Award Winners

College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Oral Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Declan Reidy, History
  • Project Title: A History of the Arlington Soccer Club, 1977-2027
  • Faculty Advisor: Christopher Carlsmith

Graduate Winner

• Gabriela Lay, Psychology
  
  • Project Title: Adults’ Perceived Credibility and Rationale of Children Testifying as Non-Victim Witnesses
  • Faculty Advisor: Stephanie Block

Poster Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Emily Lindtveit, Psychology
  • Project Title: Undergraduate Students Awareness and Knowledge about Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs
  • Faculty Advisor: Hannah Johnson

Graduate Winner

• Karen Salazar Laverde, Psychology
  • Project Title: A Systematic Review of Cultural Adaptations for Behavioral, Educational, Occupational, and Speech-Related Interventions Involving Family Members of Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
  • Faculty Advisor: Rocio Rosales

Fan Favorite Winner

• Jade Durkee, Psychology
  • Project Title: Cryptomnesia and Artificial Intelligence: Examining the effect of AI on the rate of Unconscious Plagiarism
  • Faculty Advisor: Megan Papesh

Francis College of Engineering

Oral Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Kayla Leppamaki, Civil Engineering
  • Project Title: Structural Engineering Research Analysis
  • Faculty Advisor: Tzu-Yang Yu

Graduate Winner

• Mohammad Bagheri Kashani, Plastics Engineering
  • Project Title: Surface-Engineered Quaternized Chitosan Hydrogels for Rapid and Regenerable PFAS Removal from Water
  • Faculty Advisor: Bridgette Budhlall

Poster Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Iynelle Gyimah-Affram, Biomedical Engineering
  • Project Title: Modeling the Periodontal Gingival Pocket Environment in 3D to Study Oral Microbiome Interactions
  • Faculty Advisor: Chiara Ghezzi

Graduate Winner

• Nazli Bostanci, Biomedical Engineering
  • Project Title: Towards the Development of an Inflammatory Nociception Model and Evaluation of Sex-Dependent Differences Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Sensory Cultures on Microelectrode Arrays
  • Faculty Advisor: Bryan Black

Fan Favorite Winner

• Caden Ashmore, Electrical Engineering
  • Project Title: Machine Learning Applied to Autonomous Sailboat Navigation
  • Faculty Advisor: Julian Zabalbeascoa

Kennedy College of Sciences

Oral Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Jason Leonardo, Biological Sciences
  • Project Title: Detection of Waterborne Pathogens Using Novel Acoustic Biosensors
  • Faculty Advisor: Sheree Pagsuyoin

Graduate Winner

• Evan Reboli, Chemistry
  • Project Title: A Portable Point-of-Care Device for Ultra-Sensitive HIV Detection
  • Faculty Advisor: Suri Iyer

Poster Presentations

Undergraduate Winners

• Emma Norska, Biochemistry
  • Project Title: Electrochemical Detection of Urinary Titan Fragments
  • Faculty Advisor: Matthew Gage
• Sabreena Strong, Biology
  • Project Title: Characterizing the Developmental Role and Expression of dve-1, a SATB2 Homolog in C. elegans
  • Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Fish

Graduate Winner

• Holly Hoag, Applied Biology
  • Project Title: Tongues Over Time: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective
  • Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Fish

Fan Favorite Winner

• Sreeja Purkait, Physics
  • Project Title: Compact hybridized Resonant Room-Temperature MWIR Detector
  • Faculty Advisor: Viktor Podolskiy

Manning School of Business

Oral Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Team: Melody Sullivan, Marketing
  • Project Title: A Data Analytics Approach at Modern Matchmaking Success
  • Faculty Advisor: Asil Oztekin

Graduate Winner

• Yasir Mushtaq, Leadership and Organization Behavior, Management
  • Project Title: Trust Me, I'm Human(ish):Exploring Trust and Autonomy in AI Performance Feedback
  • Faculty Advisor: Jose Mauricio Geleilate

Poster Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Adolfo Gonzalez Mateo, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship
  • Project Title: Bridging the Meaning-to-Action Gap in Institutional Documents
  • Advisor: Richard Juknavorian

Fan Favorite Winner

• Oscar Aliaga, Business Administration
  • Project Title: Do Social Signals Speak the Same to Human and Machines?
  • Faculty Advisor: Kimberly Merriman

Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences

Oral Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Team: Maria El Khazaka, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peter Gardikas, Mechanical Engineering and Lasayra Santos, Business Administration
  • Project Title: Energy Drinks and Academic Performance
  • Faculty Advisor: Asil Oztekin

Graduate Winners

• Angela Consentino, Epidemiology
  • Project Title: Amplifying Asian Voices: Perspectives on Substance Use in Greater Lowell and Lawrence
  • Faculty Advisor: Sabrina Feldeisen Noel

• Qun Le, Epidemiology
  • Project Title: Gender Difference in the Associations of Daily Walking with Life Satisfaction
  • Faculty Advisor: Wenjun Li

Poster Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Kor So, Applied Biomedical
  • Project Title: Assessing the Efficacy of Therapies for Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Respiratory Infections in Cystic Fibrosis Patients
  • Faculty Advisor: Gui-Xin He

Graduate Winner

• Melanie Nedder, Nursing
  • Project Title: The Impact of Assessment-Driven Orientation in New Critical Care Nurses at an Academic Medical Center: A Quality Improvement Project
  • Faculty Advisor: Comfort Enah

Fan Favorite Winner

• Vannary Khim, Doctor of Nursing
  • Project Title: Improving GLP-1 Adherence and Follow-up Visits among Adults with Type II Diabetes
  • Faculty Advisor: Heidi Fantasia