| Agricultural Science and Natural Resources |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Logan Houston |
Geographical Location Drives the Population Structure of the Native Asian Cornus Kousa Population |
Trigiano, Robert N |
Agricultural Science and Natural Resources |
First Place |
| Benjamin Cruz |
Determining and Modeling the Residence Time Distribution of Biomass Particles in a Benchscale Bubbling Fluidized Bed Reactor |
Abdoulmoumine, Nour |
Agricultural Science and Natural Resources |
Second Place |
| Ashley Bloom |
BG-4, A Novel Peptide from Momordica Charnaita, Induces Apoptosis in Ovarian Cancer Cells |
Dia, Vermont Punongba |
Agricultural Science and Natural Resources |
Third Place |
| Angel Chaffin |
Potential Pathogens of Industrial Hemp (Cannabis Sativa) |
Gwinn, Kimberly D |
Agricultural Science and Natural Resources |
Honorable Mention |
| Ciara Sheets |
Enumerating and Differentiating Zoospore Types of Batrachochytium Salamandrivorans Using Flow Cytometry |
Miller, Deb |
Agricultural Science and Natural Resources |
Honorable Mention |
| Zhihong Wang |
Sorghum Starch Ultrasonication Project |
Dia, Vermont Punongba |
Agricultural Science and Natural Resources |
Honorable Mention |
| Zoe Resmondo |
Oral Tactile Sensitivity and Processing |
Luckett, Curtis Robert |
Agricultural Science and Natural Resources |
Honorable Mention |
| College of Architecture and Design |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Mustapha Williams |
Urban Identity |
Akerman, Jennifer Alford |
Architecture and Design |
First Place |
| Meredith Graves |
in shadows of disaster: architectural timestamps of earthquake processes |
Akerman, Jennifer Alford |
Architecture and Design |
Second Place |
| Jeremiah Corbett, Rachel Elbon,
Sierra Holder |
MAX |
Rose, James Richard |
Architecture and Design |
Third Place |
| Brian Nachtrab, Isabella West |
Renzo Piano’s Modern Wing of The Art Institute of Chicago – In Section |
Goeritz, Hansjoerg |
Architecture and Design |
Honorable Mention |
| Destin Manous, Zachary Orig |
Renzo Piano’s Modern Wing of The Art Institute of Chicago – In Section |
Davis, Marleen Kay |
Architecture and Design |
Honorable Mention |
| Katherine Hill, Lauren Perry |
The New York Times Building |
Davis, Marleen Kay |
Architecture and Design |
Honorable Mention |
| Honors English 298, Arts & Sciences |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Joelle Jarjoura |
Teacher and Student Perceptions of Online Versus Traditional Courses |
Dean, Lance M |
Arts & Sciences, English 298 |
First Prize |
| Robert Spurling |
Carbon Contamination in Electron Microscopy |
Dean, Lance M |
Arts & Sciences, English 298 |
Second Prize |
| Zoe Carter |
Exigence and Justifications of Altruistic Lies in Medicine: |
Brouwers, Marcel |
Arts & Sciences, English 298 |
Third Prize |
| Allison Clark |
Perception of Toxic Masculinity Amongst College-Aged Men |
Nicks, Robin Jean Gray |
Arts & Sciences, English 298 |
Student Choice Award |
| Bryce Wade |
The Effects of Biodiversity on Ecosystem Health and the Global Implications of Biodiversity Loss |
Barrow, Robin |
Arts & Sciences, English 298 |
Student Choice Award |
| Evan Mahaffey |
From the Cradle to College: How Parenting Styles Affect Student Academic Performance |
Nicks, Robin Jean Gray |
Arts & Sciences, English 298 |
Student Choice Award |
| Justin Pritchett |
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Doctor-Patient Relationship |
Newburn, Harry Fredrick |
Arts & Sciences, English 298 |
Student Choice Award |
| Haslam College of Business |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Brandon Carpenter |
An Overview and Analysis of the Impacts of Extreme Heat on the Aviation Industry |
Holcomb, Mary C |
Haslam College of Business |
First Place |
| Lauren Patterson |
The Pricing Impact of Decreasing Competitiveness of the Health Insurance Market |
Harris, Matt |
Haslam College of Business |
Second Place |
| Rahim Tejani |
Cracking The Bullwhip Effect |
Mollenkopf, Diane A |
Haslam College of Business |
Third Place |
| Francis Murphy |
Supplier Network Mapping for Sustainability Dispersion |
Tate, Wendy |
Haslam College of Business |
Honorable Mention |
| Joseph Trice |
Financial Alignment on Physician Performance |
Bichescu, Bogdan Cristian |
Haslam College of Business |
Honorable Mention |
| Kristen Purcell |
State Aid: How Economic Development Trumps Tax Revenue |
Luna, Leann |
Haslam College of Business |
Honorable Mention |
| College of Communication and Information |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Elle Johnson |
Implementing Social Support Towards the Nutritional Needs of College Freshmen |
Miller, Laura |
Communication and Information |
First Place |
| Education, Health and Human Sciences |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Janelle Chavarria |
The Effect of Dietary Fiber on Satiation |
Raynor, Hollie Anne |
Education, Health, and Human Sciences |
First Place |
| Brandon Clendenin |
Use of Consumer Physical Activity Monitors for Estimating Energy Expenditure in Youth |
Crouter, Scott E |
Education, Health, and Human Sciences |
Second Place |
| Sonja Lipman |
Contact with the Criminal Justice System, Social Support, and Depressive Symptoms in Women |
Johnson, Elizabeth Inez |
Education, Health, and Human Sciences |
Third Place |
| Arts & Sciences, Humanities |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Brooke Hoffner |
Edna Pontellier’s Water Awakening and African Divinity Lasirenn |
Jennings, Dr La Vinia Delois |
Humanities, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Emily Liske |
The Holy Brick of Birth-giving: A Reassessment of Ancient Near East Birth Bricks and Their Medical Role in Delivery |
Darby, Erin Danielle |
Humanities, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Margaret Goodwill |
Home is Where the Art Is: How Progressive-Era Women used Fine Art and Folk Crafts to Spark Economic & Cultural Development in Knoxville, TN |
Sacco, Lynn Ann |
Humanities, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Mallory Donoghue |
Why Evelyn Hazen Sabotaged Her Own Reputation: Gender dimensions of the judiciary through the lens of a 1920s-1930s Knoxville Breach of Promise Suit |
Sacco, Lynn Ann |
Humanities, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Meera Patel |
A Recipe for Disaster: The Athenian Plague and the Peloponnesian War |
Van de Moortel, Aleydis |
Humanities, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Sciences |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Anna Young |
The Development of a rapid and reagent-free autobioluminescent yeast assay for the detection of dioxin-like compounds |
Ripp, Steven |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Annie Loewen |
Sex differences in the effects of social status on defeat-induced social avoidance in Syrian hamsters |
Cooper, Matthew A |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Audrey Parker |
Fun with Foraminifera in the K-12 Classroom |
Sumrall, Colin D |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Luke Blentlinger |
Experiments with Magnetic Susceptibility of Lake Sediments |
Horn, Sally P |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Samantha Cahill |
Spatial Analysis of Mountaintop Mining’s Impact on Water Quality and Macroinvertebrates |
Giam, Xingli |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Rena Abdurehman |
Dissection of a General Chloroplast Targeting Motif Using In Vivo Imaging of Transit Peptide-YFP Fusion Proteins in Plant Cells |
Bruce, Barry D |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Charles Barnes |
GCN2-mediated stress response in nitrogen starved Arabidopsis seedlings |
Vonarnim, Albrecht G |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Abigail Jarratt |
Synechococcus as an HOOH-Consuming Helper for Prochlorococcus |
Zinser, Erik |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Brandon Barker |
Prospects for High Energy Followup Studies of Gravitational Wave Transients |
Endeve, Eirik |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Kimberly Bress |
EFFECTS OF SOCIAL DOMINANCE ON DEFEAT-INDUCED NEURAL ACTIVITY IN A VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS-TO-BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA CIRCUIT |
Cooper, Matthew A |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Alexis Case |
Post-fire ectomycorrhizal associations with Pinus sp. in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Year one |
Hughes, Karen W |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Bill Pham |
Computational Study of Ligand-dependent Oligomerization of Ribonucleotide Reductase |
Shen, Tongye |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Christopher Smith |
Growth of Pentremites and implications for blastoid ontogeny |
Sumrall, Colin D |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Hannah Alloway |
Etheostoma Duryi |
Keck, Ben |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Jacqueline Richards |
