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性视界传媒 recognizes 41 Graduate Student Research Symposium winners

性视界传媒 recognizes 41 Graduate Student Research Symposium winners

Contact: Carl Smith

STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi 性视界传媒鈥檚 Graduate Student Association is honoring 41 winners of the university鈥檚 22nd Graduate Student Research Symposium.

Graduate Student Research Symposium
Mississippi 性视界传媒 graduate students explain their research posters during October鈥檚 Graduate Student Research Symposium. Forty-one master鈥檚 and doctoral students earned cash prizes for their entries. (Submitted photo)

More than 100 students recently showcased oral and poster presentations to a panel of 性视界传媒 faculty members and researchers during the symposium. Approximately 45 faculty judges and 20 graduate student volunteers assisted with the event. Projects were divided across four categories鈥攅ducation, arts and sciences, and business; forest resources and veterinary medicine; agriculture and life sciences; and engineering. Winners received monetary awards鈥攆irst place, $150; second place, $75; and third place, $50.

Winners include (by category):

POSTERS

AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擱amandeep Kumar Sharma, a plant and soil sciences/agronomy doctoral student from India, for 鈥淐rop-climate link in the southeastern USA: A case study on oats and sorghum.鈥

SECOND鈥擫i-Dunn Chen, a life sciences/animal physiology doctoral student from Omaha, Nebraska, for 鈥淎 toad is a toad鈥攐r is it? Shedding light on the biochemical differences of three anurans using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).鈥

THIRD鈥擵arsha Singh, a plant and soil sciences/weed science doctoral student from India, for 鈥淲eed-suppressing potential of sweet potato varieties under field conditions.鈥

AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擱anadheer Reddy Vennam, a plant and soil sciences/agronomy master鈥檚 student from India, for 鈥淧ost-silking water-deficit stress impact on physiology and yield in corn.鈥

SECOND鈥擲adikshya Poudel, a plant and soil sciences/agronomy master鈥檚 student from Nepal, for 鈥淧henotyping of soybean cultivars for interactive drought and heat stress tolerance.鈥

THIRD鈥擟ourtney Wynn, an agricultural life sciences/biochemistry master鈥檚 student from Hull, Alabama, for 鈥溾楽weet鈥 silk glands: A glucose-conjugating enzyme is highly expressed in the silk glands of moths.鈥

EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND BUSINESS DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擝ipin Lamichhane, a physics doctoral student from Nepal, for 鈥淥xidation resistance of atomically flat Cu (111) surface: A First-principles study.鈥

SECOND鈥擧ashani P. Abeysinghe, a chemistry doctoral student from Sri Lanka, for 鈥淪orption of aqueous arsenic (V) by an iron oxide/rice husk biochar composite adsorbent.鈥

THIRD鈥擝rantley K. Ballenge, a kinesiology/exercise science doctoral student from Hoover, Alabama, for 鈥淢oderation and mediation of body composition on the relationship between physical activity and arterial health.鈥

EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND BUSINESS MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擩ennifer Ani, an education/性视界传媒 psychology educational specialist and educational psychology/psychometry master鈥檚 student from Pleasant Grove, Alabama, for 鈥淭he effects of self-monitoring on increasing performance on early numeracy skills.鈥

SECOND鈥擬oshood Fagbolade, a biological sciences master鈥檚 student from Nigeria, for 鈥淓xamining occidiofungin targeting of fungal actin orthologs using the S. cerevisiae shuffle strategy.鈥

ENGINEERING DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擲abyasachi Biswas, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral student from Bangladesh, for 鈥淢ulti-target activity classification with MIMO radar.鈥

SECOND鈥擬ahathir Mohammad Bappy, an industrial and systems engineering doctoral student from Bangladesh, for 鈥淢orphological dynamics-based anomaly detection towards in-situ layer-wise certification for directed energy deposition processes.鈥

THIRD鈥擬adhubhashini Lakdusinghe, an engineering/chemical engineering doctoral student from Sri Lanka, for 鈥淣anoscale self-assembly of poly(3-hexylthiophene) assisted by a low-molecular-weight gelator toward large-scale fabrication of electrically conductive networks.鈥

ENGINEERING MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擫orena Chavarro-Chaux, a civil engineering master鈥檚 student from Colombia, for 鈥淏est management practices effectiveness on stream water quality in livestock management areas.鈥

SECOND鈥擲ubodh Poudel, a civil engineering master鈥檚 student from Nepal, for 鈥淎pplication of the HEC-HMS Model for runoff simulation of Catalpa Creek Watershed, Mississippi: Calibration, validation and model performance evaluation.鈥

THIRD鈥擱eese Dunne, a mechanical engineering accelerated master鈥檚 student from Starkville, for 鈥淒evelopment and implementation of a magnesium-based finite element degradation model for hydroxyapatite-coated orthopedic implants.鈥

FOREST RESOURCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擮luwabori Adekanye, a veterinary and biomedical sciences/veterinary medical research doctoral student from Nigeria, for 鈥淐arboxylesterase 1 modifies the proinflammatory phenotype of human THP-1 macrophages.鈥

