Oral Presentation Winners ($250 Cash Awards):
Session 1 – Morgan Barnes (Materials Science and NanoEngineering) - “Flat Sheets to 3D Images and Back: Programming Shape-Shifting Elastomers into Flowers, Faces and More” (co-author R. Verduzco)
Session 2 – Aswathy Girija (Electrical and Computer Engineering), “Trace Gas Sensing using Infrared Spectroscopy” (co-authors W. Ye, N.P. Sanchez, and F.K. Tittel)
Session 3 – David Leach (Chemistry), “STINGel: A Biomaterial-Based Drug Delivery Vehicle for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy” (co-authors N. Dharmaraj, S.L. Piotrowski, T.L. Lopez-Silva, Y.L. Lei, A.G. Sikora, S. Young, J.D. Hartgerink)
Session 4 – Lauren Warning (Chemistry), “Probing interfacial bovine serum albumin unfolding with single molecule high resolution imaging with photobleaching” (co-authors R. Baiyasi, Q. Zhang, S. Chatterjee, N. Moringo, J. Tauzin, C.F. Landes, and S. Link)
Undergraduate Poster Session Winners ($250 Cash Awards):
Nicola Knowles (SCI STAR – Chemistry), “Ammonia Production through Plasmon-Mediated Solar Chemical Looping” (co-authors N.R. Knowles and N.J. Halas)
Kenneth Lin (Nakatani RIES Fellowship Program), “Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics of Exfoliated Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Optical-Pump Terahertz-Probe Microscopy" (co-authors S. Kusaba, T. Arikawa, François Blanchard, and K. Tanaka)
Mariana Lopez Martinolich* (RSTEM Research Experience for Undergraduates), “Constrained Semiflexible Colloid Chain Buckling and Chain Relaxation" (co-authors K. Joshi and S. Lisa Biswal)
Honorable Mention Awards for Undergraduate Poster Session:
Mingee Kim (SCI STAR – Applied Physics/MSNE), “Overcoming Biological Barriers in Drug Delivery: Tumor Flow & Vasculature Characterization for Improved iNPG Design" (co-authors Sara Nizzero and Mauro Ferrari)
Cierra Weathers (Undergraduate Summer Internship), “Improving Membrane Capacitive Deionization Technology Using Sulfonated Pentablock Copolymer" (co-authors A. Jain and Rafael Verduzco)
Daniel Caña (RSTEM Research Experience for Undergraduates), "Carbon Nanotube Wires for High Fidelity AC Signal Transfer" (co-authors Lucas Isenhart and Enrique Barrera)
Jasmine Zhou (SCI STAR – Applied Physics/ Electrical and Computer Engineering), “Whole-Brain Imaging of Brief Sleep States in C. elegans" (co-authors Daniel L. Gonzales and Jacob T. Robinson)
Graduate Poster Session Winners ($250 Cash Awards):
Session A – Hossein Robatjazi (Electrical and Computer Engineering), “Aluminum nanocrystals @ metal-organic frameworks: a new addition for sustainable plasmonics" (co-authors D. Weinberg, D.F. Swearer, S. Tian, L. Zhou, and Naomi J. Halas)
Session B – Didier Devaurs (Computer Science), “General Prediction of Peptide-MHC Binding Modes Using Incremental Docking" (co-authors D. A. Antunes and L. E. Kavraki)
Yiyuan Ben Yin* (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), “Hydrogen peroxide production from hydroxylamine using palladium-decorated gold nanoparticle" (co-authors K. N. Heck, C. Powell, C. Coonrod, S. Guo, and M.S. Wong)
Honorable Mention Awards for Graduate and Postdoctoral Researcher Poster Sessions:
Gisele Calderon (Bioengineering), "Toward geometrically guided angiogenesis in 3D printed, perfusable vascularized hydrogels" (co-authors B. Grigoryan, S.J. Paulsen, and J.S. Miller)
Nitant Gupta (Materials Science and NanoEngineering), “Crystallographic Selectivity in the Growth of Graphene and Nanotubes" (co-authors K. V. Bets, E.S. Penev, and B. I. Yakobson)
Rashad Baiyasi (Electrical and Computer Engineering), “PSF Distortion in Dye – Plasmonic Nanomaterial Systems: Friend or Foe?" (co-authors S.A. Hosseini Jebeli, Q. Zhang, L. Su, J. Hofkens, S. Link, and C. F. Landes)
Thomas Heiderscheit (Chemistry), “Investigating Gold Nanoparticle Shape and Size Dependence for Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence" (co-authors S. Collins, R. Baiyasi, W. Chang, C. Landes, and S. Link)
* "People's Choice" Text Message Voting Winner