Comparing Language Input Measures with TV Exposure in Dual Language Learners
Presenter(s): Brandon Zuel Co Presenter(s): Rachael Dahlen, Sean Galka Faculty Mentor(s): Stephanie De Anda & Lauren Cycyk Poster 157 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities The use of parent report is a common method for quantifying language exposure in...
Associations of Adherence to Exercise Dependence Symptoms in Asian/Asian American Men
Presenter(s): Shijing Zhou Co Presenter(s): Kylie Rothhouse Faculty Mentor(s): Nichole Kelly & Claire Guidinger Poster 123 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Exercise dependence (ED) symptoms, which can be conceptualized as a complex pattern of excessive...
Helping STEM Students Thrive: Investigating the Relationship of Course Belongingness and Approaches to Learning
Presenter(s): Shan Zhang Faculty Mentor(s): Shawn Lampkins & Jenefer Husman Poster 121 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities In college, students become increasingly responsible for their learning behaviors which determine their academic performance, known as...
The Role of Abstract Chunk Patterns in the Organization of Complex Sequences
Presenter(s): Min Zhang Faculty Mentor(s): Ulrich Mayr & Melissa Moss Poster 111 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities In order to execute complex sequences, such as playing a piece of music, people group sequential elements (e.g., individual notes) into...
Reducing Plastic Straw Use on the University of Oregon Campus
Presenter(s): Nozomi Yamada Co Presenter(s): Alexandra Urrutia, Riley Roefaro Faculty Mentor(s): Peg Boulay & Sarah Stoeckl Poster 177 Session: Environmental Leaders ARC In the U.S alone, approximately 500 million plastic straws are used everyday. Earlier studies...
Niche Separation Between Three Sympatric Lemur Species at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar
Presenter(s): Erick Wonderly Faculty Mentor(s): Frances White & Colin Brand Poster 50 Session: Sciences One of the central goals of ecology is to understand niche differentiation: how different species use the same environment in different enough ways so as to...
Variation in Severity of Cartilaginous Fusions in fras1 Mutant Zebrafish Following Independent Transgene Insertions
Presenter(s): Alexander Wind Co Presenter(s): Sam Ahlquist, Whitney Oliva Faculty Mentor(s): Charles Kimmel Poster 74 Session: Sciences This study assesses the effect of the fli1a:gal4vp16 transgene insertion on fras1 mutant zebrafish. The Fras1 protein stabilizes...
Behavioral Correlates in Sleeping Laboratory Mice with Widefield Imaging
Presenter(s): Ally Wimberly Faculty Mentor(s): Paul Steffan & David McCormick Poster 70 Session: Sciences Pupillometry has effectively correlated pupil size with cortical states in awake mice. High amounts of brain activity have been associated with large pupil...
Sociosexual behaviors of captive bonobos (Pan paniscus) in proximity to an artificially built termite mound
Presenter(s): Mathieu Wilson Faculty Mentor(s): Frances White & Kylen Gartland Poster 109 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Studies of wild apes are fundamental to our understanding of humans and human evolution. Biological anthropologists investigate the...
Effects of Gender Transition on Language Use in Second Language Acquisition of Japanese
Presenter(s): Dylan Williams Faculty Mentor(s): Kaori Idemaru Poster 146 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Issues related to identity play an important role in guiding learners as they acquire a new language. The purpose of this study was to examine how gender...
Racialized and Gendered Justice in the Criminal Court System
Presenter(s): Joy Wilcox Faculty Mentor(s): Debra Thompson Poster 97 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Criminal courts facilitate mass incarceration and the disproportionate incarceration of people of color, especially Black people, and Black men in...
The effects of leucine, arginine and lysine, and HMB stimulation of anabolic and catabolic mechanisms on myoblasts
Presenter(s): Lillian Wheary Co Presenter(s): Sam Kirby, Nick Belair Faculty Mentor(s): Hans Dreyer & Doug Foote Poster 27 Session: Sciences Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedures are projected to increase nearly seven-fold to 3.4 million per year in the U.S. by...
“The Perfect Hybrid”: Art, Architecture, and Advertising in Solange’s Metatronia (Metatron’s Cube)
Presenter(s): Claren Walker Faculty Mentor(s): Emily Scott & Gretchen Soderlund Poster 149 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities In April 2018, multidisciplinary artist and musician Solange Ferguson (neé Knowles) debuted a collaborative performance piece...
Medical Technologies in Context: Maternal and Child Healthcare at Ghana’s Cape Coast Teaching Hospital
Presenter(s): Ally Waldron Faculty Mentor(s): Melissa Graboyes Poster 161 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities This ethnographic thesis explores medical technologies in the context of the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital in southern Ghana. All too often the transfer...
Regulatory success and eating disorder symptomatology: does cognitive reappraisal scores predict specific eating disorder risk?
Presenter(s): Nathalie Verhoeven Faculty Mentor(s): Dani Cosme Poster 81 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities This study seeks to illuminate the effects of high stress on eating habits, such as craving regulation, and the relationship between regulatory success...
Investigation of Riboswitch Structure and Dynamics Using Fluorescent Spectroscopy
Presenter(s): Michael Veirs Faculty Mentor(s): Julia Widom Poster 23 Session: Sciences Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) is a photophysical phenomenon in which the excitation of a donor fluorophore results in fluorescent emission from an acceptor...
Weight Related Teasing is Associated with Exercise Dependence Symptoms in African American Men
Presenter(s): Trace Vancleave Co Presenter(s): Grace Floyd Faculty Mentor(s): Nichole Kelly Poster 129 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Few studies have examined the correlates of weight related teasing in African American men. Yet, extant data indicate that...
The Micro-Mobility Narrative: Understanding the Effects of Anecdotal and Visual Communication on Health and Safety Behavior
Presenter(s): Marie Van Rysselberghe Faculty Mentor(s): Autum Shafer & Nicole Dahmen Poster 108 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities In the face of extreme pollution and congestion, micro-mobility transportation presents an alleviating solution for many...
Connexins are not responsible for specification of the electrical synapse
Presenter(s): Elisa Trujillo Faculty Mentor(s): Adam Miller & Abagael Lasseigne Poster 56 Session: Sciences In order to initiate synaptogenesis two cells must come together and undergo intracellular communication; both can be done through a protein with cell...
The role of limb dominance in visuoproprioceptive tasks
Presenter(s): Kieley Trempy Faculty Mentor(s): Kate Spitzley & Andy Karduna Poster 30 Session: Sciences Movement is the product of sensory input, mainly from vision and proprioception, and motor output. Vision is the sense of the surrounding space and...
Is Forgetting Good for Learning? Examining the Emergence of Abstract Rule Representations
Presenter(s): Tuong Vy Tran Faculty Mentor(s): Ulrich Mayr & Atsushi Kikumoto Poster 131 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Most actions are driven by abstract action rules that need to be applied to specific environmental conditions. The abstract goal to...
The Hukou System’s Influence on Rural-Urban Inequality in China
Presenter(s): Amber Thorp Co Presenter(s): Anneliese Merrigan Poster 179 Session: Global Engagement ARC The Hukou system used to be the main tool to curb urban migration, especially the diaspora of rural farmers. In the past ten years, in spite of rising numbers of...
Connecting Students to the Universe through Research and Outreach at Pine Mountain Observatory
Presenter(s): Maggie Thompson Co Presenter(s): Odelia Hartl, Nicole Ringsdorf Faculty Mentor(s): Scott Fisher Visualization Lab 2 & 4 PSC Located in central Oregon atop a 6500-foot peak, Pine Mountain Observatory (PMO) is an astronomical facility owned and...
A Lithostratigraphic Analysis of the Crooked River Mascall Formation
Presenter(s): Alexandra Thompson Faculty Mentor(s): Samantha Hopkins Poster 72 Session: Sciences This project presents a comprehensive lithological and biostratigraphic record of the Miocene Mascall Formation deposits of the Crooked River Basin in Central Oregon. The...
Communicating Change: A Study of Current and Proposed Communication Strategies for Prompting Individual Behavior Towards Ocean Conservation
Presenter(s): Kayla Thomet Faculty Mentor(s): Dean Mundy & Hollie Smith Poster 32 Session: Sciences Due to the volatile state of our oceans, I am studying the effectiveness of different environmental campaigns on individual behavior towards reducing plastic waste...
The Impact of Foreign Involvement on Political Reform Organizations
Presenter(s): Sravya Tadepalli Faculty Mentor(s): Dan Tichenor & Jane Cramer Poster 126 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities This paper assesses the impact of foreign involvement on political reform organizations in Jordan. Through a comparative evaluation of...
Characterizing Early DNA Break Repair in C. Elegans
Presenter(s): Nicole Szczepanski Faculty Mentor(s): Diana Libuda & Austin Harvey Poster 19 Session: Sciences Accurate chromosome segregation is critical for the formation of viable gametes by the specialized cell division of meiosis. During meiosis, programmed...
The Relationship Between Self-Reported Mindfulness and the P300
Presenter(s): Josephine Swift Faculty Mentor(s): Jennifer Lewis & Don Tucker Poster 95 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Mindfulness is a state of awareness that allows an individual to more effectively monitor their cognition and emotions. The ways in...
Nintendo and its Climb to the Top
Presenter(s): Jia Suwatanapornchai Co Presenter(s): Hanna Drake Poster 181 Session: Global Engagement ARC Nintendo is a common household name, but many often don’t know how it came to be this way. This presentation explores and discusses strategies and means which...
Modulating Diradical Character in Indenoindenodibenzothiopene and Benzofluorenofluorene Structures For Ultimate Application Within Organic Electronics
Presenter(s): Eric Strand Faculty Mentor(s): Michael Haley & Joshua Barker Poster 51 Session: Sciences The Haley Lab is interested in the synthesis and characterization of organic hydrocarbon scaffolds which can be used as semiconductors. The family of...
Observing Responsive Caregiving and Action Monitoring (ORCA)
Presenter(s): Nisha Sridhar Co Presenter(s): Camille Sullivan Faculty Mentor(s): Tyson Barker Poster 114 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Although parenting is a naturally rewarding activity, excess stressors such as food and housing insecurity impact a...
Qualitative Study of Speech Language Pathologists Working With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Patients with Dysphagia
Presenter(s): Brianna Southworth Faculty Mentor(s): Samantha Shune Poster 80 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Dysphagia, commonly described as difficulty swallowing, affects a wide-range of culturally and linguistically diverse patients. As the importance of...
Reliability and accuracy of post-mortem methods of manual 2D:4D assessment in primates Kendall Soriano, Sarah Brown, Enrique Gomez, Colin M. Brand, Frances J. White
Presenter(s): Kendall Soriano Co Presenter(s): Sarah Brown Faculty Mentor(s): Frances White & Colin Brand Poster 31 Session: Sciences The ratio of the length of the second to the fourth digitis[AH1] related to levels of prenatal hormone in exposure, specifically...
An Analysis of the Connection Between Agnes von Calatin and Josephine Lang
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Soper Faculty Mentor(s): Stephen Rodgers Poster 143 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Josephine Lang is one of the few documented women composers from 19th-century art songs and analysis of her work is crucial for having a comprehensive...
Metatarsophalangeal Joint Mechanics Differ Between Overground and Treadmill Running
Presenter(s): Joseph Smits Faculty Mentor(s): Mike Hahn & Evan Day Poster 35 Session: Sciences Treadmills are commonly used in fitness centers and physical therapy clinics for training and monitoring gait mechanics during return-to-running programs. Previous work...
Life History Responses to Variation in Bacterial Food Sources in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
Presenter(s): Alexander Smith Faculty Mentor(s): Patrick Phillips & Stephen Banse Poster 73 Session: Sciences Diet is directly tied to the life history traits of an organism. Life history traits, such as development, reproductive capability, and lifespan, respond...
Social Isolation: Which aspects of Social Media are at Fault?
Presenter(s): Michael Silver Faculty Mentor(s): Kate Harmon Poster 110 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Social isolation as a result of social network use is a problem that has gained much media attention, but we don’t know how deeply rooted this problem is...
Grooming as an Indicator of Male Dominance and Reconciliation in Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata)
Presenter(s): Caitlin Shreeve Co Presenter(s): Nichole Biggs Faculty Mentor(s): Frances White & Kylen Gartland Poster 62 Session: Sciences In primate societies, social rank is very important in males. Higher-ranking males get more food, more mates, and better...
Islam in the German Sphere
Presenter(s): Lucas Shannon Co Presenter(s): Zachary Gee Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel Poster 193 Session: Global Engagement ARC The Muslim population in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland is growing in a manner parallel to the ever more polarizing political...
Sleep Intervention Effects on Sleep Quality and Mental Health
Presenter(s): Ari Sepulveda Faculty Mentor(s): Melissa Latham Poster 158 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Poor sleep hygiene and mental health issues are common amongst college students due to high stress and rigorous environments. This project uses the...
Exploring the Role of Lrig3 In the Colon
Presenter(s): Ryan Sayegh Faculty Mentor(s): Annie Zemper & Janelle Stevenson Poster 9 Session: Sciences The colon is a vital organ for digestion. Its inner epithelial lining has tubular invaginations known as colonic crypts. These crypts contribute to a dynamic...
The Correlation Between Stigma Stemming from HIV and Antiretroviral Packaging: Design Recommendations for Introducing Discrete Packaging
Presenter(s): Arden Saravis Faculty Mentor(s): Clare Evans Poster 159 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Failure to adhere to antiretroviral therapy (ART), the medication for HIV, persists in exponentially large numbers in the adolescent population in Western...
Cascade Phase Context and Chronology at the Connley Caves, Oregon
Presenter(s): Shelby Saper Faculty Mentor(s): Richard Rosencrance & Katelyn McDonough Poster 122 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Cascade projectile point chronology in the northern Great Basin is poorly understood, with associated evidence ranging from...
Naturalization and Immigration in Quebec
Presenter(s): Jessica Samples Co Presenter(s): Lucille Shadburne, Emma Meese Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel & Laurie deGonzalez Poster 192 Session: Global Engagement ARC Obtaining Canadian citizenship is a process many people aspire to complete every year....
High Frequency Hashtag Usage Negatively Influences Musicians’ Twitter Engagement
Presenter(s): Franziska Roth Co Presenter(s): Sterling Baraquio, Emily Gonzalez Faculty Mentor(s): Dave Markowitz Poster 141 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities In this research project, we evaluated the effect of hashtag frequency on musicians’ Twitter...
The Effect of Auditory Theta Stimulation On Memory, Mood and Attention (Works in Progress Presentation).
