2017

Jose Amaya Cisneros

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Stegemöller, Department of Kinesiology

Research Project: Peripheral markers of inflammation in people with Parkinson’s Disease,

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and Multiple System Atrophy

Nyahon Both

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dorothy Masinde, Department of Horticulture

Research Project: Nutritional outcomes of mothers and their children involved in community-based management of malnutrition programming 

Angie Burke

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sunday Tim, Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering

Research Project: Examining Implications of Climate Change for Food Security in the U.S. Midwest: A Geospatial Analytics Approach

Summer Castillo

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Hansen, Department of Animal Science

Research Project: Effect of two dietary copper treatments on implant performance response and carcass characteristics of finishing beef steers

Caria Collins

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Shane, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Research Project: Optimizing maintenance equipment life cycle for local agencies

Hawa Conteh

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kevin Blankenship, Department of Psychology

Research Project: Blanket inoculation of attitudes

Sha’Kurra Evans

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kyle Burgason, Department of Sociology

Research Project: Race, public opinion, and capital punishment

Mohamed Gesalla

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Julie Dickerson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Project: Identifying cancerous images using networks

Christopher Hernandez

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Richard Stone, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Research Project: Analyzing power tools with an ergonomic perspective

Nayely Hurtado

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elisa Rizo, Department of World Languages and Cultures

Research Project: Blackness in Latin America: Current racial discourse and the role of the census

Modeste Kenne

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Phillip Jones, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Project: Investigating and modeling a network of embedded systems

A'lece Moore

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ann Russell, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management

Research Project: Does corn production enhance soil organic matter loss?

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Julian Neely

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniella Dimitrova, Greenlee School Journalism and Communication

Research Project: #BlackBoyJoy: Visual framing on twitter

Cristian Olmos

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leonor Leandro, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology

Research Project: Effect of crop residues on mycelial growth and sporulation of Fusarium Virguliforme

Abraham Polonia-Suarez

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Claussen, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research Project: Stamped-graphene electrodes on biodegradable and disposable substrates

Brandon Vance

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jean-Phillippe Tessonnier, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Research Project: Fueling space exploration: Engineering catalysts to produce rocket fuel on Mars

Nayelie Valenzuela

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniella Dimitrova, Greenlee School Journalism and Communication

Research Project: Examining and analyzing institutional discourse on Twitter: Engaging prospective students

Victoria Villanueva

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Fred Janzen, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology

Research Project: Epigenetic effects of environmental contaminants on turtles with temperature-dependent sex determination

Faleesia Willis

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Underbakke, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology

Research Project: Examining the architecture of Focal Adhesion Kinase