2014 Award Winners
Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Project Award
| Glen Acosta, Interdisciplinary Life Science Program (PULSe), was awarded the Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Project Award for his poster project entitled: “Susceptibility to Parkinson’s disease following blast injury to the brain.” |
| Theresa D’aquila, Interdisciplinary Nutrition Program (INP), was awarded an Honorable Mention for her poster project entitled: “The characterization of cytoplasmic lipid droplets in enterocytes in response to dietary fat.” |
| Chien-Lin Yeh, School of Health Sciences (HSCI) Medical Physics Program, was awarded an Honorable Mention for her poster project entitled: “Increasing manganese accumulation of motor and cognitive processing networks in metal workers revealed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” |
Certificate of Excellence Awards
| Interdisciplinary Graduate Program | Certificate of Excellence Winner | Project/Presentation Title |
| American Studies | Antonio Ramos | "Beyond Interdisciplinarity: Social Media and the New University" |
| Biomedical Sciences | Victoria Poole | "Neurometabolic influences on imPACT cognitive testing in collision athletes" |
| Comparative Literature | YuHan Huang | "Memories in Red: Remembering Chinese Cultural Revolution in Global Context” |
| Computational Life Sciences (CLS) | Juan Esquivel Rodriguez | "Enhanced Electron Microscopy Fing Using Markov Random Fields" |
| Computational Science and Engineering (CS&E) | Aniruddha Jana | "Designing safer lithium‐ion batteries" |
| Ecological Sciences and Engineering (ESE) | Daniel Newkirk | "Improving indoor air quality through botanical air filtration in energy efficient residences" |
| Food Science (FDSC) | Like Hasek | "Long‐term feeding of dietary slow release glucose reduces daily caloric food intake in vivo" |
| Jonathan Kershaw | “Piceatannol, a natural compound found in grapes, may have a role in ameliorating cancer cachexia” | |
| Gerontology | Seoyoun Kim | "Health benefits of religion among black and white older adults: Does religiosity reduce chronic inflammation?" |
| Life Sciences (PULSe) | Jessica Lunsford | “Attacking biological problems mathematically" |
| Renee Wenig | “Cholesterol Sulfotransferase (SULT) 2B1b as a Modulator of Prostate Cancer Growth” | |
| Bikash Shakya | "Identification of the RBC proteins targeted by plasmodium falciparum exported proteins" | |
| Linguistics | Danielle Reindl | "Non‐native comprehension of casual and classroom‐directed Spanish: A pedagogical and Acoustic phonetic comparison" |
| Nutrition | Theresa D’Aquila | "Effects of dietary protein quantity on sleep quality in energy-restricted overweight and obese adults" |
| Yu-Han Hung | “The effect of endurance exercise as therapeutic treatment for obesity and diabetes on intestinal lipid metabolism | |
| Xuanzhu Zhou | “Effect of 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D on glutamine metabolism in MCF10 breast epithelial cell” | |
| Other Interdisciplinary Research, non-IGP | Cory Weaver(Biological Sciences) | " NADPH oxidases regulate neurite growth in vitro and in vivo" |
| Katherine Breedlove (Health and Kinesiology) | "Force attenuation properties of football and lacrosse helmets" | |
| Hamed Tabatabaei Ghomi (Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology) | "Are three‐body distance‐dependent statistical potentials superior to two‐body statistical potentials for protein structure prediction?" | |
| Matthew Volovski (Civil Engineering) | “Using Kriging Estimation to enhance geospatial climate data integrity for infrastructure management” | |
| Akshay Prabhu Verleker (School of Health Sciences) | “A therapeutic protocol for treatment of brain metastasis through optically stimulated drug release” | |
| Fernando Tormos (Political Science) | "Solidarity and Inclusion in Global Social Movements” |
Purdue Interdisciplinary Audience Choice Award
The attendees at the spring 2014 reception voted on their favorite presentations and the honor of the Interdisciplinary Audience Choice Award was conferred upon Yu-Han Hung.
| Yu-Han Hung’s (Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences) presentation entitled "The effect of endurance exercise as therapeutic treatment for obesity and diabetes on intestinal lipid metabolism" |
