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2025 Graduate Research Forum 


May 8 

Ford Alumni Center

Presenters

  • Maryamsadat Agha Seyedmohammad Keshmiri
    Art

    Translation / Displacement

  • Caroline Alkire
    Community & Regional Planning

    Urban Exclusion: Gentrification, Privatization, and the Rise of Hostile Architecture in Eugene, Oregon

  • Juan Avendano
    Music - Piano Performance

    Sight & Sound: A Piano Method Book Blending Photography and Music

  • Paras Bajaj
    Landscape Architecture

    Change Within Continuity

  • Wenjing Bao
    Special Education

    Checklist for the Cultural Adaptation of JASPER Training Materials for Chinese Caregivers of Children with Autism

  • Elizabeth Bates
    Prevention Science

    The Role of Family-Centered Healthcare in Being ‘Healthy and Ready to Learn’: Findings from the 2022 National Survey of Children’s Health

  • Alejandro Bechtle
    Landscape Architecture

    Beyond Walkable: Retrofitting Urban Circulation for Disability Inclusion in Sustainable New Urbanism

  • Aden Bhagwat
    Prevention Science

    Associations Between Adolescent Sexual/Physical Abuse Histories and Substance Use Recovery Outcomes

  • Jon Benedik Bunquin
    Communication & Media Studies

    Funny, Felt, Familiar: Memetic Communication, Trust in Science, and Risk Perception in Short Video-based Social Media

  • Ben Burress
    Bioengineering

    Computational Design of Cyclic Peptide Inhibitors Targeting Glucosyltransferase B (GtfB)

  • Taylor Culinski
    Psychology

    Kinship Caregivers Raising Children With and Without Disabilities: Initial Findings of a Mixed-methods Study

  • Anish Dulal
    Computer Science

    Uncertainty-Aware Carbon Flux Estimation from Multispectral Landsat Imagery Using Mixture Density Networks

  • Abby Frank
    Marketing

    The Afterlife Advantage: The Posthumous Boost of Public Figure’s Perceived Esteem

  • Clark Fraunglass
    Landscape Architecture

    Restoring Connectivity and Ecosystem Health in Urban Watersheds

  • Flavia Gjishti
    Interior Architecture

    Bench Typologies

  • Linnea Hill
    Folklore and Public Culture

    Roadside Attractions: Politics, Tourism, and Folk Culture in Roadside America

  • Nat Ivy
    Folklore and Public Culture

    “This is Traditional Song; We Can't Let You Stay Happy Long”: Gender, Social Politics and Media Sensationalism in 19th Century American Murder Ballads

  • Yitong Jiang
    Special Education

    Untangling Conceptual Clutter: A Systematic Review of Adult-Reported Self-Regulation Measurement in Children Aged 0-8 Years

  • Sarabeth Johnson
    History

    The Woodchips That Flew: Trauma and Family Separation during the Stalinist Purges

  • Dee Jolly
    Anthropology

    From Isolation to Chronic Stress: How Social Disconnection Becomes Embodied as Chronic Pain

  • Yeojin Jung
    East Asian Language and Literatures

    Beyond Accent: Visual Cues and Korean Listeners' Attitudes toward English-accented Korean

  • Sara Kiros
    Prevention Sciences

    An Examination of Discrimination, Resilience, and Chronic Health Conditions Among Women of Color

  • Mahboubeh Khoddam
    Psychology

    Perceptual Judgments of Auditory Fractal Stimuli

  • Cassandra Lanson
    Landscape Architecture

    Christmas for Coho: Considering Christmas Tree Byproducts to Improve Salmonid Habitat in the Clackamas River

  • Braden Lawrie
    Architecture

    Multi-Performance Optimization of Veneer-Based Mass Timber Panels: Integrating, Material, Structural, Fabrication, and Geometric Objectives

  • Xinyu Liu
    Art

    Fugitive Cartographies: Walking as Resistance in the Privatized City

  • Madalynn Madigar
    English

    Approaching the Climate Crisis with Indigenous Protocols and Methodologies: A Review of Indigenous-led Carbon Sequestration Projects on Tribal Lands in the United States

  • Alyssa Marquez
    Counseling Psychology

    Associations with Academic Motivation among Latinx High School Students in California: Individual, Family, and School-level factors

  • Samantha Matalone Cook
    Folklore and Public Culture

    The Great Oak Table: A Collective Vision of Restoring and Re-storying Through Service and Enchantment

  • Cosette McCave
    Landscape Architecture

    Bringing "Traffic" to Freeway Park

  • Sabina Mensah
    Environmental Studies

    Food Sovereignty Struggles in Northern Ghana

  • Michael Mitchell
    Landscape Architecture

    From the Ground Up: Soil Microbial Analysis of Urban Brownfield Restoration

  • Gretchen Nihill
    Psychology

    Allyship Confrontations Online: Confrontation to Prejudice can Function as Identity Safety Cues on Social Media

