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Shaharyar Zuberi ’17 (CLAS), one of 44 recipients of a 2016 SURF Award in support of full-time summer research.The Office of Undergraduate Research is pleased to announce the selection of 44 undergraduate students to receive SURF Awards in support of their summer undergraduate research projects. The faculty review committee was impressed by the extremely high caliber of the 60 applications submitted this year.
Click here to view the full list of Summer 2016 SURF award recipients.
Congratulations to the SURF awardees! Your academic achievements, curiosity, initiative, and motivation were evident in your applications. You have a challenging summer of deep engagement with the process of academic inquiry ahead of you. We look forward to hearing about all you learn!
We thank the faculty members who supported SURF applicants in a range of roles: mentors, letter writers, and faculty review committee members. SURF represents a collaborative effort between students and faculty. This program would simply not be possible without the support and participation of the UConn faculty!
OUR also extends thanks to SURF supporters in the UConn community. We are grateful to the Provost’s Office, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and to the Deans of the Schools and Colleges of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources; Education; Engineering; Fine Arts; Nursing; and Pharmacy, who all contributed funding to the SURF competition this year. Alumni, parents, and friends of UConn also helped fund SURF awards. This collaborative funding effort ensures that SURF supports a diverse array of undergraduate research endeavors. We are grateful to all of our program partners for making intensive summer research opportunities available to students seeking to enrich their undergraduate experience in this way.
Once again, congratulations to the recipients of 2016 SURF awards, and good luck with your summer projects!
Congratulations to the thirty-five UConn undergraduates who have been awarded UConn IDEA Grants in the spring 2016 funding cycle!
Twenty-two of the award recipients will be completing individual projects, and thirteen will be working on collaborative group projects. The award recipients represent a variety of disciplines, from printmaking to biomedical engineering, horticulture to political science. They will work on launching new ventures; developing art exhibitions, puppet shows, YouTube series, and television pilots; and collaborating with community organizations.
Special thanks to the faculty and staff that supported student applications to the UConn IDEA Grant and to those who will be mentoring the award recipients as they complete their projects. We would also like to thank the faculty and staff from around the University who served as reviewers.
The UConn IDEA Grant program awards funding to support self-designed projects including artistic endeavors, community service initiatives, traditional research projects, entrepreneurial ventures, and other creative and innovative projects. Undergraduates in all majors at all UConn campuses can apply. Applications are accepted twice per year from individuals and from small groups who plan to work collaboratively on a project. The next application deadline is in December 2016.
Congratulations to the nineteen UConn undergraduates who have been awarded UConn IDEA Grants in the fall 2015 funding cycle!
Fifteen of the award recipients will be completing individual projects, and four will be working on collaborative group projects. The award recipients represent a variety of disciplines, from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology to Sports Management, Nursing to Graphic Design.
Special thanks to the faculty and staff that supported student applications to the UConn IDEA Grant and to those who will be mentoring the award recipients as they complete their projects. We would also like to thank the faculty and staff from around the University who served as reviewers.
The UConn IDEA Grant program awards funding to support self-designed projects including artistic endeavors, community service initiatives, traditional research projects, entrepreneurial ventures, and other creative and innovative projects. Undergraduates in all majors at all UConn campuses can apply. Applications are accepted twice per year from individuals and from small groups who plan to work collaboratively on a project. The next application deadline is Monday, March 14, 2016.
Please join us in congratulating the UConn undergraduates named below for their significant research and creative accomplishments in fall 2015. Students: if you have an accomplishment to share, please do so using this online form.
AWARDS
Antonio Campelli ’15 (SFA) presents his UConn IDEA Grant project at Frontiers 2014.
Congratulations to Antonio Campelli ’15 (SFA), winner of a 2016 Marshall Scholarship for MFA study at Goldsmiths, University of London. Antonio graduated as a University Scholar, was a member of the first cohort of UConn IDEA Grant recipients in Spring 2013, and received a SURF Award for Summer 2014. Learn more about Antonio in his UConn Today profile; learn more about prestigious award programs like the Marshall Scholarship via the Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships.
PUBLICATIONS
John Ovian ’17 (CLAS) and Rebecca Wiles ’15 (CLAS) were co-authors on two recent publications from the Leadbeater Lab:
Kelly, C.B., Ovian, J.M., Cywar, R.M., Gossland, T.R., Wiles, R.J., Leadbeater, N.E. (2015). Oxidative cleavage of allyl ethers by an oxoammonium salt. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 13, 4255-4259.
