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Student research and creative works winners announced

The winners of the 2018 Student Research and Creative Works Showcase at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock were announced during an awards ceremony May 1 in the Student Services Center. Students presented more than 150 research and creative works April 12 in the Jack Stephens Center. Student projects were judged on the novelty and clarity of their research, the soundness of their methodology, the potential application of their findings, and the student鈥檚 ability to explain their project to an expert and lay audience. A complete list of winners and their projects include: Undergraduate Winners Art First Place: Corrie Green, 鈥淭he New African-American Women:Exploring Intersectionality in Non-traditional Casting鈥� First Place (tie): Thomas Jackson, 鈥淐oncept Statement for the play 聽Art by Yasmina Reza鈥� Economics First Place: Abigail Resendiz, 鈥淭he 1920 Merchant Marine Act: An Outdated and Protectionist Law Disturbing Economic Growth鈥� First Place (tie): Logan Vickery and Nick Stevens, 鈥淭he Cost of Responsibility: Impacts on Rental Prices of the Implied Warrant of Habitability鈥� Education First Place: Madison Christie, 鈥淰isual Verse: Translating English Poems into ASL鈥� Second Place: Cameryn Kirkham, 鈥淭eaching Charlie May Simon as an Author, Artist, and Arkansan鈥� Engineering First Place: J鈥檝on Jackson, 鈥淰enturi Scrubber Design for Syngas System鈥� Second Place: Begros Asgeirsdottir, 鈥淯tilization of Rainwater for Cooling House Interior鈥� Life & Physical Science First Place: Davonte Hokes, 鈥淚nvestigation of Bio-Inspired Polymeric Coating for Improvement in ORR Activity of Amidomacrocyclic Cobal (III) Catalyst Complexes鈥� Second Place: Emily Anderson and Cordell Gilreath, 鈥淒evelopment for Lyme Disease鈥� Third Place: Marina Avram, 鈥淎lgal Oculata Biotemplated Water-Splitting Nanocatalysts Nickel/Iron Oxides鈥� Social Science First Place: Abigail Resendiz, 鈥淔inancial Impact of the Jones Act鈥� Second Place: Emily Elam, 鈥�500 Fiddle Tunes: Transcriptions of Billy Mathews鈥� Old-Time Archive鈥� Third Place: Cynthia Wyman, 鈥淚ntellectual and Hungry: Assessing the State of Campus Food Insecurity鈥� Technology First Place: Deepali Lal, 鈥淎re Alcohol Establishments Marketing Crime?鈥� Second Place: Yumeng Ye, 鈥淎 Project 鈥� First Approach to Teaching Entity Resolution and Identity Management鈥� Humanities First Place: El-Noor Ahkter, 鈥淭he Color of Women鈥� First Place (tie): Michael Caysido, 鈥淎ram II鈥檡ich Khachaturian and the Use of Folk Songs in His Compositions鈥� Second Place: Emily Junkans, 鈥淧honetic Features of Native Spanish Speakers Learning English鈥� Physical Science First Place: Rebecca Moreira, 鈥淣ovel Renewable Resource Based Nanocomposites for Removal and Recovery of Phosphorus from Contaminated Wastewaters鈥� Second Place: Nathan Taylor, 鈥淚onizing Radiation Protection by Inhibition of PP2A鈥� Second Place (tie): Samantha Macchi, 鈥淪upercapacitor application of phosphorus and nitrogen co-doped carbon materials from renewable precursor materials鈥� Service Work and Professional Application First Place: Rebecca Moreira, 鈥淗ow Spanish Interpreting at the 12th Street Clinic Can Lead to Medical School鈥� GRAD糖心Vlog传媒TE WINNERS Biology First Place: Diamond McGehee with M. Lahiani, F. Irwin, and M. Green, 鈥淚nvestigation of the Effects of Carbon 鈥揃ased Nanomaterials on the Metabolomics Level in Plants鈥� Engineering First Place: Trigun Maroo, 鈥淎 Novel Gripper System for Corrugated Box Grasping and Manipulation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles鈥� First Place (tie): Ali Abdulhussein, 鈥淔acile fabrication of a free-standing superhydrophobic and superoleophilic carbon nanofiber-polymer block that effectively absorbs oils and chemical pollutants from water鈥� Health Science First Place: Asween Marco, Naveen Patil, Jane Voyles, Yan Egbe, and Leonard Mukasa. 鈥�The Threat of Tuberculosis Transmission Among the US-born: Lessons from Two Outbreaks, Arkansas鈥� Second Place: Elizabeth Burnham, 鈥淭he Social (Media) Social Work(er)鈥� Life Science Second Place: Rebekah White, 鈥淭oxic Effects of Copper and Nickel on Synechocystis PCC 6803鈥� Life & Physical Science First Place: Amita Nakarmi and Rebecca Moreira, 鈥�Phosphate Removal From Contaminated Waters鈥� Second Place: Dane Hudson, 鈥淐ylic Electron Flow Prevents Photoinhibition in Solanum habrochaites Under Drought Stress鈥� Physical Science First Place: Busra Ergul, Mahbuba Begum, Nancy Kariuki, and Deborah Myers. 鈥淥xygen Reduction Reaction Activity of Platinum Thin Films with Different Densities鈥� First Place (tie): Daniel Nde, 鈥淎lgae-Biotemplated Water-splitting Nanocatalysts for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction鈥� Professional Studies First Place: Thu Nguyen, 鈥淒o In-house Investor Relations Professionals in Real Estate Management Use PR and Strategic Communications Principles?鈥� Second Place: Raad Alawajji, Zeid A. Nima, Ahmed K. Hashoosh, Karrer M. Alghazali, Emilie Darrigues, Nigel Kelly (undergraduate), Ashley Strohmeyer (undergraduate), and Ali Abdulhussein (presenter). 鈥淔abrication of Transparent Superhydrophobic Polytetrafluoroethylene Coating鈥� Social Science First Place: Jennifer Watkins: 鈥淲hy don鈥檛 they listen to me: A qualitative interpretive meta synthesis of a child鈥檚 perception of their sexual abuse鈥� Second Place: Margaret Kealy-Machella, 鈥�What’s App: Little Rock AFB Mobile App Communication Plan鈥� Systems Engineering First Place: Rajat Singh, 鈥淔lexible Control of Synergistic Group of Muscles鈥� Technology First Place (tie): Tuja Khaund and Samer Al-Khateeb. 鈥淎nalyzing Social Bots and their Coordination during Crisis Weather Events鈥� Second Place: Evan Xiangwen Liu, 鈥淒eep Neutral Networks Self-taught Learning鈥� Second Place: Chen Xu, 鈥淢onitoring Traffic through IDS on OpenStack Cloud鈥� In the photo above right, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock student Corrie Green (right) talks about her project, “The New African-American Woman: Exploring Intersectionality in Non-Traditional Casting,” to Jana McAuliffe, who was judging student works at the Student聽Research聽and Creative Works聽Showcase.聽Photo by Benjamin Krain