In September the Office of Undergraduate Research announced 210 SURF Awards for the Fall Semester and Academic Year. Congratulations to all!
College of Engineering & Applied Science
Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Xiao Qin working with Mickey Frigge: “Incorporating Traffic Safety into Bike-Sharing Service Planning and Implementation”
• Habib Tabatabai working with Jason Steffke: “Survival Analysis for Fatigue Reliability Assessments”
• Yin Wang working with Dulay Trujillo: “Selective Detection of Waterborne Contaminants Arsenic (III) and Arsenic (V)”
Electrical Engineering
• Robert Cuzner working with Nicholas Hoeft: “Short Circuit Fault Protection of DC Microgrid for Use in DC Home Distribution”
• Robert Cuzner working with Mark Vygoder: “DC Microgrid Implementation: Modeling, Architecture Tradeoffs, Hardware Design and Market Viability”
• Chiu Law working with Mitchell Hummel: “Application of Magnetostriction-Based Sensors for Non-Uniform Magnetic Field Measurements”
• Chiu Law working with Kirk Keller: “Characterization of Bulk and 3D Printed Magnetostrictive Composites”
• Chiu Law working with Matthew McDonough: “Characterization of Bulk and 3D Printed Magnetostrictive Composites”
• Chiu Law working with William Neave: “Process Parameter Optimization of Fused Deposition Modeling Based Printing with Magnetostrictive Composites”
• Chiu Law working with Chase Ranicke: “Fabrication of Magnetostrictive Filaments for Fused Deposition Modeling Based Printing”
• Chiu Law working with Andrew Thompson: “COMSOL Multiphysics Modeling and Characterization of Magnetostrictive Nanocellulose Composites”
• Lingfeng Wang working with Brooks Beffa: “Investigating the Cybersecurity in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles”
• Lingfeng Wang working with Ian Clark: “Artificial Neural Network based Data Analytics and its Practical Applications”
• Lingfeng Wang working with Yuling Hu: “Stochastic Smart Grid Reliability Modeling and Assessment Considering Renewable Energy Integration”
Materials Science & Engineering
• Nidal Abu-Zahra working with Karl Flanagan-Morris: “Stability Analysis of Organic Solar Cells”
• Nidal Abu-Zahra working with Kyle Russell: “Pes Nanocomposite Membranes to Remove Heavy Metal Ions from Water”
• Benjamin Church working with Kevin Slezak: “Effect of Reactive Gas Composition on Coking Resistance of Cast Alumina-Forming Austenitic Alloy”
• Junjie Niu working with Jeff Becker: “Layered MXene-Sn as a Promising Anode for Lithium Ion Battery with Ultrahigh and Stable Capacity”
• Junjie Niu working with James Kennedy: “Energy Storage Lab – Mxene-Sulfur Chemistry”
• Junjie Niu working with Stanislav Klimchuk: ”High Performance Functionalized Aluminum Oxide and Hydrogel Mesh for Heavy Metal and Bacteria Removal Toward Carbon Mesh Platform”
• Pradeep Rohatgi working with Kyle Brown: ”Compositing of Surface During Manufacturing of Components for Improving the Performance of Components”
• Pradeep Rohatgi working with Sebastian Olaciregui: ”Surface Alloying and Compositing of Plain Carbon Steels During the Casting Manufacturing Process”
• Pradeep Rohatgi working with Isaac Repinski: “Advanced Materials for Biomedical Applications and Characterization of Advanced Materials”
• Benjamin Schultz working with Kari Berna: ”3D Printed Forms for Producing Low Cost Magnesium Foam Implants”
Mechanical Engineering
• Ryo Amano working with Cody Casper: “Experimental Investigation of Hydroturbine”
• Ryo Amano working with Nicholas DiPasquale: ”Self Healing of Wind Turbine Blade”
• Ryo Amano working with Jie Guo: ”Self Healing of Wind Turbine Blade”
• Ryo Amano working with Jake Laurent: ”Design of Waste Water Treatment Aeration System and Application to Solid Rocket Motor”
• Ryo Amano working with Aaron Sherman: “Wind Turbine Research”
• Ryo Amano working with Michael Stefik: “Design of Rotating Gas Turbine Blades”
