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2022
Wednesday, May 18th
9:00 AM

Density functional theory analysis of halide double perovskite superstructures for solar energy conversion

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Jill Addington, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Assessing Paper Texture Similarity in Matisse Lithographs Using a Triplet Neural Network


Karen Aguilar, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanocubes


Joseph Almanza, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Studies Towards Rupestines L and M

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Abigail Andersen, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mapping Mastcams Multispectral Rock and Soil Classes Along Gale Crater

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Acacia Arielle, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Toxicity of Tire Tread Leachate on Mysid Shrimp Over a Series of Leach Times


Brook Ashcraft, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Chemical Crosslinking of Factor VIII C Domains Effect on Membrane Binding


Nathan Avery, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Haul-out Numbers of Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina)


Kyra Bankhead, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Deep Learning Applications for Huntington's Disease


Caitlin Bannister, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Classifying TESS Star Data using Neural Networks with Attention Mechanisms


Sally Bass, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Space Ethics


Margaret Baumgartner, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Weaving Fragmented Lands Together: Designing a Durable and Effective National Framework for Landscape Conservation


Jaimie Baxter, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Investigating the potential roles of CCCH zinc finger proteins CH1 and CH51


Morgan Beecroft, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Synthesis of CuAlS2/ZnS Quantum Dots for Photocatalysis


Catherine Bodinger, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Implementing a Mass-Loss Model for Cool Stars in python


Zoe Bozich, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Western Washington University Students’ Experiences of Intimacy and Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic


Avia Breiter, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Selective Hydrogenation Using Nickel Phosphides


Alex Bullock, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanocubes


Meghan Burke, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

WHAT IS POLITICAL SCIENCE? What a Disciplinary Archipelago Says about Political Scholarship and Academia as a Whole


Warren Burroughs, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Analyzing the Position and Distribution of Centriolar Satellites

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Elizabeth Cameron, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Perfecting the synthesis and characterization of monodisperse selenium nanoparticles.


Dillan Carnahan, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Synthesis and characterization of PLGA capped gold nanoparticles for use in cancer therapeutics


Tara Chin, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Computational modeling of opioid-induced respiratory depression

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Grant Chou, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Entailment in Asante Twi: A Semantic Analysis of Cooking-related Verbs

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Lukas Civan, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The effect of Targeted Acoustic Startle Technology on the foraging success of individual harbor seals


Kate Clayton, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Emotion and the Body in Twi


Sylvia Cohen, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sex-specific diet of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Salish Sea


Holland Conwell, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Re-Imagining The Railroad Road Avenue Corridor


Vivien Coop, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Depletion Force Purification and Silver Overgrowth on Gold Nano-Bipyramids


Griffin Cooper, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Investigating Age-Related Loss of Chromatin Silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Aidan Corbin, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Measuring properties of accretion streams from APOGEE spectra

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Sabrina Corey, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Wait, You Can Recycle Carbon Fiber Composites?! Subtitle: A study in the chemical recycling of cured composites and manufacturing processes for reclaimed carbon fiber.


Juliana Covarrubias, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Cycling of ethanol and acetaldehyde in coastal waters


Jefferson Crosland, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Spectral variability in naturally weathered rock surfaces and implications for Mars


Sabrina Curtis, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Distal Locating Pin System


Joshua Danzik, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mushroom Cultivation at The Outback Farm


Gabrielle Diamond, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The effects of fluctuating temperature and pH on the shell and radula morphology of the pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana)


Elizabeth Diehl, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Effects of Mitochondrial DNA Depletion on Mitochondrial and Immune Function in Aging


Angshita Dutta, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

MASTCAM SPECTRAL DIVERSITY OF ROCKS THROUGH CURIOSITY’S EXPLORATION OF GLEN TORRIDON


Alivia Eng, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Bones Here, Bones There, Bones Everywhere: Bioarchaeology and Osteology in Action


Julia Epps, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Binding Specificity of Chimeric SH2 Domains

