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1 | 2020 VSSEF CATEGORY AWARDS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3 | Category | Place | Project Number | First Name | Last Name | Project Title | ||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Animal Sciences | First Place | ANIM-9 | Rebecca | Qiu | The Effect of Taurine on the Heart Rate of Daphniamagna | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Maggie | Parkhurst | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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7 | Animal Sciences | Second Place | ANIM-1 | Malik | Endsley | An Investigation of the Darkling Beetle Larvae Circadian Rhythm | ||||||||||||||||||||
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9 | Animal Sciences | Second Place | ANIM-2 | Vinay | Bhaip | Analyzing Gap Crossing Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster | ||||||||||||||||||||
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11 | Animal Sciences | Third Place | ANIM-4 | Mrunal | Kute | Observing Different Concentrations of Ginkgo Biloba on Danio rerio Memory Development | ||||||||||||||||||||
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13 | Animal Sciences | Honorable Mention | ANIM-6 | Simran | Gill | The Impact of Pharmaceuticals on Aquatic Life using Danio rerio as a Model | ||||||||||||||||||||
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15 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | First Place | BEHA-13 | Michaela | McCormack | Too Cool for JUUL: The Effect of Pod-Based E-Cigarettes on Sleep and Cognitive Function | ||||||||||||||||||||
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17 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Second Place | BEHA-9 | Blair | Stilley | The Effect of Music on Student Productivity | ||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Elizabeth | Yow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Eliza | Thorndike | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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21 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Second Place | BEHA-4 | Nadine | Shannon | Is There an Association Between People with a Morning Versus Evening Chronotype and Variants of the HCRTR2 Gene? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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23 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Third Place | BEHA-5 | Anjali | Sardana | Maturation of Excitatory Synapses in the Juvenile Rodent Hippocampus Supports Spatial Navigation Ability in the Barnes Maze | ||||||||||||||||||||
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25 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Honorable Mention | BEHA-11 | Kate | Loftis | The Effect of Social Anxiety on People's Ability to Interpret Facial Expressions | ||||||||||||||||||||
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27 | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Honorable Mention | BEHA-6 | Samuel | Grove | Nicotine Usage Rates Amongst U.S. Sexual Minority Students | ||||||||||||||||||||
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29 | Biochemistry | First Place | BCHM-9 | Raymond | Del Vecchio | Cardiomyopathic Chagas: An Exploration of Diagnostic Ability via Nanoparticle Biomarker Capture GluO x Pathway and Perseus-Based Machine Learning | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Harini | Somanchi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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32 | Biochemistry | Second Place | BCHM-7 | Helen | Sparling | The Effect of Vitamin C, Calcium, and Iron on Hemoglobin Production and Cellular Respiration | ||||||||||||||||||||
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34 | Biochemistry | Third Place | BCHM-4 | James | Henter | Faster Pain Relief: Comparing Different Formulations of Three Pain Medications in a Simulated Stomach Environment | ||||||||||||||||||||
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36 | Biochemistry | Honorable Mention | BCHM-3 | Jolie | Call | Copper Most Effectively Reduces the Rate of Algal Growth | ||||||||||||||||||||
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38 | Biomedical and Health Sciences | First Place | BMED-16 | Kevin | Sheng | A Novel Multi-omic Approach to Identifying Cancer Recurrence-Associated Gene Signatures | ||||||||||||||||||||
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40 | Biomedical and Health Sciences | Second Place | BMED-2 | Rebekah | Smith | Effect of Air Exposure before Corneal Preservation | ||||||||||||||||||||
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42 | Biomedical and Health Sciences | Third Place | BMED-11 | Sydney | Murphy | Influenza Vaccine Efficacy and Vaccination Rate | ||||||||||||||||||||
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44 | Biomedical and Health Sciences | Honorable Mention | BMED-3 | Eugene | Choi | Real-Time Object Search and Detection for the Visually Impaired | ||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Ifran | Nafi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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47 | Biomedical Engineering and Translational Medical Science | First Place | BETM-13 | Meenakshi | Ambati | Triangulating Fluoxetine into a Novel Macular Degeneration Therapy via Biochemical, In Vivo and Big Data Approaches | ||||||||||||||||||||
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49 | Biomedical Engineering and Translational Medical Science | Second Place | BETM-5 | Perisa | Ashar | Development of a Novel Biomarker Panel for Rapid Identification of Lung Cancer by Blood Tests Using NGS, Bioinformatics, and In-Vitro Analyses | ||||||||||||||||||||
