In September 2022, The Office of Undergraduate Research announced 210 SURF Awards for Fall. Congratulations to all!

School of Architecture & Urban Planning

  • Kaylee Bertrand and Jessica Dray working with James Wasley: “Creating In-Depth Case Studies of Green Building Data-Base Projects Visited in Germany, Spring 2022”
  • Alana Dunne, Evan Johnson, Sarah Lunow, and Nathan Magee working with Lindsey Krug: “Supreme Privacy: The Architecture of Landmark Supreme Court Privacy Cases”
  • Marina Fabela, Andrea Garcia-Range, Andrea Fernanda Mendoza Juarez, Alicia Kandall and Megan Schulte working with Chelsea Wait: “DEBI Goes to Design School: Building a Resource to Sustain Underrepresented Students in Architecture with Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion”
  • Liam Farin and Hidayah Osman working with Arijit Sen: “Cherry Street Community Garden Collaborative Ethnography Project: 2022-23 Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School”
  • Sarah Lunow working with Mark Keane: “K-12 Design Education www.NEXT.cc”
  • Jacob Rohan working with Radu Remus Macovei: “Archaic and Vernacular Wood Technologies: Sculptural Opportunities with Mass Timber”
  • Tannis Thompson-Catlett working with Arijit Sen: “Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School: Milwaukee Food Access Case Studies Project”
  • Andrew Tillman and Adam Uy working with Samantha Schuermann: “Architectural Activism Fellowship Research”

Peck School of the Arts

  • Philipe Amorim Figueredo De Melo working with Portia Cobb: “Voices of Gun Violence (VOV) Archive”
  • Laura Bogyay, Tatiana Cordova, Allison Getty, Jack Lehtinen and Madison Sveum working with Nathaniel Stern: “Mother Computer: Thinking with Natural and Artificial Intelligences”
  • Kelsei Cecil and Mackenzie Savin working with Sean Kafer: “Unity, Progress, and Activism in Milwaukee’s Urban Neighborhoods”
  • Karissa Demotto and Beth Lemerand working with Jessica Meuninck Ganger: “Confluence: A Junction of Collaboration, Care, and Connection”
  • Zoe Garnett, Kalista Rolling, Libby Steckmesser and Kira Straub working with Maria Gillespie: “Parts of the Whole – Kinesthetic Education as Transformative Justice”
  • Mara Grigg working with Alvaro Rios: “Season Dramaturgy Support”
  • Marie Helser working with Ralph Janes: “Comparative Study of Pre- and Post-Pandemic Conditions of Accessibility in the Performing Arts in USA and UK”
  • Samuel Holte working with Sean Kafer: “The Early History of Brady Street”
  • Jack Kannenberg working with Stephen White: “Automation in Entertainment & Theatrical Settings”
  • Isabella Knutsen, Kira Straub and Kathrine Wade working with Glenn Williams: “The Poetics of Materials”
  • Michal Schwab working with Yevgeniya Kaganovich: “Divergent Fates”
  • Troy Yilmaz working with Sean Kafer: “A History of Violence: The Story of Shawn Page”

Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business

  • Miguel Garcia working with John Huck: “Quantitative Financial Analysis”

College of Engineering & Applied Science

  • David Adashek and Ethan Barry working with Ryoichi Amano: “Energy Resource Recovery”
  • Hazar Amer working with Priyatha Premnath: “Shadowing Senior Students and Learning Basics of Our Lab”
  • Mickey Authement working with Robert Cuzner: “Functional Requirements Based Model Input to Virtual Prototyping Process for Power Electronics based Power Distribution System”
  • Owen Bellevage working with Xiaoli Ma: “Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoporous Materials for Water Purification”
  • Thomas Brefka working with Benjamin Church: “Kinetics of Spheroidization in 1076 Eutectoid Steels”
  • Christopher Broms working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Study of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Alloy- Graphene Metal Matrix Composites”
  • Dante Brown working with Yongjin Sung: “Microplastic Classification Using Near-Infrared Microscopy”
  • Tobias Buckmaster working with Krishna Pillai: “Making and Testing of Low-Cost Filter Cartridges for the Removal of Arsenic from Water”
  • Samuel Cappon working with John Boyland: “Rationals for SASyLF”
  • Euxhena Cina working with Chiu Law: “Electric Field Sensing with Cellulose Nanocrystal Composite”
  • Haley Collins and Lisa Collins working with Lingfeng Wang: “Metaverse and Digital Twins for Electrical Energy Systems”
  • Morgan Connaughton working with Mahsa Dabagh: “Developing Cell Models to Study Cancer Cell Interactions with Neighboring Cells”
  • Samia El-Meanawy working with Nidal Abu-Zahra: “Atomistic-Scale Investigation of Cation Transport for Selective Lithium Extraction From Desalination Brines”
  • Dylan Endries working with Krishna Pillai: “Developing a Next-Generation Prototype Device to Dispense Volatile Substances to Room Air”
  • Jinwei Fang working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Manufacturing Metal Matrix Composites”
  • Alex Hillmer working with Nikolai Kouklin: “Investigation of Opto-Electronic Response of Zn-O-P Films Grown by Wet-Chemical Routes for Future UV-Light Emission Applications”
  • Rosalba Huerta working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Study of Self-healing Metal Matrix Composites”
  • Abdullah Mohammed Ali Jandal working with Ryoichi Amano: “Industrial Energy Assessment Program”
  • Seth Krebs working with Woo Jin Chang: “Portable Water Quality Monitoring”
  • Seth Krebs working with Priyatha Premnath: “UC2288 Improves Osteogenic Capacity of Murine MSCs”
  • Kelly McElvain working with Mahsa Dabagh: “Identifying Growing From Stable Aneurysms”
  • Mikayla McWilliams working with Priyatha Premnath: “Mechanical Properties of Healing Callus”
  • Caitlynn Owens working with Jacob Rammer: “Laboratory Assessment of Community Mobility Data Acquisition Technology”
  • William Peters working with Nathan Salowitz: “Analysis of NiTi-BiSn Interfacial Strength for the Design of Self Healing Materials”
  • Jordan Piontkowski working with Krishna Pillai: “Exploring Thermal and Ultrasound Methods to Enhance Liquid Imbibition and Evaporation in Wicks”
  • Julie Sandria working with Priyatha Premnath: “Double Walled Microparticle to Improve Bone Healing”
  • Humza Siddiqi working with Priyatha Premnath: “UC2288 Increases Bone Formation in Vivo”
  • Nathanael Sovitzky working with Mahsa Dabagh: “Cancer Cell Modeling”
  • Katelyn Sprandel working with Parham Mobadersani: “Fabrication of Coated-Sand Based and 3D-Printed Filter Cartridges Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water”
  • Tyler Swenson working with Chiu Law: “Magnetic Field Sensing with Cellulose Nanocrystal Composite”
  • Vedant Tewari working with Xuefeng Bao: “Domain Knowledge-Based Deep Learning Architecture for Key Muscles Detection From Ultrasound Images”
  • Nou Thao working with Priyatha Premnath: “UC2288 Increases Chondrogenesis in Vivo”
  • Abhi Roop Reddy Tokala working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Study of Properties and Applications of Aluminum Cerium Alloys”
  • Jenna Van Hoogstraten working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Microstructure, Wetting Angle, and Corrosion Resistance of Aluminum-Cerium Alloys”
  • James Veltri working with Junjie Niu: “Synthesis and Characterization of Anode Materials in Lithium Ion Batteries”

School of Education

  • Pilar Garcia Clavel, Kintressa Gosz and Alondra Mercado working with Margaret Bartlett: “Inclusive Early Childhood Education: All Teachers for All Children”
  • Braden Graham working with Jacqueline Nguyen: “Social Transitions in College Study”
  • Margrete Henderson and Maria Jensen working with Christopher Lawson: “Can’t Trust This?: Understanding People’s Faith in Research”
  • Madison Parola and Javier Perez working with Dante Salto: “Crossing Borders to Connect Routes: Researching With Educational Communities to Promote Equity and Fight Racism Towards Immigrants in a Post-Pandemic World”

