Briggs students take part in summer research symposium
August 4, 2020
Each summer, the Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experience (Mid-SURE) showcases research and creative activity of hundreds of undergraduate students from across the region. This year, in place of the large in-person event, a week-long digital exhibition was organized.
Students were required to submit a video presentation of less than five minutes, which was available to the public for about a week. Topics ranged from agriculture and plant sciences, to education, to psychology, to toxicology. Students would receive feedback from an evaluation panel for further professional growth.
The forty Briggsies (of a total of about 260 presenters from across the university and other regional research universities) who presented this year are listed below, along with their research titles. Several of the presenters were mentored by LBC faculty members. Find presentation abstracts in the Mid-SURE 2020 program booklet.
We are proud of our students' aptitude and involvement in undergraduate research. Not only does it exhibit their curiosity and drive, but it introduces them to the world of professional scientific presentations.
- Serene Abu-Hamdan
- EDUCATIONAL METHODS FOR SUSTAINABILITY AWARENESS IN THE STEM FIELD
- LBC Biology faculty member Shahnaz Masani as research mentor
- Zeeba Ali
- MOVEMENT VIGOR IN INDIVIDUALS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA
- Shakhlo Aminova
- ENGINEERING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FOR PANCREAS-SPECIFIC DRUG DELIVERY
- Cameron Bennett
- FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ENDOTHELIN LIGAND GENES IN THE ZEBRAFISH NEURAL CREST CELL POPULATION
- Grace Bonnema, Tushya Mehta
- THE CURIOUS CASE OF ANIMAL COMPUTERS: A CASE STUDY OF HOW ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI INFLUENCED RESEARCH IN MUSIC COGNITION
- Bailey Bowcutt
- INVESTIGATION OF FALSE-NEGATIVE PROPORTION AND OTHER ETIOLOGIES FOR
SUSPECTED SARS-COV-2 PATIENTS IN WYOMING
- INVESTIGATION OF FALSE-NEGATIVE PROPORTION AND OTHER ETIOLOGIES FOR
- Michael Cadigan
- EXPRESSION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A FLAVOPROTEIN OF UNKNOWN FUNCTION IN BACTERIAL MICROCOMPARTMENTS
- Marissa Cortright
- PATIENT AND PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE INVASIVENESS OF PSYCHIATRIC
ELECTROCEUTICAL INTERVENTIONS - LBC HPS faculty member Robyn Bluhm as research mentor
- PATIENT AND PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE INVASIVENESS OF PSYCHIATRIC
- Nina Darwich
- ASSESSING CAPACITY TO CONSENT IN PATIENTS WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE:
EMPIRICAL RESEARCH AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS - LBC HPS faculty member Robyn Bluhm as research mentor
- ASSESSING CAPACITY TO CONSENT IN PATIENTS WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE:
- Manasi Desai
- EFFECT OF TAU ON NEURODEGENERATION IN C. ELEGANS
- Jessica Fattal
- ABNORMAL PUPIL LIGHT REFLEX RELATES TO NEGATIVE SYMPTOM SEVERITY IN
SCHIZOPHRENIA
- ABNORMAL PUPIL LIGHT REFLEX RELATES TO NEGATIVE SYMPTOM SEVERITY IN
- Samantha Finkbeiner
- USING DEEPLABCUT FOR 3D MARKERLESS POSE ESTIMATION IN HUMAN INFANTS
- Brooke Harper
- EFFECTS OF PARASITISM ON REPRODUCTION IN THREESPINE STICKLEBACK (GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS)
- Shruthi Ilango
- ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ESTRADIOL LEVELS, PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, AND
DISORDERED EATING SYMPTOMS DURING PUBERTY IN GIRLS
- ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ESTRADIOL LEVELS, PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, AND
- Akanksha Kapur, Milena Sinistaj, Nikita Nambiar
- DO WE LOVE LITERATURE THE SAME WAY?: INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS OF READING PATTERNS ACROSS MAJORS
- Benjamin Kessler
- EXPLORING THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLES OF UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS USING C. ELEGANS
- Valerie Khaykin
- IDENTIFYING A NEURAL PATHWAY THAT REGULATES SOCIAL PLAY BEHAVIOR IN JUVENILE MALE AND FEMALE RATS
- Hayley Kuhn
- SEX AND STRESS EFFECTS ON GENE EXPRESSION IN A MODEL OF POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN RATS
- Grace Kuza
- SELF-REPORTED VOICE USE IN STUDENT SINGERS: DOES THE METHOD OF REPORTING MATTER?
- Elliot Majlessi
- BENCHMARKING COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF DIAGNOSTIC SRNA TARGETS
- Anusha Mamidipaka
- LISTENERS WITHIN THE SAME CULTURE CAN MATCH SHARED STORIES GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO MUSICAL EXCERPTS
- Selena Martinez
- NO DIFFERENCE IN LEAF RETENTION IN SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC LINDERA BENZOIN
- Benjamin Maves
- GAMMA STRENGTH FUNCTION FOR CALCULATING NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTIONS
- Jaclyn Melasi, Abby Wittkamp
- A GENETIC ANALYSIS ON THE INVASIVE SUCCESS OF CALIFORNIAN BRASSICACEAE SPECIES
- Hope Meyers
- USING A SPLIT-POT SYSTEM TO STUDY LOCALIZED VS. DYNAMIC ROOT RESPONSES IN SWITCHGRASS (PANICUM VIRGATUM)
- Brooklynn Murray
- ENHANCING CUE SALIENCE AND CONTEXT-INDUCED REINSTATEMENT IN A MODEL OF COCAINE SEEKING IN MICE
- Abi Otwell
- EFFECTS OF TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION ON THE PSYCHE AND MENTAL HEALTH OF ADOPTEES
- Nathaniel Pascual
- DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSFORMATION-FREE METHOD TO GENERATE THERAPEUTIC DNA VECTORS
- Ashley Peer
- INVESTIGATION OF PLASMID-MEDIATED RESISTANCE IN THE HUMAN GUT MICROBIOME
- Heather Sayles
- THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HEMORRHAGE AND CONGESTION IN THE UTERUS OF MEXICAN WOLVES
- Ayla Schwartz
- THE EFFECT OF RADIOGRAPHIC ORIENTATION ON ANALYSIS OF HARRIS LINES
- Madeline Shank
- WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?? FACULTY PERSPECTIVE ON ULA TIME USAGE IN LYMAN BRIGGS COLLEGE CHEMISTRY COURSES
- LBC Chemistry faculty member Rachel Barnard as research mentor
- Simran Singh
- DISCOVERING ANTIBIOTICS IN NEW ZEALAND USING BOTH A METAGENOMIC AND CULTURE BASED APPROACH
- Anvita Suneja
- MOTIVATIONS TO USING FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TWITTER AND TIKTOK PREDICTING FUTURE USE INTENTIONS AND PROBLEMATIC USE
- Dejah Wakefield
- INVESTIGATING THE VASCULAR EFFECTS OF CLOPIDOGREL: A REVIEW OF CURRENT LITERATURE
- Michael Wischer
- MECHANISMS OF HOST-DERIVED GLUTATHIONE IMPORT AND CATABOLISM IN ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS
- Aven Zitzelberger
- ALGORITHYMS FOR COMPLETE PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING DURING SPACEFLIGHT