Stephanie Saey

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Personal Information

Graduated (Spring 2018) Biochemistry and Biopsychology Double Major

Hometown: Galesburg, Illinois

Undergraduate Research Activities

Summer 2015: Summer Opportunity for Intellectual Activity (SOfIA) with Dr. Kristin Larson

• Reviewed literature surrounding the psychological phenomenon of the "third place"
• Developed a research proposal to study the relationship between geographical setting of the "third place" coffee shop and individual place attachment
• Wrote HSRB and developed survey
• Collected data in Chicago, Illinois, and Galesburg, Illinois
• Analyzed data using Statistical Software Minitab

Summer 2016: Freeman Grant Recipient, Travelled to Singapore for research with Dr. Kristin Larson

• Collaborated with Dr. Kristin Larson and two undergraduate colleagues to develop a research proposal to study in Singapore
• Submitted the research proposal to the ASIANetwork Student-Faculty Fellows Program
• Received the ASIANetwork grant, funded by the Freeman Foundation, to study for three weeks in Singapore
• Wrote HSRB and developed survey to study the relationship between "third places" and perceived stress levels
• Currently (Fall 2016 semester) in the process of analyzing data and writing a post-report

Summer 2016: Summer Opportunity for Intellectual Activity (SOfIA) with Dr. Bradley Sturgeon and Dr. Laura Moore

• Served as a student mentor for incoming freshmen participating in the three-week program
• Led discussions and small experiments on the chemistry of basic baking (i.e., gluten formation and yeast activity)
• Performed an extraction of gluten proteins from various types of flour dough and analyzed the extractions through SDS-PAGE
• Mentored the students in developing a presentation for the SOfIA colloquium
• Helped supervise the making of final posters for the project

Fall 2016-Spring 2017: Chem 430 with B. Sturgeon, worked as a mentee of Nadia Ayala Spring 2017: Continued research with the secondary plant metabolite, curcumin:

Curcumin Research

Fall 2017-Spring 2018: Worked to oxidize lignin monomers (mentee: Zelinda Taylor): Oxidation of Lignin Monomers

Presentations

August 2015: SOfIA Presentation

Poster Title: The Third Place Experience in Urban and Rural Coffee Shops

Spring 2016: ILLOWA Undergraduate Research Conference Macomb, IL

Title: The Third Place Experience in Urban and Rural Coffee Shops

August 2016: SOfIA Presentation

Poster Titles: The Chemistry of Baking: The Basics, The Chemistry of Baking: Experiments

Publications

Spring 2016: The 2016-17 Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research

Publication Title: The Third Place Experience in Urban and Rural Coffee Shops

Career Goals

Psychiatry