Fifteen student research posters were selected for top Dean’s and Alabama Space Grant Award honors at the end-of-program Summer Community of Scholars (SCS) poster session at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System.
“The 41 undergraduates who participated in this summer’s program did excellent work, and it really shows in the quality and depth of their poster presentations,” says Dave Cook, director of undergraduate research. “The students' work is impressive, and we are extremely grateful for the mentorship provided by our faculty and research staff on these projects. Their willingness to work with undergraduates over the summer leads to some really exciting possibilities for everyone involved.”
The SCS is composed of the Research or Creative Experience for Undergraduates and the Honors Capstone Research Summer Program. Its purpose is to support research or creative experiences for undergraduate participants in all fields of study. The overall vision of the program is to sustain a vibrant culture of research and creative activities for undergraduates at UAH. Participants undertake activities within a project of research and creative scholarship.
A non-exclusive list of possible activities for the participants includes laboratory experiments, musical compositions, field studies, clinical projects, engineering experiments and projects, theoretical work, human behavior studies, writing projects and visual art projects. The activities are under the direct supervision of a UAH full-time faculty member or researcher.
Dean's and Director's Awards:
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences
First Place
Merritt Fisk, HY: Merchants and Mill Workers: Harrison Brothers and Huntsville Commerce, 1897-1903
Mentors: Drew Adan, Charlie Gibbons, Christine Sears
Second Place
Cole Rosenthal, BFA: Real Life or Just Fantasy: Live Performance to Animation
Mentor: Vinny Argentina
College of Education
First Place
MaryAnn Wiethop, KIN: Validation of the Kinematic Knee Sleeve for Measuring Joint Angle Changes in Active Young Adults
Mentor: Ryan Conners
College of Engineering
First Place
Joshua Corbin, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE): Development of Mechanical Characterization Techniques and Analysis of Flexible Electronic Materials
Mentor: Nicholas Ginga
Second Place
McClellan Buckhalter, MAE: Calibrated Thrust Measurement for Rotating Detonation Engines
Mentor: John Bennewitz
College of Nursing
First Place
Emily Bolton, Nursing: Diet-Mediated Heart Disease Risk via the Gut Microbiome
Mentor: Jennifer Bail
Second Place (tie)
Dawson Hammons, Nursing: Civility as a Nursing Concept in the Clinical Setting
Mentor: Rachel Seady
John David McGovern, Nursing: Civility as a Nursing Concept in the Classroom Setting
Mentor: Tamela Shults
College of Science
First Place
Jared Schlosser, Chemistry: Functionalizing Titanium with Fluorosilane can make it Water-Repellent
Mentor: Jeffrey Weimer
Second Place
Kieffer Haehnlein, Biological Sciences: Describing the effects of antibiotic-resistance ribosomes on gene expression in bacteria
Mentor: Luis R. Cruz-Vera
Honors College
First Place
Celeste Davis, Art Studio: Short Film Adaptation of Soseki Natsume’s Ten Nights’ Dreams
Mentor: Vinny Argentina
Second Place
Kaitlin Bryce, Biology: MAPK Activation in Pancreatic Ductal Cells Expressing Wild-type CFTR
Mentor: Ahmed Lawan
Alabama Space Grant
First Place
Emma Koontz, Atmospheric and Earth Science: Weather Radar Characteristics of Thick Cloud Layers over the Eastern Range Associated with a Triggered Lightning Risk
Mentor: Lawrence Carey
Second Place (tie)
Kokoro Hosogi, Physics: Studying feedback from super-massive black holes at the center of giant elliptical galaxies
Mentor: Ming Sun
Maddie Liz Golembeck, Chemistry: The Perspective Use of FTIR and Surface Tension in Measuring Concentrations
Mentor: Jeffrey Weimer
Summer Community of Scholars Poster Session