UWEC CERCA 2025

UWEC CERCA 2025

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CERCA Survey

8:59am CDT

Latin American and Latinx Studies Capstones

9:00am CDT

Lessons Learned from a Community Needs Project in Western Wisconsin, a Pilot Project

9:15am CDT

IDP Internal Displaced people in the context of the conflict between the state and Sendero Luminoso during the eighties

9:30am CDT

Teaching Dictatorship: The Tyrant Graduates of The School of The Americas

9:59am CDT

Open Oral Presentations and Performances 2

10:00am CDT

Divergent News Framing of Territorial Disputes: A Comparative Analysis of Global News Agencies

10:00am CDT

Exploration and Evaluation of Bias in Cyberbullying Detection with Machine Learning

10:00am CDT

Center for Writing Excellence (CWE) Drop-In

10:00am CDT

Sensory Space/Decompression Room

10:15am CDT

Financial Security and Economic Well-being: China, India and the U.S.

10:15am CDT

Flipping the College Classroom: A SoTL Redesign of History 114

10:30am CDT

The Ghost of Aaron Burr: A Legacy of Political Violence and Division

10:30am CDT

The Role of Mentor Teachers in Fostering Relationships with Teacher Candidates

11:00am CDT

The Ongoing Impact of Gender-Affirming Surgery on Transgender Patients Health and Social Welfare: A Comprehensive Analysis

11:15am CDT

Belonging: Lived experiences of UWEC Queer students

12:00pm CDT

Career Services Drop-In

1:59pm CDT

Posters, Exhibitions, Displays 2

2:00pm CDT

Poster 001: Characterizing the activity of an enoate reductase with conjugated carboxylic acids, ketones and aldehydes

2:00pm CDT

Poster 002: Exploration of Viable Alternative Solvents to Dichloromethane in Organic Synthesis and Purification

2:00pm CDT

Poster 003: Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Biological Phase Separation and Biomolecular Condensate Formation of Globular Proteins

2:00pm CDT

Poster 004: Characterization of a Phytochrome B mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana That Alters Blue-Light Response

2:00pm CDT

Poster 005: Space use contributed to the emergence of carnivorous squirrels in a vole boom year

2:00pm CDT

Poster 006: Behaviors associated with novel hunting of voles by California ground squirrels

2:00pm CDT

Poster 007: Blugold Beaver Cam: Novel insights into the nocturnal lives of an ecosystem engineer

2:00pm CDT

Poster 008: Clarifying JONAH: Can We Get Some Numbers?

2:00pm CDT

Poster 009: Recycling Processes

2:00pm CDT

Poster 010: Impacts of Skateparks

2:00pm CDT

Poster 011: Finding Lost Graves: Ground Penetrating Radar Analysis of Dunn County Potter’s Field, Wisconsin, USA

2:00pm CDT

Poster 012: Investigating A Holocaust Execution Trench in Šķēde, Latvia: Geophysical Insights from a Baltic Sea Foredune

2:00pm CDT

Poster 013: The Wisconsin Rural-Urban Political Divide in Historical Perspective

2:00pm CDT

Poster 014: Atlantic Seafaring’s Gendered Horizons: The Complexity of Women’s Work in 18th and 19th Century Atlantic World Industries

2:00pm CDT

Poster 015: Food Safety Net & Nutrition Incentive Programs: A Case Study of One Wisconsin Farmers' Market SNAP Market Match Program with Statewide Implications – Part II

2:00pm CDT

Poster 016: Food Safety Net & Nutrition Incentive Programs: A Case Study of One Wisconsin Farmers' Market SNAP - Part I

2:00pm CDT

Poster 017: Relationship between Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion and Diabetes

2:00pm CDT

Poster 018: Examining Determinants of Health & Healthcare Access in Costa Rica and Its Impacts on Population Level Health

2:00pm CDT

Poster 019: Examining how Costa Ricans are prioritizing the planet for future generations, and why we should do the same

2:00pm CDT

Poster 020: Integrated sensory behaviors of larval Aedes triseriatus and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

2:00pm CDT

Poster 021: Novel predatory and carnivorous behaviors of California ground squirrels independent of the age and sex of hunters

2:00pm CDT

Poster 022: A chromosome-level genome for a keystone ecosystem engineer and textbook mammalian study species, the California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi)

