Research Forum Details

2024 Graduate Research Forum 


May 10 in the Ford Alumni Center

Partners

Schedule

May 10 in the Ford Alumni Center

Time

Room

Presentation

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Room 202

Workshop for International Graduate Students: “Pathways to U.S. Work Authorization for International Students” 

  • Presented by Becky Crabtree and Lindsey Pepper, Office of International Student and Scholar Services

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Room 301

Suicide Prevention Among Vulnerable Populations: Risk and Prevention Strategies in the Youth, Aging, Disability, and Neurodivergent Communities” 

  • Marielena R. McWhirter Boisen, Prevention Science
  • Vivian Koomson, Prevention Science
  • Alyssa Callender, Prevention Science

Winners of the Gender or Caregiving Community topic category

10:00-11:00 a.m.

Room 402

“Wearing Journey: Understanding Disabled Bodies Through Comics and Healthcare Technology” 

  • Anu Sugathan, English
  • Suhana Ahamed, Human Physiology 

Winners of the Disabled or Neurodivergent Community topic category

11:00-Noon

Room 202

“From Bias to Balance: Reimagining Global Media Narratives” 

  • Nishat Parvez, Communication & Media Studies
  • Nishtha Yadav, Communication & Media Studies
  • Nahla Bendefaa, Communication & Media Studies
  • Stella Zhang, Communication & Media Studies 

Winners of the International Community topic category

11:00-Noon

Room 301

"Transforming Models of Care” 

  • Precious Adejumobi, Anthropology
  • Tian Walker, Anthropology 

Runners-up of the Caregiving Community topic category

Noon-1:00 p.m.

Room 202

“Queer Intimacies and Queer Futures”

  • W. Jamie Yang, Sociology
  • Kaito Campos de Novais, Anthropology 

Winners of the 2SLGBTQIA3+ community topic category

1:00-3:00 p.m.

Giustina Ballroom

Poster presentations

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Giustina Ballroom

Forum networking reception and winners announced

Poster Participants

  • Amira Ghazy, Language Teaching Studies
  • Amanda Trujillo, Counseling Psychology
  • Andrew Holston, Chemistry
  • Andrew Huang, Architecture
  • Anish Dulal, Computer and Information Science
  • Avika Sharma, Biology
  • Bibi Halima, Language Teaching Studies
  • Brittany Spinner, Quantitative Research Methods in Education
  • Bruce Yuan, Media Studies
  • Carmelli Hess, Advertising and Brand Responsibility
  • Carmen Watkins, Biology
  • Da-sol Um, Music: Piano Pedagogy
  • Daniel Appiah-Gyekye, Media Studies
  • David Hall, Economics
  • Everett Somers, School Psychology
  • Filip-Bogdan Serban-Dragan, Prevention Science
  • Gauri Bharadwaj, School Psychology
  • Haifa Souilmi, Political Science
  • Haley Brown, School Psychology
  • Hannah Petkau, Interior Architecture
  • Havisha Khurana, Quantitative Research Methods in Education
  • Jennifer Ginn, Landscape Architecture
  • Joshua Melby, Educational Leadership
  • Juan Avedano, Music Performance
  • Kashual Sapkota, Nonprofit Management
  • Katie Alvarez, Special Education
  • Kelly Bonnville-Sexton, Geography
  • Kelly Bonnville-Sexton, Geography
  • Lena White, School Psychology
  • LyAndra Lujan, Biology
  • Mahboubeh Khoddam, Biology/Psychology
  • Maria Camila Coronado Cabrera, Architecture
  • Maxim Shapovalov, Geography
  • Natanya Villegas, Biology
  • Ngan Tran, Economics
  • Olivia Salzman-Coon, Music Education
  • Owen Jetton, Economics
  • Robin Bumbaugh, Chemistry
  • Sam Rueter, Counseling, Family, and Human Services
  • Samuel Bertrand, Biology
  • Sandra Boone, Journalism
  • Sarah Erskine, Biology
  • Shahinur Bashar, Public Administration
  • Shane Hoyle, English
  • Skylar Steffes, School Psychology
  • Songyi Ahn, Media Studies
  • Stevana Schauer, Biology
  • Taylah Shannon, Global Studies
  • Vinita Vader, Psychology
  • Wensong Zhong, Finance
  • Xiaoqi Ma, Prevention Science
  • Xiaoyu Liu, East Asian Languages and Literatures
  • Yash Akhouri, Architecture

Judges

chris knowles

Chris Knowles           
Senior Research Associate I, College of Education, Educational Leadership, Special Education

lillian duran

Lillian Duran      
Professor, College of Education, Special Education

Lara Bovilsky

Lara Bovilsky
Associate Professor, College Scholars, English, SAIL

Gupta

Sayandeep Gupta
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Life Science & Biotechnology

troy elias

Troy Elias
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, and Associate Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion

emily sylwestrak

Emily Sylwestrak
Assistant Professor, Biology, Neuroscience

gary harlow

Gary Harlow
Research Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

susan anderson

Susan Anderson
Professor of German

julia widom

Julia Widom
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

gabriela martinez

Gabriela Martinez
Department Head of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Professor, School of Journalism and Communication

gabe sanchez

Gabe Sanchez
Assistant Professor, Anthropology

damien callahan

Damien Callahan
Assistant Professor, Human Physiology

Steven Koller

Stephen Koller
Committee Chair, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

james murray

James Murray
Assistant Professor, Biology and Mathematics

elliot berkman

Elliot Berkman
Associate Dean, Natural Sciences, and Professor of Psychology

jen doty

Jen Doty
Associate Professor, Family and Human Services, Prevention Science

kevin hatfield

Kevin Hatfield
Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Research and Distinguished Scholarships and Director of Academic Residential and Research Initiatives, Professor of History

isabel millan

Isabel Millán
Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

satya yadav

Satya Yadav 
Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry & Biochemistry

katy lenn

Katy Lenn
Professor, Senior Reference Archivist, UO Libraries

amanda stasiewicz

Amanda Stasiewicz
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies

susan walcott

Susan Walcott
President, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Faculty Emerita, Geography, UNC-Greensboro

gayle semrad

Gayle Semrad
Creative Marketing, Member, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

scott blumenthal

Scott Blumenthal
Assistant Professor, Anthropology

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Haven Simmons       
Faculty Emeritus, Communications, Salisbury University

 

 

 

3MT and Forum Winners

2024

Panel Award Recipients

  • Gender or Caregiving Community topic "Suicide Prevention Among Vulnerable Populations: Risk and Prevention Strategies in the Youth, Aging, Disability, and Neurodivergent Communities". Marielena R. McWhirter Boisen; Vivian Koomson; Alyssa Callender, Prevention Science
  • Disabled or Neurodivergent Community topic: “Wearing Journey: Understanding Disabled Bodies Through Comics and Healthcare Technology". Anu Sugathan, English; Suhana Ahamed, Human Physiology
  • International Community topic: “From Bias to Balance: Reimagining Global Media Narratives”. Nishat Parvez; Nishtha Yadav; Nahla Bendefaa; Stella Zhang, Communication & Media Studies
  • 2SLGBTQIAA+ community topic: “Queer Intimacies and Queer Futures”. W. Jamie Yang, Sociology; Kaito Campos de Novais, Anthropology
  • Gender or Caregiving Community topic honorable mention: "Transforming Models of Care”. Precious Adejumobi; Tian Walker, Anthropology

Poster Winners

  • Maria Camila Coronado Cabrera, Architecture
  • Stevana Schauer, Biology
  • Sarah Erskine, Biology
  • Amira Ghazy & Bibi Halima, Language Teaching Studies
  • Ngan Tran, Economics
  • Bruce Yuan & Daniel Appiah-Gyekye, Media Studies
  • Katie Alvarez, Special Education
  • Havisha Khurana, Quantitative Research Methods in Education (also 2022 winner)

2023

3MT Fall Term Winners

  • 1st Place: Mallory Pennington, Psychology
    Title: Explaining the Impossible: The Key Role of Impossibility in Curiosity and Cognition
  • 2nd Place: Rachel Lukowicz-Bedford, Biology
    Title: Sparking Life: Bioelectric Communication during Zebrafish Development
  • 3rd Place: Austin Ricci, Human Physiology
    Title: Tendon Stiffness is Altered by Fatigue and Sex in Young Males and Females

