UCARE Projects Funded for 2007-08
Accountacy, School of
Caitlin Skrdla-Markwell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Janice Lawrence
The Relationship between Financial Restatements and the CEO Letters to Shareholders
Advertising
Hailey Abbott (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Amy Struthers
How European is Europe? A Study of Emerging European Identity through Advertising Copy
Lisa Herman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Amy Struthers
French Women Do Get Fat: Fashion Advertising's Response to the Changing Bodies of French Women
Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication
Jennifer Horst (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Patricia Fairchild
Entrepreneurship: A Research Based Curriculum
Agricultural Economics
Ayako Ebata (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lilyan Fulginiti
Sustainable Productivity Growth
Karoline Kastanek (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Amalia Yiannaka
The Market Effects of Genetically Engineered Nutraceuticals
Agronomy and Horticulture
Lars Anderson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Walter Schacht
Testing an Assumption of a Standard Ornithological Field Method
Stephanie Blum (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kim Todd
Evaluation of Select Species, Cultivars, & Varieties of the Genera Echinacea & Rudbeckia
Jacqueline Jahn (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: P. Stephen Baenziger
Applied Wheat Genomics
Kevin Korus (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ellen Paparozzi
The Role of Carbohydrates in Re-greening of Nitrogen-deficient Leaves
Joseph Micek (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Lee
Buffalo Grass Gene Mapping
Clint Osborne (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: P. Stephen Baenziger
Triticale Forage Trial - Biomass for Forage or Cellulosic Ethanol
Abbie Seitz (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Staswick
The Role of Jasmonic Acid Conjugates in Plant Protection
Laura Tiehen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: P. Stephen Baenziger
Breeding Wheat for Low Polyphenol Oxidase
Agronomy & Horticulture / Landscape Architecture
Kelsey Latshaw (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Sutton
Prairie Plant Establishment on Green Roofs
Agronomy and Horticulture / Plant Pathology
Kristin Pederson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: James Stubbendieck and Gary Yuen
Blowout Penstemon Mycorrhiza Study
Animal Science
Kathryn Cockerill (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jennifer Wood
Regulation of Centrosome-Associated Gene Expression
Jacob Geis (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Galen Erickson
Peformance of Beef Cattle Utilizing Genetically Modified Sorghum
Lindsey Hofman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jennifer Wood
Estrogen Regulation of Granulosa Cell Gene Expression
Meghan Hungerford (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Burkey
Beta-glucan as an Immunomodulator in Porcine Immune Cells and Enterocytes
Shannon Killion (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Merlyn Nielsen
Variation in Testes Size and Structure, Sperm Number and Sperm Quality in Males of Mouse Lines Divergently Selected for Heat Loss
Shantille Kruse (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Cupp
Effect of VEGF, a Key Protien in Vascular Formation, on Follicle Development in Mice
Ashlee Poulas (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brett White
Production of Transgenic Mice to Evaluate Activin Responsiveness of the Porcine GnRH Receptor Gene
Jessalyn Schrock (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Steven Jones
Development of Curriculum for the Online Meat Culinology Certification Program
Anthropology and Geography
Jared Bragg (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mary Willis
History and Distribution of Anterior Dental Extraction in Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew LaBounty (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Peter Bleed
The Archeology of Technological Innovation: Firearm Use in Contact Period Sites of Eastern North America
Chuck Lippstreu (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jay Johnson
Identifying the Role Of Place in Bolivia 's New "Indigenous Socialism"
Emily Smith (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mary Willis
Dental Morphometrics of Neur and Dinka Refugees
Architectural Engineering
Shane Cherney (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Griegor Henze
Thermo-active Building Systems for U.S. Climates
Daniel Hilgendorf (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lily Wang
Improving Acoustics of Concert Hall Scale Models
Scott Lindgren (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Clarence Waters
Calibration and Use of the Digital Imaging Photometer
Mary Rose Naughtin (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ece Erdogmus
Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar in Structural Engineering
Jennifer Reisdorff (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lily Wang
Human Performance and Airborne Noise
Travis Schafer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ece Erdogmus
Interdisciplinary Stuies on an Ancient Roman Temple
Ryan Skoug (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lily Wang
Coupled Volume Concert Halls
Ryan Tushner (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mahmoud Alahmad
Optimization of Battery Pulse Charging Technique
Architecture
Adam Andrews (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Potter
Architecture in the Humanities
Jamison Burt (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Martin Despang
Materiality Research
Ashley Byars (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeffrey Day
Art Farm @ Sheldon
Derik Eckhardt (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Peter Hind
How do we get off the grid?
