Student Poster Competitions and Showcases

Biochemistry freshman Christiane Calderon discusses her contest poster.

Fall 2025 Poster Competition Winners

2025 Poster Competition Winners: (left to right)Milad Almasian, Rohit Kajla, and Zeinab Delaram

First Place

Milad Almasian- Axially Swept Dithered Light-Sheet Microscope to Reveal Cardiac Morphology

Second Place

Rohit Kajla- Limits Of Transparency in Biological Tissues Via Refractive Index Matching

Third Place

Zeinab Delaram- Mortality Prediction in Liver Transplantation

Winner Milad Almasian (pictured) and other competition and showcase participants were featured in an article by Veronica Gonzalez. Read the full article here.

Fall 2024 Poster Competition Winners

2024 Poster Competition Winners: (left to right)Rafah Falah, Waris Muhammad Khuwaja, and Marisol Mancilla Moreno

First Place

Rafah Falah- Investigating the Regulation of ER and GR by IL-1/NFkB Pathway in Breast Cancer

Second Place

Waris Muhammad Khuwaja- Mast cell- and basophil-specific G-protein-coupled receptors regulate bladder immunity during urinary tract infections

Third Place

Marisol Mancilla Moreno- Identification of High IGHG4 Levels in C1/C2 Human Dorsal Root Ganglia Using Spatial Transcriptomics: A Case Report on Chronic Neck Pain

Fall 2024 Art Exhibition Winners

2024 Art Showcase Winners: (left to right)Niyati Arora, Brandon Coffey, and Soham Raghavendra Jorapur

First Place

Niyati Arora-Harry Potter: the blueprints

Second Place

Brandon Coffey and Christopher Gauthier- Woodbearers of Chimayo VR Experience

Third Place

Soham Raghavendra Jorapur- Breaking the evolutionary mould

Fall 2023 Poster Competition Winners

2023 Poster Competition Winners: (left to right)Ankur Yadav, Roopal Dhar, and Fabiha Khan

First Place

Roopal Dhar-Chronic IL-1 Exposure Disrupts IL-6 Antioxidant Signaling in Breast Cancer Cells

Second Place

Ankur Yadav- Cross-Disciplinary Topological Analysis Framework: From Histopathological to Sand Grain Digital Imaging and Classification.

Third Place

Fabiha Khan- Elucidating the synthesis and function of a novel glycophospholipid in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Spring 2023

On April 20th 2023, the Office of Research hosted the 2023 Earth Fair Poster Competition. For more photos and details from this event, please view the blog post.

Spring 2023 Earth Fair Poster Competition Winner, Jaysashree Balakumar 

2023 Winner

Jayashree Balakumar, Waste Disposition Management- An Enabler to Achieve SDG 3 within the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Fall 2022

On October 14th 2022, the Office of Research celebrated the 2022 Research Day Poster Competition. For more info about this event, please view the blog post.

Fall 2022 Research Day Poster Competition First Place Winner, Nursadul Mamun
Fall 2022 Research Day Poster Competition Third Place Winner, Satwik Dutta

First Place

Nursadul Mamun, CFTSE: Complex-valued Frequency Transformation for Speech Enhancement.

Second Place

Yalini Wijesundara, Carrier Gas Triggered Controlled Biolistic Delivery of DNA and Protein Therapeutics from Metal-Organic Frameworks.

Third Place

Fall 2019

Satwik Dutta, Speech Processing for Early Childhood Research & Intervention.

On August 22, 2019, the Office of Research and Innovation hosted the 2nd annual Weeks of Welcome Poster Competition. For more photos from this event, please view the blog post.

Fall 2019 Office of Research and Innovation Poster Contest First, Second, and Third place student winners.

Fall 2019 Poster Competition Winners

First Place

Tahmineh Pirshahid, Evaluation of the COX-2 pathway as a therapeutic target for recurrent urinary tract infections.

Second Place

Moutusee Islam, Molecular characterization of Cancomycin Resistant Enteroccus faecium (VRe) in Dallas

Third Place

Shawhin Talebi, Modeling Autonomic Pupillary Responses from External Stimuli Using Machine Learning.

Spring 2019

Dr. Joseph Pancrazio with (left to right) Jamasp Azarnoosh who received Honorable Mention, Second Place winner Vignesh Raghuraman, and First Place winner Sadeq Malakooti. Absent from picture, Baokun He in Third Place.

Spring 2019 Poster Competition Winners

The Office of Research and Innovation hosted the annual Spring 2019 Poster Competition on April 18, 2019. For more photos from this event, please view the blog post.

First Place

Sadeq Malakooti, mechanical engineering: Superior Sound Transmission Loss in Low-Density, Mechanically Strong and Ductile Nanoporous Polyurea Aerogels

Second Place

Vignesh Raghuraman, mechanical engineering: Hierarchical Model Predictive Control for Constrained System Operation

Third Place

Baokun He, computer science: Computing Robust Principal Components by A* Search

Honorary Mention

Jamasp Azarnoosh, mechanical engineering: A Comprehensive Understanding of Breastfeeding Biomechanics

2018

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2018 WoW Poster Competition

The Office of Research and Innovation hosted the 1st Annual Weeks of Welcome (WoW) Poster Competition on Friday, August 24, 2018. For more photos from this event, please view the blog post.

First Place

Kevin Lam, biomedical engineering: Functional cargo delivery into mouse and human fibroblasts using a versatile microfluidic device

Second Place

Hassan Jahanandish, bioengineering: Ultrasound imaging for human lower-extremity motion prediction and its potential for assistive device control

Third Place

Michael Darrow, biomedical engineering: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Paired with Rehabilitation Increases Plasticity and Recovery Following Spinal Cord Injury

Honorary Mention

Haley Dahl, molecular and cellular biology: p62 is a potential therapeutic target for castration resistant prostate cancer cells

Maziyar Keshvarian, bioengineering: A multi-scale computational model of hypertension induced remodeling

Kyle Murray, chemistry: Dynamics of L-Kynureninase Orthologs during Catalysis