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Kevin Alexander Estrada Alamo, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Simulating Multi-Agent Collaboration in a Classroom Environment


Andrew Evans, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Love is a Many Splendored Thing


Sadie Fick, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Determining sex of Steller and California sea lions utilizing qPCR analysis of scat


Madison Gard, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Solid Lipid Nanoparticles by sonicated”Phase Inversion Temperature” method – featuring alkenones


Charles Garzon, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Improving Emergency Response Outreach

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Jennifer Gonzalez, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Analysis of PM10 Levels in Silao, Mexico


Rachael Goodwin, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanocubes


Anika Guo, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Shelling dodecanethiol ligand quantum dots with silica to stabilize in water-based reactions


Ariel Hall, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Enchantment of the synthetic control over gold silver layered nano cubes and their functionalization as plasmonic sensing tools.


Nicolas Hall, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Using crystals in lava flows to understand the pre-eruptive processes at the Three Sisters Volcanoes, Central Oregon


Sean Halstead, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Formation of Janus Nanoparticles and Liquid Crystal Interactions


Teagan Hamlett, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Investigating Particle Composition and Aquatic Chemistry Impacts on Microplastic Aggregation Behavior Through the Use of Nanopolymer-Nanoparticle Composites


McKenna Haney, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Virtual Worlds as a Platform for Remote Collaboration


Griffin Hartz, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

"I Want to Hunt": Using Netflix's "Good Hunting" from the Series Love, Death, & Robots to Discuss Asian Female Representation in Film

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Jade Hedeen, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Actin Filament Binding in Plant Protein Villin-4


Jake Heins, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Developing computational models assessing the effect of temperature on abrasion in particle-based concentrated solar power plants


Zoe Hemez, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Nickel Phosphide Photothermal Catalyst Development for CO2-Derived Solar Fuels


Hannah Hennig, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Effect of partial atomic charges on molecular adsorption to a substrate using Molecular Mechanics

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Dylan Henry, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Synthesis of (+)-cananodine


Haley Holliday, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Tide Pooling for Klipsun

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Linnea Hoover, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Cell specific ERAD rescue is C. elegans


Heino Hulsey-Vincent, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Exploring Alternatives for Nonparametric Tests with Ties

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Alexander Hutchinson, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Do parasites track the local environmental adaptation of their hosts?


Amanda Jackson, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Characterizing Ciliogenesis in a Stable Cell Line Expressing a Cilia Calcium Sensor


Haven Johansen, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

First Detection of Polyunsaturated Aldehydes Produced by Benthic Diatoms in the Salish Sea


Jeremy Johnson, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

StarCraft AI: Viking Bot


David Kipnis, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Synthesis and Characterization of SERS-active silica-coated Au/Ag core/shell nanocubes


Bailey Klinger, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Expanding on sortase characterization: B4-B5 loop swap chimera and Class B enzymatic activity

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Hanna Kodama, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Timescale Disentanglement

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Joshua Kovac, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Student ownership and understanding of multi-week final projects

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Ira Che Lassen, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The impacts of PCB exposure on skeletal development, survivorship, and feeding ability in zebrafish


Abi Lee, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Waste to Products Research Team


Emmaline Lenz, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Electron Mobility Analysis of Acene-Substituted Covalent Organic Frameworks


Tanner Leo, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Klipsun Magazine's "Now What" issue


Luisa Loi, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

To Be In or To Be On: Adposition Variation in Twi

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Meghan Lopez, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Covalent Modification as Targets and Means for Research in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins


Derek McCaffery, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Using videos to teach K-12 CS pre-service teachers


Erick Mora Olmedo, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Border Legibility with Computer Vision


Trevor Ortega, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Visualizing the Passage of Time with Video Temporal Pyramids


Sophie Pallanck, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The effect of wildfire ash on the population numbers and physiology of a snow algae community from the North Cascades

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Sophie Paradis, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Multi-Functional Polymer-Nanoparticle Composites for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Applications


Sam Patrick, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Rise of Homelessness in Canada


Evarosa Perry, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Language Attitudes & Language Use: The Case of Joual in Quebec

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Madison Peyton, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Social Negotiation of Confusion for Physics Learning


Victoria Pollock, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Mechanistic Studies of the Thermal Guanidine Metathesis Reaction

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Venecia Ramirez, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Quantitative Microscopy Reveals the Ciliary Mechanism of Strobilidium Jumping Behavior


Teagan Ridgway, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Heritability, Developmental Determination, and Evolutionary Significance of Mandible Length in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and other Danionine Fishes


Danielle Ringo, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Whatcom READS campaign for Public Relations class

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Adriannah Roman, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

T3 Watershed Experiment’s riparian study


Emma Royce, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Synthesis of Reducible Oxide-Supported Nickel Phosphide Catalysts


Jake Schare, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Improved Functionality of Copper Indium Disulfide Quantum Dots via -OH capped Ligand Exchange


Julia Schexnayder, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Lingering Impact of COVID-19 on Grief and Bereavement, Practices Among College Students in the Pacific Northwest


Kiersten Shjerven, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

APOGEE Net: An expanded spectral model of both low mass and high mass stars


Dani Sprague, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Improving juvenile pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) outplanting success within the San Juan Archipelago in Washington State


Jaclyn Stapleton, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

MySpace: A Space for BIPOC Students to Explore Ethnic Identity in Predominantly White Schools


Deja Svastisalee, Western Washington University
Sabrina Batingan, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

How we Talk About Nature Matters; Invasive Species Rhetoric and it's Harmful Social Connotations

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Olivia Taylor-Manning, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Employing Metal Pyridinediimine Complexes for the Reduction of Prevalent Pollutants


Allison Teigen, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Distribution of the Copular Verb in Asante Twi


Navor Tercero, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Local and distant polymorphisms acting on protein expression show gene-by-gene, and gene-by-environment interactions


Nadine Tietz, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Reduction of pervasive pollutants utilizing iron pyridinediimine complexes.


April Trausch, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Diatom-derived ecological facilitation in Salish Sea plankton communities: A species-specific study


Alyssa Tsukada, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Digital Privacy Detective


Samantha Murray Tuesta, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Examining Masculinity 'The Lasso Way'


Rylee Tuttle, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Analyzing Minerals in Lava Flows as an Indicator for Magmatic Architecture Beneath Koma-Kulshan (Mt. Baker)

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Holly Valgardson, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Ethics of Reporting on Transgender Issues

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Sol Vandeman, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Analyzing the impact of wildfires and light-absorbing aerosol deposition in the Arctic


Sally Vaux, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Computers and Proteins: Using Molecular Dynamics to probe the Catalytic Mechanisms of Streptococcus Pyogenes and Listeria Monocytogenes Class A Sortases


Brandon Vogel, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

“There’s some whores in this house:” Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” as an anthem of Black female empowerment


Emma Wansley, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

A Retrospective Look at Covid-19 Testing Performance


Mayla Ward, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Enhancing Student Experience and Promoting Equity and Accessibility by Effectively Transferring Key Knowledge and Information to Mathematics, Statistics, and Related Majors Through the RAW Stats Club


Dylan Way, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

EVANGELINE: AN INQUIRY INTO CULTURAL CONCIOUSNESS AND STORYTELLING


Karissa Wedman, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Metallic nanomaterial decorated silk films as flexible, biocompatible SERS substrates


Wynn Wee, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Verb Movement: Evidence from Verb Subject Object Languages


Emma Wheaton, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Finding genes with cis-acting mutations in S. cerevisiae


Tara Wirsching, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Public Relations Campaign: Animals as Natural Therapy


Kate Yeoman, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Learning to use virtual reality for marine science education


Isabel Yueh, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Political Economy of the Climate Pledge Arena


Na'Kita Zylstra, Western Washington University

Carver Gym (Bellingham, Wash.)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM