Fabrication of Diffraction Gratings Using Electron Beam Lithography
Presenter: Carly Wright Mentor: Ben McMorran Poster: 36 Major: Physics/Math Studying electron diffraction using transmission electron microscopy allows us to better understand many different phenomena in physics, particularly conservation of forces and wave-particle...
Brain Training and Cognitive Aging: A Meta-analytic Review
Presenter: Lauren Williams Co-Presenters: Selina Robson Mentor: Ulrich Mayr Poster: 35 Major: Psychology Cognitive decline is an unfortunate hallmark of aging. Deficits can interfere with daily activities and often come at the cost of living independently. In recent...
Humanizing the Houseless: Warming a Tent Through Homemade Insulation
Presenter: Stefanie Wibiasa Co-Presenters: Amber Bass, Marisa Daluro Mentor: Alison Kwok Poster: 34 Major: Architecture The Pacific Northwest’s climate-mild, but with occasional extremes-greatly affects a resident’s satisfaction with his or her particular thermal...
Tooth Eruption Sequence of Eporeodon occidentalis
Presenter: Kendra Walters Co-Presenters: Meaghan Emery Mentor: Edward Davis Poster: 33 Major: Geology/Biology Oreodonts lived in North America during the Cenozoic Era and were especially abundant from the Eocene to Miocene Epochs. Despite their abundance, they have no...
Architecture-Focused Case Study on the Erb Memorial Union Atrium’s Environmental Performance
Presenter: Mauricio Underwood Co-Presenters: Jiawei Mai Mentor: Alison Kwok Poster: 32 Major: Architecture The Erb Memorial Union acts today as the center of the University of Oregon Campus and is subjected to the most diverse and frequent student traffic. Yet it is...
Saturating the Neurospora Genome for Mutants Defective in Methylation
Presenter: Calvin Summers Mentor: Eric Selker Poster: 31 Major: Biology Cytosine methylation, a fundamental form of epigenetic regulation, is found in many eukaryotes and plays a significant role in cancer and other diseases. Using the genetically tractable model...
University of Oregon’s Environmental Leadership Program: Critters and Currents Environmental Education Team
Presenter: Makenzie Shepherd Mentor: Katie Lynch Poster: 30 Major: Environmental Studies The prominence of technology and urbanization in the 21st century has established a concrete distinction between the urban and natural worlds. Younger generations, increasingly...
Women and Glaciers: Perspectives on Climate Change Vulnerability, Identity, and the Professional Sphere
Presenter: Jaclyn Rushing Mentor: Mark Carey Poster: 29 Major: Environmental Studies/Romance Languages Women and glaciers appear to be disparate subjects and academic literature has yet to investigate the relationships between them. However, women’s relationships with...
Effects of the Aquatic Contaminant Perchlorate on Expression of NIS Clade Genes in Divergent Populations of Threespine Stickleback
Presenter: Amanda Redmond Mentor: William Cresko Poster: 28 Major: Biology Perchlorate is a known endocrine disruptor and a wide spread environmental contaminant that causes hypothyroidism in humans. Our previous work demonstrated that perchlorate results in a...
CO2 Got Me Feeling So Blue?
Presenter: Lindsay Rasmussen Co-Presenters: Katie Bushman, Parisa Motahari-asl Mentor: Alison Kwok Poster: 27 Major: Architecture This case study measures the carbon dioxide levels in the Architectural Design Studios of Pacific Hall, focusing on room 223. The current...
The Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE): Depression and Body Composition Among Aging Populations
Presenter: William Olson Mentor: Josh Snodgrass Poster: 26 Major: Biology Previous research has documented complex associations between depression and body composition; in some studies, depression increases risk for being underweight, while in other studies it has...
Attentional and Neuropsychological Assessments Following Concussion in Adolescents and Young Adults
Presenter: Madison Murray Mentor: Li-Shan Chou Poster: 25 Major: Biology Executive function has been defined as utilizing external stimuli to plan purposeful action and may be a sensitive way to detect concussion-related deficits. The adolescent brain has not reached...
