Oral Presentation Sessions 1-6
Oral Presentation Schedule Listed by Session # 1 thru 6
Friday, September 11, 2026 - Location: SUB Top Floor Rooms
Session # 1 - 9:45-10:05am on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026
Arias Lozoya, Jay, Major: Biomedical Sciences, Title: Mapping Microtubule Regulatory Programs Across Synaptic Development - Room: Acoma B
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Borrego, Emily, Major: Psychology, Title: How Does Social Media Influence The Psychological Well-being Of Racially Marginalized Identities? - Room: Lobo B
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Brown, Miracle, Major: Psychology, Title: Perception and navigations of barriers to substance use treatment among individuals experiencing homelessness. - Room: Fiesta A
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Chavez, Victoria, Major: Psychology & Criminal Justice, Title: When True Crime Gets Real: How Bingeing on Crime Media Shapes Perceptions of U.S. Correctional Systems - Room: Fiesta B
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Cruz, Camille, Major: Education, Society, and Human Development, Title: Parental Anti-Racism Socialization: How do multiracial youth become motivated to engage in social justice actions? - Room: Santa Ana B
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Dominguez, Stephanie, Major: , Title: Social Support and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Across Maternal Ages: A Systematic Review - Room: Isleta
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Griffus, Trinity, Major: Biology, Title: Impacts of Endomycorrhizal Inoculation on Sunflower Growth within Lunar Regolith Simulants - Room: Luminaria
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Imbert, Anthony, Major: Neurobiology, Title: Comparative Analysis of Language Impairment in Left versus Right Stroke Patients - Room: Lobo A
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Julio, Paulo, Major: Electrical Engineering, Title: Breaking the Storage Limit with Magnonic Combinatorial Memory - Room: Trailblazer/Spirit
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Melendez, Selena, Major: Molecular Biology, Title: Bioactive Wound Healing Hydrogel for Chronic Infected Wounds - Room: Acoma A
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Zurasky, Melyssa, Major: Psychology, Title: Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention and Locus of Control: Laying the Foundation forLocus of Control as a Potential Mechanism of Behavior Change - Room: Santa Ana A
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Session # 2 - 10:10am - 10:30am on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026
Barragan Manzo, Daniel, Major: Psychology, Title: Online Victimization, Racial Attitudes, and Mental Health Outcomes: An Ecological Examination of Emerging Youth of Color - Room: Lobo B
Session #2
Bolanos, Alberto, Major: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Title: Whose Perspectives Count? A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of Autism-Service Literature for Latiné Borderlands Families - Room: Lobo A
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Garate, Yarely, Major: Biochemistry & Psychology, Title: Binding Strength of Trypsin to Nanoscale Gold Surfaces - Room: Trailblazer/Spirit
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Gipson, Chadea', Major: Sociology, Title: "The Minority Experience: Inside the Classroom" - Room: Santa Ana B
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Lewis, Trey, Major: Neuroscience, Title: Neural Indices of Multisensory Processing Disturbances in Multiple Sclerosis - Room: Acoma A
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Miller, Abigail, Major: Biology, Title: Evaluating Molecular Markers for Fusarium Wilt Resistance and Plant Architecture to Develop Improved Vintage Tomato Varieties - Room: Luminaria
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Palafox, Aretzy, Major: Criminal justice/criminology and sociology, Title: Gender in helping - Room: Fiesta A
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Rodriguez-Inosencio, Miguel, Major: Chemical Engineering, Title: Toward Donor-Independent Hemostasis: Multi-Functional Biodegradable Microspheres as Synthetic Platelet Analogs - Room: Acoma B
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Roman, Natalia, Major: Political Science/Gender and Sexuality, Title: Self Mutilation as a Catharist: Female Embodiment in New French Extremity Films In My Skin (2002) and The Substance (2024) - Room: Fiesta B
Session #2
Self, Mazzarine, Major: Psychology, Title: How does parental loss following a terminal illness influence the development of narrative identity across adolescence and into emerging adulthood? - Room: Isleta
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Torrey, James, Major: Social Work, Title: Stigma and Perception of Health Needs in Addiction Care. Centering the Lives of Persons Who Use Drugs To Better Inform Health Literacy Programming - Room: Santa Ana A
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Session # 3 - 10:35am - 10:55am on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026
Alcoser, Karis, Major: Environmental science, Title: Evaluating Nutrient and Yield Efficiency in Traditional vs. Urban Agriculture - Room: Luminaria
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Arenas-Rocha, Diana, Major: Sociology, Title: Staff Morale and Job Satisfaction in a Homeless Shelter Setting- Room: Fiesta A
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Castillo, Emely, Major: Chicano Studies, Title: Constructing Black and Brown Lived Experiences: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Compton Art & History Museum - Room: Santa Ana B
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Donner, Angela, Major: Psychological Sciences, Title: From Daily Rumination to Weekly Overload: Trait and State Effects on Emotion Regulation in Emerging Adults - Room: Santa Ana A
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Ehlers, Solomon, Major: Chemistry, Title: Better Battery Electrolytes: Investigation of Solid-State Electrolyte (SSE) Chemistries - Room: Trailblazer/Spirit
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Jaramillo, Jazmine, Major: Communication Sciences and Disorders, Title: Persistence In Communication Sciences And Disorders From Undergraduate To Graduate Programs Among Diverse Students - Room: Lobo A
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Jidan, Ahsanul, Major: Neuroscience, Title: Multilevel Characterization of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Pathology in a Rat Model - Room: Acoma A
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Mahkuk-Guaman, Nani, Major: Communication, Media, and Rhetoric, Title: My Teacher, My Love: How Sh_jo Manga Grooms Its Audience - Room: Fiesta B
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Morales, A.J., Major: Social Work, Title: ADHD in Women from Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups - Room: Isleta
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Mota Gutierrez, Anahi, Major: Biological Sciences, Title: Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Progesterone Production in Bovine Granulosa Cells - Room: Acoma B
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Najar, Alexis, Major: Psychology & Criminal Justice, Title: The Impact of Media Framing of Mass Shootings on Mental Health Stigma Among U.S. Adults - Room: Lobo B
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Session # 4 - 11:00am - 11:20am on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026
Ambriz, Sofia, Major: Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Title: Evaluating the diet of urban Eastern Screech Owls using multiple approaches - Room: Luminaria
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Castillo, Xitlali, Major: Education, Society, & Human Development, Title: Experiencing and Navigating the Impostor Phenomenon Among Parenting Students Transferring from Community College to a Four-Year University - Room: Fiesta B
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Chatterley, Dylan, Major: Psychology, Title: Juror Decision-Making in an Intimate Partner Violence Trial: Impact of Victim Gender and Borderline Personality Disorder Psychoeducation - Room: Fiesta A
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Goodman, Hazel, Major: Psychology, Title: The Role of ACEs on Stress Response in Traditional College Students - Room: Santa Ana A
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León Lazcano, Mariel, Major: Secondary Education (Social Studies), Title: Educators’ Perspectives and Uses of Translanguaging in Multilingual Classrooms - Room: Santa Ana B
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Li, Jiaye, Major: Information Technology & Management, Title: DBMS Extension Fuzzing TesT - Room: Trailblazer/Spirit
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Munstedt, Saturn, Major: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Title: Contractile and mitochondrial impairment in engineered heart tissues with myofibrillar myopathy genetic variants - Room: Acoma B
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Rizvi, Ayesha, Major: Neurobiology, Title: Defining the significance of CRM1/XPO1 dimerization for HIV-1 RNA nuclear export in cell-based assays - Room: Acoma A
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Tilley, Kurtis, Major: Biology, Title: How Practicing Taijiquan Affects Identity and Belonging for Practitioners over 30 years of Age: A Pilot Study - Room: Lobo B
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Valdez, Frankois, Major: Global Studies, Title: STEAM Powered: Improving College-Going Skills and Attitudes in Environmental Justice Communities through Community-Based Youth Science Education Programs - Room: Lobo A
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Zavala, Elizabeth, Major: Psychology and Criminal Justice, Title: Narcissism and Impulsivity Association With Alcohol Use & Misuse Through an Ecological Framework - Room: Isleta
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Session # 5 - 11:25am - 11:45am on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026
Allataifih, Noor, Major: B.S. Biology, Title: Characterization of Novel Fluorescent Probes to Study Cellular Mechanics - Room: Trailblazer/Spirit
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Brown, Collin, Major: Neuroscience and Cognitive Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology, Title: Rethinking the Orphan Receptor: Ligand Recognition by ErbB2 - Room: Acoma A
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Byrd, Grace, Major: Criminology & Psychology, Title: Strained Masculinity and the Endorsement of Sexual Violence Myths - Room: Fiesta A
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Camacho, Veil, Major: Conservation Biology, Title: "Can You Hear Me Now?": A comparison of acoustic recording outputs to measure bird biodiversity - Room: Luminaria
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Day, Vae (Navaeh), Major: Native American and Indigenous Studies; Medical Science, Title: The Pattern of Practice: Integrating Indigenous and Western Holistic Models in Health Education - Room: Lobo A
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Dominguez, Natalia, Major: Biochemistry, Title: Should We be Worried About Antibiotic Resistance? New Delhi Metallo ß-lactamase Prevalence and Inhibitor Discovery - Room: Acoma B
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Hollins, Mary Josephine, Major: Elementary Education with a minor in Population Health, Title: Embodied Healing: A look into Albuquerque’s Breaking Even. How the Creative Individual Cultivates Intentional Communities. - Room: Lobo B
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Le, Amanda, Major: Medicine; Applied Humanities, Title: Examining whether social support buffers associations between adverse childhood experiences and COVID-19 infection - Room: Santa Ana A
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Mize, Jewel, Major: Education, Society and Human Development, Title: Power of the student: The stories of Latinx First Generation students' use of Possible Selves and Social Dreaming in Higher Education - Room: Fiesta B
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Ramirez, Rosa, Major: Spanish; Sociology; History, Title: Public Opinion on Bilingual Public Education System in the United States - Room: Santa Ana B
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Session # 6 - 11:50am - 12:10pm on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026
Atakilt, Milaat, Major: Communication Sciences and Disorders, Title: Cisplatin’s Ototoxic Effects: Incorporating the Patient Perspective - Room: Acoma A
Session #6
Barkley, Juan, Major: Environmental Studies, Title: Transcending Environmental Education: An Educational Model Guiding the Cooperation Between Indigenous Wisdom and Empirical/Western Sciences - Room: Lobo A
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Buenaventura, Jamie, Major: Biology, Title: From Pregnancy to the NICU: Looking Beyond Substance Exposure in Neonatal Complications - Room: Fiesta A
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Burke, Francisco, Major: Sociology, Title: The Clerics Who Make Do: How Academic Capitalism Impacts Survivor Support Services & The Butterfly Centers' Gender-Based Violence Prevention Initiatives at Reithwin College - Room: Lobo B
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Holt, Samantha, Major: Wildlife Biology, Title: Mitochondrial DNA based assessment of genetic diversity and the evolutionary origin of game-farm Ring-necked Pheasants in North America. - Room: Luminaria
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Luhando, Benite, Major: Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, Title: Influence of Experience in Sensing Behaviors During Spatial Orientation - Room: Isleta
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Mackey, Andrew, Major: Psychology, Title: Exploring Impostor Phenomenon Among First-Generation College Students from a Social Cognitive Personality Approach - Room: Fiesta B
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Nava, Maira, Major: Social Work, Title: Navigating Language Choices: How Family Values, Cultural Identity, and Language Ideologies Shape Parental Decision-Making Among Bilingual Parents of Children with Language Delays - Room: Santa Ana B
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Peralta, Yasmin, Major: Biochemistry and Medical Sciences, Title: Effect of Selective Hsp90 Mutations' Ability to Survive Various Environmental Conditions - Room: Trailblazer/Spirit
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Schildmeier, Sierra, Major: Psychology and Criminal Justice, Title: Impacts of Social Acknowledgment, Self-Stigma, Family History, and Trauma Type on Positive and Negative Disclosure Beliefs Following Exposure to Trauma - Room: Santa Ana A
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