In the beginning of January, the Office of Undergraduate Research announced an additional 123 SURF Awards for the Spring Semester. Congratulations to the following student/faculty collaborators!

College of Engineering & Applied Science

Civil & Environmental Engineering

  • Professor Rani Elhajjar working with Samuel Sellner: “Effects of Wrinkle Defects in Aerospace Applications under Vibration”
  • Professor Rani Elhajjar working with Eileen Freres: “Shape Memory Polymers for Active Structural Control”
  • Professor Rani Elhajjar working with Jonathan Rizk: “Development of a Programmable Shaker for Energy-Harvesting Applications”

Electrical Engineering

  • Professor Chiu Law working with Nicholas Stellpflug: “Stress Sensors for Biomedical Applications”

Materials Science & Engineering

  • Professor Nidal Abu-Zahra working with Dylan Morris: “Functionalized Polyurethane Foam Filtration of Arsenic in Water”
  • Professor Benjamin Church working with Trista Bessey: ”Analysis of Liquid Film Migration in Aluminum Brazing Sheet Alloys”
  • Professor Pradeep Rohatgi working with Kyle Brown: ”Surface Alloying and Compositing During Manufacturing of Components for Improving the Corrosion Resistance of Water Industry Components”
  • Professor Pradeep Rohatgi working with Ahmad Elsharef: ”Design, Synthesize, and Characterization of Metal Matrix Micro and Nanocomposites”
  • Professor Pradeep Rohatgi working with Sebastian Olaciregui: ”Design, Synthesize, and Characterization of Metal Matrix Micro and Nanocomposites”
  • Professor Pradeep Rohatgi working with Isaac Repinski: ”Surface Alloying and Compositing During Manufacturing of Components for Improving the Corrosion Resistance of Water Industry Components”

Mechanical Engineering

    • Professor Ryo Amano working with Nicholas DiPasquale: ”Experimental Investigation of Micro Hydro Turbine”
    • Professor Ryo Amano working with Thomas Larson: ”Solid Rocket Booster Chamber Design and Scaled Model Testing”
    • Professor Ryo Amano working with Caleb Rozema: ”Experimental Investigation of Hydroturbine”
    • Professor Robert Balmer working with Ryan Wurm-Tran: ”Electrostatic Generation in Dielectric Fluids – The Viscoelectric Effect”
    • Professor Andrew Dressel working with Sidney Brod: “Bicycle Tire Testing”
    • Professor Andrew Dressel working with Nathan Manning: “Bicycle Tire Testing”
    • Professor Andrew Dressel working with Benjamin Overeem: “Bicycle Tire Testing”
    • Professor Andrew Dressel working with Jacob Tretow: “Bicycle Tire Testing”
    • Professor Krishna Pillai working with Salvador Arroyo: ”Investigating Unsaturated Flow in Dual-Scale Fabrics during Mold-Filling in Resin Transfer Molding”
    • Professor Nathan Salowitz working with Ameralys Correa: ”Integration of Self-Healing Materials and Structural Health Monitoring”
    • Professor Nathan Salowitz working with Trishika Santebennur: “Ultrasonic Damage Detection in Thin Plates and Self-Healing Samples”
    • Professor Yongjin Sung working with Anthony Schaeve: “Development of a Flow System for High-Throughput 3-D Imaging Flow Cytometry”

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College of Health Sciences

Biomedical Sciences

  • Professor Wail Hassan working with Brandon Schmidt: ”AIRAP and AIRAPL Protection Against Abeta Toxicity in Mammalian Neuronal Cells”
  • Professor Wail Hassan working with Marwat Salamin: ”The Effect of Amyloid Beta on Mitochondrial Morphology in Neuronal Cells”
  • Professor Dean Nardelli working with Bushra Fathima: “Identification of Borrelia burgdorferi in the Brains of Regulatory T Cell Depleted Mice”

Communication Sciences & Disorders

  • Professor John Heilmann working with Ala Abdeljaber: ”Experiences of Children and Parents at the Children’s Museum”
  • Professor 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”

Kinesiology

  • Professor Wendy Huddleston working with Alex Swanson: ”Cortical Correlates to Lower Limb Movement Variability”

Occupational Science & Technology

    • Professor Brooke Slavens working with Briana Magruder: ”Pre-Operative Versus Post-Operative Muscle Activation of the Biceps Following Rotator Cuff Repair”
    • Professor Roger Smith working with Cullen Schuh: ”Reliability and Validity Testing of the ARB Suite of Apps”

