Meet the 2023-2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows

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College of Agriculture
College of Architecture, Design, and Construction
Raymond J. Halbert College of Business
College of Education
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment
College of Human Sciences
College of Liberal Arts
College of Nursing
James Harrison College of Pharmacy
College of Sciences and Mathematics
College of Veterinary Medicine
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Other Fellowship Awards


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

Project Title:Genetic engineering of disease resistant plants against phytoparasitic nematodes

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


College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment

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

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

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

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

Project title: Food Insecurity: What can TikTok reveal about hunger in the American condition?

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

Project title:Analyzing the effects of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on voter turnout in women ages 18-29

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


College of Nursing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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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