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2020 Graduate Student Research Symposium winners announced at 黑料社

2020 Graduate Student Research Symposium winners announced at 黑料社

Contact: Landon Gibson

STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥敽诹仙 is renowned for providing students with opportunities to conduct innovative and meaningful research alongside world-class faculty.

The university鈥檚 Graduate School and Graduate Student Association recently gave 45 master鈥檚 and doctoral students a forum to showcase work from the spring and fall听2020 semesters during the Graduate Student Research Symposium.

Twenty-nine of these students received cash prizes for having top-ranked oral presentations and poster projects assigned to one of four categories鈥攁rts and humanities; life and biomedical sciences and engineering; physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering; and social and behavioral sciences.

A team of 20 campus faculty members representing a cross-section of academic disciplines served as judges.

This year鈥檚 winners include (by project type, category and classification):

POSTERS

ARTS AND HUMANITIES听EDUCATION MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擡ric H. Anderson, an applied anthropology master鈥檚 student from Loxley, Alabama, for 鈥淢edieval Medical Treatment for Cranial Trauma from Ilok, Croatia.鈥

LIFE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擠ana Reid, an agricultural science doctoral student from Clarendon, Jamaica, for 鈥淭he Effect of Melatonin on Dam Milking Traits and Calf Performance in Beef Cattle.鈥

SECOND鈥擝rittany N. Szafran, an environmental toxicology doctoral student from Moundsville, West Virginia, for 鈥淚mmune Effects of Carboxylesterase Inactivation in the Neonatal Murine Lung.鈥

THIRD鈥擬onzur Kader Chowdhury, a veterinary medical science doctoral student from Sylhet, Bangladesh, for 鈥淓lucidating the role of DeoR transcriptional regulators in Listeria monocytogenes in virulence and environmental adaptation.鈥

LIFE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擠ianna A. Wilson, a food science, nutrition and health promotion master鈥檚 student from Norfolk, Virginia, for 鈥淓valuating the Effectiveness of Chitosan Ice on Delaying the Onset of Spoilage in Channel Catfish.鈥

SECOND鈥擬iranda H.J. Huang, a wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture master鈥檚 student from Carmel, Indiana, for 鈥淓xploring Tick Questing Behavior.鈥

THIRD鈥擟layton W. Hale, a forestry master鈥檚 student from Nolensville, Tennessee, for 鈥淪tudent Centered Cooperative Instruction Increases Student Engagement in Plant Identification Courses.鈥

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES听DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擲.M. Asger Ali, an earth and atmospheric sciences doctoral student from Khulna, Bangladesh, for 鈥淢edia Framing and Agenda-Setting of Hurricane Harvey's News Coverage: A Content Analysis of the Houston Chronicle, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal from 2017-2018.鈥

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES听MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擪eri L. Porter, an applied anthropology听master鈥檚 student from Greenville, Texas, for 鈥淟ived Experience in the Mississippi State Asylum: An Osteobiography of Burial 8.鈥

PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擜mali Herath, a chemistry doctoral student from Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, for 鈥淏iochar-supported Polyaniline Hybrid for Nitrate Adsorption from Aqueous Systems.鈥

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

ARTS AND HUMANITIES EDUCATION DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擲adia Alam Shammi, an earth and atmospheric sciences doctoral student from Narayangonj, Bangladesh, for 鈥淯se Time Series NDVI and EVI to Develop Dynamic Crop Growth Metrics for Yield Modeling.鈥

ARTS AND HUMANITIES EDUCATION MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擜ndrea M. Lopez of Starkville, an applied anthropology master鈥檚 student, for 鈥淩e-examining Gender Disparities in Publication Trends Among North American Archaeological Journals.鈥

LIFE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING听DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擩osiane C. Argenta, a plant and soil sciences doctoral student from Brazil, for 鈥淭olerance of Cotton Chromosomal Substitution Lines to 2,4-D: A Dose-Response Study.鈥

SECOND鈥擱ebecca D. Bracken, a forest resources doctoral student from Austin, Texas, for 鈥淒oes Intercropping Switchgrass in a Private, Working Forest Affect Avian Diversity and Abundance?鈥

THIRD鈥擱iley D. Messman, an agricultural science doctoral student from Albion, Illinois, for 鈥淢elatonin-induced Changes in the Bovine Vaginal Microbiota during Maternal Nutrient Restriction.鈥

LIFE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING听MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擪ira K. Howell, a plant and soil sciences master鈥檚 student from Washington, D.C., for 鈥淎llelopathy in weedy rice: A Recourse for Breeding Allelopathic Rice Cultivars.鈥

SECOND鈥擬ary Gracen A. Fuller, a plant and soil sciences master鈥檚 student from Biloxi, for 鈥淭hese Stairs Were Made for Stepping, the Competition: Greenhouse Screening of Competitive Chromosome Substitution Cotton Lines using the Stair-Step Technique.鈥

THIRD鈥擝aku Acharya, a chemistry master鈥檚 graduate from Nepal, for 鈥淒ifferentiation of Hydroxyproline Isomers Using Infrared Multiple Photon Dissociation Spectroscopy and Computational Chemistry.鈥

PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING听DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擯rakash Adhikari, an engineering doctoral student from Chitwan, Nepal for 鈥淪pectroscopic Study of the Structural Properties of Prostate Tumor Tissues Obtained by Xenografting of Drug-sensitive and Drug-resistant Prostate Cancer Cells.鈥

SECOND鈥擬aleesha De Silva, a chemistry doctoral student from Sri Lanka, for 鈥淭he Fate of Functionalized Imidazolium-based Ionic Liquid Cations in the Gas-Phase: A Combined Theoretical and Mass Spectrometric Approach.鈥

THIRD鈥擜hmad Taninah, a physics doctoral student from Palestine, for 鈥淢odeling of R-Process in Covariant Density Functional Theory.鈥

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES听DOCTORAL STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擟ourtney J. Bolstad, an applied psychology doctoral student from Fergus Falls, Minnesota, for 鈥淧revalence of Suicidality Among Individuals with Nightmares.鈥

SECOND鈥擠eepali M. Dhruve, an applied psychology doctoral student from Irvine, California, for 鈥淚ntergenerational Transmission of Psychological Aggression in Male Parent-Child Dyads: Role of Emotion Regulation and Parental Emotional Availability.鈥

THIRD鈥擩unnatun Naym, a business administration doctoral student from Dhaka, Bangladesh, for 鈥淪hareholder Investment Horizons and Class Action Lawsuits.鈥

SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES听MASTER鈥橲 STUDENTS

FIRST鈥擠arcey A. Collins, a forestry master鈥檚 student from Bauxite, Arkansas, for 鈥淗unting Activities of Forestry Undergraduates in Mississippi.鈥

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