The Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE): Body Composition Measurements among Aging Populations
Presenter: Austin Wong Mentors: Josh Snodgrass and Melissa Liebert, Anthropology Poster: 65 Major: Biology Frequently used as a predictor of obesity-related health risks, body mass index (BMI) estimates general adiposity instead of abdominal obesity, and does not...
Where the Wild Things Grow: A Case Study of Ventilation in Bathrooms
Presenter: Hannah Ward Co-presenters: Alex Collins and Julia Frost Mentors: Alison Kwok and Tom Collins, Architecture Poster: 64 Major: Architecture According to the City of Eugene’s website, newly constructed bathrooms must either have an operable window or “a...
How Smartphone Use during Walking Affects Ability to React to an Unexpected Event in Young Adults
Presenter: Deborah Wang Mentors: Li-Shan Chou and On-Yee Lo, Human Physiology Poster: C8 Major: Human Physiology College students often engage in risky mobile phone behaviors. Though texting while driving has been an extensively studied, the issue of texting or other...
Influences on U.S. Mammal Diversity over the 20th Century: Implications for Future Response to Climate Change
Presenter: Kendra Walters Mentor: Edward Davis, Geology Poster: 63 Majors: Geology and Biology Biodiversity loss is recognized as a global crisis. Current research strives to quantify and predict the change in biodiversity throughout the world, focusing on a wide...
The Correlation of Prehistoric Wells, Groundwater Resources, and Statues on Easter Island Imply Greater Understanding of Natural Landscape by Prehistoric Rapanui People
Presenter: Sadie Trush Mentors: Terry Hunt, Honors College Anthropology; Nick Dreher, Environmental Studies Poster: C6 Major: Environmental Science Commonly overlooked in the numerous narratives of Easter Island’s mystery, is the most critical resource to human...
Recycled Insulation for Resource Scarce Regions
Presenter: Katrina Tran Co-Presenters: Kyle Plata and Alex Weaver Mentors: Alison Kwok and Mathieu Deraspe, Architecture Poster: C7 Major: Architecture This experiment sought to assess the efficacy of using excess trash as a solution to resource scarcity in the...
Do Progenitor Subpopulations Contribute to Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System Development?
Presenter: Charlotte Taylor Mentors: Judith Eisen and Julia Ganz, Biology Poster: 62 Major: Biochemistry The enteric nervous system (ENS) provides intrinsic intestinal innervation and modulates intestinal function. The ENS forms a complex network of neuronal and...
Variability Selection Hypothesis, Weed Macaques, and Body Size Variance
Presenter: Harry Sullivan Mentors: Andrea Eller and Frances White, Biology Poster: 61 Major: Biology Variability Selection Hypothesis (VSH) proposes that early Homo gained adaptive benefit from being flexible in novel or unpredictable climates. Increased intra-taxon...
Age-Related Differences in Healthy Male Runners
Presenter: Justine Silberberg Mentors: JJ Hannigan and Li-Shan Chou, Human Physiology Poster: 60 Major: Human Physiology Previous research suggests that older males display less ankle plantar flexion and greater hip flexion during gait compared to younger individuals....
The Effect of Different Light Wavelengths on the Dust Microbiome
Presenter: Andy Siemens Mentors: Jessica Green and Erica Hartmann, Biology Poster: 59 Major: Biology Different light treatments affect the growth of certain bacterial strains in the built environment, however little is known about the effect of light on an entire...
The Cellular Basis of Dermal Bone Evolution and Development in Threespine Stickleback Fish
Presenter: Sophie Sichel Mentor: William Cresko and Kristin Alligood, Biology Poster: 58 Major: Biology In vertebrates the development of the cranial skeleton is imperative because it provides structure and support for a number of critical organs. Cranial structures...
Mapping the Trends: Assessing Paid and Organic Search Behavior
Presenter: Kelly Rodgers Mentor: Kim Sheehan, Journalism (Advertising) Poster: 57 Major: Journalism (Public Relations) Last December, Google Inc. reported a whopping $66 billion in total revenue for 2014 alone. Surprisingly, just one branch of the Google money tree...
Paleoecology of the Enigmatic Rhinoceros Chilotherium in Central Asia
Presenter: Selina Robson Mentors: Samantha Hopkins and Edward Davis, Geology Poster: 56 Majors: Geology and Psychology We report a new occurrence of the rhinocerotid Chilotherium in the Kochkor basin in Kyrgyzstan. While some geologic reports refer to Chilotherium in...
Analysis of Dynamic Balance Control in Below-Knee Amputees with Use of Powered Prosthetic Foot
Presenter: Shaun Resseguie Mentors: Michael Hahn and Jake Hinkel-Lipsker, Human Physiology Poster: 55 Major: Human Physiology The powered prosthetic foot (PPF) is designed to provide below-knee amputees (BKA) with active propulsion and plantar flexion similar to that...
Mickey Mouse and the Creation of an Animated Star
Presenter: Brandon Rains Mentor: Priscilla Ovalle, English Poster: 54 Majors: Digital Arts and Cinema Studies Mickey Mouse is one of the most well-known and influential animated cartoon characters in modern society. All of his mannerisms, voice, personality and...
Prehistoric Human Adaptations to Climate Change?: An ArcGIS Analysis of Northern Side-notched Projectile Points in the Northern Great Basin
Presenter: Jordan Pratt Mentor: Patrick O’Grady, Museum of Natural and Cultural History Poster: 53 Major: Anthropology Climate change dramatically transforms the ecological zones that humans call home. Historically there have been many global warming periods,...
Investigation of the Effectiveness of Offensive Computer Security Techniques through Group Self-Study
Presenter: Adam Pond Mentors: Jun Li and Kathleen Freeman, Computer Science Poster: 52 Major: Computer Science Computer security, otherwise known as cyber security, is a broad and dynamic subfield of computer science. It is concerned with protecting computing...
Normal as Found: Opportunities and Challenges in Developing a Necropsy Protocol for Evolutionary Veterinary Medicine
Presenter: Carly Pate Co-Presenters: Andrea Eller and Ulirike Streicher Mentors: Frances White and Lawrence Ulibarri, Anthropology Poster: 50 Major: Anthropology and General Science Evolutionary veterinary medicine is a burgeoning field, applying evolutionary...
Asymmetrical Heteroatom Substitution in the Indenofluorene Framework
Presenter: Nathaniel O’Neal Mentors: Michael Haley and Jonathan Marshall, Chemistry Poster: 49 Major: Biochemistry Semiconductors are a key component in electronics because they allow for the control of electron flow throughout a device. Research has shown that...
Fossil Eulipotyphla from Oregon’s Middle Miocene: New Occurrences and Biogeographic Patterns
Presenter: Danielle Oberg Mentors: Samantha Hopkins and Edward Davis, Geology Poster: 48 Major: Geology Insectivores (euliptophylans) are not well understood in the Miocene of Oregon. Recent discoveries from a new locality, Cave Basin, in the John Day Formation...
An Interspecific Comparison of Variance in Sex-Based Developmental Markers
Presenter: Kyle Morley Mentors: Andrea Eller and Frances White, Anthropology Poster: 47 Major: Anthropology Sexual dimorphism varies with the degree of male-male competition among primates. Changes in body size of both sexes are well known during ontogeny, but less...
Why Cordova? Exploring the Connection between Science, Policy and People
Presenter: Miró Merrill Co-presenter: Taylor Richmond Mentor: Mark Blaine, Journalism Poster: 45 Major: Journalism In 1964, the second most powerful earthquake ever recorded uplifted the Copper River Delta. This created a shift from saltwater to freshwater marsh over...
Effects of Chronic Passive Heating on Resting Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, and Body Core Temperature
Presenter: Kaitlin Livingston Mentors: Christopher Minson and Vienna Brunt, Human Physiology Poster: 44 Major: Human Physiology Repeated bouts of exercise in the heat are known to decrease resting body core temperature (Tc), mean arterial pressure (MAP) and resting...
Using Zebrafish Models of Usher Syndrome Type 2A to Investigate Retinal Cell Function and Survival
Presenter: Kimberly Lerner Mentors: Monte Westerfield and Jennifer Phillips, Biology Poster: 42 Major: Biology Usher syndrome is a hereditary disorder and the main cause of deaf-blindness. Patients diagnosed with Usher syndrome experience hearing loss and progressive...
Finding Home in Human Rights: A Correlation between Conflicting Identities of “Home” in the Palestinian-American Immigration Experience and the Global Citizenship Identity
Presenter: Dan Le Mentors: Diane Baxter, Anthropology; David Frank, Honors College Poster: 41 Major: Anthropology For immigrants and refugees, the concept of “home” is seldom a concrete definition, as the question of where “home” is – either in the country of...
A True Northern Paiute Hero: An Analysis of Chief Egan and his Leadership in the Bannock-Paiute War of 1878
Presenter: Kevin Lai Mentors: Kevin Hatfield, History; Jennifer O’Neal, Special Collections Poster: 40 Major: Biology This research paper examines the circumstances surrounding Northern Paiute Chief Egan’s rise to prominence and his heroic depiction leading up to the...
Social and Environmental Impacts of River Linking in Tamil Nadu, India
Presenter: Irene Klock Mentors: Leslie McLees, Geography Poster: 39 Major: Geography and Japanese River linking, the connecting of water canals to divert water to regions that wouldn’t usually receive it, is an important solution to the water crisis in India. The...
Differences in Functional Recovery Following Concussion between Males and Females
Presenter: Rachel Klas Mentors: Li-Shan Chou and Quinn Peterson, Human Physiology Poster: 38 Major: Human Physiology Concussion, a brain trauma resulted from linear or rotational acceleration to the head, represents a majority of the traumatic brain injuries (TBI)...
The Salmon Connection: Alaska and Oregon
Presenter: Madison Kirby Co-Presenter: Melanie Burke Mentor: Mark Blaine, Journalism Poster: 37 Major: Journalism This poster draws parallels between Oregon and Alaska found in the reporting of Science and Memory, a climate change reporting project from the School of...
Venting About Ventilation
Presenter: Kelli Kimura Co-presenters: Yang Lv, Hanzhao Huang Mentors: Thomas Collins and Alison Kwok, Architecture Poster: 36 Major: Architecture The focus of this study was to better understand the effectiveness of natural ventilation in dormitories. We questioned...
Best Practices in University Crisis and Mental Health Services
Presenter: Kylie Juggert Mentor: Kristin Yarris, International Studies Poster: 35 Major: International Studies Within the last decade there has been an increase in the number of students seeking university campus mental health and crisis intervention services,...
Hidden Hunters: The Little-Known Native Soldiers that Changed Warfare in the West
Presenter: Tyler Jorgensen Mentors: Kevin Hatfield, History and Jennifer O’Neal, Special Collections Poster: 34 Major: Mathematics My research concerns the Native scouts involved in the Snake War who were hired by the United States Army to hunt Northern Paiutes. Why...
Identity and the Virtual Home: Security, Privacy, and Citizen Rights
Presenter: Noelle Jones Mentor: Naomi Zack, Philosophy Poster: 33 Major: History and Humanities The purpose of this research is to propose the idea of a “virtual home” and how personal identity, privacy, law, technology and the traditional home have helped shape it....
Consumer Behavior of Generation Y in the Performing Arts
Presenter: Taylor Jones Mentor: Patricia Lambert, Arts and Administration Poster: 32 Major: Public Relations and Art Management This research seeks to understand how arts managers have adapted to changes in consumer behavior in order to maintain youth audiences. Both...
The Effect of Chronic Passive Heat Therapy on Forearm Reactive Hyperemia
Presenter: Andrew Jeckell Mentors: Christopher Minson and Vienna Brunt, Human Physiology Poster: 31 Major: Post-baccalaureate Reactive hyperemia is a transient increase in blood flow that occurs following a period of ischemia (e.g. arterial occlusion) and is...
The Colossal Hats (pukao) of Monumental Statues: An Analysis of Shape Variability among the pukao of Rapa Nui
Presenter: Sean Hixon Mentors: Terry Hunt, Honors College Anthropology; Carl Lipo, CA State Anthropology Poster: 30 Major: Geology and Anthropology As part of monumental statue (moai) construction during the prehistory of Rapa Nui, islanders quarried bodies of red...
Responding to Disclosure of Mistreatment: The Long-Term Impact of Listening Skills Education
Presenter: Alexandra Henry Mentors: Kristen Reinhardt and Jennifer Freyd, Psychology Poster: 29 Major: Psychology Negative reactions to a disclosure of mistreatment can be more emotionally detrimental to the discloser than not disclosing the event at all, while...
Who Was Chief Paulina? Restoration History and the Reconstruction of Paulina’s Identity in Popular Memory
Presenter: Sarianne Harris Mentors: Kevin Hatfield, History; Jennifer O’Neal, Special Collections Poster: 28 Major: Human Physiology This paper examines the life of Chief Paulina, a Northern Paiute of the Hunipuitoka band, beginning at the time of major conflicts...
Rotational Properties of the Extraordinary Multi-tailed Asteroid P/2013 P5
Annika Gustafsson Mentor: Scott Fisher, Physics Poster: 27 Majors: Physics and Mathematics Observations made with the Hubble Space Telescope in September 2013 revealed that the asteroid known as P/2013 P5 appeared to have six comet-like tails. Jewitt et al. (2013)...
Finding the Lesser Evil: A Comparison of the Environmental Impacts of the Iceland Deep Drilling Project and Conventional Geothermal Wells
Presenter: Hannah Greenberg Mentor: Peg Boulay, Environmental Science Poster: 26 Major: Environmental Science The Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) intends to harness geothermal power in a way that power companies hope will increase the efficiency of geothermal...
Comparison of Measures of Inter-individual Affiliation among Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta)
Presenter: Leslie Gotuaco Mentors: Stephen Frost and Frances White, Anthropology Poster: 25 Major: Environmental Science Primatologists use a number of behavioral measures to assess patterns of affiliation and aggressions in groups of primates. These patterns can,...
Captive Female Bonobos (Pan paniscus) Tend to Be More Social during Tool Use than Males
Presenter: Daniel Goodkin-Gold Mentors: Stephen Frost and Frances White, Anthropology Poster: 24 Major: Anthropology Tool use occurs in several non-human species. Within the genus Pan, chimpanzees (P. troglodytes) exhibit tool use in both the wild and captivity. Tool...
Comparing Morphometric Methods in Macaca mulatta crania
Presenter: Rachel Glenzer Mentors: Stephen Frost and Frances White, Anthropology Poster: 23 Major: Biological Anthropology We compared the precision of a relatively new method for collecting three-dimensional landmarks, 3D photogrammetry with Agisoft Photoscan, to...
Characterization of Inputs to Active Basolateral Amygdala Neurons after Different Behavioral Treatments
Presenter: Harrison Fontaine Mentors: Leah Deblande and Clifford Kentros, Institute of Neuroscience Poster: 22 Major: Biology and Human Physiology The amygdala is a brain structure that is required for the acquisition and storage of fearful memories. In humans,...
Chronic Passive Heat Therapy Improves Microvascular Nitric Oxide-Dependent Dilation during Skin Local Heating
Presenter: Taylor Eymann Mentors: Christopher Minson and Vienna Brunt, Human Physiology Poster: 21 Major: Human Physiology Vascular dysfunction, often caused by deficient nitric oxide (NO) production, is present in the majority of cardiovascular disease and is first...
Determining Ancestral Affiliation of Unprovenienced Human Remains from the Island of Mustique, Grenadine Islands, Caribbean
Presenter: Taylor Dodrill Mentors: Scott Fitzpatrick and Greg Nelson, Anthropology Poster: 19 Majors: Biology and Anthropology The dearth of laws protecting cultural heritage in many Caribbean small island nations, or the lack of resources to enforce such laws, has...
Role of Endothelin Pathway in Enteric Nervous System Development and Hirschsprung Disease
Presenter: Parham Diba Mentors: Julia Ganz and Judith Eisen, Biology Poster: 18 Major: Human Physiology The enteric nervous system (ENS) is the largest part of the peripheral nervous system, containing about 400–600 million neurons in humans. It comprises a complex...
Procedural Justice of Court Appointed Experts: Procedural Justice and Power Differentials
Presenter: Benjamin Davies Mentors: Robert Mauro and Robert Rocklin, Psychology Poster: 17 Major: Psychology Studying procedural justice has ramifications for legitimacy, and ultimately, legal system success. Jurists are concerned that any departure from the...
Moral Decision Makers: Being Watched and our Judgments of Others
Presenter: Benjamin Davies Mentors: Azim Shariff and Bret Mercier, Psychology Poster: 16 Major: Psychology Past research has found that some individuals make moral decisions based on rules (deontologists) while others make moral decisions based a deliberative cost...
Silver Tip Preparation for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Presenter: William Crowley Mentors: Ben Taber and George Nazin, Chemistry Poster: 15 Major: Chemistry Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) can be utilized to image, manipulate, and spectroscopically characterize individual atoms and molecules. The scanning probe used...
In Vitro Angiogenesis Increases with Chronic Passive Heat Therapy: Likely Mechanism for Improved Cardiovascular Health
Presenter: Lindan Comrada Mentors: Christopher Minson and Vienna Brunt, Human Physiology Poster: 14 Major: Biochemistry Chronic passive heat therapy (CHT) shows exciting potential for improving cardiovascular health and overall quality of life. Angiogenesis occurs...
Optimization of DNA Extraction from Dried Blood Spot Samples for Use in a Telomere Length Assay
Presenter: Devan Compton Mentors: Kirstin Sterner and Josh Snodgrass, Anthropology Poster: 13 Majors: Anthropology and Psychology Telomere length (TL) is a marker of senescence, yet little is known about the specific factors that influence the performance of the TL...
Morphological Signals and Mating Systems: Comparing Measures of Cranial Fluctuating Asymmetry and Second-to-Fourth Digit Ratio in Primates
Presenter: Kelsey Clarke Mentors: Stephen Frost and Frances White, Anthropology Poster: 12 Major: Anthropology Fluctuating Asymmetry (FA) has been hypothesized to be related to testosterone levels and mating strategies; typically males are more asymmetrical than...
Designing and Implementing Drip-Irrigation System to Improve Water Use Efficiency at Berggren Demonstration Farm
Presenter: Madison Cheek Co-Presenters: Emma Porricolo, Rena Nenot, Ashleigh Angel, Zoe Lavier, Will Dickerson, Brady Chiongbian, Wilson Hui, and Alex Burgdorfer Mentors: Peg Boulay and Deion Jones, Environmental Science Poster: 11 Major: Environmental Science Our...
From Household to Empire: the Zooarchaeology of Diouboye
Presenter: Auschere Caufield Mentors: Stephen Dueppen and Daphne Gallagher, Anthropology Poster: 9 Major: Anthropology The purpose of this research is to understand the economic and cultural processes that created the unique assemblage of animal remains at the...
The Darker Side of the Dark Room: Ventilation and Volatile Organic Compounds in the Craft Center’s Dark Room
Presenter: Davis Carlisle Co-Presenter: Laurel Sleeper Mentors: Alison Kwok and Mathieu Deraspe, Architecture Poster: 8 Major: Architecture The Craft Center at the University of Oregon was rapidly built during the renovation process of the new Erb Memorial Union...
The Next Chapter in Life: Ethnic Diversity and Its Impact on Students
Presenter: Jessica Cantu Mentors: Lamia Karim and Rupa Pillai, Anthropology Poster: 7 Major: General Social Science How does ethnic diversity on campus influence students when deciding on schools? Ethnic diversity is the difference among groups of people based on...
Correlations between Static and Dynamic Asymmetry in Runners
Presenter: Varneet Brar Mentors: Li-Shan Chou and JJ Hannigan, Human Physiology Poster: 6 Major: Human Physiology Asymmetry between limbs can be assessed statically, as measured by passive flexibility and range of motion (ROM), and dynamically, as measured by joint...
Diet as a Mediator of Life-History in Ceanorhabditis elegans
Presenter: Benjamin Blue Mentors: Patrick Phillips and Stephen Banse, Biology Poster: 5 Major: Biochemistry The understanding of how diet and health interact is often informed by conventional wisdom that reduces this complex system to the idea of some foods being...
Characterizing Genetic Relationships Underlying Adaptive Flower Color Divergence in Mimulus aurantiacus
Presenter: Connor Benson Mentors: Matt Streisfeld and Sean Stankowski, Biology Poster: 4 Major: Biology Understanding the genetic basis of adaptive traits lends insight into the mechanisms that generate biodiversity. Flower color has been implicated as an adaptive...
The Phylogenetic Utility of Exon Primed Intron Crossing DNA Sequences in the Tribe Cecropieae
Presenter: Liam Beckman Mentors: George Weiblen and Erin Treiber, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota Poster: 3 Major: Biology Mutualisms, interactions between species that are beneficial to both partners, are useful systems for investigating how...
Achieving Zero-Net Energy in Doha, Qatar
Presenter: Jericho Bankston Co-Presenters: Joey Moser, Abdulhadi Almumen, Brad Phillips Mentors: Alison Kwok and Tom Collins, Architecture Poster: 2 Major: Architecture Working with American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)...
Bergmann’s Rule in Skull Size and Clinical Variation in Skull Shape of Wild Versus Captive fascicularis Group Macaques
Presenter: Julia Arenson Mentors: Frances White and Stephen Frost, Anthropology Poster: 1 Major: Anthropology Bergmann’s rule predicts that body size increases with distance from the equator. This pattern has been noted in wild macaque populations, but relocated...