2:00pm CDT

Poster 023: Decoding Gene Utility Landscapes In Brain Aging

2:00pm CDT

Poster 024: Decoding the Secrets of Livestock Methane: A Dive Into Rumen Microbiomes

2:00pm CDT

Poster 025: Exploring the impact of two methane mitigation strategies on rumen microbiomes of grazing steers

2:00pm CDT

Poster 026: Evaluating the Kinetic Properties of DfdB for Catechol Bioremediation

2:00pm CDT

Poster 027: Cognitive Effects of Interval Training

2:00pm CDT

Poster 029: Visualization of Electron Dynamics

2:00pm CDT

Poster 030: Spectroscopic Tools for Probing Biomolecules: An Overview of Fluorescence and Raman Spectroscopic Techniques

2:00pm CDT

Poster 031: Unraveling PEG-Biomolecules Interactions Through Raman Spectroscopy

2:00pm CDT

Poster 032: Investigating Silicone Degradation and its Implications for Menstrual Cup Safety

2:00pm CDT

Poster 033: DOSAGE DEPENDANT EFFECTS OF EMBRYONIC DEXAMETHASONE EXPOSURE ON DEVELOPMENT OF ZEBRAFISH SWIMMING BEHAVIOR

2:00pm CDT

Poster 034: Embryonic Deoxycorticosterone Exposure Affects the Development of Larval Zebrafish Swim Behavior

2:00pm CDT

Poster 035: Macroalgal Communities of San Salvador Island: Patterns of Diversity, Growth, and Productivity in a Changing Reef Environment

2:00pm CDT

Poster 036: Investigating the role of a secreted snail peptide in Schistosoma mansoni miracidia host-seeking

2:00pm CDT

Poster 037: Tick-Borne Disease Risk and Climate Change: A Survey-Based Analysis of Eau Claire County Residents’ Knowledge and Perception

2:00pm CDT

Poster 038: From Bean to Border

2:00pm CDT

Poster 039: Economic Insecurity

2:00pm CDT

Poster 040: Information Sources & Economic Well-Being: Japan and the United States

2:00pm CDT

Poster 041: Food Safety Net & Nutrition Incentive Programs: A Case Study of One Wisconsin Farmers' Market SNAP Market Match Program with Statewide Implications – Part III

2:00pm CDT

Poster 042: The Knowledge Plague: Ignorance, Race, and Public Health in San Francisco’s 1900 Bubonic Plague Outbreak

2:00pm CDT

Poster 043: What changed on the journey? How Chinese food carries culture and its adaptation to the American Market

2:00pm CDT

Poster 044: Mosaic: Subaquatic Bus Stop

2:00pm CDT

Poster 045: Reed Reviews of Professionally Handmade Oboe Reeds: A Comprehensive Analysis of Pitch, Response, Dynamic Capabilities, and Ease of Playing

2:00pm CDT

Poster 046: J-Pop Going Global: The Impact of Fandom and Popular Music on Japan's Globalization Efforts

2:00pm CDT

Poster 047: Linguistics and Apology Videos

2:00pm CDT

Poster 048: Censorship within the Change from Manga to Anime, its Effects in Society, and what it Represents About Japanese Society

2:00pm CDT

Poster 049: Is there Space for Paternalistic Limitation with the Freedom of Speech?

2:00pm CDT

Poster 051: Developing Girardia dorotocephala as a model organism for flatworm sensory biology

2:00pm CDT

Poster 052: A novel device for high-throughput phenotypic screening of schistosome miracidia

2:00pm CDT

Poster 053: Transcriptomic differences between schistosome miracidia recovered from different host tissues

2:00pm CDT

Poster 054: Biodegradable Blister Packs

2:00pm CDT

Poster 055: Advancement and Characterization of Biocompatible Foam for Tumor Ablation

2:00pm CDT

Poster 056: Development of a medical cooling device for post-surgical pain management

2:00pm CDT

Poster 057: Controlled Synthesis of Stimuli Responsive Polymers Used as Ecologically Safe Dispersants in Architectural Coatings

2:00pm CDT

Poster 058: Optimization of Tooling and Flow Cavity Design for Paste Extrusion of Small-Diameter Vascular Grafts

2:00pm CDT

Poster 059: Development of an Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) Vascular Graft

2:00pm CDT

Poster 060: Identification of deep-water mosses in Wisconsin lakes using DNA barcodes

2:00pm CDT

Poster 061: Assessing the Accuracy of a Plant Identification AppAuthors: Biology 106 class, Fall 2024

2:00pm CDT

Poster 062: Does Cholecystokinin Decrease the Hunger Stimulus Effects of 22-hr Food Deprivation in Male and Female Rats?

2:00pm CDT

Poster 063: The Tolerance of Religion

2:00pm CDT

Poster 064: Faith and Science

2:00pm CDT

Poster 065: Rhetoric and Freedom: A Rhetorical Analysis of Library Censorship and Intellectual Freedom in the Contemporary United States

2:00pm CDT

Poster 066: A Mouse, a Plumber, and You: How Disney and Nintendo Brought Japan and the United States Together Post-WWII Through Family Entertainment

2:00pm CDT

Poster 067: Impact of Motifs

2:00pm CDT

Poster 068: Expanding the Expressive Palette: Performing the Voice Music of Viardot on the Clarinet

2:00pm CDT

Poster 069: Art Sessions and Stress

2:00pm CDT

Poster 071: Fifth-Year Retention and Efficacy

2:00pm CDT

Poster 073: Investigating teacher burnout and psychological flexibility in preservice teachers, primary teachers, and college professors

2:00pm CDT

Poster 074: Stress and Health

2:00pm CDT

Poster 075: Perceived Effectiveness of NSSI in Predicting Next Day Ability to Resist Suicide

2:00pm CDT

Poster 076: The BSA Ineligible Volunteer Files: Identifying and Examining Patterns of Institutional Abuse

2:00pm CDT

Poster 077: Officer Perception and Behavior Associated with COVID-19 Regulations

2:00pm CDT

Poster 078: Exploring User Experiences with Amanita Muscaria: A Thematic Analysis of Reddit Online Forum Discussions

2:00pm CDT

Poster 079: Math Department Scheduling Using Number of Preps and Back-to-Back Courses

2:00pm CDT

Poster 080: Classifying Enzyme Substrates Using Machine Learning

2:00pm CDT

Poster 081: Analysis of Bi-2212 Superconducting Filament Geometry and Composition using Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods

2:00pm CDT

Poster 082: Sample variation of intrinsic properties in REBCO superconducting tape

2:00pm CDT

Poster 083: Program for Analysis of Filament Homogeneity Bi-2212 superconducting wires

2:00pm CDT

Poster 084: Developing a Physics-Based Simulator for AI Research in Curling

2:00pm CDT

Poster 085: Automated Data Collection and Analysis for AI Research in Curling

2:00pm CDT

Poster 086: Expanding Machine Learning Intrusion Detection in IoT Devices Using the NF-ToN-IoT-v2 Dataset

2:00pm CDT

Poster 087: Machine Learning Verification for Analyzing Oncogenes Associated with PDAC

2:00pm CDT

Poster 088: Amber Alert Vehicle Detection: Leveraging Dashcam Imagery and Object Detection for Public Safety

2:00pm CDT

Poster 089: Longitudinal Comparison of Models to Predict Match Outcomes in the WTA

2:00pm CDT

Poster 090: Social Media Use and Digital Dependency

2:00pm CDT

Poster 091: Social Media Addiction

2:00pm CDT

Poster 092: A Systematic Review of SMART Recovery, LifeRing, and Women for Sobriety Mutual Help Groups for Alcohol Use Disorders: Outcomes, Moderators, and Mechanisms of Change

2:00pm CDT

Poster 093: NSSI-Disorder Differences on Suicide Risk Variables

2:00pm CDT

Poster 094: Therapists’ Willingness to Treat High Risk Patients

2:00pm CDT

Poster 095: An exploration of an Afrocentric Pedagogy within Higher Education: A review of literature

2:00pm CDT

Poster 096: College Services

2:00pm CDT

Poster 097: UEM 433 Alignment with Wisconsin Act 20

2:00pm CDT

Poster 098: Media Influence on Child Behavior

2:00pm CDT

Poster 099: Mental Health First Aid Training Implementation

2:00pm CDT

Poster 100: THE EFFECT OF EXERCISE MODALITIES ON THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF SLEEP IN UNDERGRADUATES

