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1. 1. Spring Symposium 2021 Blue Ribbon Winners
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2. 2023 Symposia

Jeremy Abapo

The application of genomic tools for monitoring aquatic economically important, invasive and endangered species

Ali Abdalla

Current practices in sleep and circadian medicine

Rima Abdulrahman

Evaluating how anesthesia trainees identify and treat malignant hyperthermia in the team-based simulation training with Epistemic Network Analysis

Ahmad Abu-Mahfouz

Schwann cell-derived signals on skeletal muscle growth

Anisha Aggarwal

Quantifying Gene Regulation in HNSCC

Elizabeth Ajaero

The relationship between body shape and air-breathing organ morphology in Anabantarian fishes as revealed by morphometrics

Samreen Ali

Scoping review on the impact of type 2 diabetes self management programs in Asian-Americans

Ibrahim Alnassar

Focused ultrasound for appendicular soft-tissue sarcomas: Three-dimensional targetability assessment

Alyssa Anderson

Design of a PPI Inhibitor to Treat AAV

Ashley Anderson

Filter Bubbles in Social Networks

Grace Aretakis

Business + Tech

Rishma Balakrishnan

Jejueo Talking Dictionary

Jalen Ballard

A software library for combining, processing and analyzing multi-omic and electronic health record data

Vanya Bhardwaj

COVID-19 and the Community

Rohan Bhargava

Using Machine Learning to Better Understand Environmental Policy Innovation

Aryn Booker

Modeling Cas9 efficiency in cutting Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements 1 through Biopython

Elise Brice

Quality Challengers in Senate Primary Elections, 1956-2020

Reina Brodeur

Epigenetic Mechanisms of X-chromosome Inactivation

Skylar Brodnan

The origins of human culture: tool use in wild chimpanzees

Maura Burns

Sandy Hook Promise Evaluations

Matthew Button

Neurophysiological correlates of language processing

Daniel Calco

Design of an engaging fully-immersive virtual reality game to teach radiation protection principles

Fiona Caughey

The sketchbooks from Eugene Delacroix’s journey to Morocco and Andalusia, 1832

Ahmad Chammout

The Effects of Out-of-Pocket Payments on Emergency and Trauma Surgery Patients’ Livelihoods

Eason Chang

Understanding the Role of Neutrophil Derived Material and Inflammation in Tumor Metastasis

Ankita Chittiprolu

Tolerance of Toxicities of Oral Anticancer Agents among Older Adults with Advanced Cancers

Sarah Chung

Data Gathering Data Analysis Toward Better Air Quality Outcomes in SW Detroit

Sohee Chung

The Role of Sociopolitical Factors on Syntactic Alignment

Grace Clark

Comprehensive Cataloguing of Clinically Identified MUTYH Variants in Cancer Patients

Trinity Coates

Does the diagnosis of idiopathic Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder require an overnight sleep study?

Charlotte Cochrane

Experiences of uncertainty among patients with rheumatic illnesses during Covid-19

Hannah Cohen

Worlding Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

Michael Cooke

Vaxign 2: Web-based Rational Vaccine Design based on Reverse Vaccinology and Machine Learning

Megan Corbe

State trends in medically unnecessary surgical births

Kayla Cox

Increasing Diversity in the Medical Workforce

Elizabeth Daberko

Civic Resilience and Neighborhood Resilience Projects and Hubs

Kelly Deng

Investigating heme acquisition properties and corresponding conformational changes of heme oxygenase 1

Patrick Eagen

Neural Mechanisms of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Yasmine Elkharssa

Women’s Wave: Participation and Success by Candidates in Congressional Elections, 2014 to 2020

Mara Estrict

Studying sounds via instrumental acoustic analysis

Caroline Falahee

Exploring Feeding Cues in Older Hospitalized Infants: A Survey Among Hospital Staff and Feeding Specialists

Sumaiya Ferdawsi

Building A Simulated World

Anna Fischer

Using Google Earth to assess neighborhood physical and social disorder and how it affects stroke incidence

Leilani Fonseca

Competition and Competitors in the Workplace

Madilyn Gaydos

Investigating How the Presence of Neutrophils Impacts Tumor Metastasis

Isabelle George

Suppression of Heterotopic Ossification Using a TAK1 Inhibitor

Miranda Giambi

Use of Novel Small-Molecule PP2A Activators in Prostate Cancer Cell Lines

Sara Gleason

The Politics of Eliminating Poverty: An Investigation of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa

Adelaide Gordon

Worlding Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

Ashley Gorris

Roles of Migratory Neural Crest Cells in CHARGE Syndrome

Isabella Gorsd

Assessing Men’s Proclivity to Recognizing Subtle Gender Bias Against Women in STEM

Madison Grenke

Nanosemiconductor-base Sensor Development

Sophia Grewal

How does ERI resolution impact depressive symptoms within adolescent Latinos, Asian Americans, and African Americans?

