2025 Symposium Award Winners
The following outstanding presentations, posters, and creative works were awarded prizes at the 15th Annual Wiggins Memorial Library Academic Symposium on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Each student is listed along with their faculty mentor. If the presentation was recorded, a link to the video recording is provided.
High Merit Winners scored within the top 10% of their category. Merit Winners scored within the top 25% of their category. All of these winners names will be published in the 2024-25 edition of Accolades and all will receive a prize seal for their certificate. Join us in congratulating these winners!
Art Exhibits
High Merit
- Joshua Sledge, "A book sleeve for "The Bridge on the Drina" by Ivo Andric" (Faculty Mentor: Professor Dejan Mraovic)
- Susannah Young, "Dr. Matthew H. Young as Plato" (Faculty Mentor: Professor Ray Im)
Merit
- Gunnar Hardt, "Crimson Shoreline Jar" (Faculty Mentor: Professor Ray Im)
- Jamari Cannady Pratt, "Moonlight" (Faculty Mentor: Professor Ray Im)
Undergraduate Oral Presentations
High Merit
- Clahra Buswell, "Reading, Kansas: Built and Abandoned by the Railroad" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Justin Nelson)
- Olivia Dunmire and Elizabeth Underwood, "The Physiological and Psychological Impact of Virtual Reality Games in Exercise and Rehabilitative Settings: A Systematic Review" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sarah Christie)
- Kyle Levy, "Cowboys, Outlaws, and the Sublime: Instances of the Sublime in American Western Literature" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephanie Womick)
- Cassady Wall, "Guenevere's Loyalties: Cultural Concepts in Malory's Morte d'Arthur and the BBC's Merlin" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Rambo)
- Aaron Walls, "Juvenile Waivers: Due Process and Equal Protection" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ethan Alexander-Davey)
Merit
- Chad Casale, Jr., "The Troubles in Ireland: Religious or Political" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ken Vandergriff)
- Zeke Epps, "Moving Towards Intersectionality: A Critical Analysis of Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sherry Truffin)
- Taylor Gery, "Lost in the Screen: The Correlation Between Screen Time and Attention" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Katherine Van Allen)
- Ian Hudson, "Rewriting History: How Carbon Black-Based Inks Changed the World" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Michael Wells)
- Charisma Morgan, "Analysis of Hitler's Personality Using Psychoanalysis" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Guy Vitaglione)
- Abby Reutinger, "Addressing Rural American Issues in Wapello, Iowa" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Justin Nelson)
Graduate Oral Presentations
High Merit
Merit
- James Hampson, "Improving PA Student Preparation for Pediatrics" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Victoria Kaprielian)
- Tamera Hutchinson and Haylie Fehl, "Bias in Care: Assessing Patient Experiences of Discrimination in a Geriatric Clinic" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christine Khandelwal)
Undergraduate Poster Presentations
High Merit
- Christian Contreras, "Fighting Against Workplace Violence on Healthcare Personnel" (Faculty Mentor: Professors Sharon Boyd and Laurie Maki)
- Craig McQuitty, Jr., "A Statistical Analysis of the Relation Between Interest Rates and Stock Returns" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Kelly)
Merit
- Elizabeth Brazier, "Race and Gender Disparities in Sentencing" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Cathy Cowling)
- Morgan Prince and Nicholas Ramsey, "Home Cast 713 Aluminum" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alison Polasik)
- Jake Stanley, Evan Moomaw, and Jonathan Reynolds, "Materials Analysis of a Rollercoaster Wheel Assembly Nut" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alison Polasik)
Graduate Poster Presentations
High Merit
- Jacob Kornegay, "Economic Considerations in Crop Insurance" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Kelly)
- Stephen Marquardt and Nikita Janodia, "An Analysis of Opioid Use for Chronic Pain in US Adults Utilizing the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) from 2010-2019" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Melissa Holland and Dr. Michael Jiroutek)
- Laura Petrera, Mimi Coleman, Sidney Briski, and Joshua Berlin, "Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Case Report and Review of IDH Inhibitors for Relapse Therapy" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bonnie Brenseke, Dr. Amy Hinkelman, and Dr. Alan Proia)
Merit
- Marguerite Degen, Kaitlyn Stocks, Lucas Domberg, Davis Young, and Riley Shegos, "Case Report of Breast Cancer with Liver Metastasis" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bonnie Brenseke and Dr. David Green)
- Vedavalli Govindan, Julianne Wanner, Brianna Lockwood, Mariah Walker, and Surabhi Maske, "Diagnosis and Treatment of Uterine Fibroids" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alan Proia and Dr. Alexa Kelly)
- Amy Hird, "Improving Utilization and Impact of Medicare Annual Wellness Visits at Avance Care RTP" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Victoria Kaprielian)
- Juniki Langle and Mara Morley, "Investigating a Potential Mouse Model of Bipolar Disorder: Behavioral Effects of Raising Brain Cholesterol" (Faculty Mentor: Dr.Christopher Breivogel)
- Aman Luthra, Alexsandra Cvetkovska, Arren Sevingy, Remy Mathi, "An Osteopathic Approach to a Case of Gallstones in a 104-year-old Cadaver" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bonnie Brenseke and Dr. Christopher Fink)
- Jennifer Odell Hill, "Implementing Routine Substance Use Disorder Screening in a Rural Family Practice" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Victoria Kaprielian)
- Kaitlyn Stocks and Cami Czejdo, "Case Report: Perineural Therapy to Treat Fibromyalgia" (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Robert Agnello)
Undergraduate Online Video Presentations
High Merit
Merit
Graduate Online Video Presentations
High Merit
Merit
- Catherine Patrick, "Challenges, Conflict, & Courage: The Leadership Journey & Ideological Evolution of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nicole Winget)
- Erin Taylor, "Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Mental Health Support for Charlotte's Homeless Population" (Faculty Mentor: Prof. James Hampson)
