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Samuel Anderson
Major: Environmental Science
Project Title: A GIS Analysis of Primary Producer Communities in Streams in the Eastern United States
Mentor: Matthew Waters
Mentor’s Department: Crop Soil and Environmental Sciences
Zara Baltzell
Major: Environmental Science
Project Title: Spring Into Summer, Crawl Into Fall: How Seasonality Affects the Results of
Macroinvertebrate Bioassessments
Mentor: Katelyn Lawson
Mentor’s Department: Crop Soil and Environmental Sciences
Allison Belviy
Major: Genetics
Project Title: Host Susceptibility with Natural Competence
Mentor: Leonardo De La Fuente
Mentor’s Department: Plant Pathology
Sydney Burge
Major: Environmental Science
Project Title: Impacts of Human Activity on Water Quality in Lake Jesup, Florida
Mentor: Matthew Waters
Mentor’s Department: Crop Soil and Environmental Sciences
Isaac Cardwell
Major: Horticulture (Fruit and Vegetable)
Project Title: Unraveling root-knot nematode diversity in Alabama: A molecular approach
Mentor: Bisho Lawaju
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Lillian Dye
Major: Microbial Biology
Project Title: The role of citrate utilization in the adaptation of Salmonella Typhimurium to milk matrix
Mentor: Shabarinath Srikumar
Mentor’s Department: Poultry Science
Alyssa Dyer
Major: Animal Science Pre-Veterinary
Project Title: What primary factors contribute to keel bone injuries in broiler-breeder hens?
Mentor: Bethany Baker
Mentor’s Department: Poultry Science
Abigail Holcombe
Major: Crop and Soil Science
Project Title: Rhizobia Survival in Biochar Carriers
Mentor: Yucheng Feng
Mentor’s Department: Crop Soil and Environmental Sciences
Reese Houck
Major: Applied Biotechnology
Project Title: Molecular and Functional Characterization of Insecticide Resistance in Aedes aegypti
Mentor: Nannan Liu
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Lillee Lombardo
Major: Agricultural Science
Project Title: Evaluating Postharvest Quality of New Strawberry Cultivars in Alabama
Mentor: Marlee Trandel
Mentor’s Department: Horticulture
Jonas McAbee
Major: Animal Sciences Pre-Vet
Project Title: Effects of sow lactation diet iron source and intramuscular iron
supplementation strategy on hematological characteristics of suckling pigs
Mentor: Marko Rudar
Mentor’s Department: Department of Animal Sciences
Malia Neville
Major: Animal Science Pre-Vet
Project Title: Design & Testing Genetic Markers in us Scrofa Embryos Treated with Clomiphene citrate to Determine Treatment’s Effect on Embryo Maturation, Communication, and Inflammation
Mentor: Paul Dyce
Mentor’s Department: Department of Animal Sciences
Tatum Osmon
Major: Marine Biology; Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences
Project Title: Evaluation of methodology for measuring standard metabolic rates of freshwater mussels (Unionidae)
Mentor: James Stoeckel
Mentor’s Department: FAA Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures
Mason Pearce
Major: Genetics
Project Title: Do environmental pressures induce natural DNA uptake in the plant pathogenic bacteria belonging to the genus Xanthomonas?
Mentor: Neha Potnis
Mentor’s Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology
Gavin Southern
Major: Fisheries Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences
Project Title: Investigating Viral and Bacterial Coinfection in Cultured Largemouth Bass
Mentor: Timothy Bruce
Mentor’s Department: School of Fisheries Aquat Science
Savannah Webb
Major: Biosystems Engineering
Project Title: Accuracy of Water Meters Used to Monitor Water Consumption in Commercial Poultry and Livestock Systems
Mentor: Jeremiah Davis
Mentor’s Department: Biosystems Engineering
Sally Wingard
Major: Biosystems Engineering
Project Title: Investigation into constructed wetlands systems for remediation of fish wastewater from aquaculture systems
Mentor: David Blersch
Mentor’s Department: Biosystems Engineering
College of Architecture, Design, and Construction
Abigail Garner
Major: Landscape Architecture
Project Title: Documenting Site Specificity in Pine Ecosystems
Mentor: Emily Knox
Mentor’s Department: School of Architecture Plan and Landscape Architecture
Emily Griffin
Major: Environmental Design
Project Title: Echoes of Design: The Relationship Between Architecture, Acoustics, and Human Experience
Mentor: Robert Sproull
Mentor’s Department: School of Architecture Plan and Landscape Architecture
Christopher Henderson
Major: Environmental Design
Project Title: Phygital Wear & Tear: An Interactive Documentation of Deterioration
Mentor: Eilis Finnegan
Mentor’s Department: School of Architecture Plan and Landscape Architecture
India Joiner
Major: Environmental Design
Project Title: Emotionally Sustainable Approaches to Design
Mentor: Robert Sproull
Mentor’s Department: School of Architecture Plan and Landscape Architecture
Kathryn McEniry
Major: Pre-Building Science
Project Title: Agentic Artificial Intelligence Comprehension of Construction Floor Plans
Mentor: Eric Wetzel
Mentor’s Department: Building Science
Annie Neill
Major: Environmental Design
Project Title: Reimagining Unconventional Infrastructure as Social and Ecological
Connectors
Mentor: Robert Sproull
Mentor’s Department: School of Architecture Plan and Landscape Architecture
Christine Pham
Major: Environmental Design, Studio Art: Photography
Project Title: Effectiveness of Alternative Hybrid Methods in Photography and Art within the Realm of Design
Mentor: Kelly Homan
Mentor’s Department: School of Architecture Plan and Landscape Architecture
College of Education
Ifeloju Ayileka
Major: Biomedical Sciences- Pre Med
Project Title: Leveling Up Fitness: Investigating the Impact of Nintendo RingFit
Adventure on Parent and Child health outcomes
Mentor: Danielle Wadsworth
Mentor’s Department: School of Kinesiology
Anna Black
Major: Exercise Science
Project Title: Mechanical Energy Analysis of Dual-Task Walking: Age-Related Differences in Movement Efficiency
Mentor: Wendi Weimar
Mentor’s Department: School of Kinesiology
Marigrace Crossett
Major: Rehabilitation and Disability Services
Project Title: Cognitive Predictors of Dual-Task Gait Adaptations in Young and Older Adults
Mentor: Christopher Wilburn
Mentor’s Department: School of Kinesiology
Grace Greer
Major: Exercise Science
Project Title: Spirit in Motion: Investigating Temporal-Spatial Learning in Tiger Eyes Visual Ensemble
Mentor: Jamie Roper
Mentor’s Department: School of Kinesiology
Michaela Stanik
Major: Psychology
Project Title: Fractured Foundations: Does Divorce Impact College Students’ Academic
Performance, Mental Health, Financials, and Interpersonal Relationships?
Mentor: Brian McCabe
Mentor’s Department: Special Ed, Counseling Psychology and School of Psychology
Mary Walker
Major: Exercise Science
Project Title: What does it mean to matter in sports?
Mentor: Rachel Maloney
Mentor’s Department: School of Kinesiology
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
Christos Argyropoulos
Major: Computer Science
Project Title: Fuzz-Based Analysis for VS Code Extensions
Mentor: Akond Ashfaque Ur Rahman
Mentor’s Department: Computer Science & Software Engineering
Yusuf Arik
Major: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: EMG-Based Lower Limb Motion Prediction using Machine Learning
Mentor: Michael Zabala
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Logan Bolton
Major: Computer Science
Project Title: Improving Multimodal Language Modeling through Visually Grounded Interactions
Mentor: Anh Nguyen
Mentor’s Department: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Casey DuBrow
Major: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Breast Cancer Tumor Creation Using Aggregation and Microsphere Methods
Mentor: Elizabeth Lipke
Mentor’s Department: Chemical Engineering
Joshua Dobelbower
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Development of an Automated Scoring System for RNAV Instrument
Approaches Using Flight Data Analysis
