Each year, the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) showcases the exciting research being done at Marquette. In celebrating research across campus, the ORSP Forward Thinking Research Symposium provides opportunities to learn more about work being done in other disciplines and fosters professional skills for students. Unlike traditional conferences, where researchers convey the results of work that has been completed, the Forward Thinking presentations focus on projects that will take place in the next 6–12 months.  

MU faculty, staff, and students came together for year's event, on Tuesday Dec 2^nd. 

• A total of 22 research teams gave five-minute oral presentations of their projects and 6 of those had posters displayed.  
• Overall, nearly 60 people were involved, representing 10 departments within seven Colleges/Schools
  • Three oral presentations will receive $500 awards, sponsored by Office of Research and Innovation, the Institute for Women's Leadership, and the Center for Data, Ethics and Society for their work. Awards to be announced mid-December.
• Representatives from some of Marquette's Centers and Institutes on campus, listed below, were on-site to share information about the work they're doing; be sure to check them out!
  • Institute for Women's Leadership
  • Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute
  • Center for Urban Research, Teaching and Outreach
  • Lemonis Center for Student Success
  • Athletic and Human Performance Research Center

 

I am delighted to announce this year’s awardees...

 

The award sponsored by the Office of Research and Innovation is:

Dense Sampling of Safety Learning and Dissociation in a Trauma Exposed Sample: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study ​

Student:  Zoe Bair

Faculty:  Jacklynn Fitzgerald, Psychology

This project will explore safety learning in people with post traumatic stress disorder and comorbid pathological dissociation. We will collect physiological arousal via EDA electrodes while participants complete a fear, reward, neutral discrimination task to test their ability to respond to safety cues. If funded, this award would support the addition of ecological momentary assessment via smartphone app to investigate how safety learning is used to regulate fear during real life experiences of dissociation.

 

The award sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership is:

UbiE-OVA: Ubiquitous Earring for Ovulation and Hormonal Analysis for Women’s Health

Students:  Sakifa Aktar, Md Martuza Ahamad

Faculty:  Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Computer Science

UbiE-OVA is an earring to monitor women's ovulation and hormonal health conditions and give them early notification about their ovulation and hormonal changes. The smart and attractive UbiE-OVA earring can capture skin temperature and PPG signals at working and sleeping times. The app will connect to the earring and generate a summary report over months and can send it to doctors for better treatments.

 

The award sponsored by the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society is:

Electronic Monitoring and Biometrics for Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE): The Weaponization of Data

Student:  Alec Romero

Faculty:  Robert Smith, History and Kathryn Storm, History, Center for Urban Research, Teaching, and Outreach (CURTO)

The project focuses on the use of personal data (biometrics) in Immigration and Customs Enforcement and how technology, such as electronic monitoring, continues to reinforce mass incarceration via a technological aspect, creating a mass "ecarceration" that continues to deprive individuals of their rights.

 

 

Thank you to everyone the participated in this year's wonderful event!