Past Fall Award Recipients

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

Research Talks

1st Place: The Effect of Weaning and Transportation Stress on Subsequent Performance of Average Piglets by Isabel Turner
Mentor: Alex Pasternak

2nd Place: Research in Biotechnology: Special Topics in Exploring Phage Biology and Function of Mr. Gordo by Annabelle Redman
Mentors: Kari Clase; Daphne Krutulis

Posters

1st Place: Investigating the Impacts of Hypothyroidism on Cell Division in the Fetal Pig Brain by Alivia Dwire
Mentors: Alex Pasternak; Alyssa Smith

2nd Place: Quantifying the ACRE Wetland Water Balance by Ryland Barton
Mentors: Laura Bowling; Dongseok Yang

3rd Place: Immunoglobulins, Cytokines, and Chemokines Response to Prolonged Progesterone in Uterine and Vaginal Tissues by Summer Thomlison
Mentors: Alex Pasternak; Alyssa Smith; Devon Anderson

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Research Talks

1st Place: Examination of Racial Tensions at Midwest Waffle Houses by Mia Rodriguez
Mentors: Youli Mantzicopoulos-James; Spencer Headworth; Brenda Shein; Phoebe Pham; Xiang Zhou

2nd Place: Child Automated Speech-To-Text (CAST) Project - A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Child Speech by Aakanksha Shripal; Aadya Pawar; Jonah Nichols
Mentors: David Purpura; Avery Closser

3rd Place: What It Means to Be an Anti-Racist by Chelsea Reppert
Mentors: Inna Abramova; Lyubov Sylayeva

Posters

1st Place: Impact of Structured Revision Intervention During the Peer Review Process on Scientific Writing Self-Efficacy in Undergraduate Biology Students by Gwyneth Wong; Allison Peterson
Mentors: Stephanie Gardner; Jill Cornell

2nd Place: 20 Years in the Making: Tracking the Dismantling of Traditional Public Schools through the Proliferation of Charter Schools in Indianapolis by Anjali Gupta
Mentor: Bryan Duarte

3rd Place: Impact of Freedom School at Purdue for Students K-5 by Lauren Spedale; Teagan Drumm
Mentor: Breanya Hogue

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Research Talks

1st Place: The Impact of Directionality and Infill on Detonations of High Explosives by Jack Martin
Mentors: Diane Collard; Steven Son

2nd Place: Hardware Multithreading on RISC-V Microcontroller by Rohan Gangaraju; Pranav Srisankar; Sean Greenley
Mentors: Mark Johnson; Cole Nelson

3rd Place: Real-Time Volatile Chemical Screening of Environmental Media to Support Disaster Response by Grayson Wittbrod
Mentors: Brandon Boor; Nusrat Jung; Jinglin Jiang; Xiaosu Ding

Posters

1st Place: Power Ground Network Optimization for High-Performance Silicon Die Packages by Ashwin Kidambi
Mentors: Liang Pan; Justin Weibel; Zekun Wu

2nd Place: IIoT-based Real-Time Sound Monitoring Framework for Manufacturing Machines and Processes by Vamsi Deeduvanu; Joseph Carrig; Aryan Khanolkar
Mentors: Ali Shakouri; Martin Jun; Jiho Lee; Junyi Yuan; Yuseop Sim

3rd Place: Exploring Geometric and Coating Parameters for Photocatalyst Synthesis and Mimicking Real-World Particle Distribution via Acoustic Forces by Sahda Mohammadu Haroon
Mentors: David Warsinger; Sudharsh Anandan

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES

Research Talks

1st Place: The effects of chronic PFOS exposure on motor behavior by Hurshal Pol
Mentors: Jason Cannon; Josephine Brown; Fatema Currim; Tauqueerunnisa Syeda

2nd Place: Analysis of heavy metals in wine using portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) by Anthony Bovenschen
Mentors: Jae Hong Park; Subin Han; Johnathan Klicker-Wiechmann

3rd Place: Effect of Social Demands on Occurrence of Repetitive Behaviors in Children with Autism by Riley Rozniarek
Mentor: Brandon Keehn

Posters

1st Place: The Impact of Anorexia Nervosa on the Gut Microbiota by Anjali Vanamala
Mentors: Tzu-Wen L. Cross; Anna Clapp Organski; Abigayle M. R. Simpson; Kimberly Kinzig

2nd Place: The Impact of Binge-Like Alcohol Consumption on Recognition Memory and Compulsive-Like Behavior in Aged Mice by Tori Burke
Mentors: Julia Chester; Soyol Enkh-Amgalan

3rd Place: Effects of a Ketogenic Diet on Meal-Related Hormones and Psychological Well-Being by Victoria Patellos
Mentor: Kimberly Kinzig; Dan Foti

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

Research Talks

1st Place: Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies as a Russian Fairy Tale by Umbert Caseres
Mentor: Amina Gabrielov

2nd Place: Sleep Quantity vs Academic Performance by Mark Rome
Mentor: Sidney Ducleroir

3rd Place: Animacy Effects and the Production of Relative Clauses in Mandarin: differences between native speakers and heritage speakers by Yongjia Deng
Mentors: Elaine Francis; Vanessa Sheu

Posters

1st Place: Origins of Art: Demystifying Purdue’s Scheuring Icon Collection by Mikayla Klemp
Mentors: Kirstin Gotway; Lana Newhart-Kellen

2nd Place: Baroque Era in Germany - Musik and Architecture by Roxanne Schwab
Mentor: Beate Allert

3rd Place: Effectiveness of Purdue University's Implementation of Educational Technology by Rohin Gupta
Mentor: Michael Johnson

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Research Talk

1st Place: Exploring Neurite Complexity in Cortical Neurons Carrying an Epilepsy-Linked SCN2A Mutation: A Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Study by Hope Harlow
Mentors: Yang Yang; Maria Olivero-Acosta

2nd Place: Developing a Selective Irreversible Peptidic Inhibitor for CBX2 by Sam King
Mentors: Emily Dykhuizen; Sijie Wang; Sandra Ordonez

Posters

1st Place: Developing the Tissue-Specific Chemogenetic Tool DREADD in the Zebrafish Model by Carolina Kim
Mentors: GuangJun Zhang; Ziyu Dong

2nd Place: Investigating the Impact of the SCN2A epilepsy-related Mutation L1342P on Neuron Structural Development Through the Analysis of Cortical Organoid Neural Rosettes by Vinayak Shankar
Mentors: Yang Yang; Maria Olivero-Acosta

3rd Place: Diphyllin Derivatives Synthesis as V-ATPase Inhibitors Against Ebola Viral Entry by Liying Che
Mentors: Jo Davisson; Amr Mohamed Elkabbany

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Research Talks

1st Place: PP2A-EGFR crosstalk in PDAC: a novel activating role by Ella Rose Chianis
Mentors: Brittany Allen-Petersen; Claire Pfeffer; Garima Baral

2nd Place: Developing Realistic Quantum Error Correction Models by Santiago Lopez
Mentors: Alex Ruichao Ma; Gabriel Perdue; Botao Du

3rd Place: Structural and Functional Characterization of Phospholipase C β3 by Kennedy Outlaw
Mentors: Angeline Lyon; Isaac Fisher

Posters

1st Place: Determining the pathway of cell death utilized by the pharmacological activation of PP2A in Pancreatic cancer. by Indiraa Doraivel
Mentors: Brittany Allen-Petersen; Garima Baral; Claire Pfeffer

2nd Place: Strangeness Enhancement in Hadronic Event Generators by Amelia Binau
Mentors: Andreas Jung; Hans Dembinski

3rd Place: Is a cure already out there? Repurposing an FDA-approved drug for night blindness in zebrafish model by Sophia Dietz
Mentors: Fai Leung; Beichen Wang

3rd Place: Chronic Exposure to Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Leads to Evolutionary Responses in Daphnia magna by Jack Morehouse
Mentors: Jason Hoverman; Devin Jones

3rd Place: The Reduction of Noise Reduction Within the XENON NT Dark Matter Detector by Christian (Casey) Ward; James Strayhorn; Liam Gallegher; Richie Tan
Mentor: Husheng Guan

JOHN MARTINSON HONORS COLLEGE

Research Talks

1st Place: Automated Crater Morphology Characterization on the Moon Using an Unsupervised Neural Network by Sara Cuevas-Quiñones
Mentors: Ali Bramson; Lior Rubanenko

2nd Place: Integrating Young Mothers into an Engineering School by Abigail Frank
Mentors: Kirsten Davis; Jennifer DeBoer; Stephanie Claussen; Lucy Nyambura