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College of Letters & Science

Anthropology

  • Professor Patricia Richards working with Kylee Radulovich: ”Stabilization and Analysis of the Human Skeletal Collection Excavated in 1991 and 1992 from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery”

Art History

  • Professor Derek Counts working with Kayla Olson: ”3D Models and Archaeological Publication in a Digital Age: The Malloura eCatalogue”

Biological Sciences

  • Professor Gyaneshwar Prasad working with Zachary Hying: ”Effects of Chemotaxis and Plant Hormone Production on Rhizobial Growth Promotion of Cereal Grains”
  • Professor Daad Saffarini working with Anna Hackl: ”Development of a Genetic System for DNA Transfer into Aeromonas Hydrophila”
  • Professor Charles Wimpee working with Emily Watton: ”Diversity of Sediment Vibrios in Boca Ciega Bay, Florida”
  • Professor Erica Young working with Adrienne Skillman: ”Regulation of Chitinase Activity in Pitcher Plant Microbial Ecosystems”
  • Professor Dazhong Zhao working with James Mahr: ”Determine the Function of Auxin Signaling in Cell Fate Determination”

Chemistry & Biochemistry

  • Professor Joseph Aldstadt working with John Schneider: ”Study of the Maillard Reaction by Sequential Injection-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy”
  • Professor Joseph Aldstadt working with Timothy Trinklein: ”Development of Analytical Methods for Measuring Phosphorous Compounds in Soil”
  • Professor Alexander Arnold working with Alessandra Ebben: ”Synthesis of Calcitroic Acid Analogs”
  • Professor Alexander Arnold working with Viktoriia Senych: ”Cell-Based Analysis of Calcitroic Acid”
  • Professor Mark Dietz working with Victoria Mandella: ”Hydrophobic Deep-Melting Eutectics: Novel “Green” Solvents for the Removal of Toxic Substances from Aqueous Solution”
  • Professor Mahmun Hossain working with Ryan Majinski: ”Development of New Analgesic Drugs”
  • Professor Mahmun Hossain working with Adam Aleiou: ”Synthesis of Diketopiperazine and its Analogs”
  • Professor Mahmun Hossain working with Moran Langereis: ”Development of New Analgesic Drugs”
  • Professor Xiaohua Peng working with Justin Grahl: ”The Pharmacokinetics and in Vivo Efficacy of ROS-Activated Anticancer Prodrugs”
  • Professor Xiaohua Peng working with Nick Williams: ”The Pharmacokinetics and in Vivo Efficacy of ROS-Activated Anticancer Prodrugs”

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Communication

  • Professor Erin Parcell working with Westly Klasen: ”Primary Project”

Economics

  • Professor Itziar Lazkano working with Kelli Zeleski: ”Green Innovation in the Electricity Sector”

English

  • Professor Vicki Bott working with Taylor Hagenbucher: “A Student’s Guide to Revising”
  • Professor Vicki Bott working with Grace Portz: Developing and Publishing “A Student’s Guide to Revising”
  • Professor Vicki Bott working with Sarah Weiss: “A Student’s Guide to Revising”
  • Professor Shevaun Watson with Madeline Boland: “English Composition Curricular Alignment MPS to UWM”
  • Professor Shevaun Watson with Victor Hoel: “English Composition Curricular Alignment MPS to UWM”
  • Professor Shevaun Watson with Kaitlin Trokan: “English Composition Curricular Alignment MPS to UWM”

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Foreign Languages and Literature

  • Professor Aragorn Quinn working with Samuel Bowden: ”Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan”

Geography

  • Professor Mark Schwartz working with Jared Kuschewski: ”Phenological Observations in Downer Woods”

Geosciences

  • Professor Margaret Fraiser working with Lydia Albright: ”Bivalve Taxonomy and Paleoecology Following the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction
  • Professor Margaret Fraiser working with Caige Tubic: ”Impact of Global Warming and Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs”
  • Professor John Isbell working with Natalie McNall: ”Characterization of Magnetic and Micromorphologic Signatures in Seismically Disturbed Sediment and Sedimentary Rocks”
  • Professor Lindsay McHenry working with Jordan Ludyan: ”Hydrothermal Alteration at Terminal Geyser: Implications for Mars”

