2016 Faculty Research Symposium

Poster Line Up

09 December 2016

Poster No.

1. Masud Chowdhury (1:30 – 3:00pm) Computer Science Electrical Engineering Graphene and Carbon Nanotube Based Solar Cell

2. Diane Mutti Burke & John Herron (12:00 – 1:30pm) History Wide Open Town: Kansas City during the Pendergast Era

3. Travis Fields (1:30 – 3:00pm) Civil and Mechanical Engineering Development and Testing of Steerable Parachute Systems for Precision Aerial Delivery

4. Xiao-Qiang Yu (12:00 – 1:30pm) Biological Sciences Multiple Toll-Spätzle Pathways in Drosophila Melanogaster Innate Immunity

5. Naveen Vaidya, Noah Rhee, Majid Bani-Yaghoub, Xianping Li (1:30 – 3:00pm) Teaching and Learning Mathematical Techniques Through Real-life Research Activity Mathematics and Statistics

6. Naveen Vaidya, Jones Mutua, Colin Barker, Anil Kumar (1:30 – 3:00pm)

Modeling HIV Infection within a Host Mathematics and Statistics

7. Majid Bani-Yaghoub (12:00 – 1:30pm) Mathematics and Statistics Applied Mathematics and Opportunities for Collaborations: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis

8. Xianping Li (1:30 – 3:00pm) Mathematics and Statistics Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation for Numerical Computations

9. Xiangping Chu (12:00 – 1:30pm) Basic Medical Science Acid-sensing Ion Channels in the Ventrolateral Medulla Contribute to Central Chemoreception

10. Yong Li (1:30 – 3:00pm) Basic Medical Science Post-transcriptional Regulation of LPS Induced Lung Injury by MCPIP1 RNase

11. Veronica Cloud (12:00 – 1:30pm) Biological Sciences Identification and Functional Characterization of Novel SAGA Interaction Partners

12. Leonard Dobens & Zachary Fischer (1:30 – 3:00pm) Biological Sciences A Drosophila Model of Insulin Resistance Associated with the Human Trib3 Q/R Polymorphism

13. Ryan Mohan (12:00 – 1:30pm) Biological Sciences Function of Protein Complexes in Neuroprotection

14. Jin-Yuan Fan & Jeffrey Price (1:30 – 3:00pm) Biological Sciences BDBT Foci Translocation is Regulated by Light-Dependent Lysosomal/Autophage Pathway

15. Stephen Simon, Daniel Connolly, Lemuel Waitman (12:00 – 1:30pm) Using the Electronic Health Record to Improve the Recruitment of Patients in Clinical Trials. Biomedical and Health Informatics

16. Jerry Dias (1:30 – 3:00pm) Chemistry Proof that Cyclacenes Have More Open-Shell (Diradical) Character than do Acenes

17. David Van Horn (12:00 – 1:30pm) Chemistry Physical Stereochemistry: Positron Interactions with D- and L-Alanine Crystals

18. Hammad Mumtaz & Ganesh Thiagarajan (1:30 – 3:00pm) Age and Gender Differences in Loading Induced Strain and Biomechanical Properties of C57Bl/6 Mice

Civil and Mechanical Engineering

19. ZhiQiang Chen (12:00 – 1:30pm) Computing and Engineering Multi-scale Modeling of Fluid-Porous Media for Studying Soil-water Hydrophobicity and Other

Applications

20. Robert Groene (1:30 – 3:00pm) Conservatory A Selected Content Analysis of the Music of John Denver 1969-1983

21. Ken Novak (12:00 – 1:30pm) Criminal Justice & Criminology Differences and Similarities of Fatal and Non-Fatal Firearm Incidents

22. Loyce Caruthers (1:30 – 3:00pm) Education Veterans in STEM: Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping to Display Veteran Voices about Post-Secondary

STEM Systems

23. Tracy Graybill & Michelle Maher (12:00 – 1:30pm) Education Soy el Primero: First-Generation Latino/a College Students Use of Coping Strategies to Address

Acculturative Stress

24. Shirley McCarther & Donna Davis (1:30 – 3:00pm) Education Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Student Voice: Expressions of Social Justice Depicted through the Arts

25. Kathy Krause (12:00 – 1:30pm) Foreign Languages & Literature Women and the manuscripts of the Crusade Cycle

26. Gayle Levy (1:30 – 3:00pm) Foreign Languages & Literature A Student and Resistance Fighter in the French Alps during World War II

27. Alice Reckley (12:00 – 1:30pm) Foreign Languages & Literature

Latin American Science Fiction

28. Alberto Villamandos (1:30 – 3:00pm) Foreign Languages & Literature

Neo-Decadentism and Cosmopolitanism in Spain’s 1980’s literature

29. Jejung Lee (12:00 – 1:30pm) Geosciences Geoscientists without Borders and Humanitarian Geophysics

30. Fengpeng Sun (1:30 – 3:00pm) Geosciences High-resolution Regional Climate Modeling and Its Applications

31. Viviana Grieco (12:00 – 1:30pm) History Ephedrine - A Gateway to Profits, Drugs, and Violence

32. Deborah Foster & Alexis Petri (1:30 – 3:00pm) Institute for Human Development Propel Into the Future: Education, Employment, and Independence for College Students with Intellectual Disabilities

33. Sommer Rose (12:00 – 1:30pm) Institute for Human Development TIES Home Visiting Model: Implementation Study of a Promising Practice

34. Usiakimi Igbaseimokumo (1:30 – 3:00pm) Neurosurgery From Certainty to Curiosity - the Need for a Paradigm Shift

35. Matthew Chrisman, Joseph Lightner, Katie Heinrich (12:00 – 1:30pm)

Nursing & Health Studies Associations among Income, Income Inequality, Race, and Physical Activity in US Adults over a 5-year

