2015 Rice University Graduate Student
90 Second Thesis Competition
March 13, 2015, 5:00 – 8:30 PM
McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall
Grand Prize & Audience Choice Award
Sydney Gibson, Bioengineering
“Road to Invasion: Understanding Blood Vessel Formation in Cancer”
Best in Engineering
Yu Jun Leong, Civil & Environmental Engineering
“Forced into Smoking”
Best in Social Science
Julie Hughes, Psychology
“Bilingualism: Does Speaking Two Languages Provide Cognitive Advantages?”
Best in Natural Science
Alicia Jones, Biochemistry & Cell Biology
“Better, Faster, Stronger: Studying Effects of Circular Permutation to Expand the Protein Engineering Toolbox”
Best in Humanities & Music
AnaMaria Seglie, English
“Sacred Dominion: Anti-Catholicism and the Romance of U.S. Imperialism, 1820-1900”
Best in Humanities & Music
Makiko Hirata, Shepherd School of Music
“Must We Memorize?”