Materials Library

Katherine Hall (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Nathan Krug
Great Plains Sustainable Architecture Database

Ryan Henrickson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patricia Morgado
Latin American Architecture before 1945: Unveiling Projects Excluded at MoMAÕs 1955 Exhibition

Nanako Hori (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Architecture in the Humanities

Masashi Ito (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Spirit of Design

Jenika Johnson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Keith Sawyers
Buildings of Nebraska guidebook (Lincoln Chapter)

Amy Kraus (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Potter
Architecture in the Humanities

Iva Laterza (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rodrigo Cantarero
Developing Healthy Communities

Erin Ostendorf (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Architecture in the Humanities

Kara Penniston (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Potter
Architecture in the Humanities: Literature, Film, Theater and Arts

Katie Schultz (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Chris Ford
Analytical Drawings of Aircraft Components

Allison Struck (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Potter
Spirit of Design

Andrea Wilkerson ( Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Keith Sawyers
Buildings of Nebraska Guidebook (Eastern Nebraska)

Architecture: Interior Design


Antonette Hunter (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Katherine Ankerson
Second Edition Digital Book

Kari Jeune (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Frank Case
Sustainability Curriculum Project

John Ogomo (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Hinchman
History Furniture Design

Kari Pederson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Frank Case
Designing for the Digital Future in Music

Rachel Reed (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Betsy Gabb
In Form - Student Run Journal of Architecture

Melissa Strickland (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Hinchman
Eloise Kruger

Kathleen Swoboda (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Betsy Gabb
InForm Journal Student Editor

Anita Powell (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Amber Mohr
Research Assistant to the Curator of the Kruger Gallery of Miniatures

Chantel Regier (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Amber Mohr
Collections Photographer for the Kruger Collection

Art and Art History


Kimberly Brown (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Aaron Holz
Narrative Paintings

Katherine Janulewicz (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Peter Pinnell
Pottery Clays of Nebraska

Benjamin Kamprath (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Williams
Life Timer 0147:33

Kelly Koerber (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Dana Fritz
Garden Views and Local Harvest

Tania Marr (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Gail Kendall
Ceramics; Glazing

Sarah Moore (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Elizabeth Ingraham
Social Fabric

Jonathan Nielsen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Williams
The Seven Mysteries

Chad Olsen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Aaron Holz
Synthetic Experience - The Great Turf

Rebecca Reineke (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Williams
The Seven Mysteries

Biochemistry


Matthias Albin (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ruma Banerjee
Determining the Intracellular Expression and Extracellular Secretion of Thioredoxin and Thioredoxin-Reductase in vitro Using a Cell Culture Model

Derrick Anderson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Becker
Importance of Arginine 431 Residue for Conformational Change in Ecoli PutA

Jeanine Frey (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Julie Stone
Functional and Biochemical Analyses of Plant DJ-1-like Proteins

Melissa Guenthner (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Markwell
Directed Evolution of Plant Formate Dehydrogenase

Matthew Hibberd (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Weeks
Mechanisms for Degradation of the Herbicide, Dicamba, by Pseudomonas Maltophilia, Strain DI-6

Sara Khalil (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Wilson
Determining if Yeast Protein YDR533C has a Redox-regulated Chaperone Activity Like Human Hemologue DJ-1

Scott Kindle (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Julie Stone
A Unicellular Model for Understanding DJ-1 Function

Carrie Lebsack (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Weeks
Testing the Efficacy of a New RNA Interference (RNAi) System in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii

Alexander Lin (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ruma Banerjee
Redox Communication During Oxidative Stress in Brain

Francis Mann (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Raymond Chollet
A Biochemical/Molecular Biology Analysis of the Conserved C-terminal Moiety of C4 Phophoenolpyruvate Carboxylase

Kara Pozehl (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Melanie Simpson
Characterization of a Hyaluronan Synthase Point Mutant Implicated in Human Congenital Heart Defects

Yukiho Shinagawa (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Vadim Gladyshev
The Role of Sep15 inDisulfide Bond Formation

Kristin Williams (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Joe Barycki
Structural Features of Human gamma-Glutamyltranspeptidase

Biological Sciences, School of


Michaela Abbott (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Gwen Bachman
The Effects of Secondhand Smoke on Human Cilia

Kristen Brumm (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Luwen Zhang
The Latent Membrane Protein 1 of Epstein Barr Virus Primes EBV Latency Cells for Type I Interferon Production

Josh Bumgardner (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Gwen Bachman
Seasonal Changes in Immune Function in 13-lined Ground Squirrels

Anand Chetram (First Year UCARE Student) F
aculty sponsor: Zoya Avramova
Role of ATX1 in Arabidopsis Root Development

Landon Collins (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ken Nickerson
Chemotaxis and Germ Tube Formation in Candida Albicans

Karl Dana (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Blum
Construction and Characterization of Mutations in Redox Homeostasis Pathways.

