Winner: Acid mine drainage coated sand as a soil amendment and phosphate removal system. Alex Rubenstein, Karen Buzby and Lian-Shin Lin. (Alex, a biomedical engineering & mathematics double major and Honors student at WVU from Morgantown, WV, was a participant in the SURE program and was funded primarily via a faculty grant awarded to LianShin Lin.)
Winner: Increase in mutant Huntingtin protein aggregation leads to decrease in protein-lipid interaction. John Bard, Albert W. Pilkington, IV and Justin Legleiter. (John, a biochemistry major and Honors student at WVU from Richwood, WV, was a participant in the SURE program and was funded primarily via a faculty grant awarded to Justin Legleiter.)