UCARE Projects Funded for 2008-09
Accountancy, School of
Tessa Bright (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Janice Lawrence
Fraud Incidents Underlying Restatements of Financial Statements
Lingling Fan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Smith
Financial Statement Misstatements
Amanda Ilse (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Aaron Crabtree
Tax-Planning as an Indicator of Fraud
Advertising
Jessica Bowder (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Nancy Mitchell
Women's Body Image and the Media
Lisa Herman (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Amy Struthers
French Women Do Get Fat: Fashion Advertising's Response to the Changing Bodies of French Women
Cristin Johnson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Frauke Hachtmann
The Role of Advertising in the Post-Cold War German Economy
Carley Schnell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: H Norton
Delivering News and Information: Exploring New Techniques
Agricultural Economics
Laura Demmel (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Perrin
Local Financing Impact of Ethanol Plants
Ayako Ebata (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lilyan Fulginiti
Ecologically and Technologically Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth in Central America
Karoline Kastanek (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Amalia (Emie) Yiannaka
Nutraceuticals: The GMO Superhero?
Agronomy and Horticulture
Kari Arnold (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Garald Horst
Root Biomass Dynamics
Michael Fallon (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ellen Paparozzi
Leat Senescence versus Leaf Re-greening in Plecthranthus spp.
Lay Poh Khoo (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: PAUL READ
Test Tube Babies of the Plant World: Micropropagation of a novel Hybrid Hibiscus Plant
William Lawyer III (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Walter Schacht
Eastern and Western Meadowlark Occurrence and Habitat Partitioning
Jessica Milby (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Walter Schacht
Plant Community Response to Grazing Systems in the Nebraska Sandhills
Agronomy and Horticulture / Landscape Architecture
Kelsey Latshaw (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Sutton
Water Holding Tests for Growing Media
Animal Science
Emily Arkfeld (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Steve Jones
Use of a Natural Peptide to Increace Water Holding Capacity and pH in Meat
Tiffany Bohlender (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Cupp
Expression of Neuropilin-1 and -2 in Developing Rat Gonads
Anna Geis (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Kononoff
Evaluation of Sorghum Lignin Content on Fiber Digestion by Rumen Microbes
Jacob Geis (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Galen Erickson
Grazing Brown-Midrib Sorghum in Comparison to Grazing Traditional Sorghum
Christina Heine (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Kononoff
Feeding Low Lignin Sorghum Silage and Corn Co-products to Dairy Cows
Brett Kreifels (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sheila Scheideler
Effects of Natural Pyrothins in Marigolds and External Parasites in Chickens
Heather Rader (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brett White
Effects of GnRH on the Cell Cycle of Mouse Pre-Implantation Embryos
Emily Tschida (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jennifer Wood
Nek2 Protein Expression in the Mammalian Ovary
Taylor Yaw (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jennifer Wood
Nek2 Expression in Oocyte - Granulosa Cell Complexes
Anthropology and Geography
Jared Bragg (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Daniel Osborne
Understanding Obesity through Integrative Perspectives: Epigenetics and Critical Medical Anthropology Theory
Bethani Herring (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Effie Athanassopoulos
Ian Campbell's Archaeological Photographs
Emily Smith (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mary Willis
Reproductive Health in Ecuador
Architectural Engineering
Shane Cherney (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gregor Henze
Thermo-Active Building Systems for U.S. Climates
Michael Crabb (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lily Wang
Concert Hall in Reflector Panels
Robert Farris (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mahmoud Alahmad
Integrating Renewable Energy into the Built Environment
Kevin Huddleston (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dale tiller
Motion Sensors and Office Lighting
Dakota Kelly (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lily Wang
Office Noise Impact Study
Scott Lindgren (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Clarence Waters
Two-Dimensional Fourier Transformation and its Application to Lighting
Kenzi Meyer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ece Erdogmus
Nondestructive Evaluation of Existing Masonry Structures
Amy Pelkner (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Clarence Waters
Demonstration of Power Logic Circuit Monitor Usage
Jennifer Reisdorff (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lily Wang
Acoustic Performance in LEED Schools
Travis Schafer (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ece Erdogmus
Three Dimensional Computer Modeling of Collapsed Temple
Architecture
Adam Andrews (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Architecture in the Humanities
Myles Andrews (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Architecture in the Humanities
Kate Ankenbauer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hyun Tae Jung
The John B. Pierce Foundation and Prefabrication of the House in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Brandon Beatty (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Chris Ford
The Digital Architectural Portfolio
Ryan Ferguson (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lindsay Bahe-Ellsworth
Virtual Modeling of Residences on Earth: The Houses of Pablo Neruda
Mark Fluehr (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Camilla Rice
Public Space - A Case Study: How Well do the Lincoln Street Profiles Support Pedestrian Activity?
Sara Hieb (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hyun Tae Jung
Corporation of Modern Architecture in the United States After the Second World War
Michael Houston (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Potter
Architecture in the Humanities
Erik Leahy (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Martin Despang
Communicating Archi Ideas
Cristina Lorie (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Despang Martin
Architectural Marketing and Research
Amy Lott (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: H. Keith Sawyers
Buildings on Nebraska Guidebook (I-80 Cooridor Chapter)
Mike MacDonald (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: H. Keith Sawyers
B uildings of Nebraska Guidebook (Contemporary Architecture)
Kyle Miller (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ted Ertl
A Re-creation of the Palazzo Raffalle
Alexa Muhs (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Chris Ford
Architecture and the Cult of the Machine
Rachel Reed (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Laging
Resdarch and Analyzation of Urnan China, etc.
