Basic Science 2026 CHHS Research Day Poster Show Category

Title: How do Preschoolers’ Language Environments Differ on Weekdays and Weekends?

Faculty Mentor: Rob Duncan

Academic Unit: Human Development and Family Studies

Title: Problem-Solving and Walking to Manage Brain Injury Fatigue: Participants’ Perspectives

Faculty Mentor: Jen Weaver

Academic Unit: Occupational Therapy

Title: Place-based risk: Examining community-level risk factors for adolescent substance use across the rural-urban continuum

Academic Unit: Human Development and Family Studies

Title: Childhood Exposure to Animal Cruelty: Implications for Mental Health and Suicidality

Faculty Mentor: Shelby McDonald

Academic Unit: Social Work

Title: Maternal Childhood Predictors of Postpartum Maternal Interoception

Faculty Mentor: Samantha Brown

Academic Unit: Human Development and Family Studies

Title: Associations of Parent-Adolescent Psychological Factors with Insulin Resistance in Adolescents at Risk for Excess Weight Gain

Faculty Mentor: Lauren Shomaker

Academic Unit: Human Development and Family Studies

Basic Science – Distinction in Graduate Research

Title: Making Repairs: Extracellular Vesicles as a Therapeutic for Insulin Resistance in Adipocytes

Faculty Mentor: Daniel Lark

Academic Unit: Health and Exercise Science

Title: Family Instability and Disorganization: Differential Prediction on the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and Sympathetic Nervous System

Faculty Mentor: Rachel Lucas-Thompson

Academic Unit: Human Development and Family Studies

Title: Acute Estradiol Deficiency Does Not Alter Central Blood Pressure in Premenopausal Women: A Pilot Study

Faculty Mentor: Lyndsey DuBose

Academic Unit: Health and Exercise Science

Title:Adaptive Yoga and Perceived Control Over Participation Following Brain Injury: A Case Series

Faculty Mentor: Arlene Schmid

Academic Unit: Occupational Therapy

Title: Adaptation and Manualization of the Merging Yoga and Education (MY-Ed) program for Adults With Brain Injury

Faculty Mentor: Arlene Schmid

Academic Unit: Occupational Therapy

Title: Occupational Therapists as Social Prescribers for People with Parkinson Disease: Preliminary Feasibility

Faculty Mentor: Laura Swink

Academic Unit: Occupational Therapy

Basic Science – Distinction in Research

Title: Exploring a Theoretical Framework of the Gut Microbiota in Cardiometabolic Disease Transition

Faculty Mentor: Tiffany Weir

Academic Unit: Food Science and Human Nutrition

Title: Community Sport Participation and Social Well-being among Individuals with Neurodegenerative Conditions: The Serial Mediating Roles of Perceived Social Support and Subjective Impact and Improvement in the NeuroPong Program

Faculty Mentor: Yan Vivian Li and Ruoh-Nan (Terry) Yan

Academic Unit: Design and Merchandising