Past Award Recipients

ACADEMIC UNIT AWARDS - RESEARCH TALKS

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

1st Place: Examining how Mitochondrial Content Differences in Twin Plant Sperm Cells Impact Double Fertilization by Keila Jellings
Mentor: Leonor Boavida

2nd Place: The Role of Conductive Cooling and Moringa oleifera Supplementation of Heat Stressed Sows on the Cheek Lipidome of Neonatal Piglets by Evy Tobolski
Mentors: Theresa Casey; Leriana Garcia Reis; Linda Beckett; Allan Schinckel; Christina Ferreira

3rd Place: Livestock Predation Patterns by Lions, Leopards, and Spotted Hyenas in the Ngorongoro  Conservation Area, Tanzania by Shayden Jones
Mentors: Ingela Jansson; Bernard Kissui; Emmanuel Charles

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

1st Place: Impact of Freedom School At Purdue For Students K-5 by Teagan Drumm; Lauren Spedale
Mentors: Breanya Hogue; Youli Mantzicopoulos

2nd Place: Family Engagement: Reflecting on the Importance of Building Positive Relationships by Riley Tague
Mentors: Jennifer Smith; David Ray Miranda; Jasmine Begeske

3rd Place: A Metanalysis over Autism Spectrum Disorder and Math Word Problem Intervention by Nicholas Cline
Mentor: Yan Ping Xin

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

1st Place: Engineered Collagen Polymeric Materials Maintain Tissue Volume and Support Regenerative Remodeling after Volumetric Muscle Loss by Joshua Sexton
Mentors: Sherry Harbin; Stacey Halum; Lujuan Zhang; Rachel Morrison

2nd Place: Placing Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: An Optimization Problem and Unsupervised Machine Learning Solution by Bharath Anand
Mentor: Ananth Grama

2nd Place: An in vivo assessment of cardiac remodeling during chronic hypertension in pregnancy by Sarah Grev
Mentors: Craig Goergen; Elnaz Ghajar-Rahimi; Adalyn Meeks; Kyoko Yoshida; Molly Kaissar

2nd Place: Real-Time Volatile Chemical Screening of Environmental Media to Support Disaster Response by Grayson Wittbrod
Mentors: Brandon Boor; Nusrat Jung; Jianglin Jiang; Xiaosu Ding

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES

1st Place: Angelman and Fragile X Syndromes – Early Sleep Patterns by Maelyn Fulton
Mentors: A.J. Schwichtenberg; Amy Janis; Moon West

2nd Place: Implementing Campus-Wide Vaccine Clinics Through Interdisciplinary and Community Partnerships by Samantha Ky; Nicole Stepp; Evan Coblentz
Mentors: Monica Kasting; Andrea DeMaria; Trexie Rudd; Kaitlyn Koch

3rd Place: Does Consuming Mushrooms with a Healthy Mediterranean-style Dietary Pattern Affect Indexes of Brain Health in Adults? by Nok In Chan
Mentors: Wayne Campbell; Dan Foti

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

1st Place: The Making of the BGA: Black Games Archive by Joanna Senff
Mentor: Samantha Blackmon

2nd Place: Intersectional Inequalities in Hiring: The Effects of Gender and a Criminal Record by John Targett
Mentor: Trent Mize

3rd Place: The Effectiveness of Protest Strategies: An ACT UP Analysis by Kris Sass
Mentor: Kathryn Brownell

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

1st Place: Systematic Development and Optimization of Helix Stabilized Stapled Peptides for Inhibitory Use Against the Viral Oncoprotein, HPV-E6 by Elizabeth Andersen
Mentors: Jo Davisson; Vallabh Suresh; Dino Petrov

2nd Place: Examining Neuron Density in human-derived Cortical Organoids Carrying Epilepsy-Related SCN2A Mutation L1342P by Hope Harlow
Mentors: Yang Yang; Maria Olivero-Acosta

3rd Place: Development and evaluation of a ferritin-Izumo1 protein vaccine for immunocontraception of wildlife by Gangmin Kim
Mentors: Harm HogenEsch; Ahmed AbdelKhalek; Raluca Ostafe

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

1st Place: Rapid Inference and Theoretically Driven Forecasting of Supernovae using Amortized Posterior Inference by Braden Garretson
Mentor: Danny Milisavljevic

2nd Place: ARTEMIS: AI-driven Robotic Triage Labeling and Emergency Medical Information System by Revanth Krishna Senthilkumaran; Mridu Prashanth
Mentors: Aniket Bera; Kshitij Tiwari; Hrishikesh Viswanath

3rd Place: Tool for Runtime Analysis and Complexity Evaluator (TRACE) by Shubhaang Agarwal; Benson Tsai; Tzung-Ying Hsieh; Aanya Jha; Jiarui Xie; Nilisha Bhandari
Mentor: Andres Bejarano

JOHN MARTINSON HONORS COLLEGE

1st Place: Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Sex Trafficking & Domestic Violence Training Program for Licensed Salon Professionals in Indiana by Juliana St. Denis; Abhinaya Nagalla; Ashton Allen; Jordan Cooley; Alexandria Bedard
Mentors: Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar; Andrea DeMaria; Alexandra Hughes-Wegner

2nd Place: Exploring Innovative Methods for Teaching Semiconductors to young children by Salam Zaid Alkilani
Mentor: Rosa Diaz

3rd Place: Engineering Faculty Perceptions of Participating in a SoTL Professional Development Intervention by Rhea Dutta
Mentor: Lisa Bosman

PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

1st Place: Digitalized Manufacturing of Fiber-reinforced Composite Patching for Steel Bridge Girder Repair by Clayton Cobb; Jeremy Rashkin; Chloe Graham
Mentors: Garam Kim; Sung Jun Choi; Timothy Ropp; Kyubyung Kang

2nd Place: Modeling Energy Flow in Social-Ecological Systems by Lilian Zhao
Mentor: David Whittinghill

3rd Place: Teaching Applied Ethics in the context of Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Peer Discourse by Parth Joshi
Mentors: Alejandra Magana; Lucas Wiese

 Academic unit awards are selected by the units listed. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

ACADEMIC UNIT AWARDS - POSTERS

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

1st Place: Histidine Triad Protein Homologs: Linking Human Tumor Suppression and Novel Bacteriophage by Brandon Mar; Morgan Gyger
Mentor: Kari Clase

2nd Place: Dune Harbor Park: Reclaiming a Natural Oasis for Our Community by Rachael Herring
Mentors: Aaron Thompson; Patrick Lydon

3rd Place: Epigenetic Modification of Genes Involved in the Phenylpropanoid Pathway to Alter Metabolic Outputs in Petunia Flowers by Kayla Grennes
Mentors: Ying Li; Ryan Patrick

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

1st Place: Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceived Relevance of Scenarios Reflecting Motivational Challenges during Field-Based Experiences by Anshi Shastry
Mentors: Toni Rogat; Hyeree Cho

2nd Place: How Can Science of Reading Be Culturally Responsive? by Braiden Doane; Rachel Durham
Mentor: Inna Abramova

