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Award winners

The NCUIRE research symposium for 2024 is proud to announce its award winners. Winners were decided by faculty members and audience members. There were awards for students who are enrolled in NCUIRE, students who are not affiliated with NCUIRE, and awards based on student and audience member impressions.

Awards for NCUIRE students*

1st place

Student names Poster names
Cyan Cornett, Tatianna Gladu, Barry Cromer III, Allie Baker, Katherine O'Brien, Isabel Maldonado What’s in the Bag? Factsheets for Commonly Trafficked Arthropods
Riley Samarzja The Influence of Under-Confidence on Perceptions of Less-Than-Highly Confident Identifications

2nd place

Student names Poster names
Kaitlyn Bowe, Micah Collins, Serenity Garcia, Kasey Kutcher, Lily Moskowitz, Audrey Zelinka From “Colossal Shrimp” to 100 Options: Restaurant Menus as Tools to Understanding Socio-economic Values and Inequalities
Mobin Doost

Unlocking Therapeutic Potential: Synergistic Activation of VDR-RXR Heterodimers by Vitamin D and Rexinoids

Rhiannon Burin

Stinknet Restoration Study

 

*as judged by faculty

Awards for non-NCUIRE students*

1st place

Student names Poster names
Al Nieva Emulation in Video Game Preservation
Jessie Torres Acosta, Al Nieva AimBeat: a Gyroscopic Rhythm Game Proposal

2nd place

Student names Poster names
Jiya Singla, Sudeep Sharma Socioeconomic Inequality and School Shootings

3rd place

Student names Poster names
Alessia Daniele, Kirstin Austin Analysis of Siberian Hamster (Phodopus sungorus) Follicle Distributions in Response to Photoperiod
Jaime Del Cid Analysis of Microbiome of Moved Remains after Treatments of Soil with Select Chemicals

 

*as judged by faculty

People's choice awards*

1st place

Student names Poster names
Rachel Adair et al. Analysis of the Pollen Community in Arizona

2nd place

Student names Poster names
Gracie Thompson and Alexandier Brossia A Genetic Survey of Phoenix, AZ, Blow Fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Populations

3rd place

Student names Poster names
Daniela Bermudez Beyond the Uniform: Mental and Physical Health Experiences of Female Veterans in Arizona

Honorable mention

Student names Poster names
Sabelle Reeder, Abigail Zagala, Kylie Smith, Samantha Rylander, and Hannah Rath The Use of a Filler-Control Method to Calibrate Forensic Evidence Analysis

 

*as judged by audience members