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10:00am CDT

Bachelor of Fine Arts Spring Exhibition Haas Fine Arts Center: Ruth Foster Gallery (162)

12:59pm CDT

Provost's Honors Symposium Davies Student Center

1:00pm CDT

"You ladies need to start acting like ladies": Exploring gender performance and system treatment in Orange is the New Black Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Madelyn Charleston • Mia Kelly A Risky Business: Evaluating Internal Controls to Reduce Risks Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Jared Delich • Erin Maxwell • Jada Nathe • Emma Steinke • Sheril Gilberstadt An Autoethnographic Reflection on the Role of Early Mentorship Experiences in Forensic Coaching Education Davies Center: Centennial Room (320A&B)Austyn Clemen • Chris Outzen Conflating Correlation and Causation: Unwarranted Causal Language in Published Research Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Hannah Nelson • Ally Schulze • Emma Smith • April Bleske-Rechek • Heather Fielding Cut From the Same Cloth: A Commentary on Hmong American Identity Through the Vision of Art Davies Center: Centennial Room (320A&B)Luecy Xiong • Ned Gannon Do Ownership Transfers Improve Operating Efficiency? Evidence from U.S. Onshore Wind and Utility-Scale Solar, 2005–2023 Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Emerson Holcomb-Smith • Gavin Klages • Casey Rozowski Evaluating trends in overwater and overland ozone abundances in lower atmosphere from WiscoDISCO22 Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Jeremy Worden • Patricia Cleary Examining the Link between Molecular Hardness and Binding Affinity for use in Drug Design Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Mac Wick • Sudeep Bhattacharyay • Sanchita Hati Faculty and Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Person-Centered Care Principles in Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences Coursework Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Samantha Brown • Carlee Elliot • Abby Hemmerich Fraction Learning Starts Early: Frequency of Fraction Information Included in First- and Second-Grade Math Textbooks Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Ella Spencer • Olivia Turks • Alexandria Viegut Geochronology and Petrogenesis of an Archean Greenstone Belt in the Marshfield Terrane Davies Center: Centennial Room (320A&B)Lyndsie Vickers • Robert Lodge How Was High School for You? UWEC Students’ Recollections of their Experiences with Advanced Coursework and Intellectualism in High School Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Thomas Davidsaver • Lauren Kelsey • Carson McPherson • Alexzander Russell • Emma Smith • April Bleske-Rechek Proactive Personality and the Effort–Creativity Cycle in Global Virtual Teams Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Jinyu Cao • Yuqing Su • Wenxi Zhang • Longzhu Dong • Xiaoyu Yang Surviving International Relations: Using IR Theory to Understand Interactions in the Reality TV Hit Survivor Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Matthew Hennessey • Damir Kovacevic The Presence (or lack thereof) of Presidential Immunity in the U.S. Constitution from Nixon's Justice Department to Trump v. U.S. (2024) Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Michael Hanson • Daniel Simmons Sensory Space/Decompression Room Davies Center: Mohican Room (310)

2:10pm CDT

Characterizing CRISPR-induced mutations in glutathione pathway genes in zebrafish Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Diana Abarca Palma • Bradley Carter • Joseph Orser Computational Modeling of Protein Kinase Inhibitors Using Molecular Hardness Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Austin Lerch • Alyssa McGlade • Sudeep Bhattacharyay • Sanchita Hati Deep learning–based pose tracking of Aedes aegypti larvae reveals chemosensory behaviors and functional anatomy Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Helen Gensch • Nicolas Wheeler East Meets West in the Digital Age: Chinese and Americans on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Yijin Liu • Jianru Lyu • Alexandra Reichstadt • Kaishan Kong Empires' Desire: A Revision to Travel Writing on the Republic of Georgia Davies Center: Centennial Room (320A&B)Olivia Bishop • Michael Hanson • Danny Liakh • McCullen Willmert • Heather Fielding Exploring Students' Preparedness, Expectations, and Motivation to Study Abroad in the 1+2+1 Program Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Gwen Albers • Jack Hagen • Ambrose Lo • Kaishan Kong How Phase Separation Shapes Enzyme Function Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Madi Shafman • Sanchita Hati Is Stalking Scary? A Study on Students' Fears of Stalking Behaviors Davies Center: Centennial Room (320A&B)Alexzander Russell • April Bleske-Rechek Moving Ahead with A.H.E.A.D.: Co(re)-designing a psychoeducational program for people with brain injuries Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Elena Dunagan • Makenna Hawkins • Anna Lindner • Jerry Hoepner Preventing Sexual Assault through Geospatial Technology Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Avery Dresel • Jeff DeGrave Streamlining Creating Computational Models of White Dwarf Stars Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Izak Carney • Elaina Plonis • William Wolf The Diaspora of the Spanish Language in Eurasia: Sephardic Spanish in Istanbul. Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Bricyn Barziza • Fabiola Varela-Garcia Tissue-specific origin of eggs in the definitive host drives transcriptomic and behavioral differences in Schistosoma mansoni miracidia Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Sonja Olson • Nicolas Wheeler Tracking Motivation in Students' First College Math Class: Does Prior Achievement Matter? Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Emilija Durdevic • Zoe Eineichner • Alexandria Viegut Welcome Back Biblical Plague: A Comparative Analysis of Measles Infection Rates Before and After Vaccine Development Davies Center: Centennial Room (320A&B)Tatum Christenson • Sasha Showsh • Maggie Weber

