91麻豆天美

2021 Graduate Research Symposium winners announced at 91麻豆天美

2021 Graduate Research Symposium winners announced at 91麻豆天美

Contact: Madison Welzbacher

STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥91麻豆天美鈥檚 Graduate Student Association is honoring 47 winners of the university鈥檚 20th Graduate Student Research Symposium.

The recent virtual event gave 80 students the chance to showcase oral and poster presentations to a panel of 91麻豆天美 faculty members and researchers. Projects were divided across four categories鈥攅ducation, arts and sciences, and business; forest resources and veterinary medicine; agriculture and life sciences; and engineering. Winners received monetary awards鈥攆irst place, $300; second place, $150; and third place, $50.

Winners include (by category):

POSTERS

FOREST RESOURCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擭atasha K. Murphy, a forest resources doctoral student from Ireland, for 鈥淎 Better View: Osprey display different behavioral response to two nest survey methods.鈥

SECOND鈥擟asey Iwamoto, a forest resources doctoral student from Seattle, Washington, for 鈥淧otential benefits of biochar and mycorrhizal fungi on shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) restoration in Northcentral Alabama.鈥

FOREST RESOURCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST (Tie)鈥擡lizabeth Baach, a forestry master鈥檚 student from Carmel, Indiana, for 鈥淯sing Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data to explore the relationship between functional diversity and productivity in Mississippi forests.鈥

FIRST (Tie)鈥擬acy Gosselaar, a forestry master鈥檚 student from Olathe, Kansas, for 鈥淚mpact of differentially expressed genes in monoclonal and polyclonal plantings of Populus deltoides for agricultural nitrogen mitigation.鈥

SECOND鈥擩ames N. Helferich, a wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture master鈥檚 student from Broadalbin, New York, for 鈥淚nferring the effects of climate change on individual growth rates in a threatened pit viper.鈥

AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擮shani Nayanathara, a forest resources doctoral student from Sri Lanka, for 鈥淒evelopment of lignin-based anti-corrosive polyurethane coating for metals.鈥

SECOND鈥擫isa Ziegler, a human development and family science doctoral student from Baden-Baden, Germany, for 鈥淯nderstanding eating disorder risk factors in college students: A mixed-methods needs assessment for designing eating disorder prevention programs.鈥

THIRD鈥擱iley Messman, an agricultural science doctoral student from Albion, Illinois, for 鈥淓ffects of maternal nutrient restriction and melatonin supplementation on bovine placental taste receptors.鈥

AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擟asey Moss and Shannon Allen, agricultural and extension education master鈥檚 students from Bruce, Mississippi, and Gassaway, West Virginia, for 鈥淟eading the Future: An assessment of county extension agents perceived leadership skills and leadership proficiency.鈥

SECOND鈥擱amandeep Kumar Sharma, a plant and soil sciences master鈥檚 student from Starkville, for 鈥淐orn yield response to nitrogen and sulfur application in Mississippi.鈥

THIRD鈥擩ames Dew, a plant and soil sciences master鈥檚 student from Shannon, for 鈥淎n evaluation on the effects of additions and deletions of specific nutrient management strategies on corn yield at different plant densities.鈥

EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND BUSINESS DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擲.M. Asger Ali, an earth and atmospheric sciences doctoral student from Starkville, for 鈥淪evere Weather Coverage: A comparative content analysis of Tennessee and Mississippi based local television broadcaster鈥檚 tornado warning communication.鈥

SECOND鈥擩asmine Sorrell, an educational psychology doctoral student from Starkville, for 鈥淒riving with ASD: Using stimulus fading to teach driving facts.鈥

THIRD (Tie)鈥擩annatul Ferdush, an earth and atmospheric sciences doctoral student from Dhaka, Bangladesh, for 鈥淕eostatistical applications in soil pH mapping at low-lying areas of Bangladesh.鈥

THIRD (Tie)鈥擲achini N.K. Kodithuwakku Arachchige, a kinesiology doctoral student from Ratmalana, Sri Lanka, for 鈥淭he Walls are Closing In: Postural responses to a virtual claustrophobic simulation.鈥

EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND BUSINESS MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擟assandra DeGaglia, an applied anthropology master鈥檚 student from Washington, D.C., for 鈥淗ighlighting the invisible: Marginalization in 19th and 20th century anatomical and medical anatomical skeletal collections.鈥

ENGINEERING DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擸ehong Peng, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral student from Hunan, China, for 鈥淪mart partitioning based fully distributed AC optimal power flow.鈥

SECOND (Tie)鈥擠urant Fullington, an industrial and systems engineering doctoral student from Thomasville, Georgia, for 鈥淒ata anonymization for process-defect modeling of additive manufacturing.鈥

SECOND (Tie)鈥擬ahathir Mohammad Bappy, an industrial and systems engineering doctoral student from Narsingdi, Dhaka, Bangladesh, for 鈥淚n-situ Layer-wise certification for direct energy deposition processes based on melt pool morphology dynamics analysis.鈥

ENGINEERING MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擣rank Brinkley, a mechanical engineering master鈥檚 student from Dennis, for 鈥淎n open-source medical bone screw insertion apparatus.鈥

SECOND鈥擬cKenna Patterson, a mechanical engineering master鈥檚 student from Augusta, Georgia, for 鈥淭he current state of the industrial energy assessment and its impact on today鈥檚 manufacturing industry.鈥

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

FOREST RESOURCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擠evin M. Chen, a forest resources doctoral student from Omaha, Nebraska, for 鈥淎 comparison of diets for optimal tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) larvae growth and development to bolster conservation efforts.鈥

SECOND鈥擱ebecca D. Bracken, a forest resources doctoral student from Austin, Texas, for 鈥淎ssessing the use of a managed forest landscape by a declining aerial insectivore in the southeastern U.S.鈥

THIRD鈥擳harindu Karunaratne, a forest resources doctoral student from Galle, Sri Lanka, for 鈥淏amboo char supported zero-valent iron (BC-ZVI) for water remediation.鈥

FOREST RESOURCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擧olly M. Todaro, a wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture master鈥檚 student from Port Huron, Michigan, for 鈥淢icro-habitat selection of Bachman鈥檚 sparrows in managed pine forests in Eastern Mississippi.鈥

SECOND鈥擬ahesh Tiwari, a forestry master鈥檚 student from Kathmandu, Nepal, for 鈥淲hat factors predispose households in trans-Himalaya (Central Nepal) to livestock predation by snow leopards?鈥

THIRD鈥擠arcey Collins, a forestry master鈥檚 student from Bauxite, Arkansas, for 鈥淣ovel silvicultural practices for managing mixed-species stands for non-industrial private landowners.鈥

AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擩osiane Argenta, a plant and soil sciences doctoral student from Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, for 鈥淩esponse of cotton chromosome substitution lines to sublethal doses of 2,4-D.鈥

SECOND鈥擵ictoria Jefferson, a molecular biology doctoral student from Tupelo, for 鈥淐haracterization of a previously unannotated coding region of Bovine Herpesvirus 1.鈥

THIRD鈥擲hraddha Hegde, a forest resources doctoral student from Leland, for 鈥淓conomic impact assessment of the U.S. catfish industry.鈥

AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擜llison Harman, an agriculture master鈥檚 student from Leesville, South Carolina, for 鈥淓valuating therapeutic supplements that alter prostaglandin production in a bovine endometrial epithelial cell model.鈥

SECOND鈥擬ckenzie Carvalho, an agriculture master鈥檚 student from Maxwell, California, for 鈥淭he urban-rural gap in financial literacy: Features and implications.鈥

THIRD听(Tie)鈥擫eAnn Ward, a computational biology master鈥檚 student from Brandon, for 鈥淓volutionary analysis of aging-related genes between the long-lived pollen feeding Heliconius butterfly species and other Lepidopterans.鈥

THIRD听(Tie)鈥擪atelin Waldrep, an agriculture master鈥檚 student from Cherokee, Alabama, for 鈥淢anaging Iron Deficiency Chlorosis (IDC) through a cropping system approach.鈥

EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND BUSINESS DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擩unnatun Naym, a business administration doctoral student from Dhaka, Bangladesh, for 鈥淓ffect of regulatory enforcement actions on CEO forced turnover: Evidence from violation penalties.鈥

SECOND鈥擟ourtney J. Bolstad, an applied psychology doctoral student from Fergus Falls, Minnesota, for 鈥淎ge moderates the relation between sleep problems and suicide risk.鈥

THIRD鈥擱aymond Femi Awoyemi, a chemistry doctoral student from Ekan, Kwara State, Nigeria, for 鈥淚nvestigation of hydrogen diffusion in high hardness steels.鈥

EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND BUSINESS MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擩ordan Wesley, a history master鈥檚 student from Hattiesburg, for 鈥淭o Be Womanly Always, Discouraged Never: The role of southern sororities in American containment culture.鈥

SECOND鈥擪ayla Jordan, a history master鈥檚 student from Sweet Water, Alabama, for 鈥淢ore than ectoplasm: A study of Civil War memory and Southern ghostlore.鈥

THIRD鈥擪endall Comish, a history master鈥檚 student from Ridgeland, for 鈥淔ighting AIDS Patients: How NIMBY-ism/urban revanchism was used to fight against a Mississippi AIDS boarding house.鈥

ENGINEERING DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擫ogan Betts, an engineering doctoral student from Brunswick, Georgia, for 鈥淭owards an electromagnetic modeling and simulation framework for estimating composition of cementitious geomaterial.鈥

SECOND (Tie)鈥擩avier Mendez Monroy, an engineering doctoral student from Bogota, Colombia, for 鈥淩unoff, sediment and nutrients load, and crop yield modeling in the Mississippi Delta region using APEX.鈥

SECOND (Tie)鈥擫aihmen Quan, an engineering doctoral student from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for 鈥淪alinity effect on CO2-sensitive Polyacrylamide.鈥

SECOND (Tie)鈥擬atthew Register, an engineering doctoral student from Vicksburg, for 鈥淎 sequentially coupled thermomechanical model for wire arc additive manufacturing of M250.鈥

SECOND (Tie)鈥擬eena Raju, an engineering doctoral student from Bengaluru, India, for 鈥淟ong term trend and change point analysis of streamflow and rainfall in Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer (MRVAA).鈥

ENGINEERING MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擫aura Andrea Sarmiento Rodriguez, a civil engineering master鈥檚 student from Bogota, Colombia, for 鈥淎ssessment of runoff water quality from irrigated corn fields under different cover crop residues treatments.鈥

SECOND鈥擫orena Chavarro-Chaux, a civil engineering master鈥檚 student from Oporapa, Huila, Colombia, for 鈥淎ssessing the pollutants loads and stream function in a headwater of Catalpa Creek.鈥

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