STEM Research Showcase

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Kaiser / RESEARCH STUDENT Sam Nouwens / PROJECT Identification of DNA target sequence of a phage-encoded anti-CRISPR transcriptional repressor

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Kaiser / RESEARCH STUDENT Duc Vu / PROJECT Structure and Characterization of the ATP Bound B/Z+C Core Complex of the BREX Defense System

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Stenback / RESEARCH STUDENTS Natane Yaecob, Gracie Atkinson / PROJECT Collection and Isolation of Chloroviruses across Cascadian lakes

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Chang / RESEARCH STUDENTS Lauren Ghrist / PROJECT Making A Buzz: Wool Carder Bee Interactions on Gonzaga University Campus

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Hultgren / RESEARCH STUDENTS Kai Hua, Lilka Clocksin, Mickey Crunk / PROJECT INVERTEBRATE BIODIVERSITY IN KELP FORESTS REVEALED BY AUTONOMOUS REEF MONITORING STRUCTURES

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Zanis / RESEARCH STUDENT Hope Takazawa, Kailee Massenburg / PROJECT Exploring the diversity of urban terrestrial algae using DNA barcoding

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Zanis / RESEARCH STUDENT Lydia LaCount, Andy Woolfolk / PROJECT Ecological Limits of Temperature Tolerance in Freshwater Algae

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Kremer-Herman, Dr. Rutherford / RESEARCH STUDENT Margaret Fitzgibbon / PROJECT Teaching Evolutionary Concepts with EVO: A Simulation of Snowshoe Hare Adaptation

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Luckey / RESEARCH STUDENT Rachael Bush PROJECT Sex Differences In the Impact of Exercise on Hypertension

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Pool / RESEARCH STUDENT Oliver Burkholder, Lincoln Jagger, Jeansid Leonor PROJECT Field Ecology Research on the Broadnose Sevengill Shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) in the South Salish Sea

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Li / RESEARCH STUDENTS Daniel Kirov-Tomilov, Alyssa Abogado, Jakob Balkovec / PROJECT Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) Using Machine Learning 

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Bae RESEARCH STUDENTS Angela Han, Alivia Zhao, Tony Nguyen, Alice Han, Victoria Zhang, Desmond Wan / PROJECT GeoAI Walkability Assessment

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Bae / RESEARCH STUDENT Kenny Nguyen, Tony Nguyen, Nathan Tran / PROJECT Hybrid Regression–Clustering for Drone 3D Apple Counting & Yield

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Zhao / RESEARCH STUDENT Brian Vu / PROJECT Is Artificial Intelligence an Elixir to the Software Engineering Community? An Empirical Study Among Product Managers

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Whidbey / RESEARCH STUDENTS Oscar Gonzalez / PROJECT Determine barriers to genetic transformation of host-specific Lactobacillus species

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Whidbey / RESEARCH STUDENT Aspen Scott-Lewis / PROJECT Exploration of the nutrient requirements of Lactobacillus iners

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Whidbey / RESEARCH STUDENT Kiera Tanaputra / PROJECT Identification of Microglial Receptor Proteins Involved in Gut-Brain Axis Signaling

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Whidbey / RESEARCH STUDENT Zoe Jackson / PROJECT Activity-Based Protein Profiling of Microbial Proteomes for Functional Annotation

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Latch / RESEARCH STUDENTS Sarah Conde / PROJECT Development of quantitative structure-activity relationships for triplet-sensitized photochemical reactions

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Latch / RESEARCH STUDENT M Kuramura / PROJECT Development of Mass Channel Based Principal Component Analysis for GC-QuadMS

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Latch / RESEARCH STUDENT Maggie Gaur, Shane Nelson, Logan Warner / PROJECT Chlorine actinometer performance under variations in temperature, pH, and irradiance

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Watson / RESEARCH STUDENT Stephanie Saw, Sage Glandorf, Khoa Nguyen / PROJECT Syntheses and Reactivity of Trimetallic Complexes of Iron and Manganese

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Frato / RESEARCH STUDENTS Joseph Dakin  / PROJECT GCMS analysis of metabolite profiles of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii under varying growth conditions

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Alaimo / RESEARCH STUDENT Mireya Haran / PROJECT Ground Control to Major Tom: Synthesis of microbial metabolite analogs containing a diazirine and an alkyne to study the gut brain axis

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Louie / RESEARCH STUDENT Melvin Dang / PROJECT Effects of Load Estimation Detail on Off-Grid System Design and Reliability

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Louie / RESEARCH STUDENT Dean Aquino / PROJECT Data Analysis for Residential Off-Grid Solar Power ​  on the Navajo Nation

FACULTY MENTORS Dr. Abraham / RESEARCH STUDENT Loritha Keza, Laurel Maronick, Austin Lo / PROJECT LoRa-based Environmental Monitoring for Resource-Constrained Environments.

Coming Soon

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Helliwell / RESEARCH STUDENT Luka Lawrence, Kevin Lin, Alina Potapyev / PROJECT Geodesics and hyperbolicity for the half-plane models of taxicab hyperbolic space

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Ren / RESEARCH STUDENTS Steven Hong, Karin Stoddart, Michi Tawara, Samuel Mesfin, Parsa Dadfarnia PROJECT Engineering a Better Cryoprotectant: Balancing Low Toxicity and High Vitrifiability for a Novel Electromagnetic Rewarming System.

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Han / RESEARCH STUDENTS Jhet Cooperrider Young, Devin Raleigh, Kai Boydon, Eric Olson, Ethan Holden, Indie Heinemann-Rueda / PROJECT Soft Robotics for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Therapy

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Han / RESEARCH STUDENTS Aaron Chhor, Indie Heinemann-Rueda, Evan Nguyen, Micah Meenan / PROJECT Numerical Simulations of the Globular Cluster NGC 6569

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Hughes and Dr. McEwen / RESEARCH STUDENTS Ira Evetts, Thea Campbell, Sebastian Foss, Leander Villarta / PROJECT Numerical Simulations of the Globular Cluster NGC 6569

FACULTY MENTOR Dr. Fontana / RESEARCH STUDENT Rowen Jorgensen, Maximillian Burger / PROJECT Plasma I-V Characteristics in a Fusor