On Friday, April 24 in Woolsey Hall, 70 undergraduate students presented their research to faculty and staff in conjunction with GRASP. Students competed in three categories, “Natural Sciences and Engineering,” “Social Sciences and Humanities” and “Creative Activity and Performance.” Students had the option to present orally or with a poster. Creative activities included presentations of music composition and live performance.
Cash awards will be presented to first and second place winners. Thank you to all judges, volunteers and faculty mentors. Congratulations to all URCAF participants. Abstracts will soon be made available in the Shocker Open Access Repository.
Natural Sciences and Engineering:
- First place: Elliott Chambon, Nicholas Atanasio, Drew Perez, Korben Schrotberger, “Student Designed, NASA Approved: WSU’s Next Gen Spacewalk Tool”
- Second place: Jonathan Nichols, “Remnants of the deep: a preliminary map of mafic enclaves near the vent of Big Obsidian Flow, Newberry Caldera, Central Oregon”
- Third place: Lauren Hughes, “What’s Linker Got To Do With It? Examining the Mechanical Stability of Palladin’s Ig3-4 Linker Region”
Social Sciences and Humanities:
- First place: Conner Murphy, “Quantifying Tillage Intensity as a Contributing Factor to Tillage Erosion at Archaeological Sites in Kansas”
- Second place: Braeden Miller, “Exploring Predictors for Online Disordered Gambling”
- Third place (tie): Grace Brabander, Aubrey Eilers, Addison Francis-Wilcox, Kellen Peri, Samantha Silva, “The Silent Epidemic: Bright Care, Healthy Smiles”
- Third place (tie): Elijah Jenkins, “Self Disclosing Behaviors with Robots”
Creative Activity and Performance:
- First place: Ethan Grohe, “Runnin’ on Fumes – Piece for Unaccompanied Alto Saxophone”
- Second place: Jasper Fast, “Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?”
- Third place: Sophia Hart, ”Cosmos Laundromat: The Full Process of Scoring a Film”
- Fourth place: Grace Schulze, “Blues and Variations for Monk”