NDSU Student Research Day, a collaboration among NDSU EXPLORE, the NDSU chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta and the Graduate Student Council, was held April 19. The following students were recognized with awards.
NDSU EXPLORE AWARDS
ORAL PRESENTATION – first place
• Ryan Anderson, civil engineering
• Faculty Mentor: Syeed Iskander
• “Nanoplastics in Landfill Leachate and Its Environmental Implications”
ORAL PRESENTATION – second place
• Mark Delisi, psychology
• Faculty Mentor: Mark Nawrot
• “Efficacy of the saccadic eye movement system in the perception of depth from motion parallax”
ORAL PRESENTATION – third place
• Rachel Voigt, animal sciences
• Faculty Mentor: Carolyn Hammer
• “Maternal Supranutritional Selenium Supplementation Influences the Abundance of the Neonatal Fragment Crystallizable Receptor (FcRn) in Ewe Mammary Tissue”
ORAL PRESENTATION – honorable mention
• Madeliene Nichols, animal sciences
• Faculty Mentor: Zachary Carlson
• “The influence of Megasphaera Elsdenni and Diet Adaptation Program on Feedlot Performance of Yearling Heifers Accelerated to a High-Concentrate Finishing Diet”
POSTER SESSION – first place
• Isabella Jurgens, animal sciences
• Faculty Mentor: Carl Dahlen
• “Nutrition During Early Pregnancy Impacts Offspring Ovarian Characteristics”
POSTER SESSION – second place
• Hannah Khan, biological sciences
• Faculty Mentor: Katie Reindl
• “Modeling Acquired Drug Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer Cell Lines”
POSTER SESSION – third place
• Carl Ludewig, geology
• Faculty Mentor: Lydia Tackett
• “Petrology of New Zealand sediments and its impact on environmental determination”
POSTER SESSION – honorable mentions
• Brianna Maddock, biotechnology
• Faculty Mentor: Glenn Dorsam
• “Confirmation and Improved Taxonomic Resolution of the Altered Gut Microbiota Community Structures in VIP Deficient Mice by Quantitative PCR”
• Emily Jackson, geology
• Faculty Mentor: Lydia Tackett
• “Mid to Late Triassic Foraminifera of Nevada: Using microfossils for paleoenvironmental interpretations and determining the ages of rocks”
NDSU CHAPTER OF GAMMA SIGMA DELTA AWARDS
UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION – first place
• Isabella Jurgens, animal sciences
• Faculty Mentor: Carl Dahlen
• “Nutrition During Early Pregnancy Impacts Offspring Ovarian Characteristics”
UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION – second place
• Mia Haugan, microbiology
• Faculty Mentor: Barney Geddes
• “Estimation of Genotypic Diversity for Rhizobium leguminosarum Isolates Throughout the State of North Dakota”
UNDERGRADUATE ORAL SESSION – first place
• Rachel Voigt, animal sciences
• Faculty Mentor: Carolyn Hammer
• “Maternal supranutritional selenium supplementation influences the abundance of the neonatal fragment crystallizable receptor (FcRn) in ewe mammary tissue”
UNDERGRADUATE ORAL SESSION – second place
• Madeliene Nichols, animal sciences
• Faculty Mentor: Zac Carlson
• “Lactipro NXT Trial”
GRADUATE POSTER SESSION – first place
• Runhao Wang, plant sciences
• Faculty Mentor: Xuehui Li
• “Recurrent Selection to Develop Hard Red Spring Wheat FHB resistant Germplasm”
GRADUATE POSTER SESSION – second place
• Mikayla Tabert, plant sciences
• Faculty Mentor: Marisol Berti
• “Sunflower intercropping to establish alfalfa in the rotation”
GRADUATE ORAL SESSION – first place
• Shivreet Kaur, cereal science
• Faculty Mentor: Upinder Gill
• “Tapping global wheat diversity for identifying novel sources of genetic resistance against the cereal killer, wheat rust”
GRADUATE ORAL SESSION – second place
• Brady Goettl, soil science
• Faculty Mentor: David Franzen
• “Economically Optimum Nitrogen Rates for North Dakota Two-Row Malting Barley”
NDSU GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL AWARDS
ORAL PRESENTATION – first place
• Ellysa Johnson, natural resources management
• Faculty Mentors: Torre Hovick and Jason Harmon
• “Monarch (Danaus plexippus L.), milkweed (Asclepias spp.), and forb responses to reintroducing grazing and fire disturbance regimes in managed rangelands”
ORAL PRESENTATION – second place
• Emma Chandler, environmental and conservation science
• Faculty Mentor: Steven Travers
• “Minnesota chill to Texas heat: The intraspecific variation of temperature tolerance in the sporophytic and gametophytic life stages of Solanum carolinense”
ORAL PRESENTATION – third place
• Brady Goettl, soil science
• Faculty Mentor: David Franzen
• “Economically Optimum Nitrogen Rates for North Dakota Two-Row Malting Barley”
ORAL PRESENTATION – fourth place
• Shivreet Kaur, plant pathology
• Faculty Mentor: Upinder Gill
• “Tapping global wheat diversity for identifying novel sources of genetic resistance against the cereal killer, wheat rust”
ORAL PRESENTATION – fifth place
• Himani Yadav, civil engineering - environmental
• Faculty Mentor: Syeed Md Iskander
• “Microplastics Release from Plastic Chopping Boards during Food Preparation”
POSTER PRESENTATION – first place
• Bethany Roberton, entomology
• Faculty Mentor: Jason Harmon
• “Bee community abundance, diversity, and resource use under various grazing regimes”
POSTER PRESENTATION – second place
• Jacob Pithan, biological sciences
• Faculty Mentors: Kendra Greenlee and Giancarlo Lopez-Martinez
• “Effects of Aging on Performance and Accumulation of Oxidative Damage in the Solitary Bee, Megachile rotundata”
POSTER PRESENTATION – third place
• Runhao Wang, plant sciences
• Faculty Mentor: Xuehui Li
• “Recurrent Selection to Develop Hard Red Spring Wheat FHB resistant Germplasm”
POSTER PRESENTATION – fourth place
• Omolola Eniodunmo, chemistry
• Faculty Mentor: Svetlana Kilina
• “Fine-Tuning the Photophysical properties of Cu (I) Dipyrrin Complexes via Substituting groups and Conjugation”
POSTER PRESENTATION – fifth place
• Ashish Christopher, other
• Faculty Mentor: Kalidas Shetty
• “Phenolic Phytochemical-Linked Human Health and Food Safety Benefits of Select Botanicals”