Samuel Erb (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Audrey Atkin
Two Potential Similarities Between PGK1 and PPR1 mRNAs for Nonsense Mediate mRNA Decay

James Fenlon (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jack Morris
Antiviral Role of Anti-viral Interference in Animals

Mallary Hoidal (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Anthony Zera
Identification of Molecular Markers for Endocrine - Genetic Studies in Crickets

Deidra Jacobsen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Svata Louda
Insect Herbivory in Native and Exotic Plant Population Dynamics

Jacob Johnson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Peter Angeletti
Computer Modeling of Human Papillomavirus-Induced Cancer

Li Ko (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
Quatification of Trait Expression

Billy Laun (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Lawrence Harshman
Starvation and Starvation Resistance in Drosophila meianogaster

YingYing Lim (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Eileen Hebets
Variability in Male Foreleg Ornamentation and its Potential as a Quality Indicator in the Wolf Spider Schizocosa vetzi

Jacob Lind (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
Predator Response to Digitial Stimuli

Jason Macrander (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Guillermo Orti
Testing Microsatellite Primers for the Plains Top Minnow

Stephanie Matejka (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Zoya Avramova
Do Redundant Genes Play Redundant Roles?

Minh Nguyen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Etsuko Moriyama
Mining and Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Odorant and Gustatory Receptor Genes from Diverse Drosophila Genomes

Phuoc Nguyen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Anthony Zera
Evolutionary Changes in Endocrine Control

Trung Viet Nguyen (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Anisa Angeletti
Replication of Herpes Simplex Virus Genome

Lacy Phillippe (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Johannes Knops
Elemental Stoichiometry of Drosophila Varying by Age, Sex, and Caloric Intake

Chhama Sarawagi (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jay Storz
Molecular Adaptation of Hemoglobin Function

Jodi Schreurs (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Janovy
The effects of starvation on carbohydrate accumulation in gregarine parasites found in larval beetles of the species Tribolium destructor.

Steven Totusek (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jean Knops
Dominant Grass and Woody Colonizer Nitrogen Dynamics

Thomas Waterbury (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Luwen Zhang
Cyclophosphamide and EBV Replication

Nichole Wheeler (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Lawrence Harshman
Caloric Restriction in Drosophila

Biological Systems Engineeering


Brian Twombly (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Dean Eisenhauer
Hydrologic Effects of Conservation Systems on Groundwater Recharge and Deep Percolation

Prakash Chapain (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Gregory Bashford
Hyperspectral Imaging of Fracture Teeth

Bart Coffman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael Kocher
Evaluating Performance of Tractor CVT's Under Dynamically Varying Loads

Joshua Dodson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Viacheslav Adamchuk
Determination of Small-scale Variability of Soil PH Using a Portable Probe

Isaac Mortensen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeyamkondan Subbiah
Determination of Yolk Contamination in Egg White by Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Rachelle Struebing (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Curt Weller
Effect of Sorghum on the Metabolism of Cholesterol

Center for Great Plains Studies


Fraser MacDonald (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: J. Dixon Esseks
Farm Viability Study

Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education


Keith Nickum (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Lee
Interactive Assessment for Introductory Astronomy

Chemical Engineering


Aaron Ankeny (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Hossein Noureddini
Reduction of Phosphorus from Ethanol By-product Used as Livestock Feed

Olga Dzenis (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael Meagher
Developing Purification Procedures for Therapeutic Proteins/Vaccines

Maja Niksic (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Anu Subramanian
Expression of Recombinant Thrombomodulin in Pichia Pastoris

MinJeong Schneider (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Anu Subramanian
Development of Biocompatible Surfaces

Chemistry


Joanne Antoine (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Stezowski
Tetracycline Antibiotic Research

