The 23rd Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA) took place April 15-18, 2019 in Hodges Library. Students from across the university entered their undergraduate research, senior design projects, clinical projects, and creative achievements for judging. Over 1000 students presented 749 projects. projects received recognition at the EURēCA Awards night.
Each undergraduate college selects and awards their top students. College awards ranged from first place to honorable mention. The top students on Monday night and Wednesday night also received ORE Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards for Undergraduate Research funded by the Office of Research and Engagement. These awards are presented across research areas and highlight the best of the best in undergraduate research and creative achievement on our campus. In nine categories, students were awarded 10 gold, 10 silver and 8 bronze awards. These Awards of Excellence provide prizes in the following amounts: $500 for gold awards, $300 for silver awards, and $200 for bronze awards.
A total of 139 Awards were presented at the Awards Ceremony on Monday, April 22, 2019. Below is the list of award recipients.
ORE Awards
| ORE Gold Awards | ||||
| Award | College | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Office of Research & Engagement Gold Award | Herbert College of Agriculture | Marlo Black | A Survey of Domestic Hosts of Cimex lectularius in an Urban Setting | Karen Vail |
| Office of Research & Engagement Gold Award | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Sciences | Kyle Freeman | Investigating Role of Cell Wall Modifying Enzymes on Intercellular Trafficking in Plants | Tessa Burch-Smith |
| Office of Research & Engagement Gold Award | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Sciences | Kaylie Richard | Identification and Purification of an Outer Membrane Protein from Campylobacter jejuni | Jeremiah Johnson |
| Office of Research & Engagement Gold Award | College of Engineering | Alec Yen,
Yah Mensa |
SABR: Development of a Neuromorphic Balancing Robot | Mark Dean |
| Office of Research & Engagement Gold Award | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Hannah Mcmillen | Shelf Help | Sarah Lowe |
| Office of Research & Engagement Gold Award | College of Social Work | Scott Sloan | Prevention & Retention: An analysis of a Community Law Office Youth Program Attendance Patterns | Bill Nugent |
| Office of Research & Engagement Gold Award | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Megan Belcher
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“Pipe(ing) Up about Pipe Fragments: An Analysis of Woodland Period Pipes from the Topper Site (38AL23)” | David Anderson |
| Office of Research & Engagement Gold Award | College of Nursing | Mallory Lanier | Rescue Dosing as a Standardized Treatment Protocol for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome to Decrease Length of Hospital Stay
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Jennifer Tourville |
| Office of Research & Engagement Gold Award | College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities | Hannah Nelson | What the —-: UT Students’ Bad Language Ideologies | Jessica Grieser |
| Office of Research & Engagement Gold Award | College of Architecture & Design | Michael Lidwin Tyler Sanford,
Elizabeth Ott, Cochran Tettleton, Sydney Bittinger, John Huddleston, Margaret House, Walter Costner, Aubrey Bader, Kari Essary, Samuel Brown, Schuyler Daniel, Brian Pickle, Allison Ward |
Design-Building as Community Empowerment through Green Magnet Academy’s Little STEAM Library | Katherine Ambroziak |
| ORE Silver Awards | ||||
| Award | College | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Office of Research & Engagement Silver Award | Tickle College of Engineering | Nicole Kowalski | Comparing EMG- and Goniometer-Driven NMI Control For A Virtual Target Acquisition Task | Dustin Crouch |
| Office of Research & Engagement Silver Award | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Sciences | Parker Stevenson | Spying on Mice: Video coding and quantifying pup retrieval behavior in adult female mice | Keerthi Krishnan |
| Office of Research & Engagement Silver Award | Tickle College of Engineering | Taylor Berger | Decoding Brainwaves for Visual Attention to Faces and Scenes | Xiaopeng Zhao |
| Office of Research & Engagement Silver Award | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Sciences | Thomas Clarity | Acute social defeat-induced neuroinflammation in the vmPFC of Syrian hamsters via microglial activation | Matthew Cooper |
| Office of Research & Engagement Silver Award | Haslam College of Business | Austin Kuhr | Using Martingale Difference Correlation for Variable Selection | Chung Lee |
| Office of Research & Engagement Silver Award | College of Nursing | Malerie Lazar | “I’ve Always Had to Fight”: A Phenomenological Study on Appalachian Men and Women Who Seek Care at Free Episodic Health Care Clinics | Lisa Davenport |
| Office of Research & Engagement Silver Award | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences |
Adriana Ford |
Solar Potential Impacts on Energy Poverty in Knox County, TN in 2017 | Yingkui Li |
| Office of Research & Engagement Silver Award | College of Education, Health & Human Sciences | Alexandra Nussbaumer | Successful Implementation and Elements of Healthy Food Retail Programs: Extension Professionals Perceptions | Sarah Colby |
| Office of Research & Engagement Silver Award | College of Architecture & Design | Grayson Word,
Nicole Hamel, Alison Ward |
