UCARE Projects Funded for 2009-10
4-H Youth Development
Caitlin Spilinek (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jill Walahoski
Assessing the Impact of 4-H Youth Development on Outcomes in Science Engineering and Technology
Accountancy, School of
Amanda Ilse (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Aaron Crabtree
Tax-Planning as an Indicator of Fraud
Taylor Pugh (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Janice Lawrence
Assessing the Integration of Ethics into the Curriculum of the College of Business
Nanxing Xue (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Janice Lawrence
Fraud Incidents Underlying Restatements of Financial Statements
KinIan Yin (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lei Gao
Have They Changed Their Way of Cheating? : an analysis of management fraud schemes
Sihui Zhou (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lei Gao
Have They Changed Their Way of Cheating?
Advertising
Carley Schnell (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Amy Struthers
Delivering Public Relations Information: Exploring New Techniques
McKenzie Wessling (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Amy Struthers
Making Good on the Claims: Selling Tractors in Nebraska
Ag Leadership, Education & Communication
Robert Branting (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lisa Pennisi
Inventory of Recreational Facilities Across Nebraska - NGPC
Agricultural Economics
Carlisa Bayne (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Wesley Peterson Bradley Lubben
Impacts of Trade Policies on the Food Security of Developing Countries
Russell Headlee (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Karina Schoengold
The Impact of Federal Disaster Payments on the Adoption of Agricultural Conservation Practices
Sarah Santos (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: E. Wesley F. Peterson
The Culture of Poverty
Agronomy and Horticulture
Dana Ahmed (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey Mower
Mechanism of horizontal gene transfer in plants
Samantha Jo Speights Bray (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James Stubbendieck
Seed Viability of the Endangered Blowout Penstemon
Michael Henrichs (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Sutton
GIS Database for Nebraska's Visual Resource Management
Andrew Uerling (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Sutton
Green Roof Research
Animal Science
Tiffany Bohlender (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Cupp
Effects of DES in Rats of Different Congenic Lines
Robin Easterly (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Rodger Johnson
Swine Genome Analysis of Loci Associated with Economically Important Traits
Brett Kreifels (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sheila Scheideler
Continued Effects of Marigold Extracts on External Parasites in Poultry and Its Possible Commercial Use
Mai Kuribayashi (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Burkey
The expression of nutrient and mineral transporters in porcine jejunal epithelial cells
Truc Nguyen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sheila Scheideler
Poultry Nutrition: Feather Quality
Kristin Norwood (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jennifer Wood
Regulation of Oocyte-Granulosa Cell Bi-directional Communication
Asia Sabatka (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Brett White
Functional Evaluation of GnRH II Receptors in Transgenic Animals
Melissa Steiner (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Merlyn Nielsen
The Causative Mutation for the Juvenile Cataract Gene in Mice
Shayna Christine Truax (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Cupp
Effects of Feeding Melengesterol Acetate Prior to Puberty on Age in Puberty in Bulls
Taylor Yaw (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jennifer Wood
Embryonic Development
Emily Arkfeld (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Steven Jones
Use of a Natural Antioxidant to Reduce Oxidative Rancidity and Improve Eating Quality in Pork
Anthropology
Maria Bender (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Effie Athanassopoulos
Ian Campbell's Archaeological Photographs and the History of Pompeii's Excavations
Rachel Bothun (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mary Willis
Whole Family Dental Health for Dinka and Nuer from Sudan
Linda Dammann (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Peter Bleed
"Wild" Ceramics from the Lincoln Pottery Works
Melissa Garfield (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Raymond Hames
How Do Women Achieve Status in Traidional Societies?
Zach Garfield (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Raymond Hames
The Prosocial Dimension of Status in Egalitarian Society
Stephen Hrivnak (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Martha McCollough
Native American Gaming
Matt Seger (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Martha McCollough
An Ethnohistorical Examination of the Hope Mining Company
Nathan Robert Sell (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Paul Demers
Artifact Classification and Inventory Systems
Sherri Sklenar (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Paul Demers
Paths to Zion: The Mormon Trek Through Nebraska
Misam Ali (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Carleen Sanchez
Race and Ethnicity in New Media
Architectural Engineering
Holly Brink (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ece Erdogmus
Investigation of a Buried 3rd Century Vaulted Structure
Michael Crabb (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lily Wang
An Examination of Acoustical Ceiling Reflectors
Jacob Hanna (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ece Erdogmus
Study on Fiber Reinforced Mortars for Masonry Applications
Heidi Kuchta (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mahmoud Alahmad
Applications of Photovoltaics in the Built Environment
Eric Powell (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Siu-Kit Lau
Sound Transmission Across a Slanted Side-branch in an Infinitely Long Duct
Paul Sim (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lily Wang
Correlations of Noise to Academic Achievement in Classrooms
Jacob Zach (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ece Erdogmus
Nondestructive Evaluation of Existing Masonry Structures
Architecture
Kathryn Ankenbauer (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Peter Hind
The John B. Pierce Foundation and Prefabrication of the House in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Kristen Layne Bender (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kim Wilson
Edward D. Stone and Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, NE
Chantal Bonner (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Steven Hardy
Adaptive & Performance-Based Design in High(er) Risk Environments
Martie Burke (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Camilla Rice
Child Research and Landscape Design
Matthew Conway (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Janghwan Cheon
Algorthithmic Architecture
Gabee Cho (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Wayne Drummond
Chancellor's Commission on Environmental Sustainability
Megan Dowling (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Architecture in the Humanities
Elizabeth Hawks (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James Potter
Architecture in the Humanities
Megan Houston (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Rumiko Handa
Architecture in the Humanities
Mike MacDonald (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: H. Keith Sawyers
Building of Nebraska Guidebook (Contemporary Architecture)
Stephanie Morales (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Martin Despang
Architectural Communications
Paul North (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Chris Ford
LTM Research Project
Nicholas Pajerski (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Timothy L. Hemsath
Digital Learning Tool
Rachel Plessing (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: H. Keith Sawyers
Building of Nebraska Guidebook (East Central Region)
Darin Russell (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Timothy L. Hemsath
Digital Fabrication
Daniel Scott (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James Potter
Architecture in the Humanities: The City of Rome
Drew Seyl (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey Day
Urban Agritecture
Nay Z. Soe (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Steven Hardy
Adaptive & Performance-Based Design in High(er) Risk Environments
Meganne Tedman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Martin Despang
Despang Architekten---Architectural Communications
Bryce Willis (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey Day
Fabrication Architecture: Computer-Aided Manufacturing and Architectural Production
Art and Art History
Rebecca Aiken (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Dana Fritz
Reclaiming
Alexandra Borovski (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Aaron Holz
Studio Work in Painting
Justine Carmer (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Eddie Dominquez
Exploring the Torn Man
Lindsey Clausen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Peter Pinnell
A continuing study of ceramic glazes
Kyren Conley (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sandra Williams
Painting and Short Animation Films
Sylvia Cox (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Ingraham
Mapping Nebraska: Personal Cartography, Eccentric Topography
Lindsay Graef (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Ingraham
Literal and Psychological Portraits
Neil Griess (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Aaron Holz
Miniature Set Construction/Painting Studies
Sylvia Hall (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alison Stewart
Pieter Bruegel's "Wedding Dance" in Detroit
Jared Johnson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Michael Hoff
Analysis of tombs near Antiocheia
David Knox (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Peter Pinnell
Developing glazes that react well with surface textures
Audrey Koch (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Dana Fritz
Japanese Visual Culture and "Terraria Gigantica"
Jessica Machacek (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Karen Kunc
Large Handmade Paper Production
Christina Mainelli (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Karen Kunc
Handmade Papermaking
Meredith Sandberg (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Gail Kendall
A Potters Life
Kanny Seidel (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Eddie Dominquez
Exploring the Torn Man
Cody Wheelock (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Karen Janovy Sandra Williams
Discover Sheldon
Biochemistry
Abigail Berkebile (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Melanie Simpson
Structural and Functional Analysis of Hyaluronidase
Brian Coburn (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Donald Becker
Characterization of the Tyr540Ser PutA Mutation
Matthew Hessel (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jaekwon Lee
Structure-function analysis of metal-transporting P-type ATPases
Andrew Keralis (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Donald Weeks
Epitope Tagging of SUMOylated Proteins
Amanda Leafgren (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Julie M. Stone
Arabidopsis thaliana Mutants Defective in DJ-1 Homologs
Melissa "Mia" Manakukl (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cheryl Bailey
SUMOylation Protein Modification in Flagella of Tetrahymena Thermophilus
Niraj Patel (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cheryl Bailey
SUMOylation Protein Modification in Flagella of Tetrahymena Thermophilus
Laura Purcell (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Donald Weeks
Development of strains of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Aleah Rodriguez (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Spreitzer
Rubisco Posttranslational Modification in Chlamydomonas
Kimberly Scheinost (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: S. Madhavan G. Sarath
Switchgrass Plants Bred for Better Biomass Qualitites
Rebecca Somer (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Donald Becker
Mutant PutA Reactivity with Oxygen
Ashley Sternhagen (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: S. Madhavan G. Sarath
Clone and Characterize Switchgrass Genes
Kelsey Swartz (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Spreitzer
Hybrid Rubisco Enzymes
Dulce Elizabeth Boucher (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Vadim Gladyshev
Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases and Aging
Biological Sciences, School of
Humera Ahmad (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Luwen Zhang
Epstein Barr Virus Transformation and Cellular Genes
Joshua Allison (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Guillermo Orti
Analysis of Hemoglobin in High Altitude Populations of Tamias minimus.
Jake Arneson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Johannes Knops
Sex Distribution of Red Cedars Across an Environmental Gradient
Laura Badalucco (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: R.L. Pardy
Analysis and Biology of Lipopolysaccharides
Brody Crowe (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Anthony Zera
Respirometric Comparison of Morphs of a Polymorphic Winged Cricket
Sarah Danahy (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: William Wagner
Comparing Field Crickets to Lab-Reared Individuals
Emily Edwards (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lawrence Harshman
Tests of Candidate Genes on Drosophila melanogaster Sperm Storage Organ Function
Karolyn Fox (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kenneth Nickerson
Effects of Ultra-violet Light on Bacterial Growth
Susan Greni (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Brigitte Tenhumberg
Predator-Prey interactions in Ladybird Beetles and Aphids
Katherine Heineman (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sabrina Russo
The Effect of Soil Resources on Below-Ground Biomass Allocation in Tropical Tree Species.
Gregory Hollis (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Karrie Weber
Carbon Flux Following Induction of a Temperate Bacteriophage in Geobacter Sulfurreducens
Aillie Hu (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Gwendolyn Bachman
How Temperature Affects the Cost of Digging in Box Turtles
Aaron Hueftle (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Anthony Zera
Safe Patient Handling: A Biomechanical Analysis of "Machine-Assisted" Versus "Human-Assisted" Sit-to-stand Movements in Persons with a Physical Disability
Marcella Ihrig (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Chad Brassil
The Effect of Light Saturation on the Population Growth of Lemna minor
Kristen Jackson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lawrence Harshman
BCA Protein Analysis in Drosophilia Melanogaster
Samantha Janousek (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Brigitte Tenhumberg
Predator Performance in Response to Changing Prey Quality
Caitlin Johnson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lawrence Harshman
Sperm Competition in Drosophila melanogaster
Lindsay Klug (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Anthony Zera
Characterization of isocitrate dehydrogenase in a cricket species
Kelsey Koch (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
Quantification of Melanin in the Peritoneium of Female Xiphophorus
Aimee Koenig (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
Behaviors Favored by Selection in Xiphophorus
Kelsey Kumm (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: John Janovy
Host/Parasite Relations of Gregarine Parasites in Insects
EE Wen Lam (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Gregor Grass
Antimicrobial Properties of Copper
Sarah Lee (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Deborah Brown
Mechanisms of CD4 T Cell Differentiation
Chia Sin Liew (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Etsuko Moriyama
Bioinformatics analysis of chemoreceptor proteins from vertebrate genomes
Jocelyn Olney (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sabrina Russo
Allocation of resources to corbohydrate and nutrient storage by trees in Bornean rain forest
Katherine Palmisano (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Zoya Avramova
Alternative Promoter Use in the Arabidopis Homolog of Trithorax, Atx1
Mari Pesek (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Eileen Hebets
The Effects of Male Sexual Ornamentation on Foraging Efficiency in Wolf Spiders
Jesse Roberts (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Catherine Chia
Assay Aggregation and Growth of D. discoideum Cells Restored With gp130
Richard Sauer (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Zoya Avramova
Phosphoinositol Signaling and Epigenetic Regulation in Arabidopsis
Katie Schueth (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
Natural and Sexual Selection in Xiphophorus
Eric Sestak (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sally Mackenzie
Investigating Developmental and Environmental Responsive Expression aof MSH1, a Plant Gene That Influences Mitochondrial DNA Recombination
Kristin Sholes (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
A Comparative Study of Male Aggression in Swordtails
Taylor Sloey (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Diana Pilson
Sex ratio variation and allocation to reproduction by red cedars along an environmental gradient.
Raymond Stetson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Christensen
Msh 1 Transcription in Developing Arabidopsis Tissues
Reed Stubbendieck (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Eileen Hebets
Hormone Assays of Bled Schizocosa Wolf Spiders
Jennifer Suhr (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alexandra Basolo
Male-Male Competition
Narmin Tahirova (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Audrey Atkin
Microbiology of the amino acid analog PALO
Biological Systems Engineering
Michael McKinney (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Dean Eisenhauer
Experimental Determination of the Mean Wetting Front Pressure During Infiltration of Water into Soils
Andrew Anderson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: George Meyer
A Thermodynamic Analysis of Turf Grass Surfaces for Improved Water Management
Bethany Barber (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Jones
Biomechanical Assessment of Lower Estremity Muscle Activation and Joint Motion During Dynamic Balance Training on the Proprio 4000
Stephanie Berger (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Angela Pannier
Patterned Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Using Zein Fiber-Templating
Anne Bradford (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Shadi Othman
Developing Ultrasound Elastography
Quentin Dudley (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Angela Pannier
Controlling ECM Orientation for Nonviral Gene Delivery Applications
Hanieh Kamelian (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: George Meyer
A Generalized Pattern Recognition System Using Fuzzy Clustering and a Genetic Algorithm
Marcus Kuhl (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Roger Hoy
Intergration of PTO Power Measurement on to the UNL-NTTL Drawbar Load Car
Collin Lutz (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Viacheslav Adamchuk
Development of an Integrated Soil State Sensing Shank
Jessica Mills (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Greg Bashford
Ultrasound Elastography
Stephen Nogel (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Greg Bashford
Potential of User-Controlled Heart Rate Variability by Biofeedback
Michael Schaal (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Suat Irmak
High Pressure Processing
Ashley Schmidt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Jones
Microbial Fuel Cells
Edel Victor (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jeyamkondan Subbian
Radio Frequency Heating to Improve Safety and Quality of Food Products
Yueying Zhang (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Greg Bashford
Cerebral Blood Flow Examination During Exercise and Cognitive Tasks
Broadcasting
Joshua Compton (First year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jerry Renaud
A Documentary Feature About the Haning of a Hired Man Near Bancroft, NE
Center on Children, Families and the Law
Samantha Mosier (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Victoria Weisz
Comfort and Knowledge of the Court Process: An Examination of Foster Care Youth
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Linda Beckwith (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Hossein Noureddini
Use Dilute Acid and Base Treatment Strategies to Maximize the Soluble Fiber Content of Whole Stillage
Elizabeth Boyer (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Hossein Noureddini
Soluble Fibers in Distiller's Grains
Brian Curtis (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Anu Subramanian
Immobilization of Proteins on Surfaces
Robert Miller (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Anuradha Subramanian
Bioseparations and Biomaterial Development
Tiffany Moeller (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Michael Meagher
Protein Purification for Use in Vaccines
Frank Rozmus (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Anu Subramanian
Studying the biocompatibility of materials
Jon Wright (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Michael Meagher
Fermentation and Purification of Recombinant Proteins
Chemistry
Michael Bokemper (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Powers
Probing Species Specific Binding Interactions of DnaG Primase
Daniel Chilcote (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Berkowitz
Novel Synthesis of Fluorinated Phosphonates
Laura Clouston (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Andrzej Rajca
Organic Radical as Contrast Agent for MRI
Brendan Darnell (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Berkowitz
Toward New Triggers for PLP Enzyme Inactivation
Christopher Dilda (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Hui Li
Quantum Chemical Study of Biomolecular Interactions
Luong Doan (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mark Griep
Determining the Inhibition Mechanism of Primase Inhibitors
Haley Hong (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Wonyoung Choe
Porphyrin Nanostructures
Robert Jacobberger (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Chin Li Cheung
Understanding Electrical Contract Between Lanthanide Hexaboride Thin Films and Metal Electrodes
Sarah Anne Kruse (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen D. DiMagno
New Agents for Brain Imaging: Visualizing mGluR5 Receptors with F-MTEB
Alexander Lawson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jason Kautz
Synthesis, Structure, and Characterization of Novel Organolanthanide Complexes
Zachary Lovell (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Andrzej Rajca
Very High-Spin Organic Molecules and Polymers
Ruwanthi Ratnayake (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mark Griep
Determining the Inhibiton Mechanism of S. aureus primase
Whitney Schwandt (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jody Redepenning
Preparation of Novel Biomimetic Materials for Orthopedic Devices
Lauren Villegas (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Wonyoung Choe
Porphyrin Nanostructures for Energy Research
Levi Zehr (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Powers
Validating the Small Molecules Affinity Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Method
Child, Youth and Family Studies
Gabrielle Beadell (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cody Hollist
The Effect of Court Appointed Special Advocates on Children
Heather Buss (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Gina Knuz
Minority Differentiated Responses to Mathematical and Science Based Careers
Clare Carlo (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lisa Knoche
Rural Language and Literacy Connections (Rural LLC)
Caitlin Krolikowski (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Susan Churchill
Nature Education
Hoa Nguyen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Julia Torquati
The Role of Attachment in the Development of Autobiographical Memory
Cassandra Person (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Maria Rosario T. de Guzman
Poverty and Family-Functioning: The Role of Culturally-Relevant Factors Among Latinos
Elizabeth Pflueger (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Maria Rosario T. de Guzman
Evaluating Family and Youth-Focused Extension Programs: Assessing Impact Statewide
Brittany Sznajder (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cody Hollist
Impact of Immigration Raids on Children and Adolescents
Laviania Thandayithabani (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Julia Torquati
Exploring the Role of Nature in Childrens Development and Learning
Civil Engineering
Trevor Campbell (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Anuj Sharma
Evaluate the feasibility of using wind generators on existing city infrastructure
Carrie Mohlman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Admiraal Bruce Dvorak
City of Lincoln Stormwater Monitoring Project
Nick Vanous (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Aemal Khattak
Safety Improvements at Highway-Railroad Crossings for Pedestrians and Bicyclists
Classics and Religious Studies
Matthew Brittingham (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Simon Wood
Fundamentalism, Literalism, and Modernity
Communication Studies
Kaitlin Arntz (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jody Koenig Kellas
Narratives and Storytelling in the Family
Jessica Rick (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kristen Lucas
Minority Student How To, Must Do Messages
Computer Science and Engineering
Kaylei Burke (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Myra Cohen
Optimum Testing Techniques for Configurable Software
Jason Gaare (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Berthe Choueiry
Propagation Algorithms for Quasigroup Completion
Michael R. Gubbels (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen D. Scott
Budgetted Machine Learning with Bayesian Networks
Wen Luo (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lisong Xu
BitTorrent incentive system enhancement.
Katie Macias (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Myra Cohen
Combinational Interaction Testing - A Web-Based Learning Portal
Peter Schlette (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Berthe Choueiry
Exploiting Structure for Path Consistency
Joseph Schmiedeskamp (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Berthe Choueiry
Interactive Methods for Resource Management and Allocation
Amanda Swearngin (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Swanson
Real-Time Dynamic Web Interfaces For High-Performance Computing
Way-Loon Tan (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Leen-Kiat Soh
Developing Intelligent Learning Objects for Computer Science Topics
Construction Systems
Sean Bergstedt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Terri Norton
Structural Control Using Passive Magnetic Dampers
Economics
Jeremy Hanson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Hendrik Van deu Berg
The Economics of America Going Green
Nicole Hutsell (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Rosenbaum
Court Date Notification Methods: A Benefit/Cost Analysis
Theodore Stuckey (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Carlos Asarta
Determinants of Student Performance in Business School
Educational Psychology
Carrie Hagstrom (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Beth Doll
The ClassMaps Research Group
Ashley Johnson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Eric Buhs
Social Interaction, Belongingness, and Engagement Processes
Ashley Lowry (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Beth Doll
The ClassMaps Research Group and Honors Retention: What Gives
Sucharitha Rajendran (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Eric Buhs
Manualizing a Youth Podcasing Program
Emily Sirotkin (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Eric Buhs
Social Interaction, Belongingness, and Engagement Processes and Potential Roles in Undergraduate Motivation, Achievement, and Retention.
