1st place:

Elisa Guardado, Food Science and Technology
Effect of Treated or Untreated Biological Soil Amendments of Animal Origin on the Food Safety Risk and Quality of Sweet Potatoes (Ipomoea Batatas)

Advisor: Achyut Adhikari, PhD

2nd place:

Ivannova Lituma, Food Science and Technology
Assessing the Effectiveness of Treating Seeds with Pecan Shell Extract for Controlling Human and Plant Pathogens on Fresh Produce

Advisor: Achyut Adhikari, PhD

3rd place: 

Vanshika Jindal, Entomology
Assessing Response of Two Biological Control Agents of the Emerald Ash Borer to Five Species of Ash Trees

Advisor: Todd Johnson, PhD

1st place:

Eden Brown, Music Education
Beyond Identifying Barriers: An Autoethnographic Study on Bringing Piano Education to an Underrepresented Community

Advisor: Pamela Pike, PhD

Carlos Roman, Experimental Music and Digital Media
Embryonic: Exploring Early Fish Development Through VR and Sonification

Advisor: Jesse Allison, DMA

2nd place: 

Morgan Weeks, Music Theory
Immersive Flipper: The Virtual Music-Pinball Video Game

Advisor: Jesse Allison, DMA

3rd place: 

Brian Sopan, Philosophy
On Punishment and Well-Being

Advisor: Anothony Kelley, PhD

1st place:

Moumita Roy, Mass Communication
The Impact of Social Media Clickbait Headlines on Dietary Decision

Advisor: Chun Yang, PhD

2nd place: 

Nabila Mushtarin, Media and Public Affairs
Exploring the Impact of Narrative Media Messages on Male College Students’ Motivation to Get the HPV Vaccine

Advisor: Chun Yang, PhD

3rd place: 

Morgan Badurak, Media and Public Affairs
From ‘Utter Drivel’ to ‘Engaging’ Content: An Examination of U.S. and U.K. Adults’ Perceptions and Uses of TikTok

Advisor: Fanny Ramirez, PhD

1st place:

Rhonda Bardales, Social Work 
Comfortability and Use of Technology Among Those with Visual/Hearing or Cognitive Impairments

Advisor: Scott Wilks, PhD 

2nd place: 

Leo Guerrero, Geography
Mercury Transport in Amazonian Rivers. Case: Madre de Dios River-Perú

Advisor: Kory Konsoer, PhD

3rd place: 

Destiny Castro, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Losing Sleep Over Money: The Impact of Economic Stressors on Worker Sleep

Advisor: Rebecca Brossoit, PhD

1st place:

Brandon Leviskas, Biological Sciences
CFTR Interactions in Neurons and Implications in Synaptic Transmission

Advisor: Evanna Gleason, PhD

2nd place: 

Nishanthini Priashanna, Pathobiological Science
Mitochondrial Metabolites Regulate Macrophage Defense Against Bacterial Infection Through the Formation of Mitochondrial Drive Vesicles (MDVs)

Advisor: Basel Abuaita, PhD

3rd place: 

Ignitius Lim, Comparitive Biomedical Science
The Encoding Mechanisms and Connectivity Patterns Employed by the BNST-CeA-DRN Circuit in Response to Acute Stress.

Advisor: Olalekan Ogundele, PhD

1st place:

Sunday Negedu, Biochemistry
Investigation of the Role of Chromatin Domain Insulator-Binding Protein BEAF-32 in Transcriptional Regulation: Characterizing Partner Protein Interactions

Advisor: Craig Hart, PhD

2nd place: 

Alexandra Aucoin, Chemistry
Frontal Polymerization of Thiol-Ene Free-Radical and Vinyl Ether Cationic Hybrid System

Advisor: John Pojman, PhD

3rd place: 

Frank McKay, Physics
Verification of CALPHAD in CCAs with ED-XRD

Advisor: Philip Sprunger. PhD

1st place:

Rishikesh Shetty, Petroleum Engineering
Application of Fiber-Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Technology and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) In the Oil and Gas Industry

Advisors: Dr. Jyotsna Sharma and Dr. Mayank Tyagi 

2nd place: 

Jones Essuman, Electrical Engineering
Reinforcement Learning-Based Energy-Efficient Motion Control of 4-In-Wheel Motor Actuated Electric Vehicles

Advisor: Xiangyu Meng, PhD

3rd place: 

Shuo Yang, Civil Engineering
Assessing Groundwater Stress of Gulf Coast Aquifer System in Louisiana and Southwestern Mississippi

Advisor: Frank Tsai, PhD

1st place:

Hasim Hakanoglu, Entomology
Differences in Lifespan and Behavioral Maturation Between Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Workers From Varroa Resistant and Sensitive Stocks

Advisor: Qian Sun

2nd place: 

Marissa Barbosa, Plant Environmental and Soil Sciences
Declining Phosphorus Availability Increases Sucrose Synthase Activity and Storage Root Formation in Sweetpotato cv Beauregard 

Advisor: Arthur Villordon, PhD

3rd place: 

Chien-I Hsu, Food Bioprocessing and Engineering
Optimization of Antibacterial Edible Carboxylmethyl Cellulose-L-Arginine Coating Formulations Incorporating Rosemary Oil Extract Using Response Surface Methodology

Advisor: Subramaniam Sathivel, PhD

1st place:

Abby South, Music Education, Minor in Cognitive Psychology
Examination of Musical Sophistication and Working Memory Correlates in High School Students

Advisor: David Saccardi

2nd place: 

Roger Kyle Melton, DMA in Vocal Performance
Singing Through Cancer: Promoting Vocal Health for the Cancer Survivor

Advisor: Sandra Moon

3rd place: 

Kai Hei Cheng, Experimental Music and Digital Media
Chinese Calligraphic Dance and Generative Arts

Advisor: Jesse Allison, DMA

1st place:

Anna Pousson, Public Administration
An Examination of State-level Solar Energy Policy

Advisor: Anmol Soni, PhD

2nd place: 

Adwoa Baffour, Mass Communication
Coming to America: Exploring the Cross-Cultural Adaptation of African International Students at a PWI and HBCU in the U.S. South

Advisor: Jinx Broussard, PhD

3rd place: 

Candice Marti, Marketing
Embodying the Brand: How Psychological Brand Ownership and Customer-Driven Proactive Behaviors Drive Customer Engagement

Advisor: Kris Lindsey Hall, PhD

1st place:

Biraj Bhattari, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Prefrontal Cortex Activation in Post-Stroke Persons with Aphasia: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Study

Advisor: Bijoyaa Mohapatra, PhD

2nd place: 

Elizabeth Heintz, Kinesiology
Exercise Training Reverses MASLD in Mice with Obesity Independent of Changes in Hepatic Mitochondrial Oxidative Capacity 

Advisor: Brian Irving, PhD

3rd place: 

Seth Knievel, Performance Studies
Foxy Photos: Investigating Mail-in Photo Development and LGBTQ Archives

Advisor: Travis Brisini, PhD

1st place:

Ivan Martίnez-Espinoza, Pathobiological Sciences
Characterizing the Antiviral Properties of IFN-epsilon in Epithelial Cells: Implications for Respiratory Virus Control 

Advisor: Antonieta Guerrero-Plata, PhD

2nd place: 

Gabriela Lima, Biological Sciences
Shared Gene Regulatory Programs of Limb and Fin Regeneration

Advisor: Igor Schneider, PhD

3rd place: 

Amit Sharma, Pathobiological Sciences
Activation of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Regulator IRE1α Augments Trained Immunity

Advisor: Basel H. Abuaita, PhD

1st place:

Joshua Beane, Chemistry/Organic Chemistry
Studies of the Abietane Natural Product Derivatives Against Cancer Models 

Advisor: Fatima Rivas, PhD

2nd place: 

Benedict Barras, Organic Chemistry
Natural Products as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy to Combat Obesity-Related Metabolic Syndrome

Advisor: Fatima Rivas, PhD

3rd place: 

Myron Lard, Analytical Chemistry
Investigating the Formation of Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals and Their Influence on Reactive Oxygen Species Generation Using Zinc-Loaded Clay

Advisor: Robert Cook, PhD

1st place:

Scott Nelson, Experimental Music and Digital Media
Chewkeeper: ASMR Through Distributed Audience Smartphone Speaker Network

Advisor: Jesse Allison

2nd place:

Qinan Cai, DMA in Vocal Performance
A Study of Select Arias From Three Obscure Operas by Antonio Vivaldi: 'Ottone in Villa,' 'Arsilda, Regina di Ponto,' and 'Il Farnace'

Advisor: Lori Bade, DMA

3rd place:

Mason Cox, Bassoon
Creating Endless Possibilities: A Glimpse at How Combining Traditional and Non-Traditional Musical Notation Allows for Greater Artistic Freedoms

Advisor: Nanci Belmont, DMA

1st place:

NIcholas Levergne, Computer Science
Improving Implicit Communication in Remote Collaboration Through Augmented Reality and Digital Twins

Advisor: Andrew Webb, PhD

2nd place: 

Hamid Sharifi, Engineering, Materials
Computational Design of Complex Concentrated Alloys

Advisor: Collin Wick, PhD

3rd place: 

Caleb Osei-Appau, Environmental Engineering
Advanced Chlorine Oxidation: Exploring UV/Chlorine Efficiency, DOM Impact, UV-LED Enhancements, and Oxidation Pathway

Advisor: Samuel Snow, PhD