Tracy Rodarte (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Architecture in the Humanities
Darin Russell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Timothy Hemsath
Digital Fabrication
Daniel Scott (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Potter
Archietecture in the Humanities
Drew Seyl (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeffrey Day
Urban Agritecture
Maura Trumble (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeffrey Day
Urban Agritecture
Jason Wheeler (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hyun Tae Jung
American Architecture in the 1960's
Art and Art History
Rebecca Aiken (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dana Fritz
Terraria Gigantica: the World Under Glass
Rosemary Burk (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dana Fritz
Gazing Inward and Out
Richard Gowans (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gail Kendall
Ceramic Investigation
Lindsay Graef (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Elizabeth Ingraham
Focus On Drawing
Neil Griess (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Aaron Holz
Studio Work in Painting
David Jonathan Knox (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Peter Pinnell
Ceramic Glaze Testing and Development
Nathan Murray (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gail Kendal
Figurative Ceramics Project
Fatemeh Parsa (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Santiago Cal
Four Stages of Being
Meredith Sandberg (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gail Kendall
A Potter's Life
Ashley Thiems (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Aaron Holz
Interrelation and Scale
Corinne Wardian (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrea Bolland
Sheldon Image Digitalization Project
Cody Wheelcok (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Karen Janovy and Sandra Williams
Art Mentoring Program
Biochemistry
Lauren Beitel (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jaekwon Lee
Structure-function Analysis of Metal-Transporting P-Type ATPases
Joshua Bies (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jaekwon Lee
Characterization of a Cadmium Sensing Degradation Signal
April Christensen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Becker
The Impact of PutA-FAD interactions on PutA-Membrane Association
Danita Curtiss (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Melanie Simpson
How HASNT Changes HAS: A Bioinformatic Investigation of the Hyaluronan Synthases
Nathaniel Goodrich (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Melanie Simpson
Hyaluronan Turnover Including Changes in Cadherin
Jeffrey Hoover (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Melanie Simpson
Hypoxic Control of Hyaluronan Turnover by Prostate Tumor Cells
Andrew Keralis (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Don Weeks
Protein Modifications with Small Ubiquitin Related Modifiers (SUMO)
Kimberly Scheinost (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Ashraf Raza and Gautam Sarath
Switchgrass Plants Bred for Better Biomass Qualities
Rebecca Somer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Donald Becker
Proline/PutA Concentration Assays
Ashley Sternhagen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gautam Sarath
Clone and Characterize Switchgrass Genes
Kelsey Swartz (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Spreitzer
Hybrid Rubisco Enzymes
Katya Tsymbal (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Vadim Gladyshev
Characterization of Genes Which Regulate Selenocysteine Incorporation
Biological Sciences, School of
Humera Ahmad (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Luwen Zhang
Epstein Barr Virus and Pupus Pathogenesis
Joshua Allison (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Guillermo Orti
Assembling the Euteleost Tree of Life
Rishi Batra (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: R.L. Pardy
Histochemical Analysis of Chloroplasts
Bronson Boosalis (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Eileen Hebets
Complex Signal Evolution in the Wolf Spider Schizocosa
Jake Cooper (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth Nickerson
Nitrogen Metabolism in Candida Albicans
Brody Crowe (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anthony Zera
Comparing Fat Body Proteins in a Wins Polymorphic Cricket
Christopher Cummings (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Audrey Atkin
Investigation of Potential Upf1 Kinases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Trista Fuchs (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anisa Angeletti
Analysis of Virion Host Shutoff Protein Encoded by Herpes Simplex Virus
Corey Georgesen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anisa Angeletti
Replication of Herpes Simplex Virus Genome
Jason Grant (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Johannes Knops
The Effects of Inorganic Nitrogen Additions on Carbon Sequestration and Soil Microbial Community Dynamics
Rachel Gubbels (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Audrey Atkin
Regulation of Wild Type mRNA Expression by the Candida albicans Nonsense-mediated mRNA Decay Pathway
Shay Hampton (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: John Janovy
Nano-gregarinology
Katherine Heineman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: William Wagner
Fitness Consequences of Wing Polymorphism: Latency to Spermatophore Production in the Variable Field Cricket, Gryllus Lineaticeps.
Aaron Hueftle (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: Anthony Zera and Judith Burnfield
Safe Patient Handling: A Biomechanical Analysis of "Machine-Assisted" vs. "Human-Assisted" Sit-to-stand Movements in Persons with a Physical Disability
Caleb Huenefeld (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Etsuko Moriyama
Development of Biological Ontologies
Marcella Ihrig (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Chad Brassil
Temperature-dependence of Growth Rates in Lemnaceae
Kristen Jackson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lawrence Harshman
HP1 Gene Expression's Effect on Life Span
Samantha Janousek (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brigitte Tenhumberg
Prey Quality and its Effects on Predator Performance
Caitlin Johnson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lawrence Harshman
Studies of the Cost of Reproduction Using Dimelanogaster
Kelsey Koch (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
Quantifying Behavorial and Morphological Traits
Lindsey Manzel (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: John Janovy
The Role of Polysaccharides during Gametocyst Development and Sporogony
Lyndsey Markert (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Luwen Zhang
Epstein Barr Virus Transformation and Cellular Genes
Jessica Meyerink (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth Nickerson
Alkaline Lakes Project
Elizabeth Sand (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Wahl III
Identification f Desmosome Regulatroy Proteins
Richard Sauer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Zoya Avramova
Phosphoinositol Signaling and Epigenetic Regulation in Arabidopsis
Nikaela Schernikau (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gwen Bachman
The Effects of Age and Diet on the Metabolic Rates of Ornate Box Turtles
Eric Sestak (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sally Mackenzie
Investigating Mitochondrial Genome Variants in Arabidopsis thaliana and Crop Species
Kristin Sholes (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
Predation and Male-Male Competition
Joseph Smith (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: John Janovy, Jr.
Gregarine Invitro Survivability
Katie Starostka (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Blum
Preperation of DNA Constructs for Metallophaera Sedula
Raymond Stetson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alan Christensen
Analysis of Altercationsin the Mitochondrial genome of Chlamydomonas
Jennifer Suhr (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
Male-Male Competition
Heather Sutphen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: William Wagner
Variation in Female Phonotaxis Among Wing/Flight-Muscle Morphs of the Variable Field Cricket
Matt Weber (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rosevelt Pardy
Biology of Lipopolysaccharides
Lakshmi Yerra (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anthony Zera
The Differences in the Amino Acid Metabolism in Flighless and Flying Insects
Biological Systems Engineering
Michael Classen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: George Meyer
Biomass Heating in Controlled Environment Agriculture
Ryan Hulme (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Viacheslav Adamchuk
Miniature Sensor for in-situ Measurement of Soil pH
Andrew Anderson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: George Meyer
A Thermodynamic Analysis of Turf Grass Surfaces for Improved Water Management
Bethany Barber (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Jones
Biomechanical Assessment of Lower Extremeity Muscle Activation and Joint Motion During Dynamic Balance Training on the Proprio 4000
Dennis Bierle (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jeyamkondan Subbiah
Tissue Characterization using Hyperspectral Imaging
Ryan Boyd (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dean Eisenhauer
Improved Prediction of Contaminant Removal by Vegetated Filters
Wei Jian Chin (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Milford Hanna
Ultrasound and UV Inactivation of E. coli in Apple Juice
Evan Curtis (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Greg Bashford
Tendinosis Discrimination using Soft Computing Techniques
Heidi Gengenbach (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Angela Pannier
Extracellular Matrix Protiens and Nonviral Gene Delivery: Effect of Cell Proliferation and Adhesion
Hanieh Kamelian (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: George Meyer
A Generalized Pattern Recognition System Using Fuzzy Clustering and a Genetic Algorithm
Donna Loundsbury (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Angela Pannier
Engineering Intracellular Signaling Pathways for Nonviral Gene Delivery
Michaela McBride (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Greg Bashford
Safe Patient Handling: A Biomedical Analysis of "Machine-Assisted" vs. "Human-Assisted" Sit-to-stand Movements in Persons with a Physical Disability
Rachelle Struebing (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Curtis Weller
Health Benefiting Components of Beans Grown in Nebraska
Yueying Zhang (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Greg Bashford
Optimal Ultrasound Feature Thresholds for 2D Blood Velocity Estimation
Center on Children, Families and the Law
Samantha Mosier (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Victoria Weisz
Children in Court Study
Jennifer Wehrman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Victoria Weisz
Children in Court Study
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Linda Beckwith (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hossein Noureddini
Use Dilute Acid and Base Treatment Strategies to Maximize the Soluble Fiber Content of Whole Stillage
Samantha Cumper (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: William Velander
Protein Bandage Effectiveness
Aaron Fluitt (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hendrick Viljoen
Mathematical Model of Cell Wall Dynamics in S. aureus and the Role of Penicillin
Emily Guthrie (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hossein Noureddini
Separation of Oil in Distillers Grain and its Converstaion to Biodiesel
Robert Miller (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anu Subramanian
Bioseperations and Biomaterial Development
Tiffany Moeller (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mike Meagher
Bioprocessing of Recombinant Proteins
Laura Purcell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hendrik Vilijoen
A Generalized Model of Heterogenous Resistance
Keith Rosenhausen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ravi Saraf
Electrical Proberties of a Gold Nanoparticle "Necklace of Beads"
Chemistry
Michael Bokemper (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Powers
Purification and Screening of Two Proteins for Functional Annotation
Jie Ying Chan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Chin Li Cheung
Synthesis of Neodymium, Hexaboride (NdB6) Nanomaterial by Chemical Vapor Desposition (CVD)
Ross Cheloha (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Berkowitz
Applications of Alcohol Dehydrogenase Enzymes in Organic Chemistry
Nathaniel Cogswell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Berkowitz
Development of New Methodology Toward Unnatural Quaternary Amino Acids
Brandon Darnell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Berkowitz
Toward New Triggers for PLP Enzyme Inactivation
Luong Doan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Griep
Search for new Antibiotics that Target the Enzyme Primase
Alexander Draganov (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Berkowitz
A Chemoenzymatic Route to Sequiterpene Lactones
Hee Kyung Hong (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Wonyoung Choe
Porphyrin Nanostructures
Robert Jacobberger (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Chin Li Cheung
Synthesis of Yttrium Hexaboride Nanowires
Sarah Kruse (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen DiMagno
New Agents for Brain Imaging - Visualizing nGluR5 Receptors with F-MTEB
Zachary Lovell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrezej Rajca
Organic contrast Agents for MRI
Andrew Maresch (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Liangcheng Du
Whitney Schwandt (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jody Redepenning
Preparation of Novel Biomimetic Materials for Orthopedic Devices
Hyun-Tak Son (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Wonyoung Choe
Functional Porphyrin Frameworks
Levi Zehr (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Powers
Protein Ligand Binding Analysis for Drug Discovery Using Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
Child, Youth and Family Studies
Heather Buss (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gina Kunz
Professional Development Science and Math Summer Technology Institute
Heidi Dostal (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lisa Knoche
The Getting Ready Project
Erika Gutschenritter (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Douglas Abbott
Muslim Students at UNL: Challenges and Adaptation to America and University Life
Molly Klum (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michelle Rupiper
Assessing Receptive Vocabulary in Preschool Children in a Quality Early Childhood Setting
Ginger Ottoson (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cody Hollist
The Impact of Immigration Raids on Families
Cassandra Person (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Maria Rosario do Guzman
The Impact of Poverty on Family Functioning and Youth Well-Being
Danielle Peterson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Doug Abbott
Motivating Factors in the Transition to Parenthood
Chelsea Rivera (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cody Hollist
Therapist and School Counselor Perception of Therapeutic Engagement with Lation Adolescents
Sheena Schultz (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cody Hollist
Marital Quality and Health Care Utilization: A Brazilian Longitudinal Study
Cherise Storvedt (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Douglas Abbott
Developing Abstinence Educational Cirriculum for Christian Young Adults
Ashley Suntych (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Julia Torquati
The First Day of School Project
Classics and Religious Studies
Kevin Machal (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Lahey
Heresy within the Middle Ages: Examination of the Heresy Trials of the Templars
Deborah Ruigh (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Simon Wood
Ruhollah Khomeini Mawdudi and the Origins of Islamic Fundamentalism
Communication Studies
Jessica Rick (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kristen Lucas
Communication and Workplace Dignity
Computer Science and Engineering
Aaron Bonebright (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Swanson
Super Computer Room Visualization
Kaylei Burke (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Myra Cohen
A Web Site to Support Testing of Configurable Software
Jesse Hostetler (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Leen-Kiat Soh
Intelligent Learning Object Guide (iLOG)
Wen Luo (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lisong Xu
On the Interaction between Multiple Peer-to-Peer Networks
Katie Macias (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Myra Cohen
A CIT Resource Library
Steven Mott (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Leen-Kiat Soh
SCID Intellient User Interface Development
Joshua Reed (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Berthe Choueiry
Interactive Methods for Resource Management and Allocation
Derek Weitzel (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Swanson
Cluster Visualization
Robert Woodward (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Berthe Choueiry
Symmetry Breaking in Constraint Processing
Robert Lindquist (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Reichenbach
Three-Dimensional Mass Spectral Visualization and Analysis
Construction Systems
Aaron Hirsh (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Terri Norton
Development of Shake Table Experiments
Joel Robles (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: George Morocus
Concrete Pressure on Insulated Concrete Forms
John Tran (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Terri Norton
Investigation of Post-Yielding Stiffness of Structures
Economics
Jeremy Hanson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hendrik Van den Berg
Immigration and Economic Growth
Educational Psychology
Kristin Behrends (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Marilee McCurdy
Review of Published Writing Programs; Assessment of Writing Skills
Sucharitha Rajendran (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Eric Buhs
First Person Reports of Social Life and Peer Relationships
Electrical Engineering
Stephen Borer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis Alexander
Nanoparticle/Quantum Dot Based Radiological-Nuclear Detector/Forensics
Martin Diaz (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rodney Soukup
A New Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Material for High Efficiency Solar Cells
Even Kilgore (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis Alexander
Peanut Shaped Microcavity Waveguide
Bahar Laderian (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mathias Schubert
In-situ Optical Protein and DNA Adsorption Dynamic Studies
Paul Potter (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lance Perez
M.E.R.T.
Sena Jemil Sayood (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael W. Hoffman
Bio-inspired Auditory Processing
Adrian Soltero (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Yongfeng Lu
Laser-assisted Growth of Carbon Tubes
Ericka Amborn (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Joseph Turner
Nanoindentiation Techinques for the Charactrization of Articular Cartilage
English
Lacey Bodnar (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Amy Goodburn
Partnering for Reading: The UNL/Southwest High School Reading Mentors Program
Megan Borrell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hilda Raz
Prarie Schooner
Kyle Citta (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Buhler
Nick's Dream
Lacey Lennard (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Julia Schleck
Advanced Level Course Development in Literature
Phillip Malcom (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Kaye Skinner
A Matter of Pragmatism...and Other Stories
Michael Moses (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Buhler
Shakespeare in Japan
Alyssa Olson (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth Price
Walt Whitman - Civil War Washington Project
Sarah Synovec (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kenneth Price
Walt Whitman Archive
Engineering Mechanics
Erica Amborn (Second Year UCARE Student
Faculty Sponsor: Joseph Turner
Nanoindentiation Techniques for the Characterization of Articular Cartilage
Entomology
Joshua Chess (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Frederick Baxendale
Effects of Topically - Applied Insecticides on Blow Fly Oviposition, Larval Development, and Survival
Samantha Hiemer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Blair Siegfried
Biochemistry of Resistance to Bt Toxins in the European Corn Borer
Matthew Moore (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Blair Siegfried
Characterization of Cellulase Activity in Western Corn Rootworm
Crystal Ramm (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Tiffany HengMoss
The Role of Peroxidases in the Defense Response of Buffalograss to Chinch Bugs
Ransom Sitz (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Tiffany HengMoss
Identification of the Arthropod Complex in Switchgrass
Becca Striman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Carter
Insect Artifacts Associated with Expirated Bloodstain Patterns
Finance
Yixing Li (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Yijia Lin
Enterprise Risk Management
Food Science and Technology
Emily Ang Pei Tze (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Randy Wehling
Decreasing the Staling of Baked Products by using Waxy Wheat Flour
Daniela Bautista (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Hutkins
Enumeration and Viability of Probiotic bacteria in Unconventional Products
Kristen Cochran (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Goodman
Detection of Cross Reactive Allergens in Processed Foods
Matthew Crotty (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Taylor
Market Study of Foods with Preventative Milk Labeling
Jamie Eggerss (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Jackson
Maximizing Corn-Based Ethanol Production Efficiencies Using Nebraska Corn: Do Corn Hybrid and Growing Conditions Matter?