Ryan Ferguson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Patricia Morgado
Residence(s) on Earth: The Houses of Pablo Neruda
Sara Hieb (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeffrey Douglass
Art Farm @ Sheldon
Nanako Hori (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Architecture in the Humanitites
Michael Houston (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Architecture in the Humanities
Jenika Johnson (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: H. Keith Sawyers
Buildings of Nebraska Guidebook (Lincoln chapter)
Victoria Jordan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Amber Mohr
Curatorial Assistant to the Kruger Gallery
Yaravi Lopez-Wilson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: William Borner
"Greening the Curriculum": A Research of Sustainable Design in Existing Studio/Adjunct Curriculum for the Possible Development of Existing and Future Courses
Cristina Lorie (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Martin Despang
Marketing and Research
Amy Lott (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: H. Keith Sawyers
Buildings of Nebraska Guidebook (Eastern Region)
Alex Mastera (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Timothy Hemsath
Digital Fabrication
Maureen McCormick (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Nate Krug
Curricular Modules in Sustainability, Interior Design
Alexa Muhs (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Chris Ford
Eidetic Imagery: State of Nebraska
Kara Penniston (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Potter
Architecture in the Humanitites
Tracy Rodarte (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Architecture Database
Jimmy Rohr (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Martin Despang
The Free Form Project
Daniel Snoozy (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Hoistad
Constructing a Digital Model of Campus for Google Earth
Maura Trumble (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeffrey Day
Art Farm @ Sheldon
Clarissa Volker (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Amber Mohr
Digitization Assistant to the Kruger Collection
Jason Wheeler (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hyan Tae Jung
Researching Grid Structures on Skyscrapers
Lina Zarate (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Nate Krug
Curricular Modules in Sustainability
Architecture - Landscape Architecture
Mark Fluehr (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Camilla Rice
Public spaces in Lincoln and Around the World
Jedediah Riggle (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Camilla Rice
Public Space - A Case Study: How well do the Lincoln Street Profiles Support Pedestrian Activity?
Architecture - Interior Design
Emily Fleming (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lindsay Ellsworth Bahe
Material Kiosk
Antonette Hunter (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Katherine Ankerson
Professional Design Observation and Research
Kari Jeune (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Duncan Case
Green For Life
Stephanie Shepard (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Hinchman
History of Furniture Textbook
Abbey Strahm (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Betsy Gabb
Publications in Architecture and Design
Art and Art History
Bridget Bumgardner (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Elizabeth Ingraham
Soft Technologies
Rosemary Burk (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dana Fritz
Terraria Gigantica: The World Under Glass
Ashley Conatser (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Suzanne Spencer
Curatorial Strategies and their Effects
Richard Gowans (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gail Kendall
Ceramics
Kelly Koerber (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dana Fritz
Postcards
Kestrel Lemen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Christin Mamiya Karen Janovy
Creating A Student Arts Organization
Tania Marr (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gail Kendall
Ceramics
Sarah Moore (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Elizabeth Ingraham
Illuminations
Nathan Murray (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gail Kendall
Ceramics
Jonathan Nielsen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Williams
Intercultural Design
Chad Olsen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Aaron Holz
Beauty Type
Rebecca Reineke (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Williams
A Tangled Collection of Thoughts
Ashley Thiems (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Aaron Holz
Painting: Physicality and illusion
Biochemistry
Derrick Anderson (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Becker
Importance of Tyrosine 437 in E. Coli Proline Utilization A (Put A)
Joshua Bies (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jaekwon Lee
Structure-function Analyses of ctrl Copper Transporter
Michelle Byerly (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cheryl Bailey
Cryopreservation of Chlamydomonas
April Christensen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Becker
The Impact of PutA-FAD Interactions on PutA-Membrance Association
Danita Curtiss (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Melanie Simpson
Hyaluronan Synthase 2: Unstable or Inactive in Tumor Metastasis?
Sahar Hasim (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Wilson
Esl protein in Down Syndrom
Jacob Johnson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Madhavan Soundararajan
Acetylcholine and Plant Signaling
Scott Kindle (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Julie Stone
A Unicellular Model for Understandin DJ-1 Function: Part II
Alisha O'Malley (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Melanie Simpson
Structural Determinations of 6-deoxy-oxytetracycline
Jesse Pickerill (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Weeks
Normalization of Exogenous Protein Expression in Xenopus Oocytes
Kara Pozehl (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Melanie Simpson
Characterization of a Hyaluronan Synthase Point Mutant Implicated in Human Congenital Heart Defects
Lauren Volentine (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jaekwon Lee
Role of CCC2 Gene in Copper Transport
Laura Willoughby (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Weeks
Multiple Uses of the C. reinhardtii ACM Gene
Biological Sciences
Bronson Boosalis (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Eileen Hebets
Complex Signal Evolution in the Wolf Spider Schizocosa
Alexandra Brugler (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Blum
Analysis of the Sulfolobus Vap8 toxin-antitoxin
Christopher Cummings (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Audrey Atkin
Upf1p Phosphorylation in Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay
Karl Dana (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Blum
Genetic Analysis of Archaeal Nonsense Polarity
Dustin Franklin (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Eileen Hebets
Hormone Levels and Female Receptivity in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders
Trista Fuchs (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anisa Angeletti
Analysis of Virion Host Shutoff Protein Encoded by Herpes Simplex Virus
Corey Georgesen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anisa Angeletti
Replication of Herpes Simplex Virus Genome
Shay Hampton (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: John Janovy
Biology of Gregarines in Latheticus Oryzae
Mallary Hoidal (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anthony Zera
DNA Sequence Differences Involved in an Adaptation for Lipid Metabolism
Caleb Huenefeld (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Etsuko Moriyama
Development of Biological Ontologies
Deidra Jacobsen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Svata Louda
The Insect-plant Pathogen Relationship in the Dynamics of a Native Thistle Population
Ethan Jensen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Gardner
Parasites of Mongolian Mammals
Li Ko (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
The Role of Chemical Cues on Mating Decisions
Brandon Kuss (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ken Nickerson
Microbiology of the Alkali Lakes
Kassandra LeBaron (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lawrence Harshman
Lifespan and Obesity Effects of Food Types
Lindsey Manzel (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: John Janovy
The Role of Polysaccharides during Gametocyst Development and Sporogony
Jessica Meyerink (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ken Nickerson
Alkaline Lakes xylanases
Kingsley Okafor (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Audrey Atkin
Nonsense Mediated Decay Pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Kee Yang Ong (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anthony Zera
Hormonal Basis of an Adaptation
Oluwatoyosi Sanya (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Etsuko Moriyama
Bioinformatics Analysis of microRNA and its Machineries from Plants and Fungi
Chhama Sarawagi (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jay Storz
Mechanisms of Hemoglobin Adaptation to Hypoxia
Nikaela Schernikau (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gwen Bachman
The Effect of Age and Diet on the Metabolic Rates of Ornate Box Turtles
Nathan Seggerman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Gardner
Comparative Biology of Parasites in Subterranean Mammals: A Study of Parasites from Bolivia , Mongolia and North America
Jeremy Stone (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anthony Zera
Hormonal Basis of Wing Polymorphism
Steven Totusek (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jean Knops
Plant Competition for Soil Nitrogen: The Role of the Soil Microbial Community
Jane Tsui (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
Quantifying Behavioral and Morphological Traits
Thomas Waterbury (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Luwen Zhang
Role of the Immunosuppressant Cyclophosphamide in EBV Lytic Replication
Matt Weber (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: R.L. Pardy
Gram (-) bacteria endotoxin - (Lippopolysacharides)
Biological Systems Engineering
Dennis Bierle (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Jones
Continuous High Pressure Processing of Liquid Foods
Prakash Chapain (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gregory Bashford
Hyperspectral Imaging of Fracture Teeth
Wei Jian Chin (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Suat Irmak
UV Inactivation of Salmonella in Liquid Egg White
Michael Classen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: George Meyer
Energy Efficiency in Real-time Controlled Environment Agriculture
Heidi Gengenbach (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Angela Pannier
Effect of Extracellular Matrix Proteins on Gene Delivery
Brent Hanson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: George Meyer
Systematic Inventory Software for Plants
Daniel Jahraus (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Viacheslav Adamchuk
Implement Stabilizer-Based Soil Strength Sensor Development
Grant Janousek (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Roger Hoy
Power Boost Testing Procedure
Michaela McBride (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gregory Bashford
Safe Patient Handling: A biochemical Anaylsis of Sit-to-Stand Devices vs. Normal Human Movement
Isaac Mortensen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeyamkondan Subbiah
Moisture Content Detection for Peanuts in Complete Shells using NIR
Jason Schafer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dean Eisenhauer
Republican River Basin Water Conservation Project
Center for Science, Mathematics, & Computer Education
Megan Holland (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Lee
Development of Science Outreach Programs for School Children
Keith Nickum (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Lee
Development of a Sorting Task Template for Interactive Assessment
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rachel Anderson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hendrik Viljoen
PCR Elongation and Depurination
Acacia Caraballo (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jim Hendrix
New Methods in Gold Leaching
Aaron Fluitt (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hendrik Viljoen
Kinetic Model of the Ribosome Translation Process
Emily Guthrie (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hossein Noureddini
Separation of Oil in DDGS and its Conversion to Biodiesel
Matt Hansen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hossein Noureddini
Enzymatic Degradation and Removal of Phytates from DDGS
Maja Niksic (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anuradha Subramanian
Functional Characterization of Pichia Expressed Proteins
Keith Rodenhausen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ravi Saraf
Electrical Properties of a Gold nanoparticle "Necklace of Beads"
MinJeong Schneider (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anuradha Subramanian
Evaluation of Biomaterial Surfaces
Chemistry
Ross Cheloha (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Berkowitz
Applications of Alcohol Dehydrogenase Enzymes In Organic Chemistry
Leah Dodendorf (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Takacs
Study of the Methods to the Approach to the Synthesis of a Dolabellane Diterpene
Bridget Foley (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrzej Rajca
Magnetic Polymers
Joel Jorgenson (Second 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
Joy Kotschwar (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Pat Dussault
New Approaches to Ozonolysis
Nicholas Lehmann (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrzej Rajca
Organic MRI Contrast Agents
Joshua Lovell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrzej Rajca
Organic MRI Contrast Agents
Andrew Maresch (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Liangcheng Du
Biosynthetic Mechanism for Mycotoxins
Larry McElravy (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Griep
Determining the ssDNA-Binding Site on Primase
Alexandra Moustakes (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Griep
High-Throughput Nuclease Assay for Screening Compound Libraries
Richard Novotny (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Wonyoung Choe
Hydrogen Storage in Porphyrin-based Materials
Hyun-Tak Son (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Wonyoung Choe
Porphyrin Nanorings
Courtney Story (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Pat Dussault
Synthesis of Functionalized Fatty Acids
Melissa Van Pelt (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: John Stezowski
A Correlated Experimental & Theoretial Investigation of Tetracycline a Broad Spectrum Antibiotic
Chad Vogeler (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Liangcheng Du
New Antimalarial Agents through Biosynthetic Engineering of Fungi
Robert Weir (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jason Kautz
Synthesis, Structure and Characterization of Novel Organolanthanide Complexes
Lakshmi Yerra (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: John Stezowski
Structural Studies of Molecular Recognition
Nancy Young Hong (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jason Kautz
Synthesis and Structure of Novel Organometallic Complexes
Child, Youth and Family Studies
Kristi Grothe (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Julia Torquati
Understanding the Development of Self-Regulation in Children
Betsy Jareske (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rochelle Dalla
Navajo Teenage Mothers: A 15-Year Follow-up Investigation
Beth Meier (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Churchill
Children's Perceptions of Childcare Environments: A Photographic Exploration
Corey Minchow (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cody Hollist
Latino Adolescent Mental Health and Family Functioning
Ginger Ottoson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cody Hollist
The Impact of Immigration Raids on Families
Monica Pleiss (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Churchill
Investigation Into Autism and Occupational Therapy
Chelsea Rivera (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cody Hollist
Engagement with Latino Adolescents and their Families: the Therapist Perspective
Cherise Stortvedt (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Douglas Abbott
Premarital Sexual Decision in a Sample of Young Adults
Tammy Stuhmer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rochelle Dalla
Marital Strain and Mental Health: A Qualitative Investigation of Rural Immigrant Latinas and Their Caucasian Peers
Julie Sukup (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rochelle Dalla
Navajo Teenage Mothers: A 15-Year Follow-up Investigation
Elizabeth Wild (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michelle Rupiper
Accreditation: the Mark of Quality in Early Childhood Edcuation
Civil Engineering
Matthew Clark (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Admiraal
Velocity Measurements Using Thermal Imaging Cameras
Cody Stolle (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dean Sicking
Cost Effective Measures for Roadside Design on Low Volume Roads
Classics & Religious Studies
Kyle Drake (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Lahey
Trialogus Editing and Translation
Joshua Withrow (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Lahey
The Effect of Anglo-Saxon Political Thought on the Politics of Later Medieval Thinkers
Communication Studies
Kristin Allan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kristen Lucas
Organizational Socialization of College Students
Computer Science & Engineering
Kevin Abel (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Scott
Improvements in a State-of-the-Art Protein Evolution Simulation Method
Aaron Bonebright (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Swanson
Web Editing and Cluster Monitoring
Kyle Dobitz (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Leen-Kiat Soh
Studying I-MINDS Using a Simulation
Adam Eck (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Leen-Kiat Soh
User Modeling in Multiagent Systems
Alan Mock (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Vinodchandran Variyam
Proving Lower Bounds for the Complexity of Boolean Functions
Steven Mott (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Leen-Kiat Soh
A Framework to Federate Disparate Biological Databases
Joshua Reed (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Berthe Choueiry
Interactive Methods for Resource Management and Allocation
Christopher Rodgers (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Costello
Interval Arithmetic for Financial Software
Marshall Schiring (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Scott
Improvements to A High-Dimensional EM-Based Piecewise Regression Algorithm
Kiranbir Singh Sodhia (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Henninger
Wiki Technology for Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge
Julie Sunderman (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Scott
Budgeted Machine Learning of Cost-Sensitive Classifiers
John Tooker (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Henninger
A Framework to Federate Disparate Biological Databases
John Vogel (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lisong XU
Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming
Derek Weitzel (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Swanson
Cluster Visualization
Robert Woodward (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Berthe Choueiry
Symmetry Breaking in Constraint Processing
Construction Systems
Steve Cross (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: George Morcous
Concrete Strength
Economics
Desiree Ochoa (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Craig MacPhee
Mergers and Acquisitions in the Automobile Industry Worldwide
Kyle Shanahan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Craig MacPhee
Effects of NAFTA and Other Trade Agreements on te US Automobile Market
Elizabeth Tronsor (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hendrik van den Berg
The Economics of Immigration: Surveying the Literature, Identifying the Future Course of Research
Educational Psychology
Danielle Peterson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: John Creswell
Clifton Project (Project of the Nebraska Human Resources Institute)
Electrical Engineering
Martin Diaz (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: R.J. Soukup
A New Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Material for High Efficiency Solar Cells
Evan Kilgore (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis Alexander
Nanoparticle Based Optical Switch
Eric Montgomery (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mathias Schubert
Optical Properties of Novel Semiconductor Nanostructures
Massoud Mahjouri Samani (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: YongFeng Lu
Laser-Assisted CVD for Self-aligned Carbon Nanotube Field-effect Transistors (CNTFET) Arrays Fabrication
Engineering Mechanics
Ericka Amborn (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Joseph Turner
Determining the Mechanical Properties of Bone using Nanoindentation
Chris Bergh (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Yuris Dzenis
Nanomanufacturing and Mechanics of Advanced Continuous Nanofibers
English
Mimi Abebe (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Seanna Oakley
Literature of the Ethiopian Revolution
Margaret Goll (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Olson
International Relations in Shakespeare's Works - 1604/1605
Nicholas Krauter (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth Price
Walt Whitman Archive
Gwen Langrehr (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Debbie Minter
Urban Education in the Ville Neighborhood, North St. Louis
Michael Moses (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Buhler