Role of Translationally Controlled Tumor Protein in Intercellular Communication |
Burch-Smith, Tessa Maureen |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Logan Qualls |
Assissing Old and New Data to Digitally Reconstruct Morphology |
Sumrall, Colin D |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Olivia Maples |
The Effects of Relationships on ANS function and Wellness |
Baldwin, Debora |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Emma Reed |
Potential Contamination Risk in Tennessee Aquifers from Oil and Gas Drilling |
Tran, Liem |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Wade Seifert |
Discovery of competitive and allosteric inhibitors for KRAS using high-thoughput virtual screening strategies. |
Smith, Micholas |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Delaney Fisher, Ronald Franz |
Identification of brain regions involved in neuronal plasticity in a female mouse model of Rett Syndrome |
Krishnan, Keerthi |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Taylor Stevenson |
Nucleosynthesis in Core-Collapse Supernovae |
Hix, William Raphael |
Natural Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Shichie Kuribayashi,
Nicholas Coles |
Do facial expressions influence affective experience? A meta-analysis |
Larsen, Jeff T |
Social Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Reagan Yessler |
The Livability of Shakespeare’s London |
Foresta, Ronald |
Social Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Dana Conzemius |
Gender Role Beliefs and Emotion Dysregulation as Risk Factors for Dating Abuse Perpetration Among College Men in Southern Appalachia |
Stuart, Gregory Lyal |
Social Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Haley Boles |
The Department of Environmental Quality’s Role in Impression Management During the Flint Water Crisis |
Cable, Sherry |
Social Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Augustus White |
The Medicaid Expansion: Modeling of Important Factors in State Decision Making |
Cahill, Katie |
Social Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Arts & Sciences Award |
| Alexis Hall |
Tennessee Junior 4-H Camp Curriculum: Creating, Implementing, and Evaluating Educational Programming Using Research-Based Practices in Youth Development and Instructional Design |
Richards, Jennifer Kathryn |
Social Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| James Smith |
The Spatial Migration Patterns of younger versus older adults and educated versus non-educated adults in Tennessee |
Nagle, Nicholas |
Social Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Aya Barnes |
Environmental Racism: Flint Water Crisis |
Bohon, Stephanie A |
Social Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Madison Newsom |
Generalizing across speaker and gender during early word learning: Evidence from a statistical learning paradigm |
Hay, Jessica Sari |
Social Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| Avanti Rangnekar |
Who Benefits from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s Screening Mammography Recommendation: Identifying a Relationship Between the False Positive and Demographic Characteristics |
Cahill, Katie |
Social Sciences, Arts & Sciences |
Honorable Mention |
| College of Nursing |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Anelia Rizzo,
Kayla Batts,
Lajerica Bates, Megan Seal |
Using the Picture Exchange Communication System to Improve Communication in Children with Autism |
Thompson, Kathleen |
Nursing |
First Place – EBP |
| Carolynn Clemons, Megan Hodge,
Sean Lenihan |
Interventions to Increase Nursing Retention: An Evidence-Based review of existing literature |
Koszalinski, Rebecca |
Nursing |
Second Place – EBP |
| Kimberly Phung,
Jordan Gause, Lindsay Garner, Sarah Vance |
Hand Hygiene Compliance from Nurses to Reduce Hospital Acquired Infections in Pediatric Patients |
McLennon, Susan |
Nursing |
Third Place -EBP |
| Austin Smith |
Increasing Vaccination Rates Among College-Aged Males |
Bland, Tami |
Nursing |
First Place – Research |
| Avie Joyce,
Stefanie Schumacher |
Role of healthcare providers in combating sex trafficking in Knoxville, Tennessee |
Hurt, Maria |
Nursing |
Second Place – Research |
| Karen Carcello |
Communication Difficulties in Stroke Survivors with Aphasia: A Literature Review |
McLennon, Susan |
Nursing |
Third Place – Research |
| School of Art, College of Arts & Sciences |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Caleb Jones |