Period

36. Margaret Brommelsiek, Heather Gotham, Jane Peterson (1:30 – 3:00pm)

Nursing & Health Studies Integration of Humanities Content into an Interprofessional Education Immersion Course

37. Susan Kimble, Heather Gotham, Deb Pankau , Carol Schmer, Lorene Stephan, Tracy

Graybill (12:00 – 1:30pm) Nursing & Health Studies

TeamSTEPPS & Primary Care: Improve Interprofessional, Advanced Practice Nurse-Led Primary Care

Teams Functioning in Rural Clinics

38. Heather Gotham & Sarah Knopf-Amelung (1:30 – 3:00pm) Nursing & Health Sciences A Comparison of Instructional Methods for Delivering SBIRT Training to Baccalaureate Nursing Students

39. Sarah Knopf-Amelung, Heather Gotham, Araba Kuofie (12:00 – 1:30pm) Nursing & Health

Sciences If You Train Them, Will They Practice? Challenges Integrating SBIRT into Nursing and Social Work

Students &Clinical Experiences

40. Scott Duncan (1:30 – 3:00pm) Ophthalmology Dynamics of Toll-like Receptor 3 Signaling in Astrocytes

41. Peter Koulen (12:00 – 1:30pm) Ophthalmology Vision Research at UMKC

42. LeAnn Tiede-Lewis, Sarah Dallas, Anita Xie (1:30 – 3:00pm) Oral and Craniofacial Sciences A New Multiplexed 3D Confocl Microscopy Method to Simultaneously Measure Changes in Osteocyte Cell

Body Volume, Lacunar Volume and Lacunar Fluid Space with Age

43. Agostino Molteni (12:00 – 1:30pm) Pathology The protective effects of Aliskiren on Lung Histopathology after Triolein Induced Fat Embolism

44. Agostino Molteni (12:00 – 1:30pm) Pathology Aliskiren, A Direct Renin Inhibitor reduces Mast Cells accumulation in lungs of rats after fat embolism

45. Simon Friedman (1:30 – 3:00pm) Pharmaceutical Sciences Mehr Licht! Additional Adventures at the Interface of Light and Biology

46. William Gutheil (12:00 – 1:30pm) Pharmaceutical Sciences Gutheil Lab Research

47. Anthony Caruso (1:30 – 3:00pm) Physics Directed and Counter-Directed Energy Projects Overview

48. Daniel McIntosh (12:00 – 1:30pm) Physics & Astronomy Innovative Broader Impacts for STEM

49. Daniel McIntosh (12:00 – 1:30pm) Physics & Astronomy Mapping the Development of Galaxies over Cosmic Time

50. Wai-Yim Ching (1:30 – 3:00pm) Physics & Astronomy Ab initio Modeling of the Electronic Structures and Physical Properties of Alkali Doped Silicate Glass

51. Wai-Yim Ching (1:30 – 3:00pm) Physics & Astronomy Deformation Behavior of Amorphous Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework (a-ZIF)

52. Wai-Yim Ching (1:30 – 3:00pm) Physics & Astronomy Interactions between ssRNA and Capsid Protein: Implication for Packaging Signal Hypothesis

53. Wai-Yim Ching (1:30 – 3:00pm) Physics & Astronomy Protein-Specific Ab Initio Atomic Partial Charges Improve Molecular Dynamics Structure Stability

54. Wai-Yim Ching (1:30 – 3:00pm) Physics & Astronomy Study of the Interaction Energies in Doxorubicin: A Combined DFT and NAMD Methods

55. Paul Rulis (12:00 – 1:30pm) Physics and Astronomy Computational Physics Group: Materials, Models, and More

56. Michelle Paquette (1:30 – 3:00pm) Physics and Astronomy Paquette-Caruso Research Group: Condensed Matter Physics of Unusual Materials

57. Jerzy Wrobel (12:00 – 1:30pm) Physics and Astronomy Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy on a 25 Micron Ablation Spot

58. Debra Leiter (1:30pm– 3:00pm) Political Science What Voters Think Matters to Them: Using Voter Perceptions to Examine Representation in the Netherlands

59. Mona Lyne (12:00 – 1:30pm) Political Science How Crony Capitalists Cannabalize National Development

60. Benjamin Woodson (1:30pm– 3:00pm) Political Science Does Crime Severity Influence Judges in Search-and-Seizure Cases? An Empirical Triangulation of

Motivated Admissibility Decisions

61. Hye-Sung Han (12:00 – 1:30pm) Public Affairs Does Demolition of Abandoned Residential Properties Lead to Reduction in Nearby Crimes?

62. Patricia J. Kelly (1:30pm– 3:00pm) Public Health Dentistry Experiences of Kansas Extended Care Permit Providers

63. Collaboration by Loyce Caruthers, Joanna Davis, Alison DeSimone, Shairoz Ismail,

Michelle Maher, Hilary McNeil, Leah Panther, Uzziel Pecina, Kindel Nash, Melissa Hazley

Patterson, Nora Peterman, Rhianna Thomas, Theresa Torres, Connor Warner

(12:00 – 1:30pm) Education ‘Who has Writing and Snacks to Share?’ Writing Groups as Sites of Scholarship and Community

64. Ajita Rattani (1:30pm– 3:00pm) Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Online Co-training in Mobile Ocular Biometric Recognition

65. Ajita Rattani (1:30pm– 3:00pm) Computer Science and Electrical Engineering A Feasibility Study on Gender Prediction from Mobile Ocular Images

66. Wei Ji (12:00 – 1:30pm) Geosciences Remotely-Sensed Urban Wet-Landscapes: An Indicator of Coupled Effects of Human Impact and Climate Change