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The UAB Office of Service Learning and Undergraduate Research connects students, faculty, and community nonprofit partners to enrich student academic learning, promote civic engagement, and to strengthen and support our local and global communities.

Winners: Oral Presentations

Arts and Humanities

First Place: Charlotte Boles, Second Place: Kayla Gladney

Biological and Life Sciences

First Place: Alexander J. Nelson, Robert N. Bone, Ying Gai

Education/Physical and Applied Sciences/Engineering

First Place: David Chasteen-Boyd, Lily Deng, Dhruv Patel, Jeremy Vines, Amjad Javed, and Shawn Gilbert

Health Sciences

First Place: Perry Griffin, Gary R. Hunter, Marcas Bamman, Barbara A. Gower, and Gordon Fisher

Service Learning

First Place: Aarin Palomares and Sean McMahon

Social and Behavioral Sciences

First Place: Natasha Mehra, Cooper Bailey, Skylar McMahan, Meredith Schertzinger, and Kate Wesson Sides

Winners: Poster Presentations

  • Arts and Humanities

    First Place: Kayla McLaughlin and Raizel Coiman

    Second Place: Nayivis Cunill, Nicole Lassiter, Samantha McDonald, and Charli Tyree

    Third Place: Zach Walker, Samantha Richardson, Heather Robinson, Stephen Stark, and Raizel Coiman

  • Biological and Life Sciences

    First Place: Sangeetha Rao, Kelly Walter, Landon Wilson, Alex Johnson, Bo Chen, David Graves, Subhashini Bolisetty, Stephen Barnes, Anupam Agarwal, and Janusz Kabarowski

    Second Place (tie):

    • Ying Si, Soojin Kim, Xiangqin Cui, Lei Zheng, Shin J. Oh, Tina Anderson, Mohammad AlSharabati, Mohamed Kazamel, Laura Volpicelli-Daley, Marcas M. Bamman, Shaohua Yu, and Peter H. King
    • Ciara Duncan, Ryan James, and James McClinktock
    • Emily Jennings, Inga Kadish, Ph.D., Dieter Willbold, Ph.D., and Thomas van Groen, Ph.D.
    • Dylana Moore
    • Chapelle Ayres
  • Business, Financial, and International Studies

    First Place: Amanda Viikinsalo

    Second Place: Rebecca Jurgens

  • Engineering

    First Place: Jessica Blair, Emily Geiger-Willis, Eddie Cedeno, Van Sims

    Second Place: Maggie A. Collier

  • Health Sciences

    First Place: Angelica Chapman, Molly Laugner

    Second Place (tie):

    • Sung Joon Kwon, Nathaniel Lawson, Preston Peck, Kikita Bansal, and John Burgess
    • Madison Bellew, Rachel Cummings, and Anna Petty
  • Physical and Applied Sciences

    First Place (tie): Luke McClintock, Yaomin Dal, Dimitry Yarotsi, Wanyi Nie, Aditya Mohite, Antoinette Taylor, and Rohit Prasankumar

    Second Place: Sophie McVicar and Joanna Schmidt

  • Service Learning

    First Place: Emily Quarato, Lauren Silverwood, and Matthew Strachan

    Second Place: Anisha Das

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

    First Place (tie):

    • Jennifer Weikard
    • Natasha Mehra, Cooper Bailey, Skylar McMahan, Meredith Schertzinger, Kate Wesson Sides, and Jarred Younger

    Second Place: Brennan Hickson, Brent Womble, and Edward Taub

  • Works in Progress

    First Place: Anna Buie, Lily Deng, Soojin Kim, Ketan Awasthi, Will Mackin, and Dhaval Patel

    Second Place: Regan Gaskin

The 2018 Spring Expo included both undergraduate research and service learning presentations. It celebrated excellence in research, service learning, creative activity, and scholarship by showcasing the endeavors of undergraduate students. It was held on April 12-13.

For service learning, the Expo is an exposition of student and community engagement collaborations from students engaged in service-learning courses. Service learning students have the opportunity to gain presentation experience and to celebrate the projects and collaborations between community partners, UAB, and our greater community.

Winners

Oral Presentations

  • First Place: Kylie Woodman
  • Second Place: Riley Yager
  • Third Place (tie): Kane G. Agan and Shannon Lukens

Poster Presentations

  • Arts and Humanities

    First Place: Amanda Hudson, Stephanie Lin, Ireen Lin

  • Biological and Life Sciences

    First Place (tie): Akshar H. Patel, Stephen J. Carter, Laura Q. Rogers, Lyse A. Norian, Gary R. Hunter

    Second Place: Haley Ariel Edwards, Stephanie N Fox, Laura J McMeekin, Anastasia Kralli, Rita M Cowell

    Third Place: Isabella Mak, Andrew D. Frugé, Yuko Tsuruta, Mallory Cases, Casey Morrow, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried

  • Business, Financial, and International Studies

    First Place: Mindy Wyatt

    Second Place: Mathew Banker

    Third Place: Rachel Green

  • Education

    First Place (tie):

    • Nellie Revel
    • James Boyett; Sebastian Schormann, Dr. Samiksha Raut

    Second Place: David Bullock

    Third Place (tie):

    • Cameon Knight
    • Maci Swindle
  • Engineering

    First Place: Katrina Hatch, Dania Mallah, Dave Monaco, Sydney Watkins, Connor Armstrong, and Sarah Schwerdt

    Second Place: Jack Kim, Matthew Strachan, and Alexander Williams

    Third Place (tie): Natasha Wright, Kishan Patel, Jiongsi Zhong, Jonathan Hill

    • Shambi Anshumali, Jayci Hamrick, Rachana Kotapalli, Archit Patel, Baley West
    • Jessica Pieczynski, Seth Patterson, Tess Vessels, and Gerardo Hernandez-Moreno Abbey Leibold, Vaishali Nijampatnam, Pooja Wagle, Jonah Sharkins, Seul Hee Kim, Allie Bothma
  • Health Sciences

    First Place: HyunSoo Moon, Jessica Scoffield, Hui Wu

    Second Place: Jaelynn Lawrence, Shannon G Rice, Fred E Bertrand

    Third Place: Katelyn Leake, Kadie Morris, Dr. Connie White Williams

  • Physical and Applied Sciences

    First Place (tie):

    • Gunnar Eastep, Dr. Maggie Johnson
    • Payal Patel, Ashley Brock

    Second Place: Garrett Wayne Higginbotham

    Third Place: Gunnar Eastep, Lauren Silverwood, Justin Catt, and Margaret Johnson, Ph.D.

  • Service Learning

    First Place: Cerissa Nowell, Shreya Malhotra, Kendall Curtis, Zena Banker, Aakansha Gosain, Ashish Kaushik, and Katie Cook

    Second Place: Ivy Bookout, David Gahan, Kyle Landers, Shreya Malhotra, Skye Opsteen, Garrett Sager, and Minye Seok

    Third Place: Indika DePriest

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

    First Place: Shannon Lukens and Alan Philip George

    Second Place: Josiah J. Robinson; Benjamin McManus; Haley Johnson Bishop; Despina Stavrinos, Ph.D.

    Third Place (tie):

    • JaVarus Humphries
    • Karan Patel, Benjamin McManus, Karen Heaton, Ph.D., Haley J. Bishop, Ph.D., Despina Stavrinos, Ph.D.
  • Virtual

    First Place: Carolyn Barnes, Darrius Robinson, Heather Howard, Robert Reeder, LaTanatha Maddox

  • Works in Progress

    First Place: Kristine Farag, Wendy Jiang, Aneesh Pathak, Karen Wang

    Second Place: Bijal Vashi

    Third Place (tie):

    • Cameron J. Gordon, Michael Azar, Louis P. Watanabe, Nicole C. Riddle
    • Anna-Katherine Escoto, Sari Terrazas, Paul Wolkowicz, Geeta Datta, C Roger White

Video Research Awards

Tate Pollock

First Place: Tate Pollock, "A King Lab Neuroscience Rap"

Ryan Murphy

Second Place: Ryan Murphy, "Novel Approach to Measuring Surface pH in a Cell Model of ARPKD"

Jasmin Revanna

Third Place (tie): Jasmin Revanna: "Robust and Specific CRISPR-mediated gene expression modulators in neruonal subpopulations"

Jones & Schormann

Third Place (tie): Anna Jones and Sebastian Schormann, "Osmotion Kinetic Exercise"
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Goering & Alam

Video by Marlon Goering and Sofia Alam: "The impact of concussion symptom type on caregivers’ intention to seek treatment"

Kamal & Hijaz

Video by Rubayet Kamal and Baraa Hijaz: "Parkinson's Disease"

Rachel Rock

Video by Rachel Rock: "Welcome to Morrislab"

Tina Tian

Video by Tina Tian: "Novel Phages as Candidates for Phage Therapy"

Karen Wang

Video by Karen Wang: "ACSL1 Promoter and Luciferase Gene"

Keynote Speaker: Tino Unlap, Ph.D.

