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The UAB Office of Service Learning and Undergraduate Research connects students, faculty, and community nonprofit partners to enrich student academic learning, promote civic engagement, and to strengthen and support our local and global communities.

Winners

In-Person Oral Presentations

  • First Place: David Russell
  • Second Place: Molly Reynolds
  • Third Place: Rishab Samant

Online Oral Presentations

  • First Place: Emma Terry
  • Second Place: W. John Garvey & Luca Bela G. Webber

Video Essay Presentations

  • First Place: Eli Armstrong, Austin Langton, Jyn Restrepo
  • Second Place: Beck Delton
  • Third Place: Nella Yoder

Poster Presentations

  • Arts & Humanities

    In-Person

    First Place: Hailey Gibson

    Second Place: Alex Moultrie

    Online

    First Place: Annika Mehta

    Second Place: Annalisa Heckman

  • Biological & Life Sciences

    In-Person

    First Place: Emily Dolan

    Second Place: Anna Claire Potier

    Online

    First Place: Muhamed Shalan

    Second Place: Jesse Perry

  • Business, Financial, & International Studies

    In-Person

    First Place: Faith Good

    Second Place: Emely Diaz

    Online

    First Place: Kayli Meek

  • Education

    First Place: Alan Doss

  • Engineering

    First Place: Chiara Chie

  • Health Sciences & Health Professions

    First Place: Kevin Joseph

    Second Place: Ameena Momand

    Third Place: Varsha Reddy

  • Physical & Applied Sciences

    First Place: Karma Cook

    Second Place: Lilly Dong

  • Service Learning

    In-Person

    First Place: Amelia Hawkins, Alex Wright

    Second Place: Lalitha Appana, Grace Lu, Joshua Leggett, Connor Nguyen, Adam Amissah, Emerson Cutcliffe

    Third Place: Jessica Martin

    Online

    First Place: Elizabeth Salermo

  • Social & Behavioral Sciences

    In-Person

    First Place: Arzoo Charania, Shujiya Fatima, Caroline Watson

    Second Place: Ellie Walls

    Third Place: Aysha Patel

    Online

    First Place: Jayden Burrell, Hope Dobes, Tamanna Patel, Lauson Whaley

    Second Place: Taylor Champ

  • Works in Progress

    First Place: Tamiya King

    Second Place (tie): Hannah Enskat and Juliana Eberhardt

    Third Place: Kibryn Lovejoy

  • Works in Progress (Class Project)

    First Place: Anna Nguyen

    Second Place: Kayleigh Edelblute

    Third Place: Kaylie Burns

  • Online Poster Presentations

    First Place: Caitlin Hickey

    Second Place: Saul Linenberger

Winners

In-Person Oral Presentations

  • First Place: Craig Peters
  • Second Place: Yuvika Harsh
  • Third Place: Molly Reynolds

Online Oral Presentations

  • First Place: Sreekiran Nataraj
  • Second Place: Kala Bhattar
  • Third Place: Maya Crocker

Video Essays

  • First Place: Craig Peters
  • Second Place: Yuvika Harsh
  • Third Place: Molly Reynolds

Poster Presentations

  • Arts and Humanities

    In-Person

    First Place: Catherine Grace Sears

    Online

    First Place: Madeline Smith

  • Biological and Life Sciences

    In-Person

    First Place: Harshita Challa

    Second Place: Suma Gadde

    Third Place (tie): Dylan Higginbotham, Patrick Chatman II, Kaitlyn Savoie, Brandon Wilson, Olivia Kowalski & Nathan Lehman

    Online

    First Place: Olivia Decker

    Second Place: Dev Patel

  • Business

    In-Person

    First Place: Yihe Wang

    Second Place: Emma Secor

    Online

    First Place: Jimena Villamor-Thompkins

    Second Place: Salwa Gad

  • Education

    In-Person

    First Place: Jaret Kehl

    Second Place: Regan Rebarchik

  • Engineering

    In-Person

    First Place: Sreekiran Nataraj, Vidhi Patel, Ann Varghese, Resantini Shanmugan, Diya Samal

    Second Place: Vidhi Patel

  • Health Sciences & Professions

    In-Person

    First Place: Catherine Smith

    Second Place: Monica Rayburn, Melissa Rodriguez, Waad Almotiri, Caleb Van Horn, Ana Lucia Oliveira

    Online

    First Place: Matthew Leija

  • Physical and Applied Sciences

    In-Person

    First Place: David Russell

    Second Place: Rachel Weng, Kaleb Burrage, Jose L. Gonzalez Jimenez , Weiwei Xie, Barbara Lavina, Jiyong Zhao, Esen E. Alp, Dongzhou Zhang, Yuming Xiao, Yogesh K. Vohra, Wenli

    Online

    First Place: Grace Brown

  • Service Learning

    In-Person

    First Place: Navya Gullapalli

    Second Place: Tim Theus

    Third Place: Elizabeth Brooks

    Online

    First Place: Bentlee Smith

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

    In-Person

    First Place: Sunil Suresh

    Second Place: McKenzie Heard

    Online

    First Place: Kaylea Ponds

    Second Place: Avory Graham

  • Works in Progress

    In-Person

    First Place: Danielle-Louise Odom

    Second Place: Natalie Moon, Khai Thompson, Yesi Villanueva

    Third Place: Victoria Boatright

    Online

    First Place: Kendall Murry

Meet our Fall 2023 Expo Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif

Meet Dr. Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif (Dr. BAS, for short), an assistant professor and program coordinator of the UAB School of Education's Higher Education Administration program! Dr. BAS has been working in higher education for over 11 years as a faculty member and as a student affairs and services administrator. She has been a catalyst in her field and has been recognized globally for her work and research.

Her research focuses on current global movements in educational reform, international higher education, student development, and social justice and advocacy issues within higher education. Recently, Dr. BAS was selected for the 2023-2024 UAB Faculty Fellows in the Service-Learning program, which is designed to accelerate the work of faculty members eager to develop exemplary curricular approaches to education.

Winners

In-Person Presentations

  • Poster Presentations

    Biological and Life Sciences

    • First Place: Lydia Best
    • Second Place: Kaitlin Ross
    • Third Place: Amitis Moradkhani

    Education

    • First Place: Dori Do

    Arts and Humanities

    • First Place: Emma McGowan

    Engineering

    • First Place: Alexander Kim
    • Second Place: Elise Kim

    Service Learning

    • First Place: Aisya Mooney

    Physical and Applied Science

    • First Place: Anish Joshi
    • Second Place: Roman Luckett
    • Third Place: Shawn Park

    Social & Behavioral Sciences

    • First Place: Hazel Payne
    • Second Place: Leah Cutright

    Health Sciences & Health Professions

    • First Place: Paxton Gillispie
    • Second Place (tie): Stormie Bryant, Abigail Viola
    • Third Place (tie): Shreya Sunil & Maddie Bacon, Nida Dharani

    Works in Progress (Class Project)

    • First Place: Ahmad Musaab Khan

    Works in Progress

    • First Place: Sophia Nguyen
    • Second Place: Michelle McCleod
    • Third Place: Mead Arabie
  • Oral Presentations
    • First Place: Morgan L. Centeno
    • Second Place: Eshika Kudaravavalli
    • Third Place: Brianna Dotson

 

Online Presentations

  • Poster Presentations

    Biological & Life Sciences

    • First Place: Dionne Trinidad

    Health Sciences & Health Professions

    • First Place: Thyane Bedgood
    • Second Place: Cristen Knapp

    Physical & Applied Sciences

    • First Place: Minh Duy Do
  • Oral Presentations
    • First Place: Lillian Mullis

Winners

In-Person Oral Presentations

  • First Place: Odyssey Crowell
  • Second Place: Ellie McDaniel
  • Third Place: Mikayla Rigsby

Online Oral Presentations

  • First Place: Megha Ghanta
  • Second Place: Najla Awwad, Gizelle Blanco Espinoza, Payal Patel

Video Essays

  • First Place: Victoria Moffet
  • Second Place: Ibshar Marina
  • Third Place: Cassidy Bryant

Poster Presentations

  • Biological and Life Sciences

    In-Person

    First Place: Suhas Kellampalli

    Second Place: Anenechi Akumadu

    Third Place: Kristin Simanyi

    Online

    First Place: Ashley Frith

  • Business

    In-Person

    First Place: Bernard Lisy

    Online

    First Place: Destiny Nelson-Miles

    Second Place: Imani Hooks

  • Engineering

    In-Person

    First Place: Rachel Matthews

    Online

    First Place: Ayushi Mukund, Bri Rousse, Whitney Chaney, Noorullah Imran

  • Health Sciences

    In-Person

    First Place: Ishika Patel

    Second Place: Eesha Patel, Lexie Woolums, Jada Hines

    Third Place: Ashley Guy, Ashley Weber

    Online

    First Place: Drew Glasscock, Breia Pettaway, Nevaeh Hurst, John Moody, Angellina Luu

