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Validation Of A Detour Test To Detect Cognitive Differences Between Male Alternative Reproductive Tactics In Xiphophorus Multilineatus​, Lillian Rees, Ethan Brooks

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This experiment put a food incentive behind a see-through barrier and the time taken to reach the food was recorded in order to test X. multilineatus Swordtail Courter versus Sneaker cognitive ability, which may be extrapolated to reproductive strategy.

Anxiety Does Not Affect Oculomotor Reaction Time In Collegiate Athletes, Braeden Carolan

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Comparison baseline oculomotor reaction time in collegiate athletes with and without anxiety.

Digital Audio Amplifier With Integrated Dsp, Alec Sebrell, Andrew Clabaugh, Cooper Smith

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This project is a Class D amplifier that uses digital audio inputs for direct digital signal processing.

Strongly Compact Cardinals May Have Surprising Properties, Mohamed Alfardan

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

We examine whether certain properties arising from statements equivalent to the Axiom of Choice can be extended to uncountable cardinals. We also examine the relationship between these cardinals and strongly compact cardinals. We end with 3 case scenarios and an open question.

Integrating Ai Into Curriculum Though Lesson Planning, Aymen Khazaal

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This presentation explores how educators can effectively integrate artificial intelligence into curriculum design by leveraging intentional, practical lesson planning strategies that enhance student learning and engagement

Reclaiming The Body: Fibroids, Autoethnography And Feminist Theory And Collective Testimony, Jessie Gongolo

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

*Reclaiming the Body* is an autoethnographic feminist health communication project that weaves my lived experience with fibroids together with narratives from other women, using the theoretical insights of Audre Lorde, Judith Butler, bell hooks, and Alice Walker to position embodied illness narratives as collective testimony and resistance.

A Systematic Review Of Prejudice Against Immigrant Women In Organizational Leadership In The United States, Vanessa Ampofoa Boadu

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This study examines how gender, nationality/immigration status, and ethnicity shape workplace experiences, impact professional advancement, and overall productivity

Self-Affirmations And Physiological Recovery To Stress, Ian Nicholson, Nora Mcgonagle

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This project examined whether self affirmation fascilitated recovery to stress relative to a neutral distraction group.

Effects Of Developmental Temperature On Neuron Density In Key Regions Of The Female Xiphophorus Multilineatus Brain​, Jocelyn Newton, Emma Wanat

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

To determine whether developmental temperatures shape the neuronal composition underlying mate choice, we quantified neuron density across key brain regions in X. multilineatus females reared in high- and low-temperature environments.

Silence And Visibility: Media Framing Of Industrial Pollution And Health Risks  In Appalachian And Niger Delta Print Media, Adetola Fajembola

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Communities living near oil extraction and coal mining sites face serious environmental and health risks, yet these risks are often absent from public conversation. This study examines how print media cover industrial pollution-linked health risks in two regions defined by extractive industries — the Niger Delta in Nigeria and Appalachia in the United States — between 2011 and 2020. Although these regions are geographically and culturally different, both bear the environmental and health costs of extraction while remaining underrepresented in media coverage that shapes public awareness and policy response. Using mixed methods content analysis of eight legacy print newspapers, the …

From Tal-Corset To Tuomeiyi: Inter-Asian Referencing Of Feminist Resistance Against Hegemonic Beauty Standards, Eva Liu

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

How inter-Asian referencing of feminist knowledge shapes everyday feminist resistance against hegemonic beauty standards in contemporary China.

Generative Ai And The Transformation Of Instructional Design Practice, Nour El Houda Maache

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is becoming increasingly common in higher education, yet little has been studied on how it is changing the everyday work of instructional designers (IDs). This qualitative study explores how IDs experience changes in professional practice following the integration of GenAI. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seventeen IDs working in U.S.

Implementing Vr Simulations And Custom Ai Chatbots In Nursing Education And Clinical Training, Oussema Dhieb

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Nursing students take a pre-test and a post-test to measure the impact of using VR simulations and chatbots.

Investigation Of 7li + Α Elastic And Inelastic Scattering, Bikash Chauhan

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Study of structure of 11B via 7Li + a experiment.

Fat-Specific Protein 27 (Fsp27) Regulates Intramuscular Fat Storage For Skeletal Muscle Function, Lillian Ijoma

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Fat-specific protein (FSP27) was studied to determine if skeletal muscle is dependent on this protein for triglyceride storage and fuel use.

