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The Student Scholar Symposium took place on March 26 and 27, 2025 in the Pegasus Ballroom, UCF Student Union. Congratulations to all winners listed below. In total, 119 projects have been awarded a $300 scholarship in recognition of their exceptional work. These awards could not be possible without the support of our event sponsors. 

Undergraduates 

Aven Kazmier: Madness as Epistemic Advantage: The Relevance of Standpoint Epistemology to the Evolution of Mental Health Care  

Mentor: Mason Cash, Ph.D.  
Department of Philosophy 

 

Bruno Pinheiro: Animating Animal Tracking Data in a Geospatial Context 

Mentor: Christen H. Fleming, PhD  
Department of Biology 

 

Patricia Bertola: Translation of FGF19 as a Biomarker for Colorectal Cancer Tumor Progression  

Mentor: Deborah Altomare, PhD  
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences 

 

Jennifer Hughes: Salinity Effects of Cu(II) Bioremediation by Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Microalgae  

Mentor: Woo Hyoung Lee, PhD 
Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering 

 

Zoe Wainscott, Heather Perez: Highly Reproducible Ion-Selective Electrode for Biomarker Monitoring  

Karin Chumbimuni Torres, PhD  
Department of Chemistry 

 

Gabriel Oliveira: Exploration of Mr NnlA’s Ability to Bind Nitric Oxide  

Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Caranto  
Department of Chemistry 

 

Mitchell Campbell: Functional Characterization of LncRNA PAINT in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer  

Mentor: Dr. Ratna Chakrabarti PhD College of Medicine 

 

Natalie Moreira: Exploring Nurses’ Perspectives of the Use of Hospital Interpretation Technologies Versus Other Methods for Communicating With Non-English Language Preference Patients  

Mentor: Sandra Galura, PhD College of Nursing 

 

Ann Mary Thomas: Social Determinants of Health Affecting Cardiovascular Health Among South Asian Americans: A Systematic Review 

Mentor: Xiaochuan Wang, PhD School of Social Work 

 

Cameron Stott, Natalia Montalvo: Advancing Socket Design for Customizable Myoelectric Prostheses: Enhancing Comfort and Fit Through Innovative Techniques  

Mentor: Albert Manero  
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

 

MacKenzie Miller: Multiple Concussions and Their Effects on Blind Perceptual Distance Estimation Ability  

Valerie Sims, PhD, and Jeffrey Bedwell, PhD  
Department of Psychology 

 

Amber Fazio: A Meta-Analytic Review: Psilocybin Experiences and Implications on Depression Symptomology  

Mentors: W. Steven Saunders, PsyD, Matthew Chin, PhD, and Shawn Davis, PhD  
Department of Psychology 

 

Hannah Stern: Switching Languages, Switching Personalities: The Impact of Bilingualism on Personality and Anxiety  

Mentor: Mustapha Mouloua, PhD  
Department of Psychology 

 

Sydnee Hinson: Investigating Isotopic Variation in Rib Bones: Implications for the Need of Method Standardization  

  1. Marla Toyne, PhD
    Department of Anthropology

 

Graduates 

Stacie Becker: A Visual Exploration of the Impact of Societal Norms on Individuality  

Mentor: Jason Burrell, MFA  
School of Visual Arts and Design 

 

Rachel Totaram: Comparing Experiences of Stigma in Medication-Assisted Recovery Anonymous versus 12-Step Groups: A Qualitative Study  

Mentor: Barbara Andraka-Christou, JD, PhD  
School of Global Health Management and Informatics 

 

Daejhanae Smith Studying Dormant Comets Among Asteroids via a Remnant Emission Survey Tool (REST)  

Mentor: Yan Fernandez, PhD.  
Department of Physics 

 

Joseph Goode Overcoming immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer: Efficacy of polyamine blockade and anti-PD-1 combinational therapy 

Mentor: Deborah Altomare, PhD.  
College of Medicine 

 

Joseph Ciurca Fluid Dynamics Modeling for the Interpretation of Organ-on-a-Chip Systems  

Mentor: James Hickman PhD  
Department of Chemistry 

 

Kworweinski Lafontant: Effect of a Physio-Feedback-Based Exercise Program on Physical Function and Body Composition Among Low-Income Community-Dwelling Older Adults  

Mentors: David H. Fukuda, PhD, Jeffrey R. Stout, PhD, and Ladda Thiamwong, PhD School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy 

Undergraduates 

Vishanth Murugesan: Understanding the Effect of RIP2:XIAP Interactions on the Activity of ALOX5  

Mentor: Justine Tigno-Aranjuez, PhD  
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences 

 

Mia Gjonbalaj What Business Opportunities Exist in “space” Beyond Launching Satellites, Supplies, and People for Central Florida Businesses?  

Mentor: Dr. David Penn  
Department of Integrated Business 

 

Sun Latt Bioactive Ion Release From Biomaterials for Bone Regeneration  

Mentor: Mehdi Razavi, PhD  
College of Medicine 

 

Cecil Latta: Cognitive Impairment and Depression in Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Low-Income Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study  

Mentor: Dahee Kim PhD  
College of Nursing 

 

Ariana Deboo: From Vinyl to Viral, Evaluating the Mere Exposure Effect Through Music and Technological Advancements  

Mentor: James Szalma, PhD  
Computer Science 

Samantha Castro Evaluating a Novel Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage Protocol for Studying Recovery in Resistance-Trained Individuals  

Mentor: Jessica Moon M.S, CISSN, Adam Wells PhD  
Department of Health Sciences 

 

Logan Banks Test-Retest Reliability of Measures of Leg Muscle Mass Among Older Adults: Preliminary Results  

Mentor: Matt S. Stock PhD.  
School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy 

 

Chloe Pinkston Measuring Achilles Tendon Stiffness and Kinetics In-Vivo  

Mentor: Hwan Choi, PhD  
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

 

Kazi Salsabil Fake or Real? Unmasking the Role of Personality, Cognitive Reflection, and Modulating Factors in News Perception  

Mentor: Nichole Lighthall, PhD  
Department of Psychology 

 

Kat Montgomery Life SIMitates Art: Exploring Self-Reflection Through Avatar Creation  

Mentor: Nichole Lighthall  
Department of Psychology 

 

Caden Henderson The Japanese Language Acquisition Game Project: “Pingu Jisho”  

Mentor: Yukari Nakamura-Deacon, MA  
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures 

 

Meera Lakshmanan  
Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life Among Breast Cancer Survivors by Hispanic Origin in a Cross-Sectional Study  

Mentor: Eunkyung Lee, Ph.D., RDN  
Department of Health Sciences 

 

Renato Guzman Determining Wetland Alteration Effects on Pathogenic Infection in Large Aquatic Salamanders.  

Mentor: Matthew Scot Atkinson, PhD  
Department of Biology 

 

Gabriel Pereira Analyzing Soil particle sizes Between Natural and reconstructed wetland (Lake Erie)  

Mentor: Dr. Lisa Chambers  
Department of Biology 

 

 

Graduate Winners 

Amanda Tanner Biodiesel Formation Catalyzed by Mechanically Milled Seed Shells  
Mentor: Michael Hampton, PhD  
Department of Chemistry 

 

Jonatas de Mendonca Rolando Cardiotoxic Mechanisms of Ponatinib: From Inflammation to Cardiac Dysfunction  

Mentor: Dinender K. Singla, PhD  
College of Medicine 

 

Rebecca Carson Past Injury History Predicts Current Functional Movement Screen™ Scores in Collegiate Club Ice Hockey Players  

Mentor: L. Colby Mangum, PhD  
School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy 

 

Haylee Hollis, Mariana Mazzocca, Emily Riggs M-Mode Ultrasound Assessment During Common Core Endurance Exercises in Athletes  

Mentor: L. Colby Mangum, PhD  
School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy 

 

Syeda Faiza Sherazi Revealing the Active Site Local Atomic Environment of Oxide-supported Ag Single Atom Catalyst  

Talat S Rahman, PhD.  
Department of Physics 

 

Jazmyn Donovan: Stress, Performance, and Personality: Exploring the Effects of Social Facilitation in Vigilance Tasks  

Mentor: James Szalma, PhD  
Department of Psychology 

 

Hanifa Bakar, Mary Chaffin, Angela Le How can emerging technologies reduce workplace stress in high-pressure environments, including theme parks and hotels, with scalable solutions?  

Mentor: Carlos Valdez, Ph.D.  
Department of Integrated Business 

Undergraduate 

Jaehyun Ahn:  
Efforts Toward the Synthesis of Key Reagents for the Preparation of Analogs of Lyngbyabellin A.  

Mentor: Yu Yuan PhD  
Department of Chemistry 

 

AJ Johnson:  
Threading the Needle: Chinese American Adoptees and the In-Between  

Mentor: Betsy Kalin, MFA  
Nicholson School Of Communication And Media 

 

Samantha Tyler  
Investigating Gender Differences in Social Vulnerability and Scam Susceptibility in Older Adults  

Mentor: Nichole R. Lighthall, PhD  
Department of Psychology 

 

Terry Achille, James Chen, Patrick Ijieh, Camillo Alvarez-Velez: 
Augmenting GUI Interaction Data With Bug Reports to Rank Potentially Buggy Files in Android App Code Using Neural Text Embeddings  

Mentor: Kevin Moran, PhD  
Computer Science 

 

Mira Schmidt  
Elucidation of the Post-Transcriptional Regulation and Role in Iron Homeostasis of the Outer Membrane Vesicle Protein YncE in Salmonella  

Mentor: Hubert Salvail, PhD  
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences 

 

Meera Lakshmanan  
Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life Among Breast Cancer Survivors by Hispanic Origin in a Cross-Sectional Study  

Mentor: Eunkyung Lee, Ph.D., RDN  
Department of Health Sciences 

 

Katherine Beltre  
What Business Opportunities Are Emerging From Climate Change in Central Florida?  

Mentor: David Penn  
Department of Integrated Business 

 

Alyssa Boyd  
Effects of Graphene and Osmolytes on Actin Assembly Kinetics and Mechanics  

Ellen Kang, PhD  
Department of Physics 

 

Emilio Pereira, Nathaniel Michnoff  
Flowpath Design for a Mach 10 Oblique Detonation Wave Flight Experiment  

Mentor: Kareem Ahmed  
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

 

Austin Wolin, Elie Nehme  
Leveraging Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing to Understand Post-Traumatic Growth in Children at Valerie’s House.  

Mentor: Dr. Widaad Zaman  
Department of Psychology 

 

Eugenio Diaz  
Texture Classification Using Neuromorphically Encoded Tactile Sensing Data  

Mentor: Mohsen Rakhshan, PhD  
Electrical and Computer Engineering 

 

Gianna Florentino  
Assessing the Geographic Expansion of an Invasive Snake Lungworm, Raillietiella orientalis, in Southeastern Snake Populations  

Mentor: Anna Savage, PhD  
Department of Biology 

 

Nishtha Tikalal  
Plasmonic-Induced Fano Resonance in Subwavelength Nano-Cavities for Structural Coloration  

Mentor: Debashis Chanda, PhD  
Department of Physics 

 

Griffen Smith  
Training Learning Assistants Using AI  

Mentor: Dr. Julie Donnelly  
Department of Chemistry 

 

Graduate Students 

Mazharul Islam Mondal  
3Observation of multiple flat bands and Van-Hove singularities in the distorted Kagome metal NdTi3Bi4  

Mentor: Madhab Neupane, PhD.  
Department of Physics 

 

MD ROXY ISLAM  
A New Strategy From a Sustainable Source: Membrane Capacitors From Clays  

Mentor: Kausik Mukhopadhyay, PhD  
Materials Science and Engineering 

 

Leaford Henderson  
MnO2 cathode nanocomposite and electrolyte engineering for high-performance zinc ion batteries  

Jayan Thomas, PhD  
Electrical and Computer Engineering 

 

Nurun Naher  
Interpretable Models for Near-real-time Prediction of Team Cognitive Workload in Complex Sociotechnical Environments Using Behavioral and Physiological Data  

Stephen M. Fiore, PhD.  
School of Modeling, Simulation and Training 

 

Tangila Islam Tanni  
GenAI at Work: Sharing Professional Content Against Better Judgment  

Mentor: Yan Solihin, PhD.  
Computer Science 

 

Ridhwana Appiah  
Investigating Natural Proline-rich Antimicrobial Peptides (PrAMPs) Activity Towards Klebsiella pneumoniae  

Mentor: Renee Fleeman PhD  
College of Medicine 

Undergraduates 

Alyssa Ryan  
A Strategy to Isolate and Identify Anaerobic Bacteria That Could Prevent Colonization of Clostridiodes Difficile  

Mentor: William Self, PhD  
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences 

 

Kassandra Faylun  
The Truth and Their Versions: Florida Lawmakers and Academic Freedom Across K-12 and Higher Education  

Mentor: Robert Cassanello, PhD  
Department of History 

 

Ritisha Suresh  
Investigating the Interaction of Gram-Positive Lactobacillus Species With Mucin in the Context of Barrett’s Esophagus  

Mentor: Claudia D. Andl, PhD  
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences 

 

Shreya Pawar  
Stimulating Bone Tissue Regeneration With Silver-Ceria/Polymer Nanocomposites  

Mentor: Dr. Sudipta Seal, PhD  
Nanotechnology 

 

Abigail Clark  
Determining The Effectiveness of Gopher Tortoise Burrows as an Ecosystem Service in an Anthropogenically Altered Location  

Matthew Atkinson, PhD  
Department of Biology 

 

Gabriel Santiago Rodriguez  
Production of Nitrate in TxtE  

Mentor: Jonathan D. Caranto, PhD  
Department of Chemistry 

 

Megan Bailey  
Dissociable Effects of Unimodal and Multimodal Feedback on Sensorimotor Processing During Grasp  

Mentor: Mohsen Rakhshan, PhD 
Electrical and Computer Engineering 

 

Charlotte Greggs, Gustavo Quilula  
Understanding Campus Recreation Participation Among College Students  

A’Naja Newsome, PhD  
Department of Health Sciences 

 

Kylie McGlone  
Dual-Task Brain Activity After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction  

Faculty Mentors: Meredith Chaput PhD, DPT, SCS; Matt S. Stock PhD; Grant E. Norte PhD, ATC  
School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy 

Delta Zable  
Adaptive Lower-Limb Knee-Ankle Prosthesis to Restore Normal Human Walking Gait  

Mentor: Yue Wen, PhD  
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

 

Makenzie Kennedy  
Cognitive Physiological Moderator’s of Anxiety’s Impact on Adaptive Functioning in Young Adults  

Mentor: Jeffrey Cassisi, PhD  
Department of Psychology 

 

Eric Haseman  
Personality Traits as Predictors of Political Belief Change  

Martha Hubertz, PhD  
Department of Psychology 

 

Shania Shahab  
Decoding Parental Vaccine Decision-Making and Hesitancy Through Social Media Discourse  

Mentor: Amy Donley, PhD Department of Sociology 

 

Nadia Rios  
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Suicide Prevention Care Coordination Training for Health Professionals  

Mentor: Kimberley Gryglewicz, Ph.D., MSW  
School of Social Work 

Graduate Winners  

Wesley Lim  
Loss of LMAN1 in Airway Epithelial Cells Improves Mitochondrial Function and Inhibits Apoptosis in Response to Alternaria alternata  

Mentor: Justine T. Tigno-Aranjuez, PhD  
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences 

 

Nathan Becker  
U.S. Army enlistments and the danger of a “Warrior Caste”  

Mentor: Kelsey Larsen, PhD  
School Of Politics, Security, And International Affairs 

 

Jennyfer Vivas Gomez  
AN ASYMMETRIC ELECTRODE LAYOUT APODIZATION FOR SUPPRESSING SPURIOUS MODES IN LITHIUM NIOBATE LAMB-WAVE RESONATORS  

Mentor: Reza Abdolvand, PhD.  
Electrical and Computer Engineering 

 

Harvey Cajina, Imran Miyanji, Anais Pain  
Expectations and Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Pain Sensitivity After High- and Low-Exertion Exercise  

Mentor: Matt S. Stock, PhD  
School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy 

 

Hannah Bynum, Laura Florez, Madison Lamb  
Factors Impacting the Preparedness of Doctor of Physical Therapy Students – a Qualitative Study  

Mentor: William Hanney, PhD  
School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy 

 

Sarah Swiersz  
Sea-Level Rise and Climate Justice for Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples  

Mentor: Patricia Carlton, PhD  
Interdisciplinary Studies 

Undergraduate Winners 

 

Miguel Bermudez  
Lost Homelands, New Beginnings: A Virtual Exhibition of Displacement and Resilience  

Mentor: Christy Flanagan-Feddon, PhD  
Department of Philosophy 

 

Sterlin Bass  
Florida’s Gifted Education Program: Exploring The Nexus Between Giftedness and Choice of College Major  

Mentor: Donovan Adams PhD  
Department of Anthropology 

 

Otis Woolfolk  
Macro- and Micro-: Examining Novel Biodegradable Restoration Materials  

Mentor: Linda Walters PhD  
Department of Biology 

Siva Annamalai  
Long-Lived Virus-Specific Humoral Immunity Is Retained Following CD25-Targeted IL-2 Treatment of Influenza a Virus Infected Mice  

Mentor: Tara M. Strutt, PhD Burnett  
School of Biomedical Sciences 

 

Divya Joshi  
The Anti-Tumorigenic Effects of Probiotic L. Acidophilus Postbiotic Metabolites in an Experimental Model of Barrett’s Esophagus  

Mentor: Claudia Andl, PhD  
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences 

 

Nicholas Rose  
Algorithms for Characterizing Motion-Based Energy Harvesting Reproducibility  

Mentor: Kaitlyn Crawford, PhD  
Materials Science and Engineering 

 

Alexis Cunha  
Neurodivergent Student Success in Postsecondary Education – Attitudes Toward Current Accommodations 

Mentor: Nancy McIntyre PhD  
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders 

 

Rishi Nair, Nicholas Mistry  
A Novel Machine Learning Approach to Predict Oncologic Drug Resistance Based on Synergistic Genetic Alterations  

Mentor: Anthony Magliocco, MD  
College of Medicine 

 

Keidy Bello  
Patterns And Determinants of Post-Diagnosis Cardiovascular Disease in Hispanic Breast Cancer Survivors 

Mentor: Eunkyung Lee, PhD  
Department of Health Sciences 

 

Javier Cuevas Chabrier  
Laser-Induced Patterning on the Surface of 2D Quantum Material Nb3Br8  

Mentor: Saiful I Khondaker, Ph.D.  
Department of Physics 

 

Daniel Garzon, Gianna Schultz, Daniel Prias, Daniela Martinez, Deanna McIntyre, Andrea Alas  
Examining Theatre for Very Young Audiences Using Developmental Psychology  

Valerie Sims, PhD, Matthew Chin, PhD  
Department of Psychology 

 

Sanjana Bhatt, Mahi Patel, Sheryl Pullukara, Caroline Pellissery  
Racial Narratives, Cultural Identity, and Maternal-Infant Health: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Race and Breastfeeding in Black Media  

Mentors: Shannon Carter, PhD, and Bhoomi Thakore, PhD  
Department of Sociology 

 

 

Graduate Winners 

Doyal Kumar Sarker  
Development of an Ai-Enabled Predictive Hydrodynamics Model for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (Fowt)  

Mentor: Tuhin Das, PhD  
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

 

Lauren Labuhn  
Perceptions of College Adjustment Amongst First-Year Latino/a/x Students  

Mentor: Kim Anderson, PhD  
School of Social Work 

 

Tina Glatz  
Obesogenic Behaviors and Health Outcomes of Children with Dyslexia During Summer Versus School Months 

Mentor: Keith Brazendale, PhD  
Department of Health Sciences 

 

Christopher McCombs, Danielle Bucknor, Tetsuei Okusaki  
Reliability of Athletic Ability Assessment Between Real-Time and Video Raters  

Mentor: L. Colby Mangum, PhD  
School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy 

 

Randi Richardson, Kaitlyn Campbell, Kaitlyn Lackey, Austin Plymill  
Improvements in Army Combat Fitness Test Performance Among New ROTC Cadets: The Influence of Sleep, Body Composition, and Muscle Quality  

Matt S. Stock Ph.D  
School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy 

 

Mahdi Soudi  
Structural Color Eco-Smart Coatings: Revolutionizing Energy Efficiency with Radiative Thermal Management 

Mentor: Debashis Chanda, PhD.  
Department of Physics 

 

Maren Mainx  
The Effects of Visual Cues on Stress Legacies and Perception of Police  

Mentor: Kelsey Larsen, PhD  
School Of Politics, Security, And International Affairs 

Undergraduate Winners 

Alexandria Miller  
Keeping You in Shape: The Integration of Fractals in the Study of Healthy Systems  

Mentor: Mason Cash, PhD  
Department of Philosophy 

 

Ornella Vintimilla  
How COVID-19 Impacted the Physical and Mental Health of Latino/Hispanic College Students Before, During, and After the Pandemic  

Mentor: Fernando Rivera, PhD  
Department of Sociology 

 

Francesca La Madrid  
Disability in Baroque: Representation and Perception in Art 

Mentor: Ilena Colon Mendoza, PhD  
School of Visual Arts and Design 

 

Destiny Reynoso  
Slowing the Progression of Barrett’s Esophagus Induced Esophageal Adenocarcinoma via Activin a Inhibition  

Mentor: Claudia Andl, PhD  
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences 

 

Laura Eugene  
Repurposing of Human Deubiquitinase Inhibitors for Malaria Therapy  

Mentor: Debopam Chakrabarti, PhD  
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences 

 

Daniel Alfonso-Travieso  
Using Different Approaches to Causal Inference to Assess the Effect of Ozone Exposure on DNA Methylation  

Mentor: Marie-Abele Bind, PhD  
College of Medicine 

 

Cori Keim  
Microlepidoptera as Cryptic Generalist Pollinators: Uninvolved or Underdog?  

Mentor: Christina L. Kwapich, PhD  
Department of Biology 

 

Andrew Casanova  
Synthesis of Nitramines for Mycobacterial Metabolic Inhibition  

Mentor: Jonathan Caranto, PhD  
Department of Chemistry 

 

Ezra Shobe  
Acute Effects of Blood Flow Restricted Resistance Exercise on Muscle Swelling  

Mentor: Ethan C. Hill, PhD  

School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy 

 

Nicholas Belden  
Final Size of Epidemics in Epidemic Invasion Network Structures  

Mentor: Lucas M. Stolerman, PhD (non-UCF) 

 

Amanda Chee-Awai  
A Mixed-Methods Study to Investigate Student Perceptions of a Flipped Forensic Chemistry Course  

Mentor: Tamra Legron-Rodriguez PhD 
Department of Chemistry 

 

Om Vishanagra, Pavan Senthil, Katherine Valdes 

Standardized Mechanical Platform for Evaluating Prosthetic Hand Functionality  

Albert Manero PhD  
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Graduate Winners 

Lillie del Real  

Utilizing Subjective Ratings With Machine Learning for Deepfake Face Classification  

Mentor: Mark Neider, PhD  
Department of Psychology 

 

Kenyari Gil Rosario  
Finding through Feeling: Experiencing the Spectrum of Mental Health through Art and Polite Humor  

Mentor: Jason Burrell, MFA  
School of Visual Arts and Design 

 

Melissa Marks  
Into the Matrix: Linear and 3D Analysis of the Talus for Biological Sex Estimation  

Lana Williams, PhD, Sarah Freidline, PhD, and Michael Callaghan, PhD  
Department of Anthropology 

 

Nabila Shahnaz Khan  
GINClus: RNA Structural Motif Clustering Using Graph Isomorphism Network  

Shaojie Zhang, PhD  
Computer Science 

 

Varun Singh  
Towards Natural Disaster Resilience: Predictive Modeling of Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreading  

Weiwei Zhan, Ph.D.  
Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering 

 

Omonzejie Imaralu  
Lipid Dysregulation induces PCSK9-TNFα Mediated Inflammatory Mechanism in Anti-Cancer Drug (Doxorubicin) Induced Cardiomyopathy  

Mentor: Dinender Singla, PhD.  
College of Medicine 

 

Funke Dada  
From Tradition to Innovation: Comparing Neural Networks and Traditional Methods for Bias Reduction  

Debbie Hahs-Vaughn, PhD, and M.H. Clark, PhD Department of Learning Sciences & Educational Research 

 

FNU Himanshu  
Observation of Dirac cone and flat band in an in-plane ferromagnetic Kagome Metal  

Madhab Neupane, PhD.  
Department of Physics