2025 Graduate Research Forum
May 8
Ford Alumni Center
Maryamsadat Agha Seyedmohammad Keshmiri
ArtTranslation / Displacement
Caroline Alkire
Community & Regional PlanningUrban Exclusion: Gentrification, Privatization, and the Rise of Hostile Architecture in Eugene, Oregon
Juan Avendano
Music - Piano PerformanceSight & Sound: A Piano Method Book Blending Photography and Music
Paras Bajaj
Landscape ArchitectureChange Within Continuity
Wenjing Bao
Special EducationChecklist for the Cultural Adaptation of JASPER Training Materials for Chinese Caregivers of Children with Autism
Elizabeth Bates
Prevention ScienceThe 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 ArchitectureBeyond Walkable: Retrofitting Urban Circulation for Disability Inclusion in Sustainable New Urbanism
Aden Bhagwat
Prevention ScienceAssociations Between Adolescent Sexual/Physical Abuse Histories and Substance Use Recovery Outcomes
Jon Benedik Bunquin
Communication & Media StudiesFunny, Felt, Familiar: Memetic Communication, Trust in Science, and Risk Perception in Short Video-based Social Media
Ben Burress
BioengineeringComputational Design of Cyclic Peptide Inhibitors Targeting Glucosyltransferase B (GtfB)
Taylor Culinski
PsychologyKinship Caregivers Raising Children With and Without Disabilities: Initial Findings of a Mixed-methods Study
Anish Dulal
Computer ScienceUncertainty-Aware Carbon Flux Estimation from Multispectral Landsat Imagery Using Mixture Density Networks
Abby Frank
MarketingThe Afterlife Advantage: The Posthumous Boost of Public Figure’s Perceived Esteem
Clark Fraunglass
Landscape ArchitectureRestoring Connectivity and Ecosystem Health in Urban Watersheds
Flavia Gjishti
Interior ArchitectureBench Typologies
Linnea Hill
Folklore and Public CultureRoadside 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 EducationUntangling Conceptual Clutter: A Systematic Review of Adult-Reported Self-Regulation Measurement in Children Aged 0-8 Years
Sarabeth Johnson
HistoryThe Woodchips That Flew: Trauma and Family Separation during the Stalinist Purges
Dee Jolly
AnthropologyFrom Isolation to Chronic Stress: How Social Disconnection Becomes Embodied as Chronic Pain
Yeojin Jung
East Asian Language and LiteraturesBeyond Accent: Visual Cues and Korean Listeners' Attitudes toward English-accented Korean
Sara Kiros
Prevention SciencesAn Examination of Discrimination, Resilience, and Chronic Health Conditions Among Women of Color
Mahboubeh Khoddam
PsychologyPerceptual Judgments of Auditory Fractal Stimuli
Cassandra Lanson
Landscape ArchitectureChristmas for Coho: Considering Christmas Tree Byproducts to Improve Salmonid Habitat in the Clackamas River
Braden Lawrie
ArchitectureMulti-Performance Optimization of Veneer-Based Mass Timber Panels: Integrating, Material, Structural, Fabrication, and Geometric Objectives
Xinyu Liu
ArtFugitive Cartographies: Walking as Resistance in the Privatized City
Madalynn Madigar
EnglishApproaching 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 PsychologyAssociations with Academic Motivation among Latinx High School Students in California: Individual, Family, and School-level factors
Samantha Matalone Cook
Folklore and Public CultureThe Great Oak Table: A Collective Vision of Restoring and Re-storying Through Service and Enchantment
Cosette McCave
Landscape ArchitectureBringing "Traffic" to Freeway Park
Sabina Mensah
Environmental StudiesFood Sovereignty Struggles in Northern Ghana
Michael Mitchell
Landscape ArchitectureFrom the Ground Up: Soil Microbial Analysis of Urban Brownfield Restoration
Gretchen Nihill
PsychologyAllyship Confrontations Online: Confrontation to Prejudice can Function as Identity Safety Cues on Social Media
Hayami Nishio
Human PhysiologyReaction Times in the Right Hand Correlate with Ipsilateral Sensorimotor Cortex GABA Concentrations
Elise O'Brien
Landscape ArchitectureA Pattern Language for Galapagos
Kevin O'Hara
ArchitectureA Steamy Situation: Analyzing Various Methods for Extracting Hot, Humid Air in Bathrooms after Showering
Michelle Ortman
BiologyInvestigating the Role of the Arp2/3 Complex in Neural Stem Cell Cytokinesis
Anabelle Rampersaud
PsychologyParenting Behaviors of Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder Depend on Situational Demand: Testing Child Executive Control as a Moderator
Augie Schiano
PhilosophyA Philosophical Investigation on Touch
Mira Schoeberlein
Human PhysiologyThe Impact of Biological Sex and Sex Hormone Fluctuations on the Maximal Metabolic Steady State
Shelby Stasiowski
Landscape ArchitectureFrom Rain Gardens to Carbon Gardens
Chen Su
Prevention SciencePerceived Neighborhood Safety from Crime Moderates the Association Between Discrimination and Chronic Health Conditions among Minoritized Racial and Ethnic Groups
Kana Suzuki
BiologyExpectation Shapes Reward Outcome Responses in Tachykinin 1-expressing Lateral Habenula Neurons
Aidan Teppema
Landscape ArchitectureTrauma-Informed Design: A Student Perspective
Willow Vero
Landscape ArchitectureActivating the Elk
Sophie Yan Wang
EconomicsDeterminants of Post-Cold War Business Cycles in U.S. States and Global Economies: A Bayesian Dynamic Multifactor Model
Haley Burrill
Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology

Rutger Ceballos
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

MacKenzie Christensen
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Byron Villacis Cruz
Assistance Professor, Department of Sociology

Wagner Dantas
Assistant Professor, Human Physiology

Sayandeep Gupta
Postdoctoral Scholar, Plesa Lab, Knight Campus

Stephen Koller
Program Committee Chair, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Parisa Hosseinzadeh
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Bhavna Maurya
Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute of Molecular Biology

Katelyn McDonough
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

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

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

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

Mary Polites
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture & Environment

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

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

Geovanna Rodriguez
Assistant Professor, College of Education

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

Jake Swanson
Post Doctoral Scholar, Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Susan Walcott
President, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Faculty Emerita of Geography, UNC-Greensboro

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

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

Yu Zhang
Assistant Director, College of Arts & Sciences Advising





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)