3rd Place: Effect of Marburg virus VP40 matrix protein mutations on virion assembly and budding by Mahesh Gupta
Mentors: Rob Stahelin; Balindile Motsa; Roopashi Saxena

Posters

1st Place: Educator Perspectives on Creativity in Early Childhood Education by Avery Mann
Mentor: Sarah Eason

2nd Place: Multisensing Self-powered Patch for Meltdown Prediction by Sarah Pushparaj; Paul Ulrich; Sejal Rhodes
Mentors: Wenzhuo Wu; Pedro Henrique de Souza Barbosa

3rd Place: How does road proximity in Tippecanoe County impact acoustic richness and dispersal of birds using comparative AI vs human-based recognition? by Sierra Hunnicutt
Mentor: Kristen Bellisario

3rd Place: Addressing Food Insecurity in Tippecanoe County by Josie Bull; Grace Gilbert
Mentor: Jennifer Hall

MITCHELL E. DANIELS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Research Talks

1st Place: Financial Investment Reports and the differences per county by Pratheek Kotla
Mentor: Sergiy Chernenko

2nd Place: Relocation Incentives in Alaska; Or, The Call of the Wild and Transfer Payments by Nathan Miller
Mentor: Jillian Carr

Poster

1st Place: Integrating Open AI into An R Shiny App: A Tool to Generate Pictures from Stories by Yunlei Tang; Danhe Tang
Mentor: Matthew Lanham

PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

Research Talks

1st Place: An Analytical and Statistical Analysis of Turbofan Engine Sensor Data by Stan Melkumian
Mentor: Haritima Chauhan

2nd Place: CATT: Understanding the Online Behavior of Sex Offenders by Reeya Ramasamy
Mentors: Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar; Tatiana Ringenberg

3rd Place: The effectiveness of visual telemetry projections in maintaining situation awareness under communication delays by Linh Pham
Mentors: Paul Parsons; Zixu Zhang

Posters

1st Place: Sustainability Amongst the Big 3 Hoosier Multinational Automobile Organizations: A Consideration of Whole Life Carbon Emissions Records by Benjamin Traylor; Joel Jarrett; Joon Kang
Mentor: Jim Tanoos

2nd Place: Problem Formulation and Solution Generation in Data Visualization Practitioners by Phuong Bui
Mentors: Paul Parsons; Prakash Shukla

3rd Place: Headphones and Colleges Students: Factors which Increase Consumer Preference for Sustainable Products by Adrian Calderon
Mentor: Gaurav Nanda

Academic unit awards are selected by the unit listed.

TOP STEM PRESENTATION AWARDS

Research Talk

The Impact of Directionality and Infill on Detonations of High Explosives by Jack Martin
Mentors: Diane Collard; Steven Son

Poster

The Impact of Anorexia Nervosa on the Gut Microbiota by Anjali Vanamala
Mentors: Tzu-Wen L. Cross; Anna Clapp Organski; Abigayle M. R. Simpson; Kimberly Kinzig

Top STEM awards are selected by the Purdue chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society.

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

Research Talks

1st Place: Laboratory Screening of Sorghum Lines for Incompatibility, a Post-attachment Resistance Mechanism to the Parasitic Weed Striga hermonthica by Cameron Matthews
Mentors: Patrick Rich, Gebisa Ejeta, Adedayo Adeyanju, & Nathan Bowser

2nd Place: Anti-Pathogenic Activity of Concentrated Dairy Ingredients on Porcine Rotavirus by Chenhai Li
Mentors: Arun K Bhunia, Rishi Drolia, & Dongqi Liu  

3rd Place: Farmer Perspectives on Diversified Agriculture by Isabel Jensen
Mentor: Emily Usher  

Posters

1st Place: Quantifying the Abundance of Mannheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, Histophilus somni, and Mycoplasma bovis in Nasal Swab Samples of Beef Cattle with BRD by Erica Long
Mentors: Timothy Johnson & Eunice Centeno  

2nd Place: Feasiblity Study of a Composting Program at the Purdue Honors College Residence Hall by Michaela Fennell, Annie Johnson, & Celia Whisler
Mentor: Genell Ebbini  

3rd Place: Hypothyroidism as a Model for the Impact of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus Infection on Fetal Development by Caden Helfrich
Mentor: Alex Pasternak

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Research Talks

1st Place: The Role of BIPOC Parents in Diversifying Children's Literature by Kayla Neal
Mentor: Christy Wessel-Powell  

2nd Place: A for Aristocracy, Not Effort: An Examination of Meritocracy and Legacy Admissions by Michaela Rice
Mentor: Amanda Case  

Posters

1st Place: Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS) Clubs: Stories of the Original GEMS Girls by Meredith Chasse & Grace Gochnauer
Mentors: Jill Newton & Signe Kastberg  

2nd Place: Investigating Elementary Teachers’ Use of Mathematics Curriculum Materials by Jueqing Li
Mentor: Jill Newton  

3rd Place: Banned Books by Kendall Raley, Ashley Buening, Emerson Ladig, & Mark DeLeon
Mentor: Inna Abramova  

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Research Talks

1st Place: Internet of Things and Digital Twinning with TENG devices by Conor McCarthy, Meghan Gron, Saichandana Pothireddy, Blake Ifitger, & Mihika Saxena
Mentor: Nachiket Vatkar  

2nd Place: Designing and Developing a Camera System for Automated Tree Measurement by Robert Stewart & Aidan Crowley
Mentor: Guofan Shao  

3rd Place: Online Databases of Geologic Formations of China, Indian Plate and Indochina, With Display onto Plate Reconstructions of the Asian Region for Any Phanerozoic Time Horizon by Sabrina Chang
Mentors: James Ogg, Aaron Ault, Wen Du, & Sabin Zahirovic

Posters

1st Place: INSERR: A Novel Search and Rescue ROV Design For Flooded Indoor Environments by Pou Hei Chan, Wei Teng Sin, & Lei Chon Weng
Mentors: Byung-Cheol Min & Pou Ut Chan  

2nd Place: Tree Positioning and Localization by Elbek Nazarov & Akshat Verma
Mentors: Guofan Shao & Keith Woeste

3rd Place: Triboelectric Nanosensors for Health Monitoring by Meghan Gron, Conor McCarthy, Saichandana Pothireddy, Blake Iftiger, Mihika Saxena, Hongyi Shen, & Adit Shah
Mentor: Nachiket Vatkar  

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN SCIENCES

Research Talks

1st Place: Understanding the Menstrual Health Needs of People Experiencing Homelessness during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Lafayette, Indiana by Emma Schnolis, Jaclyn Frank, Emily Otten, & Anukriti Arora
Mentors: Andrea DeMaria, Rebecca Martinez, Natalia Rodriquez, & Risa Cromer

2nd Place: Examining the Correlation of Brownfield and Superfund Sites with Health Outcomes in Indiana at the Census Tract Level by Sharon Kulali
Mentor: Ellen Wells  

3rd Place: Understanding Young People’s Child Maltreatment Disclosure Experiences: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Family Violence Discussions on Social Media by Anneliese Williams & Amelia Williams
Mentor: Laura Schwab-Reese  

Posters

1st Place: The Impact of Cultural Congruity and Ethnic Identity on the Mental Health of Latinx Students by Britney Ramos
Mentors: David Rollock & Adilene Osnaya  

2nd Place: Investigating Attachment Styles and How Insecurities Manifest in Couple Interactions by Zoe Alexander
Mentor: Ximena Arriaga  

3rd Place: Development of an Impactor to Collect Pathogenic Bioaerosols by Nicholas Pecoraro & Anthony Bovenschen
Mentors: Jae Park, Subin Han, & Li Liao

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

Research Talks

1st Place: Linguistic Changes in Russian in Turbulent Times by Renee Forfa
Mentor: Olga Lyanda-Geller  

2nd Place: Laughter and Madness: The Comic Horror of Evil Dead II by David Gowan
Mentor: Elena Coda

3rd Place: English-Russian Philosophical Glossary for Aleksei Losev by Michael Linge
Mentor: Olga Lyanda-Geller  

Posters

1st Place: Addressing the Pakistani Refugee Crisis by Adyson Gregory
Mentors: Barbara Young & Hannah Bulow  

2nd Place: How Menstruators Use Technology to Track, Monitor, and Manage Menstruation by Isabel Cava, Megan Morley, & Dinah Waheed
Mentors: Andrea DeMaria, Fatimah Lawal, & Risa Cromer  

3rd Place: Weaving Warfare by Emma Hall
Mentor: Kathryn Brownell  

3rd Place: Intelligent Autonomous Scenery: Route Planning with Object Detection in Theatrical Environments by Mason Trenaman Jr., Shep Dick, Evan Holland, & Jack Filpi
Mentor: Richard Dionne

