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Chancellor's Column, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Umn Morris Welcomes Distinguished Visiting Professor Diane Negra, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Dahlen Joins Umn Morris Distinguished Alumni, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Umn Morris Announces 2024 Student Award Winners, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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University Of Minnesota Morris 2024 Commencement, Communications And Marketing

UMM Commencement

The University of Minnesota Morris's sixty-first commencement, Saturday, May 11, 2024, 1:30 PM.

Student Honors And Awards Program 2024, Communications And Marketing

UMM Honors and Awards Ceremony

Recognizing students who demonstrate academic excellence and enrich campus life.

Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect In The Intra-Cluster Medium, Nathan Fronk

Senior Seminars and Capstones

This paper covers the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, it’s derivation, and it’s applications in astronomy. The effect is a result of inverse Compton scattering in a cloud of hot charged particles, causing an increase in the temperature of the the cosmic microwave background radiation passing through the cloud. This change in temperature can be measured, and used to calculate the physical properties of the structure in question. This paper focuses on the a method used by Adam et al. (2017) to find a temperature map of the intra-cluster medium.

Dakodia Wohdaka: Indigenous Language Revitalization In The Lower Sioux Indian Community, Gavin Zempel

Student Research, Papers, and Creative Works

Many Indigenous languages in the Americas are drastically declining in the number of fluent speakers and use within their own communities. The Bdewakantunwan Dialect of Lower Sioux Indian Community in southwestern Minnesota is one of the afore-mentioned Indigenous languages with the last fluent speaker of Dakota in the community passing years ago. Language is essential for maintaining identity, conducting ceremony, mental health, maintaining Indigenous sovereignty, and much more. Revitalizing the Dakota language in Lower Sioux would facilitate the growth of and maintenance of all of the previously said benefits, along with the advantages of bilingualism. The text explores many different …

Competitive Ethics Team Competes At Ibecc, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Koos, Peters, Macias Recognized With Community Engagement Awards, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Representation Theory And Burnside's Theorem, Nathan Fronk

Senior Seminars and Capstones

In this paper we give a brief introduction to the representation theory of finite groups, and by extension character theory. These tools are extensions of group theory into linear algebra, that can then be applied back to group theory to prove propositions that are based entirely in group theory. We discuss the importance of simple groups and the Jordan-Hölder theorem in order to prepare for the statement of Burnside’s pq theorem. Lastly, we provide a proof of Burnside’s theorem that utilizes the character theory we covered earlier in the paper.

Zavada Embarks On Fulbright Research In Peru, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Burke Earns Ummaa Teaching Award, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Faculty/Staff Recognition Celebration 2024, Communications And Marketing

Faculty And Staff Recognition Dinner Programs

Award Winners:

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award: Laszlo Orszagh Distinguished Award in American Studies: Michael Lackey

Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies: Obama Fellowship: Michael Lackey

John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising: Keni Zenner

UMM Alumni Association Teaching Award: Stephen Burks

Morris Academic Staff Award: Emily Johnson

Bill and Ida Stewart Award for Racial Justice Advocacy: Colter Combellick, Sarah Eckel, Elliot James, Shaina Philpot

Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Award: Heather Peters

Community Engagement Award: Heather Peters

Mary Martelle Memorial Award: Rob Velde

Outstanding Support Staff Awards: Laura Burks, Megan Welle, JoAnn Lonergan

Retirees: Jill Beauregard, Steve Burks, …

Planning Committee Report On Understaffed Programs, Planning Committee

Planning Committee

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The Relationship Between Fatalities In Police Violence And Their Identifying Characteristics: Age, Gender, Race, And Region, Yuechu Hu

Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024

Police violence, highlighted by the George Floyd incident in 2020, has intensified concerns about police brutality and perceived racism in U.S. law enforcement (AP News, 2022). Therefore, we intend to analyze Fatal Encounters data, which documents non-police deaths that occur in the presence of the police in the United States. By creating statistical tables and graphs, as well as applying time-series methods, classification and regression trees, and a multinomial logistic regression model, we find that males and transgender people are more likely than females to encounter victimization during police brutality enforcement for any cause of death. Victims older than 19 …

Effect Of Assay Medium Ph On Inhibitory Ability Of Streptomyces, Trevor Swan, Miriam Gieske

Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024

Streptomyces bacteria from soil often produce antibiotics which inhibit growth of other microbes. When comparing Streptomyces’ inhibitory ability between different soils, it may be important to match the pH of the medium used in assays to the pH of the soil they came from. We assayed Streptomyces isolates collected from a long-term agricultural experiment with nitrogen-fertilized and non-fertilized treatments to determine their ability to inhibit growth of other bacteria by producing antibiotics. Average soil pH was 6.8 in fertilized soil and 7.2 in non-fertilized soil. We dotted isolates on a glucose-asparagine agar medium adjusted to different pH values and overlaid …

Isolation And Analysis Of R130d Malate Dehydrogenase (Mdh), Hayley Brunette, Abby Doyle, Ilsa Hoaglund, Danielle Bolland

Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024

Malate Dehydrogenase (MDH) is the enzyme that catalyzes the ninth step of the citric acid cycle, a regenerative step in the metabolism of glucose in which malate is converted to oxaloacetate. Conformational changes in the active loop region of MDH along with the coenzyme NAD+ drive catalysis. Previous studies suggested that mutating positively charged amino acids to negatively charged amino acids at residue 130 decreased the enzymatic activity of MDH. We hypothesized that if we change arginine 130 (positively charged amino acid) to aspartate (negatively charged amino acid), then the enzymatic activity of MDH would significantly decrease. In e. Coli …

Providing Beginners With Interactive Exploration Of Error Messages In Clojure, John Walbran, Elena Machkasova

Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024

Programmers are imperfect, and will often make mistakes when programming and create a program error, for example, attempting to divide by zero. When a computer tries to run a program with an error, the program will halt and present the details of the error to the user in the form of an error message. These error messages are often very jargon-heavy, and are not designed to be palatable to a novice programmer. This creates significant friction for new programmers trying to learn programming languages. This work is a part of an ongoing project (called Babel) led by Elena Machkasova in …

Enhancing Evolutionary Computation: Optimizing Phylogeny-Informed Fitness Estimation Through Strategic Modifications, Chenfei Peng, Nic Mcphee

Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024

In evolutionary computation, programs are developed using evolution's basic principles, such as selection, mutation, and recombination, to iteratively improve problem solutions towards optimal outcomes in a reasonable amount of time. To save time and be more efficient, we are currently exploring a modified version of phylogeny-informed fitness estimation. The original version evaluates each individual program on a subset of the training cases and estimates the performance everywhere else according to its parent's performance. Our approach involves comprehensive evaluation of promising programs across all training cases, increasing computational investment where the sub-sampled results indicated potential gains. This method led to our …

"This Is How The West Ends": A Content Analysis Of Conservative Youtubers Notions Of Western Excellence, Michelle Johnson

Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024

In 2023, YouTube was one of the most used social media platforms in the United States alone. While existing scholarship (Finlayson 2022) has observed linkages between right-wing social media and distrust in institutions of government, family, and others, I seek to understand how conservatives use YouTube as a means to teach their audience racialized, gendered, and nationalistic ideas about the Western hegemonic order. To examine this issue, I conducted an in-depth qualitative content analysis of three key conservative content creators: Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and Michael Knowles. Two videos were chosen within each creator's profile using keyword searches such as …

Legal Process Durations In Domestic Violence Cases, Gabrielle Meyers, Jon Anderson

Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024

Slow court case processing is a significant concern, particularly in regard to their adverse implications for survivors of serious crimes such as domestic abuse and sexual assault. This study investigates a number of factors that may influence the duration of court case proceedings using court records from three Minnesota counties. Focusing on cases of domestic violence, sexual assault, kidnapping, harassment, stalking, and various other sex crimes, we employ survival analysis methods to explore the effects of various factors on the duration of court case processing. Our analysis considers the effects of factors such as type of crime, form of legal …

Planning Minutes 04/16/2024, Planning Committee

Planning Committee

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Scholastic Minutes 04/11/2024, Scholastic Committee

Scholastic Committee

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2024 Student Senior Art Exhibition Opens April 17, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Student Affairs Minutes 04/04/2024, Student Affairs Committee

Student Affairs Committee

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Leap Of Faith Leads To Three-Year Degree For Conroy, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Big Crow To Give Student Address At Umn Morris Commencement, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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Wcsa Alumnews: Spring 2024, Communications And Marketing

WCSA AlumNEWS

Contents include: Harley Hanke Honored at Minnesota State Capitol; WCSA Alumni Association Scholarship Recipients; Remembering Carol Pederson Meyer; Fondly Remembered...; ALUMNEWS Online;

Cnia Will Hold Annual Powwow April 6: The Contest-Style Powwow Is A Celebration Of Indigenous Resilience, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

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