Hamlin, T.A., Kelly, C.B., Ovian, J.M., Wiles, R.W., Tilley, L.J., Leadbeater, N.E. (2015). Toward a unified mechanism for oxoammonium salt-mediated oxidation reactions: A theoretical and experimental study using a hydride transfer model. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 80, 8150-8167.
Nikita Sturrock ’16 co-authored a 2014 publication from the Kanadia Lab:
Baumgartner, M., Lemoine, C., Al Seesi, S., Karunakaran, D.K.P., Sturrock, N., Banday, A.R., Kilcollins, A.M., Mandoiu, I. and Kanadia, R.N. (2015), Minor splicing snRNAs are enriched in the developing mouse CNS and are crucial for survival of differentiating retinal neurons. Developmental Neurobiology, 75, 895–907. doi: 10.1002/dneu.22257
PERFORMANCES
The UConn Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of member Rex Sturdevant ’16 (SFA), presented Steve Reich’s minimalist masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians, on December 1, 2015. Rex coordinated and directed this performance as his UConn IDEA Grant project. This performance marked the first time that the ensemble collaborated with wind, strings, and piano players, as well as four singers. This was also the longest work the ensemble has ever presented in concert, extending to nearly an hour in length. See photos of the performance below, and learn more about the piece and the participating musicians in the event announcement.
PRESENTATIONS
2015 LatCrit Conference – October 1-3, 2015 – Anaheim, CA
Maye Henning ’17 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Panel Presentation: Between citizenship and nationality: An overview of federal citizenship legislation for the U.S. Pacific Island territories, 1900 to present
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting – October 7-10, 2015 – Tampa, FL
Michael Messina ’16 (ENG) – OUR Travel Award recipient Mobile automated analysis of sperm quality
Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) – October 8, 2015 – Meriden, CT
New England Psychological Association Annual Meeting – October 10, 2015 – Fitchburg, MA
Mallory Kloss ’16 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipient Psychological immersion in games
2015 IEEE Software Technology Conference – October 12-15, 2015 – Long Beach, CA
Qiwei Zheng ’16 (CLAS, ENG) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Oral Presentation: A data-driven approach to analyze the spatial and temporal variations in the distributed power grid system
Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Annual Meeting – October 17-21, 2015 – Chicago, IL
Ashlesha Dhuri ’16 (CLAS), Kaylene King ’16 (CLAS), & Sarthak Patel ’16 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipients Spatial reference memory acquisition in a water maze under light and dark conditions
Nikita Sturrock ’16 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipient The minor spliceosome snRNA’s U4atac and U6atac are down regulated in starvation induced stress response
Frontiers in Optics – October 18-22, 2015 – San Jose, CA
Michael Cantara ’16 (ENG) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Oral Presentation: Ultracold trimer formation energetics of Rb and K
Cameron Vickers ’16 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipient Ultracold long range molecule formation with Rb and K
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting – November 8-13, 2015 – Salt Lake City, UT
Notations are included below for students who won poster presentation awards in their divisions.
Kerry Davis ’16 (ENG) – 2nd place in Material Science Division – OUR Travel Award recipient Materials for additive manufacturing
Victoria Drake ’16 (ENG) – OUR Travel Award recipient Respiratory response of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm to daptomycin exposure
Jake Lewis ’16 (ENG) – 1st place in Environmental Division – OUR Travel Award recipient Microbial mediated soil water retention
Clarke Palmer ’16 (ENG) – OUR Travel Award recipient
Oral Presentation: Analysis of a simulated moving bed configuration for chemical-looping combustion
Kyle Such ’16 (ENG) – 2nd place in Fuels, Petrochemicals, and Energy – OUR Travel Award recipient Dynamic simulation of a combined cycle power plant integrated with chemical-looping combustion
Yijia Sun ’16 (ENG) – OUR Travel Award recipient Synthesis of zeolitic enwrapped catalysts by chemical vapor deposition
Obesity Week 2015 – November 2-6, 2015 – Los Angeles, CA
Kate Boudreau ’17 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipient #WeTakeTheStairs: A study of the effects of school spirit posters on stair taking behavior in a university dormitory
Melanie Klinck ’15 (CLAS) & Jessica Naples ’16 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipients Get off the couch! Increasing physical activity through the use of social support and financial incentives
Ashley Mills ’16 (CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipient Does labeling spoodles in a college dining hall impact food selection patterns?
Aaron Plotke ’17 (CAHNR, CLAS) – OUR Travel Award recipient Effect of physical activity calorie equivalent labeling on selection of high-calorie foods in a college dining hall
Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting – November 29-December 4, 2015 – Boston, MA
Kathleen Coleman ’16 (ENG) – OUR Travel Award recipient Shock-induced melting of Al powder compacts at atomic scales
SHARE Awards support undergraduate research apprenticeships in the social sciences, humanities, and arts, offering students majoring in these fields opportunities to develop research skills and explore research interests early in their college careers.
We are delighted to announce the 21 student-faculty teams selected to receive awards for Spring 2016 and thank the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute for its generous support of two of these student awards. Congratulations to all award recipients!
Project Title: An Ethnography at a Colombian Maternity Hospital: A Critical look at Neoliberalism and Global Health Student Apprentice and Major: Eeman Abbasi, Individualized: Health and Human Rights in the Middle East Faculty Mentor and Department: Cesar Abadia-Barrero, Anthropology and Human Rights
Project Title: Realism, Refugees, and Global Governance Student Apprentice and Major: Lucas Bladen, Political Science Faculty Mentor and Department: Jennifer Sterling-Folker, Political Science
Project Title: Neural and Behavioral Changes Attributed to High Intensity Reading Treatment in Chronic Aphasia Student Apprentice and Major: Samantha Coulombe, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Faculty Mentor and Department: Jennifer Mozeiko, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Project Title: Polysyllabic Word Spelling Student Apprentice and Major: Marissa Gadacy, Psychology & Human Development and Family Studies Faculty Mentor and Department: Devin Kearns, Educational Psychology
Project Title: Between Citizenship and Nationality: An Overview of Federal Citizenship Legislation for the U.S. Pacific Island Territories, 1898 to Present Student Apprentice and Major: Maye Henning, Political Science & Human Rights Faculty Mentor and Department: Charles Venator-Santiago, Political Science
Project Title: Project SPARK Student Apprentice and Major: Kelsey Iwanicki, Elementary Education Faculty Mentor and Department: Catherine Little, Educational Psychology
Project Title: Cross-Modal Integration: Effects of Shape on Phonetic Categorization Student Apprentice and Major: Jessica Joseph, Psychology Faculty Mentor and Department: Eiling Yee, Psychological Sciences
Project Title: Human Rights Discourse and Practices in Turkey Student Apprentice and Major: Rubayet Lasker, Political Science & Human Rights Faculty Mentor and Department: Zehra Arat, Political Science
Project Title: Exclusion Bullying in Same- and Cross-Race Contexts: Evaluations of Victimization, Victimizer Goals, and Victim Responses in Relation to Ethnicity and Personal Bullying and Victimization Experience Student Apprentice and Major: Samantha Lawrence, Psychology & Human Development and Family Studies Faculty Mentor and Department: Alaina Brenick, Human Development and Family Studies
Project Title: Developmental Cognition in Early Childhood Student Apprentice and Major: Sonia Limaye, Allied Health Sciences Faculty Mentor and Department: Kimberly Cuevas, Psychological Sciences
Project Title: Beat Your Gums: A History of Collected Stories and Reflections of Massachusetts Veterans Student Apprentice and Major: Tara Lokke, History Faculty Mentor and Department: Fiona Vernal, History
Award Co-Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Project Title: Museums and Civic Discourse: Past, Present, & Emerging Futures Student Apprentice and Major: Samantha Mairson, Digital Media and Design Faculty Mentor and Department: Clarissa Ceglio, Digital Media and Design
Award Co-Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Project Title: Neuro-Political Ideology: Motivated Reasoning Among Political Partisans Student Apprentice and Major: Thomas Martella, Cognitive Science Faculty Mentor and Department: Mikhael Shor, Economics
Project Title: Multi-Level Environmental Governance: Land Use Change and Carbon Emissions Student Apprentice and Major: Edward McInerney, Political Science Faculty Mentor and Department: Prakash Kashwan, Political Science
Project Title: Portraits of English/Language Arts Instruction with High and Low Evaluation Ratings Student Apprentice and Major: Rachael Orbe, Secondary English Education & English Faculty Mentor and Department: Rachael Gabriel, Curriculum and Instruction
