115. Natalia Weinzierl
Major: Human Physiology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Erin Talbert (Health and Human Physiology)
Modeling Cancer Cachexia in KPP Mice

117. Kaylee Weaver
Major: Human Physiology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Serena Banu Gumusoglu (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
Psychiatric and Obstetric Disease Share Vascular Mechanisms in the RGS2 Knockout Mouse

119. Alexander Williams
Major: Nursing
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentors: Drs. Ruth Grossmann and Clarissa Shaw (Nursing)
The Relationship Between Rejection of Care, Pain, and Delirium in Hospitalized Patients with Dementia

121. Aasthika Das
Majors: Biology, Chemistry
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Bhagirath Chaurasia (Internal Medicine)
Inhibition of FGF13 in adipose tissue increases caveolae density

123. Bailey Goodman
Major: Public Health, Pre-Medicine
Graduation: Spring 2025
Mentor: Dr. Martha Carvour (Internal Medicine)
Epidemiology of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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2. Jacob Andrews
Major: Physics
Graduation: Spring 2025
Mentor: Dr. Jane Nachtman (Physics and Astronomy)
DUNE, Deep Learning for Neutrino Physics

4. Emily Arndt
Majors: History, English and Creative Writing
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Sarah Bond (History)
“There Ain’t No Shame in Looking for a Better World”: The Evolution of Cultural Influence Behind the Folklore of Robin Hood

6. Roxanna Barbulescu
Major: History and Health and Human Physiology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentors: Drs. Elizabeth Heineman and Alyssa Park (History)
"Nobody is Nostalgic for Stalinism, but..." Post-Communist Nostalgia in the Memory of Romanian Immigrants in Iowa

8. Leighton Barnes
Majors: Chemistry, History
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentors: Drs. Elizabeth Yale and Alyssa Park History (History)
Hysterical Women: The Fight for an Expanded British Franchise

10. Nicole Boodhoo
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Gordon F. Buchanan Buchanan (Neurology)
Mortality following induced seizures in amygdala kindled mice: investigation of the corticosterone stress pathway 

12. Tom Bruner
Majors: Physics, Philosophy
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentors: Drs. Jane Nachtman and Yasar Onel (Physics)
Quality Control and Assembly Automation for Upgrades to the CMS Outer Tracker

14. Nina Carnevale
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Rebecca Dodd (Internal Medicine)
Inhibition of the pentose phosphate pathway in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs)

16. Gloria Chang
Major: Psychology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Social and Structural Correlates of Instrumental and Emotional Support Following a Natural Disaster

18. Allison Clark
Major: History
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Stephen Warren (History)
Commodifying the Spirit Lake Massacre: Abbie Gardner Sharp and Her Role in the Settler-Centric Memory of the Event

20. Aditya Desai
Majors: Physics, Economics
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Folland
TBD

22. William Dong
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Kanchna Ramchandran (Internal Medicine)
Heating and artifact testing of a nitinol breast biopsy clip in a high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) environment.

24. Aidan Drozdick
Major: Microbiology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Wendy Maury (Microbiology and Immunology)
Investigation of the Impact of Tim Ubiquitination Site Deletions on Ebolavirus Infection

26. Carter Dwyer
Major: Microbiology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr.  Mary Wilson (Microbiology and Immunology)
Investigating Viability Assays to Monitor Microbicidal Activity Against Leishmania

28. Myles Evangelista
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentors: Drs. Kristan Worthington (Biomedical Engineering) and Christopher Sales (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)
Sprayable biopolymer improves surgical handling of corneal endothelial cell grafts

30. Jordan Ewald
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Graduation: Fall 2022
Mentor: Dr. Melissa Fath (Radiation Oncology)
Novel Lead (203Pb/212Pb) Theranostic Pair Targeting CXCR4 in Small Cell Lung Cancers

32. Hanlong Fan
Major: Psychology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Leyre Castro (Psychology)
Complex Rule Learning in Pigeons and People

34. Olivia Fortman
Major: Microbiology
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Richard Roller (Microbiology and immunology)
Significance of UL51 protein-dynactin interaction

36. Grace Foster
Major: Human Physiology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Gary Pierce (Health and Human Physiology)
Association of resting central pulse-wave analysis hemodynamic parameters with the blood pressure response to exercise

38. Nathan Freesmeier
Major: Biology
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Stipp (Biology)
Targeting cell adhesion to overcome drug resistant melanoma

40. Maunika Gandhamaneni
Major: Chemical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Daniel Weeks (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Features of Proteins That Allow Them to Form Nucleolar Compartments.

