Winners of the 2020 Create@State Symposium Recognized
JONESBORO – The 10th annual edition of "Create@State: A Symposium of Research, Scholarship & Creativity" took a much different course this year, as more than 165 undergraduate and graduate students presented their research projects in a new online format. The change was made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic.
This year's Create@State at Arkansas State University was livestreamed over three days and is still available on Create@State's YouTube channel, with production by ASU-TV.
During an online awards ceremony that followed two days later, Chancellor Kelly Damphousse announced the recipient of the Chancellor's Create@State Award as Nick Haywood of Piggott, "Assessment of pre-participation injury risk factors in FBS intercollegiate football players." Dr. Scott Bruce is mentor.
The 2020 Create@State award winners in each college were as follows:
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE:
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Poster Presentation:
Jessica Krob of Cordova, Tenn., "Spatial variability of plant injury and response from Lygus lineolaris feeding in Mid-South cotton"; Dr. Tina Gray Teague & Dr. John Nowlin, mentors
Dean’s Award for Graduate Poster Presentation:
Daniel Shults of Searcy, "A Spatiotemporal analysis of surface water installation in the Cache and L’anguille river regions of Northeastern Arkansas"; Dr. John Nowlin, mentor
NEIL GRIFFIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS:
Business Pitch (InfoReady Endowed Award):
Zach Ruple of Fort Smith, "MonoMyth Studios"; Dr. Hilary Schloemer, mentor
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Oral Presentation:
Bryce Jefferson of Benton, "The sky is falling as rivers rise: Adapting to increased rainfall along the Mississippi River basin"; Dr. Gauri Guha, mentor
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Poster Presentation:
Melanie Ricker & Alexus Leonard (co-presenters) both of Corning, "Scarlet to Black: A comprehensive student-led approach to financial literacy"; Dr. Philip Tew, mentor
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE:
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Oral Presentation:
Sara Brown of Paragould, "Impact of educational television viewed in childhood on college students"; Dr. David Saarnio, mentor
Dean’s Award for Graduate Oral Presentation:
Anaëlle Charles of France, "Evaluating the accuracy of two VO 2max prediction methods in Division I cross-country runners"; Dr. Veronika Pribyslavaska, mentor
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Poster Presentation:
Lucianne Burner of Moscow, Penn., "The effects of acute exercise on an ACT prep test and Brunel Mood Scale"; Dr. Blair Dean, mentor
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Oral Presentation:
Vu Nguyen of Jonesboro, "Face recognition attendance checking assistant for classroom on android smartphone"; Dr. Jake Qualls, mentor
Dean’s Award for Graduate Oral Presentation:
Christopher Jones of Little Rock, "Tunable nanoparticle surfaces for advanced propulsion"; Dr. Brandon Kemp, mentor
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Poster Presentation:
Andrew Hemund of Hot Springs Village, "Modular system design for photovoltaic power generation in Northeast Arkansas"; Dr. Rajesh Sharma, mentor
Dean’s Award for Graduate Poster Presentation:
Sumon Roy of Bangladesh, "Multiscale evaluation of paving asphalt binders under different aging environments"; Dr. Zahid Hossain, mentor
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND COMMUNICATION:
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Oral Presentation:
Connor Scroggins of Malvern, "Musical logic: Or, the language of uncertain experience"; Dr. Timothy Crist, mentor
Undergraduate Creative Media (InfoReady Endowed Award):
Kierra Crenshaw of Jonesboro, "Parental Guidance"; Dr. Katherine Baker, mentor
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Poster Presentation:
Samantha Hostetler of Benton, "Presidential inaugural addresses"; Dr. Andrea Davis, mentor
COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS:
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Oral Presentation:
Joseph Austin of Conway, "Teachers’ perception on screen time in fifth and sixth grade classrooms"; Dr. Susan Snellgrove, mentor
Dean’s Award for Graduate Oral Presentation:
Randi Wright of Cave City, "Education’s impact on HPV immunization rates in rural Arkansas"; Dr. Stanley Foster, mentor
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Poster Presentation:
Ashlyn Blankenship of Jonesboro, "Micra Transcatheter pacing system"; Donna Caldwell, mentor
Dean’s Award for Graduate Poster Presentation:
Nick Haywood of Piggott, "Assessment of pre-participation injury risk factors in FBS intercollegiate football players"; Dr. Scott Bruce, mentor
COLLEGE OF SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Oral Presentation:
Emily Hendrix of Marion, "Antioxidant activity of stilbenoid-rich extracts from peanut hairy root cultures"; Dr. Fabricio Medina-Bolivar, mentor
Dean’s Award for Graduate Oral Presentation:
Rokib Hasan of Bangladesh, "Arachidin-3, A natural product derived from peanut hairy roots, inhibits LPS-induced inflammation by suppressing the NF ‑κB signaling pathway"; Dr. Fabricio Medina-Bolivar, mentor
Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Poster Presentation:
Rebecca Martin of Paragould, "Synthesis if new 2-Aminopyrimidines"; Dr. John Hershberger, mentor
Dean’s Award for Graduate Poster Presentation:
Sankalpa Chakraborty of India, and Richard Lin and Sabrina Tahseen (NYITCOM) (co-presenters), "Aberrant cardiac long non coding RNA profile following altered thyroid hormone levels"; Dr. Viswanathan Rajagopalan, mentor
The Create@State Symposium is a culmination of collaborative efforts by faculty mentors, chairs and deans of each of the colleges, working with Research and Technology Transfer along with University Advancement, KASU, ASU-TV, Marketing and Creative Services, Blackboard Support, the Student Research and Philanthropy Councils, and Assessment.
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