3rd Place: Elementary Teachers’ Mathematics Curricular Reasoning: Connecting Instructional Decisions to Curricular Knowledge, Vision, and Trust by Bronwyn Rigsby
Mentors: Jill Newton; Doris Fulwider; Bima Sapkota

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

1st Place: Behavior and Performance of Concrete Anchors under Tension Loading by Van Tha Bik Lian
Mentors: Akanshu Sharma; Deepak Suthar

2nd Place: Investigation of high energy radiation effects on electronic memory devices by Isabella Levine
Mentors: Peter Bermel; Sayan Roy; Stylianos Chatzidakis; Allen Garner

3rd Place: Innovative Solutions for Cleaner Air Travel: Ammonia as an Alternative Jet Fuel by Parker Smith
Mentors: Venkat Athmanathan; Terry Meyer; Chintan Rank

3rd Place: New Materials for Accelerated and Eco-Friendly Photonic Integrated Circuits by Kevin Yu
Mentors: Peter Bermel; Jie Zhu; Ruihan Chen

3rd Place: Effect of Nano-silica Admixtures on Air Void Content of Concrete Used for Bridges by Ali Kalmagambetov
Mentors: Maria Miria Velay-Lizancos; Alberto Castillo; Jan Olek

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES

1st Place: Alcohol exposure during aging: Effects on recognition memory and compulsive-like behaviors by Tori Burke
Mentors: Julia Chester; Soyol Enkh-Amgalan

2nd Place: Contribution of the choroid plexus on Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative diseases by Vivian Hurn
Mentor: Wei Zheng

3rd Place: FAM210A Mediates Skeletal Muscle Regeneration After Injury and Promotes Myogenic Differentiation by Erik Sillaste
Mentors: Shihuan Kuang; Jingjuan Chen

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

1st Place: The Black College Experience at Purdue University by Kyala Augustin
Mentor: Michael Johnson

2nd Place: Unraveling the Impact of Generative AI in the Classroom and Education Research by Vidhi Patel
Mentor: Lisa Bosman

3rd Place: Antimicrobial Resistance: Navigating Ongoing Challenges and Future Implications by Ben Roberts
Mentor: Sidney Ducleroir

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

1st Place: Investigating the Effects of Chemogenetic Manipulation of the Lateral Habenula (LHb) on Social Behavior in Scn2a-Deficient Mice by Akila Abeyaratna
Mentors: Yang Yang; Brody Deming

2nd Place: Evaluation of doxycycline-controlled exogenous expression of human Kv1.1 to recover social deficits in transgenic mice with severe Nav1.2 deficiency by Kathryn Lund
Mentors: Yang Yang; Jingliang Zhang; Brody Deming

3rd Place: Investigating Glutamate and ATP Dysregulation in cortical neurons carrying the SCN2A epilepsy-associated variant L1242P: Implications for Neuronal Hyperexcitability by Seoyeon Hong
Mentor: Maria Olivero-Acosta

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

1st Place: Artificial Intelligence in Music - Evaluator by Gurtej Bagga; Shrinand Perumal; Anthony Wang; Brian Qi
Mentors: Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun; Yung-Hsiang Lu; Benjamin Shiue-Hal Chou

2nd Place: Comparing the reconstruction methods of the top quark in hadron collisions by Wyatt Montgomery
Mentors: Andreas Jung; Yao Yao; Ethan Colbert

3rd Place: Microplastics in precipitation in the Greater Lafayette area by Sydney Brown
Mentors: Alexandria Johnson; Gouri Prabhakar

JOHN MARTINSON HONORS COLLEGE

1st Place: Utilizing Wheat-Bran Derived Phenolics to Optimize Human Gut Microbiome by Youssef Errihani
Mentors: Steve Lindemann; Miguel Gonzales

2nd Place: Modeling Avian Color Vision: Spectral Discrimination in Ultraviolet Sensitive and Violet Sensitive Birds by Jordan Reynolds
Mentors: Esteban Fernandez-Juricic; Carlay Latour Teed

3rd Place: Water Stagnation in Buildings: Biofilm Growth and Best Management Practices for Periodically Empty Buildings by Daniel Ceglio
Mentor: Caitlin Proctor

3rd Place: How does proximity to moving water impact biodiversity of a Central Indiana habitat, using AI and geo-informational technology? by Sierra Hunnicutt
Mentor: Kristen Bellisario

MITCHELL E. DANIELS, JR. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

1st Place: Autonomous Vehicles and their impact on the economy by Joe Basti; Mario Arenas; Grant Capps; Eric Wang; Rushil Khandelwal
Mentor: Shreya Ghosh

2nd Place: Integrating AI in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges by Vihaan Mercchant
Mentor: Michael Johnson

3rd Place: An analysis of batteries and their functionality and practicality within the field of autonomous motorsports in application to the
competitive Autonomous Karting Series by Alexander Collins; Adrian Romo-Loomis; Doren Cohen; Jackson Thompson; Prahlad Shelvapille
Mentor: Shreya Ghosh

PURDUE LIBRARIES & SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES

1st Place: "Mapping Research Impact: Insights from Bibliometric Analysis of Academic Libraries' Publishing Trends" by Greenley Goedde
Mentors: Pete Pascuzzi; Jason B. Reed

2nd Place: Student Perceptions of the Relationship Between Social Media Algorithms and Democratic Participation by Nancy Dooley; Grace Vavra; Quinn Loughran
Mentors: Clarence Maybee; Rachel Fundator; Secret Permenter

PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

1st Place: CATT: Understanding the Online Behavior of Child Sex Offenders by Reeya Ramasamy
Mentors: Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar; Tatiana Ringenberg

2nd Place: Demonstration of a fabrication method of carbon-fiber-reinforced composite honeycomb core and investigation of its properties by Jingyu Chen
Mentors: Garam Kim; Waterloo Tsutsui

3rd Place: The Hardy Strong Foundation Mobile Application by Luke Matheny
Mentor: Tianyi Li

 Academic unit awards are selected by the units listed. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

LITERATURE, LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES, AND CULTURE (LLLC) COLLOQUIUM AWARDS

1st Place: LOL or MDR: The Importance of Slang When Teaching a Second Language by Emma Niecikowski
Mentor: Jessica Sturm

2nd Place: The Language of Thought: How Language Affects Thought in Dystopian Literature by Tessa Stahly
Mentor: Elena Coda

3rd Place: Anton Chekov’s Observation of Suffering on the Island of Sakhalin by Emily Gervais
Mentor: Olga Lyanda-Geller

3rd Place: Metamorphoses I.294: Context and Implications in Roman Literature by Sophia Cross
Mentor: Marianne Blickenstaff

3rd Place: Analyzing Social and Cultural Determinants of Cancer Outcomes in Latinx Communities by David Arteaga
Mentor: Cara Kinnally

LLLC awards are selected by the College of Liberal Arts. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

INTERDISCIPLINARY PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALK

1st Place: Orange Corn-based diet improves total antioxidant capacity in layer pullets compared to traditional yellow corn diets by Serena Wesley
Mentors: Greg Fraley; Sara Cloft; Darrin Karcher; Torbert Rocheford; Evan Rocheford