Lily Grills

Elections Around the World: The Constituency Level Election Archive

Anastacia Gusikhin

Machine Learning Methods for Robust ECG Beat Detection

Anna Haase

Revitalizing Northeast Detroit through data base research

Kendra Hagey

The Application of Genomic Tools for Monitoring Aquatic Endangered, Invasive, and Economically Important Species

Ziyu Han

Understanding the polysulfide shuttling effect in Li-S battery through emission spectroscopy

Vidhiyaa Harish

Active for Life with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Bradley Hartman

Redesigning Prenatal Care: A National Project to Improve Equity in Prenatal Care Delivery

Jerick Hartono

New Materials for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries

Arwa Hassaballa

Husband Education and Family Planning: Is there a connection?

Darryl Herring III

CHEAR Research Project

Michael Hicks

Can a growth mindset-based syllabus improve students’ perceptions of taking challenging coursework?

Andy Ho

Mapping Innovation Ecosystems in High-Tech US Metros

Andrew Hoover

Sidewalk Walkability and Physical Activity

Susan Huang

Continuous evaluation of instruction

Jordan Hunter

Geographic Differences in Faculty Attitudes on the Inclusion of Content on Oppression in Social Work Curriculum

Ashley Hwang

Restoring regulatory T cells in cigarette smoke-induced emphysema

Maia Jackson

Black Families After the Civil War- Creating Networks of Care

Danny Jandali

Restoring regulatory T cells in cigarette smoke-induced emphysema

Olive Jayakar

Resilience in Crisis

Catherine Jiang

Jejueo Talking Dictionary

Oluwakemi Johnson

Developing Fast and Unbiased Computer Vision Algorithms

Elya Kaplan

Studying speech sounds via instrumental acoustic analysis

Vishnu Karthik

Using a You Only Look Once (YOLOv3) Convolutional Neural Network to Classify Vehicles from Dashcam Photos

Amartya Kattemalavadi

Olivine Geochemistry of Igneous Intrusions in the Duluth Complex, MN

Andrea Kennedy

Cannabis Legalization and Familial Factors Effects on Usage in Children and Parents

Celeste Kettaneh

Scoping review on the impact of type 2 diabetes self management programs in Asian-Americans

Deniz Kirca

Digital phenotyping and electrophysiology in mice

Caroline Kloes

Women’s Wave: Participation and Success by Candidates in Congressional Elections, 2014 to 2020

Hannah Knoll

Mixed Methods Assessment of Diabetes Adjustment in Adolescent and Young Adult Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

Gideon Kortenhoven

Black Families After Civil War – Creating Network of Care

Al Kucich

Assessing the Accuracy of sPHENIX Design in Measuring Jet Charge

Sophia Kurnot

The role of pathology explanation clinics as a treatment decision aid for men with prostate cancer

Janel LaPalm

Computed tomography reconstruction of fossil vertebrates

Hasana Lester

Southwest Detroit Community Court Program: The Clean Slate Bill

Jaden Levinson

Examining Kinematic Differences of Vestibular Gait

Justin Li

Enhanced MEAGA (Minimum distance-based Enrichment Analysis for Genetic Association)

Weiqing Li

Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: How Will New Mobility Initiatives in the Auto Industry Come Out of the Pandemic?

Weikun Lyu

Consentful Messaging

Mariam Majeed

Visualizing Women’s Work: Arab-American Women in Dearborn/Detroit

Noah Manuszak

The Application of Genomic Tools for Monitoring Aquatic Endangered, Invasive, and Economically Important Species

Jeremy Margolin

Image mosaic stitching/blending for large scale neuronal tracing from mouse brain images

Ashley Martinez

COVID-19 hidden stories

Riley McKenna

Revitalizing Northeast Detroit through data base research

Katura Metzner

Targeting Candida albicans Virulence

Madeleine Miller

Virulent Hate: The Dynamics of Gender in Anti-Asian Hate during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Yeniselis Morales

The Impacts of Nuclear Radiation on DNA Repair Machinery

Sommer Motley

Genetic Impact on Low Diversity Microbiomes in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Maria Murillo

