The Office of Student Research and Creative Activity (OSRCA) recently announced the Student/Faculty Collaborative Research awardees.
OSRCA offers three types of student/faculty collaborative grants: undergraduate small grants (up to $550 supplies budget); undergraduate student/faculty collaborative research program grants ($3,000 stipend plus up to $550 supplies budget); and graduate student/faculty collaborative research program grants ($3,000 stipend plus up to $550 supplies budget).
According to OSRCA: These grants are designed to support projects that provide students with meaningful research or creative activity experiences. Students will assume the principal role for the projects, including writing their own proposals, conducting research or working on creative activities and reporting results. Faculty members mentor the students throughout the process, but students are responsible for completing the projects.
The spring 2017 undergraduate small grant awardees are:
- Allison Clausen
Faculty Mentor: Robert Mitchell
Project: Chemicals of Wild Lupin
Hometown: Wauwatosa
Year in School: Third Year
Major: Biology
- Megan DeCoster
Faculty Mentor: Sabrina Mueller-Spitz
Project: Quantitative PCR Method to Detect Lactobacillus or Pedococcus in Beer
Hometown: Chilton
Year in School: Senior
Major: Microbiology
- Alexander Gallo
Faculty Mentor: Eric Matson
Project: Investigations on Microbial Interactions in the UWO Biodigester
Hometown: Waterford
Year in School: Junior
Major: Biology with and emphasis in cell and molecular
- Alyssa Herman
Faculty Mentor: Pascale Manning
Project: “Between Men”: Homosociality and Homoerotics in Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam
Hometown: Omro
Year in School: Senior
Major English with a minor in Linguistics
- Phillip Kaltenbach
Faculty Mentor: Benjamin Hallett
Project: Raman Spectrometry Analysis of Penokean Mountain Building Event
Hometown: Oshkosh
Year in School: Junior
Major: Geology
- Brynne Nogard
Faculty Mentor: Stewart Cole
Project: The Double Colonization of Women in Post-Colonial Ireland in the Novels of Edna O’Brien
Hometown: Wisconsin Dells
Year in School: Junior
Major: English, Minors in Business Administration and Creative Writing
- Nathan Nozzi
Faculty Mentor: Robert Stelzer
Project: A Longitudinal Assessment of the Fish Community Composition of Waukau Creek, Wisconsin
Hometown: Winnebago, Illinois
Year in School: Junior
Major: Biology
- Nicholas Pierson
Faculty Mentor: Gail Panske
Project: Responsive Painting
Hometown: Appleton
Year in School: Junior
Major: BFA Studio and BFA Design double emphasis
- Monica Preston
Faculty Mentor: Eric Hiatt
Project: Preservation of Oligocene (ca. 28 Ma) Invertebrate Marine Fauna, Otekaike Formation, South Island, New Zealand
Hometown: Marysville, California
Year in School: Senior
Major: Geology
- Travis Stoeger
Faculty Mentor: Toivo Kallas
Project: Modified Synthase Gene for β-pinene Jet-Fuel Production in Cyanobacteria
Hometown: Appleton
Year in School: Junior
Major: Chemistry
- Anna Sweeney
Faculty Mentor: Eric Hiatt
Project: Dolomitization Events in Neoproterozoic Cap Carbonate Rocks, Mato Grosso State, Brazil
Hometown: Madison
Year in School: Senior
Major: Geology
The 2017-2018 Undergraduate Student/Faculty Collaborative Research Program awardees are:
- Tre Blohm
Faculty Mentor: Jordan Karsten, Anthropology
Project: Microbial Pathogenic Research of Presence/Absence of Tuberculosis in Human Skeletal Samples from Ukraine
Hometown: Weyauwega
Year in School: Senior
Major: Biology and Anthropology
- Blair Braun
Faculty Mentor: Sarah Kucker, Psychology
Project: A Closer Look at the Underlying Cognitive Processes of Language Development of Children in Low Socioeconomic Status with Language Delays
Hometown: Kennewick, Washington
Year in School: Senior
Major: Psychology
