Fall 2025 Poster Competition Winners

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

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

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

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.

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.


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 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

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

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

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