Leah Dodendorf (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Takacs
Rhodium and Self Assembling Ligand Systems

Bridget Foley (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrzej Rajca
Polymer Magnets

Paxton Forgue (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Powers
Drug Activity Analysis through NMR Metabolomics

Dalal Gumeel (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Barry Cheung
Virus as Templates for Materials Growth

Christine Hay (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: David Hage
Explosives Analysis by IR Microscopy

Joel Jorgenson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Liangcheng Du
Genetic and Functional Analysis of a Novel Broad Spectrum Antimycotic for the Development of New Measures against Fungal Diseases

Alexandra Moustakes (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Griep
High-Throughput Nuclease Assay for Screening Compound Libraries

Anh Nguyen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Marjorie Langell
Electronic & Magnetic Properties of Zinc-Nickel Oxides

Richard Novotny (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Wonyoung Choe
Porphyrin-based Nanobox

Jeremy Obermeier (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Hideaki Moriyama
Structural Biology of Sea Star Fertilization

Alisha O'Malley (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Stezowski
Molecular Recognition Studies Based on Experimental and Theoretical Approaches

Jessica Peinado (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Stezowski
Tetracycline Antibiotics

Arlen Root (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrzej Rajca
Synthesis of Chiral Pi-Conjugated Molecules & Polymers

Courtney Story (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patrick Dussault
Synthesis of a Functionalized Analog of Oleic Acid

Melissa Van Pelt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Stezowski
Molecular Recognition in Green Fluorescent Protein

Civil Engineering


Sean Bell (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Istvan Bogardi
Reliability of Flood Control Systems

Patrick Hartman (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Istvan Bogardi
Managing the Missouri River Under Hydrologic Variability

Therese Pogge (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Shannon Bartelt-Hunt
Assessment of the Geotechnical Properties of Alternative Landfill Construction Materials

Classics and Religious Studies


Kyle Drake (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Lahey
De Ydeis Editing

Seth Schoen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Turner
Revisions of Orval Wintermute's Coptic Project

Eric Shuman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Turner
Revisions of Orval Wintermute's Coptic Project

Computer and Electronics Engineering


Mohammad Rasul (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Bing Chen
Deicing Concrete Surface by Heat Radiation

Computer Science and Engineering


Zachary Berns (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Byrav Ramamurthy
Extending The SIMON Software Package

Adam Eck (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Leen-Kiat Soh
I-Minds

Akira Endo (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Leen-Kiat Soh
Intelligent Learning Material Delivery Agent

Christopher Reeson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Berthe Choueiry
Constraint Processing Techniques for Combinatorial Games

Joshua Rupiper (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ashok Samal
Implementing Data Mining Techniques with Geospatial Time Series Data-sets

Joseph Schulman (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Myra Cohen
Covering Array Landscape 2

Brandon Smith (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Reichenbach
GCxGC-MS 3D Colorization

Julie Sunderman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Scott
Budgeted Machine Learning of Cost-Sensitive Classifiers

Katherine Woolf (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Myra Cohen
Efficiency of N-ary test Cases Based upon Covering Arrays

Economics


Ly Hoang (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Fuess
Comparative Industrial Relations: Comparing Japan , Germany and USA

Takuya Kato (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Hendrik van den Berg
Recent Immigration to Nebraska

Desiree Ochoa (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Craig MacPhee
Mergers in the Automobile Industry Worldwide

Educational Psychology


Jessica Lisman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Beth Doll
Successful Student Study

Rebecca Munro (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Beth Doll
Successful Student Study

Electrical Engineering


Soong Jing Chyuan (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Khalid Sayood
Computation Methods in DNA

Tadiyos Gebre (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Yongfeng Lu
Magnetic Confinement of Plasmas in Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy to Improve Sensitivity and Accuracy

Joel Jacobs (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jerry Hudgins
Renewable Energies Laboratory

Bahar Laderian (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jerry Hudgins
Energy Challenge

Nathan Schemm (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Sina Balkir
Handheld Neutron Detector

Craig Zuhlke (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis Alexander
Nano Particle Based Optical Network Systems

Engineering Mechanics


Jakeb Riggle (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Li Tan
Large Area 1 Tb/in2 Ferromagnetic Nanostructues Fabricated with Sequential Nanoimprint Lithography (sNIL)

English


Michael Andersen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Wheeler Dixon
A Short History of Film