42. Brandon Gerhardt
Major: Public Health
Graduation: Fall 2022
Mentor: Dr. Hari Sharma (Health Managment and Policy)
Profit Status and Quality Assurance Assessment Fees in Iowa Nursing Facilities

44. Nicole Gilbert
Majors: History, Psychology
Graduation: May 2023
Mentor: Drs. Alyssa Park and Tyler Priest (History)
Fame and Femininity: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s Public Diplomacy during the Cold War

48. Allison Groux
Major: Health and Human Physiology
Graduation: Fall 2022
Mentor: Dr. Terry Wahls (Internal Medicine, Epidemiology)
Motor Assessment Procedures in the Efficacy of Diet on Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Study

50. Bryan Guevara
Major: Biology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Maurine Neiman (Biology)
Assessing the Effects of Plastics on Sperm Morphology

52. Mary Haag
Majors: Astronomy, Physics
Graduation: Spring 2025
Mentors: Drs. Jane Nachtman and Yasar Onel (Physic and Astronomy)
Cooling System for CMS Barrel Timing Layer Upgrade

54. Audrey Hake
Major: Microbiology
Graduation: Spring 2025
Mentor: Dr. Liliana Radoschevich (Microbiology and Immunology)

Generating a △lmo2839 Mutant in Listeria monocytogenes Using the pMAD and pHoss Plasmids for Allelic Exchange​

56. Izabella Halinowski
Major: Biochemistry
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Pamela Geyer (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Investigating the role of Checkpoint kinase 2 in gamete quality control

58. Daniel Hettrick
Majors: History, Anthropology
Graduation: Fall 2022
Mentors: Drs. Alyssa Park and Stephen Warren (History)
Forced Acculturation and Resistance in Post-Purchase Alaska

60. Talia Hill
Majors: Geoscience, History
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Ashley Howard (History)
A Regional History of Alabama's Black Belt

62. Ashley Hoffa
Major: Speech and Hearing Sciences
Graduation: Spring 2025
Mentor: Dr. Eun Kyung Jeon (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Adult Eustachian Tube Dysfunction: A case study

64. Payton Jaeger
Major: Multidisciplinary Sciences
Graduation: Fall 2023
Mentor: Dr. Queena Lin (Iowa Neurobank Core)
Lewy body Dementia, Parkinson's Disease and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Genetic Correlate Experiment

66. Liv Jewell; Bree Rubel
Majors: Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies; Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies
Graduation: Winter 2023; Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Teresa Mangum (Obermann Center for Advanced Studies)
TBD

68. Joseph Kesteloot
Major: Microbiology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentors: Drs. Lilliana Radoshevich and Aaron Gillman (Microbiology and Immunology)  
Using Allelic Exchange to Generate a Nutrient Acquisition Deficient Mutant (lmo2839) in Listeria Monocytogenes

70. Karah Kluck
Major: Speech and Hearing Sciences
Graduation: Fall 2022
Mentor: Dr. Stewart McCauley (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Experience-based Chunking Shapes Real-time Reading Ability

72. Ben Koester
Majors: Finance, Economics
Graduation: Fall 2022
Mentor: Dr. John Lewis Jr. (Finance)
Why Individual Investors Do Not Use Robo-Advisors

74. Emmeline Kraus
Majors: Environmental Science, Geography
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Drs. Matthew Dannenberg and Susan Meerdink (Geographical and Sustainabiilty Sciences)
Seasonal effects of the fungal pathogen Tubakia iowensis (bur oak blight) on the photosynthetic capacity of infected Quercus macrocarpa (bur oak)

76. Connor Linzer
Major: Human Physiology
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentors: Dr. Jared McLendon and Ryan Boudreau (Internal Medicine)
Sorbs2 regulates smooth muscle phenotype plasticity

78. Kobie Long
Major: Environmental Science
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Swanson (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Identifying Areas of Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange along Camp Cardinal Creek at Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory

80. Madalyn Lovejoy
Majors: Psychology, Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Teresa Treat (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Rape-Supportive and Sociosexual Attitudes among Heterosexual, Bisexual, Asexual and Gay College Men

82. Hailey McCoy-Munger 
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Lori Wallrath (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Identification of potential treatments for the vision disease Retinitis Pigmentosa

84. Bob Pentuic
Major: Environmental Policy
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Ben Swanson (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Camp Cardinal Creek Creek Water Quality

86. Ana Sofia Peraza Muñuzuri
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentors: Drs. Joel Geerling and Silvia Gasparini (Neuroscience)
Nucleus of the solitary tract: molecular ontology and efferent projections

88. Melissa Peters; Emerson Peters
Majors: Physics, Mathematics; Physics
Graduation: Spring 2023; Spring 2025
Mentor: Dr. David Miles (Physics and Astronomy)
Balloons Learning the Accuracy of Magnetic Field Models (BLAMM)

90. Ashley Rhodes
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Graduation: May 2024
Mentors: Emily Witt (Radiation Oncology) and Dr. James Byrne (Radiation Oncology, Biomedical Engineering)
A novel, non-invasive drug delivery device to target bladder cancer

92. Katie Rosol
Major: Psychology
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Rachel McLaren (Communication Studies)
Discussing Disappointments between Parents and Child Relationships

94. Karsyn Rush
Major: Speech and Hearing Sciences
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Inyong Choi (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Neurofeedback Training

96. Yasmina Sahir
Majors: Criminology, Law, and Justice, Social Justice
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Yasmine Ramadan (Arab Studies, French and Italian)
Middle Eastern, North African, and Arab Representation at University of Iowa

98. Noah Sinclair
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Edward Sander (Biomedical Engineering)
Fibroblast to Myofibroblast Conversion in Adipocyte Conditioned Medium

100. Faith Skinner; Ciara Gallen
Majors: Geoscience; Ethics and Public Policy, Geoscience
Graduation: Spring 2024; Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Ben Swanson (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Stage and Discharge Data Analysis for Camp-Cardinal Creek at Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory

102. Alexander Slack
Major: Chemistry
Graduation: Fall 2022 
Mentor: Dr. Xueshu Li (Public Health)
Non-Target Analysis of PCB Metabolites in Serum of Mice Exposed to PCBs Via the Diet During Gestation and Lactation

104. Matthew Speranza
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Michael Schnieders (Biomedical Engineering)
pH-Based Replica Exchange for Amino Acid Model Bias Parameterization

106. Jenna Springer
Major: Psychology, Health Promotion
Graduation: Fall 2022
Mentor: Dr. Michelle Voss (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Physical activity matters: Investigating the relationship between white matter hyperintensities, vascular health, and executive function

108. Yabsira Tekle
Major: Human Health and Physiology
Graduation: 2023
Mentor: Dr. James Davis (Pediatric-Infectious Diseases)
Using the Zebrafish Model to Investigate the Role of Cryptococcal PLB1 in Infection and Dissemination Across the Blood Brain Barrier

110. Sanmati Thangavel; Cally Tucker
Majors: Human Physiology; Biochemistry
Graduation: Spring 2024; Spring 2024
Mentors: Drs. Marcelo Correia and Renata Alambert (Internal Medicine)
ER-stress inhibition protects C57 mice from high fat diet-induced weight gain

112. Jacob Venenga
Major: Human Physiology
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Nathaniel Jenkins (Health and Human Physiology)

Acute, Dose-Dependent Supplementation of AmaTea MAX Improves Psychomotor and Motor Speed: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Trial

114. Zach Vig; Mehdi Assem; Rebekah Brown; Kevin Hall
Majors: Geoscience, Physics; Physics, Mathematics; Physics; Physics
Graduation: Spring 2023; Spring 2023; Spring 2024; Spring 2026 (Grad);
Mentor: Dr. David Miles (Physics and Astronomy)
Detecting Iowa's CO2 in the Stratosphere using the High Altitude Near Infrared Spectroscopy Experiment (HA-NICSE)

116. Amelia Watson
Major: Psychology, Criminology, Law, and Justice
Graduation: Fall 2023
Mentor: Lilly Bendel-Stenzel and Dr. Danming An (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Measuring discrete and global indicators of shyness: A coding system creation

118. Elizabeth Wetzel
Major: Human Physiology, Pre-Medicine
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Anna Stanhewicz (Health and Human Physiology)
E-cigarette flavoring does not differentially reduce microvascular endothelial function in healthy young adults

120. Micah Williams
Major: Psychology
Graduation: Spring 2024
Mentor: Dr. Isaac Petersen (Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Child Externalizing Problems Predicting Later Depressive Symptoms: Comparing Multiple Stressors as Mediators

122. Meghana Yellepeddi
Major: Ethics and Public Policy, Interdepartmental Studies
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Whitney Zahnd (Health Management and Policy)
Cervical Cancer Screening Utilization in Rural FQHCs Across Clinic Characteristics

124. James McMillan
Majors: Public Health, Ethics and Public Policy 
Graduation: Fall 2022
Mentor: Stephanie DiPietro (Sociology and Criminology)
Impact of Violence over the Life Course

126. Pedro Marra
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Graduation: Spring 2023
Mentor: Dr. Gen Shinozaki (Psychiatry)
Metformin use history and genome-wide DNA methylation profile: potential molecular mechanism for aging and longevity