Heating Up Gerlinger
Presenter: Matthew Moyano Mentor: Alison Kwok Poster: 23 Major: Architecture This study investigated the thermal conditions of Gerlinger Hall’s south façade Sun Porch. Ellis Lawrence intended for the hall to be passively heated most of the year. The authors believe...
aPKC Induces Polarization of Numb by Inhibiting Cortical Targeting Sites
Presenter: Lyle McPherson Mentor: Ken Prehoda Poster: 23 Major: Biochemistry Cell polarity regulates important functions for metazoan cells, including epithelial, neuronal and stem cells. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms that allow cells to...
Variation of Self-sorting Behavior and Jaw Bone Morphology in Early Development within Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Presenter: Natasha Mckibben Mentor: Charles Kimmel Poster: 22 Major: Human Physiology Research at Oregon State University has shown that two types of juvenile fish are present in a hatchery stock of spring run Chinook salmon derived from locations along the Upper...
All Out the Window: A Study of Infiltration in Deady Hall
Presenter: Russell McIntire Co-Presenters: Rebecca Fletcher, Lisa Sparks Mentor: Mathieu Deraspe Poster: 21 Major: Architecture For this project we chose to study a building that did not provide adequate thermal comfort for its occupants, as well as had problems with...
Creating a Sense of Place Along the McKenzie River
Presenter: Kaley McCarty Co-Presenters: Sierra Druley, Shahnaz Mooney, Forrest Hirsh Mentor: Katie Lynch Poster: 11 Major: Environmental Studies Across cultures, storytelling is an ontological tool that connects people to each other and to the natural world. Stories...
Architectural Design, Light Exposure, and Microbial Viability in the Built Environment
Presenter: Kyla Martichuski Mentor: Jessica Green Poster: 20 Major: Biology/Human Physiology Researchers working at the intersection of biology and architecture have begun to investigate how building design structures the microbial communities of indoor environments....
Establishing Baseline Data at Strube Ponds
Presenter: James Lauder Co-Presenters: Ella Deck, Emily Erickson Mentor: Peg Boulay Poster: 12 Major: Environmental Science The South Fork of the McKenzie River historically supported a prolific spring Chinook salmon run, but it has been severely impacted by the...
Prevention of Ischemic Vascular Injury: Targeting Cellular Stress in the Endothelium with 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide 1-β-D-ribofuranoside (AICAR)
Presenter: Sarah Johnson Mentor: Chris Minson Poster: 19 Major: Biology Ischemic-reperfusion (I/R) injury is a common complication in which tissues reperfused after an ischemic period experience further damage and dysfunction. Activation of endothelial cells (EC)...
Analyzing the Deployment of Secure Routing Protocols at Internet Scale
Presenter: Braden Hollembaek Mentor: Kevin Butler Poster: 18 Major: Computer Science With large-scale attacks occurring at alarming frequency, the current state of Internet routing security has proven to be inadequate. Various security modifications to the current...
Re-evaluating Recasts as Negative Evidence
Presenter: Amanda Hammons Mentor: Rose Maier, Dare Baldwin Poster: 17 Major: Psychology & German Marcus (1993) argues that recasts (feedback on children’s speech errors provided via a corrected version of the utterance) are of little value for language...
Examination of Foot Strike Patterns and Ankle Muscle Strength
Presenter: Chris Gronseth Mentor: Li-Shan Chou Poster: 38 Major: Human Physiology Recent research on foot and ankle injuries has initiated debates about the ideal foot strike position in running. This study chose to investigate whether ankle plantarflexion strength...
“You Have Witchcraft on Your Lips”: Witches, Witchcraft, and Female Power in Modern Culture”
Presenter: Meaghan Forbis Mentor: Julie Voelker-Morris Poster: 16 Major: Political Science Ray Bradbury said that “a witch is born out of the true hungers of her time.” Witches and witchcraft have occupied a dynamic place within our culture for centuries,...
Perchlorate, Oxidative Stress and Thyroid Proliferation in Threespine Stickleback
Presenter: Connor Fitch Mentor: William Cresko Poster: 15 Major: Biology Perchlorate is a water contaminant that has been detected in drinking water across the U.S. Severe health effects result from exposure to high levels of perchlorate. Our lab has shown that...
