2019 Award Winners
Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Project Award
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Julianna S. Ge, a graduate student in Engineering Education, was awarded the Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Project Award for her poster project, and gave a keynote address entitled: “Thriving in Engineering: Making a Living by Making Life Worth Living." |
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Katie Schmitz, a graduate student in Communication, was awarded an Honorable Mention for her poster project entitled: “Preventative versus Office Visits: Patient Knowledge and Perceptions of Obtaining Information from Health Insurance Providers." |
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Nicole Vike, a graduate student in Life Sciences (PULSe), was awarded an Honorable Mention for her poster project entitled: “Using Diffusion-Weighted Imaging to Evaluate Drug Diffusion Out of In Situ Forming Implants In Vitro and In Vivo at 7T." |
2019 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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| Biomedical Sciences | Janelle Salameh |
Targeted Interleukin-27 Gene Therapy Development for Disrupting Key Malignant Crosstalk between Metastatic Prostate Cancer and Bone |
| Computational Science & Engineering | Joseph Lyon |
Eliciting Computational Thinking Through Modeling and Simulation in the Engineering Classroom. |
| Ecological Sciences and Engineering | Lejla Dervisevic |
Risk framing: 2016 Zika Outbreak in South Florida |
| Food Science | Bruce Yizhe Zhang |
Environmental Trade-Offs of Nano-Packaging for Food Preservation |
| Interdepartmental Nutrition Program | Krittikan Chanpaisaeng |
Genetic Mapping Reveals Novel Co-localized Genetic Loci and Candidate Genes Modulating the Response to Dietary Ca Restriction of Trabecular Bone at the Femur and Lumbar Spine in Growing Male Mice |
| Life Sciences | Ravi Yadav |
Systemic Control of CAR T Cell Activity Using a Private Passageway Fusion Receptor |
| Linguistics | Neda Taherkhani |
The Ethical Gap and Dilemmas in Documenting Tati as a Minority Endangered Language of Iran |
| Mechanical Engineering | Siva Chaduvula |
sFEA: Lightweight, Secure, and Scalable Finite Element Analysis |
Purdue Interdisciplinary Audience Choice Award
Lakshya Mittal, a graduate student in the Engineering Technology department, was awarded the Audience Choice Award for her presentation entitled "Electrochemotherapy Using Curcumin for Aggressive Triple-Negative Breast Cancers: From Kitchen to Clinic."
