
2025 Award Winners
Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Project Award
Devendra Sarnaik, a graduate student in the School of Materials Engineering, was awarded the Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Project Award for his poster project, and gave a keynote address entitled: “Assessing Gut Microbiome and Metabolite Profile Shifts Throughout the GI tract via Dietary Modulation Using Ingestible Sampling Capsules."
2025 Certificate of Excellence Awards
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
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Certificate of Excellence Winner
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Project/ Presentation Title
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Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering | Suzanne Swaine | Flight Resource Optimization: Safety, Technology, Well-Being, and Infrastructure for Northern Geography |
Computational Sciences and Engineering | Phani Saketh Dasika |
Mosquito-Inspired Vibration Monitoring Metamaterials for Early Detection Warning Systems |
Ecological Sciences and Engineering | Ayomide Adepeju |
Assessing Potential Water Stress from Increasing Technology on the Wabash River Basin |
Interdepartmental Nutrition | Marjorie Ann Layosa |
Differential Adaptability to Glutamine in Liver versus Lung Metastasizing Breast Cancer Cells |
Life Sciences | Mojisola Adisa |
Resistance to High Fat Diet Induced Obesity in Mice Over-expressing Intestinal Heat Shock Protein 70 (HSP70) is Linked to Altered Intestinal Lipid Metabolism |