Julie Soukup, PhD, Director of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship, along with Bridget Keegan, PhD, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, is pleased to announce the
2018 CURAS Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows
| College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Summer Undergraduate Research Scholars | |
|---|---|
| Daniel Breiner “The Developmental High-Wire: Balancing Resource Investment in Reproduction and Immunity throughout Development” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amy Worthington |
| Mallory Cranwell “Dangerous Women, Militant Mothers: Female Peasants Combatting Terror and Machismo during Peru’s Internal War” | Faculty Mentors: Drs. Heather Fryer and Tom Kelly |
| Brad Dawson “Genetic Basis for Adaptation to Environmental pH Values in Experimental Lineages of Escherichia coli” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alistair Cullum |
| Cameron Flautt “lnvestigating the Acid Stability of Human AMY2B: A Key to Resolving the Evolution of the Human α-Amylase Gene Family” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Soochin Cho |
| Emily Khoury “Synthesis & Application of Homo-Scorpionate Ligands for use as Catalysts in ATRA Reactions” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kayode Oshin |
| John Kral “Investigating PRKCD as a Central Regulator in Vertebrate Fear Behaviors” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ken Kramer |
| Mark May “Dimerization of Chromatin Assembly Factor 1” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lynne Dieckman |
| Wisam Najdawi “Normalizing Gelatinase Expression During Doxorubicin Treatment with Creatine” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Bredahl |
| Anna Schroer “Daggers to Daisies: Understanding Cultural Contexts of Power and Gender within American Society through the Needle of a Tattoo Gun” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Heather Fryer |
| Emery Staton“Constitutionalism and Cuban Independence” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Scott Eastman |
| Shari Tanaka “Modeling Effects of Obesity on the Sinoatrial Node with Bifurcation Analysis” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rebecca Gasper |
| Mary Kate Wolken “Fighting against History: The Junta de Damas and its Enduring Mission to Empower Spanish Women” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. José McClanahan |
| Dr. and Mrs. Randolph Ferlic Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows | |
|---|---|
| Matt Beauchem “Tuned LC-Resonance for Studying the Radio Frequency Fano-Feshbach Resonance” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Wrubel |
| Noah Brady “Modeling African Sleeping Sickness in the Democratic Republic of Congo” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rebecca Gasper |
| Molly Carrig “Determination of Interaction between CAF-1 and SUMOylated PCNA” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lynne Dieckman |
| Caroline Craig “Live Long or Prosper: An Investigation of Immunological Memory and its Reproductive Costs in Insects” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amy Worthington |
| Michael Franco “Effect of E-Cigarette Vapor Versus Cigarette Smoke on Airway Function” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Charles Bockman |
| Nic Heckenlaible “Mobile Phone-Based Electrochemiluminescent Detection of Biogenic Amines” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Erin Gross |
| Luke Heiland “Defining the Neural Circuitry Responsible for Fear Behavior in Danio rerio” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ken Kramer |
| Alex Lang “Novel Lanthanide-Sulfamate Crystalline Structures” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Villa |
| Son Nguyen “Detection of the Order-Disorder Transition via Optical Depolarization during Solvent Vapor Annealing of Poly(styrene)-block-poly(lactide) Thin Films” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Andrew Baruth |
| Katie Sandquist “Synthesis, Characterization, and Utilization of Mixed Ligands as Catalysts in ATRA Reactions” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kayode Oshin |
| Kaylee Schwasinger “Linking Immune Dysfunction and Autism through Mutations in KMTB and SMC3” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Holly Stessman |
| Hunter VanDolah “Characterization of PCNA-Interacting Protein (PIP) Motifs on Chromatin Assembly Factor 1” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lynne Dieckman |
| Sid Venkatraman “Structural Analysis of OAZ RNA in Agaricus bisporus” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Julie Soukup |
| Tyler Wikoff “Phenotypic Characterization of Osh3 in Sterol-processing Pathways Related to Acquisition of Drug Resistance in Candida albicans” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Anna Selmecki |
| CURAS Director’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows | |
|---|---|
| Kimberly Holter “Impact of Rearing Environment on Specific Nicotinic Receptor Subtypes” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Dustin Stairs |
| Vivian Parr “‘The Dairy Maid-Right’: A Theatre for Social Justice Event” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amy Lane |
| Caleb Sebora “A Search for the American Soul: Maya Angelou and the (Non)Politics of Public Memory” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Heather Fryer |
| CCAS Honors Program Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow | |
|---|---|
| Lorenzo Riva “Feynman’s Operational Calculus” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Lance Nielsen |
| Department of History Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow | |
|---|---|
| Nathan Chaplin “Southern Women and the American Filibustering” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Scott Eastman |
| Clare Boothe Luce Summer Undergraduate Research Scholars | |
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| Emma Baker “Pollen Tube Development in Water-Pollinated Stuckenia pectinata” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mackenzie Taylor |
| Sierra Brown “Vanishing Diffusion Parameters Applied to the Lagrangian-Averaged Magneto-Hydrodynamic Equation for a Pipe” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nathan Pennington |
| Laura Catano “Biological and Chemical Indicators of Immune Response in Anasa tristis” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Haas |
| Emily Harders “An Unrequited Love Story: How the Horsehair Worm Manipulates its Host’s Immune System” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amy Worthington |
| Bailey Hassman “Evolution of Neuronal Networks of Fear Regulation in Xenopus” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Laura Bruce |
| Lily Hecke “Game: Theoretic Approaches to RFID Security Risks in Healthcare” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Janice Lo |
| Samantha Hughes “Honey Bees in Peril: An Investigation of Honey Bee Viral Infection Dynamics and Modeling Implications for Colony Collapse Disorder” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Carol Fassbinder-Orth |
| Abby Robinson “Assessment of Regal Fritillary Mobility in Nebraskan Prairies” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ted Burk |
| Clare Weber “Identification of an Allosteric Twister Ribozyme for Use as a Synthetic Genetic Switch in Mammalian Systems” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Julie Soukup |
| Delaney Wilton “Investigation of Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase II Deficiency and Mitochondrial Function in Neurodevelopment” | Faculty Mentor: Dr. Annemarie Shibata |
