Nicholas Burns
Environmental Science
Mentor: Lauren Hallett
Flowering Plant Species Fitness in Response to Neighboring Competition & Pollination
Petra Chinsangaram
Psychology
Mentor: Melissa Baese-Berk
The role of experience in the perception of non-native speech
Kaden Coulter
Data Science
Mentor: Michelle Marneweck
DeepMReye Implementation
Kimberley Davis
Biology *Hui Scholar
Mentor: David Garcia
Effects of Phosphorylation on the Pus4 Protein in Yeast
Olivia Estes
Psychology
Mentor: Michael Wehr
The Effect of Ketamine on Behavior and Pathology of Alzheimer's Model Mice
Paul Graf
Biology
Mentor: Alice Barkan
Designer RNA Binding Proteins as Switches to Modulate Chloroplast Gene Expression in Plants
Skye Grubb
Anthropology *Hui Scholar
Mentor: Frances White
Fluctuating Asymmetry of the Crania and Postcrania in Primates
Dora Ho
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mentor: Dare Baldwin
Infant Responsiveness to Maternal Play Bids in the Context of Poor Nutritional Health
Lazar Isakharov
Human Physiology
Mentor: Ashley Walker
Zinc Status on Copper-Mediated Oxidative Stress and Cerebrovascular Health in Alzheimer's Disease.
Payton Jefferis
Biochemistry
Mentor: Marian Hettiaratchi
Co-delivery of Immunoregulatory and Osteogenic Proteins for Promotion of Localize Bone Repair.
Elena Kuypers
Biology *Urman Scholar
Mentor: Diana Libuda
Localization and interaction of proteins and ZNFX-1 in C. elegans
Zach Marshall
Biochemistry
Mentor: Adrianne Huxtable
Viral neonatal inflammation impairs adult respiratory motor plasticity in male and female rats.
Kathryn Morris
Psychology, Sociology
Mentor: Claire Herbert
When Home is Illegal: How Law and Governance Shape Informal Sheltering in Lane County
Tapley Sorenson
Neuroscience *Hui Scholar
Mentor: David McCormick
Assessing Cortical Noradrenergic Activity Across the Sleep-Wake Cycle in a Mouse Model
Tallula Wynia
Human Physiology, Philosophy *Hui Scholar
Mentor: Ashley Walker
Aortic Protein Expression and Elastin Insufficiency
Sanjana Basak, Biology
Mentor: Hironori Uehara
OptiDicer reduces long CUG RNA accumulation in corneal endothelial cells from patients with Fuchs’ dystrophy
Tamara Alacorn Basurto, Product Design
Mentor: Brian Gillis
Design of zero-energy cooling systems for fresh food preservation in the jungle region of Peru
Hye Lynn Choi, Human Physiology
Mentor: Damien Callahan
The Effects of Aging and Fatigue on Musculotendinous Compliance
Madeleine Ford, Human Physiology
Mentor: Marian Hettiaratchi
Characterization of VEGF Controlled Delivery Systems
Zealon Gentry-Lear, Biology *Hui Scholar
Mentor: Melanie Spero
Characterizing and Understanding Synergistic Drug Interactions for Killing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Sam Heilenbach, Psychology
Mentor: Dare Baldwin
Pupillometry as a measure of Infant Hearing
Ainsley Hogan, Human Physiology and Biology
Mentor: Ashley Walker
Sex Differences and the Impact of Large Artery Stiffness on Cerebrovascular and Cognitive Function
Eleanor Laufer, Biochemistry
Mentor: Patrick Phillips
High-throughput Fitness Estimates of Epistatic Contributions to Ivermectin Resistance in Caenorhabditis elegans
Thomas Leonhardt, Human Physiology
Mentor: Ashley Walker
Are Whole-body Metabolic Alterations Dependent on Sex, Age, and APOE Genotype?