A survey of Childhood Cancer Patients and Caregivers Experience during COVID

Neela Nallamothu

Sexual Education for Children With Spina Bifida

Mina Nielsen

Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction for Indigenous Students

Lara Niemchick

Seeing Heritage Algorithms in Fiber Art

Oscar Nollette-Patulski

Museums and Publics: Engaging Detroit, Berlin, and the Future of the City

Victoria O'Donnell

Structural prediction of Ypq1

Zephyr O'Donnell

Mapping Innovation Ecosystems in High-Tech US Metros

Shi Xin Ooi

Genetic Influences on Self-Construal

Molly Oppenheim

An Analysis of Types of Tips Collected Using an Anonymous Reporting System (ARS) in K-12 Schools

Lauren Ors

Documenting Criminalization and Confinement

Kelly Ortega

COVID-19 hidden stories

Nina Pacheco

Child Priming of Syntactic Structure

Matthew Palumbo

Computed tomography reconstruction of fossil vertebrates

Preston Parana

Modeling Cas9 efficiency in cutting Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements 1 through Biopython

Ava Pardo-Keegan

Bioinformatics study on protein structures

Kesha Patel

Supporting Critical Consciousness: Links between Parental/Teacher Support and Youth Critical Action

Nirali Patel

The Effects of Out-of-Pocket Payments on Emergency and Trauma Surgery Patients’ Livelihoods

Sarina Patel

Good with Words: Speaking and Presenting

Carlin Pendell

A National Study of Barriers and Facilitators of Expedited Partner Therapy Use in Emergency Departments: A Qualitative Study

Priscilla Pitiak

Surveying the Gas Supplies around Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies

Zoya Qayyum

Mind-Body Therapies for COVID Related Stress

Ingrid Ramirez

Cultural Protective Factors for Latinx Communities amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic

Edward Rapa III

Mapping the Effect of Disaster-induced Displacement on Social Behavior: The Case of Hurricane Harvey

Danyal Raza

The Facial Grimace Test in the Detection of Hyperacusis in Mice: Sex Differences

Zeina Reda

Research Administration Advisory Council (RAAC) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Workgroup Research Support

Nicholas Robinson

A Literature Review on Combustion and Properties Studies of Alternative Fuels

Ilma Rovcanin

Identifying neuronal components necessary for cool temperature sensing

Karen Rubinsztain

Continuous evaluation of instruction

Piush Sarkar

Focused ultrasound for appendicular soft-tissue sarcomas: Three-dimensional targetability assessment

Rami Shams

Improving the accuracy of detecting single-exon deletions in human cancers

Sophie Shao

Spatial Stereotypes and Racial Inequality

Conleth Stead

Building A Simulated World

Odri Suero Medina

Spatial Stereotypes and Racial Inequality

Richard Sukpraphrute

Explaining the variability in C. elegans wild-type longevity

Charan Talwar

Skin-Conductance Response in Patients with PTSD and Fibromyalgia

Jorden Thompson

Computational design of Raf-based protein binders to inhibit mutant Ras-Raf interactions

Dynasia Tran

Understanding Graduate Student Perspectives of Mental Health

Claudine Waggoner

Follow the Leader? Rethinking Leadership and Hierarchy in the Workplace

Ryan Walker

Characterizing Black Hole Binary Outbursts: X-ray Characterization of AT2019wey

Meilyn Ward

Age-Dependent Anti-Predator Behavior in Leptodeira Snakes

Emily Warden

Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives on Faculty Mentoring and Black Women’s Persistence in STEM

Emma Wessels

Skeletal Growth Abnormalities in TSP1/2 Double-Knockout Mice

Rachel West

Gender Differences in Sexuality with Regard to the Orgasm Gap

Grace Whah

Using bioinformatics to analyze the effects of COVID-19 on organs

Jasmine Williams

The Police Killings and Protest Dataset

Maria Williams

State trends in medically unnecessary surgical births

Seth Woodbury

Computational Approach to Determining the Properties of Rhodamine-Based pH Sensitive Fluorophores used in Diverse Biomedical Applications

Alexandra Yates

Availability of ICU Resources in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Hasan Zai

Competition and Competitors in the Workplace

Fatima Wasi

Understanding Graduate Student Perspectives of Mental Health

Ceciel Zhong

Culturally-Situated Design Tools: Exploring Spirals and Adinkra Digital Carving as Methods of Ethnocomputing Education

Xiaoli Zhu

Adolescent Eating Habits and Motivation at the Initiation of an mHealth Behavior Study

Bradley Zousmer

Skilled Reaching Performance in a Model of DYT1 Dystonia