Project Title: Effects of Attention on Lexically Informed Perceptual Learning Student Apprentice and Major: Jacqueline Ose, Physiology and Neurobiology & Psychology Faculty Mentor and Department: Rachel Theodore, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Project Title: The Influence of Comfort Measures on the Infant’s Microbiota in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Student Apprentice and Major: Samantha Poveda, Nursing Faculty Mentor and Department: Xiaomei Cong, Nursing
Project Title: Economics of Certification and Quality Disclosure Student Apprentice and Major: Joseph Roessler, Economics & Mathematics Faculty Mentor and Department: Talia Bar, Economics
Project Title: “Reel” Police, Prosecutors, and Portrayals of the Use of Force: Assessing the Lessons of Law and Order: SVU within the Current Legal and Political Climate Student Apprentice and Major: Amy Saji, Political Science Faculty Mentor and Department: Kimberly Bergendahl, Political Science
Project Title: Daniel Alarcón and the Peruvian Post-Conflict, Transnational Cultural Field Student Apprentice and Major: Emily Socha, Spanish & Management Faculty Mentor and Department: Guillermo Irizarry, Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Project Title: Extension of the Prototype Willingness Model to Workplace Deviance Student Apprentice and Major: Ryan Thibodeau, Psychology Faculty Mentor and Department: Dev Dalal, Psychological Sciences
This year, through the generous support of the International Studies Associations’ Headquarters and UConn’s Office of Global Affairs, a new research award program is being offered for undergraduate students: the ISA Honors Awards for Undergraduate International Studies Research.
This award program provides students with up to $1,000 in support to assist them in conducting social science projects that span across countries, regions, or the globe. Students must be members of the Honors Program in order to be eligible for the program. They need not be majoring in a social science discipline, but the proposed project must make use of the theories and methods of one or more social sciences. Award applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis through March 31, 2016.
Full program details are available on the ISA Awards webpage and we encourage faculty and students to contact us with any questions they might have about the program.
Please join us in congratulating the UConn undergraduates named below for their significant research and creative accomplishments this summer. Students: if you have an accomplishment to share, please do so using this online form.
Students whose names are marked with an asterisk (*) below will be sharing their projects at the Fall Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, from 5-7pm in the Wilbur Cross South Reading Room. All are welcome to attend the event and learn more about these exciting research projects.
OFF-CAMPUS RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Mary Accurso ’18 (CLAS) completed an internship through the Summer Student Program at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, CT. She worked in Dr. Jacques Banchereau’s immunology lab, analyzing RNA sequencing data to identify novel alternative splicing events in immune stimulated cells.
Virgilio Lopez ’16 in the field in Costa Rica.
Virgilio Lopez III ’16* conducted his summer research in Costa Rica, studying the social interactions of hummingbirds. This research experience was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NSF-LSAMP) via the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at the Organization for Tropical Studies, which is based at Duke University.
Andrew Maxwell ’17 (CLAS) participated in the TECBio REU program at the University of Pittsburgh. There, he executed ensemble-based virtual screening of the human glycine receptor alpha-3 subtype in support of a broader effort to discover compounds that elicit THC-like analgesic responses. Andrew conducted this research under the supervision of Dr. Pei Tang.
John Ovian ’17* (CLAS) participated in the Amgen Scholars program at UCLA this summer, working under the supervision of Dr. Neil Garg in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He investigated the total synthesis of tubingensin B, an indole diterpenoid with potentially useful biological properties.
Meredith Rittman ’16 (ENG) participated in a research internship at the NASA Glenn Research Center this summer. Over the course of the 10 week internship, she completed and presented a project entitled, Determining Pharmaceutical Efficacy of Pharmaceuticals Exposed to Deep Space Radiation. Meredith’s summer research was mentored by Don Jaworske, PhD and Jerry Myers Jr., PhD.
Rebecca Stern ’16 (ENG) completed a summer internship at Pfizer Inc., where she performed quantum chemical calculations to model and predict the pKa value of drug-like molecules. The pKa value defines a molecule’s degree of dissociation in solution and is vitally important in formulation design, candidate selection, and drug delivery.
Ronald Tardiff ’16 (CLAS) was named a 2015 Oregon Sea Grant Summer Scholar. This award provided Ron with funding to travel to and work at the Hatfield Marine Science Center, where he served as an Ecosystem Services Intern at the US EPA, Office of Research and Development, Western Ecology Division, Pacific Ecology Branch, Newport Lab. Learn more about his project, Framework to Conduct Ecological Estimate Transfers: A Case Study of Seagrass Blue Carbon.
Ornella Tempo ’16 (ENG) completed an NSF-funded REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) program at Mississippi State, where she studied how stimuli-responsive polymers such as Poly (N-Isopropylacrylamide)-Co-Methacrylic acid respond to temperature and pH changes. She conducted this research in the PolySEL lab of Professor Keisha Walters in collaboration with Professor Santanu Kundu.
Nico Wright ’18* (ENG) participated in the Applied Physics REU program at the University of South Florida. His project, Growth of ZnO Nanocolumns on Silica Nanospheres Using Glancing Angle Pulsed Laser Deposition, was supervised by Professor Sarath Witanachchi.
PUBLICATIONS
Prakhar Bansal ’16 (CLAS) was a co-author on a recent publication from the May Lab:
Boyd, K.B., Bansal, P., Feng, J., & May, E.R. (2015). Stability of Norwalk virus capsid protein interfaces evaluated by in silico nanoindentation. Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. 3:103. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2015.00103
Emma LaVigne ’15 (CAHNR) was a co-author on an article based in part on data collected through her SURF award project in the Reed Lab. Additional undergraduate authors on the project are Delaney Patterson ’15 (CAHNR) and Allison Schauer ’15 (CAHNR).
Reed, S.A., LaVigne, E.K., Jones, A.K., Patterson, D.F. & Schauer, A.L. (2015). The aging horse: Effects of inflammation on muscle satellite cells. J. Anim. Sci. 2015.93:862–870. doi:10.2527/jas.2014-8448
These three Animal Science students were also co-authors on a newly-accepted publication in the Journal of Animal Science:
LaVigne, E.K., Jones, A.K., Sanchez Londoño, A., Schauer, A.L., Patterson, D.F., Nadeau, J.A., & Reed, S.A. (2015). Muscle growth in young horses: effects of age, cytokines, and growth factors. J. Anim. Sci. In press.
ON-CAMPUS RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
UConn IDEA Grant recipient Stephen Hawes ’17* (ENG) has been working on his project to develop a 3-D printed prosthetic, the ATLAS Arm, for mid-forearm amputees. You can follow Stephen’s progress on his YouTube channel or watch the latest installment below.
Theodore Sauyet ’17 (CLAS) conducted research in the Jain Lab, Department of Physics, into materials exhibiting multiferroic and magnetocaloric effects. His summer research included sample preparation (solution route for creating thin films), characterization techniques, electric and magnetic measurements (as they apply to hysteresis loops and the magnetocaloric effect), and data analysis.
EXHIBITIONS
Alana Valdez ’16* (SFA) exhibited her installation, So Easy a Woman Could Do It, in the Bishop Center from September 8-11, 2015. Alana’s artwork, which “overwhelms the viewer and provides an antithetical perspective on the dichotomy of femininity and strength,” was supported in part by an OUR Supply Award.
PRESENTATIONS
2015 Joint Meeting of the American Society of Animal Science and American Dairy Science Association – July 12-16, 2015 – Orlando, FL
Emma LaVigne presents her poster at the ASAS-ASDA Joint Annual Meeting.
Emma LaVigne ’15 (CAHNR) Interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-α, insulin-like growth factor-1 and fibroblast growth factor-2 alter proliferation and differentiation of equine satellite cells
Emma received a third place award in the undergraduate poster competition.
Abstract: LaVigne, E.K., Sanchez Londoño,A. & Reed, S.A. (2015). Interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-α, insulin-like growth factor-1 and fibroblast growth factor-2 alter proliferation and differentiation of equine satellite cells. J. Anim. Sci. 93(E-Suppl. 2):336.
Ellen Valley ’15 (CAHNR) Effects of plant-derived compounds on Staphylococcus aureus infection of primary bovine mammary epithelial cells
Abstract: Valley, E.V., Jaganathan, D., Venkitanarayanan, K., Kazmer, G.W., Kuo, L., Wang, Y.B., & Govoni, K.E. (2015). Effects of plant-derived compounds on Staphylococcus aureus infection of primary bovine mammary epithelial cells. J. Anim. Sci. 93(Suppl. 3):335.
Katelyn McFadden ’15 (CAHNR) Effects of poor maternal nutrition during gestation on protein expression in the liver of lambs
Katelyn’s presentation was selected as a Presidential Pick Poster and received the second place award in the undergraduate poster competition.
Abstract: McFadden, K.K., Peck, K.N., Reed, S.A., Zinn, S.A., & Govoni, K.E. (2015). Effects of poor maternal nutrition during gestation on protein expression in the liver of lambs. J. Anim. Sci. 93(Suppl. 3):336-337.
Katelyn was also a co-author on three additional abstracts:
1. Jones, A.K., Gately, R.E., McFadden, K.K., Zinn, S.A., Govoni, K.E., & Reed, S.A. (2015). Identification of early pregnancy and fetal landmarks via transabdominal ultrasound in sheep. J. Anim. Sci. 93(Suppl. 3):292.
2. Pillai, S.M., Raja, J.S., Hoffman, M.L., Jones, A.K., McFadden, K.K., Reed, S.A., Zin, S.A., & Govoni, K.E. (2015). Effects of under- and over-feeding during gestation on organ development of offspring at days 45 and 90 of gestation. J. Anim. Sci. 93(Suppl. 3): 293.
3. Raja, J.S., Pillai, S.M., Raja, J.S., Jones, A.K., Hoffman, M.L., McFadden, K.K., Zinn, S.A., Govoni, K.E., & Reed, S.A. (2015). Poor maternal nutrition decreases longissimus dorsi cross-sectional area of fetal offspring at d 45 of gestation. J. Anim. Sci. 93(Suppl. 3): 694.
23rd Annual Ronald E. McNair Scholars Symposium – July 30-August 2, 2015 – Berkeley, CA
McNair Scholars at UC Berkeley.Nicholas Arisco ’16* (CLAS) Impacts of urbanization on the storm drain ecosystem: A comparison of micro and macro scale variants
Nelson Del Pilar ’16* (CLAS) Dietary influences on Apolipoprotein C-III expression
Crystal Green ’16 (CLAS) A new method studying the dynamics of joint attention in a joint-action task using games
Hebo Ismail ’16 (CLAS) Visualizing bacterial gene expression in the female reproductive system of the Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes
Zania Johnson ’16 (CLAS) Auditory stability indices: Comparisons across stimuli and recording systems
Emmanuel Marte ’16 (CAHNR, CLAS) Determining the location of ApoC-III in the intestinal enterocyte
Jonathan Schmieding presents his research at the Music Department’s Convocation.University of Connecticut Music Department Convocation – September 18, 2015
Jonathan Schmieding ’16* (SFA) Undergraduate research in music The music editing process: The preparation of a scholarly edition of Dane Rhudyar’s late piano work, “Autumn”
Kelsey Richardson ’15 (NURS) earned her bachelor’s degree this spring and shares her “accidental” journey into research in this essay.
I had never thought upon entering nursing school that research was even a remote possibility for me. When my advisor suggested joining the Honors program my sophomore year, I was interested but a little hesitant. I thought Honors meant taking extremely hard classes and losing all my free time. Instead, in the nursing program, Honors meant finding an advisor and completing a research project with their guidance and expertise. Then, finally, if you found new results, you would be able to submit your findings to be published. This sounded interesting to me and thankfully I took my advisor’s advice and started an amazing journey down the research path for the past three years. I learned that not only is research ever changing, but even students can make discoveries that can improve the practice and lives of others.
Kelsey Richardson ’15 (NURS) presents her research poster at the 2015 ATHENA Nursing Research Conference.
My trip down the research road started with finding an advisor. I was lucky enough to meet Dr. Xiaomei Cong, who is involved with so many amazing projects it was hard to pick just one to make my own. We decided that I would use a survey that had already been created and tested to further investigate neonatal nurses’ perceptions of the phenomenon known as Skin-to-Skin Contact or Kangaroo Care. First, I completed my preliminary literature review, searching multiple databases to see what was already published about Kangaroo Care. Not only did I learn about this intervention, but I also learned how to search the databases, save my results and pick out was and was not important. These skills helped me immensely in the next few years as a student when we needed to do research on a multitude of topics for various classes.
I then started the meticulous process of getting IRB approval before I could actually send out my survey. After this, I was able to send my survey out and we received more responses than I could have ever dreamed. This did prove to be slightly overwhelming when it became time to analyze all the results, however! Around this time, in November of my Junior year, I was lucky enough to receive the SHARE award from the Office of Undergraduate Research. Both my advisor and I received a stipend for our work, which greatly helped with my project. Not only did this make me feel as though my research was really worthwhile, but it was the best feeling to believe that others felt that my research was important enough to be recognized. Continue reading →
Richard Wolferz, Jr. ’15 (CLAS) recently graduated from UConn as an Honors Scholar in Biological Sciences with a second major in Physiology & Neurobiology. In this essay, he describes the role that research played in his undergraduate career.
Richard Wolferz, Jr. ’15 (CLAS), demonstrating his protocol to create three-dimensional lateral ventricle reconstructions featured in an upcoming Journal of Visual Experiments publication from the Conover Lab, Physiology and Neurobiology.
I grew up and went to high school in New Jersey but was convinced on my first visit that the University of Connecticut was right for me. UConn is a great combination of a small town campus feel mixed with a world-renowned research university. One of the main reasons I came to UConn and chose the majors I did was for the opportunity to perform scientific research as an undergraduate. Research has been large part of my undergraduate career and has given me incredible hands on experience that many students do not see until graduate school.
After hearing about her research, I spoke with Rebecca Acabchuk, the graduate TA for my sophomore year Enhanced Anatomy and Physiology course. I explained to her how interested I was in the concussion research she was doing in Dr. Joanne Conover’s lab. After speaking further with Rebecca, and then with Dr. Conover, I was granted an opportunity to try volunteering in the Conover lab during the summer of 2013. Right away I was given responsibility to begin refining a technique to better analyze the expansion of the lateral ventricles in response to repeated concussive impacts. I was hooked.
Starting the fall of my junior year, I was welcomed in as an undergraduate research assistant in the lab. As a full-time member of the lab I applied for and received the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Supply Award. The research funding through OUR allowed me the chance to continue researching the effects of repeated concussions through our mouse model. The technique that I began to develop during the summer was now in full use generating three-dimensional reconstructions of lateral ventricles for volume analysis. The most rewarding aspect of the experience was being treated with the same respect and responsibility as any other lab member. I was expected to present my findings each week in lab meeting and expected to contribute intellectually in discussions. Continue reading →
Nellie Binder ’15 (CLAS) recently completed an individualized major in International Relations and will start law school in Fall 2015 to pursue her interests in immigration, asylum, and refugee law. In this essay and memoir, she shares her undergraduate research on Holocaust memorialization in the U.S. and in Poland.
The research for my 2014 SURF project, titled “Implications in the Past and Present: Holocaust Memorialization through Photographs, Camps, and Museums,” took place mainly in Poland and Washington D.C. While in the capitol, I spent multiple days in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, which gave me the chance to examine each exhibition with particular care, keeping in mind how the museum functions within the realm of Holocaust memorialization. I was able to contrast this research with my experience at the actual sites of destruction: the concentration camps themselves. After going to Auschwitz, where I saw groups of Israeli protesters as well as masses of IDF soldiers in uniform, I also began considering the connection between Holocaust memorialization and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How do differing opinions about the Holocaust translate into dialogue regarding the conflict? This observation was critical as it enabled me to connect my research on the past with one of the most highly debated international conflicts in the present.
“Faces before death.” Taken in Auschwitz, 2014. Photo by Nellie Binder.
By visiting various concentration camps throughout Poland, in particular Auschwitz, I was also able to develop a very personal perspective on the formation of Holocaust memory in varying political spheres. This personal response to my time in Auschwitz prompted the short creative memoir piece below. Continue reading →
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Congratulations to the thirty-five UConn undergraduates who have been awarded UConn IDEA Grants in the spring 2016 funding cycle!
Project Title: Beat Your Gums: A History of Collected Stories and Reflections of Massachusetts Veterans
