2019 Research and Creative Works Expo Winners Announced

May 14, 2019

Students present their research projects during the 2019 Student Research and Creative Works Expo.

糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock recently announced the winners of the 2019 Research and Creative Works Expo. Students presented more than 150 research and creative works April 18 in the Jack Stephens Center during the premiere student research event. 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. 鈥淭his year’s expo was bigger and better than ever before, and was part of the first ever Research and Creativity in the Rock (RCR),鈥� said Dr. Abhijit Bhattacharyya, interim vice provost for research and dean of the Graduate School. 鈥淭he RCR was an ensemble of four different college events and the expo. The presentations – posters, demonstrations and performance – were spectacular. Faculty, family, and friends turned out to celebrate the undergraduate and graduate winners of the expo in a wonderful ceremony on May 2.鈥� The student winners, their faculty mentors, and projects include: UNDERGRAD糖心Vlog传媒TE WINNERS Computer Science/Information Science (Mariofanna Milanova, mentor for all awardees in this category)

1st Kajal Shukla, 鈥�Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Using Machine Learning Models鈥�
2nd Sam Willis, 鈥淐omputer Vision System for Identifying and Quantifying Waste鈥�
3rd Lamarcus Coleman, 鈥�Human Interaction with Multivariate Sentiment Distributions of Stocks Intraday鈥�

Creative Work

1st Thomas Jackson (William Marshall), 鈥淪cenic Design for The Fringe Festival 2019鈥�
2nd Jess Brasher (Stacy Pendergraft), 鈥淧erforming Gender Queer鈥�
3rd Emily Moore (Stephanie Thibeault), 鈥淓phemeral鈥�

Economics and Social Work

1st Emilia Rak (David Namir), 鈥淐hange Your Days鈥�
2nd Maximilian Holzmueller (Moiz Bhai), 鈥淪caling a Small Business 鈥� The Use Case of Agrowponics鈥�

Education

1st Krista Hancock (Kristina McAbee), 鈥淧oetry and Loss: a Unit Plan for High School鈥�

Engineering/Engineering Technology/Construction Management

3-way tie for 1st
- Kassandra Castrillo, Parker Little, Caleb Renfroe, Garrett Wallace, and Isaac Martinez (Nick Jovanovich), 鈥淎SCE Deep South Environmental Event鈥�
- Pablo Centeno (Srikanth B. Pidugu and Ashokkumar Sharma), 鈥淧ick and Place Robot鈥�
- Li Morrow (Ashokkumar Sharma), 鈥淒esign and Development of a Unique Transparent Fishing Tackle Box鈥�

Health Science

1st Carol Bowerman (Nawab Ali), 鈥淭argeting Breast Cancer Cells Using Silver-Coated Gold Nanorods鈥�
2nd Jessica L. Swatzel (Dana Moser), 鈥淓ffects of Applying Brain Stimulation During Language Intervention鈥�
3rd Elizabeth Jarrott, Michelle Henderson, Darleene Rua, and Christopher Tate (Leigh Snead), 鈥淪tudents鈥� Perceptions and Performance in Student-led Simulations鈥�

Humanities

1st Cassandra Christ (Floyd Martin), 鈥淎 Century of Violence: William Hogarth鈥檚 The Four Stages of Cruelty and the Cyclical Nature of Violence in Eighteenth-Century London鈥�
2nd Nicole Ursin (Juliana Flinn), 鈥淭he Collision of National Identity and National Archive Policy in Third Republic France鈥�
3rd Emma Williams (Jana McAuliffe), 鈥淎n Axiology of Public Philosophy: A Study in Public Intellectualism鈥�

Interdisciplinary

1st Lauren Pafford and Cory Watson (Robin Neveu Brown), 鈥淒ancer of the Future鈥�
Tied for 2nd 听
- 2nd Emelie Blennow (Casey Carder Rockwell), 鈥淧owdered Alcohol: The Ambiguous Nature of the Law Creates Barriers of Entry and Restricts Competitive Advantage for New Innovations鈥�
- 2nd Grace Lytle (Floyd Martin), 鈥淚mages of Empathy: K盲the Kollwitz’s Krieg Series鈥�

Life Science

Tied 1st
- 1st Tyler Maxwell (Qingfang He), 鈥淒e novo Biosynthesis of Resveratrol in Metabolically Engineered Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803鈥�
- 1st Jessica L. Morris (Scott Woolbright), 鈥淓valuating Variation in Soil Composition Among Habitats at the Little Rock Zoo鈥�
2nd Paloma Salazar (Lisa Brents), 鈥淭he Effects of P-glycoprotein inhibition on norbuprenorphine-induced neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS)鈥�

Physical Science

1st Juliann Fiallos (Laura Ruhl), 鈥淢icroplastics in Fourche Creek Wetlands鈥�
2nd Mandolin Harris (Laura Ruhl), 鈥淓volution of Karst Spring Water in the Ozark Mountains: Impacts on Water Quality鈥�
3rd Thuy Le (Noureen Siraj), 鈥淎 Portable Nanosensor for Nitroaromatic Detection鈥�

Service Work/Professional Application

Tied 1st
- 1st Madison Brown (Jeffrey Condran), 鈥淧resenting the 2019 Equinox Literary Magazine at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Portland, Oregon, March 2019鈥�
- 1st Brandy Mimms (Stephanie Thibeault), 鈥淒eaf Can Dance鈥�
2nd Kathryn Bates (Jeffrey Condran), 鈥淔unding Undergraduate Literary Magazines: An Investigation at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Portland, Oregon, March 2019鈥�

Social Science

Tied 1st
- 1st Robin Freeman (Avinash Thombre), 鈥淯nderstanding Communication Strategies for Women Without Children鈥�
- 1st Alex Palmer (John Hendon), 鈥淢edical Marijuana and Federalism鈥�
Tied 2nd 听
- 2nd Noah Currey (Krista Lewis), 鈥�Aerial Archeology: Identifying the Mosques at Al Baleed鈥�
- 2nd Solomon Davis (Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm), 鈥淢aking Human Lives Better: How Material and Symbolic Reparations Improve Post Civil War Peace鈥�

GRAD糖心Vlog传媒TE WINNERS Computer Science/Information Science

1st Coenrad de Jager and Marinda Huisamen (John Talburt), 鈥淯sing Hadoop to Solve Diverse Big Data Challenges in the Industry鈥�
2nd Tuja Khaund, Billy Spann, and Richard Young (Nitin Agarwall), 鈥淏log Farm Detection Using Social Network Analysis and Social Cyber Forensics Informed Methodologies鈥�
3rd Zachary Stine (Nitin Agarwal), 鈥淢achine Learning and the Legislative Evolution of Ukraine鈥