Presenter(s): Zora Rose Faculty Mentor(s): Mike Posner & Dasa Zeithamova Poster 2 Session: Sciences The theta frequency (4-8hz) has been implicated with states of restful awareness (Posner, Fan, McCandliss, and Raz 2002). Increased frontal theta waves as measured...
The Spread of Islam and Eastern Religion in Chile and Argentina
Presenter(s): Helen Robinett Co Presenter(s): Emma Synder Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel Poster 191 Session: Global Engagement ARC In an increasingly isolationist society, multiculturalism is becoming less of a goal and more of a buzzword as citizens are subjected...
Send Noodles
Presenter(s): Andrea Rivera Co Presenter(s): Laura Ho Poster 180 Session: Global Engagement ARC Send Noodles College students are stereotyped to live off caffeine and Cup Noodles, and for a good reason. Cup Noodle can be prepared in 3 minutes with hot water and for a...
Education as an Equalizer?: Youth Homelessness and Navigating Educational Institutions
Presenter(s): Lily Ritchie Faculty Mentor(s): CJ Pascoe Poster 104 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Educational institutions are increasingly improving in supporting students experiencing homelessness. With the installment of the McKinney-Vento Act (1987),...
Characterization of Asteroid 93 Minerva Searching for Variation of the Light Curve to Determine Physical Attributes
Presenter(s): Nicole Ringsdorf Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Jim Imamura & Scott Fisher Poster 18 Session: Sciences In 1967 Pine Mountain Observatory (PMO) made its first observations of astronomical objects that included everything from nearby planets and asteroids to...
The role of daf-16 in C. elegans response to alcohol
Presenter(s): Haley Rice Co Presenter(s): Faryn Dahlen, Victoria Dang, Cindy Le, Yalin Li, Jack Lien, Tawny Nguyen, Hanson Pham Poster 42 Session: Sciences All organisms experience various stressors in their environments. Model organisms provide a powerful opportunity...
Immigration Customs Enforcement’s Deliberate Targeting of Undocumented Activists
Presenter(s): Giovanni Ricci Faculty Mentor(s): Noah Glusman Poster 170 Session: Social Activism ARC In the nearly twenty years since September 11th attacks, the United States has seen, as a result of changed cultural values, a dramatic increase in aggressive...
Reduced success of S. purpuratus fertilization under low pH conditions
Presenter(s): Clara Rehmann Co Presenter(s): Joe Dahlke Faculty Mentor(s): Lisa Munger & Caitlin Plowman Poster 59 Session: Sciences The oceans serve as an important carbon sink, but rising amounts of dissolved carbon are reducing their pH. Projections anticipate...
Transmission of Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge Among the Wichí of the Bolivian Gran Chaco
Presenter(s): Itzel Quiroz Co Presenter(s): Michelle Scalise Sugiyama Faculty Mentor(s): Michelle Scalise Sugiyama & Marcela Mendoza Poster 39 Session: Sciences Western conservation research is increasingly recognizing the value of traditional ecological knowledge...
Neuronal projections to the auditory striatum
Presenter(s): Cora Pyles Faculty Mentor(s): Santiago Jaramillo & Nick Ponvert Poster 57 Session: Sciences The striatum, a brain area involved in decision making and learning, receives information from both the thalamus and the cortex. However, the precise cortical...
Islam in France: Secularism
Presenter(s): Claire Putman Co Presenter(s): Bridget Johns, Amanda Henney, Myrriah Jones Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel & Laurie de González Poster 190 Session: Global Engagement ARC In this project, we will examine how France reflects the ideas of the...
Assessing the Nutritional and Physical Needs of Students Outlined in Oregon Wellness Policies
Presenter(s): Christine Pons Faculty Mentor(s): Elizabeth Budd & Elinor Sullivan Poster 151 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities The prevalence of childhood obesity continues to increase in the United States. To prevent this rate from increasing, schools have...
Palepiezometry Analysis of Recrystallized Quartz from Pre-Main Stage Veins in the Porphyry Copper Deposit in Butte, Montana
Presenter(s): Molly Pickerel Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Reed & James Watkins Poster 21 Session: Sciences Recrystallized quartz grains from pre-main stage veins in the porphyry copper deposit in Butte, Montana show microscopic evidence of different temperature and...
The Role of the Auditory Cortex in Speech Sound Discrimination in Mice
Presenter(s): Erin Petruccione Co Presenter(s): Temerity Bauer Faculty Mentor(s): Santiago Jaramillo Poster 49 Session: Sciences The ability to communicate in languages besides our native tongue is an important skill in a globalized world. In order to learn a new...
A Flux Story: Harnessing the Power of a Continuous Growth Synthesis to Study the Formation of Indium Oxide Nanocrystals
Presenter(s): Makenna Pennel Faculty Mentor(s): Jim Hutchison & Kenyon Plummer Poster 25 Session: Sciences Nanoparticles have led to incredible technological advances and continue to revolutionize the world around us. In order to pursue novel forms and enhanced...
Resolving conflict between oak conservation and organic hazelnut production
Presenter(s): Calvin Penkauskas Faculty Mentor(s): Lauren Hallett & Alejandro Brambila Poster 61 Session: Sciences Filbertworm (Cydia laiferreana) is a polyphagous moth that burrows into acorns of Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana) and hazelnuts (Corylus spp.)....
Perceived Power and Affiliation: The Association Between Perceived Power and Liking in Dyadic Interactions
Presenter(s): Joshua Pearman Faculty Mentor(s): Bradley Hughes & Sanjay Srivastava Poster 96 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities In interpersonal dynamics, perceptions of power can influence social outcomes, such as liking or respect. Although most studies...
Effect of Root Symbionts on Inga laurina (Fabaceae) in Disturbed Tropical Forests
Presenter(s): Charles Paulino Faculty Mentor(s): Krista McGuire & Stephanie Ostresh Poster 84 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Succession in tropical forests is an important yet poorly understood topic in ecology. Dynamic principles are at play that are...
Reopening Auditory Critical Periods by Digesting Perineuronal Nets
Presenter(s): Brynna Paros Faculty Mentor(s): Michael Wehr & Jonathan Saunders Poster 64 Session: Sciences Long-term memories are thought to be encoded by synapses, but synaptic proteins recycle within days. Roger Tsien hypothesized that Perineuronal Nets (PNNs)...
Aggregate Packing Structure and Photophysical Properties of Pseudoisocyanine Thin Films
Presenter(s): Rima Pandit Faculty Mentor(s): Kelly Wilson & Cathy Wong Poster 12 Session: Sciences Electronic coupling between organic molecules in an aggregate gives rise to distinct features in the measured linear absorption spectra. Electronic coupling is...
Increasing Variability Across Play Routines for a Young Girl with Autism
Presenter(s): Jessica O’Neill Faculty Mentor(s): Lindsay Glugatch Poster 94 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities One of the defining characteristics of autism is repetitive and rigid behaviors (RRB). RRB can impede social learning and impact appropriate...
Environmental controls on glacial thinning along the West Antarctic Peninsula.
Presenter(s): Ryan Obermeyer Faculty Mentor(s): David Sutherland & Kiya Riverman Poster 8 Session: Sciences The West Antarctic Peninsula holds over 300 glaciers, all with unique environmental conditions. The peninsula is losing ice, but it is not fully understood...
