{"id":92108,"date":"2025-04-16T03:45:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=92108"},"modified":"2025-04-17T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:45:10","slug":"undergraduates-present-research-in-college-of-natural-sciences-and-mathematics-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_16_2025\/undergraduates-present-research-in-college-of-natural-sciences-and-mathematics-expo","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduates Present Research in College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three dozen undergraduate students presented research in disciplines ranging from astronomy to environmental science at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics\u2019 first Undergraduate Research Expo on Thursday, April 10.<\/p>\n<p>Oral and poster presentations took place in the atrium of Memorial Field House.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer judges awarded the following students for their oral presentations:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 First Place, Atticus Destatte, &#8220;Temperature Dependent Photoluminescent Properties of CdSe\/CdTe Thin Films,&#8221; Dr. Randall Ellingson Lab<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Second Place (tie), Milo Eckhardt, &#8220;Globular Star Cluster Populations in Spiral Galaxies,&#8221; Dr. Rupali Chandar Lab<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Second Place\u00a0(tie), Abigail Lewis, &#8220;Combined Impacts of Heat Stress and Drought on Nutritional Quality of Plants as Food,&#8221; Dr. Scott Heckathorn Lab<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer judges awarded the following students for their poster presentations:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 First Place, Kartik Nair, &#8220;Processing of Phosphorus Doped Cadmium Telluride Photovoltaics,&#8221; Dr. Michael Heben Lab<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Second Place (tie), Neha Chenna, \u201cUnlocking Nature&#8217;s Toolbox: Exploring Halogenase Enzymes Using X-Ray Crystallography for Sustainable Chemical Synthesis,&#8221; Dr. John Bellizzi Lab<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Second Place (tie), Haroon Lughmani, &#8220;Structural Features and Physiological Associations of Human 14-3-3 Pseudogenes&#8221;, Dr. Ritu Chakravarti Lab<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Second Place (tie), Pranayini Singh, &#8220;A Simplified Nonlinear Mathematical Model for Blood Flow in an Aneurysm,&#8221; Dr. Vani Cheruvu Lab<\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate students are encouraged to begin research as early as their first semester at UToledo, which is recognized among the top-tier research universities in the country with a prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoledo.edu\/research\/r1classification\/\">Carnegie R1 Classification<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_16_2025\/undergraduates-present-research-in-college-of-natural-sciences-and-mathematics-expo\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Scott-Crawley-Zainab-Rahman-04102025-6929-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dr. Scott Crawley, an associate professor of biology, listens as Zainab Rahman, a biology senior, points to a research poster and explains her work.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Nearly three dozen students participated in the first College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Expo on Thursday, April 10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":92111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,39,1,3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92122,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92108\/revisions\/92122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}