Haitian Housing: Social and Cultural Evolution Through Transitional Space | Katherine Ambroziak |
| Office of Research & Engagement Silver Award | College of Communication & Information | Dara Carney-Nedelman | AUIGTROSAI (Acronym Usage in Groups: The Relationship of Socialization and Identification) | Emily Paskewitz |
| ORE Bronze Awards | ||||
| Award | College | Student(s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Office of Research & Engagement Bronze Award | College of Engineering | Collin Pekol | Developing a Method for Testing Tackiness of Bituminous Tack Coats | Chris Wetteland |
| Office of Research & Engagement Bronze Award | College of Engineering | Matthew Adams | Oxide Supported Nickel Based Intermetallic Compounds in Dry Reforming of Methane for Syngas Production | Siris Laursen |
| Office of Research & Engagement Bronze Award | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Sciences | Landen Mcdonald | Turbulent Flow Modeling using Cryogenic Helium and Neutron Beams | Yuri Kamyshkov |
| Office of Research & Engagement Bronze Award | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Sciences | John Hymel | A computational study of CO2 interactions with functionalized calixarene molecules | Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis |
| Office of Research & Engagement Bronze Award | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Carrie Garrison,
McLane Zaitz, Evan Zelem, Ndigirigi Gichingiri |
Dixon vs. Alabama State Board of Education | Cary Staples |
| Office of Research & Engagement Bronze Award | Haslam College of Business | Matthew Holt | Investigation into the Reporting & Presentation of the Underlying Economics of Stock-based Compensation | Lauren Cunningham |
| Office of Research & Engagement Bronze Award | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Alexis Beaver | “Do parental fear perceptions affect phobic children’s performance on a parent-child behavioral approach test?”
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Kristy Allen |
| Office of Research & Engagement Bronze Award | Architecture & Design | Zachary Orig | Organic Urbanisms: Applied Agronomy on the Campus of Knoxville College | Tricia Stuth |
College Awards
| Herbert College of Agriculture | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Marlo Black | A Survey of Domestic Hosts of Cimex lectularius in an Urban Setting | Karen Vail | Herbert College of Agriculture | First Place |
| Rajeev Kumar | More than Skin Deep: Blood Serum Protein Changes in Response to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Chytridiomycosis
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Matt Gray | Herbert College of Agriculture | Second Place |
| Jaime Ragos | A Pilot Study on Teaching Food Safety to Bilingual Students with Hands On Activities | Jennifer Richards | Herbert College of Agriculture | Third Place |
| Leah Dunlap | Plant Mapping Overwintering Phyllocoptes fructiphilus | Mark Windham | Herbert College of Agriculture | Honorable Mention |
| Anna Kouns | Rose Rosette Disease Research in Knoxville | Mark Windham | Herbert College of Agriculture | Honorable Mention |
| College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Hannah Nelson | What the —-: UT Students’ Bad Language Ideologies | Jessica Grieser | College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities | Award of Excellence |
| Margaret Stroud,
Zoe Mazzu, Hrysoula Grammatikas, Aurora Parker, Carla Whaley,
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Italian Translation Project: “La Leggenda del Borgo” The Legend of the Medieval Town | Annachiara Mariani | College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities | Award of Excellence |
| Julia Walsh | Common Ancestors and the Ethical Display of Bog Bodies in “Kingship and Sacrifice” | Lisa King | College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities | Award of Excellence |
| Audrey Jean Culpepper | Visually Mapping the Narrative System of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot | Stephen Blackwell | College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities | Award of Excellence |
| Anita Voorhees | Metaphor Theory and Its Relation to Social Policy | Lisa King | College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities | Honorable Mention |
| Amanda Bryant | The Slave Woman and the Free: Hagar and Sarah as Exegetical Strategy in Galatians 4:21-5:1 | Erin Darby | College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities | Honorable Mention |
| Jeffrey Holt | Blood and Conquest: An Investigation into The Most Prominent Diseases of 16th Century Mexico and How They Impacted Colonization and Cultural Exchange | Millie Gimmel | College of Arts & Sciences, Humanities | Honorable Mention |
| College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Kelly Roth,
Caitlin Berosh, Emily Grimes |
The Impact of Race and Affect on Infant Visual Attention to Faces
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Greg Reynolds | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Award of Excellence |
| Martin Walker,
Megan Belcher |
“Pipe(ing) Up about Pipe Fragments: An Analysis of Woodland Period Pipes from the Topper Site (38AL23)” | David Anderson | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Award of Excellence |
| Adriana Ford,
Kelly Baar |
Solar Potential Impacts on Energy Poverty in Knox County, TN in 2018 | Yingkui Li | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Award of Excellence |
| Alexis Beaver | “Do parental fear perceptions affect phobic children’s performance on a parent-child behavioral approach test?”
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Kristy Allen | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Award of Excellence |
| Esther Reynolds,
Catalina Gonzalez |
The effects of stress and anxiety on a cued attention task | Shannon Ross-Sheehy | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Award of Excellence |
| Nickolas Jernigan | Face the Music: Facial expressions of emotion suggest that sad music elicits more positive than negative affect | Jeff Larsen | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Award of Excellence |
| Alexander Tripp | Modern Chinese Development of Latin America | Richard Pacelle Jr | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Award of Excellence |
| Patrick Sonnenberg | LGBTI+ Terminologies, Identities, and Activism in Nepal | Lois Presser | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Award of Excellence |
| Paige Greene | Campus Alert: How Colleges Construct Racial and Sexual Violence in Clery Reporting | Louise Seamster | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Honorable Mention |
| Jasmine Blue | European Union Responses to the “Migrant Crisis” Stem from Western Europe’s History of Colonialism and Imperialism | Anthony Nownes | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Honorable Mention |
| Connor Smith,
Megan Schmidt, Daren Garcia, Erin Crittenden |
The Convergent and Discriminant Construct Validity of the SCORS-G as a Measure of Personality Functioning | Mark Waugh | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Honorable Mention |
| Elizabeth Martens | Examining the Behavioral Dynamics of Selective Attention in the Flanker Task | Aaron Buss | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Honorable Mention |
| Regan Carell,
Mckenzie Martin |
Understanding the Relation Between Core ADHD Symptoms and Lower- and Higher-Level Reading Abilities | Jenn Bolden | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Honorable Mention |
| Megan Porter | Convective Mode and Communication in Tennessee: Tornado Warning Challenges for Forecasting within the National Weather Service | Kelsey Ellis | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Honorable Mention |
| Mary Gray | Reconstruction of a Roman Fort: Photogrammetry of Tabernae (Lalla Lilaliya) | Stephen Collins-Elliott | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Honorable Mention |
| Michaela Thordarson,
Lindsey Bailey |
The role of color in transsaccadic object correspondence | Caglar Tas | College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences | Honorable Mention |
| Haslam College of Business | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Austin Kuhr | Using Martingale Difference Correlation for Variable Selection | Chung Lee | Haslam College of Business | First Place |
| Matthew Holt | Investigation into the Reporting & Presentation of the Underlying Economics of Stock-based Compensation | Lauren Cunningham | Haslam College of Business | Second Place |
| Luke Norton | Close to Home: How College Proximity Impacts Award of Merit-Based Scholarship Effects | Maria Padilla-Romo | Haslam College of Business | Third Place |
| College of Communication & Information | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Dara Carney-Nedelman | AUIGTROSAI (Acronym Usage in Groups: The Relationship of Socialization and Identification) | Emily Paskewitz | College of Communication & Information | First Place |
| Emily Caylor | Family Communication Patterns and Advice Response Theory: How Emerging Adults View Parental Advice on Money | Courtney Wright | College of Communication & Information | Second Place |
| College of Education, Health & Human Sciences | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Alexandra Nussbaumer | Successful Implementation and Elements of Healthy Food Retail Programs: Extension Professionals Perceptions | Sarah Colby | College of Education, Health & Human Sciences | First Place |
| Taylor Morgan | Overuse and Acute Injury Risk: Early Warning Signs in Female Soccer Players | Joshua Weinhandl | College of Education, Health & Human Sciences | Second Place |
| Elissa Doll | Patient Perception and Clinician Ratings of Voice Disorder Severity | Sue Hume | College of Education, Health & Human Sciences | Third Place |
| College of Nursing | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Mallory Lanier | Rescue Dosing as a Standardized Treatment Protocol for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome to Decrease Length of Hospital Stay
|
Jennifer Tourville | College of Nursing | First Place in Research |
| Malerie Lazar | “I’ve Always Had to Fight”: A Phenomenological Study on Appalachian Men and Women Who Seek Care at Free Episodic Health Care Clinics | Lisa Davenport | College of Nursing | Second Place in Research |
| Gabrielle Thress | Primary care provider’s knowledge of and attitude of probiotic supplementation during pregnancy | Kathleen Thompson | College of Nursing | Third Place in Research |
| Caroline Carter | Sensory Processing Disorder in Premature Infants with Intrauterine Drug Exposure | Jennifer Tourville | College of Nursing | Honorable Mention in Research |
| Mary Wilson | Effects of Parent Educational Intervention on Nutrition and Physical Activity Behaviors for Children Enrolled in a School-Based Health Program | Lizanne Elliott | College of Nursing | Honorable Mention in Research |
| Morgan Graham | Effect of Provider Training on HPV Vaccination Rates in Southeastern Rural Communities | Kathleen Thompson | College of Nursing | Honorable Mention in Research |
| Taylor Janeczek,
Hanna Bayne, Madison Milner, Savannah Boxley |
The Effect of Rotating Shift on the Development of Obesity in Female Nurses | Susan McLennon | College of Nursing | First Place in Evidence Based Practice |
| Carlton Griffin,
Casey Smith, Margaret Macey, Martha Higgs |
Language Barrier Interventions and Self-Reported Satisfaction in Non-English-Speaking Patients | Laurie Acred-Natelson | College of Nursing | Second Place in Evidence Based Practice |
| Trava King,
Chelsea Kendall, Morgan French, Elizabeth Kraft |
Prophylactic aspirin for preeclampsia and maternal mortality | Rebecca Koszalinski | College of Nursing | Third Place in Evidence Based Practice |
| Suelyn Wadsworth
Travis Hunt, Kurtis Smith, Melanie Brummette |
Effect of Early Ambulation on the Development of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) Among Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) | Rebecca Koszalinski | College of Nursing | Honorable Mention in Evidence Based Practice |
| Cassandra Rooke,
Olivia Snow, Ashley Bond, Grace Greenwell |
Traditional vs. Alternative Birthing Positions’ Effects on Labor | Susan McLennon | College of Nursing | Honorable Mention in Evidence Based Practice |
| Rachel Sherry,
Ravina Patel, Peyton Daigre, Anna Neglia |
The Effects of Music Therapy on Cognition and Memory in Persons with Dementia | Jennifer Tourville | College of Nursing | Honorable Mention in Evidence Based Practice |
| College of Social Work | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Scott Sloan | Prevention & Retention: An analysis of a Community Law Office Youth Program Attendance Patterns | Bill Nugent | College of Social Work | First Place |
| Cal Lane | Analysis of the Quality of Life for Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers in East Tennessee Attending Head Start Programs | Bill Nugent | College of Social Work | Second Place |
| Meredith Hawk | Studying the Effects of Race on the Duration of Child Mentoring Matches | Bill Nugent | College of Social Work | Third Place |
| Kalynne Woodard | Factors Affecting Maternal Visitation with their NAS Infants in the NICU | Terri Orme | College of Social Work | Award of Merit |
| Rebecca Nicholson | Measuring ACE score validity based on method of scale administration | Bill Nugent | College of Social Work | Award of Merit |
| College of Arts & Sciences, Honors English 298 | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Aruha Khan | An Analysis of the Impact of Finance-Based Accounting upon High-Risk Decision-Making in American Corporations | Randy Adicott | College of Arts & Sciences, Honors English 298 | First Place |
| Travis Thornton | Examining the Effects of Americanization on International Chinese Student’s Perceptions of China | Robin Barrow | College of Arts & Sciences, Honors English 299 | Sceond Place |
| Madalyn Payne | Current Opioid Regulation: Impact on Prescribers and their Patients | Robin Nicks | College of Arts & Sciences, Honors English 300 | Third Place |
| College of Architecture & Design | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Michael Lidwin,
Tyler Sanford, Elizabeth Ott, Cochran Tettleton, Sydney Bittinger, John Huddleston, Margaret House, Walter Costner, Aubrey Bader, Kari Essary, Samuel Brown, Schuyler Daniel, Brian Pickle, Allison Ward |
Design-Building as Community Empowerment through Green Magnet Academy’s Little STEAM Library | Katherine Ambroziak | College of Architecture & Design | Award of Excellence |
| Grayson Word,
Nicole Hamel, Allison Ward |
Haitian Housing: Social and Cultural Evolution Through Transitional Space | Katherine Ambroziak | College of Architecture & Design | Award of Excellence |
| Allison Ward | Preserving McKee Hall | Tricia Stuth | College of Architecture & Design | Award of Excellence |
| Grace Altenbern | A Machine to Understand the Tennessee River | Brian Ambroziak | College of Architecture & Design | Award of Excellence |
| Niklos Toldi | Hollow Convergence | Lisa Mullikin | College of Architecture & Design | Award of Excellence |
| Zachary Orig | Organic Urbanisms: Applied Agronomy on the Campus of Knoxville College | Tricia Stuth | College of Architecture & Design | Award of Excellence |
| Joseph Platt | The DJ’s Archive | Jennifer Akerman | College of Architecture & Design | Award of Excellence |
| Allison Ward | MEATSPACE: Reconciling Perceptions of the Meal as Architecture | Brian Ambroziak | College of Architecture & Design | Award of Excellence |
| College of Arts & Sciences, Art, Music, Theater | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Collin Hall | Lighting Design for The Real Inspector Hound | Kenton Yeager | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Award of Excellence |
| Steven Brown | From “Northern Lights” to “The Ground”: A Stylistic Survey of the Choral Works of Ola Gjeilo | Brendan McConville | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Award of Excellence |
| Hannah Mcmillen | Shelf Help | Sarah Lowe | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Award of Excellence |
| Vicki Nguyen | Music as a Metaphor for Culture | Carolyn Staples | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Award of Excellence |
| Alaysia Jetter | Two & Fro | Sarah Lowe | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Award of Excellence |
| Cassidy Bruninga | Lokel | Sarah Lowe | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Award of Excellence |
| Tiara Householder | Imprints | Sarah Lowe | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Award of Excellence |
| McLane Zaitz,
Carrie Garrison, Ndigirigi Gichingiri, Evan Zelem
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Dixon vs. Alabama State Board of Education | Carolyn Staples | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Honorable Mention |
| Alexa Pavon | Young Designers in the Freelance World | Sarah Lowe | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Honorable Mention |
| Haley Ivey | Empowering Women with PCOS: Lifestyle Tracking Made Simple | Sarah Lowe | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Honorable Mention |
| Geghie Davis | Intersectionality of African American Women During the Civil Rights Movement | Carolyn Staples | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Honorable Mention |
| Jennifer Bondarenko | Left Write
Writing Exercises for Graphic Design Students |
Sarah Lowe | College of Arts & Sciences for Art, Music, and Theater | Honorable Mention |
| College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Sciences | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Landen Mcdonald | Turbulent Flow Modeling using Cryogenic Helium and Neutron Beams | Yuri Kamyshkov | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Afton Russell | A Cell Cycle Cue Triggers Cell Growth Resumption After Division | Maitreyi Das | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Jackson Turner | How does elevation affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal abundance? | Stephanie Kivlin | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| John Hymel | A computational study of CO2 interactions with functionalized calixarene molecules | Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Thomas Clarity | Acute social defeat-induced neuroinflammation in the vmPFC of Syrian hamsters via microglial activation | Matthew Cooper | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Andrew Dixson | Cytolytic Properties of Transmembrane Peptides | Franc Olivares Barrera | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Kyle Freeman | Investigating Role of Cell Wall Modifying Enzymes on Intercellular Trafficking in Plants | Tessa Burch-Smith | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Parker Stevenson | Spying on Mice: Video coding and quantifying pup retrieval behavior in adult female mice | Keerthi Krishnan | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
|
Margaret Spangler |
Arabidopsis thaliana NIP2;1: A Lactic Acid Transporter With a Role in Plant Survival Under Low Oxygen Stress
