Outstanding Poster Presentation in Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics
- Blaine Smith, Senior Biology major – “Klotho protects lung epithelial cells against oxidant DNA damage”
- Ben Cobb, Freshmen Biology major – “Chemotherapy’s Major Flaw: Revealing Stress’ and Dexamethasone’s Counter-Productivity in Chemotherapy”
- Zack Morgan, Senior Biology major – “Establishing recA as a Gene Involved in Natural Transformatin among Aeromonads”
Outstanding Poster Presentation in Social Science, Arts and Humanities
- Stephanie Fink, Senior Art major – “Lagniappe: an unexpected gift”
- Elizabeth Ellery, Senior Psychology major – “Social Modeling in Media from Aardvarks to Zombies: A comparison of prosocial and aggressive themes in Mattel’s Monster High and Public Broadcasting System’s Arthur”
Outstanding Oral Presentation in Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics
- Andrew Miller, Senior Physics major – “PyCBC: A Toolkit for Advanced-Detector Era Gravitational Wave Data Analysis”
- Adam Simpson, Senior Physics and Mathematics major – “Imaging sound to measure thermal contact between AlN and Si”
- David Reynolds, Senior Mathematics major – “Bridges on a Tile Floor”
Outstanding Oral Presentation in Social Science
- Kholo Theledi, Junior Family Studies and Gerentology major – “Analysis of Political Inequality”
- Dylan Brugman, Senior Political Science and Sociology major – “Examining Gender Relations in the Book of Twilight.”
- Kaitlyn Howell, Senior Education major, and Ellen Smith, Senior English – Teaching major – “The role of reading response in two elementary classrooms: A comparative case study”
Outstanding Oral Presentation in Arts and Humanities
- Rebekah Horton, Senior English and Marketing major – ‘Epiphanies as a Structure in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’”
- Heather Kregel, Senior English major – “Physicians in the Literature of Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson: Portraying the Icons of Changing Times”
- Toni Maisano, Junior Communicaion major – “More Than Just a Piece in Their Games: A Rhetorical Analysis of Identification in ‘The Hunger Games’”
Mentors of the Year:
-Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year
- Dr. Brian Cavitt, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
-Arts and Humanities Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year
- Dr. Lauren Lemley, Department of Communication
-Social Sciences Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year
- Dr. Stephen Baldridge, School of Social Work