2:00pm CDT

Poster 101: fənɝdl: A Game to Teach Place, Manner, and Voice

2:00pm CDT

Poster 102: The representation of stuttering in children’s picture books

2:00pm CDT

Poster 103: Between a rock and a hard place: Ambivalence in clinician-caregiver conversations

2:00pm CDT

Poster 104: Student-Led Intergenerational Programs in Nursing Homes

2:00pm CDT

Poster 105: Effects of Management Styles

2:00pm CDT

Poster 106: Knot Theory, Link Homotopy, and Quandles

2:00pm CDT

Poster 107: Deterministic and Heuristic Analysis of Two-Dimensional Iterated Function Systems

2:00pm CDT

Poster 108: Investigating UV- and X-ray-Induced Changes in OLED Magnetoresistance and IV Curve Characteristics

2:00pm CDT

Poster 109: Streamlining Stellar Astrophysics with wd_builder

2:00pm CDT

Poster 110: Wind Tunnel Data Collection

2:00pm CDT

Poster 111: Construction of a Low-Cost Wind Tunnel

2:00pm CDT

Poster 112: Modeling Varying Mass Transfer in Cataclysmic Variable Stars

2:00pm CDT

Poster 113: When a Star Becomes a Star

2:00pm CDT

Poster 114: Megalake Chad: New Insights from Topographic Data

2:00pm CDT

Poster 115: Gold Mineralization at the Atlas Gold Mine, Western MT

2:00pm CDT

Poster 116: Examining Characteristics of Long-Term Care Professionals in Various Career Stages

2:00pm CDT

Poster 117: Process Over Prizes: Goal Orientations and Team Evaluations in Global Virtual Teams. The result may joke with you, but the process won’t.- Marcel Proust

2:00pm CDT

Poster 118: The Influence of Instructional Design on Critical Thinking in a Diverse Populations Class: A Comparison of Subject-Centered and Problem-Centered Approaches

2:00pm CDT

Poster 119: Student Perceptions of Instructional Strategies for Choosing Inclusive Books in Speech-Language Therapy

2:00pm CDT

Poster 120: Cross-Dialectal Patterns of Word-Final /l/: A Comparative Study

2:00pm CDT

Poster 121: Validation of an 8-minute self-paced VO2max test for college aged individuals

2:00pm CDT

Poster 122: EFFECT OF A WII FIT BALANCE GAMING INTERVENTION ON INDIVIDUALS WITH PARKINSON’S DISEASE

2:00pm CDT

Poster 123: Effects of Parental Relationships on Child Development

2:00pm CDT

Poster 124: Muscle Growth and Exercise Regimen

2:00pm CDT

Poster 125: RELIABILITY OF BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS TO TRACK OFF-SEASON BODY COMPOSITION CHANGES IN DIVISION III FOOTBALL ATHLETES

2:00pm CDT

Poster 126: Novice Student Clinicians’ Expectations for the Clinical Supervision Process

2:00pm CDT

Poster 127: Diversity in Speech-Language Pathology: What Shapes Undergraduate Students’ Choice of Major?

2:00pm CDT

Poster 129: The Insurance Market in Spanish-speaking countries

2:00pm CDT

Poster 130: Communication Tools Choices between Native English Speakers (NES) and English Second Language Learners (ESL) in Global Virtual Team

2:00pm CDT

Poster 131: Petrochronology of Wisconsin’s Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits

2:00pm CDT

Poster 132: Geology of the Plover Au Prospect, Marathon County, Wisconsin

2:00pm CDT

Poster 133: Geology and Geochemistry of the Round Lake Intrusive Complex and Ti-Mineralization, Northern Wisconsin

2:00pm CDT

Poster 134: Geology and Geochemistry of the Ritchie Creek Cu-Zn deposit, Northcentral Wisconsin

2:00pm CDT

Poster 135: Rare-element Geochemistry of the Eau Claire River Complex Pegmatites

2:00pm CDT

Poster 136: Is There More to the Mineral Lake Intrusive Complex? Testing a Genetic Relationship with the Rearing Pond Intrusion

4:00pm CDT

CERCA Reception & Awards Ceremony