Verifying the Implementation of Secure Multi-Party Computation Systems
Presenter: Jonathan Eskeldson Mentor: Kevin Butler Poster: 14 Major: Computer Science/Mathematics As technology has advanced, applications have arisen which rely on sensitive data. In the past, users had to trust these application’s creators with private data....
Air paths in Lewis
Presenter: Petro El Hage Co-Presenters: Lenore Wan, Caitlin Vanhauer Mentor: Alison Kwok Poster: 13 Major: Architecture We studied how the air handling system functions in Lewis Integrative Science Building (LISB) atrium and whether or not the relief air vents are...
An Opportunity for Comfort: Temperature and Humidity Control in Portable, Low-Income Housing
Presenter: Charles Ekblad Co-Presenters: Clare Stockwell, Andrew Ashby Mentor: Alison Kwok Poster: 9 Major: Architecture This project called for an investigation of a testable thermal condition, and our group decided to take the project one step further. We seized the...
Exposure to perchlorate affects differentiating germ cells in teleost fish
Presenter: Nathaniel Earp Mentor: William Cresko Poster: 37 Major: Human Physiology Perchlorate is a widespread contaminant in the environment. We have found that perchlorate has masculinizing effects on threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. The mechanism...
Gender, Power and Depo-Provera: Constraints on Reproductive Choice in Rural Nicaragua
Presenter: Nicolette Dent Mentor: Kristin Yarris Poster: 8 Major: Anthropology Using interviews conducted with 87 women in 2003 in Nicaragua, my research explores how gender ideologies reinforce men’s non-involvement with family planning and limit women’s reproductive...
Heat Gain is Not Retained
Presenter: Haley Davis Co-Presenters: Robert Kiesler, Matthew Decker Mentor: Alison Kwok Poster: 7 Major: Architecture It is our responsibility at the University of Oregon to build buildings on our campus that do not require massive heating and cooling because it...
More Than Just Words: EMOTAIX-Tropes Examines Linguistic Predictors of Mental Health
Presenter: Jackie Cowell Mentor: Jennifer Ablow Poster: 6 Major: Psychology Given the fundamental role that language plays in our lives, it is apparent that the words people use reveal information the ways in which they experience and interact with those around them....
Exotic Sexuality: Examining the Effect of Exotic Dancing on Women’s Sexuality
Presenter: Amber Bryan Mentor: Lamia Karim Poster: 10 Major: Women’s and Gender Studies Exotic dancing has been studied widely in the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, and women’s and gender studies with scholars such as Bernadette Barton and Katherine...
A Predicted SH3 Binding Motif in Drosophila aPKC is Required for Proper Localization of aPKC During Asymmetric Cell Division of Neuroblasts
Presenter: Ryan Boileau Mentor: Ken Prehoda Poster: 5 Major: Human Physiology/Biochemistry/Biology Asymmetric cell division of Drosophila neural stem cells, neuroblasts, requires the proper localization of factors that influence the orientation of cell divisions and...
Mandible Morphology and Habitat in the Extant Tribes Marmotini and Sciurini (Rodentia:Sciuridae)
Presenter: Eva Biedron Mentor: Samantha Hopkins Poster: 4 Major: Geology/Biology Morphological convergence among rodents living in similar habitats is common and well recorded. While upper incisor angle has been studied in connection with diet, lower incisor angle has...
The Effects of Browsing and Grazing on Body Mass
Presenter: Mathew Beattie Mentor: Samantha Hopkins Poster: 3 Major: Biology/Geology Diet of mammals affects the metabolic rate, intelligence, and many other physical and behavioral characteristics. Understanding how the diets of mammals affect the development,...
Physical activity, Functional Abilities, and Health: Results of a WHO SAGE Sub-study Among Older Adults in an Urban Setting in India.
Presenter: Tyler Barrett Mentor: Josh Snodgrass Poster: 2 Major: Anthropology and Media Studies Recent research in Western settings suggests that decreased physical activity in old age is detrimental to health, yet few studies have examined the relationships among...
Sutural Methodology for Determining Age in Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta)
Presenter: Julia Arenson Mentor: Frances White Poster: 1 Major: Anthropology Cranial sutures are frequently used to determine age in forensic and bioarchaeological contexts. However, these methods are mostly only utilized in human populations, and a lack of...