POSTERS 

1st Place: Leveraging Cancer-Associated Mutations to Identify Synthetic Lethal Therapeutic Strategies in Endometriosis by Asmi Mukherjee
Mentor: Douglas Brubaker

2nd Place: Assessing the Resilience of the Semiconductor Supply Chain by Zachary Ramirez
Mentor: Tho Le

3rd Place: Impact of serum advanced glycation end-products and RAGE inhibitor administration on patellar tendon healing in a mouse model by Rebecca Lewis
Mentors: Chad Carroll; Harrison Cottingham; Camila Reyes; Nathan Campbell

Interdisciplinary awards are selected by the Purdue Libraries & School of Information Studies. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

ARCHIVAL PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALKS

1st Place: The Effectiveness of Protest Strategies: An ACT UP Analysis by Kris Sass
Mentor: Kathryn Brownell

2nd Place: The International Congress of Women and Transnational Advocacy Networks by Annelise May
Mentor: Melissa Will

3rd Place: Exploring Black Heritage in Greater Lafayette through Cultural Places, Spaces, and Landscapes by Johnny Dong
Mentor: Ashima Krishna

POSTERS 

1st Place: Profiles In Lafayette’s Underground Railroad: Martin L. Pierce by Nah'Shon Williams
Mentor: Ashima Krishna

2nd Place: Phrenology and Slavery: 19th Century Pseudoscience in the Antebellum South by Arianna Dejoie
Mentors: Yvonne Pitts; Scotty Secrist

Archival awards are selected by the Purdue Archives & Special Collections. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALK

1st Place: The Making of the BGA: Black Games Archive by Joanna Senff
Mentor: Samantha Blackmon

POSTERS 

1st Place: Artificial Intelligence in Music - Evaluator by Gurtej Bagga; Shrinand Perumal; Anthony Wang; Brian Qi
Mentors: Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun; Yung-Hsiang Lu; Benjamin Shiue-Hal Chou

2nd Place: Evaluating Big Tech’s “Commitment” to Human Rights by Madeleine Yang; Enice Zhu; Maggie Collins
Mentors: Swati Srivastava; Alexander Wilhelm

3rd Place: United States Court of Claims Court History by Lucy Bolles; Emma Johnson
Mentor: Logan Strother

Digital humanities awards are selected by the Purdue Libraries & School of Information Studies. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

TOP STEM PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALK

Systematic Development and Optimization of Helix Stabilized Stapled Peptides for Inhibitory Use Against the Viral Oncoprotein, HPV-E6 by Elizabeth Andersen
Mentors: Jo Davisson; Vallabh Suresh; Dino Petrov

POSTER

Analyzing bacteriophage protein structural motifs utilizing a variety of novel software by Zachery Heppner, Drake Strait, Hudson Schneider, Michael Perrin, Derek Temple
Mentors: Adam Quinn; Harry Ashbaugh; AJ Gin; Daphne Fauber; Kari Clase

Top STEM awards are selected by the Purdue chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

ABSTRACT CATEGORY WINNERS

Physical Sciences
Comparison of craters in different regions of the Moon and implications for volcanic infilling by Kyle Morin

Social Sciences/Humanities/Education
Children's Distress During COVID-19 and its Relation with Vocabulary Development at 18 Months by Kathleen Cory and Vivian Lee 

Innovative Technology/Entrepreneurship/Design
Assessment of Vehicular Vision Obstruction Due to Driver’s Side B-Pillar and Remediation with Blind Spot Eliminator by Dilara Baysal

Fine Arts
Engagement and Outreach Through On-Demand Video by Wesley Dynlacht

Life Sciences
Evaluating the efficacy of IPM strategies against insect pests of collards by Elliott Masterson

Mathematical and Computational Sciences (tie)
Creating Robust Artificial Intelligence Models for Medical Imaging by Aditi Anand
& Analysis of 4D Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Images to Identify Strain Parameters for Early Mortality in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) by Tarun Nandamudi 

Abstract category winners are selected prior to the Conference and are selected by the Purdue Libraries & School of Information Studies. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

ACADEMIC UNIT AWARDS - RESEARCH TALKS

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

1st Place: Evaluating the efficacy of IPM strategies against insect pests of collards by Elliott Masterson

2nd Place: The Plant Data Service: Developing An Ontologically-Consistent Approach to Sharing Functional Data by Autumn Denny

3rd Place: Impact of Interest on Student Performance by Taylor Moore

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

1st Place: Cultural border crossing in rural communities: A narrative exploration in teaching middle school science by Reagan Howard

2nd Place: Elementary Students' Definitions of Failure: A Developmental Approach by Alicia Drewes and Jordan Fulk

3rd Place: Fathers of Children with Autism: Perceptions of Provider Supports by Andrew Geguzys

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

1st Place: Humidity: A Critical Factor That Impacts the Recycled Textile Fibers’ Effect on the Mechanical and Thermal Performance of Cementitious Composites by Aniya Edwards

2nd Place: Creating Robust Artificial Intelligence Models for Medical Imaging by Aditi Anand

3rd Place: Tape Peel Adhesion on Soft Substrates by Rebeca Jennings

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES

1st Place: Active Herbicide ingredients in Roundup Ready Xtend products, glyphosate and dicamba, results in hypoactivity in zebrafish larvae when exposed during development by Ryker Bond

2nd Place: Chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-oxon exposures lead to the dysregulation of basal glutamate release in human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived glutamatergic neuron by Adam Barmash Rubinchik

3rd Place: Improving Overall Quality of Life for Uterine Fibroid Patients Living in Indiana by Sophie Shank and Grace Khamis

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

In-Person Presentations

1st Place: American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion of the Crimean War (1853-1856) by Anurag Shah

2nd Place: Machine Learning in Motion by Aiden Goen, Seojeong Park, Tri Than, Bhavya Patel, Arunima Chowdhury, and Herbert Alexander De Bruyn

3rd Place: Women in the Early UN by Amelia Simpson

Virtual Presentations

1st Place: NeuroArt: Presenting a Visual Tool for Self-Regulation by Emma Niecikowski

2nd Place: Women of Nowadays: Gender, Modernity, and Symbolic Boundaries in a Generalized AIDS Epidemic by Shaulay Ward

3rd Place: Vehicle Repossession: The Effects of Social Isolation in a Car-Centric Society by Abigail Taylor

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

1st Place: Health Equity Language within Residency Training Promotional Content by Sarah Vas

2nd Place: siRNA delivery capability and cellular uptake mechanism of Dopamine nanoparticle, Nanosac by Aksana Doss

3rd Place: Exploring the Electrophysiological Properties of Cortical Spheroids Carrying an Epilepsy-Linked SCN2A Mutation by Muhan Wang

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

1st Place: Determining the oncogenic potential of PP2A-B56a in PDAC by Sydney J. Clifford

2nd Place: Fluo-4 Calcium Imaging of human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons carrying a Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Nav1.2-L1342P Genetic Variant by C. Max Otterbacher

3rd Place: Comparing the Freezing Properties of Different Lunar Simulant Particles of the Ancient Moon by Mariana Aguilar

