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1 | Katelyn Vaassen (Political Science and International Relations) More Than Water: A Case Study Countering Chinese Influence in Fiji |
2 | Ava Craine (International Relations and Journalism and Mass Communication) Competing Tides: Samoa in the Shifting Dynamics of Global Policy |
3 | Charles Silver (Political Science, Finance, and Economics) Between the Eagle and the Dragon: Palau at the Crossroads of Global Diplomacy |
4 | Connor DeGroote (Political Science, Philosophy) Journey to the East: Nauruan Foreign Policy amidst U.S. - China Competition |
5 | Josie Boyle (English (Publishing) and Communication Studies) Shakespeare in Iowa: Reading and Teaching in the Humanities |
6 | Sarah Guilfoyle (Political Science) The Impact of Regime Type on the Effect of Sanctions on Income Inequality |
7 | Grace Paxton (Physics, Astronomy) Simulating Nuclear Sources in Lunar Environments using Eos and RATPAC |
8 | Abigail Zimmerman (Biology) Investigating Neurodegeneration in Mouse Models of a Rare Neurodevelopmental Syndrome |
9 | Lucy Blissenbach (Education Studies and Human Relations) Investigating the Association between Parent Work Stress and Child Academic Outcomes: A Scoping Review |
10 | Ava Goettel (Exercise Science) Rest activity rhythms and metabolic outcomes of midlife women before and after menopause in Midlife in the United States Study |
11 | Keegan Nissen (Speech and Hearing Science) Impact of Hearing Profiles on Developmental Outcomes: Comparing Children with Unilateral or Bilateral Hearing Loss and Normal Hearing |
12 | Gabriel Postacchini (Computer Science and Mathematics) A New Error Prediction Algorithm for Fully Implicit Runge–Kutta Solvers |
13 | Tate Steig (Interdepartmental Studies) Understanding the Signs, epithelial cancer cell metastasis tags and migration processes |
14 | Connor Baggot (Computer Science/Pre-Med) Dim Light Melatonin Onset and Functional Connectivity in Later Life Adults |
15 | Eva Singh (Computer Science and Engineering) Investigating Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (W-GANs) in Learning 2D Probability Distributions |
16 | Madelyn Grueter (Neuroscience) Comparison of Striatal Neuron Density Across Different Routes of CHPG Administration |
17 | Nathan Fassett (Neuroscience) Investigating sex differences in the dopamine-insulin system |
18 | Rebecca Flint (Biomedical Engineering) Influence of Media Composition and Fibroblast Co-Culture on Morphological and Adipogenic features in Heterotypic Adipose Spheroids |
19 | Katia Janik (Neuroscience) Analysis of 2,2',5,5'-Tetrachlorobiphenyl-4-ol (4-OH-PCB52) in Liver Tissue of Female Adolescent Rats Exposed via Polymeric Implants |
20 | Emma Demuth (Neuroscience) Clinical utility of long-read nanopore-based whole genome sequencing |
21 | Arissa Khan (Physics, Chemistry) OCHRE Rocket: Langmuir Probe to Analyze Plasma in the Magnetosphere |
22 | Megan Miskovic (Neuroscience) Investigating Rodent Sex Differences in the Self-administration of Cocaine |
23 | Isaac O'Toole (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Defining the Role of PAX Paralogs in Uveal Melanoma |
24 | Avery Norman (Geoscience) Geologic Hydrogen Potential of the Midcontinent Rift System in Iowa, USA: Background and Preliminary Research Efforts Using Legacy Data |
25 | Braden Carne (Physics, Astronomy, Math) Electron Behavior Across the Alfvén Surface: Recent Findings from Parker Solar Probe |
26 | Ava Hunt (Neuroscience) Exploring the Associations Between White Matter Hyperintensities and Spatial Navigation Performance in Non-Demented Older Adults |
27 | Hana Burkart (Computer Science and Engineering) Investigating Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) in Learning One-Dimensional Manifolds Embedded in Two-Dimensional Space |
28 | Emma Pickett (Biology) Maternal and Fetal Liver Gene Expression Responses to Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS) Exposure in Mice. |
29 | Landon Moran (Mathematics) Developing Technical and Engineering Skills for DUNE |
30 | Landen Freeman (Physics, Math) Neutrino Oscillation and the Mass Ordering Problem at JUNO |
31 | Vincent Ruiz (Neuroscience) Prenatal Exposure to PFOS Alters Behavior, Vasculature and Myelination in Mouse Offspring |
32 | Abdul Quraishi (Chemistry BA) Assessing Fluoride Concentrations in Iowa's Groundwater and Drinking Water: Implications for Public Health and Water Management |
33 | Olivia Sassman (Neuroscience) Role of acid-sensing ion channel 1A (ASIC1A) in stress-induced mechanisms of opioid tolerance |
34 | Brandon Cole (Biomedical Sciences) TGF-beta Suppresses Expression of CoA Synthesis Enzymes |
35 | Savannah Downing (Music Therapy and Psychology) Music-Assisted Relaxation for Stress Management in Pediatric Oncology |
36 | Ryan Dunn (Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics) Study of Hybrid Neutrino Detector Deployment for Weapons Test Verification |
37 | Parker Nicks (Chemistry, Math) Isolation of a Thorium Peroxide Complex to Model High Activity Speciation |
38 | Marissa Majewski (Chemistry) Tuning Florescence with Boron |
39 | Nicholas Cory (Human Physiology) Identify and prioritize candidate cytoskeletal adapter proteins for heart therapy. |
40 | Neil Manickam (Psychology) 16p11.2dp/+: A Microduplication with Macro Implications |
41 | Audrey Coleman (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) The Role of TFAP2c in Tumorigenesis and Progression in HER2+ Breast Cancer |
42 | Isabella Holtze (Cinema) FAKERS CLUB: Fanny and Calvin |
43 | William Sprengelmeyer (Biology) 3D Scanning and Publishing Paleontological Collections: Dolly the Mastodon |
44 | Kristin To (Computer Science) Using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for Cultural Access at the Stanley Museum |
45 | Mayra Gomez (Political Science) The Iowa Vital Voices Project: Participatory action research to promote Latino civic engagement, political voice, and community health |
46 | Kathit Patel (Biomedical Sciences) Investigating Lateral Hypothalamic Area and Periventricular Hypothalamus Mediated Thirst. |
47 | Erin Morrow (Health Studies) Engaging Rural Communities to Understand Psychosocial Stress Impacting Brain Health in Latino Middle-Aged and Older Adults |
48 | Samuel Buman (Political Science) Are Terrorists Using Generative AI to Spread Propaganda? |
49 | Riley Rosenmeyer (Neuroscience) Developing Novel Endometrial Cancer Drug Treatments using Patient-Derived Xenograft Models In-Vivo and In-Vitro |
50 | Kassandra Sigafus (Biology) Is ABCF-1 the Missing Link in the RNA Processing Body Assembly Pathway in C. elegans? |
51 | Katie Noll (Music Therapy) The Role of the Pelvic Floor in Respiration: Considerations for Brass Pedagogy |
52 | Noura Ibrahim (public health) Maternal Health in Migrant Communities (public health related) |
53 | Annika Ellis (Nursing) Profiling verbal interactions between persons with nursing home staff and persons with dementia |
54 | Kynan Renshaw (Human Physiology) Infant Safe Sleep Practices of Rural Iowa Adolescents |
55 | Jack Olson (Environmental Science (Hydrology)) Bank Erosion Evaluation of Camp Cardinal Creek |
56 | Taylor Lawrence (Microbiology) Identifying regulators of the S. aureus superoxide dismutases |
57 | Leah Aitchison (Health and Human Physiology) Patient and Provider's Perceived Acceptability of an Exercise is Medicine Protocol |
58 | Samuel Lindgren (Neuroscience) The role of basolateral amygdala-medial entorhinal cortex pathway in memory strength and precision |
59 | Ava Nollen (Japanese, History) Beyond Banh Mi: Vietnamese Entrepreneurship in New Orleans from the Fall of Saigon through Hurricane Katrina, 1975-2011 |
60 | Calla Brunkan (History and Social Studies Secondary Education) Letters from the Heart and Mind: The Vietnam War Correspondence Between Dick and Linda Kerber |
61 | Delaney Sondgeroth (Biomedical Engineering) Automated Analysis of Kidney Structure using Scanning Electron Microscopy and Deep Learning |
62 | Sophia Heim (Environmental Science) Voluntary Oral Dosing of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Mice: A Refinement of Traditional Gavage Techniques |
63 | Alexandra Gutierrez (Public Health) Counting Astrocytes: A Flow Cytometry Screen for Culture Purity |
64 | Piper Sandage (History) John Paston and His Sons: Knighthood |
65 | Justin Weber (History) Virgin Troops, Maiden Cities, Monstrous Men: Gender, Siege Conduct & Rhetoric During the English Civil Wars |
66 | Grace Tesene (Biomedical Engineering) Partial alternative splicing of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase in carriers of rs75017182 explains modest association between the variant and severe toxicity to 5-FU relative to other biomarkers |
67 | Ellie Felderman (History and Ancient Civilizations) Politics and the City: The New Yorker’s Editorial Response to the Rise of Political Consciousness Among Audiences. |
68 | Fiona Holmes (Astronomy, Applied physics) Effects of Grain Size On Visible/Near Infrared Signals In Feldspar-Bearing Terrains On Mars. |
69 | Leah Stringer (History, Religious Studies) "A perfect pattern of Christianity": Good, Christian Wives and Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain |
71 | Tobias Wood (History / Secondary Education) Lost in Translation: The Peace Corps and Postcolonial Language Politics in Indonesia |
72 | Michael Danos (History, Philosophy, Ethics and Public Policy) Oh Kinsmen!: Federal Surveillance and the Search for Black Radical Unity, 1918-1924 |
73 | Brett Wasick (Physics) Erbium Doped PbWO4 Thin Films for Applications in Quantum Repeaters |
74 | Disha Chawla (Biology) 16p11.2 Deletion in Male Mice leads to Impaired Placentation Detrimental to Fetal Growth |
75 | Minou Emmad (Physics, CS, Math) Protonation Coupling in Zinc Finger–DNA Recognition Explored by Polarizable CpHMD |
76 | Caden Noeller (Mechanical Engineering & Mathematics) Evolution of Human Trust in Artificial Intelligence |
77 | Vivian Odubasa (Microbiology and Global Health) The role of PFAS exposure in male partners in pregnancy outcomes. |
78 | Bailey Newberry (Health Promotion) Maternal Brain and Behavior in a Model of Chronic Gestational IL-17 |
79 | Chiara Dusanek (Music Therapy) Legacy Project Songwriting for Families Grieving Loss from Substance Use Disorder |
80 | Emily Formella (Biomedical Engineering) The role of mechanotransduction pathways in chorioretinal cell response to simulated microgravity |
81 | Matieis Mayes (Double major: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Human Physiology) Generation of a novel iPSC tool to understand the club-cell specific role of CFTR in the airway epithelium |
82 | Nina Osborne (Geographical and Sustainability Science; Environmental Policy and Planning) Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and Temperature on Leaf Spectral Reflectance in Quercus macrocarpa |
83 | Liberty Nyberg (Microbiology, pre-pharmacy) Knockdown of Brf1 dependent RNA polymerase III activity causes differential expression of transcripts during MHV68 infection |
84 | Emily Roberts (Microbiology and Music performance) The Role of Calprotectin in Nutritional Immunity: Inflammatory Dynamics During Campylobacter Infection |
85 | Nikolas Vinovich (Physics, Statistics, Mathematics) Timing Calibration in the Eos Hybrid Neutrino Detector |
86 | Darren Timmerman (Applied Physics) Large-Scale Multi-Emitter Tracking for Temperature-Dependent Photoluminescence |
87 | Nancy Nahra (Computer Science, Mathematics) Investigating Diffusion Models in Learning and Reconstructing Two-Dimensional Probability Distributions |
88 | Paige Liebrecht (Environmental Science) Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 and temperature on photosynthetic capacity in bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) |
89 | Abby McLeod (Neuroscience) Effects of viral and genetic strategies on synaptic microcircuitry |
90 | Augustin Heitman (Physics, Astronomy, Math) A Comparative Analysis of Timing Data from a Hybrid Neutrino Detector Between Two Media |
91 | Kelsey Klassen (Speech and Hearing Science) Reading Motivation and Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with Hearing Loss and Typical Hearing |
92 | Seighin McElderry (Biology) Music and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Scoping Review |
93 | Heidi Du (Biomedical Sciences) Parents’ Trait Anger and Mental Health Symptoms Predict Hostile Representations of Their Children |
94 | Rachel Preves (Psychology) Early Parental Affect, Child Responsiveness, and Toddler Internalization |
95 | Sean Strand (Biology) Implications of Fascin During Drosophila Oogenesis |
96 | Grace Gutzman (Microbiology) Dietary intake is a determinant of the course of disease and the inflammatory response in a murine model of visceral leishmaniasis |
97 | Abigail Edwards (Biomedical Engineering) Assessing Skill from Behaviors Analyzed in Videos of Knee Arthroscopy Authors: Abigail Edwards, Geb Thomas, Evan Williams, Steven Long, Richard VanTienderen, Donald D. Anderson |
99 | Jamison Stone (History) The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak 1965 and the Critical Turning Point in Disaster Legislation. |
100 | Ryley Blake (Biology) Impact of Heat on Physical and Physiological Characteristics of Candida albicans Biofilms |
101 | Madeline Broghammer (Microbiology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Deep mutational scanning of the HIV-1 capsid protein |
102 | Mia Zdionica (Human Physiology) Interferon Regulatory Factor 6 Influences Epidermal Differentiation |
103 | Vamsi Challa (Biomedical Sciences and Physics) GDF15 Signaling Through GFRAL Mediates Metabolic Improvements in Response to Mitochondrial Stress |
104 | Allison Stolte (Microbiology) Investigating Novel Entry Inhibitor Efficacy During Filovirus Glycoprotein-mediated Infection |
105 | Blake Etringer (Economics, Political Science) Disasters, Migration, and Violence Lab: Disaster Response in Asian Nations |
106 | Brendyn Little (Astronomy and Physics) Revisiting Stellar Populations of Low-Extinction Fields in the Galactic Bulge |
107 | Lauren Smith (Neuroscience, Anthropology) Lack of Central Serotonin Neurons Alters Respiratory Responses to CO? in a Mouse Model of Epilepsy |
108 | Seren Castellano (Biology and Anthropology) Unraveling Ribbon Worm Diversity: Biodiversity and Systematics of Antarctic Nemertea |
109 | Jacqueline Ott (Health and Human Physiology) Understanding the mechanistic pathway in which TGF-b drives metabolic dysfunction |
110 | Abdul Quraishi (Chemistry BA) Exploring How Undergraduate Chemistry Labs Foster Science Practice Competencies |
111 | Tyler Draayer (Biology (Genetics and Biotechnology), Pre-Medicine) Does Oxidative Stress Cause Immune Cell Degranulation in Osteoarthritic Synovium |
112 | Elleri Herman (Human Physiology) Time-of-Day Influences on Seizure Severity and Mortality in Bmal1 Knockout Mice |
113 | Josephine Norris (Psychology) College Students Underperceive Same-Sex Peers’ Use of Cannabis-Related Protective Behavioral Strategies |
114 | Ella Schlueter (Chemistry, Sociology) Decreased Fetal Movement Association with Adverse Maternal and Child Outcomes |
115 | Maxwell Shumaker (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology BS, Chemistry BA) Identification of mis-regulated genes in a fruit fly model of the vision disorder Retinitis Pigmentosa |
116 | Amya Saxena (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Pre-Med track)) Treating a Fruit Fly Model of Muscular Dystrophy with TGFbeta Pathway Inhibitors |
117 | Noah Beem (Environmental Bioscience and Geoscience) Avian Abundance and Diversity in Ashton Prairie |
118 | Alex Bock (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology BS) Quantification of photoreceptor loss in mouse models of KCNV2 retinopathy |
119 | Na'lLa Clarkson (Therapeutic Recreation and African American Studies) Returns and Registrations: An Analysis of Gradual Abolition ? Paperwork in Cumberland County? |
120 | Jiya Patel (Neuroscience) ABO Blood Types and Patterns in Acute Stroke Population: Preliminary Analyses |
121 | Nathan Barlow (Biomedical Science) Smoking Contributes to the Structural Component of Higher Aortic Stiffness Independent of COPD Status Among Older Adults |
122 | Sophia Friton (German, Global Health) Exploring Transportation for Older Adults in Johnson County through the JCLC 2024 Survey |
123 | Saina Narsian (Neuroscience) Impact of Seizures on the Arousal Response to CO2 |
124 | Jacob Bowen (Psychology) Pigeons’ behavior in contingent and non-contingent reinforcement schedules: Do they understand the difference? |
125 | Caleb Powers (Psychology) The role of action-outcome contingency in pigeons’ understanding of agency |
126 | Olivia Heller (Biochemistry) Roles of tRNA splicing enzymes in Infection |
127 | Bailey Vergara (Journalism and Mass Communication) Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding Generative AI Usage in Newsrooms Among College Journalism Students |
128 | Khushi Patel (Public Health) Sleep Dependent Consolidation of Visuospatial memory |
129 | Adriana Castellano (Marketing, Pre-Law) "Tentacle Tales: How Genome Architecture and Nutrient Availability Shape Tissue Regeneration in a Freshwater Snail” |
130 | Bahaaaldin Mohammad (Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering) A Computational Pipeline for Reconstructing and Visualizing Advanced MRI Data Using BART |
131 | Kylen Phillips (Theatre Arts, Screenwriting Arts) Duality, a short film by Kylen Phillips |
132 | Julia Correia (3D Design) Indigenous Brazilian Weaving: Colors and Materials |
133 | Tara Joiner (3D Design) Exploring Geometric Forms through Weaving |
134 | Sarah Dockery-Jackson (Accounting, Entrepreneurship, 3D Design) Hand Woven Textiles for Home Decor |
135 | Shreyas Natarajan (Biomedical Sciences) AI Image Analysis of Intraoperative Laparoscopic Gallbladder Surgery |
136 | Preethika Naveen (Biomedical Engineering) The Interaction Between Serotonin, Dopamine, Histamine, and Norepinephrine-related Drug Classes on Osteoarthritis Diagnosis |