Mentor: Nicolet Fala
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Leopold Dong
Major: Computer Science & Mathematics
Project Title: TBA
Mentor: Yazhou Tu
Mentor’s Department: Computer Science & Software Engineering
Mary Ferguson
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Integral Analysis of Non-Newtonian Boundary Layers over a
Circular Cylinder in Crossflow
Mentor: Joseph Majdalani
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Elaina Fife
Major: Civil Engineering
Project Title: Development of Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB) Recommendations for Improving Pedestrian Safety
Mentor: Huaguo Zhou
Mentor’s Department: Civil Engineering
Annalee Fink
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Percolation Modeling for CNT/GNP-Epoxy Nanocomposites
Mentor: Suhasini Gururaja
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Alexis Florit
Major: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Soft AFM for In Vivo Tumor Detection
Mentor: Jean-Francois Louf
Mentor’s Department: Chemical Engineering
Chase Frazier
Major: Civil Environmental Engineering
Project Title: Applications of Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy in calibration of HEC-HMS models
Mentor: Frances O’Donnell
Mentor’s Department: Civil Engineering
Jonathan Goodrich
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Application of machine learning to extract flow features in fluid dynamics
Mentor: Nek Sharan
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Jonathan Gunasekaran
Major: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: VLF Remote Sensing of Ionosphere Perturbations Caused by Rocket Exhaust Plasma
Mentor: Hunter Burch
Mentor’s Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Robert Hudson
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: TBA
Mentor:Wen Luo
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Zaine Hutchison
Major: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Manufacturing of low cost, high mileage catalyst membrane for green hydrogen production
Mentor: Xinyu Zhang
Mentor’s Department: Chemical Engineering
Ozo Kasahara
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Demonstrating a Science Mission Data Sufficiency in Virtual Reality: A Solar Wind and Magnetic Field Interaction Case Study
Mentor: Davide Guzzetti
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Addisyn Kriger
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Feasibility of Regolith and Polylactic Acid (PLA) Composite Separation
Mentor: Russell Mailen
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
John Lieb
Major: Computer Science
Project Title: Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Satellite and Market Data: Building Signals for Commodity Price Movements
Mentor: Sathyanarayanan Aakur
Mentor’s Department: Computer Science & Software Engineering
Vincent Lin
Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Project Title: Analysis of the Impact of In-Vehicle Communication on Driver Behavior and Performance in a Simulated Environment
Mentor: Martha Smith
Mentor’s Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering
Owen Lucas
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Prognostic Health Management of Cables
Mentor: Pradeep Lall
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Cade May
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Analysis of a Generic T-Tail Transport using a Surface-Vorticity
Panel Method Flow Solver at Low Angles of Attack
Mentor: Roy Hartfield
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Christian Mcdowell
Major: Computer Engineering
Project Title: Value-Aware, AoI-Monotone Sensing and Budgeted RL for Remote Control over East Channels
Mentor: Yin Sun
Mentor’s Department: Computer Engineering
Joshua Medler
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Vibration Stimulation for Neuropathy: Development and Pilot Study
Mentor: Chad Rose
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Lauren Mohler
Major: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: Robust GPS-Challenged Navigation of a 2-DOF Bicycle Model
Mentor: Scott Martin
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Moises Munoz Paredes
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Analyzing the Effects of Stray Currents on EV Ball Bearings Under Varying Normal Loads
Mentor: Robert Jackson
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Krish Hareshbhai Patel
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Electrostatic Dehydration of Cellulose Fiber
Mentor: Lorenzo Cremaschi
Mentor’s Department: Mechanical Engineering
Manan Hemantbhai Patel
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Vortex Dynamics of a Truncated Delta Wing
Mentor: Anwar Ahmed
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Dhimitri Petro
Major: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: Radar-Camera Extrinsic Calibration for Room Scanning and Material
Recognition
Mentor: Zihe Gao
Mentor’s Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Logan Phillips
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Model Based Iterative Learning Control for Quadrotors
Mentor: Ehsan Taheri
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
Abigail Weaver
Major: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Cell Migration using Traction Force Microscopy
Mentor: Panagiotis Mistriotis
Mentor’s Department: Chemical Engineering
Dakoda Willingham
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Project Title: Integrated Air Breathing Rotating Detonation Engine Thrust Chamber Assembly
Mentor: David Scarborough
Mentor’s Department: Aerospace Engineering
College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment
LeeAnn Bailey
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: Adjusting for limited pedigree depth to calculate accurate inbreeding coefficients
Mentor: Janna Willoughby
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Services
Anna Digges
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: Auburn Bat Watch: Monitoring bat biodiversity on campus and beyond
Mentor: Jean Fantle-Lepczyk
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Services
John Edwards
Major: Sustainable biomaterials and packaging
Project Title: Enhancing the thermostability of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) in reinforced polymer composites
Mentor: Yucheng Peng
Mentor’s Department: Administration Forestry and Wildlife Sciences
Evan Farry
Major: Geospatial and Environmental Informatics
Project Title: Unraveling the Effects of Extreme Events and Disturbances on Eastern United States Coastal Ecosystems
Mentor: Latif Kalin
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Services
Benjamin Harrell
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: Interactions Between Foxes and Cats
Mentor: Christopher Lepczyk
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Services
Mary Hinely
Major: Environmental Conservation and Management
Project Title: Assessing IRIS films in Coastal plain Soils to Confirm Anaerobic conditions
Mentor: Thorsten Knappenberger
Mentor’s Department: College of Agriculture
Aidan Kay
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: Heterospecific attraction of nest predators to simulated marbled murrelet
presence in the Oregon Coast Range
Mentor: Jonathon Valente
Mentor’s Department: ALA COOP Fish and Wildlife Unit
William Latimer
Major: Forestry
Project Title: Drought Tolerance Assessment of Low-Lignin Poplar Varieties
Mentor: Chen Ding
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Services
Thomas Lynch
Major: Environmental Conservation and Management
Project Title: Determining the Hydrologic Regime of River Shoals: An Important Habitat for the Cahaba Lily
Mentor: Christopher Anderson
Mentor’s Department: Administration Forestry and Wildlife Sciences
John Pechon
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: Legislating Feral Cat Management in Hawaii: Analyzing Public Testimonies and Policy
Debates on Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)
Mentor: Christopher Lepczyk
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Services
Grace Southerland
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: Species Richness and the Prevalence of Disease in Avian Communities: A test of the Dilution Effect
Mentor: Kelsey McCune
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Services
Ryan Tyson
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: Investigating clethodim application timing for non-native annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) control and wildlife use in food plots
Mentor: William Gulsby
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Services
Luke Watters
Major: Wildlife Ecology and Management
Project Title: Quantifying Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli persistence in backyard
environments
Mentor: Kelsey McCune
Mentor’s Department: Forestry and Wildlife Services
College of Human Sciences
Katherine Day
Major: Biomedical Science
Project Title: Identifying Biopsychosocial Factors in Partners of Younger Patients with Colorectal Cancer
Mentor: Joshua Novak
Mentor’s Department: Human Development and Family Studies
Madison Gaillard
Major: Biomedical Science pre- med
Project Title: “Where’s The Doggy?” Exploring Infants’ Engagement in Parent-Infant Book-Sharing Interactions
Mentor: Cynthia Frosch
Mentor’s Department: Human Development and Family Studies
Maci Higgins
Major: Crops and Soils Production
Project Title: Double Up Food Bucks Alabama: Progress and Key Learnings
Mentor: Vikas Mishra
Mentor’s Department: Human Sciences Administration
Briana Johnson
