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UW-Eau Claire's Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA) 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. Website: https://www.uwec.edu/orsp/students/cerca/
CERCA (formerly known as Student Research Day) encourages dissemination of research results from all disciplines represented in the UW-Eau Claire academic community.
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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Smartphones, Attention, and Brain Electrical Responses
(2024-04)The mere presence of one’s smartphone can be a distraction, impairing behavioral performance on an attention task (Ward et al., 2017). Attention is positively associated with both amplitude of the P3 (a component of EEG-based ... -
Born in Nation : Protest Music : Impacts on Racial Attitudes, Knowledge, and Emotions
(2024-04)Songs with protest messages frequently gain popularity; however, little is known about the extent to which listeners process the true meaning of such songs. Occasionally, a specific protest song or music video has spurred ... -
Improvements to Snap-Together Algebraic Surfaces
(2024-04)Our continuing work is to make assemblable models of algebraic surfaces. We create our art aiming to represent the surfaces with as much accuracy as possible, which is difficult due to computing directions of plugs and ... -
A Machine Learning Approach Towards Prediction of Pancreatic Cancer Using Gene Expression and DNA Methylation
(2024-04)DNA methylation is a process that can affect gene accessibility and therefore gene expression. Methylation can affect genes that are associated with suppressing or contributing to tumor growth and progression. In this ... -
wrmxpress GUI: A User-Friendly Interface For High-Throughput Analysis of Parasitic Worms
(2024-04)As antiparasitic research moves towards high-content and high-throughput phenotypic screening, computation of large imaging datasets will play a significant role. The data generated by automated microscopy is invaluable ... -
SLP Student Clinician Consideration of Representation When Choosing Books for Speech-Language Pathology Services
(2024-04)Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) work to support children's speech and language development. The purpose of this research is to understand the factors which SLP student clinicians report to influence the selection of ... -
Faculty Perspectives of Classroom Physical Activity Breaks : A Cross-Sectional Study
(2024-04)Current evidence shows health benefits using physical activity breaks (PABs) in educational environments. However, university students spend much of their day in settings that promote sedentarism. This study aimed to analyze ... -
Perceptions of Undergraduate Students on Their Growth and Professional Development Through the University Homeschool Physical Education Program
(2024-04)Homeschool physical education (PE) teaching experiences allow undergraduate students the opportunity to enhance their teaching skills, practice practical behavior management strategies, and gain first-hand lesson execution ... -
Relationships Between Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Abortion and Reproductive Healthcare
(2024-04)A survey was conducted among undergraduate students to determine if individuals' knowledge and opinions on abortion and reproductive health topics are related. Previous research has suggested an average correlation between ... -
Online Education and Student Outcomes : Tracking the Value of Online Courses
(2024-04)With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire began shifting a significant portion of its offered courses to an online-only instructional format, increasing the number of students exposed ... -
New Language Game+ : Digital Humanities for Wittgenstein
(2024-04)The object of this study is to utilize data-focused tools to obtain novel insights into the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The project is inspired by the philosopher Mark Alfano (2019). Alfano’s investigation centered ... -
Developing Methods to Quantify Schistosoma Mansoni Miracidia Behavior and Responsiveness
(2024-04)Schistosomiasis impacts over 250 million people worldwide and is caused by a family of parasitic flatworms known as schistosomes. These parasites have a complex life cycle, requiring progression through a snail intermediate ... -
Analysis of Functional Traits on Fitness of Three Species of Helianthus (Sunflowers)
(2024-04)It is well established that climate change causes yearly shifts in environmental conditions, but the effects of this variability on plant life are not yet widely understood. It is important to investigate these impacts for ... -
Improving Primary Care Providers’ Confidence in Treating Children with Autism/Suspected Autism in a Rural Setting
(2024-04)The goal of this study was to increase health care providers’ confidence in treating children with Autism/suspected Autism in a rural setting. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 36 children experience Autism ... -
The Impact of Exposure to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Education
(2024-04)This review examines the impact of implementation of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) content within higher education. EDI is a powerful strategy to acknowledge self-awareness and identify strong biases that are ... -
Exploring Alumni Perspectives on how a Domestic Intercultural Immersion (DII) Clinical Influenced Cultural Competence and Current Nursing Practice
(2024-04)Partners in Health and Safety, also known as Rural Farms, is a domestic intercultural immersion (DII) embedded in a Senior level community health/leadership nursing clinical course that began in 2011. The experience aims ... -
Investigating Coastal Resiliency in Managed vs. Unmanaged Foredunes in Humboldt Bay, California
(2024-04)Coastal communities are under increasing pressure from sea level rise and storm surges amplified by anthropogenic climate change. In Northern California, Humboldt Bay endures the fastest rates of sea level rise in California. ... -
Examining Coastal Resiliency in Restored Foredunes, Humboldt Bay, California
(2024-04)Coastal communities are under increasing pressure because of sea level rise, storm surges, coastal flooding, and anthropogenic climate change. The coastline of Humboldt County, California, experiences the fastest rates of ... -
Investigating Fluvial Sediment Supply to Coastal Beach-Dune Systems, Humboldt Bay, California
(2024-04)Coastal communities around the world are under increasing pressure because of sea level rise, storm surges, coastal flooding, and anthropogenic climate change. Humboldt County, California, experiences the fastest rates of ... -
Neoliberalism as a Global Contract
(2024-04)Neoliberalism as a Global Contract Theory: An analysis of neoliberal politics, international relations, and its function as a social contract theory. This article analyzes the prospective situation that neoliberal policy ...