Advancing threespine stickleback as an outbred immunogenetics model by pinpointing the onset of adaptive immunity
Presenter(s): Emily Niebergall Faculty Mentor(s): Emily Beck & William Cresko Poster 54 Session: Sciences T-cell deficiencies cause a wide range of cell-mediated immunodeficiencies including Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (WAS),...
The Effect of Varying Reward Treatments on Performance and Learning Acquisition in Mice
Presenter(s): Minh Nguyen Faculty Mentor(s): Laura Boddington & Paul Steffan Poster 22 Session: Sciences An animal’s ability to learn and perform perceptual tasks is highly variable, depending on factors such as reward type. Using a more favorable reward is...
Preliminary Identification of fungi presenting on the surface of decomposing porcine heads
Presenter(s): Jennifer Nelson Faculty Mentor(s): Jeanne McLaughlin Poster 24 Session: Sciences Taphonomy is the study of events and processes that affect remains of an organism after death. It is an essential component of medico-legal death investigations and can be...
“Drug Cartels and the Colombian Economy”
Presenter(s): Francesca Muchow Co Presenter(s): Katee Kuhlman, Bronwyn Lord Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel Poster 189 Session: Global Engagement ARC A city built on drugs: Medellin, Colombia. For most that live in the city, especially those in more impoverished...
Investigating the Physiological Effects of Mutations in the Proposed Backtrack Site of Yeast RNA Polymerase II
Presenter(s): Joshua Mostales Faculty Mentor(s): Diane Hawley Poster 34 Session: Sciences Transcription, the first step of gene expression, is a process fundamental to all known forms of life. In eukaryotic cells, the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) executes...
The Role of Gene Expression in the Origin of Species Differences
Presenter(s): Hanna Minns Faculty Mentor(s): Patrick Phillips Poster 41 Session: Sciences Speciation, or the process of how new species are formed, is responsible for the incredibly diverse world we live in today. Speciation develops as a result of reproductive...
The Role of Cortical Inhibitory Interneurons in Auditory Signal Detection
Presenter(s): Nadav Menashe Faculty Mentor(s): Santiago Jaramillo Poster 20 Session: Sciences For years, researchers have been trying to uncover how different auditory areas in the brain allow us to segregate signals from a noise. The goal of this study was to use a...
HIV risk behaviors and their relationship with social support across racial/ethnic identities
Presenter(s): Renata Moreno Perez Faculty Mentor(s): Jessica M. Cronce Poster 118 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Social support is associated with health, in particular reduced engagement in HIV-related risk behaviors (HRRB), such as not getting tested...
Portland, Oregon: Minors Affected by Sex Trafficking
Presenter(s): Emily Mirbod Co Presenter(s): sophie hansen, Desiree Whitney, Madisen Campbell, Tom Tandberg Faculty Mentor(s): Noah Glusman Poster 169 Session: Social Activism ARC Portland, Oregon has one of the highest rates of human sex trafficking, especially of...
How Delayed Articulation Skills Effect the Outcome on Suprasegmental Aspects of a Lexical Stress Task.
Presenter(s): Quinn Mitchell Faculty Mentor(s): Melissa Redford & Jill Potratz Poster 116 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Lexical stress is determined by varying amounts of duration, intensity, and pitch. These aspects work together to convey if a word...
Seeking InSite: What the U.S. Can Learn from Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site and How Harm Reduction Affects the Lives of Intravenous Drug Users
Presenter(s): Bryanna Moore Faculty Mentor(s): Dan Tichenor Poster 155 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities The focus of my Honors thesis is on supervised injection sites and the feasibility of harm reduction as a political framework in the United States. Though...
Adipocyte-Specific p85a Overexpression in Mice: Insight into Type-II Diabetes Pathogenesis
Presenter(s): Shawn Melendy Faculty Mentor(s): Carrie McCurdy & Byron Hetrick Poster 7 Session: Sciences Type 2 Diabetes is an increasingly prevalent disease worldwide that is partially caused by a progressive loss of insulin response in adipose tissue and...
Fact Check: Understanding Carbon Impacts of Cross Laminated Timber
Presenter(s): Hannah McKay Co Presenter(s): Isabel Rivera Faculty Mentor(s): Alison Kwok Poster 90 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities According to Architecture 2030, an architectural initiative, embodied carbon will represent 49% of the carbon emissions...
Increasing Compliance During Transitions for a Young Girl with Autism
Presenter(s): Clare McCann Faculty Mentor(s): Lindsay Glugatch Poster 150 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Autism core symptoms include rigid repetitive behavior and deficits in social communication. These challenges effect the ability to appropriately comply...
Spotting Young Stars in the Age of Precision Distance Measurements
Presenter(s): Jordyn Mascarenas-Wells Faculty Mentor(s): Aaron Rizutto Poster 36 Session: Sciences Studying populations of young stars is essential to humanity’s understanding of planet formation and thereby the existence and development of life in our universe. Such...
Impaired Erythropoiesis in Notothenioids Predated the Loss of Hemoglobin in White- blooded Antarctic Icefish
Presenter(s): Leandro Marx-Albuquerque Faculty Mentor(s): John Postlethwait & Thomas Desvignes Poster 28 Session: Sciences The 16 recognized white-blooded Antarctic icefishes (Channichthyidae) are the only known vertebrates living without hemoglobin– the...
Feeding The Identity
Presenter(s): Alvaro Macias-Gonzalez Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Elliot Berkman Poster 87 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities From the moment we are born, we have little input on what foods we eat. From breast milk (or formula) to cereal, individuals are given...
Investigating amino acid-modulated motility of the zebrafish bacterial isolate, Aeromonas veronii
Presenter(s): Emily Ma Faculty Mentor(s): Cathy Robinson & Karen Guillemin Poster 53 Session: Sciences Animals are colonized by communities of microorganisms that influence the health and development of their host. However, the mechanisms of host colonization are...
Structure-Activity Relationship Study of the Ortho and Para Positions of Azide Triggers in Self-Immolative Thiocarbamate Donors
Presenter(s): Rachel Lutz Faculty Mentor(s): Michael Pluth & Carolyn Levinn Poster 14 Session: Sciences Since the discovery of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) as a gasotransmitter in the body, there has been a need for organic donors which can release H2S to mimic its...
A Sustainable Growing Method for Everyone
Presenter(s): Cristoff Ligon Co Presenter(s): Gavin Bradley Faculty Mentor(s): Sarah Stoeckl Poster 176 Session: Environmental Leaders ARC During the Winter 2019 term and the Spring 2019 term, the Community of Environmental Leaders hydroponics team has been hard at...
The Effect of Geography on Genome-Wide Patterns in Mimulus Aurantiacus
Presenter(s): Conner Lane Faculty Mentor(s): Matt Streisfeld Poster 58 Session: Sciences Characterizing patterns of the genome for species spanning a large geographic space may influence the way we understand evolutionary differences between populations. For example,...
Population size mediates mating effects on lifespan in female C. elegans
Presenter(s): Ruben Lancaster Faculty Mentor(s): Katja Kasimatis & Patrick Phillips Poster 10 Session: Sciences Mating is vital for sexually reproducing species, yet the ideal mating strategy for males and females can differ. The ensuing conflict between the sexes...
Influencers Participation in Sponsored Content Using #Ad and the Effects of its Use on Twitter Engagement
Presenter(s): Brittani Lancaster Co Presenter(s): Britta Bauer, Ramsey Sullivan, Annika Minges Faculty Mentor(s): Dave Markowitz Poster 156 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities What is the relationship between using #ad in social media posts and Twitter...
The Crisis of Ableism in China
Presenter(s): Di Li Oral Session 4 M How does disabled life differ in other countries? Disabled people who are living in China are unfortunately not supported by the government, communities or organizations. Even in daily life, they are facing social discrimination,...
Sterilization and Treatment of Women and Children in Rajneeshpuram
Presenter(s): Lisa Kwan Faculty Mentor(s): Bharat Venkat Poster 26 Session: Sciences My research revolves around the community of Rajneeshpuram, which was established and fully realized during the 1980’s in Antelope, Oregon. Headed by a spiritual named Bhagwan...
Is Inhibition Dependent on Working Memory Capacity?
Presenter(s): Jena Kunimune Faculty Mentor(s): Ulrich Mayr & Melissa Moss Poster 93 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities The ability to stop initiated actions is a critical component of effective self-regulation, such as resisting the urge for ‘sex, drugs,...
An Investigation into the Genetic Basis of Spinal Cord Regeneration
Presenter(s): Tova Kruss Faculty Mentor(s): Dylan Farnsworth & Adam Miller Poster 5 Session: Sciences Unlike mammals, Zebrafish (Danio Rerio) are unique in that they can regenerate their nervous systems. The genetic expression involved in Zebrafish nervous system...
Examining patterns in volume and spatial occurrence of cinder cones at Newberry Volcano, Oregon
Presenter(s): Hannah Kruse Faculty Mentor(s): Thomas Giachetti Poster 40 Session: Sciences Newberry Volcano is a large quaternary shield-shape volcano that sits 60 km to the east of the Cascade Volcanic Arc. It is the second most voluminous volcano in the Cascades...
The Oil Economy of Venezuela
Presenter(s): Emily Kraschel Co Presenter(s): Enrique Menjivez Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel Poster 188 Session: Global Engagement ARC This project explores Venezuela’s oil based economy and how that exacerbates employment and poverty issues. In Venezuela, there...
Fact Checking a President: Analyzing News Reporting on Trump’s Tweets About Climate Change
Presenter(s): Morgan Krakow Faculty Mentor(s): Nicole Dahmen Poster 112 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities When President Trump makes statements about global climate change that lack context or scientific facts, journalists must decide how to refute and better...
Local vs National Restaurants: Localness Drives Greater Rates of Engagement on Twitter
Presenter(s): Kelly Kondo Co Presenter(s): Bella Conferti, Yuhui Li, Yuwei Shi, Tyler White Faculty Mentor(s): David Markowitz Poster 99 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities In this study we analyzed how Twitter engagements, such as likes and retweets, differed...
Best Practices for Attributing Extreme Weather Events to Climate Change in Media
Presenter(s): Haley Koch Faculty Mentor(s): Deborah Morrison & Hollie Smith Poster 138 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Occurrences of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, forest fires, and floods are increasing in frequency and severity on a global...
The Great White Outdoors: Racialized Outdoor Leisure Identity in American Advertising
Presenter(s): Hannah Kloft Faculty Mentor(s): Troy Elias & Deborah Morrison Poster 91 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Appearing on postcards, maps, and murals, the Great Outdoors has served as an archetype for both the geography and culture of the United...
Japanese Tattoo
Presenter(s): Mason Klepp Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel Poster 187 Session: Global Engagement ARC Japan has a rich history with the medium of tattoo that stretches back thousands of years, a history which has occupied a fascinatingly unique place in Japanese...
Determining Lipid Specificity Using Alpha-Hemolysin
Presenter(s): Grant Klausen Faculty Mentor(s): Jim Prell & Jesse Wilson Poster 43 Session: Sciences Many therapeutic drugs target membrane proteins, many of which likely have specific lipid interactions that effect their oligomerization, structure, and function....
The Likelihood of Eliciting Motor Evoked Potentials with Paired Pulse TMS
Presenter(s): Ethan Kizziar Faculty Mentor(s): Ian Greenhouse Poster 48 Session: Sciences The excitability of the corticospinal pathway changes in a dynamic manner. Here, we used paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (ppTMS) to test the hypothesis that rapid...
The Role of Infant Attachment and Self-Efficacy in Predicting Later Academic and Social Competence
Presenter(s): Ellyn Kennelly Faculty Mentor(s): Jennifer Ablow & Jeff Measelle Poster 142 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Child self-efficacy has been shown to predict better social and academic problem solving skills, both of which are foundational to...
Effect of Blocked vs. Interleaved Training on Associative Inference Ability
Presenter(s): Rennie Kendrick Faculty Mentor(s): Dasa Zeithamova & Caitlin Bowman Poster 119 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Memory allows us to link across multiple experiences to derive new information. For example, if we see a person, person 1,...
Re-Examining Pluvial Lake Chewaucan Shorelines
Presenter(s): Brianna Kenrick Faculty Mentor(s): Pat McDowell Poster 66 Session: Sciences The Chewaucan Basin of Eastern Oregon has been the subject of numerous studies and notable archaeological finds, including the oldest known human remains in North America. While...
Proposal for Textile Recycling at the University of Oregon
Presenter(s): Courtney Kaltenbach Co Presenter(s): Alli Eroh, Stella Augustine, Caitlyn Mccall, Racheal Maloney, Maggie Craven Faculty Mentor(s): Sarah Stoeckl Poster 17 Session: Environmental Leaders ARC We are in an age of fast fashion in which clothing is produced...
Importance of Grand Collection to undergraduate research
Presenter(s): Kate Jones Faculty Mentor(s): Frances White & Alexana Hickmott Poster 83 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Natural history collections allow researchers to answer questions using the large amount of data available from specimens housed in...
Plastic debris in deep-sea canyon, estuarine, and shoreline sediments.
Presenter(s): Ellie Jones Faculty Mentor(s): Craig Young & Alan Shanks Poster 55 Session: Sciences Recent calculations estimate there are currently 5.25 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans. Many of these plastics are characterized as...
Political Communication on Twitter: How Young People Obtain Information, Construct Identity, and Understand Events
Presenter(s): Rachel Johnston Faculty Mentor(s): Ryan Light & CJ Pascoe Poster 117 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities The rapidly changing landscape of political communication is exemplified by Twitter’s extraordinary growth in popularity. The platform’s...
Define and Defend: Expressing Opposition to the Rajneesh Settlement Through Construction of an In-Group Identity in Antelope Oregon
Presenter(s): Alexandra Jansky Faculty Mentor(s): Judith Raiskin Poster 163 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities In the early 1980s, hundreds of members of an East Indian cult called the “Rajneesh” settled in Eastern Oregon, establishing therein a sprawling...
Behavioral and Neural Predictors of Individual Differences in Concept Generalization
Presenter(s): Takako Iwashita Faculty Mentor(s): Dasa Zeithamova & Caitlin Bowman Poster 128 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Concept learning involves linking related pieces of information to a shared label, like learning that furry creatures that bark...
Uyghur Muslims in China
Presenter(s): Nikki Irvine Co Presenter(s): McCall Delaney, Genevieve Slaton, Malaya Cansdale Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel & Alina Chen Poster 186 Session: Global Engagement ARC The issues facing the Uyghur minority in China are pervasive, yet severely...
