Congratulations to all of the 2021 EUReCA award recipients!
| College of Architecture and Design | |||
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Award of Merit | Maggie Redding | Artifice Domesticity: Understanding Queer Identity’s situation in the 21st Century Home | Jennifer Akerman |
| Award of Merit | Nicolas Van Son | Additive Manufacturing Applications: from Personal Protective Equipment to Sustainable High-Performance Construction Systems | Maged Guerguis |
| Award of Merit | Kari Essary, Aubrey Bader | Alta-ternative: Investigating Frameworks for Ecological Restoration and Economic Development | Andrew Madl |
| Third Place | Zach Orig | Terra Incognita: Post-Traumatic Infrastructural Opportunism | Jennifer Akerman |
| Second Place | Katie Pennington | TERRITORIAL PARALLAX: An agricultural paradigm | Brian Ambroziak |
| First Place | Brian Nachtrab | A Nation is a Machine for Capital | Jennifer Akerman |
| College of Architecture and Design: School of Design | |||
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Award of Merit | Allie Torres-Lopez | Food Independence Through Sustainable Gardening in Urban Cities | Cary Staples |
| Award of Merit | Samantha Huang | Gamifying Stewardship: Inspiring Awareness of Invasive Plants | Cary Staples |
| Award of Merit | Anna Gorman | A Plant’s Perspective | Cary Staples |
| First Place, Division 1 | Cadie Chapell | Escaping the Herbaceous | Cary Staples |
| First Place, Division 2 | Madeleine Smith | Exploration of Campus Environments | Cary Staples |
| First Place, Division 3 | Riley Doty | Plant Personalities | Cary Staples |
| College of Education, Health & Human Sciences | |||
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Third Place | Sneh Patel | Covid-19’s Impact on the Dental Industry | Michelle Childs |
| Third Place | Jonathon Myers | The Inner Dependability Between Materials and Formulations | Yolanda Kirkpatrick |
| Second Place | Christopher Monaghan, Emma Stalker, Megan Pugh | Tiny Homes, Huge Impact | Yolanda Kirkpatrick |
| First Place | Sydney Mcabee | School during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Administrative Lens | James Martinez |
| Haslam College of Business | |||
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Third Place | Joelle Jarjoura | Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in the U.S.: A Historical Analysis and Future Projection Model | Marianne Wanamaker |
| Second Place | Payton Myers | Supply Chain Decarbonization and the Reduction in Transportation Emissions | Wendy Tate |
| First Place | Danielle Taylor | University Student Perceptions on Tax Complexity and Tax Compliance | LeAnn Luna |
| Herbert College of Agriculture | |||
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Third Place | Sarah Warner | Reduction of Cronobacter sakazakii populations in buffer and reconstituted milk by ultraviolet light systems | Doris D’Souza |
| Second Place | Samantha Roberts, Meredith Hinson, Emma Hessock, Casey Read | Phenotypes and Plasma Metabolome Profiles to Predict Average Daily Gain in Heifers | Sarah Moorey |
| First Place | Megan Wilson | Determining the Efficacy of Bacteria-Produced Antimicrobial Peptides in Inhibiting the Growth of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in vitro | Matt Gray |
| College of Nursing | |||
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Award of Excellence for Research | Krista Cameron | Strategies for the College-aged Population to Reduce Risk Factors of Alzheimer’s Disease | Kathleen Thompson |
| Award of Excellence for Research | Ali Sullivan | Do Young Adults with Close Family Experiencing Alzheimer’s Have Higher Depression Rates? | Edelyn Bishop |
| Award of Excellence for Research | Emma Vysoky | Pregnant Women with Asthma: Factors that Influence Their Decision to Continue or Discontinue Taking Their Medications | Kathleen Thompson |
| Award of Excellence for Research | Abigail Winterstein | Perceptions of Family-Initiated Rapid Response Teams | Mary Lynn Brown |
| College of Nursing | |||
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Award of Excellence in Evidence Based Practice | Mary Bosson, Sara Hodges, Madison Cavalli, Kaitlyn Carmichael | Effect of infant breastfeeding versus formula feeding for a minimum of one month on cognitive outcomes in early childhood | Samereh Abdoli |
| Award of Excellence in Evidence Based Practice | Julia Clark, Josie Parsons, Juliana Foreman, Alex Gerkin | The effect of restorative breaks on levels of sleepiness and fatigue in healthcare workers | Knar Sagherian |
| Award of Excellence in Evidence Based Practice | Jessica McChesney, Russell Cunningham, Kaitlyn Weeden, Lily Hopping | The Effect of Animal Assisted Therapy on Depression among Dementia Patients living in Nursing Homes | Knar Sagherian |
| Award of Excellence in Evidence Based Practice | Margaret Miller, Madison Peret, Haley Benson, Katie Pendergast | Cognitive Improvement and Increased Quality of Life Among Dementia Patients When Utilizing Animal-Assisted Therapy | Dutra Ozorio |
| Award of Excellence in Evidence Based Practice | Jillian Simpson, Caitlyn Hintz, Brooke Paris, Catherine Heilman | Literature Review of the Correlation Between Pregnant Women Consuming Alcohol and the Neonate Developing Symptoms of ADHD | Dutra Ozorio |
| College of Nursing | |||
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Award of Excellence for Quality Improvement | Madison Bixler | The Effect of Art on Nutrition Education | Marcia Spurgeon |
| Award of Excellence for Quality Improvement | Allie Callaway | Hand Washing in the Children in the Boys and Girls Club to Decrease Infection | Marcia Spurgeon |
| Award of Excellence for Quality Improvement | Grace Cambron | Vine School Health Clinic Open House | Melanie Mixer |
| Award of Excellence for Quality Improvement | Isabella DeWeez | Self-Paced Training Module Implementation to Increase Knowledge Retention of Precious Print Acquisition | Lynn Miller |
| Award of Excellence for Quality Improvement | Devin Hammonds Angelica Bautista |
The Effects of Motivational Interviewing (MI) Education on the Implementation of MI during the Primary Care Clinical Rotation and the Future Clinical Practice of TRIP Students | Lizanne Elliot |
| Award of Excellence for Quality Improvement | Lillian Jackson | Impact of Nutritional Education on KICKO Students’ Snack Choices | DeOnna Anderson-Washington |
| Award of Excellence for Quality Improvement | Morgan Murray | Effects of Social Media Outreach on Immunization Health Literacy | Lizanne Elliot |
| Award of Excellence for Quality Improvement | Jessica Rack | The Effects of an Interactive, Educational Presentation on Headache Prevention Awareness in School-Aged Children | Shelia Swift |
| College of Social Work | |||
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Award of Merit | Breanna Berry | A comparison of survey results of satisfaction of families with family members who received hospice services in home and in nursing facilities | Bill Nugent |
| Award of Merit | Elsie Crisp | The effect of distance learning developmentally with Head Start aged children | Bill Nugent |
| Third Place | Kenslee Thomas | How were elementary-aged students affected by online learning? | Bill Nugent |
| Second Place | Jessica Douglas | Examining How Poor Mental Health Days and COVID-19 Impacted Rates of Premature Deaths and Suicides in Tennessee | Bill Nugent |
| First Place | Elizabeth Martin | Effects of COVID-19 on SNAP Enrollment Numbers in 6 Appalachian Counties | Bill Nugent |
| College of Arts & Sciences: Humanities | |||
| Award | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Award of Excellence | Stephanie Bias, Bryceton Bible | Engaging Students with Peer Mentoring and Discord | Maria Gallmeier |
| Award of Excellence | Sydney Selman | Not That Bad: Lessons Women Learn in a Rape Culture | Robin Nicks |
| Award of Excellence | Konrad Szymanowski | Tschernobyl-am-Main: Cultural Depictions of Environmental Disaster in German Media | Stefanie Ohnesorg |
| Award of Excellence | Ava Mosadegh | Parental Intuition: The Importance of Father-Child Relationships during an Age of Equality | Marcel Brouwers |
| Award of Excellence | Sidney Howell | The Impact of Social Media on College-Age Girls’ Self Value and Presentation of Self | Lance Dean |
| Award of Excellence | Christen Sholes | The Influence of the American News Media on the Civil Rights Movement | Kristina McCue |
