In December, 2022 the Office of Undergraduate Research announced 100 SURF Awards for the Spring Semester. 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”
- John Cerny, Haren Patel and Payton Quesea working with Mania Taher: “New Immigrant Place-Making Within the Midwest American Built Landscape”
- Marina Fabela, Andrea Garcia-Rangel and Alicia Kandall working with Chelsea Wait: “DEBI Goes to Design School: Building a Resource to Sustain Underrepresented Students in Architecture with Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion”
- Andrew Tillman and Adam Uy working with Samantha Schuermann: “Architectural Activism Fellowship Research”
- Angel Xavier working with Yaidi Cancel Martinez: “Adequately Housed? Characteristics of Rental Housing for People with Disabilities: A Mixed Methods Study”
Peck School of the Arts
- Madeline Cawkins working with Joseph Mougel: “Paleosolotype: Imaging Soil through Chromatography”
- Majid Moosa Abdulla Al Afifi working with Sean Kafer: “The Brady Street Neighborhood Historical Project”
- Jack Westerlund working with Portia Cobb: “Voices of Gun Violence Archive”
Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business
- Leyla Sutton working with Scott Schanke: “AI Agent Anthropomorphism and Sensitive Information Disclosure”
College of Engineering & Applied Science
- Nemanja Asanin working with Chanyeop Park: “Dual Active Bridge Converter for All-Electric Aircraft”
- Rachel Clark working with Xiaoli Ma: “Permeation Characteristics of Covalent Organic Framework Nanofiltration Membranes”
- Braden Dickas working with Yin Wang: “Interaction between Minerals and Per- And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances”
- Nicholas Gilhaus working with William Musinski: “Prediction of Residual Stresses in Additively Manufactured Materials”
- Jessica Heraly working with Qingsu Cheng: “In vitro Culture of Patient Derived Organoids”
- Mason Ihrke working with Krishna Pillai: “Developing a Next-Generation Prototype to Dispense Volatile Substances to Room Air”
- Radhika Joshi working with Mahsa Dabagh: “Impact of a Dressing on Promoting the Healing Process in a Chronic Wound”
- Pilhwan Kim working with Mahsa Dabagh: “Segmentation of Patient-Specific Images”
- Thalia Manansala working with Jacob Rammer: “Assessing Inertial Measurement Unit Performance for Tracking Manual Wheelchair Propulsion”
- Carol Martinez working with Benjamin Church: “Post-Oxidation Microstructure Changes in Inconel 625 Alloy”
- Abhi Roop Reddy Tokala working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Wetting and Physical Properties of Al-Ce Alloys”
- Digvijay Singh Rathore working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Manufacturing Metal Matrix Composites”
- Ian Smith working with William Musinski: “Development of High Temperature Milli-Scale Tensile Testing System”
- Vincent Swartz working with Krishna Pillai: “Exploring Thermal Methods to Enhance Liquid Imbibition in Wicks”
- Ashlyn Terasaki working with Mahsa Dabagh: “Cancer Cell Deformation under Local Microenvironment Condition”
- Jose Trujillo Parra working with Robert Cuzner: “Development of Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation of Robust Combat Power System Survivability”
- Jenna Van Hoogstraten working with William Musinski: “High Fidelity Microstructure-Sensitive Modeling of Advanced Materials”
- James Veltri working with Pradeep Rohatgi: “Surface Alloying of Yellow Brass to Improve Corrosion Resistance”
- Michael Wilke working with William Musinski: “Simulation of Multi-Particle Deposition via Cold and Thermal Spray Additive Manufacturing Techniques”
School of Freshwater Sciences
- Charles Carignan working with Dong Fang Deng: “Development of Practical Feed for Walleye Aquaculture”
- John Luke working with Laodong Guo: “Evaluating the Distribution of Phosphorus between Dissolved and Particulate Phases in the Milwaukee Harbor”
- Adam Mahsem working with Russell Cuhel: “Plankton Processes involving Diatom Resurgence in Southwestern Lake Michigan”
- Jacob Peterson working with Dong Fang Deng: “Nutrition Strategy to Improve Yellow Perch Production and Water Management”
- Daniel Wroblewski working with Dong Fang Deng: “Documentary Film of Yellow Perch Farming: from Eggs to Forks”
College of Health Sciences
- Kryssi Morales working with Jing Yang: “Speech Characteristics of English Consonant Clusters Produced by Mandarin-Speaking English Learners”
- Jack Strey working with Elizabeth Liedhegner: “Characterization of Small Molecule Inhibitors to Sterol Carrier Protein 2”
College of Letters & Science
- Batool Ali working with Marcellus Merritt: “How Self-Selected Leisure Activities Affect Daily Moods and Physical Activity”
- Jillian Cervantes working with Pamela Harris: “Enumerating Flattened Words with a Repeating Alphabet”
- Courtney Coon working with Lindsay McHenry: “Using Minerals from Cores to Reconstruct Pleistocene Lake Cycles in East Africa”
- Audrey Creary-De La Cruz working with Sharity Bassett: “Mapping Land History in Pine Ridge: A Pilot Project to Develop a Protocol for Collaborating with Tribal Communities on Land Research”
- Samantha Danczyk working with Shannon Freire: “Story Mapping the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Project”
- Alessandra Ebben working with Caitlin Bowman: “Brain Aging and Memory Abilities”
- Reuben Fortier working with Arjun Saha: “Covalent Drug Discovery through Machine Learning”
- Ethan Frank working with Samantha Krueger: “Ojibwe Stories Refreshed”
- Maxwell Friedl working with Nicole Welk-Joerger: “Nourishing Trust: Mapping Food Journeys and the Collaborative Knowledge Creation (CKC) Process in Milwaukee”
- Noah Geluk working with Anja Blecking: “Investigation of Student Experiences in a STEM Literacy Course”
- Joshua Giese working with Xin Yu: “China in the Eyes of an American: Harrison Forman Diaries and Photographs”
- Alejandra Gonzalez working with Rachel Bloom-Pojar: “Cuentos de Confianza: A Public Humanities Project with Promotores de Salud”
- Ashley Hale working with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece: “Researching on Film, Inc and a Forgotten Female Filmmaker”
- Lillian Hassan-Thomas working with Adam Greenberg: “Chemotherapy Related Cognitive Decline”
- Harmony Henderson, Noah Kelly, and Hayley Thomson working with Rachael Jurek: “UWM IT Engagement”
- Melkisedec Hernandez working with Erin Parcell: “Voices of Gun Violence”
- Gloria Jamerson and Kam Rabon working with Ermitte Saint Jacques: “Living for the City: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee”
- Tara Johnson working with Julie Bowles: “A Paleomagnetic Conglomerate Test of the Late Paleozoic Ansilta Formation, Argentina”
- Elyza Koppa working with John Isbell: “Geochemical Proxies Using X-Ray Fluorescence and X-Ray Diffraction of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age Glacial Deposits in Brazil and Namibia”
- Jack Koshkin working with Jean Creighton: “Music for the Stars”
- Abigail LaChance, Taylor Rynish and Anissa Zaske working with Jean Hudson: “Preparation of Vertebrate Skeletons for Osteological Reference Collections”
- Andra Martin working with Krista Lisdahl: “Evaluating School-Level Risk and Protective Factors Related to Early Substance Use Patterns in the ABCD Study Cohort”
- Rebekah Morici working with Robert Graziano: “Sand Identification, Characterization and Source Delineation of a Vast Collection of Sands From Around the World for Use as an Education and Outreach Tool in a Geology Museum”
- Kimberly Osborn working with Nicholas Silvaggi: “Cloning, Expression, Purification, and Crystallization of a Putative N-acetyltransferase from Streptomyces caelestis”
- Jazmine Panganiban working with Bonita Klein-Tasman: “Play- and Humor-Infused Exposure Therapy with Children with Williams Syndrome”
- Samantha Peetz working with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece: “Research on Global Films & Depictions of Hell”
- Adaline Powell working with Sara Pashak: “Detailing the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket”
- Adrian Ralser working with Dyanna Czeck: “Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility across a Small-Scale Shear Zone, Southern Iberian Shear Zone”
- Abdullah Rauf working with David Frick: “NAD-Capped RNA in Metabolism”
- Kaitlyn Rhyner working with Erica Young: “Pitcher Plant Macronutrient Status over a Continental Gradient”
- Brandon Roberts working with Lindsay McHenry: “Grain Size and Mineralogy Study of an East African Analog for Jezero Crater, Mars”
- Ashley Rudser working with Patricia Mayes: “Laughter and Other Action Strategies in the Repair of Miscommunications in Augmentative and Alternative Communication”
- Preston Ruh working with Hanyong Park: “Foreign Accent in Consonant Clusters – Part 3”
- Jungwoo Ryu working with Ahmed Kaffel: “Wavelet Algorithms for a High-Resolution Image Reconstruction in Magnetic Induction Tomography”
- Cole Schmidt working with Barry Cameron: “Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions Using Glaciovolcanism in Iceland”
- J Schneider working with Dyanna Czeck: “Microscopic Mineral Band Orientations in Metasedimentary Rocks along the Southern Iberian Shear Zone”
- Pilar Sharp working with Joseph Walzer: “Wisconsin Community Activism Now! Archive Project”
- David Shaw working with Emily Middleton: “Experimental Analysis of Fire Damage to Bone in Forensic Contexts”
- Rachel Stewart working with Shannon Freire: “Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery Project”
- Riley Thomas working with Jeffrey Karron: “Does the Quality of Buzz Pollination Influence Reproductive Success”
- Tavi Veraldi working with Tami Williams: “Media Archive Activism: Collecting, Preserving and Exhibiting Historical and Amateur Media for Cultural Preservation and Transformation”
- Abigail Wampfler working with Krista Lisdahl: “The Association between Socioeconomic Status and Academic Performance in Children with Attention Deficit Activity Disorder”
- Sheyenne Wilson working with Joseph Walzer: “Whose Land? Settlement, Dispossession and Race in Urban and Rural Wisconsin and New York”
- Madeline Woller working with Barry Cameron: “Glaciovolcanism at North Sister Volcano in Central Oregon”
- Emma Xiong working with Jennifer Gutzman: “Analysis of Biomechanical Stresses during Zebrafish Brain Morphogenesis”
College of Nursing
- Alejandra Martinez working with Jeana Holt: “Using a Clinical Database and Community Wisdom to Improve Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Infant Outcomes”
- Khetam Musleh working with Murad Taani: “Achieving Better Lung Health”
- Jon Niezgoda working with Sandeep Gopalakrishnan: “In-situ Autologous Whole Blood Clot Formation in Dermal Ulceration Using a Novel Wound Bed Stimulation Method for Accelerated Healing”
Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
- Lizzie Adams working with Tina Freiburger: “Judicial Decision Making in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin”
Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health
- Mahrukh Delawarzad and Manizha Nazari working with Rose Hennessy Garza: “Understanding the Perceptions and Needs of University Leadership for Campus Sexual Assault Prevention”
- Fridarose Hamad working with Linnea Laestadius: “Explorations of Youth and Technology”
- Erick Nicia working with Todd Miller: “Analysis of Microcystins in Caged and Wild Caught Tilapia from Lake Victoria, Kenya”