  • Physical Sciences

    In-Person

    First Place: Melissa Hall

  • Service Learning

    In-Person

    First Place: Taylor Jones, Karen Colin, Will Cooley, Ammar Rana

    Second Place: Azka Aleezada, Jaiden Hatch, Amya Love, Elliott Burnett

    Third Place: Molly Reynolds, Melissa Mercer, Jaewon Huh, Remy Cron, Nathaniel DeVoss

    Online

    First Place: Jonathan Baker, Mckenna Simpson, Joycelyn Daniel

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences

    In-Person

    First Place: Kaiden Kennedy

    Second Place (Tie): Alison Dahlman & Ali McDearmond

    Third Place: Hannah Rogers

    Online

    First Place: Meagan Belflower, Maddie Kirkpatrick, Tyler Dorough, Victoria Brown, Emily Tatum, Ava West

    Second Place: James Caldwell, Ta'Meka Madison-Burch, Sarah Singleton, Anna Grace Sorrells, Samarth Sharma

  • Works in Progress

    In-Person

    First Place (Tie): Ami Dave & Jordan Carson, Yug Patel, Sarah Fu

    Second Place: Chloe Seabolt, Trevor Turner, Kevin Joseph, Sarah Wilson, Ayona Roychowdhury

    Third Place: James Walts

    Online

    First Place (Tie): Sanaz Tafazoli, Madison Hardee, Siyan Zhou & Britney Comans, Jennifer Orduno, Maleah Humphries, Zac Armor, and Suma Ejantkar

Meet our Fall 2022 Expo Keynote Speaker: Keyana Boglin

Keyana Boglin is the UAB AmeriCorps VISTA Statewide Program Supervisor. As a supervisor, she manages the grant associated with the AmeriCorps VISTA program. She also assists with the placement of VISTAs and their host sites. Keyana has served with AmeriCorps as a VISTA Leader and FEMA Corps member. She is inspired by the impact that the UAB VISTA program is having on communities and is looking forward to seeing the program grow.

Winners

  • Poster Presentations

    Arts and Humanities

    • First Place: Quinton Day

    Biological and Life Sciences

    • First Place: Sarah Wilson
    • Second Place (tie): Brianna Monroe and Latham Girona
    • Third Place: Zayd Khan

    Engineering

    • First Place: Sreekiran Nataraj
    • Second Place: Lea Hebert
    • Third Place (tie): Zachary Zabriske and Wayne Dimas Gonzales

    Works in Progress

    • First Place: Megan Woods
    • Second Place: Kadiatou Diallo
    • Third Place: Oscar Allen

    Physical and Applied Science

    • First Place: Aditi Gurudutt
    • Second Place: Chandni Bhat
    • Third Place (tie): Karim Haddad, Lauryn Williams, and Julia Kiefer

    Health Sciences

    • First Place: Dana Mays
    • Second Place: Jaden Adams
    • Third Place: Sanjana Gattineni

    Social and Behavioral Science

    • First Place: Chloe Seabolt
    • Second Place: Katherine Moore
    • Third Place: Halla Stallworth

    Service Learning

    • First Place: Jerrod Adams
  • Oral Presentations

    Physical and Applied Science

    • First Place: Andrew Trotter

    Works in Progress

    • First Place: Olivia Johnson
    • Second Place: Sarah Fu

    Arts and Humanities

    • First Place: Liberty Wigen

    Biological and Life Sciences

    • First Place: Mikayla Rigsby
    • Second Place: Nikhita Mudium
    • Third Place: Lathan Girona

    Health Sciences

    • First Place: Rachana Kuthuru
    • Second Place: Evan Johnson

    Social & Behavioral Sciences

    • First Place: Rachel George
  • Online Presentations

    Online Poster Presentations

    Biological and Life Sciences

    • First Place: Jessica Jacob
    • Second Place: Rohan Sethi

    Health Sciences & Health Professions

    • First Place: Sumanth Chandrupatia

    Social and Behavioral Sciences

    • First Place: Odeth Leal

    Work in Progress

    • First Place: Emma Lewis

    Online Oral Presentations

    • First Place: Olivia Blanton

Meet our Summer 2023 Keynote Speaker

Michael Ho

Michael Ho is a 2022 alumnus of UAB's Honors College in the Global and Community Leadership program as well as the College of Arts and Sciences with degrees in World Languages and Literatures (French) and Neuroscience. After completing the NIH-funded PROmoTE research program in the UAB Division of Nephrology and Department of Urology this summer, he will be attending the UAB Heersink School of Medicine in the Fall!

  1. Spring Expo 2023
  2. Spring Expo 2025
  3. Spring Expo 2024
  4. Summer Expo 2022

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