Major: Dietetics
Project Title: A Social Marketing Campaign to Improve Awareness of Food-Aid
Access
Mentor: Onikia Brown
Mentor’s Department: Department of Nutritional Sciences
Christopher Issa Khalaf
Major: Public and One Health
Project Title: Exploring the Health and Diet-Related Behavioral Impacts of the Double Up Food Bucks Program in Alabama
Mentor: Sara Gonzalez
Mentor’s Department: Human Sciences Administration
Sydney Rookes
Major: Public and One Health
Project Title: Food System Policy Analysis in Alabama: Applying the Policy Triangle Framework to understand the roles of stakeholders in the policy process
Mentor: Sara Gonzalez
Mentor’s Department: Human Sciences Administration
Honors College
Clara Ragan
Major: Philosophy
Project Title: Lived Experiences of Navigating the Accommodations Process for a Reproductive or Parenting Event in the University Setting
Mentor: Regan Moss
Mentor’s Department: Honors College
College of Liberal Arts
Blakely Berryhill
Major: Psychology
Project Title: Elucidating the Origins of Future Parenting Behavior: Examining Joint Influences of Risky Childhood Environments and Adult Sibling Relationships
Mentor: Jennifer Somers
Mentor’s Department: Psychological Sciences
Connor Copeland
Major: Philosophy; English (Literature)
Project Title: The Roles of Perception and Intellect in Aesthetic Judgment
Mentor: James Shelley
Mentor’s Department: Philosophy
Kathryn Duffield
Major: Communications
Project Title: Uplifting Chronic Pain Patients’ Perspectives: Using the Culture-Centered
Approach to Cultivate the Patient-Provider Alliance
Mentor: Virginia Sanchez
Mentor’s Department: Communication and Journalism
Avery Hillman
Major: Political Science
Project Title: Study of the Prevalence and Evolution of US Election Fraud
Mentor: Margaret Brown
Mentor’s Department: Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration
Victoria Holcomb
Major: Neuroscience
Project Title: Speech Recognition in ADHD and Perceptual Decision Making
Mentor: Susan Earp
Mentor’s Department: Psychological Sciences
Eleanor Lombardi
Major: Public Relations and Political Science
Project Title: Feminist Interpretations of Biblical Womanhood: The Literary Legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Fuller, and Judith Sargent Murray
Mentor: James Ryan
Mentor’s Department: English
Alma Sorek
Major: German, French
Project Title: Collective Presence in the Theater
Mentor: Bettina Christner
Mentor’s Department: Foreign Language
David (Riggs) Walker
Major: Political Science
Project Title: Unrecognized and declared: The Islamic State and conceptions of statehood
Mentor: Matthew Clary
Mentor’s Department: Political Science
Mia Williams
Major: Art
Project Title: The Wonders of Washi Paper
Mentor: Kristen Tordella-Williams
Mentor’s Department: Art
Maxton Yeast
Major: Aviation Management, Finance
Project Title: Economic Development and Air Service Impact: A Global and Regional Perspective
Mentor: Daniel Siao
Mentor’s Department: School of Aviation
College of Nursing
Michael Kelly
Major: Nursing
Project Title: How does health access impact caregiver burden as measured by ZBI in populations with child diagnosed with chronic condition?
Mentor: Linda Gibson Young
Mentor’s Department: Nursing
Ainsley Keyes
Major: Nursing
Project Title: Evaluating Intellectual and Developmental Disability Training for Healthcare Professionals
Mentor: Beverly Yordy
Mentor’s Department: Nursing
Lauren Trombino
Major: Nursing
Project Title: Nursing Your Nerves
Mentor: Kendall Henderson
Mentor’s Department: Nursing
Kate Winkelman
Major: Nursing
Project Title: Perspectives on Dementia Communication: A Comparative Survey of Nursing Students and Nursing Home Staff
Mentor: Hae Sagong
Mentor’s Department: Nursing
Abigail Wistner
Major: Nursing
Project Title: Comparative Effects in Confidence and Self-Assessed Competency in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Care: A Survey of Junior- and Senior-level BSN Students
Mentor: Amy Curtis
Mentor’s Department: Nursing
James Harrison College of Pharmacy
Sydney Hamilton
Major: Genetics, Pre-Med
Project Title: Targeting PPAR Subtypes: A Novel Approach to Combat Prostate Cancer Progression
Mentor: Robert Arnold
Mentor’s Department: Drug Discovery and Development
Yeongjae (Brian) Kim
Major: Biomedical Sciences, Pre-Medical
Project Title: The impact of APOE4 on precursor myelination
Mentor: Rajesh Amin
Mentor’s Department: Drug Discovery and Development
Haidyn O’Neal
Major: Biomedical Sciences, Pre-Dental (DBMS)
Project Title: Association of long non-coding RNA in Bortezomib response in multiple myeloma
Mentor: Amit Mitra
Mentor’s Department: Drug Discovery and Development
Markelle Scott
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: Do ERBB4-ERBB2 heterodimers drive ERBB4-dependent, ERBB2-dependent, BRAF WT melanoma cell lines?
