Faculty-Student Featured Presentation Previews
2022 Research and Scholarship Conference
Featured Presentations
The Impact of Mentoring: Advancing Processes in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities
Mentoring relationships are vital to the advancement of knowledge and part of the process to advance a discipline’s collective expertise, skills, and techniques to the next generation, yet it is often understated and poorly acknowledged. The 2022 Research and Scholarship Conference wishes to highlight the impact of mentoring in research, scholarship, and creative activities that faculty-student mentoring teams have advanced.
Featured Presentation Schedule:
March 23rd from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm in two concurrent sessions
Moderators:
Dr. Jill Granger, Dean of the Brinson Honors College
Dr. Brian Kloeppel, Dean of the Graduate School and Research
CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Bardo Theater, Room 130
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
9:15 am – 9:35 am
Flashes of Insight: Using Morphology to Understand Evolutionary Relationships Among Fireflies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Luiz Lima da Silveira
Student Mentee: Sara Rivera
9:45 am – 10:05 am
A Design Methodology for a Rack and Pinion Type Wave Energy Converter
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bora Karayaka
Student Mentee: Brayden Beaver
10:15 am – 10:35 am
Classification of Drugs of Abuse Using Mass Spectral Data for the Identification of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPSs)
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nuwan Perera
Student Mentee: Garion Schneider
10:45 am – 11:05 am
Can You Hear Me Now? Hydrophones Detect More Dusky Gopher Frog (Rana sevosa) Calls Than Aerial Microphones
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Joseph Pechmann
Student Mentee: Sara Rivera
11:15 am – 11:35 am
From Campus Dirt to the Characterization of Novel Bacteriophage Protein Functions
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Maria Gainey
Student Mentees: Peyton Blue, Harley Leininger, & Reagan McKinney
CONCURRENT SESSION 2
Bardo Theater, Room 130
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Identity: Faculty-Student Mentorship
Faculty Mentor: Associate Professor Heather Mae Erickson
Student Mentees: Jen Gordon & Ollie Morrison
1:40 pm – 2:00 pm
Unraveling the Folding Defect of the CFTR Mutant N1303K that Causes Cystic Fibrosis
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Youker
Student Mentees: Dakota Taylor & Jonathan Zirkel
2:10 pm – 2:30 pm
Arboreal Bioindicators: Assessment of Canopy Lichen and Microhabitat Conditions Along an Urbanization Gradient
Faculty Mentors: Dr. Jane Dell & Dr. Diane Styers
Student Mentees: Kristin Heape, Kaitlyn Henderson, Annalaura Pannill, & Joshua Lyon
2:40 pm – 3:00 pm
CARE: Cherokee Air Research Experience
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sara Duncan
Student Mentees: Emily Sommerfeldt, Alayna Suitte, & Guadalupe Castillo
3:10 pm – 3:30 pm
Developing Luminescent Nanoparticles for Cellular Imaging Technologies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Channa De Silva
Student Mentee: Matteo Fratarcangeli