March 11, 2016, 5:00 – 8:30 PM
McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall
2016 90 Second Thesis Competition Winners
Winners of the Graduate Student 90-Second Thesis Competition are (from left) Catherine Majors, Blake Earle, Yasmin Chebaro, Lynn Fahey, Gisele Calderon, Eric Yang and Samantha Paulsen. (Photo by Josh Hill)
Grand Prize Samantha Paulsen, Bioengineering “3D Printing to Launch Drug Discovery”
2nd Place Eric Yang, Bioengineering “Seeing Oral Cancer in a New Light”
3rd Place & Audience’s Choice Award Gisele Calderon, Bioengineering “3D Printing Blood Vessels: A New Hope”
Best in Engineering Catherine Majors, Bioengineering “Low-cost, Portable Device for Performing a White Blood Cell Count”
Best in Humanities Blake Earle, History “In Cod We Trust: Fish and Nation in American History”
Best in Natural Sciences Yasmin Chebaro, Biochemistry & Cell Biology “Candida albicans Adaptation to Stress”
Best in Social Sciences Lynn Fahey, Sociology “Head Starts: The Link Between Childhood and Health Outcomes”
