ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Violence, Fear, and the ‘State’
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM, Room 210
-Elena Wilson, Freshman, Molecular & Cellular Biology, LAS: Fear and Control in Society Case Studies of the Developing and Developed World: Sierra Leone and the United States
Modes of Performance and Expression
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM, Room 406
-Emaline Johnson, Senior, Molecular & Cellular Biology, LAS: A Comparative Analysis of Character Representations in Webster's The White Devil
Poster Sessions
PA – SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
9 AM – 10:15 AM
-Sarah Ackenhusen, Junior, Chemistry, LAS: Discovery and Characterization of a Lanthipeptide from Moorea producens
-Nikhil Shiva, Junior, Bioengineering, ENG: Tagging Endogenous Genes Using a Universal Nuclease Assisted Vector Integration System
-Ross Skelly, Senior, Molecular & Cellular Biology, LAS: Toxin-Based Delivery Vehicles for Targeting DNA Vectors to Motor Neurons
-Laura Olander, Sophomore, Animal Sciences, ACES: Dopaminergic Drugs Influence Impulsivity and Attention on the 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task (5-CSRTT) in a Rodent Model
-Elijah Karvelis, Junior, Chemical Engineering, LAS: Modeling Glioblastoma using Microfluidics
PB – EDUCATION, SOCIAL SCIENCES, AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
9 AM – 10:15 AM
-Sonam Kotadia, Senior, Global Studies, LAS: Right-Wing Populism in Austria and Germany
-Armando Sanchez-Monsivais, Sophomore, Advertising, MED: Laptop Stickers May Act as a Proxy for Personality Traits
-Athena Lin, Senior, Materials Science and Engineering, ENG: Engineering Students' Perceptions of the Social Responsibilities of Engineers
PC – FOOD, PLANTS, AND ANIMALS
9 AM – 10:15 AM
Anish Bhattacharya, Junior, Electrical Engineering, ENG: The Effect of Climate Variables on Vegetation Productivity on Different Temporal Scales
PD – SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
-Wesley Tung, Sophomore, Molecular & Cellular Biology, LAS: An Investigation of the Role of hnRNPI in Preventing Colon Cancer and Colitis
-Aubrey Laskowski, Sophomore, Mathematics and Computer Science, LAS (with others): A Truth-Functional Model for the Computation of Monotone Boolean Functions
PE – HEALTH AND WELLNESS
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
-Greta Doden, Senior, Animal sciences, ACES: A Synthetic Biology Approach to the Study of Gut Microbial Bile Acid 12α-hydroxy Epimerizing Enzymes Fanting Kung, Junior, Speech & Hearing Science, AHS: Connected Language in Alzheimer's Disease
LUNCHTIME SESSIONS
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM, Illini Room B (free lunch!)
-Amanda Cowfer, Junior, Chemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, LAS: Synthesizing Chemical Libraries for Drug Discovery
-Wesley Tung, Sophomore, Molecular & Cellular Biology, LAS: An Investigation into the Role of hnRNPI in Preventing Colorectal Cancer
Black Science Matters
Zila Renfro, Senior, Journalism, COM
PG – SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
-Amanda Cowfer, Junior, Molecular & Cellular Biology, LAS: Building a Chemical Library of Complex Small Molecules from Natural Products
-Alexandra Lamtyugina, Junior, Chemistry, LAS: Analysis of Photoinduced Processes in Quantum Dot Heterostructures with Nanosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
-Alan Yang, Sophomore, Electrical Engineering, ENG: Stochastic Collocation for Uncertainty Propagation in High-Speed Link Simulation using Wavelet Bases
-Madeline Sponholtz, Junior, Biochemistry, LAS: Understanding Heme-Copper Oxidases Through Site-Directed and Metal Mutagenesis of Myoglobin-Based Enzyme Models
-Lily Benig, Sophomore, Bioengineering, ENG: Targeted Carbon Nanoparticles for Fluorescent Bone Imaging
-Aakash Choubal, Junior, Mechanical Engineering, ENG: Design of a Planar Focusing Collector for Concentrated Solar Power
PH – FOOD, PLANTS, AND ANIMALS
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
-Molly McGhee, Senior, Animal Sciences, ACES: Effects of Including DBY70 in Diets Fed to Weanling Pigs
-Aakash Choubal, Junior, Mechanical Engineering, ENG: Design of a Planar Focusing Collector for Concentrated Solar Power
PJ – SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM
-Alexander Erwin, Junior, Atmospheric Sciences, LAS: Further Analysis and Verification of Storm Prediction Center 1300-UTC Tornado Outlooks
-Alexandra Lamtyugina, Junior, Chemistry, LAS (with others): Stability of Quasicrystal Frameworks
-John Graft, Junior, Electrical Engineering, ENG (with others): Fabrication of Perovskite Solar Cells by Flow-Limited Field Injection Electrostatic Spraying
PK – HEALTH AND WELLNESS
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM
-Juhi Gupta, Senior, Molecular & Cellular Biology, LAS and
-Matthew Siegel, Senior, Molecular & Cellular Biology, LAS: Fatigue and Its Association with Physiological and Psychological Variables in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis
-Sean Zwicky, Junior, Kinesiology, AHS (with others): The Effect of Physical Activity on Cognition
PL – EDUCATION, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM
-Anvita Hariharan, Freshman, Community Health, AHS (with others): How the ACA & Changes in Charitable Care Law Have Affected Illinois Hospitals
College of Engineering’s Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research (ISUR) Symposium
Thursday, April 28, 4:00-6:00 PM, 104 Illini Union
-Elizabeth Gacek, Senior, Bioengineering, ENG: An Investigation of the Effect of Gear Ratio on Manual Wheelchair Kinetics
-Pierce Hadley, Junior, Bioengineering, ENG: Multivariate Classification of an Isogenic Breast Cancer Cell Line Using Raman Spectroscopy
-Kenneth Hoffman, Senior, Mechanical Engineering, ENG: Sensor Calibration of a Visual-Inertial System
-Charles Tierney, Senior, Mechanical Engineering, ENG: Effect of Windbreak Porosity on the Power Generation of Leeward Wind Turbines