Shakespeare and Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Alyssa Olson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth Price
The Walt Whitman Archive
Amy Sauer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anthony Hawley
Exploring Form: from Dickinson to the Digital Age
Jacob Speer (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Janet Jarvis
Graduate Advising for English Majors
English / Women's & Gender Studies
Ashley Esker (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hilda Raz
Prairie Schooner Magazine Editorial Assistant
Sarah Schroeder (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hilda Raz
Prairie Schooner Magazine Editorial Assistant
Azure Wall (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Barbara DiBernard
WhodunWHAT? An Examination of Gender Performance and Same-Sex Affection in the Trixie Belden Mysteries
Entomology
Ashley Effken (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Tiffany HengMoss
Pyemotes Itch Mite Investigation
Jeff Hays (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Frederick Baxendale
Seasonal occurance of Japanese Beetle in Nebraska
Matthew Moore (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Blair Siegfried
Isolation and Characterization of Cellulose Digesting Enzymes from the Midgut of Western Corn Rootworms
Food Science and Technology
Pei Tze Ang (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Randy Wehling
Evaluation of Waxy Wheats in Baked Products
Daniela Bautista (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Hutkins
Oligosaccharicle Metabolism by Lactic Acid Bacteria
Kristen Cochran (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Goodman
Evaluation of Allergenic Proteins in Foods
Mathew Crotty (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Taylor
Measurement of Food Allergens in Foods
Jamie Eggerss (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Jackson
Optimization of Corn as a Substrate for Ethanol Production
Bailey Harris (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Benson
Shotgun DNA Sequence of a Plasmid from Listeria Monocytogenes
Olivia Kunzman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rolando Flores
Microbiological Examination of Foods
Robert Lacy (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Cuppett
Characterization of Health Benefiting Compounds in Bean Splits
Shy Shi Lee (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Vicki Schlegel
Extraction of Health-Promoting Lipids from the Great Northern Bean
Andrew Lim (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Durward Smith
Product Development of Dairy-based Foods
Sheu Lih Lim (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lloyd Bullerman
Antifungal Activity of Sourdough Bread Cultures
Tessa Porter (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael Zeece
Product Development for Food Companies
Grant Wallace (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jens Walter
PCR and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Research
Geosciences
Reed Bracht (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Harwood
Antarctic Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction from McMurdo Sound Erratics
Allan Curtis (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Merlin Lawson
Creation of a Climate Classification for Major Airports
Anne Donahue (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Anderson
Melt Onset in Arctic Sea Ice Regions
Steven Glaser (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Durelle Scott
Dissolved Organic Matter
Jonathan Kurtz (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Merlin Lawson
Global Warming's Effect on the Seasonal Temperature Trends of the Central Plains
Andrew McDonald (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Loope
A New Basal Hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Turonian of New Mexico
Denice Pelster (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Merlin Lawson
El Nino/La Nina Effects of Nebraska Weather
History
Michael Dozler (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: William Seefeldt
Digital History: Missouri Exploited
Lindsay Kerns (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carole Levin
Saints, Witches and Madwomen
Dene' Oglesby (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James LeSueur
North African Immigrant Literature in Spain and France
Jen Pahlke (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James LeSueur
Militant Islam, Algeria and the West
Maegen Stevens-Liska (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James LeSueur
Glocal Conflict: Algeria and Resistance to Political Islam an in Diasporic Communities in Exile
History / Ethnic Studies
Mark Hoefler (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Patrick Jones and James Garza
Omaha Bound: A Comparative Study of Mexican and African American Migration to Nebraska during the WWI-Era
Cameron Lambert (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeannette Jones
Will Civilisation Hearken: Race, Empire, and the Congo Question, 1876-1917 (A Transnational Cultural History)
Justin Pratt (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: James Garza and Patrick Jones
Omaha Bound: A Comparative Study of Mexican and African American Migration to Nebraska during the WWI-Era
Industrial & Management Systems Engineering
James Crowe (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: M. Susan Hallbeck
Design and Testing of a New Neutron Detector
Stephen Hassler (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: M. Susan Hallbeck
Ergonomic Neutron Detector Development for First Responders
John Kalblinger (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ram Bishu
Health Care Quality
Ik Hou Loh (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Erick Jones
Using RFID as a Locator System for Trucking and Rail Cars
Bradley Marshall (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Cochran
Impact to the Base of the Palm
Brett Miller (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Erick Jones
Real-time Locator System using RFID
Lauren Tietgen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: M. Susan Hallbeck
Health Care Information Systems
Juan Velasco (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Williams
Machining of Ceramic Matrix Composites
Thomas Williams (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kamlakar Rajurkar
Nano-Machining using the Atomic-Force Microscope
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film
Joshua Avila (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Janice Stauffer
Metamorphasis: The Development of Specialized Costume Wardrobes
Justin Borgelt (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Parker
Computer Control and Programming of Theatrical Lighting Equipment
Jenifer Dorman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Steger
Assistant to the General Manager of the Nebraska Repertory
Sean Kloc (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ed Stauffer
Nebraska Repertory Theater
Elissa Shortridge (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Virginia Smith
Assistant Stage Manager for the Nebraska Repertory
Lied Center for Performing Arts
Kristina Bramhall (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Laura Kendall Charles Bethea
Lied Center Outreach
Management
Mei Wah Chan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Fiona Nah
Decision Support for Group Decision Making