3MT Spring Term Winners

  • 1st Place: Filip Bogdan Serban-Dragan, Prevention Science
  • 2nd Place: Austin Ricci, Human Physiology
  • 3rd Place: Carla Consolini, Linguistics
  • People's Choice: Angelique Allen, Biology
  • Women in Graduate Science Award: Hope Healey, Biology

Panel Winners

  • 1st Place: "What is Missing in Feminist Philosophy? Three Critical Interventions." Annie Ring, Philosophy; Rhiannon Lindgren, Philosophy, Tali Bitton, Philosophy

Poster Winners

  • Cal Penkauskas, Biology
  • Cecelia Staggs, Linguistics
  • Hadil Abuhmaid, Media Studies
  • Heather Le Bleu, Biology
  • Kendra Taylor, Music Education
  • Mallory Pennington, Psychology
  • Xiaoqi Ma, Prevention Science
  • People's Choice: Sarah Jordan, Music Composition
  • Women in Graduate Science Award: Heather Le Bleu, Biology

2022

3MT Winners

  • 1st Place: Shuxi Wu, Asian Studies
  • 2nd Place: Marielena McWhirter, Prevention Science
  • 3rd Place: Chi Tran, General Business
  • People's Choice: Yahaira Garcia, Counseling, Family and Human ServicesChi Tran, General Business

Panel Winners

  • 1st Place: "The Future of Africa's Elephants, Conservation and coexistence in a changing world." Savannah Bird, Biology; Herve Rolan Memiaghe, Landscape Architecture; Claire Goodfellow, Biology
  • People's Choice: Zeinab Nobowati, Ricardo Friaz, and Puja Ghosh, Philosophy

Poster Winners

  • Merley Klaas, Education Leadership
  • Havisha Khurana, Education Leadership
  • Mandi Ward, Prevention Science
  • Nicole Williams, Language Teaching Studies
  • Sabrina Mostoufi, Biology
  • People's Choice: Madison Wolf, Andrew Miller, and Jacob Schaeperkoetter-Cochran, Architecture

2021

Virtual 3MT Winners

  • 1st Place: Ali Hassani “Democratizing Vision Transformers”
  • 2nd Place: Taylor Guthrie “Social Relationship Strength Modulates the Similarity of Brain-to-Brain Representations of Group Members”
  • People’s Choice: Donghyeok Jang “Corporate Social Responsibility, Pension Assumptions, and Risky Asset Allocations in Defined Benefit Pension Plans”

Honorable Mention

  • David Fainstein “Supporting Educators Remotely: Replicating a Kindergarten Math Intervention during COVID-19”
  • Jamila Baig “Reconstruction of Paleotemperature, Vegetation Change, Fire History, and Lake Productivity Using a Multiproxy Approach in the Pacific Northwest, Gold Lake, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, USA”

2019

3MT Winners

  • 1st Place: Monika Lind
  • 2nd Place: Haisu Huang
  • 3rd Place: Xiang Li
  • People’s Choice: Tamara Niella

Panel Winners

  • Maple: Reentering the community after incarceration
  • Oak: Ontogeny: the process of becoming
  • Swindells: The journey of a refugee

Poster Winners

  • Oriana Chafe
  • Hayden Rensch
  • Seyed Pooyah Razavi Ghahfarokhi
  • Omoshola AleruMilntra Raksachat
  • Gina Williamson
  • Alejandra Garcia Isaza
  • Celia Caffery
  • People’s Choice: Lindsey Romero

2018

Poster Winners

  • Daniel O’Hara
  • Arash Dayani
  • Gina Williamson
  • Cameron Johnson
  • Soheil Jamshidi
  • Claire Guidinger
  • Joscha Klueppel
  • Lauren Witherspoon
  • Maria Schweer-Collins
  • People’s Choice Posters: 
    • Heather Leonard
    • Maria Schweer-Collins

3MT Final Winners

  • Camille Cioffi
  • Sarah Donaldson
  • Caleb Holt
  • People’s Choice 3MT: Camille Cioffi

Panel Winners (Oak Room)

  • Karikarn Chansiri
  • Mark Hammond
  • Aleksandria Perez Grabow
  • Kaitlin O’Brien

Panel Winners (Maple Room)

  • Billy Dean Goehring
  • Angie Michaiel
  • Sarah Stednitz