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Congratulations to our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place poster winners in each of the six categories at the Second Annual Undergraduate Spring Symposium (2018) held on Saturday April 14 at WVU! Our winners are given below.

1st Place: Energy Literacy in Agricultural Education Students in West Virginia. Hannah Schantz,*Brieanna Hughes* and Jessica Blythe(Hannah is an Agricultural and Extension Education major from Fallston, MD. Hannah was a participant in WVU’s Research Apprenticeship Program.)

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.)