This year's Forward Thinking Research Symposium was held on Tuesday Nov. 29th 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.  

 

Ballroom A
Teams Meeting Recording
	Student (First Listed)		Faculty (First Listed)		Dept.	Title	Keywords
1	Sayeda Farzana	Aktar	Dr. Sheikh Iqbal	Ahamed	Computer Science	Machine Learning Based Solutions for Building Accessibility Measurement Challenges  Comprehensive and Personalized Assessment	Machine Learning	People with disabilities	Building accessibility measurement
2	Kazi Zawad	Arefin	Sheikh Iqbal	Ahamed	Computer Science	Pulsatile : Detection of Heart Rate Variability(HRV) & Oxygen Saturation(SPO2) from finger-tip Video	Oxygen Saturation	Heart Rate Variability	Non invasive mobile detection
3	Tao	Cui	Naveen	Bansal	MSSC	Determining the corresponding Covid-19 related genes with correlated parameters using Bayesian multiple hypothesis methodology	Bayesian multiple hypothesis	gene expression	correlation/ skewness
4	Veronika	Folvarska	Patrick	McNamara	Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering	Impacts of Corrosion in the Drinking Water Distribution System on Antibiotic Resistance	Antibiotic Resistance	Corrosion	Drinking Water
5	MD Romael	Haque	Sabirat	Rubya	Computer Science	Designing Integrate Persuasive Reminders for US veterans to Facilitate Engagement in Peer-mentor Support	Mental Health	Peer-peer support	Persuasive Technology
6	Kiswendsida	Kere	Qindan	Huang	Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering	Probabilistic Models Development and Risk Management Strategies for Pipelines with Anomalies	Pipeline failure	Burst pressure prediction	Numerical modeling
7	Nicholas	Langer	Ofer	Kedem	Chemistry	Enhancing the Activity of Gold Nanoparticles through Microenvironmental Changes	Nanoparticles	Catalysis	Energy
8	Zihao	Lu	Patrick	McNamara	Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering	The impact of increased QACs loadings to performance of anaerobic digesters and development of antibiotic resistance	Quaternary ammonium compounds	antibiotic resistance	anaerobic digester
9	Arafat	Mahmood	Sheikh Iqbal	Ahamed	Computer Science	A Smartphone and Sensor-Based System to Monitor Physical and Social Exertional Activities	Smartphone	Sensor	Fatigue
10	Farhat Tasnim	Progga	Dr. Sabirat	Rubya	Computer Science	Developing Technology for Supporting Perinatal Wellbeing	postpartum depression	digital storytelling	social support
11	Masud	Rabbani	Sheikh Iqbal	Ahamed	Computer Science	A Digital Platform Towards Vital Signs Monitoring from Ten-Second Facial Video	vital sign monitoring	Ten-Second Facial Video	patients with heart diseases and hypertension
12	Sujeeth Goud	Ramagoni	Dennis	Brylow	Computer Science	Finding Patterns of High School Computer Science Certified Teachers and Computer Science Enrollment Data	Patterns	High School Computer Science	Teacher Certification
13	Chase	Sakitis	Daniel	Rowe	Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Formal Bayesian Technique to Measure Unobserved FMRI Data for Quicker Brain Imaging	fMRI	Bayesian	GRAPPA
14	Audrey	Vice	Ofer	Kedem	Chemistry	Pharmaceutical Reactions with Improved Environmental Sustainability using Single Atom Catalysts	sustainability	catalysis	pharmaceuticals
15	Ke	Xu	Daniel	Rowe	Computational Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Statistical Image Reconstruction of FMRI: A Shifted Field-of-view method for Multi-coil Separation of Parallel Encoded Complex-valued Slices (mSPECS-sFOV) in FMRI	FMRI	SMS	Image reconstruction

 

Ballroom D
Teams Meeting Recording
	Student (First Listed)		Faculty (First Listed)		Dept.	Title	Keywords
1	Ashley	Benito Lezameta	Sylvia	Pena	Nursing	Exploring mental health related to cancer diagnosis in the Latinx community	Mental health	Cancer diagnosis	Latinx population
2	Aya	Darwish	Stephen	Saunders	Psychology	Social Media, Perfectionism, Mental Health, and Mental Illness Stigma	perfectionim	mental health	mental illness stigma
3	Kevin	Grisales	Marieke	Gilmartin	Biomedical Sciences	Fear in real-time: how sex hormones shape the fearfulness of memory	Sex Differences	Estradiol	Fear Learning and Memory
4	Miranda	Kargol	John	Grych	Psychology	MPS Success Center: A Restorative Intervention in the Milwaukee Public School System	Restorative	Education	Therapeutic
5	Navneet	Kaur	Nilanjan	Lodh	Medical Laboratory Science	Prevalence of Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) across geography, years and age groups	Female	Schistosomiasis	diseases
6	Madison	McGrath	Jeff	Berry	Speech Pathology & Audiology	Respiratory-Phonatory Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis through Singing	Multiple Sclerosis	Breathing	Singing
7	Johanna	Michlig	Astrida	Kaugars	Psychology	Examining Adaptation to Diagnosis and Decisions About Medical Care Among Caregivers of Children with Medical Complexity	Caregivers	Children with Medical Complexity	Adaptation
8	Rebecca	Mudge	Jeff	Berry	Speech Pathology & Audiology	Improved Assessment of Multiple Sclerosis with Refined Measures of Tongue, Lip, Jaw and Upper Limb Movement	Multiple Sclerosis	Assessment	Movement
9	Lauren	Opielinski	Sandra	Hunter	Exercise Science	Persistent Effects of COVID-19 on Physical Function in a Hispanic Community	Community based research	Long COVID-19	Health
10	Christian	Otteman	Kristy	Nielson	Psychology	Positivity and Learning in Younger and Older Adults: Do We Seek the Good, or Avoid the Bad?	Aging	Sex differences	Reinforcement learning
11	Ryley	Rand	Jennifer	Ohlendorf	Nursing	Moving, Mapping, and Storying; Navigating the Embodiment of Trauma
12	Sarah	Rolli	Emily	Sontag	Biological Sciences	Using molecular modeling and structural biochemistry to understand Huntington's disease	huntingtin	chaperones	proteostasis
13	Gregory	Simandl	Dr. David	Baker	Biomedical Sciences	Evidence that Astrology Can Treat Diseases of the Brain	Astrocyte	Cognition	Evolution
14	Laney	Tarantino	Kathryn	Malin	Nursing	Does money matter? Econometrics and the nursing faculty shortage	Nursing shortage	Econometrics	Faculty
15	Janet	Akor	Sumana	Chattopadhyay	Digital Media and Performing Arts	Understanding Afghan women refugee portrayals in the media	Afghan Women	Media	Refugees

 

Highlights for 2022

Here are some highlights of this year's event:  

• Researchers will make five-minute oral presentations — “elevator pitches” — of their work. Presentations can be accompanied by up to three PowerPoint slides. Presenters will need to be available Tuesday, November 29th from 1:00 – 3:00 pm.
• Presentations should emphasize WHY this work is important, with less attention paid to the HOW (i.e. the details of a particular methodology).
• We strongly encourage student researchers on the project to do the oral presentation, to help further their presentation skills and articulation of the work in a quick and digestible format.
• 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. 
• Monetary awards of $500 will go to each of the three top projects, with an additional award to be funded by the Institute for Women’s Leadership for a project with a gender focus
• Posters are not required, but may be set up in the AMU reception area to allow for further discussion after the oral presentations.
• To promote Marquette’s tradition of sponsoring academic centers and institutes, several of them will have tables set up in the reception area to share more about their missions and programming.
• ORSP will provide information on upcoming funding opportunities of interest to disciplines and career levels across campus.

Full details of this event can be found in the 2022 Forward Thinking Research Symposium Guidelines.

 

Important Dates

• Mid-September – Guidelines posted on ORSP website
• October 14 – Deadline to submit Letter of Intent to Participate form is 4:00 pm
• November 14 – Deadline to submit presentation is 4:00 pm 
  • Information needed to complete the form includes: name, email address and department (faculty) for each member of the project team, title, brief description (2-3 sentences), keywords (3), PowerPoint slide of poster (no more than 3 slides; .ppt file format) and if displaying a supplemental poster.
• November 29 – Day of Event 
  • 12:00 – 12:45 Set up poster (if applicable) 
  • 1:00 – 1:10     Welcome and Introduction
  • 1:15 – 2:45     Oral Presentations 
  • 3:00 – 4:00     Reception and Poster Presentations
• Early December – Award winners announced

Important Links

• Guidelines
• Letter of Intent to Participate - deadline October 14th, 4:00pm 
• Submit Presentation - deadline November 14th, 4:00pm
  
• RSVP to attend (virtual or in-person) the Symposium - If planning to attend the event (either virtually or in person)

If you have any questions, please contact Project Planning and Development in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.