Margaret Goll (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Olson
Explorations in Elizabethan History and Literature

Margaret Gurewitz (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Olson
Medieval Mysticism

Nicholas Krauter (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth Price
Walt Whitman Archive

Lisa Larrew (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Behrendt
Preserving the Works of Charlotte Smith Through Technology

Danielle Luther (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Hilda Raz
Editorial Assistant at Prairie Schooner and Creative Writing

Kristy Maydwell (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Buhler
Shakespeare for Youth

Kristin McCann (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Behrendt
Electronic Texts and the Democratization of Knowledge

Erica Rogers (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Chris Gallagher
Writing Room: Building Writers, Claiming Spaces in Our Culture of Accountability

Ember Schrag (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Grace Bauer
The Process of Poetry: From Creation to Publication

Sarah Schroeder (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Hilda Raz
Prairie Schooner Magazine Editorial Assistant

Jacob Speer (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Fran Kaye
Academic/Career Advising Research

Azure Dee Wall (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Barbara DiBernard
Examining Adolescent Mystery Genre Fiction for Queer Subtext

Entomology


Rachel Carlson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Leon Higley
Thermal Ecology of Salt March Tiger Beetles

Sarah Mack (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Tiffany HengMoss
Resistant Green Beans for Improved Management of Soybean Aphid

Julianne Matczyszyn (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Marion Ellis
Evaluating Management Practices for Reducing Fly Back When Colonies are Moved Short Distances

Lanae Pierson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Foster
Insect Molecular Genetics

Family and Consumer Sciences


Anh Do (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Yan Xia
Perception of Asian American Parents about Adolescent Mental Health and Services

Lyndee Krepcik (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Cody Hollist
Latino/Brazilian Culture and Teenage Pregnancy

Lori Beth Kruse (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Julia Torquati
Environmental Education for Early Childhood

Brooke Spath (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Julia Torquati
Early childhood Education Quality Rating System

Erin LaFleur (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsors: Pauline Zeece and Susan Churchill
Through the Eyes of a Child: Using Visual and Participatory Elements to Understand Children's Perception of the Child Care Environment

Kelechi Onyeuku (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Cody Hollist
Longitudinal Latino Family Development in Southern Brazil

Monica Pleiss (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Churchill
Wal-Mart's Effect on Rural Social Activities

Khoi Tran (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Yan Xia
Perception of Asian American Parents of Adolescent Mental Health and Services

Finance


Sergey Manouilov (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Geoffrey Friesen
Statistical Analysis of Stock Price Jumps

Brian Poppe (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Geoffrey Friesen
Jump Risk Analysis

Food Science and Technology


Gregory Knudsen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Taylor
The Comparative Impact of the Food Alergens Labeling and Consumer Protection ART (FALCPA) on Ingredient Labeling of Cookies

Thanh Tuyen Le (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsors: Stephen Taylor and Jayne Stratton
Recovery and Characterization of Listeria sp. From Cooked Chicken and the Processing Environment

Hooi Ling Lee (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Goodman
Protein Digestion Assay

Sheu Lih Lim (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Lloyd Bullerman
Antifungal Activity of Sourdough Cultures

Morgan McGowan (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Hutkins
Testing the Prebiotic Hypothesis

Jessica Peterson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Benson
Sequencing and Gene Expression in the Tir gene in E coli 0157:H7

Emily Sitorius (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Cuppett
Evaluation of Antioxidative Properties of Grain Sorghum Extracts

Chaifei Soh (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Vicki Schlegel
Characterization of Herbal Extracts by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Geosciences


Jennifer Laflin (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Clinton Rowe
Mesoscale Analysis Software Development

Andrew McDonald (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: David Loope
A Hadrosauroid (Dinosauria:Ornithischia) from the Early Late Cretaceous of New Mexico

Amy Moss (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ronald Goble
Optically Stimulated Luminescence of Quartz Grains

Amy Ruf (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Clinton Rowe
Meteorology Factors Influencing UV Exposure and Possible Health Implications

Jonathan Schueth (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Tracy Frank
Determining the Effect of Environmental Changes on Coral Reefs through the Study of Foraminifera

History


Michael Dozler (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Douglas Seefeldt
Digital History

Peter Gengler (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Alan Steinweis
Research in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

John Kemp (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patrick Jones
Voting Rights Act Digital Research Project

April Kirkendall (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Le Sueur
United States Foreign Policy and Militant Islam

Joe Lamb (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Margaret Jacobs
Farming the Reservation: The Dislocation of Omaha School Children and its Relationship to the Decline of the Omaha Farming Tradition

Daniel Larsen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Lloyd Ambrosius
US Missions to Germany after WWI

Chris McCoy (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Vanessa Gorman
The Development of Greek Athletics

Dene Oglesby (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Le Sueur
Global Conflict: Militant Islam and the West

Jennifer Pahlke (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Le Sueur
Global Conflict: Militant Islam , Algeria , and the West

Erica Wright (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Carole Levin
Gender, Violence, Sexuality, and the Evolution of the Modern Horror Film

Jennifer Edeal (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Garza
Community Study on Lexington , NE , and Latin American Immigrant Populations

Industrial & Management Systems Engineering


Olabode Alabi (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Erick Jones
Applications of RFID Systems

James Crowe (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Hallbeck
Developing Ergonomically Designed Medical Equipment and Strength Data Collection

Brett Miller (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Erick Jones
Using RFID as a Locator System Instead of GPS

Casey Richards (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Hoffman
Prairie Dog Feed Bag Testing

Thomas Williams (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: K.P. Rajurkar
Nanometer Machining

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film


Joy Barlean (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Virginia Smith
Stitcher and Wardrobe for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre

Candace Frank (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Sharon Teo
Research in web design application and nonlinear interactive environments.

Lied Center


Darin Hemmer (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsosr: Nancy Engen-Wedin and Charles Henry Bethea
Using the Improv Process with at risk Native American Students

Kristina Bramhall (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsors: Nancy Engen-Wedin and Charles Henry Bethea
Artist's Voices, Women: POV, AdventureLIED

Management


Mei Wah Chan (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
Decision Support for Group Decision Making

Sher Lyn Chan (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
Knowledge Based Support for Group Decision Making

Wee Ted Goh (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Sucheta Nadkarni
How Information Systems Affect Cognitive Process in Group Decision Making

Yee Ling Tan (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Keng Siau
Mobilecasting: Mobile Broadcasting

Al Pheeng Wee (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Keng Siau
Mobile Healthcare Informatics

Todd Whitehill (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Terrence Sebora
Entrepreneurial Recognition

Mathematics


Adam Nordloh (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Shores
Inverse Techniques for Diffusion Modeling in a Microbiological Setting

Gabriel Smith (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Brittenham
Dirichlet Functions in Number Theory and Beyond

Mechanical Engineering


Evan Luxon (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Carl Nelson
Multifunction Surgical Tool

Paul Ridder (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Barton
Fresnel Solar Collector for High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage

Paul Rogge (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeff Shield
Materials Science of Alloys

Modern Langauges and Literatures


Chad Eacker (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Noriko Asato
The Floating Worlds of Japan

Joel Hoyos (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: J. Agustin Pasten
Transition of Narrative Structures from Fiction to Film in the Works of Authors from the Latin American Boom

Lenna Pierce (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Chantal Kalisa
Francophone Literature Anthology for High School Students

Lindsay Schmidt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Antonio Martinez
Book by Antonio Martinez: "España breve descriptión de sus tareas y de la historía y cultura de sus gentes."

Music, School of


Ashlee Bartek (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Levine
Research and Development of a Small UNL Dance Ensemble

Amanda Fraas (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Levine
Research and Development of a Small UNL Dance Ensemble

Dominique Lewis (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Carolyn Barber
Wind Ensemble Cataloguing

David May (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Therees Hibbard
Developing a Comprehensive Choral Program that can Include all Types of Music

Curtis Moeller (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Clinton
Franz Liszt: A Theatrical Recital

Drew Neneman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Peter Eklund
The Compilation of a Choral Mehtods Resource for Show Choir in Secondary Education

Ashley Oakley (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Barnes
Transcriptions of Philip Glass

Michael Reichman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Bailey
The Technological Advancement and Furthering of Historical Knowledge within the University Flute Studio

Ian Rose (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Albie Micklich
Bassoon Studio Website

Charles Serfass (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Albie Micklich
A Bassoonist's Guide to Improvisation

Sarah Walz (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Brenda Wristen
7/8 Piano Keyboard Analysis of Ergonomics

