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URD 2023

Undergraduate Research Day 2023

The annual event organized by the Honors College is designed to celebrate undergraduate research


List of 2023 URD Winners


Phi Beta Kappa URD Grand Prize

  • Kaylee Tatum with Prof. Courtney Hofman
    • “A Cultural and Morphological Investigation of Ancient Bering Sea Bear Bones”

Phi Kappa Phi URD Grand Prize

  • Ben Johnson with Prof. Si Wu
    • "Development of an automated spray-capillary CE-MS system for mass limited proteomics"

MultidisciplInary and Humanistic Studies

  • First Place: Kristina Aleksanyan with Prof. Afshin Marashi 
    • "Nationalizing Violence: The Effects of the 1915 Genocide on Modern Armenian National Identity"

Multidisciplinary and Humanistic Studies

  • Second Place: Jasmin Heidary and Shreya Lingamallu with Prof. Lauren Ethridge 
    • "Evaluation of the electrophysiological impact of parenting style on young adult self-perception"

Systems and Analytic

  • First Place: Michael Yu with Prof. Sina Khanmohammadi 
    • "Genetic Predisposition to Alcoholism Significantly Alters the Functional Connectivity of the Brain"

Systems and Analytics 

  • Second Place: Chaani Rao with Prof. Philip Harvey
    • "Modeling and Simulation of Digitally Designed Sculptures in Fusion 360"

Chemical, Biological & Materials Engineering

  •  First Place: Adriana Landry with Prof. Michele Galizi
    • "Modified Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity membranes for gas separation"

Chemical, Biological & Materials Engineering 

  • Second Place: Stephen Kooker with Prof. Reza Foudazi
    • "Foaming Properties of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) for Remediation Purposes"

Biomedical Engineering

  • First Place: Joy Lambert with Prof. Jakob Townsend
    • "The Translation Regenerative Medicine Laboratory: Chondroinductive Peptides for Cartilage Regeneration"

Biomedical Engineering 

  • Second Place: Sam Mentzer with Prof. Sarah Breen
    • "Hip Joint Brace for Improved Patient Outcomes During Athletic Activity"

Biological Sciences 

  • First Place: Joshua Cuozzo with Prof. Carolyn Ibberson
    • "Profiling Virulence of Polymicrobial Infection within a Preclinical CF Model"

Biological Sciences 

  • Second Place: Rami Hassan with Prof. Mojgan Padash
    • "Studying the underlying mechanism behind the rescue caused by the reduction of  IKKβ in a Drosophila model of HPV18-induced cancer"

Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • First Place: Oliver Wu with Prof. Si Wu
    • "Protein Thermal Depletion Coupled with Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry for Characterization of Protein-Ligand Interactions in Cell Lysate"

Chemistry  and Biochemistry

  • Second Place: Lucy Coleman with Prof. Shanteri Singh
    • "Organic Synthesis of Chemoselective Alcohol Analogs for Biocatalycti Drug Discovery"

Health and Environment 

  • First Place: Samantha Hopper with Prof. Julie Ober Allen 
    • "Stress-Related Health Disparities Among Childhood Trauma Survivors"

Health and Environment

  • Second Place: Attie Marchall with Prof. Randy Peppler
    • "The Greening of Evangelicals: Caring for Creation Instead of Subduing It?"

Undergraduate Research Day Honorable Mention

  • Ahmed Abdelaziz with Prof. Samer Sheheta
    • "Authoritarianism Camouflaged in Media"

Undergraduate Research Day Honorable Mention

  • Kaelen Cunnyngham with Prof. Julia Ober Allen 
    • "Short-Term Physiological and Psychological Effects of Ageism"

Undergraduate Research Day Honorable Mention

  • Felipe Avelino Ferreira with Prof Christina Bourne
    • "Mapping interaction sites of ParE toxin with ParD antitoxin and with DNA gyrase"

Undergraduate Research Day Honorable Mention

  • Gracie Hedgpeth with Prof. Daniel Becker
    • "Exploratory pathogen survey of amphibian blood parasites in eastern Oklahoma"

Undergraduate Research Day Honorable Mention

  • Saadia Nazir and Ahmed Hussan with Prof. Krithi Sankaranarayanan
    • "Ceftriaxone and ciprofloxacin resistance in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gatherer, subsistence farming, and urban industrial populations"

Undergraduate Research Day Honorable Mention

  • Caylin Nimmo with Prof. Yingtao Liu
    • "Ultra-stretchable Nanocomposite Embedded 3D Printing"

Undergraduate Research Day Honorable Mention

  • Sean Nguyen with Prof. Sina Khanmohammadi
    • "Multilayer Network Analysis of Brain Signals in Detecting Alzheimer's Disease"

Undergraduate Research Day Honorable Mention 

  • Shyla Satterwhite and Reagan Buchanan with Prof. Heather Ketchum
    • "Seasonal Phenology of Blow Flies for Forensic Purposes"

Undergraduate Research Day Honorable Mention

  • Megan Talbot with Prof. Heather Ketchum 
    • "Curation of Blow Fly Species Collected in Oliver's Woods Nature Preserve"

Undergraduate Research Day Honorable Mention

  • Ryan Young and Jaden Norman with Chung Hao Lee
    • "Right Heart Simulator for Tricupid Valve Analysis"

 

 

Undergraduate Research Day 2023 Photo Album