3:20pm CDT

A comprehensive microstructural and performance characterization of REBCO superconducting tapes Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Hayden Kinstler • Matthew Jewell Community Leaders’ Perspectives on Local Healthcare Access Following the Hospital Facility Closures in Eau Claire County Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Austyn Clemen • Halcyon LeRoy • Pamela Forman • Josephine Kipgen Development and Refinement of a 3D Printed Surgical Simulator for Heart Procedures Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Tatiana Bobrowicz • Sophie Gardiner • Ryan Hoffman • Sydney Longanecker • Hailey Tlusty • Doug Dunham Development of a Therapeutic Foam to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Cancer Ablation Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Catalina Decker • Emma Jiter • Elizabeth Glogowski Effects of pre-session food intake and duloxetine on the discriminative stimulus effects of 22-hour food deprivation in female and male rats. Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Vivienne Lewis • Elizabeth Wordes • David Jewett Establishing naltrexone as a discriminative stimulus in female and male rats with chronic, intermittent, sucrose access Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Owen Alt • Alexandra Siegmund • David Jewett Experiences of Trans People Researching Trans People Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Bee Krause • Wind Schimming • Randi Goettl • Aaron Willis Forced Sterilization in Puerto Rico: From Past to Present Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Faith Oldenburg • Elena Casey Irrational Rhetorics: Engaging the Manosphere and its Impact on Civic Engagement Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Michael Hanson • Jonathan Rylander Monkey Mutiny Davies Center: Centennial Room (320A&B)Oliver Meney • Chris Hlas Pregnancy Is Not Dysphoric, But Public Life Is: Transmasculine Pregnancy in a Gender-Essentialist Society Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Noah Johnson • Pamela Forman Women Who Operate: Feminization in Supercomputer Manufacturing in Cray Research Incorporated at Chippewa Falls and Mendota Heights from 1972-1996 Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Dylan Helwig • Joanne Jahnke-Wegner

4:30pm CDT

A2AR antagonist, istradefylline, promotes goal-directed reward seeking behavior in male C57BL/6J mice Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Peter Handley • Bradley Carter Escape Rooms: Engaging Students in Clinical Judgment and Critical Thinking Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Faith Oldenburg • Kirsten Dieckman From Gluttony to Death: Insights Following Novel Carnivory by Ground Squirrels Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Morgan Aldana • Jay Ingbretson • Liam Lamb • Ella Oestreicher • Robin Pence • Leo Pierce • Jada Wahl • Jennifer Smith Institutional Forces Shaping Sustainability in Non-Medical Healthcare Textiles Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Inessah Cernohous • Melissa Emerson Over Water and Shoreline Observations at Lake Michigan Using UAS During AGES+ 2023. Davies Center: Woodland Theater (328)Aaron Langert • Patricia Cleary Packaging of IL-10 into extracellular vesicles following mRNA transfection of MSCs Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Brennan Wallin • Bradley Carter Preliminary Results of a Scoping Review to Map 40 Years of Omaha System Literature Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Cooper Priebe • McKenna Ross • Allana Mhye Valiente • Amanda Yule • Jeanette Olsen Refining deep brain stimulation targets in Parkinson’s disease through retrobead-based mapping of the hyperdirect pathway Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Hannah Nelson • Bradley Carter Reframing the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Framework: Psychosocial Outcomes of Non-Ill Siblings in Families Facing Childhood Chronic Illness Davies Center: Menominee Room (320F)Bella Hardy • Jamie Tester Return to 221B Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Escape Room Davies Center: Centennial Room (320A&B)Marie Dums • Gia Goligowski • Alice Imme • Simone Kulvekoski • Ashley Pederson • Emily Vogel • Nevaeha Zacharias • Heather Fielding Role of ISG15 in demyelination-induced neuronal loss Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Makenna Hawkins • Bradley Carter Something's in the Bunker Davies Center: Centennial Room (320A&B)Star Hueschen • Josh Morris • Chris Hlas Spatiotemporal In-betweenness in Tetiana Maliarchuk’s “Oblivion”: National identity in Ukrainian postcolonial literature Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Iryna Levada • Heather Fielding Suppressing thrombin receptor activity after spinal cord injury modulates the glial environment to support functional gains Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Dylan Lindblad • Bradley Carter The abundance of acetyl-coA upon mitochondrial complex I inhibition in the cellular model of Alzheimer’s disease Davies Center: Chancellors Room (311)Kaitlyn Hevrin • Bradley Carter The Burrow: An Original Musical Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Joel Nelson • Anna Zook Women Crying: Symbols of Womanhood in Instrumental Works for Oboe and English Horn Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Anton Granatella • Carrie Schwartz • Christa Garvey

5:30pm CDT

Provost Honors Symposium Reception Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)