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Congratulations to all of the award recipients and thank you to all of the presenters!
Graduate Morning
President's Award ($300) - Ashwin Nair (Biomedical Engineering)
Title: A Novel Porous Scaffold for Bioactive Biomolecule Delivery
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr Liping Tang
Group Members: Ashwin Nair, Paul Thevenot, Jagannath Dey, Dr Jinhui Shen, Man-Wu Sun, Dr Jian Yang, Dr Liping Tang
Provost's Award ($200) - Saket Karajgikar (Mechanical Engineering)
Title: Development of Numerical Model for Non-uniformly Powered Die to Improve Both Device Clock and Thermal Performance
Faculty Mentor(s): Prof. Dereje Agonafer
Group Members: Dr. Abhijit Kaisare, Uthaman Raju
Graduate Dean's Award ($100) - Claudia P. Marquez (Biology)
Title: Junk lends a hand: Transposable elements contributing to genetic variation in Trichomonas vaginalis
Faculty Mentor(s): Ellen J. Pritham
Group Members: John Pham, Ellen J. Pritham
Honorable Mention ($50) - Jainy Thomas (Quantitative Biology)
Title: Multiple horizontal invasions of Helitrons, the rolling circle transposons in different species of bats
Faculty Mentor(s): Ellen J. Pritham
Group Members: Cedric Feschotte and Ellen J. Pritham
Honorable Mention ($50) - Elizabeth McGinty (Biology)
Title: The stress is killing us: the role of algal symbionts in coral decline.
Faculty Mentor(s): Laura D. Mydlarz
Group Members: Robert F. McMahon, Laura D. Mydlarz
Graduate Afternoon
President's Award ($300) - Tod Allman (Linguistics)
Title: The Typology of Relative Clauses
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Natural Language Generation
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Jerold Edmondson, Dr. Les Bruce, Dr. Don Burquest, Dr. ShinJa Hwang, Dr. Laurel Stvan
Provost's Award ($200) - Emily A. Farris (Experimental Psychology)
Title: Differentiating Reading Impaired & Non-reading Impaired Children through Brain Imaging
Faculty Mentor(s): Timothy Odegard
Graduate Dean's Award ($100) - Megan L. Uhelski (Experimental Psychology - Health)
Title: Early Life Stress Leads to Altered Emotional Responses and Behavior in Adulthood
Faculty Mentor(s): Perry N. Fuchs
Honorable Mention ($50) - Debrup Hui (Physics and Applied Physics)
Title: Ion Characteristics in Jupiter’s Magnetotail from New Horizon data
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Yi-Jiun Su
Group Members: Dr. Yi-Jiun Su, Samuel Jones and Debrup Hui
Honorable Mention ($50) - Michael Byron Webb (Aerospace Engineering)
Title: A Reduced-Order Model for Investigating the Aeroelastic Stability of a Morphable Wing Structure
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Kamesh Subbarao
Group Members: The Aerospace Systems Laboratory
Undergraduate Afternoon
President's Award ($300) - Darius Bonds (Biology)
Title: ATTENUATION OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE-RELATED OXIDATIVE STRESS IN RAT STRIATUM THROUGH ESTROGEN THERAPY
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Laszlo Prokai
Group Members: Dr. Vien Nguyen, Dr. Laszlo Prokai
Provost's Award ($200) - Bryan Motwani (Biology AND Psychology)
Title: Predictors of Cognitive Therapy Dropout in a Community Setting
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Monica Basco
Group Members: Bryan Motwani, Seth Parrott, Christina R. Thomas, Allison Wade
Graduate Dean's Award ($100) - Gerrell Williams (English)
Title: Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove: Adapting the Myths of Western Fiction
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Peggy Kulesz
Honorable Mention ($50) - Tara McKelvy (Psychology)
Title: Using Conspecifics to Establish Stimulus Control of Responding in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. James Kopp
Group Members: Tara McKelvy, James Kopp Ph.D.
Honorable Mention ($50) - Jesus Martinez (Music Bachelor All Level Band Emphasis)
Title: Temperance:A Marimba Quartet
Faculty Mentor(s): Professor James Yakas, Dr. Michael Varner
Group Members: Stephen Cortez, Johnathan Carroll, Zach Hollis, Daniel Acosta
Graduate Poster
President's Poster Award ($200) - Bhavana Kidambi (Landscape Architecture)
Title: Studying Transit Oriented Development; Lindbergh City Center Case Study
Faculty Mentor(s): Taner R Ozdil
Provost's Poster Award ($100) - Bhagya K. Wijayawardena (Chemistry - BS to PhD)
Title: Protein Bioengineering using Unnatural Amino Acids
Faculty Mentor(s): Roshan Perera
Group Members: Subash Chand
Graduate Dean's Poster Award ($50) - Abhijit Ramachandran (Biomedical Engineering)
Title: Characterization of DNA Translocation in Nanopores
Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Yaling Liu
Group Members: Yang He, Dr. Samir Iqbal and Dr. Yaling Liu.
Undergraduate Poster
President's Poster Award ($200) - Sandra E. Spencer (Chemistry)
Title: MALDI-TOF-MS Fingerprinting of Condom Lubricants and Residues
Faculty Mentor(s): Kevin Schug
Group Members: Kevin A. Schug
Provost's Poster Award ($100) - Beth Steinbauer (Interior Design)
Title: Visualizing "The Modular" Pavilion
Faculty Mentor(s): Rebecca Boles
Graduate Dean's Poster Award ($50) - Charise J. Johnson (Psychology)
Title: Knowledge and Source Monitoring in Younger and Older Adults’ Ability to Remember the Past
Faculty Mentor(s): Timothy N. Odegard
Group Members: Laura A. Gresens
Crystal M. Cooper
Graduate Sustainability Awards
Graduate Sustainability Award ($200) - Bhavana Kidambi (Landscape Architecture)
Title: Studying Transit Oriented Development; Lindbergh City Center Case Study
Faculty Mentor(s): Taner R Ozdil
UnderGrad Sustainability Awards
Undergraduate Sustainability Award ($200) - Shaliza Ismaili (Biology)
Title: Thermal extremes describe northern range limitations in the five-lined skinks, Plestiodon fasciatus, P. inexpectatus, and P. laticeps. (Squamata: Scincidae)
Faculty Mentor(s): Charles M. Watson
Group Members: Shaliza Ismaili, Mitra M. Behzadi, and Charles M. Watson
2009 Graduate Dean's Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring
Dr. Venkat Devarajan, Electrical Engineering