Courtney Wimmer (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Beth Doll
ClassMaps Research Seminar
Electrical Engineering
Stephen Borer (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Dennis Alexander
Nanoparticles in Microring Cavity for All Optical Switch Technologies
Dana Engel (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jerry Hudgins
Data Acquisition for Renewable Energy Sources
Paul Franco (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jerry Hudgins
Modeling Simulation and Validation of a Silicon Carbide Bipolar Junction Transistor
David Freese (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sina Balkir
Wireless Sensor Network Development for Nuclear Proliferation Detection
Paul Potter (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lance Perez
e Madonna Expiratory Respiratory Trainer (MERT) project
Sena Sayood (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Michael Hoffman
Bio-inspired Auditory Processing
Alexandra Toftul (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Michael Hoffman
High Quality Audio Compression
Engineering Mechanics
Brenden Boyle (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Yuris Dzenis
Nano-Enabled Intracellular Probing
James Dalton (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Joseph Turner
Evaluation and Characterization of Mechanical Waves in the Skull
Brian McMichen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Merhdad Negahban
Dynamic Response of Blast Waves on a Head
Daniel Menter (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jung Yul Lim
Nanotopographic Regulation of Stem Cell Functions
Seth Prauner (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Yuris Dzenis
Nanomaterials Research
Matthew Shea (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Yuris Dzenis
Nanofibrous Drug Carriers
English
Lacey Bodnar (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Amy Goodburn
Partnering for Reading: The UNL/Southwest High School Reading Mentors Program
Kyle Citta (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Buhler
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Michael Harpster (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Hilda Raz
Prairie Schooner Magazine Editorial Assistant
Luke Hollis (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kenneth Price
Partnership with Walt Whitman Archive
Lacey Lennard (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Julia Schleck
Re-visioning "Romeo and Juliet": Shifting Perspectives from a Student to a Teacher
Sarah Synovec (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kenneth Price
Walt Whitman Archive/Civil War Washington
James Thayer (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Hilda Raz
Prairie Schooner Magazine Editorial Assistant
Megan Borrell (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Hilda Raz
Prairie Schooner
Entomology
Rachael Fithian (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Fred Baxendale
Deciphering the role of peroxidases in the defense response of buffalograss to Blissus occiduus
Samantha Hiemer (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Blair Siegfried
Biochemistry of Resistance in the Western Corn Rootworm
Sara Pritchard (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Gary Brewer
Predator and Parasite Competition For Lepidopteran Eggs On Cruciferae
Ransom Sitz (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Tiffany HengMoss
Soybean Genotype Analysis for Resistance to Aphids
Finance
Chase Pflueger (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Geoffrey Friesen
Variable Dollar-cost Averaging Investment Strategies
Food Science and Technology
Sarah Johnson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Rolando Flores
Food Industry Feasibility Study Research
Danielle Ahrens (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Vicki Schlegel
Antioxidative Properties of Damaged Pinto Beans
Elizabeth Baier (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Susan Cuppett
Natural Compound Metabolism and Bioavailability
Sara German (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Curtis Weller
Cooking and Storage Effects on the Antioxidative Components/Capacities of Damaged Great Northern Beans
Susan Hammons (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jens Walter
Investigation of the coevolution of antimicrobial compound production by Lactobacillus reuteri
Cody Hartman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Jackson
Maximizing Ethanol Yields from Nebraska Corn
Steven Kaiser (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Daniel Peterson
Analysis of a Monoclonal Antibody Reactive to the Human Gut Symbiont Bacteriodes thetaiotaomicron
Kristen McCarty (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Susan Hallbeck Cuppet
Enhanced Egg White Digestibility and Functionality Using High Hydrostatic Pressure
Russell Parde (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jayne Stratton
Research and Development of New Dairy Products
Laurel Weilage (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Robert Hutkins
Modulation of the Human Intestinal Microbiota by Prebiotic oligosaccharides
Kate Wheeldon (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Durward Smith
Providing Technical Assistance to Food Business
Geosciences
Bradley McCune (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Adam Houston
Spatial Bias in Radar-Indicated Tornados
Yusuke Ozawa (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Watkins
Morphological Variability of Hesperocyon
Jordan Schleif (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Merlin Lawson
Forecasing of Seasonal Monsoonal Precipitation in India
Morgan Wurdeman
Faculty Sponsor: Merlin Lawson
Willa Cather's Representation of Weather Events in Her Novels
History
Joanna Crowl (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Carole Levin
The Lives of Medieval and Early Modern English Women
John Goodwin (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Donna Akers
Native American Oral Traditions
Kelsey Harris (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: William Seefeldt
Horrible Massacre of Emigrants!!
Jennifer Hiatt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Carole Levin
The Lives of Medieval and Early Modern English Women
Isabella Koch (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jim LeSueur
Algerian Intellectuals
Rhianna Needham (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Carole Levin
The Lives of Medieval and Early Modern English Women
Aaron Pattee (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Cahan
A Biography of the German Scientist Hermann von Helmholtz
Pablo Antonio Rangel (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James Garza
Omaha Bound: African-American/Mexican Immigration to Omaha during WWI
Elisabeth Tracey (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Susan Lawrence
Civil War Washington Project
Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
Bradley Balogh (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Susan Hallbeck Judith Burnfield
Safe Patient Handling: A Biomechanical Analysis of "Machine-Assisted" Versus "Human-Assisted" Sit-to-stand Movements in Persons with a Physical Disability
Lindsay Exstrom (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Erick Jones
Silo Windmill Energy Development
Zhuoyang Li (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ram Bishu
Higher Education Quality
Interior Design
Sean Cobb (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Betsy Gabb
InForm Journal Editor
Matt Fulton (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mark Hinchman
Book on Cambodian Architecture
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film
Valerie Harper (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Janice Stauffer
Nebraska Repertory Theatre
Harrison Hohnholt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Scott Parker
Computer control and programming of theatrical lighting equipment
Mai Sahiouni (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Juliana Hagemeier
Audience Development and Marketing Associate for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre
Trent John Stork (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Paul Steger
Assistant to the General Manager
Emily Wall (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Brad Buffum
Stage Management for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre
Journalism
Joshua Compton (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jerry Renaud
A Documentary Feature About the Haning of a Hired Man Near Bancroft, NE
Libraries
Evan Bliss (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kay Logan Peters
Historic Buildings at UNL--preparation for publication
Dan Buhrdorf (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Graham
Comic Books as Educational Texts
Samantha Chesters (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Brett Barney
Annotating and Digitizing the Collected Walt Whitman Interviews and Reminiscences
Rosanna Henning (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Andrew Jewell
Cather's Letters on the Willa Cather Archive
Erin Mettling (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kathleen Johnson
The Carlton and Territa Lowenberg Collection--Photographs
Brett Joseph Michelson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mary Ellen Ducey
