Graduate Research Conference

1st place:

Fatimah Hakeem*, Textiles, Apparel Design, & Merchandising
Beyond Abaya

Advisor: Sibei Xia, PhD

2nd place:

Mariel Benigno, Food Science
Thermal Stability and Flow Properties of Oil Extracted From Undersized Crawfish (Procambarus clarkii)

Advisor: Subramaniam Sathivel, PhD

3rd place: 

Morgan Strzynski, Textiles, Apparel Design, & Merchandising
Irish Crochet Lace: A History of a Handmade Commodity

Advisor: Michael Mamp, PhD

 *Student won twice for distinct submissions in the Visual Display and Poster Presentation formats

1st place:

Fatimah Hakeem*, Textiles, Apparel Design, & Merchandising
Talisman

Advisor: Sibei Xia, PhD

2nd place: 

Courtney Klee, M. Architecture
Grayson Loudon, B. Arch
Jou Chuch Lee, B. Arch
Rachel Hewitt, B. Arch

How Did the Implementation of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 Impact East Baton Rouge Parish From the 1950s to 1970s in Terms of Mobility, Industry, and People? 

Advisor: Fabio Capra Riberio, PhD

3rd place: 

Ka Hei Cheng, Experimental Music & Digital Media
Phoenix - Extended Reality Performance for Viola and Dancer

Advisor: Jesse Allison, PhD

*Student won twice for distinct submissions in the Visual Display and Poster Presentation formats

1st place:

Huu Dat Tran, Media and Public Affairs
"To Swipe, or Not to Swipe": Exploring the Uses and Gratifications of Dating Applications Among Young Adults of the LGBTIQ+ Community

Advisor: Meghan Sanders, PhD

2nd place: 

Ashlyn Barclay, Mass Communication

 'We Demand Answers, Solutions, and Results': A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Institutional Versus Student Responses to a Local Sexual Violence Crisis

Advisor: Fanny Ramirez, PhD

3rd place: 

Keely Diebold, Mass Communication
Exploring the Effects of Individuals' Perceived Prototypicality Within a Fandom

Advisor: Meghan Sanders, PhD

1st place:

Frank Agyei, Curriculum & Instruction (Curriculum Studies)
A Reflection on Curriculum in Ghana via Engagement with Tyler's (1970) Basic Principles of Curriculum & Instruction

Advisor: Molly Quinn, PhD 

2nd place: 

Bethany Hager, Leadership and Human Resource Development
Living Beyond Loss: An Analysis of Social Media Posts of Women Returning to Work after Losing Their Spouse

Advisor: Oliver Crocco, PhD

3rd place: 

Jiyoung Lee, Geography
Identify the Characteristics of Crime Hotspots Using Machine Learning and Google Street View

Advisor: Michael Leitner, PhD

1st place:

Katy Venable, Biomedical Sciences
Blueberry Supplementation for Depression and Anxiety in a Rural Louisiana Population

Advisor: Charles Lee, PhD

2nd place: 

Rita Aoun, Biomedical and Veterinary Clinical Sciences
Horseshoe Effects on In vivo Equine Gait Kinetics and Capsule Deformation

Advisor: Mandi Lopez, PhD

3rd place: 

Yash Flora, Cellular, Developmental, & Integrative Biology
Lipid efflux via SPIN-4 in C. elegans male germ-cell controls sperm pseudopod development and motility

Advisor: Adam Bohnert, PhD

1st place:

Victoria Rittell, Macromolecular Chemistry
Time Makes the mAb Grow Fonder: Effects of Aging on NISTmAb Solution Stability​ with Various Excipients

Advisor: Amy Xu, PhD

2nd place: 

Suliat Alli, Chemistry
Computational Investigation on the Interactions Between BfrB and the Small Molecule Inhibitors of the BfrB-Bfd Complex

Advisor: Mario Rivera, PhD

3rd place: 

Zach Yarbrough, Physics
Characterizing the Influence of Noise Transients in Advanced LIGO on the GstLAL Search Pipeline

Advisor: Gabriela Gonzalez. PhD

1st place:

Tonmoy Sarker, Electrical Engineering
Vision-based Perception for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs)

Advisor: Xiangyu Meng, PhD

2nd place: 

Shashank Muley, Construction Management 
Construction Workers Near-Miss Recognition - A Personality Study 

Advisor: Chao Wang, PhD

3rd place: 

Ruxin Wang, Cyber Security and Privacy
Enhancing Kiosk Systems Security by Verifying the Smartphone User's Gripping Hand Geometry

Advisor: Chen Wang, PhD

1st place:

Tyler Musgrove, Entomology
Effects of planting date and rice cultivar on rice water weevil density and stem borer injury

Advisor: Blake Wilson, PhD

2nd place: 

Schyler Lee, Entomology
Field Testing Commercial Entomopathogens for Control of sweetpotato weevil, Cylas formicarius elegantulus (Summers)

Advisor: Jeffrey Davis, PhD

3rd place: 

Sujun Liu, Merchandising
Fashion Resale in China: an Overview

Advisor: Chunmin Lang, PhD

1st place:

Wu Ji Khoo, DMA in Vocal Performance
Advancing Asian Art Music in the United States: A Performer's Guide to Chee Yean Wong's "Mementos of Innocence" and "Three Yeats Songs"

Advisor: Robert Grayson, PhD

2nd place: 

LaDonna Ouedraogo, Acting
The Dual Side of Privilege

Advisor: Rockford Sansom, PhD

3rd place: 

Eunchong Kang, Voice
Femme Fatale in German Lieder: Songs of Lorelei by Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Alexander Zemlinsky

Advisor: Lori Bade, PhD

1st place:

Jordan Dove, Mass Communication
Watching Sports Online: Evaluating the Viewing Motivations of Sports Streaming Service Users

Advisor: Sujin Kim, PhD

2nd place: 

Logan Berthelot, Public Administration
State and Local Adaptations to Changing Markets: The Case of Electric Vehicle Policies in the U.S.

Advisor: Anmol Soni, PhD

3rd place: 

Qinqin Wang, Media & Public Affairs
Is There a Balance Between the U.S. Government Secrecy Regime and Free Speech Rights of Government Employees? The Legal Landscape of the U.S. Government Control of Information

Advisor: Will Mari, PhD

1st place:

Tatiana De Maio, Writing and Culture
Mystery Project: In Between and Beyond: Borders, Attunements, and Dimensions in the Discursive Realities of Writing and Culture with Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and Anzaldúa

Advisor: Chris Barrett, PhD

2nd place: 

Derrick Lathan, Sociology
Round II: Exploring the Experiences of Black, First-Generation Graduate and Professional Students at HBCUs 

Advisor: Lori Martin, PhD

3rd place: 

Teye Yevuyibor, Sociology
"Oh yes! I Earn Enough": Examining the Activities that Establish Agency in Scrap Dealing in Urban Ghana

Advisor: Kevin T. Smiley, PhD

1st place:

Ivan Martίnez-Espinoza, Pathobiological Sciences
Respiratory pneumovirus-induced small non-coding RNAs alter the innate immune response in phagocytes and epithelial cells

Advisor: Antonieta Guerrero-Plata, PhD

2nd place: 

Alexander Lee, Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Development of a Low Cost, 3D Printable Canine Prosthetic

Advisor: Michelle Osborn, PhD

3rd place: 

Amit Sharma, Pathobiological Sciences
Activation of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Regulator IRE1α Compromises Immunity to MRSA Lung Infection

Advisor: Basel H. Abuaita, PhD

1st place:

Scott Aronson, Physics
Quantum Noise in Gravitational Wave Detectors

Advisor: Thomas Corbitt, PhD

2nd place: 

Brecklyn Groce, Chemistry
Effects of Clays and Other Fillers in Preparation of Epoxy-Vinyl Ether Composites by Radical-Induced Cationic Frontal Polymerization

Advisor: John Pojman, PhD

3rd place: 

Shanta Biswas, Macromolecular Chemistry
Effects of Crowding Agents on the Complex Coacervation of Macromolecules

Advisor: Amy Xu, PhD

1st place:

Luis Briceno-Mena, Chemical Engineering
Hybrid Modeling for Electrochemical Processes

Advisor: Jose Romagnoli, PhD

2nd place: 

Siavash Sarrafan, Mechanical Engineering
A Hybrid Syntactic/Open-Cell Shape Memory Polymer Foam

Advisor: Guoqiang Li, PhD

3rd place: 

Andres Lizano, Chemical Engineering
Machine Learning-Based Framework Allows for Rapid Production of Arbitrary Colloidal Self-Assembly

Advisor: Xun Tang, PhD