Summer 2024 and Academic Year 2024-25 UCARE Recipients
The Math Department wishes to announce and congratulate the Math and CAS Data Science majors who have been awarded funded UCARE projects for Summer 2024 and/or the Academic Year 2024-25:
UCARE Term: Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: Abhinav Bettadapura
Student's Major(s): Biochemistry and Mathematics
Student's Mentor(s): Matthew Wiebe
UCARE Project Title: Determining the role of ANKLE2 as an anti poxviral protein via BAF dephosphorylation during infection.
UCARE Term: Summer 2024 & Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: Jenna Wakefield
Student's Major(s): Biochemistry and Mathematics
Student's Mentor(s): Eric Weaver and Adthakorn Madapong
UCARE Project Title: Creating a Cross-Protective Vaccine for Canine Influenza with Adenoviral Vector Delivery System
UCARE Term: Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: Evin Rasho
Student's Major(s): Data Science and Software Engineering
Student's Mentor(s): Gwen Nugent and Leen-Kiat Soh
UCARE Project Title: Evaluating Academic Disparities: Analyzing Student Performance Across Schools, Districts, and Subgroups Through Rubric Measurements
UCARE Term: Summer 2024 & Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: Shaghayegh Rouhi
Student's Major(s): Data Science
Student's Mentor(s): Petronela Radu and Mikil Foss
UCARE Project Title: Nonlocal models for the analysis of the stock prices
UCARE Term: Summer 2024
Student Researcher: Riley Brown
Student's Major(s): Mathematics and Data Science
Student's Mentor(s): Tri Lai
UCARE Project Title: Enumeration of Lozenge Tilings of a Hexagon with Holes
UCARE Term: Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: Gracie Kerr
Student's Major(s): Mathematics and Civil Engineering
Student's Mentor(s): Grace Panther
UCARE Project Title: Research in the Formation of Engineers - Evidencing Epidemic Change in Engineering Education
UCARE Term: Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: Khanh Le
Student's Major(s): Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering
Student's Mentor(s): Mohammad Ghashami
UCARE Project Title: High-Temperature Nanoscale Laser Heating Stage
UCARE Term: Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: Helen Martinez
Student's Major(s): Mathematics
Student's Mentor(s): Mohammad Rashedul Hasan
UCARE Project Title: Design an Effective Intervention System for Improving College STEM Performance by Optimizing Large Language Models
UCARE Term: Summer 2024
Student Researcher: Jack Murphy
Student's Major(s): Mathematics and Physics
Student's Mentor(s): Huijing Du
UCARE Project Title: Computational Insights into Pancreatic Cancer: A Model-Based Approach to Growth and Treatment
UCARE Term: Summer 2024 & Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: Jasmine Pham
Student's Major(s): Mathematics
Student's Mentor(s): Paul Hanson and Jim Benes
UCARE Project Title: Understanding the Fire History of the Nebraska Sandhills using a Lake Sediment Core from Dewey Marsh, Nebraska, USA
UCARE Term: Summer 2024
Student Researcher: Bishop Placke
Student's Major(s): Mathematics
Student's Mentor(s): Alexandra Seceleanu
UCARE Project Title: Vector Spaces and Ideals Spanned by Permutations of Polynomials
UCARE Term: Summer 2024
Student Researcher: Sam Sanketh
Student's Major(s): Mathematics
Student's Mentor(s): Alexander Zupan
UCARE Project Title: Property Analysis in Connected Sums of Dimension Three Knots
UCARE Term: Summer 2024
Student Researcher: Nick Starns
Student's Major(s): Mathematics
Student's Mentor(s): Alexander Zupan
UCARE Project Title: Fusion Numbers of Ribbon Knots
UCARE Term: Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: Anok Timothy
Student's Major(s): Mathematics and Computer Science
Student's Mentor(s): Alexander Zupan
UCARE Project Title: Symmetric Ribbon Numbers of Ribbon Knots
UCARE Term: Summer 2024 & Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: Sajid Raihan Akash
Student's Major(s): Physics and Mathematics
Student's Mentor(s): Ilya Kravchenko
UCARE Project Title: Improve n(z) and antenna position knowledge with calibration data from 2023 field season for the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland.
UCARE Term: Academic Year 2024-2025
Student Researcher: John Daugherty
Student's Major(s): Physics and Mathematics
Student's Mentor(s): Evan Rich
UCARE Project Title: How Large Objects Affect Planet Evolution: H.O.P.E.
Congratulations to the 16 students listed above and please wish them well with their research!
If you would like to learn more about doing undergraduate research, please visit https://math.unl.edu/math-club/resources/research to learn more!