Undergrads receive stipends for summer research projects

Malayna Wingert lifts a water sample out of Holmes Lake as Anni Poetz and Maddie Carpenter record data in August 2020.
Malayna Wingert lifts a water sample out of Holmes Lake as Anni Poetz and Maddie Carpenter record data in August 2020.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has awarded stipends to 104 undergraduates — including 9 Computer Science and Engineering students — to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer.

Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Students receive stipends of $2,400 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 20 hours per week. The students’ projects span academic disciplines including engineering, chemistry, modern languages and literatures, psychology, art and art history, architecture, special education, and fisheries and wildlife.

The students also will have opportunities to participate in the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Graduate Education Discovery Program. In August, students from the Nebraska Summer Research Program and UCARE will present posters on their research and creative activities at a virtual campus research symposium. For more about undergraduate research at Nebraska, click here.

Following is a list of Computer Science and Engineering students who received summer UCARE awards, with their year in school, academic major(s) and project title:

• Parul Aggarwal, junior, computer science, “Investigating the Use of Method Chains in Java and Python Programming Languages.”
• Tomohide Kay Bessho, senior, mathematics and computer science, “Visualizations to Explain the Behavior of Search.”
• Eylon Caplan, junior, mathematics and computer science, “Continuous-Layered Dense Artificial Neural Networks.”
• Ritvik Handa, junior, computer science and mathematics, “George Elliott Archive.”
• Simreen Kaur, junior, computer science, “Visualizations to Explain the Behavior of Search.”
• Linhan Li, senior, computer science, “SE4JAVA: A Symbolic Execution Tool for Java.”
• Patrick Oliver McManigal, senior, computer engineering, “Wearable Electronic Bandage for Measuring Knee Joint Angles.”
• Joseph Donkor Oboamah, senior, computer science, “Low-Cost Camera System for Recognition of Flow Meter Readings at Irrigation Wells.”
• Long Hoang Nguyen, sophomore, software engineering, “Using Machine Learning and Classification Techniques for Health Assessment.”

View the full list of undergraduates here.

More details at: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/104-undergrads-receive-stipends-for-summer-research-projects/