2016 Award Winners
Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Project Award
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Marcia Croft, a graduate student in Ecological Sciences and Engineering, was awarded the Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Project Award for his poster project entitled: “Understanding Formal and Informal Seed Systems: African Indigenous Vegetables in Western Kenya." |
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Theresa D'Aquila, a graduate student in the Interdepartmental Nutrition Program, was awarded an Honorable Mention for his poster project entitled: “Diet induced obesity alters intestinal cytoplasmic lipid droplet morphology and associated proteins in response to a dietary fat challenge." |
Certificate of Excellence Awards
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Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
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Certificate of Excellence Winner
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Project/ Presentation Title
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Comparative Literature
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Yingying Huang | Fantasized Expos: Late Qing Fiction and the Transnational Vision |
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Computational Life Sciences
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Neha Rana | Structural transition between ligand-free and ligand-bound forms of protein using normal mode analysis of coarse grained models |
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Computational Science & Engineering
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Arif Mohaimin Sadri | The Role of Social Capital, Personal Networks, and Early Responders in Post-disaster Recovery |
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Ecological Sciences and Engineering
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Rachel Sparks | Mapping and Analyzing Energy Use and Efficiency in a Modified Hydroponic Shipping Container |
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Food Science
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Jonathan Kershaw | Food for the fight? A grape compound, piceatannol, plays an inhibitory role in cancer cachexia-associated fat break down in vitro |
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Gerontology
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Gulcin Con | Adult Children’s Perceptions of Maternal Favoritism During Caregiving: Comparisons between Turkey and the U.S. |
| Ingestive Behavior | Jing Zhou | Higher protein intake improves sleep and blood pressure, and influences the relation between changes in blood pressure and sleep during energy restriction in middle-aged overweight and obese adults |
| Biomedical Sciences | Evan Phillips | Murine Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Demonstrate Heterogeneous Growth and Remodeling by High-frequency Ultrasound |
| Interdepartmental Nutrition Program | Krittikan Chanpaisaeng |
Trabecular Bone in the Distal Femur and L5 Spine are Differentially Influenced by Dietary Calcium Restriction and Genetics in Growing Mice |
| Life Sciences(PULSe) | Frank Suárez-Román |
Investigating the role of the NLP7 transcription factor in drought stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| Linguistics | April Grotberg | New Ways to Visualize Old Patterns: Yule’s Q as a Measure of Consonant Cooccurrence Restrictions |
| Other Interdisciplinary Research, non-IGP |
Zherui Guo Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering |
Dynamic Bovine Bone Fracture Investigation with High-Energy X-Rays |
| Other Interdisciplinary Research, non-IGP |
Meridith Robins Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology |
Chemogenetic inhibition of the dorsal striatum is sufficient to reduce alcohol intake in mice |
Purdue Interdisciplinary Audience Choice Award
The attendees at the spring 2016 reception voted on their favorite presentations and the honor of the Interdisciplinary Audience Choice Award was conferred upon Fa Wang and Sascha Angermann.
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Fa Wang's (Interdepartmental Nutrition Program) presentation entitled "Vitamin D Receptor-Dependent Signaling in Both Immune Cells and Colon Epithelial Cells Protects Mice from Dextran Sulphate Sodium-Induced Colitis" |
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Sascha Angermann’s ( American Studies) presentation entitled "Re-Visioning Transgender Representation on TV" |
