Fall 2019 URCA Recipients
Fall 2019 URCA Award Recipients
| First Name | Last Name | Category of Project | Department | Project Title | Co-Investigator 1 | Co-Investigator 2 | Faculty Mentor | Co-Mentor |
| Justin Bailey | Brinson | Social Sciences | Anthropology | Classification of Prehistoric Artifacts in Pitt County | Randolph Daniel | |||
| Addison | Siemon | Social Sciences | Anthropology | Embattled & Burned: New Discoveries at Brunswick | Charles Ewen | |||
| Dani | Foster | Humanities/Arts | Foreign Language and Literature | The Importance of Alexander von Humboldt's Conception of Nature for Climate Science | David Smith | |||
| Mina | Chanakira | Biomedical Sciences | Chemistry | FtrB and its role in the uptake of ferrous iron in Brucella | Sambuddha Banerjee | |||
| Brennan | Huggins | STEM | Chemistry | Inhibition of Ice Crystallization Using Fluorescent Antifreeze Peptides | Megan Koufas | William E. Allen | ||
| Arvind | Rajan | Biomedical Sciences | ECU Department of Physiology and East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute | Determining the ketogenic diet-driven gene transcription in the normal and hypertrophic heart | Jessica EllisPereyra, A | Andrea Pereyra | ||
| David | Murray | STEM | Chemistry | Development of facile synthetic methods to incorporate novel unnatural amino acids into user-designed peptides with unique functionalities | Adam Offenbacher | William Allen | ||
| Jonathan | Carver | STEM | Biology | Role of Adamts9 in primordial germ cell migration and sex determination in zebrafish Danio rerio | Yong Zhu | |||
| Zachary | Warfel | STEM | Biology | Interannual Variability in Morphometric Condition of Larval Atlantic Croaker and Mojarra as a Function of Temperature, Zooplankton Abundance, and Seasonality | Rebecca Asch | |||
| Kaylee | Patterson | Biomedical Sciences | Biology | Characterizing the role of Tnpo-SR in Oogenesis | Elizabeth Ables | |||
| Savanna | Williams | STEM | Engineering and Technology | Use of Hydrogels to Emulate Lymphedema Tissue Densities for Use in AERO Device | Stephanie George | |||
| Taylor | Malachowski | Biomedical Sciences | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Does male germ cell development require RA? | Chris Geyer | Oleksandr Kirsanov | ||
| Parth | Dave | STEM | Biology | Investigation of conserved cysteines on fatty acid desaturase function | Patrick Horn | |||
| Conor | Ferns | Humanities/Arts | Film and Video Production | Capture the Moment/ A documentary on an aging photojournalist | Erick Green | Mary Elliot | ||
| Rachel | Cobb | Humanities/Arts | Literacy Studies, English Education, and History Education and Department of Elementary and Middle Grades Education | Representation and Construction of Disabilities in Children’s and Young Adult Literature | Hannah Skaff | Christy Howard | Jennifer Gallagher | |
| James | Barros | Biomedical Sciences | Engineering and Nursing | DESIGN OF A PATIENT ORIENTATION MONITORING SYSTEM | Ricky Castles | |||
| Griffin | Crail-Steinbaker | STEM | Engineering and Technology | Sensor-Based Anxiety Monitoring System | Gunnar Price | Riley Dumm | Rickey Castles | |
| Mariah | Mook | STEM | Engineering and Technology | Reinforcement Learning for a Data-Driven Insulin Pump | Jinkun Lee | |||
| Natalie | Bell | STEM | Engineering and Technology | Improvement of Insulin-Glucose Model for Personalized Model Predictive Control | Jinkun Lee | |||
| Bridget | Ward | STEM | Engineering and Technology | Computer-Assisted Image Analysis of Echocardiography in Pulmonary Hypertension Patients | Stephanie George | |||
| Stephen | Sugarbaker | STEM | Engineering and Technology | Valorization of Waste Peanut Skins: Extraction of Bioactive Compounds | Kurabachew Duba | |||
| Bailey | Thomas | Biomedical Sciences | Pharmacology and Toxicology | The role of ChemR23 in ozone-induced pulmonary inflammation and injury | Kym Gowdy | Sky Reece | ||
| Caleb | Lockamy | STEM | Engineering and Technology | Solar and Blue Energy Harvesting for Desalination | Tarek Abdel-Salam | Faete Filho | ||
| Anuj | Sanghvi | Biomedical Sciences | Engineering and Technology | Patient-Specific Models for Perioperative Planning | Barbara Muller-Borer | |||
| Dylan | Sampson | STEM | Kinesiology | Effects of distracted jump training on mechanical differences in a jump-landing task | Patrick Rider | |||
| Mychaela | Brown | Biomedical Sciences | Psychology | Learning Problems in a Mouse Model of Sleep Impairment | Tuan Tran | |||
| Shyam | Sutariya | Biomedical Sciences | Pharmacology and Toxicology | Visualization of the anit-inflammatory effects of cannabidiol post neuronal damage | Kenneth Soderstrom | |||
| Kendall | Schunk | Social Sciences | Nursing | Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes in Lung Cancer | Lee Ann Jarrett-Johnson | |||
| Conner | Mikitka | Biomedical Sciences | Nutrition Science | Influence of Hyperglycemia condition of Matrix Remodeling Responses of Macrophages | Ian Hines | |||
| Justin | Cefalu | Social Sciences | Nutrition Science | Influence of Cooking Classes on Nutrition Literacy | Shay Ernest | Rafailia Vogiatzis | Michael Wheeler | Kate Wilson |
| Elizabeth | Viverette | STEM | Physics | Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Fibrinogen Structure | Nathan Hudson | |||
| Abigail | Ware | Social Sciences | Psychology | Mental Health Risk Factors for Postpartum Depression | Rebecca Harrell | Christyn Dolbier | ||
| Nikita | Revankar | STEM | Human Development and Family Science | Building a Technology Based STEAM Learning Community | Lyndsey Graham | Chia Jung Yeh | ||
| Sarah | Kautz | Social Sciences | Kinesiology | LAST: Leisure Activity Step Tracking Study | Bhibha Das | |||
| Samantha | Foster | Social Sciences | Health Education and Promotion | Identifying context of high-risk opioid use through Emergency Room Data | Kathleen Egan | |||
| Kiersten | Radford | Social Sciences | Health Promotion and Education | Lung Cancer Screening Adherence among Black Immigrants in the United States | Leslie Cofie | |||
| Alexandria | Perry | Social Sciences | Health and Human Percormance | College Male HPV/HPV Vaccine Study | Madelynn Morin | Alice Richman | Essie Torres | |
| Jennifer | McMains | Biomedical Sciences | Physiology | Neuritogenesis following radiation and castration | Johanna Hannan | |||
| Naimi | Pothiwala | Biomedical Sciences | Diabetes and Obesity Institute | Mitochondrial Phenotyping of Leukemia | Hannah Coalson | Kelsey Fisher-Wellman | ||
| Ananya | Koripella | Biomedical Sciences | East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute and Department of Physiology | Elucidating the role of BRCA1 in muscle satellite cells | Espen Spangenburg | |||
| Patrick | Klitsch | Humanities/Arts | Textiles | Vyschyvanko: Identity Through Dress | Robin Haller | |||
| Brooke | Palmer | Humanities/Arts | School of Theatre and Dance | Performing in American Sign Language – “The Magic of Winter from Around the World" | Patch Clark | Nancy Ausherman |