Office of Undergraduate Research

Session Directory

6th annual creative research symposium

To view the full session schedules, select the session number below and scroll down. 

Please be advised for Sessions 8, 9, and 10 there is a 30 minute Q&A after the last presentation in the session.

If you are looking for a specific presenter and would like to see their presentation abstract, use the Presenter Directory. The Symposium Schedule provides an overview of the agenda for the day.

All Sessions

Time: 9:30 AM

The Impact of Mental Health in Latinx Communities during Crisis

Authors: Angelica Villavicencio
Faculty Mentor(s): Mary Danico

Time: 9:30 AM

Effects of winter annuals on grazing behavior and performance of early weaned calves

Authors: Juan Roque Aguayo
Faculty Mentor(s): Ondieki Gekara

Time: 9:30 AM

Rehabilitation Centers as a Fundamental Challenge to Reduce Chronic Homelessness: A Review of the Literature

Authors: Brianna Melgoza
Faculty Mentor(s): Brian Garcia

Time: 9:45 AM

Transgender Life: How Relationships Happiness Influences Sense of Belonging in Society

Authors: Araselly Romero
Faculty Mentor(s): Norma Leon

Time: 9:45 AM

Investigating the Role of FcγRIIa on Neutrophil Ability to Perform Trogocytosis on Trichomonas vaginalis

Authors: Emely Giron Perdomo
Faculty Mentor(s): Frances Mercer

Time: 9:45 AM

What intersectionality has to say about the oppression of men

Authors: Karina Ortiz Villa
Faculty Mentor(s): Katherine Gasdaglis

Time: 9:45 AM

Understanding developmental and molecular changes that trigger floral organ abscission in Aquilegia coerulea

Authors: Ana Alcaraz
Faculty Mentor(s): Bharti Sharma

Time: 10:00 AM

Predicting Latinx College Student Civic Engagment

Authors: Geovani Munoz
Faculty Mentor(s): Alejandro Morales

Time: 10:00 AM

Infrared Thermal Imaging of Horses in Endurance Rides

Authors: Eric Cruz
Faculty Mentor(s): Cord Brundage

Time: 10:00 AM

Health and Wellbeing of First-Generation Undergraduate Student Leaders

Authors: Marina Alvarado
Faculty Mentor(s): Jose Aguilar Hernandez

Time: 10:00 AM

Utilizing Yeast-two-hybrid as an effective screening method for archaeal lysis mutants

Authors: Robert Manuel
Faculty Mentor(s): Jamie Snyder

Time: 10:15 AM

Substance Use Expectancies; A Look At Motivations and Illicit Substance Preference Among College Students

Authors: Steven Lopez
Faculty Mentor(s): James Sturges

Time: 10:15 AM

The Effect of Environmental Enrichment on the Number of NADPH-d Positive Interneurons in the Dentate Gyrus of the Rat Dorsal Hippocampus

Authors: Zuhayr Khan
Faculty Mentor(s): Glenn Kageyama

Time: 10:15 AM

First phylogenomic analysis of the nudibranch suborder Doridina, using RNA-sequencing data

Authors: Eric Breslau
Faculty Mentor(s): Angel Valdes

Time: 10:30 AM

Populism in Sub-Saharan African Leaders' Speeches

Authors: Alvin Wong
Faculty Mentor(s): Robert Nyenhuis

Time: 10:45 AM

Synthesis of Nickel Catalysis with Bidentate Carbene Ligands

Authors: Briana Arreaga
Faculty Mentor(s): Chantel Stieber

Time: 11:00 AM

Smartphone-based Water Quality Monitoring

Authors: Haocheng Liang
Faculty Mentor(s): Yan Liu

Time: 11:00 AM

Love learning about different cultures? It's good news for your creativity

Authors: Jinfeng Chen
Faculty Mentor(s): Zeynep Aytug

Time: 11:00 AM

Social Learning in Hybridizing Chickadees

Authors: Noel Martinez
Faculty Mentor(s): Elizabeth Scordato

Time: 11:00 AM

Selected poetry

Authors: John Danho
Faculty Mentor(s): n/a