Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Undergraduate Research Poster Contest:
- Sheridan Helen Cavalier: Abnormal Synaptic Protein Expression in the VPA-Rat Model of Autism Following Fear Extension Training (faculty advisor: Dr. Christa McIntyre)
- Anthony Quang Dao: Cell-permeable and Nuclear-targeting Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles (faculty advisor: Jie Zhang)
- Hans Chiwuike Ajieren: Insertion Devices for Self-Coiling Implants (faculty advisor: Walter Voit)
Winners were chosen from a field of 18 finalists by nine industry judges:
- Claire Aldridge of Remeditex
- David Brown of Baylor Heart Hospital
- Steve Coutoumanos of Dell
- Souvik Das of Capital One Auto Finance
- Todd Edwards of Raytheon IIS
- John Ellis of NEC
- Craig Lee of AT&T Foundry
- Rod Naphan of Fujitsu
- Sha-Chelle Devlin Manning of Pioneer Natural Resources
All of the poster contest participants were part of a record-breaking number to receive an Undergraduate Research Grant in the Fall of 2015. This is an annual competition, so if you would like to be considered for a grant, applications for 2016-2017 will be accepted from August 22 – September 28, 2016.
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This year’s winners: From left- Hans Ajieren, Sheridan Cavalier, and Anthony Dao
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Megan Zerez shows fellow finalists Yobouesseth Okou and Jordan Riddell her findings on Exploring the Evolvability of an Ancient, highly conserved Circadian clock in a non-circadian organism.
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A student observes Anthony Daq’s poster on Cell-permeable and Nuclear-targeting Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles.
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Daniel Lambert poses next to his poster Real-Time Gait Phase Detection for High-Performance Above Knee Powered Prostheses.
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Industry judge Claire Aldridge listens to Ali Tejani explain his poster Ethnomedicine of the Maleku People of Northern Costa Rica.
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Karthik Hullahalli and his poster Restarting the Broken CRISPR Immune System of Enterococcus faecalis.
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Shivam Patel and Alex Gemsheim waiting for the winner announcements.
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Sheridan Cavalier poses next to her award-winning research poster on Abnormal Synaptic Protein Expression in the VPA-Rat Model of Autism Following Fear Extinction Training.
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