Eden McCall, Spatial Data Science and Journalism
Mentor: Erik Stejner
On Creating Environmental Histories: LandTalk from Research to Practice
Madeline Thomason, Biology
Mentor: Kryn Stankunas
Investigating whether Actinotrichia-Niche Cell Interactions Regulate Fin Regeneration
Colin Thurston, Human Physiology
Mentor: John Halliwill
Effects of Histamine Receptor Antagonism on Oxygen Uptake and Recovery Kinetics
Olivia Wilborn-Pilotte, Biology
Mentor: Jeff Diez
Pollination Strategy as an Evolutionary Adaptation to Changing Climate in Scarlet Monkeyflower (Erythranthe cardinalis)
Alexa Wright, Psychology *Hui Scholar
Mentor: Michael Wehr
The Effect of Psychedelics on Early Alzheimer's Pathology
Ayisha Tamerhoulet, Communication Disorders and Sciences *Hui Scholar
Mentor: Caitlin Fausey
How Everyday Musical Experiences Shape Emerging Vocabulary Development and Infant Vocalizations
Eleanor Codding
Faculty Mentor: Lauren Hallett
Project Title: Post Fire Reseeding Effects on the Genetic Diversity of Native Grass in the Great Basin
David Lefevre
Faculty Mentor: Brian Smith
Project Title: Photon Propagation Simulation through Glacier Ice
Noah Lovgren
Faculty Mentor: Hans Dreyer
Project Title: Impact of a Single Bout of Blood Flow Restriction Exercise on Muscle Satellite Cell Numbers
Larkin Lucy
Faculty Mentor: Alison Burggren
Project Title: Understanding the Impacts of Heat Therapy on Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Hippocampal Region of the Brain
Ava Minu-Sepehr
Faculty Mentor: Liska Chan
Project Title: Counter-mapping the Coos Bay Estuary: Amplifying Indigenous Voices and Histories
Will Nusbaum
Faculty Mentor: Daniel Pimentel
Project Title: Virtual Excursions for Science Learning (VESL)
Zachary Pennel
Faculty Mentor: Keat Ghee Ong
Project Title: Development Of An Accurate Optical-Based Shear Sensor Under Compressive Force
Megan Rangel-Lynch
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Wald
Project Title: Exploring Community Engagement in Context of Forest Management Planning for Mt. Hood National Forest
Sabrina Reis
Faculty Mentor: Thanh Nguyen
Project Title: Learn to Intervene: Using Artificially Intelligent Public Health Outreach to Improve the Uptake of Diabetes Prevention Behaviors in India
Maili Smith
Faculty Mentor: Kirstin Sterner
Project Title: A Cross-Tissue Analysis of Differential Methylation in Male vs Female Macaques
Sarah Beaudoin
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Boettcher
Project Title: Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers for Dirty Water Splitting and Hydrogen Gas Production
Jared Knofczynski
Faculty Mentor: Ram Durairajan
Project Title: A Multi-Task Weak Supervision Framework for Internet Measurements
Aleena Khurana
Faculty Mentor: Ashley Walker
Project Title: OVX Alters Gene Expression in Relation to Vascular Function
Karly Fear
Faculty Mentor: Parisa Hosseinzadeh
Project Title: Design and characterization of selective BMP protein binders for fracture regeneration
Ethan Scott
Faculty Mentor: Dare Baldwin
Project Title: ChangeDwell: The Interaction Between Change Blindness and Dwell Time Paradigms
Idil Osman
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Graboyes
Project Title: Underreporting of Epidemic Rebound Malaria in the African Continent
Alexandra Jagielski
Faculty Mentor: Zachary Dubois
Project Title: Experiences and Health of Transgender People of Color During COVID-19
Marlee Odell
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Graboyes
Project Title: COVID-19 Quarantine Hesitancy in Lane County
Alexander Bui
Faculty Mentor: Philip Fisher
Project Title: Evaluating Responsive Caregiving: Comparing Constructs of Caregiver Sensitivity Within Dyadic Interaction
Zoe Haupt
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Baese-Berk
Project Title: Do we perceive when they deceive? The effect of pauses and dialect on deception detection
Dimitra Fellman
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Graboyes
Project Title: Oregon's Response to COVID-19: Approaches and Outcomes to Social Distancing and Testing
Odalis Aguilar Aguilar
Faculty Mentor: Julie Weise
Project Title: Promesas Ingenuas/False Promises
Rachel Conner
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Graboyes
Project Title: 100 Years of Malaria in Zanzibar, East Africa
Mikala Capage
Faculty Mentor: David Garcia
Project Title: Hunting for prions: Using inheritance patterns in yeast cells to attribute epigenetic states to prion proteins
Isabel Crabtree
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Baese-Berk
Project Title: Influence of Listener Ideology on Perception of Non-Native Speech Intensity
Tillie Trebon
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Baese-Berk
Project Title: Effect of hesitation sound phonetic quality on perception of language fluency
Rachel Hur
Faculty Mentor: Ben Farr
Project Title: Improving accuracy in LIGO's parameter estimation software
Laura Nosler
Faculty Mentor: Laura Jeanty
Project Title: Supersymmetric Long Lived Particle Search
Brenna Barton
Faculty Mentor: Julie Weise
Project Title: Cultural Transitions: Language and Identity in Post WW-II Spanish migrants
Parker Morris
Faculty Mentor: Amanda Cook
Project Title: Rational Design of Molecular Nickel Catalysts for Remote Hydrofunctionalization Applications
Kayla Walker
Major: Linguistics
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Baese-Berk
Project Title: The Role of Semantic Predictability in Adaptation to Non-Native Speech
Abbey Ward
Major: Communication Disorders and Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Stephanie De Anda
Project Title: Language Dominance in Bilingual Spanish-English Children
Arden Saravis
Major: International Studies & Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Clare Evans
Project Title: The Correlation Between Stigma Stemming from HIV and Antiretroviral Packaging: Design Recommendations for Introducing Discrete Packaging for Adolescents in Kenya
Konrad Bailey
Major: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Santiago Jaramillo
Project Title: Neural and behavioral assays for studying predictive coding in the mouse brain
Byron Lee
Major: Human Physiology and Biology
Faculty Mentor: Ashley Walker
Project Title: Robo4 Project
Jacob Evarts
Major: Computer and Information Science
Faculty Mentor: David Garcia
Project Title: Identifying New RNA-regulating Prions in Yeast
Anna Kulawiec
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Eric Selker
Project Title: Differentiation between PRC2 and H3K27 Methylation in Repression
Nora Kearns
Major: Human Physiology
Faculty Mentor: Elinor Sullivan
Project Title: The Influence of Maternal Fatty Acids and in Utero Inflammation on Child Behavior
Dagny Daniel
Major: Cultural Anthropology
Faculty Mentor: Ana-Maurine Lara
Project Title:Navigating the Intersections of Political and Sexual Identity: Ethnographic Interviews among Queer Muslims in Oregon
Sabrina Raqueno-Angel
Major: Human Physiology
Faculty Mentor: John Halliwill
Project Title: The Effect of pH on Histamine Release
George Deardorff
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Scott Stewart
Project Title: Characterizing the role of Dach during bony ray branching in the zebrafish caudal fin skeleton
Hayli Brown
Major: Linguistics, Japanese
Faculty Mentor: Kaori Idemaru
Project Title: Acoustic Sources of Accent in Second Language Japanese Speech
Kara Krnacik
Major: Economics
Faculty Mentor: Edward Rubin and Melissa Graboyes
Project Title: The Effects of Abstinence-Only Funding on Teen Pregnancy and STD Rates
Adeline Fecker
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Philip Washbourne
Project Title:The Influence of Sensory Systems in Social Behavior of Zebrafish
Nolan Rudolph
Major: Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Ramakrishnan Durairajan
Project Title: New Capabilities for Self-Driving Networks
Chaney Hart
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Eric Selker
Project Title: Dissecting The Role Cohesin Plays in Influencing the Structure of the Genome in Neurospora crassa
Eleanor Rochester
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Graboyes
Project Title: “I Don’t Have Deaths on my Conscience”: Perspectives of Intravenous Drug Users on a Peer-Delivered Naloxone Program in Eugene, Oregon
Takako Iwashita
Major: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dasa Zeithamova
Project Title: Behavioral and Neural Predictors of Individual Differences in Concept Generalization
Casey Bisted
Major: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: James Hutchison
Project Title: The Development of a System to Determine the Size Dependence of In2O3 Nanocatalysts on CO2 Reduction
Cameron Colbert
Major: Human Physiology and Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Christopher Minson
Project Title: Hemodynamics of Post-Exercise and Post-Passive Heat Stress Recovery
Elise Kronquist
Major: Human Physiology
Faculty Mentor: Ashley Walker
Project Title: The Effect of Pyridoxamine on Ages and Aortic Wall Structure
Allison Schukis
Major: Art and Art History
Faculty Mentor: Kristen Seaman
Project Title: Phrasikleia Kore: Alternative Roles for Female Viewership
Anson Dang
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Andy Marcus & Peter von Hippel
Eden Brush
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Matt Barber
Project Title: Host-microbe evolutionary antagonism in primates: HopQ’s role as a bacterial adhesin targeting CEACAM1
Tony Munoz
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Matt Smear
Project Title: Odor Concentration Change Sensing in Mice
Patrick Connor
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Michael Harms
Project Title: Thermodynamic and structural determination of metal and peptide binding to the human S100A9 protein.
