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2022 Fall Symposium Winners

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

Human Engagement:

Winner: Julia Lopez presented: 'No Italians' : Racial Covenants in West Virginia: Mentor: Nancy Caronia. Julia is a History major at WVU and participates in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP).

Science & Technology:

Winner: Kennedi Lewellyn presented: Anti-inflammatory and Anti-microbial Activity of Recombinant Alkaline Phosphatase in a Mouse Model of Sepsis. Mentor: Candice Brown. Kennedi is a Biology major at WVU and participated in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP).

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Arts, Humanities, and Design:

Winner: Isaac McCarthy presented: Survey of Tenor Banjos Created by Andrew Boarman. Mentor: Travis Stimeling. Isaac is a Music major at WVU and participates in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP).

Biological & Biochemical Sciences: 

Winner: Jillian Goodrich presented: Acquisition of N-acetylglucosamine for Peptidoglycan Production in Borrelia burgdorferi: Mentor: Timothy Driscoll. Jillian is a Biology major at WVU and presented their Capstone project.

Runner-Up: Kaitlyn Keith presented: Manipulating htt Nucleation and Elongation in a C. elegans Model of Huntington’s Disease. Mentor: Justin Legleiter. Kaitlyn is a Biology and Chemistry major at WVU and participates in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP).

Environmental & Agricultural Sciences:

Winner: Stephen Williams, presented: Effects of Selection for Residual Feed Intake on Immune Gene Expression in Beef Steers. Mentor: Ibukun Ogunade. Stephen is a Biochemistry major at WVU and presented their capstone project.

Health Sciences & Community Health:

Winner: Joshua Hall, presented: Studying the humoral response of mice immunized with Lyme vaccines. Mentor: Maria De La Paz Gutierrez. Joshua is an Immunology and Medical Microbiology  major at WVU and participates in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP).

Runner-up: Farah Kisto presented: RNA Sequencing of Pre-Clinical Models of Glioblastoma. Mentor: Sonikpreet Aulakh. Farah is an Exercise Physiology major at WVU and participates in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP).

Physical Sciences & Engineering:

Winner: Alexander Flasch presented: Automation in Agriculture. Mentor: Guilherme Pereira. Alexander is a Mechanical Engineering major at WVU and participates in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP).

Runner-Up:  William Bullock presented: Numerical Analysis of Pressurized Biomass-Coal Oxy-Combustion. Mentor: V'yacheslav Akkerman. William is a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering major at WVU and participates in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP).

Social & Behavioral Sciences:

Winner: Aiden Aiello presented: MINDDS: Mental Health in Digestive Disease Study. Mentor: Christina Duncan. Aiden is an Exercise Physiology major and participates in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP).