Arts and Humanities

First Prize [Oral]
Uchenna Onuzulike(Comunication and Culture) “Globalization and Children: Commodifying Witchcraft and Fear”

Second Prize[Oral]
Ali Erol  (Communication and Culture) “We Said Enough: erdogan’s Rhetoric of a Democratic Moment”

Third Prize[Oral]
Desiree Bindus (Counseling Psychology) “An Examination of Cognitive Test Performance Among Bi-Lingual, Arabic-Speaking Children Using the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children”

Biological and Life Sciences

*Multiple winners for First and Second Prize

First Prize[Poster]
Shaina Reid (Anatomy) Neuromodulation of Cortical Neurons in Anterior Olfactory Nucleus”

Dondra Bailey (Biology) “Drosophila Myeloperoxidase (MPO) Can Potentially Link Oxidative Stress with Immune system”
[Oral]

Peju Adekoya (College of Medicine) “Racial Disparity in Mortality Following Complications after Pancreaticoduodenectomy”
[Poster]

Second Prize
Mana Ali (Psychology) “Clinical Chronic Kidney Disease Risk in African Immigrants”
[Poster]

Third Prize
Shellie-Anne Levy, David Mitchell, Krystal Bichay(Psychology) “Psychometric Properties of  the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale in an African-American Community Sample”
[Poster]

Veronica Womack (Psychology) “Mindful Acting with Awareness Counteracts the Negative Relationship between Hostility and Behavioral Disengagement Coping”
[Oral]

Christopher Agard (Biology) “The Effect of Caudal Autotomy on Running and Aerial Righting Performance in Two Sceloporus Lizards”
[Oral]

Social Sciences

*Multiple winners for First and Second Prize

First Prize[Oral]
Womai Ignatius Song (History) “Globalization and the Need for the Revival of African Economies”
Ifunanya Nwokedi (Political Science) “NGO’s as an Enforcement Mechanisim for Women’s Rights in Africa: Voices of the Voiceless”

Second Prize[Oral]
Judy Mulusa (Economics) “Evaluating the Indirect Displacement Hypothesis: A Case Study of Gentrification in Columbia Heights in DC”

Valerie Suarez (Sociology and ) “Soiled Doves and Benevolent Stars: African American Women in Nicodemus and the Broader Northwest Region of Kansas”
[Oral]

Milanika S. Turner (Sociology) “Hip Hop as Cultural Capital: Using Critical Race Theory to Affirm Cultural Wealth”
[Oral]

Third Prize[Oral]
John Harold Ahiable (Economics) “Apartheid Discrimination in the Provision of Black Education and the Development of Human Capital in South Africa from 1960 to 2008”

Engineering and Physical Sciences>

*Multiple Third Prizes

First Prize[Oral]
Chukwunweike Ugbome (Electrical Engineering) “Modeling and Signal Generation of Short Lived Cable Faults”

Valerie Nelson (Mathematics) “C(n)-Pseudo Almost Automorphy and Its Applications to some Higher-Order Differential Equations”
[Oral]

Second Prize[Poster]
Megan Payne (Atmospheric Science) “A Meteorological Synopsis of Aerosol Contributions and Air Mass History in Beltsville, MD”

Cassie Stearns (Atmospheric Science) “Precipitation Variation Associated with Urban Development of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Region”
[Poster]

Third Prize[Oral]
Madeline Martinez-Pabon (Electrical and Computer Engineering) “Application of the Normal Accident Theory to Telecommunication Accidents with Quantified System”

Monique Walker (Physics and Astronomy) “Lamp Mapping Technique for Overlap Function and Glue Coefficients for Raman Lidar Systems”
[Oral]

Undergraduate Presentations

First Prize[Oral]
Sharriann Turnbull (Psychology) “The Impact of Trait Mindfulness on Substance Use Coping Strategies among African American College Students”

Second Prize[Oral]
Uloma Chiakpo (African Studies) “Science, Technology and Development in China and the African World: Shared Cultural Currencies, Similar Struggles”

Third Prize[Oral]
Janea Reed (Psychology) “Extraverted Personality Buffers the Negative Impact of Ostracism”

Post-Graduate and Professional Presentations

First Prize[Oral]
Elissaios Stavrou (Physics) “High Temperature Pressure Studies of Hydrates”

Second Prize[Oral]
Nikita Basant (Pharmaceutical Sciences) “ Shape-based Screening Enhanced by Scaffold-Merging Query to Retrieve Novel and Diverse Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors”

Third Prize[Poster]
Hong Wang and Marjorie Gondre-Lewis (Anatomy) “ Prenatal nicotine exposure combined with postnatal maternal deprivation alters neuron number in the CA1 and CA2/3 regions of developing rat hippocampus”