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2021 Graduate Student Showcase Awards

The 2021 Graduate Student Showcase award winners were presented at the Graduate College Awards Ceremony on April 22, 2021. The list of award recipients and the awards ceremony presentation are featured below.

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Presidential Scholar Awards

Presidential Scholar Awards

Presidential Scholar – Poster Presentation Award: Mone’t Alberts

Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D.

Project Title: Graphene as a Bioscaffold for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering

Presidential Scholar – Performance and Visual Arts Award: Cathryn Gardner

Music, Performance, M.A.

Performance Title: Cappricio for Solo Clarinet in A by Heinrich Sutermeister

Graduate College Scholar Awards

Graduate College Scholar – Dean’s Award: Rainey Aberle

Geophysics, M.S.

Project Title: Assessing Controls on Ice Dynamics at Crane Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula Using a Numerical Ice Flow Model

Graduate College Scholar – Dean’s Award: Megan Kelly-Slatten

Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Ph.D.

Project Title: Variance in Root Morphology May Explain Differences in Soil Carbon Storage between Biofuel Species

Graduate College Scholar – Dean’s Award: Jukes Liu

Geophysics, Ph.D.

Project Title: Tracking marine glacier length change in Greenland with satellite images

Graduate College Scholar – Dean’s Award: Vahid Malbouby

Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D.

Project Title: Multi-factorial modeling of osteoarthritis initiation and progression

Graduate College Scholar – Dean’s Award: Olivia Maryon

Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D.

Project Title: 3D Printed Ti-6Al-4V: Influence of post-processing on microstructure and corrosion performance

Graduate College Scholar – Dean’s Award: Nancy Murphy

Executive Educational Leadership, Ed.S.

Project Title: Implementing New Practices: How Teacher Attitudes and Beliefs Impact Classroom Instruction

Graduate College Scholar – Dean’s Award: Derek Nesbitt

Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D.

Project Title: Damage Modeling of Human Meniscus with Digital Image Correlation

Graduate College Scholar – Dean’s Award: Kevin Vallejo

Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D.

Project Title: Tensile-strained InGaAs Quantum Dots on InAs(111)A

Graduate College Scholar – Dean’s Award: Christopher Wertz

Educational Technology, Ed.D.

Project Title: Students’ Perceptions of Virtual Simulation

College of Arts and Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences – First Place: Cody Wolf

Biomolecular Sciences, Ph.D.

Project Title: A Novel Therapeutic Inhibits Breast Cancer Cell Signaling

College of Arts and Sciences – Runner Up: Sabrina Schuler

Biology, M.S.

Project Title: Amending post-fire soils with native microbial communities and biochar to improve big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis) performance

College of Business and Economics

College of Business and Economics – First Place: Sophie Croome

Economics, M.S.

Project Title: COVID-19 Policies and State Park Visitation

College of Business and Economics – Runner up: Henry Johnson

Economics, M.S.

Project Title: Estimating the Change in Total Social Security Filers

College of Education

College of Education – First Place: Teresa Maynes

Counseling, M.A.

Project Title: Barriers to Effective Telehealth Interventions for Substance Use Disorders

College of Education – Runner up: Michael Crawford

Special Education, M.I.T.

Project Title: An Online Paragraph-Writing Intervention for Students with Dyslexia: A Single Case Design Study

College of Engineering

College of Engineering – First Place: Danielle Siegel

Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D.

Project Title: How Do Babies Roll? Understanding How Babies 3-7 Months Achieve a Roll

College of Engineering – Runner up: Ariel Weltner

Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D.

Project Title: Inkjet Printing of Bismuth Telluride Nanoflakes for Flexible Thermoelectric Generators

College of Health Sciences

College of Health Sciences – First Place: Kevin McEwan

Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP

Project Title: Improving the Nurse Patient Assignment Process on a Medical Surgical Unit

College of Health Sciences – Runner up: Rosanna Moreno

Doctor of Nursing Practice, DNP

Project Title: CATCH My Breath Project Increases Youth Awareness of Vaping Risks

School of Public Service

School of Public Service – First Place: Aubrey Huntsman

Public Administration, M.P.A.

Project Title: The Peace Project