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Emily Armitage
Hometown: Cheyenne, WY
Major: Biology
Emily is a UW senior and is working with Dr. Naomi Ward (Molecular Biology) on a project entitled "Exploring sterol function in the bacterium Gemmata obscriglobus."
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Sarah Brannon
Hometown: Westminster, MA
Major: Wildlife & Fisheries Biology & Management; Environment & Natural Resources
Sarah is a UW senior and has been working for the past two years with Dr. Corey Tarwater (Zoology and Physiology) researching the influence of changing rainfall, parental traits, and nest traits on parental care in tropical birds and how that may subsequently alter juvenile survival and recruitment. Over two summers, Sarah has spent four months in Panama helping to collect data at field sites.
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Rebecca Brenner
Hometown: Harrisburg, NE
Major: Physiology
Rebecca is a UW junior and has been working with Dr. Baskaran Thyagarajan (School of Pharmacy) on a project exploring how TRPV1 activation enhances thermogenesis by increasing mitochondrial biogenesis in brown adipose tissue.
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Delta Burchi
Hometown: Laramie, WY
Major: Zoology & Physiology
Delta is a UW junior and is working with Dr. Travis Brown (School of Pharmacy) researching the "incubation of craving" phenomena that is thought to help explain why former substance abusers relapse, and also why those actively dieting can seem to "lose control" and binge even after positive results. They are working to better understand how genetic predispositions may play a role in these behaviors, as well as looking at differences in brain morphology (in areas related to these behaviors) between rats of different genetic backgrounds.
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Madison Crawford
Hometown: Newcastle, WY
Major: Botany
Madi is a UW Junior and has been working with Lusha Tronstad (WYNDD) and Delina Dority (Graduate Student) researching how wind turbine color effects insect populations, specifically pollinator populations. By researching the amount of insects that are attracted to wind turbine colors, Madi hopes to propose her results to land managers in order to help mitigate insect mortality rates at wind farms.
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Amanda Christensen
Hometown: Buford, WY
Major: Chemical Engineering
Amanda is a UW Freshman studying Chemical Engineering. She greatly enjoys the Wyoming outdoors. Her greatest areas of interest are medicine and cattle and she hopes to do research in one or both of these areas.
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Thyme Cooke
Hometown: Cheyenne, WY
Major: Zoology
Thyme is a UW senior working with Dr. Jacob Goheen (Zoology & Physiology) investigating links between hybridization and natural gas development for a mammalian species of conservation concern.
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Olivia Croft
Hometown: Sundance, WY
Major: Secondary Education/Biological Science; Botany
Olivia is a UW sophomore researching with Dr. Amy Krist (Zoology and Physiology); her research is centered around the interactions between parasites and the freshwater snail, Pyrgulopsis idahoensis, in Polecat Creek in Grand Teton National Park. More specifically, Olivia is interested in how snail behavior in a temperature gradient may influence their infection rate by trematode parasites. Through this research, she hopes to better understand how climate change may influence parasitism of snails and thus the greater freshwater ecosystem.
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Ella De Wolf
Hometown: Laramie, WY
Major: Molecular Biology; Microbiology
Ella is a UW junior and has been working with Dr. Cynthia Weinig (Botany and Molecular Biology) for almost a year researching interactions between plants and soil microorganisms. Ella hopes to contribute to a better understanding of how plants influence their microbial communities and vise versa by analyzing secondary metabolite production, insect damage, and 16s sequencing of the rhizosphere micro biome.
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Logan Eicholzer
Hometown: Liverpool, NY
Major: Double-majoring in Wildlife & Fisheries Biology & Management and Environment & Natural Resources
Logan is a UW sophomore.
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Logan Fairbourn
Hometown: Cheyenne, WY
Major: Microbiology
Logan is a UW senior working with Ms. Rachel Watson (Molecular Biology), Dr. John Willford (Molecular Biology), and Dr. Jennifer Harmon (Family and Consumer Sciences) on an interdisciplinary project involving determining the fiber properties of bacterial cellulose and surmising application potentials as they relate to the textile industry.
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Andrew Flaim
Hometown: Laramie, WY
Major: Geology
Andrew is a UW senior who has been working for the past year with Dr. Bryan Shuman (Geology and Paleoclimatology) studying controls on abrupt forest changes in the Snowy Range Mountains in Wyoming. The investigation uses charcoal, pollen, and oxygen isotopic records in two lake sediment cores from the Libby Flats plateau to better understand the relationships between major destructive events, such as fires, and past climatic shifts. This information will help highlight the potential for the coincidence of fires and climate change to alter forests over large areas today and in the near future.
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Olivia Glassock
Hometown: Buffalo, WY
Major: Physiology
Olivia is a UW sophomore who will be working with Dr. Guanglong He (School of Pharmacy).
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Logan Jensen
Hometown: Greybull, WY
Major: Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
Logan is a UW senior working with Dr. Michael Pierce (Physics & Astronomy) on analyzing data collected from the recent eclipse by the "Citizen CATE" experiment.
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Lukas Lindquist
Hometown: Fort Collins, CO
Major: Geology; Environment & Natural Resource
Lukas is a UW senior working with Dr. Ellen Currano (Botany and Geology).
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Aylin McGough-Peker
Hometown: Huntsville, AL
Major: Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
Aylin is a UW sophomore who is studying expoplant photometry with Dr. Henry Kobulnicky (Physics & Astronomy).
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Tyler Myers
Hometown: Sheridan, WY
Major: Chemistry
Tyler is a UW sophomore and is working with Dr. David Anderson (Physical Chemistry) researching the synthesis and characterization of titanium ethylene molecules at liquid helium temperatures and determining their ability to absorb hydrogen. Ultimately, this research will provide crucial information on the feasibility of using this complex as a clean alternative hydrogen fuel source.
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Brittany Nordberg
Hometown: Cody, WY
Major: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology Management
Brittany is a UW senior working with Dr. Catherine Wagner (Botany) exploring the evolutionary history of Tanganyika's Nile perch species.
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Isabel Noyes
Hometown: Laramie, WY
Major: Biology
Isabel is a UW freshman.
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Kianna Olson
Hometown: Laramie, WY
Major: Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
Kianna is a UW sophomore working with Dr. Michael Brotherton (Physics & Astronomy) on examining VLA data reduction.
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Zachary Parsons
Hometown: East Wenatchee, WA
Major: Zoology
Zachary is a UW junior and is working with Dr. Michael Dillon (Zoology and Physiology) researching how bumblebees fly at high elevations, where decreased air density makes flying more difficult, as well as how energetically expensive it is to do so. This knowledge will help predict range shifts of these crucial pollinators that may be forced to move to cooler areas when faced with warming temperatures.
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Ryan Parziale
Hometown: Laramie, WY
Major: Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
Ryan is a UW junior and is working with Dr. Daniel Dale (Physics & Astronomy) researching star clusters in nearby galaxies.
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Ashleigh Rhea
Hometown: Dillon, MT
Major: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology Management
Ashleigh is a UW senior working with Dr. Matt Carling (Zoology and Physiology) to test for correlations between immune function and cartenoid levels.
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Tatiana Rice
Hometown: Casper, WY
Major: Physiology
Tatiana Rice is a UW freshman and is working with Dr. Kara Pratt (Zoology & Physiology). As a member of the Pratt lab, she is studying the development of the Xenopus tadpole visual system, specifically the change in their response to visual stimuli at different times of the day.
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Anna Savage
Hometown: Greybull, WY
Major: Environment Systems Science and Molecular Biology
Anna is a UW freshman who is working with Dr. Ramesh Sivanpillai (Botany and WyGISC) on monitoring vegetation phenology using MODIS time-series satellite data.
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Danielle Schurhammer
Hometown: Plainview, MN
Major: Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
Danielle is a UW senior working with Dr. Adam Myers (Astronomy/Astrophysics) researching 'changing-look' quasars and how they change over time. Quasars are some of the most distant objects that we can see, which (in the context of astronomy) means they are some of the oldest. Studying quasars gives us an insight into the history of our Universe.
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Veronica Spaulding
Hometown: North Folk, CA
Major: Chemistry
Veronica is a UW junior and is working with Dr. John Hoberg (Chemistry) to analyze nitrogenated crystalline organic frameworks.
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Heather Townsend
Hometown: Douglas, WY
Major: Biology
Heather is a UW junior.
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Narisse Trippel
Hometown: Worland, WY
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Narisse is a UW sophomore and is working with Dr. Erica Belmont (Mechanical Engineering).
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Kasey Trotter
Hometown: Fort Collins, CO
Major: Chemistry
Kasey is a UW senior working with Dr. Peter Thorsness (Molecular Biology).
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Joshua Walmsley
Hometown: Douglas, WY
Major: Chemistry
Joshua is a UW junior working with Dr. Caleb Hill (Chemistry) using measurements at individual nanoparticles to screen catalysts for water-splitting reactions.
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Jacob Williams
Hometown: Centennial, WY
Major: Chemistry; Mathematics; Statistics
Jacob is a UW junior working with Dr. Bryan Shader (Mathematics and Statistics) investigating questions toward novel insights in discrete tomographic theories and algorithms. Discrete tomography is a field of mathematics which studies the reconstruction of images from limited information about them; it has applications in fields such as medical imaging and scientific microscopy.
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Elizabeth Wirsching
Hometown: Laramie, WY
Major: Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management
Elizabeth is an Air Force veteran and UW senior who is working with Dr. Ramesh Sivanpillai (Botany and WyGISC) and Dr. Greg Brown (Botany) on a pilot project researching the viability of using Unmanned Arial Vehicles (drones) for close up image collection within complicated flying conditions (i.e. forest canopies) as well as under different lighting conditions and look angles. A rating system is used to determine the quality of images created under these conditions for use in studies.
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Sarah Wurzel
Hometown: Powell, WY
Major: Biology; Spanish
Sarah is a UW senior working with Dr. Lusha Tronstad (Zoology & Physiology) investigating the effects of spraying mosquitos on macroinvertebrates in Spring Creek, Laramie, WY.
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