Ismael Coello Ramirez is studying materials engineering. He said he's glad that he chose this career path because it allows him to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and actual performance of many types of products. He has been involved in research with Associate Professor Benjamin Church since his freshman year and enjoys doing research in this lab because of the learning opportunities obtained while contributing to a meaningful project. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Sofia Mattson is pursuing a bachelor’s in psychology, a minor in Spanish and an honors degree with distinction. She joined the Affective Neuroscience Lab at UWM as an undergraduate research assistant in 2018 under the mentorship of Professor Christine Larson. Since then, the studies in which Mattson has been involved focus on attention and working memory capacity using electroencephalography. Guided by Larson, Mattson aims to complete her senior capstone investigating how fear-conditioned stimuli affect working memory processes. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Noah Wolfe is working on his degree in K-12 exceptional education. He has worked with Associate Professor Chris Lawson in the Department of Educational Psychology for the past three years. In Lawson’s lab, Wolfe has been performing research to better understand the development of inductive generalizations within school-age children. How do children develop the skills that allow them to generalize information they learned in one context to another context? (UWM Photo/Troye Fox)
Jocelyn Jarvis is pursing majors in psychology and philosophy with a certificate in quantitative social data analysis. Over the past few years Jarvis has been involved in research with Professor Krista Lisdahl working in the Brain Imaging and Neuropsychology Laboratory. In the lab, the focus has mostly been on the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, which is the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Louis Chapman is studying civil engineering. His research – conducted under the direction of Marcia Silva, associate scientist and director of the Water Technology Accelerator – involves investigation of a filtration mechanism to remove ammonia from water. It’s one of many projects looking into ways to remove contaminants from water to reduce the impact of unwanted chemical discharge into the lakes and rivers. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Anna Kaminski is graduating with a degree in atmospheric science. Kaminski has been working with Associate Professor Clark Evans focusing on developing an algorithm to identify tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones or a mixture of the two, which is considered a hybrid. When there is a more accurate way of defining cyclones, large amounts of data and images can be put into this algorithm to identify cyclones, which can be used to more effectively and efficiently conduct research. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Each year UWM’s Office of Undergraduate Research honors several seniors with its Senior Excellence in Research Awards. These students have worked with faculty mentors in a variety of fields and have been significantly active in undergraduate research during their time at UWM.
Here are some of the projects and research the 2020-2021 SERA students have been working on.
