Undergraduate research takes center stage at State Capitol
When Wisconsin legislative officials and UW System leaders gathered last month at the annual Research in the Rotunda exhibit, 15 UW-Green Bay students – the most from any UW system school – were invited to present their research findings to help shape policy and our state’s future.
Undergraduates from Green Bay, Sheboygan and Manitowoc campuses shared research results and recommendations across a breadth of scientific and social disciplines – from freshwater preservation to societal impacts of virtual reality. The event put front and center the hallmark of a UW-Green Bay education: empowering students to forge their own successes, with real-life outcomes that can benefit not just region, but all of Wisconsin.
Watch: How UW-Green Bay students are shaping the future
Each presenting student was able to hone their research around subjects of importance to their lives and future professions, in partnership with a faculty mentor.
Watch: How students were empowered to chart their own research
Watch: Why students are proud to represent UW-Green Bay
Watch: UW System 2023 Research in the Rotunda video
The 10 UW-Green Bay undergraduate research projects included two distinguished Freshwater Fellows:
Development of Simple Sequence Repeats for Wild Rice Conservation Genetics
Student: Jennifer James Boush
Faculty Mentor: Lisa Grubisha
A Generation of Revenge: An Analysis of Far-Right Youth Radicalization and Holocaust Education in the US Education
Student: Kennedy Paul Himmel
Faculty Mentor: Tim Kaufman
Exploring the correlation between levels of sports fan identification and attitudes towards women and sexual minorities
Student: Thomas Miller
Faculty Mentor: Elif Ikizer
The effects of restoration projects on phosphorus concentrations throughout Manitowoc County streams and Lake Michigan
Students: Tiffany Paalman (with Natalie Ford, Christopher Santiago, Lee Watson, Sam Frauenfeld)
Faculty Mentors: Richard Hein and Becky Abler
Evaluation of Antidepressant Reversal of Behavioral and Pharmacological Stress-Induced Depression of Digging Behavior in Mice
Student: Kaitlyn Partridge
Faculty Mentor: Todd Hillhouse
African American Discrimination in Manufacturing within Milwaukee County (1960-1967)
Students: Haleigh Pavlat (with Allie Wisniewski)
Faculty Mentor: Lisa Lamson
The Queer/LGBTQ+ experience within Social Virtual Reality
Student: Liv Riendeau
Faculty Mentors: Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier
Development of an Unknown Barbier Organozinc Lab for Organic Chemistry (Sheboygan location)
Student: Colleen Yeskie
Faculty Mentor: James Kabrhel
Freshwater Fellow: Community Science Analysis of River Mouths along the Western Lake Michigan Shoreline
Student: Sarah Baughman
Faculty Mentor: Erin Giese, Robert Howe, Keir Wefferling
Freshwater Fellow: Characterizing nutrient release and relative storage times in an unconfined karst aquifer in northeastern Wisconsin
Student: Kyle Chaudoir
Faculty Mentor: Kelly Deuerling, Emily Tyner
