Did you know that you can get paid to do research or work on a creative project while gaining valuable experience in a high impact practice? The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs administers University funds to directly support mentored undergraduate research through Undergraduate Research Experience and Creative Activity (URECA) grants. Awards range from $500 for beginners to $3,500 for experienced MTSU student researchers.

If you have questions about URECA grants that are not answered on our site, please email the URECA Program Manager, Dr. Jamie Burriss.

Apply for a URECA Grant

Fall 2023 Application Deadline: September 7th

Spring 2024 Application Deadline: January 25th

Summer 2024 application deadline:  April 4th

1. Determine which application is right for you.
2. Fill out your application with the help of your faculty mentor:
   Assistant (Beginner) or Scholar (Silver, Gold, Platinum) or Team* 
   *Team applications must be filled out by the faculty mentor.  The mentor will upload their portion of the application and will list the names and emails of the individuals who will be working on their team.  Then, the application will route to each of the students to fill out their portion of the application.  
3. Once you have submitted the application, it will be automatically directed to your faculty mentor for their approval.
4. After your faculty mentor has approved the application, a completed copy will be emailed back to you. Please save the application, complete with mentor signature, as a PDF and merge into your final proposal packet. Your final proposal packet should include the following, in this order for all applicable documents: application, letter of support, student's CV, proposal, references, timeline, budget & budget justification/travel & travel justificiation, transcript.  
5. Email your single combined PDF to Katie.Medrano@mtsu.edu.  We will confirm receipt within 24 hours. 
   PLEASE NOTE:  Submission to Award Force is no longer required.  

Introducing the URC's Peer Mentor Scholar: Emilie Conners

The role of the Peer Mentor Scholar is to mentor students interested in getting involved with undergraduate research, provide guidance related to URECA grants (proposal, budget, timeline) and the dissemination process.

Emilie Conners

Emilie is a member of MTSU’s Honors College and is a senior Marketing major with a concentration in Professional Selling. She is currently a Peer Mentor Scholar for the Student Organization for the Advancement of Research (SOAR). She is an Honors College Transfer Fellow as well as a student worker for the Jones College Advising Center. She has received an assistant-level URECA grant pertaining to her research in the marketing field.  

It wasn’t too long ago when I was at the beginning of my research journey with lots of questions and hesitations. I know the process can feel overwhelming and is a lot to handle on your own. I’m happy to tell you that it’s not something you have to navigate on your own; I’m just one of the many resources here to help you see the potential in yourself and in your work. With the knowledge I’ve gained from my research experience, I’d love to assist you in overcoming any challenges you may be facing in regard to your research journey.  - Emilie

Contact Emilie at emc5w@mtmail.mtsu.edu for URECA related inquires and mentoring.

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Previous URECA Recipients

Semester	Student	Project Title	Department	Mentor	Level
2023 Summer	Jesse Adair	The Farm Theatre College Collaboration Project - New Play Workshop in NYC	Theatre and Dance	Lauren Shouse	Assistant
2023 Summer	Holden Ayers	Relationship between sinkhole flooding and geology in Grassy Cove, TN	Geoscience	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2023 Summer	Madona Aziz	Pharmacologically targeting the proliferation of protein aggregates in a model of Huntington's Disease in Drosophila	Biology	Kiel Ormerod	Assistant
2023 Summer	Andy Belcher	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Halle Brandt	Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Short Form Vaping Consequences Questionnaire: Positive Reinforcement Subscale.	Psychology	James Tate	Assistant
2023 Summer	Catherine Bright	An Integration of Movement to the Screen	Theatre and Dance	Jade Treadwell	Silver
2023 Summer	Amy Brown	Molecular Guided Design and Synthesis of Novel Autotaxin Inhibitors for Applications in Chemotherapy	Chemistry	Souvik Banerjee	Gold
2023 Summer	Elliot Certain	A Trip to DC: An Endeavor in Pursuit of Scholarly and Professional Development	Communication Studies	Roberta Chevrette	Platinum
2023 Summer	Emilie Conners	The Body Positivity Movement: Bettering College Women's Body Image and Health	Marketing	Lucy Matthews	Assistant
2023 Summer	Christopher Cooper	The Farm Theatre College Collaboration Project - New Play Workshop in NYC	Theatre and Dance	Lauren Shouse	Assistant
2023 Summer	Jillian DeGrie	Breaking the Stigma around Autism: an Interactive Art Exhibition	Art and Design	Kathleen O'Connell	Silver
2023 Summer	Steven Dew	Attention-Based Deep Learning Approach for Identification of Alzheimer's Disease from MRI Data	Computer Science	Arpan Sainju	Assistant
2023 Summer	Madalyn Dye	Visual-Spatial Processing Differences Among Those with Dyslexia and Those Without Dyslexia	Psychology	Tim Odegard	Silver
2023 Summer	Kaley Eaton	The Farm Theatre College Collaboration Project - New Play Workshop in NYC	Theatre and Dance	Lauren Shouse	Assistant
2023 Summer	Eli Neville	3D Imaging of the Weed Cell Structure for UV and Infrared based Weed Control	Engineering Technology	Hongbo Zhang	Assistant
2023 Summer	Emma Gresham	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Rose Gutierrez	Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis of Neuroblastoma Cells in a Laser Trap with Magnetic Beads	Physics	Daniel Erenso	Assistant
2023 Summer	Rawan Haj-Hussein	Exploring the Behavioral Impacts of Neuronal, Huntingtin Aggregates on Adult drosophila melanogaster	Biology	Kiel Ormerod	Gold
2023 Summer	Sarah Hall	The Farm Theatre College Collaboration Project - New Play Workshop in NYC	Theatre and Dance	Lauren Shouse	Assistant
2023 Summer	Sammi Hamdan	Identifying Alzheimer's Disease from EEG Data Using an AE-SVM Classifier	Computer Science	Khem Poudel	Silver
2023 Summer	Priscilla Hammermeister	Financial Success Based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Survey-Based Evidence	Business and Economic Research Center	Murat Arik Tom Brinthaupt	Platinum
2023 Summer	Tadros Hana	Conducting a genetic screen to identify novel enhancers and suppressors of Huntington's Disease pathogenicity using GWAS-acquired targets	Biology	Kiel Ormerod	Platinum
2023 Summer	Lance Harbour	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Beth Harless	Clemmie Unfiltered	Media Arts	Tom Neff	Platinum
2023 Summer	Javier Hernandez	How Marketing Influenced the Success of the Top 20 Box Office Films of 2022	Marketing	Michael Peasley	Silver
2023 Summer	Carter Holland	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Elvis Hurtado	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Ayleen Iguera	Researching Food Markets in Singapore and Malaysia to Better Understand Cultural Preferences in Terms of Food Availability, Prices, and Popularity	Sociology and Anthropology	Ida Leggett	Assistant
2023 Summer	Gracie Johnson	The Exchange of Nanoparticles and Peptoids	Chemistry	Mengliang Zhang	Platinum
2023 Summer	Matthew Johnson	Characterization of Antifungal Peptoid Dendrimers	Chemistry	Kevin Bicker	Platinum
2023 Summer	Sean Kangas	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Christopher Keiningham	Artificial Intelligence-Driven Snake Game	Computer Science	Xin Yang	Assistant
2023 Summer	Jack Kelly	Use of Natural Word Processing in Transformers to Analyze Electronic Medical Records (EMR)	Computer Science	Khem Poudel	Assistant
2023 Summer	Drew Lacy	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Zach Legaux	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Gavin Liles	How Can Contrastive Learning be applied to improve the accuracy and speed of medical diagnosis and treatment?	Computer Science	Khem Poudel	Assistant
2023 Summer	Joshua Mahan	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Francesca Mallia	People with Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathic Traits and their Self-Talk	Psychology	Thomas Brinthaupt	Silver
2023 Summer	Seth Martinez	Relationship between sinkhole flooding and geology in Grassy Cove, TN	Geoscience	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2023 Summer	Benjamin Matthews	Asymmetric Carbonyl Allylation by Allylic Acetates	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Platinum
2023 Summer	Patrick McAtee	Classical genetic approach to enable the economical utilization of plant	Biology	Elliot Altman	Platinum
2023 Summer	Andrew Michael	Uncovering Components of the Excitation-Contraction Coupling Machinery Using a Cell-Specific Approach in Drosophila melanogaster	Biology	Kiel Ormerod	Gold
2023 Summer	Wesley Mitchell	Applying Induced Set Attention to Transformers for Object Detection	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Assistant
2023 Summer	Bailey Moore	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Natalie Rapier	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Audrey Roberts	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Taylor Sholtz	Clemmie Unfiltered	Media Arts	Tom Neff	Platinum
2023 Summer	Hailey Simmons	Conducting Research with Traditional Specialists to Better Understand the Local Culture's uses to Aid and Cure Ailments in Singapore	Sociology and Anthropology	Ida Leggett	Platinum
2023 Summer	Clay Stalzer	Fungal-fungal interactions on the skin of reptiles	Biology	Donald Walker	Platinum
2023 Summer	Lindsey Tran	Creation of New Energy Source from Electro-magnetic assisted "Star-like" Discovery in Red Blood Cells using Laser-Trapping Technology	Physics and Astronomy	Daniel Erenso	Platinum
2023 Summer	Sarah Vaupel	Half Dead Animated Short Film	Media Arts	Corey Reece	Assistant
2023 Summer	Aaron Vongprachanh	Predicting and Mapping Environmental Health Index Through Google Street View Images	Computer Science	Arpan Sainju	Assistant
2023 Summer	Megan Wagner	Relationship between sinkhole flooding and geology in Grassy Cove, TN	Geoscience	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2023 Summer	Weston Williams	Domestic Penicillin Production via Bioreactor Fermentation Processing	Agriculture	Tony Johnston	Silver
2023 Spring	James Evans	Investigating a New Oncogenic Pathway in Rhabdoid Cancers	Biology	April Weissmiller	Silver
2023 Spring	Cheyenne Jones	Exposing New Oncogenic Pathways in Malignant Rhabdoid Tumor	Biology	April Weissmiller	Silver
2023 Spring	Isaiah Osborne	Study of Sign-Invertibility of Graphs with many Cycles	Mathematical Sciences	Dong Ye	Silver
2023 Spring	Garrett Tessmer	Investigating the Effect of Colchicine Inhibitors in Cancer	Biology	April Weissmiller	Silver
2023 Spring	Steven Brown	Social motivation between different types of mice.	Psychology	Tiffany Rogers	Silver
2023 Spring	Josh Griggs	Measuring changes in CITED1 expression in THP-1 and FLAM cells in response to IFN treatment.	Biology	David Nelson	Silver
2023 Spring	Audrey Lauerhass	Analysis of Artifact Distribution to Determine the Final Resting Place of a World War II B-17G Airplane Crash in France using ArcGIS	Sociology and Anthropology	Tiffany Saul	Gold
2023 Spring	Jennifer Cunic	Sky Never Ends: Exploration of Shadow where Light and Darkness Dance	Theatre	Lauren Shouse	Silver
2023 Spring	Priscilla Hammermeister	Financial Success based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Evidence from a Survey of Tennessee University Alumni.	BERC	Murat Arik Tom Brinthaupt	Silver
2023 Spring	Christopher Meherg	Applications and Experimentation of New Algorithm for the Discrete Gauss Transform	Chemistry	Jing Kong	Silver
2023 Spring	Marzea Akter	EXAMINE THE EFFECT OF ACUTE OXYTOCIN ADMINISTRATION ON SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN MALE AND FEMALE MICE	Psychology	Tiffany Rogers	Silver
2023 Spring	Weston Williams	Rapid foodborne pathogen Detection via Tangential Flow Nano/Microfilter Bioseparation System	ABAS	Seockmo Ku	Silver
2023 Spring	Grayon Cunningham	Implementation of an Ideal Automotive Engineer Workstation	ETIS	Jorge Vargas	Assistant
2023 Spring	Ross Sibley	Therapeutic Characterization of Cyclic Peptoids Against Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida albicans	Chemistry	Kevin Bicker	Silver
2023 Spring	Sammi Hamdan	Identifying Eplieptic Seizures in EEG Signals Using Machine Learning	Computer Science	Khem Poudel	Assistant
2023 Spring	Eden Anderson	Detecting Estrogen Pollution in the Stones River Watershed	Chemistry	Rebecca Seipelt-Thiemann	Gold
2023 Spring	Aura Ganster	Study of Saccharomyces boulardii as a Probiotic Starter Culture in Makgeolli Production	Human Sciences	Seockmo Ku	Assistant
2023 Spring	Zakayla Thomas	Influence of Diet on Body Odor and Social Judgments	Psychology	Jessica Gaby	Assistant
2023 Spring	Wisdom Thompson	The Cold War in the Caribbean	Mathematical Sciences	Sekou Franklin	Assistant
2023 Spring	Christopher Cooper	Spring Festival of New Plays	Liberal Arts	Claudia Barnett	Silver
2023 Spring	Makenzie Johnson	Spring Festival of New Plays	Media Arts	Claudia Barnett	Silver
2023 Spring	Brooks Leyhew	Exploring Genetic Diversity and distribution of Freshwater spongers in Tennessee	Biology	Cole Easson	Gold
2023 Spring	Skylar Carson-Reynolds	Exploring Genetic Diversity and distribution of Freshwater spongers in Tennessee	Biology	Cole Easson	Gold
2023 Spring	Victoria Trevino	The Comparison of Two Different World-Learning Strategies in Undergraduate University Students	COMM	Kathryn Blankenship	Assistant
2023 Spring	Alexandria Hamilton	The Comparison of Two Different World-Learning Strategies in Undergraduate University Students	COMM	Kathryn Blankenship	Silver
