Student Internship Seminar

12:00 - 12:50 PM, Wednesday, November 6, Gildemeister 155

Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135. 

 

Working as a Data Analyst at WinCraft Colin Fakler
I’ll give an overview of my internship in Forecasting and Product Development at WinCraft and how I helped improve how we forecast raw materials.
Data Science Internship at Merchants Bank     Nalima Pandey
	I’ll give an overview of my summer as a Data Science Intern at Merchants Bank, describing the projects I worked on, the challenges I faced, and how I tackled those challenges.

Student Internship Seminar

12:00 - 12:50 PM, Wednesday, October 23, Gildemeister 155

Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135. 

Jennifer Ackermann
Arrowhead LP Gas intern

Bryce Banton
Mayo Clinic intern

Sawyer Fratzke
Optum intern

WSU students will present on their experiences as summer interns at three different companies. This informal seminar will also allow audience members to ask questions about internship experiences and opportunities.

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:50 PM, Wednesday, October 9, Gildemeister 155

Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135. 

 

SIB’s Research: Determining Opioid Usage Based on Personality Factors Kaisey Skibba
I will give an overview of my Summer Institute in Biostatistics ( or “SIBs”) research experience and my final project studying the relationship between personality factors and opioid usage.

Dr. Duncan's Research Celebrated

Dr. Jacob Duncan's work on mathematical modeling of addiction has been featured in numerous media outlets.

From the Winona Post:

Duncan and two co-authors, psychology professor Teresa Aubele-Futch and mathematician and statistician Monica McGrath, recently published an academic paper in the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems explaining how a similar mathematical model used to predict pine beetle outbreaks could be useful in treating addiction. “We came up with a frequency prediction that we hope could be used by doctors or clinicians in the field,” Duncan said. “When you know you’re about to relapse again, you can take certain steps to prevent it,” he explained.
Normally, ecology and psychology researchers do not overlap too much. “You wouldn’t think there would be similarities,” Duncan said of the pine beetles and addiction. “That’s the nice thing about mathematics. You can find one equation that can describe one phenomenon, and it may do a really good job of describing another.” 

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:50 PM, Wednesday, May 1, Gildemeister 155

Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135. 

 

Digital Data Analytics at Securian Financial Tom Gathje
As an intern at Securian Financial, I created the company's first data quality dashboard, used to ensure that data being pulled for business insights was complete and valid.
Working as a Data Research Assistant at Fastenal    Cassandra Shelton
	As a Data Research Assistant, I applied empirical data analytics, conducted qualitative and quantitative analyses of research data, and assisted in providing methodologies.

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:50 PM, Friday, April 26, Gildemeister 155

Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135. 

 

Los Angeles Parking Citations Mapping and Visualization Kevin Okome
In a case study of Los Angeles Parking Violation citations, we use data transformation to enable mapping of physical addresses, with the goal of establishing information that would help motorists determine which locations are recommended and which should be avoided.

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:50 PM, Wednesday, April 24, Gildemeister 155

Refreshments served beforehand Gildemeister 135. 

 

Spectral Graph Theory Conager Mrozek
Spectral Graph Theory studies graphs via their associated matrices and eigenvalues. I will show the usefulness of this approach in analyzing large networks and search algorithms.
Academic Cheating Behaviors of Nursing Students    Yulun Xu
	My research project compares two different studies on academic cheating behaviors of nursing students and how they associate with different characteristics such as social desirability and measures to minimize cheating.