Spring Research and Arts Conference Oral Presentations
Session One (9:00 – 10:30 a.m.)
| Arena Room 101 (First Floor Dance Hall) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator: Ms. Gwendolen Mullins Alegre | |
| Emery Doescher, Jocelyn Craven, Madlyn Moffitt | Citizens v. the Government: The Building of Norris Damn |
| Elliott Hill | 2D and 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Analysis of the Cessna 172: Developing Adaptive Wings for More Efficient Consumer Aircraft |
| Anna Chen, Darby Freeman | Effect of Temperature and Compaction Load on the Mechanical Properties of Magnesium-based Nanocomposites for Biomedical Implants |
| Arena Room 121 (First Floor Auditorium) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator: Dr. Hassan Afzal | |
| Gretchen Potts, Ph.D. | Achieving Outcomes in Analytical Chemistry while Focusing on Active Learning and Self-Care |
| William R. Lee, Ph.D. | Newspaper Marches and Newspaper Bands in the Upper Midwest |
| Maggie Duckworth, Brooke Epperson, Rosebelle Peters, Tessa Mullinax-Baker, Jenny Holcombe | AHEAD-RN: Addressing Health Equity, Access, and Diversity through Nursing Simulation Experiences and Partnerships |
| Gary Wilkerson, Ph.D. | Use of Biopsychosocial Data and Predictive Algorithms for Individualized Athlete Health Management |
| Arena Classroom 442 (Fourth Floor Classroom) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator: Dr. Karissa Peyer | |
| Ashton Biggs, Malhar Rathod | Analyzing the Impact of Social Media Use on Attention Span and Information Retention |
| Ryan Wilson, Ashton Biggs | The Tarkine Rainforest: A Struggle for Industry Profit and Wildness Preservation |
| Ruby Phillips, Blaine Chubb | Water for All: Upholding the Human Right to Clean Drinking Water through Government Accountability |
| Michael Barr | Ahamove’s Expansion: Challenges and Opportunities in the U.S. Delivery Market |
| Matthew Gentry | Path-finding Methods in Ecological Conservation |
| Arena Classroom 445 (Fourth Floor Classroom) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator: Dr. Maged Shoman | |
| Mayank Bharatkumar Patel | Enhancing Flood Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Rescue: High-Performance Industrial Pump System Design, Manufacturing, and Optimization |
| David Brown | Uncertainty Quantification of Turbulent Premixed Flames |
| Aarna Srivastava | AI and Career Optimism |
Session Two (11:15 – 12:45 p.m.)
| Arena Room 101 (First Floor Dance Hall) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator - Dr. Prashant Srivastava | |
| Rylea Swafford | Exploring Realism and Limitations in Proto-Languages |
| Alexander Spanjer | “I Think That All of the Nymphs Have Passed Away”: Priapea 33 and the Departure of the Fairies |
| Luke Hicks, Dave Buck, Jill Shelton | Spreading the Word of Unique Thought: Future Research in Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| Fiona Hamilton | Figurative Language in Philosophy |
| Arena Room 121 (First Floor Auditorium) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator - Dr. Mohammad Mahtabi | |
| Jannatul Ferdoush, Ph.D. | Identification of Biomarker Genes in Liver and Kidney Cancer Progression: A Shared High-Throughput and Molecular Docking Approach with Potentials for Targeted Therapeutic Interventions |
| Ting Gao | A Study of Faculty-Course Assignments through a Mathematical Approach in the Data Analytics Department at UTC |
| Joshua Tyler | RANDOM Neural Networks for Practical Artificial Intelligence based Cryptography |
| Vishakha Mokashi | Sustainable Solutions for Tennessee's Plastic Industry: Manufacturing Practices and Waste Management |
| Parisa Hatami | Open-World Hazard Detection and Captioning for Autonomous Driving with a Unified Multimodal Pipeline |
| Arena Classroom 442 (Fourth Floor Classroom) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator - Dr. Carolyn Padalino | |
| Anna Shaw, Kate Hankins, Catherine Fields, Sky Huskey | Who Really Wears the Pants: A History of Women in War |
| Karrington Payne | Hot Presidents: How Pop Culture Has Influenced Voters in American Presidential Elections |
| Vijayalakshmi K Kumarasamy, Joseph Duhamel | Pedestrian-involved traffic signal optimization using decentralized graph-based multi-agent reinforcement learning |
| Caleb Hopper, Yi-ren Shen | Testing Toroidal Drone Propellors to Find the Most Efficient Balance Between Sound and Strength |
| Titus Humphrey | Magna Carta: The Right to Rights |
| Arena Classroom 445 (Fourth Floor Classroom) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator - Dr. Harry Van Buren | |
| Sarah Willis | Crafting Wellness: Establishing "Meditative Play" in Tutor Development |
| Sophie Chappell | The Right to Privacy: Looking at Police Investigations in Light of the 4th Amendment |
| Kate Hankins | Bess Beetle Stidulation Responses |
Session Three (1:30 – 3 p.m.)
| Arena Room 101 (First Floor Dance Hall) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderators: Dr. Erkan Kaplanoglu | |
| Matthew Pruitt | Effects of Multi-component Surrogates on the Dynamics of Non-Reacting Diesel Fuel Spray |
| George Thompson, Mohammad Mahtabi | Nickel Plating on Polymers for Advanced Structural Applications |
| Mehdi Khaleghian | Rethinking Embedding Vectors for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: An Empirical Study |
| Ege Ek | Direct Simulation of Monte Carlo Surface Reaction Parameters for Chemical Vapor Infiltration of SiC Matrix Composites |
| Blake Pickett, Asaf Varol | The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Transformation: Enhancing Efficiency, Automation, and Decision-Making |
| Arena Room 121 (First Floor Dance Hall) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator: Dr. Max Jordon | |
| Mark Johnson, Ph.D. | Appalachian Food in the American Imagination: The History of White Trash Parties and Performative Ruralness, 1950 to 2016 |
| Kraven King | The World Through the Eyes of Harlem |
| Katherine Kahne | Looking Past Binary Lenses: Accessibility and Disability Rhetoric in Writing Centers |
| Brandon Pruitt, Oliver Lampley, Ava Jones | Order of the White Stag - a Mock Up New Religious Movement |
| Arena Classroom 442 (Fourth Floor Classroom) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderators: Dr. Lakmali Weerasena | |
| Mulatha Dissanayake Weerarathna | Network Modeling for Enhanced Management of Frogeye Leaf Spot in Soybeans |
| Maheshi Galahitiyawe Walawwe | Mathematical Modeling and Control of Invasive Species Using Logistic Regression and Optimization |
| Collin Kilmer | Mathematical Modeling of Zoonotic Disease Transmission Under the Impact of Land Use Change |
| Mohammad Sharif Ullah | A non-singular fractional-order logistic growth model with multi-scaling effects to analyze and forecast population growth in Bangladesh |
Session Four (3:45 – 5:15 p.m.)
| Arena Room 101 (First Floor Dance Hall) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator: None | |
| Dr. Rick Mukherjee Quantum Chat | |
| Arena Room 121 (First Floor Dance Hall) | |
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| Presentation Type: Orals | |
| Moderator: Dr. Asaf Varol | |
| Winnie Nguyen | Modeling The Dynamics of UserAdoption and Abandonment for a Single Product |
| Mara Doze, William Reindhart, Hayden Verstrat | Forgeon |
| Callie Spencer, Jonathan Estes, Jonathan Quinones | Finished Goods Inventory Optimization |
| Jacob Pratt | Effects of Injection Size Distribution on the Aerosol Deposition within Human Airways |
| Amirehsan Ghasemi | Machine Learning supported Mesoscale Modeling of Gas Conduction in Nanoporous Systems |