  • Hayami Nishio
    Human Physiology

    Reaction Times in the Right Hand Correlate with Ipsilateral Sensorimotor Cortex GABA Concentrations

  • Elise O'Brien
    Landscape Architecture

    A Pattern Language for Galapagos

  • Kevin O'Hara
    Architecture

    A Steamy Situation: Analyzing Various Methods for Extracting Hot, Humid Air in Bathrooms after Showering

  • Michelle Ortman
    Biology

    Investigating the Role of the Arp2/3 Complex in Neural Stem Cell Cytokinesis

  • Anabelle Rampersaud
    Psychology

    Parenting Behaviors of Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder Depend on Situational Demand: Testing Child Executive Control as a Moderator

  • Augie Schiano
    Philosophy

    A Philosophical Investigation on Touch

  • Mira Schoeberlein
    Human Physiology

    The Impact of Biological Sex and Sex Hormone Fluctuations on the Maximal Metabolic Steady State

  • Shelby Stasiowski
    Landscape Architecture

    From Rain Gardens to Carbon Gardens

  • Chen Su
    Prevention Science

    Perceived Neighborhood Safety from Crime Moderates the Association Between Discrimination and Chronic Health Conditions among Minoritized Racial and Ethnic Groups

  • Kana Suzuki
    Biology

    Expectation Shapes Reward Outcome Responses in Tachykinin 1-expressing Lateral Habenula Neurons

  • Aidan Teppema
    Landscape Architecture

    Trauma-Informed Design: A Student Perspective

  • Willow Vero
    Landscape Architecture

    Activating the Elk

  • Sophie Yan Wang
    Economics

    Determinants of Post-Cold War Business Cycles in U.S. States and Global Economies: A Bayesian Dynamic Multifactor Model

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Judges

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Haley Burrill
Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology

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Rutger Ceballos
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

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MacKenzie Christensen
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

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Byron Villacis Cruz
Assistance Professor, Department of Sociology

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Wagner Dantas
Assistant Professor, Human Physiology

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Sayandeep Gupta
Postdoctoral Scholar, Plesa Lab, Knight Campus

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Stephen Koller
Program Committee Chair, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

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Parisa Hosseinzadeh
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

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Bhavna Maurya
Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of Molecular Biology

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Katelyn McDonough
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Kent McIntosh
Professor, Philip H. Knight Chair, Special Education, College of Education

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Kate Nelson
Community Outreach Committee Chair, Institute of Ecology and Evolution

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Kayla Nguyen
Assistant Professor, Oregon Center for Optical, Molecular, and Quantum Science

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Mary Polites
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture & Environment

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Grace Privett
Postdoctoral Scholar, Willett Lab, Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact 

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Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell 
Assistant Professor of Musicology, School of Music and Dance

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Geovanna Rodriguez 
Assistant Professor, College of Education

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John Sutter
Assistant Professor of Science Communication, School of Journalism and Communication

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Jake Swanson
Post Doctoral Scholar, Institute of Ecology and Evolution

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Susan Walcott
President, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Faculty Emerita of Geography, UNC-Greensboro

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Satya Yadav
Postdoctoral Scholar, Widom Lab,  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Le Yang           
Associate Vice Provost & University Librarian for Collections, Discovery, and Digital Strategy, Knight Library

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Yu Zhang
Assistant Director, College of Arts & Sciences Advising

 

 

 

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Previous Forum Winners

2024

Panel Award Recipients

  • Gender or Caregiving Community topic "Suicide Prevention Among Vulnerable Populations: Risk and Prevention Strategies in the Youth, Aging, Disability, and Neurodivergent Communities". Marielena R. McWhirter Boisen; Vivian Koomson; Alyssa Callender, Prevention Science
  • Disabled or Neurodivergent Community topic: “Wearing Journey: Understanding Disabled Bodies Through Comics and Healthcare Technology". Anu Sugathan, English; Suhana Ahamed, Human Physiology
  • International Community topic: “From Bias to Balance: Reimagining Global Media Narratives”. Nishat Parvez; Nishtha Yadav; Nahla Bendefaa; Stella Zhang, Communication & Media Studies
  • 2SLGBTQIAA+ community topic: “Queer Intimacies and Queer Futures”. W. Jamie Yang, Sociology; Kaito Campos de Novais, Anthropology
  • Gender or Caregiving Community topic honorable mention: "Transforming Models of Care”. Precious Adejumobi; Tian Walker, Anthropology

Poster Winners

  • Maria Camila Coronado Cabrera, Architecture
  • Stevana Schauer, Biology
  • Sarah Erskine, Biology
  • Amira Ghazy & Bibi Halima, Language Teaching Studies
  • Ngan Tran, Economics
  • Bruce Yuan & Daniel Appiah-Gyekye, Media Studies
  • Katie Alvarez, Special Education
  • Havisha Khurana, Quantitative Research Methods in Education (also 2022 winner)

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