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Works in Progress Symposium 2024 Awards

Hosted by the Helen Hardin Honors College, the Works in Progress Symposium (WIPS) is an annual event at which undergraduate students present their research in a formal, juried setting. This year, WIPS featured 47 presentations by students at the UofM. Presentations are grouped into disciplinary categories and cash awards are provided for the most outstanding presentations in each category.

Winners in Each Disciplinary Category

Education

1^st place: Majdal Issa, 鈥淭he Influence Cognitive Bias and Group Decision-Making Have on Socioscientific Issues鈥� (Faculty Mentor: Jaime Sabel, Biological Sciences)

Engineering

1^st place: Drew Davis, 鈥淪afe Routes to School鈥� (Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Ivey, Civil Engineering)

2^nd place (tie): Gerrell Dabbs, 鈥淣oise Analysis for Hyperspectral Unmixing Algorithms鈥� (Faculty Mentor: Chrysanthe Preza, Electrical & Computer Engineering)

Elizabeth Matlock-Buchanan, 鈥淭osh Farms Sow Lameness Prevention Project: Using Biomedical Approaches in an Agricultural Setting for Intervention in Culling of Sows due to Lameness鈥� (Faculty Mentor: Jessica Jennings, Biomedical Engineering)

Liberal & Fine Arts

1^st place: Avery Gray, 鈥淓arth to Ayesha 鈥� Narrative Web Series鈥� (Faculty Mentor: David Goodman, Communication & Film)

2^nd place: Cierra Dennis, 鈥淣ew Insights on Dyslexia in Mandarin Chinese鈥� (Faculty Mentor: Leah Windsor, Institute for Intelligent Systems, English)

Life & Health Sciences

1^st place: Katherine Harris, 鈥淎ssessing the Adaptive Potential of Ursus Americanus鈥� (Faculty Mentor: Emily Puckett, Biological Sciences)

2^nd place: Mira Umarova, 鈥淐o-option of Two N-alkanes as a Brood Pheromone Modulating Foraging Preferences in Temnothorax Ant Workers鈥� (Faculty Mentor: Philip Kohlmeier, Biological Sciences)

Math & Computer Sciences

1^st place: Jacob Stewart, 鈥淏arrier Effects on the Escape and Pursuit of an L1 Pursuer and L2 Target鈥� (Faculty Mentor: Thomas Hagen, Mathematical Sciences)

Physical & Applied Sciences

1^st place: Khawlah Almurisi, 鈥淥ptimizing Hydrogenation Reactions with Gas Chromatography,鈥� (Faculty Mentor, Charles Garner, Chemistry)

2^nd place: Anthony Bryant, Aidan Espy, and Jefferson Minton, 鈥淢icroplastic Analysis and Research in Natural Environments鈥� (Farhad Jazaei, Civil Engineering)

Social & Behavioral Sciences

1^st place: Madiha Syeda, 鈥淥xytocin Receptor Activation in the Nucleus Accumbens Differentially Mediates Phasic Dopamine Release鈥� (Faculty Mentors: Deranda Lester and Rebecca Drenshaw, Psychology)            

2^nd place: Elaine Mooney, 鈥淚nvestigating Mental Simulation and Mental Imagery Using Sentence-Picture Verification鈥� (Faculty Mentors: Stephanie Huette and Rane Ankney, Psychology)