• Ryo Amano working with Benjamin Sveum: “Experimental Investigation of Hydroturbine”
• Ilya Avdeev working with Michael Powley: “Investigating Multi-Physics Failure Mechanisms of Lithium-Ion Power Cells”
• Ilya Avdeev working with Douglas Wicker: “Investigating Multi-Physics Failure Mechanisms of Lithium-Ion Power Cells”
• Andrew Dressel working with Sidney Brod: “Bicycle Tire Testing”
• Andrew Dressel working with Steve Novak: “Bicycle Tire Testing”
• Andrew Dressel working with Benjamin Overeem: “Bicycle Tire Testing”
• Andrew Dressel working with Jacob Tretow: “Bicycle Tire Testing”
• Krishna Pillai working with Salvador Arroyo: “Validating Through Experiments the Theoretical and Numerical Permeability Models for Flow Along and Across Fiber Tows”
• Krishna Pillai working with Tanya Shilling: “Studying and Classifying Liquid-Fronts in Porous Wicks to Optimize Wick Design”
• Mohammad Rahman working with Nicholas Scannell: “Tele-operation of NAO Robot in ROS Environment”
• Mohammad Rahman working with Christopher Spiewak: ”Development of an Inteligent EMG Based Control for Robotic Assistive Devices in Hand Rehabilitation”
• Nathaniel Salowitz working with Kathryn Pecha: “Energy Harvesting and Sensor Development to Monitor Performance of Water Filters”
• Nathaniel Salowitz working with Trishika Santebennur: “Energy of Self Healing”
College of Health Sciences
Biomedical Sciences
• Janis Eells working with Kathrine Sheridan: ”670 nm Photobiomodulation for the Treatment of RPE Dysfunction in Cell Model of AMD”
• Jeri-Annette Lyons working with Uchechi Nwosu: ”Multiple Sclerosis: Investigate the Role of B Cells in the Therapeutic Affect Afforded by PBM”
Communication Sciences & Disorders
• John Heilmann working with Ala Abdeljaber: ”Experiences of Children and Parents at the Children’s Museum”
• John Heilmann working with Rebecca Willer: ”Minding the Achievement Gap: A Collaborative Effort to Build Sustainable Museum-Based Interventions to Support the Development of Emergent Literacy Skills in Children Living in Poverty”
• John Heilmann working with Octavia Winters: ”Minding the Achievement Gap: A Collaborative Effort to Build Sustainable Museum-Based Interventions to Support the Development of Emergent Literacy Skills in Children Living in Poverty”
• Shelley Lund working with Rebecca Willer: ”Content Analysis of Functional Communication Measures”
• Carol Seery working with Hannah Smith: “Analysis of Vowels Associated with Stuttering Locations”
Occupational Science & Technology
• Brooke Slavens working with Briana Magruder: ”Functional Upper Extremity Workspace in Pre-Operative Versus Post-Operative Rotator Cuff Repair”
• Brooke Slavens working with Nicole Vigon: “Biomechanics of Children with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome”
College of Letters & Science
Anthropology
• Patricia Richards working with Kaitlyn Zacharias: ”The Milwaukee Country Poor Farm Cemetery Project”
Biological Sciences
• Peter Dunn working with Rachelle Ketelhohn: “Effects of Climate Change on the Breeding Success of Birds”
• Gerlinde Hoebel working with Emily Ruder: “Throat Color in Eastern Gray Treefrogs”
• Gyaneshwar Prasad working with Leo Bohlman: ”Characterizing Chemical Signalling Between Rhizobia and Non-nodulating Legume Honey Locust”
• Rafael Rodriguez working with Caley Conley: “Rules Governing Mate Choice Decisions in Enchenopa Treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae)”
• Rafael Rodriguez working with Sara Seidita: “Testing for Combinatorial Signal Processing in an Insect”
• Rafael Rodriguez working with David Vogel: “Cognition and Mating in Phidippus Audax Jumping Spiders”
• Daad Saffarini working with Annie Hackl: “Measuring Gene Expression Using Fluorescent Reporters in Real Time”
• Daad Saffarini working with Adrienne Skillman: “Identification and Analysis of Genes Involved in Manganese Oxidation
• Ava Udvadia working with Rocio Cruz: “Assessing the Effect of cabin1 Knockout on Neural Crest Migration in Zebrafish”
• Ava Udvadia working with Majdulin Istiban: “Characterizing the Effect of Cabin1 Knockout in Developing Zebrafish: Assessing the Formation of the Craniofacial Skeleton”
• Ava Udvadia working with Heather Waters: “Assessing the Effect of cabin1 Knockout on Survival in the Developing Zebrafish”
• Erica Young working with Loretha Jack: ”Incorporating Freshwater Macrophytes into the Silicate Budget for Estabrook Park Pond”
Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Joseph Aldstadt working with Timothy Trinklein: ”Development of a Novel Method for the Analysis of Cathinones in Forensic Samples”
• Mahmun Hossain working with Ryan Majinski: ”Concise Synthesis of BRL-37959”
• Jorg Woehl working with Thomas Bate: “Prism-Based Low-Light Spectrometer for Fluorescence of Weak Emitters”
English
• Vicki Bott working with Taylor Hagenbucher: “Learning about the MPS Graduate Experience at UWM: Focus Groups & Interviews Supporting M3 Initiative”
• Vicki Bott working with Victor Hoel: “Learning about the MPS Graduate Experience at UWM: Focus Groups & Interviews Supporting M3 Initiative”
• Vicki Bott working with Kaitlin Trokan: “Learning about the MPS Graduate Experience at UWM: Focus Groups & Interviews Supporting M3 Initiative”
• Tami Williams working with Hugo Ljungbaeck: “Domitor – Media Ecology Project – Library of Congress Paper Print Pilot and Domitor Members’ Website and Early Film Journals and Archive Database”
Geosciences
• Julie Bowles working with Joshua Marquardt: ”The Efficacy of Stromatolites as Paleomagnetic Recorders”
• Dyanna Czeck working with Nancy Duque: “Geochemistry of the Pulo Do Lobo Metasedimentary Rocks Along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone”
• Dyanna Czeck working with Dulce Hernandez-Blanchard: “Geochemical Characterization of the Acebuches Metabasite Rocks Along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone”
• Margaret Fraiser working with Lydia Albright: ”Bivalve Taxonomy and Paleoecology Following the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction”
• Margaret Fraiser working with Caige Tubic: ” Quantifying Early Triassic Crinoids”
• Erik Gulbranson working with Elizabeth Spitzer: ”Refining Crop Yield Estimates via Isotopic Analysis of Plant Water”
• John Isbell working with Scott Litwin: ”Glacial Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Eastern Wisconsin: Glacial Processes During Climate Fluctuations”
• Elmo Rawling working with Chelsea Volpano: ”Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Geochronology at Kenosha Sand Dunes”
• Shangping Xu working with Mitchel Dolan: ”Using Stable Isotope Ratios to Determine Surface Water-Well Interaction at Cedarburg Bog”
• Shangping Xu working with Jane Pfeiffer: ”Using XRF to Understand the Mechanisms of Phosphate Adsorption on Biochar”
History
• Rachel Buff with Margarita Garcia-Rojas: “Documenting Deportation”
• Amanda Seligman with Jonathan Zagrodnik: “Encyclopedia of Milwaukee”
Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Areas Studies
• Julie Kline working with Aimee Omdorf: “El Futuro Maya II: Applied Research & Public Engagement on Guatemala and Contemporary Mayan Culture”
Linguistics
• Garry Davis working with Melanie Smith: “Using FLEX to Study Phonological Change in the Wermelskirchen Dialect”
• Anne Pycha working with Krist Schubilske: “Using Pupil Dilation to Investigate False Memories for Words”
Mathematical Sciences
• Peter Hinow working with Alexander Riggs: “Liposome-mediated Drug Transport and Absorption in an In Silico Cerebral Capillary Network”
• Istavan Lauko working with Jacob Beihoff: “Street-Level Green Index Extracted from Digital Images Covering Milwaukee County to Examine the Relationship Between the General Health and the Green Environment”
