Student Research Symposium Award Winners Announced

Thank you to all of you that attended the symposium on Wednesday. We had over 160 graduate students present their work to audiences that included faculty judges. Those of you who attended the award ceremony know that the scoring was very close. I am pleased to announce the winners and runners up in each graduate category as well as the winners of the special awards. If you attended the event and would like to give some feedback on how you felt it went and to inform next year’s event you can do so here (there is an option to be entered into a prize draw): http://goo.gl/forms/53hhmpKFjX  – Jack MacLachlan, Graduate Student Government Vice President

President’s Research Impact Award: Melissa Jankowski, Dr. Rebecca Schwarz-Mette

 

Provost’s Innovative/Creative Teaching Award: Mark Congdon

 

Graduate Deans’ Mentoring Award: 1st Magdalena Blaszkiewicz; 2nd Hannah Lawrence; 3rd Kris Hoffman

 

GSBSE Special Awards (Graduate and Undergraduate): Andrew Hart (Best Poster); Jessica Moore (Best Oral)

 

Best Art Exhibit: Alicia Champlin – ‘I Am Sitting…’

 

Runner up: Eleanor Kipping – ‘Fishnets, Lace and Family Photos’

 

Best Pecha Kucha Presentation: Tamanna Ramesh – ‘Light-based pasteurization to ensure fruit juice safety and quality’

 

Runner up: Katrina Daigle

 

Best Live Reading of Written Work: Yarissa Ortiz-Vidal – ‘Becoming a minority’

 

Allied Health

 

Best Oral: Tamanna Ramesh – ‘Titanium dioxide assisted Ultraviolet treatment for inactivation of pathogenic bacteria in grape juice’

 

Runner up: Heath Myers

 

Best Poster: Ruby Ann D’Salva-Bouton – ‘Usability Study of an Innovative Mobility Device’

 

Biomedical Sciences

 

Best Oral: Lindsey Avery – ‘The role of Ift88 and primary cilia of cardiac progenitor cells in formation of the outflow tract during cardiac development’

 

Runners up: Erin Carter, Jeanne DuShane (tied)

 

Best Poster: Jacob Longfellow – ‘The Role of Neutrophil Cytosolic Factor 1 (ncf1) in Innate Immune Response to Influenza Virus Infection in Zebrafish’

 

Runner up: Juyoung Shim

 

Education and Human Development

 

Best Oral: Billy Ferm – ‘Examining students’ abilities to follow and evaluate qualitative reasoning chains’

 

Runner up: Ashley Blanchard

 

Best Poster: Grace Gonnella – `Understanding How Students Use Contrasting Cases to Learn About Explicit Reasoning’

 

Runner up: David Kerschner

 

Engineering and Information Sciences

 

Best Oral: Kenneth Bundy – `Analysis of Air Leak Spectral Signatures for Application to the International Space Station’

 

Runner up: Chitra Manjanai Pandian

 

Best Poster: Lonnie Labonte – `Wireless Control Networks for Aerospace Vehicles’

 

Runner up: Lydia Kifner

 

Natural Sciences

 

Best Oral: Megan Leach – ‘Pollen and nectar nutrition for foraging bees’

 

Runners up: Andrew Galimberti, Janet Gorman (tied)

 

Best Poster: Courtney King – ‘The timing of the Last Glacial Maximum and subsequent recession alongside Hatherton Glacier, Antarctica’

 

Runner up: Meghan Capps

 

Physical Sciences

 

Best Oral: Stacy DooreA Room with a View: Designing Natural Language Interface Structures for Indoor Scene Description’

 

Runner up: Christopher Bennett

 

Best Poster: Hari Prasath Palani – ‘Multimodal Access to Graphical Information for Blind and Visually-Impaired people using Touchscreen-based devices’

 

Social Sciences, Humanities, & Business

 

Best Poster: Arthur Adoff, `Frontier Strategies for Improving the Ability of Older Adults with Chronic Conditions or Disabilities to Successfully Age in Place’

 

Runner up: Sara Lowden

NB: There were no entrants in the SSHB Oral category this year.