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The 2019 Summer Expo showcased the research and service learning work produced by UAB undergraduates and other students in UAB summer research programs, summer REU programs, and other summer opportunities. It was held on July 25.

Winners

Oral Presentations

  • First Place: Adithya J. Menon
  • Second Place: Carly Snidow
  • Third Place (tie): Zoë S. Penko

 

Poster Presentations

  • Biological and Life Sciences

    First Place: Braden P. Garrison and Srihari Prahadeeswaran

    Second Place: Victoria Yanouskiy and Stephanie Boas

    Third Place: Rachel E. Meek

  • Business, Financial, and International Studies

    First Place: Amanda Viikinsalo

    Second Place: Rebecca Jurgens

  • Education

    First Place: Tammara Westbrook

  • Engineering

    First Place: Jordan Zimmerman, Kiran R. Adhikari

    Second Place: Aakansha Gosain

    Third Place: Sean Martin

  • Health Sciences

    First Place: Danny Xiao

    Second Place: Jeralyn Langford

    Third Place: Kristina Johnson

  • Physical and Applied Sciences

    First Place: Bryce K. Coyne, Krishna Karki, Vladimir Fedorov, Sergey Mirov

    Second Place: Dexter Mitchell, Patrick Orman and Ryoichi Kawai

  • Service Learning

    First Place: Rose Albert, David Gahan, Jacob Mesina, Luke Mills, Karthik Reddy, Garrett Sager, Olivia Shivers, Sarah Whiten

    Second Place: Morgan Akins, Giana Carson, Alec Coffman, Aaron Hollis, Shayla Holma, Hannah Lee, Morgan Osbourne, Jordan Sapier

    Third Place: Akemra James, Alasha Dixon, Aubreonna Mitchell, Audrey Montgomery, Harley Thomas, Lindi DeBoer, Viridiana Villagomez, Zoe Talley

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

    First Place: Ashlyn Scheinost

    Second Place: Natalie Lipari

    Third Place: Brittany Cangialosi, Casie Morgan, Caitlin Bullard

  • Works in Progress

    First Place: Lauren Brashear

    Second Place: Mindy Foster

    Third Place: Joshua Ben Romualdo, Shannon Lynch

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Vinoy Thomas, "Materials Magic by Dusty Misty Touchy Plasmas"

Vinoy Thomas, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and graduate program director in the UAB Department of Materials Science & Engineering, and secondary faculty (assistant professor) of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Environmental Health Science in the School of Public Health. He is also a senior research scientist at the Center for Nanoscale Materials and Biointegration (CNMB). After his Ph.D. in Biomaterials & Biomedical Technology from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology (SCTIMST), an institute of national importance under Government of India, he completed his postdoctoral training at the Institute of Materials Sciences & Technology (IMST), Friedrich-Schiller University (FSU), Jena, Germany, and at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, as NRC Fellow from National Research Council of National Academies (Science, Engineering & Medicine).

Thomas is a life-member of Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs India (SBAOI) and Society for Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine- India (STERMI), and member of society for biomaterials (SFB), materials research society (MRS) and the minerals, metals and materials society (TMS). He has co-organized and chaired a symposium on Biological Biomaterials (during TMS 2018, & 2019) and Alabama NanoBio Symposium in 2015. He serves on the editorial board of many journals in his discipline of Polymers/Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering & Drug Delivery, and Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, and was guest editor for a special issue on Advanced Manufacturing of Biomaterials & Biological Materials (JOM 2020).

His research programs focus on the development of biomaterials and processing-structure-property characterizations of polymeric-nanocomposites and nano-scaffolds and 3D bioprinting for tissue engineering (vascular, dental, and spine and neural tissues), nanodiamonds for orthopedic and dental joints, and materials chemistry of interfaces and interface tissue engineering. He has published more than 100 research papers and 12 book chapters (total citations = 3,435 with h-index 28) and three patents. He was awarded UAB Provost Award for Faculty Excellence (2019), UAB Graduate School Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship (2019), and Outstanding Scholar Award by UAB Postdoctoral Office in 2008.

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