JOHN MARTINSON HONORS COLLEGE

1st Place: Monon Neighborhood Livability Study by Abby Dimmick

2nd Place: The Intersection of Horror and Romance: How Dracula Became A Romantic Icon by Caitlin Blanchard

3rd Place: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: A Case Study of Purdue University Liberal Arts Professors by Jack Blair, Jing Gao, and Kian Kishimoto

MITCHELL E. DANIELS, JR. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

1st Place: Standard improvements to policy for maintaining a high leasing rate on commercial properties by Scott Morical

2nd Place: Supply Chain and Manufacturing Operational Excellence for Business Models by Sitong Chen, Chelsea Lu, and Jiayi Zou

3rd Place: Business Employer Perspectives on New Hires' Information Literacy Needs in the Workplace by Jiahong Wang

PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

1st Place: Enhancing Structural Performance of Recycled Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Part Using Recycled Composite Laminate Cutouts by FNU Archie

2nd Place: Influence of Waterjet Cut Quality for Fabrication of Test Specimen on Mechanical Testing Results by Jacob Montrose

3rd Place: Maximizing Efficiency in Biowall Design: watering system by Siqi He

 Academic unit awards are selected by the units listed. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

ACADEMIC UNIT AWARDS - POSTERS

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

1st Place: What’s in a quack? Effects of Pekin duck vocalizations on conspecific physiology by Serena Wesley, Collette Plue, and Isabella Taylor

2nd Place: An inducible in vitro system to reprogram somatic cells into a gamete fate by Keila Jellings

3rd Place: The Effect of Cinnamon and D-Limonene Nanoemulsions on the Growth of Arabidopsis thaliana against Abiotic Stress Conditions by Lucas Johnson

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

1st Place: Elementary Students' Reengagement After Failure: A Developmental Approach by Kourtney Otte and Bronwyn Rigsby

2nd Place: Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS) Clubs: Stories of the Original GEMS Girls by Meredith Chasse

3rd Place: Racial Diversity in Children's Books by Emma Jacobs

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

1st Place: Development of an experimental apparatus for permeability testing of porcine and human brain tissue under compressed and uncompressed conditions by Victoria Sinfield

2nd Place: Implementation and Verification of an Embedded Multicore Processor by Robert Murphy, Jimmy Jin, and Pranav Jagada

3rd Place: Mapping Heavy-Ion Ionization in Microelectronics Using Pulsed Bessel Beams by Mathias Pretet

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES

1st Place: Analysis of metals in welding electrode, fumes, and respirator filter by Nicholas Pecoraro and Shane Limas

2nd Place (tie): Formulation of Preservation Solutions for Model Generation with In Vivo Tissue Morphology by Holly Pickett
& The influence of sentence production training on speech fluency in aphasia by Nadia Seye

3rd Place (tie): Families Experiencing Homelessness or Housing Insecurity: A Literature Review of Family Resilience by Kelly Haddow
& Glycogen Utilization of Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells in Extracellular Matrix Detachment by Caitlin Truffer

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

1st Place: Approaches & Challenges of Dance Pedagogy by Sheridan Vik

2nd Place: Freedom, Chaos, Invisible Cages, or Self-Discipline: Financial Dependence and Schedule Control Among Gig Workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Platform by Daniel Pinzon Quintero

3rd Place: Advancing the Accessibility of the Fort Ouiatenon Archaeological Collection by Jarren Haggard and Mikayla Klemp

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

1st Place: Comparison of a bispecific adaptor binding affinity between murine FAP and human FAP by Tushar Sardesai

2nd Place: Exploring Neurite Complexity in Cortical Neurons Carrying an Epilepsy-Linked SCN2A Mutation: A Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Study by Hope Harlow

3rd Place: In silico Screening and Design of a SMARCC2 Ligand by Sam King

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

1st Place: Using Digital Imagery and Computer Simulations to Improve Student Glassware Readings in Lab by Valerie Minnick

2nd Place: Undergraduate Student Understanding of Data Variability by Kayla Huter and Anna McCoy

3rd Place: Visual exploratory behavior when solving a novel foraging task in European starlings and House sparrows by Nathaniel Lindsay

JOHN MARTINSON HONORS COLLEGE

1st Place: Designing a High-Affinity MiniBinder Protein Inhibitor for SARS-CoV-2 Using Foldit by Jackson Moss

2nd Place: A Novel Protein Designed for SARS-CoV-2 Deactivation Using FoldIt by Emily Morales Liddiard

3rd Place: Design of a SARS-CoV-2 Protein Inhibitor by Diana Marie Sarrico

MITCHELL E. DANIELS, JR. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

1st Place: UPLeft: Pick Up Leftovers, Uplift Those in Need by Veronica Galles

PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

1st Place: Understanding How NASA Flight Controllers Achieve Resilience for the International Space Station (ISS) by Jackson Murray

2nd Place: Enhancing Structural Performance of Recycled Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Part Using 3D Printed Continuous Fiber Reinforced Composite Preform by Minjing Zhao

3rd Place: Semiconductors Supply Chain: the Current Status, Challenges, and Suggestions for Promoting Semiconductor Manufacturing in the US by Nemisa Samanthapudi

LITERATURE, LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGES, AND CULTURE (LLLC) COLLOQUIUM

RESEARCH TALKS

1st Place: I am a Specialist in Black Magic: A Comparision of Four Russian Fausts by Juan Nicolas Galindo Mantilla

2nd Place: Cultural Comparison: US vs France basketball marketing by Sophia Hoffmann

3rd Place: Kafka's Intentional Vagueness, and the Challenge of Translation by Steven Bass

POSTERS 

1st Place: Changes in Russian Media Language in Turbulent Times by Evan Landau

2nd Place: Motion Vectors in Akan by Shamiso Marondera and Brynne Mills

3rd Place: Fiction Editorial Internship by Nathaniel DeChambeau

LLLC awards are selected by the College of Liberal Arts. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

INTERDISCIPLINARY PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALKS

1st Place: NeuroArt: Presenting a Visual Tool for Self-Regulation by Emma Niecikowski

2nd Place: Chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-oxon exposures lead to the dysregulation of basal glutamate release in human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived glutamatergic neuron by Adam Barmash Rubinchik

3rd Place: Improving Overall Quality of Life for Uterine Fibroid Patients Living in Indiana by Sophie Shank and Grace Khamis

POSTERS 

1st Place: Outreach and Communication of Sociogenomics Research: Patterns of item nonresponse behavior to survey questionnaires are systematic and have a genetic basis by Kathryn Malerbi

2nd Place: Effects of dietary protein quantity and source on cardiometabolic disease risk factors in postmenopausal women performing resistance training by Chloe Garrett

3rd Place: Understanding the Menstruation Health Needs of People Experiencing Homelessness during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Lafayette, Indiana by Emily Otten

Interdisciplinary awards are selected by the Purdue Libraries & School of Information Studies. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

ARCHIVAL PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALKS

1st Place: American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion of the Crimean War (1853-1856) by Anurag Shah

2nd Place: Undergraduate Researchers in the Purdue War Effort, 1942-1946 by Mikayla Klemp

3rd Place: Women in the Early UN by Amelia Simpson

POSTERS 

1st Place: How Long Does it Take to Digitize Archaeological Legacy Data by Isabelle Adnson

2nd Place: Advancing the Accessibility of the Fort Ouiatenon Archaeological Collection by Jarren Haggard and Mikayla Klemp

3rd Place: Investigating Explainability of ML Model Decisions for Injury Surveillance by Anusha Sarraf

Archival awards are selected by the Purdue Archives & Special Collections. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

TOP STEM PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALK

Creating Robust Artificial Intelligence Models for Medical Imaging by Aditi Anand

POSTER

What’s in a quack? Effects of Pekin duck vocalizations on conspecific physiology by Serena Wesley, Collette Plue, and Isabella Taylor

Top STEM awards are selected by the Purdue chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society. Only presenting authors are included. For a list of mentors and additional authors, see the abstract booklet.

