Spring 2016 Celebration of Scholarship Award Winners
Below is a listing of the award winners from the 2016 Celebration of Scholarship. Congratulations to this year's recipients.
Dillard College of Business Administration
Best Oral Presentation
1st Place:
Antecedents and Outcomes of Brand Loyalty
Keaton Dolan, Will Roland, Ashley Watts, Wadzanai Dzvurumi, and Liz
Navarette
Mentor: Dr. Thuy D. Nguyen
2nd Place:
Crude Oil: Effects of Deflated Oil Prices on the North Texas Regional Economy
Curtis Knobloch
Mentors: Dr. John Martinez and Dr. Robert Forrester
3rd Place:
U.S. Foreign Investment, De Jure and De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes in
Emerging Economies
Luca Lalor
Mentor: Dr. Pablo Garcia-Fuentes
Best Poster Presentation
1st Place:
Turning Up the Heat on Volunteer Motivation: A Study Examining What Makes America's Most Famous Triple Digit Weather Bike Race So Attractive for its' Volunteers
Adam Leikness, Aubrey Kass, and Wadzanai Dzvurumi
Mentors: Dr. Niyati Kataria and Jeff Stambaugh
2nd Place:
Too Big to Fail vs. Too Little to Succeed: An application of Predator-Prey Models to the
Banking Industry
Dareem Antoine & Kizelle Williams
Mentor: Dr. Dale McDonald and Dr. John Martinez
Gunn College of Health Sciences and Human Services
Best Poster Presentation
1st Place:
Empowering Nursing Students to Educate
Britney Beasley and Jordan Spurlock
Mentors: Dr. Julia K. Knauff and Ms. Catherine Pankonien
2nd Place:
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Carmen McSpadden, Matt Smith, Jasilyn Boyce and Erin Summerlin
Ms. Jessyca Wagner
3rd Place:
Virtual Anatomical Models in Facilitating Surgical Procedures
Oscar Montalvo, Jacy Franklin, Michelle Tome´ and Jessica Rivera
Mentor: Ms. Jessyca Wagner
Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Best Oral Presentation
1st Place:
Bridging the Gap: The Anglo-Saxon Connection between the English and German
Languages
Lisa D. Moore
Mentors: Dr. Yvonne Franke, Dr. Peter Fields, and Dr. Tom Galbraith
2nd Place:
Fort Hood Free Grazers: An Oral History
Kristen Johnson
Mentor: Dr. Leland Turner
3rd Place:
The Measurement of Violence Against Women: A Case Study Analysis of Empirical
Scales
Julia Brady, Alexis Gay, Andrea Mendoza-Lespron, and Madeline Parker
Mentors: Dr. Steve Garrison and Dr. Linda Veazey
Best Poster Presentation
1st Place:
Developing a New Newsletter for Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology
Careisha Whyte and Catherine Stepniak
Mentors: Dr. Bradley Wilson and Mr. Newman Wong
2nd Place:
The Sociological Significance of Pigeons
Austin Monson
Mentor: Dr. Beverly Stiles
College of Science and Mathematics
Best Oral Presentation
1st Place:
A Pneumatic Dome Shaped Active Road Rumble
Daniel Goodey, Donnie Hudnell, Austin Fidlar, Varuna Denawakage Don, and
Ronell Pemberton
Mentor: Dr. Salim Azzouz
2nd Place:
Experimental Study of the Nonlinear Dynamics in a Duffing Oscillatory Circuit
Xin Hu
Mentors: Dr. Yu Guo and Dr. Martin Melhus
3rd Place:
Modeling Study of Leidenfrost Drop on Micro- and Nanoscale Ratchets
Kiran Chapagain and Daniel Goodey
Mentors: Dr. Jeong Tae Ok, Dr. Mahmoud Elsharafi, Dr. Yu Guo and Dr.Sheldon Wang
Best Poster Presentation
1st Place:
MSU Smart Parking System
Enaho Atamenwan, Paul Emmanuel Yacho, Abdullah Albakhurji, Indeesha
Wickramarachchi, Rojitha Goonesekere
Mentor: Dr. Yu Guo
2nd Place:
Quantitative Analysis of Fatty Acids Present within the Tropical Milkweed, Asclepias curassavica
Tim Torres and Francisco Ramos-Armas
Mentors: Dr. Matt Watson and Dr. Michael Shipley
3rd Place:
Vision Based Feedback Control of a Multi-DOF Robot via Bluetooth
Xitong Li, Danny Chen and Mpathi Nzima
Mentor: Dr. Yu Guo
West College of Education
Best Oral Presentation
Understanding the Influence of Instructor Strategies to Self-Regulation and Engagement of the Millennial College Student
Jarred Garcia and Sara Steele
Mentor: Dr. Suzanne Lindt
Best Poster Presentation
1st Place:
Integrating Children's Literature in Elementary Math Methods: Fostering Understandings and Connections
Melissa Whitwood and Nikki Bussue
Mentor: Dr. Dittika Gupta
2nd Place:
Reflective Thinking Practices of Preservice Teachers: The Role of Videotaped Teaching and Shared Practice Protocols
Mary Brady
Mentors: Dr. Leann Curry, Dr. Emily Reeves and Dr. Jeff Blacklock
Lamar D. Fain College of Fine Arts
Best Oral Presentation
1st Place:
Directing a One-Act Play
Kristin M. Lanier
Mentor: Dr. Betty Stewart and Dr. Karen Dabney
2nd Place (a tie)
Police Brutality: Is it Perception or Reality?
Megan Piehler
Mentor: Dr. Betty Stewart
Constructing an Online Studio Art Class: Transitioning from a Conventionally
Taught Drawing Course to an Online Class Using iPads
Emma Griffiths
Mentor: Dr. Elizabth Yarosz-Ash
Best Poster Presentation
1st Place:
Developing a New Newsletter for Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology
Careisha Whyte and Catherine Stepniak
Mentors: Dr. Bradley Wilson and Mr. Newman Wong
2nd Place:
Establishing Literary Journalism in the Curriculum
Robin Reid
Mentor: Dr. Mitzi Lewis
Most Creative & Original Presentation
Integrating Children's Literature in Elementary Math Methods: Fostering Understandings and Connections
Melissa Whitwood and Nikki Bussue
Mentors: Dr. Dittika Gupta
Best Interdisciplinary Presentation
With Your Own Hands
Tim Yap, Branson Spencer, Daniel Richison, Brian Zug, Bernard Peters, Austin Monson, Wadzanai Dzvurumi, Brooke Benson, Anamic Bhatia, Disa Hairell, Ronny Medina, Kalli Root
Mentor: Dr. Martin Camacho
President's Award - Overall Top Winner from All Colleges, poster and oral presentations: The only presentation today with a perfect score of 24 and a perfect score of 10 for Originality and Creativity:
Integrating Children's Literature in Elementary Math Methods: Fostering Understandings and Connections
Melissa Whitwood and Nikki Bussue
Mentors: Dr. Dittika Gupta
i.d.e.a.MSU Awards
1st Place ($2,000)
Sol3 Labs. Michael Olaya
2nd Place ($1,000)
SD3 Transmissions. Jn Claude Gustave, Nanette Philip, Jennifer Sissel, & Bryce Tucker
3rd Place ($500)
Smart Parking Systems. Enaho Atamenwan, Paul Yacho, Abdullah Albakhurji, & Rojitha Goonesekere
Peoples' Choice Award ($250)
Evergreen Implementations
T. Austin Hicks & Sebastian Esquivel
Dr. Billie Doris McAda Graduate School
Overall Poster Presentation:
"Anatomy of a meter-scale cycle: Ordovician Bromide Formation Oklahoma"
Jeffrey Snowden, Graduate Student in Geosciences
Faculty mentor: Dr. Jesse Carlucci
Overall Podium Presentation:
"The Effects of Northern Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus) Management on the Ecology of Texas Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum)"
Marcus Thibodeau, Graduate Student in Biology
Faculty mentor: Dr. Charles Watson
President's Award:
Marcus Thibodeau, Graduate Student in Biology
Faculty mentor: Dr. Charles Watson