Ab Initio Optical Potentials For Magnesium Isotopes, José Ignacio Fuentealba Bustamante

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

First Ab inito optical potentials are available for the magnesium isotopic chain up to the N=20 island of inversion.

The Bridge, Erin Hale

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Community center/ government office that connects legislators to the people they represent.

Effects Of Electrolyte Composition On Co-Ni Electrowinning From Li-Ion Battery Black Mass Leachates, Javier Serrano

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

Investigation of promising electrolyte combinations for selective Co-Ni electrowinning in battery black mass recycling.

Predicting Water Layer Formation Vs. Entrainment In Dense Phase Co2 Transport Pipelines From Hydrodynamics And Fluid Properties, Favour Bawa

Student Research and Creative Activity Expo

This work presents a mechanistic model that predicts whether free water will remain entrained or form continuous layers in dense-phase CO₂ transport pipelines.

Mental Health Experiences Of Pakistani International Students In Canada: A Qualitative Study, Anila Naz Alisher, Salima Meherali, Tanya Park

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

International students, particularly those originating from Pakistan, a nation situated in South Asia, encounter distinctive sociocultural, academic, and emotional challenges during their studies at Canadian universities. These issues continue to be inadequately researched. This exploratory-descriptive qualitative study examines the mental health experiences of Pakistani international students in Canadian universities using photo-elicitation to understand how they navigate academic, social, cultural, and personal difficulties and how these shape their well-being. Seven students, from master’s to doctoral levels, participated in in-depth interviews.

Three major themes emerged. The first adjustment to a new environment included five subthemes: (1) personal characteristics; (2) religious and cultural …

Decolonizing Peer Review: Dismantling Epistemic Gatekeeping In Nursing Scholarship, Kechi Iheduru-Anderson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: Peer review in nursing privileges Western knowledge systems while marginalizing Indigenous, Global South, and community-based traditions. This colonial structure limits who contributes to nursing science, which methodologies are legitimate, and constrains culturally responsive care. Current practices exclude nurse researchers employing non-Western epistemologies, working in non-English languages, or prioritizing community-based approaches essential to addressing health disparities.

Purpose: This presentation examines peer review as a colonial mechanism and advocates for reforms democratizing nursing knowledge production. It explores how linguistic hegemony, methodological gatekeeping, and citation politics perpetuate epistemic injustice, and identifies alternative models from Latin America, Africa, and Indigenous communities fostering collaboration …

The Reflective Voice Of Nurses Pursuing Graduate Studies In Defining The Nursing Profession, Suzanne Dupuis-Blanchard, Alisson Hache-Chiasson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Nurses have difficulty describing their roles and the core components of the profession (1). The absence of understanding the profession and the unique role of nurses in the health system negatively impacts the profession (2, 3, 4). The goal of this qualitative descriptive study was to gain an understanding of the reasons that motivated nurses to enter the profession compared to how they describe their current role as a practicing nurse and to examine the discordance from the initial vision of being a nurse and their current interpretation of their role.

After ethics approval, data was collected by examining the …

Building Research Infrastructure To Advance Recruitment And Retention Of Diabetes Mellitus Patients, Elidia V. Tafoya, Keith Henri Salvado, Latanya Dean, Pamela Josue, Briana Williams, Grissel Hernandez, Neera Ahuja

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

We assessed current strategies and built an infrastructure informed by historical studies demonstrating effective engagement of diverse participants to improve recruitment. Our objective was to increase enrollment of an inpatient health equity study experiencing food insecurity and diabetes mellitus (DM). This scalable model focused on supporting clinical integration for the development of a long-term, sustainable nutrition program.

This randomized control study included patients with a history of DM. The nursing research team screened patients using the validated, Hunger Vital Sign™ tool to assess for food insecurity. Using an evidence-based multifactorial approach, the implementation plan uses best practices to support socioeconomic …

Design And Development Of A Miniaturized Helmholtz Cage For Cubesat Adcs Testing, Karla Sever, Marko Bosiljevac

Small Satellite Conference

• Magnetic field generation is essential for laboratory testing of a CubeSat attitude determination and control system (ADCS). It supports repeatable evaluation of control algorithms and characterization of onboard magnetometers. Commercial systems are costly, so university labs typically build their own, tailored to their specific needs.
• Building on a review of over twenty university-developed Helmholtz cage designs, several of which were particularly influential to our own design [1-3], this poster presents the design, simulation and early experimental results of our Helmholtz cage, developed as part of the broader ADCS test setup we have been building.

