21st Annual College of Letters and Science Undergraduate Research Symposium
Welcome to the 21st annual College of Letters and Science Undergraduate Research Symposium.
This Research Symposium is a highlight of our year, a moment when we celebrate student academic achievements. And while this year poses its own unique challenges, moving to online for everyone’s safety and health, we still get to enjoy the inspiration, dedication, and creativity of our young scholars. This is an opportunity to step back from our academic routines to admire our students’ accomplishments and to encourage them along the path of intellectual achievement. So much hard work is “on stage” in this event, and we are all inspired by it.
As our former colleague Dean Chris Cirmo pointed out, in this event we “share how teaching and scholarship go together in the bond that develops between our faculty and their students. ... Our faculty, as experts in their fields, are the resource that our students most depend upon in experiencing a successful college career.” So, today is also a celebration of the faculty who give their time to encourage, advise and direct student research. My deepest admiration and respect goes out to those who give so freely of themselves to their students.
Congratulations to all of the scholars, teachers and learners who make this symposium such a special occasion!
— Eric Yonke, Interim Dean, College of Letters and Science
Natural Sciences, Math, and Computing
Bactericidal and Chemotherapeutic Potential of a Fungal Extract (Biology)
Poster Students: Taylor Tauber, Kirby Kuehn, Christian Van Scoyk, Lauren Volkman, Erica Her
Faculty: Lindsay Dresang, Terese Barta, Virginia Freire
Students: Nicholas Jorenby
Faculty: Terese Barta
Students: Reece Mullen, Demirae Berceau
Faculty: Sarah Orlofske
Students: Nicole Dahlman, Kayla Guenther
Faculty: Christopher Yahnke
Students: Michaela Meehl, Hal Edwards, Roiya Meyers
Faculty: Sarah Orlofske
Transcriptional Comparisons of Diverse Cancer Cell Types With Metastatic and Non-Metastatic Pairings (Biology) Poster Students: Christian Van Scoyk, Taylor Tauber, Kirby Kuehn, Morgan Broske, Arthur Rech Tondin
Faculty: Lindsay Dresang
Students: Keegan Brighton
Faculty: Terese Barta
Creation and Curation of an Improved, Custom MALDI-TOF Edwardsiella library (Chemistry) Poster Students: Kaitlin Freese, Brianna Fitzgerald
Faculty: Jim Lawrence
Developing an Interactive Exhibit for the Schoebeck Egg Collection (Computing and New Media Technologies) Poster |
Poster with Audio Students: Shane Dougherty, Stephen Raasch, Matt Rusch
Faculty: Tomi Heimonen, Sarah Scripps
Railroad Fly Ash as A Relative Dating Tool in Lake Sediments – Marathon and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin (Geography and Geology) Poster Students: Alyssa Sims, Alexandra Peacock, Chelsea Huckbody, Keith Koch
Faculty: Samantha Kaplan, Neil Heywood
The Humanities
Using Theatre to Eliminate Oppressive Barriers to Student Success in Higher Education (English) Poster Students: Wyatt Cross
Faculty: Rebecca Stephens
Resistance and Commemoration: Politicizing commemoration and the Palestinian Nakba of 1948 (History) Poster Students: Abby Guzman
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Analyzing Commemoration and Dark Tourism of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (1979 – Present) (History) Poster Students: Madeline Hoffman
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Commemorating and Understanding Nuclear Issues in Japan 1945–2020 (History) Poster Students: Claire Kiessling
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Commemoration or Profit? The Truth Behind Belfast’s Titanic (History) Poster Students: Kelsey Johnson
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Commemorative Storytelling: Museum Artifacts, Testimonies, and Healing Trauma at the Sarajevo War Childhood Museum (History) Poster |
Poster with Audio Students: Sanne Roeven
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Controversial Commemoration and Collective Memory of the Holocaust: Europe, Israel and the U.S. 1950-Present (History) Poster Students: Cali Brehmer
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Dark Tourism: Remembering Histories of Slavery through Slave Heritage Sites in Ghana 1996 – 2019 (History) Poster Students: Leah Harbath
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Modern Mechanisms for Holocaust Commemoration in 21st Century Poland (History) Poster Students: Hayley Simons
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Students: Selena Cruz
Faculty: Valerie Barske
The Berlin Wall: Commemorating the Isolation and Captivity of East Berlin and its Citizens (1945 - 2019) (History) Poster Students: Helen Fojut
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Unresolved Issues in Contemporary Namibia: Genocide, Tragedy, and Commemoration of the German Colonial Era (1884-1915) (History) Poster Students: Joseph Lorenzi
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Rock Against Racism: How Music Shaped Political and Cultural Movements in 1970s Britain (History) Poster Students: Terriun Green
Faculty: Valerie Barske
Complex Commemorations: Remembering Key Figures in the Vietnam Wars (1955-1975) (History) Poster Students: Fong Thao
Faculty: Valerie Barske
How Culture Influences Film: Comparing the American and German Film Rating Systems (World Languages and Literatures) Poster | Poster with Audio Students: Rachel Jacobson
Faculty: Tobias Barske
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Does Being Told to Vote Impact Who You Vote For? Compulsory Voting and Incumbent Re-election (Political Science) Poster |
Poster with Audio Students: Sanne Roeven
Faculty: John Blakeman
Students: Stephanie Karpinski
Faculty: Jennifer Collins
Artificial Selection on Operant Conditioning in the Mealworm Beetle, Tenebrio Molitor (Psychology) Poster Students: Colton Bahr
Faculty: Jody Lewis
A Trend Study of the Association between Political Party Affiliation and Views on Restricting Immigration to the United States (Sociology and Social Work) Poster Students: Paige St. Cyr
Faculty: David Chunyu
How Social Class Can Affect One’s Attitudes Toward Abortion: The Case of the United States (Sociology and Social Work) Poster Students: Adrienne Hagen
Faculty: David Chunyu
Measuring the Success of Portage County’s Diversion Program: An Analysis of Program Participants’ Recidivism (Sociology and Social Work) Poster Students: Rachel Lemke, Taryn Wield
Faculty: David Chunyu
Students: Marisa Skajewski
Faculty: David Barry, Jess Bowers
Student: Justin Weyenberg
Faculty: David Barry
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