College of Agriculture
Jazmine Carroll
Major: Applied Biotechnology
Project Title: Engineering the Chicken Microbiome for the Prevention of Histomoniasis
Mentor: John Beckmann
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Abigail Crosby
Major: Animal Sciences
Project Title: What is the interaction between weaning-induced reductions in feed intake and sulfur amino acid metabolism in the gut?
Mentor: Marko Rudar
Mentor’s Department: Animal Sciences
Christopher Deveau
Major: Applied Biotechnology
Project Title: Studying Root Anatomical Traits for Drought Tolerance in Peanut
Mentor: Alvaro Sanz-Saez de Jauregui
Mentor’s Department: Crop Soil and Environmental Sciences
Amelia Flesner
Major: Laboratory Sciences
Project title: Characterizing the role of members of the Fusarium solani species complex as transkingdom pathogens.
Mentor: Jeffrey Coleman
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Hailey Holbert
Major: Biosystems Engineering
Project Title: Increasing Herbicide Absorption in Doveweed (Murdannia nudiflora) Using Iron Fertilizers and Essential Oils
Mentor: Joseph McElroy
Mentor’s Department: Crop Soil and Environmental Sciences
Sarah Hyde
Major: Environmental Science
Project Title: Alaskan Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Strain Collection to Increase Cold Tolerance in Crops
Mentor: Katheryn Kay Lawrence
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Ann Inskeep
Major: Biosystems Engineering
Project Title: “Poultry Ponics”
Mentor: Daniel Wells
Mentor’s Department: Horticulture
Rachel Livingston
Major: Applied Biotechnology
Project Title: Analyzing the infection efficiency of CLRDV in G. hirsutum and N. benthamiana by agroinoculation
Mentor: Kathleen Martin
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Natalie Macaluso
Major: Biosystems Engineering/Apparel Merchandising
Project Title: Tick Immobilizing Textile Project
Mentor: John Beckmann
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Benjamin Marshall
Major: Microbiology (Pre-Med)
Project Title: Investigating yellow-pigmented catfish pathogens
Mentor: Timothy Bruce
Mentor’s Department: School Fisheries Aquaculture Aquatic Sciences
Nicholas Mueller
Major: Applied Biotechnology
Project Title:Creating a Library of Aphis gossypii Proteins for Testing Interactions with Cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus Coat Proteins
Mentor: Kathleen Martin
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Spencer Rubin
Major: Environmental Science
Project Title: Studying hop adaptation to Southeast environments
Mentor: Alvaro Sanz Saez de Jauregui
Mentor’s Department: Crop Soil and Environmental Sciences
Benjamin Welsh
Major: Applied Biotechnology
Mentor: Sang Wook Park
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Morgan Young
Major: Animal Sciences (Pre-Vet)
Project Title:Development of research tools: In search of heifer fertility biomarkers
Mentor: Paul Dyce
Mentor’s Department: Animal Sciences
College of Architecture, Design, and Construction
William Bozeman
Major: Environmental Design
Project Title:Sensory Spaces: Inclusive Design for All.
Mentor: Kelly Homan
Mentor’s Department: School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Chase Hoytink
Major: Landscape Architecure
Project Title: Using Drawing and Representation to Design Nature-Based Infrastructure in Coastal Environments
Mentor: Robert Holmes
Mentor’s Department: School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Raymond J. Harbert College of Business
Alexander French
Major: Information Systems Management
Project Title: Community Perceptions of Digitization and IT Disruptions
Mentor: Atiya Avery
Mentor’s Department: Business Analytics & Information Systems
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
Nicholas Bensman
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: An Investigation into Liquid Cooling Microchannels and Implementation of Synthetic Jets
Mentor: Mehmet Arik
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Barbara Brogan
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Development of a Pipeline for Low-thrust and Impulsive Trajectory Design and Validation in GMAT
Mentor: Ehsan Taheri
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Joseph Crapet
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: How do Hybrid Exoskeletons Affect Rehabilitation
Mentor: Brendon Allen
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Al Dean Francisco
Major: Biosystems Engineering – Bioprocess Option
Project Title: Fish Sludge for Feed and Water Reclamation
Mentor: Brendan Higgins
Mentor’s Department: Biosystems Engineering
Brandon Fulone
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Trajectories of Rocket Plume Ejecta in Sub-Atmospheric Environments
Mentor: Vrishank Raghav Shankare Gowda
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Benjamin Gunasekaran
Major: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Standardization of Poly(ethylene glycol)-Fibrinogen Hydrogel Solution for 3D Cell Culture
Mentor: Elizabeth Lipke
Mentor’s Department: Chemical Engineering
Joshua Horton
Major: Computer Science
Project Title: Haplotype Phasing and Genotype Phasing utilizing Bernoulli Mixture Model Clustering
Mentor: William Heaton
Mentor’s Department: Computer Science & Software Engineering