ABSTRACT CATEGORY WINNERS

Physical Sciences
Experimental Investigation of the Rheological Characteristics of Printable Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastics by Pattiya Pibulchinda

Social Sciences/Humanities/Education
Using Satellite Imagery to Monitor Heritage Sites in Conflict Areas by Grace Bowling

Innovative Technology/Entrepreneurship/Design
Towards the development of implantable biosensors with biocompatible adhesives by Carl Russell III and Pei-Lun Chen

Life Sciences
Assessing the Effect of Bd Reservoir Species on the Geographic Range and Climatic Niche of Robber Frogs in Costa Rica by Jasmina Davis

Mathematical and Computational Sciences (tie)
Algorithm to Detect Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction from Vocal Fold Vibrations by Noah Mehringer

& Automated Data Processing: Making Community Indicators Possible for Lafayette, IN by Jace Newell, Eli Coltin, and Eric Flaningam

& Predicting Short-term Cryptocurrency Volatility Using Twitter Data by Jacob Roach

Abstract category winners are selected prior to the Conference and are selected by the Purdue Libraries & School of Information Studies.

ACADEMIC UNIT AWARDS - RESEARCH TALKS

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

1st Place: Coupling Metabolic Source Isotopic Pair Labeling and Genome-Wide Association for Metabolite and Gene Annotation in Plants by Abigail Sipes

2nd Place: Toxicity of a “Forever Chemical” in an estuarine fish: does salinity mediate the toxicity of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS)? by Lucy Burcham

3rd Place: Effects of Novel Tumbling Application and Postmortem Aging on Cull Cow Beef Loin Tenderness by Madison Romanyk

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

1st Place: The Search for Mechanistic Explanations: Characterizing Biology Students’ and Instructors’ Connections Between Fundamental Biology Concepts by Kal Holder

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

1st Place: Light Curve Inversion for Robust Shape Reconstruction of Man-Made Space Objects by Liam Robinson

2nd Place: Probabilistic Computing for Graph Coloring Problem by Haddy Alchaer

3rd Place: Optimization of Lipid Analysis for Anaerobic Digestion Feedstocks and Samples by Kyra Keenan

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES

1st Place: Chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-oxon exposure leads to the dysregulation of basal glutamate release in human induced pluripotent stem cell derived glutamatergic neurons by Adam Barmash Rubinchik

2nd Place: The influence of a developmental lead (Pb) exposure on genetic risk factors of Alzheimer's Disease: a focus on Sortilin-related Receptor 1 (SORL1) by Jenny Chen

3rd Place: Developmental exposure to active herbicide ingredients in Roundup Ready Xtend products, glyphosate and dicamba, results in hypoactivity in the zebrafish by Ryker Bond

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

In-Person

1st Place: Gender, Perceived Promotion Opportunities, and the Life Course: Patterns and Consequences by Anna Szolwinski

2nd Place: Cardboard as an Artistic Material: Its Uses and Complications by Nicolas Dowling

3rd Place: The Frog Giggers of Corydon: Exploration and Storytelling of Multispecies Relatedness between Humans and Frogs by Saish Solankar

Virtual

1st Place: The Role of Women in the Early UN by Madilin Goodwin

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

1st Place: Modeling and Restoring Neurotypical Function in Scn2a Deficient Mice by Jacob Paulaskas

2nd Place: The effect of Fatty Acid Synthase (FASN) depletion in pulmonary metastatic formation in breast cancer murine models by Zilin Xianyu

3rd Place: The reversibility of social deficits in adult SCN2A gene-trap mice by Chau Phan

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

1st Place: Genomic Diversity of SARS-CoV-2 on Purdue University Campus: Spring 2021 by Jack Dorman and Nicole Perry

2nd Place: Natural Language Processing for Discourse Analysis of Tweets About the COVID-19 Vaccine by David Udo-Imeh

3rd Place: Methylation-based Regulation of the Small GTPase, Ras, via Isoprenylcysteine carboxyl methyltransferase (ICMT) by MaryClaire Cooke

HONORS COLLEGE

1st Place: Automated Data Processing: Making Community Indicators Possible for Lafayette, Indiana by Jace Newell, Eli Coltin, and Eric Flaningam

2nd Place: Monon Neighborhood Livability Study by Abigail Dimmick, Ryan Walter, and Harris Collins

KRANNERT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Combined talks and posters

1st Place: Understanding Academic Integrity Through the lens of Purdue Faculty by Kenneth Kanwischer *Is a poster

2nd Place: A Natural Language-Based Phishing Detection and Risk Prevention System by Elena Shen, Christine Zhou, and Ya-Fei Lin *Is a poster

3rd Place: Data-driven Workload Prediction and Resource Planning for COVID-19 Preparedness by Hang Wang

PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

Combined talks and posters

1st Place: Fully Automated Microbrewery by Jami Pryde and Carson Rhodes

2nd Place: Recycling Fiber Reinforced Composite Pre-impregnated Leftover using Water-Soluble PVA Backing Film by Joseph Bignotti and Kamryn Arnold *Is a poster

3rd Place: Stretchable Fiber-Reinforced Elastomer Composite Using Wavy patterned Fiber Reinforcement by Drake Tackett and Roy Su *Is a poster

ACADEMIC UNIT AWARDS - POSTERS

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

In-Person

1st Place: Sensitivity of Total Phenolic Compounds of Potato Peels Under Various Conditions by Heather Milliron

2nd Place: Picture this: Reimagining Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore’s Front County by Abigail Fisher

3rd Place: Aux/IAAs Role in Stomatal Development by Kelly Sammons

Virtual

1st Place: Characterization and Analysis of Phage Phabuloso, Gene 48 Through Protein, Mutation, and Phylogenetic Analysis by Taylor Wolt, Iman Mevaa, and Bailey Czerkiewicz

2nd Place: The role of R-loop homeostasis in aging and neurodegeneration by Alyssa Easton

3rd Place: A Tri-Pronged Analysis of Phage Maby2021 for Identification of Novel Mechanisms for Anti-Cancer Therapies by Sara York, Hunter Smith, and Ari Atlas

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

1st Place: Exploring Purdue Teacher Education Program: Focus on Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice by Julia Pirrello

2nd Place: Invite Me: Developing Positive Practices Through Relationships with Students’ Families by Zoe Johnson and Nadia Crace

3rd Place (tie): Textbook Use of Connections to Children to Support Prospective Elementary Teachers' Geometric Understanding by Sydney Kohn

& Mobile Assistive Technology in a Non-Traditional High School Setting: A Case Study by Maya Steinhart

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

In-Person

1st Place: Dashboard Implementation Design and Visualization for Home Health Nursing Administrators by Mitchell Witt, Miranda Chai, Aidan Anastario, Hanna Ertel, Jack Knox, Jay Kee, and Kaushik Karthik

2nd Place: Soluble Precursors for Chalcogenide Semiconductors Containing Alkaline Earth Metals by Isabel Panicker

3rd Place: Experimental Investigation of the Rheological Characteristics of Printable Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastics by Pattiya Pibulchinda

Virtual

1st Place: Managing Humidity in Electronics Using Water Vapor-Selective Membranes by Songhao Wu and Allison Mou

2nd Place: Analyzing the Function of a Gene in a Phage Genome: Using mutation analysis, protein structure, and phylogenetic information to draw conclusions by Caitlin Birthright, Alyssa Klipsch, and Halle Von Ah

3rd Place: Real-Time Mental Workload Assessment in Robotic-Assisted Surgery: Predicting Model Accuracy by Iris Layadi

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES

1st Place (tie): Exploring Middle-Schoolers' Perspectives Related to Community, Community Challenges, and Barriers to Civic Engagement by Elizabeth Lenart

& Variability of the Pallidal Index as a Marker of Brain Manganese Levels by Lauren Stucky and Grace Francis

& Hunting(ton) for the Correct Differentiation: The Validation of a Striatal GABAergic Differentiation Protocol by David Yi and Lunden Friberg

2nd Place (tie): The Relationship Between Adult input and Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Children with Neurogenetic Syndromes by Kelly Mathis, Faith Anthony, and Allison Eisenhut

& Martinsville Well Water Sampling by Jackson Pechin

& Neurobehavioral Assessment of Purdue-Martinsville PCE Study by Brandon Tso

3rd Place (tie): Inhalation Toxicology in Male and Female Mice Following Cured-in-Place Pipe-Related Emissions Exposure by Katelyn Biggs

& Blessing or Burden? The Impact of PTSD Service Dogs on Military Families by Elise Miller

& Parent-Adolescent Communication about Sex: Narratives from Youth from Latinx Farmworker Families by Madeline Prospero 

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

In-Person

1st Place: A Deep Dive Into Bookplates by Chevelle Tallman

2nd Place: Taking a Bite of History: Simulating Animal Bites in a Laboratory Setting by Erika Denker and Hunter Velasquez

3rd Place (tie): Assessing Global Governance Responses to Big Tech by Amanda Shie and Rachel Young

& Global Governance Agenda Setting on Big Tech by Rachel Young and Amanda Shie

Virtual

1st Place: Elucidating modern medical conditions (osteoarthritis) through paleopathology by Sarah Coon

2nd Place: The Role of Printer’s Marks in Early Modern European Print by Erin Walker

3rd Place: Integrating Chimpanzee Research With Wildlife Conservation and Management at Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal by Diana Quintero Bisono and Isabelle Adnson

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

1st Place: The impact of tau isoforms on pathological tau aggregation formation by Raul Castro

2nd Place (tie): Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in the Neuroendocrine Differentiation of Prostate Cancer by Sam King

& The Effects of N-terminal Methylation on Substrate Localization in Yeast Cells by James Rooney

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

1st Place: Granzyme A is a Critical Regulator of Small Intestine Antimicrobial Production by Navjot Kaur

2nd Place: Bounds on Quantum Chromatic Numbers for Lexicographic Products of Graphs by A. Meenakshi McNamara

3rd Place: Assessing the Effect of Bd Reservoir Species on the Geographic Range and Climatic Niche of Robber Frogs in Costa Rica by Jasmina Davis

HONORS COLLEGE

1st Place: Enzymatic Degradation of Collagen Hydrogels by Leonard Cahya

2nd Place: Abbreviated Fatigue Spectrum Analysis by Jacob Nylen

3rd Place: Neutralizing the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein with a Mini-Binder Protein by Rhenn Holliday

KRANNERT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Combined talks and posters

1st Place: Understanding Academic Integrity Through the lens of Purdue Faculty by Kenneth Kanwischer

2nd Place: A Natural Language-Based Phishing Detection and Risk Prevention System by Elena Shen, Christine Zhou, and Ya-Fei Lin

3rd Place: Data-driven Workload Prediction and Resource Planning for COVID-19 Preparedness by Hang Wang *Is a research talk

PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

Combined talks and posters

1st Place: Fully Automated Microbrewery by Jami Pryde and Carson Rhodes *Is a research talk

2nd Place: Recycling Fiber Reinforced Composite Pre-impregnated Leftover using Water-Soluble PVA Backing Film by Joseph Bignotti and Kamryn Arnold

3rd Place: Stretchable Fiber-Reinforced Elastomer Composite Using Wavy patterned Fiber Reinforcement by Drake Tackett and Roy Su

INTERDISCIPLINARY PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALKS

1st Place: Light Curve Inversion for Robust Shape Reconstruction of Man-Made Space Objects by Liam Robinson

2nd Place: Airport Catchment Analysis Using Mobile Location Data by Sitong Chen

3rd Place (tie): SWARMS: Multi-Agent Control Simulation Platform by Younggil Chang, Avi Dube, Konrad Kawnatra, Sully Cisco, Arjith Jegannathan, Jason Park, Jack Roy, Shashank Sridhar, and Harrison Wongsonegoro

& A GUI for Measuring Cognitive Workload Stimulus in Human Robot Interaction by Revanth Krishna Senthilkumaran

POSTERS 

In-Person

1st Place: Modeling Energy Efficiency of Solar Thermal Powered Batch Reverse Osmosis by Lahiri Chitturi

2nd Place: Blessing or Burden? The Impact of PTSD Service Dogs on Military Families by Elise Miller

3rd Place: Taking a Bite of History: Simulating Animal Bites in a Laboratory Setting by Erika Denker and Hunter Velasquez

Virtual

1st Place: Understanding the Bond: The Current State of Human-Animal Interaction Research by Marjorie Leblanc

2nd Place: An Integrated Conceptual Definition of Cultural Awareness by Asher Denny

3rd Place: Neurotoxic effects of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances exposure on cognitive function in humans and neurotransmitter dysfunction in C. elegans by Mia Utayde

Interdisciplinary awards are selected by the Purdue Libraries & School of Information Studies.

ARCHIVAL PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALK

Metallographic and Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Copper-based Metals from Fort Ouiatenon by Samuel Bakeis

POSTER

The Female Experience and its Evolution at Purdue University 1912-1924 by Allison Sussman

Archival awards are selected by the Purdue Archives & Special Collections.

TOP STEM PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALK

Light Curve Inversion for Robust Shape Reconstruction of Man-Made Space Objects by Liam Robinson

POSTER

Granzyme A is a Critical Regulator of Small Intestine Antimicrobial Production by Navjot Kaur

Top STEM awards are selected by the Purdue chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society.

