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Spring Expo 2021

Winners

Oral Presentations

  • First Place: Derek Dang, Sahar Moughnyeh, Emily Stephens, Karishma Parbhoo, Ryleigh Fleming, Sarah Adkins-Jablonsky
  • Second Place: Charlene Mansour
  • Third Place: Jaclyn Aida

Poster Presentations

  • Arts and Humanities

    First Place: Gavin Baker

    Second Place: Jaimee Deese

  • Business

    First Place: William Atkinson

  • Biological and Life

    First Place: Connor Campbell

    Second Place (Tie):

    • Rose Albert
    • Jessica Ryan

    Third Place: Leanna Crafford

  • Education

    First Place: Madison Dahlke, Emmie Prewitt

    Second Place: Hannah Grace Hatley, Kylie Adcox

  • Engineering

    First Place: Chattada Viriyaphap, Rachel Lewis, Tyler Gilson, Rufus Wanarua Njeru

    Second Place: Lara Tapy, Russ Fuller, Adam Luechtefeld, Isabella Reed, Jason Zhang

    Third Place: Amy Heerten, Chase Newton, Ian Svantesson

  • Health Sciences

    First Place: Rose Albert

    Second Place: Mary Faulkner

    Third Place: Emily Baugh

  • Physical and Applied Science

    First Place: Jace Duhon, Najla Ibrahim, Nash Robinson

    Second Place (Tie):

    • Arielle Griffin, Seokhoon Kim, Gavin Bingham
    • Eric Choi, Garrett Hendley, Yuvika Harsh

    Third Place: Kai Battle, Khaldoun Faris

  • Service Learning

    First Place: Emma Kate Sellers

    Second Place: Lyndsey Plymon

    Third Place: Meredith Kaletski

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

    First Place: Emma Kate Sellars

    Second Place: Mel Ebeling, Ann Carol Braswell, Audria S. Wood, Taylor R. White, Marissa A. Lausen, Sasha Isaac

    Third Place: Destyni Cravens

  • Works in Progress

    First Place (tie):

    • Brayden Rohr, Esther Lim, Thanushri Srikantha
    • Leanna Coffey, Arushi Kotru, Keeton Morgan, Kelly Schattle, Sarah Van Winkle

    Second Place: Olivia Johnston, Hadley Rosengrant

    Third Place: Kylie Schomber, Carlos Martinez Diaz

Video Research Awards

Cindy Nguyen

FIRST PLACE: Cindy Nguyen, "The Epigenetic Effects of Exercise on a Rodent Model of TLE"

Dante James

SECOND PLACE: Dante James, "Entropy Production of a Single Driven Qubit"

Ryleigh Flemming

THIRD PLACE: Ryleigh Flemming, "Breaking the Barries of Traditional Service Learning in a Pandemic"

Meet our 2021 Spring Expo Keynote Speaker: Cristen Gavin, PhD

Dr. Gavin is an Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Biomedical Programs for the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, an Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, an Assistant Professor of Psychology, and Co-Director of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program (UNP), an interdisciplinary program between the Department of Neurobiology in the School of Medicine and the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition to teaching commitments in the program, Dr. Gavin oversees curriculum and faculty development, academic advising, recruitment, and manages undergraduate neuroscience research in the UAB Heersink School of Heersink Medicine. Dr. Gavin also serves as co-director of the UAB Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) an NIH-funded initiative to increase diversity in biomedical sciences at the graduate level and beyond.

Dr. Gavin received her PhD in Neuroscience from UAB. Her research areas include cellular and molecular mechanisms of structural and functional plasticity; memory; and mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disabilities.

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