Winners
First Place: Holly Olvera — Biomedical Engineering, PhD
“Common Infant Product Materials Negatively Impact Breathing“
Second Place: Thomas Wenzel — Kinesiology, MS
“Influence of Sex on Tibial Bending and Stress at Varying Running Speeds and Surfaces”
Third Place: Mia Toronto — Biomolecular Sciences, PhD
“From Label to Lips: Ensuring Vitamins Deliver on the Their Promise”
Fourth Place: Aman KC — Geophysics, PhD
“Tracking Glacier Change for Safer Communities”
Audience Choice: Colin Martin — Biology, MS
“Ribbons of Life: Remote Sensing of Riverscapes in the Arid West”
Competitors
Ben Balzer — Biology, MS
“Advancements in Digital Nucleic Acid Memory using DNA Origami”
Yafa Benavidez — Mechanical Engineering, MS
“Biomechanics of Bedsharing“
Asif Bhuiyan — Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD
“Let’s Dance with Light: Silicon Carbide Photonics for Extreme Environment Sensing”
Farnaz Darghiasi — Biomedical Engineering, PhD
“Building Bones That Build Themselves”
Dawson Lee — Mechanical Engineering, MS
“Studying Mechanical Properties During Bedsharing”
Cindy Montoto — Education, Curriculum, and Instruction, MA
“Learning Spanish from the Outside In™”
Mahmudul Peyal — Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS
“When Computers Learn Like Us!”
Ajay Pratap — Materials Science and Engineering, PhD
“Contact electrification of materials for energy harvesting”
Brennan Williams-Mieding — Geosciences, MS
“Did Mars have Explosive Volcanoes? We may have found clues.”