UCCS Graduate School Research Showcase May 2019
Gallogly Event Center
9:00am - 11:00am Poster Session
11:00am - 12:30pm Keynote Speaker & Lunch
College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Board # Presenter/ Program Title
1 Margarita Meza-Whitlatch Psychology
Moral Kombat: Worldview Challenge and Cognitive Load Effects on Death Thought Accessibility
2 Nicole Beutell
Psychology Facebook Support Group for Mothers of Children with Autism 3 Sydney Nolan
Psychology
Preliminary Psychometrics of a New Measure of the DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder
4 Katie Granier
Clinical Psychology MA
The Magic of Music: What Animated Musical Numbers Really Portray to Children
5 Katalin Grajzel
Psychological Sciences Validating the Statistics Anxiety Scale - What are We Really Measuring? 6 Cianna Reider
Communication TBD - The Effects of YA Media on Mental Health Perceptions 7
Ryan Wenzel
Communication
Rationale and Plan for Engagement of Food Studies in an Upper-Division Undergraduate and Master's Communication Curricula: Theoretical Groundwork, Practical Issues, and Research-based Recommendations 8 Jason Thornton
Communication Communicating Worklife Balance 9 Megan Woissol
Communication Small Business Customer Relationship Management on Social Media 10 Marissa Lammon
Communication Dead Serious: Death Presentations in Children's Animated Media 11 Katasha Dawson
Communication
Textual Analysis of Avowedly Sexually Empowering Instagram Accounts: Expressions of Sexual Empowerment Exemplified in Social Media 12 Gabriel Wilson
Physics
Investigating the Ability of Satellite Based Ion Density Measurements to Improve a Space Weather Forecast Model
13 Mazen Alrahili Physics
Near Infrared Heating of Gold Nano-materials for Use in Photothermal Therapy
14 Patrick Yarbrough Physics
Far-infrared reflection from heterostructures made of ultrathin ferromagnetic films
15 Philip Batterson Biology
Interpreting the relationship between non-invasive measures of skeletal muscle oxygenation and human performance: A new biometric frontier 16 Faith King
Biochemistry Expression of a Heterologous Protein in Magnetospirillum magneticum 17 Sara Rodriguez
Biochemistry
Influence of Translocations on Genomic Organization and Gene Expression in Neurospora Crassa
18 Michael Michaud
Chemistry Analysis of Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFCs) 19 Eric Gaulke
UCCS Graduate School Research Showcase (Continued)
20 Phuong Nguyen Chemistry
Sugars and Amino Acids Analysis in Aphid Honeydew by HILIC chromatography
Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Board # Presenter/ Program Title
21 Kelly Johnson
Sports Nutrition The effects of nutrition education on individuals with Parkinson’s disease 22 Yuka Sanui
Sports Nutrition Farm to Institution: Reimagining the Lunch Hour 23 Jenna Polselli
Sports Nutrition
Utilizing Ultrasound, DXA & ISAK Skinfolds Body Composition Measurements to Predict Exercise Performance 24 Jordan Moses
Strength and Conditioning
Interrater and intrarater reliability of the front plank measures using video motion capture application
25 Dalton White
Strength and Conditioning
Investigation of redundant performance testing procedures in division 1 basketball players: an exploratory analysis
26 Whitney Tramel
Strength and Conditioning
The relationship between absolute and relative lower-body strength and measures of power and agility in Division II female volleyball players 27 Emily Kulakowski
Strength and Conditioning
Relationship between absolute and relative power to linear speed in NCAA Division II women’s lacrosse players.
28 Katelin Staab
Strength & Conditioning
Differences in power-to-body mass ratios between sprint, middle-distance, and distance swimmers
29 Derek Savage
Strength and Conditioning Differences in Power Output Between Different Box Jump Heights 30 Ryland Townsend
Strength and Conditioning
Relationship Between Maximal Squat and Counter-Movement Jump in Men's Basketball Athletes
31 Jacob Bone
Strength and Conditioning
Performance and Anthropometric Correlates of Countermovement Jump performance
32 Emily Maiurro Health Promotion
The Relationship Between Health Coaching, Goal Achievement, and Biometrics
33 Anna Bauer Health Promotion
Evaluation of an Interprofessional Collaboration: A Student and Expert View
34 Kristin Porter Health Promotion
"More than an Exercise Class" An Evaluation of Physical and Psychosocial Health in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease
35 Trent Hovenga
Health Promotion Diabetes Prevention: An Academic-Community Pilot Program 36 Maryanne Fitzgerald
Athletic Training Analysis of Four Years of Shoulder Injury in Professional Rodeo. 37 Michelle Murphy
Athletic Training High School Coaches' Knowledge of Lightning Safety 38 Kaleb DeFreese
Athletic Training
An analysis of shoulder internal and external rotation of fire academy cadets: A descriptive study
39 Sara Meyer
Athletic Training Interrater Reliability of the Functional Movement Screen: A Pilot Study 40 Jessica Kledzinski
Athletic Training Preventative shoulder rehabilitation for the rough stock rodeo athlete 44* Anna Doyel
UCCS Graduate School Research Showcase (Continued)
College of Business
Board # Presenter/ Program Title
41 Tim Haas
MBA Athletic Team Dynamics and Development
College of Education
Board # Presenter/ Program Title
42
Nina Ellis Frischmann
Leadership, Research, and Policy
There is no difference: Comparing the academic outcomes between students by admission type after completion of a Calculus class in a
regional university in Colorado 43
Regina Winters
Leadership, Research, and Policy
Effects of Self-Efficacy and Math Mindset on Undergraduate Student Math Outcomes: An Exploration of UCCS’ Strengthen Institutional Program
