2023 Conference
Winners
General Awards
Oral Presentations
- 1st Place: Aliza Leslie (College of Arts & Sciences) -- The Critical White Voice
- 2nd Place: Chanel Reid (College of Arts & Sciences) -- Current Georgia State University H.O.P. E. lab combines BE & BE with Innovative warm calling programs to lessen social isolation, loneliness, depression and suicide desire (SILES) among the older adult community in a partially nested randomized control trial
- 3rd Place: Constance Cromartie (College of Arts & Sciences) -- Activism and Altruism: Regaining autonomic control amidst repeated complex trauma
Poster Presentations
- 1st Place: Shannon Stone (College of Arts & Sciences) -- MVA-vectored multi-antigen COVID-19 vaccines induce protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 variants spanning Alpha to Omicron in preclinical animal models
- 2nd Place: Charlotte Annan (College of Arts & Sciences) -- Modelling of radon transport in unsaturated soil using Hydrus 1D software
- 3rd Place: Jannatul Ruhan Raha (Institute for Biomedical Sciences) -- Supplementation of influenza vaccine with multi-subtype neuraminidase and M2 ectodomain virus-like particles improves protection against homologous and heterologous viruses in aged mice
Creative Activity
- Musical Performance: Arlet Tabares (College of the Arts) -- Mama Kalunga by Roisel Suárez. A solo piece for French horn.
- Creative Excellence - Artistic Talk: April S. Davenport (College of Arts & Sciences) -- Deafening Silence
- Creative Excellence - Artistic Display: Rachel Warren (College of the Arts) -- Fixed: A Cultural Reframing of Death through the Ephemeral Photograph
Global Engagements Awards
Oral Presentations
- 1st Place: Monisha Jackson (College of Arts & Sciences) -- I'm not your SISTA: An Intersectional Exploration of Queer Black Women's Experiences in LGBT+ Nightlife in the United Kingdom
- 2nd Place: Alapa Odugbo (College of Arts & Sciences) -- The Exclusion of Cultural and Religious Beliefs in Biomedical Interventions on Mental Disorder Issues in West Africa: Concerns, Implications and Ways Forward
Poster Presentations
- 1st Place: Shannon Stone (College of Arts & Sciences) -- MVA-vectored multi-antigen COVID-19 vaccines induce protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 variants spanning Alpha to Omicron in preclinical animal models
- 2nd Place: Armita Ghobadi (College of Arts & Sciences) -- Do bilinguals follow first or second language in moving across spaces in speech and co-speech gesture?
Sustainability Awards
Oral Presentations
- Logan Johnston (College of Law) -- Democratizing Electric Cooperatives for Environmental Justice
- Christina Kiessling (College of Arts & Sciences) -- Key to Sustainable Clean Up of the Environment: Functional Characterization of Effective Anaerobic Plastic Degradation by Geotalea daltonii
- Safiya Miller (College of Arts & Sciences) -- Black Women's Resistance to Land Domination: Emancipation to Cop City.
Poster Presentations
- Sumya Tasnim (College of Arts & Sciences) -- Identification of underground radon hotspots and forecast to future scenarios through space-time pattern analysis
- Andrews Dwomoh (College of Arts & Sciences) -- Analysis of Methane Emissions at Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority Landfill.
- Jafar Jafarov (Andrew Young School of Policy Studies) -- Air Pollution and Time Use: Evidence from India
- Kelly Cronin (College of Arts & Sciences) -- Atlanta Road and Waterway Litter: Waterway Risk Determined by Interstate and Highway Litter Data
2022 Conference
Winners
Oral Presentations
1st Place - $500 Award
Anthony Boxleiter, Doctoral student in Chemistry and Geosciences
Presentation Title: Georgia Kaolin Clay: Rare-Earth Elements And Sustainable Mineral Resources
2nd Place $350 Award
Santana Nash, Master's student in Welch School of Art and Design
Presentation Title: African Comics in the Presence of Black Spirituality
3rd Place (Tie) $250 Awards
Sarah King, Doctoral student in Economics
Presentation Title: Does Summer School Work? Evidence from a 2021 Summer Program
Mia Milne, Doctoral student in Sociology
Presentation Title: A County-Level Analysis of Alabama's Chemical Endangerment Law on Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes
Poster Presentations
1st Place - $500 Award
Ezgi Sen, Master's student in Biology
Presentation Title: Increase in Dopamine Levels Lead to Monogamy
2nd Place (Tie) - $350 Awards
Oluwadunsin Agbolabori, Master's student in Economics
Presentation Title: Space Travel History – Visualization
Ranju Ghimire, Master's student in Chemistry
Presentation Title: Synthesis And Optical Properties Of Donor-ᴫ-Acceptor Fluorophores for Bioimaging Applications
3rd Place (Tie) - $250 Awards
Sarah Edwards, Master's student in Computer Science
Presentation Title: Georgia State University Contact Network and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
Lyric Hathaway, Master's student in Africana Studies
Presentation Title: Points of Entry and Existence: A Case Study Examination of East African Migrants in Clarkston, Georgia
Musical Performances
Creative Excellence - $300 Award
Sarah Griffin, Master's student in School of Music
Performance Title: Chia-Yu Hsu's Chasing Shadows (2013) for Solo Alto Saxophone
Film Presentations and Artistic Talks
First Place - $300 Award
Cassidy Cannon, Master's student in Art History
Artistic Talk Title: Wrapping the Flesh: Materiality of Skin(s) and Affect in Jusepe de Ribera's Paintings
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