This year's event will be held on Tuesday Dec. 3rd from 1:00-4:00pm. 

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.  

Below is the list of this year's presentations:

Student(s)		Faculty	Discipline	Title	Keywords
Ballroom A
	Tianling Niu	Bing Yu	Biomedical Engineering	Automated Annotation Transfer: Enhancing MUSE for Intraoperative Margin Detection	Image annotation transformation
	Victoria Adjetey	Sumana Chattopadhyay	Digital Media and Performing Arts	Advertising for Social Change: Examining Nike’s Campaign as Catalyst for Reducing Racial Inequalities in USA	Advertising, Race, Social Change, equity-mindedness, Nike
	Oluwaferanmi Dahunsi	Sudeshna Roy	Journalism	Television Representation of Black Americans and Stereotyping Among New African Immigrants in the US	TV, Black Representation, Stereotyping, African Immigrants
	Navid Mohseni	Cheng-han Yu	Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Syphilis: The Silent Resurgence Threatening Public Health	Syphilis, Statistical Modeling, Public Health, STI
	Kingsley Ezeuwa	Chima Korieh	History	Lagos: Moments in the History of the City	Lagos, Urbanism, Nigeria, Afro-Brazilians
	Jonathan Andrade, Tamila Kuanysheva, Ramin Salehi	Dmitri Babikov	Chemistry	Simulating Molecular Collision Dynamics on a Quantum Computer	Molecules, computers, collisions, algorithms
	Sohrab Salimi bani	Dmitri Babikov	Chemistry	Mixed Quantum Classical Theory for Interstellar Application	MQCT, interstellar
	Frank Galka, Alexandra Benak	Daniela Masson-Meyers	Dentistry, Developmental Sciences	Gelatin-Chitosan-Elastin Scaffolds for Dental Applications: Biocompatibility and Infection Control	Dental Tissue Regeneration, Biocompatibility, Antimicrobial Scaffolds, Gelatin-Based Biomaterials
	Janet Namara Gabone	derria byrd	Educational Policy and Leadership	How do first-generation immigrant women professionals from Tanzania thrive in U.S academia	immigrant women, intersectionality, narrative inquiry, academia
	Tamila Kuanysheva	Dmitri Babikov	Chemistry	Simulating Quantum Dynamics on a Quantum Computer	Quantum Dynamics, Quantum Computer, Quantum Circuit Optimization, Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT)
	Nandu Krishna	Dmitri Babikov	Chemistry	Recombination Kinetics of Ozone	Ozone, Pollution, Astrochemistry, Simulations
	Dibaloke Chanda	Nasim Yahyasoltani	Computer Science	Graph-Based Multi-Task Learning For Fault Detection In Smart Grid	Fault detection, Multi-Task Learning, Graph Neural Network, Smart Grid
	Dani Hart, Bethani Bell	Abiola Keller, Kristin Haglund	Nursing	Exploring the Impact of Family Caregiving on First Generation College Students:​ A digital storytelling project​	Undergraduates, Students, Caregivers, Digital Storytelling (DST)
	Gadah Abduljalil	Krista Knudson	Nursing	Improving Critical Illness Survivorship with ICU Diaries	Critical Illness, ICU Diary, Family Engagement, Mental Health
	Amanda Morales	Kristi Streeter	Physical Therapy	Labeling Life’s Breath: Tools To Target the Nerves That Sense Your Breathing	Phrenic afferents, labeling, AAV-DREADD, breathing
	Taylor Holmes	Kristi Streeter	Physical Therapy	Using Your Senses: Can Sensory Signals Restore Breathing After Spinal Injury?	spinal cord injury; breathing; AAV
Ballroom D
	Sara Swaneck	Nakia Gordon	Psychology	Exploring the Connection Between Interoception and Emotion Regulation During Friendship Interactions	Interoception and Emotion Regulation
	Joia Wesley	Nakia Gordon	Psychology	Building Wellness Pathways for Black Milwaukeeans: A Development, Feasibility, and Implementation Study​	Black/African American, wellness, wellbeing, development
	Delaina Frederick	Nilanjan Lodh	Medical Laboratory Science	Improve diagnostics for Female Genital Schistosomiasis	Awareness, Impact, effective diagnosis
	Jacob Black	Nilanjan Lodh	Medical Laboratory Science	Novel, Sensitive, and Specific Hookworm Diagnosis From Urine Samples	Novel, Significant, Hookworm, Detection
	Jessica Calteux	Patrick McNamara	Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering	Discover and Recover the Value Encased in Waste	PFAS, biosolids, drying, wastewater
	Sofia Heaps	Patrick McNamara, Ryan Newton, Todd Miller, Troy Skwor	Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering	Understanding the Role of Wastewater Treatment for mitigating Antibiotic Resitance	Antibiotics, Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), Antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB), disinfection
	Cindy Bouldin	Robert Smith	History	Black Women Leaders: Navigating the Intersections of Race and Gender at the CRC	Black Women, Corrections, Interdisciplinary, Leadership
	Jack Lynch	Robert Smith	History	Electronic Monitoring in the Juvenile Justice System	Juvenile, Electronic Monitoring, Interdisciplinary, Justice System
	Leila Hernandez-Salinas	Robert Smith	History	Electronic Monitoring Realities in Milwaukee	Youth, Electronic Monitoring, Justice, Interdisplinary
	Arpita Datta	Sabirat Rubya, Avik Chakrabarti , Anjishnu Banerjee	Computer Science	Linear Regression for Identifying Relationship between Income and Health	Linear Regression, Income, Mental Health, Heatmap
	Farhat Tasnim Progga	Sabirat Rubya	Computer Science	Storytelling as a Social Support Tool for Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) and Wellbeing	Perinatal Mental Health; Storytelling; Social Support; LLMs
	Dominic Owusu Boakye	Sudeshna Roy, Larry Xu	Communications	Framing Gender and Intersectional Identities: A Comparative Analysis of CNN and Fox News Coverage of U.S. Presidential Debates in 2016 and 2024	Framing, Presidential Debates, Gender Bias, Intersectional Identities
	Ozymandias McEvoy, Rasmeen Kaur and Zach Brugnara	Sarah Erickson-Bhatt	Physics	Development of Optical Bioimaging Technology for Disease Prognosis	confocal imaging, fluorescence lifetime, cancer, metastasis
	Sakifa Aktar, Masud Rabbani, Md Martuza Ahamad	Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Hyunkyoung Oh	Computer Science	Listening to the Brain: A novel approach to diagnosis neurological disorders to monitor the sleep pattern of ASD patients	Autism, sleep monitoring, brain blood flow, vital sign
	Nafi Us Sabbir Sabith, Mia Md. Raihan	Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed	Computer Science	From Blood to biomarker : Non-Invasive WBC subtype detection for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes	Maternal health, Non-Invasive technology, Mobile health systems, Machine learning
	Kazi Zawad Arefin, Sayed Mashroor Mamun, Nafi Us Sabbir Sabith	Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed	Computer Science	PulseSight: Remote Vital Sign Monitoring with AI Precision	Contactless monitoring, peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) detection, Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG), Mobile Health (mHealth), Support Vector Regression (SVR), Deep learning

