{"id":31691,"date":"2018-05-04T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=31691"},"modified":"2022-05-25T10:51:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:51:05","slug":"81-students-present-at-15th-colorado-springs-undergraduate-research-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=31691","title":{"rendered":"78 students present at 15th Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31735\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/csurf.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31735\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/csurf-750x563-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"555\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students making poster presentations during the 2018 Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum April 28.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UCCS was well represented as 78 undergraduate students presented research and creative works during the 15th Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum April 28.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration between UCCS, Colorado College and the U.S. Air Force Academy brings together students to present posters, oral presentations and creative works in a formal academic setting and receive feedback from scholars and peers across disciplines. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/csurf\/sites\/csurf\/files\/inline-files\/2018%20CSURF%20Book%20of%20Abstracts_1.pdf\">A complete book of abstracts is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each student, sorted alphabetically, with the title and faculty mentors, is included below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jeffrey Baston:<\/strong> Surface Tension of Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and Polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) Polymers &#8211; Faculty mentor: Jena McCollum, assistant professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justin Becker and Sarah Dietrick:<\/strong> Increasing starch degradation efficiency in engineered yeast &#8211; Faculty mentor: Wendy Haggren, senior instructor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicole Beutell:<\/strong> Investigation of Self-Efficacy in Seeking Mental Health Care &#8211; Faculty mentor: Charles Benight, professor, Psychology Department, and director, Trauma, Health and Hazards Center<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Bone:<\/strong> Economic Benefits of Alternative Transit to Colorado Springs &#8211; Faculty mentor: Daphne Greenwood, professor, Economics Department, and director, Colorado Center for Policy Studies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Brottlund:<\/strong>\u00a0Fixed vs. Growth &#8211; Faculty mentor: Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gwen Chambers:<\/strong> Regretting Parenthood &#8211; Faculty mentor: Zek Valkyrie, senior instructor, Sociology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carl Churchill:<\/strong> Maliki Islam and Tribal Politics in Medieval North Africa: the Rise of Berberism &#8211; Faculty mentor: Michael Martoccio, assistant professor, History Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christopher Clements:<\/strong> Synthesis and Isolation of Functionalized Quinoxalyltriazoles &#8211; Faculty mentor: Allen Schoffstall, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Samantha Coyne:<\/strong> Construction of a Flavor-Profiling Library by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC\/MS) &#8211; Faculty mentor: Janel Owens, associate professional, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jennifer Cowan:<\/strong> The Effects of Vegetation on Snow Accumulation &#8211; Faculty mentor: Brandon Vogt, associate professor, Geography and Environmental Studies Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stacy Crotty:<\/strong> How do Older vs. Younger Individuals view\/use Writing? Generational Differences in Writing as Communication &#8211; Faculty mentor: Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kaelyn Daughetee:<\/strong> Discobolus and Diadoumenos: Greek Athleticism &#8211; Faculty mentor: Lauren Kinnee, visiting professor, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breanna Davidson:<\/strong> Exploring the Connections between Critical Thinking, Close Reading, and the Reader &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Julien DePolo and Duane Dougherty:<\/strong> Politics in Education &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rubi Diaz:<\/strong>\u00a0Determining Concentrations of Perfluorinated Compounds (PFCs) in Produce from Historic Venetucci Farm &#8211; Faculty mentor: Janel Owens, associate professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryder Dunbar:<\/strong> Charles Mulford Robinson and The City Beautiful Movement &#8211; Faculty mentor: DeLyn Martineau, instructor, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cassandra Eagan:<\/strong> Surface Plasmon Resonance in Anisotrophic Nanoparticles &#8211; Faculty mentor: Anatoliy Pinchuk, assistant professor, Department of Physics and Energy Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kendra Engstrom:\u00a0<\/strong>Synthesis and Characterization of [Ru(dpop\u2019)(2,3-dpp)(Cl)](PF6).H2O and [Ru(dpop\u2019)(2,3-dpp)(H2O)](PF6)2.H2O &#8211; Faculty mentor: Ronald Ruminski, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sandy Fales<\/strong> with Emily Bertrand, U.S. Air Force Academy and Cole Simon, Colorado College: Connected: Increasing Access to Social Services through Interactive Technology &#8211; Mentor: Jake Eichengreen, executive director, Quad Innovation Partnership<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evan Furr:<\/strong> Examining personality and dementia-related attitudes and knowledge &#8211; Faculty mentor: Molly Maxfield, assistant professor, Psychology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elaine Garcia:<\/strong> Veteran Students College Experience &#8211; Faculty mentor: Judith Long, instructor, Psychology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Francis Gourley:<\/strong> Stigmatization of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder &#8211; Faculty mentor: Kristin Samuelson, assistant professor, Psychology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jaime Gray:<\/strong> Depicting the American Landscape &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Lauren Kinnee, visiting professor, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brittany Hall:<\/strong> Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Pre-Columbian Afterlife: Mayan and Aztec Visual and Literary Interpretations of Life after Death &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Lauren Kinnee, visiting professor, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shelby Harvey:<\/strong>\u00a0Comparing Alert and Flight Initiation Distances among Varying Animal Species in a Human-Built Environment &#8211; Faculty mentor: Emily Mooney, assistant professor, Biology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kristin Henrich:<\/strong> Memory storehouse &#8211; The Women of Abstract Expressionism &#8211; Faculty mentor: Claire Rau, instructor, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gina Herriage:<\/strong> Engineering Majors&#8217; Attitudes toward Writing &#8211; Faculty mentor: Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Toan Hoang:<\/strong> Identifying Male-Transferred sRNA in Same Line and Different Line Crosses of Drosophila &#8211; Faculty mentor: Jeremy Bono, associate professor, Biology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Megan Hopkins:<\/strong> Inclusion: What&#8217;s keeping Theory out of Practice? &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jansen Howard:<\/strong> Artists Talk &#8211; Revelation through Creation &#8211; Faculty mentor: Corey Drieth, assistant professor and co-director, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stefan Huddleston:<\/strong> Alexander Films: Colorado&#8217;s Lost Legacy &#8211; Faculty mentor: Robert Von Dassanowsky, professor, Languages and Cultures Department, and director of film studies, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sara Johnson:<\/strong> Plant Community Recovery on a Closed Social Trail Using Active vs. Passive Restoration &#8211; Faculty mentor: Emily Mooney, assistant professor, Biology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew Knott:<\/strong> Beta Phase Analysis of PVDF &#8211; Faculty mentor: Jena McCollumm, assistant professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lydia Lac:<\/strong> Using in silico Methods to Develop a Therapeutic for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus via Targeting the Complement System &#8211; Faculty mentor: James Kovacs, assistant professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katherine Latona:<\/strong> Monuments and Cultural Identity: Ancient Precedents, Modern Controversies &#8211; Faculty mentor: Lauren Kinnee, visiting professor, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ashley Leonard:<\/strong> Putting Feelings into Words: The Emotional Experience of Writing &#8211; Faculty mentor: Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Danielle Lopez and Timmy Vilgiate:<\/strong> The Best of Times\/The Worst of Times: Contemporary Viewpoints across the Political Spectrum &#8211; Faculty mentor: Linda Watts, associate professor, Anthropology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bethany Lundy:<\/strong> Time and Death: Relationships between Time Perspectives and Death Attitudes &#8211; Faculty mentor: Fredrick L. Coolidge, professor, Psychology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicole Marle:<\/strong> The Threat of Active Shooters on School Grounds and the Effect on a Community: Perspectives from Stakeholders &#8211; Faculty mentor: Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katelin Matson:<\/strong> Postpartum Depression &#8211; Faculty mentor: Sarah Treschl, senior instructor, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Allison McDonald:<\/strong> The Female Inciters of the Laxdaela saga &#8211; Faculty mentor: Michael Martoccio, assistant professor, History Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew McGrath:<\/strong> Sonogashira Coupling of Non-Traditional Halides &#8211; Faculty mentor: Allen Schoffstall, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lisa Miller:<\/strong> Effect of Media Role on Women&#8217;s Interest in Pursuing a STEM Field &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Edie Green, professor, Psychology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Erynn