2015 UGRC - Full Schedule

A Case Study on the Depiction of Female Revolutionary Figures in French Revolutionary Media and the Concept of Equality

Nikki Breeland

Meramec Room

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Composite Aminosilica/Polymer Hollow Fiber Sorbents for CO₂ Capture from Flue Gas

Patrick Brennan

St. Pat's B

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

A microcontroller-facilitated complex span task for examining the effects of background music on working memory capacity

Emily Puleo

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

A Rapid, High-Performance Capillary Electrophoresis Method for Urinary Modified Nucleosides for Early Prostate Cancer Detection

Sunghee Briana Choi

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Angiogenic Effects of Variant Lengths of Borate Glass Scaffolds Prepared via Robocasting

Anthony Bitar

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Antibacterial Properties of Metal Doped Glass

Elsie Greenwood

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Biologically Inspired Wireless Sensor Networking

Alec Bayliff

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Cell Cycle Regulation

Matthew Liberson

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Chromium Doping of the Topological Insulator Antimony Telluride

Jack Crewse

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Crustal Anisotropy beneath South-Central Tibet revealed by P-to-S conversions from the Moho

Shuoyu Yao

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Determining the Function of the RGCt Domain of IQG1 in Budding Yeast

Kelsey Crossen

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Detrital zircon geochronology of Paleozoic to Late Cretaceous siliciclastic strata of the Ozark Dome, Southern Missouri

Jing Hua

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

E. Coli Contamination of a Recreational Watershed in the Ozarks: Field Monitoring and a Mesocosm Experiment

Edna Armstrong

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

E. Coli Contamination of a Recreational Watershed in the Ozarks: Field Monitoring and a Mesocosm Experiment

Morgann Kleeschulte

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Effect of Temperature and Cost on Pencil Resistivity

Daniel Townzen

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Effects of Temperature on Resistivity of Copper Sulfate Solutions

Arthur Southard

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Endoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Measurements using Intracellular Fluorescent Dyes

Corinna Edwards

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Flashing Light Patterns and the Resulting Effect on Heart Rate

Kirsten Kelly

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

How do mutations affecting Iqg1 phosphorylation alter protein-protein interactions?

Caitlin Siehr

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Indoor Localization with Bluetooth Beacons

Adam Evans

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Isolation and Characterization of Novel Halo-Acidophilic Microorganisms Present in Hypersaline Lakes from Western Australia

Ava Hughes

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Isolation and Characterization of Novel Halo-Acidophilic Microorganisms Present in Hypersaline Lakes from Western Australia

Katlyn Lonergan

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Making a Plasma Laboratory for Missouri S&T Students

Monica Gehrig

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Matching Hyper-heuristics and Genetic Programming

Travis Bueter

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Matching Hyper-heuristics and Genetic Programming

Sean Harris

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Maximum Recollected of Random Sequences in Humans, Utilizing a Microcontroller with Light and Sound Sequences

Sonia Franz

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Modulation of Allosteric Regulation of Muscarinic Signaling by Chemical Modification of the Receptor

Dana Lawson

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

New Lithium borate composition for solid state Li-ion battery electrolyte

Darian Johnson

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

On the Existence of Perfect Cuboids

Seth Kitchen

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Phenotype Comparison of two Different IQG1 Mutant Alleles

Madison Mara

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Role of stoichiometry and chemical composition in the properties of amorphous indium-based oxides

Nocona Sanders

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Rotationally inelastic collisions of He and Ar with NaK: Theory and Experiment

Josey Stevens

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Simple Method to Measure Ion Association in Strong Electrolyte Solutions

Isaaac DiGennaro

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Sleep Responses to Starvation and Sleep Deprivation in Drosophila melanogaster

Sahitya Injamuri

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Sleep Responses to Starvation and Sleep Deprivation in Drosophila Melanogaster

Shelby McNeil

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Smart Living: Cyber-Human Smart Environments Design

El Hadji Malick Ndiaye

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Subtype-specific Interactions of Oxotremorine-M with Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors

Melissa Cambre

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Sustainable Harvesting of Solar Energy via Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Alan Landers

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

The Dependence of M2 Muscarinic Receptor Signaling on the Formation of a Disulfide Bridge

Hannah Frye

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

The Effect of Sound Sequence Length on Short Term Memory Retention

Thomas Gremminger

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

The Effects of Increasing the Number of Stimuli Events per Second on Human Visual and Auditory Perception

Joshua Miller

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Transfer of Bacterial Genome into Yeast

Stephanie Kroger

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

User Interfaces in a Collaborative Online Shopping Context

Lindsey Carlson

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Using Pressure Sensors in Ubiquitous Sensing

Ashley Painter

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Variability of MEGA Brands U.S.A. Gold #2 Pencil Lead Resistivity

Rachel Hendrix

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Visualization for hyper-heuristics

Lauren Kroenung

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Visualization for hyper-heuristics

Luke Simon

Upper Atrium/Hall

9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Causation: Hume’s Concern and Kant’s Response

Nelson Shreve

Meramec Room

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Invariant Function Objects in FREEDM Distributed Grid Intelligence

Daniel Grooms

St. Pat's B

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Marcel Aymé's Wartime Journalism

Emily Weigel

Meramec Room

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Laser Disposition -- Mass Flow Sensor

George L. Holmes Jr.

