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Nelson Rusche College of Business
Top Scholar
Linh Le
"Factors That Impact the Net Expense Ratio of ETFs"
Faculty sponsor: Emiliano Giudici, Economics and Finance
video presentation
Finalists
- David Bennett, Olivia Escobedo, Deaven Ivy, Bo Yanas and Zach Yanas
"Telepresence: Remote Technologies Allow You to be Here, Even When You Are There"
Faculty sponsor: Gina Harden, Management & Marketing
poster
- Bailey Allen, Tanner Davie, Robert Austin Drake, Larsen Lewallen and Ty Nicholson
"Twitter Marketing Research"
Faculty sponsor: Wenjing Li, Management & Marketing
poster
- Carleigh Garrett
"Bridges to Business Campaign Proposal"
Faculty sponsor: Marlene Kahla, Management & Marketing
poster
- Carleigh Garrett
"Marketing of Services Team Project on Student Center Chick-Fil-A"
Faculty sponsor: Marlene Kahla, Management & Marketing
poster
- Grant Lebkowsky
"An Investigation into Why Student Organization Attendance is down at Non-Football Sporting Events at Stephen F. Austin"
Faculty sponsor: Wenjing Li, Management & Marketing
poster
- Rick Lowry
"Real Estate as an Investment"
Faculty sponsor: Carol Wright, Business Communication and Legal Studies
poster
- Lexi Mireles
"Nike Research Project"
Faculty sponsor: Wenjing Li, Management & Marketing
James I. Perkins College of Education
Top Scholar
Garrett Parker Jones
"A Comparison Of Running Economy Across Seven Carbon-Plated Racing Shoes"
Faculty sponsor: Dustin Joubert, Kinesiology and Health Science
video presentation
Finalists
- Kelley Bridges
"Clash of Two Cultures"
Faculty sponsor: Todd Barrios, School of Human Sciences
poster
- Zarea Collins
"El Salvador's Food Clock"
Faculty sponsor: Justin Pelham, School of Human Sciences
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- Joy Crissmon
"Tracing Roots: An Exploration of the African Diaspora Through Dance"
Faculty sponsor: Heather Samuelson, Kinesiology and Health Science
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- Holly Gibson
"Organic Chemistry through Dance"
Faculty sponsor: Amanda Moore, Kinesiology and Health Science
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- Ava Green and Esther Hernandez
"Examining Student Performance Using Quantitative and Qualitative Data to Inform Instruction: A New Way to Ensure Teaching Effectiveness while Building on a Student's Cultural Capital & Funds of Knowledge"
Faculty sponsor: Marisol Diaz, Education Studies
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- Ashlyn Lafleur
"Native Knowledge 360° Essential Understandings Framework: Reflections Using the Five Level Evaluation Model"
Faculty sponsor: Sarah Straub, Education Studies
poster
- Mackenzie Pendarvis and Danyelle Richardson
"Returning What Was Lost: Reengaging and Reconnecting Students through Community Engagement"
Faculty sponsors: Gina Fe Causin and Donna Fickes, School of Human Sciences
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- Brooke Pulliam
"Organizing a Local Job Fair During the Pandemic: Challenges and Takeaways"
Faculty sponsors: Gina Fe Causin and Donna Fickes, School of Human Sciences
poster
College of Fine Arts
Top Scholar
Samantha Altamirano
"A Reimagining of The Seven Sins"
Faculty sponsor: Eden Collins, School of Art
video presentation
Finalists
- Jenna Alley
"I’ve Lost Respect for Bertolt Brecht: A Look into the Disappearance of the Original Production of Pioneers in Ingolstadt by Marieluise Fleißer"
Faculty sponsor: Richard Jones, School of Theatre
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- Megan Bynum
"The Gilded Cage"
Faculty sponsor: Eden Collins, School of Art
poster
- Lynna Levin
"1860's Clothing in America"
Faculty sponsor: Angela Bacarisse, School of Theatre
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- Brooke Olivarez
"A Modern Take on Baroque Reed-Making"
Faculty sponsor: Jamie Weaver, School of Music
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- Brendan Ryan
"Connecting Old Techniques with New Ideas"
Faculty sponsor: Lauren Selden, School of Art
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- Gabrielle Treviño
"The Influence of Mexican Folklorico and The Costumes Thereof"
Faculty sponsor: Angela Bacarisse, School of Theatre
poster
Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
Top Scholar
Siena Stassi
"Microplastic in Surface and Sediments of Rural-Urban Streams in East Texas: Distribution, Abundance, and Diversity"
Faculty sponsors: Carmen Montana Schalk, Biology; Sheryll Jerez, Environmental Science
video presentation
Finalists
- Veda Allen
"Comparative Calling Phenology of Anurans Across Latitudinal Gradients"
Faculty sponsor: Christopher Schalk, Forestry
- Katherine Barker, Brooke Maxfield, Sophie Scott and Mckynna Swinson
"The Impact of Vaping on Indoor Air Quality"
Faculty sponsor: Sheryll Jerez, Environmental Science
- Tristan Brownjohn
"Body Condition and Relative Abundance of Four Turtle Species across a Gradient of Ecological Integrity"
Faculty sponsor: Christopher Schalk, Forestry
- Abby Buckner and Blake Carter
"Latency to Initial Detection for Mammalian Species in a Mixed Hardwood-Pine Forest"
Faculty sponsors: Jessica Glasscock and Christopher Schalk, Forestry
- Remigio Casanova, Stephanie Huerta, Lukia Kalugin, Garrison Layne and Valerie Pacheco
"A Comparative Assessment Between Forests and Urban Lawns"
Faculty sponsors: Sheryll Jerez, Environmental Science; Kenneth Farrish, Forestry
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- Rachel Cornelius
"Barred Owl Occurrence Influenced by Forestry Wildlife Treatments and Stand Age of Bottomland Hardwood Forests"
Faculty sponsor: K. Rebecca Kidd, Forestry
- Brendan Holmes, Luke Keene and Summer Pritchett
"Influence of Plant Growth Regulators on L.A. Hybrid Lily Growth and Development"
Faculty sponsor: Michael Maurer, Agriculture
College of Liberal and Applied Arts
Top Scholar
Samantha Brownell, Cecilia Garner, Dusti Johnson, Andrea Musick and Micaela Ramoz
"East Texas Coalition For Change"
Faculty sponsor: Kristin Bailey-Wallace, School of Social Work
video presentation
Finalists
- Rae Bynum
"Tuneless Song"
Faculty sponsor: Sara Henning, English and Creative Writing
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Shelby Farmer and Ryan Wallace
"Demonstrating Statistics Principles, Honing SPSS Skills with 1.05 million New York City Arrests"
Faculty sponsor: Scott Drury, Psychology - Raegan Hoyer - Best Freshman Paper
"The Reporter Who lost the War: An In-depth Look at Walter Cronkite's Report on the Tet Offensive and its Long-Term Effects"
Faculty sponsor: Philip Catton, History
poster
- Alasia Johnson
"Social Impacts of Religion"
Faculty sponsor: James Morris, School of Social Work
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- Clayton Jones
"Forgotten Stories of the New London School Tragedy"
Faculty sponsor: Perky Beisel, History
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- Savannah Peterson
"The Impact of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and WAAC Branch No. 1 During World War II"
Faculty sponsor: Carolyn White, History
poster
- Sandra Maloy
"Adaptive Coping for COVID-Related Stress"
Faculty sponsors: Dianne Dentice, Anthropology, Geography, and Sociology; Joyce Johnston, Division of Multidisciplinary Studies; Sharon Rice, Kinesiology & Health Science; Sarah Savoy, Psychology
poster
- Caitlyn Shrewsbury
"Waging Peace: Female Legislators and a State’s Propensity for War"
Faculty sponsor: Charles Gregory, Government
poster
College of Sciences and Mathematics
Top Scholar
Kyla S. Gray
"Geologic and Geomorphological Interpretation of the Mare Orientale Impact Basin Region of Earth’s Moon"
Faculty sponsor: Melinda Shaw Faulkner, Geology
video presentation
Finalists
- Veda Allen
"Acoustic Responses to Human-made Noise in Bottlenose Dolphins"
Faculty sponsor: Jason Bruck, Biology
- Zachary Hutchens
"Urbanization Increases Isolation of a Threatened Fish Species in East Texas streams: A 20-year Perspective"
Faculty sponsor: Carmen Montana Schalk, Biology
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- Courtney Plummer
"Aquatic Macroinvertebrates as Sentinels of Changes in Local Stream Conditions in East Texas"
Faculty sponsor: Carmen Montana Schalk, Biology
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- Rachel Rucker
"Machine Learning in Support of Student Success"
Faculty sponsors: Vinh Dang, Keith Hubbard and Dipak Singh, Mathematics and Statistics
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- Laken Simington
"Quantification of Kaempferol Conjugates in Watercress Juice and Methanol Extract: A study using HPLC and Protein Binding"
Faculty sponsor: Bidisha Sengupta, Chemistry and Biochemistry
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- Madison Thornhill, My Tran, Bingbing Xiao
"Modeling, Cloning, and Expression of the J domain of C. elegans Rme-8 Protein"
Faculty sponsor: Odutayo Odunuga, Chemistry and Biochemistry
poster
- Trace Washburn
"Bomb Calorimetry: A New Method of CEC Determination"
Faculty sponsor: Alyx Frantzen, Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Regional Colleges
Top Scholar
Haley Farmer
"Contributing Factors to Self-Perception Issues in Technically Trained Dancers"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea R. Hathcote, Tyler Junior College
video presentation
Finalists
- Christopher Conneen
"Observing Trophic Interactions Between Keystone Species and Ecosystem Engineers"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea R. Hathcote, Tyler Junior College
- Micah Leary
"Near Death Experiences: Life After 'Death' and Credibility: A Mixed Method Design"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea R. Hathcote, Tyler Junior College
- Olivia Lester
"Influence of Infant Attachment on Introversion and Extroversion: A Quantitative Approach"
Faculty sponsor: Andrea R. Hathcote, Tyler Junior College