Emily Kimbrell
Major: Software Engineering
Project Title: Enhancing the Playability of Sat-Tycoon: Improving Data Representation and User Interfaces in a Multi-Player Strategy Simulation Game
Mentor: Daniel Tauritz
Mentor’s Department: Computer Science & Software Engineering
Anna Lancaster
Major: Biosystems Engineering
Project Title: Internal Erosion in Unsaturated Slopes: Experimental Studies and New Monitoring
Mentor: Jack Montgomery
Mentor’s Department: Civil Engineering
Anya McDaniel
Major: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Investigating the Pathways Influencing the Decline in Cell Motility during Senescence
Mentor: Panagiotis Mistriotis
Mentor’s Department: Chemical Engineering
Zachary Miller
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Researching and Designing a Thumb-based Tremor-Suppression Glove that Works within the Full Workspace of the Thumb
Mentor: Chad Rose
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Eirik Mulder
Majors: Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science
Project Title: AstroCanvas: an agile and interactive approach to trajectory initial guess production in virtual reality
Mentor: Davide Guzzetti
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Jada Neal
Major: Bioprocess Engineering
Project Title: Extraction of Pectin from Citrafiber Powder
Mentor: Symone Alexander
Mentor’s Department: Chemical Engineering
Logan Nichols
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Pressure Drop in U-Bends for Low Temperature Ammonia Refrigeration Systems
Mentor: Lorenzo Cremaschi
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Samin Parvez
Major: Materials Engineering
Project Title: The Impact of Dynamic Loading on the Hydrolytic Degradation of Suture Materials
Mentor: Edward Davis
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Caroline Sanders
Major: Ecological Engineering
Project Title: Exploration of Novel Cultivation Scenarios for the Alga, Asparagopsis taxiformis, for climate-mitigating biochemicals
Mentor: David Blersch
Mentor’s Department: Biosystems Engineering
Melisa Shaffer
Major: Biosystems Engineering
Project Title: Trial Approach for Bench Scale Filamentous Algae Growth Experiments
Mentor: David Blersch
Mentor’s Department: Biosystems Engineering
Emma Signor
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: The effect of a finite combustion zone on the prediction of thermoacoustic mode shapes and frequencies
Mentor: Joseph Majdalani
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Travis Thompson
Majors: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Project Title: Generating Truthful and Accurate Responses: making large language models output more truthful responses for medical applications
Mentor: Anh Nguyen
Mentor’s Department: Computer Science & Software Engineering
Matthew Williams
Majors: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Project Title: TextMall – Text Mining for All through Text Intersection
Mentor: Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu
Mentor’s Department: Computer Science & Software Engineering
School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences
Haomin Huang
Major: Finance
Project Title: The effect of the Growing Climate Solutions Act on sustainable land management practices in the agriculture and forestry sectors.
Mentor: Yaoqi Zhang
Mentor’s Department: Forestry Wildlife and Environment
Mary Hughes
Major: Natural Resources Management
Project Title: Indications of Reduction from Urban and Agricultural Development on Headwater Wetlands on the Alabama Gulf Coast
Mentor: Christopher Anderson
Mentor’s Department: Forestry Wildlife and Environment
Ally Cobern
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: Risk Perception Among Scavengers: How Carcasses Affect the Spatiotemporal Presence and Overlap of Wildlife Species on the Landscape
Mentor: Christopher Lepcyzk
Mentor’s Department: Forestry Wildlife and Environment
John-Michael Norris
Major: Natural Resources Management
Project Title: Understanding possible changes in carbon cycling with Alabama headwater wetlands
Mentor: Christopher Anderson
Mentor’s Department: Forestry Wildlife and Environment
Madeleine Park
Major: Wildlife Science Pre-Veterinary Concentration
Project Title: Governance and resilience to climate-related hazards in National Marine Sanctuaries
Mentor: Kelly Dunning
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Sciences
Lauren Stevens
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: The Importance of Armadillo Burrows for Commensal Wildlife Species
Mentor: Wesley Anderson
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Sciences
Mary Wells
Major: Organismal Biology: Conservation and Biodiversity
Project Title: Diet of Wild Turkeys in The State of Alabama
Mentor: William Gulsby
Mentor’s Department: Forestry Wildlife and Environment
College of Human Sciences
Brittany Bates
Major: Global Studies
Project Title: Meals on Wheels of Coweta County Extending Aging in Place for Their Seniors
Mentor: Alicia Powers
Mentor’s Department: Human Sciences Administration
Melissa Garnes
Major: Human Development and Family Science Child Life Concentration
Project Title: The intersection of identity in the military: The mental health outcomes of minority experiences of military sexual trauma.