 

Highlights for 2024

Here are some highlights of this year's event: 

• Researchers will make five-minute oral presentations — “elevator pitches” — of the work they want to do. Presentations must be accompanied by the three template PowerPoint slides that will be provided.

• Presenters will need to be available Tuesday, December 3rd from 1:00 – 3:00 m.

• This will be an in-person event, to promote further discussion and collaboration.

• Presentations should emphasize: WHY this work and your project is important (the purpose), HOW you’re going to do the work in the next 6-12 months (the process), and WHAT you want to achieve (the results).

• Student researchers on the project must do the oral presentation, to help further their presentation skills and articulation of the work in a quick and digestible.

• Presentations should be prepared with the intent to promote interest in funding for the future work they intend to do. Content should be prepared like a proposal.

• Marquette's MIC Speakers Lab can help students and faculty develop, organize, edit, practice, and polish the presentation. Visit The MIC webpage for more information. 

• This year awards are being offered by ORSP, the Institute for Women’s Leadership (gender focused projects), the Latinx Research Community (projects that aim to better understand Latinx populations and/or issues), and the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society (projects addressing the social/ethical dimensions of data). Presentations will be evaluated by those in attendance and the top four will be offered a $500 award.

• Posters are not required, but may be included and will be set up in the AMU reception area for further discussion after the oral presentations.
  

• • • To promote Marquette’s tradition of sponsoring academic centers, institutes, and initiatives, several of them will have tables set up in the reception area to share more about their missions and programming.