Awards were given to the following students for their presentations during Undergraduate Research Week:
ORAL PANELS (URS)
Role of Muscleblind-Like Protein 1 in Alternative Splicing Transitions of Adult Mouse Liver Kevin Yum, Senior, Biochemistry, LAS (Outstanding-Sciences)Slats Katherine Williams, Junior, Dance, FAA (Tie--Outstanding Humanities/Social Sciences/FAA) Charles Gowin, Senior, Dance, FAA (Tie--Outstanding Humanities/Social Sciences/FAA)[Untitled] Justin Yeung, Senior, Dance, FAA (Tie--Outstanding Humanities/Social Sciences/FAA) Guifi as The Talk of the Town: Catalonia’s Wireless Community Network’s Growth Michael V. Ochoa, Senior, Sociology, LAS (Honorable Mention)
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Personalized 3D Printed Bio-Absorbable Drug=Eluting Stent for the Treatment of Vascular Disease Joseph Kus, Divya Tankasala, Ramya Babu (Outstanding)Chemotherapy Impairs cognitive Performance and Reduces Neurogenesis, Independent of Nutritional Intervention Andrew Sheriff (Honorable mention)A Model for Sea Star Associated Densovirus (SSaDV) Epidemiology Bridget Mueller-Brennan; Freshman, Mathematics (Honorable mention)
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Social Sciences/Humanities
A Perpetuating Negative Cycle: The Effects of Economic Inequality on Voter Participation Jenine Saleh, Senior, Political Science, LAS (Outstanding)Supreme Court Justices’ Response to Public Opinion Ejulius Adorno, Senior, Political Science, LAS (Honorable mention)
The Relationship Between Mothers’ Mental State Talk and Children’s Language Development Sarah Reeves, Senior, Speech and Hearing Science, AHS (Outstanding)Psychophysiological Indices of Lexical Access in Hearing Learners of American Sign Language Melissa Peterson, Senior, Speech and Hearing Science, AHS (Honorable mention) Haley Powles, Junior, Speech and Hearing Science, AHS (Honorable mention)
Predicting G-quadruplex Formation Jacob Calvert, Senior, Bioengineering, ENG (Outstanding)Synthesis and Characterization of Hollow Polydimethylsiloxane Microspheres Samantha Fuchs, Senior, Chemistry, LAS (Honorable mention)
Effects of Different Pretreatments and Drying Methods on Quality and Nutrient Retention of Elm Oyster Mushrooms (Hypsizygus Ulmarius) Cheng Lu, Junior, Food Science and Human Nutrition, ACES (Outstanding)Impact of Maternal Colostrum on the Pro-Inflammatory Status of Newborn Calves Sandra Jimenez Poveda, Senior, Animal Sciences, ACES (Honorable mention)Hox Gene Expression in Mammalian Limb Development Paige Oboikovitz, Senior, Integrative Biology, LAS (Honorable mention)
SPONSORED
Stevick Foundation (Media)
The Knight and The Dragon: Exploring Representations in Video Games Emilie Butt, Senior, Gender and Women’s Studies, LAS (Outstanding) Vivian Shen, Senior, Sociology, LAS (Outstanding)
Stevick Foundation (Humanities/FAA)
Bronzeville Community Design Xiaoyin Kuang, Junior, Landscape Architecture, FAA (Outstanding)Fractured Fictions: Subalternity and Rhetorical Rupture in ‘El hablador / The Storyteller’ and ‘In an Antique Land’ Nick Millman, Senior, English and Global Studies, LAS (Honorable mention)
