{"id":71981,"date":"2016-04-14T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=71981"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:35:46","slug":"graduate-research-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/graduate-research-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Research Forum Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students, faculty, and community members filled the Pegasus Ballroom on April 5 to support graduate students and learn about their innovative, original research and creative projects at Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Over 200 students and 70 faculty judges participated in the event and over $16,000 in awards was presented for Best in Category presentations. Additionally, first place winners are invited to present at the Statewide Graduate Student Research Symposium on April 22, 2016 at the University of Florida. At this event top graduate students selected from ten universities in Florida will compete for awards on the state level. If you have any questions about the UCF Graduate Research Forum, email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:researchweek@ucf.edu\">researchweek@ucf.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the 2016 Graduate Research Forum Winners listed below and we hope to see you all at the 2017 event!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 12px\/18px 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #222222;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">\n<strong>BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT AND FINE ARTS AND HUMANITIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Place Doctoral\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Miller<\/strong>, Texts and Technology PhD<\/p>\n<p><em>Awareness Ribbons As Memes: A Genre for Polyvocal Philanthropic Discourse<br \/>\n <\/em>Mentor: Stephanie Vie, PhD<\/p>\n<p>First Place Masters<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Padgett, <\/strong>History MA<\/p>\n<p><em>Counting Kills: Exploring the DeBary Hall Hunting Ledger, 1904-1941<br \/>\n <\/em>Mentor: Scot French, PhD<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Place Doctoral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Naomi Wheeler<\/strong>, Education PhD \u2013 Counselor Education Track\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><em>Exploring Connections between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Intimate Partner Relationship Quality and Adult Health<br \/>\n <\/em>Mentor: Sejal Barden, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Second Place Doctoral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shainna Ali<\/strong>, Education PhD \u2013 Counselor Education Track<\/p>\n<p><em>The Impact of a Strengths-Based Group Counseling Intervention on Young Adults\u2019 Coping, Appraisal of Social Support, and Coming-Out Growth<\/em><br \/>\n Mentor: Glenn Lambie, PhD<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND MODELING AND SIMULATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Place Doctoral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Khurram Soomro<\/strong>,\u00a0Computer Science PhD<\/p>\n<p><em>Action Localization in Videos through Context Walk<br \/>\n <\/em>Mentor: Mubarak Shah, PhD<br \/>\n Co-Authors: Haroon Idrees, PhD; 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Rashmi Gupta; Sandra Geden, Kyle Rohde, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Second Place Doctoral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Grube<\/strong>, Biomedical Sciences PhD<\/p>\n<p><em>A Quantitative Spectrophotometric Assay to Monitor the tRNA-dependent Pathway for Lipid Aminoacylation in Vitro<br \/>\n <\/em>Mentor: Stephen King, PhD<br \/>\n Mentor\/Co-Author: Herve Roy, PhD<\/p>\n<p>First Place Masters<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocky Brighton<\/strong>, Nanotechnology PSM<\/p>\n<p><em>Electrophoretic Deposition of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles as an Antioxidant Biological Coating<\/em><br \/>\n Mentor: Sudipta Seal, PhD<br \/>\nCo-Authors:\u00a0Danielle Estes; Keiffer Gaskill; Shashank Saraf; Tamil Selvan Sakthivel; Soumen Das; Sudipta Seal, PhD<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIFE SCIENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Place Doctoral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Gitto<\/strong>, Biomedical Sciences PhD<\/p>\n<p><em>Chronic Inflammation Induces Severe Stromal Damage and Early Pancreatic Tumors in Mice with Activated Akt1 and KRas<\/em><br \/>\n Mentor: Deborah Altomare, PhD<br \/>\nCo-Authors:\u00a0Kathryn Cline; Amr Khaled, MD, Orlando Veteran&#8217;s Administration Medical Center; Deborah Altomare, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Second Place Doctoral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sambuddha Basu<\/strong>, Biomedical Sciences PhD<\/p>\n<p><em>Implication of 8-oxodG-mediated Transcriptional Mutagenesis in Sporadic Parkinson\u2019s Disease<br \/>\n <\/em>Mentor: Yoon-Seoung Kim, MD<br \/>\n Co-Authors:\u00a0Subhrangshu Guhathakurta; Greg Goldblatt; Suren Tatulian; Eugene Bok; Goun Je, College of Medicine, Kyung-Hee University; Ana Clara Cristovao, Medical Sciences, University of Beira Interior; Yoon-Seong Kim, MD<\/p>\n<p>First Place Masters<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alyssa Varanoske<\/strong>, Sport and Exercise Science MS &#8211; Applied Exercise Physiology<\/p>\n<p><em>Echogenicity Quantified by Ultrasonographic Panoramic Scans Compared to Still-Images in Collegiate Men<br \/>\n <\/em>Mentor: David Fukuda, PhD<br \/>\n Co-Authors:\u00a0David Fukuda, PhD; Carleigh Boone; Kyle Beyer; Kayla Baker; Jeffrey Stout, PhD; Jay Hoffman, PhD<\/p>\n<p><strong>MATHEMATICS, OPTICS AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Place Doctoral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zeinab Sanjabieznaveh<\/strong>, Physics PhD<\/p>\n<p><em>Few Mode Multicore Photonic Lantern Mode Multiplexer<\/em><br \/>\n Mentor:\u00a0Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, PhD<br \/>\nCo-authors:\u00a0J.E. Antonio Lopez; G. Lopez Galmiche, Instituto Nacional de Astrof\u00edsica \u00d3ptica y Electr\u00f3nica (INAOE), Mexico; J. Rodriguez Asomoza, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Sta. Catarina, Tonantzintla, Mexico; D. Van Ras, Prysmian Group; France; P. Sillard, Prysmian Group; France; A. Sch\u00fclzgen; C. M. Okonkwo, COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology; R. Amezcua Correa, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Second Place Doctoral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennefir Digaum<\/strong>, Optics and Photonics PhD<\/p>\n<p><em>Spatially-Variant Self-Collimating Photonic Crystal for Beam Bending at Telecommunication Wavelength<br \/>\n <\/em>Mentor: Stephen Kuebler, PhD<br \/>\n Co-Authors:\u00a0Daniel Batista; Raymond Rumpf, EM Lab, W.M. Keck Center for 3D Innovation, University of Texas at El Paso; Stephen Kuebler, PhD<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOCIAL SCIENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Place Doctoral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sara Bryson<\/strong>, Criminal Justice PhD<\/p>\n<p><em>The Impact of School Climate on School Safety<br \/>\n <\/em>Mentor\/Co-Author: Kristina Childs, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Second Place Doctoral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mallory McCord<\/strong>, Industrial and Organizational Psychology<\/p>\n<p><em>An Alternative Model of Emotional Intelligence: Evidence of Traditional and Discrete Emotion Factors<\/em><br \/>\n Mentor\/Co-Author: Dana Joseph, PhD<\/p>\n<p>First Place Masters<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abigail Woltering<\/strong>,\u00a0Anthropology MA<\/p>\n<p><em>Biological Sex Determination from Trace element Analysis in Human Hair<br \/>\n <\/em>Mentor\/Co-Author: Tosha Dupras, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Second Place Masters<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zorina Manoni<\/strong>,\u00a0Anthropology MA<\/p>\n<p><em>Living in the Kingdom of Bosnia (AD 1377-1463): A Study of Activity Patterns of Agro-pastoralists at Mistihalj<\/em><br \/>\n Mentor\/Co-Author: Marla Toyne, PhD<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Graduate Research Forum and to see a list of the student&#8217;s abstracts, please visit\u00a0www.graduate.ucf.edu\/ResearchForum.<\/p>\n<p>To see photos from the Graduate Research Forum please visit our Facebook page\u00a0<a title=\"here\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10153047971722537.1073741849.78575707536&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students, faculty, and community members filled the Pegasus Ballroom on April 5 to support graduate students and learn about their innovative, original research and creative projects at Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Forum. 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