Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022

Thanks for joining us at the 2022 CLAS Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium!

Symposium winners received scholarship support generously provided by the Sievert Family Endowed Scholarship in Research, Internship, Service and Engagement.

Presentations

By name

• Topics by major

  Astronomy

  • Searching for Rocks and Rings Around Young Stars

  Biological sciences

  • Misuse of Analgesics and How They Contribute to the Opioid Epidemic
  • Neuropeptide Neuromedin U Receptor NMUR-1 Maintains Insulin Signaling Homeostasis

  Chemistry

  • Iridium (III) Complexes as Sensors for Cytochrome P450 Enzymes

  Communication sciences and disorders

  • Investigating High Rates of Suicidal Ideation in Individuals Who Stutter

  Criminal justice

  • Mental Health and Incarceration

  English

  • Accounting Evolution
  • Male and Female Gaze in Film Theory

  Public health

  • Are Health Awareness Months Dedicated to Urological Diseases Effective at Increasing Public Interest? A Google Trends Study
  • How Can CRNAs Better Help/Understand Their Patients?
  • Importance of Rural Family Physicians
  • Influence of Prenatal Care Adequacy on Infant Mortality Rate Disparities Among Black and White Populations in the U.S.
  • Invisible Population: Case Study on Arab Americans in Detroit

  Neuroscience

  • Chronic Escalating Fentanyl Administration Induces Differences in Initial Cognitive Response Following Fentanyl Abstinence in Male and Female Rats
  • Identification of Novel Inhibitors Targeting KRAS-SOS1 Interactions by Structure-Based Drug Design
  • Synaptic Local Enrichment of CaMKIIα for Memory Improvement in Mice
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Hypoxia Produces Long-term Visual Deficits in Rats
  • WSU CAPS Resource: Mental Health Screening Utilization

  Psychology

  • Developmental Defects in Adolescents as a Result of The Pandemic
  • Everyday Discrimination, Gender Differences in Major Lifetime Discrimination, and Depressive Symptoms in Older African American Adults: An Empirical Study
  • Importance of Adolescent Suicide to School Psychologists
  • Invisible Population: Case Study on Arab Americans in Detroit
  • Quality Matters: A Procedure for Valid and Reliable Hippocampal Subfield Segmentation
  • Who is Your Role Model?
  • WSU CAPS Resource: Mental Health Screening Utilization

  Physics, biomedical physics

  • Identification of Novel Inhibitors Targeting KRAS-SOS1 Interactions by Structure-Based Drug Design
  • Implementation of a Quantum Perceptron

Welcome from the dean

More about undergraduate research at Wayne State

• 2021 undergraduate researchers
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