Posted 11:23 a.m. Friday, March 14, 2014
UW-L students exhibited research at the 11th annual “Posters in the Rotunda” in Madison.
UW-L students posed with faculty member Scott Cooper, far right, with State Sen. Jennifer Shilling, center, during the "Posters in the Rotunda" event March 12. The students included, from left, Stephanie Sippl, Jenna Kerr and Kaitlyn Miedema.[/caption]
Six UW-La Crosse students joined nearly another 150 UW System undergraduate students at the Capitol Rotunda last week to share their original research findings with legislators, state leaders, UW alumni and supporters. The 11th annual “Posters in the Rotunda” Wednesday, March 12, highlighted the positive impacts of university research in Wisconsin. Students from UW-L, their hometowns and their research included:
• Kaitlyn Miedema, Green Bay, "Distribution Patterns of an Invasive Snail and its Parasitic Hitchhikers in the Upper Mississippi River: What is the Role of Aquatic Macrophytes?"
• Stefanie Sippl, Wausau, "Dynamic Versatility: How Understanding N-Methyl Acetohydroxamic Acid (NMHA) Behavior through NMR Spectroscopy Can Lead to Novel Drug Therapeutic Treatments"
• Jenna Kerr, La Crosse, "Effects of Isoprenaline Injection on Ground Squirrel and Rat Myocardial Ischemia"
• Brechtje Bennett, Warrens, "Hindeloopen Painting"
• James Bennett, Warrens, "Hindeloopen Painting"
• Chee Lor, Holmen, "Transcriptional Profiles of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Tissues Cannot Distinguish between Health and Disease-Derived Beating Cardiomyocytes"
See more photos at http://goo.gl/4g7yOI.