Congratulations to all of the 2021 RAPS presenters. The following is a list of the session high scorers and specialty awards winners selected by a committee of faculty judges. The RAPS Committee, faculty judges, and Sponsored Research Services are truly inspired by your research and know you have a bright future ahead.
Undergraduate Oral
Yoojeong Hwang “Comparative fiber transcriptomes of wild and domesticated Gossypium barbadense”
Anne Rolsma “Reactivity Ratios of tert-Butyl Acrylate and a Thiolactone-functionalized Acrylamide in RAFT Polymerizations”
Connor Buxton “Analyzing Cervical Cancer Cells through Topological Data Analysis and Machine Learning”
Rebecca Meachum “Stress Relaxation through Dynamic Covalent Exchange in Polyanhydrides”
Nadia Cheng “3D Printed Hydrogel-based Adsorbents for Heavy Metal Remediation”
Gabrielle Anastasio, Elizabeth Newton, Nikki Borowiec, Miranda Wolf, Ethan Adamson “Food Waste Educational Activities at the Canton Middle School”
Ryan McCarthy “Relationships between Grit and Lifestyle Habits in a Group of Highly Active Undergraduate Students during COVID-19”
Undergraduate Digital Image
JesslynHope Schulze “Nucleus Pulposus Cells – Tackling Starvation”
Abigail Kienzle “Influence of Citric Acid Admixture Dosage and Ratio of Water to Cement on the Setting Time of BCSA Cement”
Alisha Arshad “Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Aortic Valve Expansion”
Tyler MacNeil “CE490 – Fort De La Presentation Bridge Project – Rowley Corp. Engineering”
Kaitlyn Valla, Evie Brahmstedt, Anna Ropes, Noah Bohl, Julia Piskun, Toby Harmon, Michael Laduca, Makenzie Peters, Elyse Scott, Evelyn Laferriere, Natalie D’Amore “Mercury Accumulation in Vernal Pools Across an Elevation Gradient in the Northwest and Central Adirondack Mountains and the Upper St. Lawrence River Valley”
Sadie Humiston, Audrey Mielke “Mindfulness and Prejudice: Does being more aware of bias predict less bias?”
Bre Hamilton “Understanding and Assessing the Implications that COVID-19 has had on EMS/EMT Providers”
Graduate Oral
Austin Marshall “Detection of SARS-CoV-2 from Air using a Portable Bioaerosol Sensor”
John Hadynski “Rational Design of Isoreticular Zwitterionic Metal-Organic Frameworks”
Blaine Ayotte “Predicting Typing Pattern Changes for Fixed-text Keystroke Dynamics”
Andrew Sickles “Does limiting the length and grade impact of tests help students feel less anxious and increase performance?”
Weikun Chen “Ammonia Recovery from Domestic Wastewater Using a Proton-mediated Redox Couple”
Graduate Digital Image
Madhuri Jayathirtha “Investigation and Characterization of the Jumping Translocation Breakpoint (JTB) Protein using Mass Spectrometry based Proteomics”
Blaine Ayotte “Predicting Typing Pattern Changes for Fixed-text Keystroke Dynamics”
Surya Raja Monalisa “Consensus based COVID-19 hotspot network size estimation and node counting”
Corey Ryder “Split Apart: Building Community in the Hybrid Classroom”
Electrochemical Society Awards
Undergraduate Digital Image
Aria Stephen and Collin Patricelli “An Exploration into Turning Ion Gradients into Usable Energy”
Graduate Digital Image
Weikum Chen“Ammonia Recovery from Domestic Wastewater Using Proton-Mediated Redox Couple”
Sustainability Prize Winners
Undergraduate Oral
Nikki Borowiec, Ethan Adamson, Miranda Wolf Elizabeth Newton & Gabrielle Anastasio
“Combined social media and middle school outreach activities associated with food waste recycling with AD”
Nadia Cheng “3D Printed Hydrogel-based Adsorbents for Heavy Metal Remediation” Undergraduate Digital Image
Noah Bohl, Evelyn Laferriere & Elyse Scott “Vernal Pool Investigators: Making Water Science Fun & Accessible for Kids”
Sarah Chase “CANADA’S NATIONAL ROUNDTABLE ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ECONOMY: INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO CONFLICT IN ENERGY”
Graduate OralWeikun Chen (Ignite Fellow) “Ammonia Recovery from Domestic Wastewater Using a Proton-mediated Redox Couple”