ABSTRACT CATEGORY WINNERS

Life Sciences

“I was working out daily prior to COVID”: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Physical Health of Purdue Graduate Students by Lauren Heniff

Physical Sciences

Examining the Geologic History of Mercury’s Caloris Basin using Mapped Faulting Patterns within Superposed Volcanic Flows by Evan King and Aubrey Bennett

Mathematical/Computation Sciences

Food Classification by Robert Sego, Cole Stecyk, Aryan Tyagi, Prekshaa Veeraragavan, Alexander Vives, Tiffany Yu, and Alex Dufour

Social Sciences/Humanities/Education

Abandoned Sentinels: An Analysis of the Past, Present, and Future of Former Armed Forces Institutions by Jacob Slater

Innovative Technology/Entrepreneurship/Design

Development and Optimization of a Thermal Transfer System for Simulating Lunar Temperatures and Possible Scenarios by Nathan Stonitsch

& PanCan Diagnosed (a miRNA Approach): Using Feature Selection, Ensemble Algorithms, and Interpretability for the Early Diagnosis and Personalized Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer by Siya Goel

Abstract category winners are selected prior to the Conference and are selected by the Purdue Libraries & School of Information Studies.

OVERALL RESEARCH TALK AWARDS

1st Place: Evaluating the Particle Collection Efficiency of Dried and Reused Breathing System Filters by Kaushal Arvind Prasad

2nd Place: Interface Engineering to Kinetically Trap the Photovoltaic Crystal Phase of Formamidinium Lead Iodide Perovskite by Yiyuan (Melody) Zhang

3rd Place: Geographical Analysis of Indicators of Resident Retention by Eli Coltin

Overall research talk awards are selected by the Honors College.

ACADEMIC UNIT AWARDS - RESEARCH TALKS

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

1st Place: Low-cost User-friendly Biosensors for Bovine Respiratory Disease Based on Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) by Ana Pascual-Garrigos

2nd Place: R-loops and DNA Damage in Aging Photoreceptor Neurons by Alyssa Easton

3rd Place: Investigation into the Structural and Functional Effects on Phage Proteins based on Cross-Genome Differences/Mutations by William Hadjis, Autumn Denny, and Julia Mollenhauer

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

1st Place: Investigating the Frequency and Nature of Social Justice References in the Teacher Education Program Curriculum at Purdue University by Julia Pirrello

2nd Place: Telehealth Parent Coaching in Naturalistic Communication Intervention by Alana Lorts and Brianna Coster

3rd Place: Investigating Identity Development in Informal STEM Learning Spaces: A Case Study of Girls Excelling in Mathematics and Science (GEMS) Clubs by Michaela Rice

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

1st Place: Interface Engineering to Kinetically Trap the Photovoltaic Crystal Phase of Formamidinium Lead Iodide Perovskite by Yiyuan (Melody) Zhang

2nd Place: SCALE Radiation Hardened Technologies by Ricardo Xie

3rd Place: Pandemic Altering Perceptions of College Experience by Bridget McCole

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES

1st Place: Evaluating the Particle Collection Efficiency of Dried and Reused Breathing System Filters by Kaushal Arvind Prasad

2nd Place: Is there an association between attentional disengagement and language abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder? by Debanjana Das

3rd Place: Role Implications for Social Support Network Structure in Depression among Adjudicated Adolescents by Sanjana Murthy

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

1st Place: Beauty Products: Chemicals Disproportionately Endanger Women of Color by Samantha Lu

2nd Place: The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason’s Tale: Women within Viking Sagas by Alicia Geoffray

3rd Place: White Saviorism Through Religion by Gabriel Ako

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

1st Place (tie): Clinically-viable DMSO-free Cryopreservation of Human Natural Killer Cells by Zachary Leung and Emmett Niemeyer

& Designing a Protein Drug with the Computer Program FoldIt by Ma. Emmanuelle Domingo

2nd Place: Analyzing Excipient Variability by Jack Moen

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

1st Place: Examining the Geologic History of Mercury’s Caloris Basin using Mapped Faulting Patterns within Superposed Volcanic Flows by Evan King and Aubrey Bennett

2nd Place: Development of Continuous Flow Sonogashira Coupling of Lead Anti-Cancer Small Molecule Inhibitors for Potential Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Yuta Moriuchi

3rd Place: Key Genetic Contributors to Myasthenia Gravis and Other Autoimmune Disorders by Alyssa Flint

HONORS COLLEGE

1st Place: Geographical Analysis of Indicators of Resident Retention by Eli Coltin

KRANNERT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

1st Place: Prolonged Standing in the Operating Room by Mengzhou Chen

2nd Place: Contact Tracing and Civil Liberties during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Rachel Hauser

3rd Place: Projected Student Enrollment during the Covid-19 Pandemic for Fall 2020 at Purdue University by Maxim Bebekoski

PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

1st Place: Development of an Open-source Mobile Robot Platform for Multi-robot Systems by Jaeeun Kim

2nd Place: Early Childhood Education, Animation, and YouTube by Kayla Cole, Lauren Krieger, and Em Miller

3rd Place: A Woman's Path to the Aviation Industry by Katelyn Graver

ACADEMIC UNIT AWARDS - POSTERS

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

1st Place: Accessing Indiana Communities: Regional Trail Networks as a Guide for Community Development by Sydney King

2nd Place: Assessing Bias in Odor Communication Studies by Stephanie Dijak

3rd Place: Effects of Soil Thaw on Nitrous Oxide Emission Rate by Erika Maneke

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

1st Place: Breaking Bread, Breaking Bread: Developing Positive Relationships with Elementary-Aged Students with Disabilities by Zoe Johnson and Nadia Crace

2nd Place: Spatial Analysis: Priming of Shapes in Tangram Puzzles by Alexandra Foster

3rd Place: Differentiation in an Inclusion Classroom by Helen Zoss

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

1st Place: Optimization of the Enhanced Centrifuge Method to Quantify the Effect of Particle and Surface Properties Towards van der Waals Particle Adhesion by Tyler Roberts

2nd Place: The Role of Worker Cognitive Biases in Electrical Safety Performance: an fNIRS Study in a Mixed-Reality Environment by Makayla Simpson and Kaylee Dillard

3rd Place: Annotation and Functional Analysis of Mycobacteriophage Izajani Genome by Julia Simler, Garret Manquen, Lauren Jozwiak, and Emma Lietzke

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES

1st Place: Building Semantic Networks through Play by Candance Jarzombek, Caitlin Jelenski, and Salsabila Lane

2nd Place (tie): Investigating Age Differences in Temporal Swallowing Measures in Adults: A Secondary Data Analysis by Caroline Sarbieski

& Investigating Eating Efficiency in Normal Development by Mackenzie Zorn

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

1st Place: Conspiracy and Cooperation: A Cross-Country Study of Globalism in Coronavirus Cartoons by Claire Stites

2nd Place: The Effect of Climate Change and Human Predation on the Niche Space of North American Proboscideans by Alejandra May

3rd Place (tie): Anatomy of the Kôkôjagoti Media Center by Diana Quintero

& The Impacts of COVID-19 on College Students’ Mental Health and Accessibility of Mental Health Resource by Yifan Zhang

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

1st Place: Incorporating Cultural Considerations to Care during an Interprofessional Simulation Activity by Jennifer Garson

2nd Place: Perceived Impact of a Counseling Practice Session on Pharmacy Student Comfort Level and Ability in Counseling on Sexual Health Products by Margaret Tharp

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

1st Place: Geochemistry at Springs in Furnace Creek and Ash Meadows: Implications for Regional Interbasin Flow by Sneha Nachimuthu

2nd Place: Nonblind Analysis of XENON1T Data Using Double Photoelectron Emission Signals by Yinchen Zhou, Moses Hamm, Robin Carpenter, and Xieyuan Guo

3rd Place (tie): Structural Analysis of BamA, a Therapeutic Target for Bacterial Infections of F. nucleatum by Lindsey Wilson

& Protein Encapsulation to Improve Sample Quality for Cryo-Electron Microscopy by Hannah Pletcher

HONORS COLLEGE

1st Place: Abandoned Sentinels: An Analysis of the Past, Present, and Future of Former Armed Forces Installations by Jacob Slater

KRANNERT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

1st Place: Economic Effectiveness of COVID-19 Government Relief in Indiana by John Lawicki

2nd Place: A Novel Approach to Align Forecasts to Competing Operational Business Outcomes by Jiacen Liu and Hui Zeng

3rd Place: Purdue Basketball Turnover and Dribble Data Analysis by Zac Matheny

PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

1st Place: Abandoned Sentinels: An analysis of the past, present, and future of former armed forces installations by Jacob Slater

2nd Place: Safety Culture in the Purdue Flight Program: Cirrus SR-20 vs. Piper Archer by Elliot Knapp

3rd Place: Digital Portal for the Data Visualization Process by Nicole Dwenger

INTERDISCIPLINARY AWARDS

RESEARCH TALKS

1st Place: Beauty Products: Chemicals Disproportionately Endanger Women of Color by Samantha Lu

2nd Place: Early Childhood Education, Animation, and YouTube by Kayla Cole, Lauren Krieger, and Em Miller

3rd Place: Optimization of Heart Rate Calculation Algorithm for Real-Time Use by Akio Fujita

POSTERS

1st Place: Drink Environment Modeling by Gabriel Leonard and Alex Peterson

2nd Place: Using Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence to Analyze Metal Distribution in Human Teeth by Sai Dwibhashyam

3rd Place: Creating a Prototype Visualization Tool for Analyzing Pre-pubescent Lupus Data by Nathan Kanter

Interdisciplinary awards are selected by Purdue Libraries & School of Information Studies.

ARCHIVAL PRESENTATION AWARDS

RESEARCH TALKS

1st Place: White Feminist Icons: An Intersectional Case Study on Amelia Earhart by Rachel Small

2nd Place: Gary Gateways by Miles Romans

POSTERS

1st Place: Abandoned Sentinels: An Analysis of the Past, Present, and Future of Former Armed Forces Installations by Jacob Slater

2nd Place: Fort Ouiatenon Archival Management and Digitization by Samuel Bakeis, Mary Phelan, Jennylee Torres, & Quincy Chanda

3rd Place: Facebook and U.S. Elections by Matthew Heagerty

Archival presentation awards are selected by Purdue Archives and Special Collections.

OVERALL TOP ABSTRACTS

Life Sciences (tie): Elizabeth Frazier & Josie Asher

Social Sciences/Humanities/Education: Morgan Boncyk

Physical Sciences: Kylie Smith, Carissa Gettelfinger

Mathematics/Computational Sciences: Nathan Kanter

Innovative Technology/Entrepreneurship/Design: Jennine Bryan

POSTERS

College of Ag

1st Place: Doria Gilberg

2nd Place: Emily Musenbrock

3rd Place (tie): Kristen Cleaver, Larissa Shirley, Tyler Field, Brooklyn Bitting, & Kouassi Kpodo; Margaret Pritchett

College of Education

1st Place: Nikita Gerard, Antonio Dominguez Palomar

2nd Place: Andrew Santos

3rd Place: Helen Park

College of Engineering

1st Place: Bridget Fitzgerald, Jackson Fields, Jocelyn Powell, Stephanie Clark

2nd Place: Alberto Castillo, Vito Francioso, Carlos Moro

3rd Place: Justin Senyk

College of Liberal Arts

1st Place (tie): Diana Quintero, Kamryn Dehn & Echo Yan

2nd Place: Rachel Small

3rd Place (tie): Meaghan Tracy & Swanna (Lu) Yu

College of Pharmacy

1st Place: Ana Pascual-Garrigos

2nd Place: Devin Bingham

3rd Place: Isaac Corum

College of Science

1st Place: Vignesh Nathan

2nd Place: Truc Kha

3rd Place: George Economou, Tara Harmon, Hetvi Desai, Alex Huynh

Krannert School of Management

1st Place: Megan Pinkley, Anna Satek

2nd Place: Brian Cain, Nikolai Saporoschetz, Theo Ginting

3rd Place: Xin Leong

Purdue Polytechnic Institute

1st Place: Nicole Dwenger

2nd Place: Qingyuan Hu, Yi Zhang

3rd Place: Sarah Wolfe

Interdisciplinary Projects - Selected by the Purdue University Libraries & School of Information Studies

1st Place: Natalie Murdock

2nd Place: Kaushal Arvind Prasad, Mishael Theis

3rd Place: Megha Reddy

Archival Projects - Selected by the Purdue University Archives & Special Collections

1st Place: Meaghan Tracy

2nd Place: Elizabeth Kriebel

3rd Place: Rachel Small

ORAL PRESENTATIONS/RESEARCH TALKS

Overall Top Oral Presentations - Selected by the Honors College

1st Place: Rina Sabatello, Cole Davis

2nd Place: Alex Small

3rd Place: Noah Alderton

College of Agriculture

1st Place: Wenyi Ran

2nd Place: Kate Watkins

3rd Place: Anna Wagner

College of Education

1st Place: Quinn Cataldi

2nd Place: Edward Zawatski

College of Engineering

1st Place: Rina Sabatello, Cole Davis

2nd Place: Aayush Mathur

3rd Place: Alex Hale

College of Liberal Arts

1st Place: Noah Alderton

2nd Place: Alicia Geoffray

3rd Place: Warisha Aslam

College of Pharmacy

1st Place: Michaela Todd

2nd Place: Angel Lin

College of Science

1st Place: Rachel Stucky

2nd Place: Chinyere Maat Kemet

3rd Place: Amr Kais

Krannert School of Management

1st Place: Ryan Myers

2nd Place: Asa Cutler, Peter Xu, Sabriya Alam

3rd Place: Juliet Aygun, Alaina Bartfeld, Sahana Rayan

Purdue Polytechnic Institute

1st Place: Alex Small

2nd Place: Abagail Westbrook

Interdisciplinary Projects - Selected by the Purdue University Libraries & School of Information Studies

1st Place: Alex Small

2nd Place: Amr Kais

3rd Place: Alex Hale

Archival Projects - Selected by the Purdue University Archives & Special Collections

1st Place: Alex Small

2nd Place: Hetvi Desai

3rd Place: Andrew Occhipinti