Sher Lyn Chan (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Fiona Nah
Knowledge based Support for Group Decision Making
Wee Ted Goh (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sucheta Nadkarni
How Knowledge-based Computer Systems can be used to Improve the Speed and Quality of Group Decision Making
Anh Le (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sucheta Nadkarni
Temporal Constructs, Team Processes, and Team Performance: An Empirical Investigation
Yuet Meng Leong (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Keng Siau
Mobile Marketing and Privacy Issues
Kejia Liew (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Keng Siau
Mobile Banking
Yee Ling Tan (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Keng Siau
Mobilecasting: Mobile Broadcasting
Mechanical Engineering
Samantha Cumper (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Suzanne Rohde
HIPIMS Plasma Impedance Characterization
Trevor Evans (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: George Gogos
Collector-Augmented Wind Turbine
Evan Luxon (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carl Nelson
Mechanical Design of Modular Tips for a Multi-Functional Surgical Tool
Sean Melius (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brian Robertson
Electron Beam Induced Nanofabrication Process
Paul Rogge (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeff Shield
Creating Anisotropic Crystal Structure Using Directional Heat Treating
Chi Min Seow (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carl Nelson
Online Robotics Simulation for Collaborative Engineering
Andrew Shroll (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brian Robertson
Neutron Detection Based on Semiconducting Boron Carbide
Andrei Vaipan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Cole
Figures for Book on Heat Conduction
Abigail Visty (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Shane Farritor
Minature in Vivo Robot for Laparoscopic Surgery
Music, School of
Andrew Binkard (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Anderson
Anthology of Midi Accompaniments to Trombone Solo Repertoire
Caroline Faflak (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Neely
Resurrection of Otakar Sevcik Materials
Drew Neneman (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Peter Eklund
Production Oriented Music Education in Secondary Schools
Tim Rischling (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Craig Fuller
Arranging Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble Music
Micah Smith (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Hanrahan
Effect of Auditory Feedback on Singing
Jill Witkowski (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Craig Fuller
Zachary Wooten (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alisa Belflower
Rocktavo
Nebraska Center for Reseach of Children, Youth, Families and Schools
Sarah Mullins (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Todd Glover
Investigation of Differential Outcomes in RTI Implementation
Heidi Dostal (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lisa Knoche
The Getting Ready Project
Elizabeth Sexton (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gwen Nugent
Gender Differentiated Responses in Inquiry-Based Science Classes
Tristan Weinmaster (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gina Kunz
Professional Development Science and Math Summer Technology Institute
News-Editorial
Stephani Ruiz (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Luis Peon Casanova
Mexican Immigration
Nutrition and Health Sciences
Lindsay Calhoon (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Terry Housh
A New method for Identifying the Neuromuscular Fatigue Threshold
Toni Hoffer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Janos Zempleni
Roles of Histane Biotinylation and Cell Aging and Seneslence
Bethany Hughes (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Georgia Jones
Revision of Lab Manual to Meet the Needs of Nutrition 245 Students
Stephanie Kratzer (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Janos Zempleni
Identification of Genes that Mediate Resistance to Nutrient Deficiency in Drosophila melanogaster
Chai Siah Ku (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ji Young Lee
Cholesterol-lowering Effect of Nostoc Commune, a Blue-green Alga
Alisha Large (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Wanda Koszewski
NEP School Enrichment Project (Parent Component)
Stephanie Larson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ji Young Lee
High-density Lipoprotein Metabolism in Obesity
Sarah Mathews (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Timothy Carrell
Regulation of Cholesterol Metabolism by Dietary Plant Sterols
Lum Adeline Khin Mun (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Julie Albrecht
Sensory Evaluation of Prebiotic Ingredients in Ice Cream
Jared Samuelson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kaye Stanek Krogstrand
Parent-child Interactions Associated with Resilience to Overweight
Physics and Astronomy
Taylor Chonis (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kam Leung
A Hubble Space Telescope Study of Qauzar Host Galaxies
Maya Fabrikant (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Timothy Gay
Chiral Molecules
Jeremy Johnston (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Ducharme
Crystal Structure of Thin Molecular Films
Jia Fu Low (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth Bloom
Modeling High-energy Particle Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
John Mullins (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gregory Snow
Electromagnetic Tracking of Prostate Cancer
Levi Neukirch (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Timothy Gay
Development of a Novel Source of Polarized Electrons using an Optically Pumped Rubidium Spin Filter
Benjamin Plowman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Ducharme
High-Energy-Density Capacitors
Jeff Thomas (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sudeep Banerjee
Plasma Fields of Ultrashort High-Intensity Laser Pulses
Daniel Williams (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Shireen Adenwalla
Three Dimensional Kerr Effec
Plant Pathology
Jeffrey Belmont (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Van Etten
Charicterization of Large DNA Viruses
Kyle Broderick (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gary Yuen
Biological Control of Soybean Cyst Nematod with Bacteria
Jesse Goetz (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Steven Harris
Genetic Interaction Networks in Fungi
Trung Nguyen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Amit Mitra
Broad-spectrum Fungal Resistance in Transgenic Crops
Political Science
Amanda Crook (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael Wagner
Messages and Messengers: The Influence of Partisan Issue Frames, Religion, and the News Media on Public Opinion and Political Behavior in American Politics
Steven Clohecy (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ari Kohen
Morality Regarding Socrates Death and Holocaust Rescuers
Anna Hendricksen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ari Kohen
Moral Heroism - Socrates and Holocaust Rescuers of Le Chambon
Courtney Ruwe (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael Wagner
