College of Liberal Arts and Sciences had an exceptional showing at the 22nd annual Research and Creative Activities Symposium on Friday, April 26th. The award-winning CLAS students were:
Social Sciences
1st place: Lxandra Schlessman, Co-Authors: Jamie Nguyen, Caesare Tamag, Mentor: Vivian Shyu
“An LGBTQ+ inclusive campus is important for the well-being of students: Well-being predicts GPA positively”
2nd place: Adam Vilanova-Goldstein, Mentor: Carly Leonard, “Attentional Learning: Investigating the Effect of Intertrial Priming on the P300 in Visual Search”
Honorable Mentions (tie): Amy Frers, Mentor: Amy Wachholtz, “The Relationship Between Sleep and Opioids in Chronic Pain Patients” and Monique Silva-Montoya, Co-Author: Contessa Young, Mentor: Patricia Zornio, “Meta-Analysis: MAYSI-2 Identification of Mental Health Needs Among Detained Youth”
Biomedical Sciences
1st place: Tanja Kovacevic, Mentor: Hai Lin, “Probing the Dynamics of the Villin Headpiece Protein’s Subdomain HP-36”
2nd place: Jazmyne Davis, Co-Authors: Jennifer Jaime, Margaret Tanner, Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, “Sex Differences in Voluntary Exercise”
3rd place (tie): Jonté Roberts, o-Author: Oniza Chaman, Mentor: Erik Oleson, “Characterization of the Effects of Systemically Increasing Dopamine, Serotonin, and Noradrenaline Levels on the Valuation of Reward vs. Avoidance”
Honorable Mentions (tie): Ritesh Kashyap, Mentor: Caley Orr, “Sexual Dimorphism and the Scaling of Intrinsic Thumb Muscle Physiological Cross-Sectional Area and Trapeziometacarpal Joint Size”
Nicolette Moya, Co-Authors: Abigail Smith, Margaret Tanner, Aleezah Balolia, Jazmyne Davis, Mentor: Benjamin Greenwood, “The Role of mTOR Signaling in Enhanced Fear Extinction Produced by Acute, Voluntary Exercise”
Debra Szuster, Mentor: Caley Orr, “A Novel Approach to Resolving the Brachial Index Issue of AL 288-1 (“Lucy”) Using 3D Computer Models of Hominid Forelimb Bones”
Natural Sciences
1st place: Owen Berg, Co-authors: Murina Lantz, Michael Kain, Andrew Boddicker, Ashley Luntsford, Mentor: Annika Mosier, “Newly Discovered and Ubiquious Nitrogen Cycling Microbe is Resilient to Diverse Environmental Changes”
2nd place: Manaal Dalwadi, Mentor: Gregory Ragland, “Consequences of Warming Climates for the Development and Population Growth of an Important Forest Pest”
3rd place (tie): Baris Aydintug, Mentor: Hai Lin, “Proton Transport in E. coli CLC Transport Protein by Adaptive QM/MM Dynamics Simulations”
Richard Jones, Mentor: Paula Cushing, “Morphology of Male Abdominal Ctenidia in North American Camel Spiders”
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
2nd place: Haylie Helms, Mentor: Victor Spitzer, “A Shocking Presentation of Coronary Artery Disease: An Inside Look from the Susan Potter Dataset”