WWI and Anti-Germanism on UNL Campus
Gwyneth Talley (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mary Ellen Ducey
Fred M. Fling and European History Collections
Jessica Williams (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Katherine Walter
Ralph Blakelock: The Artist and the Archives: A Digital Pilot Project
Management
Yunlu Cao (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Keng Siau
Exploration Versus Exploitation Learning in Virtual Worlds
Wei Gang Christopher Chia (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
Actuarial Science
Chia Yi Chin (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Fiona Fui Hoon Nah
Business Implications of 3-D Virtual Worlds
Doug Fernaays (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Keng Siau
Education in Virtual Worlds
Sui May Heon (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Keng Siau
Use of Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Financial Institutions
Mei Yuann Ng (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Keng Siau
Hedonic and Utilitarian Dimensions in Virtual World Education
Xinrou Tan (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Fiona Fui Hoon Nah
Virtual Worlds for Marketing
Siau Chen Tan (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
Hedonic Experiences in Online Communities and Virtual Worlds
Wern Ai Tan (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Keng Siau
Moblie Journalism
Dan Wu (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
Human-Computer Interaction in 3-D Virtual Worlds
Marketing
Alexandra Hein (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jim Gentry
Effect of Golf Rituals on Female Participation in the Sport
Mathematics
Jessica Alley (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Judy Walker
Explorations in Coding and Cryptography in Various Planes and Dimensions
Tyler Lemburg (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: A. Jamie Radcliffe
Partitions of Integers into Three or Fixed Set Parts
Wenling Ma (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Bo Deng
Differential Equation Models for Chaotic Systems
Mechanical Engineering
Khoa Chu (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Carl Nelson
MODULAR SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS
Thomas Frederick (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Shane Farritor
GPS Applicability for the Railroad
Michael Head (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Carl Nelson
Laparoscopic tool redesign
Anthony Lucero (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Linxia Gu
Study Cell Mechanics Using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Eric Markvicka (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Shane Farritor
Miniature in Vivo Robot for Laparoscopic Surgery
Jared Charles Miller (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: George Gogos
Propane Flaming for Weed Control
Nathan Otten (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Shane Farritor
In Vivo Robotic Tool Design
Cameron Schmid (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Brian Robertson
Boron Carbide Low Energy Neutron Detectors
Eldon Summerson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey Shield
Microstructural Conrol in Permanent Magnets
Modern Languages and Literature
Justin Shilhanek (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Iker Gonzalez-Allende
Masculinities in Contemporary Spain
Music, School of
Jeffrey Bunker (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Brenda Wristen
Epidemiology of Music-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in String Players
Adria Caffaro (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kevin Hanrahan
A Virtual Model of the Mozart Tenor
Christopher Lyons (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Christopher Marks
Research on the Organ Music of Composer Seth Bingham
Justin Potter (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: William Shomos
UNL Opera, Creative and Technical Design, and Stage Management
Lily Spader (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mark Clinton
Charles Ives Chamber Music
Amy Waddle (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Peter Lefferts
Study of the History of Chant and of Current Practices of Chant
Daisy Smith (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Dale Bazan
Creativity in the Classroom: What teachers need to help make it happen
Nebraska Center for Research of Children, Youth, Families and Schools
Polly Michelle Daro (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Susan Hallbeck Sheridan
CBC in the Early Grades
Andrew Steven White (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Gwen Nugent
Factors Impacting Interest in STEM Fields Among 4-H Robotics Camp Participants
Nutrition and Health Sciences
Caitlyn Anderson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Georgia Jones
4-H Project/Low Income Families
Caroline Cheong (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Julie Albrecht
Food Safety for Families with Young Children
Chern Yann Chng (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Fayrene Hamouz
Whole Grain Research
Rachel Friedman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Georgia Jones
Development and Evaluation of Electronic Magazine for Children
Sarah Kvien (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kaye Stanek-Krogstrand
Comparing Supplement Usage in Low Income African American and Caucasian Children
Abbey McGee (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Nancy Lewis
Omega-3 Food Consumption
Anh Thy Nguyen (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ji Young Lee
Modulation of Lipogenesis by Green Tea Extract in Mouse Hepatoma Cell
Mary Peetz (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Timothy Carr
Cholesterol Lowering Properties of Grain Sorghum
Tho Pham (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ji Young Lee
Regulation of ABC transporters by fatty acids
Jenna Marie Rickstrew (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Janos Zempleni
Effect of Biotin on DNA Histones
Kate Roehrs (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Janos Zempleni
Synergies Between Biotinylation of Histones and Methylation of DNA
Rachel Marie Rossman (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Julie Albrecht
Effect of Misting on Lettuce
Briahna Stofferson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Julie Albrecht
Probiotic Effects in Children
Claire Swogger (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kaye Stanek-Krogstrand
Modification of Dessert Recipes
Oral Biology (College of Dentistry)
Nathaniel Cogswell (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Greg Oakley
Elucidation of the RPA Binding Domain
J Morgan (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ali Nawshad
Transforming Growth Factor (TGFbeta) signaling during palate development
Elizabeth Sand (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James Wahl III
Identification of desmoglein binding partners
Physics and Astronomy
Maria Becker (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Gregory Snow
Data Analysis of the Upgraded Atmospheric Monitoring Detectors for the Pierre Auger Observatory
Cameron Bravo (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Axel Enders
Research on Surface-Supported Metalloporphyrin-Based Nanostructures
Zachary Scott Burton (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alexei Gruverman
Structure-Property Relation Studies and Nanomechanics of Calcified Biocomposite Materials
Samuel Davis (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Shireen Adenwalla
SAW Assisted Magnetic Switching
David Foote (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cornelis Uiterwaal
Exotic Modes of Ultrafast Laser Pulses Created by PC-Controlled Light Modulation
Laila Gharzai (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sudeep Banerjee
Laser-driven electron and x-ray beams for imaging of dense structures relevant to biomedical applications
Maxwell Gregoire (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kenneth Bloom
A Study of Top Quark and Anti-Top Quark Interaction in Simulation and the LHC
Peter Hansen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Herman Batelaan
Double Slit Experiment
Ryan Hotovy (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Herman Batelaan
Developing Macroscopic Demonstrations of Microscopic Principles
Brad Nordell (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Peter Dowben
Organic and Inorganic Spintronic Heterojunctions
Eric Norrgard (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Timothy Gay
A Rubidium Spin Filter
Paul Prososki (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Dan Claes
Design Improvements to Cosmic Ray Detectors
Andrew Rasmussen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alexei Gruverman
Nanoscale Control and Characterization of Epitaxial Ferroelectric Structures for Oxide Electronics
Plant Pathology
Matthew Dale (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James Alfano
Expression of HopG1 in Arabidopsis thaliana and resulting seed size
Ashley Gutwein (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James Alfano
In vitro analysis of a Pseudomonas syringae type III effector protein, HopB1.
Jordan Ochs (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James Steadman
Does Birdseed Spread Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Which is a Fungal Pathogen on Over 400 Plant Species?
Shane Pearson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James Alfano
Pursuing a greater understanding of the Pseudomonas syringae type III secretion system by accessory protein investigation.
Karina Stott (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James R. Steadman
Is There a New Race of the Bean Rush Pathogen in the Lake States and Northern Plains?
Jason Vitek (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Dunigan
Evalutaion of Cholorovirus Capsids
Nicholas Wohlgemuth (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: James Van Etten
Chlorella Secretome Project
Political Science
Adam Azzam (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ari Kohen
The Moral Hero and the Mortal Hero.
Cassi Baumgardner (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ari Kohen
Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and Reconciliation
Jacob Colling (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ari Kohen
Anarchic Civil Disobedience: Its New Role in Gerrorism
Matt Harrington (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sergio Wals
Immigrants' Imported Socialization Meets American Mobilization Efforts
Michael Jung (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Michael Wagner
Determinants of Political Attitudes
Ryan McIntosh (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Dona Gene Mitchell
Analyzing Scandal in Congressional Campaigns
Alyssa Ringgenberg (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Forsythe
NGOs and Providing Aid in War Zones
Jessica Salas (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Rapkin
Capital Market Opennes and Political Instability
Zachary Smith (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Michael Wagner
Talking Public Life in the Pews
Nicole Starkey (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Patrice McMahon
Civil Society in China
Kiana Mathew (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Michaels
How Downstream Jurisdiction Negotiate the Quality and Quantity of Incoming, Flowing Waters
Sarah Brey (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ross Miller
Public Space and Nature's Role in Society Vitality
Alanna Hoffman (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ross Miller
Representation in Education Policy
Psychology
Cole Boyle (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Dennis McChargue
Alcohol Skills Training Research Program
Michelle Byerly (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Wiener
Self Referencing in Sexual Harassment Case Evaluations
Hailey Clark (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Brian Bornstein
Jurors' Perception of Earwitness Testimony
Morgan Conley (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Lisa Crockett
Father Absence and Adolescent Risk Behavior
Ashley Coppersmith (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Anne Schutte
The Development of Verbal Working Memory in 3-Year-Olds
Sarah Davenport (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Hansen
The CAMBOPS - A Normative Study to Assess Prosocial and Disruptive Behaviors in Preschoolers
Kristin Divis (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mike Dodd
Studying the Positivity Effect and Aging through Eye Movements
David Dugger (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mike Dodd
An Examination of the Relationship Between Prejudice and Attentional Biases
Elizabeth Grimes (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Gustavo Carlo
Video games and prosocial and antisocial behaviors among adolescents
Katherine Heupel (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ming Li
Antipsychotic Drugs and Maternal Behavior
Scott Jarecke (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mike Dodd
Aging and Temporal Order Judgments
William Kuehn (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mike Dodd
Visual Attention and Art
Mitchell Laski (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Gervais
The Role of Gender, Race, and Power in the Perception of Politicians
Xinyu Li (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sandra Wiebe
Assessing the Development of Inhibitory Control Using the Preschool Stroop
Ashley McDonald (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sandra Wiebe
The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Childhood Intelligence
Erin Minahan (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Gustavo Carlo
Parenting, Morality, and Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors among Adolescents
Karina Pedroza (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Gervais
The Role of Social Class in Intergroup Interactions
Katrina Poppert (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Daniel Leger
Hormonal Responses to Stress in Humans
Amy Proskovec (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Debra Hope
Gender and Anxiety: Biological Factors
Bethany Ridling (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: William Spaulding
Social Cognition in People with Severe Mental Illness
Matthew Tracy (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Rick Bevins
Subjective Effects of Tramadol
Laura Brugger (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Carolyn Pope Edwards
Getting Ready Project
Carrie Chen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Carolyn Pope Edwards
NebraskaMATH
Amin Makkawy (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Willis Esqueda
Stereotyping of Arabs and Muslims in American Society
Nicholas Ryan Miller (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Willis Esqueda
Various Projects
Britt Carlson (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kimberly Andrews Espy
Prenatal Tobacco Exposure and Infant Emotion Regulation
Alexander Knezevic (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kimberly Andrews Espy
Neural Correlates of Political Cognition
Public Policy Center
Caitlin Cedfeldt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alan Tomkins
The Public as Citizen Scientists
Jessica Cleveland (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Denise Bulling
Threat Assessment
Katie Kidwell (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mitchel Herian
Examining the Perception of Career Technical Education in Nebraska
Sarah Melecki (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Mark DeKraai
Cultural Competence in the Nebraska Children's Mental Health System: The Impact on Families and Providers
School of Natural Resources
Kaitlyn DeLashmutt (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Gosselin
The Integration and Success of an Environmental Education Curriculum in K-6 Schools
Amber Fandrich (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Patricia Freeman