Messages and Messengers: The Influence of Partisan Issue Frames, Religion, and the News Media on Public Opinion and Political Behavior in American Politics
James Windle (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: John Gruhl
U.S. Foreign Policy and Its Domestic Legal Implications
Psychology
Dana Barnes (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Daniel Leger
Human Hormonal Response to Exercise-induced Stress
Candace Behrens (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis McChargue
Alcohol Skills Training Research Program
Pamela Best (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Wiebe
Infant Development Study
Ashley Brock (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Hansen
Project SAFE (Sexual Abuse Family Education)
Rachel Bruhn (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gustavo Carlo
Gender Differences in Shame and Guilt
Juan Cangas (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Wiener
Affective Forecasting
Ashley Christiansen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brian Bornstein
Children on the Stand: Jurors' Response to Child Witness Testimony
Tara Cossel (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis McChargue
Hypertensive Smokers Study
Heidi Fleharty (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lisa Crockett
Qualitative Data Research on Children affect with AIDS
Cynthia Gans (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis McChargue
Genetic Markers, Binge Drinking and Alcoholism Risk
Yang-Mei Haw (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carolyn Edwards
Getting Ready Project
Wei He (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ming Li
Behavioral Mechanisms of Action of Atypical Antipsychotics: A Preclinical Investigation
Natalie Koziol (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David DiLillo
The Relationship Between Child Maltreatment and Subsequent Marital Problem Solving Abilities
Andrea Lowe (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Esqueda
How Sorry is Sorry Enough? Race, Remorse and Sentencing Reductions
Ayako Masuda (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Bob Belli
Visualizing Common Scenes
Jeff Meyer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Willis Esqueda
Jealousy in Romantic Relationships
Sarah Meyers (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis McChargue
Alcohol Skills Training Research Program
Kathryn Miner (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brian Bornstein
Biological Stress' Effect on Eyewitness Memory
Jessica Nokovic (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carolyn Edwards
The Getting Ready Project
Yesmina Puckett (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Debra Hope
Managing College Stress
Sari Raber (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Wiebe
Prenatal Tobacco Exposure and Infant Brain Development
Jonathan Roy (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gustavo Carlo
Morality and Substance Abuse
Scott Sanderson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rick Bevins
An Assessment of Nicotinic Ligands that Substitute for a Nicotine CS
Katie Sharp (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carolyn Pope Edwards
The Getting Ready Project
Kody Silva (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gustavo Carlo
How the Culture of Eyewitnesses Affects the Questions Asked by Interviewers
Kasey Theye (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Daniel Leger
Geographic Variation in Neotropical Bird Songs
Clint Waltman (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Daniel Leger
Hormone Response for Stage Performance in Low and High Stress Conditions
Nicholas Welding (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brian Bornstein
Jurors' Perception of Earwitness Testimony
Nicole Wells (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rick Bevins
Associative Cue Competition Involving Nicotine
Jacob Williams (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rick Bevins
Role of NMDA Receptor in the Stimulus Properties of Nicotine
Julie Winseman (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Marc Kiviniemi
Positive and Negatives Affect Related to Eating and Exercise Behavior
Public Policy Center
Daniela Bravo (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Alan Tomkins and Miguel Carranza
Immigration Policy
Kate Silvers (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alan Tomkins
Effects on Participants from Involvement in Public Participation Activities
School of Natural Resources
Stephanie Bequeath (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Tala Awada
Germination and Early Growth of Kochia scoparia under Various Temperature Regimes
Austin Bontrager (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Steve Comfort
Remediating Contaminated Soil and Water with the Persulfate Radical
John Dinneen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Swinehart
Sand Movement and Dune Destabilization in the Nebraska Sandhills
Andrew Furman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Pope
Tonic Immobility in Freshwater Fish
Scott Harter (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Larkin Powell
Reproductive Ecology of Western Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta)
Trevor Hefley (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Hygnstrom
Estimating Health and Population Level of White-tailed Deer in Eastern Nebraska
Jessica Milby (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Wedin
Ecology of Sandhills Grasslands
Andrew Podany (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Tala Awada
Germination and Early Growth of Kochia scoparia under Various Temperature Regimes
Adam Rupe (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Tala Awada
The Performance of a 22 year-old Pinus sylvestris Plantation Originating from Six European Countries in Nebraska
Evy Santiago (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Pegg
Patterns of Woody Vegetation Along Shorelines
Rebecca Sikes (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Brandle
Water use by a Nebraska Windbreak
Jessica Umberger (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Tala Awada
The Impact of Temperature on the Germination and Early Growth of Kochia scoparia
Sociology
Andrea Cantarero (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Miguel Ceballos
High Birth Weight in Mexican-origin Communities: The Role of Acculturation and Health Behaviors
Amy Castro (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kim Tyler
The Perceptions of the Campus Environment and Nontraditional Students
Emily Haferbier (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kellie Hagewen
Role Strain Among College Athletes
Stephanie Ramsour (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kellie Hagewen
Racial and Ethnic Differences in High School Adjustment and Success
Dieu-My Tran (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Wortmann
Faith Communities and the Internet as Text: Exploring Official Perception for Domestic Violence
Trudy Woodward (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Daniel Hoyt
Technology Affects on Social Networks
Irais Vargas (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Miguel Carranza
The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Nebraska Communities
Sociology / Child, Youth and Family Studies
Justine Buffalo Calf (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Helen Moore and Helen Raikes
