Briggsies showcase winning research at University Undergraduate Research & Arts Forum
May 1, 2024 - Tiffany Werner
The 26th annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) took place on Friday, April 12, 2024 at the Breslin Center and online, April 11-12. The hybrid event featured poster, oral, performance, film, and exhibit presentations with in-person activities at the Breslin Center and virtual activities hosted on Symposium by ForagerOne.
Over 1,000 students participated, 224 of whom were Briggsies. LBC had the most winners of any college with 36 students winning an award for their research presentation. View the UURAF 2024 photo album to see our students presenting and at the award ceremony.
UURAF provides Michigan State undergraduate students with an opportunity to showcase their scholarship and creative activity. Held each spring, the symposium brings together an intellectual community of undergraduate students to share their work with faculty, staff, peers, and external audiences.
“Research is a vibrant part of the LBC student experience, so we were excited to have an amazing turnout with many winners,“ said Dr. Ryan Sweeder, the LBC associate dean of research and faculty affairs. “This event is a reflection of not only the significant curiosity, commitment and dedication of our students, but also a reflection of the mentorship of many faculty, post-docs, and graduate students from departments across the university who have enhanced the experience of our students.”
First-place presentations in each category section received a $100 prize and were eligible to submit their work to win the grand prize of $500, which will be announced in June 2024.
Lyman Briggs College 2024 UURAF first-place winners:
Marine Avequin, “How do we process music? The role of instrument identification in determining thematic responses to music pieces”, Psychology, poster-onsite
Charlotte Best, “Anesthetics and myelin decompaction in adult mice”, Neuroscience, poster-onsite
Grace Best, “Assessing the effectiveness of DIY 2-liter black light moth traps for educational use”, Environmental Science and Natural Resources, poster-onsite
Julia Burgess, “The effect of confidence decision strategy, and memory strength on eyewitness identification”, Psychology, poster-onsite
Mary Cottone, “Autonomic nervous system activity in response to emotionally charged images and words”, Psychology, poster-onsite
Bailey Delcamp, “Tumorigenic potential of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and chemoprevention by natural compounds”, Pharmacology and Toxicology, poster-onsite
Caroline Downes, “Conserved somatic mutation in C Kit oncogene in mouse model of breast cancer associated with loss of expression”, Cell Biology Genetics and Genomics, poster-onsite
Caroline Erpelding, “Inhibitory proteins push membrane reentrant loop of intramembrane protease outside the membrane”, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, poster-onsite
Grace Glavich, “Investigating LPG1685’s role as a potential metaeffector for RAVZ”, Microbiology Immunology and Infectious Disease, poster-onsite
Eryn Greuel, “The intersections of race and disability in educational accommodations”, Humanities, oral
Ashley Harlock, “Chronic cocaine effects on ER stress in ventral”, Neuroscience, poster-onsite
Austin Huckins, “Listeria monocytogenes as a vector for cancer immunotherapy”, Microbiology Immunology and Infectious Disease, poster-onsite
Ayush Ippalapelli, “Novel metabolomics data processing workflow for identification of very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and their putative metabolites”, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, poster-onsite
Nia Kepes, “A multivariate meta-analysis for optimizing cell counts when using the mechanical processing of lipoaspirate for regenerative”, Health Sciences, poster-onsite
Joseph Kesto, “She’s going to write her own story”: a mixed-methods study exploring caregivers’ experiences with their children with medical complexities”, Health Sciences, poster-onsite
Yash Khiraya, “Exploring vaginal microbiota variation throughout regions of Michigan”, Nutrition and Food Science, poster-onsite
Brooke Lattner, “Interpreting provider-patient relationships within the pots of community”, Anthropology and Archaeology, poster-onsite
Alexis Litts, “The role of migratory birds in shifting tick trends and lyme disease risk over time”, Microbiology Immunology and Infectious Disease, poster-onsite
Ari Markov, “Reassociating Commingled Skeletal remains: Je’reftheel Cave”, Anthropology and Archaeology, poster-onsite
Latrell Massey, “She’s going to write her own story”: a mixed-methods study exploring caregivers’ experiences with their children with medical complexities”, Health Sciences, poster-onsite
Neha Navathe, “Broadening knowledge of health inequities through art in hospital settings”, Diversity and Interdisciplinary Studies, poster-onsite
Vasudha Nimmagadda, “Engineering extracellular vesicles as gene delivery carriers for type 1 diabetes”, Science Technology Engineering Mathematics, oral
Sahithy Oruganti, “The effect of confidence, decision strategy, and memory strength on eyewitness identification”, Psychology, poster-onsite
Sanjanasri Pothuraju, “Parent-adolescent discrepancies in reports of behavioral health symptoms during a pediatric well-child visit: relationship to functional impairment at one to two year follow-up”, Health Sciences, poster-onsite
Rhea Raut, “Streamlining scientific writing for students: the role of online language simplification tools”, Education, poster-onsite
Anushree Ravi, “Impacts of gut microbiota on child development: a dietary analysis”, Health Sciences, oral
Isabella Rinaldi, “characterization of enteric nerbous system development in spotted GAR (lepisosteus oculatus)”, Integrative and ORganismal Biology, poster-onsite
Kezen Sanchez, “Exploring peer interactions in children’s books featuring characters with autism: a critical analysis of negative peer dynamics”, Communication Arts and Sciences, poster-onsite
Natalie Seitz, “Broadening knowledge of health inequities through art in hospital settings”, Diversity and Interdisciplinary Studies, poster-onsite
Dharshini Senthilkumar, “Preliminary findings of tart cherry supplementation on sleep outcomes”, Nutrition and Food Science, poster-onsite
Heli Sheth, “Identifying patterns of allergen exposure in 12-to-36 month-old children and the gut microbiota at 24 months in a Mihcigan cohort”, Nutrition and Food SCience, poster–onsite
Abby Smith, “UV-induced interactions between per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAs) and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) molecules using maldi-tims-tof mass spectrometry”, Physical Sciences, poster-onsite
Laura Stephan, “Impact of FGF4 on murine ectoplacental cone outgrowth”, Cell Biology Genetics and Genomics, poster-onsite
Justin Strong, “She’s going to write her own story”: a mixed-methods study exploring caregivers’ experiences with their children with medical complexities”, Health Sciences, poster-onsite
Grace Stys, “Lateral entorhinal cortex projections to the nucleus accumbens encode contextual fear memory”, Neuroscience, poster-science
Quynh Tong, “Broadening knowledge of health inequities through art in hospital settings”, Diversity and Interdisciplinary Studies, poster-online