Jill Witkowski (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Craig Fuller
Tuba/Euphonium Studio Website

Natural Resources, School of


Casey Cain (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Tyre
Sample Size Independent Comparisons of Lizard Home Range Estimates

Mark Christenson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: David Gosselin
Understanding Uranium and Arsenic in Public Water Supplies

Chace Daily (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Hygnstrom
Ecology of White-tailed Deer in the Missouri River Valley

John Dinneen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Swinehart
The Effect of Grassland Destabilization on Erosion in the Sand Hills

Nicholas Dobesh (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: David Wedin
Surveying Sandhills Biodiversity

Scott Groepper (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Larkin Powell
Evaluation of a Prototype Video Monitoring System for Songbird Nests in the Nebraska Sandhills

Jordan Katt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Pegg
Fish Aging Educational Materials

Dori Porter (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Brandle
Insect Relationships in Sustainable Agriculture Systems

Minako Ishibashi (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patricia Freeman
Comparing Mice Selected for High-endurance Running with Wild Caught Mice

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools


Amy Ball (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Lisa Knoche
Parent Engagement and Children Learning Birth to Five: The Getting Ready Project

Sarah Mullins (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Todd Glover
Use of Mnemonics with Classification Tasks

Elizabeth Sexton (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Gwen Nugent
Research and Development of a Field-based Inquiry-focused Geosciences Learning Environment for Pre-Service Teachers

Nebraska Rural Initiative


Monica Sanford (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Sattler Weber
Entrepreneurship and Rural Revitalization

News-Editorial


Chris Welch (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Charlyne Berens
Biases in the News Media

Nutrition and Health Sciences


Kim Bisanz (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Kaye Stanek Krogstrand
Consumption & Attitudes of Whole Grain Foods by UNL Students Who Eat in Campus Cafeterias

Mark Heffley (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ji Young Lee
Regulatory Mechanism for the Expression of ATP-binding Cassette Transporters in Inflammation

Erin Kock (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Judy Driskell
Antioxidant Nutrient Intakes and Food Habits of Nebraskans

Stephanie Kratzer (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Janos Zempleni
Identification of Genes that Mediate Resistance to Nutrient Deficiency in Drosophila Melanogaster

Sarah Mathews (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Timothy Carr
Regulation of Cholesterol Metabolism by Dietary Policosanols

Angela McBride (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Christina Perry
Smokeless Tobacco Study

Kayte Tranel (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Janos Zempleni
Identification of Biotinylation Sites in Human Histones by Mass Spectrometry

Kanae Watanabe (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Janos Zempleni
Overexpression of HCS in Plant and Stress Resistance

Physics & Astronomy


Bob Buckley (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Roger Kirby
Magnetization Dynamics in Thin Films

Christopher Corder (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ken Bloom
DZero

John Mullins (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Gregory Snow
Accuracy of ExacTrac Positioning on the Novalis Body

Taylor Chonis (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Martin Gaskell
Multi-Wavelength Observations of Quasars

Bethany Cuttle (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Daniel Claes
Liaison Physicist to Lincoln/Omaha High Schools for the Cosmic Ray Observatory Project

Maya Fabrikant (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Timothy Gay
Scattering of Chiral Electrons by Chiral Molecules

Amanda Fricke (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Tim Gay
Optical Excitation Functions

Yidan Qin (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Dan Claes
Remote Training of New CROP Participants

Lauren Thacker-Lynn (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Edward Schmidt
Variable Star Astronomy

Plant Pathology


Philip Boucher (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: James Van Etten
Viral Promoters to Chlorella Virus PBCV-1

Jesse Goetz (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Steven Harris
Regulation of Polarized Growth in Fungi

Andrew Westphalen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Powers
Molecular Nematode Diagnostics

Political Science


Kevin Healy (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patrice McMahon
Ethnic Groups of China

Ann Hunter-Pirtle (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patrice McMahon
Role of NGOs in Nation Building

Noushan Noureddini (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: David Forsythe
International Committee of the Red Cross

Juan Perez Jr (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: David Rapkin
An Examination of Latin American Relations with Neo-liberalism

Amanda Ponce (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: D'Andrea Orey
Brown on Brown Resentment

Neil Rutledge (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: John Hibbing
Biology and Political Behavior

Maria Van Etten (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patrice McMahon
The Role of Faith-Based NGOS in Nation Building

James Windle (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: David Forsythe
US Foreign Policy

Psychology


Candice Batenhorst (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Gustavo Carlo
Parental Discipline Practices and Prosocial Behavior among Middle School Children

Sarah Burjarski (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: David DiLillo
Relationships between Types of Child Maltreatment and Adult Emotion-Recognition Skills

Ashley Christiansen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Brian Bornstein
Alleviating the Cross-race Effect Through Instructions

Nikki Deaver (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis McChargue
ASTP Psychology Research Project

Carrie Fick (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Marc Kiviniemi
Daily Experiences and Decision Making for Health-related Behaviors

Heidi Fleharty (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsors: Lisa Crockett and Brett Avila
Camp Kindle Quantitative Study

Michelle Gogan (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jennifer Hunt
Influence of Stereotypes on Reactions to Female Politicans

Jennifer Harrington (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis McChargue
Vulnerability to Risky Behaviors in College Students

Chia Li (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rick Bevins
Caffeine as a Signal for a Cue-reward Association

Ayako Masuda (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Belli
Visualizing Common Scenes

Kathryn Miner (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Brian Bornstein
Eyewitness Memory and Physiological Arousal

Jessica Nokovic (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Carolyn Pope Edwards
Getting Ready Project

Yesmina Puckett (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Debra Hope
Managing College Stress

Jill Rosno (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rick Bevins
Nicotine as a Conditioned Stimulus: Extinction and Spontaneous Recovery

Johnathan Roy (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Gustavo Carlo
The College Project: Substance Abuse and Morality

Katie Sharp (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Carolyn Pope Edwards
Getting Ready Project

Kody Silva (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jennifer Hunt
Ethnic and Cultural Influences on Eyewitness Testimony Following a Staged Crime

Corey Smythe (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis McChargue
Parental and Familial Predictors of Binge Drinking in College Students

Clinton Waltman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rick Bevins
Determining the Subtypes of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Involved in the Use of Nicotine as a Conditional Stimulus

Julie Winseman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Marc Kiviniemi
Affective Influences on Health Decision Making

Chelsea Hammond (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Marcela Raffaelli
Lincoln Planned Parenthood

Andrea Lowe (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Willis-Esqueda
The Baddest of the Bad: The Effects of Race and Prior Bad Act Information on Culpability Assessment

Sari Raber (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Wiebe
Development of Executive Control in Preschool Children

Public Policy Center


Paul Breitkreutz (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsors: Tarik Abdel-Monem and Alan Tomkins
Public Involvement in Policymaking Forums: Who Comes and Why?

Elissa Dahlberg (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Denise Bulling
Disaster Mental Health: Culturally Competent Communication

Kate Silvers (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsors: Alan Tomkins and Tarik Abdel-Monem
Effects on Participants from Involvement in Public Participation Activities

Sheldon Art Gallery


Kestrel Lemen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsors: Karen Janovy and Christin Mamiya
Continuing the Advancement of Art Education to the Public through the Sheldon Art Gallery

Sociology


Latoya Benally (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Kurt Johnson
Healing Pathways Project

Justine Buffalo Calf (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Helen Moore
Healing Pathways Project

Andrea Cantarero (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Miguel Ceballos
The Process of Migration and Latino Health: Health Differentials in the United States

Orlando Cariaga (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Les Whitbeck
Healing Pathways Project

Amy Castro (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Kimberly Tyler
The Relationship for Black/White Youth Involved in After School Activities

Stephanie Ramsour (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Kellie Hagewen
Intended Fertility of High School Seniors

Brent Schmoker (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Wortmann
"Is it Clicking?" PRS Facilitated Student Learning

Eva Sohl (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rosalie Torres Stone
The Voices of Rural Latino Youth in the Midwest: The Meaning of Latino Culture

Megumi Watanabe (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rosalie Torres Stone
The influence of marriage on academic success: The differences between male and female graduate students.

Trudy Woodward (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Dan Hoyt
Adolescent Risk Behaviors

Special Education and Communcation Disorders


Lien Phan (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jordan Green
Real-time Acticulatory-driven Speech Synthesis

Jenna Beckman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Communication and Gesture Development in Young Children with Physical Impairments

Enriqueta Dailey (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Comparison of Speech Sounds Developing in Typical and Non-speaking Children

Michelle Derby (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Karen Hux
Speaking with People with Aphasia: How Speech-language Pathologists Alter their Speech

Amanda Riekenberg (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Communication and Gesture Development in Young Children with Physical Impairments

Cara Songster (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Communication and Gesture Development in Young Children with Physical Impairments

Amber Wagner (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Communication and Gesture Development in Young Children with Physical Impairments

Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education


Lauren Hegarty (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Aleidine Moeller
Documenting and Improving Student Learning through Language Portfolios

Justin Higgins (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ron Bonnstetter
Effects of Incorporating Podcasts into the Classroom Enviornment

Maggie Kuhlmann (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ruth Heaton
Math in the Middle Institute Partnership

Brittany Lewis (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Alfred Arth
Middle School Teacher Recruitment Study

Jessica Neill (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Alfred Arth
Follow-Up Study and Principal Retention Study

Trista Rub (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Loukia Sarroub
A Discourse Analysis of a High School Literacy Classroom

Karen Seibold (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Alfred Arth
Holding Power Study

Kelsey Voigt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jenelle Reeves
ESL Teacher's Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Karin Wentzel (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Aleidine Moeller
Strategies for Improving Foreign Language Proficiency

Heather Winslow (First Year UCARE Student)
F aculty sponsor: Alfred Arth
Reactions to Professional Practicum Experiences

David Henning (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Edmund Hamann
Teaching High School Reform to Undergraduate Future Teachers

Elizabeth Penner (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Aleidine Moeller
German Proficiency of Second Year College Students

Brian Reed (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Alfred Arth
Middle School Teacher Recruitment Study

Textiles, Clothing and Design


Joshua Avila (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Yiqi Yang
Applications of Sustainable Bio-fibers

Rachel Brown (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Patricia Crews
International Quilt Study Center

Kaitlyn Hedrick (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Nancy Miller
Small Business and Entreneurship in Nebraska

Mallory Mohr (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Barbara Trout
Body Adornment - Beading, Knotting, Embellishing

Tracy Rosenbaum (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Barbara Trout
Silkcoats and Knotted Accessories

Audra Soukup (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Nancy Miller
Small Business and Entreneurship in Nebraska

Elizabeth Walters (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Barbara Trout
History of Costume

University Libraries


Kimberly Golden (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mary Ellen Ducey
University History Project

Jenna Rihanek (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Kay Logan-Peters
The History of Student Space at UNL

Susannah Hall (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Mary Ellen Ducey
University History in the Sciences

JoVon Dorsey (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Jewell
Digitizing the History of the University

Jeffrey Godfrey (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Katherine Walter
Sermons in 16th-17th Century German-speaking Europe

Kimberly Kraska (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Jewell
Digitizing the History of the University of Nebraska

Anastasia Smallcomb (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Katherine Walter
A Comparison of University Literary Societies in the U.S. and at UNL

Nicholas Swiercek (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Brett Barney
Digital Research in the Humanities Digitizing Historical Documents

University of Nebraska Press


Lukas Bomar (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Erin Trummer
Journals Fulfillment

Eric Chloupek (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Margie Rine
Design Assistant

Travis Groves ( First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeremy Hall
Editorial Intern: Journals Department, UNL Press

Ashley Johnston (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Alison Rold
Production Design at the University of Nebraska Press

Kathleen Kenney (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ladette Randolph and Beth Ina
Working in Manuscript Editorial

Brienna Pinnow (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Joyce Gettman
University of Nebraska Press Journals Marketing - Independent Promotional Tool Development

Kimberly Rice (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Ladette Randolph
General Introduction to Scholarly Publication

Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences


Laura Conroy (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Y. Joe Zhou
Behavioral Assessment of Mouse Lines with Different Forms of Glucocorticoid Receptors

Elizabeth Turnage (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Marjorie Lou
The Effect of Age on Thioredoxin in the Lens

Sasha Zheng (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Y. Joe Zhou
Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of the Mouse Lines with Polymorphic Glucocoricoid Receptors

Women's Studies


Colleen McBride (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rose Holz and Barbara DiBernard
The Life and Times of the American Birth Control Clinic

Jill Savage (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty sponsor: Rose Holz and Barbara DiBernard
Constructions of Female Sexualities in Literature and Film

 

Last updated August 2007