First Place ($500)

Ashley Thomas, Mathematics major, for her project,"Inverse Problems in Sonoelastography: Recovering the Shear Wave Speed from Crawling Wave Data". Faculty advised by Joyce McLaughlin, Ford Foundation Professor.

Second Place ($250)

Elizabeth Martin and Tim Heiman, Chemical Engineering major, for their project , "Fabrication and Characterization of Nickel Nanocomplex Polymer Composites". Faculty advised by Assistant Professor Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc from Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering.

Third Place ($150)

Christopher Coates and Joseph Magee,Chemical Engineering major, for their project,"Design and Construction of New Generation, Bio-inspired Photovoltaics". Faculty advised by Assistant Professor Dr. K. V. Lakshmi, from Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

First Place ($500)

James Rajotte,Biology, Science & Technology Studies major, for his project, "Observation of Phosphoinositol Lipid-Septin Interactions Through GST Fusion Proteins". Faculty advised by Assistant Professor Fern Finger from Biology.

Second Place ($250)

Chris Zwolinski, Luis Solorio and Amanda Lundt, Biomedical Engineering major, for their project,"Microsphere-Mediated Delivery of Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 (rhBMP-2) to Adult Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells". Faculty advised by Assistant Professor Dr. Jan Stegemann from Biomedical Engineering.

Third Place ($150)

Megan Salt, Biochemistry and Biophysics major, for her project, "The Role of Rho Family GTPases in Microtubule Organization During Epithelial Polarization". Faculty advised by Assistant Professor Lee Ligon from Biology.

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