In September, 2018 the Office of Undergraduate Research announced 193 SURF Awards for the Fall Semester and Academic Year. Congratulations to all!

School of Architecture

  • Bella Biwer working with Arijit Sen: Picturing Milwaukee: “Taking Back our Worlds Project”
  • David Katz working with Mo Zell: “Clay: History, Composition, Fabrication’
    Jordan Felber working with Mo Zell: Curating an Exhibition”
  • Lena Jensen working with Arijit Sen: “Picturing Milwaukee: Taking Back our Worlds Project”
  • Mark Richter working with Brian Schermer: “Measuring Discoverability Through 3D Visibility Graph Analysis”
  • Walter Moran working with Filip Tejchman: “Ennobling Relationships: Researching the role of Lightweight materials in Architecture”

Peck School of the Arts

  • Amanda Laabs working with Maria Gillespie: “Between Form and Formlessness: Reimagining Architecture of Body in Space”
  • Anna Emerson working with Chris Willey: “Immersive Media Lab: Audio within Immersion”
  • Annie Peterson working with Maria Gillespie: “Between Form and Formlessness: Reimagining Architecture of Body in Space”
  • Caitlyn Grubich working with Simone Ferro: “Sherman Park – Eviction Through Embodied Research – Public Scholarship in Dance Website”
  • Caleb Peavy working with Jenny Plevin: “doc|UWM LGBT+ Milwaukee History Film”
  • “Ella Freigang working with Jenny Plevin: “doc|UWM Transforming Justice: Youth Media Collective”
  • Isaac Repinski working with John Stropes: “Comprehensive Analysis of the Performances of Finger-Style Guitarists at the 1969 and 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festivals”
  • Jenna Marti working with Nathaniel Stern: “The World After Us: Speculative Media Sculptures”
  • Joseph Rex working with Chris Willey: “Immersive Media Lab: Coding for Extended Reality”
  • Katelyn Altmann working with Maria Gillespie: “Between Form and Formlessness: Reimagining Architecture of Body in Space”
  • Madeline Prokop working with Simone Ferro: “Sherman Park – Eviction Through Embodied Research – Public Scholarship in Dance Website”
  • Margaret Rosario working with Jenny Plevin: “doc|UWM Transforming Justice: Youth Media Collective”
  • Mary Widener working with Nathaniel Stern: “The World After Us: Speculative Media Sculptures”
  • Megan Velez working with Simone Ferro: “Sherman Park – Eviction Through Embodied Research – Public Scholarship in Dance Website”
  • Natalie Krug working with Emily Berens: “Virtual Classroom Prototype”
  • Nia Keranova working with John Stropes: “Comprehensive Analysis of the Performances of Finger-Style Guitarists at the 1969 and 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festivals”
  • Olivia Overturf working with Nathaniel Stern: “The World After Us: Speculative Media Sculptures”
  • Rebecca Jeske working with Chris Willey: “Immersive Media Lab: Interactive Environments and Code within Unity”
  • Ryan O’Connor working with Chris Willey: “Immersive Media Lab: Immersive Glitch”
  • Samantha Tan working with Nathaniel Stern: “The World After Us: Speculative Media Sculptures”
  • Samuel Kotrba working with Chris Willey: “Immersive Media Lab: Visual Communication within Immersive Media”
  • Sarah Wright working with Chris Willey: “Immersive Media Lab: Interactive Narrative Research within Immersion”
  • Simone Safian working with Jenny Plevin: “doc|UWM LGBT+ Milwaukee History Film”

Lubar School of Business

  • Annika Gogan working with Colleen Boland: “The Audit Committee and Financial Reporting Quality”
  • William Becker working with John Huck: “Quantitative Financial Analysis”
  • Bryan Jensen working with John Huck: “Quantitative Financial Analysis”

College of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Adedamola Adeniyi working with Zhi Zheng: “Illumination design to access sensory abnormality in children with autism”
  • Alexandria Miller working with Roshan D’Souza: “Verification and Validation (V&V) of PCMRI/4DFlow Super-Resolution Algorithms”
  • Anna Miller working with Mohammad Habibur Rahman: “Analysis of Human Motion Capture, EEG and EMG Activities During Upper Extremity Movement for Healthy Individuals”
  • Anthony Wegner working with Chiu Tai Law: “Fabrication of Magnetic Devices with Fused Deposition Modeling Based Printing”
  • Badrieh Mustafa working with Lingfeng Wang: “Stochastic Smart Grid Reliability Modeling and Assessment Considering Renewable Energy Integration”
  • Benjamin Sveum working with Ryo Amano:
  • Bryant Lee working with Junjie Niu: “Developing novel adsorbents for water purification”
  • Can Zhong working with Lingfeng Wang: “Develop an ANN for Synthetic Aperture Optical Topography and Real-time Optical Flow Processing and Planning”
  • Cody Casper working with Ryo Amano: “Experimental Investigation of Hydroturbine”
  • Eliza Imbrie working with Mohammad Habibur Rahman: “Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigation”
  • Georgije Stanisic working with Woo Jin Chang: “Electrical Manipulation of Micro-Particles in a Lab-on-a-Chip”
  • Goyko Rajak working with Hathibelagal Roshan: “Characterization of variable density lightweight steel foam”
  • Gracia Kalongo working with Zhi Zheng: “Galvanic skin response signal acquisition and processing for affective computing”
  • Hannah Boettger working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Metal Graphene Composites”
  • Hannah Groh working with Ryo Amano: “Wind Turbine/Hydro Turbine”
  • Hella Willis working with Chiu Tai Law: “Prototyping of magnetic field sensors based on fiber to fiber coupling”
  • Ian Buck working with Adel Nasiri: “Energy Storage System Implementation and Testing for Smart Grid Applications”
  • Ismael Coello working with Benjamin Church: “Characterization of Aluminum Oxide on Stainless Steel through Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy”
  • Jacob Brewer working with Ryo Amano: “Hydro Turbine Research”
  • Jeff Becker working with Junjie Niu: “Layered MXene-Sn as a promising anode for lithium ion battery with ultrahigh and stable capacity”
  • Jessica Hufford working with Ryo Amano: “Design of Waste Water Treatment Aeration System”
  • Joseph Lentz working with Robert Cuzner: “An Integrated EMI Characterization Chamber for Wide Band-Gap Power Electronic Devices”
  • Joshua Myszewski working with Mohammad Habibur Rahman: “Upper Extremity Movement prediction from EMG and EEG Signals”
  • Kari Berna working with Benjamin Schultz: “3D Printed Forms for Producing Low Cost Magnesium Foam Implants”
  • Kevin Slezak working with Benjamin Church: “Weldabilty and Performance of Alumina-Forming Austenitic Stainless Steels”
  • Kolhe Kolhe working with Hathibelagal Roshan:
  • Liam Brodie working with Hector Bravo: “Preparation and Testing of High-Speed Water Tunnel for Cavitation and Coanda Effect Experiments”
  • Mark Nosonovsky working with Konstantin Sobolev: “Use of Portland Cement in Asphalt Concrete”
  • Miguel Jaimes working with Benjamin Church: “Electrochemical characterization of an alumina-forming stainless steel”
  • Mitchell Hummel working with Chiu Tai Law: “Fiber Optical Current Sensor with a Thin Magnetostrictive Transducer”
  • Nathan Swanson working with Chiu Tai Law: “Magnetostrictive Response of Multilayered Cellulose Nanofibril Composites”
  • Nicholas Scannell working with Mohammad Habibur Rahman: “Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigation”
  • Perry Spott working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Self-Healing of Materials and Coatings”
  • Robert Imbrie working with Lingfeng Wang: “Using Machine Learning Techniques to Solve Practical Engineering Problems”
  • Ruben Gasparini working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Surface Alloying and Compositing of Plain Carbon Steels During the Casting Manufacturing Process”
  • Samuel Jadin working with Junjie Niu: “Develope a novel Ge@TiO2 composite as anode in lithium ion batteries”
  • Sherissa Popp Goskowicz working with Ryo Amano: “Solid Rocket Motor converging-diverging supersonic flow study, Gas turbine engine study”
  • Victor Ramirez working with Hani Titi: “Evaluation of Recycled Asphalt and Concrete Aggregates Bases in Hot Mix Asphalt Pavements”
  • Zachary Miller working with Veysi Malkoc: “Enhanced Osseointegration of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on a Micropatterned 316 Stainless Steel Implant”

School of Education

  • Tashea West working with Chris Lawson: “Who to ask?: Children’s developing awareness of teachers and parents as informants”

Global Water Center

  • Andrew Thompson working with Marcia Silva, Rudy Strickler, Thomas Hansen: “Digital In-Line Holographic Microscopy and E. coli detection”
  • Basil Hable working with Marcia Silva, Rudy Strickler, Thomas Hansen: Digital “In-Line Holographic Microscopy and E. coli detection”
  • Kwendo Mwaniki working with Marcia Silva: “Effect of zeolite coated anode on the performance of microbial fuel cells (MFC)”
  • Louis Chapman working with Marcia Silva: “Development of a novel porous material for removal of ammonia from water”
  • Yuting Lin working with Marcia Silva: “Novel zeolite based porous material for drug release and evaluation of sensor application”
  • Zahra Gohari working with Marcia Silva: “Evaluation of novel porous materials for the removal of Legionella from water and its anti-biofilm properties”

College of Health Sciences

  • Ashley Quisler working with Janis Eells:
  • Cindy Petros working with Dennis Tomashek:
  • Erin Crownover working with Ann Swartz: “Illness Perceptions and Physical Activity in Congestive Heart Failure”
  • Jared Bonack working with Brooke Slavens: “Preoperative and Postoperative Rotator Cuff Repair Thoracohumeral Joint Kinematics During Reaching “
  • Jesse Gultch working with Stephen Cobb: “Reliability of multi-segment foot model anatomical landmark identification”
  • Katherine Malek working with Sabine Heuer: “How to Motivate Future Healthcare Professionals to Work with Persons with Dementia”
  • Kathryn Neave working with Dennis Tomashek:
  • Kathryn Tercher working with Brooke Slavens: “Quantitative Analysis of Balance in Children with Hypermobility Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome”
  • Matthew Fox working with Brooke Slavens:
  • Michelle Kondrat working with John Heilmann: “Discourse skills of middle school students with varying levels of bilingual proficiency”
  • Nicole Vigon working with Brooke Slavens: “Temporal-Spatial Parameters of Gait in Children with Hypermobile type Ehlers Danlos Syndrome”
  • Sami Basnet working with Bhagwant Sindhu: “A Feasibility study of using headspace for mindfulness among individuals undergoing surgical repair of the rotator cuff”

Honors College

  • Bailey Flannery working with Jacqueline Stuhmiller: “Bestiality in Medieval Culture”

School of Freshwater Science

  • Evan Bennett working with Rebecca Klaper:
  • Kathryn Alexander working with Ryan Newton: “Evaluating the Microbial Culturing Efficacy of a Lake Michigan Tuned Growth Medium”
  • Lauren Bonofiglio working with Ryan Newton: “Evaluating the Microbial Culturing Efficacy of a Lake Michigan Tuned Growth Medium”

School of Information Studies

  • Declan Crouch working with Jacques Du Plessis: “Agua Pura – Towards persistent monitoring of water systems”
  • Izabelle Villafuerte working with Jacques Du Plessis: “Agua Pura – Towards persistent monitoring of water systems”
  • Raunak Khaitan working with Jacques Du Plessis: “Agua Pura – Towards persistent monitoring of water systems”

College of Letters & Science

  • Aaron Meyer working with Paru Shah: “The Under-representation of Women and Candidates of Color in 2018 State Legislative Elections”
  • Adrienne Skillman working with Heather Owen: “Further Examination of the Mendellian and Molecular Genetics of the Arabidopsis thaliana Salk_026354 Line”
  • Aimee Roekle working with Jae Yung Song: “Covert contrast in the acquisition of second-language phonology”
  • Alex Kehoe working with Alexander Arnold: “Investigation of CNS effects of novel imidazobenzodiazepines”
  • Alexander Klug working with Valerica Raicu: “Following Proteins at Work in Living Cells”
  • Amber Joshway working with Paru Shah: “The Under-representation of Women and Candidates of Color in 2018 State Legislative Elections”
  • Amillia Heredia working with Celeste Campos-Castillo: “Norms, Resources, and Support on YouTube for Caregivers of those with Autism Spectrum Disorder”
  • AnnDee Johnson working with Adam Greenberg: “Auditory Object-Based Attention”
  • Bernard Muransky working with Rafael Rodriguez:
  • Bob Aloisi working with Angela Van Sistine: “Support CLU Database Development & Flat Field Development for ZTF”
  • Brandon Mikulsky working with Alexander Arnold: “Determing the Mechanisms of Neuropathic Pain”
  • Brian Holmgren working with Rudi Strickler: “Effects of Hydrostatic Pressure on Toxicity”
  • Brittany Larson working with Rodney Swain: “An Investigation on the Role of Astrocytes in Motor-Skill Learning”
  • Cassandra Doolittle working with Adam Greenberg: “The Role of Music Training in Auditory Perception”
  • Cedrick Antonio working with Celeste Campos-Castillo: “Evaluating the Role of Electronic Health Record Systems in Delivering Mental Health Care”
  • Chelsea Miller working with Rodney Swain: “An Investigation of the Motivational Behavior of a Rodent ADHD Model”
  • Chelsea Volpano working with J Elmo Rawling: “Seasonal Changes to Stream and Beach Morphology at Point Beach State Forest Using Drone Photography and Structure-from-Motion Digital Elevation Models”
  • Christine Wiese working with Rafael Rodriguez: “Social hybrids and speciation in Enchenopa treehoppers”
  • Ciara Ayala working with Christine Larson: “Neurobiological Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”
  • Connor Link working with John Isbell:
  • Dante Serano working with Nicholas Silvaggi:
  • Dominique Wilkerson working with Vicki Bott: “Learning about the MPS Graduate Experience at UWM: Focus Groups & Interviews Supporting M3 Initiative”
  • Elizabeth George working with Paru Shah: “The Under-representation of Women and Candidates of Color in 2018 State Legislative Elections”
  • Elizabeth Wanninger working with Raymond Fleming: “Effects of Simple Motor Movements on Physiological Activity”
  • Ellen Olszewski working with Bonita Klein-Tasman: “Examining the Academic Performance of Children with Neurofibromatosis and Relations to Intellectual Functioning”
  • Emily Ortega working with Mark Dietz: “Toxic dye extraction from wastewater using plant-derived “green” solvents and hydrophobic deep-melting eutectics”
  • Erick Bernal working with Krista Lisdahl: “Structural Effects of Binge Drinking on the Hippocampus of Adolescents & Young Adults”
  • Erika Johansen working with Jorg Woehl: “Investigating the electric double layer using single particle localization microscopy”
  • Francine Mitsiopoulos working with Carol Hirschmugl:
  • Gaelle Sehi working with Filipe Alberto:
  • Haley Richards working with Tami Williams: “UWM Film Studies Moving Image Archive and Scholar Project”
  • Hannah Smith working with Aki Roberts: “The effect of police violence on crime clearance”
  • Jayson Schalk working with Karyn Frick: “Sex differences in the cellular and molecular responses to estradiol infused in the dorsal hippocampus”
  • Jessica Robers working with Amanda Seligman: “Encyclopedia of Milwaukee
  • Johanna Michlig working with Hobart Davies: “Children and Media”
  • Jose Arechiga working with Krista Lisdahl: “Symptoms of Mood and Cannabis Withdrawal Over 3 Weeks of Abstinance in Adolescents & Young Adults”
  • Joshua Kite working with Julie Bowles: “Using magnetic methods to determine deformation processes in sub-glacial sediments in northern Illinois”
  • Joshua Reed working with Dyanna Czeck: “Quantifying microstructure devolpment in small-scale shear zones in gabbro”
  • Karly Cushway working with Filipe Alberto: “Genetic Selection in Macrocystis pyrifera”
  • Kelsey O’Hara working with Rafael Rodriguez: “Testing the choosiness of female treehoppers throughout her mating season”
  • Lauren Andrews working with Ionel Popa: “A fluorescence method to study the mechanical unfolding of proteins”
  • Lauren Hahn working with Hanjoo Lee: “Computerized Interpretation Training for Thought-Action Fusion”
  • Lauren Robertson working with Greg Carter: “The History of Star Wars Fans and Racial Perceptions”
  • Leo Bohlmann working with Filipe Alberto: “Isolation and growth of gametophyte cultures of the seaweed Macrocystis pyrifera”
  • Lexie Lanphere working with Joseph Aldstadt: “Development of Novel Microscale Analytical Methods for Drugs of Abuse”
  • Loretha Jack working with Erica Young: “Silicate incorporation to assess growth rates of freshwater diatoms”
  • Madeline Rettmann working with Nicholas Silvaggi: “Structural studies of a putative arginase/agmatinase from Streptomyces griseofuscus”
  • Magen Babcock working with Vicki Bott: “Learning about the MPS Graduate Experience at UWM: Focus Groups & Interviews Supporting M3 Initiative”
  • Maren Orlowski working with Avik Chakrabarti: “Sourcing In and Out: The Competitive Position of Small and Medium Scale Entrepreneurs from Milwaukee”
  • Mariah Linske working with James Moyer: “Mechanisms of Learning in the Aging Brain”
  • Marie Enderle working with Bonita Klein-Tasman: “Adaptive Behavior in School Age Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Relations to Cognitive and Executive Functioning”
  • Mark McGarry working with A. Andrew Pacheco: “Optimizing the Cytochrome c Nitrite Reductase Assay”
  • Mark Poe working with Joe Swiggum:
  • Maxwell McHone working with Rachel Buff: “The Huk Rebellion: The Second World War and Intersectional Anti-Imperialism in the Philippines”
  • Me’Le’sa Greene working with Dyanna Czeck: “Cleavage refraction in the Chocolay Group Metasedimentary Rocks located in Marquette, Michigan”
  • Michael Esson working with Krista Lisdahl: “Aerobic Fitness and Cognitive Functioning In Adolescents and Young Adults”
  • Mirko Pavlovic working with Ionel Popa: “Mathematical modelling of the mechanical response of GFP inside protein hydrogels”
  • Mohammad Karzon working with Daad Safarini: “Elucidate the mechanisms used by the bacterium Shewanella oneidensis for aerobic and anaerobic respiration”
  • Nia Wilson working with Julie Kline: “Storytelling for Impact: Multimedia Communication in Latin American Studies”
  • Nikolaus Prusinski working with Dawn Erb: “Star Formation and Galactic Outflows in the Early Universe”
  • Omar Suarez Sacramento working with Marcus Britton: “Hospital Segregation and Patient Mortality Outcomes”
  • Paul Newcomb working with Rachel Buff: “Documenting Deportation”
  • Pilar Olvera working with Vicki Bott: “Learning about the MPS Graduate Experience at UWM: Focus Groups & Interviews Supporting M3 Initiative”
  • Rene Chavez working with Scott Schaefer: “Quantifying regionally-derived sedimentary rocks in Pleistocene Oak Creek Formation glacial till”
  • Ryan Majinski working with M Mahmun Hossain: “A Detailed Study of Acid Catalyzed Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds with Ethyl Diazoacetate”
  • Sam D’Amico working with Alan Schwabacher: “Synthesis of Peptide Bonding Molecules”
  • Sanjna Girdhar working with Ionel Popa: “A new protein construct to tag antibodies”
  • Sarah Haq working with Charles Wimpee: “Sequencing the Two Lux Operons of a Merodiploid Vibrio”
  • Sydni French working with Bonita Klein-Tasman: “Parent and Community Perspectives about the Feasibility of Willaims Syndrome Behavioral Play Therapy”
  • Tessa Miskimen working with Deborah Hannula: “Fear Conditioned Attentional Capture”
  • Tory Clearwater working with M Mahmun Hossain: “Reaction of Carbonyl Compounds with EDA Catalyzed by HBF4”
  • Travis Fichtenbauer working with Joe Swiggum: “Why Pulsars Die: Confirming and Characterizing the Behavior of 18 New ‘Nullers'”
  • Uchechi Nwosa working with Celeste Campos-Castillo: “The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Health and Health Care”
  • Valerie Rubalcava working with Dyanna Czeck: “A Microstructural Analysis of Metabasites from the Southern Iberian Shear Zone”
  • Victor Hoel working with Vicki Bott: “Learning about the MPS Graduate Experience at UWM: Focus Groups & Interviews Supporting M3 Initiative”
  • Yael Greenberg working with Rodney Swain: “An Investigation of the Role of the Cerebellum in Learning”

College of Nursing

  • Adrianna Smith working with Teresa Johnson:
  • Airielle Pritchett working with Jennifer Doering: “The Baby Box Research Study”
  • Augustine Rouamba working with Sandra Millon-Underwood:
  • Catherine Middleton working with Sandra Millon-Underwood: “Peers Empowering Peers (PEP) Diabetes Prevention and Self Management Program: Community-based Participatory Outreach Initiative”
  • Kim Phan working with Teresa Johnson: “Centering Pregnancy and impact on pregnancy, birth, and infant outcomes”
  • Luz Areli Contreras working with Heidi Luft: “Socioecological perspectives on sexual health and relationships among Latinx adolescents in the US”
  • MaryJo Kanelos working with Kaboni Gondwe: “Emotional responses and mother-infant interactions in mothers of preterm and full-term infants”
  • Miri Yoon working with Seok Hyun Gwon: “Association between publid health nurse workforce facdtors and health outcomes”
  • Razan Assad working with Sandra Millon-Underwood: “Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention: The Journey Begins with a Single Step”
  • Tolu Akande working with Teresa Johnson: “Impact of pre-pregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain on reproductive outcomes”

Zilber School of Public Health

  • Alana Schneider working with Linnea Laestadius: “Determining young adult perceptions of e-liquid marketing on Instagram”
  • Alexander Fairburn working with Linnea Laestadius: “Thematic analysis of e-liquid packaging”
  • Ashley Lopez working with Lance Weinhardt: “Research on transgender youth health and wellbeing”
  • Benjamin Grosskreuz working with Kourosh Ravvaz: “A study on the use of restaging transurethral resection of bladder for patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer”
  • Madeline Bruss working with Kourosh Ravvaz: “Disparities after transurethral resection of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer tumor”

Helen Bader School of Social Welfare

  • Brianna Suggs working with Melinda Kavanaugh: “Young caregivers in ALS : National assessment of caregiver programs and policies”