Mentor: Mallory Lucier-Greer
Mentor’s Department: Human Development Family Science
Brianna Gordon
Major: Psychology
Project Title: Who to turn to when I need someone to turn to? Exploring the help seeking behaviors of military service members.
Mentor: Mallory Lucier-Greer
Mentor’s Department: Human Development Family Science
Darby Huber
Major: Interior Design
Project Title: A Study of the History of Interior Design and Historical Furniture Pieces in Media
Mentor: Anna Gatlin
Mentor’s Department: Consumer and Design Sciences
Amy Hudson
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Project title: Examining the Role of Occupational Characteristics in Socioeconomic Health Disparities
Mentor: Thomas Fuller-Rowell
Mentor’s Department: Human Development Family Science
Alissa Johnson
Major: Interior Design
Project title: A Study of the History of Interior Design and Historical Furniture Pieces in Media
Mentor: Anna Gatlin
Mentor’s Department: Consumer and Design Sciences
Joseph Luria
Major: Marketing
Project title: The Impact of Increased Financial Literacy
Mentor: Portia Johnson
Mentor’s Department: Consumer and Design Sciences
Hannah Montgomery
Major: Genetics
Project title: Understanding the impact of genetic counseling on the coping process of couples with positive cystic fibrosis carrier screening
Mentor: Joshua Novak
Mentor’s Department: Human Development Family Science
Shelby Morris
Major: Hospitality Management
Project title: Best Practices in Environmental Management- The Case of Platinum LEED Certified Hotels
Mentor: Imran Rahman
Mentor’s Department: School of Hospitality Management
Reagan Myers
Major: Human Development and Family Science; Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies
Project title:Philanthropic innovations: an assessment of the literature
Mentor: Peter Weber
Mentor’s Department: Consumer and Design Sciences
Serena Tedesco
Major: Global Studies
Mentor: Mary Katherine Thorton
Mentor’s Department: Human Sciences Administration
Candance Walters
Major: Pre-Med and Nutrition
Project title: Role of Hepatocyte Inflammation in Colon Cancer Research
Mentor: Michael Greene
Mentor’s Department: Department of Nutritional Sciences
College of Liberal Arts
Rebecca Barnes
Major: Media Studies – Visual Option
Project title: The Changing Conversation Around Copyright in TTRPG Actual Plays
Mentor: Emily Friedman
Mentor’s Department: English
Bailey Branham
Major: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
Project title: Pitch Perception and Production in Music: A cohort study determining the benefits in aided versus unaided listening
Mentor: Aurora Weaver
Mentor’s Department: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
Walton Ferguson
Major: Psychology
Project Title: Assessing the Effects of Altered Prosodic Tempo and Working Memory on Reading Recall Using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation
Mentor: Alejandro Lazarte
Mentor’s Department: Psychological Sciences
Emily Findlay
Major: Psychology
Project title: Students’ Attitudes About Virtual Work Post-Pandemic: How Confidence, Accountability, and Satisfaction Drive Intentions for Future Virtual Work
Mentor: Sara Driskell
Mentor’s Department: Psychological Sciences
Katelyn Gilson
Major: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Project title: Phonological Skills in the Spontaneous Speech of Children who Stutter
Mentor: Gregory Spray
Mentor’s Department: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
Hope Hartley
Major: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Project title: Rhythm Detection and Timing in Adults Who Stutter
Mentor: Gregory Spray
Mentor’s Department: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
Gabriella LaRocca
Major: Political Sciences
Mentor: Soren Jordan
Mentor’s Department: Political Sciences
Rylee Lusich
Major: Psychology
Project Title: The Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Eating Pathology Symptoms
Mentor: Tiffany Brown
Mentor’s Department: Psychological Sciences
Natalie McBrayer
Major: Psychology
Project Title: Does insight moderate the predictive validity of neurophysiological and self-report indicators for cannabis cue reactivity?
Mentor: Richard Macatee
Mentor’s Department: Psychological Sciences
Madison Mcdaniel
Major: Psychology & Sociology (Criminology emphasis)
Project Title: The Role of Pornography Use in Juvenile Sexual Offending
Mentor: Kelli Thompson
Mentor’s Department: Psychological Sciences
Annie Pauley
Major: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
Project Title: Upper Airway Thermoregulation in People with Asthma
Mentor: Mary Sandage
Mentor’s Department: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
Madeleine Rein
Major: Psychology
Project Title: Distress Tolerance, Anxiety Sensitivity, and the Use of Cannabis as a Coping Mechanism
Mentor: Richard Macatee
Mentor’s Department: Psychological Sciences
Katie Smith
Major: Anthropology
Project Title: Linear Enamel Hypoplasia in African Enslaved Individuals from Newton’s Plantation, Barbados
Mentor: Kristina Shuler
Mentor’s Department: Sociology
Katie Wallace
Major: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
Project Title: Phonological skills in the spontaneous speech of children who stutter
Mentor: Gregory Spray
Mentor’s Department: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences
College of Education
Connor Cantrell
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: A feasibility study of mobile EEG during dual-task standing in young adults
Mentor: Krista Neely
Mentor’s Department: School of Kinesiology
Aubrie Lisenby
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: Effect of Elbow Flexion/Extension, Shoulder Flexion/Extension, and Shoulder Horizontal Adduction on the Performance of Elite Athletes
Mentor: Gretchen Oliver
Mentor’s Department: School of Kinesiology
Nicholas Mauldin
Major: Exercise Science
Project Title: Duration of Throwing Motion and its Relationship to Throw Velocity and Efficiency in Baseball Catchers
Mentor: Gretchen Oliver
Mentor’s Department: School of Kinesiology
College of Sciences and Mathematics
Tessa Allen
Major: Biomedical Sciences & Spanish
Project Title: Determining the role of gut microbiota in the production of reactive oxygen species by cockroach hemocytes.
Mentor: Elizabeth Schwartz
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Madison Bryant
Major: Biomedical Science, Neuroscience
Project Title: Maturation of Neural Pathways in Mice: Identifying Intraspecies and Interspecies Differences
Mentor: Christine Charvet
Mentor’s Department: Anatomy Physiology & Pharmacology
Jacob Duffy
Major: Physics and Computer Science
Project Title: Developing a Machine Learning Algorithm to Process Comet Images Acquired with the Swift Space Telescope
Mentor: Dennis Bodewits
Mentor’s Department: Physics
Adeline Flach
Major: Environmental Science
Project Title: Using Unoccupied Aerial Systems to Study the Effects of Biochar on Wildflower Health
Mentor: Stephanie Rodgers
Mentor’s Department: Department of Geosciences
Jordan Fluker
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: Help Seeking Behaviors of Undergraduate Biology Students
Mentor: Margaret Ballen
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Benjamin Lightfoot
Major: Physics
Project Title: Unlocking the Secrets of Cometary Fluorescence: Improving the Accuracy of Atomic Species Analysis in Solar Radiation Fields
Mentor: Dennis Bodewits
Mentor’s Department: Physics
Emilee Middleton
Major: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Hemocompatibility of Branched Amphiphilic Peptide Capsules
Mentor: Adriana Avila Flores
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Brynleigh Payne
Major: Genetics
Project Title: Sequencing Sex Chromosome Telomeres to Quantify Degradation in Field Aging Anoles
Mentor: Tonia Schwartz
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Jacob Pennington
Major: Applied Mathematics
Project Title: Learning the Forward and Inverse Maps in Differential Equations Using Model Reduction and Neural Networks
Mentor: Junshan Lin
Mentor’s Department: Mathematics & Statistics
John Rodgers
Major: Organismal Biology: Conservation/Biodiversity
Project Title: Multi-factorial effects of egg incubation environments on lizard phenotypes
Mentor: Daniel Warner
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Jacob Samenuk
Major: Genetics, Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures
Project Title: Does thermal tolerance vary across different populations of pinfish?