Mitchell<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Milk and Strawberries &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Lauren Kinnee, visiting professor, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<li>Hitchcock and the Social Contract &#8211;\u00a0Faculty mentor: Robert Von Dassanowsky, professor, Languages and Cultures Department, and director of film studies, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jose Montanez:<\/strong> Triazoles Synthesis and Microwave Assisted Diels-Alders &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Allen Schoffstall, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brittany Nelson:<\/strong> Parent Opinions on Banned Literature &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rhiannon Nevinczenko:<\/strong> The Heritability of Personality Disorders over Time: A Child and Adolescent Twin Study &#8211; Faculty mentor: Fredrick L. Coolidge, professor, Psychology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heather Poll:<\/strong> The Face of Claudius: Out with the New and In with the Old &#8211; Faculty mentor: Lauren Kinnee, visiting professor, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Melody Reither:<\/strong> Socialization on Forums: Developing Social Skills and Relations in an Online Community &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Faculty mentor: Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Irini Rinn:<\/strong> Methodologies That Students Utilize in Writing in a Foreign Language &#8211; Faculty mentor: Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shannon Ritchey:<\/strong> The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the Society of the Spectacle &#8211; Faculty mentor: Samantha Christiansen, assistant professor, History Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Samone Roberts:<\/strong> The Farmer: An Animated 2D short film &#8211; Faculty mentor: David Nelson, professor and chair, Communication Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trudy Roberts:<\/strong> Media Construction of Masculinity: How Media Affects Men&#8217;s Attitudes toward Masculinity and Fatherhood &#8211; Faculty mentor: Elizabeth Daniel, assistant professor, Psychology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sam Rodriguez and Andrew Reckard:<\/strong> Characterization of the higher order organization of the heterochromatin machinery genes in the nucleus of Neurospora crassa &#8211; Faculty mentor: Drew Klocko, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trina Rohrer:<\/strong> Early Palliative Care Intervention Starts within the Emergency Department &#8211; Faculty mentor: Teresa Yambo, assistant professor, Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kaylene Ross:<\/strong> In vivo quantitative near-infrared spectroscopy in skeletal muscle during incremental whole-body exercise using a commercial available oximeter. &#8211; Faculty mentor: Robert A. Jacobs, assistant professor, Biology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicole Russell:<\/strong> Understanding the Molecular Interactions of a Complement Directed Lupus Therapeutic &#8211; Faculty mentor: James Kovacs, assistant professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alexis Ryan:<\/strong>\u00a0Investigating the role of a gene in Drosophila arizonae reproduction &#8211; Faculty mentor: Jeremy Bono, assistant professor, Biology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tamara Saunders:<\/strong> The Effect of Priming Feelings of Grief on Various Aspects of Language Production &#8211; Faculty mentor: Lori James, professor, Psychology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alekxandria Schneebeck:<\/strong> Investigating the relationship between Mortality Salience and the perception of the &#8220;Uncanny Valley&#8221; in robots &#8211; Faculty mentors: Edie Green, professor, Psychology Department; and Damon Tomlin, instructor, Psychology Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joanna Schumacher:<\/strong> Perceptions of High School Literature: Understanding the Experience of Required Rading &#8211; Faculty mentor: Michelle Neely, director, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing Portfolio Assessment Program, English Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evelyn Smith:<\/strong> Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s Metal Gear Solid: The Hitchcockian Influences of Hideo Kojima &#8211;\u00a0Faculty mentor: Robert Von Dassanowsky, professor, Languages and Cultures Department, and director of film studies, Visual and Performing Arts Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kevin Stewart:<\/strong> Synthesis of a Novel Triazole Polymer &#8211; Faculty mentor: Allen Schoffstall, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alexandra Stuart:<\/strong> The stray magnetic field above a magnetic domain wall &#8211; Faculty mentor: Karen Livesey, assistant professor, Department of Physics and Energy Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Louis Swanson and Ashleigh Zeller:<\/strong> Electrochemical Route to Vicinal Ditriazoles from 2-Methylpyrazine &#8211; Faculty mentor:\u00a0Allen Schoffstall, professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gwendolyn Swift:<\/strong> Still Life and Meaning in the Dutch Golden Age &#8211; 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