Photos from the Research and Performance Day 2009

On behalf of Dean Williams and the Graduate College, thank you for your participation in the Second Annual Student Research and Performance Day.

Sponsored by the Graduate College, Honors College, K20 Center, and Graduate Student Senate, the Student Research and Performance Day was held on Saturday, April 4, 2009 in the National Weather Center. Congratulations to all for an excellent show of research!

With nearly 70 graduate entries, the 2009 SRPD was one of the biggest research days in the Graduate College 100 year history.

Below are the judges' decisions from Saturday’s competition.

Category of Education and the Professions:
1st place – Julia Daine, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
2nd place – Lorraine Sylvester, Educational Psychology
3rd place – Anna Klyueva and Aimei Yang, Journalism and Mass Communication

Category of Engineering:
1st place – Brent Van Rite, Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering
2nd place – Norman Love, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
3rd place – Ricardo Reinoso Rondinel, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Category of Social Science, Fine Arts and Humanities:
1st place – Hector Landa, Audrey Snyder, and Sophie Tang, School of Music
2nd place – Semiha Caliskan, Geography
Tied for 3rd place – Mary Brooks and Emily Pain, Sociology

Category of Science:
1st place – Gopal Abbineni, Sita Modali, and Chuanbin Mao, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Tie for 2nd place – Heather Drilling and Bradley Isom, Meteorology
3rd place – Sita Devi Modali, Chemistry and Biochemistry