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Research Talk

1st Place: Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Androgen Deprivation Induced Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer by Sam King
Mentors: Emily Dykhuizen, Surbhi Sood, & Sandra Ordonez  

Posters

1st Place: Change in Bird Population in Australia through Trap-Neuter-Return Polices by Maggie Dong
Mentor: Katie Jarriel  

2nd Place: The Role of Methylation in Regulating the Cellular Stress Response of Hsp31 by James Rooney & Jacob Lindsey
Mentor: Tony Hazbun  

3rd Place: The Role of Nuclear EGFR in Cancer Diseases by Nina Hawkins
Mentors: Jo Davisson, Tianqi Zhao, & Vallabh Suresh  

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Research Talks

1st Place: Understanding the Freezing Properties of Lunar Particle Suspension Droplets by Mariana Aguilar, Katie Meves, & Valeria Garcia
Mentor: Alexandria Johnson  

2nd Place: “Sometimes I feel uglier than ever”: Influences on Internal and External Body Image by Alexandra Hughes, Maia Lynch, & Emily Otten
Mentor: Andrea DeMaria  

3rd Place: Macroscopic Resistance Measurement Of Vanadium Dioxide During Metal Insulator Phase Transition by Amit Rohan Rajapurohita
Mentor: Erica Carlson  

Posters

1st Place: Using Affordable Acoustic Recording Units to Understanding the Acoustic Community and its Relationship to Noise from Low Floying Airplane Engines by Conner Partaker, Josephine Haydock, Larkin Nickle, Lily Peck, Annabelle Pitt, Palak Prashant, & Nicholas Ryan
Mentor: Kristen Bellisario  

2nd Place: Drone Video by Vlada Volyanskaya, Ashvin Iyer, Colby Acton, Enze Jiang, Jinen Setpal, King Yang, Mustafa Albahrani, Nishant Nair, & Vinay Jagan
Mentors: Zichen Miao, Wei Zakharov, & Qiang Qiu  

3rd Place: Detection of Sub-Patent Plasmodium falciparum Infections in PfSPZ Vaccine Recipients and the Impact on Vaccine Efficacy by Mahesh Gupta
Mentors: Patrick Duffy, Irfan Zaidi, & Jill Neal

KRANNERT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Research Talks

1st Place: Microfinancing and Entrepreneurship in Cocoa Refinement in Côte d’Ivoire by Erin Soro
Mentor: Colin Sullivan  

2nd Place: Blockchain: Protecting Against the Newest Trend in Financial Crime by Daniel Logan
Mentor: Paula Conroy

3rd Place: Tourism Insights: ESG in Lodging and Hospitality by Emily Cassanmagnago
Mentor: Jonathan Day  

Posters

1st Place: Designing Analytics Solutions To Solve The Right Business Objective by Sitong Chen
Mentor: Matthew Lanham  

2nd Place: Establishing Renewable Energy in Tippecanoe County, Indiana by James Grimm
Mentor: Katie Jarriel 

PURDUE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

Research Talks

1st Place: Future of self-driving car: a blessing or a curse? by Amanda Huang
Mentor: Qian Wang  

2nd Place: Digitalizing Delphi: Educating Audiences Through Virtual Reconstruction by Kate Koury
Mentors: Katie Jarriel, George Takahashi, & Arne Flaten  

3rd Place: 3D Printed highly Sensitive Pressure Sensors by Mitesh Mylvaganan
Mentor: Sunghwan Lee  

Posters

1st Place: Recycling of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite for Compression Molding by FNU Archie, Harry Lee, & Jacob Montrose
Mentors: Garam Kim & Eduardo Barocio  

2nd Place: Investigation of Mechanical Properties of Recycled Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites Reinforcing Concrete by Caleb Mull, FNU Archie, & Harry Lee
Mentor: Garam Kim

3rd Place: Detecting and Identifying Cars based on Mobile Phone Images by Matthew Tolla, Soham Agarwal, Edison Liao, Marvin Lim, Yufeng Qian, Jordan Srinivasan, & Mejebi Uwatse
Mentors: Carla Zoltowski & Edward Delp  

Academic unit awards are selected by the unit listed.

TOP STEM PRESENTATION AWARDS

Research Talk

To be announced.

Poster

To be announced.

Top STEM awards are selected by the Purdue chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society.