{"id":31864,"date":"2018-05-07T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=31864"},"modified":"2018-05-13T09:13:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T15:13:33","slug":"graduate-students-share-research-in-second-showcase-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=31864","title":{"rendered":"Graduate students share research in second showcase event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31867\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/graduate-showcase.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31867\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/graduate-showcase-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/graduate-showcase-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/graduate-showcase-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/graduate-showcase-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/graduate-showcase-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/graduate-showcase-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students present during the 2018 Graduate School Research Showcase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Forty UCCS graduate students from the College of Engineering and Applied Science; the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; and the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences presented their results on a variety of topics in the 2018 Graduate Student Research Showcase May 4 at the Gallogly Events Center.<\/p>\n<p>This spring&#8217;s event marked the second year for the graduate-only event. The annual Mountain Lion Research Day in the fall includes both undergraduate and graduate presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Each student, sorted alphabetically, with their academic program, title of their work, is included below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Renata Altamirano-Garcia<\/strong> (sport nutrition): An Enhanced Sport Nutrition Program Integrating TrueFood Principles<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emily Andersen<\/strong> (strength and conditioning): Relationship of Absolute and Relative Lower-Body Strength to Predictors of Athletic Performance<\/li>\n<li><strong>Laura Asbury<\/strong> (sport nutrition): Eating for Health, Fitness, and Performance<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jose A. Bencomo<\/strong> (mechanical engineering): 3D Printing Multifunctional Fluroinated Nanocomposites: Tuning Electroactivity, Rheology, and Chemical Reactivity<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taylor Braden<\/strong> (communication): Personal Branding: The Hidden Secret Behind Effective Marketing; a Research Based Qualitative Analysis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicole Brashears<\/strong> (sports medicine): Initial Cadet Fitness Level and the Relation to Perceived RPE and Preparedness Ratings During a Police Academy Training<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deb Canada<\/strong> (sports medicine): Differences in Stress Shoot Performance Among Special Forces Operators Who Participate in A Human Performance Program Versus Those Who Do Not<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kaley Feenstra<\/strong> (health promotion): Possible Predictors of Physical Activity Program Completion in Workplace Wellness<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ciriaco Gabriel Cantu<\/strong> (communication): The Construction of Masculinity in The Gambler Country Music Video<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Goatcher<\/strong> (sports medicine): Changes in Cadet Fitness Levels Over An 11-Week Fire Academy Session<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kayla Gronseth Boyer<\/strong> (communication): #YTho: A Mixed Method Examination of Millennial Alumni Donors and University Philanthropy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary V. Iskandarov<\/strong> (communication): Stress Management and Emotional Intelligence: A Communication Training<\/li>\n<li><strong>Libby Jensen<\/strong> (health promotion): Confidence in movement: A mixed methods case study of exercise and Parkinson&#8217;s Disease<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alex Koehler<\/strong> (communication): Concussion and their Effects on Youth Sports<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dustin Krohnfeldt<\/strong> (communication): The Effect of Organizational Size on Cultures: A Multi-Method Study<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Lentine<\/strong> (sports medicine): Optimizing Special Weapons and Tactics&#8217; (SWAT) Physical Capabilities to Increase Occupational Performance<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shayne Lin<\/strong> (clinical psychology): Validating the Reliable Change Index with Tensor Based Morphometry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hayley Lucero<\/strong> (health promotion): Nutrition Needs Assessment in Clients with Parkinson&#8217;s Disease<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tara Martinez<\/strong> (sports medicine): Perceived Risk and Response to Lightning Warnings; The Need for an Assessment Tool<\/li>\n<li><strong>Olha Melnyk<\/strong> (physics): Electro-optics of dual-frequency liquid crystals: thickness dependence on their switching time<\/li>\n<li><strong>Merri Metcalfe<\/strong> (sport nutrition): Examing the Usefulness of a Gardening and Food Literacy Program Integrated into an Eating Disorder Support Group: A Case Study<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kelsey Minson<\/strong> (sports medicine): The Relationship Between Pre-Season Testing Performance and Playing Time Among NCAA DII Men&#8217;s Soccer Athletes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alyssa Ortiz<\/strong> (mathematics): Inverse Scattering Transform and Solitons for Square Matrix Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Victoria Ortiz<\/strong> (communication): How University Leaders Can Better Prepare For Campus Crisis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Racquel Paywa<\/strong> (communication): Understanding the Youth Voter in a Digital Age: A Qualitative Analysis<\/li>\n<li><strong>William Quillman<\/strong> (sports medicine): Predicting bench press performance from the NFL 225 bench press test using velocity based measures in Division I football players<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Rodgers<\/strong> (sports medicine): An Evidence-Based Injury Prevention Plan Proposal for the Emerging Contact Sport of U.S. Rugby 7s<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aialaina Salani<\/strong> (communication): Moana &amp; The Heart of Polynesian Culture: A Textual Analysis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Faraz M. Saleem<\/strong> (mechanical and aerospace engineering): Modeling of PVDF-alumina composites; atomistic simulations for predicting material properties<\/li>\n<li><strong>Irene Serrano Delgado<\/strong> (mechanical engineering): Molecular Simulation of PVDF Beta-phase<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caroline Shafer<\/strong> (sports medicine): Non-displaced sternoclavicular physeal fracture of a 21 year old female collegiate club rugby athlete<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hannah Shiver<\/strong> (communication): If I&#8217;m Not Looking at You, I&#8217;m Not Listening: A Training on Nonverbal Behaviors in Interviews<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alyssa Shrader<\/strong> (sport nutrition): SWELL-Sustainability, Wellness, and Learning Initiative: Sustainable Food Literacy Gateway Project<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael L. Stephen<\/strong> (history): Chinese in Silver City, Idaho: A Contemporary, Visual Assessment of On-Site Historic Interpretation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jared Strutton<\/strong> (mechanical engineering): 3D Printing Curable Particulate Composites: Printer Design and Composite Performance<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dharini Thakkar<\/strong> (sport nutrition): Seasonal body composition changes in athletes: Is Ultrasound the answer?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Tincknell<\/strong> (sports medicine): Epidemiology of Hip Injuries in Professional Rodeo: A Four-Year Retrospective Analysis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brad Tyra<\/strong> (communication): Dyslexics and the Deaf: Neural Anatomy of Phonology and Sign Language<\/li>\n<li><strong>Colby Wolf<\/strong> (sport nutrition): Live Like a Carrot: A Local &amp; Seasonal Food Literacy Guide<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Yarbrough<\/strong> (physics): Parallel pumping of ferromagnetic nanostripe: Confinement quantization of off-resonant driving<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Forty UCCS graduate students presented their results on a variety of topics in the 2018 Graduate Student Research Showcase May 4 at the Gallogly Events Center. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=31864\" title=\"Graduate students share research in second showcase event\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[53,93,114,86,131,87,144,124,130,190,105,60],"class_list":["post-31864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-academic-affairs","tag-athletics","tag-college-of-engineering-and-applied-science","tag-college-of-letters-arts-and-sciences","tag-department-of-communication","tag-department-of-history","tag-department-of-mechanical-and-aerospace-engineering","tag-department-of-physics-and-energy-science","tag-department-of-psychology","tag-graduate-school","tag-helen-and-arthur-e-johnson-beth-el-college-of-nursing-and-health-sciences","tag-student-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/graduate-showcase.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-8hW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31864"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31910,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31864\/revisions\/31910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}