Emma Burford
Mechanical Engineering
Mentor: Dr. S. R. Daniewicz, Mechanical Engineering
“Fatigue Crack Growth Resistance in Additively Manufactured Steels”

Nadia DelMedico
Art History
Mentor: Dr. Rachel Stephens, Art and Art History
“The History of Slavery at the University of Alabama as Revealed in the Basil Manly Diaries”

Alison Farrar
Physics
Mentor: Dr. Claudia Mewes, Physics, Astronomy, MINT Center
“Anisotropic Damping in Spintronic & Spinlogic Devices”

Amber Gomez
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mentor: Dr. David A. Dixon, Chemistry
“Computational Studies of the Electron and Fluoride Affinities of Early Actinide Oxides and Oxo-Fluorides Complexes”

Helmi Henkin
Psychology and French
Mentor: Dr. Rebecca Allen / Dr. Caroline Boxmeyer, Psychology / Psychiatry
“Bringing Art to Life/Mindful Coping Power”

James Howard
Chemistry
Mentor: Dr. Kevin Shaughnessy, Chemistry
“Application of air-stable palladium(II) precatalysts to Suzuki cross-coupling reactions and C-H activation of pyridine N-oxides”

Katelyn Isbell
Electrical Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Yang-Ki Hong, Electrical and Computer Engineering
“Cavity-Backed Archimedean Spiral Antenna with Conical Perturbations for 3U CubeSat Applications”

Addison Iszler
Chemistry
Mentor: Dr. Marco Bonizzoni, Chemical and Biological Engineering
“Noncovalent interactions in PAMAM dendrimer analogues”

Elliot Lakner
Chemistry
Mentor: Dr. David Dixon, Chemistry
“Structural and Electronic Properties of Pd Clusters: Catalyst Models”

Andrew Laningham
Communication Studies
Mentor: Dr. Darren Griffin, Communication Studies
“Self-concept maintenance theory applied in the context of food honor systems”

Kyle Leonard
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Brazel, Chemical and Biological Engineering
“Characterizing the Toxicity of Ionic Liquids to Mammalian Systems”

Annemarie Lisko
English / Italian
Mentor: Dr. Stephen Tedeschi, English
“‘[B]y the Snake Memory Stung’: Progressions of Remembrance in Percy Shelley’s Italian Poetry”

Ryan Morelock
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Qiang Huang, Chemical and Biological Engineering
“Electrodeposition for Palladium Zinc Bimetallic Catalyst”

Blair Morrison
Marine Science/Biology
Mentor: Dr. Fred Whiting, Blount Scholars Program
“Green Invaders: Life History of the European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) in Southern Maine”

Logan Norris
Biology/Psycology
Mentor: Dr. Kim Caldwell, Biological Sciences
“Investigation of Dopamine Neuron Degeneration as a Consequence of Microbiome Derived Bacteria”

Samuel Ostrow
Political Science
Mentor: Dr. Stephen Borrelli,  Political Science
“Open Seats in US House Elections 1996-2016”

Graham Parker
Biology
Mentor: Dr. Guy Caldwell, Biological Sciences
“TOR-2 plays a role in ER export of AMPA receptors to regulate synaptic excitability”

Rylee Perentis
Biology
Mentor: Dr. Kim Caldwell, Biological Sciences
“Investigating a role of DAF-7/TGFβ mechanism on susceptibility of neurodegeneration in respond to a bacterial metabolite in a C. elegans Parkinson’s model.”

James Pezent
Aerospace Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Rohan Sood, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
“Astrodynamics and Space Research: Contingency Trajectory Design for NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout Mission”

Pablo Ramos Ferrer
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mentor: Dr. Ju-Won Jeon, Chemical and Biological Engineering
“Oxidatively Stable Conducting Polymer Electrodes for Energy Storage”

Donna Xia
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mentor: Dr. David Dixon, Chemistry
“Actinide Aqueous Hydrolysis Reactions: Initial Steps in Actinide Aggregation”