This is Research: Undergraduate Student Winners
Third Place
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Oral presentation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math: Audrey McCandless - Effects
of metronomic topotecan on prostate cancer metabolism
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Oral presentation in Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities:
Lindsey Smith - Antebellum & artillery ancestry
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Poster presentation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math: Whitney Rogers Effectiveness of novel zinc oxide nanoparticles on preventing biofilm growth of various vascular
bacterial plant pathogens.
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Poster presentation in Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities:
Adam Levet and Megan Wood - Urban Studio: The power of redundancy.
Second Place
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Oral presentation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math: Shelbie Keel - The effects of
the implementation of the Help America Vote Act on election administration and voter
confidence.
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Oral presentation in Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities:
Matthew Pollock - From Dahrar to Déorwine: Examining Tolkien’s interpretation of sound
symbolism.
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Poster presentation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math: Joseph Pearman and
Nicolas Pinones - Synthesis and select biological activity of substituted butenolides.
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Poster presentation in Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities:
Kristin Dobbs - Non-biodegradable waste impacts and management solutions.
First Place
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Oral presentation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math: William Roberts Depth estimation with a plenoptic camera.
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Oral presentation in Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities:
Shaun Armstead - Feminized battlegrounds: Internationalisms at the 1975 United Nations’ World
Conferences for International Women’s Year in Mexico City.
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Poster presentation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math: Sara McCarty - Differential
gene expression in Xylella fastidiosa under increased calcium conditions.
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Poster presentation in Research and Creative Scholarship in Design, Arts and Humanities:
Richard Bryant - In between: Addressing the problem of an aging school infrastructure.
This is Research: Graduate Student Winners
Third Place
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Oral presentation in Science and Engineering: Sabahattin Ozden - Optimizing non-traditional
designs for order picking warehouses
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Oral presentation in Social Sciences and Humanities:
Thomas Daniel - What a Twist! Do Story Spoilers Even Matter?
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Poster presentation in Science and Engineering:
Marike Visser - Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of 0.01% and 0.001% Itraconazole
Baths in Panamanian golden frogs (Atelopus zeteki) for the Treatment of Amphibian
Chytridiomycosis (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)
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Poster presentation in Social Sciences and Humanities: No third place winner, tie for second
place
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Oral presentation in Creative Scholarship: Laura Hanna - Writing Down the Ghosts: A Collection
of Original Poems
Second Place
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Oral presentation in Science and Engineering: Matthew Eggert - Revealing the Effect of sPLA2
Enzymes and PLA2R Receptors on the Ability of Responsive Liposome Nanoparticles to Target
Prostate Cancer within In-vitro and In-vivo Models
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Oral presentation in Social Sciences and Humanities: Daniel Lee - PTSD Symptoms in Response
to Stressful vs. Traumatic Events: Differences across Symptom Clusters and Assessment Methods
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Poster presentation in Science and Engineering: Abdul Mohin Sajib - Multilevel targeting and
systemic administration of adenoviral vectors to malignant cells of lymphocyte origin
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Poster presentation in Social Sciences and Humanities: We have a tie between:
Sandra Morrison - Parenting status as a modifier of Couple and Relationship Education: Do
transitioning parents need more help? AND Dianna Tingle - Diagnosis Muddled: When the Puzzle
Pieces Don’t Fit
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Oral presentation in Creative Scholarship:
Dawn Michaelson - A Submerged Perspective: A Smocking Approach To Fabric Manipulation
First Place
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Oral presentation in Science and Engineering:
Rosemary Cuming - In vitro release profiles of voriconazole from a PLGA-PEG-PLGA thermogel
and ex vivo equine subconjunctival injection characteristics of the thermogel
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Oral presentation in Social Sciences and Humanities:
Ian Cero - The etiology of suicidal thoughts and the capability to act on them: Insights for
prediction and prevention through longitudinal modeling.
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Poster presentation in Science and Engineering: Saranrat Wittayanukorn - Cardiotoxicity in
tyrosine kinase inhibitors: a study of the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS)
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Poster presentation in Social Sciences and Humanities: Ford Dyke - Does a single bout of ‘green
exercise’ enhance the affective experience and future exercise behavior? A pilot study
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Oral presentation in Creative Scholarship:
Elizabeth Matthews - Estrangement in Rural Wilds