ResearchFest 2020

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

2020 Award Winners

research fest talk awardees

TALKS:
1. Marvin D. Rausch Scholarship Award for Outstanding Presentation: Babgen Manookian (Auerbach group)“A Glance Inside the Nanopores: Unraveling Chemical Pathways in Zeolite Catalysis Using Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics”
2. Paul Hatheway Terry Endowment Award: Ann Fernandez (Thayumanavan group)“Behavioral Modulation of Supramolecular Assemblies via Covalent and Non-Covalent Transformations at Interfaces”
3. Paul Hatheway Terry Endowment Award: (joint second-runner up)Linden Allison (Andrew group) won the for her work “Thermo-resistive and thermoelectric properties of vapor printed polymers"
3. William E. McEwen Scholarship Fund Award: (joint second-runner up) Cheng Hsuan Li (Rotello group) on “Effective treatment of wound biofilm infections using all-natural nanoemulsions”

POSTERS:
William E. McEwen Award for Outstanding Posters: (first position)
Sandor Babik (Strieter Group) )
Laura Castellanos (Vachet Group)
Khushboo Singh (Thayumanavan Group
Yumeng Zhang (Chen Group)
Puspam Keshri (You Group)
Muhammad Abdullah (Kittilstved Group)

William E. McEwen Fellowship Award for Outstanding Posters: (second position)
Erik Nordquist (Chen Group)
Pintu Kanjilal (Thayumanavan Group)
Ruolan Fan (Andrew Group)
Fangying Huang (Strieter Group)
Katherine Wahlbeck (Thompson Group)
Zachary Kirsch (Vachet Group)
Manisha (Thayumanavan Group).

William E. McEwen Fellowship Award for Outstanding Posters: (third position)
Schuyler Lockwood (Metz Group)
Daniel Favre (Kaltashov Group)
Blaise Arden (Vachet Group)
Kaitlyn Chhe (Farkas Group)
Enes Buz (Kittilstved Group)