Events | FeaturedApril 04, 2022

Student Research Symposium Slated April 8

Written By: Rachel Putman

The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith’s 15th Annual Student Research Symposium will take place from noon to 2 p.m., Friday, April 8, 2022, with oral and poster presentations in the Pendergraft Health Sciences Center and Boreham Library on the UAFS campus.

The student research being presented at this year’s symposium spans across disciplines and is open to undergraduate and graduate students in any year of study.

“Our faculty and staff are committed to fostering an environment that promotes not only learning but also enlightenment,” says UAFS Provost Dr. Georgia Hale in the symposium program. “Our students have accepted the challenge, explored unique areas of research, and synthesized their results in the form of lectures, studio art, demonstrations, posters, and performances. These presentations represent the academic diversity of UAFS’s programs and the intellectual excellence of our students.”

 

Oral Presentations include: 

Presentations in History, Arkansas History, and Finance

Noon Megan Sonnenmoser – Remember the Ladies, Black Men, and Indigenous Peoples: The Forgotten Memory of Women and Minorities During the American Revolution

12:30 Jerry Rico – The Works of Rex Nelson and the Impact to Arkansas’s History

1:00 Nicholas Thompson – The Effects of Pandemics on Stock Market Returns and Volatility

Presentations in Nursing and Healthcare Administration

Noon Kain Suh – Evidence-Based Practice in Typhoid Fever

12:30 Alexis Kleman & Makayle Stone – Vaginal Seeding: A Literature Review

1:00 Megan Hamerlein – Factors Associated with the Overutilization of Laboratory Testing

Presentations in English

Noon Chelsea McKim – Women and Keats: Feminism in Masculine Romanticism

12:30 Avreigh Watson – Women Support Women: A Vindication for Protofeminists

1:00 Melanie Bradley – Plausibility and Jane Austen

1:30 Emilee Hatwig – The Importance of Victorian Upper Class and Gender

Presentations in Education, Rhetoric & Writing, and Colonialism

Noon Victoria Schmitt – All Means ALL: Inclusion of Students with Low-Incidence Disability

12:30 Alina Chuong & Allen McCullers – Reflections of the Teacher Apprenticeship Experience

1:00 Emily Clem – Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: From “Killers of the Flower Moon to the Present

1:30 Holly Farrar – Digital Empire

Presentations in Technology, Electrical Technology, and Control Engineering

Noon Aaron Tomlin, Yu-Cho Pang, & James Moore Jr. – Team Mini Hulk

12:30 Hayden Pittman & Ethan Owens – The Design and Use of a Smart Key Cabinet

1:00 Cooper Black & Kalen Griffin – Resonant Capacitive Coupling Using a Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil

1:30 Ian Schweizer – Coupler Controller Redesign

Presentations in Engineering, Geoscience, and Animation Technology

Noon Mason Sayers, Spencer Simpson, Cassandra Bell, & Beau Nelson – Intelligent Vehicle Challenge

12:30 Anthony Ming, Rebecca Martinez, Ben Philpot, Rylynd Bullington, & Drew Montgomery – Lunar Terrain Vehicle

1:00 Jacob McLain – Regional Perspective on Joints in the Mid-Pennsylvanian McAlester Formation, Arkansas

1:30 Michael Cruz – The Use of Real-Time Rendering Through Game Engines Impact on the Movie Industry

Presentations in Music History, Women’s Studies, Musicology, Media Communication, and Global Complexities

Noon Jaymz Vance & Nikita Wemmerus – Digital Discoveries: Six Lost Works by Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxen-Weimar-Eisenach Uncovered in Archduke Rudolph’s “Musikalien Register Nr 9”

12:30 Melissa Hayden – Conductor, Composer, Philanthropist: The Life of Emma Roberto Steiner

1:00 Jillian Rose – “Are We Going to Prom or Hell?”: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis on “Heathers”

1:30 Brittany Morris – Various Complexities from Around the World

Presentations in Computer Science and Electronics

Noon Julton Sword – Deep-Seeker: Autonomous Robotic Path-Recognition Network

12:30 An Le, Adrian Cuevas, & Fernando Estrada – Keep It Clean, Don’t Be Mean: Multimodal Intent Classification

1:00 Josue Martinez & Austin Figueroa – Automatic Sentiment Aggregation of Social Media

1:30 Isaiah Russell, Angie Palacios, & Devin Turley – Portable Solar Water Heater

 

Poster presentations include:

Biology: Hannah Smith – The Effect of the SLC24A4 Gene on Amelogensis

Biology: Danielle Randolph & Joshua Thammathong – Dictyostelium Discoideum as a Host: Microbe Model for Screening Drug-Like Therapeutic Candidates (DLTCs) for Anti-Virulence Properties

Biology: Kairy Galvez – Testing of Quinazolinone-Based Drug Candidates as Treatments for Antibiotic Resistant Bacterial Infections

Biology: Bryan Elam, Paul Gambill, & Logan Perez – The Effects of Biochar on Turf Grass

Chemistry: Harmeet Kaur Chohan – Quantitative Structural Activity Relationship (QSAR) Analysis of Drug-Like Therapeutic Candidates Against Resistant Bacterial Infections

Geoscience: Johnny Pruitt – A Comparative Analysis of Dolomitized Carbonate Samples Taken from the Engadine Group

Geoscience: Ross Metcalf & Cassaundra Huggins – Identification of Geothermal Calcium Carbonate Rocks from Magnet Cove, Arkansas

Geoscience: Alex Burns, Payton Karr, Andrew Edmonds, & Mariah Thomas – Investigation of a Recent Landslide in Fort Smith, Arkansas

Geochemistry: Jon Turco & Matt Neal – Determining the Impact of Surfactant Type and Concentration on Microplastic Recover

Ethnomusicology, Performance: Leslie Rosa – Marisa Canales, “Concierto Caribeño”

Ethnomusicology, Music Education: Jeason Lopez – “Chester”: A Song of Tyranny and Revolution Table 12 – Nursing: Alexis Groves & Faith O’Mahomy – Perceptions of Heart Healthy Behaviors in Homeless Women

Dental Hygiene: Trinity Gonzales, Abby Hawes, Hailey McClain – Sleep Apnea and Bruxism

Dental Hygiene: Selena Fitzjurls, Isabel Jamison, Abbie Morris, & Emily Nguyen – Laser Assisted Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy

Dental Hygiene: Sarah Davis, Diana Guerrero, & Marisol Vasquez – Efficacy of Xylitol on Reduction of Streptococcus Mutans

Dental Hygiene: Jenny Dixon, Sarah Goyne, Brittany Mize, & Ashley Wilson – Look to the Future: A Periodontal Disease Vaccine

Medical Sonography: Hope Chronister & Chris Owens – Spina Bifida: Fetal Ultrasound Importance

Medical Sonography: Malorie Radley & Jaquie Thomas – Live Ectopic Pregnancy

Medical Sonography: Cindy Torres-Dodson & Courtney Young – Subclavian Steal Syndrome

Medical Sonography: Cambrie Keel & Emilee Rogers – Splenosis: A Case of Spontaneous Spleen Regrowth Following Splenectomy

 

The full symposium program, including abstracts for each presentation is available at: https://uafs.edu/academics/academic-resources/symposium/_documents/2022-symposium-booklet.pdf

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