The 2018 Spring Expo included both undergraduate research and service learning presentations. It celebrated excellence in research, service learning, creative activity, and scholarship by showcasing the endeavors of undergraduate students. It was held on April 12-13.
For service learning, the Expo is an exposition of student and community engagement collaborations from students engaged in service-learning courses. Service learning students have the opportunity to gain presentation experience and to celebrate the projects and collaborations between community partners, UAB, and our greater community.
Winners
Oral Presentations
- First Place: Kylie Woodman
- Second Place: Riley Yager
- Third Place (tie): Kane G. Agan and Shannon Lukens
Poster Presentations
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Arts and Humanities
First Place: Amanda Hudson, Stephanie Lin, Ireen Lin
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Biological and Life Sciences
First Place (tie): Akshar H. Patel, Stephen J. Carter, Laura Q. Rogers, Lyse A. Norian, Gary R. Hunter
Second Place: Haley Ariel Edwards, Stephanie N Fox, Laura J McMeekin, Anastasia Kralli, Rita M Cowell
Third Place: Isabella Mak, Andrew D. Frugé, Yuko Tsuruta, Mallory Cases, Casey Morrow, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried
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Business, Financial, and International Studies
First Place: Mindy Wyatt
Second Place: Mathew Banker
Third Place: Rachel Green
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Education
First Place (tie):
- Nellie Revel
- James Boyett; Sebastian Schormann, Dr. Samiksha Raut
Second Place: David Bullock
Third Place (tie):
- Cameon Knight
- Maci Swindle
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Engineering
First Place: Katrina Hatch, Dania Mallah, Dave Monaco, Sydney Watkins, Connor Armstrong, and Sarah Schwerdt
Second Place: Jack Kim, Matthew Strachan, and Alexander Williams
Third Place (tie): Natasha Wright, Kishan Patel, Jiongsi Zhong, Jonathan Hill
- Shambi Anshumali, Jayci Hamrick, Rachana Kotapalli, Archit Patel, Baley West
- Jessica Pieczynski, Seth Patterson, Tess Vessels, and Gerardo Hernandez-Moreno Abbey Leibold, Vaishali Nijampatnam, Pooja Wagle, Jonah Sharkins, Seul Hee Kim, Allie Bothma
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Health Sciences
First Place: HyunSoo Moon, Jessica Scoffield, Hui Wu
Second Place: Jaelynn Lawrence, Shannon G Rice, Fred E Bertrand
Third Place: Katelyn Leake, Kadie Morris, Dr. Connie White Williams
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Physical and Applied Sciences
First Place (tie):
- Gunnar Eastep, Dr. Maggie Johnson
- Payal Patel, Ashley Brock
Second Place: Garrett Wayne Higginbotham
Third Place: Gunnar Eastep, Lauren Silverwood, Justin Catt, and Margaret Johnson, Ph.D.
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Service Learning
First Place: Cerissa Nowell, Shreya Malhotra, Kendall Curtis, Zena Banker, Aakansha Gosain, Ashish Kaushik, and Katie Cook
Second Place: Ivy Bookout, David Gahan, Kyle Landers, Shreya Malhotra, Skye Opsteen, Garrett Sager, and Minye Seok
Third Place: Indika DePriest
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Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place: Shannon Lukens and Alan Philip George
Second Place: Josiah J. Robinson; Benjamin McManus; Haley Johnson Bishop; Despina Stavrinos, Ph.D.
Third Place (tie):
- JaVarus Humphries
- Karan Patel, Benjamin McManus, Karen Heaton, Ph.D., Haley J. Bishop, Ph.D., Despina Stavrinos, Ph.D.
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Virtual
First Place: Carolyn Barnes, Darrius Robinson, Heather Howard, Robert Reeder, LaTanatha Maddox
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Works in Progress
First Place: Kristine Farag, Wendy Jiang, Aneesh Pathak, Karen Wang
Second Place: Bijal Vashi
Third Place (tie):
- Cameron J. Gordon, Michael Azar, Louis P. Watanabe, Nicole C. Riddle
- Anna-Katherine Escoto, Sari Terrazas, Paul Wolkowicz, Geeta Datta, C Roger White
Video Research Awards
First Place: Tate Pollock, "A King Lab Neuroscience Rap"
Second Place: Ryan Murphy, "Novel Approach to Measuring Surface pH in a Cell Model of ARPKD"
Third Place (tie): Jasmin Revanna: "Robust and Specific CRISPR-mediated gene expression modulators in neruonal subpopulations"
Third Place (tie): Anna Jones and Sebastian Schormann, "Osmotion Kinetic Exercise"
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Video by Marlon Goering and Sofia Alam: "The impact of concussion symptom type on caregivers’ intention to seek treatment"
Video by Rubayet Kamal and Baraa Hijaz: "Parkinson's Disease"
Video by Rachel Rock: "Welcome to Morrislab"
Video by Tina Tian: "Novel Phages as Candidates for Phage Therapy"
Video by Karen Wang: "ACSL1 Promoter and Luciferase Gene"
Keynote Speaker: Tino Unlap, Ph.D.
Dr. Tino Unlap received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Western Kentucky University, his Ph.D. in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology from Kansas State University, and postdoctoral trainings in Oncology and Behavioral Neurobiology at UAB. Dr. Unlap has mentored over 300 fellows, postdocs, graduate, undergraduate, and high school students over the past 20 years. The students represent programs including Science and Technology Honors, Experiential Learning Scholars, Early Medical School Acceptance, Biology Honors, Chemistry Honors, Summer In Biomedical Sciences, NIH/Drew University Summer Research, Louis-Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, Project SEED, MHERC Summer Enrichment, SHP Honors and the UAB Community Outreach Development (CORD) Summer Research Programs.
Dr. Unlap believes that the student's learning is elevated to the highest level through research. To this end, he has been involved with the development and delivery of research based courses for undergraduate students (STH201, BMD300, BMD400), graduate students (BHS502, BT650, BT651, BT652), and community-based programs such as the Heritage Center Biotech Curriculum for high school students and BioTek Works, a workforce development program funded by Jefferson County and the State. In addition, Dr. Unlap works with faculty members through the Center for Teaching and Learning on how they can better engage their students by delivering problem-based lectures in a team environment.
Dr. Unlap currently serves as Professor and Director of the Biotechnology Program in the School of Health Professions and Director of Teaching Innovation at the Center for Teaching and Learning. He is a past recipient of the School of Health Professions Teaching Excellence Award, the Graduate Dean Mentorship Award, and the UAB President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He mentors from 10-20 students a year in research areas including Cancer and Parkinson's disease drug discovery, the genetic basis of salt sensitive hypertension, the genetic basis of Polycystic Kidney disease, and Latent TB detection and eradication.