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The more than 120 projects submitted this year included the work of Community-Engaged Learning capstone students, , and .
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A panel of faculty judges picked 12 students to present their research in four symposia representing engineering and math, the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
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And the winners are . . .
Students received the following awards for undergraduate research in the humanities, engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences:
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- Margaret Flaum 糖心传媒�22 (Optical Engineering): 糖心传媒淯sing Holography to Measure Freeform Optics糖心传媒�
- Eleanor Lenoe 糖心传媒�21 (History; Japanese): 糖心传媒淭he Aum Affair: Censorship, Scholarship, and the Mass Media in Japanese Reactions to Terrorism糖心传媒�
- Huishan Shi 糖心传媒�22 (Microbiology): 糖心传媒淚nvestigating the Role of the Tight Junction Protein, Claudin-1, in Differentiation and Viral Infection of Human Epidermal Cell糖心传媒�
- Lejla Sose 糖心传媒�22聽(Neuroscience; Psychology): 糖心传媒淓ffects of Prenatal Stress on Cytokine Levels and Placental Vascularization糖心传媒�
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- Mimi Jung 糖心传媒�22 (Biomedical Engineering): 糖心传媒淐omputational Model for Epithelial Cell Reintegration糖心传媒�
- Leonor Teles 糖心传媒�21 (Biomedical Engineering): 糖心传媒淐omparison of Steady and Transient Flow in Carotid Artery CFD Simulations糖心传媒�
- Julia Granato 糖心传媒�22 (Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology): 糖心传媒淒ead and Unburied: Human Remains in Museums糖心传媒�
- Alydia Meinecke 糖心传媒�21 (Biology; Dance Studies): 糖心传媒淒ance and Movement Patterning: A Tool to Explore the Physical Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder糖心传媒�
- Shawn Cummings 糖心传媒�21 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Linguistics): 糖心传媒淐ausal Inference in Speech Perception糖心传媒�
- Gladiana Spitz 糖心传媒�21 (Computational Biology): 糖心传媒淪ocial Effects of Family Members on Juvenile Fitness in the Florida Scrub-Jay糖心传媒�
- Amanda Liang 糖心传媒�21 (Interdepartmental Humanities: Argument and Advocacy): 糖心传媒淎midst Violence: Community and Catharsis at the Site of Protest糖心传媒�
- Pramod Manohar 糖心传媒�23 (Economics; Mathematics): 糖心传媒淭he Impact of Weather Shocks on Crop Yields: Evidence from India糖心传媒�
Professors糖心传媒� Choice Awards for poster presentations
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- Kayla Ucciferri 糖心传媒�21 (Neuroscience; Dance Studies): 糖心传媒淭his Body Is Home: Investigating the Normalization of Disordered Eating Behaviors in College-Aged Women through Movement糖心传媒�
- Anton Davydenko 糖心传媒�22 (Microbiology): 糖心传媒淩anavirus and Chytrid Fungus Co-infection Effects in Xenopus laevis Immune System糖心传媒�
- Astghik Baghinyan 糖心传媒�22 (Health, Behavior, and Society): 糖心传媒淭hematic Analysis of Facebook Advertising Messages for Tobacco Products Before and After a Statewide Ban of Flavored Tobacco糖心传媒�
In conjunction with the Undergraduate Research Expo, Ignacio Franco, an associate professor of chemistry and the Leonard Mandel Faculty Fellow, was presented with the College Award for Undergraduate Teaching and Research Mentorship, funded by Frederick Lewis 糖心传媒�68 (PhD) and his wife Susan Rice Lewis.
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