2023 Spring	Xintong Cao	Tree-Based Machine Learning Algorithms for Analytics of Online Shopper's Purchasing Intention	Mathematical Sciences	Lu Xiong	Silver
2023 Spring	Pengyu Zhu	Tree-Based Machine Learning Algorithms for Analytics of Online Shopper's Purchasing Intention	Mathematical Sciences	Lu Xiong	Silver
2023 Spring	Minyuan Zhao	Tree-Based Machine Learning Algorithms for Analytics of Online Shopper's Purchasing Intention	Mathematical Sciences	Lu Xiong	Silver
2023 Spring	Chelsea Rolle	Exploring the Relationship between STEM Graduate Teaching Assistants' Perceived Teaching Autonomy and Pedagogical Discontentment: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study	Biology	Grant Gardner	Assistant
2023 Spring	Kadence Riggs	Exploring the Relationship between STEM Graduate Teaching Assistants' Perceived Teaching Autonomy and Pedagogical Discontentment: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study	Psychology	Grant Gardner	Assistant
2023 Spring	Lillian Reid	Spring Festival of New Plays	English	Claudia Barnett	Silver
2023 Spring	Gryason Cunningham	Implementation of an Ideal Automotive Engineer Workstation	ETIS	Jorge Vargas	Assistant
2022  Fall	Zihan Zhang	Actuarial Modeling for Medical Loss Prediction and Trend Analysis	Mathematical Sciences	Don Hong	Silver
2022  Fall	Weston Williams	Rapid Foodborne Pathogen Detection via Tangential Flow Nano/Microfilter Bioseparation System	Agriculture	Seockmo Ku	Assistant
2022 Fall	Alexandria Williams	Investigation of a Two New Protein Targets in N-MYC Amplified Neuroblastoma	Biology	April Weissmiller	Silver
2022  Fall	Teckanous VanTrease	Evaluating Dyslexia Knowledge in School Professionals	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Silver
2022  Fall	Lindsey Tran	Creation of Electro-Magnetic Assisted "Star-Like" Formation From Cancer Cells Using a Laser Trap	Physics and Astronomy	Daniel Erenso	Gold
2022  Fall	Garrett Tessmer	Investigating the Significant of MYC in Small Cell Carcinoma of the Ovary Hypercalcemic Type	Biology	April Weissmiller	Silver
2022  Fall	Sarah Streeter	Investigation of a Two New Protein Targets in N-MYC Amplified Neuroblastoma	Biology	April Weissmiller	Silver
2022  Fall	Jenna St Pierre	Assessing Cusp Morphologies Between Different Ancestries	Sociology & Anthropology	Shannon Hodge	Gold
2022   Fall	Sophia Roberts	Don't Sweat It: An Exploration of Effective Heat Risk Communication to Today's Youth	Sociology & Anthropology	Alissa Hass	Silver
2022   Fall	Marissa Pickett	Don't Sweat It: An Exploration of Effective Heat Risk Communication to Today's Youth	Geosciences	Sophia Roberts	Silver
2022  Fall	Lacon Parton	Antibiotic Resistance eDNA in the Stones River Watershed	Biology	Rebecca Seipelt Thiemann	Gold
2022  Fall	Grace OConnell	A Collection of Unaccompanied and Accompanied Trumpet Works	Music	Michael Arndt	Gold
2022  Fall	Keaton Mills	Detemining the Impact of Earthworms and Manure on Crops and Soil	Agriculture	Chaney Mosley	Assistant
2022  Fall	Christopher Meherg	New Algorithms for the Discrete Gauss Transform	Physics and Astronomy	Jing Kong	Silver
2022   Fall	Dalton Lewis	A Comparison of Waste Management Practices for Plastic Food Containers and Packaging Using the Waste Reduction Model (WARM)	Engineering Technology	Mina Mohebbi	Silver
2022  Fall	Tyler Lansford	Exploring the Benefits of Artificial Intelligence in Plant Health and Growth	Agriculture	Chaney Mosley	Assistant
2022  Fall	Tadros Hana	Cellular Progression of the Huntingtin Protein Throughout Development, and It's Impact on the Health and Physiology of Drosophila	Biology	Kiel Ormerod	Assistant
2022  Fall	Josh Griggs	Measuring Changes in CITED1 Expression in Macrophage and IFN?-responsive Cells Lines	Biology	David Nelson	Assistant
2022   Fall	Luke Gormsen	Electrical Ring Resonator: Experiments and Program Development	Physics and Astronomy	William Robertson	Gold
2022   Fall	Kendra Givens	StrXL: Adapting Set Transformer to Model rbitrary Length Sets	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Silver
2022  Fall	Katherine Fincher	Different Methods of Learning Astronomy Concepts	Psychology	Michael Hein	Assistant
2022   Fall	Jonathan Duke	Investigating Parameter Estimation and Tracking Functions Used in the Conformation of Autonomous Vehicle Radar Detections	Engineering Technology	Jorge Vargas	Assistant
2022   Fall	Yuqi Duan	Actuarial Modeling for Medical Loss Prediction and Trend Analysis	Mathematical Sciences	Don Hong	Silver
2022   Fall	Charlotte Daigle	Through a Different Eye: An Honors Creaetive Thesis	English	Rhonda McDaniel	Gold
2022  Fall	Steven Clifford	Do Deficits in Key Motor Proteins Impact Muscle Physiology and Highly Stereotypes Rhythmic Behavior?	Biology	Kiel Ormerod	Silver
2022  Fall	KadeJah Brown	Cybertechnology Development and Exploration of Learning Processes in Augmented Reality Team Environments (CyberLearnAR)	Psychology	Michael Hein	Assistant
2022   Fall	Avery Biddle	Collaborative Dance Film	Theatre and Dance	Aaron Allen	Silver
2022   Fall	Lillian Bergman	Internal and External Factors in Shaping the Picoplankton Diets of Prominent Sponges on Florida Reefs	Biology	Cole Easson	Gold
2022   Fall	Kathryn Baumann	Geomechanical and Mineralogical Investigation of the History of Metamorphic Rocks Exposed at Glad Gap, Chunky Gal Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains	Geosciences	Warner Cribb	Silver
2022   Fall	Hannah Bates	Geomechanical and Mineralogical Investigation of the History of Metamorphic Rocks Exposed at Glad Gap, Chunky Gal Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains	Geosciences	Warner Cribb	Silver
2022   Fall	Erika Allen	Implicit Leadership Theory - Reaction Time Experiments	Psychology	James Houston	Silver
2022   Fall	Marzea Akter	Examine the Effect of Acute Oxytocin Administration on Social Behavior in Male and Female Mice	Psychology	Tiffany Rogers	Assistant
2022       Fall	Mina Abdulkareem	Crystal Formation Induced by Melmine Interactions with Physiological Components	Chemistry	Beng Ooi	Gold
2022 Summer	Karolin Abouelyamin	Student Discourse Networks and Group Composition in a POGIL-based General Chemistry Class	Tennessee STEM Education Center	Joshua Reid	Platinum
2022 Summer	Avery Biddle	Analyzing Correlations Within Educational Dance Training Programs	Theatre and Dance	Jade Treadwell	Platinum
2022 Summer	David Bobrick	Analysis of Hemp Specific Nutrient Solutions	Agriculure	Nate Phillips	Gold
2022 Summer	Selena Casey	Kefir Grain Growth: Milk vs Whey (Sweet, Neutral, Acidified)	Biology	Keely OBrien	Assistant
2022 Summer	Charlotte Daigle	Through a Different Eye: An Honors Creative Thesis	Englsih	Rhonda McDaniel	Silver
2022 Summer	Valerie Davis	How do darters adapt to fast waters? A surface texture analysis of scale morphology in Etheostoma blennioides and Nothonotus rufilineatum	Biology	Jessica Arbour	Assistant
2022 Summer	Kendra Givens	Gated Set Transformer XL with Variable Length Set Output	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Assistant
2022 Summer	Sara Hauver	Analyzing the Interaction between Fentanyl and Eosin Y using GC-MS and FTIR to Refine Colorimetric Method for Detecting Fentanyl	Chemistry	Ngee Chong	Silver
2022 Summer	Dalton Lewis	Evaluation of Microplastic Contamination in Food Waste Composts and Anaerobic Digestates	Biology	Mina Mohebbi	Assistant
2022 Summer	William Lickman	Recovering a Fortress: Photo and Video Support to MTSU's Forensic Aviation Archaeology Program	Media Arts	Tiffany Saul	Platinum
2022 Summer	Dominic Marcoaldi	Prescriptive to Descriptive: The Role of Philosophy of Language in Building Epistemic Community	Philiosphy	Mary Magada-Ward	Gold
2022 Summer	Kate Matthews	What Leads to Productive Procrastination in Salespeople?	Business Communication	Diane Edmondson	Assistant
2022 Summer	Benjimen Neal	Bringing 16th Century Music to 21st Century Audiences: Three Madrigals for Reed Quintet	Music	David Cyzak	Assistant
2022 Summer	Foram Patel	Validating the 1GB1 folding pathway using Greedy-Proximal A*	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Platinum
2022 Summer	Jocelyn Rajowski	Where do Refugees and Asylum Seekers Land in the United States: A Review of Worldwide Refugee Admissions Processing System (WRAPS) Data and State Laws.	Health and Human Performance	Kahler Stone	Assistant
2022 Summer	Sydney Scott	Exploring the prevalence of Bovine leukosis in the MTSU beef and dairy herds	Agriculture	Jessica Carter	Assistant
2022 Summer	Garrett Tonos	The Recording and Manipulation of Natural Sound Sources into a Musical Work	Recording Industry	Michael Fleming	Assistant
2022 Summer	Lindsey Tran	Ionization of 4T1 Breast Cancer Cells using Laser-Trapping Technology to Improve Efficiency of Breast Cancer Treatment	Physcology	Daniel Erenso	Assistant
2022 Summer	Sylvia Zakher	Student Discourse Networks and Group Composition in a POGIL-based General Chemistry Class	Tennessee STEM Education Center	Joshua Reid	Platinum
2022 Summer	Hannah Bates	A Mineralogical and Geochemical Study of Metamorphic Rocks at Glade Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina	Geosciences	Warner Cribb	Assistant
2022 Summer	Kathryn Baumann	A Mineralogical and Geochemical Study of Metamorphic Rocks at Glade Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina	Geosciences	Warner Cribb	Assistant
2022 Summer	Garrick McGee	Word Learning in Undergraduate Students	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Gold
2022 Summer	Alden McGinnis	Word Learning in Undergraduate Students	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Gold
2022 Summer	Sara Mashburn	Word Learning in Undergraduate Students	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Gold
2022 Summer	Autumn Hubbard	Word Learning in Undergraduate Students	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Gold
2022 Summer	Fatima Razzaq	Exploring the Role of Mesolimbic Nuclei in Social Motivation in Mice	Psychology	Tiffany Rogers	Assistant
2022 Summer	Steven Brown	Exploring the Role of Mesolimbic Nuclei in Social Motivation in Mice	Psychology	Tiffany Rogers	Gold
2022 Summer	Kyle Hensley	Exploring the Role of Mesolimbic Nuclei in Social Motivation in Mice	Psychology	Tiffany Rogers	Silver
2022 Summer	Claire Matzek	Host skin chemistry drives fungal-fungal interactions in a host-mycobiome-pathogen system	Biology	Donald Walker	Platinum
2022 Summer	Clay Stalzer	Host skin chemistry drives fungal-fungal interactions in a host-mycobiome-pathogen system	Biology	Donald Walker	Platinum
2022 Summer	Skylar Carson Reynolds	Effects of Pregnancy on the Common Watersnake in Tennessee	Biology	Vincent Cobb	Assistant
2022 Summer	Molly Cooper	Effects of Pregnancy on the Common Watersnake in Tennessee	Biology	Vincent Cobb	Assistant
2022 Spring	Hailey Keilman	Structural controls on cave passage orientation, Snail Shell Cave Preserve, central Tennessee	Geosciences	Mark Abolins	Team
2022 Spring	Blake King	Structural controls on cave passage orientation, Snail Shell Cave Preserve, central Tennessee	Geosciences	Mark Abolins	Team
2022 Spring	Erika Rosenzweig	Assessment of the Relation between Hydrology and the Appearance of Bons near Tuiliere, Switzerland	Geoscience	Mark Abolins	Silver
2022 Spring	Connor Prim	Musicality Explored Through Mahler’s Fifth Symphony	Music	Michael Arndt	Assistant
2022 Spring	Yaseen Ginnab	Analyzing the Ability of Astragalus tennesseensis to Accumulate Selenium	Biology	Frank Bailey	Gold
2022 Spring	Madeline Aadnes	Understanding current climate change communication habits of undergraduate biology students	Biology	Maryann Barnes	Team
2022 Spring	Alexa Summersill	Understanding current climate change communication habits of undergraduate biology students	Psychology	Maryann Barnes	Team
2022 Spring	Kap Paul	A Creative Exploration of Somatic Movement Practices	Theater	Margraet Brooker	Silver
2022 Spring	Kacie Leonard	The Effects of a Powdered Post Dip Compared to a Liquid Post Dip on Teat End Conditions in correlation to Somatic Cell Count During the Winter	Agriculture	Jessica Carter	Assistant
2022 Spring	Shelby Mayhunt	Laser trapping for measurement of the Radio-sensitivity of BT20 breast cancer cells treated by Ginsenosides bioactive compound	Physics	Daniel Erenso	Team
2022 Spring	Koby Patterson	Laser trapping for measurement of the Radio-sensitivity of BT20 breast cancer cells treated by Ginsenosides bioactive compound	Phsyics	Daniel Erenso	Team
2022 Spring	Nelson Torres	Laser trapping for measurement of the Radio-sensitivity of BT20 breast cancer cells treated by Ginsenosides bioactive compound	Physics	Daniel Erenso	Team
2022 Spring	Greta Muller	Pionír	History	Mary Evins	Assistant
2022 Spring	Hannah Kolwyck	Noise Exposure: How it Affects Music Majors Versus Non-Music Majors	Health and Human Performance	Rebecca Fischer	Assistant
2022 Spring	Khadijah Alnassari	Evaluation of Organic Fertilizer in the Production of Romaine Lettuce	Agriculture	Ying Gao	Gold
2022 Spring	Kaylee Enis	Detection of Mercury Ions Using an Aurone-based Small Molecular Fluorescent Probe	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Silver
2022 Spring	Jialin Zhang	Application of Machine Learning Techniques for Insurance Fraud Detection	Mathmatics	Don Hong	Silver
2022 Spring	Miranda Fain	Exploring Scavengers in Murfreesboro, Tennessee	Biology	Yangseung Jeong	Assistant
2022 Spring	Leslie Gonzalez Salazar	Sex estimation of Korean population using CT images	Biology	Yangseung Jeong	Assistant
2022 Spring	Marcus Luciano	Sex and Ancestry Estimation Based on the Asymmetry of Limb Bones Using CT Images	Biology	Yangseung Jeong	Assistant
2022 Spring	Casey Tomlin	Age estimation of Korean population using CT images	Biology	Yangseung Jong	Assistant
2022 Spring	Xinpeng Hua	Investigating two parameter composite models and their applications in actuarial science	Mathmatics	Vajira Manathunga	Silver
2022 Spring	Rachel Pickles	Comparing Waste Management Practices in Terms of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Savings Using Waste Reduction Model (WARM)	Engineering Technology	Mina Mohebbi	Assistant
2022 Spring	Hursha Kondee	Regulation of BCL2A1 and CCL2 expression by CITED1 in C. neoformans-infected macrophages	Biology	David Nelson	Assistant
2022 Spring	Tyler Massaro	The behavior of drosophila affected by Huntington’s Disease	Biology	Kiel Ormerod	Assistant
2022 Spring	Rachel Booher	Can Ecopoetry Save the Earth? A Creative Pathway to Environmental Literacy	English	Philip Phillips	Silver
2022 Spring	Angel Durrani	A Predictive Model for predicting the Stock Price	Mathmatics	Ramchandra Rimal	Assistant
2022 Spring	Gavin Strawn	Using Science to Enrich Art in Nick Payne’s Constellations	Theater	Lauren Shouse	Silver
2022 Spring	Dominic Marcoaldi	The Chuj Language: Awareness and the Development of ESL Materials	English	Amanda Swenson	Assistant
2022 Spring	Lillian Bergman	Mechanistic interactions between a host, microbiome, and fungal pathogen	Biology	Donald Walker	Gold
2022 Spring	Jesse Scobee	Investigating the Significance of N-MYC-WDR5 Interaction in Neuroblastoma	Biology	April Weissmiler	Silver
2022 Spring	Isaiah Osborne	Graphs and Invertibilty	Mathmatics	Dong Ye	Silver
2022 Spring	Adam Blythe	3D Imaging of the Weed Cell Structure for Effectiveness of UV Light Weed Removal	Engineering Technology	Hongbo Zhang	Assistant
2022 Spring	Ernesha Heath	Optical Farm: Use of Light to Increase Soybean Yield	Engineering Technology	Hongbo Zhang	Gold
2021 Fall	Rija Asimim	Changes in Social Motivation Following Oxytocin Receptor Inhibition	Psychology	Tiffany Rogers	Gold
2021 Fall	Hunter Brady	Chlorine Dioxide Gas: Promising Potential for Use as an Anti-viral Agent	Biology	Anthony Newsome	Gold
2021 Fall	Anika Chowdhury	Cross-Breeding Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa) Varieties to Assess Changes in Cannabinoid Content and Seed Yield	Biology	John DuBois	Gold
2021 Fall	Jack Crowley	Classical Guitar Transcriptions and Recordings of Minecraft Volume Alpha	Music	William Yelverton	Gold
2021 Fall	Marissa Gray	The Effects of Lifetime Physical Activity on Working Memory in Older Adults	Health and Human Performance	Vaughn Barry	Assistant
2022 Fall	Danny Harp	Commemorations on the Landscape: Seven African American Women Who Helped to Define R&B and Country Music	History	Martha Norkunas	Gold
2021 Fall	Lillian Hickman	Arista brook project 1990-1999	Recording Industry	Denise Shackelford	Assistant
2021 Fall	Maria Hite	Determining the effect of Cryptococcus neoformans infection on the phosphorylation and subcellular localization of CITED1 in macrophages	Biology	David Nelson	Biology
2021 Fall	DaVonté Lewis	Harnessing Disorder Effects in Superconductors	Physics and Astronomy	Hanna Terletska	Silver
2021 Fall	Angayla Maxwell	Influence of Land Management Practices and Population Density on Soil Hydraulic and Thermal Properties	Agriculture	Samuel Haruna	Gold
2021 Fall	Marie McCord	Applying Machine Learning to Identify Autism Spectrum Disorder Using rs-fMRI Datasets Parsed by Age and Gender	Computer Science	Xin Yang	Silver
2021 Fall	Jessikah Riley	(dis)Connected: A Series of Interviews on Society and Spirituality in the Modern World	Philosophy	Rebekka King	Silver
2021 Fall	Zachary Sanchez	Beliefs and Attitudes on Working with Older Adults: Data Collection and Scale Testing	Nursing	Shelley Moore	Gold
2021 Fall	Pranathi Shankar	Can priming information about body odor affect perceptions of competence in a virtual interview?	Psychology	Jessica Gaby	Assistant
2021 Fall	Janelle Valdez	Designing STEM Outreach Activities Manual for K-12 Students	Physics and Astronomy	Hanna Terletska	Assistant
2021 Fall	Carina Vazquez Nunez	Electrical Analog of a Ring Resonator Structures and an Acoustic Demultiplexer	Physics and Astronomy	William Robertson	Gold
2021 Fall	Merry Young	When Does Sex Lead to Guilt Versus Regret?	Human Sciences	Rebecca Oldham	Silver
2021 Fall	Dara Zwemer	Child-level reading variables and gist-based memory: An interactive model	Tennessee Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia	Emily Farris	Gold
2021 Fall	Chloe Bowen	TEAM: Understanding COVID19 Related Experiences and Communication of Black Undergraduate Biology Students	Biology	Liz Barnes	Silver
2021 Fall	Laine Matthews	TEAM: Understanding COVID19 Related Experiences and Communication of Black Undergraduate Biology Students	Chemistry	Liz Barnes	Silver
2021 Fall	Madeline Aadnes	TEAM: Understanding COVID19 Related Experiences and Communication of Black Undergraduate Biology Students	Biology	Liz Barnes	Silver
2021 Fall	Karolin Abouelyamin	TEAM: Investigating Classroom Discourse in an Active Learning Based General Chemistry Class	Biology	Joshua Reid	Assistant
2021 Fall	Sylvia Zakher	TEAM: Investigating Classroom Discourse in an Active Learning Based General Chemistry Class	Chemistry	Joshua Reid	Gold
2021 Fall	Michelle Moore	TEAM: Assessment of the relationship between hydrologic conditions and the appearance of springs on satellite images of Biere, Switzerland	Geosciences	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2021 Fall	Erika Rosenzweig	TEAM: Assessment of the relationship between hydrologic conditions and the appearance of springs on satellite images of Biere, Switzerland	Geosciences	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2021 Summer	Khadijah Alnassari	Development of a Rapid and Efficient Method for Ginsenosidede Extraction	Biology	Ying Gao	Platinum
2021 Summer	Ashton Bazzell	Environmental temperature effects on milk production and daily activity of dairy cattle with respect to different breeds	Agriculture	Jessica Carter	Silver
2021 Summer	Jessika Benson	The Effects of Diatomaceous Earth on pH and Digestibility in the Bovine Rumen	Agriculture	Maegan Hollis	Assistant
2021 Summer	Rachel Booher	Kigo and American Poetry: An Analysis of the Japanese Influences on the Haiku of Gary Snyder, with Five Personal Interpretations of the Japanese Seasonal Elements	English	Philip Phillips	Assistant
2021 Summer	Maria Clark	Synthesis and Characterization of the Therapeutic Potential of β-5	Chemistry	Kevin Bicker	Platinum
2021 Summer	Robert Conner	Effects of Different Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and Tall Fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus L.) Mixing Ratio on Dry Matter Yield, Nutritive Value and Greenhouse Gas Emission	Agriculture	Song Cui	Platinum
2021 Summer	Charlotte Daigle	An Evaluation of Perspective, Persona, and Point of View In Short Stories	English	Rhonda McDaniel	Assistant
2021 Summer	Sarah Garris	Comparison of Media Components for Somatic Embryogenesis in Tissue Callus of Vitis aestivalis ‘Norton/Cynthiana’	Biology	John DuBois	Silver
2021 Summer	Gabrielle Harder	The effect of corn feed particle size on broiler chicken growth, development, and productivity	Agriculture	Kevin Downs	Assistant
2021 Summer	Danny Harp	Commemorations on the Landscape: Seven African American Women Who Helped to Define R&B and Country Music	History	Martha Norkunas	Assistant
2021 Summer	Callum Hay	Identifying Patterns in Budgetary Adjustments Taken by Southeastern States During the Covid19 Pandemic	Economics	Daniel Smith	Assistant
2021 Summer	Shelby Howard	Does Religion Moderate the Association between Sex and Intimacy?	Human Sciences	Rebecca Oldham	Assistant
2021 Summer	Hannah Hudson	The Effects of Intra-Cerebral Infusions of Oxytocin Agonist and Antagonist on Conditioned Place Preference	Psychology	Tiffany Rogers	Platinum
2021 Summer	Sarah Kerr	A Controlled Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Fractionation and Fatty Acid Turnover rates in Tetragnathid Spiders	Biology	Ryan Otter	Platinum
2021 Summer	Hanna Kolwyck	Noise Exposure: How it Affects Hearing in Music Majors Versus Non-Music Majors	Health and Human Performance	Rebecca Fischer	Assistant
2021 Summer	Jeffrey Mann	Biofuel development from biomass modification and characterization via Rama Spectroscopy techniques	Chemistry	Ngee Chong	Gold
2021 Summer	Jack Maxwell	Investigating the Significance of SWI/SNF on MYC-dependent Transcription in Malignant Rhabdoid Tumor	Biology	April Weissmiller	Platinum
2021 Summer	Grace O'Connell	A Compilation of Audio Recordings for Solo Trumpet and Accompaniment	Music	Michael Arndt	Silver
2021 Summer	Sophia Taylor	Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry in Deep Eutectic Solvents	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Platinum
2021 Summer	Aurbrianna Taylor	Visual Expressions of Sound Recordings: Creating Cover Art For and With Student Songwriters	Art	Erin Anfinson	Assistant
2021 Summer	Meghan Wassom	Synthesis and evaluation of antifungal peptoid derivatives against Cryptococcus neoformans	Chemistry	Kevin Bicker	Platinum
2021 Summer	Merry Young	The Relationship between Religion and Guilt after Sexual Encounters	Human Sciences	Rebecca Oldham	Assistant
2021 Summer	Carina Vazquez	Creating Acoustic Diode in Waveguides: Simulation and Experiment	Psychology	William Robertson	Platinum
2021 Summer	Emma Beard	Literacy in Latin America	Elementary Education	Katie Schrodt	Assistant
2021 Summer	Sylvia Zakher	Investigating English Language Learners Interactions and Engagements in POGIL Based General Chemistry Class	Chemistry	Amy Phelps	Assistant
2021 Summer	Kayla Moore	Gestation site selection in Northern Watersnakes (Nerodia sipedon)	Biology	Vincent Cobb	Assistant
2021 Summer	Emma Summers	The Effects of a Pandemic on Speech Therapy for Children	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Assistant
2021 Summer	Logan Carver	TEAM: Probing the N-MYC-WDR5 interaction in neuroblastoma	Biology	April Weissmiller	Platinum
2021 Summer	Ashi Patel	TEAM: Probing the N-MYC-WDR5 interaction in neuroblastoma	Biology	April Weissmiller	Assistant
2021 Summer	Miranda Pomatto	TEAM: Reentry Expectations of Life-Sentenced Women	Sociology	Meredith Dye	Assistant
2021 Summer	Alexander Taylor	TEAM: Reentry Expectations of Life-Sentenced Women	Sociology	Meredith Dye	Assistant
2021 Summer	Oliver Callaghan	TEAM: Play Space: A New Play Development Initiative	Theatre and Dance	Katie Goodwin	Assistant
2021 Summer	Anna Grace Gragg	TEAM: Play Space: A New Play Development Initiative	Theatre and Dance	Katie Goodwin	Assistant
2021 Summer	Gavin Strawn	TEAM: Play Space: A New Play Development Initiative	Theatre and Dance	Katie Goodwin	Assistant
2021 Summer	Cassidy Woodall	TEAM: Play Space: A New Play Development Initiative	Theatre and Dance	Katie Goodwin	Silver
2021 Summer	Laine Matthews	TEAM: Exploring Undergraduate Biology Students Attitudes and Science Communication about COVID19 and COVID19 Vaccines.	Biology	Maryann Barnes	Platinum
2021 Summer	Thipphaphone Niravong	TEAM: Exploring Undergraduate Biology Students Attitudes and Science Communication about COVID19 and COVID19 Vaccines.	Biology	Maryann Barnes	Gold
2021 Summer	Mariana de Araujo Bryan	TEAM: Exploring Undergraduate Biology Students Attitudes and Science Communication about COVID19 and COVID19 Vaccines.	Biology	Maryann Barnes	Gold
2021 Summer	Ahmad Mohammad	TEAM: Artificial Intelligence Driven Chatbot using Rasa and Python	Computer Science	Xin Yang	Assistant
2021 Summer	Jackson Fry	TEAM: Artificial Intelligence Driven Chatbot using Rasa and Python	Computer Science	Xin Yang	Assistant
2021 Summer	Chloe Bowen	TEAM: A Comparison of Religious Cultural Competence in Evolution Education (ReCCEE) Online versus In-Person and its Effects on Student Outcomes.	Biology	Maryann Barnes	Platinum
2021 Summer	Alexa Summersill	TEAM: A Comparison of Religious Cultural Competence in Evolution Education (ReCCEE) Online versus In-Person and its Effects on Student Outcomes.	Biology	Maryann Barnes	Gold
2021 Spring	Rija Asim	Validation and Testing of a Social Motivation Task for Mice	Psychology	Tiffany Rogers	Silver
2021 Spring	Ashley Barrientos	Amplifying BIPOC voices through a creative digital journal: College students sound off on COVID-19, confrontations with systemic racism, and the 2020 presidential election	Journalism	Keonte Coleman	Assistant
2021 Spring	Ashton Bazzell	Environmental temperature effects on milk production and daily activity of dairy cattle with respect to different breeds	Agriculture	Jessica Carter	Assistant
2021 Spring	Alison Blanton	Effects of Heat Stress on Blood Metabolites and Milk Quality in Lactating Holstein and Jersey Cows	Agriculture	Maegan Hollis	Assistant
2021 Spring	George Boktor	A Community Oriented Mobile Application For the Acquisition of English by Egyptian-Arabic speaking Coptic Diaspora.	English	Amanda Swenson	Assistant
2021 Spring	Hunter Brady	Chlorine Dioxide Gas: Potential for Use as an Anti-viral Agent	Biology	Anthony Newsome	Assistant
2021 Spring	Ha Bui	Teachers' familiarity with the new computer science standards and their readiness to implement the subject	Tennessee STEM Education Center	Ying Jin	Gold
2021 Spring	Anika Chowdhury	Cross-Breeding Industrial Hemp (Cannabis Sativa) Varieties to Assess Changes in Cannabinoid Content and Seed Yield	Biology	John DuBois	Silver
2021 Spring	Briza Dedicatoria	Investigation of the Weathering Effect on Less-Volatile Component Profiles in Ignitable Liquids	Chemistry	Mengliang Zhang	Assistant
2021 Spring	Katelyn Gardner	Beauty During a Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Cosmetic Industry	Marketing	Diane Edmondson	Assistant
2021 Spring	Javier Hernandez	Charlie Daniels Center Veteran Video Project	Veterans and Military Family	Hilary Miller	Assistant
2021 Spring	Hannah Hudson	Factors Influencing Teachers' Use of Groupwork in Secondary Mathematics Classrooms	Tennessee STEM Education Center	Elizabeth Dyer	Silver
2021 Spring	Patricia Hummel	Analyzing College Students' Finances and How They Were Impacted By COVID-19	Economics	Keith Gamble	Assistant
2021 Spring	Lauren Hunsicker	Childhood Reading Experiences and Adult Reading Performance	Dyslexia Services	Emily Farris	Silver
2021 Spring	Saman Kittani	Cognitive Disruption and Self-talk in Memory Recall	Psychology	Tom Brinthaupt	Silver
2021 Spring	Jack Maxwell	Investigating the Interaction of the Oncogene MYC with the pBAF Chromatin Remodeling Complex	Biology	April Weissmiller	Silver
2021 Spring	Samuel Morgan	Personality and Favor Giving	Psychology	Tom Brinthaupt	Silver
2021 Spring	Grace O'Connell	A Compilation of Audio Recordings for Solo Trumpet and Accompaniment	Music	Michael Arndt	Assistant
2021 Spring	Cassandra Perrone	Cloning Successive Generations of Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa) to Assess Cannabinoid Profiles	Biology	John DuBois	Silver
2021 Spring	Leah Piccirillo	Utilizing Process Management to Increase Efficiency of Oboe Reed Making	Music	David Cyzak	Assistant
2021 Spring	Emily Stafford	Effects of varying corn particle size on broiler performance, organ development, and ileal digestibility from 1 to 21 days of age	Agriculture	Kevin Downs	Silver
2021 Spring	Aubrey Stagner	Investigation of Pi-extended Aurones	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Silver
2021 Spring	Amanda Washington	Why They Died: An expanded analytical examination of details surrounding the 999 officer-involved shooting deaths in 2019 in the United States.	Criminal Justice	Ben Stickle	Silver
2021 Spring	Anna Yuhas	Initiation and Cannabinoid Assessment of Trichomes on Industrial Hemp (Cannabis Sativa)	Biology	John DuBois	Silver
2021 Spring	Chloe Bowen	TEAM: A Comparison of Religious Cultural Competence in Evolution Education (ReCCEE) Online versus In-Person and its Effects on Student Outcomes	Biology	Liz Barnes	Assistant
2021 Spring	Alex Summersill	TEAM: A Comparison of Religious Cultural Competence in Evolution Education (ReCCEE) Online versus In-Person and its Effects on Student Outcomes	Biology	Liz Barnes	Assistant
2021 Spring	Madeline Aadnes	TEAM: A Literature Review on Students’ Attitudes and Science Communication about Climate Change	Biology	Liz Barnes	Assistant
2021 Spring	Aaron Gatewood	TEAM: A Literature Review on Students’ Attitudes and Science Communication about Climate Change	Biology	Liz Barnes	Assistant
2021 Spring	Mariana Bryan	TEAM:  Undergraduate Biology Students’ Attitudes and Science Communication about COVID19 and COVID19 Vaccines	Biology	Liz Barnes	Assistant
2021 Spring	Laine Matthews	TEAM:  Undergraduate Biology Students’ Attitudes and Science Communication about COVID19 and COVID19 Vaccines	Biology	Liz Barnes	Assistant
2021 Spring	Thipphaphone Souksavong	TEAM:  Undergraduate Biology Students’ Attitudes and Science Communication about COVID19 and COVID19 Vaccines	Biology	Liz Barnes	Assistant
2021 Spring	Rachel Alexander	TEAM: The Effect of Language Sample as a Function of Varying Age Groups	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Silver
2021 Spring	Janna Spada	TEAM: The Effect of Language Sample as a Function of Varying Age Groups	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Silver
2021 Spring	Anna Page Wolfe	TEAM: The Effect of Language Sample as a Function of Varying Age Groups	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Silver
2020 Fall	Omar Ali	Preliminary study to develop a method to pair-match the lower limb bones using Korean CT data	Biology	Yangseung Jeong	Silver
2020 Fall	Stephanie Bottum	Truth: A Collection of Short Stories about Coming Out	English	Jennifer Kates	Gold
2020 Fall	Meredeth Bryson	Accuracy Assessment of Digital Geologic Maps of Part of the Nashville Dome, Central Tennessee	Geosciences	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2020 Fall	Jack Crowley	Classical Guitar Transcriptions of Popular Songs & Soundtracks	Music	William Yelverton	Gold
2020 Fall	Jewel  Galloway	Evaluation of Physiological Traits Expressed In vitro and Effects on Plant Growth by Bacillus Endophytes	Biology	Stephen Wright	Silver
2020 Fall	Roger Giuntini	Acoustic Demultiplexing in Waveguide	Psychology	William Robertson	Silver
2020 Fall	Christopher Hedden	Using Embryos from industrial hemp tissue callus to form hemp plantlets	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2020 Fall	Koda Hengstenberg	Further Exploration of Aurone System in Mercury Sensing	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Gold
2020 Fall	Jiwon Kim	Drone and Computer Vision Based Smart Parking System	Engineering Technology	Lee Miao	Assistant
2020 Fall	Saman Kittani	Teacher causal reasoning types and its connection to a positive and negative focus	Psychology	Elizabeth Dyer	Silver
2020 Fall	Georgia  Latta	How Standardized and AP Testing Effects Productive and Unproductive Reasoning in Teachers	Mathematical Sciences	Elizabeth Dyer	Silver
2020 Fall	Marie McCord	Debugging SharP: SHARed data-structure centric Programming	Computer Science	Ferrol Aderholdt	Assistant
2020 Fall	Elina Nguyen	The Relationships Among Mindfulness, Sense of Self, and Self-Talk	Psychology	Thomas Brinthaupt	Assistant
2020 Fall	Jiwoo Park	Investigating the role of phospho-polyubiquitin in the recruitment of Parkin at the mitochondria	Biology	David Nelson	Gold
2020 Fall	Esmeralda Ramirez	A Systematic Review of the Comorbidity of ADHD and Dyslexia	Psychology	Timothy Odegard	Assistant
2020 Fall	Ryan Schmidt	Classical Guitar Audio/Video Recording of Roland Dyens "Trios Saudades"	Music	William Yelverton	Gold
2020 Fall	Kennedy Wallace	Comparison of folds exposed at the surface with subsurface folds at a hazardous waste disposal site, Williamson County, TN	Geosciences	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2020 Fall	Amanda Washington	Why They Died: An expanded analytical examination of details surrounding officer-involved shooting deaths in the United States.	Criminal Justice Administration	Ben Stickle	Assistant
2020 Fall	Meghan Wassom	Synthesis and evaluation of antifungal peptoid derivatives against Cryptococcus neoformans	Chemistry	Kevin Bicker	Gold
2020 Fall	Jared Frazier	TEAM: Blue Mars Initiative	Computer Science/Chemistry	David Butler	Silver
2020 Fall	Katelin MacVey	TEAM: Blue Mars Initiative	English	David Butler	Gold
2020 Fall	Winton Cooper	TEAM: Blue Mars Initiative	Geosciences	David Butler	Assistant
2020 Fall	Luke Gormsen	TEAM: Blue Mars Initiative	Aerospace	David Butler	Silver
2020 Fall	Daniel Cox	TEAM: High Performing Scientific Computing as a Service in the Cloud	Computer Science	Josh Phillips	Silver
2020 Fall	Terryn Seaton	TEAM: High Performing Scientific Computing as a Service in the Cloud	Computer Science	Josh Phillips	Silver
2020 Fall	Jessica Wijaya	TEAM: High Performing Scientific Computing as a Service in the Cloud	Computer Science	Josh Phillips	Silver
2020 Fall	Hannah Williams	TEAM: High Performing Scientific Computing as a Service in the Cloud	Computer Science	Josh Phillips	Silver
2020 Fall	Anika Chowdury	TEAM: Investigating Classroom Discourse in Active Learning Environment for Large Enrollment Chemistry Courses	Chemistry	Greg Rushton	Silver
2020 Fall	Marzea Akter	TEAM: Investigating Classroom Discourse in Active Learning Environment for Large Enrollment Chemistry Courses	Chemistry	Greg Rushton	Silver
2020 - Summer	Rachel Alexander	TEAM: Impact of Varying Language Sample Length in Children	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Team
2020 - Summer	Janna Spada	TEAM: Impact of Varying Language Sample Length in Children	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Team
2020 - Summer	Katelynn Yates	TEAM: Impact of Varying Language Sample Length in Children	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Team
2020 - Summer	Saman Kittani	TEAM: Mathematics Teachers' Use of Causal Reasoning about Classroom Experiences to Improve Teaching	Psychology	Elizabeth Dyer	Team
2020 - Summer	Georgia Latta	TEAM: Mathematics Teachers' Use of Causal Reasoning about Classroom Experiences to Improve Teaching	Mathematical Sciences	Elizabeth Dyer	Team
2020 - Summer	Joy Yancey	TEAM: Mathematics Teachers' Use of Causal Reasoning about Classroom Experiences to Improve Teaching	Mathematical Sciences	Elizabeth Dyer	Team
2020 - Summer	Ciarra Black	A Field-Based Examination of the Karen People (An Ethnic Minority Group from Burma) in Middle Tennessee: Karen Identity after Resettlement under Religious Affiliation	Sociology	Ida Fadzillah Leggett	Platinum
2020 - Summer	Mark Blackmon	The Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Risk Index Score and Physician Intuition: Febrile Neutropenia and Patient Outcome	Social Work	Kathleen Darby	Platinum
2020 - Summer	Kylie Bowe	The endosymbiotic bacterial community of the causative agent of White Nose Syndrome, (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) of bats	Biology	Donald Walker	Platinum
2020 - Summer	Benjamin Campbell	Dyeing with Deep Eutectic Solvents	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Assistant
2020 - Summer	Anika Chowdhury	Investigating Classroom Discourse in Active Learning Environments for Chemistry Courses	STEM	Gregory Rushton	Silver
2020 - Summer	Shelby Cox	Assessment of Cannabinoid Levels in Successively Cloned Generations of Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa)	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2020 - Summer	Laura Grimes	The Relationship Between Hearing and Cognitive Function in the Geriatric Population	Heath and Human Performance	Rebecca Fischer	Assistant
2020 - Summer	Amber Hayden	The Effect of Language Sample Length as a Function of Varying Age Groups	Heath and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Platinum
2020 - Summer	Koda Hengstenberg	Exploration of Aurone System in Mercury Sensing.	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Platinum
2020 - Summer	Cameron Maddux	Synthesis of Peptoid Coated Quantum Dots for Biomedical Applications	Chemistry	Kevin Bicker	Platinum
2020 - Summer	Katherine Mills	Variation in Reproduction Among Populations of the Endangered Plant Dalea foliosa	Biology	Jeffrey Walck	Assistant
2020 - Summer	Brendan Mitchell-Fostyk	Defining Landscape Effects on the Spatial Variability of Hydraulic and Thermal Properties	Agribusiness and Agriscience	Samuel Haruna	Platinum
2020 - Summer	Jessy Shearer	Effect of heat stress on serum metabolic profile of lactating Holstein and Jersey dairy cows	Agribusiness and Agriscience	Maegan Hollis	Assistant
2020 - Summer	Jillian Sherer	Fluorescent Labels Based on the Aurone Scaffold: A Group Project	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Platinum
2020 - Summer	Emily Stafford	Effects of Leaf Meal Supplementation on Commercial Broiler Performance and Carcass Characteristics	Agribusiness and Agriscience	Kevin Downs	Assistant
2020 - Summer	Ahmad Thomas	How the Indigenous Tribes of Brazil Mastered Film	Electronic Media Communication	Paul Chilsen	Gold
2020 - Summer	Amy Tran	Fluorescent Labels Based on the Aurone Scaffold: A Group Project	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Platinum
2020 - Spring	Holly Aslinger	Dental Enamel Hypoplasia at Black Cat Cave, Site 40RD299	University Studies	Shannon Hodge	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Gracyn Blake	Lethal Shootings of Unarmed Persons in 2016	Psychology	John Pennington	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Samuel Blumer	The Roll of Turnitin in Academic Integrity at MTSU	Computer Science	Ryan Korstange	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Catheryn Bolick	Examining the Role of Parkin as a Regulator of Gene Expression During Periods of Induced Mitochondrial Depolarization Using BAM15	Biology	David Nelson	Silver
2020 - Spring	Miquellie Bonner	Novel Method for the Forensic Dye Analysis by Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry	Forensic Science	Mengliang Zhang	Gold
2020 - Spring	Stephanie Bottum	Practice, Drill, Perform: The Development of a Play about Competition	Theatre and Dance	Claudia Barnett	Silver
2020 - Spring	Cole Buffalini	Determining the Potential of Gunshot Primer Residue as a Predictor of Shooter to Target Distance	Biology	Hugh Berryman	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Aubrey Campbell	The Impact of Media Ecologies in Brazil	Anthropology	Richard Pace	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Gabrielle Chesak	The Importance of Studying Mental Health Within a Community That Has Experienced an Anthropogenic Disaster	Heath and Human Performance	Kahler Stone	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Audrey Creel	Bygone Nashville:  Public and Digital History	History	Molly Taylor Polesky	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Robert Conner	HARUNA GROUP - Effects of Aerated Irrigation Through Subsurface Drip Irrigation on Soil Thermal and Physical Properties	Agriculture	Samuel Haruna	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Naiya Drayton	The Effects an Anthropogenic Disaster Has on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder	Heath and Human Performance	Bethany Wrye	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Olivia Goodgame	The Morphosemantics of Noldorin Elvish	English	Amanda Swenson	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Luke Gormsen	Modifying the Hydraulic System of a CAT 303.5E2 for Conditions on Mars	Aerospace	David Butler	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Christopher Hall	HARUNA GROUP - Effect of Aerated Irrigation Through Subsurface Drip Irrigation on Soil Thermal and Physical Properties	Agriculture	Samuel Haruna	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Amber Hayden	The Effect of Language Sample Length as a Function of Varying Age Groups	Heath and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Nikolas Hellervik	Isolation and Characterization of Plant-Based Nucleoside Hydrolases	Chemistry	Paul Kline	Silver
2020 - Spring	Erin Lancaster	Factors Affecting Older Adults' Fruit and Vegetable Consumption	Nutrition	Elizabeth Smith	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Katelin MacVey	Empty Spaces: A Photographic Memoir of Postmemorial and Transgenerational Effects of Grief and Loss	English	Jacquelin Heigle	Silver
2020 - Spring	Jake Maisano	Using fermentation to create environmentally friendly food packaging: Optimizing the extraction and purification of kefiran for use in plastic-free films	Agriculture	Keely O'Brien	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Cody Maness	MTConnect: A Mobile Application to View Campus Events	Computer Science	Rafet Al-Tobasei	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Emily McTyre	Vanderbilt: An Honors Creative Thesis Project	Media Arts	Leland Gregory	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Lina Mistron	Social Media Content Analysis and the Impact of Media Ecologies in Brazil	Anthropology	Richard Pace	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Brendan Mitchell-Fostyk	Effects of Landscape Position on Soil Hydraulic and Thermal Properties	Agriculture	Samuel Haruna	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Gabrielle Mould	A bi-seasonal evaluation of the relationship between bedding bacterial levels and somatic cell counts of milk on cows housed in a compost bedded pack barn	Agriculture	Jessica Carter	Silver
2020 - Spring	Laurel O'Neill	From Script to Stage: The Development of a New Play	English	Claudia Barnett	Silver
2020 - Spring	Simon Pergande	Comparisons of Species Composition of Forensically Important Flies Between the Anthropological Research Facility and the MTSU Outdoor Forensic Facility	Biology	Yangseung Jeong	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Laura Pickard	Changing the Rules: Dungeons and Dragons in Theatre	Theatre and Dance	Claudia Barnett	Silver
2020 - Spring	Emily Richards	Genetic improvement of Angus cows through genomic testing and EPDs	Agriculture	Jessica Carter	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Zachary Sanchez	Eldercare Workforce Crisis Phase 2	Nursing	Shelley Caswell Moore	Gold
2020 - Spring	Katrina Scott	A Creative Exploration of the History of Women’s Anger	Art and Design	Erin Anfinson	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Cameron Stacey	The effect of fermentation conditions on the sugar and organic acids profiles of coffee	Agriculture	Keely O'Brien	Assistant
2020 - Spring	Cassidy Woodall	Story Bandits International	Theatre and Dance	Jette Halladay	Gold
2020 - Spring	Dara Zwemer	Officer Workload and Lethal Officer-Involved-Shootings of Unarmed Citizens	Psychology	John Pennington	Silver
2019 - Fall	Omar Aly	Morphological Identification of Forensically-important Flies from East Tennessee to Build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Based Fly ID System	Biology	Yanseung Jeong	Assistant
2019 - Fall	Kaitlyn Berry	Examining the Automaticity of Vowel Letter Speech-Sound Integration Using Mismatch Negativity	Psychology	Timothy Odegard	Gold
2019 - Fall	Timothy Bodey	Satanism Confronted Part 2	Philosophy & Religious Studies	Jenna Gray Hildenbrand	Gold
2019 - Fall	Davishea Carter	Evidence-based Genome Annotation for Degradative Enzymes in Fungal Pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans	Psychology	Rebecca Seipelt	Silver
2019 - Fall	Jared Frazier	Novel Method for the Detection and Quantitation of Organic Ligands Bonded to CdSe Quantum Dots Using Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry	Chemistry	Mengliang Zhang	Gold
2019 - Fall	Lucas Griggs	Sample Preparations and XRD Preferences of K-bentonites	Geosciences	Clay Harris	Assistant
2019 - Fall	Joseph Gulizia	Color of feed effects on performance of high growth rate broilers	Agriculture	Kevin Downs	Silver
2019 - Fall	Nikolas Hellervik	Synthesis of Amino Aurones: An Exploration into Nitrogenous Functional Groups and Organometallic Catalysts	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Silver
2019 - Fall	Koda Hengstenberg	Exploration of Aza-aurone Thioaurone and Triazole Systems for Florescence in Bio-imaging	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Silver
2019 - Fall	Steffany Jones	Engineering TetO System to Test Cell Wall Proteins Contribution to Cell's Strength	Biology	James Robertson	Gold
2019 - Fall	Randall Jones	Automated Identification of Natural and Cultivated Vegetation Based on LiDAR-derived Image Texture	Geosciences	Henrique Momm	Gold
2019 - Fall	Nibraas Khan	Dynamic Threshold for the Partially-Observable and Non-Observable Working Memory Toolkit	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Gold
2019 - Fall	Jewel Larkins	Investigating the Effects of Bacillus Endophytes on Plant Growth	Biology	Stephen Wright	Assistant
2019 - Fall	Jasmin Laurel	Effect of Polarization Change in a Laser Trap for Single Ionization of Human Red Blood Cells (RBCs)	Physics & Astronomy	Daniel Erenso	Silver
2019 - Fall	Savannah Lawwell	Producing Pollen, Pollination and Assessment of Seed Yields in the Varieties of Feminized Industrial Hemp (Cannabis Sativa)	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2019 - Fall	Dirhat Mohammed	Graduate Teaching Cognition Related to Teaching: a Comparison of STEM and Non-STEM Groups	Biology	Grant Gardner	Silver
2019 - Fall	Gabrielle Mould	The Relationship between Somatic Cell Count, Bacterial Cultures and Hygiene on Milk Production Measures of Cows Housed in a Compost Bedded Pack Barn	Agriculture	Jessica Carter	Assistant
2019 - Fall	Emma Nelson	Gelatin and Vitamin C Intervention in College Football Athletes: Retrospective Case Studies	Human Sciences	Tiffany Harrison	Asistant
2019 - Fall	Laurel O'Neill	From Script to Stage: The Development of a New Play	English	Claudia Barnett	Silver
2019 - Fall	Lucas Remedios	N-task Learning on Partially-observable Image Processing Tasks	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Gold
2019 - Fall	Zachary Sanchez	Eldercare Workforce Crisis	Nursing	Shelley Moore	Assistant
2019 - Fall	Robyn Sessler	An EEG Investigation of Cognitive Resilience Factors in College Students	Psychology	Timothy Odegard	Gold
2019 - Fall	Kayley Stallings	Determining If Steeping Method and Concentration Affect the Microbial Makeup of Kombucha	Agriculture	Keely O'Brien	Silver
2019 - Fall	Sosina Tolossa	Agent/Individual-Based Modeling and Control for Wildfires	Mathematical Sciences	Wandi Ding	Assistant
2019 - Fall	Autumn Trail	Body Forms: Augmented/Virtual Reality and AutoEthnography	Human Sciences	Rick Cottle & Mary Beth Asbury	Silver
2019 - Fall	Luis Zuniga	Investigating Vertical Transmission of Microbial Symbionts in Marine Sponges	Biology	Cole Easson	Gold
2019 - Summer	Avraz Anwar	Synthesis of B-lactone Analog of Belactosin A as Potential Proteasome Inhibitors	Biochemistry	Norma Dunlap	Platinum
2019 - Summer	Dillon Arnold	Effect of Switch Trimming on Fly Avoidance Behaviors, Udder Cleanliness, and Milk Quality in Lactating Holstein and Jersey Dairy Cows	Agriculture	Maegan Hollis	Assistant
2019 - Summer	Hannah Belcher	Middle School Students' Reasoning with Technological Mathematical Tasks	Mathematical Sciences	Jennifer Lovett	Team
2019 - Summer	Kaitlyn Berry	Using ERP to Explore The Relationship Between Letter-Speech Sound Associations and Reading Ability	Psychology	Timothy Odegard & Emily Farris	Platinum
2019 - Summer	Sebanstian Bishop	360 Video Augmented Reality Campus Tour	Media Arts	Todd O'Neill	Team
2019 - Summer	Kylie Bowe	The Endosymbiotic Community of the Causative Agent of White Nose Syndrome (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) of Bats	Biology	Donald Walker	Platinum
2019 - Summer	Emma Bowmer	Middle School Students' Reasoning with Technological Mathematical Tasks	Mathematical Sciences	Jennifer Lovett	Team
2019 - Summer	Kamryn Boyd	Increasing Literacy for Elementary School Children by Bringing Their Stories to Life	Theatre and Dance	Jette Halladay	Team
2019 - Summer	Katherine Carter	360 Video Augmented Reality Campus Tour	Media Arts	Todd O'Neill	Team
2019 - Summer	Elizabeth Clippard	Evaluating Nutrient Deficiencies for Ginseng Plants Grown With Hydroponics	Agriculture	Nate Phillips	Gold
2019 - Summer	Emerniece Cooper	The Isolation of Protozoa for Use as Mosquito Larva Biocontrol Agents	Biology	Anthony Farone	Team
2019 - Summer	Ciera Dobbins	Middle School Students' Reasoning with Technological Mathematical Tasks	Mathematical Sciences	Jennifer Lovett	Team
2019 - Summer	Lindsey Elkins	A Survey of the Impact of Dissolved Phosphorous on Sterol Composition of the Lotic Diatom Didymosphenia geminata	Biology	Jeff Leblond	Platinum
2019 - Summer	Alvin Evans	360 Video Augmented Reality Campus Tour	Media Arts	Todd O'Neill	Team
2019 - Summer	Jared Frazier	Fast Screening of Explosives by Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry	Chemistry	Mengliang Zhang	Platinum
2019 - Summer	Nibraas Khan	Automatic Feature Association and Dynamic Threshold for the Combined Observable and Non-observable Task Switching Model	Computer Sciences	Joshua Phillips	Gold
2019 - Summer	Gracy Lanierer	Middle School Students' Reasoning with Technological Mathematical Tasks	Mathematical Sciences	Jennifer Lovett	Team
2019 - Summer	Miles Matchinske	Heritability of Bioluminescence of Armillaria mellea	Biology	Sarah Bergemann	Platinum
2019 - Summer	Lucas McGuire	Increasing Literacy for Elementary School Children by Bringing Their Stories to Life	Theatre and Dance	Jette Halladay	Team
2019 - Summer	Mary Parsley	The Isolation of Protozoa for Use as Mosquito Larvae Biocontrol Agents	Biology	Anthoney Farone	Team
2019 - Summer	Olivia Peters	Effect of Magnetic Field in Radio Dosimetry at a Cellular Level by a Laser Trap	Physics and Astronomy	Daniel Erenso	Platinum
2019 - Summer	Richa Phulwani	Evaluating Volume Reduction of Municipal Solid Waste by Anaerobic Digestion	Engineering Technology	Mina Mohebbi	Assistant
2019 - Summer	Radina Porashka	The Isolation of Protozoa for Use as Mosquito Larvae Biocontrol Agents	Biology	Anthony Farone	Team
2019 - Summer	Olivia Pugh	The Digital Holy Roman Empire	History	Molly Taylor-Poleskey	Platinum
2019 - Summer	Ashton Reece	Endosymbiotic Bacteria Impact the Function of an Important Wildlife Pathogen of Bats	Biology	Donald Walker	Platinum
2019 - Summer	Lucas Remedios	Enabeling Multi-Task Learning in Partially- and Non-observable Environments with Keras	Computer Sciences	Joshua Phillips	Gold
2019 - Summer	Robyn Sessler	The Examination of Neural Connectivity with Resting-State EEG	Psychology	Timothy Odegard & Emily Farris	Platinum
2019 - Summer	Saulee Shamdeen	The Isolation of Protozoa for Use as Mosquito Larvae Biocontrol Agents	Biology	Anthony Farone	Team
2019 - Summer	Nathan L. Smith	The Isolation of Protozoa for Use as Mosquito Larvae Biocontrol Agents	Biology	Anthony Farone	Team
2019 - Summer	Keneshia Smith	360 Video Augmented Reality Campus Tour	Media Arts	Todd O'Neill	Team
2019 - Summer	Keaton Varden	Increasing Literacy for Elementary School Children by Bringing Their Stories to Life	Theatre and Dance	Jette Halladay	Team
2019 - Summer	Magen Williams	Middle School Students' Reasoning with Technological Mathematical Tasks	Mathematical Sciences	Jennifer Lovett	Team
2019 - Summer	Cassidy Woodall	Increasing Literacy for Elementary School Children by Bringing Their Stories to Life	Theatre and Dance	Jette Halladay	Team
2019 - Summer	Jordan Yancey	Print and Online Health Information Resource Efficacy in the Senior Population	Integrated Studies	Stuart Bernstein	Gold
2019 - Spring	Devin Adcox	The Utility of 3-D Laser Scanning for the Virtual Curation and Metric Analysis of Skeletal Remains	Sociology & Anthropology	Tiffany Saul	Silver
2019 - Spring	Avraz Anwar	Optimization of Reaction Conditions for Beta-Lactone Ringing Coupling	Chemistry	Norma Dunlap	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Kaitlyn Berry	Evaluating Chronic Oxytocin Effects on Social Behaviors	Psychology	Tiffany Rogers	Silver
2019 - Spring	Mark Blackmon	Non-Christian and Immigrant Christian Communities and the Programs Available to their Youth in Middle Tennessee	Philosophy & Religious Studies	Rebekka King	Silver
2019 - Spring	Britney Brown	Evaluation of Breed, Milk Production, and Udder Characteristics on Somatic Cell Count and Udder Pathogens in Lactating Holstein and Jersey Cows	Agriculture	Jessica Carter	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Chase Burton	Determining Whether A Virulence-Related Non-Coding RNA	Biology	Dr. Rebecca L. Seipelt-Thiemann	Silver
2019 - Spring	Jared Frazier	Fast Screening of Explosives by Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry	Chemistry	Mengliang Zhang	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Madonna Ghobrial	Annotation of Immune System Genes in Maize Genome	Biology	Dr. Rebecca L. Seipelt-Thiemann	Silver
2019 - Spring	Joseph Gulizia	Comparison of Dietary Kudzu Leaf Meal and Alfalfa Meal Supplementation on Broiler Performance and Carcass Characteristics	Agriculture	Kevin Downs	Gold
2019 - Spring	Gabriel Gwirtsman	A Comparison of Dyes	Chemistry	Andrienne Friedli	Silver
2019 - Spring	William Haase	Unitization and Catastrophic Interference in Reinforcement Learning	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Silver
2019 - Spring	Nikolas Hellervik	Aside Aurones and Click Chemistry	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Steffany Jenkins	Genetic Regulation of a Camphor Mediated Light Switch	Biology	James Robertson	Silver
2019 - Spring	Nibraas Khan	Combining Models for Observable and Non-Observable Task Switching to Achieve Working Memory for Autonomous Systems	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Miles Marchinske	Confirmation Ploidy for Putative Haploid Isolates	Biology	Sarah Bergemann	Silver
2019 - Spring	Alaa Mohammed	Using CRISPR to Knockout a Gene Encoding a Virulence Related Non-Coding	Biology	Rebecca Seipelt	Silver
2019 - Spring	Asfah Mohammed	N-Substituted Azaaurones: Synthesis, Photochemistry, and Biological Applications	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Silver
2019 - Spring	Aric Moilanen	The Role of Electron-Electron Interactions on Metal-Insulator Transitions	Physics and Astronomy	Hanna Terletska	Silver
2019 - Spring	Sara Moore	Somatic Embryogenesis from Stamen Callus Tissues in Vitis aestivalis 'Norton/Cynthiana'	Biology	John DuBois	Silver
2019 - Spring	Gabriella Morin	Fluorescent Taggine of Genomic Parkin in Human Osteosarcoma Cells Using CRI	Biology	David Nelson	Gold
2019 - Spring	Harlee Morphis	The Impact of 3D Biology Lessons Within the Classroom	Educational Leadership	Seth Jones	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Cameron Oldham	The Effects of Pesticide Chemicals on the Microorganisms Responsible for Nitrification and How It Affects Soil Fertility	Biology	John DiVincenzo	Silver
2019 - Spring	Ngozi Omatu	Dimensional Attention Learning for Working Memory	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Jiwoo Park	Examining the Effects of Inflammation on Parkin-Dependent Mitochondrial Quality Control in Parkinson’s Disease Using Cell Line Models of Neurons and Microglia	Biology	David Nelson	Silver
2019 - Spring	Payal Patel	Inducing Somatic Embryogenesis in Industrial Hemp Tissue	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Simon Pergande	Quantifying the Activity of Forensically-important Flies (FIF) as a Factor Influencing the Pattern and Rate of Human Decomposition in East Tennessee	Biology	Yangseung Jeong	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Lucas Remedios	Creating Keras Layer for Facilitating Building Neural Networks for Multi-Task Learning in Partially Observable and Non-observable Environments	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Assistant
2019 - Spring	George Schroeder	Identification and Quantification of Ginsenosides in American Ginseng	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Robyn Sessler	The Effects of Mindfulness on Positive and Negative Relationship Quality	Psychology	Cameron Gordon	Silver
2019 - Spring	Tia Shutes	Initation and Cannabinoid	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Autumn Trail	Body Forms: 3D Scanning/Printing	Human Sciences	Rick Cottle	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Marissa Turner	The Distribution and Population Based Predictors of Foodborne Illnesses Incidence by County in Tennessee, 2015-2017	Health and Human Performance	Kahler Stone	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Hellen Valencia	Developing Procedures for Capturing Video and Audio of Small Group Interactions in Large Classroom Data Collection	Educational Leadership	Seth Jones	Assistant
2019 - Spring	Alyssa Walsh	Determining Differences in CBD Levels from Cloning Industrial Hemp	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Garrett Baber	NASA FOCUS Lab: Do Effective Debriefs Lead to Better Performance?	Psychology	GlenLittlepagege	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Gina Bishara	A Social Network Analysis of Introductory Biology Students' In- and Out-of-Class Study Group Interactions	Biology	Grant Gardner	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Kriston Brannan	NASA FOCUS LAB Training Needs Analysis	Psychology	Michael Hein	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Daviesha Carter	Confirming Novel Genes related to Cryptococcus neoformans Infection of Humans	Biology	Rebecca Seipelt-Thiemann	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Amos Cheruiyot	Drag Reduction on Rotating Cylinders Utilizing Stallion 3D	Aerospace	Nate Callendar	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Abigail Choisser	Insight into interrelationships among density, viscosity, crystallinity, and chemical composition within lavas erupted at Mt. Hood Volcano, Oregon	Geosciences	Warner Cribb	Gold
2018 - Fall	Robert Dixon	Evaluating Leveanworthia stylosa defensive chemistry and fitness in the wake of invasion by the cabbage seedpod weevil, Ceutorhynchus obstrictus	Biology	Joshua Grinath	Silver
2018 - Fall	Korissa Earls	Food Security, Coping and Support Strategies, and Diet Quality in College Students from a Moderate Sized University	Nutrition and Food Services	Elizabeth Smith	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Regan Edwards	Utility of Photogrammetry for Virtual Curation and Metric Analysis of Skeletal Rema	Sociology and Anthropology	Tiffany Saul	Gold
2018 - Fall	Merna Ghobrial	Investigating the ability of spice extracts to inhibit bacterial growth and/or histamine accumulation associated with scombroid food poisoning	Biology	Rebecca Seipelt-Thiemann	Silver
2018 - Fall	Joseph Gulizia	Early and late season Kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata) age variability effects on Total and Nutrient-Specific In Situ Rumen Degradation	Agriculture	Kevin Downs	Silver
2018 - Fall	Will Haase	Unitization Applied to Deep Reinforcement Learning	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Silver
2018 - Fall	Marina Ibrahim	Gene Discovery and Annotation of Gardnerella vaginalis, A Bacterium Associated with Bacterial Vaginosis	Biology	Rebecca Seipelt-Thiemann	Silver
2018 - Fall	Steffany Jenkins	A "Self-Destruct Button" for Yeast: a method to Improve Industrial Protein Production	Biology	James Robertson	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Zachary Lay	Isolation and Identification of Fungal Endophytes Present in Vitis aestivalis Originating from Vineyards Located in Virginia and New York Compared to Mid-Western States	Biology	Rebecca Seipelt-Thiemann	Silver
2018 - Fall	Daniela Little	Mini Health and Nutrition Screen	Nutrition and Food Services	Elizabeth Smith	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Autumn Martin	Examining mindset theory with respect to different ability domains pertaining to college success	Psychology	Thomas Brintaupt	Silver
2018 - Fall	Shelby Midgett	Aurones and their Antibacterial Possibilities against Two Hospital Acquired Bacteria	Biology	Mary Farone	Silver
2018 - Fall	Chelsey Molina	Using Caenorahabditis elegans as an infection model for novel bacteria CC99	Biology	Anthony Farone	Silver
2018 - Fall	Allie Nadeau	Utilizing Fermentation to Create Eco-Friendly Dyes	Agriculture	Tony Johnston	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Robert Owen	Examining the Role of F56F11.4 in Sperm of Caenorhabditis elegans	Biology	Lynn Boyd	Gold
2018 - Fall	Sarah Patrick	Mental Health Disorders Among Mast Cell Activation Syndrome Patients	Health and Human Performance	Angela Bowman	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Rebekkah Riley	Somatic Embryogenesis in Grape (Vitis aestivalis 'Norton/Cynthiana') Callus Generated from Ovary Tissue	Biology	John DuBois	Silver
2018 - Fall	Robyn Sessler	Positive and Negative Qualities of Relationships	Psychology	Cameron Gordon	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Isaac Shirk	Constructing a Novel Experimental Apparatus for Use with Acoustics Research	Physics and Astronomy	William Robertson	Gold
2018 - Fall	Don Srisuriyo	Dyeing to Know: A Natural Approach to Dyeing Textiles	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Assistant
2018 - Fall	McKenna Stinnett	Dyeing to Know: A Natural Approach to Dyeing Textiles	Human Sciences	Lauren Rudd	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Kristen Welch	Characterization of Aurone 1009 on Cryptococcus neoformans	Biology	Erin McClelland	Silver
2018 - Fall	CaseWhitworthth	The effects of 3D biology lessons on student learning	Education Leadership	Ryan Jones	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Brenna Wolfe	Link between prosody sensitivity and reading comprehension: a combined EPR and individual difference approach	Psychology	Cryille Magne	Assistant
2018 - Fall	Nolton Woods	Synthesis and Application of Non-Halogenated Phosphorus FR for Polycarbonate	Chemistry	Dwight Patterson	Gold
2018 - Summer	Olivia Anchondo	Youth Engagement and Youth Philanthropy	Journalism	Hanna Park	Team
2018 - Summer	Isabella Barnett	Pyrolysis DART-MS Analysis of Ignitable Liquids for Forensic and Environmental Applications	Chemistry	Mengliang Zhang	Gold
2018 - Summer	Matthew Cureton	Restoration, Preservation, and Renovation of Irish Tower Houses: A Regional Study Conducted in County Tipperary, Ireland	Management	Stacey Graham	Assistant
2018 - Summer	Hannah Curry	Synthesis and Biochemical Characterization of Lassomycin Derivatives	Biology	Justin Miller	Gold
2018 - Summer	Cadelyn Fields	Youth Engagement and Youth Philanthropy	Journalism	Hanna Park	Gold
2018 - Summer	Ashley Gambrell	Inducing Adaptation in Influenza A Viruses for Increased Growth in HPL1A Cell Line	Biology	Stephen Wright	Silver
2018 - Summer	Prianca Griggs	Examining SNF3's Role in the Virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans	Biology	Erin McClelland	Gold
2018 - Summer	Joseph Gulizia	Total and nutrient specific in situ degradation of Kudzu in bovine rumen	Agribusiness and Agriculture	Kevin Downs	Assistant
2018 - Summer	Ryan Hale	Brevard Music Center Summer Music Institute and Festival	Music	Arunesh Nadgir	Assistant
2018 - Summer	Neal Halper	Simultaneous monitoring of ClpS regulation on ClpCIPIP2 unfolding and proteolysis to evaluate the efficiency of peptide-based inhibitors of ClpS mediated regulation	Chemistry	Justin Miller	Platinum
2018 - Summer	Gabrielle Hampton	Analysis of aurone derivatives and plant extracts on clinical isolates of Acanthamoeba polyphaga and Acanthamoeba castellanii	Biology	Anthony Newsome	Platinum
2018 - Summer	Kerri Harger	Reduction of Benzils (1,2 diketone) to Benzoins	Biology	Scott Handy	Assitant
2018 - Summer	Roque Marcelo	Embracing the Ephemeral: Cultural Presevation Among Filipino Immigrants	Media Arts	Paul Chilsen	Platinum
2018 - Summer	Vishaka Motheramgari	Analysis of local water samples for Algal Toxins: Saxitoxin and Microcytsin-LR	Chemistry	Mengliang Zhang	Assistant
2018 - Summer	Jada Murriel	Investigating the effects of glucose concentration on macrophage polarization using a tissue culture model of type II diabetes mellitus	Biology	David Nelson	Platinum
2018 - Summer	Alexa Neff	Youth Engagment and Youth Philanthropy	Journalism	Hanna Park	Team
2018 - Summer	Darshit Patel	Synthesis and X-ray Analysis of a Series of Donor-Pi-Acceptor Dyes	Chemistry	Andrienne Friedli	Assistant
2018 - Summer	Olivia Pugh	Map of the Holy Roman Empire	History	Molly Taylor-Poleskey	Assistant
2018 - Summer	Christopher Robinson	Middle Tennessee Testate Amoebae: The Potential Applications of 3-D Modeling in the Taxonomic and Mineralogical Analyses of Microfossils	Geoscience	Melissa Lobegeier	Platinum
2018 - Summer	Isaac Shirk	Modeling, Simulating, and Testing an Acoustic Lens	Physics and Astronomy	William Robertson	Assistant
2018 - Summer	Kayley Stallings	Investigation of antibacterial properties of endophytic molds found in Norton Grapes	Agribusiness anAgrisciencece	Tony Johnston	Silver
2018 - Summer	Ross Thomas	Fungal Endophytes in Vistis aestivalis 'Norton/Cynthia' Grapes of Missouri and Tennessee are likely distinct	Pre-Professional Programs	Rebecca Seipelt-Thiemann	Platinum
2018 - Spring	Sloan Campbell	Control of a Novel Manufacturing Mechanism	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2018 - Spring	Brooke Fitzwater	Visual Catalog of Fishes in the Stones River System	Biology	Dennis Mullen	Silver
2018 - Spring	William Haase	Application of N-Task Learning on Traditional Computer Vision Problems	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Assistant
2018 - Spring	Hannah Hall	Inducing Somatic Embryogenesis in Grave (V. aestivalis "Norton/Cynthiana") Callus	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2018 - Spring	Zachary Hutchinson	Pirates with No Sea: The Rising Rate of Porch Package Theft	Criminial Justice Administration	Ben Stickle	Assistant
2018 - Spring	Marilin Kelley	Analyzing Student Understanding of Isomorphism	Mathematical Sciences	Jennifer Lovett	Silver
2018 - Spring	Madeline Laderoute	Initial Paleobotanical Analysis of the Logan Site (40DV8)	Sociology and Anthropology	Andrew Wyatt	Assistant
2018 - Spring	Stacey Yabko Misra	Investigating Bacteriophage Therapy for the Treatment of Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens	Psychology	Stephen Wright	Assistant
2018 - Spring	Matthew Radice	Ridged Body Guidance in Three Dimensions	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2018 - Spring	Myranda Uselton	Investigating Quantum Computation and Applications of Single-Molecule Magnets	Chemistry	Jing Kong	Silver
2018 - Spring	Clinton Warren	The Effects of Testosterone on Aggressive Behaviors in Male Mediterranean House Geckos, Hemidactylus turcicus	Biology	Matthew Klukowski	Assistant
2018 - Spring	Kyeesha Wilcox	Assessing Type 2 Diabetes Risk Perception and Creating Health Education Tools Using the Health Belief Model	Global Studies	Bethany Wrye	Assistant
2018 - Spring	Sarah Wilfong Joblin	Orchestrating O'Carolan: Initiating a Folk Composer into the Baroque World	Music	Carol Nies	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Muhammad Ali	Investigating Cryptococcus Neoformans Strains for Defects in Immune Response	Biology	Rebecca Seipelt-Thiemann	Silver
2017 - Fall	Rachel Bailey	The Effect of Elicitor Stimulation on Industrial Hemp (Cannabis Sativa) Varieties in a Hydrophonic System	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Bishoy Boktor	Dimensional Attention Learning for Working Memory	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Danielle Bonner	The Effect of Intracellular C. neoformans on the Expression of Irf4	Biology	David E. Nelson	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Benjamin Burton	Testing and Applications of the Phofonic Crystal Based Biosensor	Physics	William Robertson	Silver
2017 - Fall	Sloan Campbell	Fabrication of a Novel Manufacturing Mechanism	Mechatronics Engineering	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Abigail Choisser	Illustrated User Guide for MTSU's Single-Crystal x-ray Diffractometer and Powder-Crystal x-ray Diffractometer	Geosciences	Anatoliy Volkov	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Christina Davis	Efectiveness of Zinc Based Footbath Solutions over Industry Standard Copper Based Solutions for the Prevention and Treatment of Digital Dermatitis in Dairy Cattle	Agribusiness and Agriscience	Jessica Carter	Gold
2017 - Fall	Natalie Foulks	Narrative Discourse in Older Adults	Health and Human Performance	Kathryn Blankenship	Silver
2017 - Fall	Ashley Gambrell	Efficacy of HPL1A Cell Culture as a Host for Influenza A Viruses	Biology	Stephen Wright	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Christian Glandorf	Evaluation of Drone and Balloon-Based Sampling and Monitoring Methods for Air Pollution Studies	Chemistry	Ngee Chong	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Devyn Haynes	Compare the Effects of Lipopolysaccharide and Interferon Gamma on the Expression of iNos, a Marker of M1 Classically Activated Macrophages	Biology	David Nelson	Silver
2017 - Fall	Clinton Holladay	Molecular Identification of Anti-viral Metabolite Produced by Mangifera persiciforunis	Biology	Stephen Wright	Gold
2017 - Fall	Hunter Hudson	MTSU and the Early Development of the Tennessee Academy of Science	Biology	Martin V. Stewart	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Ashley Jones	Design of a Novel Robotic Gripper	Mechatronics Engineering	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Janie Kullman	Word Learning in Authentic Versus Explicit Conditions	Speech Language Pathology/Audiology	Kathryn Blankenship	Silver
2017 - Fall	Mario Loranzana-Dewitt	New Drugs for Bad Bugs: Aurones as Novel Antifungal Agents	Biochemistry	Mary Farone	SIlver
2017 - Fall	Rachel Marlin	Development and Design of New Activities for Evnrionmental Science Education in Middle Tennessee	Chemistry	Judith Iriarte-Gross	Gold
2017 - Fall	Madeline McDonald	Equine Temperament Examination through Novel Object Exposure: Suitability for Equine-Assisted Activities and Therapies	Animal Science	Holly Spooner	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Matthew Moore	The True Costs of Private Security	Criminal Justice Administration	Ben Stickle	Assistant
2017 - Fall	David Pitchford	Olfactory Cues and Spatial Mapping in Myrmecophaga Tridactyla	Psychology	Danielle Brown	Silver
2017 - Fall	Matthew Radice	Rigid Body Guidance in Three Dimensions	Mechatronics Engineering	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Salman Rahmani	Aerodynamic and Acoustic Analysis of a Barn Owl Biomimetic Airfoil	Aerospace Technology	Nate Callender	Gold
2017 - Fall	Joseph Rosen	Purifying Extract 23B for Compounds Inhibiting Cryptococcus neoformans Growth	Biology	Erin McClelland	Gold
2017 - Fall	Christiana Rosenberg	Searching for Macroscale Folds in Central Tennessee	Geosciences	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Mohamad Sbenaty	Design of a Novel Robotic Gripper	Mechatronics Engineering	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Sydney Smith	A New Approach to Research Communication; Sharing Results through Stories	Physics, Philosophy	Preston MacDougall	Silver
2017 - Fall	Jeffery Summers	Math Modeling and Optimal Control of Malaria Using the Sterile Insect Technique	Physics, Mathematics	Wandi Ding	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Csilla Szepe	Assessment of Anti-Herpes Activity by Cichorium intybus	Biology	Stephen Wright	Gold
2017 - Fall	George Thomas	Development of a Novel Reconfigurable Mechanism	Mechatronics Engineering	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2017 - Fall	Myranda Uselton	Analyzing Single-Molecule Magnets with Density Functional Theory	Chemistry	Jing Kong	Assistant
2017 - Summer	Muhammad Ali	Investigating the Growth Rates of Different Cryptococcus neoformans Strains	Biology	Rebecca Seipelt-Thiemann	Silver
2017 - Summer	Kyra Boots	Effects of Gallium Protoporphyrin IX on Acinetobacter baumanii catalase	Biology	Anthony Farone	Platinum
2017 - Summer	Benjamin Burton	Improvement of the Photonic Crystal Biosensor Design	Physics and Astronomy	William Robertson	Assistant
2017 - Summer	Emily Cunningham	Investigation of Small Volcanic Centers in the Northern Oregon Cascade Range	Geosciences	Warner Cribb	Platinum
2017 - Summer	Kirsten Cunningham	Measurement of M2-Associated Protein Markers in Macrophages Infected with the facultative Intracellular Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans	Biology	David Nelson	Platinum
2017 - Summer	Brooke Fitzwater	Effects of Predator Paralabrax humeralis and Kelp on Aplodactylus punctatus Behavior	Biology	Dennis Mullen	Platinum
2017 - Summer	Gwyndalyn Johnson	Evaluation of Fecal Indicators and Pathogens at Recreational Beaches in Central Tennessee	Biology	Frank Bailey	Assistant
2017 - Summer	Christopher Lane	Zooarchaeological Fieldwork in the Amazon Basin of Brazil	Sociology and Anthropology	Andrew Wyatt	Platinum
2017 - Summer	Catherine Latham	In Recognition of Their Stories	History	Mary Hoffschwelle	Platinum
2017 - Summer	Madyson Middleton	Synthesis and MIC Testing of Antifungal Peptoids against Cryptococcus	Biology	Kevin Bicker	Platinum
2017 - Summer	Matthew Radice	Rigid Body Guidance in Three Dimensions	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2017 - Summer	Joseph Rosen	Determining the Prevalence of Antibodies to the Cryptocococcus neoformans in Central Tennessee	Biology	Erin McClelland	Silver
2017 - Summer	Sabrina Spicer	Characterizing the Therapeutic Potential of the Antifungal Peptoid AEC5	Biology	Kevin Bicker and Erin McClelland	Platinum
2017 - Summer	Andrew Swehla	Infectivity of Novel Intracellular Bacteria for Eukaryotic Cells	Biology	Mary Farone	Silver
2017 - Summer	Koda Von Bargen	Rigid Body Guidance in Three Dimensions	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2017 - Summer	Emma Williams	Reimagining Social Commentary Music of World War 2 America	Recording Industry Management	Kristine McCusker	Assistant
2017 - Spring	Devin Adcox	Mexican-American War Dead Identification Project	Sociology and Anthropology	Hugh Berryman	Assistant
2017 - Spring	Aracelia Lopez Alvarez	Observing the Effect of Pesticides on the Soil's Ecosystem Through Soil Columns	Biology	John DiVincenzo	Silver
2017 - Spring	Kyra Boots	Effects of Gallium Protophorphrin IX on Acinetobacer baumannii's Catalese	Biology	Anthony Farone	Silver
2017 - Spring	Emily Brackett	Effect of Overdose Drugs on Postmortem Microbiome	Biology	Frank Bailey	Assistant
2017 - Spring	Kathryn Brittain	The Effect of the Bcat Gene on the Virulence of the Pathogenic Yeast Cryptococcus neoformans	Biology	Erin McClelland	Gold
2017 - Spring	Jennifer Crow	Mormon Feminist Activism and Ordain Women in the LDS Church	Sociology and Anthropology	Gretchen Webber	Gold
2017 - Spring	Matthew Davis	Elemental Analysis Using Portable X-ray Flourescence as a Means of Sorting Commingled Human Remains	Sociology and Anthropology	Hugh Berryman	Gold
2017 - Spring	Paige Fairrow-Davis	Flexibility and Type II Diabetes: A Literature Review of Effective Exercise Technique Methods that Reduce Blood Glucose Levels in a Diabetic Population	Health and Human Performance	Vaughn Barry	Assistant
2017 - Spring	Emma Gist	Noise Reduction Using Biomimicry for Small Aircraft Propellers	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Silver
2017 - Spring	Alissa Green	Investigating the Effect of Pesticides on Soil Microbe Cultures	Chemistry	John DiVincenzo	Silver
2017 - Spring	Prianca Griggs	Examining SNF3's Role in the Virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans	Biology	Erin McClelland	Silver
2017 - Spring	Braxton Harter	Noise Reduction of Unmanned Aircraft Propellers	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Silver
2017 - Spring	Micah Hauge	Visualization of Gene Families Web Application	Computer Science	Hyrum Carroll	Silver
2017 - Spring	Nolan Jolley	Investigation into Timing of Cuttings for Maximum Propagation Efficiency of Vitis Aestivalis (Cynthiana/Norton) Grapevines	Agribusiness and Agriscience	Tony Johnston	Assistant
2017 - Spring	Matthew Knight	High on Their Own Supply? A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market in K-12 Teaching Among States in the U.S.	Political Science	Stuart Fowler	Assistant
2017 - Spring	Justin Marsee	The Characterization of ClpC1-NTP Reactions through Single Turnover Kinetics	Biology	Justin Miller	Silver
2017 - Spring	Lauren Morris	History Sign-Following Churches and the Law	Psychology	Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand	Gold
2017 - Spring	Aldair Nieto	Construction of a 3-RPR Parallel Manipulator	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Silver
2017 - Spring	Christopher Secrest	Emergency Medical Alert Robot for Elders	Engineering Technology	Lei Miao	Assistant
2017 - Spring	Sydney Smith	A New Approach to Nature: Storytelling and Science	Physics	Preston MacDougall	Silver
2017 - Spring	Zach Stevens	The Effect of Air Velocity and Throttle Speed on Efficient Hemp Seed Separation	Agribusiness and Agriscience	Nate Phillips	Assistant
2017 - Spring	Kimberly Warren	Effect of Drain Cleaner Exposure on the Molecular Integrity of Sus scrofa DNA	Biology	Rebecca Seipelt-Theimann	Silver
2016 - Fall	Samantha Diane Addis	Analysis of Thecamoebian Assemblages in Fall Creek Falls State Park	Geology	Melissa Lobegeier	Assistant
2016- Fall	Muhammad Fariz Ali	Investigating the Immune Response to Different Cryptococcus neoformans Strains	Biology	Rebecca Seipelt-Thiemann	Gold
2016 - Fall	Araceli M. Lopez Alvarez	Effects of Pesticides on Soil and Water Microbial Ecosystems	Chemistry	John DiVincenzo	Silver
2016 - Fall	Joshua Arnold	Holographic Reduced Representation for Working Memory Concept, Automating Action Learning	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Christopher Ryan Bearden	Examining the Validity and Utility of Selection Mechanisms at US Regional Airlines	Psychology	Paul Craig	Silver
2016 - Fall	Austin Derryberry	Walking in Sunlight: The Life and Legacy of Uncle Dave Macon	Theatre	Jette Halladay	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Pel Doski	Dynamic Light Scattering and Ethanol Washes of the Capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans Clinical Strains	Biology	Erin McClelland	Silver
2016 - Fall	Grayson Dubois	Calibration of the Holographic Working Memory Toolkit Using the Delayed Saccade Task	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Silver
2016 - Fall	Rachel Gingerich	Biolistic Transformation of Armillaria mellea	Biology	Matthew Elrod-Erickson	Gold
2016 - Fall	Skylar Greico	Assistant Director - The Magic Play	Theatre	Halena Kays	Silver
2016 - Fall	Braxton Harter	Noise Reduction of Unmanned Aircraft Propellers	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Silver
2016 - Fall	Devyn Hayes	Effect of Cryptococcus neoformans on Macrophage Activation State	Biology	David Nelson	Silver
2016 - Fall	Katherine Hitchcock	STEM - Increasing Fourth Grade Girls' Interest through a Five Session After-School Program	Psychology	Michelle Boyer-Pennington	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Bradley Hobbs	Two Link Robotics Manipulator to Aid in Classroom Teaching	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Akmal Ishmetov	The Fisher Indole Synthesis	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Silver
2016 - Fall	Hunter Mason	Genetic Identification of Fungal Isolates Present in the Vitis aesivalis Grape	Biology	John DuBois	Gold
2016 - Fall	Kelsey Massey	Select Ethnic Enclaves and their Cultural Indicators in Nashville, Tennessee: Nolensville Road, A Case Study	Global Studies	Doug Heffington	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Aldair Nieto	Robotic Mechanism Design for Use as an MTSU Instructional and Research Tool	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Evidence Nwangwa	Isolation and Identification of Polysaccharides Produced by American Ginseng Callus	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Reese Peltier	Making Gene Family Visualizations Interactive	Computer Science	Hyrum Carroll	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Katie Poss	Mix Design and Production Optimization of Hempcrete and Hemp Blocks for Residential Construction	Concrete Industry Management	Heather Brown	Silver
2016 - Fall	Salman Rahmani	Flow Control of Class-8 Vehicles with Cylindrical Modifications	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Gold
2016 - Fall	Wesley Riley	Investigation of "Memory"-like Properties with the PINK1: Parkin Mitophagy Pathway	Biology	David Nelson	Gold
2016 - Fall	Ashleigh Roeser	Investigating the Effect of Pesticides on Soil Microbe Cultures Using Flourescence Spectroscopy	Chemistry	John DiVincenzo	Silver
2016 - Fall	Peter Roldan	Mix Design and Production Optimization of Hempcrete and Hemp Blocks for Residential Construction	Concrete Industry Management	Heather Brown	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Michael Schmidt	Study of Completely Separating Set Systems	Computer Science	Suk Jai Seo	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Christopher Secrest	Two Link Robotics Manipulator to Aid in Classroom Teaching	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Csilla Szepe	Investigation into Anti-Herpes Simplex Virus Activity in Components of Common Chicory	Biology	Stephen Wright	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Briana Thomas	Further Analyze Noise Reduction of Small UAS Propeller/Rotor	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Assistant
2016 - Fall	John Walker	Research Proposal for Reducing Propeller Sound Pressure Levels Using Bioinspired Modifications	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Ethan Willis	The Gene Family Visualization Server	Computer Science	Hyrum Carroll	Assistant
2016 - Fall	Patrick Wong	Analysis of the n-^3He Experiment	Physics and Astronomy	Rob Mahurin	Assistant
2016- Fall	Justin Woods	Robotic Mechanism Design for Use as an MTSU Instructional and Research Tool	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2016 - Summer	Angel Agee	Incognita's Infamous Adventures: A Web Series	Electronic Media	Allie Sultan	Team
2016 - Summer	Mahmuda Akter	Transcriptome Analysis of Clinical C. Neoformans Strains	Biology	Erin McClelland and Rebecca Seipelt	Team
2016 - Summer	Muhammad Ali	Transcriptome Analysis of Clinical C. Neoformans Strains	Biology	Erin McClelland and Rebecca Seipelt	Team
2016 - Summer	Gabrielle Armour	The Effects of Grazing and Grazing Intensity on Induced Chemical Defense in Lessonia trabeculata	Biology	Dennis Mullen	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Scott Armstrong	Synthesis and Screening of an Antimicrobial Oligomer Peptoid Combinatorial Library Against the Fungi Aspergillus, Candida, and Cryptococcus	Chemistry	Kevin Bicker	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Kathryn Brittain	Transcriptome Analysis of Clinical C. Neoformans Strains	Biology	Erin McClelland and Rebecca Seipelt	Team
2016 - Summer	Shelbi Bruse	Creeative Production of High Quality Audio and Video Recordings	Recording Industry	Joseph Akins	Team