Development Of A Digital Electronic Framework To Manage High Power Systems In Small Satellite Missions, Mariel Serra, Rami Kandela, Bryan Johnston-Lemke, Robert E. Zee

Small Satellite Conference

• As small spacecraft payloads increase in complexity, they introduce the need for higher capacity and reliable power systems.
• The use of radiation tested automotive-grade components offer low-costs, however these parts are less suited to increased power demands, exhibiting signs of on-orbit latch-up.
• A re-design of a Modular Power System’s digital framework is proposed to support more spacecraft loads with minimal computational stress on the electronic processing units.

Distributed Avionics As A Foundational Architecture For Cubesat Constellations And Swarms, Aaron S. Swagei, Ali Guarneros-Luna

Small Satellite Conference

Motivation

CubeSat constellations and swarms require spacecraft that can tolerate subsystem faults without relying exclusively on a single centralized flight computer. Distributing sensing, control, and fault-management authority can improve containment and enable graceful degradation.

Objective

Develop and experimentally evaluate a distributed CubeSat avionics architecture in which subsystem nodes retain local fault-management authority while an F´-based OBC provides mission-level coordination.

The FlatSat is used as a representative spacecraft-level building block for future constellation and swarm architectures.

History Of Aggiesat6: An Undergraduate Mission From Concept To Operations, Garrett M. Stevenson, John F. Connolly

Small Satellite Conference

AggieSat Laboratory (AGSL) is a student-run space vehicle development organization that trains students in systems engineering through hands-on experience in the design, building, testing, and operation of space and space-related systems.

AGSL currently supports 107 members, all but three (3) of which are undergraduates, across eight (8) projects, including an underclassmen shadowing program.

AGSL supports the initiative and learning capabilities of undergraduate members through peer mentorship and the institutionalization of knowledge across its projects to achieve success through a variety of projects.

Integrated Optical/Body-Dynamics Simulations For Pointing, Acquisition And Tracking For The Pulse-A Mission, Juan Ignacio Prieto Asbun, Elizabeth Rosario, Jiayang Xu, Catherine Todd, Robert Pitu, Tian Zhong

Small Satellite Conference

PULSE-A is the University of Chicago’s student-led 3U CubeSat mission to demonstrate a space-to-ground optical downlink at a data rate of 1 to 10 Mbps using circular polarization shift keying (CPolSK).

To avoid costly and ineffective hardware-in-the-loop simulations, we instead present software-in-the-loop simulations designed to qualify our optical and PAT systems. This allows for simulations of the coupled optical systems that include closed-loop corrections and body pointing errors.

Operationalizing On-Orbit Repair: A Conops For Gator Arms Small Satellite Servicing, Anais Mera-Sarnelli, Aimee Dew, Daniel Radu, Chrispher Petersen, Michael Generale

Small Satellite Conference

Mission Definition

• GATOR Arms (Galactic Autonomous Twin Operational Robotic Arms) was designed to provide in-space servicing to small satellites in LEO.
• Small satellites currently have limited servicing options, thus localized component failures can prematurely end otherwise viable missions.
• This poster develops the CONOPS for an operational servicing mission involving on-orbit inspection, repair, refurbishment, reconfiguration, reboost, or repurposing of client satellites for extended missions.
• The representative servicing task is the recovery and reconfiguration of an external deployable such as a solar panel, antenna, or radiator flap.
• GATOR Arms targets a 2-4 year servicing life, end-of-life disposal within 5 years of mission …

Sailing To The Stars Iss Experiment: Results And Conclusions From Light Sail Deployments In Microgravity, Verena Padres, Parishee Bajaj, Venkata Chalamalasetty, Claire Kim, Joshua Umansky-Castro, Dionna Parina, Gabriella Elcsics-Gonzalez, Cameron Goddard, Ethan Francolla, Mason Peck, Andrew Filo, Alex Burke, Olivia Gámez Holzhaus, Heath Mills, Christopher Kelly

Small Satellite Conference

Sailing to the Stars is a mission to test the deployment of free-flying light sails on the International Space Station (ISS). The objective is to understand how different deployer designs affect the stability of both the CubeSat Deployer and the light sail during and after the deployment event. Data from the IMU onboard the deployer and video footage from wall-mounted cameras are used to analyze these dynamics. The findings shall inform the design of future missions that employ this free-flying ChipSat-sail architecture.

The hardware launched with Crew-11 on August 1^st, 2025. Nicole Ayers conducted the experiment on August …