McNair Research Symposium
Learn about the research conducted by McNair Scholars over the summer. The schedule is listed below:
3:00 p.m. Lorynn Hackert
Research Advisor: Dr. Kia Richmond – English
COVID-19: Impacts on Behaviors Among English Students at a Midsized Midwestern University
3:15 p.m. Hannah Kuehnau
Research Advisor: Dr. Yan Ciupak – Sociology
The Effects of Planner-Aided and Mindfulness-Based Positive Psychology Training on College
Students’ Wellbeing and Self-Efficacy During COVID-19
3:30 pm Micah Benjamin
Research Advisor: Dawn Lundin – Nursing
Covid-19 VS. Higher Education: Understanding the Exigencies Through the Student’s Perspectives in Online Learning
3:45 p.m. Kristian Choate
Research Advisor: Dr. Paul Mann – Clinical Lab Sciences
Integration of a Locked Nucleic Acid into Self-Annealing Loop Primers for Optimization of Peptide Nucleic Acid-Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification of IDH1-R132H
4:00 p.m. Katie Durham
Research Advisor: Dr. Jane Harris – Forensic Anthropology
Calculating Maggot Mass Temperature in Covered and Uncovered Human Remains
4:15 p.m. Sophia Rodman
Research Advisor: Dr. Jill Leonard – Biology
Effect of Early Thermal Environment of Subsequent Metabolic Characteristics in Juvenile Brook Trout
4:30 p.m. Mandy Bonesteel
Research Advisor: Dr. Yan Ciupak – Sociology
Corrections Officer Turnover at Marquette Branch Prison During the COVID-19 Pandemic
4:45 p.m. Gwen Murray
Research Advisor: Dr. Joshua Thompson – Mathematics and Computer Science
Geometric Investigations of Mandelbrot Orbit Combinatrics
5:00 p.m. Adan Mulvaney
Research Advisor: Dr. Joshua Ewalt – Communications and Media Studies
“The Program is Lucky to Have Us:” A Deeper Look at the Identity, Dignity, and Gender of the American Girl in Scouting
5:15 p.m. Kayin Iiagan
Research Advisor: Dr. Andy Poe – Mathematics and Computer Science
Agile Development of Android Application for Recycling
5:30 p.m. Baylee McLevis
Research Advisor: Dr. Jane Harris – Forensic Anthropology
Chemical analysis of bullet degradation as the result of exposure to byproducts of human decomposition
5:45 p.m. Weiland Dyer
Research Advisor: Dr. Amber LaCrosse – Psychological Science
Psychoactive Treatments in a Mouse Model of PTSD
6:00 p.m. Colton Gschwandtner
Research Advisor: Dr. Evan Pratt – Chemistry
Interrogation of CB1 and CB2 Receptor Signaling in Living Mammalian Cells
6:15 p.m. Brynn Anderson
Research Advisor: Dr. Maris Cinelli – Chemistry
LC-MS profiling of the nightshade black henbane (Hyocyamus niger) at different growth stages and discovery of new and possibly medicinal alkaloids
6:30 p.m. Bryce Yacos
Research Advisor: Dr. Kia Richmond – English
How Reading Narrative Literature Affects Empathy Among Freshman and Senior Undergraduate Students at a Rural Midwestern Postsecondary Institution
Food Provided (Heavy Hors d'oeuvres)