Welcome to the Online Proceedings for the 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium. The Sixteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium is organized by the Undergraduate Research Program, which facilitates research experiences for undergraduates in all academic disciplines. The Symposium is a chance for undergraduates to present what they have learned through their research experiences to a larger audience. It also provides a forum for students, faculty, and the community to discuss cutting edge research topics and to examine the connection between research and education. The event includes poster and presentation sessions by students from all academic disciplines and all three UW campuses, plus invited guests.

Schedule

• dvr Poster Session 111:00 AM – 12:30 PM ()
  94 student presenters
• co_present Oral Presentation Session 1 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM expand_circle_down
  132 presentations in 22 sessions
• 1A Addressing Poverty, Vulnerability, and Social Inequality (085 MGH)
  
• 1B Nutrient Cycles: Changing Perceptions of Water, Agriculture, and Waste (171 MGH)
  
• 1C Histories of Power, Social Difference, and Community Formation (228 MGH)
  
• 1D Medical Therapeutics and Endocrinology (231 MGH)
  
• 1E Sensorimotor Neuroscience (234 MGH)
  
• 1F From Papyrus to the Internet: Texts in Time (238 MGH)
  
• 1G Online Spaces: The Ephemera and Ritual, the Artistic and Subversive (242 MGH)
  
• 1H Aquatic Ecology and Biodiversity (248 MGH)
  
• 1I Developmental Neuroplasticity (251 MGH)
  
• 1J International Perspectives on Community Empowerment: Rights, Resources and Political Action (254 MGH)
  
• 1K Philosophy and Ethics (258 MGH)
  
• 1L Quantifying the Effects of Humans on the Environment (271 MGH)
  
• 1M Critical Considerations of Technology and Media (284 MGH)
  
• 1N McNair Session - Exploring the Natural World: From Numbers to Nanoparticles and Bats to Bacteria (287 MGH)
  
• 1O Health in Global Communities (288 MGH)
  
• 1P McNair Session - Divides of Power: Ecology, Identity, Media, and (Re)presentations (295 MGH)
  
• 1Q Tomorrow's Technological Solutions and Approaches for Today's Problems (389 MGH)
  
• 1R Synthetic Biology and Molecular Biotechnology (022 JHN)
  
• 1S Earth's Climate - Past, Present, and Implications for Finding Life Elsewhere (026 JHN)
  
• 1T Molecular and Cellular Biology (111 JHN)
  
• 1U Genotypic and Phenotypic Consequences of Nutrient Availability (175 JHN)
  
• 1V Researching Performance & Performing Research in Dance, Music, Theatre, and Spoken Word Poetry (Meany Studio Theatre)
  
• dvr Poster Session 212:45 PM – 2:15 PM ()
  187 student presenters
• co_present Oral Presentation Session 2 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM expand_circle_down
  130 presentations in 21 sessions
• 2A Graphs and Geometry (085 MGH)
  
• 2B The Americas Revisited: Local Voices Challenging and Occupying Constructed National Identities (171 MGH)
  
• 2C Education and Societal Inequalities (228 MGH)
  
• 2D Current Topics in Bioengineering (231 MGH)
  
• 2E Undergraduate Research in Economics (234 MGH)
  
• 2F The Poetics of Paranoia: Using Language to Imagine the Consequences of Difference (238 MGH)
  
• 2G Micro- and Nano-Materials in Action (242 MGH)
  
• 2H Neuroscience and Genetics: From Disorders to Tools for Discovery (248 MGH)
  
• 2I Aquatic Microbiology (251 MGH)
  
• 2J Infectious Diseases (254 MGH)
  
• 2K Representing Realities and Ideals, Renegade and Remembered (258 MGH)
  
• 2L Cancer Mechanisms (271 MGH)
  
• 2M Politics and Policy in America (284 MGH)
  
• 2N McNair Session - Improving Lives via Engineering, Neuroscience, Evolutionary Biology, and Psychology (287 MGH)
  
• 2O Sensory Input in Music, Speech, and the Vestibulo-Motor System (288 MGH)
  
• 2P McNair Session - Economies of Exploitation, Cultures of Resistance (295 MGH)
  
• 2Q Intersections: Art, Culture, Technology, Physicality (389 MGH)
  
• 2R Evolving Systems in Biology: From Molecules to Marsupials (022 JHN)
  
• 2S Astronomy and Physics (026 JHN)
  
• 2T Evolution, Genetics, and Biochemistry of Plants, Algae, and Fungi (111 JHN)
  
• 2U Stereotyping and Prejudice (175 JHN)
  
• dvr Poster Session 3 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ()
  208 student presenters
• dvr Poster Session 4 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM ()
  208 student presenters