Antagonistic River: Reading Nature through Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion
Presenter(s): Scott Zeigler Faculty Mentor(s): Gordon Sayre & Stephanie LeMenager Oral Session 1 SW This research evaluates the representation of the fictional Wakonda Auga River as a character in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel Sometimes a Great Notion. By investigating...
Low Level Control of a Quadrotor with Deep Model-Based Reinforcement learning
Presenter(s): Joseph Yaconelli Oral Session 2 C Generating low-level robot controllers often requires manual parameters tuning and significant system knowledge, which can result in long design times for highly specialized controllers. With the growth of automation,...
Challenges to Democratic Inclusion and Contestation of Space: Contemporary Student Activism in Transforming South Africa
Presenter(s): Anna-Magdalena Wilms-Crowe Faculty Mentor(s): Janine Hicks & Dan Tichenor Oral Session 3 RA Twenty-four years into democracy, in a time marked by stark inequality and rising levels of political disillusionment, student activists are key players in...
Environmental Education: Restoring A Sense of Place
Presenter(s): Eleanor Williams Co Presenter(s): Brittany Calabria, Chloe Johnson, Hannah Schmidt, Cameron Wallenfels, Savannah Winchell Faculty Mentor(s): Katie Lynch Oral Session 4 C Interactive environmental education has proven to enhance emotional health, academic...
Caliban Yisrael: Constructing Caliban as the Jewish Other in Shakespeare’s the Tempest
Presenter(s): Deforest Wihtol Faculty Mentor(s): Kate Myers Oral Session 1 SW This paper seeks to introduce new data into the centuries-long discussion of William Shakespeare’s portrayal of Jewish people through intertextual and close reading of Shakespeare’s plays...
The Hollows of the Heart
Presenter(s): Sarah Weishaupt Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Hennion Oral Session 4 DL Creative writing is unique in its ability to give form to our immersive inner worlds: it is the only art form that can give a direct voice to thought. In “The Hollows of the Heart,” I...
Portraits of Fans: Sports Fandom in Women’s Professional Basketball
Presenter(s): Sierra Webster Faculty Mentor(s): Lori Shontz Oral Session 2 O Male sports reporters produce nearly 90 percent of sports media coverage (The Status of Women in the U.S. Media, Women’s Media Center). Just 13 percent of sports staff are white women, while...
American, Societal Structures Inhibiting Empathy for Criminals
Presenter(s): Zoe Wassman Faculty Mentor(s): Caoimhin OFearghail Oral Session 3 SW When American incarceration rates were at their peak in 2008, 1 out of every 100 adults were in prison or jail1. If prisons were successful at keeping criminals off the street,...
Empathy in Fiction as Shown Through the Second Person Point-of-View
Presenter(s): Madeline Walters Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Hennion Oral Session 2 DL My project explores the various methods authors use to tell stories in the second person point of view, and how these methods portray a powerful empathetic effect in the reader. This...
Reconceptualizing Feminist Utopias: Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time and Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone
Presenter(s): Bethan Tyler Faculty Mentor(s): Elizabeth Raisanen Oral Session 3 O Theories of feminist utopia tend to focus on its presence within science/speculative fiction, upholding works like Marge Piercy’s 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time as exemplars of the...
Chemoreceptor Zinc-Binding Protein Domains Sense Hypochlorous Acid
Presenter(s): Dan Tudorica Faculty Mentor(s): Arden Perkins Oral Session 3 M The Chemoreceptor Zinc-Binding domain (CZB) is a protein module common in host-associated bacteria that seems to regulate bacterial chemoreceptors that control motility. The ligand these...
Women Ball Too: Changing the Culture Around Women in Sports and Defining Women Excellence
Presenter(s): Corinne Togiai Co Presenter(s): Donovan Neal Faculty Mentor(s): Donovan Neal Oral Session 2 O Women Ball Too (WBT) is a social movement and business bringing awareness, advocating for recognition, and pushing towards equality for women excellence in...
Effects of Alisertib in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia NSG Mouse Models
Presenter(s): Corinne Togiai Faculty Mentor(s): Bill Chang Oral Session 3 M Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is a common cause for disease-related mortality in children and adolescents. As we have made great strides in curing ALL we have identified subsets of...
Defamiliarizing the Horror Genre
Presenter(s): Jess Thompson Faculty Mentor(s): Angela Bogart-Montieth Oral Session 1 DL This project explores the method behind the fear-inducing works of fiction created by two of the most famous masterminds of literary horror, Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. The...
Greener Fields
Presenter(s): Andrew Tesoriero Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Hennion Oral Session 4 DL “Greener Fields” is a story of unrequited love in a dystopian future. The ambiguity of the narrator—who has no name or gender—explores questions of identity and conveys the...
Revealing the Reveal: How and Why Authors Build to and Execute Plot Twist
Presenter(s): Andrew Tesoriero Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Hennion Oral Session 1 DL Authors evoke narrative surprise to catch the audience off-balance. While plot twists are often associated with film, fiction also employs foreshadowing to build towards their reveals....
Admissions Without Acquittal: The Effect of “Ban the Box” on College Admissions
Presenter(s): Hannah Solheim Faculty Mentor(s): Ben Hansen Oral Session 3 RA In February of 2018, Oregon State University President Edward J. Ray decided to “ban the box” on the university’s application. Ray’s decision eliminated any questions about an applicant’s...
Automating Dev Ops with Docker Application Technology Shell Scripts
Presenter(s): Franklin Smith Faculty Mentor(s): Ramakrishnan Durairajan Oral Session 2 C With an emerging rise of Dev Ops technology like Docker and other application containers comes an underlying challenge that has been plaguing the computer industry for years, how...
From Massacre to Genocide: Redefining the Sook Ching
Presenter(s): Lauralei Singsank Faculty Mentor(s): Tuong Vu Oral Session 4 M Sook Ching is a Chinese term meaning “purge through cleansing.” Operation Sook Ching took place in Singapore from February 21 to March 4, 1942. The Sook Ching was a military operation carried...
The Unofficial Story and the People Who Paint It: An Investigation of Urban Art’s Mobilizing Power in Oaxaca and Mexico City
Presenter(s): Kendra Siebert Oral Session 1 SW Although parietal writing – the act of writing on walls – has existed for thousands of years, its contemporary archetype, urban art, emerged much more recently. An umbrella term for the many kinds of art that occupy...
Embodied Experiences: The Health Implications of Transnationality and Undocumented Migration Among Latin Americans
Presenter(s): Samantha Sidline Faculty Mentor(s): Kristin Yarris & Christabelle Dragoo Oral Session 1 C Given the current political climate, studying Latin American migrant experiences and adverse consequences to health is particularly important and relevant. By...
Landscape scale forest health assessment in Hendricks Park, Eugene, Oregon
Presenter(s): Kelly Shull Co Presenter(s): Owen Collins, Jackson Dailey, Betsy Finn, Ben King, Haley Nicholson, Sky Ramirez-Doble, Nick Richardson, Haley Santos, Kiana Seto Faculty Mentor(s): Peg Boulay Oral Session 2 CLN During Spring 2019, the Environmental...
The Role of Intonation in Japanese Politeness
Presenter(s): Allene Shaw Faculty Mentor(s): Kaori Idemaru Oral Session 1 SW The purpose of this study is to examine linguistic relationships between phonetics (the way people sound) and politeness in Japanese. Prior studies investigated voice characteristics in...
Correction of evolving background signals in single-shot transient absorption measurements
Presenter(s): Madelyn Scott Faculty Mentor(s): Cathy Wong & Kelly Wilson Oral Session 3 S The electronic properties of organic molecules can be tuned to attain target electronic functionality. This feature of organic molecules enables their use in technologies...
Behavior of Human Beings and their Effect on Global Warming
Presenter(s): Tulku Sangye Tenzin Oral Session 3 MI Changes in the earth’s climate are a consequence of the actions of the human species in the past and present. If we care about our mother Earth, then we need to react to this situation by changing our behavior as a...
SMC-5/6 E3 SUMO ligase subunit NSE-2 is required for robust repair of meiotic DNA double-strand breaks
Presenter(s): Alina Salagean Faculty Mentor(s): Diana Libuda & Erik Toraason Oral Session 3 M Most organisms utilize meiosis, a specialized form of cell division, to produce haploid gametes such as sperm and eggs. Failure to maintain genomic integrity during...
The effects of restoration fill elevation on carbon accumulation in Pacific Northwest estuaries
Presenter(s): Emil Sadofsky Faculty Mentor(s): Scott Bridgham Oral Session 2 M Agricultural development has significantly decreased the extent of costal wetlands in the Pacific Northwest. Some previously developed wetlands have been restored, but the effects of...
Why Can’t We Be Friends?: Masculinity in the TV Sitcom “Friends”
Presenter(s): Elle Rogers Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Allison McGuffie Oral Session 2 O On the surface, “Friends” is viewed as an All-American, wholesome television series. Though the love for the series is immeasurable by original audiences and the newest generation of...
“I Don’t Have Deaths on my Conscience”: Perspectives of Intravenous Drug Users on a Peer-Delivered Naloxone Program in Eugene, Oregon
Presenter(s): Eleanor Rochester Faculty Mentor(s): Melissa Graboyes Oral Session 1 C The United States is in the midst of an epidemic of overdose deaths. In response, harm reduction programs commonly distribute the opioid antagonist naloxone directly to drug users so...
Infrastructural Inhibiters: The Social and Educational Barriers for Individuals with Mobility Impacting Disabilities on the University of Oregon Campus
Presenter(s): Sydney Retamar Faculty Mentor(s): Pascoe CJ (Cheri Joe) Oral Session 3 RA In a time where advancements in architecture have the feasible potential to give all body types access to innovative landscapes, ableism is still present in many institutions....
Restaurants Service and Customers Care
Presenter(s): Komron Rasulov Faculty Mentor(s): Cybele Higgins & Casey Reid Oral Session 3 MI The culinary community — a community in which people learn and get cooking skills — has problems between restaurant service and customers. In sales, commerce,...
Tropical land use change effect on soil microbial function
Presenter(s): Sky Ramirez-Doble Faculty Mentor(s): Krista McGuire & Stephanie Ostresh Oral Session 1 O 70% of remaining tropical forests, sites with high biodiversity, primary productivity, and CO2 exchange, are being converted into agricultural or logged areas....
Future Flood Risk in the Columbia River Basin Under Climate Change
Presenter(s): Laura Queen Faculty Mentor(s): Hank Childs & Phil Mote Oral Session 2 M The Columbia River has long provided resources as a cultural, economic and ecological agent in the Pacific Northwest. People have congregated along the Columbia’s banks...
Knowledge Transfer and Performance in Differently Structured Teams
Presenter(s): Alexander Pulaski Faculty Mentor(s): Ralph Heidl Oral Session 3 C In the business world, the mutual understanding and sharing of knowledge is a critical factor of success. There is a plethora of research that indicates the network of social relationships...
“Swim the Warm Waters of Sins of the Flesh”: Deviant Gender and Sexuality in Frankenstein and The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Presenter(s): Alyssa Pete Oral Session 3 O A myriad of authors have examined gender roles and sexuality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), directing their attention to the homosexual undertones in the relationship between Victor Frankenstein and his creature, the...
Dishes
Presenter(s): Kaity Olsen Faculty Mentor(s): Angela Bogart-Montieth Oral Session 3 DL Dishes is a short story that follows Anna as she navigates difficulties in her marriage and in her rocky relationship with her sister. Following a series of escalating fights, Anna...
Systematic Review of Mental Illness Measures and Diagnosis in the United States
Presenter(s): Megan Olivera Faculty Mentor(s): Lynette Danley Oral Session 2 SW The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review of current psychological assessments used primary in the United States intended to address mental illness symptomology or bring...
Literary Racialization: The Function of Children in Southern Gothic Literature
Presenter(s): Anika Nykanen Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Whalan Oral Session 1 SW Children, who occupy a unique position as creatures of innocence in the American psyche, have haunted the pages of American Gothic literature from its inception, vulnerable figures in whom...
On Being Full
Presenter(s): Kaya Noteboom Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Hennion Oral Session 3 DL The personal essay, as a mode of creative writing, allows total agency in the representation of stories coming from writers of under-represented backgrounds. As an artist who identifies as a...
Auto-Fiction: Better Fiction Through Non-Fiction
Presenter(s): Kaya Noteboom Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Hennion Oral Session 2 DL Auto-fiction is a literary form that situates autobiographical elements of the author in fiction. How much is made-up and how much is factual varies on a spectrum from almost all to almost...
Framing International News at the Headline: Comparing and Analyzing Tone, Frequency, and Descriptive Word Choice in Articles About the United States, China and GermanyFraming International News at the Headline: Comparing and Analyzing Tone, Frequency, and Descriptive Word Choice in Articles About the United States, China and Germany
Presenter(s): Jillian Niedermeyer Faculty Mentor(s): Dean Mundy & Pat Curtin Oral Session 2 O Modern media is largely controlled by large organizations and, in particular, those in first-world countries commonly known as “core nations” in communication...
Is Badminton a sport for Americans?
Presenter(s): Hung Nguyen Faculty Mentor(s): Casey Reid & Cybele Higgins Oral Session 3 CQ This term, I am researching the badminton community in the United States to determine why this sport is less popular in the United States than in other contexts. To better...
A Critique of Hume’s Compatibilist Philosophy: The Challenge of Reconciling Free Will and Causality
Presenter(s): Simon Narode Oral Session 3 SW David Hume was an 18th century philosopher who sought to reconcile the notion of free will with causal necessity. The conflict is that if the world unfolds in a causal order, and all of our actions and decisions are...
Odor Concentration Change Sensing in Mice
Presenter(s): Antonio Munoz Faculty Mentor(s): Avinash Singh & Matt Smear Oral Session 4 CQ Our brains are constantly tracking dynamic sensory information from our environment. Exactly how the brain computes sensory input over time is not fully understood. The...
Sexual Trauma, Representation, and Ambiguity
Presenter(s): Julia Mueller Faculty Mentor(s): Angela Bogart-Montieth Oral Session 2 DL Literary depictions of traumatic experiences are as complex as the human minds that experience and remember them. In literature, traumatic experiences are typically filtered...
The Economics of Corruption vs. Economic Justice
Presenter(s): Michael Monetery Faculty Mentor(s): James Kiser & Lee Imonen Oral Session 3 SW This work introduces a proactive alternative to economic injustice involving a redefinition of value, reassessment of the real scope of cultural exchange and personal...
MACE: Improving Measurement Accuracy in Containers Through Trace-based Network Stack Latency Monitoring
Presenter(s): Christopher Misa Faculty Mentor(s): Ramakrishnan Durairajan Oral Session 2 C Container systems (e.g., Docker) provide a well-defined, lightweight, and versatile foundation to streamline the process of tool deployment, to provide a consistent and...
Analyzing Treatment of Schizophrenic Patients within Morningside Hospital from 1955- 1958
Presenter(s): Rachel McGill Faculty Mentor(s): Kristin Yarris Oral Session 2 SW Mental health affects all individuals directly or indirectly and remains a significant problem within the global burden of disease. As there is not a test for a schizophrenia diagnosis,...
New ESL Academic Challenges in Eugene Oregon
Presenter(s): Onsarigo Matara Faculty Mentor(s): Casey Reid & Cyebel Highins Oral Session 3 CQ English as a Second Language (ESL) students new to the Eugene, Oregon area who are studying at a two-year community college face intercultural and personal challenges....
Examining Pairwise and Multi-Species Interactions in Larval Zebrafish
Presenter(s): Dylan Martins Faculty Mentor(s): Raghuveer Parthasarathy Oral Session 1 O The microbial communities resident in animal intestines are composed of dozens to hundreds of species and play important roles in host health and disease. The determinants of...
Referential communication task in a naturalistic setting
Presenter(s): Aaron Macarthur Faculty Mentor(s): Dare Baldwin & Netanel Weinstein Oral Session 3 C Reaching shared understanding in conversation is an important part of daily life. Various mechanisms facilitate this achievement including: the ability to engage in...
A Woman’s Voice: Methods and Obstacles of Feminist Translation in Persian, Spanish, and Turkish Poetry
Presenter(s): Elmira Louie Faculty Mentor(s): Leah Middlebrook & Michael Allan Oral Session 3 O One feature of poetry is its ability to prompt words to create meaning in unusual ways. A striking example appears in a twentieth-century Persian poem, where a...
White Oak (Quercus garryana) Habitat Monitoring and Management: Thurston Hills Natural Area (THNA)
Presenter(s): Marinn Longenecker Co Presenter(s): Kristi Thompson, Nick Pierson, Sakina Shahid, Jane Yeoman, Seth Arbogast, David Josi, Sarah Cudworth, Marie Moore, Marina Harrington Faculty Mentor(s): Peg Boulay & Sara Worl Oral Session 2 CLN Prior to European...
Student or Teacher? A look at how students facilitate public sensemaking during collaborative group work
Presenter(s): Michelle Lo Faculty Mentor(s): Jennifer Ruef Oral Session 4 C As institutions strive to develop equitable classrooms, educators must consider what features equitable classrooms include. One such feature is the equitable distribution of authority and...
Rationalizing the Ratio Difference: Analysis of Molecular Factors Related to Primate Skeletal Muscle Fiber Type
Presenter(s): Frankie Lewis Faculty Mentor(s): Kirstin Sterner Oral Session 4 S Bipedalism is a defining human characteristic, and many distinctive human traits increase efficiency when walking or running. While most research has focused on the skeleton, fewer people...
Determining growth and development in Wyeomyia smithii mosquitoes using fluctuating temperatures
Presenter(s): Danielia Lewis Faculty Mentor(s): William Bradshaw & Chris Holzapfel-Bradshaw Oral Session 1 O Mosquito bites cause over one million deaths per year by spreading blood-borne diseases like malaria, and yellow fever. Synchronous emergence in the spring...
Effect of inter-stimulus interval duration and predictability on sensorimotor beta
Presenter(s): Ryan Leriche Faculty Mentor(s): Nicole Swann Oral Session 4 CQ It is well established that the oscillatory beta band (13-30Hz)—a range of frequencies detected from electrical brain waves—modulate in a consistent manner during motor-response tasks over...
Success in Neoliberal Capitalist Societies
Presenter(s): Frankie Leonard Faculty Mentor(s): Avinnash Tiwari Oral Session 3 SW Success, particularly in our society in the US, is a complex social construct that often determines the life an individual will lead. I have analyzed the ideas of power and wealth, and...
ELP 2019 Riparian Restoration: Pollinator, stream temperature, photopoint, and aquatic invertebrate monitoring and native revegetation of Goose Creek
Presenter(s): Marissa Lane-Massee Co Presenter(s): Joe Dahlke, Katie Fischer, Michaela Fishback, Steven Pearlman Faculty Mentor(s): Peg Boulay Oral Session 2 CLN Whitewater Ranch is an organic blueberry and sustainable timber farm in Leaburg, Oregon that aims for...
Variations on Affection
Presenter(s): Lisa Kwan Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Hennion Oral Session 3 DL My short story “Variations on Affection” is told in first person point of view from the perspective of an Asian-American mother. The fictive present follows the mother on her daughter Sophie’s...
The Effect of Pyridoxamine on Ages and Aortic Wall Structure
Presenter(s): Elise Kronquist Faculty Mentor(s): Ashley Walker Oral Session 1 C Aging leads to arterial stiffening, likely due to increased advanced glycation end products (AGEs), oxidative stress, and collagen, which contribute to vascular dysfunction. Pyridoxamine,...
Generation Z’s Hidden Social Media Rule Book
Presenter(s): Taylor Kissinger Faculty Mentor(s): Kim Sheehan Oral Session 3 C This study explores how Generation Z’s behavioral expectations for each other on social media impact their relationships, health, and overall well-being. According to a 2016 study published...
Expensive sneakers
Presenter(s): Min Kim Faculty Mentor(s): Cybele Higgins Oral Session 3 MI Have you ever heard about sneakers costing more than $2,000? Do you know that many people are enthusiastic about limited edition sneakers and clothes? Nowadays, many people know about the...
How Marginalized Communities Have Been Affected by the Me Too Movement
Presenter(s): Ashley Kim Faculty Mentor(s): Cheyney Ryan Oral Session 1 C In 2006, activist Tarana Burke coined the phrase “Me Too” as a means to show solidarity and support for survivors of sexual violence. Her personal mission was to provide the resources that the...
Investigating Human Rights and Peace Studies in the Western Balkans
Presenter(s): Cassidy Kenney Co Presenter(s): Meredith Gusky Faculty Mentor(s): William Johnson Oral Session 1 C Introductory Sentences: Our research studied the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, and the subsequent tensions inherent in peaceful rebuilding and...
Poems
Presenter(s): Dakota Kelsey Faculty Mentor(s): Jonathan Hill Oral Session 4 DL Since joining the Walter and Nancy Kidd Creative Writing Workshops in the Fall of 2018, my creative writing work has dramatically improved. My exposure to a curriculum of focused...
Refinement of Poetics
Presenter(s): Dakota Kelsey Oral Session 1 M Since joining the Walter and Nancy Kidd Creative Writing Workshops in the fall term of 2018 my creative writing work has improved. My exposure to a curriculum of focused workshopping and powerful craft essays has refined my...
The Life of the Composer Francesca Caccini and How It Reflects the Music and Culture of the Baroque Period
Presenter(s): Abigail Kellems Oral Session 3 O This project explores the life of Francesca Caccini and her path to both musical and societal success, which were difficult for women of her period to combine. Through talent, work, circumstance, and an understanding of...
Social Smoking & Its Patterns in Relation to Intention to Quit Smoking
Presenter(s): Abby Hyland Faculty Mentor(s): Larissa Maier & Erin Vogel Oral Session 1 C Poster 164 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Introduction—Social smokers are a specific group of smokers who smoke mainly or only with others. They usually tend to...
“Bannabees,” Bananas, and Sweet Potatoes: Claude McKay’s Songs of Jamaica and Traditional Jamaican Foodways as a Nationalist Expression
Presenter(s): Sarah Hovet Faculty Mentor(s): Corbett Upton Oral Session 1 M Jamaican poet Claude McKay is largely anthologized for a handful of poems he contributed to the Harlem Renaissance, but his early work authored in Jamaica has long been dismissed for a...
Mechanisms of sister chromatid repair during meiotic double-strand DNA break repair
Presenter(s): Anna Horacek Faculty Mentor(s): Diana Libuda & Erik Toraason Oral Session 3 M Poster 68 Session: Sciences Most sexually reproducing organisms utilize meiosis, a specialized form of cell division, to generate haploid gametes such as eggs and sperm....
A Social and Psychological Analysis of Fatal Police Violence
Presenter(s): Adriane Hershey Faculty Mentor(s): David Markowitz Oral Session 3 SW Police brutality has been a consistent problem in the United States since inception, but has become more salient due to its intrinsic connections to political and social movements,...
Sex Work in the Margins: How Intersectional Stigma Affects Queer Sex Worker’s Access to Intracommunity Support Networks
Presenter(s): Ryhs Hawes Faculty Mentor(s): CJ Pascoe Oral Session 1 C Previous research has shown that community is essential to sex workers’ success: it both offers concrete resources as well as provides space for emotion work and catharsis. Yet despite its...
How Migration has Contributed the Rise of the Far-Right in Germany
Presenter(s): Quinne Hauth Faculty Mentor(s): Angela Joya Oral Session 1 S Increased migration into Europe in the summer of 2015 signified a shift in how the European Union responds to migration, and now more so than in Germany, which has opened its doors to about 1.5...
Migration and Ideas of “Foreignness” in the Late Bronze Age Near East
Presenter(s): Alice Harding Faculty Mentor(s): Lindsey Mazurek Oral Session 1 SW This project (serving as an undergraduate thesis) will explore migration in the Bronze Age Near East. It will focus specifically on times in which migrants emphasized their own...
Visualizing the Politics of Family: The Role of Propaganda Posters in China’s One-Child Policy
Presenter(s): Zoe Haakenstad Faculty Mentor(s): Julianne Newton & Nicole Dahmen Oral Session 4 M The dawn of 2016 saw the end to what is considered by many scholars as one of the longest- lasting and harshest population policies in the world. From 1979 1o 2016,...
Edge Detection and Deep Learning Algorithm Performance Studies for the ATLAS Trigger System
Presenter(s): Adrian Gutierrez Faculty Mentor(s): Stephanie Majewski Oral Session 2 C The upcoming ATLAS Phase-I upgrade at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) planned for 2019-2020 will incorporate the Global Feature Extractor (gFEX), a component of the Level-1...
Ken Kaneki Outside of the Panels: Manga as a Bridge into the Hyperreal
Presenter(s): Mary Green Faculty Mentor(s): Tera Reid-Olds & Pearl Lee Oral Session 1 M Hyperreality, in short, is the indistiction between reality and a simulated reality, according to postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard. Protagonist Ken Kaneki of Sui Ishida’s...
Semiconductor-Electrocatalyst Interfaces on Photoanodes Designed for Photoelectrochemical Cells
Presenter(s): Adrian Gordon Faculty Mentor(s): Shannon Boettcher Oral Session 3 S Solar water splitting using photoelectrochemical cells is a promising method for storing solar energy in the form of hydrogen bonds. Photoelectrochemical cells consist of two surfaces,...
The Media and Social Action ARC: Amplifying the voices of those who may not have one and advocating for progressive social change in our community and the world.
Presenter(s): Jaden Gill Faculty Mentor(s): Charlie Butler Oral Session 2 CQ With each passing day social justice issues become more and more prevalent in the United States. With these issues comes the challenge of spreading awareness of injustice and inequality...
Belt and Road Initiative: The Sino-Samoa Pact
Presenter(s): Ana Garibay Mares Faculty Mentor(s): Yvonne Braun & Yizhao Yang Oral Session 4 M The Independent State of Samoa faces intersecting environmental, economic, and social vulnerabilities as a small island nation. Regionally, the Chinese Belt and Road...
Negotiating Freedoms: Women Experiencing Homelessness in Eugene, OR
Presenter(s): Violet Fox Faculty Mentor(s): Lamia Karim Oral Session 1 SW Why is there such an increase in homelessness, particularly among women, in the United States? I propose to study this phenomenon among homeless women in Eugene, OR. Recent scholarship and...
Non-Western Epiphanies
Presenter(s): Lida Ford Faculty Mentor(s): Angela Bogart-Montieth Oral Session 2 DL An ending can make or break a story. In the modern tradition, most stories end with an epiphany, whereby the main character of the story comes to a great philosophical understanding or...
Race, Ethnicity, and Jewish Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Presenter(s): Dimitra Fellman Faculty Mentor(s): Kristen Seaman Oral Session 2 S Scholars often use modern constructs of “race” and “ethnicity” to interpret ancient texts about life in antiquity. Both terms connote a shared lineage through which traits, physical or...
Asexual Representation on Television and its Effects on Public Knowledge
Presenter(s): Olivia Dozois Faculty Mentor(s): Dean Mundy & David Markowitz Oral Session 2 O While LGBTQ+ representation in the media has greatly improved in recent decades, asexuality remains underrepresented and misunderstood. While there are several examples of...
Continuing the Fight for Freedom: Black College Students Conceptions of Liberation
Presenter(s): Imani Dorsey Faculty Mentor(s): Brian Klopotek Oral Session 3 RA This thesis hopes to demonstrate how Black college-age students hold diverse understandings of Black racial liberation, and suggest strategies for progress based on the various contemporary...
A Silent, Under-recognized Disease: Celiac Disease’s Social and Psychological Impacts
Presenter(s): Ivo Decarlis Faculty Mentor(s): Casey Reid Oral Session 3 CQ This term I am conducting qualitative research about the social and psychological issues that individuals with celiac disease experience. Using information from interviews and relevant...
The Rise in Popularity of Reggaetón: How Has Whiteness and U.S. Culture Commodified the Latin Sound?
Presenter(s): Ana Daza Faculty Mentor(s): Laura Pulido & Brian Klopotek Oral Session 1 M This research explores whether the release of the song “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, featuring Justin Bieber, ignited an increase of popularity in...
Dialect Variation in English: An Investigation into the Disappearing Word Effect
Presenter(s): Cydnie Davenport Faculty Mentor(s): Melissa Baese-Berk Oral Session 1 SW Recent research (e.g., Dilley & Pitt, 2010) has demonstrated that manipulation of speech rate influences listeners’ perception of syllables in English. For example, when a...
A Look at Post-Secondary Education Support for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Presenter(s): Isabelle Cullen Faculty Mentor(s): Laura Lee McIntyre Oral Session 4 C Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is the fastest growing neurodevelopmental disorder in childhood affecting an estimated 1 in 59 Americans (Center for Disease and Prevention, 2018). ASD...
Overwhelmed and Undermined: The Use of Psychoactive Substances and the Problem of Meaninglessness
Presenter(s): Shane Cooney Faculty Mentor(s): Steven Brence & Caroline Lundquist Oral Session 2 SW Today, the opioid epidemic pervades every corner of society. Accordingly, drug use and addiction have been dealt with extensively as social phenomena, with the...
The Effect of Delta Frequency Music on Insomniac Sleep Onset Latency
Presenter(s): Faith Collins Faculty Mentor(s): Don Tucker Oral Session 2 SW Insomnia, a common sleep disorder, is associated with difficulties initiating sleep (i.e., sleep onset latency). Pharmacological interventions provide moderate relief, but because of...
Starting a Taphonomic Research Facility in the Willamette Valley of Oregon: a joint project between Lane Community College (LCC) and the University of Oregon (UO)
Presenter(s): Cheyenne Collins Faculty Mentor(s): Jeanne McLaughlin Oral Session 4 C Poster 153 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Taphonomy is the study of events and processes that affect remains of an organism after death. It is an essential component of...
Hemodynamics of Post-Exercise and Post-Passive Heat Stress Recovery Periods
Presenter(s): Cameron Colbert Faculty Mentor(s): Christopher Minson & Michael Francisco Oral Session 4 CQ Recent research suggests that individuals exposed to heat stress chronically (e.g. sauna users) enjoy similar benefits as chronic exercisers. Many of...
“Come One. Come All.” Introduction to the “Reacting to the Past Course” Greenwich Village 1913 (HIST 411)
Presenter(s): Katilyn Champoux Co-presenter: Veronica Jones, Paige Kosa, Hunter Moen, Gwynyth Pass, Maddie Pellman, Camille Titus, Tabitha Todd Faculty Mentor(s): Dorothee Ostmeier & Ian McNeely Oral Session 5 O Step into Greenwich Village in the year 1913 and...
Intestinal Phenotypes of Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System Double Mutants
Presenter(s): Lilly Carroll Faculty Mentor(s): Judith Eisen & Kristi Hamilton Oral Session 4 S The enteric nervous system (ENS) innervates the intestine and regulates the dynamic intestinal environment. ENS reduction causes Hirschsprung disease (HSCR), a...
Optimization of Silicon Detector for the International Linear Collider Through Reconstructing of Higgs to Two Tau Decay Chanel
Presenter(s): Joey Carlson Faculty Mentor(s): James Brau & Jason Barkeloo Oral Session 3 S The University of Oregon Silicon Detector (SiD) Optimization Group is working to improve the design for the SiD electromagnetic (EM) calorimeter for the proposed...
Quantifying upper layer ocean dynamics using iceberg GPS Tracking
Presenter(s): Richelle Ann Cabatic Faculty Mentor(s): Kristin Schild & David Sutherland Oral Session 2 M The Greenland proglacial fjord system, where glaciers from the ice sheet reach the ocean, is an important contributor to sea level rise. When reaching the...
Host-microbe evolutionary antagonism in primates: HopQ’s role as a bacterial adhesin targeting CEACAM1
Presenter(s): Eden Brush Faculty Mentor(s): Matt Barber Oral Session 1 O How animals and microbes interact with each other can mean the difference between harmonious coexistence and deadly infection. These interactions create the potential for evolutionary conflict...
“The Harbinger of Category Crisis”: Understanding Representations of Monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Presenter(s): Corinne Brubaker Oral Session 3 O The “us versus them” binary is the primary rift that divides and defines human culture. The historical catalyst of both destruction and union, this binary is also a prominent literary motif. In the case of Mary Shelley’s...
Canopy Connections: Artist Activists
Presenter(s): Thea Bergen Co Presenter(s): Makayla Dempsey, Hannah Gruen, Carly Henry, Kelsey Hunter, Cassidy Kroon, Mackenzie Myers, EJ Del Rosario, Melissa Teter Faculty Mentor(s): Katheryn Lynch & Kylie Mosbacher Oral Session 4 C The Canopy Connections team...
Assessing the Public Health Response to the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Guinea
Presenter(s): Hadi Barry Faculty Mentor(s): Jo Weaver Oral Session 1 C Global health interventions are influenced by various external factors and politics that determine the level of attention and funding that is given to public health crises that yield long term...
Keeping the Titans on Track (Women Basketball Players of Lane Community College)
Presenter(s): Sara Baptista Faculty Mentor(s): Cybele Higgins & Casey Reid Oral Session 3 MI The importance of attention to nutrition in handling pressures safely is critical for high performance in sports. Achieving great performance is what any athlete wants;...
How We Think About Math
Presenter(s): Nitan Avivi Faculty Mentor(s): Mauricio Gomez Lopez Oral Session 3 RA Going into college I didn’t know what I wanted to study. I decided to take an introduction to proof class my freshman year and I loved it. The way we think when doing math is...
Resolution Optimization of the Silicon Detector in the International Linear Collider: Seeking New Physics with the Higgs Boson.
Presenter(s): Davis Austin Faculty Mentor(s): James Brau & Jason Barkeloo Oral Session 3 S As it stands for particle physics today our best understanding of how fundamental particles and forces interact is theorized by the Standard Model. Trying to understand some...
A Toast From the High Seat-The Feast in the Viking Age
Presenter(s): James Andersen Faculty Mentor(s): Gantt Gurley Oral Session 2 S The purpose of this project is to examine feasting’s place in Viking Age Scandinavia as the primary cultural event, around which the entire society revolved. The feast has not been addressed...
Autism and Autistic people
Presenter(s): Najla Almammari Faculty Mentor(s): Casey Reid & Cybele Higgins Oral Session 3 CQ Autism is a disorder that is usually observed on the child at an early age, affecting its development and its various developmental aspects. Its development is...
Employees at Amazon
Presenter(s): Bayan Almakay Faculty Mentor(s): Cybele Higgins Oral Session 3 MI Employees at Amazon have benefits but also face issues with being overworked. These problems can affect their health. This employment situation needs to be fixed in order to have a better...
Who is Speaking: Fictive De-Construction and the Second Person in Italo Cavino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Presenter(s): Rory Allen Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Hennion Oral Session 1 DL When writing a story, an author usually tries to erase all trace that the world and characters have been constructed so the reader seamlessly slips into the fictional realm without being...