News Archives - 2010
URGO summer researchers present this week
This week, some of Augsburg's undergraduate researchers will share the work they have been engaged in over the summer.
The office of Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity (URGO) provides summer research grants for students interested in graduate or professional study. The program encourages undergraduate students to conduct research because it displays an understanding of current questions in a field, the ability to collaborate with others, and the persistence necessary to meet the demands of graduate study.
Students are involved in research activities 40 hours per week for nine weeks. They also participate in weekly research roundtable discussions, submit weekly progress reports to the URGO office, and are required to present their findings at Augsburg's year-end Zyzzogeton festival.
Monday, July 19
Oren Gateway Center, Room 113
10:30 Jeremy Anthony '11 and Nick Hudson '11 (Mathematics): Modeling carbon uptake of forests using Wavelet Analysis. [John Zobitz, Mathematics]
11:00 Matt Charboneau '11 (History and Accounting): Class, Religion, and Personal Liberties in Late Nineteenth-Century Catholic Temperance. [Michael Lansing, History]
11:30 Camille McAloney '13 (Biology): Polymorphism in the Canine TERT Gene as Compared between Large and Small Dog Breeds. [Anindya Bagchi and Jaime Modiano, University of MN]
Oren Gateway Center, Room 114
10:30 Brandon Bukowski '12 (Biology): Effect of Lung Cell Secretions on Bacterial Biofilm Formation. [Jennifer Bankers-Fulbright, Biology]
11:00 Kim Carlson '11 (Chemistry and Math): Growth Stimulation of Algal Systems Using Electromagnetic Fields. [Arlin Gyberg and Vivian Feng, Chemistry]
Art Gallery, Old Main Basement
11:30 Kate Woolever '11 (Art Education): How does visual art making in the English Language Learner classroom affect the teacher-student relationship? [Tara Sweeney, Art]
Oren Gateway Center, Room 113
1:00 Ali Rapp '11 (Communications and Intn'l Relations): Homosexuality in Japanese Popular Media: Mainstreaming Minority Behavior. [ Kristen Chamberlain, Communications]
1:30 Sam Gerhardson '10 (Biology): Living and Dying with a Cardiac Device: Perspectives of Cardiac Nursing. [Abi Ottenberg and Dr. Paul Mueller, Mayo Clinic]
Oren Gateway Center, Room 114
1:00- 2:00 Jake Grothjan '12 (Biology) and Roque Lester McSweeney '12 (Biology): Assessment of Stream Restoration by Macroscopic and Molecular Analysis of Macroinvertebrates. [Ralph Butkowski, Biology]
Tuesday, July 20
Oren Gateway Center, Room 113
10:30 Katie Radford '12 (Psych and Bus. Admin): Peer Relationships in Girl Scouts: A Preliminary Investigation. [Pete Ralston, Institute of Child Development, U of MN]
11:00 Kat Lutze '12 (Theatre Arts Admin): The Theatrical Mission Statement: An Approach for Artist and Audience. [Sarah Myers, Theatre]
11:30 Kathleen Watson '12 (Theatre): The Dramaturgical Process in Context: Sketches of Eastern European Jews at the Turn of the Century. [ arah Myers, Theatre]
Oren Gateway Center, Room 114
10:30 Justin Ingebretson '12 (Biology): Investigating the effects of a dopaminergic neurotoxin on Daphnia magna motor behavior. [Matt Beckman, Biology]
11:00 Alex Pinaire '12 (Biology): The Claw: Analysis of Daphnia magna movement. [Matt Beckman, Biology]
11:30 Saido Abdirashid '13 (Biology, Secondary Education): Temporal dynamics in networks of cortical neurons. [David Crowe, Biology].
Oren Gateway Center, Room 113
1:00 Maggie Pint '10 (Mathematics): Just Big Boned: Determining when our dogs really are overweight. [Bill Capman, Biology]
1:30 John Burggraff '11 (Social Work): The Impacts of The Wakanheza Project on Family Child Care Providers in Ramsey County. [Christina Erickson, Social Work]
Oren Gateway Center, Room 114
1:00 Andrew Fox '12 (Medieval Studies): Understanding the Medieval Church through Primary Sources. [Phil Adamo, Medieval Studies and History)
1:30 Aidan Nancarrow '11 (Medieval Studies and History): Nature, Culture and Commune: Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Sala dei Nove Fresco Cycle. [Phil Adamo, Medieval Studies and History)
Wednesday, July 21
Oren Gateway Center, Room 113
10:30 Steve Bergquist '11 (Biology and Education): Consumption of Organic Pollutants Observed in Algae. [Dave Hanson, Chemistry]
11:00 Erica Malloy '11 (Studio Art): Textiles and Symbols: Clothing as an Art Form. [Susan Boecher, Art]
11:30 Lucia Gayoso '12 (Film and English): The Pines with the Broken Branches. [Bob Cowgill, English]
Oren Gateway Center, Room 114
10:30 Becki Iverson '11 (English and History): A Search for Modernity: The Evolution of the Short Story and the New Woman through the Yellow Book stories of Evelyn Sharp and Ella D'Arcy. [Jacqui deVries, History and Dallas Liddle, English]
11:00-12:00 Walker Krepps '12 (Biology, Psychology, and Philosophy): Quantitative EEG as a bio-marker for addiction risk and Leah Childers '11 (Psychology): Investigation of the P3 Amplitude Brain Component in Adult Women with a Lifetime History of Externalizing Psychopathology. [Henry Yoon, Psychology]
Oren Gateway Center, Room 113
1:00 Jake Slattery '11 (Marketing and Oboe Performance): Baroque Oboe for the 21st Century Oboist. [Merilee Klemp, Music]
Oren Gateway Center, Room 114
1:00 Whitney Walter '11 (Health and Fitness): Anticipated Versus Unanticipated Body Composition Assessment and Causality for Exercising. [Anthony Clapp, HPE)
Music Building, M3
1:30 Becky Shaheen '11 (Music): Exploring Techniques of Expressing Poetry Through Music by the Analysis of Successful Art Songs and Experimental Composition. [Sonja Thompson, Music]