- Danielle Dolinac
Faculty Mentor: Sabrina Mueller-Spitz, Biology
Project: Role of Extracellular DNA in the Biofilms of Deinococcus aquaticus
Hometown: North Fond du Lac
Year in School: First year
Major: Microbiology with a minor in Astronomy
- Zachary Heimark
Faculty Mentor: Michelle Michalski, Biology
Project: Observing How the Natural Variance in Reproductive Output of Brugia pahangi in Culture Can Predict Reproductive Behavior in vivo
Hometown: Oshkosh
Year in School: Junior
Major: Biology Healthcare Science
- Ryan Koehler
Faculty Mentor: James Paulson
Project: The Connection between Histone H3 Modification and Mitotic Chromosome Condensation
Hometown: Oshkosh
Year in School: Sophomore
Major: Chemistry – Biomolecular Science
- Emma Link
Faculty Mentor: Larry Herzberg, Philosophy
Project: Dead to the World: Rape, Unconsciousness, and Social Media: A Critical Analysis
Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina
Year in School: Junior
Major: Philosophy and English
- Markus Oechsner
Faculty Mentor: Lixin Jiang, Psychology
Project: Coping Mediates and Optimism Moderates the Relationship between Work Overload and Stress Responses: A Moderated Mediation Analysis
Hometown: Hartford
Year in School: Junior
Major: Psychology
- Laurana Rudenas
Faculty Mentor: Courtney Kurtz, Biology
Project: Expression of Interleukin-6 During the Development of Obesity in Ground Squirrels
Hometown: Harrisville
Year in School: Junior
Major: Biology Healthcare Science
- Carter Touchet:
Faculty Mentor: Bryan Engelhardt, Economics
Project: Acting Rational?: A Study on Whether Wisconsin’s Accountability Report Cards Have an Effect on Which Schools Low-Income Students Attend
Hometown: Appleton
Year in School: Sophomore
Major: Broadfield Social Science and Secondary Education
The 2017-2018 Graduate Student/Faculty Collaborative Research Program awardees are:
- Alexandria Ebert
Faculty Adviser: Anca Miron
Project: Inducing Growth Mindset in Young Adults Caring for Persons Having Dementia
Hometown: Appleton
Year in School: First-Year Graduate Student
Major: Masters of Science in Psychological Research (Cognitive and Affective emphasis)
- Roland Hernandez
Faculty Mentor: Gregory Kleinheinz, Engineering Technology
Project: Detection of Escherichia coli in Northern Lake Michigan Waters Using qPCR Method C
Hometown: Monona
Year in School: First-Year Graduate Student
Major: Biology
- Jasmeet Kaur
Faculty Mentor: Anna Filipova, Public Administration
Project: Assessing the Health Literacy Knowledge and Experience of Nursing Students
Hometown: Neenah
Year in School: Second-Year Graduate Student
Major: MPA
- Klaire Laux
Faculty Mentor: Stephen Bentivenga, Biology
Project: Improving Diagnosis of a Potentially Lethal Disease in Wisconsin
Hometown: Menasha
Year in School: First Year Graduate Student
Major: M.S. in Microbiology
- Amanda Prigan
Faculty Mentor: Greg Adler, Biology
Project: Survey of Tick-Borne Pathogens in Wisconsin
Hometown: Slinger
Year in School: Second-Year Graduate Student
Major: Microbiology
- Molly Schumacher
Faculty Mentor: Paula McNiel, Nursing
Project: Impact of YMCA’s Livestrong Program on Cancer Patients and Survivors
Hometown: Oshkosh
Year in School: Third-Year Graduate Student
Major: Doctorate of Nursing Practice
- Paige Smith
Faculty Adviser: M. Elsbeth McPhee
Project: Assessing Levels of Methylmercury in the Endangered Whooping Crane
Hometown: Rosendale
Year in School: First-Year Graduate Student
Major: Biology
- Michelle Sonsalla
Faculty Adviser: Courtney Kurtz, Biology
Project: Examination of Adipose Immune Changes in Pre-Hibernating 13-Lined Ground Squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus)
Hometown: Baraboo
Year in School: First-Year Graduate Student
Major: Master of Science in Biology
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