FOREST RESOURCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擪yle Dues, a forestry master鈥檚 student from Kettering, Ohio, for 鈥淎 machine learning approach to stand dynamics in a threatened forest ecosystem.鈥

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擩osiane Argenta, a plant and soil sciences/weed science doctoral student from Brazil, for 鈥淓ffect of melatonin in cotton sprayed with sublethal doses of 2, 4-D.鈥

SECOND鈥擳ingjun Lei, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral student from China, for 鈥淎n informative planning-based multi-layer robot navigation system as applied in a poultry barn.鈥

THIRD鈥擲ena Isbili, a life sciences/entomology doctoral student from Turkey, for 鈥淢olecular cloning, mutation frequency analysis, and expression profiling of insect ryanodine receptor in soybean looper, Chrysodeixis includens.鈥

AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擠ylan Lesak, a food science, nutrition and health promotion/food science and technology master鈥檚 student from Batavia, Illinois, for 鈥淏uffered dry vinegar decreases bacterial growth of refrigerated pork breakfast sausage.鈥

SECOND鈥擫ovepreet Singh, a plant and soil sciences/agronomy master鈥檚 student from India, for 鈥淕enotyping-by-sequencing revealed extensive genomic diversity in bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.).鈥

THIRD (Tie)鈥擜lyssa Lea Miller, a plant and soil sciences/weed science master鈥檚 student from Starkville, for 鈥淭he suppressive ability of different cover crop production systems on troublesome weed species in cotton.鈥

Third (Tie)鈥擲adikshya Poudel, a plant and soil sciences/agronomy master鈥檚 student from Nepal, for 鈥淒etrimental effects of high daytime temperature on physiology and yield in soybean.鈥

EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND BUSINESS DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擲apan Luitel, a physics doctoral student from Nepal, for 鈥淓17011 experimental setup, and efficiency comparison between simulated and experimental results.鈥

SECOND鈥擲aja Teeti, a physics doctoral student from Saudi Arabia, for 鈥淩otating proton rich nuclei: the birth of proton bound rotational bands, high-spin giant proton halos and rotation induced extension of nuclear landscape.鈥

THIRD鈥擧oang Pham, a chemistry doctoral student from Vietnam, for 鈥淪ynthesis of a CCC-NHC pincer Re complex: An air stable catalyst for coupling ketones with primary alcohols via borrowing hydrogen.鈥

ENGINEERING DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擩ing Yang, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral student from China, for 鈥淎 hybrid routing method in energy harvesting wireless sensor networks.鈥

SECOND鈥擜nh Vo, a biomedical engineering doctoral student from Vietnam, for 鈥淚mpact of lipid composition on mechanoporation and failure of complex bilayer membranes.鈥

THIRD鈥擜yantha Senanayaka, an industrial and systems engineering doctoral student from Sri Lanka, for 鈥淪imilarity-based multi-source transfer learning approach for time series classification.鈥

ENGINEERING MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擶illiam Downs, a mechanical engineering accelerated master鈥檚 student from Carrollton, for 鈥淓xamining ULTEM 9085 by fused deposition modelling with a thermo-mechanical finite element analysis.鈥

SECOND鈥擫ichang Zhu, a mechanical engineering master鈥檚 student from China, for 鈥淭wo-dimensional simulation of flow in porous media using lattice Boltzmann method.鈥

THIRD鈥擩avier F. Mendez Monroy, a civil engineering master鈥檚 student from Colombia, for 鈥淏est professional judgment (BPJ) evaluation considering an APEX uncertainty analysis (UA) in the Mississippi Delta region.鈥

FOREST RESOURCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擨an Pereira Sartorio, a forest resources/forestry doctoral student from Brazil, for 鈥淩eacting to hurricane disturbances: Optimizing forest resources with a supply chain model.鈥

SECOND鈥擡mma Schultz, a forest resources/wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture doctoral student from Jackson, for 鈥淥n the move: How animal and small unoccupied aircraft system (sUAS) movements influence survey error.鈥

THIRD鈥擪rista Ruppert, a forest resources/wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture doctoral student from Kingwood, Texas, for 鈥淧ost-breeding movement and microhabitat selection of Gopher Frogs (Rana [Lithobates] capito) on the Conecuh National Forest.鈥

FOREST RESOURCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擬axwell Schrimpf, a forestry master鈥檚 student from Beavercreek, Ohio, for 鈥淗arnessing the power of CT scanning to identify changes in relative density of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda).鈥

SECOND (Tie)鈥擝radly Thornton, a wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture master鈥檚 student from Savannah, Missouri, for 鈥淢odeling avian species distributions in open pine forests in the Southeastern United 性视界传媒s.鈥

SECOND (Tie)鈥擲akar Nepal, a forestry master鈥檚 student from Nepal, for 鈥淢ississippi鈥檚 timber severance tax and its contribution to the economy.鈥

THIRD鈥擩ames N. Helferich, a wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture master鈥檚 student from Broadalbin, New York, for 鈥淓ffects of climate change on individual growth rates in a threatened pit viper.鈥

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