On April 28, 2017, the 23rd annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference took place at the Lincoln Campus Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Approximately 1,200 undergraduate students, representing 21 of the public higher education institutions in Massachusetts, convened to present their research, share knowledge, and learn from their peers. Included in this number were several students from the College of Nursing at UMass Amherst. Congratulations to the following for their poster presentations:
“Improving Infection Control at Cooley Dickinson Hospital”
MaryKate Nelligan, Marissa Galanti, Meredith Kohler, Tara Jean Palkoski, Alexandra Santullo
“Leadership Style in Foot Care Nurse Clinical Practice”
Katja Gwendolyn Swartz
“Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Nursing Engineering Project”
Sherry Dong
“Mentorship in Nursing: Influence on Graduate Students’ Decision to Pursue Higher Education”
Kaitlyn Morgan Hill
“Can a Functional Outcome Risk Metric Predict Medicated Treatment Success in Opioid Abusing Pregnant Women?”
Jennifer Lucia Iannacci, Jennifer Costello, Michelle Monahan
“Chokepoints: Nursing Research Funding in Context”
Daniel P. Kiely Jr.
“Substance Use during Pregnancy and Postpartum Contraception”
Avery Elizabeth Klepacki
“Adverse Childhood Experience in Relation to Perceived Stress and PTSD”
Sarah Ann Rasmussen