Pit Pass |
Lowe, Sarah |
School of Art, Arts & Sciences |
Art Award |
| Haley Carter |
Uranium Storage Powering the Future |
Staples, Carolyn I |
School of Art, Arts & Sciences |
Art Award |
| Rachel Gorman |
Kid & Kin |
Lowe, Sarah |
School of Art, Arts & Sciences |
Art Award |
| Sierra Plese |
Protypo |
Lowe, Sarah |
School of Art, Arts & Sciences |
Art Award |
| Vadim Bondarenko |
The Power of an Atom, Digital Interactive Experience at the Y-12 New Hope Center |
Staples, Carolyn I |
School of Art, Arts & Sciences |
Art Award |
| Cameron Spooner |
Pinpoint Travel App |
Lowe, Sarah |
School of Art, Arts & Sciences |
Art Award |
| Adelaide Davis |
Teaching Children About the Importance of Honey Bees |
Lowe, Sarah |
School of Art, Arts & Sciences |
Art Award |
| Thomas Murr |
Interactive Data Visualization |
Staples, Carolyn I |
School of Art, Arts & Sciences |
Student Choice Award |
| J. Tyler McCammon |
Visualizing Outreach at Y-12 |
Staples, Carolyn I |
School of Art, Arts & Sciences |
Student Choice Award |
| College of Social Work |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Sarah Henson |
The Population Characteristics of Children Served by a School-Based Interprofessional Clinic |
Choi, Sunha |
Social Work |
First Place |
| Abigail Geater |
Macrolevel Preventive Indicators of Maternal Incarceration Rates in Tennessee |
Choi, Sunha |
Social Work |
Second Place |
| Ashlie Seibers |
Child Welfare Professionals’ Attitudes and Knowledgeability on serving LGBTQ+ Youth |
Choi, Sunha |
Social Work |
Third Place |
| Tickle College of Engineering |
| Engineering Research |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Megan Pitz |
Analyzing memcapacitive capabilities of lipid and polymer bilayers for use in smart materials |
Sarles, Stephen Andrew |
Tickle College of Engineering |
First Place – Research |
| Matthew Herald |
X-Means Clustering Implementing the Gap Statistic for Multiple Positron Emission Particle Tracking |
Ruggles, Arthur E |
Tickle College of Engineering |
Second Place – Research |
| Daniel Rutstrom |
Optimizing Europium Concentration in Cs4SrI6 and Cs4CaI6 Scintillators |
Zhuravleva, Mariya |
Tickle College of Engineering |
Third Place – Research |
| Jessica Ossyra, Aaron Crigger |
Fabrication of dense UO3 pellets for neutron detection applications |
Meek, Thomas T |
Tickle College of Engineering |
Honorable Mention – Research |
| Bahar Meshkat |
Robust and Cost Efficient Method for Fabrication of Tungsten Tips for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
Khomami, Bamin |
Tickle College of Engineering |
Honorable Mention – Research |
| Katelyn Bolinsky |
Device Characterization of Gallium Nitride Solar Inverters |
Costinett, Daniel Jes |
Tickle College of Engineering |
Honorable Mention – Research |
| Leah Stephens |
The Effects of Pressure on Chemical Interactions with Shale Rock During Hydraulic Fracturing |
Palomino, Angel |
Tickle College of Engineering |
Honorable Mention – Research |
| Engineering Design |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Matthew Dischner, Christopher Keller |
Mobile Device for Height Measurement of Research Cotton |
Wilkerson, John B |
Tickle College of Engineering |
First Place – Design |
| Brandon Rowell, Christopher Walker, John Carothers, Michael Roulier |
Exploring Au-Ni Alloys for Magnetic-Plasmonic Applications |
Rack, Philip D |
Tickle College of Engineering |
Second Place – Design |
| Robert Nickel, Benjamin Barnhill, Nicholas Kearse, Sara Martin,
William Kobler, William Putthoff |
The Effects of Vortex Oxidizer Injection on Hybrid Rocket Fuel Regression |
Lyne, Evans |
Tickle College of Engineering |
Third Place – Design |
| Caitlin Duggan, Christina Cox,
Grant Hanthorn, Quentin Eustace |
Formulations for Three-way Catalyst Supports in the CeZrLaO System |
Keffer, David J |
Tickle College of Engineering |
Honorable Mention – Design |
| School of Music, College of Arts & Sciences |
| Student(s) |
Project Title |
Faculty Mentor |
College |
Award |
| Natalie Gregg,
Seth Hall,
Alex Hall,
Peter Kim,
Ryan Ramsey |
Quintet, Mvt. I (August Klughardt) |
Apaza, Aaron |
School of Music, Arts & Sciences |
First Place |
| Lee Brandt |
Lonely House from Street Scene (Kurt Weill) |
Skoog, Andrew |
School of Music, Arts & Sciences |
Second Place |
| Anjali Shinde |
Andante Pastoral et Scherzettino (Paul Taffanel) |
Binder, Shelley |
School of Music, Arts & Sciences |
Third Place |
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