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The UW-Eau Claire Student Research Day is designed to give UW-Eau Claire students the opportunity to display the results of collaborative research conducted with faculty mentors as well as the results of independent research. The event highlights student research accomplishments and the important role faculty and academic staff play as mentors in the scholarly activity process. Student Research Day encourages dissemination of research results from all disciplines represented in the UW-Eau Claire academic community. Link: http://www.uwec.edu/ORSP/students/ResearchDay.htm
Copyright for the materials in this collection is owned by the authors. This digital version is published by McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire with the consent of the author.
Recent Submissions
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Amiodarone Pharmacovigilance : An Assessment of Patient Population and Follow-up
(2020-04)Amiodarone is a medication commonly used in cardiology practice due to its unique effectiveness for both ventricular and atrial arrhythmia management. It does however also have risks for serious toxicity, and in an effort ... -
Temporal Analysis of University Students’ Waste-Sorting Behaviors : Measuring the Impact of Intervention Efforts
(2020-04)Americans churn out an average of over 7 pounds of trash each day. As landfills reach capacity, it is becoming ever more critical to cultivate effective waste-sorting habits that can reduce waste-stream contamination, ... -
Social Media Engagement and High-Impact Immersion Experiences : An Examination of Facebook as a Platform for Assessment in Higher Education
(2020-04)This study is a continuation of research conducted last year and it analyzes the extent to which social media engagement on Facebook enhances high-impact immersion trip experiences. Dumford and Miller (2018) examined ... -
Plant Functional Biodiversity is Influenced by Soil Moisture and Spatial Scaling
(2020-04)Community assembly is the result of ecological selection processes, dispersal processes, and random drift processes. Selection processes can cause coexisting species to be more similar or more different in traits, depending ... -
Future Development of Eau Claire
(2020-04)In this poster, we cover likely future trends in Eau Claire and offer some options regarding how those trends might be effectively leveraged. In this way what might become future liabilities for the City might, with effective ... -
Comparing Paleoproterozoic Felsic Volcanic Centers Across Wisconsin : Implications for Tectonic History and Sulfide Mineralization
(2020-04)The rocks containing the Crandon deposit are part of the Pembine-Wausau Terrain and formed ~1.85 billion years ago. These formed in a bark-arc setting as part of the Penokean Orogeny. Arc-derived sediments eventually covered ... -
Analytics for Summer Collegiate Baseball : Connecting Individual and Team Results
(2020-04)A prior study on baseball analytics for the Northwoods League summarized the available components needed to calculate a "Win Above Replacement" (WAR) metric for individual players, as well as identified missing and potential ... -
Parish Nursing : A Home-and-Community-Based Partner in Long-Term Care
(2020-04)Skilled Nursing Providers are under financial pressure to boost their census and support residents post-discharge due to new financial penalties for rehospitalizations. One out of every 5 discharged Medicare patients get ... -
A Continuing Examination of Food Purchasing through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC) : A Case Study of Grocery Stores and Farmers’ Markets with an Emphasis on Fruits and Vegetables I
(2020-04)Research suggests that food insecurity is a significant issue facing many American families with nearly one in five children living in a food insecure household. Many Americans also suffer from poor nutrition and specifically ... -
Identifying Opportunities for Wisconsin to Participate in Advanced Energy Manufacturing : An investigation into the State’s Real Capacity for Green Manufacturing
(2020-04)We sought to answer this question: What is the capacity of the Wisconsin economy to be able to convert into the production of green energy technology. This project originated through a grant from the Tommy Thomson center ... -
Unmanned Aerial System Utilized to Characterize Low Altitude Ozone Measurements in a Northern Wisconsin Forest
(2020-04)The CHEESEHEAD19 campaign studied measurements of ozone depositions that were taken at a very tall tower at two different heights (30 meters and 120 meters) and compared to measurements from an unmanned aerial system, UAS, ... -
On-water Bathymetric Survey of the 1,237-Acre Old Abe Flowage in Chippewa County Utilizing a Lowrance Integrated GPS/HD-Sonar
(2020-04)Bathymetric mapping employs a diverse set of cartographic skills proceeding from the survey of lake depths to the interpolation of depth contours, and the design and printing of maps that meet DNR standards. Over the past ... -
Spider Functional Biodiversity is Positively Correlated with Plant Functional Biodiversity
(2020-04)Community assembly is the result of ecological selection processes, dispersal processes, and random drift processes. Selection processes can cause coexisting species to be more similar or more different in traits, depending ... -
Measuring Stream Baseflow Conditions in West-Central Wisconsin
(2020-04)This study seeks to measure baseflow conditions in West-Central Wisconsin to aid in determining the impacts of groundwater withdrawals on local streams. Streamflow is measured monthly at fifteen (15) sites across eleven ... -
A Large Scale Study Characterizing the Diversity, Abundance and Depth of Deep-Water Mosses in Northern Wisconsin
(2020-04)In a small number of freshwater lakes around the world, bryophytes have been documented in deep-waters well below the depths of other plant life. However, because of their isolation, very little is known about their ecology, ... -
Lessons Learned when Implementing Electronic Health Record-based Referrals to Diabetes Prevention Program Classes in a Rural County
(2020-04)One in three Americans has prediabetes, yet 90% are unaware they have this condition which increases risk of type 2 diabetes (CDC, 2018). The National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is a lifestyle change intervention ... -
Home and Homebuilding : Queer and Trans People of Color in Predominantly White Institutions
(2020-04)This research documents the violence towards Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPOC) in Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). Through interviews with QTPOC, this research reveals the institutional and neoliberal violence ... -
Advanced Energy Manufacturing in Wisconsin
(2020-04)Two advanced sources of clean energy that are being deployed around the world are solar power and wind power. In both cases, the source of power, the sun, and the wind, are renewable and available worldwide. In the United ... -
Hmong Oral History Project : Documenting the Work Experiences of Hmong Refugees
(2020-04)A team of Hmong students interviewed Hmong elders to record their stories about their early years in the U.S., with a focus on the elders’ labor‐market experiences. It was difficult for many Hmong refugees to find jobs ... -
Process of Implementing Sensors into an Unmanned Aerial System
(2020-04)The goal of this project was to integrate multiple sensors onto an unmanned aerial system (UAS) to profile meteorology and composition of the atmosphere. These sensors include a POM, a five-hole probe, and an iMet. These ...
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