Meaningful research shines at winter STEM Symposium

From app development to cancer research, the winter STEM Symposium showcased a variety of research projects from our students!

Cody Nigg, a senior majoring in Computer Science & Software Engineering, worked on a health tracking app alongside Dr. Annuska Zolyomi, assistant professor in the Department of Computing & Software Systems.

Called “HealthMate,” the app aims to improve fitness accessibility by gearing its interface toward older adults.

“We want our application to show that personalized health tracking can empower older adults to maintain personal autonomy over their own well-being through an easy, simple to use design,” Nigg wrote in his capstone abstract.

Elizabeth Norris, a senior majoring in Biology, researched Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, which uses a patient’s own T-cells and genetically engineers them in a lab to target certain cancer antigens before growing them and infusing them back into the patient’s body. “I want to work as a cancer biologist in a lab, so this gave me an idea of what my future could look like,” Norris said.

Dive deeper into these projects and more in the UW Bothell story, “STEM undergraduates showcase research and capstones.”