2018 Best Poster Winners Announced | Aresty Research Center

Thanks to the efforts of Rutgers graduate students, staff, and corporate judges, the Aresty Research Center evaluates the poster presentations at our annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.This year the top posters were chosen from three broad categories: Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). We have awarded three prizes in STEM this year due to the high quality and excellent work of the students. We’re excited to announce our winners for 2018. Congratulations to these Best Posters and Honorable Mentions from the 14th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium!

Humanities

Jessica Fitzner and Thea Popko
Emmy Hennings: Annotaed Anthology
Advisor: Nicola Behrmann, German

Social Sciences

Celine LaBelle and Kayla Zambrana
Breat Cancer and Physical Environmental Characteristics
Advisor: Jesse Plascak, Epidemiology

STEM

Bailey Warder
The Role of the Mechanosensitive Cation Channel, PIEZO1, in Intestinal Epithelial Homeostasis
Advisor: Michael Verzi, Genetics

Michael Vinciguerra
Soft Robotics and 3-D Printing
Advisor: Aaron Mazzeo, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Yufu Wang
Big Data Analytics for Osteoarthritis
Advisor: Weihong Guo, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Honorable Mention: Humanities

Massimo Guglietta and Claudia Lee
Walking Through Italian Literature and Film
Advisor: Andrea Baldi

Anjanette Vaidya and Sciatta Padmore
'Homeplace': Black Teachers and the Space of the Mathematics Classroom
Advisor: Dan Battey

Danielle Roman
The Military's Other War: Venereal Disease & World War ll
Advisor: Leslie Fishbein

Honorable Mention: Social Sciences

Ryan Smith-Cooper
Chemical Diagenesis and Its Archaeological Implications at the Middle Paleolithic Site of El Salt (Alicante, Spain), Stratigraphic Unit Xb
Advisor: Dan Cabanes

Christiaan Bedrij-Arpa
A Study of Lobbying in Renewable Energy Policy
Advisor: Rachael Shwom

Michael Nanchanatt, Fatima Naqvi, Amy Nguyen and Mittal Patel
Bank Supervision: Assessing Examiner Effectiveness
Advisor: Eugene White

Kyra Frank
Predicting Consumption of Food, Energy, and Water
Advisor: Rachael Shwom

Honorable Mention: STEM

Eman Ahmed

Investigating Lipid Bilayer Rupture Using Computer Simulation

Advisor: Alexander Neimark

Aparna Anand

Effect of Inverted Duplication Events in the Salivary Glands of the Fruit Fly D. auraria on Genome Organization

Advisor: Christopher Ellison

Nathiyah Asokan

Blocking Orexin-1 Receptor Signaling Reverses Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia

Advisor: Jennifer Catuzzi Fragale

Zachary Billingham

Heat Transfer Analysis for Solar Energy Distribution in Windows

Advisor: Zhixiong Guo

Sean Connelly

Analyzing the effect of Msc1 on the metaphase to anaphase transition during mitosis in fission yeast

Advisor: Nancy Walworth

Eda Fenercioglu

Optimizing U1 Adaptor Oligonucleotide Gene Silencing Potency via the AXS Scaffold Protein

Advisor: Samuel Gunderson

Lucas Hanson

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanoparticle Re-entrainment by Fluid-Fluid Interfaces and Its Application to Transport in the Vadose Zone

Advisor: German Drazer

Sean Ilg

Characterization of Gelatin Viscosity and Gelation Kinetics Using Allura Red as a Fluorophore

Advisor: Richard Ludescher

Partth Laad

Modeling the Dynamics of a Shopping Cart with a Caster Assembly and Frictional Effects

Advisor: Haim Baruh

Sanjana Mamidi

Western Blotting E13 (Prenatal VPA)

Advisor: George Wagner

Neil Patel

Cholinergic Receptor Regulation as a Mechanism of Learning-Induced Plasticity in the Auditory Pathway

Advisor: Katarzyna Bieszczad

Joseph Yunga Tigre

The Developmental Effects of DEHP and DINP on Anogenital Distance, Body Weight, and Pubertal Age in Females

Advisor: Aparna Zama

Yakun Wang

Variability in the Indication of Catheterization in Patients with Unspecified Chest Pain

Advisor: Javier Cabrera

Zhaohan Yan

New Jersey Water Utility Rate Survey and Analysis