Twelve ISA students presented their research at the Spring Undergraduate Research Festival (SURF) on Wednesday, April 22nd! Students showcased their work to a variety of judges from the University of Iowa (peers, faculty, and graduate students) and the surrounding community.  

Name	Program	Major	Poster Title	Mentor	Presentation Time
Braden Carne	Latham Fellow	Physics & Astronomy, Mathematics	Electron Behavior Across the Alfvén Surface: Recent Findings from Parker Solar Probe	Dr. Jasper Halekas	4:50 - 5:50pm
Avery Eckhardt	Science Alliance	Physics & Mathematics	Virasoro Geodesics	Dr. Vincent Rodgers	3:40 - 4:40pm
Kylee Harford	UI-IINSPIRE	Actuarial Sciences, Mathematics	Risk Management and Curation of Collections in Museums	Dr. Tiffany Adrain	3:40 - 4:40pm
Riley McCoy	UI-IINSPIRE	Biomedical Sciences	Prenatal poly(I:C) exposure leads to social deficits and hypoactivity of brain network regulating social behavior	Dr. Catherine Marcinkiewcz	4:50 - 5:50pm
Alexi Michanicou	Science Alliance	Physics & Astronomy	Extracting Luminosity Metrics from Pulsating Aurora	Dr. Allison Jaynes	4:50 - 5:50pm
Abby Myroth	Science Alliance	Neuroscience	The Developmental Emergence of Sleep Spindles in Juvenile Rats	Dr. Mark Blumberg	3:40 - 4:40pm
Peter Nitsche and Adriana Castellano	Latham Fellow	Biology	Tentacle Tales: How Genome Architecture and Nutrient Availability Shape Tissue Regeneration in a Freshwater Snail	Dr. Maurine Neiman	4:50 - 5:50pm
Keegan Nissen	Science Alliance	Speech and Hearing Science	Bridging the Gap: Barriers, Impacts, and Pathways to Addressing Rural Hearing Healthcare Inequities in Iowa	Dr. Elizabeth Walker	3:40 - 4:40pm
DeAndre Steger	Science Alliance	Informatics, Psychology	Evaluating the Convergent Validity of Digital Processing-Speed Assessments: An Analysis of DSST, Letter Comparison, and Pattern Comparison Tasks	Dr. Michelle Voss	3:40 - 4:40pm
Ellie Wojcikowski	Science Alliance	Neuroscience	A Psychometric Evaluation of Heart Rate Variability to Index Social-Emotional Functioning in Schizotypy	Dr. Bengi Baran	4:50 - 5:50pm
Isabelle Yoder	Science Alliance	Neuroscience	Distinguishing Mild Cognitive Impairment from Normal Aging: Domain-Specific Cognitive Differences	Dr. Natalie Denburg	3:40 - 4:40pm