Discovery Day 2018 Overall Winners

Award Winners

We would like to extend our warm congratulations to the 2018 LSU Discover Day Award Recipients who were selected by an independent panel of faculty and graduate student judges.

 

Oral Presentation - STEM Disciplines

Placement Student College Presentation Title
1st Hira Hasan College of Science An Investigation of Maltose Transport System Induction in the Rugose Phase Variant of Human Pathogen Vibrio vulnificus
2nd Sydney Cottingham College of the Coast and Environment Gastrointestinal Helminth Prevalence in Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) Wintering on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana
3rd Steven Grouchy College of Engineering Smartphone-Based Fluorescence Imaging System for Cancer Cell Detection

 

Oral Presentation - Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

Placement Student College Presentation Title
1st Taylor Pernini College of Humanities & Social Sciences An Inexhaustible Source of Magic: How Fanfiction Turned One World Into a Thousand
2nd Meagan Morvant Manship School of Mass Communication Effects of Nostalgia on Brand Loyalty Following Crisis
3rd Samantha Knotts College of Humanities & Social Sciences I Saw It on the News: How Does Pre-Trial Publicity Impact Jury Decision-Making?

 

Poster Presentation - STEM Disciplines

Placement Student College Presentation Title
1st Madison Hopper College of Human Sciences & Education The Relationship Between Hand Use and the Direction of Handwriting
2nd Brandon Tramontana College of Engineering Reception and Integration of Multimodal Courtship Signals in an African Cichlid Fish, Astatotilapia burtoni
3rd Amy Morgan College of Engineering Evaluating Three-Dimensional Cancer Cell Migration to Durotactic Cues in a Microfluidic Device

 

Poster Presentation - Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

Placement Student College Presentation Title
1st Allison Poor College of Humanities & Social Sciences The Associations Between Callous-Unemotional Traits, Beliefs About the Future, and Offending in Justice-involved Adolescent Boys
2nd Lilly Cambre College of Humanities & Social Sciences A Survey of Earthquake and Tsunami Protective Actions in Two Haitian Communities
3rd Andrea Smith College of Humanities & Social Sciences White Noise on Executive Function in Individuals with ADHD

 

Visual Displays

Placement Student College Presentation Title
1st Meagan Moore College of Engineering, Baton Rouge Community College 3D-Printing Whole Body Personalized Phantoms for Radiotherapy Measurements
2nd Karmen Ancar College of Human Sciences & Education Can We Move Our Fingers Independently?
3rd Claire LaGrone College of Humanities & Social Sciences Carmen Around the World

 

Juried Art Show

Placement Student College Presentation Title
1st Taylor Gonsoulin College of Art & Design At The End of the Road