Physics
• Dawn Erb working with Nikolaus Prusinski: ”Star Formation and Galactic Outflows in the Early Universe”
• Ionel Popa working with Sangna Girdhar: ”Engineering and Expression of a Polyprotein Construct”
• Ionel Popa working with Olivia Gloria: ”Study of the Mechanics of Proteins in the Presence of Their Natural Ligands”
• Xavi Siemens, Dawn Erb, and David Kaplan working with Allison Beebe, Max Driftmier, Glenn Borden, Danielle D’Angelo, Nicholas DiPasquale, Constantine Ebben, Eric Edwards, Alex Fletcher, Halie Gehling, Jie Guo, Aaron Hall, Steven Hawkins, Lena Jensen, Arvinder Kaur, Kaitlin Krause, Angelina Lochner, William Marshall, Chifu Moua, Andrew Thompson, Thomas Tobin, and Kaily Zacher: ”Astronomy and Astrophysics Undergraduate Research Program”
• Joe Swiggum and David Kaplan working with Travis Fichtenbauer: “Why Pulsars Die: Confirming and Characterizing the Behavior of 18 New ‘Nullers’”
• Joe Swiggum and David Kaplan working with Mark Poe: “Teasing Out New Discoveries From Marginal GBNCC Pulsar Survey Candidates”
Political Science
• Paru Shah working with Ashley Hickey: ”The Candidate Characteristics Cooperative (C3) Project”
• Natasha Sugiyama working with Luis Mauro Valadao: “Authoritarian Enclaves and Human Development”
Psychology
• Hobart Davies working with Johann Michlig: ”Healthy Media Use in the Family System”
• Raymond Fleming working with Lisa Rafalski: ”Stress and Coping”
• Raymond Fleming working with Elizabeth Wanninger: “Emotion and Physiology”
• Karyn Frick working with Rachel Gremminger: ”Sex Differences in the Effects of 17B-Estradiol on Memory in Male and Female Mice”
• Karyn Frick working with Sarah Philippi: “E2 Mediates wnt/beta Catenin Signaling in the Dorsal Hippocampus of Female Mice”
• Karyn Frick working with Jayson Schalk: ”The Role of Actin Polymerization in GPER-Mediated Hippocampal Memory Enhancement in Female Mice”
• Adam Greenberg working with Souriyo Dishak: ”Feature-Based Attention Capture and Color Perception”
• Adam Greenberg working with Hannah Sallmann: ”Measuring Attention Dysfunction in Chemotherapy Breast Cancer Patients”
• Adam Greenberg working with Erin VandenBosch ”Object-Based Attention Shift Efficiency ”
• Fred Helmstetter working with Matthew Grutza: ”The Role of the Periaqueductal Gray in Modulating Fear Network Activity”
• Christine Larson working with Ciara Ayala: “Neurobiological Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”
• Christine Larson working with Jessica Drews: “iStar- Imaging Study on Trauma and Resilience”
• Christine Larson working with Madeline Kallenbach: “iStar- Imaging Study on Trauma and Resilience”
• Hanjoo Lee working with Jorge Arciniegas: “Computerized Interpretation Training for Thought-Action Fusion”
• Hanjoo Lee working with Lauren Hahn: “Computerized Interpretation Training for Thought-Action Fusion”
• Krista Lisdahl working with Michael Essen: ”BraIN Lab”
• Krista Lisdahl working with MaryBeth Groth: ”Verbal Memory Function in Adolescent and Adult Binge Drinkers”
• Krista Lisdahl working with Kristen Leer: ”Rates of Perceived Stress in Substance Using Adolescents and Young Adults”
• Krista Lisdahl working with Sarah Lehman: ”Effects of Marijuana use on Verbal Learning and Verbal Memory Performance and Associations with Hippocampal Volumes”
• Krista Lisdahl working with Angelina Lochner: ”Chronic Nicotine Cigarette Effects on Cognition in Young Adults”
• James Moyer working with Wesley Cruz: ”Activity-Dependent Protein Degradation and Age-Related Memory Impairment”
• James Moyer working with Mariah Linske: ”Mechanisms of Learning in the Aging Brain”
• James Moyer working with Kathrine Mac Donald: ”NEURON Exploration Through Python”
• Rodney Swain working with Eva Armour: ”The Effects of Exercise on Hippocampal Apoptotic Cell Death”
• Rodney Swain working with Nicole Lensmire: ”The Effects of Exercise on Hippocampal Apoptotic Cell Death”
• Jeffrey Tiger working with Michelle Kondrat: ”Tiger Behavior Analysis Research Laboratory”
• Jeffrey Tiger working with Lucas White: ”Data Collection for the Tiger Behavior Analysis Research Lab”
Sociology
• Celeste Campos-Castillo working with Jeriney Rhone: ”Health-Related Stigma in Social Media”
• Celeste Campos-Castillo working with Daniela Varela: ”Gender & Patient-Physician Interaction”
• Celeste Campos-Castillo working with Rebecca Zdrojewski: ”Autism Spectrum Disorder on YouTube”
College of Nursing
• Jennifer Doering working with Alyxandria Fabian: “The Baby Box Study”
• Sandeep Gopalakrishnan working with Kevin Rymut: “Near-Infrared (NIR) Irradiation in a Diabetic Mice Model with Severe Wound Healing Impairment”
• Peninnah Kako working with Augustine Rouamba: ”Learning Cultural Safety and Humility Through an Inter-Professional Study Abroad Student Experience in Kenya”
• Sandra Underwood working with Raan Assad: ”Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention: The Journey Begins with a Single Step”
• Sandra Underwood working with Eugene Cherry: ”Exploratory Study of Health Concerns, Eye Health Risks, Eye Care Needs of Men and Women in Milwaukee’s Inner City: Community Scan and Needs Assessment”
• Sandra Underwood working with Danielle Olsen: ”Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention: the Journey Begins with a Single Step”
• Sandra Underwood working with Eric Yang: ”Exploratory Study of Health Concerns, Eye Health Risks, Eye Care Needs of Men and Women in Milwaukee’s Inner City: Community Scan and Needs Assessment”
Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
Social Work
• Joan Blakey working with Cheyenne Cole: ”Trauma Among Middle and High School Students – Shorewood School District”
Peck School of the Arts
Art & Design
• Joseph Mougel working with Kenzie Hack: ”Mobile Camera Obscura and Wet Plate Tent”
• Joseph Mougel working with Lainey Koch: ”Mobile Camera Obscura and Wet Plate Tent”
• Nathaniel Stern working with Alexander Gugg: ”Side Ways Glancing: Perspectival Video Sculpture”
• Nathaniel Stern working with Jenna Marti: ”The World After Us: Speculative Media Sculptures”
• Nathaniel Stern working with Olivia Overturf: ”The World After Us: Speculative Media Sculptures”
• Chris Willey working with Anna Emerson: ”Immersive Media Lab”
• Chris Willey working with Margaret Franzen: ”Immersive Media Research”
• Chris Willey working with Christian Holland: ”Immersive Media Research”
• Chris Willey working with Sarah Wright: ”Immersive Media Lab”
• Joelle Worm working with Abigail Jensen: ”UWM Outreach/ArtsECO”
• Chritine Woywod working with Arcadua Katzenberger: ”SHARP Literacy Program Pilot Evaluation”
Dance
• Simone Ferro working with Chelsey Becher: ”Sherman Park – Eviction Through Embodied Research”
• Simone Ferro working with Jimmi Weyneth: ”Sherman Park – Eviction Through Embodied Research”
• Maria Gillespie working with Chanteé Kelly: ”Between the Form and Formlessness of Objects and Desire: The Economies of Ambivalence, Androgeny and Passion”
• Maria Gillespie working with Kelsey Lee: ”Between the Form and Formlessness of Objects and Desire: The Economies of Ambivalence, Androgeny and Passion”
• Maria Gillespie working with Kathrine Slezak: ”Between the Form and Formlessness of Objects and Desire: The Economies of Ambivalence, Androgeny and Passion”
• Maria Gillespie working with Countess Olivia Valenza: ”Between the Form and Formlessness of Objects and Desire: The Economies of Ambivalence, Androgeny and Passion”
• Maria Gillespie working with Jimmi Weyneth: ”Between the Form and Formlessness of Objects and Desire: The Economies of Ambivalence, Androgeny and Passion”
Film, Video Animation, & New Genres
• Jennifer Plevin working with Gabriella Cisneros: ”Art Shay Full Length Feature Documentary Film”
• Jennifer Plevin working with Alexander Kayser: ”Art Shay Full Length Feature Documentary Film”
• Jennifer Plevin working with Patrick Lane: ”Art Shay Full Length Feature Documentary Film”
• Jennifer Plevin working with Chelsea Merrow: ”Art Shay Full Length Feature Documentary Film”
• Jennifer Plevin working with Peter Moua: ”Art Shay Full Length Feature Documentary Film”
Music
• John Stropes working with Nia Keranova: ”Examination of the Evolution of Finger-Style Guitar from 1967-1980”
• John Stropes working with Joshua Kim: ” Legacy of the 1969 and 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festivals”
Theater
• Robin Mello working with Connor Finnegan, Cory Fitzsimmons, Elizabeth Markman, Parker Muñoz, Erik Peppey, Izaiah Ramirez, and William Thiemann: “Scripting Orphan Train”
• Alvaro Rios working with Audra Cashman: “Songs for New Student Works”
• Alvaro Rios working with Lori Martello: “Dramaturgical Research for Theatrical Productions”
School of Architecture & Urban Planning
• Nikole Bouchard working with Brodie Kerst: ”Oshkosh ER: Environmental Relief”
• Matthew Mesner working with Aya Mustafa: ”Architectural Drawing – Pedigogy and Practice”
• Brian Schermer working with Ever Clinton: ”Social Sustainability in the Washington Park Neighborhood”
• Arijit Sen working with Bella Biwer: ”Picturing Milwaukee 2.0: Comparing Resident Descriptions of Safety”
• Arijit Sen working with Teonna Cooksey: ”Human Impact of Foreclosures in Washington Park and Sherman Park, Milwaukee”
• Arijit Sen working with Lena Jensen: ”Picturing Milwaukee 2.0: The Spatial Practice of Caring”
• Mo Zell working with Quincy Drane: ”Exhibition Design: Microhousing: the Next Generation of Domesticity”
• Mo Zell working with Eli Liebenow: ”Exhibition Design: Microhousing: the Next Generation of Domesticity”
School of Freshwater Sciences
• Russell Cuhel working with Liam Brodie: ”Water Chemistry in the Vicinity of a New Mega-Manufacturing Complex”
• Russell Cuhel working with Matthew Ryther: ”Quagga Mussels: Mediators of Fisheries Collapse in Lake Michigan”
• John Janssen working with Nathaniel Tennies: ”Spatial Inventory of Fish Habitat and Forage in the Milwaukee Estuary”
• Ryan Newton working with Matthew Sanville: ”Preferential Microorganism Growth at the Interface of Sewage and Surface Freshwaters”
• Marcia Silva working with Zahra Gohari: ”Evaluation of Novel Porous Materials for the Removal of Legionella from Water and Its Anti-Biofilm Properties”
• Marcia Silva working with Danielle O’Hagan-Kennedy: ”Development of a Novel Porous Material for Removal of Ammonia from Water”
• Marcia Silva working with Yiming Yang: ”Effect of Zeolite Coated Anode on the Performance of Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC)”
• Rudi Strickler working with Basil Hable: ”Digital In-Line Holographic Microscopy and E. Coli Detection”
• Rudi Strickler working with Adam Honts: ”Digital In-Line Holographic Microscopy and E. Coli Detection”
School of Information Studies
Information Science & Technology
• Jacques DuPlessis working with Evan Becker: “EarGear – Online Learning for the Blind”
• Jacques DuPlessis working with Jessica Carpenter: “Instructional Technologies & App Development”
Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health
Biostatistics
• Peter Tonellato working with Laura Danner: ”Genomics and Epigenomics of Nutrition”
• Kourosh Ravvaz working with Sarah Altarouti: “Predicting Anticoagulation Therapy Outcomes Using Non-Clinical Trial Patient Data”
• Kourosh Ravvaz working with Amanda Miller: “A Study on the Use of Restaging Transurethral Resection of Bladder for Patients with Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer”
• Mustafa Hussein working with Diana Rivera: ”Health Systems and Health Inequalities: A Comparative Analysis of 21 Developed Countries”