The Shackouls Honors College recently held Mississippi State's Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium. A total of 196 projects were submitted with 11 oral presentations and 4 posters in Arts and Humanities, 80 posters in Biological Sciences and Engineering, 51 posters in Physical Sciences and Engineering, and 50 posters in Social Sciences. A total of 72 judges helped evaluate projects.
Abstracts from the winning projects can viewed in the digital abstract booklet.
Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium Winners
The top-rated projects are listed by category in alphabetical order; Faculty mentors and departments are in parentheses.
Arts and Humanities Top Rated Projects
Jacob Pritchard - Novus Miles Christi: Spiritual Authority and Suffering in the Presbyterian Missionary Movement (Dr. Joseph Witt - Philosophy and Religion)
Alysia Williams - Affordable Multifamily Housing in Relation to Community Revitalization and Social Development: A Cross Analysis of Regional Housing in Urban Contexts (Jacob Gines – Architecture)
Biological Sciences and Engineering Top Rated Projects
Amber Cook - The Conservation of Brain Folding Mechanics (Dr. Andrew Lawton - Biological Sciences)
Reese Dunne - A Diffusion Tensor Imaging approach to investigate the effects of exercise on quadricep muscle fiber lengths (Garry Gold - Radiology, Stanford University)
Sophie Jones - Advancement of Methods for Quantifying Osteogenesis in Static and Dynamic Culture (Dr. Lauren Priddy - Agricultural and Biological Engineering)
Catherine Paul - Are Barn Owls potential biological control agents for rodents in the Black Belt? (Dr. Scott Rush - Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture)
Ashutosh Shah - Invasive Aquatic Plant Species Identification on Nvidia Jetson Nano Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning (Dr. Sathish Samiappan and Dr. Gray Turnage - Geosystems Research Institute)
Nicholas Stinson - A method for quantifying neurodegeneration using a Drosophila model of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 (Dr. Natraj Krishnan - Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology & Plant Pathology)
Gracie Teel - Effects of dietary supplementation of DL-methionine and the calcium salt of DL-methionine hydroxy analog against the diquat-induced oxidative stress in growing pigs (Dr. Shengfa Liao, Dr. Shamimul Hasan, and Dr. Jean M. Feugang - Animal and Dairy Sciences)
Physical Sciences and Engineering Top Rated Projects
Satsha Burden - Aerodynamics of Winglets (Dr. Shreyas Narsipur - Aerospace Engineering)
Minjae Cho - Development of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) Model for Multi-Phase Flow Prediction (Dr. Joonsik Hwang - Mechanical Engineering)
Devin Foeller - NMEA Communicator Integration for Flight Simulator Training (Rob Wolz - Aerospace Engineering)
Katelyn Woodard - A Radical Library: Cataloging Radiation Yield of Acrylates Undergoing Electron-beam Polymerization (Dr. Julie Jessop - Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering)
Timothy Wunrow - The Effect of Data Availability and Domain Adaptation for Part Certification in Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing (Dr. Wenmeng Tian - Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Social Sciences Top Rated Projects
Eleanor Holt - Parenting and Emerging Adult Sexual Health: The Impact of Parental Religiosity and Relationship Quality on Risky Sexual Behavior (Dr. Cliff McKinney - Psychology)
Anna McLain - Evaluation of a Levels System to Address Food Refusal in Adolescences (Dr. Hallie Smith and Dr. Hailey Ripple - Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Foundations)
Josie Nasekos - Examining Water Expenditures Burden in the Southeastern U.S. (Dr. Matthew Interis - Agricultural Economics)
Camden Patterson - You Are What You Keep: Community-based Evaluation of the Relationship Between Hoarding Symptoms and Interconnectedness with Items (Dr. Mary E. Dozier - Psychology)
Amy Pham - The Relationship between Gender and Race and Body Image Dissatisfaction in Mississippi (Dr. Jennifer Lemacks - Education and Human Sciences, the University of Southern Mississippi)
Winners from Sub-Competitions at the Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Faculty mentors and departments are in parentheses.
Community Engagement Research Track Winners
Joshua Warnsley (Physical Sciences and Engineering) - The nexus between community socioeconomic factors and expected behavioral response to upcoming climate disaster (Dr. Nazanin Tajik Morshedlou - Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Anna McLain (Social Sciences) - Evaluation of a Levels System to Address Food Refusal in Adolescences (Dr. Hallie Smith and Dr. Hailey Ripple - Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Foundations)
Sophie Jones (Biological Sciences and Engineering) - Advancement of Methods for Quantifying Osteogenesis in Static and Dynamic Culture (Dr. Lauren Priddy - Agricultural and Biological Engineering)
Public Health Research Competition Winners
First Place: Erin Dickinson - Alcohol Consumption and Sleep Quality Among College Students at Mississippi State University (Dr. Terezie Tolar-Peterson - Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion)
Second Place: Emily Tucker - Survival and persistence of Listeria monocytogenes Bug600 and ScottA after exposure to high and low concentrations of first generation quaternary ammonium compound (benzalkonium chloride). (Dr. Ramakrishna Nannapaneni - Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion)
Third Place: Rachel Kalchbrenner - Backgrounds Come Back Around: Fragile Families and Early Adolescent Substance Abuse (Dr. Danielle Nadorff - Psychology)
Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) Winners
Grand Champion: Sarah Dulaney - Investigating Differing COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes within Families (Dr. Holli Seitz - Communication and Social Science Research Center)
Runner Up: Satsha Burden - Aerodynamics of Winglets (Dr. Shreyas Narsipur - Aerospace Engineering)
People’s Choice: Riley Cutler - Effects of Glyphosate on Recombination Plasticity in C. Elegans (Dr. Amy Dapper - Biological Sciences)
Theta Tau Tomorrow Builder Award
Ashutosh Shah - Invasive Aquatic Plant Species Identification on Nvidia Jetson Nano Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning (Dr. Sathish Samiappan and Dr. Gray Turnage - Geosystems Research Institute)
Additional information: https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2022/04/spring-symposium-highlights-msu-undergraduate-research.
More information on the Undergraduate Research Symposium can found at https://www.honors.msstate.edu/research/undergraduate-research-symposium/.