Dr. Tino Unlap received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Western Kentucky University, his Ph.D. in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology from Kansas State University, and postdoctoral trainings in Oncology and Behavioral Neurobiology at UAB. Dr. Unlap has mentored over 300 fellows, postdocs, graduate, undergraduate, and high school students over the past 20 years. The students represent programs including Science and Technology Honors, Experiential Learning Scholars, Early Medical School Acceptance, Biology Honors, Chemistry Honors, Summer In Biomedical Sciences, NIH/Drew University Summer Research, Louis-Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, Project SEED, MHERC Summer Enrichment, SHP Honors and the UAB Community Outreach Development (CORD) Summer Research Programs.

Dr. Unlap believes that the student's learning is elevated to the highest level through research. To this end, he has been involved with the development and delivery of research based courses for undergraduate students (STH201, BMD300, BMD400), graduate students (BHS502, BT650, BT651, BT652), and community-based programs such as the Heritage Center Biotech Curriculum for high school students and BioTek Works, a workforce development program funded by Jefferson County and the State. In addition, Dr. Unlap works with faculty members through the Center for Teaching and Learning on how they can better engage their students by delivering problem-based lectures in a team environment.

Dr. Unlap currently serves as Professor and Director of the Biotechnology Program in the School of Health Professions and Director of Teaching Innovation at the Center for Teaching and Learning. He is a past recipient of the School of Health Professions Teaching Excellence Award, the Graduate Dean Mentorship Award, and the UAB President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He mentors from 10-20 students a year in research areas including Cancer and Parkinson's disease drug discovery, the genetic basis of salt sensitive hypertension, the genetic basis of Polycystic Kidney disease, and Latent TB detection and eradication.

The 2019 Spring Expo included both undergraduate research and service learning presentations. It celebrated excellence in research, service learning, creative activity, and scholarship by showcasing the endeavors of undergraduate students. It was held on April 18-19.

For service learning, the Expo is an exposition of student and community engagement collaborations from students engaged in service-learning courses. Service learning students have the opportunity to gain presentation experience and to celebrate the projects and collaborations between community partners, UAB, and our greater community.

Winners

Oral Presentations

  • First Place: Juhee Agrawal
  • Second Place: Elizabeth A. Bradley
  • Third Place: Monima Anam

Poster Presentations

  • Arts and Humanities

    First Place: David Turner

  • Biological and Life Sciences

    First Place (tie):

    • Johanna Popp
    • Jillian Tinglin
    • Rose Albert, Mia Bradley, Areebah Nur, Seth Maynor

    Second Place: Molly Strickland

    Third Place: Harrison R. Jordan, Kayla A. Lewis, Trygve O. Tollefsbol

  • Business

    First Place: Ryan King

  • Education

    First Place: Rebekah Kim

  • Engineering

    First Place: Hannah Lacy, Nikhil Mardhekar, Joshua Moore, Joseph Willis

    Second Place:

    • Matthew Joyner, Jing Khoo, Abhay Thottassery
    • Jessica M. Miller, Allaire F. Doussan, Ali A. El-Husari, Jacob A. Garcia, René Myers, Timothy King, Alan Eberhardt

    Third Place: Natasha Wright, Kishan Patel, Jiongsi Zhong, Jonathan Hill

  • Health Sciences

    First Place: Deepa Gadde

    Second Place: Hanleigh James and Ndeye Silla

    Third Place (tie):

    • Mary Kopp and Gordon Fisher, FACSM
    • Seebree De Preter
  • Physical and Applied Sciences

    First Place: Jose Blanco, Josette Runge, Ryan Requijo, J. R. Blanco, C. S. Loveless, S.E. Lapi

    Second Place:Jakayla Robinson, Emma Latham, Daniel Cotton, Emily Johnson, Cailet Hardtmann-Huckabee, David Hong, Kyle Landers, Justin Rice

    Third Place: Hannah Blansett, Anna Grace Dulaney, Tharon Holdsworth, Noah Matthews, and Alexis Tilley; J. R. Blanco

  • Service Learning

    First Place: Drew Davis, Amanda Boggan, Raven King, and Sophia Ngo

    Second Place: Katy Snoddy, Georgia Haggard, Nia Peterson, Sarah Nealy, Sophie Wasilevich, Lindsey Ferraro, Mindy Foster, and Patrick Orman

    Third Place: Katelyn Argo, Kyleigh Baker, Lauren Hill, Sandi Minor, Lourdes Otero, and Jiwon Yoon

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

    First Place: Tasha G. Curiel, Heather E. Dark, Juliann Purcell, Sylvie Mrug, and David C. Knight

    Second Place: Sharan Kaur

    Third Place: Caroline Kehrer

  • Works in Progress

    First Place: Karly Casey, Hrithik Praveen, and Kierra Smith

    Second Place: Percy Gresham, and Zachary Johnson

    Third Place: Michael Ho, Caleb Rowe, and Claire Thomas

Video Research Awards

Monima Aman

First Place: Monima Aman, "Virtual Walking for Neuropathic Pain in Spinal Cord Injury"

Molly Strickland

Second Place: Molly Strickland, "Klotho and PSD-95--a science song"

Karly Casey

Third Place: Karly Casey: "Research with lasers is really cool!!"

Kellan Hyde

Video by Kellan Hyde: "Business in China"

Keynote Speaker: Tina Kempin Reuter, Ph.D.

Dr. Tina Kempin Reuter is the Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and the Department of Anthropology, specializing in human rights, peace studies, and international politics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

Her research focuses on human rights with a particular emphasis on the struggle of vulnerable and marginalized populations, including minorities, persons with disabilities, refugees and migrants, women, children, the LGBTQ community, and people dealing with the consequences of poverty. She is also an expert on ethnic conflict and peace making with a geographical focus on Europe and the Middle East.

 

Spring Expo 2020 poster noting that expo was held online.The 2020 Spring Expo was held completely virtually April 21-24. It included both undergraduate research and service learning presentations and celebrated excellence in research, service learning, creative activity, and scholarship by showcasing the endeavors of undergraduate students.

For service learning, the Expo is an exposition of student and community engagement collaborations from students engaged in service-learning courses. Service learning students have the opportunity to gain presentation experience and to celebrate the projects and collaborations between community partners, UAB, and our greater community.

Winners

Oral Presentations

  • First Place: Amy Garcia
  • Second Place: Chandrashish Thallapureddy, Ranu Surolia
  • Third Place: Sharan Kaur

Poster Presentations

  • Arts and Humanities

    First Place: Sarah Tran, Steve Otero, Yulexi Plata-Garcia, Isaiah Verde

    Second Place: Matthew Hogan

    Third Place: Bahar Adavoody, Sadie Farmer, Maizi Ard, Briana Scott

  • Biological and Life Sciences

    First Place (tie): Julian Mehl & Aleena George

    Second Place: Jenna Hinds

    Third Place: Holly Robinson

  • Business

    First Place: Ann Marie Childress

  • Education

    First Place: Jason Zhang

    Second Place: Zahrah Abdulrauf

  • Health Sciences

    First Place: Hana Habchi

    Second Place: Haley Otto, Styliani Summers, Allison Shorten, Cara Harris

    Third Place: Chloe Cater

  • Physical and Applied Sciences

    First Place: Holly Stephens

    Second Place: Snigdha Kosuri, Steve Otero, Elena Chenskova

    Third Place: David Sabillón, Snigdha Kosuri

  • Service Learning

    First Place: Margaret Newman

    Second Place: Sienna Rucka, Ian Markham, Hannah Majors, Grace Marie Lopez, Chien Lee, Atharva Vyawahare

    Third Place: Autumn Burgett, Rachel Honeywell, Breannlyn Archer, Kailey Rich, Cassidy Brown, Megan Waldrop

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

    First Place: Priya Patel

    Second Place: Karthik Reddy

    Third Place: Inaara Rajpa

  • Works in Progress

    First Place: Susan Floyd

    Second Place: Tanya Shenoy

    Third Place: Hannah Goymer, Annika Daya

Video Research Awards

Cindy Nguyen

FIRST PLACE: Lynne Zhou, "HTLV-1 Virus"

Resources

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