2021 Virtual Poster Competition

Awards

College Students

1st Place:  Ariel Pefley (TMCC)

2nd Place:  Samson Stynen (TMCC)

3rd Place:  Nicole Downey (GBC) and Christopher Catechis (CSN)

Undergraduate Students

1st Place: Iris Nava (UNLV)

2nd Place: Bethany-Anne Calvert (UNR)

 3rd Place: Cheyenne Brokaw (UNLV),  Faaris Khilji (UNLV) and UNLV RebelSat

Graduate Students

1st Place:  Nathan Ernster (DRI), Nancy Nou (UNLV), Alice Ready (UNR), and Miranda Seixas (DRI)

2nd Place: Cindy Kha (UNLV)

3rd Place:  Bang Tran (UNR)

*All other participants received “Honorable Mentions”.

Undergraduate Students

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Investigating the Varying Behaviors of Magnesium, Tin, and Lead Oxalate Under High-Pressure

Kevin Ayala Pineda; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Under pressure: defining the limits of microbial life in ocean worlds

Cheyenne Brokaw; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Development of Curling Actuations in HASEL Actuators

Bethany-Anne Calvert; University of Nevada, Reno

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The Role of CD33 in Microglial Neuroinflammation and Phagocytosis

Kenny Do; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Indoor Autonomous Drone Navigation with Aruco Markers

Faaris Khilji; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Control of Eye Regeneration in Xenopus laevis

Iris Nava; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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RebelSat; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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College Students

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Influence of Body Proportions on Dance Movements in Pre-Professional Dancers

Joslyn Bassett, Hannah Freeman; Truckee Meadows Community College

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Meta-Analysis: Prion Diseases

Daniela Calzada; College of Southern Nevada

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Coffee Consumption: Meta-Analysis on its Health Benefits

Lisette Castaneda; College of Southern Nevada

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UAVs for Space Exploration: Recover and Rescue Operations

Christopher Catechis: College of Southern Nevada

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The Importance of MOXIE to the Future of Space Exploration

Jenna Cumbers; College of Southern Nevada

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A.G.A.T.E: Anti Gravity Affects on Teeth Evulsion

Nicole Downey; Great Basin College

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Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals in Exposed Mine Tailings of the Creosote Bush

Crystal Hadfield; College of Southern Nevada

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Designing, Cloning and Isolation of Mutant B-Glucosidase Enzymes

Sarah Ley and Angelo Fuentecilla; Truckee Meadows Community College

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Low Costs Technology Alternative for Diagnosing Scoliosis Utilizing Computerized Technologies

Udoka Okoye; Truckee Meadows Community College

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Activity Patterns of Urban Bobcats (Lynx rufus) in West Reno

Ariel Pefley; Truckee Meadows Community College

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Stratospheric Conditions: A Near-Space Balloon Project

Brandon Roberts; Western Nevada College

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Assessing Online Supplemental Instruction in an Introductory Community College Cell and Molecular Biology Class

Samson Stynen; Truckee Meadows Community College

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M.I.B. - Mice In Barns

Natalie Swingle; Great Basin College

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Graduate Students

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Leveraging Red-Band Reflectance to Detect Ice Phenology in Small Mountain Lakes

Joshua Culpepper; University of Nevada, Reno

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Optical microscopy and AFM as complimentary tools in detecting signs of life in ocean world analog samples

Nathan Ernster; Desert Research Institute

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COOLER AND WETTER CONDITIONS FAVOR FE-RICH AMORPHOUS MATERIAL FORMATION AND PERSISTENCE IN TERRESTIAL SOILS CHEMICALLY SIMILAR TO SEDIMENTS AT GALE CRATER, MARS

Anthony Feldman; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Bioelectricity Regulates Regeneration in Vertebrate Eyes

Cindy Kha; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Reconstructing fire intensity leveraging infrared imaging microscopy of charcoal materials and NASA remote sensing products

Kerri Minatre; Desert Research Institute

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Electroactive Polymer for Flexible Energy Storage

Liya Napollion; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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DSCC: Disease Subtyping Using Community Detection from Consensus Network

Hung Nguyen; University of Nevada, Reno

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Investigating the polysaccharide-degrading proteins of novel hyperthermophile Ca. Fervidibacter sacchari PD1

Nancy Nou; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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An in-depth look into martian magmatism and shergottite formation through olivine-hosted melt inclusions in a poikilitic shergottite suite

Evan O’Neal; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Phenology-based UAV remote sensing for classifying invasive annual grasses to the species level

Alice Ready; University of Nevada, Reno

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Informing models of life in Ocean World brines: lessons from active microbial life in briny waters of Lake Vida at -13C

Miranda Seixas; Desert Research Institute

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Omnitrophota: a diverse and ubiquitous candidate phylum of putative syntrophs, predators, and free-living nanobacteria

Cale Seymour; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Evaporation and freezing modeling to predict microbial habitability of potential Martian brines

Sara Smith; University of Nevada, Reno

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scCAN: A Single Cell Clustering Method Using Autoencoder and Network Fusion

Bang Tran; University of Nevada, Reno

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Explainable Deep Learning for Detection of Fairy Circles

Avinash Yaganapu; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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