Spring 2022 Symposium Winners

KENNESAW, Ga. | Apr 21, 2021

On Tuesday, 黑料网 held the Symposium of Student Scholars honoring the top presentations among the 668 student researchers who presented 438 projects across a variety of disciplines.

鈥淭his is the greatest number of students we鈥檝e had participate in the symposium,鈥� said Amy Buddie, director of undergraduate research and professor of psychology. 鈥淲e are so proud of all the research our undergraduate and graduate students presented yesterday.鈥� 

The 2022 symposium award winners included: 

  • Top Presentation, Undergraduate: Development of Aqueous Compatible Organic Semiconducting Polymers. Undergraduate Student: Sarah Chang. Research Mentor: Graham Collier. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
  • First Runner-Up, Undergraduate: "Change is Brewing鈥�: Women Finding Liberation in the Performative Rituals in Modern Paganism. Undergraduate Student: Katie Nelson. Research Mentor: Tom Fish. Department of Theatre and Performance Studies.
  • Second Runner-Up, Undergraduate: Analysis of Vertebrae Pathologies of Grave A650 Chryssi Island, Crete, Greece. Undergraduate Student: Abbey E. Bartmess. Research Mentor: Susan Smith. Department of Geography and Anthropology. 
  • Top Presentation, Graduate: Finding Undervalued Pitch Metrics at Coors' Field Using a Random Forest Classifier. Graduate Student: Andrew Plant. Research Mentors: Joe DeMario and Bob Venderheyden. School of Data Science and Analytics. 
  • First Runner-Up, Graduate: New Ant in the Big City: Known Natural History of Lasius cf. Emarginatus in its Native Range and Potential Impacts Of Recent US Introduction. Graduate Student: Samantha M. Kennett. Research Mentor: Clint Penick. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology. 
  • Second Runner-Up, Graduate: Characterizing the Microbial Assemblages of Perimyotis Subflavus in Traditional and Non-Traditional Hibernacula and Screening Community Members for Antagonism with Pseudogymnoascus Destructans. Graduate Student: Jordyn Upton. Undergraduate Student: Jeremy Kaluza. Research Mentors: Christopher Cornelison. Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Students presented in-person and virtually at the symposium, a student conference hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research. During the event, the Office of Undergraduate Research hosted a featuring several projects. 


鈥� Meagan Lowney  

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