| College of Arts & Sciences: Natural Sciences | |||
| Award of Excellence | Justin Brueggeman | Movement of the Nucleus in Growing Root Hairs in Arabidopsis thaliana | Andreas Nebenfuehr |
| Award of Excellence | Midnight Carroll | Regulator of gene silencing Calmodulin and recycling of cellular resources during hypoxia stress in plants | Daniel Roberts |
| Award of Excellence | Jason Cornelio, Lillian Mooney, Christopher Quizhpe, Tarek Atyia |
Development of Spectroelectrochemistry for Detection of Neurotransmitters | Bhavya Sharma |
| Award of Excellence | Elijah Hix | Computational Study on a PEGylated Tin-Porphyrin Complex for Electrocatalytic Proton Reduction | Konstantinos Vogiatzis |
| Award of Excellence | Mackenzie Hooker, Conner Whitten, Matthew Jenkins | Sex differences in the formation of dominance relationships and activation of neural circuits in the medial amygdala | Matthew Cooper |
| Award of Excellence | Brandon Kristy | Populus – microbe interactions are influenced by Host Drought Tolerance and Environmental Stress | Melissa Cregger |
| Award of Excellence | Katelyn Laughon, Brett Smith | Elucidation of Potential Fe(II) Tetracarbene Catalysts for Aziridination Reactions | Konstantinos Vogiatzis |
| Award of Excellence | Hannah Lee | Creative Processing of Mouse Brain Slices – In Search of The PNN Gestalt | Keerthi Krishnan |
| Award of Excellence | Nicholas Legaux, Alicia Doerr, Justin Burroughs |
Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters Using Redox-Switchable Catalysts | Brian Long |
| Award of Excellence | Samuel Liske, Matthew Jenkins, Harry Pepper, Ariel Lathan |
Responses of Sibling Juvenile Eastern Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) to Own, Conspecific, and Control Chemical Stimuli | Gordon Burghardt |
| Award of Excellence | Julian Nosarzewski | Understanding the Origin of Inclined Stromatolites | Linda Kah |
| Award of Excellence | Abdullah Salim | A Tissue Specific Transcriptomic, Proteomic and Phospho-proteomic Atlas of the Translational Machinery of Arabidopsis thaliana | Albrecht von Arnim |
| Award of Excellence | Zane Smith | Culturing Pseudogymnoascus from post-wildfire soils of the Great Smoky Mountains | Karen Hughes |
| Award of Excellence | Morgan Strong | ISE2 and its Role in Drought Tolerance | Tessa Burch-Smith |
| Award of Excellence | Jawhar Syed | Creation and Testing of H250A Cho1 Mutant | Todd Reynolds |
| Award of Excellence | Lindsey Tucker, John Torreverde | Characterizing Ribosomal Protein S6 Phospho-Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana | Albrecht von Arnim |
| Award of Excellence | Scarlett Wilson | Creation of Pseudo-data Synthetic Waveforms for the BL2 Experiment | Nadia Fomin |
| College of Arts & Sciences: Social Sciences | |||
| Award of Excellence | Keri Burge | Exploring Early Colonial Foodways and Animal Husbandry Practices Through Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): Preliminary Results | Anneke Janzen |
| Award of Excellence | Keri Burge | The Effect of Body Mass Index on Human Decomposition | Mary Charlesie |
| Award of Excellence | Mary Jensen | Shorter Relationships at Risk for Sexting-Linked Intimate Partner Violence | Gregory Stuart |
| Award of Excellence | Owen Queen | Agent-Based Social Network Models of the Prescription Opioid Epidemic | Christopher Strickland |
| Award of Excellence | Clare Remy | Reconstructing the History of Koch Cemetery | Amy Mundorff |
| Award of Excellence | Jessica Wysor | You do what we think: The role of normative group beliefs in enacting gender bias | Sarah Lamer |
| College of Arts & Sciences: Visual and Performing Arts | |||
| Award of Excellence | Alaina Jidal Lockhart | Beauty and Bite | Beauvais Lyons |
| Award of Excellence | Lauren Farkas | The Vine Art Exhibition | Beauvais Lyons |
| Award of Excellence | Thea Brannon, Tena Beard | Women on the Move | Kelli Wood |
| Tickle College of Engineering | |||
| Award Name | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Award of Merit for Research | Samantha Maness, Madeline Wimmer, Bowen Wagner, Nadim Hmeidat |
