2022 Huskey Exhibition

Join us for the 2022 Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition on April 15. See schedule below for times, exhibitors, and their research.

  • 11:55 Opening Remarks

  • 12:00 Influential Factors on Poor Sleep Quality in Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Young Adults (Sueyoung Oh)

  • 12:15 Relationships in Aging Adults and Contributions From Brain Connectivity (Minah Kim)

  • 12:30 Concentration in Preschools: How Can Concentration Be Measured and What Do Children Concentrate On? (Ian Becker)

  • 12:45 Desiring the Past, Dreaming the Future: Shakespeare’s Queer Time (Mary Ruth Robinson)

  • 1:00 Emotion Regulation Diversity in Social Anxiety (Katie Daniel)

  • 1:15 Detection of copy number variations contributing to drug resistance in malaria parasite (Shiwei Liu)

  • 1:30 Physical and Cognitive Recovery from Premature Birth: A Study of Twins (Sean Womack)

  • 1:45 Unraveling the mystery of insulin resistance using pseudo-single-color biosensors (Hao Zhang)

  • 2:00 Intermission

  • 2:15 Houghton’s Hauntings: Connecting the Scientific to the Spiritual in Victorian Britain (Jennifer Marine)

  • 2:30 An Illusion of Unfairness About Random Outcomes (Rémy Furrer)

  • 2:45 Mysterious Hot Atmospheres Around Black Holes (Brianna Mills)

  • 3:00 Fluctuations in the environment change the spread of an invasive forest pest insect in North America (Clare Rodenberg)

  • 3:15 Accurate Segmentation and Tracking Of Single Cells In 4D Bacterial Biofilms Using Machine Learning (Yibo Wang)

  • 3:30 Multiracial Adolescent Psychological Well-being in the Context of Discrimination: Examining the Benefits of Racial Socialization (Shannon Savell)

  • 3:45 Closing Remarks

Exhibition Organizers

Joseph “Jay” Crowell and Eric Donarski, 2021-2022 Co-Chairs of Graduate Student Council Research Committee

A Focus on Graduate Students

Dr. Robert J. Huskey, Professor of Biology, served the University of Virginia for 32 years. As Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Dr. Huskey improved the graduate student experience by developing assistantships and providing affordable health care. To honor Dr. Huskey's commitment to graduate students, in 2001 the Graduate Student Council introduced the Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition.