Award Winners

College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Oral Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Team: Jesus Santiago & Alejandro Bonilla, Psychology
  • Project Title: Using Music Video Storytelling to Prevent Dog Bite Injuries in Young Children
  • Faculty Advisor: Elissa Johnson-Green and Jiabin Shen

Graduate Winner

• Alexandria Winstead, Applied Psychology and Prevention Science
  • Project Title: Who do they trust to tell? Age-related trends in child sexual abuse disclosure patterns
  • Faculty Advisor: Stephanie Block and Yan Wang

Poster Presentations

Undergraduate Winners

• Ian Plourde, Psychology
  • Project Title: Operant Laboratory Teaching Tools: A Review of CyberRat, Sniffy the Virtual Rat, and PORTL
  • Faculty Advisor: Anita Li
• Marielys Then, Sociology
  • Project Title: Race and Compensatory Femininity Among Women Partners of Porn Addicts
  • Faculty Advisor: Stephanie Ortiz

Graduate Winner

• Team: Myat Su Tin, Global Studies and Lugyi No, Research and Evaluation in Education 
  • Project Title: Visualizing Hope and Resilience: Analyzing Drawings of High School Students for World's Children Day in Myanmar
  • Faculty Advisor: Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung

Fan Favorite Winners

• Jack Bekampis, English - Theatre Arts
  • Project Title: Set design - Peter Gabriel ensemble
  • Faculty Advisor: Shelley Barish

• Sohana Hasan, English
  • Project Title: Modern Minstrels: State-Sanctioned Blackface Minstrelsy in the 20th Century
  • Faculty Advisor: Chad Montrie

Francis College of Engineering

Oral Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Dalton Driscoll, Computer Engineering
  • Project Title: Smartphone Skin Erythema Imaging
  • Faculty Advisor: Walfre Franco

Graduate Winner

• Kedar Bagewadi, Plastics Engineering
  • Project Title: An e-textile garment for electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring
  • Faculty Advisor: Ramaswamy Nagarajan

Poster Presentations

Undergraduate Winners

• Kimberly Thimothee, Mechanical Engineering

  • Project Title: Modeling Salt Air for Marine Combustion Applications
  • Faculty Advisor: Noah Van Dam

Graduate Winner

• Nicholas Carnes, Mechanical Engineering
  • Project Title: Design and Construction of a Compact Radar Range Overhead Gantry System
  • Faculty Advisor: Guy DeMartinis and Thomas Horgan

Fan Favorite

• Jonathan Reardon, Mechanical Engineering
  • Project Title: Formulating Printable Ceramic Suspensions for High Dielectric Constant Applications
  • Faculty Advisor: Christopher Hansen

Kennedy College of Sciences

Oral Presentations

Undergraduate Winners

• Team: Kogouniwa Bennsion and Kavinprasad Kanagaraju, Physics
  • Project Title: Analyzing ALEKS Placement Process for Mathematics Course Selection at UMass Lowell
  • Faculty Advisor: Matthew Beyranevand

Graduate Winners

• Christopher Morales-Gonzalez, Computer Science
  • Project Title: Towards Secure Building Automation: Developing An Innovative Fuzzing Tool
  • Faculty Advisor: Xinwen Fu

Poster Presentations

Undergraduate Winners

• Team: Hanna Abu-Zahra, Biology and Lara Serhan, Biology
  • Project Title: Breaking the Barrier: Peptide hydrogel demonstrates efficacy against single- and multi-species biofilms
  • Faculty Advisor: Maria Velasquez
• Madisyn Herrmann, Biology
  • Project Title: Molecular Mechanics of Charge Neutralization Mutations in Cardiac Thin Filament
  • Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Moore

Graduate Winner

• Evan Reboli, Organic Chemistry
• Project Title: Ultrasensitiv Detection of HIV-1 p24 Antigen
• Faculty Advisor: Suri Iyer

Fan Favorite Winner

• Ajoke Williams, Chemistry
  • Project Title: Highly Sensitive Detection of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Biomarkers Utilizing Multiple-layer Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles
  • Faculty Advisor: Suri Iyer

Manning School of Business

Oral Presentations

Undergraduate Winners

• Trevor Tismo, Business Administration, Concentration in Finance & Management
  • Project Title: The Effects of NIL on UMass Lowell Athletics
  • Faculty Advisor: Elissa Magnant and Rae Mansfield

Graduate Winners

• Bruce Lezana, Business Administration

  • Project Title: Unpacking Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Configurational Approach
  • Faculty Advisor: Sunny Li Sun

Poster Presentations

Undergraduate Winners

• Emma Long, Accounting

  • Project Title: The Impact of AI on the Accounting Profession
  • Faculty Advisor: George Joseph

Graduate Winners

• Team: Nainul Arab, Business Analytics, Janani Bhaskar, Business Analytics, and Shreya Singh, Engineering Management

  • Project Title: From Data To Dollars - Mobile Price Classification
  • Faculty Advisor: Asil Oztekin

Fan Favorite

• Haoran Wang, Marketing PhD

  • Project Title: A meta-analytic review on the impact of asymmetric channel structure on power exploitation
  • Faculty Advisor: Yuerong Liu

Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences

Oral Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Matthew Ruggiero, Exercise Science

  • Project Title: Effects of an Overground-Based Exoskeleton User Training Protocol On Mobility Performance for Untrained Tasks
  • Faculty Advisor: Pei-Chun Kao and Yi-Ning Wu

Graduate Winner

• Donald Rogers, MPH-Epidemiology

  • Project Title: Association Between Psychophysiological Stressors and Allostatic Load Among Older Puerto Rican Adults
  • Faculty Advisor: Sabrina Noel and David Cornell

Poster Presentations

Undergraduate Winner

• Lauren Latino, Exercise Science-Clinical

  • Project Title: Footwear Technology to Enhance Human Performance
  • Faculty Advisor: Pei-Chun Kao

Graduate Winner

• Team: Hannah Allgood, Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT); Shayla Quill, Clinical Exercise Science; and Nathan Johnson, Clinical Exercise Science

  • Project Title: Impact of Using an Assistive Exoskeleton on Reaching and Grasping
  • Faculty Advisor: Yi-Ning Wu

Fan Favorite Winner

• Catherine Doyle, Doctor of Nursing Practice

  • Project Title: A multicomponent quality improvement project to improve HPV vaccine initiation rates at a federally qualified health center
  • Faculty Advisor: Lisa Marchand