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College of Agriculture
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ann Inskeep
Major: Biosystems Engineering
Project Title: “Poultry Ponics”
Mentor: Daniel Wells
Mentor’s Department: Horticulture
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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
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Natalie Macaluso
Major: Biosystems Engineering/Apparel Merchandising
Project Title: Tick Immobilizing Textile Project
Mentor: John Beckmann
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
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Benjamin Marshall
Major: Microbiology (Pre-Med)
Project Title: Investigating yellow-pigmented catfish pathogens
Mentor: Timothy Bruce
Mentor’s Department: School Fisheries Aquaculture Aquatic Sciences
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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
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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
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Benjamin Welsh
Major: Applied Biotechnology
Project Title:Genetic engineering of disease resistant plants against phytoparasitic nematodes
Mentor: Sang Wook Park
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Joseph Crapet
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: How do Hybrid Exoskeletons Affect Rehabilitation
Mentor: Brendon Allen
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jada Neal
Major: Bioprocess Engineering
Project Title: Extraction of Pectin from Citrafiber Powder
Mentor: Symone Alexander
Mentor’s Department: Chemical Engineering
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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
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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
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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
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Melisa Shaffer
Major: Biosystems Engineering
Project Title: Trial Approach for Bench Scale Filamentous Algae Growth Experiments
Mentor: David Blersch
Mentor’s Department: Biosystems Engineering
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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
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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
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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
College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ansley Strength
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: Scavenger buffet: How are carcasses influencing vertebrate behavior and interactions between them?
Mentor: Jean Fantle-Lepczyk
Mentor’s Department: Forestry Wildlife and Environment
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Hayden Tuite
Major: Geography
Project Title: Fiddler Crabs in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta: Reaction to changing salinity and tidal forces due to sea level rise and saltwater intrusion.
Mentor: Christopher Anderson
Mentor’s Department: Forestry Wildlife and Environment
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Joseph Luria
Major: Marketing
Project title: The Impact of Increased Financial Literacy
Mentor: Portia Johnson
Mentor’s Department: Consumer and Design Sciences
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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
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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
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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
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Serena Tedesco
Major: Global Studies
Project title: Food Insecurity: What can TikTok reveal about hunger in the American condition?
Mentor: Mary Katherine Thorton
Mentor’s Department: Human Sciences Administration
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Gabriella LaRocca
Major: Political Sciences
Mentor: Soren Jordan
Mentor’s Department: Political Sciences
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Rylee Lusich
Major: Psychology
Project Title: The Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Eating Pathology Symptoms
Mentor: Tiffany Brown
Mentor’s Department: Psychological Sciences
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jordan Fluker
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: Help Seeking Behaviors of Undergraduate Biology Students
Mentor: Margaret Ballen
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
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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
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Emilee Middleton
Major: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Hemocompatibility of Branched Amphiphilic Peptide Capsules
Mentor: Adriana Avila Flores
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Kiana Sargent
Major: Biochemistry
Project Title: Exploring the Effects of Gold Nanoparticles on Mitochondrial Function
Mentor: Priscila Lotsch
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
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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
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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
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Henry Stephens
Major: Physics and Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: Ideal Gas Law Model in Presynapses
Mentor: Michael Gramlich
Mentor’s Department: Physics
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Rebecca Strain
Major: Civil Engineering
Project Title: Understanding Gender Identity and Expression in Undergraduate Engineering Students
Mentor: Eric Burkholde
Mentor’s Department: Physics
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Jack Terry
Major: Phyics and Economics
Project Title: Effects of Wave-Altering Circuitry on Acoustic Output
Mentor: Minseo Park
Mentor’s Department: Physics
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John Dailey
Major: Aerospace Engineering & Physics
Project Title: Developing a CubeSat-Based Trusted-Node Quantum Key Source
Mentor: Michael Fogle
Mentor’s Department: Physics
College of Nursing
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Jane Greene
Major: Nutrition and Dietetics
Project Title: Relief-seeking Behaviors of US Adults Living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Mentor: Andrew Fruge
Mentor’s Department: Nursing
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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
James Harrison College of Pharmacy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Timothy Eller
Major: Applied Biotechnology
Project Title: In vitro genetic modification of canine adenovirus
Project Keywords:
Mentor: Payal Agarwal
Mentor’s Department: Ritchey Endowment Income
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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.
Project Keywords:
Mentor: Emily Graff
Mentor’s Department: Pathobiology
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Su Kim
Major: Microbiology
Project Title: In vitro genetic modification of canine adenovirus
Mentor: Chen Che Huang
Mentor’s Department: Anatomy Physiology & Pharmacology
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Auburn University Libraries
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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
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Andrew Yingst
Fellowship: Alabama Textile Education Foundation Fund for Excellence through Auburn Center
Major: Chemical Engineering
Project Title:
Mentor: Bryan Beckingham
Mentor’s Department: Chemical Engineering
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