ORAL PRESENTATIONS
SIGMA XI BEST EXPO ORAL PRESENTATION AWARD (and Best Natural Science and Engineering Oral Presentation)
Julia Dierksheide, “Exploring the Detection of Missing Tissue in Planarian Regeneration”
BEST SOCIAL SCIENCE AND JOURNALISM ORAL PRESENTATION
Jordyn Ricard, “Life Stress and Facial Expressions of Emotion in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis”
BEST ARTS AND HUMANITIES ORAL PRESENTATION
Keerti Gopal, “Stories of Activism”
HONORABLE MENTION (in alphabetical order)
- Jolie Boulos, “Are You One of Us? A Qualitative Study of How White Appearing College Students Make Sense of Their Identities, Find Communities, and Interact with Racial and Ethnic Affinity Spaces”
- Samantha Milstein, “Who am I Now? A Qualitative Study on Identity Formation and Self-Perception Following Parental Death in Adolescence”
- Sophie Rodosky, “Facial Expressions in Adolescent-Parent Interactions and Links with Anxiety and Depression: A Dyadic Approach”
MOST POPULAR/AUDIENCE CHOICE
Zoe Miller, “Hungry Thirsty Roots: Imagining and Constructing Ethnic Otherness in 1800s England”
POSTER PRESENATIONS
SIGMA XI BEST EXPO POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD:
Sophia Liu, “Exploring the effects of phonetic overlap and background noise on incremental processing in children”
SOCIAL SCIENCE AND JOURNALISM
1st Place: Reena Burt, “The I in Community: Social Trust for First-Year Students”
2nd Place: June Choe, “Computer-assisted snowball search for meta-analysis research”
3rd Place (TIE):
Imani Minor & Suzannah Kingsbury, “What Identities Warrant the Lens of Intersectionality in Psychology and Human Development Research?”
Cameryn Farrow-Johnson, “Intersectionality and Social Identity: An exploration of meaning making and gendered racial identity among Black adolescent girls”
ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND PERFORMANCE
1st Place: Fiona Asokacitta, “High on Your Own Supply: A Historiographic Analysis of Opium Use and Addiction in Southeast Asian Scholarship”
NATURAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
1st Place: Hanna Bertucci, “Characterization of triclosan tolerance mechanisms across Pseudomonas strains”
2nd Place: Yiwei Hang, “In-Vivo Effect of IL-2 Immune Complex on the Progression of Rheumatoid Arthritis”
3rd Place: Jessie Bolger, “Analysis of the CueR Constitutive Activator Variant (CueRCA) through Crystallography and DNA-Binding”
MOST POPULAR/AUDIENCE CHOICE
Christopher Lee/William He, “Mathematical Modeling of U.S. Elections”
CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL
FIRST PLACE
Mahito Henderson, “A Cat Called Kush: Harmony & Dialogue” (Mixed Media)
SECOND PLACE
Kayan Khraisheh, “All Roads Lead to Palestine” (Documentary)
THIRD PLACE (TIE)
Shaikha Alshaibi, “I Am More” (Documentary)
Leila Al-Nuaimi, “Fractured” (Short Film)
MOST POPULAR/AUDIENCE CHOICE
Sophie Civetta/Kristen Waagner, “His Name Is Lancelot” from Spamalot (Choreography)