Forum Awards
Chancellor's Awards:
I. Arts & Humanities
Honorable Mention:
- Lauren Norton, English (Wildwood, Missouri). MENTOR: Dr. Nancy West, English. Group project funded by the Mizzou Advantage Undergraduate Research Team Program.
Chancellor's Award for Excellence: "The Life of the Garden: Exploring the maturation of gardens for literary and botanical perspectives"
- Alex Batka, English (Manteno, Illinois); Kaitlyn Dryer, English (Lee's Summit, Missouri); Tong Gao, Journalism (Qingdao, China); Joseph Lim, Information Technology (Columbia, Missouri); Sarah Unruh, Biological Sciences and Education (St. Louis, Missouri). MENTORS: Dr. Elizabeth Chang, English; Dr. Candace Galen, Biological Sciences.
II. Social and Behavioral Sciences
Honorable Mention:
- Brittany Long, Anthropology (Kansas City, Missouri). MENTOR: Dr. Mary Shenk, Anthropology.
- Matthew Steiner, Agribusiness Management (Amity, Missouri). MENTOR: Dr. Wyatt Thompson, Agricultural & Applied Economics.
Chancellor's Award for Excellence: "Parent-adolescent versus sibling alliances and their associations with individual self-esteem"
- Kaylee Conley, Psychology (Pierce City, Missouri). MENTOR: Dr. Nicole Campione-Barr, Psychological Sciences.
III. Life Sciences
Honorable Mention:
- Amanda Prasuhn, Biological Sciences (Kirkwood, Missouri). MENTOR: Dr. Lori Eggert, Biological Sciences.
- Rachel Waller, Biochemistry (St. Louis, Missouri). MENTOR: Dr. Judy Wall, Biochemistry.
Chancellor's Award for Excellence: "An investigation of the bimodal expression of Murine Leukemia Virus"
- Mariju Baluyot, Biological Sciences (Springfield, Missouri). MENTOR: Dr. Marc Johnson, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology.
IV. Physical Sciences & Engineering
Honorable Mention:
- Alex Nowak, Chemical Engineering (O'Fallon, Illinois). MENTOR: Dr. Stephen Lombardo, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
- Travis Tumlin, Mechanical Engineering (La Plata, Missouri). MENTOR: Dr. Shubhra Gangopadhyay, Electrical Engineering.
Chancellor's Award for Excellence:
"Photoacoustic depth profiling of burn injury using a human skin phantom"
- Lindsay D'Amato, Biological Engineering (St. Louis, Missouri). MENTOR: Dr. John Viator, Biological Engineering.
"Evaluation of FRP under compressive strains considering alternative matrices"
- Matthew Wheeler, Civil Engineering (Columbia, Missouri). MENTOR: Dr. Sarah Orton, Civil Engineering.
Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year Award
- Dr. Andrew McClellan, Biological Sciences
- Dr. Nancy West, English
