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April 26, 2024
RaCAS Hyflex Oral Presentations
3:45 PM - 5:45 PM
7 Sessions
RaCAS Hyflex Oral Presentations

We are excited to host RaCAS oral presentations in a hybrid format. Here you will find Zoom access links to the HyFlex sessions that are being live-streamed. For the full day's schedule and in-person details visit: https://www.ucdenver.edu/sites/research-day/event-details

President’s Sustainable Solution Challenge Session 1- Environment, Technology, & the Arts
Access Link
https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91309003813
Description

In-Person Location: Student Commons Building 1500 | 9:45- 11:45am 

  1. Josephine Clark, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Two is the Loneliest Number: Depictions of Friendship in Contemporary Western Art
  2. Emily Gyongyosi, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Psychedelic Neuroaesthetics: A review and commentary on neuroaesthetics research and the relationship to the emerging field of psychedelic science.
  3. Sam Hendrickson, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presention: Backstreet Bathory
  4. Jada Martinez, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presention: Detection of 1,4-Dioxane and Tetrahydrofuran in Bacterial Degradation Studies using Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
  5. Seann Smith, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Urban Greenery
  6. Nicholas Takeda Kuroiwa Rangel De Oliveira, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Internet Tragedy: Myth or Mythoi?
  7. Stefanie Varghese, Luis Vargas, & Ruth Hundie, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Exploring How the 2023 El Niño Evolved in the United States, Peru, Ecuador, and Australia: Implications for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Justice.
  8. Trevor Walker, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Mechanical Performance of Mirrored Hypar Umbrella Sandwich Cells Through Compression Testing 

President’s Sustainable Solution Challenge Session 2- Policy, Society, & Community
Access Link
https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/94984979956
Description

In-Person Location: Student Commons Building 1600 | 9:45- 11:30am

  1. McKaylyn (Mac) Ervin, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: “Psilocybin is like a lantern in the forest that shows you the path forward”: Non-Dominant Cultural Members Narrate Wellness Stories and Concerns about Mainstreaming Psilocybin Mushrooms in Colorado
  2. Mercy Kibet, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Black Maternal Health Experiences in Colorado
  3. Courtney Leapley, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Health Disparities in Aggravated Assaults with a Firearm in Colorado
  4. Maleeha Shah, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Maternal Mental Health: A Qualitative Interview Study of Mothers and Maternal Health Providers in the United States
  5. Jessica Valdez, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: AAPI Perceptions of Police in the Age of COVID-19 Hate Crimes
  6. Kasun Wanasinghe, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Investigating properties of Lacto Ferrin and nitrates to incorporate ineco friendly Biological products. 

Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities Session 1
Access Link
https://ucdenver.zoom.us/s/5828051209
Description

In-Person Location: Student Commons Building 2600 | 9:45- 11:00 am

Session Moderator: Sarah Fields, PhD

  1. Janelle Jimenez, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Grieving through Art: Mourning in the Victorian Era
  2. Makayla Oflynn, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Buddhism and its Reputations in Animation, Manga, and Video Games
  3. Leia Rockhold, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: The Impact of Contemporary Antisemitism on Jewish Identity, Presentation, and Personal Security
  4. Jacob Thompson, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Gunslingers: A CU Denver Production
  5. Yu Wei, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Girls defining skateboarding subculture: A case study of skateboarding feminism in Beijing, China

Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities Session 2
Access Link
https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/98737015140
Description

In-Person Location: Student Commons Building 1401 | 9:45- 11:00 am 

Session Moderator: Yang Wang, Phd

  1. Lauren O’Brien, Virtually (HyFlex), 12-minute Oral Presentation: The Kennedy Family Legacy
  2. Madjelyn De Jesus, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: From study participant to research assistant: Experiences of an undergraduate student investigator researching psilocybin use among BIPOC in Colorado
  3. Victoria Harrison, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Tradition and Ink: Exploring Contemporary South Korean Tattoo Art and Artistry
  4. Jordyn Stewart, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Let Us Make Mankind in Our Image: The Relational Evolution of Humanity and God in Renaissance and Baroque Art
  5. Sebastian Zegarra-Pardo, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Work Identities: Deindustrialization and the Manpower Services Commission in Britain, 1973-1987
Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities Session 3
Access Link
https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/95861833243
Description

In-Person Location: Student Commons Building 2000 | 9:45- 11:00 am 

Session Moderator: Melissa Tackett-Gibson, PhD

  1. Kani Murad, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: From Principles to Action: Enabling Kurdish Self-Determination through Indigenous Decolonization Principles
  2. Sophia Navarre, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Rhetoric of Abortion Criminalization: How Abortion Bans Utilize and Reify Cultural Narrative Archetypes
  3. Siyu Qi, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Back to Classroom or Stay Online? Exploring CU Denver Students’ Perceptions and Preferences for Three Delivery Modes of Learning
  4. Michelle Vasquez Loya, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Radicalization, Misogyny, and Violence: An Examination of the Incel Subculture in Online Communities
  5. Antonia Yanez, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Beyond microdosing magic mushrooms: How people of color and low-income individuals optimize mushroom cultivate well-being.

STEM Session 1
Access Link
https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/97988997022
Description

In-Person Location: Student Commons Building  4125 | 9:45- 11:15 am

Session Moderator: Jackson Wang, PhD 

  1. Jonathan Gomez Picazo, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: ‘This could be the answer to my problems!’: Feasibility and Acceptability of Ingestible Sensors for Medication Adherence in Dementia
  2. Elyas Larfi, Virtually (HyFlex), 12-minute Oral Presentation: Achieving musculoskeletal motor control using reinforcement learning
  3. Nakita Locklear, Virtually (HyFlex), 12-minute Oral Presentation: Future Water Warriors: Inspiring Environmental Scholars and Activists
  4. Logan Speckhard, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Chronic Pain and Patient Wellbeing in Ehlers Danlos Syndrome: a Literature Review and Proposed Treatment Approach
  5. Aaron Sullivan Stremel, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Virtual Reality (VR) for determination of motion perception thresholds in a floating environment.
  6. Brian Can, Virtually (HyFlex), 5-minute Poster Presentation: Wind Tunnel Characterizing of Cylinder Vibration
  7. Saron Solomon, Virtually (HyFlex), 5-minute Poster Presentation: A comparison of FEA analysis methods: Keyak vs. Crawford
  8. Zachary Stedman, Virtually (HyFlex), 5-minute Poster Presentation: Non-Magnetic Cart for Supporting Fluxgate Gradiometers

STEM Session 2
Access Link
https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/95555320834
Description

In-Person Location: Student Commons 4017 | 9:45- 11:15 am 

Session Moderator: Jeffrey Knight, PhD

  1. Kamryn Korth, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: High Estrogen During Learning of Novel Exercise Primes Future Increased Exercise in Female Rats
  2. Isaiah Lowe & Katherine Schultz, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Oxidative Stress Compounds Inhibit Insulin Secretion
  3. Daniel Skhisov, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Oral Microbiomes Across Genders and Ages
  4. Jordan Swartz, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Efficacy of PARP inhibitor Talazoparib on Invasive Lobular Carcinoma breast cancer models
  5. Lucas Thornton, In-Person, 12-minute Oral Presentation: Potential co-metabolic 1,4-dioxane degraders through analysis of different co-substrates
  6. Maximus Markgraf, Virtually (HyFlex), 5-minute Poster Presentation: Comparing Volar and Dorsal wrist surgeries: a surface area analysis
  7. Tianah Reyes & Bethlehem Dawit, Virtually (HyFlex), 5-minute Poster Presentation: Untargeted Metabolomic Analysis of Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients with and without Post-Stroke Infection
  8. Desiree Starzyk, Virtually (HyFlex), 5-minute Poster Presentation: Metacognitive Disparity Among First-Generation Students in College Chemistry

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