Winners
Oral Presentations
- First Place: Derek Dang, Sahar Moughnyeh, Emily Stephens, Karishma Parbhoo, Ryleigh Fleming, Sarah Adkins-Jablonsky
- Second Place: Charlene Mansour
- Third Place: Jaclyn Aida
Poster Presentations
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Arts and Humanities
First Place: Gavin Baker
Second Place: Jaimee Deese
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Business
First Place: William Atkinson
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Biological and Life
First Place: Connor Campbell
Second Place (Tie):
- Rose Albert
- Jessica Ryan
Third Place: Leanna Crafford
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Education
First Place: Madison Dahlke, Emmie Prewitt
Second Place: Hannah Grace Hatley, Kylie Adcox
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Engineering
First Place: Chattada Viriyaphap, Rachel Lewis, Tyler Gilson, Rufus Wanarua Njeru
Second Place: Lara Tapy, Russ Fuller, Adam Luechtefeld, Isabella Reed, Jason Zhang
Third Place: Amy Heerten, Chase Newton, Ian Svantesson
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Health Sciences
First Place: Rose Albert
Second Place: Mary Faulkner
Third Place: Emily Baugh
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Physical and Applied Science
First Place: Jace Duhon, Najla Ibrahim, Nash Robinson
Second Place (Tie):
- Arielle Griffin, Seokhoon Kim, Gavin Bingham
- Eric Choi, Garrett Hendley, Yuvika Harsh
Third Place: Kai Battle, Khaldoun Faris
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Service Learning
First Place: Emma Kate Sellers
Second Place: Lyndsey Plymon
Third Place: Meredith Kaletski
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Social and Behavioral Sciences
First Place: Emma Kate Sellars
Second Place: Mel Ebeling, Ann Carol Braswell, Audria S. Wood, Taylor R. White, Marissa A. Lausen, Sasha Isaac
Third Place: Destyni Cravens
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Works in Progress
First Place (tie):
- Brayden Rohr, Esther Lim, Thanushri Srikantha
- Leanna Coffey, Arushi Kotru, Keeton Morgan, Kelly Schattle, Sarah Van Winkle
Second Place: Olivia Johnston, Hadley Rosengrant
Third Place: Kylie Schomber, Carlos Martinez Diaz
Video Research Awards
FIRST PLACE: Cindy Nguyen, "The Epigenetic Effects of Exercise on a Rodent Model of TLE"
SECOND PLACE: Dante James, "Entropy Production of a Single Driven Qubit"
THIRD PLACE: Ryleigh Flemming, "Breaking the Barries of Traditional Service Learning in a Pandemic"
Meet our 2021 Spring Expo Keynote Speaker: Cristen Gavin, PhD
Dr. Gavin is an Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Biomedical Programs for the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, an Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, an Assistant Professor of Psychology, and Co-Director of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program (UNP), an interdisciplinary program between the Department of Neurobiology in the School of Medicine and the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition to teaching commitments in the program, Dr. Gavin oversees curriculum and faculty development, academic advising, recruitment, and manages undergraduate neuroscience research in the UAB Heersink School of Heersink Medicine. Dr. Gavin also serves as co-director of the UAB Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) an NIH-funded initiative to increase diversity in biomedical sciences at the graduate level and beyond.
Dr. Gavin received her PhD in Neuroscience from UAB. Her research areas include cellular and molecular mechanisms of structural and functional plasticity; memory; and mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disabilities.