Smoking in China: A Student’s Perception
Presenter(s): Kevin Iriawan Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel Poster 185 Session: Global Engagement ARC Teenage smoking in China as well as America has been a rising problem. With the evolution of e- cigarettes, smoking has become easier than ever before....
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...
Companion planting at the University of Oregon Grow Pod
Presenter(s): Anabelle Huffman Co Presenter(s): Isabel Mosley, Sydney Gastman Faculty Mentor(s): Sarah Stoeckl & Peg Boulay Poster 174 Session: Environmental Leaders ARC Our project explores the method of companion planting as an alternative way to produce food....
Lane County Publications’ Coverage of Forest Fires and Smoke in Relation to Climate Change
Presenter(s): Christa Huddleston Faculty Mentor(s): Mark Blaine & Hollie Smith Poster 152 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Forest fires have been all over the news in Oregon the past two years, especially during the dry summer months which have hit...
Exploring Neuronal Cell Ablation & the Social Behavior Network in Zebrafish
Presenter(s): Allison Hoslett Faculty Mentor(s): Alexandra Tallafuss & Phil Washbourne Poster 71 Session: Sciences Research for neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by social deficits, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, has helped increase the quality of life...
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....
How Stigma Surrounding Depression Influences Depression Symptoms in Ghana
Presenter(s): Joan Hicks Faculty Mentor(s): Alicia DeLouize Poster 82 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities The diversity of humanity should be included in any discussion surrounding mental health in order to work towards de-stigmatizing mental health disorders. I...
Drones Implanted into Combat, and Their Effects on Countries that Manufacture, Use, and Distribute Them
Presenter(s): Ramon Hernandez Co Presenter(s): Elliana Pastrano, Thomas Hesser Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel Poster 184 Global Engagement ARC For over decades, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been in combat and dominating the remote fighting tactics that...
The Influence of Fatty Acids on Maternal Behavior: Kearns NC, Heierle JA, Gustafsson HC, Nousen EK, Nigg JT, Sullivan EL
Presenter(s): Jessica Heierle Co Presenter(s): Nora Kearns Faculty Mentor(s): Elinor Sullivan & Hanna Gustaffsson Poster 38 Session: Sciences Several human studies suggest that omega-3 fatty acid intake is associated with positive mental health outcomes in young...
Parsing Out Perspective Taking: The Impact of Narrative Point of View and Stereotyping on Social Relations
Presenter(s): Kate Haynes Faculty Mentor(s): Sara Hodges & Kathryn Denning Poster 98 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Perspective taking is often regarded as a tool to improve social relations, but it can sometimes “backfire,” leading to negative outcomes...
Une Singularité Française: Laïcité and the Rise of Radical Islamic Terrorism among French Muslims
Presenter(s): Carson Hauth Faculty Mentor(s): Craig Parsons & Angela Joya Poster 154 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities In the past twenty years France has seen a sharp increase in radical Islamic terrorist attacks committed by its own citizens...
Exploring Mediational Models between Body Dissatisfaction and of Loss of Control Eating in Young Men
Presenter(s): Lisa Guerricabeitia Faculty Mentor(s): Nichole Kelly & Claire Guidinger Poster 105 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Previous research has primarily focused on the behavioral and emotional correlates of loss of control (LOC) eating...
Testing the Centromere-Drive Hypothesis in Primates.
Presenter(s): L. Gomez Gomez Faculty Mentor(s): Kirstin Sterner & Emily Beck Poster 52 Session: Sciences Chromosomal centromeres play a critical role in the process of cell division. Centromeres act as binding sites for microtubules that pull chromosomes apart...
Oregon’s Gender Bias in Regards to Capital Punishment; the Complications and Implications Scholarly Article
Presenter(s): Lydia Giersch Faculty Mentor(s): Noah Glusman Poster 168 Session: Social Activism ARC In our research, we analyzed the role that gender plays in correlation to capital punishment in Oregon. Our research started through an abolitionary point of view in...
Twitter Data for Brand Insight
Presenter(s): Gillian George Co Presenter(s): Vanessa Zamudio Faculty Mentor(s): Dave Markowitz Poster 140 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Does a brand’s engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility lead to higher financial returns and positive consumer...
Contextual Influences on Shape Perception
Presenter(s): Elise Garmon Faculty Mentor(s): Kelly Edwards, Dr. Margaret Sereno & Margaret Sereno Poster 144 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Visual context influences the ability to process object shape (shape constancy) but can also hinder performance...
月子中心, “Maternity Hotels” for Chinese Mothers in the United States as a Form of Immigration
Presenter(s): Lauren Garcia Co Presenter(s): Jaidan McLean Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel & Alina Chen Poster 183 Session: Global Engagement ARC In this presentation, we will be exploring the topic of birth tourism, specifically regarding mothers from China....
Determining the differential contributions of thalamic nuclei in visual processing
Presenter(s): Alyssa Fuentez Faculty Mentor(s): Angie Michaiel & Cris Niell Poster 69 Session: Sciences Visual processing is a vital sense that allows us to interact with the world, yet the mechanisms behind this process remain unknown. Previous research has...
The Manifestation of Escapism in the Outdoors
Presenter(s): Lilly French Faculty Mentor(s): Avinnash Tiwari Poster 103 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities It is an easy claim to make that people are increasingly turning to the outdoors as a means of escape from their real world. “The outdoors” is a loaded...
The Effect of Varying Reward Treatments on Performance and Learning Acquisition in Mice
Presenter(s): John Francis Faculty Mentor(s): Paul Steffan & David McCormick Poster 37 Session: Sciences An animal’s ability to interpret and respond to environmental stimuli is highly variable, depending on factors such as the reward the animal receives for...
“Corybantic Lycanthropy”: Exploring Allen Ginsberg’s Unpublished 1944 Poem
Presenter(s): Lida Ford Faculty Mentor(s): Judith Raiskin Poster 102 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities “Corybantic Lycanthropy” is an unpublished poem by Allen Ginsberg, found during my research in the Stanford Univerisity Archives in Ginsberg’s private...
Diet and the Environment
Presenter(s): Alice Floyd-Preston Co Presenter(s): Jay Lopez, Zach Colligan, Jordan Hankins Faculty Mentor(s): Sarah Stoeckl Poster 173 Session: Environmental Leaders ARC In the sphere of sustainable living, veganism is hailed as the ideal diet to reduce environmental...
A Ptolemaic Egyptian Cartonnage Mask: Analysis of Authenticity and Provenance
Presenter(s): Delaney Fisher Faculty Mentor(s): Chris White & Malcolm Wilson Poster 147 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Museums strive to determine the authenticity and provenance of the artifacts they preserve. Such research also increases the...
Arsenic and Fluoride Contamination Analysis of Agricultural Topsoil in Guanajuato, Mexico
Presenter(s): Katie Fischer Faculty Mentor(s): Matt Polizzotto Poster 33 Session: Sciences Groundwater from Guanajuato, Mexico’s Independence Basin has recently been documented to contain elevated levels of arsenic (As) and fluoride (F) from past volcanic activity...
Investigating the relationship between heat-stress induced DNA damage and the synaptonemal complex in spermatogenesis
Presenter(s): Cailan Feingold Faculty Mentor(s): Diana E Libuda & Cori C. Cahoon Poster 63 Session: Sciences Male fertility defects affect approximately one-third of couples who are unable to conceive, however many of the male-specific mechanisms that contribute...
