Student Poster Session

Students with the top three posters in two categories, Research and Experiential, were awarded cash prizes. The top prize in each category received $300.00, second place received $200.00, and third place $100.00. Faculty attending the event also voted for their favorite poster. The winner of the faculty favorite poster received a cash prize of $250.00. The winners of each category are as follows:

Research Poster Category

1st Place
Emma Gallegos, Iowa State University
Shaping Watersheds

2nd Place
Glorianne Dorce, Grinnell College
Detecting Concentrations of Steroidal Hormones in Water Samples Through Optimized SPE/UHPLC/MS Method

3rd Place
Valeria Ortega-Gomez, Iowa State University
Investigations Cooperative Between the ZBTB18 Transcriptional Repressor and PRB Tumor Suppressor in Neural Development and Brian Tumor Pathogenesis

Experiential Poster Category

1st Place
Taha Gesalla, Des Moines Area Community College
Developing and Evaluation Grid Search Methodology to Determine the Dead Times in Multiple Inputs Dynamic Modeling

2nd Place
Erik Zorilla, Upper Iowa University
Utilizing Paper Microfluids in the Design of Wearable Biosensors

3rd Place
Myra James, Iowa State University
Nanomedicine for Targeted Cancer Therapy

People’s Choice Award

Alfredo Colina, Grinnell College
Bacterial Characterizations of a Hog Confinement Located in Poweshiek County and a Potential Source of Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria Discovered

Stokes Award for Outstanding Service

The Stokes Award for Outstanding Service to the IINSPIRE Alliance was presented to Udoyara Sunday Tim, Iowa State University, for service at an exemplary level, in pursuit, of the alliance’s primary goal to increase the participation of URM students in STEM fields.

Outstanding IINSPIRE LSAMP Alumni Award

Queenster Nartey, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Division of Food Contact Notifications, Grinnell College Alumni

Excellence in Mentoring Awards

Outstanding Mentor Award for Faculty or Staff

Richard Stone, Associate Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Iowa State University

Outstanding Student Mentor Awards

Boyce Chang, Graduate Research Assistant of Materials Science & Engineering, Iowa State University

Taha Gesalla, Des Moines Area Community College