Oral and Poster Presentation Awards
Each year, our conference celebrates the outstanding achievements and contributions of researchers within our college community. From groundbreaking discoveries to compelling presentations, we honor those who have made significant strides in advancing knowledge and innovation across various fields of science.
Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation in:
Biology:
Sofia Ayala - The Behavioral Influence of Fungal Endophytes on Yellow Fever Mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti)
Chemistry:
Juan Manuel Garcia Jr. - Enhancing Photoluminescence Properties, Shape, and Size Analysis of Metal and Semi-metal Nanoparticles using Reactive High-Energy Ball Milling (RHEBM)
Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences:
Ira Narang - Flood Impact Mitigation: Assessing the Role of Sand Dunes in Protecting Crops in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas
Health & Medical Sciences:
Noah Al-Hassan - Periodontitis and Alzheimer's Disease: A Magnetic Link
Best Graduate Oral Presentation in:
Biology:
Emily Medelez - Impact of native and invasive grasses on the behavior of Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus
Chemistry:
Alitza Garcia - Microhydration of 3,4,5-trifluorobenzoic acid
Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences:
Kabir Bahadur Shah - Assessment of Air Pollution Levels Using Data from Low-cost Sensors and Remote Sensing Satellite in Roma Independent School District, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA
Health & Medical Sciences:
Taha Al-Hassan - Rare Presentation of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Tongue with Ectopic β-hCG Secretion
Mathematics:
Joel Williams - Generating Heat Maps for Turbulence - Imputing Turbulence Readings Through Spatio-Temporal weighting
Physics:
Manoj Chhetri - Utilizing machine learning to predict the charge storage capability of Lithium-ion battery materials
Best High School Poster Presentation in:
Chemistry:
Matthew Lin - Simulation of carbon dioxide adsorption in metal-organic frameworks with open metal sites utilizing RASPA
Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation in:
Arts:
Luz Rodriguez - Analysis of Rabbit's Unique Anatomy
Clarissa Sifuentes - Yersinia Pestis Bacterium
Biochemistry:
Cesar Morales Alba - A Study of Cadmium Binding With The N-Terminus of Synapse Associated Protein 102 And Implications For Its Postsynaptic Functions
Biology:
Jimena Garcia-Guillen, Miguel Salazar, Sofia Jordan, Efe Martins, Hasan Mahmud, Sydney Do, and Alexa Alaniz - Gene Regulation in the Intermediate-Germ Insect: Tribolium
Chemistry:
Octavio J. Jupp - Triboelectric Analysis of Naturally Abundant, Renewable, and Sustainable Glycosidically Linked Based Films for Sensor Applications
Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences:
Jose Cisneros, Gaspar Najera, and Aaliyah Garcia - Assessing the effects of channel-widening on water quality in Bahia Grande
Engineering:
Hana Elnahas - Development of Pullulan based antibiotic nanofiber membranes for sinusitis treatment
Health & Medical Sciences:
Sussy Mendoza and Ariane Garcia - Identifying Peptides Targeting Phospholipase A2
Physics:
Pablo Zepeda and Cecilia Pena - Fabrication of PDMS-Based Piezoelectric Nanogenerator Utilizing Barium Ruthenate (BaRuO3) Synthesized by Solid-State Reactions
Best Graduate Poster Presentation in:
Biochemistry:
Mohammad Yaman Karkoutly - B-CNN for Early Alzheimer Disease Detection in MRI Scans
Biology:
David Uribe - Investigating FOXO4 Targets in GBM
Chemistry:
Esther Owusu - Microwave-assisted green synthesis of spiroindolinopyranopyrazoles
Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences:
Siena Rose Stassi - Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide fluxes from managed distributaries across the Rio Grande Delta
Engineering:
Cesar Sanchez - Multi-Method Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots via Bottom-Up Approach
Health & Medical Sciences:
Justin Zander Heckman and Alyssa Sepulveda - Oxidative Stress, a culprit in cardiovascular diseases and Resveratrol as a potential therapeutic agent
Mathematics:
Adhira Tippur - Developing Machine Learning Models to Predict Oral Cancer
Physics:
Siegfried Gawenda - Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Observations of the Most Powerful Radio Sources in the Southern Sky