Literature Review: The Abundance and Density of Duiker in Lomako, DRC
Presenter(s): Troi Feinberg Faculty Mentor(s): Frances White & Colin Brand Poster 130 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Duikers are a widespread family of tiny, forest-living antelope that inhabit sub-Saharan Africa. While approximately 22 species have...
Influence of Sensory Systems on Social Behavior
Presenter(s): Adeline Fecker Faculty Mentor(s): Phil Washbourne & Sarah Stednitz Poster 75 Session: Sciences Disruption in social behavior is characteristic of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which is a neurodevelopmental disorder that appears in early childhood....
Early Observational Data on Arthropods Associated with Winter Decomposition in the Pacific Northwest
Presenter(s): Brittany Falconer Faculty Mentor(s): Jeanne McLaughlin Poster 65 Session: Sciences Forensic Entomology plays an important role within the field of medicolegal death investigations. By studying the presence of certain arthropod species, scientists are...
A Novel Application of Carbon Nanohoops in Ion-Sensitive Devices: A Potential Story
Presenter(s): Patrick Fajardo Faculty Mentor(s): Ramesh Jasti Poster 17 Session: Sciences Of the many types of ion-sensitive devices, one who’s potential has not been fully realized are chemically modified field effect transistors (CHEMFETs). These devices...
Gait Stability Deficiencies in Healthy Veterans and Veterans with Chronic Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Presenter(s): Ravahn Enayati Faculty Mentor(s): Li-Shan Chou & Will Pitt Poster 13 Session: Sciences While mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion, is typically associated with athletics, head trauma is widespread in the battlefield and combat training,...
Determining the Function of LRIG1 in Colon Cancer Cell Behavior
Presenter(s): TJ Ekstrom Faculty Mentor(s): Anne Zemper & Kate Walsh Poster 6 Session: Sciences Regulation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) signaling cascade is critical for cellular homeostasis. Disruption of EGFR control of cell migration and...
Caregiver singing and infant vocalizations in everyday infancy
Presenter(s): Madison Edgar Faculty Mentor(s): Caitlin Fausey Poster 106 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities The auditory environments infants encounter impact their vocal development, especially during interactions between a caregiver and their infant (e.g.,...
Relating Pumice Permeability to Vesicle Attributes using 3D Printed Models
Presenter(s): Frederick Ede Faculty Mentor(s): Thomas Giachetti Poster 46 Session: Sciences Pumice is a highly porous rock composed of volcanic glass bearing dense and complex networks of vesicles—bubbles preserved in solid rock resulting from the exsolution of...
Farm Animal Valuation: An Analysis of the Variation in Values of College Students Surrounding Farm Animals and the Way Humans Relate to Them
Presenter(s): Kymmi Donaghue Faculty Mentor(s): Clare Evans & CJ Pascoe Poster 101 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Meat consumption is a practice that is well ingrained in our society. The diets of most individuals in the United States are heavily meat...
Día de Salud: A model for community-based outreach to improve health care access for low-income families
Presenter(s): Allison Dona Faculty Mentor(s): Josh Snodgrass Poster 162 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities The Oregon-based nonprofit organization Huerto de la Familia (“The Family Garden”) and the Global Health Biomarker Laboratory at the University of Oregon...
Mutational Analysis of dach Genes During Zebrafish Fin Regeneration
Presenter(s): George Deardorff Co Presenter(s): Bryson Ramona Faculty Mentor(s): Kryn Stankunas & Scott Stewart Poster 44 Session: Sciences Following amputation, zebrafish fins, comprised of intricate skeletal rays and other tissues, perfectly regenerate to their...
Heard it Through the Grapevine: Does Physical Attractiveness Affect Impressions Formed via Gossip?
Presenter(s): Kylie Davis Faculty Mentor(s): Sanjay Srivastava & Cory Costello Poster 100 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities People share information about others’ personalities via gossip, but little is known about what affects these impressions formed via...
Investigating Gp32 Binding Behavior on Single-Stranded DNA With Different Polarity And Length Using Microsecond Resolution smFRET Measurements
Presenter(s): Anson Dang Faculty Mentor(s): Andrew Marcus & Peter von Hippel Poster 67 Session: Sciences The single-stranded (ss)DNA binding protein (gp32) of bacteriophage T4 plays a central role in regulating the functions and integration of the helicase,...
On Oranges: Creating a Theater Lobby Experience Using Dramaturgical Principles
Presenter(s): Rachel Cooper Co Presenter(s): Max Daniels, Alexander Fix, Brian Janisch, Cassidy Malick, Giulia Sala, Zoe Wassman Faculty Mentor(s): Aryn Bartley Poster 85-86 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Our purpose in this creative project was to explore...
Investigating ancient flooding caused by the Chicxulub Meteorite impact
Presenter(s): Samuel Cooke Faculty Mentor(s): Diego Melgar Poster 77 Session: Sciences The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary is marked by a discrete lithologic marker and subsequent die- off of paleo species attributed to the Chicxulub meteorite impact. While many studies...
Thermodynamic and structural determination of metal and peptide binding to the human S100A9 protein.
Presenter(s): Patrick Connor Faculty Mentor(s): Jeremy Anderson & Michael Harms Poster 16 Session: Sciences The human S100A9 protein is an important macromolecule found in large quantities in human neutrophils and at sites of inflammation. S100A9 has many...
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...
The effectiveness of peer-led suicide prevention workshops at the University of Oregon
Presenter(s): Jazmin Cole Faculty Mentor(s): Suzie Stadelman Poster 92 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities According to the Center for Disease Control (2016), suicide is the second leading cause of deaths in individuals between the ages 10 and 35 in the United...
Piwi-piRNA pathway protein PRG-1 represses in temperature-induced DNA damage in spermatocytes
Presenter(s): Fountane Chan Faculty Mentor(s): Diana Libuda & Nicole Kurhanewicz Oral Session 3 M Poster 47 Session: Sciences Half of infertility cases worldwide involve male-factor subfertility. As awareness and frequency of male infertility has grown, it is...
Political Mobilization of the Pharmaceutical Industry: Interorganizational Ties, Interlocking Directorates, and Political Activism
Presenter(s): David Capelle Faculty Mentor(s): Ryan Light & Michael Dreiling Poster 148 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities The pharmaceutical industry holds a prominent position in the American political sphere. The degree and persistence of political...
Training on typical items facilitates learning of new concepts
Presenter(s): Wenjia Cao Faculty Mentor(s): Dasa Zeithamova-Demircan & Caitlin Bowman Poster 132 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Concept learning involves linking pieces of information to a shared category label, like learning that furry creatures that...
Letters to Tip: A Window into the Development of Feminist Language
Presenter(s): Zoe Cameron Faculty Mentor(s): Judith Raiskin & Linda Long Poster 133 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities This research analyzes the correspondence between science fiction writers Joanna Russ and James Tiptree, Jr. in the midst of the Women’s...
How the Use of Simulations Affects the Understandability and Memory for Expert Testimony
Presenter(s): Morgan Bunch Faculty Mentor(s): Robert Mauro Poster 113 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Experts are relying increasingly on the use of computer-generated simulations or recreations of an incident that are constructed by entering data into a...
Tour de Friends
Presenter(s): Jack Buechler Faculty Mentor(s): Sarah Stoeckl Poster 172 Session: Environmental Leaders ARC Eugene, Oregon is one of the most bike friendly cities to live in. Due to the high number of bike paths and bike lanes, the League of American Bicyclists awarded...
People Incarcerated Working for Wages keen to Slave Labor within the Oregon Prison System
Presenter(s): Evie Blythe Faculty Mentor(s): Noah Glusman Poster 167 Session: Social Activism ARC When the 13th amendment to the US Constitution was added, it outlawed involuntary servitude for almost all cases. The only exception is punishment for a crime. Today,...
Dating App Use Is Associated with Less Sexual Restrictedness in Both Men and Women
Presenter(s): Mariah Bloom Faculty Mentor(s): Lawrence Sugiyama & Colin Brand Poster 107 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities 30 million Americans use dating technologies. Location-based real time dating (LBRTD) apps (e.g., Tinder) allow users to access...
Fundamentally F****d: America’s Racially Disparate Healthcare System
Presenter(s): Alexis Blaschka Co Presenter(s): Gabby George Faculty Mentor(s): Noah Glusman Poster 166 Session: Social Activism ARC This project stems from the treatment, and lack thereof, of undocumented individuals in the United States, with a focus on the quality...
Increasing MLU in Two Young Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Presenter(s): Paige Blacklock Faculty Mentor(s): Lindsay Glugatch Poster 115 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities One common characteristic of autism is deficits in social/communicative abilities. Autism is more common in boys than in girls, so the research on...
Reflecting a Queer Reality: Understanding Bisexual and Transgender Responses to Mainstream LGBT Advertisements
Presenter(s): Sara Blackburn Faculty Mentor(s): Kim Sheehan Poster 120 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Although LGBT consumers have been targeted by various brands and organizations throughout the twentieth century, many scholars cite the 1990s as the era in...
The Development of a System to Determine the Size Dependence of In2O3 Nanocatalysts on CO2 Reduction
Presenter(s): Casey Bisted Faculty Mentor(s): James Hutchison & Tawney Knecht Poster 60 Session: Sciences The increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has caused irreversible environmental effects, so reduction of this atmospheric carbon dioxide is necessary...
Using the Auxin-Inducible Degron System to Reversibly Switch Caenorhabditis elegans Populations Between Outcrossing and Exclusively Self-fertilizing Reproduction.
Presenter(s): Paula Berry Faculty Mentor(s): Megan Moerdyk-Schauwecker & Patrick Phillips Poster 15 Session: Sciences Inducibly switching the reproductive mode of a model multi-cellular organism would be a powerful tool with many applications in genetic,...
Colonialism, Vulnerability, and Mortality: How the U.S Response to Hurricane Maria Reveals Existing Racial Hierarchies and Racial Violence in the United States
Presenter(s): Sofia Bermudez-Eredia Faculty Mentor(s): Brian Klopotek & Laura Pulido Poster 124 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities On September 20th, 2017, Puerto Rico, alongside with several islands in the Caribbean, was hit by a powerful category 4 storm...
Orthogonal Structure on a Tripod
Presenter(s): Sierra Battan Faculty Mentor(s): Yuan Xu Poster 76 Session: Sciences This thesis establishes an orthogonal basis that accurately represents the structure of polynomials on any three-dimensional tripod. I define, restrict, and describe the contents of an...
Influence of Misfolded Proteins on the Growth Pathway in Budding Yeast
Presenter(s): Zachary Basham Faculty Mentor(s): David Garcia Poster 3 Session: Sciences Prions are misfolded proteins that have developed a negative connotation due to their involvement in many degenerative diseases. However, some prions have been found in yeast that...
Understanding the mechanisms of gp32 filament assembly and sliding on ssDNA templates of known length and polarity
Presenter(s): Megan Barney Faculty Mentor(s): Andrew Marcus Poster 78 Session: Sciences DNA replication is a core biological process that rapidly occurs in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells with extreme precision. Gene product 32 (gp32) is a ssDNA binding protein...
Perceptions of Regional Languages in Northern Italy by Italian Youth
Presenter(s): Ana Cecelia Barajas Faculty Mentor(s): Robert Davis Poster 160 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities My research presents an evaluation of the perceptions and usage of north Italian regional languages in the sociopolitical context and in the domain...
Chinese New Year Traditions and their Importance Today
Presenter(s): Renee Baker Faculty Mentor(s): Matthias Vogel Poster 182 Session: Global Engagement ARC Unlike many countries around the world, China celebrates the new year based on the lunar cycle. (Chinese New Year usually falls in late-January to early-February.)...
Neural and behavioral assays for studying predictive coding in the mouse brain
Presenter(s): Konrad Bailey Faculty Mentor(s): Santiago Jaramillo Poster 29 Session: Sciences ‘Controlled hallucination’ is a term that has been used to describe the process of interpreting sensory information according to the theory of predictive coding. This theory...
Nitrogen Composition in Native and Invasive Plants in Relation to Ant Mounds in Serpentine Grasslands
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Baach Faculty Mentor(s): Lauren Hallett & Eliza Hernández Poster 1 Session: Sciences The project I will continue to work on addresses the question, ‘is there a significant difference in nitrogen composition of plants on and off ant mounds...
16 Characters for Change: Colin Kaepernick and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Presenter(s): Giselle Andrade Co Presenter(s): Carlos McCarter, Sierra Connolly Faculty Mentor(s): Dave Markowitz Poster: 139 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities A lack of political activism among African American athletes over the past two decades has drawn...
Mothering in the Blogosphere: Mommy Blogs and the Reinforcement of Social Hierarchies
Presenter(s): Abigayle Almond Faculty Mentor(s): CJ Pascoe Poster: 134 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities It is hard to go far on the internet today without stumbling upon a mommy blog. While many of the larger blogs avoid substantial personal content in favor...
Girlhood and the Strange: Representing the Feminine Subject in Stranger Things
Presenter(s): Aurora Allen Faculty Mentor(s): Bess Myers Poster: 135 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities The ‘feminine subject’ in literature is in itself a paradox. When gender is constructed within a patriarchal culture, ‘man’ is written whole and absolute,...
The Effect of Emotion on Associative Memory: Anger versus Fear
Presenter(s): Melissa Adler Faculty Mentor(s): Dasa Zeithamova & Caitlin Bowman Poster: 136 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Studies show that emotion enhances memory for individual items but weakens memory for associations between items. One explanation...
Problematic Policing? A Comprehensive Study of Police Training Methods Within the State of Oregon
Presenter(s): Emma Adams Faculty Mentor(s): Matthew Norton Poster: 137 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities As the issue of police violence has evolved to become a mainstream topic of concern for the American people with the rise of technology and social media,...
Introducing Eco-Friendly Dining: Reusable Dishware & Composters
Presenter(s): Andrew Adams Co Presenter(s): Jenna Bell, Siena Bowen, Julia Matthews Faculty Mentor(s): Sarah Stoeck Poster: #171 Session: Social Sciences & Humanities Due to local landscape company Rexius limiting the type of waste that will be accepted starting...
Digital Piracy in Cuba
Presenter(s): Alex Abele Co Presenter(s): Robert Wyrick Poster: #178 Session: Global Engagement ARC Vox, a famous youtuber that is very trustworthy and credible, made a youtube video called “This is Cuba’s Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet”....