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History

  • Professor Christine Evans with Ravil Ashirov: “Symbolic State-Building in Contemporary Russia: The Priamaia Liniia Broadcasts”
  • Professor Christine Evans with Abigail Hollman: “Via Satellite: Transnational Infrastructures in European Television History”
  • Professor Robert Smith with Hanna Fowler: “Racial & Ethnic Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System: How Digital Technology is Expanding the Carceral State”
  • Professor Chia Vang with Tujntsuj Yang: “Exile, Identity Formation, and Placemaking: The Hmong Refugee Experiment in French Guiana, 1977-2015”

Physics

  • Professor Sarah Patch working with Robert Lindert: ”Thermoacoustic Range Verification Stoichiometric and Monte Carlo Modeling”
  • Professor Ionel Popa working with Nicholas De Leo: ”Temperature Control System for Force Clamp Hydrogel Tester”
  • Professor Ionel Popa working with Olivia Gloria: ”Engineering Protein Constructs for Force Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Measurements”
  • Professor Ionel Popa working with Gevork Seifert: ”Antibody Purification Using Protein Hydrogels”
  • Professor Ionel Popa working with Kirill Shmilovich: ”Measuring the Response of Protein Hydrogels to Force”

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Psychology

    • Professor Raymond Fleming working with Joe Bowes: ”Self Affirmation on Emotion”
    • Professor Raymond Fleming working with Courtney Nachreiner: “Effect of Self-Affirmation on Emotion and Cardiovascular Response Study”
    • Professor Raymond Fleming working with Kelvin Olin: “Effect of Self-Affirmation on Emotion and Cardiovascular Response Study”
    • Professor Adam Greenberg working with Richard Dubbelde: ”Proportional Context of Distracters alters Top-Down Sets during Contingent Attention Capture”
    • Professor Tiffany Kodak working with Gabriella Van Den Elzen: ”Evaluating Instructional Strategies That May Lead to Additional Learning”
    • Professor Tiffany Kodak working with Raven Wood: “An Evaluation of Caregiver Preference for Prompting Procedures”
    • Professor Christine Larson working with Madeline Kallenbach: “Cognitive Control and Emotion”
    • Professor Krista Lisdahl working with Sarah Lehman: ”Effects of Marijuana on Cognitive Function”
    • Professor Krista Lisdahl working with Angelina Lochner: ”Association Between Ecstasy (MDMA) Use and White Matter Density in Adolescents Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging”
    • Professor Marcelius Merritt working with Michael DeLaet: ”Stress & Cardiovascular Health”
    • Professor James Moyer working with Wesley Cruz: ”Activity-Dependent Protein Degradation and Age-Related Memory Impairment”
    • Professor James Moyer working with Kathleen Feldmann: ”Transcriptional Analysis of Cytokine Behavior After Administration of Apoaequorin”
    • Professor Jeffrey Tiger working with Michelle Kondrat: ”Tiger Behavior Analysis Research Laboratory”

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College of Nursing

    • Professor Jennifer Kibicho working with Sammie Omranian: ”Wisconsin Perinatal Psychiatric Consultation Program (PPCP)”

 

Helen Bader School of Social Welfare

Criminal Justice

  • Professor Tina Freiburger working with Karin Barnes: ”Mental Health First Aider Training for Transitional-Aged Youth”

Social Work

    • Professor Joan Blakely working with Melanie Eichelberger: “Play It Safe! ™: Childhood Sexual & Physical Abuse Prevention Program”
    • Professor Joan Blakely working with Frank Lewis: “The Affects of Trauma on Chid Welfare Involved Mothers’ Parenting”
    • Professor Joan Blakely working with Antonia Vann: “Prostitution and Sex Trafficking among Women in Milwaukee”
    • Professor Joshua Mersky working with Sarah Groh: “Smart Scale Up II: Promoting Family Engagement, Health and Mental Health”
    • Professor James Topitzes working with Jennifer Venancio: “Smart Scale Up: Expanding Home Visiting with Fidelity”

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Peck School of the Arts

Art & Design

  • Professor Raoul Deal working with German Gomez: ”Ni De Aqui, Ni De Alla (UMOS Mural Project)”
  • Professor Raoul Deal working with Trey Savage: ”Ni De Aqui, Ni De Alla (UMOS Mural Project)”
  • Professor Jessica Meuninck-Ganger working with Madison Tebo: ”Documenting Milwaukee Through Papercraft Traditions”
  • Professor Nathaniel Stern working with Nicole Langenfeld: ”Top Troll”
  • Professor Nathaniel Stern working with Charles Mathis: ”Top Troll”

Dance

  • Professor Simone Ferro working with Chelsey Becher: ”Washington Park Embodied Eviction”
  • Professor Simone Ferro working with Carly Broutman: ”Washington Park Embodied Eviction”
  • Professor Maria Gillespie working with Nicole Langenfeld: ”Migration of Invisible Narratives – Continuous Bodies & Translated Stories in Dance and New Media Installation”
  • Professor Maria Gillespie working with Emily Bartsch: ”Migration of Invisible Narratives – Continuous Bodies & Translated Stories in Dance and New Media Installation”
  • Professor Maria Gillespie working with Kayla Flentje: ”Migration of Invisible Narratives – Continuous Bodies & Translated Stories in Dance and New Media Installation”
  • Professor Maria Gillespie working with Chanteé Kelly: ”Migration of Invisible Narratives – Continuous Bodies & Translated Stories in Dance and New Media Installation”
  • Professor Maria Gillespie working with Countess Valenza: ”Migration of Invisible Narratives – Continuous Bodies & Translated Stories in Dance and New Media Installation”

Film, Video Animation, & New Genres

  • Professor Jennifer Plevin working with Gabriella Cisneros: ”UWM Documentary Film Projects: Transforming Justice”
  • Professor Jennifer Plevin working with Erin Homuth: ”UWM Documentary Film Projects: Connecting Communities/ Healthy Neighborhoods Arts Initiative”
  • Professor Jennifer Plevin working with Chelsea Merrow: ”UWM Documentary Film Projects: Transforming Justice”
  • Professor Jennifer Plevin working with John Ward: ”UWM documentary film projects: Connecting Communities/ Healthy Neighborhoods Arts Initiative”

Music

  • Professor Tanya Kruse Ruck working with Katelyn Gruell: ”The Inclusion of Ccm and Music Theatre Singing Styles in the Nation’s Young Artist Programs: a Study of Repertoire, Practices, and Longitudinal Analysis”

Theater

    • Professor Alvaro Rios working with Audra Cashman: “Songs for New Student Works”

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School of Architecture & Urban Planning

    • Professor Mark Keane working with Ryan Rufer: “www.NEXT.cc – On-Line Eco-Design Curriculum”
    • Professor Whitney Moon working with Trevor Georgeson: “The World’s Most Flexible Inflatable”
    • Professor Arijit Sen working with Mia Krantz: ”Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School”
    • Professor Arijit Sen working with Esmé Barniskis: ”Flatlands and the Purposeful Construction of Empty Urban Spaces”

 

School of Education

Educational Policy & Community Studies

    • Professor Gary Williams working with Carl Greer: ”Teacher Efficacy Effects On Students”

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School of Freshwater Sciences

    • Professor Tim Grundl working with Jane Pfeiffer: ”Water Quality Analyses of Wells and Rivers in Waukesha and Milwaukee County Area”
    • Professor Tim Grundl working with Detaya Johnson: ”Groundwater Modeling Project”
    • Professor Rebecca Klaper working with Angela Beling: ”Biomarkers of Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (Pah) in Zebra Mussels”
    • Professors Marcia Silva and David Garman working with Alexander Cleaveland: ”Evaluation of Novel Macroporous Materials for the Removal of Model Organic Pollutants from Water”
    • Professors Marcia Silva and David Garman working with Joseph Corrao: ”Evaluation of Methods for Tayloring the Silica Cage of Natural Porous Materials”
    • Professors Marcia Silva and David Garman working with Alice Lecus: ”Novel Macroporous Materials for the Removal of PCBs and PCPPs from Water”
    • Professors Marcia Silva and David Garman working with Hayley Ruch: ”Evaluation of Occurrence, Distribution and Rate of Biofilm Growth on the Surface of Novel Porous Materials”
    • Professors Rudi Strickler, Marcia Silva, and T Hansen working with Michael Ballo: ”Digital In-Line Holographic Microscopy and E. Coli Detection”
    • Professors Rudi Strickler, Marcia Silva, and T Hansen working with Shawn Strong: ”Digital In-Line Holographic Microscopy and E. Coli Detection”

 

School of Information Studies

Information Science & Technology

  • Professor Michael Zimmer working with Jenna Willoughby: “The Zuckerberg Files”

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