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UK GradResearch Live! Winners Announced

The finals for UK GradResearch Live! were held on Tuesday, Oct. 30 in Worsham Cinema of the Gatton Student Center followed by a reception where we announced the winners below. Congratulations to all!

Anna Bedsole, Gothic Heroines and #MeToo

Anna Bedsole, a doctoral candidate in English (pictured above), won first place in the Three Minute Thesis category with her presentation, Gothic Heroines and #MeToo.

Below are the 2018 winners of UK GradResearch Live!
The finals were held in Worsham Cinema on Tuesday, October 30, 2018.

Three Minute Thesis Winners:
First Place - Anna Bedsole, Gothic Heroines and #MeToo
Second Place - Daniel Chavez, Hypothetical Bias: Do Real Questions Give Real Answers?
Third Place - Melissa Cantor, The Sick Calf Detector
People's Choice Award - Melissa Cantor, The Sick Calf Detector

Graduate Research Showcase Winners:
People's Choice, First Place - Marcus T. Epps, Unlikely Motivators in Education: Equipping Black Males to Succeed in Formal Education
People's Choice, Second Place - Chi Peng, Are Anti-HIV Drugs Affecting Platelet Function?

Postdoctoral Research Showcase Winners:
People's Choice, First Place - Jong Hyun Kim, Looking for Potent Anticancer Drug
People's Choice, Second Place - Kathryn Everson, Systematics and Species Discovery in Madagascar's Tenrecs

 

Congratulations to all of our winners! See all 24 finalists below:

 

Graduate Research Showcase

  • Marcus Epps | Doctoral student in Educational, School, & Counseling Psychology - "Unlikely Motivators in Formal Settings: Equipping Black Males to Succeed in Formal Settings"
  • Kimberly Glanzman | Master's student in Creative Writing - "Misrepresentation Matters: How Speculative Writing Impacts the Real World"
  • Divakar Karanth | Master's student in Dentistry - "3D Printed Resorbable Scaffold for Bone Regeneration"
  • Sara McCurry | Doctoral student in Educational, School, & Counseling Psychology - "Increasing Well-Being in Transgender Kentuckians by Strengthening Positive Transgender Identity"
  • Chi Peng | Doctoral student in Clinical & Translational Science - "Are Anti-HIV Drugs Affecting Platelet Function?"
  • Matthew Turner | Doctoral student in Computer Science - "Multi-Layered Clouds and Quality of Service"
  • Cara Worick | Doctoral student in Education, School, & Counseling Psychology - "The Role of Motivation and Agency in Self-Control and Self-Regulation for Learning"

 

    3MT Competition

    • Anna Bedsole | Doctoral student in English - "Gothic Heroines and #MeToo"
    • Melissa Cantor | Doctoral student in Animal & Food Sciences - "The Sick Calf Detector"
    • Daniel Chavez | Doctoral student in Business Administration - "Hypothetical Bias: Do Real Questions Give Real Answers?"
    • Xueting Deng | Doctoral student in Agricultural Economics - "Excise Tax: A Signal to Make Vaping Uncool"
    • Aida Javidan | Doctoral student in Nutritional Sciences - "Autophagy, Body's Garbage Recycling: Consequences of Its Malfunction"
    • Gabrielle Keb | Doctoral student in Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics - "What Do Koalas and Your College Roommate Have in Common?"
    • Leslie Malland | Doctoral student in English - "The Rhetoric of Death and Its Culture in Early Modern English Literature"
    • Kevin Richardson | Master's student in Mechanical Engineering - "Revolutionizing Physical Therapy: A Biomechanics-Based Algorithm for Customized Orthotics"
    • Rachel Sieg | Doctoral student in Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry - "Hook, Line, and Sinker: Zebrafish as a Model to Understand Mechanisms of Leukemia"
    • Valerie Stevens | Doctoral student in English - "Nineteenth-Century Pets and Women's Choice"
    • Katherine Toran | Doctoral student in Economics - "Why Economists are Banned from Philosophy"
    • Shannon Wood | Master's student in Mechanical Engineering - "Horses Shouldn't Do Somersaults: Preventing Rotational Falls in Eventing Cross Country"

     

    Postdoctoral Research Showcase

    • Mohamed Abo-Aly | Postdoctoral scholar or fellow in Medical Sciences - "Cangrelor (Anti-Platelet Drug) Reduce Platelet Activity and Inflammation After Heart Attack"
    • Kathryn Everson | Postdoctoral scholar or fellow in Biology - "Systematics and Species Discovery in Madagascar's Tenrecs"
    • Jong Hyun Kim | Postdoctoral scholar or fellow in Chemistry - "Gold-Phosphine Complex as Potent Anticancer Agent"
    • Michelle Pitts | Postdoctoral scholar or fellow in Pharmaceutical Sciences - "Changing How the Immune System Responds to Cardiovascular Disease"
    • Victoria Sherif | Postdoctoral scholar or fellow in Educational Leadership - "Youth Leaders: We Know, We Do"

     

    The GradResearch Live! Finale event is brought to you by:

    The Graduate School, Graduate Student Congress, and Society of Postdoctoral Scholars

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