2016 - Summer	Nathaly Campo	Environmental Concern and Animism: An Ethnographic Analysis of Modern-day Prophecy Based in Wurzburg, Germany	Anthropology	Will Leggett	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Joseph Churchill	Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Pyridine Phosphine Ligands for Alcohol Amine Coupling Catalysis	Chemistry	Keying Ding	Team
2016 - Summer	Rebecca Clippard	Innovation for Critical Languages: Curriculum and Materials Development for Japanese	Foreign Languages	Shelley Thomas	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Kayla Conner	Inhibition of Cryptococcus neoformans by Extract 23B	Biology	Erin McClelland	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Amanda Couch	News and Cultural Studies: How Mass Media Widened the Gap between Anthropologists and Native Americans during the Kennewick Man Controversy	History	Ashley Riley-Sousa	Silver
2016 - Summer	Kirsten Cunningham	Determing the Effects of Different Capsular GXM Species, Shed by the Pathogenic Yeast Cryptococcus neoformans, on Macrophage NF-kB Signaling and Proinflammatory Gene Expression	Biology	David Nelson	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Pel Doski	Extracting and Purifying the Polysaccharide Capsules from Clinical Strains of Cryptococcus neoformans	Biology	Erin McClelland	Silver
2016 - Summer	Brooke Fitzwater	Indirect Predator-Prey Interactions between Trombollo Blenny (Tripterygion chilensis), Chilean Stone Crab (Homolaspis plana) and Sitka Periwinkle snail (Littorina sitkana)	Biology	Dennis Mullen	Assistant
2016 - Summer	Mary Gormsen	The Effectiveness of Chlorine Dioxide in inactivating Influenza Virus	Biology	Stephen Wright	Gold
2016 - Summer	Maria Gramelspacher	Composition for MTSU Double Bass Ensemble	Music	Carol Nies	Silver
2016 - Summer	Kelsey Hannah	Incognita's Infamous Adventures: A Web Series	Electronic Media	Allie Sultan	Team
2016 - Summer	Laura Hoefer	Digital Structure Contour Map of the East Lynchburg Quad	Geoscience	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2016 - Summer	Simon Idiare	Incognita's Infamous Adventures: A Web Series	Electronic Media	Allie Sultan	Team
2016 - Summer	Zachary Kelley	An Exploration of the Generalized Liquid Water Pouring Puzzle	Mathematical Sciences	Xiaoya Zha	Assistant
2016 - Summer	Daniel Krenz	URECA Summer Scholar: The Conductor's Institute	Music	Carol Nies	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Victoria Lay	Behavioral and Physiological Responses to Simulated Predator Induced Stress in the Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina	Biology	Matthew Klukowski	Assistant
2016 - Summer	Robert Lechleiter	Identification of Allele-specific Gene Expressions Associated with Fish Growth Rate	Biology	Mohamed Salem	Team
2016 - Summer	Hunter Mason	Transcriptome Analysis of Clinical C. Neoformans Strains	Biology	Erin McClelland and Rebecca Seipelt	Team
2016 - Summer	India Mathis	Identification of Allele-specific Gene Expressions Associated with Fish Growth Rate	Biology	Mohamed Salem	Team
2016 - Summer	Jasmine McCroskey	Identification of Allele-specific Gene Expressions Associated with Fish Growth Rate	Biology	Mohamed Salem	Team
2016 - Summer	Maggie McPheeters	Incognita's Infamous Adventures: A Web Series	Electronic Media	Allie Sultan	Team
2016 - Summer	Asfah Mohammed	Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Pyridine Phosphine Ligands for Alcohol Amine Coupling Catalysis	Chemistry	Keying Ding	Team
2016 - Summer	Clint Moody	"Song from Scratch" Video Series	Recording Industry	Joseph Akins	Assistant
2016 - Summer	Aldair Nieto	Human Hand Gesture Recognition Using the Microsoft Kinect Sensor	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2016 - Summer	Jesse Noe	Azaaurones: A Unique Underexplored Scaffold for Biologically Active Compounds	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Quinlan Odom	Using Geographical Information Systems and Reacting to the Past to Re-energize the High School History Lesson	History	Dawn McCormack	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Brielle Paladino	Investigating the Origins of the Nashville Dome	Geoscience	Mark Abolins	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Anthony Pecorini	Creative Production of High Quality Audio and Video Recordings	Recording Industry	Joseph Akins	Team
2016 - Summer	Basant Salem	Transcriptome Analysis of Clinical C. Neoformans Strains	Biology	Erin McClelland and Rebecca Seipelt	Team
2016 - Summer	Bridget Shike	Incognita's Infamous Adventures: A Web Series	Electronic Media	Allie Sultan	Team
2016 - Summer	Joy Shind	An In-depth Study of the Neoclassical Frescos Located at Villa Di Geggiano, Italy	Art	Debra Sickler-Voigt	Gold
2016 - Summer	Morgan Smith	The Eagle and the Dragon: A Cross Cultural Guide to Vietnamese Culture for Americans	History	Derek Frisby	Silver
2016 - Summer	Christopher Snyder	Creative Production of High Quality Audio and Video Recordings	Recording Industry	Joseph Akins	Team
2016 - Summer	Christina Solomito	Incognita's Infamous Adventures: A Web Series	Electronic Media	Allie Sultan	Team
2016 - Summer	Claudia Lopez Torres	Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Pyridine Phosphine Ligands for Alcohol Amine Coupling Catalysis	Chemistry	Keying Ding	Team
2016 - Summer	David Tyler	Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Pyridine Phosphine Ligands for Alcohol Amine Coupling Catalysis	Chemistry	Keying Ding	Team
2016 - Summer	William Welchance	The Generalized Pitcher Problem	Mathmatical Sciences	Xiaoya Zha	Assistant
2016 - Summer	Sana Wilson	Searching for the Missing: A Content Analysis of Non-binary Orientation and General Identity in Significant Social Science Journals	Social Work	Justin Bucchio	Platinum
2016 - Summer	Justin Woods	Child-resistant Packaging Design	Engineering Technology	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2016 - Summer	Aaliyah Yisrael	The Perceived Discrimination and Motivation to Success among African American Males at Workplace	Communication Studies and Org Comm	Yang Soo Kim	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Robert Baltz	Hydrogen Peroxide Sensing with Multiple-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Modified with Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles and Enzymes	Chemistry	Charles Chusuei	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Joseph Beck	Indoor Localization	Mechatronic Engineering	Lei Miao	Assistant
2016 - Spring	John Bosworth	Education, the Universal Solution: Research on Benefit of Music Education for Youth, Presented to the World via TEDxMTSU	Recording Industry	Todd O'Neill	Silver
2016 - Spring	Kayla Conner	Inhibition of Cryptococcus neoformans by Extract 23B	Biology	Erin McClelland and Scott Handy	Silver
2016 - Spring	Justin Cousineau	An Examination of Gaussian Basis Sets Using Psuedopotential	Physics	Jing Kong	Silver
2016 - Spring	Leanna Davis	Assisting with the Search for Macroscale Faults beneath Middle Tennessee	Geology	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Grayson Dubois	Holographic Reduced Representations for Working Memory Concept Encoding	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Lara Jarnigan	Effects of Water Hardness on colili Adsorption to Sand	Biology	Frank Bailey	Gold
2016 - Spring	Jordan Jatko	Investigations of Coliphages and Escherichia coli in Storm Drains in Murfreesboro, TN	Biology	Frank Bailey	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Nathaniel Johnston	Assisting with the Creation of a Digital Structure Contour Map of Part of Central Tennessee	Geology	Mark Abolins	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Christian Larsen	TEDxMTSU: Amplifying Ideas	Recording Industry	Andrew Dix	Assistant
2016 - Spring	John Lasseter	Solid State Photochemistry of Donor-pi-Acceptor Dyes	Chemistry	Andrienne Friedli	Silver
2016 - Spring	Hunter Mason	Isolation and Characterization of Fungal Endophyte(s) Present in the Vitis aestivalis 'Cynthiana/Norton' Grape	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Collin McDonald	Retracing the Birth of Air Travel: A Creative Project	Aerospace	Paul Craig	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Andrea Meggison	Comparing Paper and Computerized Assessments for Working Memory and Executive Functioning	Psychology	Michael Hein	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Yusra Mohammed	Characterization of Aurone X as a Potential Drug Candidate Against Cryptococcus neoformans	Biology	Erin McClelland	Silver
2016 - Spring	Marisa Pasquerilla	Laser Trapping Ionization of Single Human Red Blood Cells with AA and AS Hemoglobin Types	Chemistry	Daniel Erenso	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Todd Pirtle	Using Biochar as a Soil Amendment in Middle Tennessee	Agribusiness	Song Cui	Gold
2016 - Spring	Salman Rahmani	Drag Analysis of Class 8 Trucks Utilizing Computational Fluid Dynamics	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Silver
2016 - Spring	Summer Robinson	Determining the Radiation Dosage Required to Kill Breast Cancer Cells Treated with Hederagenin	Chemistry	Daniel Erenso	Assistant
2016 - Spring	David Rohrer	Reducing Drag Behind Rearward-Facing Step Using a Rotating Cylinder	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Silver
2016 - Spring	Calla Sharp	Creating a Better World for Preschool Children by Listening Globally	Early Childhood Education	Jane Lim	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Darcy Tabotabo	Assessment of Anti Herpes Activity in Bidens biternata	Chemistry	Stephen Wright	Gold
2016 - Spring	Jesse Teal	Intervention to Promote Breastfeeding for Full Year among Working Mothers Living in Rural Areas and Enrolled in WIC	Health Education	Bethany Wrye	Assistant
2016 - Spring	Justin Woods	Child-Resistant Packaging Design	Physics	Brian Slaboch	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Andy Black	Creation and Detection of Two Photons from a Single Photon	Physics	Daniel Erenso	Silver
2015 - Fall	Charlie Boyle	Discovering Novel Inhibitors of Trichomoniasis	Biology	Anthony Newsome	Gold
2015 - Fall	Caitlin Chase	In situ Rumen Degradation of Honey Locust (Gleditisia triacanthos) Seed Pods in the Bovine as a Model for their Use in Captive Giraffe Diets	Agriscience and Agribusiness	Kevin Downs	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Megan Chong	Toxicant Destruction Efficiency of Chlorine Dioxide and Ozone	Chemistry	BG Ooi	Silver
2015 - Fall	Evan Conley	Development of Solid-Supported Multiwell Technique of Aurone Synthesis	Chemistry	Scott Handy	Silver
2015 - Fall	Melody Cook	Young Single Adult Mormon Women in Nashville, Tennessee	Philosophy	Rebekka King	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Ashley Corson	Synthesis and Screening of Antimicrobial Peptoid Combinatorial Libraries Against the Fungi Aspergillus, Candida, and Cryptococcus	Chemistry	Kevin Bicker	Gold
2015 - Fall	Samantha Crossland	A Comparative Thematic Analysis of Fraternity Men and Sorority Women's Perspective on Hooking Up	Organizational Communication	Jessica Kratzer	Gold
2015 - Fall	Kelli Dunn	Interactions between EEG State Control and State Discrimination	Psychology	Jon Frederick	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Emma Gist	Reducing Drag on Tractor Trailers	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Braxton Harter	Sound Reduction of Small Aircraft Propellers	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Lauren Heusinkveld	Effect of Cryptococcus neoformns Capsular Polysaccharide on Production of TNFα and iNOS in Macrophages	Biology	David Nelson	Silver
2015 - Fall	Michele Kelley	Single Cell Ionization by Laser Trap for Accurate Radiotherapy	Physics	Daniel Erenso	Gold
2015 - Fall	Stephen Kinser	Spectrum Analysis of HIV Clades	Computer Science	Joshua Phillips	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Casey Klein	EEG Alpha State Discrimination: Continuous Discrimination Task	Psychology	Jon Frederick	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Amanda Leachman	The Effects of Harvest Time on the Propagation Rates of Vitis aestivalis Cuttings	Biology	John DuBois	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Keven Lewis	Perceptions of Persecution Among Middle Tennessee Christians	Philosophy	Rebekka King	Gold
2015 - Fall	Marvin Marksberry	How Low Can You Go? Improving Electrochemical Detection Levels for Disease Monitoring	Chemistry	Charles Chusuei	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Nicholas Matteson	Study of Graphical Parameters for Cubic Graphs	Computer Science	Suk Jai Seo	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Reese Morris	The Effects of Different Medias and Shade Densities on the Growth of Ginseng within a Hydroponics System	Agriscience and Agribusiness	Nate Phillips	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Nicodemus Myhre	Computational Analysis of Drag Reduction Methods for a Rearward Facing Step	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Gold
2015 - Fall	Todd Pirtle	Rapid Assessment of Nitrogen Concentration of Two Bioenergy Feedstock Grasses Using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy	Agriscience and Agribusiness	Song Cui	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Nausheen Qureshi	Rising from the Depths of Despair: The Healing Arts of Lady Philosophy in Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy	Human Sciences	Philip Phillips	Gold
2015 - Fall	Salman Rahmani	Minimization of Air Resistance	Aerospace	Nate Callender	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Karleigh Richard	Molecular Epidemiology and Gene Transfer of Erythromycin Resistant Streptococcus pyogenes Isolate	Biology	Stephen Wright	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Megan Schulz	Nutrient Pollution Retention of Pervious Concrete	Chemistry	John Di Vincenzo	Assistant
2015 - Fall	Sydney Smith	Probing the Parity of the Hadronic Weak Interaction	Physics	Rob Mahurin	Silver
2015 - Fall	Aimee Wilson	Determination of a Protocol for Achieving Endophyte-Free Tissue Callus of Vitis aestivalis "Norton/Cynthiana"	Biology	John DuBois	Silver