Lauren Gemar (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Hutkins
Fermentation of Prebiotic Carbohydrates by Colonic Bacteria
Susan Hammons (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jens Walter
Investigation of the impact of feed composition on the gastrointestinal microbiota of chicken, with a focus on lactobacilli.
Laura Hargarten (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael Zeece
Bioactive Peptides in Muscle Foods
Bailey Harris (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Vicki Schlegel
Processing Effects on Health-promoting Components in Pinto Beans
Robert Lacy (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Cuppett
Chemical Characterization of the Great Northern Beans
Soo Low (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lloyd Bullerman
Microbial Content of Commercial Drinking Waters and Tap Water in Lincoln, Nebraska
Kristy McCarty (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Susan Cuppett
Enhanced Egg White Digestibiity and Functionability Using High Hydrostatic Pressure
Tessa Porter (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael Zeece
Product Development for Food Companies
Grant Wallace (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jens Walter
Microbial Analysis of Gut Microflora of Hamsters using DGGE
Geosciences
Allan Curtis (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Merlin Lawson
Creation of Climate Classification System for Airports
Steven Glaser (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Kettler
Synthesis of Villamaninite (CuS2)
William Hall (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ken Dewey
The Influence of Temperature on Tornado Frequency and Intensity: Implications for a Changing Climate
Andrew Nelson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Tracy Frank
Evidence for Climate Change in Early Permian Limestones
Yusuke Ozawa (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Watkins
Ecology and Evolutionary Trends of Nebraskan Venozoic Marmmals
Andrea Van Etten (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Clinton Rowe
The Effects on the Climate of Using Switchgrass Instead of of Corn
History
Lindsay Kerns (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carole Levin
Hollywood Royalty: Cinematic Interpretations of Early Modern European Women
Isabelle Koch (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Le Sueur
The Roles of Algerian Intellectuals in the Algerian Civil War
Jonathan Lawyer (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Waskar Ari
Alternative Public Audiences and Class, Gender in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Cassandra Olsen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carole Levin
Dreams in Seventeenth-Century England
Maegan Stevens-Liska (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Le Sueur
Global Conflict: Algeria and Resistance to Political Islam in an Diasporic Communities in Exile
History and Ethnic Studies
Mark Hoefler (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Patrick Jones
Omaha Bound: A Comparative Study of Mexican and African American Migration to Nebraska During the WWI-Era
Britt Varisco (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Garza
Omaha Bound: A Comparative Study of Mexican and African American Migration to Nebraska During the WWI-Era
Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
Jason Eden (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephanie Adams
The Application of Teams in Non-profit Organizations
Michael Grubb Jr. (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Cochran
Modification of Sailboat to Accommodate a Paraplegic
Stephen Hassler (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: M Hallbeck
Development of a Handheld Neutron Detector
Nhan Truong (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ram Bishu
Driver Safety of High School Students
Interior Design
Sean Cobb (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Betsy Gabb
In.Form Assistant Editor
Matt Fulton (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Hinchman
French Colonial Architecture in West Africa
Victoria Jordan (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dianna Hemsath
Eloise Kruger Gallery
Sarah Rollman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lindsey Bahe
Residential
Stephanie Shepard (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark Hinchman
History of Furniture Textbook
Abbey Strahm (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Betsy Gabb
In.Form Journal
Clarissa Volker (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dianna Hemsath
Eloise Kruger Gallery
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film
Valerie Harper (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Janice Stauffer
Inishmaan/Souvenir at Nebraska Repertory Theatre
Alex Jeffery (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rick Endacott
Nebraska Repertory Theatre Video Podcasts
Jenifer L'amour Dorman (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Steger
Nebraska Reperatory Theatre Company Manager and Associate Audience Development Director
Mai Mijoe Sahiouni (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Julie Hagemeier
Assistant to the General Manager
Elissa Shortridge (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Virginia Smith
Stage Management for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre
Emily Wall (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brad Buffum
Stage Management for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre
Lied Center for Performing Arts
Nathaniel Davis (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Nancy Engen-Wedin
Umonhon Cultural Arts Professionial Development Program
Management
Mei Wah Chan (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Fiona Nah
Human-Computer Interaction in Virtual Worlds
Chia Yi Chin (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Fui-Hoon Nah
Business Implications of 3-D Virtual Worlds
Debanik Das (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sucheta Nadkarni
Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Leadership in Healthcare Industry
Rachael Hanline (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mary Uhl-Bien
Leadership and Innovation in the Healthcare Industry
Yuet Meng Leong (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Keng Siau
Mobile Marketing and Privacy Issues
Kejia Liew (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Keng Siau
Mobile Banking
Ashley Lowry (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Bruce Avolio
Leadership and Innovation in the Healthcare Industry
Heon Sui May (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Keng Siau
Use of Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Financial Institutions
Siau Chen Tan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
Hedonic Experiences in Online Communities and Virtual Worlds
Wern Ai (Jaclyn) Tan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Keng Siau
Mobile Journalism
Yi Yang (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Fred Luthans
Leadership and Innovation in the Healthcare Industry
Marketing
Caitlin Skrdla-Markwell (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Simon
Mechanical Engineering
Khoa Chu (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carl Nelson
Modular Robots for Space Exploration
Thomas Frederick (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Shane Farritor
Real-Time Measurement of Track Stiffness
Cameron Schmid (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brian Robertson
Boron Carbide Based Neutron Detection
Chi Min Seow (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carl Nelson
Online Robotics Simulation for Collaborative Engineering
Andrei Vaipan (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Cole
Thermal Analysis of Railroad Roller Bearings
Sean Melius (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Brian Robertson
Reaction Pathways in Electron Beam Induced Deposition (EBID) of Nanomaterials
Modern Languages and Literature
Karalynn Brown (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Iker Gonzalez-Allende
Gender and Nation During the Spanish Civil War
Music, School of
Matthew Boring (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Douglas Bush
Evolution of Marching Band Visual Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Celeste Case-Ruchala (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Robert Woody
Musical Tastes of College Music Majors
Joseph Fripp (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Haar
Daisy Smith (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dale Bazan
An Exploration of After-School Popular Music Ensembles and Jazz Education
Nebraska Center for Research of Children, Youth, Families and Schools
Andrew White (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gwen Nugent
NSF - funded project: Robotics in 4-H: Workplace Skills for the 21st Century
News Editorial
Natasha Richardson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carolyn Johnsen
Investigating Climate Change in Nebraska
Nutrition and Health Sciences
Lindsay Calhoon (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Terry Hough
Exploring the Effects of Caffiene on Aerobic and Anaerobic Performance in Human Subjects
Amanda Cayler (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Robin DiPietro
Research on the Role that "Green" is Playing in the Hospitality Industry
Katherine Guenther (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Julie Albrecht
Effects of Misting Spinach in Grocery Stores
Bethany Hughes (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Georgia Jones
Development and Evaluation of A Healthy Lifestyle Journal for Youth
Chai Siah Ku (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ji Young Lee
Biological Function of Nostoc commune, a Blue-green Alga, in Cholesterol Metabolism.
Sara Kvien (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kaye Stanek Krogstrand
An Integrated Approach to Prevention of Obesity in High Risk Families
Adeline Lum (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Julie Albrecht
Effect of Fructooligosaccharides in Ice Cream on Humans
Kacie Meyers (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Christina Perry
Visual Impairments Correlated to Reading Disabilities
Anh Thy Nguyen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Lee Ji Young
Modulation of ATP-binding Cassette Transporters by Inflammation in Macrophages
Sara Prince (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Janos Zempleni
Optimizing an HCS plate assay
Rachel Rossman (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Julie Albrecht
Effect of Misting on Lettuce
Claire Swogger (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Janos Zempleni
Identification of HCS Binding Proteins
Kate Wolford (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Timothy Carr
Digestion Characteristics of Dietary Plant Sterols
Nutrition and Health Sciences - Athletic Training
Daniel Cottrell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jerry Weber
The Effects of the Alter-G and its Associated Technologies on Athletic Rehabilitation
Michael Ioerger (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jerry Weber
The Effects of the Alter-G and its Associated Technologies on Athletic Rehabilitation
Peer Review of Teaching Project
Matthew Hansen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Paul Savory
Development and Assessment of Tool for Measuring Student Classroom Engagement
Physics and Astronomy
Maria Becker (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gregory Snow
Data analysis of the Upgraded Atmospheric Monitoring Detectors for the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory
Laila Gharzai (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sudeep Banerjee
Focusing of High Power Laser Pulses to Ultrahigh Intensities
Zachary Gould (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Lee
Community Science Outreach
Ben Hage (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Ducharme
Nanoparticle Embedded in Polymer Project
Megan Holland (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Lee
Science and Educators Partner for Public Outreach (SEPPO)
Nathaniel Hunt (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Aaron Dominguez
CMS Pixel Detector R&D
Jeremy Johnston (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Ducharme
Imaging of Polarization in Ferroelectric Thin Films
Frank Lee (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Bradley Shadwick
Moment Models of High Density Charged Particle Beams
Jia Fu Low (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ken Bloom
Modeling High-energy Particle Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
Luke Oswald (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Lee
Community Science Outreach
Ben Plowman (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Ducharme
Dielectric of Ultrathin Capacitators
Nathanael Spaulding (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Axel Enders
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy on Selfassembled Nanostructures
Jeff Thomas (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sudeep Banerjee
Plasma Fields of Ultrashort High-Intensity Laser Pulses
Plant Pathology
Matthew Dale (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Alfano
The Interaction of the Pseudomonas syringae Protein HopG1 with its Arabidopsis Targets in Planta
Dane Ingebrigtson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Alfano
Role of Type III Chaperone Function in the Type III Protein Secretion System
Trung Nguyen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Amit Mitra
Broad-spectrum Fungal Resistance in Transgenic Crops
Jordan Ochs (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Steadman
Variability of the Bean Rust Pathogen Uromyces Appendiculatus on Phaseolus Vulgaris
Jason Vitek (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Dunigan
Production and Evaluation of Chlorovirus Capsids
Nicholas Wohlgemuth (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Van Etten
Chlorella Secretome Project
Matthew Zeleny (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: James Alfano
Characterization of the Type II Pprotein Secretion System in the Bacterial Plant Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae
Political Science
Sarah Brey (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ross Miller
Effect of Coup Probability on Leader's Propensity to Engage in International Conflict
Jacob Colling (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ari Kohen
The Moral Hero and the Mortal Hero
Amanda Crook (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael Wagner
The President and the Pen
David Lane (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Erik Tillman
Support for European Integration and Support for European Union Enlargement
Michelle Lee (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ross Miller
A look at Tanzanian Reaction to U.S. Aid
Courtney Ruwe (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael Wagner
Congressional Voting in America: The influence of Region, News Media, and Electoral Competition
Brian Shreck (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sarah Michaels
Comparing Forms of Governance for Regional Watershed Management
