April 21, 2024
Photo by Roger Meissen
Each year, the University of Missouri hosts Show Me Research Week, a celebration of student research and creative activity representing almost every field and discipline on campus.
About 500 Mizzou students and postdoctoral fellows presented projects from April 14 to April 17, and of the students who chose to have their work judged, several received awards in each category at the closing reception in Memorial Union.
The following students and their faculty mentors were recognized for their work:
Applied Design
Caitlyn Pallas, graduate student in ancient Mediterranean studies and Huda Alqader, graduate student in civil engineering.
Title: “Mixing it Up: Testing the Effects of Different Fabrication Methods on Roman Mortars”
Mentor: Marcello Mogetta, professor and chair of Classics, Archaeology and Religion
Artistic Expression
Project: “Layered: An Exploration of Memorialization of Reed Hall”
Lani Redecker, sophomore | early childhood education
Ever Cole, senior | journalism
Bishop Lamm, junior | journalism
Sofi Ortega, senior | digital storytelling
Lancing Moore, freshman | accountancy
Mentor: Katina Bitsicas, associate professor, School of Visual Studies
Humanities
Li Lin, graduate student, architectural studies
Title: “Virtual Presence: Exploring VR as a Tool for Meditation”
Mentor: Jong Bum Kim, associate professor of architectural studies
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Undergraduate winners:
Tanner Smith, senior | communication
Title: “Countering Stereotypes?: An Analysis of the Effects of Confirming and Disconfirming Entertainment Media of Arab/Muslims” Mentor: Christopher Josey, associate teaching professor of communication
Kailey Shirrell, junior | psychology
Title: “Navigating the First Year: Positives and Challenges in Motherhood Narratives”
Mentor: Jennifer Bohanek, assistant adjunct research professor; psychological sciences
Logan Mcdonough, senior | anthropology
Title: “The Ancient Stone Tools of Standlee Shelter”
Mentor: Todd Vanpool, professor and chair of anthropology
Graduate student winners:
Misty Phillips, School of Medicine | Family and Community Medicine
Title: “Collaborate Radon Prevention Measures Across Missouri”
Mentor: Kevin Everett, professor and research director of family and community medicine
Anna Vogts, educational studies
Title: “Empathy and Teacher-Student Closeness Predict Teacher Job Satisfaction”
Mentor: Christi Bergin, program director; education, school and conseling pychology
Engineering Sciences
Undergraduate winners
Benjamin Peter: junior | electrical engineering
Title: “Integration of Quantum Computing in Power Grid Security Assessment”
Mentor: Mert Korkali, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science
Ashton Wooster & Andrew Woods, sophomore | computer science & graduate student, computer science
Title: “Exploiting Noise-Induced Confidentiality Issues in Multi-tenant Quantum Computers”
Mentor: Chi-Ren Shyu, director of informatics; professor of computer science and bioinformatics
Graduate student winners
Minasadat Attari, computer science
Title: “A Deep Learning Based Approach for Segmentation and Characterization of Axon and Myelin in Microscopy Images”
Mentor: Filiz Bunyak, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science
Informatics
Undergraduate winner
Miles Farmer, junior | computer science
Title: “Graph-Based Code Change Representations for Identifying Security Fixes in Source Code”
Mentor: Ekincan Ufuktepe, assistant teaching professor of electrical engineering and computer science
Graduate winner
Chunyang Lu, Computer Science
Title: “ScPlantAnnotate: An Accurate and Robust Transformer-Based Model for Plant Cell Type Annotation”
Mentor: Trupti Joshi, associate professor of biomedical informatics
Life Sciences
Undergraduate winners
Katherine Bailey, senior | natural resources sciences and management
Title: “Using Remote Sensing Reflectance to Estimate Chlorophyll-a Concentrations in Missouri Reservoirs”
Mentor: Lorena Pinheiro-Silva, post-doctoral fellow, School of Natural Resources
Maddie Dobbels, senior | chemistry
Title: “Effect of Patient Age and BMI on the Metabolic Responses of Osteoarthritic Cartilage to Load”
Mentor: Aaron Stoker, research professor of orthopaedic surgery
Kari Leake, senior | natural resources sciences and management
Title: “Using Remote Sensing Reflectance to Estimate Chlorophyll-a Concentrations in Missouri Reservoirs”
Mentor: Lorena Pinheiro-Silva, post-doctoral fellow, School of Natural Resources
Owen D’Amour, senior | chemistry
Title: “Effect of Patient Age and BMI on the Metabolic Responses of Osteoarthritic Cartilage to Load”
Mentor: Aaron Stoker, research professor of orthopaedic surgery
Graduate student winners
Bo Lyu, plant sciences and technology
Title: “IntegraG-Quadruplex Structures in 16S rRNA and Thermal Adaptation in Prokaryotes”
Mentor: Qisheng Song, professor of entomology
Euan Price, biological sciences
Title: “Modified Tunicamycins Increase Sensitivity of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus to ß-Lactam Antibiotics”
Mentor: Caroline Gruenwald, assistant professor of biological sciences
Natalie Heath, biological sciences
Title: “Noradrenergic Signaling Appears to Increase in Response to Hypoxia & Hypoglycemia and Aquarana catesbeina Locus Coeruleus Nerons”
Mentor: Joseph Santin, professor of biological sciences
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Donovan Flagg, senior | physics
Title: “Measuring the Pitch Angle of Distant Galaxies”
Mentor: Yicheng Guo, associate professor of physics
Arden Fraley, junior | environmental sciences
Title: “Exploring a New Technique of Tracking Invasive Carp”
Mentor: Alba Argerich, associate professor; School of Natural Resources