American Indian Parenting: Developing Culturally Appropriate Measures
Special Education & Communication Disorders
Jenna Beckman (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
A Comparison of Vocal Characteristics Associated with Functional Speech in Two Children with Physical Impairments
Kelsey Grauerholz (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Communication and Gesture Development in Young Children with Physical Impairment
Paige Mueller (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jordan Green
A Longitudinal Study of Speech Decline in Persons with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Emily Ogden (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Communication and Gesture Development in Young Children with Physical Impairments
Rebecca Perry (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Communication and Gesture Development in Young Children with Physical Impairments
Lauren Rauscher (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Carrell
Experience and Amplitude Modulation as an Auditory Grouping Cue
Tricia Ternus (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Communication and Gesture Development in Young Children with Physical Impairments
Amy Tvrdy (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Communication and Gesture Development in Young Children with Physical Impairments
Amber Wagner (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
A Comparison of Vocal Characteristics Associated with Functional Speech in Two Children with Physical Impairments
Mary Wittman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Communcation and Gesture Development in Young Children with Physical Impairments
Samantha Zickefoose (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Karen Hux
Visual Scene Displays
Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education
Kiley Gutschow (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ruth Heaton
Math in the Middle Institute Partnership
David Henning (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Edmund Hamann
What do preservice teachers need to know in order to be effective school reform agents once they become teachers?
Andrea Hillen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ruth Heaton
"Math in the Middle" Institute
Brittany Lewis (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Allen Steckelberg and Stephen Swidler
Principal Longevity in the Nebraska Middle Schools
Sara Lutzi (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Elaine Chan
From Student to Teacher: Beginning Teachers Addressing Issues of Diversity in Schools
Kristin Nauta (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Edmund Hamann
Social Studies Education and ELLs
Ashley Patefield (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Fowler
The Educational Implications of Online Math Resources
Mary Kate Peters (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kathy Phillips
The Relationship Between Expository Text Structures used in Children's Literature and Comprehension
Brenna Poppe (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kathy Phillips
The Relationship Between Expository Text Structures used in Children's Literature and Comprehension
Jessica Querry (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Allen Steckelberg and Stephen Swidler
Obtaining Data on Units that Work With Students in Grades Fourth through Ninth
Brian Reed (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Allen Steckelberg and Stephen Swidler
Holding Power Study
Anna Spare (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Edmund Hamann
Music Education and ELLs
Adam Wattenbarger (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Swidler
Uncovering the Long-Term Effects of an NSF Reform-Based Teacher Education Program for Elementary Mathematics
Heather Winslow (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Allen Steckelberg and Stephen Swidler
Reactions to Professional Practicum Experiences
Textiles, Clothing & Design
Rachel Brown (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Patricia Cox-Crews
Product Licensing
Lisa Comes (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Yiqi Yang
Wheat Straw Fibers
Allison Goding (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Barbara Trout
Historical Costumes and "Power of Black"
Kaitlyn Hedrick (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Nancy Miller
NSF Grant: Collaborative Research on Small Business Network Creation and Outcomes for Change and Innovation
Shannon Hopp (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Wendy Weiss
Weaving and Dyeing Samples to be Considered for Larger Scale
Sarah Lembke (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Harriet McLeod
The Color Black: A Historical Review of its Significance in Clothing
Elizabeth Nguyen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Young Ha
Online Visual Merchandising
Tracy Rosenbaum (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Barbara Trout
Body Adornment - Beading, Knotting, Embellishing
Madison Simmons (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael James
Digital Repeat Design and Printing
Haley Weber (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Young Ha
Online Visual Merchandising
University Libraries
Karen Anderson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mary Ellen Ducey
Archives and Special Collections Military History
Matthew Conway (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Graham
Digitizing and Archiving Government Comics
JoVon Dorsey (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Jewell
Digitizing the History of the University
Jeffrey Godfrey (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Katherine Walter
Sermons in 16th-17th Century German-speaking Europe
Susannah Hall (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mary Ellen Ducey
Online Science History Records
Karen Pietsch (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Jewell
Willa Cather at the University of Nebraska
Shannon Teamer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Charlene Maxey-Harris
Resurrecting the History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Nebraska Press
Lukas Bomar (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Erin Halligan Trummer
Accounting Assessment Project
Joel Gehringer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alison Rold
Press Production Intern
Sarah Knight (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Ann Baker and Ladette Randolph
Manuscript Editorial - University of Nebraska Press
Rocky Rocky (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Margie Rine
Promotional Design
Katie Sisneros (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ann Baker and Gary Dunham
Manuscript Editorial - University of Nebraska Press
University State Museum
David Masciale (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gregory Brown
Study in Paleontology
Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Karissa Echtenkamp (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Raul Barletta
Drug Resistance in Mycobacteria
Michael Guenther (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Steffen
Detection of Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Clinical Samples
Whitney Sprout (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: You Zhou
Glucocorticoid Signaling and Neuroendocrine Activity in Selected Mouse Lines
Last updated September 2007