Christopher Misa
Major: Math and Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Ram Durairajan
Project Title: Improving Measurement Accuracy in Containers Through Trace-based Network Stack Latency Monitoring
Presentations associated with this research:
2019 Applied Networking Research Workshop
Katie Fischer
Major: Environmental Science
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Polizzotto
Project Title: Arsenic and Fluoride Contamination Analysis of Agricultural Topsoil in Guanajuato, Mexico
Fiona De Los Rios-McCutcheon
Major: Geography and Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Laura Pulido
Project Title: Environmental Narratives of Othering: Comparing English and Spanish Language Coverage of Air Pollution in Mexico
Joy Wilcox
Major: General Social Sciences and Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Debra Thompson
Project Title: Racialized and Gendered Justice in the Criminal Court System
Nikki Szczepanski
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Diana Libuda
Project Title: Characterizing Early DNA Break Repair in C. Elegans
Adrian Gordon
Major: Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Shannon Boettcher
Project Title: Energetic Loss From the Use of Hole Scavengers to Measure Photoelectrochemical Cell Efficiency Limits
Aidan Grealish
Major: Art & Technology
Faculty Mentor: Colin Ives
Project Title: The Body Electronic: Exploring the Permeability of the Self in the Age of Wearable Computing
Alexander Lygo
Major: Physics and Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: David Johnson
Project Title: Elucidating the effects of nanoarchitecture on weak localization in (SnSe)m[TiSe2]2
Publications related to this research project:
Kinetically Controlled Formation and Decomposition of [(BiSe)1+δ]m[TiSe2]m Metastable Compounds
Structural Changes as a Function of Thickness in [(SnSe)1+δ]mTiSe2Heterostructures
Allison Zhou
Major: Biology (neuroscience emphasis)
Faculty Mentor: Caitlin Fausey
Project Title: How Object Frequency Distribution Affects Early Word Learning
Anisha Adke
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Adam Miller
Project Title: The genetic basis of the first connections of the brain
Clara Gorman
Major: History
Faculty Mentor: Kevin Hatfield and Jennifer O’Neal
Project Title: Inter-tribal Dynamics of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs and Grande Ronde Reservations
Geena Littel
Major: Earth Sciences (geophysics) and Applied Math
Faculty Mentor: Amanda Thomas
Project Title: Variation in Seismic-wave Attenuation along the Cascadia Subduction Zone Determined from Tectonic Tremor
Presentations related to this research project:
– American Geophysical Union
Lila Kaye
Major: Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology
Faculty Mentor: Karen Guillemin
Project Title: Determining the Fitness Advantage Conferred by Anti-inflammatory Gene Expression to Commensal Bacteria
Peace Kotamnives
Major: Physics and Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Eric Torrence
Project Title: Search for Di-Higgs Resonance at the ATLAS Experiment
Sarah Hovet
Major: English and Journalism
Faculty Mentor: Barbara Mossberg
Project Title: Beyond Muses: Feminism and Gender in Modern Irish Literature (1880 – Present) from Augusta Gregory to Eavan Boland
Presentations related to this research project:
Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society – 1st Place Award in Essay Contest
Augustine Beard
Major: History
Faculty Mentor: Mark Carey
Project Title: Colonial-Environmental Narrative of the Great Basin in the 19th Century
Ayantu Megerssa
Major: International Studies
Faculty Mentor: Kevin Hatfield
Project Title: Genocide and the Northern Paiute: A History of Colonization, Dehumanization, and Extermination
Bryce Keicher
Major: International Studies and Spanish
Faculty Mentor: Dan Tichenor
Project Title: Mexican Drug War: Displacement and Human Rights Affects on Guatemalan Refugees
Drew Jordan McLaughlin
Major: Linguistics
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Baese-Berk
Project Title: Individual Differences in Perception of Variation in Speech
Presentations related to this research project:
Northwest Phonetics and Phonology Conference
Acoustical Society of America Conference
Eugenia Lollini
Major: Anthropology and Romance Languages
Faculty Mentor: Carol Silverman
Project Title: Before the Spectacle: Shaping Gender and Class Identity in Beirut’s Beauty Salons
Hanna McIntosh
Major: Environmental Science and Biology
Faculty Mentor: Matt Streisfeld
Project Title: Genetic architecture of local adaptation and reproductive isolation in Mimulus aurantiacus
Johnathan Crandall
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: William Cresko
Project Title: The Genomic Architecture of Adaptive Divergence in G. aculeatus
Justine Vanloan Nguyen
Major: Human Physiology
Faculty Mentor: Kryn Stankunas
Project Title: VEGF Signaling Contributions to Heart Ventricle Development
Michael McIntosh
Major: Economics
Faculty Mentor: Anca Cristea
Project Title: Localized Economic Impacts of Immigration on the West Coast
Michael Womack
Major: Physics and Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Greg Bothun
Project Title: Wavelet Analysis of the PNI Climate Index
Sally Elizabeth Claridge
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Patrick Phillips
Project Title: Genomic Analysis of the Chronic Heat Stress Resistance Phenotype in Caenorhabditis remanei
Taryn Kawashima
Major: Biochemistry
Faculty Mentor: Ramesh Jasti
Project Title: Carbon Nanohoops as New Bioimaging Probes
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