School of Freshwater Science

  • Lee Behm working with Michael Carvan: “Prevention of Lead-Induced Neurodevelopmental Deficits”
  • Sean Gibbs working with Laodong Guo: “Photochemical Weathering of Microplastics/Microfibers in Freshwater Environments”
  • Kevin Hicks working with Marcia Silva: “Developing and Testing a Sensor for Detection of Phosphate in Water”
  • Kyunghyun Lee working with Marcia Silva: “Characterization of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Water”
  • Ryan ODay working with Marcia Silva: “Non-invasive Detection of Thin Biofilms in Pipes”
  • Daniel Sherman working with Dong Fang Deng: “Optimize Feed Management and Culture Condition for Walleye Juvenile”

College of General Studies

  • Helen Bishara working with Phillip Owens: “Characterization of Biogenic Photonic Crystals in Cichlid Fish Epidermis”

College of Health Sciences

  • Avery Bayer, Cloe Belongia, Julia Egly and Brooke Karpinske working with Scott Strath: “Free Living Activity Calibration”
  • Jena Burton and Mackenzie Scheibel working with Sabine Heuer: “Image Naming in Older Adults”
  • Adriana Castillo and Gracie Williams working with Shelley Lund: “Perspectives on Culturally Sustaining Practices for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication”
  • Alexzander Fiebig working with Troy Skwor: “The Use of Metalloporphyrins to Disrupt Biofilms”
  • Teagan Graber and Chloe Oberman working with Barbara Pauloski: “Impact of Progressive Tongue Strengthening Exercise on Submental Muscles”
  • Greta Huber working with Bhagwant Sindhu: “Mental Health and Wellbeing of Workers Providing Emergency Care Services”
  • Alyssa Huguet working with Bhagwant Sindhu: “Using Mindfulness Practice for Improving Surgical Outcomes Among Individuals Experiencing Rotator Cuff Tears”
  • Jaskirat Sidhu working with Jing Yang: “Non-Native Speech Perception in Adverse Conditions”

College of Letters & Science

  • Manar Saeed Al Darweesh working with Sarah Riforgiate: “Student Experience Interviews And Related Research”
  • Hailey Beaty working with Karyn Frick: “The Role Aromatase Activity in a Mouse Model of Object Memory Formation”
  • Halle Berres working with Han Joo Lee: “Error-Related Negativity in Flanker Task Performance among Those with Different Types of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms”
  • Saisha Birr, Adam Bristol and Jessica Kania working with Caitlin Bowman: “Strategies for Learning and Representing Categories in Older Age”
  • Emily Braun working with Shannon Freire: “Milwaukee Country Poor Farm Cemetery Project”
  • Amanda Brehmer working with Krista Lisdahl: “The Amygdala Response to Appetitive Face Stimuli: Investigation between Cannabis-Using and Non-using Adolescents and Young Adults”
  • Kimberly Carver and Delaney DeLeske working with Sara Pashak: “Supreme Court Justices’ Appearances and Legitimacy”
  • Brenden Chasteen working with Jorg Woehl: “Corral Trapping of Nanoparticles and Molecules: Theory and Experiment”
  • Jena Choi working with Charles Paradis: “Quantifying Iodide Tracer in Variably Saturated Soils and Sediments”
  • Mariana Colorado working with James Moyer: “Using Fluorescent Retrobeads to Carry Out Circuit-Specific Analyses of Neuronal Activity”
  • Sage DeLong working with Rafael Rodriguez Sevilla: “Mating Behavior in Red Milkweed Beetles, Tetraopes tetrophthalmus (Coleoptera: Cerambicydae)”
  • John Folena working with Martin Dangelmayr: “Zeolite Enhanced Removal of Phosphate From Cheese Waste Effluent”
  • Max Garcia working with Victoria Mccoy: “An Experimental Investigation of the Morphological Changes in Insect Damage on Leaves During Decay”
  • Alejandra Gonzalez working with Rachel Bloom-Pojar: “Cuentos de Confianza: A Public Humanities Project with Promotores de Salud”
  • Jack Grummer and Ryan Zhao working with Min Gyu Kim: “Identification of Crystal and Magnetic Structure of Quantum Magnets”
  • Maribel Guarin, Roshani Patel and Sania Tariq working with Lia Wolock: “Imagining South Asian America: Media Activism, Immigration, and Race in the Digital Age”
  • Fridarose Hamad working with Celeste Campos-Castillo: “Milwaukee Youth Wellness Initiative on Technology”
  • Lillian Hassan-Thomas working with Adam Greenberg: “Behavioral Markers of Cognitive Decline Associated with Chemotherapy”
  • Lilly Herbst working with Ionel Popa: “Measuring Mechanical Unfolding of Proteins with Fluorescent Markers”
  • Melkisedec Hernandez working with Erin Parcell: “Voices of Gun Violence”
  • Gabrielle Hildebrand working with Deborah Hannula: “Effects of Residual Arousal and Cognitive Appraisal on Psychophysiological Reactivity to Stress”
  • Breckyn Hockers working with Dazhong Zhao: “Investigating Expression Regulation of the FOC Gene by Auxin Response Factors”
  • Kristin Huelsbeck working with John Berges: “Feeding in the Invasive Crustacean, Hemimysis anomala: Do They Eat Their Vegetables?”
  • Kate Jakubowski working with Amanda Seligman: “Educating Genius”
  • Zinta Jauntirans Vogel working with Anne Basting: “Wonderment: Creating Invitations to Everyday Wonder”
  • Chantel Jenrette working with Victoria Mccoy: “Investigating the Ecological Role of Body Shape in Bony Fishes”
  • Annika Johnson and Kalkidan Johnson working with Ermitte Saint Jacques: “Living for the City: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee”
  • Tara Johnson working with Julie Bowles: “Understanding Late Paleozoic Glacial Deposits in the Ansilta Formation, Argentina”
  • Eleanor Johnston and Elise Klein working with Christine Larson: “Neurobiological Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”
  • Sadee Kidd working with Christian Young: “Establishing Pipeline Stages to Promote Urban Ecology Center Establishment in Candidate Cities”
  • Molly Kiley working with Alexander Arnold: “Evaluation of New Compounds in Respect to Cytotoxicity and TSLP Reduction”
  • Isabella Lemieux working with Joseph Walzer: “Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee”
  • Xiayou Lowery working with John Berges: “Ingestions of Microplastics by the Invasive Crustacean”
  • Noor Mahmoud and Pilar Sharp working with Joseph Walzer: “Wisconsin Community Activism Now! Archive Project”
  • Bo Malames working with Krista Lisdahl: “Association between Neighborhood Safety, School Affiliation and Academic Achievement in Youth Enrolled in the ABCD Study”
  • Suha Malik working with Ionel Popa: “Engineering Protein Constructs for Single Molecule Measurements”
  • Ahmad Masoud working with Alexander Arnold: “Large Scale Synthesis of PI301 and PI560”
  • Karl Mattern working with James Moyer: “Neurobiological Analyses of the Role of Calcium Binding Proteins in Neuroprotection”
  • Elaina Milkie working with Karyn Frick: “Establish a Role for Proteasome Activity in 17beta-Estradiol Induced Facilitation Spatial and Object Recognition Memory Consolidation in Female Mice”
  • Mikaela Miller and Isabelle Wilson working with Bonita Klein-Tasman: “Neural Underpinnings of Attention in Children”
  • Benjamin Mueller working with Rafael Rodriguez Sevilla: “Problem Solving in Pholcus phalangioides Cellar Spiders (Aranea: Pholcidae)”
