March 3, 2017, 5:30 – 8:00 PM
McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall
2017 90 Second Thesis Competition Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Graduate Student 90-Second Thesis Competition. Pictured (from left to right) are Dean Seiichi Matsuda, Gordon Sun, Rachel Bracken, Sara Molinari, Sangheon Han, Sapna Chhabra, Sheila Mayfield, and our Master of Ceremonies, Blake Earle (Photo by Josh Hill).
Best in Bioscience
Sapna Chhabra, Systems Synthetic & Physical Biology “Stem Cells – A model to study principles of early development”
Audience’s Choice and Honorable Mention in Biosciences
Sara Molinari, Systems Synthetic & Physical Biology “Cell Engineering: Differentiation”
Best in Arts, Culture, and Language Sheila Mayfield, Liberal Studies “Art Education through Web-Based Smartphone Audio Tours”
Honorable Mention in Arts, Culture, and Language Rachel Bracken, English “National Bodies: Population Expansion and the Literature of American Public Health”
Best in Materials Yara Kadria-Vili, Chemistry “Carbon Nanotube for Monitoring the Safety of Aircraft and Pipelines”
Honorable Mention in Materials Gordon Sun, Bioengineering “Engineering Synthetic Organisms for Biomaterials Production”
Best in Health & Medicine Sangheon Han, Bioengineering “How to win hide-and-seek with cancer cells”
Honorable Mention in Health & Medicine Pingfeng Yu, Civil & Environmental Engineering “Harvesting mother nature’s power (bacteriophage) to kill superbugs”