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51 | Biomedical Engineering and Translational Medical Science | Third Place | BETM-9 | Joshua | Salazar | Multi-Objective Transcriptional Regulators for Hematopoietic Cellular Reprogramming with Simulated Directed Evolution and Parallelized Fitness Gauging | ||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Rayan | Yu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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54 | Biomedical Engineering and Translational Medical Science | Honorable Mention | BETM-4 | Yilun | Zhou | A Potential Therapeutic and Prognostic Target for Breast Cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||
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56 | Biomedical Engineering and Translational Medical Science | Honorable Mention | BETM-3 | Darrah | Sheehan | Investigation of the Tumoricidal Effects of Sonodynamic Therapy in Glioblastoma Brain Tumors | ||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Kimball | Sheehan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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59 | Cellular and Molecular Biology | First Place | CELL-8 | Shan | Lateef | Staying Ahead of the Hit: Using Drosophila melanogaster as an Integrated Model to Elucidate the Neuropathology, Physiology, and Genetic Mechanisms Underlying Traumatic Brain Injury | ||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Delaney | Walts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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62 | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Second Place | CELL-5 | Claire | Morton | The Division Decision: The Cdc13 Protein and Cell Size Control | ||||||||||||||||||||
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64 | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Third Place | CELL-2 | Daivik | Siddhi | Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Cancer Demonstrate Autophagosome Properties | ||||||||||||||||||||
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66 | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Honorable Mention | CELL-7 | Krishan | Perumal | Using CRISPR and Viral Approaches to Assess the Significance of Novel Osteogenic Genes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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68 | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Honorable Mention | CELL-1 | Jessica | Shi | Antibiotics Alternative: Investigating the Effect of Phage Titer on Bacterial Populations | ||||||||||||||||||||
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70 | Chemistry | First Place | CHEM-3 | Parker | Hoang | Designing a Smarter Smart Hydrogel: Optimization of Poly(vinyl alcohol)-Sodium Borate Hydrogels by Physical Crosslinking with Sodium | ||||||||||||||||||||
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72 | Chemistry | Second Place | CHEM-9 | Isabella | Dressel | Two-Step Microwave Pyrolysis of Spherical Seed Pre cursors with NaOH/KOH Chemical Activation: A Rapid Approach to the Synthesis of Spherical Activated Carbons for Water Remediation | ||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Kapil | Krishna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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75 | Chemistry | Third Place | CHEM-4 | Nicholas | Todorov | Inexpensive, Functional Spectrophotometer for Future Use in Public School | ||||||||||||||||||||
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77 | Chemistry | Third Place | CHEM-13 | Sean | Gibson | Assessment of Anode Metal and pH on Metal-Air Battery Voltage | ||||||||||||||||||||
78 | David | Mastro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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80 | Chemistry | Honorable Mention | CHEM-1 | Uyen Nhi | Tran | AFM-based Nanoindentation Technique: A Novel Approach to Determine the Nanoscale Degradation of PET | ||||||||||||||||||||
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82 | Earth and Environmental Sciences | First Place | EAEV-13 | Madi | Goeke | The Effect of Algae Species Grown in a Photobioreactor on Algal Biomass for Biofuel Production | ||||||||||||||||||||
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84 | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Second Place | EAEV-16 | Rose | von Eckartsberg | The Effect of pH on the Growth Rate of Pyrocystisfusiformis | ||||||||||||||||||||
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86 | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Third Place | EAEV-12 | Sitara | Sastry | Snail Mucus Bioaccumulation of Microparticles for Water Purification | ||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Clare | Sparling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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89 | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Third Place | EAEV-10 | Hannah | Namkoong | Removal of Pb Heavy Metal from Water Using Edible Marine Algae (Undaria pinnatifida) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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91 | Earth and Environmental Sciences | Honorable Mention | EAEV-1 | Shannon | Filer | Assessment of Neonicotinoids in Blue Ridge Honey | ||||||||||||||||||||
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93 | Engineering and Robotics | First Place | ENRB-8 | Kate | Childers | The Application of Fiber Optic Multi-Core Shape Sensing Fibers on Flexible Models | ||||||||||||||||||||
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95 | Engineering and Robotics | Second Place | ENRB-7 | Karen | Shrieves | The Alteration of Wing and Winglet Designs on Commercial Aircrafts for the Reduction of CO2 Emissions and the Increase of Aerodynamic Efficiency | ||||||||||||||||||||
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97 | Engineering and Robotics | Third Place | ENRB-11 | Andrew | Balch | Design and Application of Automated Robots Powered by Inductive Smart Tiles | ||||||||||||||||||||
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99 | Engineering and Robotics | Third Place | ENRB-9 | Colin | Sartori | The Study of Linear Motors and the Velocity of a Pinball | ||||||||||||||||||||
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