Mentor: David Riese
Mentor’s Department: Drug Discovery and Development
Alexander Shipp
Major: Biomedical Sciences, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences & Secondary Science Education
Project Title: Evaluation of CYP3A4 Induction from Kratom – HIV antiretroviral drug interaction using Quantitative PCR
Mentor: Angela Calderon
Mentor’s Department: Drug Discovery and Development
Elizabeth Warford
Major: Chemistry
Project Title: Conjugation of Proteasome inhibitor Bortezomib to the TROP 2 antibody to directly target TNBC cells
Mentor: Alexei Kisselev
Mentor’s Department: Drug Discovery and Development
College of Sciences and Mathematics
Adrienne Blume-Babcock
Major: Organismal Biology Ecology/Evolution/Behavior
Project Title: Potential Sex Based Differences in Heat Dissipating Behavior in Zebra Finches
Mentor: Haruka Wada
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Brody Church
Major: Biomedical Sciences (Pre-Medicine)
Project Title: Application of Iodine-Release and LC-MS Methods to Assay Activity of Iodothyronine Deiodinases Expressed in E. coli
Mentor: Katherine Rush
Mentor’s Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Jada Conner
Major: Chemistry
Project Title: Control of KatG through-protein electron transfer pathways by an arginine switch
Mentor: Douglas Goodwin
Mentor’s Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Lane Dominy
Major: Organismal Biology: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Project Title: Understanding the Effects of Acclimation Temperature on the Swimming
Performance of the Pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides)
Mentor: Moises Antonio Bernal de Leon
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Carter Freeman
Major: Biosystems Engineering
Project Title: Deep Neural Network Modelling of Butterfly Flight Aerodynamics
Mentor: Brian Counterman
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Matthew Kuehr
Major: Applied Mathematics
Project Title: Mathematical Studies of One-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Topological Photonic Crystals
Mentor: Junshan Lin
Mentor’s Department: Mathematics
Annaleisa Matzirakis
Major: Applied Biotechnology
Project Title: Unraveling the Dynamics of Nucleosome Arrays
Mentor: Mohtadin Hashemi
Mentor’s Department: Physics
Pierce Meinert
Major: Microbial, Cellular, & Molecular Biology
Project Title: Molecular mechanisms of microbial adaptations to metals in soil ecosystems
Mentor: Michelle Gibbs
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Carlos Nazareno
Major: Genetics
Project Title: Enhancing mRNA Vaccine Delivery for HPV16-Associated Cancers Using PepAde Base Nanocarriers
Mentor: Adriana Avila Flores
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Callum Newberry
Major: Biomedical Sciences (Pre-Med)
Project Title: The role of calcium signaling on axial patterning and specification in sea urchin embryos
Mentor: Jennifer Fenner
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Abigail Simmons
Major: Microbial, Cellular, and Molecular Biology
Project Title: Understanding Microbial Competition for Hydrogen in the Rumen
Mentor: Rodney Tollerson
Mentor’s Department: Biology
Sydney Spindler
Major: Microbial Biology MCCM
Project Title: Defining the Role of ZBP1 in Type 1 Interferon Response During MCMV Infection
Mentor: Jason Upton
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Benjamin Tzou
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Project Title: Numerical Simulations of Ultrafast Transient Heat Conduction at Nanoscale
Mentor: Jianjun Dong
Mentor’s Department: Physics
Jacob Welch
Major: Organismal Biology/ Geology
Project Title: Differences of Paleofire regimes of the Cretaceous and Early Holocene
Mentor: Thomas Cullen
Mentor’s Department: Department of Geosciences
Jackson Wells
Major: Biomedical Sciences, Premed
Project Title: Conditional auxotrophy reveals pathogenic contributions of native conformations of bacterial derived antigens upon exposure to sea urchin larvae
Mentor: Katherine Buckley
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
Jaycee Wisdom
Major: Conservation Biology
Project Title: Hunting Hatchlings: Prey Preferences of Cannibalistic Lizards
Mentor: Daniel Warner
Mentor’s Department: Biological Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
Jillian Henderson
Major: Biomedical Sciences, Pre-Dental
Project Title: Revolutionizing Veterinary Oncology: A Nanobody-Based Approach to
Immune Checkpoint Therapy
Mentor: Maninder Sandey
Mentor’s Department: Pathobiology
Carly Parker
Major: Cell and Molecular Biology
Project Title: Evaluating the Effect of Chronic Prenatal Cannabinoid Exposure on Placental Lipid Catabolism and Oxidative Stress
Mentor: Rachel West
Mentor’s Department: Anatomy Physiology and Pharm
Margaret Schuler
Major: Biomedical Sciences, Pre-Med
Project Title: Evaluation of reproductive hormones and gonadal tissues from feline offspring from AAV-GnRH treated cats
Mentor: Amie Johnson
Mentor’s Department: Scott Ritchey Research Center
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