St. Pat's B

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Putt for Show, Drive for Off-Course Dough?

Arielle Bodine

Meramec Room

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Fabrication and evaluation of polylactide/bioactive glass composites for tissue engineering applications

Shayan Sazdar

St. Pat's B

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

The Trouble with Lying: An Empirical Study of the Interaction Between Agreeableness, Lie Type, and Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors

Kelly Payton

Meramec Room

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Axial Flux Motor

Allysa Standeven

St. Pat's B

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Synthetic Biology Approach to Making Drought Tolerant Bradyrhizobium japonicum

Natalie Holste

Meramec Room

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Process Intensification of Biodiesel Production via Supercritical Transesterification

Sean Tennyson

St. Pat's B

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Analysis of Cellular Secretion via NMR and Toroid Cavity Probes

Sierra Herndon

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

Harriet Lumula

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Application of in vivo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Toroid Cavity Detectors to Improve Quality and Availability of Medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Robert Block

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Application of In-Memory Technology to Support Data Visualization in Big Data Context: ERP Simulation Case

Thomas Cooper

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Boundary-Layer Transition for High Speed, Hypersonic Flight

Thomas Knight

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Building Better Soybeans with B. japonicum

Samantha Huckuntod

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Climate-Response Adaptive Control for Use with Natural Ventilation

John Tegtmeyer

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Computational Simulation of Cement Fluid in Rotational Flows

Nathan Hargrave

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Confining the Date of the Decaturville Structure

Tyler Sundell

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Convolution and Wavelet Neural Networks Applied to EEG Brain-Control Interface

Devin Cornell

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Dissolution Rates of a Bio-active Borate Glass in Water

Angela Grueninger

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Endotoxin Purification using Cationic Nanoparticles

Mason Donnell

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Evaluation of Gamification Techniques in Social Media Environments

Connor Sprague

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Friction Stir Welding

Mitchell Smith

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Green Roof Leachate Water Quality

Katherine Bartels

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Implementation of Robust Data Reduction Techniques to Rapid Millimeter Wave Imaging

Thomas Roth

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Marcel Ayme’s Wartime Journalism

Rachel Miller

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Micro Piezoelectric Windmill

Therese Galbraith

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Micro Piezoelectric Windmill design and optimization

Yahya Anwar Abu-Hijleh

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Modeling of a New Waste-to-Energy Plant Design

Joshua Heath

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Multi-Coil Magneto-Inductive Communications for Wireless Sensor Networks

Justin Hoyt

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Origin of Quartz Clusters in the Rhyolite Dike at Medicine Park, Oklahoma

Michelle Mild

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Plasma Theory for Undergraduate Education

Joseph Hakanson

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Plume Characterization of a Novel Electrically Ignited Solid Propellant

Johnathan Sumpter

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Reading Comprehension Strategies in Chemistry I

Rebekah Harrah

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Synergetic Health Effects of Radon with Electronic Cigarette Vapor

Eric D. Carlson

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Temporal Development of Interpersonal Trust in Dyadic Negotiations

Tyler Knobbe

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Fibrillation Kinetics of Human and Bovine Insulin Fragments and Tailored Peptides

Amer Al-Lozi

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Fibrillation Kinetics of Human and Bovine Insulin Fragments and Tailored Peptides

Amy Snyder

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The use of dynamic light scattering to follow the aggregation of bovine insulin

Kirstin Bier

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Therapy and Workload Analysis in Public Schools

Alyssa McCarthy

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Translating Knowledge: Bees, Migraines, and More from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie

Kelly Dunlap

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Using Pressure Sensors in Ubiquitous Sensing

Ashley Painter

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Utilizing Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Associated Protein 9) as a Genetic Engineering Method to Treat Pulmonary Epithelial Cells from Individuals with Cystic Fibrosis

Matthew Howerton

Upper Atrium/Hall

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

A low-cost rapid prototyping system for microfluidic devices

Ziyan Zhang

St. Pat's B

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Testing of Active Compressions-Decompression Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Elizabeth Robinson

St. Pat's B

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Dynamic Simulation of Entangled Polymers undergoing Deformation

Cody Spratt

St. Pat's B

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM