Dillard College of Business Administration

Best Oral Presentation

1^st Place  — Antecedents and Outcomes of Brand Loyalty | Keaton Dolan, Will Roland, Ashley Watts, Wadzanai Dzvurumi, and Liz Navarette (mentors: Thuy D. Nguyen) 

2^nd Place — Crude Oil: Effects of Deflated Oil Prices on the North Texas Regional Economy | Curtis Knobloch (mentors: John Martinez and Robert Forrester)

 3^rd place — U.S. Foreign Investment, De Jure and De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes in Emerging Economies | Luca Lalor (mentor: Pablo Garcia-Fuentes)

Best Poster Presentation

1^st Place — Turning Up the Heat on Volunteer Motivation: A Study Examining What Makes America’s Most Famous Triple Digit Weather Bike Race So Attractive for its’ Volunteers | Adam Leikness, Aubrey Kass, and Wadzanai Dzvurumi (mentors: Niyati Kataria and Jeff Stambaugh) 

2^nd Place — Too Big to Fail vs. Too Little to Succeed: An application of Predator-Prey Models to the Banking Industry | Dareem Antoine & Kizelle Williams (mentor: Dale McDonald and John Martinez) 

Gunn College of Health Sciences and Human Services

Best Poster Presentation

1^st Place — Empowering Nursing Students to Educate | Britney Beasley and Jordan Spurlock (mentors: Julia K. Knauff and Catherine Pankonien)

2^nd Place — Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Carmen McSpadden, Matt Smith, Jasilyn Boyce and Erin Summerlin (mentor: Jessyca Wagner)

 3^rd place — Virtual Anatomical Models in Facilitating Surgical Procedures | Oscar Montalvo, Jacy Franklin, Michelle Tomeï and Jessica Rivera (mentor: Jessyca Wagner)

Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities & Social Sciences

Best Oral Presentation

 1^st Place — Bridging the Gap: The Anglo-Saxon Connection between the English and German Languages | Lisa D. Moore (mentors: Yvonne Franke, Peter Fields and Tom Galbraith)

 2^nd Place — Fort Hood Free Grazers: An Oral History | Kristen Johnson (mentor: Leland Turner)

 3^rd place — The Measurement of Violence Against Women: A Case Study Analysis of Empirical Scales | Julia Brady, Alexis Gay, Andrea Mendoza-Lespron and Madeline Parker (mentors: Steve Garrison and Linda Veazey)

Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities & Social Sciences

Best Poster Presentation

1^st Place — Developing a New Newsletter for Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology | Careisha Whyte and Catherine Stepniak (mentors: Bradley Wilson and Newman Wong) 

2^nd Place — The Sociological Significance of Pigeons | Austin Monson (mentor: Beverly Stiles)

College of Science and Mathematics

Best Oral Presentation

1^st Place — A Pneumatic Dome Shaped Active Road Rumble | Daniel Goodey, Donnie Hudnell, Austin Fidlar, Varuna Denawakage Don and Ronell Pemberton (mentor: Salim Azzouz) 

2^nd Place — Experimental Study of the Nonlinear Dynamics in a Duffing Oscillatory Circuit | Xin Hu (mentors: Yu Guo and Martin Melhus)

 3^rd place — Modeling Study of Leidenfrost Drop on Micro- and Nanoscale Ratchets | Kiran Chapagain and Daniel Goodey (mentors: Jeong Tae Ok, Mahmoud Elsharafi, Yu Guo and Sheldon Wang)

College of Science and Mathematics

Best Poster Presentation

 1^st Place — MSU Smart Parking System | Enaho Atamenwan, Paul Emmanuel Yacho, Abdullah Albakhurji, Indeesha Wickramarachchi, Rojitha Goonesekere (mentor: Yu Guo

2^nd Place — Quantitative Analysis of Fatty Acids Present within the Tropical Milkweed, Asclepias curassavica | Tim Torres and Francisco Ramos-Armas (mentors: Matt Watson and Michael Shipley)

3^rd place — Vision Based Feedback Control of a Multi-DOF Robot via Bluetooth | Xitong Li, Danny Chen and Mpathi Nzima (mentor: Yu Guo)

West College of Education

Best Oral Presentation

Understanding the Influence of Instructor Strategies to Self-Regulation and Engagement of the Millennial College Student | Jarred Garcia and Sara Steele (mentor: Suzanne Lindt)

West College of Education

Best Poster Presentation

1^st Place — Integrating Children’s Literature in Elementary Math Methods: Fostering Understandings and Connections | Melissa Whitwood and Nikki Bussue (mentor: Dittika Gupta)

 2^nd Place — Reflective Thinking Practices of Preservice Teachers: The Role of Videotaped Teaching and Shared Practice Protocols | Mary Brady (mentors: Leann Curry, Emily Reeves and Jeff Blacklock)

Lamar D. Fain College of Fine Arts

Best Oral Presentation

 1^st Place — Directing a One-Act Play — Kristin M. Lanier (mentor: Betty Stewart and Karen Dabney)

2^nd Place (a tie) — Police Brutality: Is it Perception or Reality? | Megan Piehler (mentor: Betty Stewart)

2^nd Place (a tie) — Constructing an Online Studio Art Class: Transitioning from a Conventionally Taught Drawing Course to an Online Class Using iPads | Emma Griffiths (mentor: Elizabth Yarosz-Ash)

Lamar D. Fain College of Fine Arts

Best Poster Presentation

 1^st Place — Developing a New Newsletter for Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology | Careisha Whyte and Catherine Stepniak (mentors: Bradley Wilson and Newman Wong)

2^nd Place — Establishing Literary Journalism in the Curriculum | Robin Reid (mentor: Mitzi Lewis)

Most Creative & Original Presentation

Integrating Children’s Literature in Elementary Math Methods: Fostering Understandings and Connections | Melissa Whitwood and Nikki Bussue (mentor: Dittika Gupta)

Best Interdisciplinary Presentation

With Your Own Hands | Tim Yap, Branson Spencer, Daniel Richison, Brian Zug, Bernard Peters, Austin Monson, Wadzanai Dzvurumi, Brooke Benson, Anamika Bhatia, Disa Hairell, Ronny Medina, Kalli Root (mentor: Martin Camacho)

President’s Award – Overall Top Winner from All Colleges, poster and oral presentations: The only presentation today with a perfect score of 24 and a perfect score of 10 for Originality and Creativity:

Integrating Children’s Literature in Elementary Math Methods: Fostering Understandings and Connections | Melissa Whitwood and Nikki Bussue (mentors: Dittika Gupta)

ideaMSU Awards

1^st Place ($2,000) — Sol3 Labs. Michael Olaya

2^nd Place ($1,000) — SD3 Transmissions. Jn Claude Gustave, Nanette Philip, Jennifer Sissel, & Bryce Tucker

3^rd Place ($500) — Smart Parking Systems. Enaho Atamenwan, Paul Yacho, Abdullah Albakhurji, & Rojitha Goonesekere

Peoples’ Choice Award ($250)

Evergreen Implementations | Austin Hicks & Sebastian Esquivel