Mentor: Moises Antonio Bernal de Leon
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Kiana Sargent
Major: Biochemistry
Project Title: Exploring the Effects of Gold Nanoparticles on Mitochondrial Function
Mentor: Priscila Lotsch
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
McKae Sarkowski
Major: Organismal Biology- Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Project Title: Sexual Selection in the Wild Inferred Using 3-D Printed Decoy and PIT Tags: Male Mate Choice in Yellow-Bellied Slider Turtles (Trachemys scripta)
Mentor: Matthew Wolak
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Toby Sizemore
Major: Chemistry
Project Title: Investigating mechanical properties of micro-dystrophin by in silico single molecule force spectroscopy
Mentor: Rafael Bernardi
Mentor’s Department: Physics
Henry Stephens
Major: Physics and Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: Ideal Gas Law Model in Presynapses
Mentor: Michael Gramlich
Mentor’s Department: Physics
Rebecca Strain
Major: Civil Engineering
Project Title: Understanding Gender Identity and Expression in Undergraduate Engineering Students
Mentor: Eric Burkholde
Mentor’s Department: Physics
Jack Terry
Major: Phyics and Economics
Project Title: Effects of Wave-Altering Circuitry on Acoustic Output
Mentor: Minseo Park
Mentor’s Department: Physics
John Dailey
Major: Aerospace Engineering & Physics
Project Title: Developing a CubeSat-Based Trusted-Node Quantum Key Source
Mentor: Michael Fogle
Mentor’s Department: Physics
School of Nursing
Katie Lawrence
Major: Human Development and Family Science
Project Title: Evaluating the Impact CBT-Based Anxiety Action Plans Have On 2nd-5th Grade Children’s Academic and Social Success
Mentor: Linda Gibson-Young
Mentor’s Department: Nursing
Harrison College of Pharmacy
Meredith Almy
Major: Organismal Biology
Project Title: Identification of major Phase I and II metabolites of bioactive açaí constituents
Mentor: Angela Calderon
Mentor’s Department: PY Drug Discovery and Development
Jacquelyn Fitzgerald
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: Mechanisms of sensitivity of MLL-AF4 cells to proteasome inhibitors
Mentor: Alexei Kisselev
Mentor’s Department: PY Drug Discovery and Development
Katrina Schoenrock
Major: Genetics
Project Title: FMO3 inhibitors and preventing TMA oxidation in relation to Alzheimer’s disease
Mentor: Jayachandra Ramapuram
Mentor’s Department: PY Drug Discovery and Development
Katherine Marlow
Major: Biomedical sciences
Project Title: Investigating the Functional Role of CYP2A6 Gene Polymorphisms in Lethal Prostate Cancer
Mentor: Amit Mitra
Mentor’s Department: PY Drug Discovery and Development
Abigail Weir
Major: Biochemistry
Project Title: Functional analysis of DNA Ligase gene polymorphisms in human cancers
Mentor: Amit Mitra
Mentor’s Department: PY Drug Discovery and Development
College of Veterinary Medicine
Isabella Shimko-Lofano
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: In vitro genetic modification canine adenovirus type two AUM2.
Mentor: Payal Agarwal
Mentor’s Department: Scott-Ritchey Research Center
Emma Hruska
Major: Genetics, Pre-Medicine
Project Title: Regulation of Luteinizing Hormone to Prevent and/or Slow Alzheimer’s Disease
Mentor: Douglas Martin
Mentor’s Department: Scott-Ritchey Research Center
Caroline Parrish
Major: Genetics
Project Title: Investigation of the tumor promoting characteristics of MSK1 and STK11 in canine breast cancer
Mentor: Richard Bird
Mentor’s Department: Pathobiology
Julia Peterson
Major: Biomedical Sciences, Pre-Medicine
Project Title: Test efficacy of orexin 2 receptor (OX2R) agonist on memory, anxiety, and depression in narcoleptic orexin knock-out (OX-KO) mice
Mentor: Daniel Kroeger
Mentor’s Department: Anatomy Physiology & Pharmacology
Su Kim
Major: Microbiology
Project Title: In vitro genetic modification of canine adenovirus
Mentor: Chen Che Huang
Mentor’s Department: Anatomy Physiology & Pharmacology
Abigail Law
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: High-salt diet, Angiotensin II and Hypertension leading to dementia: is there a link?
Mentor: Vinicia Biancardi
Mentor’s Department: Anatomy Physiology & Pharmacology
Timothy Eller
Major: Applied Biotechnology
Project Title: In vitro genetic modification of canine adenovirus
Mentor’s Department: Ritchey Endowment Income
Mentor: Payal Agarwal
Olivia Grigsby
Major: Laboratory Sciences & Cell/Molecular Biology
Project Title: Changes in gait and visuospatial memory as biological markers of disease progression and treatment efficacy in feline models of neurological disease.
Mentor: Emily Graff
Mentor’s Department: Pathobiology
Auburn University Libraries
Kevien Shelton
Major: Computer Science
Project Title: Representing the Spatial History of Alabama Authors: A Data Visualization Project
Mentor: Beverley Park Rilett
Mentor’s Department: Special Collections and Archives
Other Fellowship Awards
Andrew Yingst
Major: Chemical Engineering
Fellowship: Alabama Textile Education Foundation Fund for Excellence through Auburn Center
Mentor: Bryan Beckingham
Mentor’s Department: Chemical Engineering