CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium

2023 CNAS Symposium program

Call For Presentations

Date: The 2024 CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster session is scheduled for Thursday, April 25, PSU Ballroom

Abstract deadline: Monday, April 15, 5:00 PM

Judging: Thursday, April 25, 12:00 Noon-1:30 PM, Judging Criteria form

Open to Campus and the Public: 1:45 PM-3:15 PM

Awards Ceremony: 3:30 PM with guest speaker

Poster Presentation Guidelines link

About the event

All current CNAS undergraduate students and December 2023 graduates are invited to submit a poster for the CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Presentations are refereed, and awards are given for first place ($100) and second place ($50) for each CNAS department and the cooperative engineering program.

Contact your advisor for abstract submission instructions information or see the Poster Presentation Guidelines link above

Please submit your abstract to Gale Lininger, galelininger@missouristate.edu

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2023 Winners


Biology: Ecology, Wildlife and Conservation

1st Place: Taylor Hiers
A NOVEL APPROACH TO SCORING RHYTHMIC VARIATION IN EVOLVING WHITE-THROATED SPARROW (ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLIS) SONGS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jay McEntee

2nd Place: Gabriela Rivero
THE PHENOLOGY OF A FEMALE CAROLINA WREN CALL HELPS ELUCIDATE ITS FUNCTION
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jay McEntee

Biology: Cellular, Microbiology and Genetics

1st Place: Emma Braun
BIOCHEMICAL STUDY OF CHARACTERIZING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN QUANTUM DOTS AND ACTIN
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kyoungtae Kim

2nd Place: Daniel Garten, Sophia Antonpoulos, Sara Woodman.
DIETARY GRAPE SEED EXTRACT SUPPLEMENTATION INHIBITS NOCICEPTION AND MEDIATES GABAERGIC CHANGES IN A PRECLINICAL MODEL OF CHRONIC TMD
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Durham

Chemistry and Biochemistry

1st Place: Maximo Reyes, Jessica Linson, Preston Clubb, Martin Winburn, Barry Cheung.
EFFECTS OF ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA TREATMENT ON THE TOXICITY OF POLYSTYRENE NANOPLASTICS IN WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.)
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cyren Rico

2nd Place: Krusha Bhakta
STUDIES OF BACKBONE INTERCONVERSION AND DYNAMIC PROPERTIES IN DNA VIA NMR.
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Gary Meints

Computer Science

1st Place: Gavin Moore, C.J. Moore
AN EVOLUTIONARY MULTI-AGENT POLICY OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK USING SELF-ADVERSARIAL TRAINING SCENARIOS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Siming Liu

2nd Place: Nathan Hartzler, Brenna Dove, Nat Thompson, Joshua Stevens, Ingrid Perkins
COMBINING MULTIPLE DEEP LEARNING MODELS FOR ONLINE SARCASM DETECTION
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Mahammed Y. Belkhouche

Cooperative Engineering

1st Place: Joshua Cox
THE EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND FORMATE PRODUCTION
Faculty advisors: Dr. Daniel Moreno

2nd Place: Stephen Davis, Austin Crabtree, Justin Leuthauser
AUTO LAWN: WEBPAGE CONTROLLED YARD DEVICES
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Rohit Dua

Geology

1st Place Oluchi Nweke
SEQUIOTA CAVE SPRING AND POND INFLUENCE ON WATER QUALITY IN GALLOWAY BRANCH, SE SPRINGFIELD, MO
Faculty advisor: Dr. Bob Pavlowsky and Hannah Bieser (OEWRI RA)

2nd Place: Abby Momberg
CAN BOOKS BE TOXIC? AN XRF ANALYSIS OF ARSENIC CONTENT IN BOOK COVERS FROM MEYER LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Doug Gouzie

Geography, Geospatial and Planning

1st Place: Genevieve Stark, Katherine Rudolph
WHO WELCOMES REFUGEES? REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT AGENCIES AND THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S.
Faculty advisor: Dr. Emily Frazier

2nd Place: Allison Gargus
BEACH EROSION TRENDS AT CRAB POND POINT SEA TURTLE NESTING SITE, SOUTHWEST COAST, JAMAICA
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Bob Pavlowsky and Hannah Lowery (OEWRI RA)

Hospitality Leadership

1st Place: Madison Smith, Alyson Morgans, Jake Boaz, Dodgle Schapeler
DESTINATION IMAGE OF KANSAS CITY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GENERATION Z
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nancy Kageyama

Mathematics

1st Place: Grace Herbold, Jake Gabbert
DEVELOPING FRACTION-AS-MEASURE CONCEPTIONS TO SUPPORT GROWTH IN STUDENTS’ ALGEBRAIC REASONING CAPACITIES IN MATH 101
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Patrick Sullivan

Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science

1st Place: Matthew Bruenning
IMPLEMENTATION OF A HOUGH TRANSFORM ON A FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tiglet Besara

2nd Place: Rachel Lee
DEVELOPMENT OF ARITIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED FORCEFIELDS TO MODEL TUNNEL BARRIERS IN SUPERCONDUCTIONG QUBITS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ridwan Sakidja