Prairie Pines: Identifying Small Mammal Composition in Microhabitats of an Eastern Nebraska Farmstead
Kyle OConnell (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Dennis Ferraro
The diet selection of the Northern Watersnake in Eastern Nebraska
Rachel Paseka (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Steven Thomas
The influence of phosphorus availability of the structure and function of tropical stream invertebrates
Joseph Robine (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ken Dewey
Wind Energy Climatology for Nebraska
Dustin Simpson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Stevan Knezevic
Propane Weed Flaming Equipment
Sociology
Melissa Welch (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Dan Hoyt
Understanding Faith Community Responses to Batterers: Information from the World Wide Web
Jingyao Yu (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Les Whitbeck
Healthing Pathways
Special Education and Communciation Disorders
Whitney Baumert (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Tiffany Hogan
The Lexicon and Phoneme Awareness
Stephanie Davidson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Assessment of early pre-intentional communication behaviors in infants
Paige Farmer (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Assessment of Early Pre-Intentional Communication Behaviors in Infants
Elyse Fitzgerald (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Assessment of early pre-intentional communication behaviors in infants
Michelle Gergen (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Assessment of early pre-intentional communication behaviors in infants
Katie Harris (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Assessment of early pre-intentional communication behaviors in infants
Katie Lippincott (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Assessment of early pre-intentional communication behaviors in infants
Lindsey Macy (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Assessment of early pre-intentional communication behaviors in infants
Chelsea Price (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jordan Green
A Longitudinal Study of Speech Decline in Persons with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Kelli Rollen (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Alexandra Trout
On the Way Home: An Academic Focused Aftercare Program
Marissa Schulte (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Assessment of early pre-intentional communication behaviors in infants
Megan Slattery (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Cynthia Cress
Assessment of early pre-intentional communication behaviors in infants
Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Nathan Booth (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Edmund Hamann
Retooling "School and Society" to Feature Brown v. Board and Nebraska-Relevant Content: A Design Study
Anna Campbell (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Kathleen Wilson
A Study of Literacy Leaders Self-Efficacy for K-12 Literacy Coaching
Kelsey Campfield (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Meixia Ding
Kelly II:Enhancing the Mathematical Education of Elementary Teachers in Nebraska
Amanda Foxhoven (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Swidler
Finding a Place
James Laville (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Swidler
Finding a Place
Claire Pasco (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Elaine Chan
Preparing to teach in increasingly diverse schools: what do teachers need to know?
Emily Schuckman (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Margaret Macintyre Latta
Adolescents' Experiences and Body Image
Ashley Vaughn (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Nancy Engen-Wedin
Arts Education Program Development and Evaluation
Rachel Vazquez (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Meixia Ding
Layman Project: The Development of Preservice Elementary Teachers' Algebraic Thinking
Textiles, Clothing and Design
Kathryn Alms (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Carol Easley
Garment Modification: Ease of Movement for Disabled Persons
Lauren Bird (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Xia Gao
The Experience of Light: Lamp Metamorphosis
Jessica Dalton (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Nancy Miller and Diane Vigna
Examining Small Businesses in Small Nebraska Communities
Sara Jean Harper (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Barbara Trout
Historical Costume Collection with Focus on the Little Black Dress
Crystal Kotchka (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Harriet McLeod and Rita Kean
College Students Opinions on Sexuality and Modesty in Dress
Lisa Lebens (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Xia Gao
Textile Art- Combining Traditional Techniques with New Technology
Catherine Skean (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Diane Vigna
UNL Extension Entrepreneurship (E-Ship) work group
University of Nebraska Press
Elaine Bilyeu (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Ann Baker
Manuscript Editorial--University of Nebraska Press
Jennifer Drueke (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Heather Lundine
Acquisitions Dept Research for University of Nebraska Press
Mikah Tacha (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Andrea Shahan
Assisting In-House Press Designers
Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Maria Cammack (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: John Kammermann
Survey of the Gastrointestinal Tract of the Domestic Alpaca
Megan Hiatt (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Greg Somerville
The Effect of glnR Inactivation on Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus and Stapylococcus Epidermidis
Katie Kenealy (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Raul Barletta
Drug Resistance in Mycobacteria
Joseph Kent (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Jay Reddy
Genetic Resistance to Autoimmunity
Theodoric Aaron Mattes (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Greg Somerville
Role of ccpC in Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis
Anne Rolfson (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: You (Joe) Zhou
Effects of Stress and Aging on Reproduction of SL and SH Mice
Laura Vinopal (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: David Steffen
Characterization of Congenital Diseases in Calves
Bryan Vukorepa (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Raul Barletta
Drug Resistance in Mycobacteria
Scott Wood (Second Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Marjorie Lou
Effect of Age on Thioredoxin Expression and Activity in the Mouse Eye Lens
Women's and Gender Studies
Brady Jones (First Year UCARE Student)
Faculty Sponsor: Rose Holz
The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World