Nicole Starkey (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Patrice McMahon
Civil Society in China
Psychology
Joshua Alvarez (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gustavo Carlo
Non-Whites vs. Whites and Academic Performance and Involvement in Secondary School
Dana Barnes (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Daniel Leger
Neuroendocrine Asymmetry and Reactivity: Correlations to Stress-Induced Changes in Eating Behavior
Marcela Bravo (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rick Bevins
Behavioral Affective Associations Model of Smoking
Ashley Brock (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Hansen
A National Survye of Child Advocacy Centers: Mental Health Services Victims and Families
Juan Cangas (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Wiener
Affective Forcasting in Civil Trials
Eu Gene Chin (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Wiebe
Infant Development Study
Tara Cossel (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis McChargue
Childhood Trauma, Alcohol Use Onset and College Functioning
Kristin Divis (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: John Flowers
Eye Movements and the Misinformation Effect
Katherine Heupel (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Ming Li
Antipsychotic Drugs and Maternal Behavior: A Preclinical Investigation
Sarah Holdt (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Wiener
Legal Decision-Making: Emotion and Decision-Making
Car Mun Kok (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Gustavo Carlo
Parent Attachment, Moral Conscience, and Risky Sexual Behaviors among Adolescents
William Kuehn (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mike Dodd
An Examination of Apparent Motion using Face Stimuli
Nicole Lecci (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis McChargue
Dependency of Smokeless Tobacco Users and Smokers Study
Ashley McDonald (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Sandra Wiebe
Preschool Brain and Cognitive Development
Sarah Meyers (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Dennis McChargue
Parenting Style, Social Desirability and Drinking
Amy Proskovec (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Debra Hope
Gender Effects in Fear and Avoidance Behavior
Scott Sanderson (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rick Bevins
An Investigation of Serotonergic and Noradenergic Mechanisms underlying the Conditional Stimulus Effects of Nicotine
Kasey Theye (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Daniel Leger
Variation in Bird Song Over a 50 Year Period
Nicole Wells (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Rick Bevins
Will Training Nicotine as a CS Potentiate its Reinforcing Effects?
Psychology / Child, Youth and Family Studies
Laura Brugger (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carolyn Edwards
Getting Ready Project - CYFS
Psychology / Office of Research
Britt Carlson (First Year UCARE student)Faculty sponsor: Kimberly Espy
Infant Development Study
Scott McLean (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kimberly Espy
Testing Measures of Implicit Political Biases: an ERP Study
Public Policy Center
Nicole Hutsell (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsors: David Rosenbaum and Alan Tomkins
Procedural Justice and Compliance Proposal: Failure to Appear
Mary Jacobson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alan Tomkins
Deliberation, Democracy, and Public Participation
Xiaowen Li (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Liz Neeley
Effects of Procedural Justice on Legal Compliance Versus Rational Choice
Sarah Melecki (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mark DeKraai
Children's Mental Health State Infrastructure Grant
School of Natural Resources
Amber Fandrich (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Patricia Freeman
The Affects of Insect Hardness, Size and Shape on Feeding in Insectivorous Bats
Andrew Furman (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Pope
Latitudinal Influence on Accuracy and Precision of Ages Determined from Scales and Otoliths of Bluegill
Trevor Hefley (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Hygnstrom
Modeling Population Dynamics of White-Tailed Deer in the Missouri River Valley
Kyle Jackson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael Jess
A Case Study: Decision Making through Collaboration, the Niobrara River
Adam Schole (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Larkin Powell
Survival and Habitat use of Prairie-chicken Chicks in Southeast Nebraska
Sociology
Rebecca Beals (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Miguel Carranza
The Changing Dynamics of Latino/Hispanic Families in Lincoln, Nebraska
Mitchell Connelly (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Hugh Whitt
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of 19th Century Sociological Data
Raleigh Contreras (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Julia McQuillan
Infertility, Treatment and Relationships
Shaun Soulliere (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Les Whitbeck
Healing Pathways: Understanding Indigenous Developmental Trajectories
Sociology / Ethnic Studies
Daniela Bravo (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Miguel Carranza
Perceptions and Immigration Policy
Paige Mathew (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kellie Hagewen
Predictors of Health Care Service Utilization
Special Education and Communciation Disorders
Amber Badders (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Developing an Assessment in Early Pre Communication Behaviors in Several Disabilities
Elyse Fitzgerald (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Development of an Early Communication Assessment for Infants with Severe Disabilities
Michelle Gergen (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Development of an Early Communication Assessment for Infants with Severe Disabilities
Kelsey Grauerholz (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
A Comparison of Vocal Characteristics Associated with Functional Speech in Two Children with Physical Impairments
Bethany Jones (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Infant Communication Research Project
Katie Lippincott (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Development of an Early Communication Assessment for Infants with Severe Disabilities
Paige Mueller (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jordan Green
Bulbar Motor Deterioration in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Rebecca Perry (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
A Comparison of Vocal Characteristics Associated with Functional Speech in Two Children with Physical Impairments
Lauren Rauscher (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Thomas Carrell
Experience and Amplitude Modulation as an Auditory Grouping Cue
Megan Slattery (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Development of an Early Communication Assessment for Infants with Severe Disabilities
Tricia Ternus (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
A Comparison of Vocal Characteristics Associated with Functional Speech in Two Children with Physical Impairments
Samantha Zickefoose (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Karen Hux
Accomodations and Strategies Used by College Student Survivors of TBI
Katherine Zoucha (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Development of an Early Communication Assessment for Infants with Severe Disabilities
Student Affairs
Morrel Wax (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Timothy Alvarez
What Influences Minority Students to P.W.I.
Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Nathaniel Booth (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Edmund Hamann
The Omaha Learning Community as a Vehicle for Exploring Multiculturalism and the Foundations of American Education
Kori Cooper (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Stephen Swidler
A Landscape Of and For Learning: A Social Constructivist View of Social Foundations Coursework
Michael Gubbels (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Brooks
Increasing Visitor Engagement at Insect Exhibit Interactive Kiosks
Calleen Hanigan (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Edmund Hamann
The Omaha Learning Community As a Vehicle for Exploring Multiculturalism and the Foundations of American Education
Colleen McBride (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Loukia Sarroub
Youth Literacies in a High School English Classroom
Kristin Nauta (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Edmund Hamann
English Language Learners in the Social Studies Classroom
Dan Neemann (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Edmund Hamann
The Omaha Learning Community as a Vehicle for Exploring Multiculturalism and the Foundations of American Education.
Mary-Kate Peters (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kathy Phillips
The Effect of Expository Text Structures in Children's Literature on Comprehension and Writing of 3rd Grade Students
Brenna Poppe (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kathy Phillips
The Effect of Expository Text Structures in Children's Literature on Comprehension and Writing of 3rd Grade Students
Alison Sandoval (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jenelle Reeves
Implications of Schooling in a Demographically Changing Lincoln
Jessica Sierk (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Elaine Chan
My Hometown as Curriculum: Making College Lesson Units Related to Schooling of Demographic Change in South Sioux City
Anna Spare (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Edmund Hamann
Music Education and English Language Learners
Textiles, Clothing and Design
Kathryn Alms (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Carol Easley
"Concept to Consumer": Exploring the Apparel Product Development Process
Lauren Bird (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Xia Gao
Surface Design & Screen Printing
Cashmere Boehle (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Barbara Trout
Say it with Black, Experiments and Manipulations
Cassidy Dansberry (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael James
Digital Repeat Design and Printing
Allison Goding (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Barbara Trout
Accessories: Historical Point of Departure
Elizabeth Nguyen (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Young Ha
Online Visual Merchandising
Madison Simmons (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Michael James
Garment Construction with Digitally Printed Fabric
University Libraries
Chelle Boomgaarden (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts
Compilation of Resources on Asian American Studies
Matthew Conway (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Richard Graham
Digitizing and Researching Government Comics
Hannah German (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Andrew Jewell
Cather Journalism
Erin Mettling (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Kathleen Johnson
Lowenberg Collection Photographs
Brett Michelson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Mary Ellen Ducey
WWI and its Effects on the University of Nebraska
Shannon Teamer (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Charlene Maxey-Harris
Resurrecting the History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jessica Williams (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Katherine Walter
Ralph Blakelock: The Artist and the Archives; A Digital Pilot Project
University of Nebraska Press
Joel Gehringer (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alison Rold
University of Nebraska Production Intern
Mikah Tacha (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Alison Rold
Assisting In-house Press Designers
Edel Victor (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Manjit Kaur
Accelerated Publishing and Management
University State Museum
Brian Smith (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Scott Gardner
Mongolia Vertebrate Parasite Project
Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Karissa Echtenkamp (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Raul Barletta
Construction and Characterization of Mycobacterium Smegmatis D-alanine Ligase and D-alanine Racemase Mutant Strains
Ashlynn Jepson (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: David Smith
A Study of the Determinants of E. coli O157:H7 Carriage by Cattle and Methods for Preharvest Intervention
Joseph Kent (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Jay Reddy
Genetic Resistance to Autoimmunity
Theodoric Mattes (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Greg Somerville
Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Mediated Signal Transduction
Whitney Ann Sprout (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Y. (Joe) Zhou
Effects of Stress and Aging on Reproduction of SH and SL Lines of Mice
Jane Tsui (Second Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Y. (Joe) Zhou
Scott Wood (First Year UCARE student)
Faculty sponsor: Marjorie Lou
Effect of Age on Thioredoxin Expression and Activity in the Mouse Eye Lens
