Ten University of Illinois Springfield students will present their work at the 2021 Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) Midwest/West Regional Undergraduate Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity Virtual Conference from 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13.

This year’s conference is being hosted by UIS. For a link to view the conference live stream email coplac@uis.edu before Saturday. For more information visit, coplac.org/midursca2021/.

UIS students will be presenting on the following topics:

11-11:25 a.m.

• “Application of Text Analysis to Company Financial Statements”
  Zelal Mustafaoglu, University of Illinois Springfield

• “Building Hydrogen Bonding Networks with Protein Sequence Design Model”​
  Damir Temir, University of Illinois Springfield

• “The Gender Differences of Serial Killers”
  Brooke Seacrist, University of Illinois Springfield

11:50 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

• “Business Ethics: The Case for a Virtue-Driven Revolution - How Contemporary Virtue Theory Addresses the Self-Interest Challenge for Financial Advisors”
  Hannah Hobbs, University of Illinois Springfield

12:25-12:45 p.m.

• “Crescendo”
  Brittani Miller, University of Illinois Springfield

12:45-1:05 p.m.

• “Identification of Toxic Cyanobacteria”
  Lizette Zavala, Emily Jones, Diego Terrazas, Kyle Abraham, University of Illinois Springfield

• “Improved Convolutional Neural Network for Binary Malicious Data Flow Detection”
  Zelal Mustafaoglu, University of Illinois Springfield

1:05-1:30 p.m.

• “Loopholes in Government Regulation of Cosmetics Allow for The Use of Toxic Ingredients”
  Tala Elfaki, University of Illinois Springfield