Winners of the 2022 Undergraduate Research Colloquium
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 College of Science Undergraduate Research Colloquium.
The College of Science and STEM Accelerator hosted the 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Colloquium (URC) on Wednesday, April 27. The purpose of this event was to showcase the variety of undergraduate research projects in the College to the Mason community.
This year’s virtual event featured a student poster session and awards, including overall, category, and student’s choice awards. Presentations were judged in four categories: Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Earth Sciences and STEM Learning & Education.
Overall Winner
Poster #2 - Meredith Keppel, Mentor: Younsung Kim, "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Conservation Easements in the Upper-Middle Roanoke River Watershed"
Environmental and Earth Sciences (Geology, Geography, GIS, Environmental Sciences)
1st Place | Poster #2 - Meredith Keppel, Mentor: Younsung Kim, "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Conservation Easements in the Upper-Middle Roanoke River Watershed" |
2nd Place | Poster #4 - Grace Loonam, Mentors: Amy Fowler (GMU) and April Blakeslee (East Carolina University), "Cercarial release of Cryptocotyle lingua as a function of temperature in the marine snail Littorina littorea" |
Life Sciences (Biology, Neuroscience, Forensic Science)
1st Place | Poster #8: Haruka Mori, Mentor: Donald Paul Haspel, "Emotional State of Sexual Assault Survivors regarding Legal Proceedings: Analysis of Connotation in Online Forums" |
2nd Place | Poster #14: Zainab Qazalbash, Mentor: Monique Van Hoek, "Novel Antibiotic Discovery in Multi-Drug Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa" |
Physical Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy)
1st Place | Poster #19: Haruka Mori, Mentor: Xiaoyan Tan, "Synthesis and Characterization of Polar Magnetic Ba4Ir3-xTixO10 (x = 1, 1.5, 2) Compounds" |
2nd Place | Poster #18: Mohamed El Gazzah, Mentor: Nirmal Ghimire, "Crystal Growth and Magnetic Study of TmMn6Sn6-xGax" |
Computational Science and Mathematics
1st Place | Poster #21: Gowri Prathap, Mentor: Hamdi Kavak, "A System to Study Anti-American Misinformation and Disinformation on Social Media" |
2nd Place | Poster #27: Clare Lewis, Mentor: Rob Mahabir, "Stock price movement causation via natural language processing on Reddit" |
STEM Education
1st Place | Poster #29: Thomas Castro and Alileah A Alnozaily, Mentors: Ron Mahabir and Sharmin Abdullah, "Computing for Biological Scientists: 21st Century Skills for 21st Century Biology Majors" |