Multifunctional Ultralightweight Syntactic Foam for Custom Architecting of Aircraft Radomes | Brett Compton |
| Award of Merit for Research | Naydia Peoples, Kassidy Boone, Jenny Patel |
Structural and Rheological Analysis of Hydrogel for Local Pediatric Brain Tumor Drug Delivery | Elizabeth Barker |
| Award of Merit for Research | Nicholas Legaux | Stereolithography 3D Printing of Copper/Polymer Nanocomposites | Rigoberto Advincula |
| Third Place for Research | Tyler Morris | Development and Optimization of a Digital Hearing Aid to Increase Music Perception | Jeff Reinbolt |
| Second Place for Research | Kelsey Uselton | Parameter Optimization for the Performance of a Reversible Fuel Cell | Gabriel Goenaga |
| First Place for Research | Kate Eikel | Investigating Methods for Obtaining Large 2-Dimensional Perovskite Single Crystals | Bin Hu |
| Second Place for Design | Samantha Maness, Kennedy Waring, Jace Pittman, Alexander Richter |
Characterization of Lignin-Based Reactive Membranes Suitable for Sustainable Energy Applications | David Keffer |
| First Place for Design | Logan White, Ryan Heldt, James Lee, Winston Wright |
Using Combinatorial Sputtering to Investigate the Magnetic Properties of Ni-Fe-Cr Thin Films | Phillip Rack |
| Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships | ||||
| Award | College | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| OURF Bronze | Herbert College of Agriculture | Samantha Roberts, Meredith Hinson, Emma Hessock, Casey Read | Phenotypes and Plasma Metabolome Profiles to Predict Average Daily Gain in Heifers | Sarah Moorey |
| OURF Bronze | College of Architecture and Design: School of Design | Riley Doty | Plant Personalities | Cary Staples |
| OURF Bronze | Haslam College of Business | Payton Myers | Supply Chain Decarbonization and the Reduction in Transportation Emissions | Wendy Tate |
| OURF Bronze | College of Arts & Sciences: Natural Sciences | Abdullah Salim | A Tissue Specific Transcriptomic, Proteomic and Phospho-proteomic Atlas of the Translational Machinery of Arabidopsis thaliana | Albrecht von Arnim |
| OURF Bronze | College of Arts & Sciences: Natural Sciences | Mackenzie Hooker, Conner Whitten, Matthew Jenkins | Sex differences in the formation of dominance relationships and activation of neural circuits in the medial amygdala | Matthew Cooper |
| OURF Bronze | College of Nursing | Isabella DeWeez | Self-Paced Training Module Implementation to Increase Knowledge Retention of Precious Print Acquisition | Lynn Miller |
| OURF Bronze | Tickle College of Engineering | Kelsey Uselton | Parameter Optimization for the Performance of a Reversible Fuel Cell | Gabriel Goenaga |
| OURF Bronze | College of Arts & Sciences: Humanities | Stephanie Bias, Bryceton Bible | Engaging Students with Peer Mentoring and Discord | Maria Gallmeier |
| OURF Silver | College of Arts & Sciences: Natural Sciences | Midnight Carroll | Regulator of gene silencing Calmodulin and recycling of cellular resources during hypoxia stress in plants | Daniel Roberts |
| OURF Silver | College of Education, Health & Human Sciences | Sydney Mcabee | School during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Administrative Lens | James Martinez |
| OURF Silver | College of Nursing | Julia Clark, Josie Parsons, Juliana Foreman, Alex Gerkin | The effect of restorative breaks on levels of sleepiness and fatigue in healthcare workers | Knar Sagherian |
| OURF Silver | College of Nursing | Abigail Winterstein | Perceptions of Family-Initiated Rapid Response Teams | Mary Lynn Brown |
| OURF Silver | College of Nursing | Madison Bixler | The Effect of Art on Nutrition Education | Marcia Spurgeon |
| OURF Silver | Tickle College of Engineering | Logan White, Ryan Heldt, James Lee, Winston Wright | Using Combinatorial Sputtering to Investigate the Magnetic Properties of Ni-Fe-Cr Thin Films | Phillip Rack |
| OURF Silver | College of Architecture and Design | Katie Pennington | TERRITORIAL PARALLAX: An agricultural paradigm | Brian Ambroziak |
| OURF Silver | College of Arts & Sciences: Social Sciences | Jessica Wysor | You do what we think: The role of normative group beliefs in enacting gender bias | Sarah Lamer |
| OURF Silver | College of Arts & Sciences: Social Sciences | Owen Queen | Agent-Based Social Network Models of the Prescription Opioid Epidemic | Christopher Strickland |
| OURF Silver | College of Arts & Sciences: Visual and Performing Art | Alaina Jidal Lockhart | Beauty and Bite | Beauvais Lyons |
| OURF Gold | Herbert College of Agriculture | Megan Wilson | Determining the Efficacy of Bacteria-Produced Antimicrobial Peptides in Inhibiting the Growth of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in vitro | Matt Gray |
| OURF Gold | College of Architecture and Design: School of Design | Cadie Chapell | Escaping the Herbaceous | Cary Staples |
| OURF Gold | Haslam College of Business | Danielle Taylor | University Student Perceptions on Tax Complexity and Tax Compliance | LeAnn Luna |
| OURF Gold | College of Arts & Sciences: Natural Sciences | Zane Smith | Culturing Pseudogymnoascus from post-wildfire soils of the Great Smoky Mountains | Karen Hughes |
| OURF Gold | College of Nursing | Mary Bosson, Sarah Hodges, Madison Cavalli, Kaitlyn Carmichael | Effect of infant breastfeeding versus formula feeding for a minimum of one month on cognitive outcomes in early childhood | Samereh Abdoli |
| OURF Gold | Tickle College of Engineering | Kate Eikel | Investigating Methods for Obtaining Large 2-Dimensional Perovskite Single Crystals | Bin Hu |
| OURF Gold | College of Arts & Sciences: Humanities | Konrad Szymanowski | Tschernobyl-am-Main: Cultural Depictions of Environmental Disaster in German Media | Stefanie Ohnesorg |
| OURF Gold | College of Architecture and Design | Brian Nachtrab | A Nation is a Machine for Capital | Jennifer Akerman |
| OURF Gold | College of Arts & Sciences: Social Sciences | Clare Remy | Reconstructing the History of Koch Cemetery | Amy Mundorff |
| OURF Gold | College of Social Work | Elizabeth Martin | Effects of a Pandemic on Social Assistance Enrollment in Appalachian Tennessee Counties | Bill Nugent |
| English 298 Chancellor’s Honors & Scholars | |||
| Award | Student | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| English 298 | Asal Alkhuwaiter | The Arab American Identity | Lance Dean |
| English 298 | Jaqueline Capron-Allcott | Analyzing and Preventing Disparities in Autism Diagnosis Age and Treatment Access for Latino Families | Randi Addicott |
| English 298 | Stella Clymer | Socialism: An Intergenerational Study of a Loaded Term | Scott Mackenzie |
| English 298 | Stephanie Craven | Implicit Bias in Policing: A Look at Bias-Reducing Training | Elizabeth Gentry |
| English 298 | Lauren Favier | “Liberal Indoctrination:” Fact or Fiction? | Lance Dean |
| English 298 | Madison Huffstutter | Is It Really Cheating: Views on Cheating in the Digital Age | Brad Bannon |
| English 298 | Jacob Knight | Game Night: How Board Games Can Be Applied to the Classroom to Benefit Education | Carrie Sheffield |
| English 298 | Camille Landstreet | Fixing a Flawed Financial Aid System | Randi Addicott |
| English 298 | Sarah Lerner | Modern Family: The Effect of Sibling Relationships on Psychosocial Development | Marcel Brouwers |
| English 298 | Katelyn Lively | Creating the Coronavirus: Evaluating Human Interactions with Wildlife that Drive Zoonotic Diseases like COVID-19 | Elizabeth Gentry |
| English 298 | Blythe Lundberg | A Climate Changed by Cows | Samantha Murphy |
| English 298 | Ava Mosadegh | Parental Intuition: The Importance of Father-Child Relationships during an Age of Equality | Marcel Brouwers |
| English 298 | Avere Neff | Spiritual Identity and Attitudes Towards Dreaming | Lance Dean |
| English 298 | Travis Pitz | Clean Energy for the Future: An Investigation of the Environmental and Economic Impacts of Offshore Wind Farms | Carrie Sheffield |
| English 298 | Haitham Rghebi | Long-Term Impacts of Early Experiences of Racism on Children | Samantha Murphy |
| English 298 | Christen Sholes | The Influence of the American News Media on the Civil Rights Movement | Kristina McCue |
| English 298 | Peyton Spearry | Living on Borrowed Time: An Investigation Behind the Declining Prevalence of Serial Killers in America | Marcel Brouwers |
| English 298 | William Werner | Expectations and Realities: First-Year Experiences During COVID-19 | Robert Spirko |