  • Mitchell Murphy and Holden Skeels working with Paru Shah: “COVID, CRT, and Wisconsin School Board Elections”
  • Gianna Noffsinger working with Rafael Rodriguez Sevilla: “Male Signal Repertoire in Enchenopa treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae)”
  • Ariel Noriega Rodriguez working with Rafael Rodriguez Sevilla: “Explaining Prolonged Copulations in Enchenopa treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae)”
  • Kimberly Osborn working with Nicholas Silvaggi: “Cloning, Expression, Purification, and Crystallization of a Putative from N-acetyltransferase from Streptomyces caelestis”
  • Jatin Pandey and Alexis Peterson working with Xiaohua Peng: “Novel Combination Strategies for Tumor-Selective Activation of ROS-Activated DNA Cross-Linking Agents”
  • Adrian Ralser working with Dyanna Czeck: “Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility across a Small-Scale Shear Zone, Southern Iberian Shear Zone”
  • Kaitlyn Rhyner working with Erica Young: “Host Nectar Effects on Pitcher Plant Microbial Communities”
  • Madeline Rickert working with Mark Dietz: “Evaluation of an Eco-Friendly Solvent for the Extraction and Recovery of Toxic Dyestuffs from Wastewater”
  • Alexander Riddell working with Jennifer Gutzman: “Targeting jun and jun Enhancer Sequences for CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Disruption in Larval Zebrafish”
  • Jacqueline Rizzo working with Krista Lisdahl: “Associations between Sleep and Mental Health on Neurocognition Amongst Adolescents”
  • Brandon Roberts working with Lindsay McHenry: “Source-To-Sink Grain Size Analysis of Mars Analogous Sediment from East Africa”
  • Preston Ruh working with Hanyong Park: “Foreign Accent in Consonant Clusters – Part 2”
  • Richard Rush working with Jeffrey Karron: “3D Visualization of Pollen Layering on Stigmas in Buzz-pollinated Primula meadia”
  • Erin Sankey working with Ora John Reuter: “The Politics of Passivity: Political Apathy and the Survival of Authoritarian Regimes”
  • Gavin Sayrs working with Chao Zhu: “On the Development and Application of Mathematical Model for Food Pantries Inventory Management”
  • Cole Schmidt working with Barry Cameron: “Glaciovolcanism in Northeast Iceland: The Volatile Content of Glasses from Three Tuyas”
  • Kaiden Schmidt working with Jeb Willenbring: “Identifying Communities in Academic Assessment Data”
  • Sommer Schneider working with Jennifer Gutzman: “Identification of Non-muscle Myosin Double Mutant Phenotypes in Zebrafish Embryos”
  • Julie Schneider working with Dyanna Czeck: “Microscopic Mineral Band Orientations in Metasedimentary Rocks along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone”
  • Alexis Schnitzler working with Karyn Frick: “Behavioral and Molecular Characterization of G-Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor (GPER) in In Spatial and Recognition Memory in Gonadectomized Young Male Mice”
  • John Sengstock working with Tami Williams: “Media Archive Activism: Collecting, Preserving and Exhibiting Historical and Amateur Films for Cultural Preservation and Transformation”
  • Chloe Skinner and Harleen Tewatia working with Alita Burmeister: “Bacteria, Phage, and the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance”
  • Anna Sniadach working with Barry Cameron: “Glaciovolcanism in Northeast Iceland: Major Element Chemistry of Three Tuyas”
  • Quinn Stephens working with Jean Creighton: “Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of the Universe”
  • Sarah Swartwout working with Alexander Arnold: “Synthesis of Novel Ligands for the Translocator Protein TSPO”
  • Vedant Tewari working with Dexuan Xie: “A New Machine Learning Algorithm for Improving Image Classification Accuracy”
  • Riley Thomas working with Charles Paradis: “Residual Road Salt in Near Surface Soils”
  • Sean Weaver working with Glenn Starr: “L2 Learner Receptivity to Scalar Boundedness in Implicature Processing”
  • Madeline Woller working with Barry Cameron: “Chemistry of Glaciovolcanic Deposits at North Sister Volcano, Oregon”
  • Emma Xiong working with Jennifer Gutzman: “Analysis of Biomechanical Stresses during Zebrafish Brain Morphogenesis”
  • Kisang Yoo working with Krista Lisdahl: “Links between Screen Time and Visual Attention in Youth Enrolled in the ABCD Study”
  • Kacper Zaprzalka working with Jonathan Kahl: “Wind Gust Forecasting Using Mixdown Altitudes”

College of Nursing

  • Carlesha Done working with Sandra Millon-Underwood: “Community-Engaged COVID-19 Awareness, Understanding, Survivor Support and Empowerment Project”
  • Khetam Musleh working with Murad Taani: “Achieving Better Lung Health”
  • Brie Noffsinger working with Joshua Gwon: “E-Cigarette Cessation for Young Adults”
  • Anne Ravanelli working with Anne Dressel: “Clean Air Policies for Milwaukee Child Cares”

Zilber School of Public Health

  • Dre Bishop working with Linnea Laestadius: “COVID and Long COVID Experiences and Communication”
  • Nicole Carlson and Colleen Lemke working with Ellen Velie: “Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Self-Reported Childhood Body Size”

Helen Bader School of Social Welfare

  • Riley Lumpkin working with Jane Hereth: “Using the Life History Calendar to Examine Young Transgender Women’s Trajectories of Violence, Mental Health, and Protective Processes”