ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Human Engagement
- Winner: Julia Lopez presented: The Dark History of Italian - Americanism 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: 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: Research and Development of a Robotic Gripper for Picking Spherical Produce. 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).