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Daniel Roberts | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Emily Graham | The Relationship Between Dominance Status and Coping Strategy | Matthew Cooper | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Philip Morgan | Examining the Role of the GCN2-eIF2α Paradigm in a ROS-mediated Stress Signaling Pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana | Ansui Lokdarshi | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Mia Roark | How does age-related floral trait variation affect reproductive success in an annual plant, Collinsia verna? | Robert McElderry | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Trell Stroud | Computational Investigation of a New Fe(II) Tetracarbene Catalyst | Steven Johnston | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Jody Fleming | Developmental plasticity in response to increased temperature mean and variation helps beetles adjust to temperature change | Kimberly Sheldon | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Bruce Boles | The Full Genome Sequence of an Antarctic Microbe Constructed Using a Rapid, Portable Sequencer and a Hybrid Assembly | Jill Mikucki | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Brett Emery,
Matthew Everett |
Investigating the cortical expression of perineuronal nets in mouse models of CDKL5 disorder | Keerthi Krishnan | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Kaylie Richard | Identification and Purification of an Outer Membrane Protein from Campylobacter jejuni | Jeremiah Johnson | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Isabella Ritchie | Using Behavioral Variation to Explain Wolf Spider Community Structure | Susan Riechert | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Award of Excellence |
| Rachel Shah | Identifications of dying larval neurons during early phase of metamorphosis and genetic factors involved in their apoptosis in Drosophila melanogaster | Jae Park | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Honorable Mention |
| Jeffrey Dixon,
Molly Landon, Brandon Kristy |
Genetically engineering E. coli to degrade toxic contaminants by utilizing dehalogenating mechanisms | Frank Loeffler | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Honorable Mention |
| Kevin Kleiner | Modeling Solid-Liquid Interface Reactions with Next Generation Quantum Molecular Dynamics | Nick Dygert | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Honorable Mention |
| Alva Bethurum | Association of BMI with Increased Anastomotic Time in Kidney Transplantation | Gladys Alexandre | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Honorable Mention |
| Whitney Gulledge | Characterizing degradation of the core hypoxia response protein Calmodulin-Like 38 during post-hypoxia recovery
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Daniel Roberts | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Honorable Mention |
| Clare Remy | Identifying Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Skeletally: A Proposed Differential Diagnosis | Amy Mundorff | College of Arts & Sciences, Natural Science | Honorable Mention |
| Tickle College of Engineering | ||||
| Student (s) | Project Title | Faculty Mentor | College | Award |
| Cabot Anderson,
Jordan Brewer, Calvin Conn, Luke Martin |
Design of a Solar-Powered Non-Thermal Plasma Device for Water Disinfection | Xiofei Ye | Tickle College of Engineering | First Place, Capstone Design |
| Matthew Johnson,
Ryan Watson, James Louis, Christian Patterson |
Rain Garden Remediation and Infiltration Enhancement by Biochar Injection System | John Tyner | Tickle College of Engineering | Second Place, Capstone Design |
| Yah Mensa,
Alec Yen |
SABR: Development of a Neuromorphic Balancing Robot | Mark Dean | Tickle College of Engineering | First Place, Research |
| Taylor Berger | Decoding Brainwaves for Visual Attention to Faces and Scenes | Xiaopeng Zhao | Tickle College of Engineering | Second Place, Research |
| Lorna Treffert | The ARMor App: An Augmented Reality Prototype for Reliability and Maintainability | Xueping Li | Tickle College of Engineering | Third Place, Research |
| Elijah Davis | Tailored Metallic Hyper Energetic Nanomaterial Synthesis | Dibyendu Mukherjee | Tickle College of Engineering | Award of Merit |
| Collin Pekol | Developing a Method for Testing Tackiness of Bituminous Tack Coats | Chris Wetteland | Tickle College of Engineering | Award of Merit |
| Nicole Kowalski | Comparing EMG- and Goniometer-Driven NMI Control For A Virtual Target Acquisition Task | Dustin Crouch | Tickle College of Engineering | Award of Merit |
| Matthew Adams | Oxide Supported Nickel Based Intermetallic Compounds in Dry Reforming of Methane for Syngas Production | Siris Laursen | Tickle College of Engineering | Award of Merit |
| Logan White | Investigation of the effect of laser power on defects, texture, and tensile behavior of additively manufactured 316L stainless steel using in-situ synchrotron x-ray computed tomography and diffraction | Hahn Choo | Tickle College of Engineering | Award of Merit |
| Quinton Wright | Synthesis and Characterization of High-Entropy Perovskite (GdLaNdSmY)MnO3
|
Veerle Keppens | Tickle College of Engineering | Award of Merit |
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners!