Congratulations to the students who won awards or who received honorable mentions for outstanding posters or oral presentations! The quality of all the presentations was impressive and made choosing outstanding posters difficult. Students were able to present the results of a summer only project or do check-ins for a full-year project.
Award winners and honorable mentions
Award winners
Alexander Cuff, Grace McAlary, Jordan Nus, and Casey Taylor
Outstanding poster: Mediated, Photocatalyst-Free Reductive Dealkylation of Aryl Alkyl Ethers (MURI)
Mentor: Sabastien Laulh
Raniya Knuckles
Outstanding poster: Critical Analysis of the Influence Financial Education and Banking Tools Have on Dismantling Poverty in Black Communities (UROP)
Mentor: Patricia Turley
Scott Lohman, Mayank Malhotra, and Gracie White
Outstanding oral presentation: Analyzing Effects of Calcium Chloride on Potato Starched Based Thermoplastics Using a Box-Behnken Design of Experiments (MURI)
Mentor: Andres Tovar
Honorable mentions for poster presentations
Morganna Gordon
Poster presentation: Frizzled 1 in Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells and Platinum Resistance” (DS-UROP)
Mentor: Salvatore Condello
Janice Hsu
Poster presentation: Affinity of Vitamin E for Lipids (UROP)
Mentor: Stephen R. Wassall
Kylie Heagy
Poster presentation: The Impact of Dyrk1a Gene Copy Number on Vestibular and Motor Reflex Development in the Ts65Dn Mouse Model of Down Syndrome (UROP)
Mentor: Randall Roper
Caleb Manring
Poster presentation: Improved Bone Notching for Fracture Toughness Testing
Mentor: Joseph Wallace
Event judges
We would like to thank our judges this year:
- Heather Bowman
- Steve Higbee
- Amy Johnson
- Ann Kimble-Hill
- Khaula Murtadha
- Debbie Oesch-Minor
- Horia Petrache
- Chris Rogers
- Anupma Thakur
- Patricia Turley